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That's song number 328, 328, I Want That Mountain. Song number 328, 328 on the first. I saw the giant of prayerlessness upon that mountain high. He laughed so hard at my unbended knee. No longer in the wilderness I'll stay, and so I cry. I want that mountain, it belongs to me. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. Where the milk and honey flow, where the grapes of ash all grow. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. The mountain that my Lord has given me. There was a giant of laziness who said I wouldn't go. And witness for the one who set me free. I'll come from out the wilderness. I witnessed, now I know. I want that mountain, it belongs to me. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. Where the milk and honey flow, where the grapes of ash all grow. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. The mountain that my Lord has given me. One faithless giant upon the crest of Hebron's lawfully height has vowed that he's the one to make me flee. I'll climb from out the wilderness and trust Jehovah's might. I want that mountain, it belongs to me. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. Where the milk and honey flow, where the grapes of ash all grow. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. The mountain that my Lord has given me. Let every giant of distress and unbelief and sin get ready now to vacate for you see. I've come from out the wilderness. I know I'm going to win. I want that mountain, it belongs to me. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. Where the milk and honey flow, where the grapes of ash all grow. I want that mountain, I want that mountain. The mountain that my Lord has given me. All right, with that we'll have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father God, thank you for allowing us to be back here this evening. I pray that everything will be done for your glory as we worship your name. And I pray that the sermon tonight would be edifying to us and that we can learn from it and grow as Christians. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, for the next song, song number 161. Song number 161, Our Great Savior. That's song number 161. 161, Our Great Savior. Jesus, what a friend for sinners. Jesus, lover of my soul. Friends may fail me, foes assail me. He, my Savior, makes me whole. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with me to the end. Jesus, what a strength and weakness. Let me hide myself in Him. Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing. He, my strength, my victory wins. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving. He is with me to the end. Jesus, what a help in sorrow. While the billows soar me roll. Even when my heart is breaking. He, my comfort, helps my soul. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving. He is with me to the end. Jesus, what a guide and keeper. While the tempest still is high. Storms about me, night o'er takes me. He, my pilot, hears my cry. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving. He is with me to the end. Jesus, I do now receive Him. More than all in Him I find. He hath granted me forgiveness. I am His and He is mine. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving. He is with me to the end. Next Saturday night, the grace will cease. Those who have not quoted it will go to hell. Obviously we don't have that kind of punishment here. It is a reward only church. On the inside we have our service and our church stats. On the right we have our expecting ladies and the prayer list. Continue to pray for our church family. Upcoming events tomorrow night is the preserved Bible. Really looking forward to this. The way it works is there is going to be popcorn and drink for everyone. It is already built in. We will let everybody get one candy. I think the place has a bistro. The church is going to provide you with popcorn, a drink, and a candy. I am really excited. I know that is the only reason you will show up. Hopefully you can suffer through the film as well. I am really excited about our project. It came together really well. There is a lot of good information in there. Hopefully you will be able to participate. There is a little bit of room left. There are five spaces left. We are going to pack this thing out. I am really excited about it. If you can't check it out tomorrow, you can see it Tuesday. There will also be a special competition. There will be a callback and an Easter egg in the film. We will have prizes for people who can figure that out. You will probably have to watch it online because you have to give me the time stamp. I don't think you will be able to give me the time stamp from the movie theater. It is kind of fun to put that in there as well. I still like making these documentaries because I feel like it gives us an opportunity to reach people. We even have people in the film that aren't like us necessarily. They like the King James Bible and the word of God. We are hoping that we can reach across the aisle and wake a lot of people up. Encourage people to get on the right Bible. That is the only thing that will change people's minds about anything. The word of God itself. You are not going to want to miss that Wednesday. April 1st Dallas Texas soul winning marathon. April 24th-29th is a Bahamas missions trip. I have a lot of people signed up for this. I feel like this year is a great opportunity to do a lot of great things for the Lord. I think the Lord is going to bless us. You really want to get plugged into the soul winning. Soul winning is going really well. Our soul winning this next year is going to be in some really great targeted areas. You never know when soul winning is going to change or be less or more receptive. I think we are getting into a season where it is going to be very receptive. I highly encourage you to get plugged in and learn how to go soul winning. You don't want to miss out on opportunities. The Bahamas missions trip we thought we were going to make it two years ago and it didn't work out. It is a great opportunity if you can. It is a great opportunity to go somewhere very receptive. The harvest truly is plenious. The labors are for you as God clearly already articulated. Please get in the fight and fight with us. I think our church is going to be doing great things for the Lord. Let's go to our third song for the evening. One hundred sixty two to God be the glory. One hundred sixty two to God be the glory. That is song number one hundred sixty two. If you know it, just ready to sing. One sixty two to God be the glory. To God be the glory. To the things he had done. So loved he the world that he gave us. His son who yielded his life. And atonement for sin. And hope in the life gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice. Oh come to the Father through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory. Great things he had done. Oh perfect redemption. The purchase of blood. The free believer. The promise of God. The vilest offender. Who truly believes. That moment from Jesus apart and receives. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice. Oh come to the Father through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory. Great things he had done. Great things he had taught us. Great things he had done. And great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son. But purer and higher and greater will be our wonder. Our transport when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice. Come to the Father through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory. Great things he had done. Alright with that as the offering play goes around turn to your Bibles to Matthew chapter 16. Matthew chapter number 16. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Matthew chapter 16. Matthew chapter 16. The Bible reads, the Pharisees also with the Sadducees came and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them and departed. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and their reason among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets he took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets he took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how, that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. But he turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan, for thou art an offense unto me. For thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profiteth if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. Let us pray. Father, thank you for this great opportunity to sing praises to you in your son's name tonight. Thank you for the congregation and pastor and his family. I pray that you'll fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit and lay on his heart the wisdom and the message that you want him to deliver to us. And Lord, thank you for sending your son, leaving his majesty and his glory to come down here and to be hated of all men and to be spit upon and crucified and to conquer in hell and death for us, Lord. And thank you for eternal life, and we pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Mark chapter 16, I want to go back to verse six and read a little bit of this. The Bible says, Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And that's where I'm getting my title this evening, is to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, or beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which he even repeats later in this passage. But Jesus Christ is warning his disciples specifically of the Pharisees. And it says in verse seven, And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread, which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand neither, remember, the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets he took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets he took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? So when Jesus Christ warns them to beware of the leaven of the Sadducees and the Pharisees, they think about this carnally and they think, Oh, it's about food. And the Lord Jesus Christ kind of rebukes them and says, Why would I tell you to worry about food when I was able to take just a little bit of food and multiply it into an amount that you couldn't even carry? You know, basically just 12 baskets full from just a small portion. We don't need to worry about food. We don't need to worry about these carnal things that exist. But rather, he's meaning it spiritually. And it says in verse 12, Then understood they, how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And so the Lord Jesus Christ uses bread here or leaven specifically to illustrate a picture of doctrine. And really, what would leaven picture? That would be false doctrine. So, of course, doctrine is kind of a fancy word, but really the word doctrine can be synonymous with just beliefs. What is it that you believe? You know, whenever we talk about doctrine, it sounds really fancy or formal, but it's just a simple, it's just really another way to word what you believe. And doctrine could be applied in any area of life. What do you believe about anything? What's your doctrine? You know, what's our doctrine on chili? Not to put beans in it, okay? And that's just what we believe because we're right, okay? And you've got to beware of the leaven, meaning what weird stuff people will put into the chili. You know, what's the leaven people put in chili? Beans, and then they start putting rice, and then it's just vegan, and then you're like, well, this isn't even chili anymore, right? You're like, what is this? How can your place, the only thing that was making a chili was the meat, and then you took the meat out, and you put all this other stuff in, it's not even chili anymore, okay? So, in the same context, he's saying beware of the Pharisees, beware of what they believe, beware of the things that they teach, beware of their doctrinal statement, okay? Now, is this limited to the Pharisees and the Sadducees? These are the only people that have bad doctrine. No, of course we have to apply the Bible and realize that if there was people with bad doctrine back then, there's going to be people with bad doctrine today, and that we have to beware of the leaven, of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees today. Now, I want to show you a few more verses. Go to Matthew 22. Let's see some examples of some of the false doctrines they believe, but you know, I really like that Jesus Christ explained that it's not just one group, it was both groups, and why that's important is because you have to understand that both groups were actually very different in what they believe and how they approached the Bible, and the way I kind of generally look at Pharisees, Pharisees are typically very zealous, they're more studious, they have a lot more understanding, and the Sadducees are very liberal, they don't really believe the Bible, and they kind of just, in my estimation, if you were to try and break these two groups into what a modern day application would be like, it's kind of like you've got the Calvinists and the non-liberal crowd. You kind of have these two very different forms of Christianity. And yet, people could get sucked into either of these crowds very easy. You know, you could get sucked into the Calvinist crowd because they're very scholarly, and they love to, you know, they're all about Bible college, and of course, they're also very lazy, and it's very easy to just be lazy. So, Calvinism is the lazy doctrine for smart people, and the lazy doctrine for dumb people is liberalism. So, but again, they're both just lazy. They don't really want to work. They don't really want to read the Bible, and they don't really want to apply the Bible, and they don't want to go soul winning. Both groups don't really want to do that, and if you look at the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they're kind of similar in the sense that they're very lazy. They don't read the Bible very well, and they don't really care about helping people or ministering. They're very selfish in their beliefs, but the Sadducees, again, are very weird in their beliefs. Look at Matthew 22, verse 23. The same day came to him, the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection. So, notice the Bible gives us a little hint here of what the Sadducees are like. What's one of the doctrines of the Sadducees? There's just no resurrection. Now, that's kind of weird. It's kind of a cult-like belief if you think about it. Today's world, I mean, you kind of have the Jehovah's Witnesses who have this like soul sleep doctrine, and they only believe a certain percentage or the 144,000 are going to come out. There's very few groups that believe in something where you just are annihilated after death and that there's nothing really going on, that you just kind of cease to exist. It's almost like an atheistic type viewpoint, but you know who had atheistic type viewpoints? People like Martin Luther King Jr. who denied the resurrection, who denied these type of spiritual things. Martin Luther King Jr. denied a lot of the miracles of the Bible and denied the spiritual aspects of the Bible. He was kind of coming from a missionary slash Southern Baptist type genre, and honestly, if you know anything about the Southern Baptist Convention, in the late 60s and early 70s, they had gotten so liberal that they were almost like these Sadducees getting to a point where they're not even really believing in the miracles of the Bible, sects of them aren't even believing important doctrines like the resurrection, and it got really bizarre for a while. And then, of course, it kind of got taken over by Calvinism later, and they ended up having a new doctrinal statement released in 2000. So if you know anything about the Southern Baptist Convention, they have like basically three doctrinal statements, and it's kind of demark their eras in which they had weird changes in their structure. But the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message was a necessary change for them because they had gotten so liberal, it was like, y'all are like Sadducees, you don't even believe the Bible. But if they could go through that phase, that tells me other Christians or other groups could fall victim of these groups, of these phases, of these cycles where they get to a point where they don't even believe the Bible anymore, they're not even believing in the resurrection, they become too humanist in their perception. Here's another thing to note, they're obviously not saved. You know what I know about a group of people that doesn't believe there's any resurrection? They're not saved. And let me tell you something, there is large groups of Christians today that are just not saved. Church denominations that are not saved. And you need to beware of any Christian church or any group of people that when they're not saved. I don't care what they're right on, if they're not saved, I don't want to hear anything they have to say. I don't like any of their doctrine, I'm not going to go to any of their church services, I'm not interested in what they have to say. Now let's keep reading here a little bit further, I mean we just kind of read this one verse a little bit, but they're asking Jesus a question, verse 24, saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren, and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the second also, and the third, and the seventh. And last of all, the woman died also, therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven, for they all had her. Now here's what's interesting. Number one, they don't even believe in the resurrection. Number two, they're bringing up a logic-based question to try and make the resurrection sound stupid. But here's the reality, they're stupid. Okay? And they ask stupid questions, and they're not even being honest about what they believe. They didn't come up to Jesus and say, hey, we don't believe in the resurrection, what do you think about that? They have to ask these stupid questions, and they try to use logic to disprove the Bible. And really, it's almost like they're atheist, if you think about it. Because they're trying to use the Bible against itself to make the Bible look stupid, to make a particular doctrine look stupid, but really what they're trying to do is just discredit the Bible. And you'll notice Christians will do this sometimes, where they'll borrow atheistic-type arguments, they'll borrow the world's type logic, and try to discount fundamentalism, not realizing they're actually undermining the Bible itself. They're attacking the Bible itself. Oh, the Bible never has the death penalty anywhere. And you're like, no, it really does. It's like, where does the Bible say that? And you just show them, and they're like, well, you know. They're just like taking and borrowing from unbelievers' arguments against the Scripture, and we have to be aware of so-called Christians using humanistic logic, trying to use logic to discredit the Bible. You know, sometimes we won't understand the Bible. Sometimes you don't get it at first. Have you ever noticed that the disciples, they didn't get everything right away? And sometimes they got confused, and then they had to have it explained, they had to sit there and meditate on it. And look, there's been plenty of parts of the Bible that I've read, and I've thought like, man, that doesn't make sense to me. You know, I've read the Bible, and I've looked at it, and I said, I don't see how that makes sense. Or that doesn't make sense to me. Or I can't rationalize that. But what I also realize is this, God is smarter than me. And I don't know everything. And sometimes you just have to wait, and then eventually you'll come to a point, oh wow, that does make sense now. Now I actually do get it, and how dumb was I to not have understood it the first time? There's plenty of parts of the Bible that I didn't understand the first time, and now having understood it, I kind of look at myself as being an idiot when I didn't understand it. You know, of course, I for a long time believed in the preacher of rapture. And honestly, having the knowledge that I have now, I have to look back at myself and be like, I was an idiot. I mean, there's really no way to excuse believing in the preacher of rapture, because it's so non-biblical, there's nothing in the Bible that teaches it. I mean, there's just no verse, and the verses in the Bible that even talk about the subject are so clearly saying the opposite of that, that you have to think like, how was I so brain dead to believe this? But of course, that's because the carnal mind doesn't understand the things of God. And we have to become spiritual and study the Bible and read it. And of course, what is Jesus' response in verse 29? Jesus answered and said to them, ye do err, not knowing the scriptures. Now did Jesus mince words here? Jesus said, hey, you guys just don't know the Bible. You guys are idiots. Nor the power of God. He said, for in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his what? His doctrine. Of course, what did Jesus Christ primarily do? He preached doctrine. He preached the Bible. He explained the Bible. He taught as having authority. What was it that really caught people's attention? It wasn't the food. It was the doctrine. You know, they were supposed to arrest him and they said, never a man spake like this man spake. They were astounded at his words. When the Romans came to seize him, just by speaking to them, they fell down. Why? It's because it's the doctrine that has the power. It's the word of God that has the power. And we have to beware of false doctrine. We have to beware of false teachings. Go, if you would, to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. 1 Corinthians chapter 5. For sake of time, I'm not going to go everywhere I want to, but in Acts 23, the Bible also tells us that the Sadducees don't believe in angels or spirits. So, they don't believe in the resurrection, angels or spirits. Kind of showing they're very humanistic. They're carnal. Of course, they're not saved and they don't believe in the spiritual aspects of the Bible. Whereas the Pharisees confess both, according to Paul. So, if you had to pick, the Pharisees are a much better group. It's not really even close. Some Pharisees get saved. We never see a Sadducee get saved. We never see a Sadducee do anything for God. They never ask a sincere question. They never seem to really believe the Bible whatsoever. I mean, the Sadducees are simply just evil. They're just pure evil. There are Christian groups out there today that are just pure evil. Where they're not going to get saved. They mock and scoff at the Bible. Not even just some of the cult groups. But, of course, there's certainly cult groups. There's the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses. They're not saved. 99.99999% of them are never going to get saved. Ever. They're not interested in the Bible. You have other groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites. Not interested in ever getting saved. Super weird. Super cultish type personalities. But, even in bigger groups. You have groups like the non-denominational crowd and some of those. A lot of those people are not going to get saved. Of course, the worst is the ones that are sucked into the Kenneth Copelands and the T.D. Jakes and some of these televangelists. They get kind of weird. But, another group that's very stubborn and hard to get saved is the Calvinist, Reformed, kind of scholarly type crowd. The John McArthur crowd. The Lordship Salvation crowd. They have a big following. They have a lot of preachers. I think Voddy Bachman is pretty popular. There's several. Steve. I'm trying to remember this guy's name. There's a guy named Steve something that's always hanging out with him. Todd Friel is kind of in their group. They have a lot of just Reformed guys that are pretty popular. Mark Driscoll used to be kind of in that crowd, but he's kind of become like a weird Pentecostal group. But, you know, these groups are also just as dangerous. And, we want to make sure that we don't succumb to either group. Now, I wanted you to go to 1 Corinthians 5, but keep your finger here, because I want to go somewhere else first. Go, if you would, to Hebrews 13. Go to Hebrews chapter 13. We're going to come back to 1 Corinthians 5 in a little bit, but go to Hebrews chapter 13. I'm sorry. We have to be careful that we don't succumb to false doctrine. I think the main reason I wanted to bring up 1 Corinthians 5 is the Bible brings up the fact that a little 11 at the whole lump. And, of course, we were talking about 11, and that 11 was fornication. He was worried about fornication spreading in the church. But, more importantly, is even just false doctrine itself, not even just sins and being backslidden. And, the Bible just hammers. It hammers the idea and the fact that false doctrine is such an easy thing to creep into churches and pervert churches. Look at Hebrews 13 verse 9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines, for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. So, Hebrews 13 says, hey, don't be carried around with divers, meaning there's a lot of them, and strange, meaning you haven't heard that before, really, doctrines. So, there's a temptation to get sucked into something new. And, you know, we're called the new I of B in some ways, right? But, let's be honest, our doctrine and the things that we're preaching, we're not preaching something new. I'm not really getting up and coming up with some new thing. It's like the same stuff. But, what can happen is from the carnal perspective, you can get tired of it. Oh, I bet Pastor Shelley is going to preach about the importance of church again and the importance of soul winning and, you know, loving your wife and having kids. And, I bet Pastor Shelley is going to talk about the King James Bible again, you know, and make another document. I mean, don't we have another? This is the second documentary on the King James Bible. It's, yeah, because we have the same old doctrines. I do try to preach them in new ways, but it's the same sins. Oh, gambling, yeah, never heard that before. Drinking, oh, man, drinking again, huh? Fornication again. Yeah, it's because we need to be reminded about the same things. But, there's a temptation for you to say, like, well, I want to hear something new. Yeah, maybe there is flat, you know, it's like, it's like maybe there's reptilians buried in Antarctica, you know, it's like, maybe Nancy Pelosi is like a reptilian, you know, it's like, it's like, she might look weird, folks, I get it, but, you know, don't be carried away with all this weird stuff. There's a lot of weird junk out there, a lot of things that people want to say, oh, everybody's gotten this wrong. I'm going to come up with a, I have, I found out what the Bible really means. You're a liar. You know, I'm not coming up here reinventing the wheel, we're using the same wheels, the same tried and true, the traditional stuff, so we need to be careful about the fact that there's all these other options, and they're always strange, they're always weird, new things popping up. Go to Titus, go back, just to the left, go to Titus chapter 2. Galatians chapter 5, you know, we went through Galatians as a Bible study. They're having salvation being perverted. So, in 1 Corinthians 5, he's warning about leaven creeping in their church. Galatians, he's warning about false doctrine and people perverting the gospel and twisting the gospel. Hebrews, he's telling you, hey, there's these divers and strange doctrines. Jesus is saying, hey, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Look at Titus chapter 2, verse 1, but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine. So, how do we combat false doctrine with sound doctrine? He says a little bit later, verse 7, in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. You know, why would God give instructions through the Apostle Paul to Timothy to have doctrine that's uncorrupt if it's impossible to be right on doctrine? You know, I think that, you know, churches like ours and our friends and stuff, people will throw this accusation, well, you guys think you're right about everything. You guys think you figured it all out, didn't you? And it's like, well, you know what, the Bible's right, folks. And if you read it dozens of times, you know what, you'll end up being right. And you're like, about what, everything? Because the Bible's right about everything. Now, me personally, I'm not right about everything. Every one of my opinions is not always right. Of course, I could misinterpret the Bible, but why would the Bible give this instruction to a pastor and say, hey, don't have any corrupt doctrine whatsoever? It's just, everyone's corrupt. Or everybody's off. You know, to me, it seems like at least from the core perspective, from the fundamentals of the faith, you can have tons of churches that have no corruptness in doctrine. And look, I believe that. I believe that me and my friends, when it comes to the core doctrines of the faith, we have no corruption. We are right on the Bible. We're right on which Bible to use. We're right on who God is. We're right on the Trinity. We're right on salvation by faith. We're right on the timing of the rapture. We're right on the essentials. Hey, we're right that God created the earth in six literal days about 6,300 years ago. We're right. And I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'm not right to have fake humility or something. Like, well, no one could be right about anything. No, no, no. The Bible is saying, hey, have no corruption. Have uncorruptible doctrine. And so if God's giving us this kind of commandment and beware of the false doctrines, it means we have to know that we're right and that they're wrong. And that uses judgment, discernment, and look, it needs boldness. Preachers need to have boldness because saying that you're right could come from an arrogant perspective, but it also can come from a boldness perspective in the sense that I have the boldness to stand on the word of God and say, I believe the Bible's right. And I believe that the doctrines that are coming from the Bible are right. And we put the Bible to the test. We believe it. We put our faith into it. And when you live by the Bible, you end up seeing how true it is every single day. So, you know, of course, people will say, well, how dare you ever call someone else out or how dare you say that you're right and they're wrong? How could I have uncorrupt doctrine if I can't even decide if I'm right or they're wrong? How am I supposed to know what the false doctrine is if I can't identify false doctrine? Of course I can know if I'm right and of course I can know if they're wrong. Because the Bible is clear. I don't need an interpreter. I read English and I understand English. I don't need anybody to come down and say exactly what the Bible says. I can let the Holy Spirit guide me into all truth. And so I'm not ashamed to say that, you know what, I believe our church is right on the core doctrines of the faith. And that people that don't have our doctrine are wrong. It's not like, well, maybe we're right and they could be right. Everybody's right. No, no, no. We're right. They're wrong. Now, when it comes to other lower level just nuanced interpretations of the Bible, yeah, there's going to be variants. No one's going to figure it all out. Nobody understands everything in the Bible. We could study the thing our whole lives and we still won't glean everything, all the wisdom from God. It'll take eternity and we still won't get there. I get that. But when it comes to the big issues of life, when it comes to the important doctrines of the faith, we already know them. We're already locked in and we're right. And people that try to attack it are fools and it's the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees trying to creep in. Look at chapter 1, verse 9. Holding fast the faithful word as he had been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Let me tell you another thing. I am not up here inventing the wheel because it was handed down to me. I went to a local independent fundamental Baptist church and I had the preacher preach me the doctrines of the Bible and he handed it down to me and my job was to hold on to that faithful word. Not to decide what was right or wrong or to reinterpret everything myself, but rather to hold on to what was given to me. Just like we were supposed to hold on to the King James Bible. The previous generation handed us the King James Bible and we're supposed to hand the King James Bible to the next generation. We're not supposed to be like, well, make my own version. Make my own Bible to hand out. No, no, no. We're going to hand down the same Bible that was handed to us and we're going to hand down the same doctrines that was handed down to us. Look at Timothy chapter 4 and verse 2. Preach the word. Be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhorteth all longsuffering and notice this, endoctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure what? Sound doctrine. But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves, teachers having itchy ears. So, according to the Bible, there is a warning to not be carried away with diverse and strange doctrines. There's a warning from Jesus to beware of eleven of the Sadducees and the Pharisees. There's clear exhortation here telling us that when we get closer and closer to the end, a lot of Christians will not endure sound doctrine. They can't endure a church like ours. They can't endure hearing the fundamentals of the faith because they're too of the world. They just want what the world wants to feed them and so they'll end up trying to find someone online or a church that will tell them what they want to hear. And let me tell you what everyone wants to hear. Be lazy. Be selfish. Be lazy and be selfish. And it's packaged in all kinds of different ways, but it's really clear. Go to 1 Timothy 6. We're going backwards, alright? I like to go backwards in the Bible. Have you noticed that the Bible is warning a lot about doctrine? So, like, why do you always preach so much doctrine in so much Bible? Because that's the main emphasis. That's the whole purpose. That's why we're here. It's a Sunday night. What do you want? You want a cool story again? You want another story about some guy killing himself because he gambled all his money away? I mean, what do you want? That wasn't that cool anyways. 1 Timothy 6 look at verse 3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud. Knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words where have come with envy, strife, railings, evil surmising, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, from such withdraw thyself. Now, the Bible didn't say very nice things about this guy that doesn't like the doctrine of the Bible, does it? I mean, he's proud. According to the Scripture, he knows nothing. And what does he like to do? He likes to ask stupid questions. Sounds like the Sadducees, doesn't it? Where have come and they're envious, they cause strife, they rail, they have evil surmisings. I mean, all of this can be attributed to the Sadducees and what they did to Jesus. What did they do? They were envious of Jesus, they cause problems for Jesus, they end up railing on Jesus, then they had evil surmising saying, oh, he's trying to overthrow the Romans. He's trying to overthrow the temple. You know, planting bad ideas on him when he doesn't want that. Or saying about a church, yeah, they want to commit violence, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and they were destitute of the truth and what do they really care about supposing that gain is godliness? What does the Bible say? Withdraw thyself. It doesn't say hang out with these people, it doesn't say be friends with them, it says have nothing to do with them. You know, once you realize this person doesn't have the same doctrine, you need to be getting away from this person. And that's kind of the consistent theme. If, and here's what I don't want you to do. I don't want you to get lulled asleep and think like, well, I'm good. Because if Jesus is telling Peter, James, and John to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, why do you think that you're a better Christian than Peter, James, and John? Why do you think that you're a better Christian than all of the first Christians and Corinth and Corinth and Galatia and Ephesus and Revelation? I mean, I could just show you, we could keep going. I'm going to be done belaboring this point, but how many more places I need to show you where people are getting sucked into false doctrine, there's warnings about false doctrine, it just happens all the time. And people are constantly getting sucked into these things. Go to Matthew chapter 15, now what are some examples of this? What are some examples of some of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Well, specifically, you know, we saw that the Sadducees, they just they don't even believe the Bible. They're probably not as big of a danger for you guys. I think the other groups are a little bit more dangerous, and that's kind of the Pharisees. What do the Pharisees emphasize? They taught for doctrines the commandments of men. That's what they did. And so they would confuse the Bible with their personal convictions. So they had personal, and look, some of their personal convictions, there was nothing wrong with it. It's just that they're teaching that as a doctrine, saying, Thus saith the Lord. And I've heard a lot of this, and it gets weird, but let's read verse seven. Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people drawed nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. So according to the Bible, the Pharisees were notorious for being hypocrites and teaching the doctrine, which was a false doctrine that they made up. Something that they believe is something you should do, but it's not what the Bible says that you should do. What are some of their examples? Their observing of the Sabbath was wrong. They would never help somebody on the Sabbath, and Jesus rebuked them, being mad at them for not healing somebody on the Sabbath. They got mad at the disciples eating corn on the Sabbath day, thinking, How dare you do this on the Sabbath? The Sabbath is a holy day. It's a special day. Anybody that would do that is profaning. It's blasphemy. They're saying it's blasphemy, and they're profaning things. But Jesus didn't think that. To eat with unwashing hands. That's dirty. You're making the things of God dirty, right? And they're always focused on these ideas. Now look, is there anything wrong with washing your hands? No. Was there anything wrong with trying to keep the Sabbath strictly? In theory, no. But when you're going so far as to actually hurt and damage people, and you're being a hypocrite about claiming you care and love about people, then you won't actually really help them. That was what made Jesus very angry with them. And I feel like you see in our society, and even amongst our group sometimes, people get these overzealous attitudes where they say, How dare you use a microwave? They'll get mad at you. They'll think that you're a sinner because you used a microwave. Or they'll think that you're a sinner because you ate GMOs. Like, you realize that's not organic. It's like, yeah. Now look, here's the thing. I'm pro-organic food. I try to eat a lot of organic food. But you know what is not in the Bible? Thou shalt eat organic food. Have you ever realized that? And you know, I'm not going to look down on someone and be like, the fact that you didn't eat organic food makes you a sinner. Or makes you a wicked person. And you know, sometimes people start getting sucked into this stuff, and they focus more on, well I better make sure I'm buying the right food, and I'm not using the microwave. And they get all busy doing all this stuff, as opposed to like, hey, how about read the Bible? Hey, how about go soul winning? It's like, who cares if you eat McDonald's and go soul winning versus the guy eating organic chicken and never going soul winning. And some people think like, well I'm going to live longer than that guy. No, no, no, no. You know how you're going to live long? Obeying your parents. You say, how do you know that? Because that's what the Bible says. And let me tell you something. People have done all kinds of weird stuff to their body and live really long lives. You know, there's not this perfect science that says if you eat this, or don't eat that, or do this, you know, of course following God's commandments in the realm of dieting and some of these things is good. There's principles in the Bible in these subject matters. But I guarantee the vegan that follows God's commandments is going to live longer than the guy eating good meats and good vegetables not following God's commandments. Because it's more important to follow God's commandments. I mean, God constantly is performing miracles with the physical food. You know, when Jesus is warning them about the leaven of the Pharisees, they're worried about what food? Oh, is it are they given the GMO bread out? We need the organic bread, don't we? It's like it's not about bread. Your life is not about food. Did you get do you know that? I mean, if you put beans in your chili, you can still go to heaven. Obviously, you need a lot of grace, OK? But, you know, and I get up and I preach that. But, you know, it's not like you're a sinner if you do that. It's not like that makes you a wicked person or something. And, you know, I would rather all of you put beans in your chili and go soul winning with me than to not and not go soul winning. You know, what a wicked sinner. You don't cover your elbows. Look, I've heard people say that exposing your elbows is exposing the nakedness of your body and that it's a sin. It's like, wow. And of course, you know, if we think about our world, it's very immodest, very immodest. They're showing off a lot of part of their body. You know what I wasn't worried about? Elbows. And look, I'm a man just as much as any other guy in this room. I like women. And I'll be honest with you, I've never, ever, ever even one time thought that lady has nice elbows. I'm like, but that, literally, you'll have fundamental baddest get up and say women have to wear like shirts down to here or something. They can't wear a shirt that goes up here. And I'm just thinking like, you're missing the boat. And there could be a fundamentalist circle. You could get online and find these weirdos and these freaks teaching all this stuff and you get hypersensitive about, oh man, I want to make sure I'm not exposing my elbows or something. It's like, where does the Bible say that? It's like, yeah, does the Bible have some dress standards? Does the Bible tell you to cover your nakedness and to wear clothing down to your knees? Sure. But let's not add to that. Let's not say now it's all the way down to your ankles. Let's not say, oh, now you have to wear like a weird hair thing. Let's not start adding, oh yeah, you have to cover your elbows. You know, that's where you start getting into the Pharisee land is when you start adding to the Bible, having a naughty word list. This is not in the Bible, folks. I don't care what you say or what you think. And it's not even just one word. The people that have this doctrine, it's like every word that they think is bad. And let me tell you something. It is a Pharisaical ideology. It's a Pharisaical doctrine, and it's getting wrapped up in it. How many fundamental Baptists live in the United States that never cuss, so-called, in their life, but they don't go soul winning? And then they think they're more righteous than people that might use the wrong word or something. God forbid that they would actually use a Bible word every once in a while. And look, these people get mad at using Bible words. I'm not saying just even extra biblical words. I'm saying like the Bible words, words like hell, words like bastard. They won't use them. They get mad at people for using them. They would freak out about all kinds of things, let alone a word like fag or something. I mean, they would just have an aneurysm some of them. They'd be like, oh! Can you say that? And it's like, yes, you can. It's real easy. Fag. It wasn't hard. You know, it just flows off the lips. And let me say, when you believe the Bible, you know, and you understand what it actually teaches about those people, you want to say even worse things than that. I mean, fag is a light thing to say. And you say, what is a fag? It's, according to the dictionary, something that's bundled up and ready to be burned. How could it even be more biblical than that? I mean, it's literally describing what it is. It's worthless trash that's bundled up that only has one purpose, to be thrown in a fire and be destroyed. A faggot. I mean, that's what it is. And it's like, oh, that's a bad word. Well, did you know in Europe they sell meatballs? And you know what they're called? Faggots. You go to the grocery store and it'll just be a package and it'll just say faggots. What a bunch of wicked sinners. You know, how evil. How bad. And again, why do people get sucked into this stuff? Because of Pharisees. Pharisees get up and they make a big deal about this stuff. Now, why do Pharisees make a big deal about these carnal commandments, these made up doctrines? Because they don't have any real righteousness. Because they don't have anything to really point to. So they have to make up their own special rules to make them appear like they're righteous, or they have all this extra righteousness and holiness, when it doesn't really matter. What are the Pharisees? Well, we would never eat corn on the Sabbath day. Well, we always wash our hands. You know, they're so worried about, oh, they're so dirty. You know, these disciples are so dirty and they're perverting things and they're using blasphemy. You know what? It's stupid. It's stupid. How about, you know, there's some people that believe, you know, in America they'll teach that you have to vote. Like, if you say you don't vote, it's like, what's wrong with you? You know, you're such a sinner. And I'm thinking like, you know, the reason we're in the mess that we're in is because of voting. And even more specifically, women voting. You know, women's suffrage is one of the worst things that ever happened to America. All the feminism. Now, there's a specific example I wanted to give. Go to Ephesians chapter four. There's a guy out there who is teaching all kinds of weird stuff and I don't know that he's like super popular, but he does have like maybe a couple hundred thousand people and some of his, like I think, Instagram and he has a YouTube channel. It's not that popular, but there was a guy out there that's teaching a bunch of weird stuff, weird doctrines, and I just thought he was a good example of just what I've heard against churches. And honestly, I know people that got sucked into his preaching. Now, the guy's name is Matt McMillan. Matt McMillan. And who's actually heard of this person? I think Duncan actually preached a whole sermon against this guy. I'd probably recommend listening to it, but this guy, he makes YouTube videos where he's just walking around outside. He's just like walking for like an hour or something and then he's just like bringing up Bible verses off the top of his head, but of course they're never really in context. He's not quoting the whole verse. He's not even King James only. Now, the reason why a lot of people get sucked into someone like him is he on the surface gives all the right statements about salvation. On the surface, he'll say salvation's a free gift and it's not by works, it's just by faith. And so it sounds like the guy's saved if you just kind of listen on the surface. But then just virtually everything else that he says is just such false doctrine and weird perverted stuff that I doubt the guy's even saved. Maybe he is, but because he preaches so much other weird stuff, he probably isn't even saved. But let's just say he is. It doesn't change anything for me. You know, if someone's teaching a bunch of false doctrine, I don't care if they're saved or not. I don't want to listen to them. There's been plenty of preachers that I personally thought this guy saved and I still believe that they're saved, but they're teaching so much weird junk that I'm like, bye. There's souls out there that you have to just say bye. I don't want anything to do with it. You keep throwing spears at me for no reason and you have serious issues going on and after I hear enough bad doctrine, I just don't want to listen to that guy anymore. And of course that's for you to personally decide. Here's one for me. When a guy starts preaching feminism, I'm done with them. When guys are just going to elevate feminism in any capacity, when they're trying to teach these permissive family relationships, when they're saying weird stuff about how they let their wives run their marriage, I'm just like, I don't want to hear this anymore. I certainly don't want my wife to hear it. I don't want my children to hear it. I went to a church where they taught 50-50 marriage and let me tell you something, a lot of bad marriages, a lot of serious issues and very few men in the church. Why? Because men don't like to hear that because it's unnatural. It's unnatural to be the dominant person and to hear it's 50-50. It's bizarre. Now this Matt Millen of course teaches that kind of junk. And I'm going to get there, but I want to also address one other thing. This guy is very against church. He's very against church and I think that that's a doctrine that a lot of people could get sucked into. Why? Why did I say people get sucked into these doctrines? Lazy. Is it easier to go to church or harder to go to church? You know what's really easy? I don't have to go to church. And so you know what this guy's doctrine is? Well we're the church. So he's just always at church. And he'll make statements like, I love church. But you know why he can say that? Because he twists the definition of church to something else and really what he's trying to say is I love myself is when he says that. He says there was many years where I was taught two different Bible verses out of context of course causing me to believe that if I miss church my life would suffer greatly rather than teaching me that I was the church. So that was the two sentences he had. Let me start again. I love church. Rather than teach me I was the church. So let me fill in the gap. I love myself. That's what the guy is saying. He says I was led to think God would punish me for not going to church. Amen. He says until I got my butt back in the pews and obeyed the pastor I couldn't expect a lot of blessings. He says this is false. Now the first part of his argument this Matt McMillan guy is essentially using some kind of a Sabbath principle for church. I don't even really use that. I don't really care if he wants to defend or attack that. Obviously Jesus is our Sabbath. We've entered into the Sabbath rest. And we don't have church on Sabbath. We have church on the first day of the week. So I'm not going to really care about that argument. Here's the second one. Hebrews chapter 10. You'll be there in verse 25. Hebrews chapter 10. And he brings us up and he says oh this is being taken out of context. So he's going to explain to us what this verse means. He says those who find their identity in church attendance will use this verse like a sword in order to cut others. Yeah it's called the sword of the spirit. And it's the cut false doctrine. He says but let's look at the entire passage for context. Including the previous verse. Now he's not using a King James Bible. Just FYI. He says and let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching. So he says I've used two different Bible translations for the same passage. So he's going to bring up where it talks about in this verse he says the meeting together. He says not giving up meeting together and he says well in the King James it says do not forsake the assembly. He says both mean the same thing. I agree. It's basically saying the same thing. Don't forsake assembling together. That's why church can be referred to as an assembly or a congregation or a church which all are synonymous. Now the Bible is telling you not to forsake assembling, not to forsake congregating and he's saying that's what they both mean no matter what version you use. I'm still not understanding why this is bad or why this isn't what the Bible is teaching us. So he says this. He hasn't explained why he doesn't disagree with this. This is his next statement. I've done this because those who struggle with legalism have been mistaught to believe the King James Version is the only perfect version of the Bible which is wrong. The only perfect version is the original writings which came by way of the actual hand of the authors. The truth is earlier transcripts have been found since the 1600s when the KJV was first translated. It's been updated since then so obviously it's flawed. What is this guy's logic? He said okay the King James Bible translated in the 1600s, true, 1611. Have older manuscripts than 1611 been discovered? Yes. Was the King James Bible updated with those manuscripts? No. Is this Bible that I hold in my hand the same as the 1611? Virtually yes. What's the difference? Spellings of words. Wow. Put a K at the end of music and there's a 1611. You know what? We didn't drop the K because of earlier manuscripts. Was there some printing errors? Sure. The Bible I hold in my hand has printing errors. It's still the same book. It's still the same words. How is it obvious that the King James is flawed? It hasn't been updated, no. They came out with new Bibles that are not the King James that are perverted. That are from a different manuscript text. It's not obvious that it's flawed. The King James Bible is still the most commonly book read. Of all the Bibles, you know who's reading, which Bible is being read the most? The King James. So then why would I say it's obviously flawed when it's still the most used and read Bible? None of his argument even makes sense, which also shows me this guy has no scholarship or intellectual honesty. Obviously it's flawed and it's running, as is every Bible version. So this guy believes that every Bible version is corrupted. I want to listen to this guy. Well, here's the thing. If every Bible version is corrupted and he's the only one that knows that, who am I going to have to ask about what the Bible really means? Him. Why is it that people want the Bible to be corrupted so that they can be the authority? Why is it that the Pharisees want to hide the Bible so they can be in charge? Why do the Catholics want to hide the Bible so they can be in charge? You know, why is it that we're trying to pay you to learn the Bible? Because we believe the Bible. I'm not afraid of what this book says. I love this book. I want you to read it. And I want you to hold me and everyone in this room accountable to this book. This guy doesn't want you to have any kind of real accountability. Any ability to actually know what's right or wrong. Just listen to him walk around and tell you. To be clear, no Bible translation is flawed in overall content or spirit, but instead in language rewording. There are certain Greek words which cannot be translated perfectly into English. No matter how many scholars might try, it can't be done. Do you have any sources on this? Or do you have any proof of this? Or are you just going to say it? For example, Eskimos have around 50 different words for snow. Yet to translate snow into English, we have one word. This same principle applies to Greek words. Let me just stop for a second. Do you remember that he was going to explain to you how church wasn't something that you actually had to go to? He's now telling you that Eskimos have 50 words for snow. Think about how far he is away from, this guy hasn't even explained anything to us. He has this giant monologue and he still hasn't explained anything. English cannot unpack this language perfectly clear. So you know what he's saying? You can never have, God couldn't communicate the Bible in English. Well then how did you have Acts chapter number 2 where the Holy Spirit is talking to everybody in their own tongue? How is the Holy Spirit able to perfectly translate the Bible into other people's language on the fly like that? I mean is English just an inferior language to Parthian? And Mead and Elamite? No, of course not. Of course the Holy Spirit can communicate in every single language. What a stupid argument. And honestly if you even believe this then you would say, well I better learn Greek then. And I better learn Hebrew otherwise I could never know what God wants me to understand. This guy doesn't speak Greek, he doesn't speak Hebrew. Says this, the same principle applies to Greek words. Also rumor has it, I love rumors when we talk about doctrine. I don't want anything to be certain, I just want it to be based on rumors. Rumor has it King James was not even a Christian. Based on what? Have you even read King James books? Have you read the letters that he wrote to his son about Christianity? To say that King James is not a Christian is to say you're an idiot. Because the guy has written book after book after book about Christianity and his faith in God's word. I mean the guy is responsible for helping the King James Bible be translated and the guy's not even a Christian? What are you talking about? I mean this is like the Tyler Doka that's saying all history is fake or something. Rumor has it from what? An atheist? Did some fag tell you that? He's not even a Christian Jew. He's not even a Christian and simply translated the Bible into English in order to become famous. Oh yeah, he just wanted to be Mr. Famous, the King James version. That's so foolish and such a poor historian. Further, what makes us believe an English king who lives 1600 years after the cross is more authentic than the first writings? Ruck tards? I don't believe that. Why would anybody believe that? Of course it's not more authentic. I'm not going to say that the English Bible is more authentic than the tables of stone that Moses brought down off of the mount. The one written with God's finger is the most authentic. Done. Let me tell you something. If you then write the same words as God on another piece of paper, they're just as authentic. They're still the same thing. If you take a picture of it, it's the same thing. If you say the same things, it's the same thing. It's silly. Quote, 1611 or you ain't seven, I've never even heard that. Who's heard that? Okay, a few people. It's a distraction from Satan. Which was meant to divide and it has worked. He still hasn't explained why we shouldn't go to church. Quote, do not forsake the assembly was how English people spoke in the 17th century. But not now. Well, I do. There you go. Who cares? Who cares if that's how they spoke back then and that's not That's also another lie. People didn't walk around saying, how art thou today in the 1600s? That's just how the Bible put it. And of course, they weren't using the thes and thes always in their modern vernacular back then either. They were just saying, hey, you and whatever. Why is the Bible using such language to be very accurate, to be poetic on purpose? Clarity. I mean, there's a lot of good reasons the Bible is doing this. Oh, but they changed how we speak. Even if we did, I don't care, because, you know, the way people speak today is stupid a lot of times. Hey, how them boys doing? That's not even English. So now we have to dumb down the Bible to ebonics. When God created everything in the Bible, are we going to get one of those types of the Hawaiian pigeon Bible? The Jesus boys? You know, I mean, to show that's what they call revelation to show. If our English devolves to that point, I'm still going to read the King James Bible and praise God that encapsulated some intelligence for humanity. I'm not going to use text lingo, lol. I don't care about that. So after this diatribe, he finally has one sentence to explain why not to go to church. So this verse in Hebrews is not a law to go to church. But in context, advice for Christians is to keep meeting in groups. What's the difference? Hey, don't go to church, meet in a group. Okay. Alright, tonight we're going to meet in a meeting. We're going to have a church meeting. What's the difference, folks? I mean, this guy's just an idiot. He says, why? To encourage one another, stir up love and good deeds. Okay, yeah, that's why we showed up. To encourage one another and to learn the doctrine. Now, of course, if we're going to have a big meeting with a whole bunch of people, don't you think it makes sense that maybe we're organized? We find a place to meet. Maybe we figure out how the service is going to run. I mean, this is so stupid. Now, this is his commentary on this. When we create a new commandment of thou shalt go to church, the power of sin gets excited. By telling people to go to church, sin itself is getting excited. Whatever that means. I've never met sin, so I don't even know what that is. I didn't know that it gets excited. But, yeah, I've never thought... Going to bars, that's not when sin gets excited. Going to getting drunk or committing debauchery, that's not what's... Going to church, that's what really gets sin excited. The devil's not trying to destroy church. He gets excited when church is happening, right? He says, the lost are repelled by church. Okay, well, which lost are we talking about? Okay, yeah, I'm glad they're repelled. He says this, and fear factors grow in the minds of believers. Aren't you just so afraid when I say you should go to church? I've never been more afraid in my life. Even more diabolical, the prideful egos of the religiously devout are shot with steroids. Man, you know, when I say go to church, I'm just like, go to church! I mean, it's just such a prideful attitude. You know, we've got to nip this in the bud. And we've got to understand that we are the church. Where we go, God goes even into the buildings. So that means I'm having church 100% of the time? Because if I'm the church, if just me as the church, then that means that I can never not be the church. Well, that's going to be weird interpreting some parts of Bible. I want to go to a few places. Go to 1 Corinthians 5. Go back. I knew we were going to go there, right? He says this, so today my friends know this, the church is a family. It's not a place, but us. You, me, and every believer, all throughout the world, we form the church. I guess we're just automatically a church, and we're just always the church, and we're just always having church service. Just every second. Just always church. Church, church, church. We're the church. We are one forever connected in spirit. Now, how would you interpret any verse in the Bible that actually brings up church then? Think about this. 1 Corinthians 5. The Bible says in verse number 4, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you're gathered together, sounds like church, and my spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such and one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Verse 9. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators, yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if a man that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one know not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without, God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Now, if you are the church, how can I throw you out of church? Am I going to throw you out of your own body? I mean, how does that make sense? Go if you would to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. How about in Matthew 16, the Bible says, And I say unto thee, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. If Peter is, you know, just a person is the church, and he's going to build on it, is he going to build on top of the person? I mean, what does that mean? You know, if it's just a person, and it's not like a location of a symbol of believers, you know, how does that even make sense? You know, you have to understand that church, wow, we are the church. You singular are not the church. He says, I am the church. No, no, no. We are the church. But let me tell you something, if you never gather with us, you're not the church. You're having church right now. As soon as you leave, you stop being church. We're not just like a permachurch. When my family had dinner, when we had lunch today, that wasn't church. That was my family eating dinner. When I run into Dylan at work, it's not church. We're just working. You know, when I go work out with someone from the church, that's not church. When I go soul winning, that's not church. Even if the guy tells me it's church. You know, I've had people knocking there like, we're having church right now. No, we're not. Sorry, but this isn't church. Okay, it's a called out assembly of all the people. And look, when someone comes in that's a fornicator, we throw them out of the church. So what does that mean? We don't throw them out of their body, we throw them out of the group. Because the group is the church. The assembling is the church. And to say, oh well I don't think we need to go to church, we need to go to meetings. That's just you being semantically stupid. First Corinthians 11 verse 18. For first of all, when you come together in the church. How can you do this if you already are the church? You can't. He's saying when you come together, that's what? The church. I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it. Skip to 22. What? Have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise you the church of God and shame them that have not. So you know what he's saying? Hey, when you guys show up and just have a fellowship and have a meal, that's not church. And when you come together and you're not eating, that's church. Why? Because he's making a difference between church and just a gathering. You and a bunch of saved people sitting around drinking coffee is not church. And that is not what Jesus died for. That's not what he purchased with his own blood. Us having this is church. And they say, well, it's not a building. Duh. Do you think our church thinks it's a building? Got it. OK, checkmark. It's not a building. Sure. OK, I get it. But you know what it is? It's us all meeting together. And we still have church regardless of what building. You know, a lot of the churches in the early church were meeting in a house. Did they all gather together? It made sense. You know, when it's a smaller church, maybe you can meet in the house. This church started in a house. There's nothing wrong with that. But when you start getting 200 people, good luck coming over. It will be awkward. OK, not that many people could fit in a house unless you have a giant house. Verse 33. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest I set in order when I come. So there's a difference between church and just partying, eating, hanging out, fellowshipping, totally different events, OK? Also, when we are, let's say we're here and we're preaching, we're having our service, we're having church. Immediately after that, if we didn't just start eating food, that's not church. It immediately stopped being church. Now we're just having fun. Now we're just having fellowship or whatever. To say that that's church because it's in the church building is wrong. Go to First Corinthians chapter 14. Go to First Corinthians chapter number 14. So this guy wants to attack church. He also says that pastors are unbiblical. He says the Bible gives no titles. And then you're like, well, what about all the places where it has a title? Where it says, like, I gave some apostles and prophets and teachers and pastors. He's like, pastors only use one time. But it's still there. He's like, well, pastoring is not a title. It's just it's just a gift that God gives you. You can be pastoring people in your life. You know, so there's just different all of us are just pastors, you know, we just we just pastor each other and we shepherd one another. What a meaningless what a meaningless gifting. And how does that even work? I mean, if you just go up to somebody, I decide I'm your pastor today. I'm going to shepherd you today. I just feel like I have that gifting. What's the point of that? He says there's no qualifications in the Bible for pastor. First Timothy three. Oh, that's for elders. OK, well, is that the same word? No, no, no. Elders is an older person. You don't need qualifications to become old. It happens automatically. You just get old. OK. He's like, oh, this structure of having someone be in charge of the church is unbiblical. Yeah, I know why it's unbiblical for you because you don't want someone to tell you you're wrong and tell you that you're stupid and to get your butt back in church. So, of course, it's easy for him to just make hour long videos walking out in the middle of nowhere and just, you know, church is unbiblical. We shouldn't have pastors and there's no titles. You know, that's funny because Peter is saying that he's an elder and he said that the Holy Ghost has made you overseers to feed the church of God. How do you interpret that verse then? Yet people get sucked into this junk and they say, oh, we should all be the pastor. We should all be preaching. We should all be in charge. I've heard someone get it. They say First Corinthians 14 is how the church should be. Like, that's the exact opposite. First Corinthians 14 is the exact opposite of what church should be. It's like the one passage of scripture that is saying like don't have church like this and had serious problems. Now, look at verse 34. Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience as also say the law. Now, I want to ask this question. If we are the church, does that mean women can never speak? I mean, is she a walk? If she's walking around as a church, how can she even speak? Because according to the Bible, she's not even allowed to speak. How does a guy interpret this verse? Oh, yeah, I know. He says that actually, we have to understand, is that back then in the culture, women were constantly asking their husbands questions while they're having church. You know, they should wait until they get home to ask their husband all the questions they had for the day. But it's not saying that they can't preach and teach in the church. First of all, I didn't think you had church anymore. It's like he goes back and forth whether church or is not a church or whatever. But he has no problem with women being preachers. And it says in verse 35, if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What kind of nonsense type applications are these? This is what I want to know. If this book is not 100% accurate, which is what he says. He says no Bible is 100% accurate. We can't know exactly. Nothing can be perfect. How do they know precisely what happened in these churches in the culture though? You know, I don't know if this is accurate or not, but I know for a fact that women were asking their husbands questions in the church service and disrupting them. Based on what? I've never even seen anything. Have you ever seen any document of antiquity, any Bible, anything, a voice recording? Where is the evidence or the proof that women were disrupting the church service and that's what that verse means. Nowhere. And that's the stupidity. I went to a big church, a giant church, 10,000 people, and they gave a similar interpretation. They brought up this verse and they said, well first of all, I want to say this, if women being pastors is wrong, then that would mean our women pastors would be wrong. And we know that that's not wrong. I was like, well that was good logic. And he's like, and we want to make sure though that we don't let the culture tell us what's right, we let the Bible tell us what's right. I was just like, okay. And he goes, what this verse actually is, not only were they asking themselves questions but because they had church service, all the wives would sit over here. And all the husbands would sit over here. And during the service, the women are, hey honey, what's for dinner? Hey, hey honey, do you want chicken or do you want beef tonight? During the service. Now who believes that women are screaming across the auditorium, their husband questions, and that was the big problem that Paul had to bring up in the church. That's what churches are literally teaching. You know why? So they can have a woman pastor. It's like, well maybe Paul was talking about what Revelation was talking about when they let Jezebel get up and teach. Which is exactly what it means. Of course. So, you know, does this mean that women can't talk in the church building? No. It's saying, hey when we're gathered together and we're learning the Bible, it shouldn't be a woman getting up and teaching the Bible. It's not rocket science. It's also not saying that every man should get up. It says at most two or three. Like the maximum we're allowed to have for a church service is like two or three guys. Not just like, let's all share our opinions. Let's all give our ideas. It's like, hey let's take the best guy in the room and put him up here and teach the Bible. Why wouldn't you do that? That makes the most logical sense. And if you're going to have these organized meetings that aren't church, why wouldn't you still organize it that way? Because God doesn't do things confusing. God's not going to just get some woman off the street to come up here and try to tell you what the Bible says, having never read it. I mean, the person that's going to go up and tell a whole bunch of people what the Bible says. Don't you think it'd be important that a guy maybe read the Bible? Don't you think it's important that maybe he studied the Bible? Don't you think maybe it's important that he'd been taught? Don't you think it's important that he's a good example? Don't you think it's important that he's following the Bible? Hey, how about all the qualifications the Bible actually gives you? Yet these people want to attack the concept of church, but they don't replace it with a better concept. They don't have one. You know what their concept is? Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Subscribe to my Instagram. Buy my book. I don't have a book for you to buy. And even if I had one, I'd give it to you for free. Go to 1 Timothy chapter number 3. Go to 1 Timothy chapter 3. How are you going to interpret 1 Timothy chapter number 2? Well, the guy just, his explanation of 1 Timothy 2 was so bizarre that I just, it's not even worth repeating. He basically just said, oh, this is saying that women have to give birth in order to go to heaven. And I'm like, no? And then he just rejects all of the rest of the passage. And it's like, no, Adam was first form and then Eve and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. And then it's telling her that she's going to be saved from making those same dumb decisions by submitting to her husband and following God's commandments. Now, if that wasn't true, then show me all the feminists that are such godly women. Show me all the women that are not submitting to their husband, not having children, not raising a family, not in the house, not guiding the house, that are just such great Christian examples. When did Joyce Meyer go out soul winning? When is Beth Moore going and knocking on doors and trying to get people saved? When did Joyce Meyer or Beth Moore or any of these other ladies, when did they ever teach something from the Bible that everybody was like, wow, that was a great spiritual truth? When have they ever caused a revival? You know what they do? They cause women to ruin their marriages. And they weaken men. You know what's not going to make the men in this room manly? Listening to a woman preach the Bible. It's going to destroy them. And, of course, verse 3, look at verse 5. For a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? That doesn't sound like he's the church. It sounds like there's something else he's having to take care of. And it's also not his family, because it's contrasting him and his family with the church. Why? Because they're different institutions. They're different organizations. And it's saying, why in the world if a guy could not even teach his wife something, keep his wife in line, keep his children in line, why would you want him trying to guide the flock and to guard the flock and to tell the flock what to do? That just doesn't make any sense. So, of course, the Bible teaches pastors. The Bible teaches church. The Bible teaches for us to come here to learn doctrine. Why? So we don't go off into weird false doctrines and become losers and idiots like Mac McMillan. Here's his prayer. He has a long prayer that he wanted to share about how women should be preaching. And, of course, he uses 1 Corinthians 11, where it talks about a woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered. It says that's a proof text that women should be pastors and preachers. And I'm like, look idiot, women can go out soul winning. That's the prophesying that they're doing. It's not saying when they're gathered together in church they're supposed to preach or teach. That's why 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 are real clear. But here's his prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for revealing the truth about just how important females are to you. In my heart I already knew this, but you taught me so much through your spirit and word. I now know that women aren't simply supposed to submit to men. But we're supposed to submit to them. What? It's a mutual submission of love and respect. We're equal. And I'm thankful for that. Today I pray for my daughter Grace. You know she's not a wallflower because you made her this way. As she lives her life and expresses who she is, protect her, guide her, and continue to empower her with your love. I know you will, Father. Remind her every day of just how gifted and important she is. Remind her how much she means to me too. Right now I lift up all who are reading this directly to you. So many of the early church leaders got it all wrong about women. Females were used as scapegoats, and that's not okay. This twisting of scripture and sexist teaching has been passed on from generation to generation in many churches. Maybe. And I ask you to begin to dilute this hellish ideology of women being inadequate. Infuse the truth into the minds of those who struggle with gender discrimination. What a feminist. I also ask you to strengthen the battered women who believe the lies of religious ogres for far too long. I'm just a religious ogre. Obey me. My battered wife. I mean, what kind of weird he's saying that it's satanic to teach for women to submit to their husband. Have you ever read 1 Peter 3? It's like, where is real Satanism coming in? Oh yeah, getting the wife to disobey her husband. Getting Eve to trick her husband. And seduce her husband. What kind of weird garbage is this? Empower them through your spirit to stand up and be who you've recreated them to be in Christ. Oh, I guess Christ died on the cross of women could be feminists. And march. And go out there and chant, hear us roar! Yeah, because when I see these feminist marches, it's a bunch of godly women who love the Bible. It's a bunch of women who really want to follow God's commandments. What kind of a weird cowardly freak is this? Through him they are courageous. Absolutely courageous! Amen. Now, think about this. There are men that came to our church and now subscribe to him. I mean, that's like getting a double vasectomy or something. Because it's a spiritual one too. The thing about a physical vasectomy is you can't really undo it very easily. It sucks. I've had many people ask me about that and I'm like that sucks. Sorry. And they usually regret it. And I feel bad for them. But you know what? That spiritual vasectomy is probably just as hard to undo. Don't give up your man card. What in the world? The last thing we need is for more men to say let's empower women. What has that ever done for America? Are you going to tell me that America has gotten better in the last 100 years by empowering women? All these women judges. I mean, you really think the streets are safer now with all the women cops, women district attorneys, women judges, women governors. That's destroying America. And they're empowering Antifa. And they're empowering all kinds of people. They're gambling a billion dollars away is what they're doing. It's destroying America. And you know what? They're getting sucked into this garbage. There are so many men today getting sucked into this garbage thinking they have to let a woman tell them what to do. You know, we need men to stand up and put women back where they belong in the kitchen. Back into the home raising the family. Why? Because they're better at it than men. You know who's the best at raising children? Women. You know who's the best at cooking? Women. You know who's the best at being women? Women. Make women women again. I'm sick and tired of seeing all these women that are men. It's gross. And you know what? We need some real men. You know who's not good at being a man? Women. Just as bad as men being women is women being men. Hillary Clinton's not a good dude. Hillary Swank isn't a convincing man. You know they have all these stupid, I mean you want to know where this is coming from, it's coming from Hollywood. Almost every movie now it's like the woman is the hero. The Hunger Games. And it's like I'm supposed to believe that all these grown men can't fight a 17 year old girl. They're terrified of a little girl and she's going to win the revolution. When has that ever happened in history? Don't you think of all the billions of people that have existed there would have been one time this 17 year old warrior girl that everyone is so terrified of. It never happened. Because it can't happen. Because it's impossible. And they'll say I know a woman that could beat you up. Well did she inject 100 steroids? Yeah I'm sure if we found .0001% of women out there there might be some women that are physically stronger than me. Because they're injecting testosterone. And they were grown to be like 8 feet tall or something. Yeah okay sure. But by and large women are always weaker. They're not dominant. They would lose in every battle. This is the stupidity that's creeping into churches. And you know what I hear even independent fundamental Baptist preachers getting up and preaching feminism. I sit in the car and just play on games while my wife's getting ready. No. Get your house in order. I heard a fundamental Baptist preacher say well I'm not going to tell my wife when to have kids. I'm going to ask her when it's okay. What? I'm not going to ask. First of all I don't get to decide when I have kids anyways. There's not a kid button like that I have. Okay. No one can press that button. We would all love to be able to just press that button sometimes. Or not press that button or whatever. There's a lot of combinations there. But you know what? My wife is not going to make the decisions for our household. She's not going to teach me the doctor. God got mad at the one woman preacher in Revelation. And we need to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees. We need to make sure that we're not letting our church go down this feminist hellish doctrine. What kind of a man says this? This is why we're in the mess that we're in is people like Matt McMillan getting up and saying let's empower women. And they're all battered. Who believes that my wife is battered? I mean what in the world? That is so stupid. I would never hurt my wife physically. I never have and I never will. You know if anybody's ever gotten hurt I would allow her to hurt me. But she's never, I'm never going to hurt her. That's so stupid. Battered wives. The thing that the wives in this room are battered because of the fundamentals doctrine is stupid. It's garbage. I guarantee if we took the sample size of our church into the world they are way more battered than whatever percentage may exist here. And of course it's a shame. You shouldn't beat up on a woman for any reason. That's not manly. There's some slap champion or something that got in an argument with his wife and recently it was on Instagram or something and she just kind of hits him. It's definitely disrespectful. But instead of turning into their cheek like a man should do, he just like BOOM! And she was out. She was down. But you know what? Then he lost his job. Everybody's hating on him. They're like you're a loser. You're an idiot. Because hitting a woman's stupid. We don't need to hit women. They already lost the battle. Why would I then want to empower them to be in charge? You really think criminals are afraid of all the women going out there policing the streets? You really think the criminals are afraid of all the women in charge of our country? You think that any criminal is afraid of Nancy Pelosi or Kamala Harris or any of these politicians? Not at all. And of course you think the devil is afraid of Joyce Meyer? You think the devil is afraid of Beth Moore? No. He's whispering in their ear. He's using them as the tools they are. You know what the devil is afraid of? This church. He's afraid of the men in this room becoming men. And he's trying to tear you down. He's trying to get you into all kinds of weird false doctrine. He wants you to think that church isn't important. Is it any shock that all these people, they always have the same goal? Stop going to church. And stop telling your wife what to do. It's like let's just get those two right. Every red-blooded man is like, that sounds right. I know that that's right. And we need to empower a next generation, a group of people that actually believe the Bible. And of course when you get your family in order, you're going to love your life. When you go to church, you are going to be blessed by God. I don't care what that guy said. That guy's life is a train wreck. And he probably does whatever his wife tells him to do, which is another train wreck. What a miserable life to just live where your wife is just leading you by the nose. Women can't even decide where to eat. I mean if I said from now on my wife's going to pick where we eat from now on. We'll be stuck in the car. It's like you've got to just make the decisions in life. Let's close in prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father so much for the word of God, for giving us good doctrine, for sound doctrine, for helping us to know what's right and what's wrong. I pray that we would be careful not to get sucked in to all the divers and strain doctrines that are out there, all the weird doctrines. I pray that we wouldn't get jaded against church, the institution that was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ. I pray that we wouldn't get jaded against the pastors and the teachers and the apostles and the prophets and all the men of God that you gave us, the evangelists. I pray that we would appreciate the Bible that we have, that we wouldn't look down upon it and claim that it's been corrupted, but rather we believe it's the preserved word of God. I pray that we wouldn't be embarrassed about the gender roles that you've given us, that we would embrace who we are, we would embrace the talents and the giftings that you've given us, that we would be pleasing in your sight and not care what the world thinks. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright, for the final song, song number 215, 215, I came down and glory filled my soul. 215. 215. Oh, what a wonderful, wonderful day, day I will never forget