WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:18.900 [♪ рук jackets considers buckets floating grass allez hobby你想辦法Keep refreshing�� keeper Lorelei Bieber accessed caption gazutil segregators aztthought Mog além๊♡ 07:18.900 --> 07:41.060 Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. 07:41.060 --> 07:45.660 Please take your seats and open your hymn books to page 224. 07:45.660 --> 07:50.060 224. There shall be showers of blessing. 07:50.060 --> 07:55.180 224 in your hymn books. 07:59.660 --> 08:00.380 On the 1st. 08:01.500 --> 08:07.660 There shall be showers of blessing. This is the promise of love. 08:07.820 --> 08:11.500 There shall be seasons refreshing. 08:11.500 --> 08:15.020 Sent from the Savior above. 08:15.020 --> 08:18.940 Showers of blessing. 08:18.940 --> 08:22.700 Showers of blessing we need. 08:22.700 --> 08:26.460 Mercy drops around us are falling. 08:26.460 --> 08:30.220 But for the showers we plead. 08:30.220 --> 08:33.500 There shall be showers of blessing. 08:33.500 --> 08:36.460 Precious, reviving again. 08:36.460 --> 08:40.300 Over the hills and the valleys. 08:40.300 --> 08:43.820 Sound of abundance of rain. 08:43.820 --> 08:47.740 Showers of blessing. 08:47.740 --> 08:51.340 Showers of blessing we need. 08:51.340 --> 08:55.100 Mercy drops around us are falling. 08:55.100 --> 08:58.620 But for the showers we plead. 08:58.620 --> 09:02.540 There shall be showers of blessing. 09:02.540 --> 09:05.580 Send them upon us. 09:05.580 --> 09:08.700 Send them upon us, O Lord. 09:08.700 --> 09:12.460 Grant to us now a refreshing. 09:12.460 --> 09:16.140 Come and now honor thy word. 09:16.140 --> 09:19.900 Showers of blessing. 09:19.900 --> 09:23.580 Showers of blessing we need. 09:23.580 --> 09:27.340 Mercy drops around us are falling. 09:27.340 --> 09:30.940 But for the showers we plead. 09:30.940 --> 09:34.860 There shall be showers of blessing. 09:34.860 --> 09:38.540 Oh, that today they might fall. 09:38.540 --> 09:42.300 Now as to God we're confessing. 09:42.300 --> 09:45.900 Now on Jesus we call. 09:45.900 --> 09:49.740 Showers of blessing. 09:49.740 --> 09:53.500 Showers of blessing we need. 09:53.500 --> 09:57.340 Mercy drops around us are falling. 09:57.340 --> 10:00.700 But for the showers we plead. 10:00.700 --> 10:02.220 Alright everybody, good singing. 10:02.220 --> 10:05.340 Brother Landon, could you please open us with a word of prayer? 10:21.340 --> 10:22.220 Amen. 10:22.220 --> 10:26.300 Next song is going to be song 153, How Firm a Foundation. 10:26.300 --> 10:27.980 153 in your handbooks. 10:27.980 --> 10:34.380 How Firm a Foundation, 153. 10:34.380 --> 10:37.660 On the first. 10:37.660 --> 10:44.700 How firm a foundation, 10:44.700 --> 10:48.700 Ye saints of the Lord, 10:48.700 --> 10:54.220 Is laid for your faith 10:54.620 --> 10:59.900 In his excellent word. 10:59.900 --> 11:05.420 What more can he say 11:05.420 --> 11:10.540 Than to you he hath said, 11:10.540 --> 11:16.220 To you who for refuge 11:16.220 --> 11:20.860 To Jesus hath fled 11:20.860 --> 11:26.780 In every condition, 11:26.780 --> 11:31.260 In sickness, in health, 11:31.260 --> 11:36.380 In poverty's veil, 11:36.380 --> 11:41.580 Or abounding in wealth, 11:41.580 --> 11:46.860 At home and abroad, 11:46.860 --> 11:52.060 On the land, on the sea, 11:52.060 --> 11:57.260 As yours, yours may demand, 11:57.260 --> 12:02.620 Shall your strength ever be, 12:02.620 --> 12:08.540 When through fiery trials 12:08.540 --> 12:13.100 Thy path we shall lie. 12:13.100 --> 12:18.700 My grace, all sufficiency 12:18.700 --> 12:23.180 Shall be thy supply. 12:23.180 --> 12:28.220 The flame shall not hurt 12:28.220 --> 12:33.260 Thee on only design. 12:33.260 --> 12:38.220 Thy trust to consume 12:38.300 --> 12:43.740 And thy goal to refine 12:43.740 --> 12:48.700 He endowed to old age 12:48.700 --> 12:53.900 All my people shall prove 12:53.900 --> 12:59.660 My sovereign eternal 12:59.660 --> 13:04.220 Unchangeable love. 13:04.220 --> 13:09.340 And when hoary hairs 13:09.340 --> 13:14.540 Shall their temples adorn, 13:14.540 --> 13:19.660 Like lambs they shall still 13:19.660 --> 13:24.860 In my bosom be born, 13:24.860 --> 13:30.620 The soul that on Jesus 13:30.700 --> 13:35.020 Have leaned for repose, 13:35.020 --> 13:39.980 I will not well, 13:39.980 --> 13:44.940 Not desert to its foes, 13:44.940 --> 13:50.060 That soul though all hell 13:50.060 --> 13:55.100 Should endeavor to shake, 13:55.100 --> 14:00.940 I'll never, no never, 14:00.940 --> 14:05.660 No never forsake. 14:05.660 --> 14:08.780 All right now for some announcements. 14:08.780 --> 14:12.380 Welcome back to Shul Foundation Baptist Church Sunday afternoon service. 14:12.380 --> 14:17.100 And if you need a bulletin please raise your hand and Usher will bring one to you. 14:17.100 --> 14:21.180 And pray for the people that are sick today and those people who have vehicle issues. 14:21.260 --> 14:25.100 And let's look at the verse of the week. Matthew 4 19 says, 14:25.100 --> 14:27.820 And he said unto them, Follow me and I will make you 14:27.820 --> 14:31.580 Fishers of men. Of course this morning I preach a sermon 14:31.580 --> 14:35.420 on follow me. We need to follow Christ but we also need to follow godly 14:35.420 --> 14:40.140 leaders in your life and that's perfectly biblical. Don't be hyper spiritual. 14:40.140 --> 14:43.740 And let's look at the inside page. We're on YouTube, Facebook, Grumble, 14:43.740 --> 14:47.020 and X. Although Facebook took five of my posts yesterday, 14:47.580 --> 14:51.980 for some reason. Must be, must have fanned some cat ladies online. 14:53.500 --> 14:57.260 We have service time Sunday morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4. 14:57.260 --> 15:02.300 And Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m. We are starting a new book, the Book of Acts. 15:02.300 --> 15:08.620 So if you can make it please join us for the start of a study of a brand new book. 15:08.620 --> 15:13.020 The Book of Acts is you know action packed, as the name describes. 15:13.020 --> 15:15.820 So it's going to be a fun time. Lots of great doctrines, 15:15.820 --> 15:22.940 applications. We have sowing time Saturday morning at 10.30 and Sunday afternoon sowing 15:22.940 --> 15:27.580 at 1.30 p.m. And salvation and last week's attendance is for you to see. 15:28.300 --> 15:35.420 Let's look at the upcoming events. On Sunday, May 24th, we'll be meeting at a different location 15:35.420 --> 15:39.260 due to the Indy 500 raise. I mean you know even though we are allowed to use the space, 15:39.260 --> 15:42.300 there's no way you can get in here because people fence off the traffic. 15:42.300 --> 15:47.020 So we'll be meeting at somewhere else. We'll be having a morning service. We'll go to maybe a 15:47.020 --> 15:51.100 fancy pizza place for lunch just like last year and then we're going to have sowing. 15:51.100 --> 15:55.900 There'll be no afternoon service that day. That's a once a year thing okay so just let you know. 15:55.900 --> 16:01.820 I'm not toning down on preaching but that just you know once a year with the rental restriction. 16:01.820 --> 16:07.420 More details to come on that. We have sowing events coming up. April 25th is the Gary sowing 16:07.420 --> 16:12.140 marathon and then the IU Bloomington is the following week on May 2nd. 16:12.140 --> 16:19.420 You know that will be an awesome event. Please join us and scan the QR code register so we can 16:19.420 --> 16:27.420 get a head count. Also you can go to our website and also God resource website to find all the 16:27.420 --> 16:34.540 sowing events across the world okay across the globe because the earth is not flat amen so. 16:37.420 --> 16:43.740 Yeah there's that. If you want to know how to be saved or needs to be baptized please let me know. 16:43.740 --> 16:49.100 Let's flip on the back side. We have two birthdays coming up. We have Miss April's birthday on the 16:49.100 --> 16:55.100 16th. We have Lyra's birthday on the 21st and they won't you know they will not be here next week. 16:55.100 --> 17:01.740 So we will sing happy birthday to them today as well. So let's sing happy birthday to Miss April 17:01.740 --> 17:19.820 and Lyra. Let's do this. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. God bless you. 17:21.260 --> 17:29.420 Happy birthday to you. Congratulations. How old will it be Lyra? 17:30.140 --> 17:39.260 Four five six four. Congratulations for surviving four whole years. No three whole years plus the 17:39.260 --> 17:43.820 fourth year okay I got all messed up. Plus the nine month in the womb. I mean that's still life right. 17:43.820 --> 17:47.260 You know I don't know why they count the you know that the days when they are born they're technically 17:47.260 --> 17:52.300 plus nine months old. So you know I don't know where that come from but you know back in China 17:52.300 --> 17:58.460 we actually when you are born you are actually one year old by default because they somewhat count 17:59.420 --> 18:05.340 the nine month pregnancy so I thought that's pretty cool but anyway Chinese superiority right. 18:05.340 --> 18:09.660 I'm kidding. All right let's sing one more song and then we are taking up the offering. 18:12.140 --> 18:15.580 All right next song we're going to be singing is song 127. 18:16.220 --> 18:19.580 Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. Song 127. 18:19.580 --> 18:26.860 127 in your hymn books. 18:29.900 --> 18:30.620 On the first. 18:30.940 --> 18:33.900 Yes. 18:33.900 --> 18:43.980 Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus just to take him at his word 18:44.780 --> 18:55.340 just to rest upon his promise just to know the sayeth the Lord 18:56.140 --> 19:06.460 Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I've proved him o'er and o'er 19:07.180 --> 19:24.060 Jesus Jesus precious Jesus oh for grace to trust him more oh how sweet to trust in Jesus 19:24.140 --> 19:35.340 just to trust his cleansing blood just in simple faith to plunge me 19:35.340 --> 19:51.180 neath the healing cleansing flood Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I've proved him o'er and o'er 19:52.140 --> 20:04.300 Jesus Jesus precious Jesus oh for grace to trust him more yes 20:05.100 --> 20:22.540 sweet to trust in Jesus just for sin and self to cease just from Jesus simply taking life and 20:22.620 --> 20:37.500 rest and joy and peace Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I proved him o'er and o'er 20:38.300 --> 20:55.820 Jesus Jesus precious Jesus oh for grace to trust him more I'm so glad I learned to trust the 20:55.900 --> 21:12.380 precious Jesus Savior and friend and I know that thou art with me will be with me to the end 21:13.340 --> 21:23.900 Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I proved him o'er and o'er 21:24.780 --> 21:37.820 Jesus Jesus precious Jesus oh for grace to trust him more ushers please step up 21:37.820 --> 21:43.260 the band is on please pray for the offering 22:37.820 --> 22:54.940 I'll be reading in first john chapter number four first john chapter number four if you need a bible please raise your hand and then I sure will bring one to you 22:56.780 --> 23:04.540 I'm going to start reading first john chapter number four beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits 23:04.540 --> 23:10.620 whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world hereby know ye the 23:10.620 --> 23:17.020 spirit of God every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God and 23:17.020 --> 23:23.740 every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God and this is 23:23.740 --> 23:31.260 the that spirit of Antichrist where have you have heard that it should come and even now already is 23:32.220 --> 23:38.140 is it in the world you're of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he that 23:38.140 --> 23:45.500 is in you than than he that is in the world they are of the world therefore speak they of the world 23:45.500 --> 23:52.140 and the world heareth them we are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God 23:52.140 --> 24:00.540 heareth not us hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error beloved let us love one 24:00.540 --> 24:07.260 another for love is of God and everyone know that love loveeth is born of God and knoweth God 24:07.820 --> 24:15.660 he that loveth not he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love in this was manifested the 24:15.660 --> 24:22.140 love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might 24:22.140 --> 24:29.660 live through him here in his love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son 24:29.660 --> 24:36.540 to be the propitiation for our sins beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another 24:37.100 --> 24:43.900 no man hath seen God at any time if we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is 24:43.900 --> 24:51.900 perfected in us hereby know we that we dwell in him and he and us because he hath given us 24:51.900 --> 24:59.100 of his spirit and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the savior of the 24:59.100 --> 25:05.900 world whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God God dwelleth in him and he and God 25:06.460 --> 25:14.780 and we have known and believed that the love that God hath to us God is love and he that dwelleth 25:14.780 --> 25:22.620 in love dwelleth in God and God in him herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness 25:22.780 --> 25:30.700 in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world there is no fear in love but 25:30.700 --> 25:39.900 perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that fearth is not made perfect in love 25:40.780 --> 25:48.620 we love him because he first loved us if a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar 25:48.620 --> 25:54.140 for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 25:54.780 --> 26:01.580 and this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also 26:03.020 --> 26:07.580 brother Jared 26:07.580 --> 26:10.540 Amen. 26:17.740 --> 26:18.140 Amen. 26:19.740 --> 26:21.020 My timer going here. 26:23.020 --> 26:28.300 So I figured this would be a good sermon to preach on especially with things going on 26:29.740 --> 26:32.620 with the church and everything like that not going detail about it but 26:32.620 --> 26:37.660 just figured this would be good so first John chapter four verse seven says this 26:38.220 --> 26:45.980 beloved let us love one another for God for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God 26:45.980 --> 26:53.180 and knoweth God. Title of my sermon tonight is oh brother love thy brother oh brother love thy 26:53.180 --> 26:57.660 brother yeah you know you guys know me I like to halfway on words and stuff like that that's how I 26:57.740 --> 27:03.820 do it but the reason why I wanted to preach on this sermon was because it's good to be reminded 27:03.820 --> 27:09.260 of these things it's good to be reminded of the milk of the word sometimes it's going to be reminded 27:09.260 --> 27:15.100 of these things sometimes we get so caught up in our things drama going on other churches things 27:15.100 --> 27:19.820 going on in the world we kind of recited these things so it's going to be reminded of what's 27:19.820 --> 27:23.340 what the Bible actually says and how we should conduct ourselves as Christians especially in 27:23.340 --> 27:29.900 churches so again this is not something that's optional this is not something that is something 27:29.900 --> 27:33.020 you can just choose to if you want to when you feel like it this is something that's commanded 27:33.020 --> 27:39.660 by God for us that we love the brethren in the church so the first point is going to be what love 27:39.660 --> 27:44.860 actually means because people say that word a lot oh I love everyone I don't hate anybody you know 27:44.860 --> 27:49.260 that's a lie in itself because you hate me usually when you say that usually hate fundamentalists 27:49.260 --> 27:53.740 right I mean that's just the truth I mean people are like oh yeah I don't hate anybody well that's 27:53.740 --> 27:57.020 a lie you probably hate me right now because I'm trying to preach you and get you saved and you 27:57.020 --> 28:04.300 find that offensive but my first point is going to be what love actually means in this context when 28:04.300 --> 28:10.780 it comes to loving your brethren and the Bible says here in Romans chapter 13 verse 8 it says 28:10.780 --> 28:17.500 oh no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law 28:18.060 --> 28:24.060 for this thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal thou shalt not bear 28:24.060 --> 28:30.300 false witness thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly 28:30.300 --> 28:36.940 comprehended in this saying namely thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself love worketh no 28:36.940 --> 28:43.500 ill will to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law you see the verse just 28:43.500 --> 28:47.740 defined for us what love is there it's the fulfilling the law which the ultimate law is 28:47.740 --> 28:53.740 loving your neighbors yourself and loving God those are the two highest forms of standards of 28:53.740 --> 28:59.100 love right there according to Jesus what he said in his work and again I got a little ahead myself 28:59.100 --> 29:03.420 but it's a command from God it's not something that's just optional well if I feel good if I 29:03.420 --> 29:07.260 feel if the stars align and everything's great then I'm just going to love my brethren no we're 29:07.260 --> 29:12.620 supposed to do it even when times are going hard for us even when things aren't going well for us 29:13.100 --> 29:17.260 you know oftentimes we get it backwards as Christians we think oh I'm going to serve 29:17.260 --> 29:22.060 God when things get right no you serve God anyway that's the way you're supposed to do it now in my 29:22.060 --> 29:26.460 life personally just from my experience I found me just serving God that's where my life seems 29:26.460 --> 29:33.660 to just fall into place and the Bible says here in John 13 verse 34 and 35 this is what Jesus Christ 29:33.660 --> 29:40.140 says a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another so is Jesus Christ telling us to 29:40.140 --> 29:45.820 love one another he is and what is the definition of it means to fulfill the law which is to help 29:45.820 --> 29:52.620 each other and the Bible also says that what is not loving one another only but also indeed in truth 29:52.620 --> 29:59.020 you know ultimate the ultimate love is loving the truth loving the gospel loving people that also 29:59.020 --> 30:09.980 love the truth as well and it says by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have 30:10.060 --> 30:14.700 one to another you know we're out so many today and we saw this non-denominational church called 30:14.700 --> 30:19.020 Christian church or something and it's on the sign disciples of Christ or something you know 30:20.060 --> 30:25.660 what's the real death what's the real uh label when you know someone's actually a disciple about 30:25.660 --> 30:30.460 when they love the brethren in the church when they actually prefer one another this Bible also 30:30.460 --> 30:36.140 says that uh that you prefer one another over the world you know I do believe there is wisdom in 30:36.140 --> 30:40.620 being friends with the unrighteous mammon with unsafe peoples you can learn anything from anybody 30:41.180 --> 30:47.260 but your your closest friends should be the ones here at church if you can't think of someone that 30:47.260 --> 30:52.460 isn't a friend here at this church I mean maybe you gotta you know be one while going you show 30:52.460 --> 30:56.700 yourself this Bible says he that have friends shows himself to be friendly this is why I need 30:56.700 --> 31:02.220 a King James Bible too because the other version will be like well he has many friends uh basically 31:02.220 --> 31:07.020 ruins his life basically it says like that uh just paraphrasing it's like what that's weird 31:07.820 --> 31:16.940 now the NIV totally warps sappers it's so weird um turn with me to John chapter 15 John chapter 15 31:19.180 --> 31:25.420 so what really inspired me to preach the sermon was just again I think this was something that 31:25.420 --> 31:30.860 was most uh relevant to the church with everything going on and the drama and things like that with 31:31.180 --> 31:36.380 going to detail because again we can be caught up in our lives we can be caught up in everything 31:36.380 --> 31:40.940 that is happening and just lose sight of what we're actually supposed to be doing what's our 31:40.940 --> 31:45.420 point of church why are we coming here why are we driving hours to church here why are we here 31:45.420 --> 31:49.660 spend the whole day here when we can be doing anything else why is so we can identify each 31:49.660 --> 31:54.780 other and get people saved that's why we're here that's the whole point if you're on john 31:54.780 --> 32:02.940 chapter 15 look at verse 13 it says greater love hath no man than this than a man lay down his life 32:02.940 --> 32:07.500 for his friends jesus christ is the greatest friend that any of us could have I mean I think 32:07.500 --> 32:13.900 everyone here knows that I mean I I love everyone in this church but I can't be with you 24 seven 32:13.900 --> 32:21.980 but Jesus Christ can but Bible says here in verse 14 ye are my friends if you do what so I recommend 32:21.980 --> 32:26.940 you a lot of people say well Jesus my friend but do you do what he says do you do what he says you 32:26.940 --> 32:32.940 know what your actual like coronal friends don't usually help each other out does usually do things 32:32.940 --> 32:38.940 for each other you do right well Jesus Christ is the same way if he's if you're going to call him 32:38.940 --> 32:45.580 his friend we better do what he says right now doing a favor for a friend so that's my first point 32:45.580 --> 32:50.140 what love means and how to love the brethren it means to fill in the law do what Jesus said 32:50.140 --> 32:56.380 basically pretty short point that's more of the introduction point number two love of the brother 32:56.380 --> 33:03.660 and examine now we're gonna look at like examples in the Bible and just how that plays out so the 33:03.660 --> 33:09.980 epistles of john I'm before the sermon I just read through all the first john epistles just to 33:09.980 --> 33:16.940 get a better idea of this and there's just as the overarching theme of the epistles of first john 33:16.940 --> 33:22.940 second john third john is just loving the brethren and it is constantly equating with loving the 33:22.940 --> 33:30.220 brethren with loving the truth you know I'm not saying everyone that just has a bad day and is mad 33:30.220 --> 33:34.540 at someone at church I'm not saying they're not safe but if you just have this ongoing constant 33:35.100 --> 33:38.780 disposition towards someone at church people at church that you just hate the people of God and 33:38.780 --> 33:44.940 there's no love for them at all I wonder if you're safe to be honest but the Bible says here 33:45.420 --> 33:52.700 in first john chapter three sorry first john chapter one verse three that which we have seen 33:52.700 --> 34:00.940 and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship 34:00.940 --> 34:06.540 is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ verse seven it says this but if we walk in the 34:06.540 --> 34:11.740 light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another see the connection here you gotta be 34:12.700 --> 34:18.380 in the spirit you gotta be in the spirit to be loving one another according to the Bible 34:19.180 --> 34:23.180 when you're not loving your brother you're not in the spirit I don't care what people say people 34:23.180 --> 34:28.460 could be you know I got a low human we all have the flesh okay Paul said Romans chapter seven that 34:29.260 --> 34:36.220 hey I basically struggle the same sentence too you know the things I hate to do I the things I hate 34:36.220 --> 34:44.860 to do I do and things I want to do I don't do to paraphrase so if you're saying you love God 34:45.420 --> 34:50.300 but you don't love the brethren in the church you don't really love love God you know as with the 34:50.300 --> 34:57.420 Bible saying here and it says in verse seven fellowship one another and the blood of Jesus 34:57.420 --> 35:03.260 Christ his son cleanses us from all sin again the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you from all sin 35:03.260 --> 35:07.580 just realize I'm doing sermon so I make that point because I'm tired of people attacking the 35:07.580 --> 35:11.820 blood of Christ it is just annoying how people want to take away the divinity of the saving power of 35:11.820 --> 35:16.780 the blood just something that is stupid and then when people attack the compound name of the Lord 35:17.340 --> 35:22.060 like no it's what the Bible explicitly says you must confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and 35:22.620 --> 35:31.340 you know ask him to save you all right but it says here in uh first John chapter two verse nine 35:31.820 --> 35:32.300 it says 35:34.940 --> 35:42.140 he that saith in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now he that loveth his 35:42.140 --> 35:47.660 brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him but he that hateth 35:47.660 --> 35:55.500 his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whether he goeth because that 35:55.500 --> 36:00.300 darkness hath blinded his eyes now I don't think this is saying this person is not safe it could 36:00.300 --> 36:03.980 mean that I think what is this talking about is talking about walking in the spirit and walking 36:03.980 --> 36:09.900 in the flesh okay that's what I think it's saying here because when you're in the flesh are you are 36:09.900 --> 36:17.260 you in darkness at that point you are you're not seeing clearly because you gotta die daily yourself 36:17.260 --> 36:22.060 you gotta be you gotta basically say no to your flesh every single day it's a daily battle 36:22.620 --> 36:26.540 after you're saved again I'm talking about save people here just if you have already saved 36:27.260 --> 36:30.300 choosing to walk every day in the spirit 36:33.980 --> 36:37.500 and that's something we gotta do every day that's not something we do I wish was something we did 36:37.500 --> 36:41.900 once and I was at you know all these people saying oh yeah you know the worst has come after 36:41.900 --> 36:47.020 salvation I wish I were the case we the whole world we evangelized twice over at this point 36:47.020 --> 36:51.980 but that's that's not true people gotta make the decision to actually follow Christ and it takes 36:51.980 --> 36:55.740 work it's hard work you gotta get sent out of your life you're in your Bible you're praying you're 36:55.740 --> 37:01.500 going to church it's not easy so loving the brethren is also something we should be doing 37:01.500 --> 37:06.620 and you gotta be in the spirit when loving the brethren if you're not in the brethren you're not 37:06.620 --> 37:10.300 in the spirit because a lot of people will twist I bet oh I love God I just don't like this guy 37:10.300 --> 37:16.940 no you're not you're not in the spirit right now you're in the flesh and hating your brother 37:17.660 --> 37:23.740 may not necessarily mean oh I just have this really bad like malicious intent or this person 37:23.820 --> 37:28.860 you know it could just mean oh I'm going to say a slander against this person in the church right 37:28.860 --> 37:33.420 that's hateful is it loving for me to say to push something that's false about a brother in the 37:33.420 --> 37:41.100 church that's hateful to that person a lie is a hateful act a lie hurts someone so if I slander 37:41.660 --> 37:45.980 or a lie about someone in the church says I'm definitely not in the spirit I am in the flesh 37:45.980 --> 37:50.700 at that point and I'm very grateful we are we in a church with a higher standard on railing because 37:50.700 --> 37:55.660 it is a serious sin it is a sin that can kick you kicked out of church if you're not careful 37:58.380 --> 38:04.060 so verse 11 it says but he that hates his brothers in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth 38:04.060 --> 38:08.620 not whether he goeth so when you're hating your brother I mean when bitterness takes hold your 38:08.620 --> 38:11.900 heart and you're bitter against your brother and you hate your brother what tends to happen you 38:11.900 --> 38:16.300 tend to make start making stupid decisions right just look at the x and u i p I mean a lot of them 38:17.020 --> 38:21.340 I mean there's just a prime example what happens when you just allow hatred to just overtake you 38:21.980 --> 38:26.540 or haters of our church the protesters and all that what happens to them they just 38:27.180 --> 38:33.500 go absolutely insane when they see me walk out or any of us walk out they just go absolutely crazy 38:33.500 --> 38:41.340 because hate has just blinded their eyes says in first john chapter 3 verse 11 my little children 38:41.420 --> 38:49.740 let us not love in word neither in tongue but indeed and in truth that was first john 3 18 38:49.740 --> 38:57.020 you can turn to first john chapter 3 verse 11 so we shouldn't just be telling people oh 38:57.900 --> 39:03.420 I love you so and so like in just word we should be shown up by action actions speak louder than 39:03.420 --> 39:09.820 words right we should back up that claim with some action behind it now how did Jesus Christ 39:10.460 --> 39:15.180 back up the claim that he loves us he sent his own grounds on Jesus down the cross 39:15.180 --> 39:18.700 now God the father sent Jesus Christ down the cross for our sins that's how God the father 39:19.580 --> 39:24.060 showed his love for us and Jesus shown his love for us by down on the cross for our sins 39:25.020 --> 39:30.940 that's how he showed that that's how he backed up that claim says in first john chapter 3 verse 11 39:31.580 --> 39:38.220 for this is a message that you have heard from the beginning that we should love one another and so 39:38.220 --> 39:43.500 you got the command right there love one another right here's a bad example of that not as cain 39:43.500 --> 39:53.500 who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and therefore slew him because his own works were evil 39:53.500 --> 40:00.300 and his brother's righteous so cain obviously has some envy going on in his heart he was envious that 40:00.300 --> 40:04.860 abel was being accepted by God he was you know God was accepting his sacrifice so he killed him 40:05.500 --> 40:10.140 that's like really extreme overreaction or but man you should have just been like hey well how 40:10.140 --> 40:13.260 are you getting God to accept your sacrifice he should have been humble he should have been like 40:13.260 --> 40:18.380 oh that's what I'm supposed to do duh and that's all he had to do and God would accept his sacrifice 40:18.380 --> 40:23.500 and you know he would have murdered him it's like but you know Christians are like this today 40:23.500 --> 40:28.300 Christians want to get other Christians that are more successful than their life we are calling 40:28.300 --> 40:32.700 them spiritually and rather than wanting from them they'll go oh I'm gonna tear you down now 40:32.700 --> 40:36.860 that's a wicked attitude you have that kind of attitude you gotta get right with God if you have 40:36.860 --> 40:43.580 that attitude you know you should not be angry or envious when someone's doing well you know if 40:43.580 --> 40:48.540 someone's getting hundreds of people saying every year praise God that's great you know but some 40:48.540 --> 40:52.620 people they just they want to be the big shot they want to be number one in the church they want to 40:52.620 --> 40:57.100 do they want to be have all the attention to them I never answer that because I don't like attention 40:57.260 --> 41:02.540 I'm an introvert I'm just like you guys do whatever you want you know but that's one thing I 41:02.540 --> 41:05.660 know is too God will give attention to people that don't want it and it's like here's your 41:05.660 --> 41:12.700 attention I'm like I don't want this I know have it okay anyway first John chapter four 41:13.500 --> 41:19.180 says this in verse seven beloved let us love one another again this is a verse the chapter I was 41:19.180 --> 41:26.460 just read before the sermon beloved let us love one another for love is of God and everyone that 41:26.460 --> 41:35.100 loveeth is born of God and knoweth God he that loveth not he that loveth not knoweth not God for 41:35.100 --> 41:41.740 God is love right God Jesus Christ is the fulfilling of the law right didn't he didn't Jesus Christ 41:41.740 --> 41:47.180 fulfill every single prophecy of the Old Testament prophesied he did he prophesied every single one I 41:47.180 --> 41:53.980 don't know the exact number what that is it's a lot though it's crazy uh it's amazing it's a miracle 41:53.980 --> 42:00.620 how he's able to fill all that and he that was his love by fulfilling the law by down the cross 42:00.620 --> 42:08.540 for our sins so that we can go to heaven it says in verse go to verse 10 here hearing his love 42:09.420 --> 42:16.860 not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiate propitiation 42:16.860 --> 42:22.940 for our sins so again didn't we first love our word of God love us first he left us first because 42:23.660 --> 42:28.460 you know I didn't love God first I I heard about it either for me then I loved God after I got saved 42:28.460 --> 42:32.220 and just because you don't love God initially doesn't mean you're not saved either if you 42:32.220 --> 42:37.260 believe in trusting him you're saved you know you have developed that love afterwards you know by 42:37.260 --> 42:41.420 reading your Bible by praying and just the more I've read the Bible the more preaching I've heard 42:42.460 --> 42:46.860 the hymns definitely get me just stir my soul and spirit to love God more as well 42:47.740 --> 42:53.180 that's something you got to work on as well you know but if you have at least a base 42:53.180 --> 42:58.060 lying love of God you know because you're always going to appreciate someone that did something 42:58.060 --> 43:01.900 good for you right you know he down across from my sins I'm going to appreciate that I'm going to 43:01.900 --> 43:05.740 love that a lot of the person I did that that doesn't mean though you're super spiritual all 43:05.740 --> 43:13.100 the time though you got to walk in the spirit for that so in first John chapter five and again I'm 43:13.100 --> 43:17.980 just going through basically the whole book just showing you the times where it talks about this 43:17.980 --> 43:22.700 this is not something's like one or two verses and no I'm kind of just twisting this this is all over 43:22.700 --> 43:26.940 the New Testament here and it's also in the Old Testament I just for the sake of time I couldn't 43:26.940 --> 43:34.220 write out down all those verses as well for that but in first John chapter five verse one it says 43:34.220 --> 43:40.220 whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God so whosoever believeth that Jesus is 43:40.220 --> 43:47.820 Christ is saved right and everyone that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begone of him 43:47.820 --> 43:51.660 basically what the saying is you're going to love the people of God everyone that is also saved you're 43:51.660 --> 43:55.660 going to love that person you know I don't know if you ever experienced this but I would just meet 43:55.660 --> 43:59.740 someone for like five minutes I find out they're actually saved I love that person I'm like man 43:59.740 --> 44:07.100 you're you're safe too that's awesome like you know it's the coolest common the most common unifying 44:07.100 --> 44:11.900 factor you can find in a person in my opinion because I've had friends in the past where 44:11.900 --> 44:15.980 you know they weren't saved and I was saved but we would like unite around like a video game we 44:15.980 --> 44:19.500 liked or something you know those are those are shallow friendships those are friendships that 44:19.500 --> 44:24.540 don't typically last the friendships that I find to be the most long lasting the most meaningful are 44:25.180 --> 44:29.900 friendships with other Christians and people here in this church and even churches I've been 44:29.900 --> 44:33.420 to in the past I've had good relationships with them as well because you know they were saved they 44:33.420 --> 44:40.940 had that common salvation you know the faith in Jesus Christ first suit says by this we know 44:41.580 --> 44:49.260 so can you know you can that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments 44:49.260 --> 44:52.860 so how do you know when you love the children when you're keeping his commandments 44:53.660 --> 45:00.380 now they're the world will Christians fool you oh I love Jesus I love God I still like your your 45:00.380 --> 45:04.460 Kenyan Bible I don't like your fundamentalism they're lying to you it's like if it goes on said 45:04.460 --> 45:08.300 earlier in a sermon this morning that they're not even actually following Jesus they claim to 45:08.300 --> 45:11.660 follow Jesus but they're not actually following Jesus they're just saying they're following Jesus 45:11.660 --> 45:17.660 as a cloak to basically cover their attack to a leader to godly leadership and other 45:19.420 --> 45:25.100 Christians because they actually truly don't love God they actually truly don't love the brethren 45:25.100 --> 45:30.460 because that's how you know so if someone truly loves God if they love other Christians I mean it 45:30.460 --> 45:37.340 makes sense right but say how can I tell someone hates Iran they hate the soldiers of Iran the 45:37.340 --> 45:43.660 followers of you know the leader of Iran you know stuff like that how do I know someone hates 45:44.860 --> 45:50.140 Donald Trump they hate Trump supporters right it's just it's just common logic so if someone hates 45:50.140 --> 45:54.060 Christians people are actually following God going to someone preaching the gospel 45:54.940 --> 46:02.380 that person does not love God the Bible says now sometimes people give me the flesh and they could 46:02.380 --> 46:07.900 just be saved and in the flesh but sometimes people are just wolves in sheep's clothing or 46:07.900 --> 46:16.460 just not saved and they're just pretending to be saved coming in spreading heresy or slander railing 46:16.460 --> 46:23.420 and then that's also a very hateful thing because I think this sometimes when I initially think of 46:23.420 --> 46:27.420 hate I'm thinking like oh you're arguing with someone or something that's not necessarily hate 46:27.420 --> 46:31.500 hating is like you're wishing someone harm you're wishing someone to get hurt or have 46:31.500 --> 46:38.300 misfortune in their life that's really what hate is hating your brother also speaking against them 46:38.300 --> 46:40.700 you know railing talked about that 46:43.260 --> 46:51.900 so it says in uh so I said that so in Romans chapter 15 and you can actually turn there 46:51.900 --> 46:59.180 keep your place in uh first john chapter 5 turn to roman chapter 15 it talks about this as well 46:59.180 --> 47:02.060 well 47:02.060 --> 47:08.540 Romans chapter 15 verse 1 it says we then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the week 47:08.540 --> 47:14.140 and not to please ourselves let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to education 47:14.140 --> 47:20.620 for even christ pleased not himself but as it is written that reproaches of them that reproached 47:20.620 --> 47:27.580 thee fell on me for whatsoever things were written aforetime or written for our learning that we 47:27.580 --> 47:32.460 through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope now the god of patience and 47:32.460 --> 47:40.380 consolation grant you to be like-minded one to another according to christ jesus they may be 47:41.500 --> 47:48.300 with one mind and one mouth glorified god even the father of our lord jesus christ so again if 47:48.300 --> 47:53.100 we're as long as we're united around the right gospel the correct jesus no the god of the bible 47:53.100 --> 47:57.180 and we're agreeing on the major doctrines and we have unity then we're loving one another 47:57.180 --> 48:06.620 that's the result of that so that's some examples in the epistles and also in romans of well i'm 48:06.620 --> 48:13.980 your brother because uh more mature christians what they should be doing is not just flexing and 48:13.980 --> 48:17.580 bragging about how strong that they are to the weaker christians they should be helping them 48:17.580 --> 48:21.980 now the bible says in verse one that now they ought to bear the infirmities of the week and not 48:21.980 --> 48:27.500 to please the please ourselves you know could i just ignore everyone's prayer requests and just 48:27.500 --> 48:31.020 be like i'll figure it out yourself dude i could that would be very loving you know i'm supposed to 48:31.020 --> 48:35.900 look out for people you know everyone should be looking out for each other you know i get you're 48:35.900 --> 48:40.220 busy sometimes throughout the week but i always try to make it a habit every once in a while when 48:40.220 --> 48:45.500 i see the prayer request uh chat get updated i always try to make a mental note make a make 48:45.500 --> 48:49.020 a prayer about this at some point i should try to do it right then and there so i don't forget 48:49.340 --> 48:55.500 that because people are struggling you know life's hard you know people are going through trials that 48:56.060 --> 49:03.020 office don't even know about you know so we need to make sure we're uh you know doing that 49:03.900 --> 49:06.860 god sees that that's a thing where the service that's something we should be doing 49:07.420 --> 49:11.180 now because we're here for each other we're a church family now wouldn't you do good things 49:11.180 --> 49:16.540 for your siblings for your parents i would you know so why don't you do that for the people of 49:16.540 --> 49:22.140 god right so that's my second point third point is how john was rather than john wrote about all 49:22.140 --> 49:25.260 that he wrote his vessels did john was he a hypocrite you know it's a lot of people like oh 49:25.260 --> 49:30.860 well i don't like church full of hypocrites well actually john the apostle john specifically 49:31.980 --> 49:37.740 did practice what he preached uh turn with me to second john the book of second john right after 49:37.740 --> 49:44.060 first john if you ask me which chapter i'm just gonna look at you like this 49:46.540 --> 49:56.300 anyway so second john chapter um chapter one yeah verse one it says the elder unto the 49:56.300 --> 50:03.340 liked lady and her children whom i love in the truth and not i only but also all they that have 50:03.340 --> 50:09.980 known the truth for the truth's sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us forever grace be with 50:09.980 --> 50:15.420 you mercy and peace from god the father and from the lord jesus christ the son of the father in 50:15.420 --> 50:21.420 truth and love knows he starts out right off the gate with this letter to this lady here and her 50:21.420 --> 50:29.660 children who he loves in the truth so how does john show love to this lady and her children first 50:29.660 --> 50:34.220 of all writing this epistle and he also concludes hey there's some things i'm not going to say on 50:34.220 --> 50:39.660 this letter i'm just going to talk to you face to face about the about these things but it's in truth 50:39.660 --> 50:46.780 now we all show off for each other every time we come here by just all being in unity of the truth 50:46.780 --> 50:51.260 of the gospel right we all go out there and preach the gospel trying to get people saved 50:51.820 --> 50:55.580 you know that's something we should never take for granted this church that we actually go out and 50:55.580 --> 51:01.420 preach the gospel reaching the lost because they've been my old life research i was at i was the only 51:01.420 --> 51:05.100 one i was ready with soul winning i would drag another guy out with me sometimes too every so 51:05.100 --> 51:10.700 often but you know it was not something i enjoyed doing because someone by yourself sucks it just 51:10.700 --> 51:15.260 does it's stressful you know it's nice having other people go with you it just encourages you 51:15.260 --> 51:23.980 to keep going and uh so john loved the brother and he practiced what he preached uh verse 12 of second 51:23.980 --> 51:30.620 john says having many things to write onto you i would not with paper and ink but i trust to come 51:30.620 --> 51:35.980 onto you and speak face to face that our joy may be full so yeah basically what i just said earlier 51:35.980 --> 51:40.620 you know there's a lot of things he didn't write on this letter just we're gonna have a conversation 51:40.620 --> 51:45.980 and just see see you know talk about how you're doing and everything no john was checking up on 51:45.980 --> 51:49.660 people at the church you know he was writing letters to people in the church being like hey 51:49.660 --> 51:53.820 how are you doing i mean this is basically the old version of like a like a text message to someone 51:53.820 --> 51:59.020 you know you know and i try to do it every so often i'm not great i don't know anything i'm not 51:59.020 --> 52:02.940 saying i'm the best insurance i'm probably not but every every so often about the week i try to 52:02.940 --> 52:06.860 check up on people see how they're doing you know hey you got you got any problems do you need prayer 52:06.860 --> 52:11.180 for anything you know because people have done that for me and i want to return the favor and 52:11.180 --> 52:15.340 help people out as well because that helps people you don't realize how much it helps people 52:15.340 --> 52:19.740 throughout the week it does it's a small i don't know why it's the small things that really mean 52:19.740 --> 52:26.460 a lot to people sometimes i've learned that and i'm just like oh all right so we went over the 52:26.460 --> 52:30.220 first three points what love actually means according to the bible how that means fulfilling 52:30.220 --> 52:35.260 the law how it's not what the hippie liberals say it's just love everybody be kind to everybody even 52:35.260 --> 52:39.980 to the worst most scummiest people on earth that's how what love means in this context it means 52:39.980 --> 52:46.060 fulfilling the law means loving the truth it's a command from god again loving your brother 52:47.020 --> 52:51.020 being in unity loving the truth this is something that god expects you know it's not like you can 52:51.020 --> 52:55.500 something like if you do this don't expect like a pound back from god god's like i yeah this is what 52:55.500 --> 53:01.100 i said this is like i expected for you to do you know point number two is love the love of the 53:01.100 --> 53:06.220 brethren examined we looked at you know first john pretty much pretty much everywhere in this 53:06.220 --> 53:13.980 in the spot in the book where it talks about that and then point number three we talked about how 53:13.980 --> 53:20.060 john actually loved the brethren and um and in third john he does that as well if you know we 53:20.060 --> 53:26.220 can look i got time i can look at that real quick he says in third john verse one the elder unto the 53:26.220 --> 53:32.460 well-beloved guaius whom i love and the truth beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest 53:32.460 --> 53:38.140 prosper and be in health even as thy soul prosper now third john and second john are very similar 53:38.140 --> 53:43.340 epistles if you were to compare them it's it's basically greetings hey i love this brother 53:44.060 --> 53:51.420 uh this what's going on and conclusion so it was the elect lady for second john third john it's guaius 53:52.220 --> 53:58.620 who is someone that was very generous in the church and things like that he you know basically 53:58.620 --> 54:05.580 gave to people at the church and uh john uh called him well beloved and he loved him in truth 54:06.220 --> 54:10.860 and there was the same here in verse two beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper 54:11.580 --> 54:16.620 so he's wishing people to succeed right he's wishing people to prosper especially the guys 54:16.620 --> 54:21.260 and also people the church that's how you know that's that's a sign that you love church you 54:21.260 --> 54:26.380 love the church you want people to do well in the church now it's kind of why would you be a weirdo 54:26.380 --> 54:29.420 and go to a church where you don't like the pastor you don't like the evangelist right or the 54:29.420 --> 54:35.580 leadership that that doesn't make any sense or you wish people to fail in this church like i've never 54:35.580 --> 54:39.980 understood but that's that's envy you know when people get envy allow envy to get in their hearts 54:41.020 --> 54:46.540 unfortunately they're just blinded by hatred and that's when they start doing all sorts of 54:46.540 --> 54:51.500 stupid things like wishing people to crash and burn their life like how's that gonna make you 54:51.500 --> 54:58.380 better that's what i always ask myself okay them failing how's that gonna help you it's not anyway 54:58.380 --> 55:05.020 so point number four is gonna be some bad examples of people in the bible who did not love the 55:05.020 --> 55:14.700 brethren first example is going to be diatrophes he's only mentioned once in the bible but it says 55:14.700 --> 55:21.980 in third john verse 9 i wrote unto the church but diatrophes who loveth to have the preeminence 55:21.980 --> 55:29.500 among them received receiveth us not wherefore if i come i will remember his deeds which he doeth 55:29.580 --> 55:35.980 plating against us with malicious words and not content therewith i mean there's a lot again in 55:35.980 --> 55:41.660 these two verses right here diatrophes he definitely had envy because he wanted to be he he wanted to 55:41.660 --> 55:45.740 preeminence he wanted to be the big shot right he wanted to be one in charge like oh you're just 55:45.740 --> 55:49.100 coming to my church you're here to also john preach oh i don't want you coming to my church you know 55:50.060 --> 55:51.580 you know i don't know anyone like that do you 55:52.460 --> 56:01.260 you know diatrophes definitely did not love the brethren he wanted to have all the attention 56:01.900 --> 56:09.340 and knows it says here i will remember his deeds which he doeth plating against us with malicious 56:09.340 --> 56:15.660 words guess what saying a slander railing against someone that's a that's a work of iniquity 56:16.220 --> 56:20.780 that's what the bible says right there his works what he do against us plating against us with 56:20.780 --> 56:27.100 malicious words and not content therewith so he wasn't even happy with the lies he was peddling 56:27.100 --> 56:32.540 in the church and he was not content with his position either now that he himself received the 56:32.540 --> 56:38.620 brethren and forbid of them that they were to cast him out of the church that was kicking people 56:38.620 --> 56:41.340 out of church for the wrong reasons there's a right reason to kick people out of church 56:41.340 --> 56:45.100 then there's a wrong reason oh you're listening to a pastor that i don't like that i don't like i'm 56:45.100 --> 56:51.660 kicking you out that's that's not loving your brother at all that's extremely wicked you know 56:53.820 --> 56:57.900 and yeah i mean that was just a bad example right there another bad example is demis 56:58.540 --> 57:02.700 and turn with me to second timothy chapter four second timothy chapter four 57:05.180 --> 57:09.020 now god put these people in the bow for a reason so we can learn from them right so that would be like 57:09.020 --> 57:15.020 oh i don't want to be like this guy i don't want to be like you know diatrophies and literally 57:15.020 --> 57:20.700 being so full of bitterness and envy that i'm going to literally kick people out of church if 57:20.700 --> 57:25.820 you have that capability do so i mean none of us besides evangelists long kick people out of church 57:25.820 --> 57:31.020 and pastor thompson but we can still speak evil against people we should not be doing that you know 57:31.660 --> 57:39.740 demis is the second example second timothy chapter four verse 10 it says this for therefore 57:40.380 --> 57:46.060 oh wait i'm in first timothy i was like what a minute second timothy chapter four verse 10 57:46.860 --> 57:53.420 it says this for demis hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto 57:53.420 --> 58:00.780 thesilonica, creasions to galatia, titus unto dalmatia. So demis wasn't railing against 58:01.340 --> 58:04.860 brother under church he wasn't like kicking people out of church or he wasn't doing anything like 58:04.860 --> 58:10.780 that but he still fell away and for sook paul why because he loved the present world he just got 58:10.780 --> 58:14.860 too caught up in the world got too caught up in i don't know it's 401k whatever i don't know what 58:14.860 --> 58:21.820 it was but it was something maybe it was riches maybe it was who knows you know but he loved this 58:21.820 --> 58:26.140 present world and that's something we can be caught up in as christians at any point you know 58:26.140 --> 58:30.380 don't think oh i've been going to church here for a little bit i've been sowing consistently 58:30.380 --> 58:34.940 i've been going to bible every day i pray hey take heed let's see fall any any one of us can fall at 58:34.940 --> 58:39.100 any point we got to be careful that we walk circumspectly and that we are walking in the 58:39.100 --> 58:44.620 spirit we're walking in the light because the devil is is watching us he's waiting for us to 58:44.620 --> 58:51.260 have an opening he's coming to go to attack you know it's just you gotta be careful as christians 58:51.260 --> 58:55.820 we're not stronger than the devil you know the you know my background is being pentecostal and 58:55.820 --> 58:59.500 they would always rail on the devil and stuff like that all this crazy stupid stuff they would say 58:59.500 --> 59:04.140 i'm like uh if you do that you're inviting the wrong kind of crowd into you if you know what i 59:04.140 --> 59:09.820 mean you don't want to rail against the devil you don't want to speak evil against powers you do not 59:09.820 --> 59:13.820 understand you want to make sure you're just going with what the bible says you're just talking to 59:14.380 --> 59:21.580 jesus you just pray to god and just you know just cleaning to him as jesus can overcome anything 59:21.580 --> 59:27.580 just rely on the power god don't be this weird pentecostal person that thinks oh i can take the 59:27.580 --> 59:31.740 devil in a fight i would have been the church services where they'll challenge the devil to 59:31.740 --> 59:40.380 fight like on stage i'm like what are you doing so don't do that i don't think anyone here would but 59:40.380 --> 59:43.020 you know just don't get don't listen to people that are like that though 59:44.460 --> 59:51.660 so even commitment of god like uh demis i mean demis was a guy ordained by paul so at some point 59:51.660 --> 59:58.540 he was committed to serving god right he was someone that was faithful that was you know that 59:58.540 --> 01:00:02.380 knows his bible probably that probably got a lot of people saved at some point in his life 01:00:03.260 --> 01:00:08.540 even then he he loved this present world and just forsook paul you know later in the new testament 01:00:08.540 --> 01:00:12.540 it says only luke's only luke's with me take mark for his profitability for the ministry 01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:19.020 so again that's a good sober reminder that it doesn't matter how long of a christian you've been 01:00:19.020 --> 01:00:24.300 you can always slip up you can always fall into sin there's no stagnation in the bible you're 01:00:24.300 --> 01:00:30.540 either backsliding or you're growing you know and you know i've had seasons in my life like that i'm 01:00:30.540 --> 01:00:35.260 backsliding but then i'm growing then i'm backsliding then i'm growing you know it's a battle 01:00:35.260 --> 01:00:39.740 now as long as you're consistently growing the overall it's kind of like the stock market it 01:00:39.740 --> 01:00:43.580 dips it goes up and down goes up and down but the overall trend is increasing right 01:00:44.540 --> 01:00:51.740 now if your christian life your overall trajectory is growing then that's successful christian life 01:00:53.100 --> 01:00:58.540 another bad example is hymenaeus and philetus second timothy chapter 2 verse 17 18 01:00:58.540 --> 01:01:06.460 and the word will eat as doth a canker of whom is hominus and philetus who concerning the truth 01:01:06.460 --> 01:01:12.300 have erred meaning sinned saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the 01:01:12.300 --> 01:01:19.500 faith of some now these are just wolves in the church spreading a heresy saying that the 01:01:20.700 --> 01:01:26.460 the resurrection has already happened you know which is not true you know and that 01:01:26.460 --> 01:01:31.980 and that over throw the faith of some so just because you go to church doesn't mean you can't 01:01:31.980 --> 01:01:36.300 have your faith overthrown you know i'm not saying this is your faith the faith that saves you but 01:01:36.300 --> 01:01:41.260 meaning like your your ongoing faith for god you you trust in god for your daily life i think that's 01:01:41.260 --> 01:01:46.300 what it's saying here that that can happen if you listen to the wrong people you you can be 01:01:46.860 --> 01:01:50.940 tainted by their false doctrine and you gotta be very careful who you listen to 01:01:51.180 --> 01:01:56.380 um especially um people online and stuff like that because people can say anything there's no 01:01:56.380 --> 01:02:01.020 accountability for all these people online they just say whatever and see what sticks no kind of 01:02:01.020 --> 01:02:04.780 like my sermon i preach about nick flint says i mean that guy just says whatever and just sees 01:02:04.780 --> 01:02:10.460 what sticks he has no accountability if you were to take his advice and fail he doesn't have to pay 01:02:10.460 --> 01:02:17.180 he doesn't have to pay for anything or any you know or any damage you do your life so don't and 01:02:17.260 --> 01:02:24.540 and this really is the holy spirit preaching through me and also of angels on because i'm 01:02:24.540 --> 01:02:28.940 going to say in the same point he said this morning don't blindly trust men you know of the 01:02:28.940 --> 01:02:34.220 clergy don't blindly just trust men in the church because they're here or because their leaders 01:02:34.220 --> 01:02:38.540 of the church you know ultimately you need to have your own walk with god need to be reading the 01:02:38.540 --> 01:02:45.900 bible on your own and coming to your own conclusions because i've been wrong i can be wrong i'm human 01:02:45.900 --> 01:02:52.300 no we all fall we're all sinners right men are sinners and the best men are men are best so none 01:02:52.300 --> 01:02:56.220 of us are just perfect all of a sudden the only one that's perfect is god that's the one you can 01:02:56.220 --> 01:03:02.060 just trust blindly just blindly trust jesus in the bible because that's who's perfect last time i 01:03:02.060 --> 01:03:07.500 checked i can't forgive you your sins i can't and i'll say that often now someone i'm like well 01:03:08.460 --> 01:03:14.620 because i try i try to i say this i ask him this question well can i pay for your sins no i'm not 01:03:14.620 --> 01:03:19.420 god right because i'm trying to get them to see that jesus christ was without sin because if jesus 01:03:19.420 --> 01:03:24.860 christ sinned at any point well then how's he any different any of us then he's just a man you know 01:03:24.860 --> 01:03:29.900 he someone has to be gotten before someone has to be without sin to pay for our sins that's jesus 01:03:31.180 --> 01:03:33.660 otherwise we're all doomed we're all just going to hell what's the point of this 01:03:34.220 --> 01:03:38.380 you know what's the point of church reading the bible praying what's the point of all of it if 01:03:39.340 --> 01:03:43.820 there is no salvation there is no there is no point where men most miserable says in first 01:03:43.820 --> 01:03:50.780 green in chapter 15 so again hymenus and phlyletus they weren't saved i don't think they were saved 01:03:51.340 --> 01:03:55.740 but other people probably thought they were and they probably just blindly trusted them oh these 01:03:55.740 --> 01:03:59.900 are guys in the church that paul trusts and i'm sure paul trusted him at one point before this 01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:04.060 heresy you know came to light oh wow they're teaching this now get get them kicked out 01:04:06.620 --> 01:04:10.780 you got to be careful you know we've had i'm not naming names i'm just saying we've had people in 01:04:10.780 --> 01:04:17.660 the past here in this church that have been marked because of not because of heresy but because 01:04:18.940 --> 01:04:26.860 not loving the brethren you know and you know it it was it was shocking news when they came came 01:04:26.860 --> 01:04:32.540 about who it was and we were i was shocked i was like no way but you see even even men in leadership 01:04:32.540 --> 01:04:38.060 can fail you you know that's why you got to have your own walk with god and read the bible yourself 01:04:38.700 --> 01:04:45.020 that way your faith isn't shaken you know if you know you're someone that's reading the bible 01:04:45.020 --> 01:04:49.740 every day it just came to mind i was psalm chapter one it says this you know you can turn it off if 01:04:49.740 --> 01:04:52.540 you want i'm just going to turn there and read this real quick i don't want to misquote it 01:04:53.820 --> 01:04:59.260 but in psalm chapter one it talks about that if you're if you're someone that's in the truth 01:05:00.140 --> 01:05:05.820 you're going to not be moved it says blessed is the man that walketh on the council of the ungodly 01:05:05.820 --> 01:05:11.180 nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the 01:05:11.180 --> 01:05:18.620 law of the lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree planted 01:05:18.620 --> 01:05:23.580 by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not weather 01:05:23.580 --> 01:05:28.060 whatsoever you do it shall prosper the ungodly or not so so this song was talking about if you're 01:05:29.100 --> 01:05:34.780 by the water which spiritually speaking that's by the word of god by jesus christ and you're 01:05:35.660 --> 01:05:38.380 you're really truly providing its fruit in its due season meaning you're going to be 01:05:39.020 --> 01:05:41.900 reaping going out there getting people saved everything like that 01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:49.580 notice his delight's in the law though his his delight's not in church drama his delight's not in 01:05:51.660 --> 01:05:55.100 what's going on in another church his delight's in the law of the lord 01:05:56.060 --> 01:06:00.140 you know that's that's what someone that's going to be someone that's going to be at this church for 01:06:00.140 --> 01:06:05.660 a long time someone that actually loves the bible and that's just other man's matter as being a busy 01:06:05.660 --> 01:06:12.780 body now obviously if people attack us and we know about it i mean that's when trouble finds you you 01:06:12.780 --> 01:06:19.180 know but i always try to live by this uh thought process hey if i don't know it can't hurt me 01:06:19.820 --> 01:06:23.820 if other churches don't like us who cares you know i'm just here to serve god i'm here 01:06:24.460 --> 01:06:29.500 to do what god wants me to do that's all i'm trying to do and if you don't like that 01:06:30.140 --> 01:06:38.220 kick rocks i don't care you know so that was my fourth point just some bad examples in the bible 01:06:38.940 --> 01:06:43.900 now the fifth point is going to be good examples so back to third john here go back to third john 01:06:44.780 --> 01:06:50.460 uh i already no i didn't talk about this guy yet but uh yeah so the the good example is going to be 01:06:50.460 --> 01:06:55.660 demetrius so third john uh verse 12 01:07:05.500 --> 01:07:09.420 so you got reliable witnesses like john the apostle backing this guy up saying hey this 01:07:09.420 --> 01:07:18.300 demetrius guy is great he's got a good report and yeah so that's when you know someone loves a 01:07:18.300 --> 01:07:22.380 brethren when other people at the church notice that and you know they'll maybe get behind the 01:07:22.380 --> 01:07:27.020 pulpit use that as an example to illustrate something be like oh yeah this guy over here 01:07:27.020 --> 01:07:32.460 he does this a lot he loves the brethren again because that's the core of this sermon and my 01:07:32.460 --> 01:07:37.180 the main goal of my sermon here is to kind of stir your spirit to be more conscious about that 01:07:37.180 --> 01:07:42.380 like what can i do more to love the brethren what can i do more uh to show my love for the people 01:07:42.380 --> 01:07:49.660 here in this church because that's something god expects from us and he was a lover of truth 01:07:49.660 --> 01:07:54.540 i already talked about him earlier a little bit gaius in verse five of third john 01:07:56.540 --> 01:08:00.780 i'll start at verse two beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper 01:08:00.780 --> 01:08:06.780 and be in health even as i so prospereth for i rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and 01:08:06.780 --> 01:08:12.620 testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth i have no greater joy 01:08:13.420 --> 01:08:18.700 than to hear that my children walk in truth beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou 01:08:18.700 --> 01:08:24.380 doest to the brethren and to the strangers you know it's crazy i even got a preacher sermon 01:08:25.420 --> 01:08:29.820 talking about just loving other saved christians but we should also be loving the unsaved 01:08:29.820 --> 01:08:34.940 you know we should also be loving strangers people that don't know the truth you know and we do that 01:08:34.940 --> 01:08:42.140 every week by going out there preaching the gospel and you know and we if we can love the 01:08:42.140 --> 01:08:45.980 unsafe we just definitely love the brethren you know people that actually say that they have the 01:08:45.980 --> 01:08:49.500 holy spirit that will actually agree with you on the most important thing that ever matter that 01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:56.220 that matters that really only matters is going to heaven because honestly i mean yeah we get busy 01:08:56.220 --> 01:09:00.380 in this life we get caught up with things going on sometimes but we're all going to die one day i 01:09:00.380 --> 01:09:06.140 mean nonetheless are going to be remembered in probably 200 years coronally speaking but what 01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:10.780 did you do for god will be remembered forever and that's all you're going to remember anyway 01:09:10.780 --> 01:09:14.780 probably i don't know maybe you'll remember if we did in the flesh i have no idea but 01:09:16.140 --> 01:09:21.020 that's what really matters though every soul you get saved that's going to be forever how much money 01:09:21.020 --> 01:09:25.660 you have the bank that's not going to matter you know that's that's like monopoly play money for now 01:09:25.660 --> 01:09:29.740 right now you know it's going to happen right now but when you have it it's going to be like oh i 01:09:29.740 --> 01:09:37.100 don't need this now you know it's not going to matter so we had demetrius and he was all over 01:09:37.100 --> 01:09:44.700 truth guys um verse five says blah blah i already said that uh verse six which have 01:09:44.700 --> 01:09:49.260 worn witnesses of that by charity before the church so this is a generous church they had 01:09:49.260 --> 01:09:54.860 charity before the church whom have thou bring forward on their journey after a golly sword thou 01:09:54.860 --> 01:10:00.300 shall do well it's going to be generous too it's good if god gives you if god blesses you let's say 01:10:00.300 --> 01:10:06.620 financially and you see a brother that is struggling financially and you give him some money that's 01:10:06.620 --> 01:10:09.340 that's a very long thing to do and god sees that he will reward you for that 01:10:13.020 --> 01:10:19.580 so and uh roman chapter 16 you got a whole list of just people that paul mentions that are always 01:10:19.580 --> 01:10:26.140 really like um good christians that love the brethren you can turn there if you want i was 01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:31.180 just gonna read a few verses talking about that i commend unto you phoebe our sister 01:10:32.220 --> 01:10:39.100 so i can't stand it when feminists will accuse us of hating women okay first verse in chapter 16 01:10:39.100 --> 01:10:46.940 here what who is paul commending here a woman oh we hate women though okay i commend unto you phoebe 01:10:46.940 --> 01:10:54.300 our sister which is a servant of the church which is at centria that you receive her and the lord 01:10:54.300 --> 01:11:01.100 as become the saints and that you sister and what sort of business she had need of you for she had 01:11:01.100 --> 01:11:05.180 been a sucker of many meaning she helped a lot of people you know the sucker to support 01:11:06.380 --> 01:11:12.620 and of myself also greet for skilla in aquila my helpers in christ jesus notice here just helping 01:11:12.620 --> 01:11:17.500 people just basic little things like if someone needs to ride the church or something someone 01:11:17.500 --> 01:11:22.300 needs a little bit of cash for gas money just a little stuff here and there just helping people 01:11:22.300 --> 01:11:26.620 that that's the same that's commendable i mean paul's really praising people for doing that 01:11:26.620 --> 01:11:30.460 they're doing things being a sucker of any meaning phoebe helped many people 01:11:32.380 --> 01:11:37.500 and you're receiving the lord and of course for skilla and aquila helped paul a lot too 01:11:37.500 --> 01:11:41.260 thrid is ministering the book of acts you know you read the book of acts which we will go through 01:11:41.900 --> 01:11:46.860 on wednesday nights we're going to be seeing that how preschool and aquila helped paul a lot 01:11:46.860 --> 01:11:50.860 i mean i think at one point they let him stay at his house and they were very hospitable 01:11:52.620 --> 01:11:58.460 verse four it says who have but also says this about purse uh for skilla and aquila who have 01:11:59.100 --> 01:12:04.940 for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only i give thanks but also all the churches 01:12:04.940 --> 01:12:09.020 of the gentiles so they were willing to sacrifice their own lives for paul you know it was mentioned 01:12:09.020 --> 01:12:14.300 earlier in john chapter 15 verse 13 you know the there's no greater love than a man lay down his 01:12:14.300 --> 01:12:19.100 life for his friends there you go that's just some love right there being showed and a good example 01:12:19.100 --> 01:12:23.340 is that like the bible tells us do something there's no example now there's tons of samples in the 01:12:23.340 --> 01:12:28.380 bible to show us uh people that are actually loving their brothers you know because again 01:12:28.380 --> 01:12:32.940 liberal christians don't make it into a weird thing where you gotta go you gotta just be there 01:12:32.940 --> 01:12:38.700 all the time for them and you know totally neglect your life and just it's all about that like that's 01:12:38.700 --> 01:12:42.460 that's an extreme and they often will do that so that they discourage you from ever loving your 01:12:42.460 --> 01:12:48.700 brethren in the bible you find reasonable uh things being done that everyone can do i mean 01:12:48.700 --> 01:12:54.300 everyone can help each other out like send them a little prayer like little text message saying hey 01:12:54.300 --> 01:12:59.980 i'm praying for your bro or something you know just the fact that you're actually thinking about 01:12:59.980 --> 01:13:04.700 them and you're actually going to god this god can do anything you know prayer is super powerful 01:13:04.700 --> 01:13:13.180 prayer can change anything if you do it in faith so in conclusion this is not optional if you don't 01:13:13.180 --> 01:13:19.260 love your brethren something's wrong i mean they're just not right with god i don't care if you know 01:13:19.260 --> 01:13:24.220 the bible in and out you know every single doctrine well actually i'm just preaching one of my extra 01:13:24.220 --> 01:13:32.060 verses here i got time so i'm going to go to first corinthians chapter 13 the charity chapter right 01:13:32.620 --> 01:13:37.420 well oftentimes a lot of people they'll hear a sermon they'll be like oh yeah i know someone 01:13:37.420 --> 01:13:43.020 that could uh hear this well how about you yeah this is for you right now i wrote up this sermon 01:13:43.020 --> 01:13:48.940 i spent about four hours preparing the sermon for people here they go to the internet i don't care 01:13:48.940 --> 01:13:55.020 what they think i care about you guys here that you would be even better christians than you were 01:13:55.020 --> 01:14:01.020 before the sermon says in first corinthians chapter 13 verse 1 though i speak with the 01:14:01.020 --> 01:14:06.860 though i speak with the tons of men and of angels and have not charity i've become a sounding brass 01:14:06.860 --> 01:14:12.300 or tingling symbol i'm just a a cool sounding instrument if i don't have any charity i could 01:14:12.300 --> 01:14:17.260 speak all the languages of men i could speak all i could and i think you know paul's being a little 01:14:17.260 --> 01:14:21.500 hyperbolic here the tons of the angels he's like i can even speak the language of heaven or very 01:14:21.500 --> 01:14:28.140 even as such a thing you know and have not charity i'm i'm just a really cool sounding instrument 01:14:28.220 --> 01:14:32.060 and though i have the gift of prophecy so i'm really good at preaching and i understand all 01:14:32.060 --> 01:14:35.900 mysteries so i can open up the bible and show you everything that means and have all the knowledge 01:14:35.900 --> 01:14:41.980 and though i have all faith so that could remove mountains and have not charity i'm nothing you can 01:14:41.980 --> 01:14:47.500 be the best preacher on earth you could be the most dynamic zealous knowledgeable preacher on 01:14:47.500 --> 01:14:52.380 this planet you could quote all six books from memory but if you don't have charity you're nothing 01:14:52.460 --> 01:15:00.380 amen charity suffer verse four charity suffered one and his kind charity envyeth not charity 01:15:00.380 --> 01:15:05.500 vaunted not itself is not parked up doth not behave itself unseemly seeking not our own is not 01:15:05.500 --> 01:15:11.660 it is not easily provoked thinking no evil again thinking it's your intent you're you're thinking 01:15:12.380 --> 01:15:15.500 if you're thinking evil against your brother you don't have charity and you're not loving your 01:15:15.500 --> 01:15:21.900 brother and you're not right with god you know and i got it i'm not saying all of a brother in the 01:15:21.900 --> 01:15:27.020 church here makes you angry one day and you say something stupid but then you get right with god 01:15:27.020 --> 01:15:31.420 and you repent of that that's not what i'm saying i'm saying you have like this ongoing growing 01:15:31.420 --> 01:15:35.900 bitterness in you about like someone in the church or just the brethren as a whole you gotta get 01:15:35.900 --> 01:15:40.380 right with god you gotta repent of that that is wicked you're not in the spirit you're in the 01:15:40.380 --> 01:15:43.340 flesh at that point you're god's not gonna bless someone that's like that 01:15:43.740 --> 01:15:45.740 so 01:15:46.620 --> 01:15:52.860 and it says in second timothy chapter three verse one there's no also then the last days perilous 01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:57.820 time shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves so these people are not lovers of the 01:15:57.820 --> 01:16:03.100 brethren right they're lovers of their own selves they're covetous they're boasters they're proud 01:16:03.100 --> 01:16:08.860 blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truth breakers 01:16:09.500 --> 01:16:19.900 false accusers railing right false accusers incognito fierce despisers of those that are good 01:16:19.900 --> 01:16:26.860 traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of god now obviously we'll look 01:16:26.860 --> 01:16:30.780 at the we'll often apply that to people out in the world aren't saved and be like oh yeah 01:16:30.780 --> 01:16:35.260 we'll go all these sonomites and you know all these people that are just not loving god yeah that 01:16:35.260 --> 01:16:39.100 that can also apply but we can also apply this to the people god too that are acting like this 01:16:39.100 --> 01:16:43.340 because obviously someone that's safe cannot be a reprieve that's impossible but you can act like a 01:16:43.340 --> 01:16:48.700 reprieve you could be safe people can do a lot of wicked things safe people can still do a lot of 01:16:48.700 --> 01:16:54.140 sins that you even wonder if they're even saved in the first place unless you knock on their door 01:16:54.140 --> 01:16:57.980 or something and ask them another questions they probably give you the right answers but they're 01:16:57.980 --> 01:17:02.700 just so wicked they're living such an evil lifestyle you know now obviously there's some 01:17:02.700 --> 01:17:10.620 sins they just can never do you know but that's only for the reprobates but false accusers on that 01:17:10.620 --> 01:17:16.460 list if you accuse someone falsely you're one of your own self you're on that list do you want to 01:17:16.460 --> 01:17:19.980 be on the list at all do you want to be so known as a truth breaker someone that doesn't keep their 01:17:19.980 --> 01:17:26.540 promises someone that has no natural affection you can't love other saved people like i really 01:17:26.540 --> 01:17:31.020 question your sanity other way you can't love other christians that love the bible oh but he's 01:17:31.020 --> 01:17:35.900 got a different opinion on the minor issue on the bible so what i don't agree with everything on 01:17:35.900 --> 01:17:40.380 everyone's interpretations on the bible either you know do i do i use that excuse to be bitter 01:17:40.380 --> 01:17:45.660 and just attack and bite and devour one another here no no it's called just being a mature christian 01:17:45.660 --> 01:17:49.740 being an adult being able to deal with other people's differences because everyone comes from 01:17:49.740 --> 01:17:56.620 different backgrounds just you know if if you think it's a really big deal talk go with the 01:17:56.620 --> 01:18:00.540 matthew 18 process talk to that person privately or just shut up about it you know 01:18:02.220 --> 01:18:06.780 people are just so sensitive these days they really are and it's ridiculous because everything's 01:18:06.780 --> 01:18:11.660 online now everything's uh blasted on social media everyone just wants to make everything a 01:18:11.660 --> 01:18:16.300 big deal they want to make a mountain out of a little hill all the time it's like it's not even 01:18:16.300 --> 01:18:20.540 really a big deal if it's not something that the church needs to know about then it's probably not 01:18:20.540 --> 01:18:29.100 a big deal and the bible says in hebra 13 verse 1 what lovely love continue no we should be people 01:18:29.100 --> 01:18:34.940 that love the brethren now because let's say people visit the church and they see we're just 01:18:35.500 --> 01:18:39.180 doing all this all the time we're constantly bickering we're being carnal we got all these 01:18:39.180 --> 01:18:42.620 factions in the church with different pastors we like they're gonna look at us and be like this 01:18:42.620 --> 01:18:47.500 church is divided this is a cult you know you got a bunch of people being like oh i'm a seaford 01:18:47.500 --> 01:18:51.660 i'm a palace well i'm better than you all i'm of christ you know i'm just so spiritual 01:18:51.660 --> 01:18:56.620 i'm not of any pastor i'm just of christ you're underneath me you know if you have that kind of 01:18:56.620 --> 01:19:02.300 attitude at church then people are gonna think you're nuts they're not in a church like that 01:19:03.740 --> 01:19:10.220 uh luke chapter 22 verse 23 says and they began to inquire among themselves which of them it was 01:19:11.020 --> 01:19:17.420 that should do this thing and there also was a strife among them which of them should be 01:19:17.420 --> 01:19:24.380 counted the greatest even the apostles even the disciples of christ had stripes so even the 01:19:24.380 --> 01:19:29.100 greatest men can fall into this trap you know no one's ever get to the point where they just stop 01:19:29.100 --> 01:19:34.060 doing these things this is why we need to be reminded of things like this because we can easily 01:19:34.060 --> 01:19:39.500 fall into this trap of being like oh this person's got a different opinion on this oh i got a market 01:19:39.500 --> 01:19:44.540 boy this guy when you don't really need to you can just still endeavor to keep the unity because 01:19:44.540 --> 01:19:50.060 is that person not saved now or something no he's still he's still right on the gospel he's still a 01:19:50.060 --> 01:19:54.300 soul winner he still goes to the right church right bible like there's good division but those 01:19:54.300 --> 01:20:00.140 are so bad division you know we shouldn't be so holy that we can't fall short with anyone at the 01:20:00.140 --> 01:20:07.820 church that's the no no one's that holy all right you need church you need uh pastors in your life 01:20:07.820 --> 01:20:12.700 to keep you accountable you need other christians that you look to to keep you on the right path to 01:20:12.700 --> 01:20:18.380 keep you on track because we all get in the flesh we all do none of us are just always in spirit 01:20:18.380 --> 01:20:22.940 maxed out by the holy spirit all the time only jesus was like that only jesus christ was maxed 01:20:22.940 --> 01:20:28.460 out by the holy spirit always in spirit all the time never in the flesh because none of us are god 01:20:28.460 --> 01:20:32.220 you know i still believe it was a struggle for jesus to do that he had he had the battle of the 01:20:32.220 --> 01:20:36.700 flesh he was tempted but by the power of the holy ghost and him being god he was able to overcome 01:20:36.700 --> 01:20:43.180 that obviously we're not god we can't do that we're all going to sin but we can get sin out of our 01:20:43.180 --> 01:20:51.420 lives we can we can we can be better we can get a little bit better and i'll close with james 01:20:52.540 --> 01:20:58.620 and a couple extra verses here it just shows how much of this is all of his bible i i haven't even 01:20:58.620 --> 01:21:03.020 scratched the surface on this i'm loving the brethren you know it's there's just so many 01:21:03.020 --> 01:21:10.220 verses on this about in the bible james chapter 2 verse 15 it says this if a brother or sister 01:21:10.220 --> 01:21:16.060 be naked in destitute of daily food and one of you say unto him depart in peace be warmed and filled 01:21:16.060 --> 01:21:20.860 not worth standing you give them not those stains which are needful to the body walked off a profit 01:21:21.420 --> 01:21:25.260 again i was kind of saying this earlier now if god blesses you financially you know someone 01:21:25.260 --> 01:21:29.340 struggling financially and you give them money that's that's a good thing but if you don't do 01:21:29.340 --> 01:21:33.980 that the bible says well you don't really love your brother right because in this scenario this 01:21:33.980 --> 01:21:39.980 person is naked has no food but you gotta be like and pray for you be warm filled that's not 01:21:39.980 --> 01:21:44.780 really gonna help them you know every time i read the verse i just see the person going hey man 01:21:44.780 --> 01:21:49.820 be warm filled all right you know that didn't really help the situation right what should that 01:21:49.820 --> 01:21:55.980 person done give him clothes and food so he's not destitute naked you know but there's so many other 01:21:55.980 --> 01:22:01.500 verses i could go about this but for the sake of time i'm not so again just to close in hebrews 01:22:01.500 --> 01:22:08.700 chapter 13 verse love what brotherly love continue let us be a church that sets a higher standard 01:22:09.260 --> 01:22:16.860 for loving a brethren let us be people that can show others how much they love the brethren 01:22:17.580 --> 01:22:23.020 and because you know our our churches unfortunately they're they're solid on adoption but they they 01:22:23.020 --> 01:22:27.580 don't have this there some of them are starting to lack in this area about loving the brethren 01:22:28.140 --> 01:22:34.860 let us be people that go out there preach people the gospel give people say preach hard on truth 01:22:34.860 --> 01:22:39.580 stand firm on doctrine set a truth from the bible but also loving the brethren and not get into 01:22:39.580 --> 01:22:43.980 petty quarrels that don't really matter at the end of the day and with that i will close with a word 01:22:43.980 --> 01:22:49.820 of prayer heavenly father thank you lord for this church i just pray god that we'd all be better 01:22:49.900 --> 01:22:55.100 christians lord we'd all love our brethren like we showed lord and be more loving towards the 01:22:55.100 --> 01:22:59.740 people of this church lord so that we can continue preaching people the gospel getting people saved 01:22:59.740 --> 01:23:09.100 and standing standing firm on the truth lord in your name jesus christ and i pray amen amen 01:23:10.140 --> 01:23:17.820 all right last song we're going to be singing is love lifted me song 173 love lifted me 173 01:23:20.620 --> 01:23:22.860 173 love lifted me 01:23:26.460 --> 01:23:28.860 i was sinking deep in sin on the first 01:23:33.420 --> 01:23:43.900 i was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore very deeply stained within 01:23:43.980 --> 01:23:53.020 sinking to rise no more but the master of the sea heard my despairing cry 01:23:54.300 --> 01:24:07.020 from the waters lifted me now safe am i love lifted me love lifted me 01:24:07.020 --> 01:24:10.140 me 01:24:22.860 --> 01:24:29.260 when nothing else could help love lifted me 01:24:29.740 --> 01:24:42.940 me all my heart to him i give ever to him i'll cling in his blessed presence live ever his praises 01:24:42.940 --> 01:24:55.180 sing love so mighty and so true merits my soul's best songs faithful loving service to to him 01:24:55.820 --> 01:24:59.580 belongs love lifted me 01:25:01.100 --> 01:25:13.260 love lifted me when nothing else could help love lifted me love lifted me 01:25:13.260 --> 01:25:21.700 Love lifted me When nothing else could help 01:25:21.700 --> 01:25:29.540 Love lifted me Souls in danger look above 01:25:29.540 --> 01:25:36.160 Jesus completely saves He will lift you by His love 01:25:36.160 --> 01:25:42.820 Out of the angry waves He's the master of the sea 01:25:42.820 --> 01:25:49.140 below His will obey He your Savior wants to be 01:25:49.140 --> 01:25:55.900 be saved today Love lifted me 01:25:55.900 --> 01:26:02.660 Love lifted me When nothing else could help 01:26:02.660 --> 01:26:09.420 Love lifted me Love lifted me 01:26:09.420 --> 01:26:16.300 Love lifted me When nothing else could help 01:26:16.300 --> 01:26:22.780 Love lifted me