(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) All right turn your Bibles to 1st Corinthians chapter 2 1st Corinthians chapter 2 1st Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 15 But he that is spiritual judges all things yet. He himself is judged of no man. Let's pray Heavenly Father Thank you for this awesome church God and for the time that we get to come together and hear from your word Lord It's pray that you'd help me deliver something to your people from your word Lord. Amen Alright so before I get into my sermon here a lot of people Right off the bat take this verse and love to just turn it completely on its head and they try to make the second part of the verse 15 Contradict with the first part because it says that the spiritual man judges all things yet He himself is judged of no man, and we've all heard people say only God can judge me I hear Remy say that all the time no Only God can judge me that is a lie God is not the only one that could judge you and the Bible says that he that is spiritual judges all things so there's two interpretations of of how People can say that both of the statements in this verse can be true The first interpretation which I think is the correct one We just need to look at the context all of chapter 2 Paul is preaching about how our faith and his preaching Has to stand in the wisdom of God and not in the wisdom of man So I believe the correct interpretation when it says that he himself is judged of no man It's that he's not judged of the wisdom of man. He's not judged by man's, you know words of man's wisdom He's judged by wisdom of God Another idea people have about this is that the reason the spiritual person is not judged is Because he's living his life in you know, such a holy way that nobody can judge him I don't think that's correct because Jesus himself said in Marvel not if the world hate you So if the world hates us that's even more than just you know being judged of them. So I don't think that's correct Interpretation but getting my servant the Bible says that he that is spiritual judge in all things and we want to be spiritual Christians Right, we don't go to Verity Baptist Church so that we can be lame watered-down Christians, right? So how does this look practically in the life of a Christian? So number one we need to be judging ourselves So go ahead and turn in your Bibles to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 We need to be judging ourselves and there's two ways to judge yourself. It's not very deep but it's true There's the right way and the wrong way and isn't that how it is with a lot of things in the Christian life There's so many wrong ways of doing things and there's usually just one right way of doing things So let's look what the Bible says here. You're in 2nd Corinthians 6. I'll read for you Proverbs 28 He that trusted in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely. He shall be delivered So here are some phrases. Here's some buzzwords that you'll hear fools say often. Well, I just think Well, I just feel You know when you're trusting in your heart, you're just showing that you're a fool So 2nd Corinthians chapter 6. Let me get there myself Verse 14 Okay, so here's some examples of this, you know, here's here's man's wisdom well You know, I know she's not saved But I know I feel like we're meant for each other. So I'm gonna marry her, you know, that's man's wisdom, right? But what is God's wisdom say look down at verse 14 be ye not Equally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion have light with darkness You know when you're judging the actions your life, you know in that area who you're gonna marry You said well, I don't care if she's saved because I just feel like she's great, you know, you know, you're a fool Here's another example. Well, I just feel TV doesn't affect me spiritually, you know, that's man's wisdom But what does God's wisdom say Psalm 101 verse 3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside. It shall not cleave to me Once again, just going against man's wisdom man's wisdom says I think we should just love everybody no matter what But what does the Bible say Psalm 139 do I do not I hate them? Oh Lord that hate thee and I might not grieve with those that rise up against thee. I hate them with perfect hatred You know so many Christians think they're so spiritual because they love everyone but they're going against what the Bible says How can you be spiritual when you're going directly against what the Bible says the world thinks we're disgusting for hating facts Right. I think it's disgusting to be a fact Imagine that you know liberal Christians say it's sinful to hate sodomites I think it's a sin not to hate sodomites if you're a Christian and you have sodomite friends You have a soft spot for the facts you are not right with God Here's the right way to judge your life Psalm 119 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path So this verse calls the Word of God it likens it to a light into a lamp, you know It's something that illuminates, you know, and we could take the Bible and we can illuminate our lives, you know and see You know our opinions and our actions and see how the Bible matches up with our wisdom We don't want the wisdom of this world influencing our life So number one if we want to be spiritual Christians, we need to judge our own lives the right way Number two, we need to judge preaching turn to Acts chapter 17 verse 11 Acts chapter 17 verse 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica and that they received the word with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily Whether those things were so so the Bible is really clear that you know When you're hearing preaching our job is to be judging the preaching and we're not supposed to judge it according to how we feel or What we think we're supposed to be judging it based off what we read in our Bible So, you know, otherwise you're gonna end up like Sam Gibbs zombies, right? His zombies they're real They're sitting in the pews of his churches Because I was there for three years and I listened to Sam Gibb blaspheme Jesus Christ I listened to Sam Gibb preach the most heretical things possible and you have a bunch of stupid Christian zombies in the pews You know, he's sitting there making up a story, oh Jesus. Oh, let's go down there to that major I'm gonna be born in that major. Everyone's just like Those are the zombies, you know those people they're not judging the preaching of God's Word because they're not in God's Word That's their problem Second Timothy chapter 2 says and I love this because Sam Gibb has quoted this verse so many times to try to prove dispensationalism It's just it makes me laugh so much Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness You know, he always points to but rightly dividing the word of truth. That's the seven gospel. That's the eight Gospels. Whatever it is But if you look at that verse, you know There's three things that are gonna happen to you when you don't study yourself yourself to be approved unto God number one You're gonna be ashamed Number two, you're gonna be prof you're gonna be fooled by profane and vain babblings. That's dispensationalist preaching you're gonna be deceived by their idiotic preaching and You're gonna increase unto more ungodliness. You know what? I saw all of these things in the old IFP Church I saw girls who outside of church were wearing the short shorts. I saw guys that did no soul-winning I went up to the pastor himself asked him to go soul-winning. No, the weather's too bad I go around the church trying to find men to go soul-winning No one wants to go, you know, they're not in their Bibles and you know what they should be ashamed Because it's a shame to be deceived by the profane and vain babbling of the pre tribulation rapture something. That's just so Unbelievably contrary to what God's Word says, you know, it's a shame to be a Zionist It is a complete shame, you know, it's a shame to believe that eunuchs are Homosexuals and we need to bring them into the church It's a shame to let your children be exposed by faggots in your church. What is wrong with you? Why do you want that in your church? Unbelievable, you know, it's a shame to be deceived by the profane and vain babbling that divorce and remarriage is okay You know when when pastors go soft on sin It's a shame to be deceived by these things and it's gonna cause you to increase unto more ungodliness You know, I heard a preacher one time say that the Holy Spirit told him to preach to homosexual The same Holy Spirit, you know that that inspired the Bible that said that they should be put to death Old Testament said they're worthy of death in the New Testament Says that Sodom and Gomorrah is an example to those who afterwards should live ungodly how God feels about the homos Today in 2017 is the same way he felt about him when he burned him with fire and Sodom and Gomorrah And that's exactly what's gonna happen in the future Rainbows ours rainbows ours You know if we want to be spiritual we need to be ready to hear God's Word Yes, but we should be judging and judging and preaching as we hear it Last area in life Well, obviously he he that spiritual judges all things but last I'm focusing on is, you know We need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ in the church go to Matthew chapter 7 Matthew chapter 7 First want to judge not that you be not judged for with what? Judgment you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mean it shall be measured to you again And why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye But consider is not the beam that is in thine own eye or how about thou say to thy brother? Let me pull out the moat out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye thou hypocrite First cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the moat out of his brother's eye One reason we need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ is to help them remove that moat when it's there as long as We're not judging hypocritically, of course But you know I hope that if I was in some sin that some man in this church would care for me enough and have the guts enough To reprove me or rebuke me if necessary, you know, we need to be doing that and it's not you know A hateful thing to do it's a loving thing to do to judge your brothers and sisters in Christ I know that's not popular, but that's true first Corinthians chapter 5 if you want to turn there you can first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 11 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 idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such in one No not to eat for what have I to do to judge them that are without Do not ye judge them that are within but them that are without God judgeth Therefore put away from your from among yourselves that wicked person Another reason we need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ is because the Bible teaches that there's a time Where people need to be kicked out of church and you know We do that out of love for the people who are at risk of being corrupted by that person The young people or just the people that are young in the faith. We do that to protect them It's out of love for them and also out of love for the person themselves because we want them to get right with God, too So, you know in conclusion here if we're gonna be spiritual Christians we need to have this word in our life Judgments we need to be judgmental if we're gonna be spiritual Christians We you know, we need to use the Bible as a standard in our life to match up with our own actions and beliefs We need to judge ourselves correctly You know We need to be judging the preaching we're hearing and actually be in your Bible so that you can rightly judge the preaching you're hearing And lastly, you know We need to be making sure that we're loving our brothers and sisters in Christ enough to be judging them as well Just to keep them from making mistakes in their own lives that will hurt them or the lives of others Let's pray Heavenly Father. Thank you Lord for this day Thank you again for this church God. I just pray that something I said was edifying to your people tonight Lord and in Jesus name Amen