♪ And love said his pie ♪
♪ Life is now sweet joy ♪
I'm gonna sing everybody.
Brother Ryan, would you please open us up
with a word of prayer?
Amen.
All right, if you wanna take your hymnals,
we're gonna turn to page number 139.
Page number 139.
I know whom I have believing.
Page number 139.
♪ To him came to him ♪
But I'm singing everybody at this time.
Buddy, good morning and welcome
to your friends at Baptist Church.
Our verse of the week is 1 Chronicles 16, verse number 11.
For the Bible says, "Seek the Lord and his strength.
"Seek his faith continually."
And that's 1 Chronicles 16, verse number 11.
Again, we're here at our Sunday morning service
and we're gonna be having Brother Jason
preaching our Sunday night service.
And then for Wednesday this week,
we'll be doing 1 Corinthians 10, part number three,
'cause we just talked about the communion
with the body and the blood of Christ,
which when I was studying out these next set of verses,
I thought it was super cool.
I found something that I think you guys will enjoy
on Wednesday night concerning communion
and concerning fellowship.
So you can look forward to that a little bit.
Care about that at all.
But for our salvation totals for 2026,
we have 20 now in 2026 and we have 10 for this month.
So we had 10 last month and 10 this month.
So praise God for that.
We were right on track for our goal.
And in fact, a little bit ahead for our goal
'cause we're trying to get 100 people saved this year.
And I appreciate that everybody's taking the goals
very seriously 'cause that was one of the things
that I said in my sermon.
It's like, hey, we're gonna have a bunch of goals,
but what does it mean if we don't actually shoot for them
and try to achieve them?
So I'm glad that everybody has laid that upon their heart
to get these things done.
I'm glad to see that you guys all have a zeal
to accomplish great things at this church
because that's exactly what I wanna do.
I wanna perform great things at this church
for the kingdom of God.
But concerning, I have a couple other things
that aren't in the bulletin.
The first one is that for next month,
we're gonna start our Bible memorization challenge.
Me and my brother Ryan have been talking about that.
That was also one of our goals.
I'm still debating on the chapter
that I wanna do for that.
I'm kinda thinking for the first one,
I wanna pick a short chapter
just so that everybody can kinda get their feet wet
a little bit and then, yeah, so, yeah, yeah.
We're gonna go Psalm 117 right to Psalm 119
right after that.
But yeah, we're gonna, when I get more details on that,
I'm gonna announce that 'cause I'm thinking we're gonna do
basically a month to try to memorize the whole chapter.
I think that's a good amount of time
for getting the verses down.
So that'll be good because the Bible says,
"Thy word have I hid in my heart."
So we're supposed to be memorizing the word of God.
And some of that comes through just naturally
reading the Bible, but there is something to be said
about specifically taking a passage of scripture
and working on memorizing it.
And the good thing about memorization is that
even when you kind of forget,
because there's lots of different passages of scripture
that I have memorized in the past,
then now I couldn't quote verbatim.
But you still have the message of it in your head
to where if you're talking to someone out soning
or you're talking to someone at your work,
you can kind of like, oh yeah,
I know Hebrew six says this,
or oh, I know first Corinthians two says this.
Even if you don't know it verbatim,
you can still quote it, which is very helpful.
Second thing I wanted to bring up though
is that our scouting trip was really fun on this,
what was it, this Friday?
We went up there, yeah, to WSU.
Ton of people, this is exactly what I wanted
because I was a little worried compared to when I went
to ASU, so Arizona State University,
that there wouldn't be as many people,
but there was no lack of people up there.
There's tons of students to go and talk to,
and there's little like lulls because they're in class
and they're coming out of class.
But man, at that lunch break, it was like a swarm of kids.
We couldn't even talk to even half of them.
So I'm excited that once we get more people up there,
we're gonna really be able to preach the gospel
to a great chunk of those kids on that campus.
And I'm thinking that only really the Mormons
have been doing that lately because that's like,
I had two people bring that up.
The one guy was like, "Is this Mormon crap?"
And I was like, "No, no, no, this is Christianity."
He's like, "Oh, okay, yeah."
So that's good at least.
But I do know too as well that we're having
a decent chunk of people up here going up to that.
That's on the 6th, by the way.
March 6th is when we're doing that event.
And then Brother Noah texted me this morning
and said that him and Ms. Mai are planning to come
from the Yakima plant as well.
So I'm excited for that.
And that's again on March 6th,
and we're gonna be meeting at the Chipotle at 10.45.
But the scouting report on that trip
is what I meant to bring up, was we got two salvations.
We had like maybe four gospel presentations,
maybe five gospel presentations,
but two of those people got saved.
But they were still, there's a lot of great conversations.
The beauty about it is that,
and this I wanna warn you about this a little bit,
there's so many people who are gonna get rejected a bunch,
but it's like, hey, it's immediate, just rapid fire.
Cause I was so wanting you to walk all the way to the next door,
but here it's just like, hey, there's just kids, kids coming, coming, coming.
So you can, you get rejected 10 times.
You can get someone to preach the gospel to within the matter of like minutes.
So super awesome, but it's not necessarily an introvert's delight.
So you gotta come out of your shell a little bit. I had to do that too.
I'm like, all right, I just gotta start talking to people.
But what do we got else here? We got March 8th.
We have the kids choir practice is starting on for Easter and that'll be after
morning services. And then on the 27th and the 29th we're having our church's
anniversary for that weekend. And then Pastor Thompson, my dad is gonna come
up and preach for that Friday night. There's gonna be some more details to
come on that. And then April 18th, I finally got this confirmed as well.
This was my fault that this wasn't confirmed sooner because I had to make
sure it lined up with some other events. But we have the Nez Pierce soul winning
marathon in Orifino, Idaho with brother David acres. That's where we're kind of
meeting in the middle. It's about three hours away. There's gonna be a little
more details to come on that, but we know for sure it's happening April 18th. So I
think that's the week after Easter if I'm not mistaken. It's either a week or
two after Easter. But I'm excited for that as well because the Indian
reservations are always receptive when you go to them. So that'll be good news
for us. And then lastly we have the kids memory verse which is Psalms 107 verse
number one is Oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy and
dureth forever. So if you say that to my wife or another adult you can get a
piece of candy. What do you got? The suckers right now, the lollipops okay. But I
think that's pretty much it for the announcements and for birthdays as far
as that goes. So we'll just go into the prayer requests right now. All right if
you want to take your blue psalm books, psalm number 24, psalm number 24, once again
it's a brand new psalm so we got to repeat it once or twice.
psalm number 24, I just pray that you help us God to continue throughout this
week and serve you to the best of our ability. Did you say I prayed? Amen. Buddy, welcome to
Sure Foundation Baptist Church. If you could take your Bibles and turn to 1st
Corinthians chapter 5, 1st Corinthians chapter 5 and as always here at our
church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 1st Corinthians chapter 5
the Bible reads, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and
such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should
have his father's wife and year puffed up and have not rather mourned that he
that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you for I verily as
absent in the body but present in the spirit have judged already as though I
were present concerning him that hath so done this deed in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ when ye are gathered together and my spirit with the power of
our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such in one unto Satan for the destruction of
the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus your
glorying is not good know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth whole lump purge
out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened
unleavened for even Christ our Passover has sacrificed for us therefore let us
keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and
wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth I wrote unto you
in an epistle not to company with fornicators yet not all together with
the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with
idolatrous for then must ye needs go out of the world but now I have written unto
you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or
covetous or an idolatrous or railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such in
one know not to eat for what have I to do with to judge them also that are
without do not ye judge them that are within but them that are without God
judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person brother
Daniel could you please pray for the preaching man you guys are there in first
Corinthians chapter number five we're gonna look in at verse number 11 for the
Bible says but now I've written unto you not to keep company if any man that is
called a brother be a fornicator or coachess or my daughter or a railer or a
drunkard or an extortioner with such a one no not to eat for what have I to do
to judge them that are without do you not judge them that are within but them
there without God judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person thought of my sermon this morning is what is railing what is railing let's
pray people are God these was wonderful day thank you so much for you do for us
God thank you so much for this church gone for everybody that showed up to
hear your word preach God I just pray that for that reason you fill me up with
your Holy Spirit God and help me to preach words would be edifying God I
just pray that I'd make this topic more clear to the people in this room and I
pray that you would help me to have a clear train of thought as I preach and
help me to say what you want me to say and keep me from saying we don't want me
to say God in Jesus name I beg and pray amen all right the title my son like I
said again is what is railing and we're here in first Corinthians chapter number
five not to stress you out we've been in first Corinthians quite a long time but
this is not a Bible study of this chapter so you are in luck but this is
somewhat of a Bible study of this topic of railing so I'll just kind of give
you a little bit of a warning right off the bat this is a pretty Bible heavy
sermon but the trade-off that I'm gonna give you for this okay is that this will
be a shorter sermon than usual so I'm gonna ask you at the beginning of the
sermon the places I turn to in the Bible I only say this one it's really
important but please do turn to them with me because I think it's important
for your own understanding of this subject and the trade-off will be there
right when you think man he's kind of been ranting for a long time about this
this sermon is gonna be done okay so so just keep that in mind and bear with me
through these verses and so the reason why I'm preaching on this subject
because someone might think like well there's a ton of verses in or this
excuse me a ton of sins in that verse number 11 so why am I giving a whole
sermon to railing the reason why is actually for several reasons number one
is that out of all the sins that are on this list I think that this is the one
that people get confused about the most like I would say if I went to an average
old bfb church and I showed someone this verse and I said what do all these sins
mean I feel like everybody would have a good grasp of all of these besides maybe
railing I think that'd be the one people will stumble at the most and so it's
also this kind of piggybacks off this for number two that's important to know
this sin it's important excuse me to know this sin because railing is a sin
that can get you kicked out of church these are sins that will get you kicked
out of this church so it's important for us to have an understanding of it number
three though is that outside of this definition of railing being
misunderstood I think that people misapply this and they and they misuse
this this sin and I'll get into that what I mean by that a little bit later
on but the last thing I would say about why I'm preaching the sermon is because
this sin is a sin that's constantly thrown around and that's constantly
weaponized in my opinion by Christians that don't even use it right in the
first place and it becomes like a stumbling block to us to a certain degree
when we just go out and label every person that we don't like a railer and
so those are the four main points of why I'm preaching this sermon but
this is what I want to explain right away what I wish to establish in this
sermon these three things okay I hope to establish that what the definition of
railing is what railing is not and what we should avoid doing concerning railing
and so I'm gonna be listing off my points in that way this sermon's gonna be a
little bit different though in the sense that usually you'd be like point one
point two point three but this is not gonna be like this it's gonna be mixing
these points between what is railing what isn't railing and what we should do
to avoid railing so with that being said though like I said before I do want to
encourage you to pay attention for this sermon though because even if you do
know what railing is or you think you know what railing is truly anytime we
open the Bible up about any subject you can learn something new because the word
of God is so deep but also I would say that I was talking to brother Ryan and
brother Paul about this while we were on that little scouting trip in Pullman and
I did a huge deep dive on this subject like a massive deep dive like every
single place the word railing was used I went to it every every place a synonym
of railing was used I went to it and I was studying these things out and I was
thinking a lot about this so hopefully that comes through on this sermon but I
did put a lot of time into this so hopefully you pay attention to it if you
don't you're gonna hurt my feelings a little bit up here so pay attention for
that at least okay think of myself okay but then also the lastly about why I'm
doing this as well is that when it comes to the subject I feel like people
understand what part of railing is but I think people misunderstand that there's
a greater picture than just slandering just false accusations and I think I can
prove that to you from this sermon but without further ado let's get into what
is railing what is not railing first first point I have in this sermon okay
is this is that railing is not what the world says it is because if you go to an
average dictionary definition of what railing is most dictionaries are gonna
say first of all they're gonna say like you know the railing by your stairs when
you type in just really okay but then once you get past that when they give
you a definition of railing this is usually the definition that they give
you they say it's something like this railing refers to the use of harsh
insolent scornful or abusive language and I don't think that that definition is
100% wrong but the problem with that is that what most people do is they'll look
at that definition they'll just be like oh so railing is just being a mean
person just saying mean things or they'll say oh railing is just using
abusive language but the problem with that is that Jesus is mean in the Bible
sometimes and he very clearly wasn't a railer so that can't be the full
definition and when it comes to something like abusive language the Bible
never defines abusive language it never uses that term with the abuse of
language so how are you really gonna be able to say that that's what this is the
thing with abusive language is very broad and even our use nowadays is very
broad like if you say what is abuse you're gonna find a hundred definitions
of what it is so I think it's too subjective and so I I only have to say
that I think that our worldly dictionaries accurately define this
word properly that's why I'm gonna be defining this word with the Bible
itself in this sermon and it's always important to realize that the
dictionaries of this world can definitely get things wrong this is
like no mystery I mean look at the word repent and you'll see like some
definitions that are spot-on then you'll find some definitions where
they're like you got a repent of your sins is what it's talking about so we
always have to cleave to what the Bible says above what this world says and so
with that out of the way the second thing I want to break with this is what
do I think railing is I'll just give you the definition of what I think upfront
and then I'll prove it to you a little bit into this sermon but what I would
say railing is is it's an umbrella term for evil speech for evil speech and an
evil in the sense of harmful not just like bad speech I'm talking about
because that's what evil means it's harm in the Bible more proper and you might
think yourself well that's kind of broad well that is broad but I'm gonna
explain a little bit okay so give me a second but I come to this conclusion
from what the Bible says itself this is not just like a spitball this is
straight from the Bible itself and I'm and I know and that again good I'm
starting up here for no reason that with this term for an umbrella term that's
what I think really is is an umbrella of evil speech and there's different things
that fall under that umbrella that's what I want to list off right now the
first thing that would fall under this umbrella of evil speech would be
reviling reviling in the Bible go if you would oh you guys are there in 1st
Corinthians 5 verse number 11 we're gonna look at it one more time it says
but now I've written to you not to keep company if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard
or an extortioner with such and one no not to eat and then go over one chapter
to 1st Corinthians 6 verse number 10 and look what it says right there it says
nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall
inherit the kingdom of God and when I've showed you this I believe in my 1st
Corinthians 6 sermon I did point this out to you but I want to put it out to
you again for the sake of this sermon that these words railer and reviler are
the exact same word one of these words is plural and one of these words is not
so they sound a little bit different but the same base word is the same that
one's plural one singular it's Lido Rose is the Greek word underneath that which
I'll bring up why I bring that up in a second but go to Mark 15 29 if you
would mark 15 verse number 29 because you can prove this beyond just Greek
itself you can prove this with the English as well but something that's
very interesting while you guys are going to mark 15 29 like I just said to
you guys that same exact word is being used so very clearly from that itself
railer and reviler are used interchangeably but it's actually used
interchangeably multiple times in the Bible railer and reviler are and even
with the two separate Greek words that mean revile and rail they're used
interchangeably what I mean by that is right there you saw that Lederose which
is the word I brought up right there is railer in one spot and then reviler in
the very next chapter the Bible does the exact same thing right here in Mark 15
29 and I will say about this sometimes with the different Greek words people
get all like mystical like I talked about them the love languages sermon
where it's like this is this type of love and then this type of love no dude
it's just synonyms though that's what it really is like we have the word gift
and we have the word present these things are the same thing though okay
there's not like a present is this but no a gift and a present are
interchangeable okay you get your kids presents you get your kids gifts it's
the same thing same thing with like a rock and a stone these things are the
same thing they're synonyms of each other so that's the same thing right
here it's not that these are like way different meaning it's just they had two
words for railers and for revilers mark 15 verse number 29 it says and they that
passed by railed on him wagging their heads and saying ah thou that destroys
the temple and builds it in three days save thyself and come down from the
cross so notice that this says that they railed on him and they wag their heads
as they're walking by go to the parallel passage of this in Matthew 27 verse
number 39 Matthew 27 verse number 39 turn over there real quick this is a
great way to define different words in the Bible is find their parallel
passage if they have one and then look how it's rendered there because
oftentimes the translators purposely use the synonyms so that it helps you to
find these words in their proper context Matthew 27 verse number 39 it says
that's even like why I can't remember the exact person off the top of my head
but within when it's about like the the the juice of my wine I forget where
that's it's not a Solomon is that where that's at I think yeah that's why they
sweep up there it's like the same word but it's like it's showing you that
juice and wine mean the same thing it's the same thing that's happening right
here Matthew 27 39 it says this it says and they that passed by revived him but
and the other one that said railed then it wagging their head and saying thou
that destroys the temple builds in three days save thyself if thou be the son of
God and come down from the cross so this is also this is what's very
interesting to me okay this is a different Greek word than the other one
and I'm just telling you that's just a synonym okay the word here though is of
less female if less female and I'm gonna I'm breaking up on purpose why I'm
saying that out loud okay but I'm bringing this up before I get into that
to say that railing and reviling are the exact same thing that's what we should
learn from all this so far clearly it's used interchangeably in the Bible a
railer is a reviler and a reviler is a railer these things corporate wants you
to find the difference between these two pictures but they're the exact same
picture okay if you're hip with the culture you don't know about okay but
the second thing about this okay the second thing that falls under this
umbrella itself is actually blasphemy and that's why I said that word out loud
because if you notice he blasts female is where we get the word blasphemy from
in English if last few moon blasphemy that's where that word that's a cognate
of that it's where we actually derived that word and go to John 10 verse number
33 John 10 verse number 33 that's that word though for Raylor and Viola in
Matthew 27 and from mark it's a blast female that's that word so again there's
just two different Greek words that mean if they're just synonyms of each other
for this same exact concept obviously and in both spots where the different
Greek word is used a raylor and a reviler are both used interchangeably in
parallel passages of each other so that proves beyond any shadow of a doubt
whether you're in Greek whether you're in English that they mean the same thing
yeah now this right here this is interesting as well because I said on
the excuse me that blasphemy falls under this branch of evil speaking or of
railing what it says in John 10 33 it says the Jews answered him saying for a
good work we stone they not but for blasphemy and because that thou being a
man makest thyself God this is the same word that we just saw with Jesus Christ
on the cross the blasphemy moon right but obviously you see in this context
it's blasphemy because they're talking about God and that's important to
realize with words is that something being the same Greek word like the way
you determine how you translate it is the context that's surrounding it so in
here it makes more sense for it to be blasphemy that's why it's rendered as
blasphemy right here but go if you would to first Timothy six verse number four
first Timothy six verse number four because if you notice that's a noun
though it can't it comes from the same verb but I'll show you noun for noun
where this word it's the exact same word is translated in one spot as blasphemy
and then here in first Timothy six four you see how it's translated first
Timothy six person four it says he is proud knowing nothing but doting about
questions and strikes of words wherefore cometh envy strife railings evil
surprises same exact word right there okay so you can see and then it should
make sense to you right because if the word is where we derive blasphemy from
of course that's gonna be attached to this meeting right you can see it in the
word itself so railing and blasphemy fall under the same branch okay they're
under the same umbrella they mean the same thing because these are the same
words and in fact the most of the time that you see this word that we see
sometimes translated is railer in the Bible it's mostly rendered as blasphemy
which should make sense as well again you can see that from the origin of its
name but with that in mind go to second Chronicles 32 verse number 17 first
Chronicles or second Chronicles 32 verse number 17 now I'm showing you a
lot of scripture here bear with me again that we're gonna get over this hump and
it's gonna be a quick little sermon but you gotta bear with me a little bit you
gotta exercise that tick-tock demon out of your brain and and dive into the full
focus right now okay where are you guys even going? Second Chronicles 32 verse
number 17 the reason I'm having you turn here is because of this that I think
that a big point of why I'm preaching this sermon is that in my opinion just
taking the definition of railing and making it only false accusation leaves
some verses to be like questionable if you only take that one definition okay
and I think that this is one of these verses right here because I'm gonna show
you that I think that the context of blasphemy concerning railing fits way
more right here in second Chronicles 32 verse number 17 look at this right
there it says he he wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel and
to speak against him saying as the gods the nations of other lands have not
delivered their people out of my hand so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver
his people out of mine hand now go to the parallel paths of this story go to
second Kings 19 verse number 20 second Kings 19 verse number 20 and we'll see
what the Bible says about this exact same event second Kings 19 verse number
20 it says then Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah saying thus saith the
Lord God of Israel that that or that which thou hast prayed to me against
in a carib king of Assyria I have heard this is the word of the Lord or this is
the word that the Lord is concerning him the virgin the daughter of Zion has
despised thee and laughing to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her
head at thee look what it says in verse 22 though it says whom has thou
reproached and blasphemed yeah it's talking about the same exact thing says
and against whom has thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high
even against the Holy One of Israel I think that makes a lot of sense right
here yeah because if you say this is a false accusation in 2nd Chronicles 32
verse 17 it kind of doesn't really make that much sense you're gonna see what
I'm saying because if he's writing letters to rail on the Lord like what is
the railing that he says like you know as the other gods haven't delivered their
people God won't really either it's like he hasn't even done it yet though so how
could you really say that's a false accusation but what it certainly is is
blasphemy yeah so I think that makes a lot of sense in both again the Greek and
the English I think that makes a lot of sense and so it's confirmed in both the
Old Testament with this parallel passage right here and also in the New
Testament by using blasphemy and railing interchangeably okay where are we going
to next go to Jude one verse number nine Jude one verse number nine so under this
umbrella of railing we have reviling and we have blasphemy those are the these
are two ones that I feel like people don't really bring up very much but the
third thing I want to bring up is the standard definition which is correct
which is slander or false accusations or defamation this is also a part of
railing is what we see in Jude one verse number nine it says this it says yet
Michael the archangel when contending with the devil disputed about the body
of Moses durst not bring him against him a railing accusation but said the Lord
rebuke thee and this is one of the most clear verses about railing and this is
why people derive their definition from this and it makes a lot of sense
because it is very clear because there's only really one thing that fits in this
context right here because if you go to the world definition again and brings
against him an abusive accusation be kind of like what or like he brings
against him a mean accusation he's real mean it's like doesn't really make sense
either but when you say he's bringing in like a slanderous accusation or a false
accusation makes a lot of sense yeah and that's exactly why this is one of these
branches of railing go to Romans 3 verse number 8 though Romans 3 verse number
8 because beyond just this logic we also see this in the Bible itself from is
there a very similar thing that I've been showing you with all these other
verses concerning how railing is rendered in different places the same
word for railing is rendered in different places in Romans 3 verse
number 8 it says this and not rather as we be slanderously reported that's the
exact same word that I've been showing you for railing that's been all over
the Bible but one of these two same words it's the exact same word right
there and as some affirm that we say let us do evil that good may come whose
damnation is just and you guys don't have to turn here but in first
Corinthians 413 it says this being defamed which is the exact same word
rendered right there we entreat we are made as the filth of the world and are
the oscuring of all things unto this day so in both Jude and in from these
parallel not parallel passages but in these passages that are using the same
word we can see that it's rendered as slander as defamation as a false
accusation so it definitely falls under that branch unmistakably and so anybody
that's been preaching this is not wrong about that I just think that there's
more to it than just slander and just false accusations and I think that's
evident from what we've seen in the Bible so far go to acts 23 verse number
3 acts 23 verse number 3 so you have the things that fall under that again is
would be reviling would be blasphemy and would be slander which makes sense
because even think about those two with blasphemy wouldn't someone that's
blaspheming God be kicked out of church because I don't want to say this there
is a little bit of a difference between like someone slips up and like takes the
Lord's name in vain right that's not the same with someone who's just straight
up blaspheming and defying God it's like if you're doing that you are gonna get
thrown right out of this church rightfully so right or if you're doing
false accusations if you're lying you're slandering people you're also
gonna be thrown out of this church as well and here's other things that I
phone that phone is umbrella cursing king phone the same umbrella as well acts
23 verse number three is where you guys are at to be fair about these two though
I would say that these have a slightly weaker like what would you say like like
on the other three that I just showed you I would stand like ten toes down and
be like hey listen that is a hundred percent railing there's no doubt in my
mind about it these two I still am obviously submitting I think is railing
but I think there's a little less evidence than for the other verses okay
just for clarity sake on this so especially concerning the mocking if
you think that that one's weaker that's your priority to think so but I do
believe in what I'll show you why I'm teaching this that this is a part of
railing as well. Acts 23 verse number three it says this it says then said
Paul unto him God shall smite thee thou white of wall for sit thou to judge me
after the law and command us me to be smitten contrary to the law and they
that stood by said revile is thou God's high priest then said Paul I wish not
brother that he's the high priest word is written thou shall not speak evil of
the ruler of thy people couple points about this number one we've already
established that railing and reviling are the same thing they're used
interchangeably so you can put that definition in right here but the second
thing I want to bring about this and I want to draw your attention don't lose
me here what is Paul doing to revile the high priest right here what is like
think about it because he obviously says we're viling but what does exactly does
Paul do right here look at verse number three again one more time it says then
said Paul unto him God shall smite thee thou whited wall is Paul falsely
accusing this guy right here no he's not right what would he be doing though
he's cursing him is what he's doing yeah which is why I partly think that this
falls under that branch as well and they're also with the verse that he
quoted go to Exodus 22 verse number 28 he's cursing him he's like God shall
smite thee thou white of wall he's basically trying to bring the judgment
of God upon him that would fall under the definition of cursing just like if I
was just like I hope you get hit by a bus tomorrow it's like that'd be
cursing someone wishing evil harmful speech on someone I think it makes a
lot of sense and also with what Paul said concerning that verse because I
want you to see the parallel and how that he understands all these things are
interchangeable that he says right there he said in verse 20 in verse number 4
while you guys returning to Exodus 22 it says and they that stood by said
revilest thou God's high priest so he said revile out then it said then said
Paul it was not brother and that he was the high priest for it is written what
thou shall not speak evil of the ruler of thy people which is partly where I
get that definition from but look at Exodus 22 28 the verse that Paul's
quoting right here he says this he says thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse
the ruler of thy people what did Paul just do the high priest he cursed him
right so what is cursing if it's not evil speech if it's not reviling if it
doesn't all fall under the same branch you guys understand what I'm saying
right here I know I'm bringing up a lot of stuff hopefully you guys are following
my train of thought right here because even with this verse itself the verse
is defining these two terms separately this is like a poetic thing it does in
the in the Hebrew all the time where it's like thou shalt not revile and
revile is equal to curse in the next part of this verse the gods and gods is
equal to the ruler of thy people in this in the next part of this verse so you
have gods and rulers and you have reviling and you have cursing very
obviously in my opinion so I think that that falls under that branch as well
lastly though go to Matthew 27 verse 39 I should say lastly about as far as like
the chain of things because sir was not quite over but it's getting close so
just bear with me I told you to be a lot and then we'd get the the relief of a
short sermon okay so Matthew 27 verse 39 is where you guys should be going right
now obviously so far has showed you that reviling that cursing that blasphemy
that slander falls under the branch of railing I think it's obvious from the
Bible when you study it out very deeply but also this last thing is extreme
mocking okay extreme mocking and Matthew 27 39 I want you to pay attention and I
know I've been yapping but these if I'm gonna make this point right here pay
attention to these verses specifically pay attention to the accusation that's
being brought up amongst the high priest the two separate ones okay it says this
Matthew 27 39 it says and they that pass by reviled him wagging their heads
what's their accusation though it says and saying thou that destroys the temple
and build us it in days save thyself if thou be the Son of God come down from
the cross think about this is that a false accusation it's really not okay
it's not he's being these obviously reviling him but I'm gonna show you why
I think that is right here but this is not a false accusation it's like mocking
him though it is you know would you even say he's like trying to little him
right here with this but it's not exactly a one-for-one like false
accusation like if he just said to him you're not the Son of God or something
like that yeah but notice so notice that accusation again I'll read one more time
it says in saying thou that destroys the temple and builds in three days save
thyself thou be the Son of God come down from the cross look at verse 41 it
says likewise also the chief priests mocking him with describing elders said
look at their accusation though it says he saved others himself he cannot save
if he be the king of Israel let him now come down from the cross and we will
believe him ask yourself is there really that much of a difference in in these
accusations between themselves basically the same thing right and in
fact the second one I would argue would be more of a false accusation if you're
gonna say that because they flat-out say he saved others himself he cannot save
but how did the Bible define that as mocking is what it did right there yeah
and then go to Matthew 27 oh it's in the same path as goodnight so this is part
of where I get my definition from though look it down a couple things more though
in the verse number not even one verse down one verse it says this it says he
trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will save him for he said I am the
son of God verse 44 it says the thieves also which were crucified with him cast
the same in his teeth which is an interesting idiom that the Bible
chooses to use right here and what it's saying is the thieves that cast the
same insults at him they're casting the same things like we'd say like you're
like talking crap to someone it's kind of like the same thing right there
they're smack talking it was what they're doing they're casting the same
insults what were the insults defined as though from the Bible mocking yeah go to
mark 15 verse 31 mark 15 verse 31 mark 15 verse number 31 real quick look at
Bible says mark 1531 it says likewise also this the parallel passage the
chief priests mocking said among themselves the scribes he saved others
himself he cannot save let the king of Israel descend now from the cross we
may see and believe and they that were crucified with him what reviled him
yeah go to the next parallel passage Luke 23 39 but I'm hammering this one
specifically because whenever I told people that my definition of this the
biggest thing that they have to hang up on is mocking they're like no though
the mocking can't be because we see that Elijah mocks the prophets of Baal but
first of all think about this does the Bible actually even say that that was a
good thing that Elijah did that you can have your own opinion about that you
don't have to say that it's wrong maybe it's not wrong okay maybe it's a
different kind of mocking but think about this that's not the narrator of
the Bible saying we should be mocking the false prophet just like Elijah just
said that that's what he did in that story doesn't prove anything though
because people make mistakes all the time in the Bible Peter denies Jesus
three times that doesn't mean that we should deny Jesus because that's just
telling the story of what happens yeah I mean that's not the same maybe Elijah
wasn't wrong in that situation but I do want to say that that can't be a proof
text to debunk what I'm saying that's what that's a weak argument is going to
stand this is clear narrated scripture versus a story in the Bible is what
you'd be submitting right there look at Luke 23 verse 39 it says and one of the
now factors which were hanged what does he do railed on him saying if thou be
Christ save thyself and us doesn't that prove what I've been saying to you
it's like you have the cast the same in his teeth you have the reviling you have
the railing all these things are being used interchangeably because they are
the same thing okay they fall under that same branch okay what I've been
submitting to you so far in this sermon and so go to Jude 1 verse number 10 Jude
1 verse number 10 because some of the pushback also that I've had on that is
that sometimes people say like oh well if that's your definition of railing
it's just too broad it's too you know subjective or whatever but I want you to
be honest with yourself for a second and realize that even in the clear kickout
sense there is some degree of subjectivity isn't there like tell me
what exactly classifies someone as a drunkard like there's like some clear
examples you have and then but like if you're gonna like write out on paper
this is what a drunkard is be a little bit hard to pen down exactly what it is
yeah or if you were to say covetous is even worse say what's the line for
someone being covetous tell me what the exact line is the reality is you can't
like it's somewhat subjective so I think this is the same way when it comes to
the mocking that it would be somewhat subjective because notice I said to I
said like extreme king just think about the mocking that's happening in this
situation who are they mocking they're mocking Jesus Christ who's literally
bleeding and dying and suffering on the cross it's like isn't that insane it's
way over the top it's way out of line it's way unacceptable is what it is
same thing with David and Nabal if you think about that story it's like David's
like fleeing away from Saul and then what does Nabal have the audacity to do
after David protected his flock and his men he's like who is the son of Dave who
is the son of Jesse you know like there's a lot of people that run away
from the masters what is that to me way out of line right for someone that's not
only fleeing for their life but also is protecting your flock at the same time
so i think that that's so there is i guess there is some level of subjectivity
to that but i mean there are things where mocking becomes way over the line
i think that should be corrected i think that it should be fixed where like
people think that they can treat people however they want to as long as what
they're saying has some degree of truth to it that's just not right from what
we're seeing in the from these verses in the bible
truly that's not the spirit of that's not the fruit of the spirit right
like people think that like as long as what you're saying is technically true
you can just say anything about someone treat someone like trash because at
least what i said wasn't a lie that's not the spirit that we see even the
bible though be real with yourself like this thing bugged me i'm getting a
little bit ahead of myself but man stop playing games with god's commandments
stop playing games with like like how the scribes and Pharisees do where it's
like oh well technically you're already on solid or you're already
on wheat ground when you're starting off like that
jude 1 verse number 10 jude 1 verse number 10 i know i just explained a lot
to you but i said in summary for that that
railing in my opinion is an umbrella term that has all those things underneath
it the reviling the blasphemy the slanderous
accusations the cursing and the extreme mocking i
think these all kind of that umbrella i think that's clear
from the bible itself but this is where i get the idea for the umbrella term you
guys are there in jude 1 verse number 10 it says this
but these oh excuse me actually two go up to verse number eight in that same
passage because very interesting enough the bible uses the
word railing the same word for railing in three verses back to back here but
only one time it's rendered as railing look what it says it says
because defining itself again it says likewise also these
dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and
speak evil of dignities that that same word right there then in the next verse
you have yet michael the archangel when contending with the devil
he disputed about the body of moses durst not bring against him a
railing accusation which leads in the next use of it he says but these
speak evil of those things which they know not the same thing
at the back to back doing that same poetic thing with the juice in the wine
though is what i want you to understand from those verses right here
and also in romans 14 16 you don't have to turn there it says this
let not then your good be evil spoken of which is the exact same thing
as well okay i know i'm going to beat this uh this horse pretty dead on that
okay but i do want to do a little bit of a
deep dive into it just because um i think that people like don't take
your word for this on for some reason with this subject but i think it's clear
from the bible that this is what's going on here
go to titus 1 verse number 12 titus 1 verse number 12 so now that we've
established all these definitions for railing i'm going to quickly
wrap up some applicable applications from this
which is this first and foremost concerning the definition of railing if
you want to say that it's slander and that it's a false accusation which i
think is true i just don't think it's all of it okay
there's some things that come with that though and the first thing is this is
that for something to be slander or for it
to be um defamation it needs to be objective
not subjective okay if you're taking that definition of what a false
accusation is you do need to make it objectively a false accusation okay not
just labeling people as a railer for a
subjectively false accusation okay because if you're not
aware what that word means objective is like
fact-based like it's like a fact okay like you know
this is washington state it's objective right this is washington state
but subjective is like you know chocolate ice cream is the best ice cream
it's like okay that's subjective it's not an actual fact right
that's that's a matter of opinion okay and so
i bring that to say this is that when it concerns a false accusation
something being mean is not necessarily a false accusation though i do want to
point this out that like if i say to someone
dude you're an idiot that's mean okay it's it's definitely disrespectful you
can say a lot of things but but it is not it's not uh it's not it's an
opinion right it's like you know that's you can't say someone's
railing for that like well let's bust out their iq chart and
see if they really are an idiot it's like come on now like that's not what
we're talking about yeah or if i said curling is the worst sport
ever invented it's like that's almost objective it should be okay but
but technically it is subjective right imagine having the great sport of
football and your son says grows up and is like i want to be a curler
you're like what i gotta throw the whole son out at that point okay
but but those are silly examples right but you kind of get the point that
these are these are subjective opinions right
but if i what if someone said this though what if they said sure foundation
baptist church teaches a work-based salvation
that's objectively false right because we preach it's on our website
and we have multiple sermons saying hey it's by faith alone for salvation
what if i said this hey i think that this pastor's preaching sucks
it's rude and it's and there could be other consequences that come from that
understand that but is that railing it's not railing
okay it's objective or it's subjective okay it's a matter of opinion
because you could think this guy's the best pastor ever truly and i could think
he's the worst pastor ever it's all a matter of opinion at that point
now i'm not saying that that's good practice obviously we should understand
this but i'm saying that this is not railing
okay or but this is railing though what if i just wanted it was like hey
john mccarthur is a pedophile and i have no evidence i have
you know nothing to substantiate that that's just flat-out railing then at
that point and you should realize that railing
against someone even if they are a false prophet even if they're someone that we
don't like it's still evil it's still wrong it's still something
that you should not be doing as a christian
uh but the second thing i want to bring up is that railing needs to be negative
for it to actually be railing brother paul brought this up when we were out at
the pullman i'm glad he did because i
wouldn't have even thought about it but it's like if i'm like hey and i can
only say something nice about brother paul who's not here right now so i was
like hey brother paul's a great guy and he has a son you know paul jr
which is technically not true because he's not a junior correct he's not a
junior okay am i railing on brother paul by saying
that no right because it's not it's not even
negative it's like it's not true but it wouldn't be
railing like i'm like he's a great guy he is a son his name is paul jr and i'm
like i'm wrong about that i'm wrong but it's not railing okay
understand it has to be negative okay go to titus one verse number 12 or you
guys are there in titus one number 12 i want to say the third thing about this
is that railings can't just be a generalization
as well look at uh titus one verse number 12 it says
one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the cretians are
always liars evil beasts slow bellies and then he goes on to say that witness
is true but think about this for a second okay
and i'm sure that the bible like is leading on to this as well anyways
that do you think that literally every single creation that was ever born is
actually like a slow beast like you know it's like
no he's being general though he's saying this is generally true
so you see there that making a generalization about something
can't be considered railing because like one creation can't be like i got my
life like completely solved it like what are you talking about paul
it's general right he's not railing in that sense go to
deuteronomy 19 verse number 15 because you have to understand that the
intention of your speech matters and people play games with this as well but
like truly what you're saying about something
and why you're saying it does matter concerning railing like
people i was talking about this with them at lunch as well it's like people
will nitpick things to death and try to make them railing because they don't
like someone or because they want to make them look
bad or because they want to win an argument because it's like
if i can prove that you're a railer you have you automatically lose the
argument because you have no business talking to anything about the bible you
should be kicked out of church in fact but like this is dishonest and it's
lame or just nitpicking things to make someone a railer okay
or they're taking things that are subjective and then labeling people
railers that's lame that's not what we should be
doing as christians the the fourth thing is what i want to say
about this though you guys are going to do it on me for 19 verse 15 it says
uh there i'm going to say the point first that railing
doesn't apply to accusations aid with reasonable evidence
either with reasonable evidence okay you don't want me 19 verse number 15
look what it says it says one witness shall not rise up against a man for
any iniquity for any sin in any sin that he sinned
at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses
shall a matter be established i want you to notice that the bible says
and the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established a matter
is uh is solidified basically what the bible's saying right there
and this is obviously the the the only system you can really have at this time
for you know making accusations because in a
time before dna or cameras how else are you going to prove you know
uh whether something happened or not has to be down to witnesses that's you know
even we even accept witnesses nowadays even though they're not as weighted as
you know maybe uh camera evidence or his dna but i actually even saw an atheist
get mad about this one time i think he was arguing with ben the
baptist as a matter of fact he was like going back and forth
he was like mocking the law of god right here and he was the atheist was and he
was like two witnesses he's like three witnesses he's
like you know people lie but i was like thinking to myself when i was
watching i was like well what was his system gonna be then
what was the brain buster that the atheist would have had back then
nothing that's like the only system that you can count on back then is the
system of witnesses hello weird that's like a i don't know that
doesn't do what i'm saying though right now but what i want to say about this is
this is that if i accuse someone based on
the testimony of two or three witnesses that have had diligent inquisition
performed unto them can you say that i'm railing then not
really because the matter is established by witnesses okay
and even in our justice system nowadays if you're going to convict someone of
slander or someone of defamation you have to prove not only that what they
said was wrong but that they knew that it was wrong that they were spreading
about it like if they had reason to believe what they were saying is right
they're not going to be convicted of slander
they're going to be told to knock that off right but you can't be convicted of slander in that
regard that's why it's so hard to get a defamation case one because it's like
people can you basically have to prove that someone just
bold-faced lied and that they knew that they were bold-faced lying and they had
nothing to substantiate at all what they were submitting
in that case okay why am i bringing this up though i'm bringing this up
because i want to say this is that when it comes to witnesses okay
if you're taking the testimony of witnesses that have had diligent
inquisition done on them and you can't be called a railer for
accepting that testimony okay for accepting their witness on that
regard and using it to accuse someone else okay
or you would debunk the whole system that the bible has in place in
deuteronomy but here's the thing about this we obviously know this
people can lie can't witnesses lie don't we see that in the bible like
we see this with Naboth and with Jezebel right
they have two witnesses go up and accuse him but were the witnesses true
they were liars same thing with Jesus Christ he had two witnesses try to accuse
him they were also found out to be liars
that's why the diligent inquisition is so important to that it's like
you have to have the the cross checking and the examination of witnesses
to fully boast their testimony as something that is true
okay but i'm bringing this up partly because when it comes to that subject
like if you have reasonable evidence to
believe something you can't be called a realer this is a good example of this
okay think about someone like you know Casey
Anthony who's watched the case on Katie Anthony before anybody know
you guys are not some true crimers what is going on here what
OJ Simpson who's watched that okay okay like you guys here's your homework okay
out of the sermon go on youtube look up JCS it's Jim can't swim and look up the
Casey Anthony file it's like a super good video okay
anyways though besides that uh that advertisement for his channel
that video is really good this girl Katie Annie like literally killed her
kid like there's like no doubt in my mind this guy like breaks down all the
evidence of this of why she killed her kid and it's like so
compelling and that jury that didn't convict her are
idiots okay if you go look at this you'll find out they're idiots were not
convicting her but here's the thing about this that you
can't say that i'm railing right there either even though the courts technically
said that she didn't kill her kid because there's enough evidence to
believe that she actually did okay you understand what i'm saying
like just the law's determination on that doesn't mean that i can't say that
i believe truly that she killed her kid she killed her kid there's no doubt in
my mind i wish you guys had seen that stinking case
oj sent him though same thing it's like the dude killed him be real
he like writes a book about it like if i did it it's like no you did do it dude
what the heck right but am i slandering oj by saying that he
did that it's like no there's reasonable evidence to believe that he did that so
that's my point in bringing this up last thing okay because i said it's
going to be a short term and this is the true
last thing uh go to first corinthians chapter number seven
first corinthians chapter number seven the last thing i want to say
about this is this concerning railing is that we should not
be weaponizing it i've kind of dropped breadcrumbs about it throughout this
sermon but truly this is a serious sin like this sin
is so serious that you get kicked out of church for it so you should not just be
throwing this at people just because you don't like them or
throwing this at pastors just because you don't like them
or just because they stumble and like miss speak about one thing that's
ridiculous man we're talking about people getting
kicked out of church and people will be like
oh you said i left my house at 9 a.m but really i left at 9 30 so that means
you're a raylor raylor it's not true it's worthless though
like come on now you think that that's what god's saying you should be kicked
out of church for it's ridiculous it's weak it's beggarly
it's not what the bible is actually teaching about being a raylor like you
need to be real about that we're talking about legitimate false
accusations that someone's bringing up not just mixing up a little bit of
details about or having a slight misunderstanding about okay but people
do this and that's why I'm warning you about this that people do this with
people that they don't like or they'll do this with pastors as well they'll
find like one thing they don't like that a pastor is doing and then they'll drop
the title of pastor they'll be like I'm not even gonna call him pastor I'm just
gonna call him by their first name like our pastor is like Aaron Aaron or just
Thompson or whatever they want to do okay they'll find one thing where they
think that he's slightly misspoke and then they'll be like he shouldn't even
be in the church he should be kicked out for being a railer so how could I even
call him a pastor and then they just drop the title this is lame though it's
ridiculous though is what I understand it's so stupid it's not what we should
be about as Christians like here's the thing about a pastor as well if a pastor
holds the office of a pastor whether they're qualified at that point or not
you should still refer them as a pastor for their office sake it's truly what I
think that's why even the pastors that I brought up before that I don't like
behind this poll but you know what I always refer to them as pastor because
until they actually get removed out of their position they're a pastor hello
you can say this you could say they're an unqualified pastor that's still
pastoring that wouldn't be railing and that would be appropriate now to
actually be respect in their office but it's like the whole thing of like not a
president it's like no no no Donald Trump is the president you idiot no
matter what you think about it okay I don't like the guy either but it's like
he's president if he came here I'd say president Trump right president Donald
Trump respect the office respect the power give honor to him honors dues
what the Bible says right so if someone's holding that position let's
think about think about King Saul David gets told by God he's like you're gonna
be the next king they're gonna anoint you right but does he just drop the
title of King now he just doesn't treat him like he's the king anymore he just
treats him like he's trash not at all and Saul wouldn't have been qualified to
be king because God literally said you're done I'm gonna remove you but
still he's treated as King and rightfully so because the office should
be respected the authority should be respected that God establishes and if
God wants to take someone down out of authority guess what he'll do it just
like we saw in the story of King Saul so until then I'm gonna respect someone's
office that is was rightfully ordained and rightfully qualified when they go to
be a pastor I'm not gonna look at little subjective things and then be like drop
the title of pastor doesn't make sense man it doesn't make sense with what we
see in the Bible itself like even think about someone like King Solomon like
they had you know the qualifications for a king back in the Old Testament it's
like they were supposed to have not multiple wives they weren't supposed to
multiply wives in themselves what they say you don't just drop Solomon David
it's like no King Solomon right King David you respect the office even though
they weren't qualified to be a king anymore hey and tell they're pulled out
of their office God's allowing to them be there so respect that office is what
I believe I believe that's what's right with what the Bible says that's why I
will not willy-nilly just go to a pastor that I don't like and drop his
title they could I think it ruins the whole system of pastor in the first
place so in summary for this sermon though okay I've ripped on all these
things okay I just want to say you should not be playing games with
railing you shouldn't be playing games with just demoting people as a pastor
because you just don't think that they're not qualified and that goes for
any pastor by the way any pastor that's truly saved it was truly qualified at
first goes for any of them okay just drop in their title is not something we
see in the Bible think about this as well I didn't even bring this up Paul's
talking to the high priest he's talking to Caiaphas and what does he say I wish
not that it was the Lord's high priest dude's not even saved and he still
respects the office you know why it's cuz God's system of authority is what's
truly important not just your opinions about it okay good night you pissed me
off right at the end of the sermon okay summary for the end of the sermon I just
I do think that that's super lame I think he's a bad name to Christianity
when we're doing things like that so I think that you should respect these
offices okay but the second thing I want to bring up or then summary for this is
this is that railing in my opinion goes to blasphemy it goes to reviling it goes
to cursing and it goes to slander and it goes to extreme amounts of mocking I
think that makes clear what the Bible says so if you're doing any of those
things knock that crap off or you will be thrown out of the church for it with
the authority of our pastor of course right but hopefully you guys learned
something in that sermon because I did in a tremendous amount of research more
than usual for Sunday sermon that was for sure so hopefully you learned
something if you didn't don't tell me you got a better lot of me after okay
that's my dear other God thank you so much this wonderful day thank you so
much for everything you do for us God thank you so much for this church God
for everybody that comes God I just pray that you would help us God to to be
real with your word God on these things that I just pray that we would take
things in their proper context I just pray that we would study to show
ourselves approved God I just pray that we wouldn't believe things just because
other people say them and I pray that we would behave ourselves wisely in all
areas of our lives God and I pray that you would help us to get more people say
what we go out so wanting later and I pray that you'd be with brother Jason as
he preaches a sermon tonight and I pray that you'd be with everybody as they
travel home as well and just a pray amen take your him knows we're gonna
turn a page 155 page number 155 doxology and we'll sing it twice page number 155
praise God for everybody but the ride should please close this one word of
prayer