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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we're going to start off the service at Psalm 15. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. We're going to Psalm 15. Thank you for coming tonight. Psalm 15 is the white handout in front of you. There should be one in front of your chair. If not, you'd have to search around for it. Or you could just open your Bible. Either way. Psalm 15. Psalm 15. It's a little bit of a trickier one to sing. If you mess up, don't worry about it. I might mess up once because you're joining words together. The words help you out a little bit because it stretches it out. Like on the second verse it says, they're he. So you kind of know by reading it. But sometimes it's not as obvious. So we'll just do our best. Psalm 15. We're going to start. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell brightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that walketh up rightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that bideth not with his tongue nor do with evil to his neighbor nor take the reproach against his neighbor. He that bideth not with his tongue in whose eyes a vile person is contempt, but he areth them that fear the Lord. In whose eyes a vile person is contempt, but he areth them that fear the Lord. He that swearth to his own hurt and changeeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury. He that swearth to his own hurt and change it not. He that putteth not out his money to usury. Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that do with these things shall never be moved. Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that do with these things shall never be moved. Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill. All right, good singing. Let's pray. Father, I pray you keep blessing the song service. The songs while we're singing, Lord, I pray that you please help us to worship you in the spirit and the truth. And I pray that you help us to sing with understanding these words and that you bless the service. Later on, Pastor Thompson, you give him the words to speak and you fill them with your spirit. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We're going to go on to the next song, which is a hymn, 256. Number 256. Great doctrinal song based on the Bible 2. Look to the Lamb of God. Number 256. I'm just going to wave my hand a little bit and then when I put it down that's when we'll start. I'm going to do 1, 2, 3 and then down we'll start. If you from sin are longing to be free, look to the Lamb of God. He to redeem you died on Calvary. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For he alone is able to save you. Look to the Lamb of God. When Satan tempts and doubts and fears assail, look to the Lamb of God. You in his strength shall overall prevail. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For he alone is able to save you. Look to the Lamb of God. Are you a weary? Does the way seem long? Look to the Lamb of God. His love will cheer and fill your heart with song. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For he alone is able to save you. Look to the Lamb of God. Fear not when shadows on your pathway fall. Look to the Lamb of God. Enjoy your sorrow. Christ is all in all. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For he alone is able to save you. Look to the Lamb of God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. 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So let's look at our text here in 1 Corinthians chapter five. Of course, we know these passages really well and it says in verse one, it's reported commonly that there's fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife and you're puffed up and have not more rather mourn that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from you. For I verily as absent in the body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning him that had so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you're gathered together and my spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such a 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 you not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord so much for this passage of scripture and Lord for a church that would actually enforce these things and God, I just pray that you continue to bless this church Lord and Lord, we know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. I pray Lord that we would not get sweet on people that need to be kicked out of here and Lord that we would just take it as a sign that Lord you're cleaning house and sometimes we kick people out, sometimes people leave and sometimes you throw them out Lord and I just pray that you'd help us to discern these things and Lord not get sad and over sad about people that leave and move on from this church and Jesus say we pray, amen. And that's what I'm preaching about tonight. The title of my sermon is called Bozos Be Gone. Bozos Be Gone. And so you guys had a bozo that's been gone for about a year now and Bo Ballard, right? So he was a total bozo and so his name fits him. You know, he's a bozo. But you know, certain people just need to be gone. Certain people just need to be out of the church and he was kicked out for railing. You know, and obviously you guys know this and this has been preached a lot but I've just been enjoying hearing the humble stories of Bo all this weekend. And just like the great preaching that you guys all miss from him, right? Apparently he was just a stellar preacher here and I'm very, I'm kidding of course. And I heard that my son had made up a name called Humbo because he's so humble, right? But do you think this church is better without him or with him? It's better without him, isn't it? And from what I was told, you know, when he was doing all the soul-wanting here, another joke by the way, he was not doing all the soul-wanting here but like after he got kicked out, you guys had 100 people saved that month. So you know, sometimes God, you know, needs to get the leaven out of the church however that happens. And tonight I'm gonna show you three ways that God removes, you know, that people get removed from the church, how bozos get bounced from the church. But it's not, you know, it's not just bozos that leave the church, okay? So don't get my title wrong. There are bozos that need to be kicked out and bozo definitely needed to go. But there's also people that just move on and leave. And you know, sometimes bozos get kicked out and then they can be restored. Now I don't know about that bozo, but you know, some bozos can get brought back in, you know, and people can get things right. So don't get me wrong. I don't think that everybody that gets kicked out of a church is always just like some kind of wolf, you know, or false prophet or something. But sometimes they are, you know? And I think that God knows when it's time to kick somebody out too. Sometimes people just reveal themselves as bozos and then they leave themselves before they can get kicked out. So there's just a myriad of ways that people can leave the church. But hey, listen, you know, like Brother Cameron, he's moving. He's not a bozo for moving, you know? At least as far as I know he's not, no. He's a great guy as far as I know. Then he's going down to a pure word. He's leaving, you know, a great pastor to go be at a church with another great pastor, Pastor Shelley, right? So anyway, but you know, look, Bo needed to go. And you know, Bo didn't know diddly. So apparently, you know, some of the stories I heard were just, you know, crazy. And the whole sermon's not about Bo, so don't think it is. But one of the things I thought was pretty interesting was his Lord of the Rings theory about like when David, you know, David was being overthrown by Absalom. And then the Bible talks about how the woods like took more soldiers than the battle itself. And he thought, he asked the question, did the trees come to life and kill all the people? Is that what happened? Like it was like Lord of the Rings or something, you know, like what are you doing here, you orc or whatever, you know? I mean, to actually, you know, he was dead serious from what I heard. But he actually thought that that might be a possibility, you know? And as far as I know, trees don't come to life and kill people. So the other, I heard just right before the service, I heard one of the things that he was preaching that was like about the thief on the cross. How the thief on the cross, you know, said, you know, he said, verily, verily, you'll be in my, today you'll be in the kingdom, in paradise with me or whatever. I'm not quoting that right. But anyway, but he said, I prayed better prayers with people than that. I prayed better prayers with people than that. That's crazy. You know, you had a better prayer, sinner's prayer than Jesus did, huh? That's pretty humble, you know, in my opinion. But you know, this church is better off without that loser. You know, and look, good things came out of him being the leader. You know, now the church has new leadership and you know, obviously Donnie Romero's the one that started this church plant and all things work together for good to them that love God and those that are called, them that are called according to his purpose. So you know, hey, this church is still going. It's still strong. And you know, some people have left. Some people, look, people come and go. And that's one thing that's, you know, as a pastor, it's hard to see people leave. It's hard to see good people go. You know, it's hard to, but it's good to see bad people go, obviously. But like, I'm not in the business of trying to run people off all the time. I want people to stay in my church, but not at the expense of, you know, breaking these rules here where you would just be some kind of railer or some kind of fornicator. You know, we're not trying to keep people in here, you know, that would damage and cause damage to the church. Look at what it says in verse six. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump. See, you get a little leaven, you get a little sin in here. And these sins that it's talking about in First Corinthians five are not little sins. These are sins that you should be kicked out for. This is how you would, these are sins that you would kick someone out for for being a railer. That's what Bozo was, was a railer, right? And so he needed to go. And railing is always sin. It's always a lie. It's always wrong. So, and I know Pastor Shelley's covered this with you guys, but in this list in First Corinthians five, none of these things are ever good to do at any time. So railing is not good to do at any time. Railing is lying. And, you know, calling Pastor Shelley a wolf is basically what he did. Called him an unsaved wolf. So where's your basis for that? You know, as far as I know, Pastor Shelley preaches the right gospel. Pastor Shelley believes in eternal security. Pastor Shelley, you know, how does that make him a wolf? As far as I'm concerned, he's made Steadfast a better church than it ever was. So, and Pastor Shelley's a good friend of mine, so I would definitely stick up for him. And, you know, obviously I stick up for my friends. I believe in that, so. Anyway, but people come and go, and what it can do is it can dishearten people. And people, they're like, oh, this guy was really nice. He was really cool. And then they leave the church for whatever reason. You know, and sometimes it hurts people. It discourages people to see families leave or move away. And I just wanna say this, that sometimes it's a good thing. And a lot of times it's a good thing. And sometimes you just don't know why they're leaving. Maybe God is moving them for a purpose. Maybe they were gonna cause some big damage and God revealed them and got them out. And again, not every family that leaves the church is bad, okay? I'm not trying to say that. So, and you know, as we can see that one church plant leader leaving here and then seeing how things have turned out since then, you know, a church plant or a church can survive leadership changes, and it does. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with a change in leadership. And sometimes it's the best thing for the church. You don't see it at that time. You see the turmoil. You see the false prophets coming out. You see all the weasels that were believing in the flat earth and all this other stuff get exposed. And you're like, man, I can't believe this. I've never been through anything where all these people are getting kicked out and all these people are leaving. But look, God purges his church. He's gonna purge the church and these bozos are gonna reveal themselves. These bozos are gonna leave and sometimes God's gonna get them out and sometimes your pastor's gonna kick them out. How many people has Pastor Shelley kicked out since he's been the pastor? So it's over 100, right? Hey, they needed to go. They needed to go so that the church could be, that leaven could be taken away from the lump. And I believe personally in the next man up philosophy. So in sports, there's a term that's called next man up. Who's ever heard of that before, all right? Or next woman up, okay? But next man up is where you got the starters. Like on a basketball team, you got five starters. And then there's people that are on the bench waiting for their opportunity to come up and do good for the team in the game. And so sometimes those players get injured. When they go down, what do they do? They call that person who's that person's replacement and say hey, get in there and do the best you can. And that's what God does too. Just like a basketball team, someone would say hey coach, next man up, God will do the same thing. He'd say hey, next man up. And there's nothing wrong with that as long as there's a man that will step up and do those things. And that's very important that there's men that are ready and willing and training and getting ready for their time to be able to lead and those types of things. Now not everybody's gonna lead, but some people are maybe not waiting just like hey, I can't wait till somebody falls so I can lead. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, you know, and maybe you don't even realize that someone wants you to lead or that you might not even see it in yourself. Let me tell you something. Moses tried to back out of being the leader of the children of Israel, didn't he? Was he just ready to jump in and lead? No, he was like, you know, call somebody else. I'm not very, I'm not eloquent. I have a slow tongue. And so Moses, one of the greatest men in the whole Bible wrote Genesis, you know, he wrote the first five books of the Bible and do you think Moses was a good leader? Yeah, but he was hesitant. So look, just because someone's hesitant doesn't mean that they can't be a good leader. Now God had to kind of smack him around a little bit and say hey, who made the tongue? You know, and if God makes your tongue, anybody in this room, any man in this room, I don't care if you have a slow tongue or not, God can use you for mighty works and deeds. And just because you're not confident in yourself, hey, Moses wasn't confident in himself at first either, was he? But so that next man up philosophy, there's, you know, hey, the next man stood up and you know, here we are, the church is still running strong and then you got your best preacher is on the bench now. He was a terrible preacher. He was awful. And like, I mean, if I could just get up and have men tell stories about how bad his preaching was I've had him do it all the last couple days. And it's been very entertaining to me. But it's sad that you had to listen to it, you know. And when a church like this starts, and you know, people will be like, well, you know, you don't want to complain about stuff. You don't want to complain, you're just glad that you have a great church to go to. But a lot of people like saw how, you know, it's the ladies that always know first, they're like, he sucks. Like, just give him a chance, huh? He's fine. From what I've heard, the ladies were right about him. So anyway, so what is a bozo? I looked it up in the, you know, on Google or whatever. The first definition of a bozo is a stupid, rude, or insignificant person, especially a man, okay? That was the first one I found. And then the second one is a foolish or incompetent person. Would that picture bozo? Yeah, it does. And so that's where the term comes from. And I'm not sure of the origin of it. But there is a clown. Who's heard of bozo the clown? You know, and if the shoe fits, wear it, you know. Bozo was a clown, your bozo was a clown. I mean, he still is a clown. So, you know, I don't know where he got that Lord of the Rings doctrine from, maybe because he looks like one of the people from the Lord of the Rings, but anyway. So tonight I just want to give you three ways how the bozos be gone from the church, okay? So number one tonight, I just want to look at First Corinthians chapter five verse nine in our text. So number one, we remove the bozo. We remove the bozo. So we find the bozo and we give them the boot. If someone's doing one of the sins in these scriptures here, they need to go. They're not doing good for the church. They're doing bad for the church. So look at verse number nine. It says, I wrote unto you in an epistle not to accompany with fornicators. Yet now altogether the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, for then must you needs go out of the world. But now I've written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one know not to eat. So God is saying what? If they're supposedly a brother, then if they're doing any of these sins on this list, then you're not even supposed to eat with them. What do we do at church all the time as Baptist? We eat together, don't we? If we ain't eating, we ain't meeting. That's kind of one of the Baptist things. Last night we had a game night. Would it have been a good game night if we didn't have any food to eat? No. But so we're not even supposed to eat with that type of person if they're committing any of these sins. Now obviously you try to let people get things right. If someone's a drunkard and they just can't quit boozing it up, then they have to go. Why? Because their sin is gonna permeate into this church. And if people think that the pastor's just letting everything go and everything's a free for all, then it's gonna be sin that's added and passed on to other church members. And we don't want that. If there's some people fornicating in the church and the pastor never says anything, which by the way happens all the time, but if that pastor just doesn't do anything about it, then the people are gonna just, it's gonna spread. Because what does leaven do? It spreads, doesn't it? And so that's not something we want going on in the church. So if we're not supposed to eat with them, then they're not supposed to be in the church, right? Look at what it says in verse 12. 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. And this is the way you need to have the mentality of, is that you consider a person that's on this list a wicked person, just like the Apostle Paul says, and it says that God judges that person. What's the purpose of us throwing them out? So that they can get right. So they can get right with what they're doing because if they're fornicating, we want them to stop doing that, get married or whatever they have to do, and then come back once they get past that. But see, here's what happens is people get kicked out and then people still wanna hang out with that person outside of church. That's wrong. We're supposed to shun that person. It says not to eat with them, so why would you have anything to do with them? Shunning is an acceptable way to get people to stop doing something. But here's what happens when people get kicked out or things like this will happen. Even their family members that are in the church will still have stuff to do with them. There's adultery going on in the family and the parents that are saved are still taking the side of their sweet little girl or whatever, which is wrong. They should have nothing to do with them even if it is their daughter because that will shame them into doing what's right. But the problem is that people aren't shaming people anymore for what they're doing wrong when they get kicked out of the church. And really in all reality, what churches do you know that just kick people out for this all the time? Which ones? Churches like ours, right? But we're so mean, we're so hateful. No, we're just trying to do what God says in the Bible. Now, so God calls them a wicked person. God's going to judge that person without. He's gonna chase in that person and then if they get right, they'll come back. But you know what, if not, then God's gonna destroy that person's flesh. Now obviously, you know, when I say bozo, it doesn't necessarily mean an unsaved person, okay? So, but they are doing stupid things. They are, you know, in the case of your bo, your old bo, stupid, rude, or insignificant person, you know, foolish or incompetent. His preaching was incompetent. He was foolish by the way, you know, he even preached his sermons. And he was insignificant, he was stupid, he was rude, talking crap about your pastor behind his back, going to the enemies of God and revealing information as a tail bearer. The guy's a wicked person and he should be kicked out and you know what, unless he apologizes to Pastor Shelley and makes things right with you guys, I would never accept him back. So, let's see, so, Romans chapter 16, let's turn to Romans chapter 16 and here's another instance of someone that should be thrown out. And number one, we need to remove the bozo. And when I say we, I mean the pastor. So it's not your job to kick somebody out, but you know what, if someone's doing one of these things on this list, you need to go to your pastor and don't, this isn't prison, you know, if someone's doing something like this and you don't tell the pastor, then you're doing something wrong. You're hiding the matter, you're concealing a matter that you shouldn't be concealing. That's something, you're like, well I like them, they're my friend. Well if you're their friend, then you're gonna do what's right. And you're gonna make sure that they can get right. You don't hide stuff like that from your preacher. But look at Romans chapter 16 verse 17, it says, now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned. And what, hang out with them outside of church? No, it says avoid them. So, we're supposed to mark those people that would cause divisions in this church. Well I think it's the pre-trib rapture. I mean, if someone actually believed that, they still shouldn't be going around causing division and trying to teach doctrine that's contrary to what this church teaches. Just like we would preach at an old IFB church, you don't go in and try to just turn everybody aside with every doctrine that you believe that they're wrong about. You sit down and you shut up and you try to learn something from that guy and go to them and treat them like a father if you say, hey, you know, I wanna show you this about the post-trib pre-wrath rapture and see what you think about it. And you go to them respectfully. But anybody that comes to this church and they're a flat earther, does Pastor Shelley believe in the flat earth theory? Yeah, I don't think he does. So, if someone comes in here and they're pushing that garbage and they're spreading it around to other people, what are they doing? They're causing division. Now if someone wants to believe that and keep their mouth shut, he'd probably still kick them out. No, I don't know if he would or not. Whatever, if I'm wrong about something, just, you know, Pastor Shelley's right. But like, he might not kick them out. Because if you keep it to yourself, nobody would ever know, right? Because you're not supposed to go and cause division. Now it's a stupid doctrine to believe. It's idiotic. But if they kept it to themselves, then really they're not harming anything. They're just harming their own mental capacities. But look, we're supposed to mark people. That means you mark them and say that person's a bad person. And so the pastor's supposed to mark that person and then what? Kick them out. Because it's hard to avoid someone if they're still hanging around and they're still allowed to come into the church. Now look at verse 18, it says, for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ. Who? The people that are causing divisions. The people that need to be marked. The people that are teaching doctrine that's contrary to what we believe. It says they serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. And that's something you need to catch on to right there is that these people can speak good. In a lot of cases, they're able to deceive people. Look at Billy Graham. Billy Graham has a lot of people deceived still. I get hate mail every day from people about Billy Graham, every day. Because I preached this sermon against him, like what, when he died. It was perfect timing. I struck while the iron was hot, you know. But you're like, what's wrong with Billy Graham? Well, he preaches a false gospel for one thing. He said that all people are saved whether they know Christ or not. What are you talking about? That's crazy. But people go, oh, Billy Graham was a Baptist preacher. Really? No, he wasn't. He was a false prophet, he's a heretic. You should call him Billy Balaam instead. But the good words, fair speeches, people that are able to speak well in public and things like that, and they can take and they can make the hearts of the simple to be deceived by their division. So what's it say, the people that cause divisions that we need to mark? That they serve not our Lord Jesus Christ. So that's something that we need to understand and get ahold of that's very important. And you know what? Pastor Amanda said this in a sermon not too long ago, and he's right, that we have people that are sitting in our churches that are a liability just sitting there. And he's right. There's people that sit in churches and they're just waiting for their chance to strike. They're waiting for their chance to get their little following and then have their little coup of a pastor or to just try to turn the hearts of people in the church. And so there's people sitting in churches all across America that, you know, they're just a liability sitting there. They're a liability being in your church, period. And I think that Pastor Jimenez used to be a little more nice about things like that and give people more chances, but as you get hardened and battle scarred in the ministry and you have all these people stab you in the back all the time, you're kind of like, well, maybe I should rethink this. Maybe I should try to just start preaching them out when I realize what they are. And you know, that's a good tactic for a pastor to do because look, we don't want people like that to gain influence, but sometimes you just don't have the goods on people. Sometimes you don't have enough to kick somebody out. We can't just kick people out for whatever reason we want. There has to be concrete, solid evidence and sometimes you don't have that because they're so good at what they do. They're so slick at being a wolf or a false prophet that it's hard to catch them in the things that they do. So we need to understand that there's people out there like that, and hey, if we find out and we get the goods, they gotta go. If they're doing these sins, these wicked sins, they need to go. And so that's how we remove the bozo, we remove the bozo, number one. But number two, the bozo can remove themselves. You know, and sometimes, I've said this before that a little wolf here sticks up out of their hat or the little tail, you know, hangs out and you're like, oh, they're a wolf. We find something, they say something in their preaching that will like, you know, like that the trees come alive or something like that. I don't know if you preach that, or that he prayed a better prayer than Jesus. I mean, that should be a red flag in your mind right away when someone says something weird like that. Is there something else anybody's got that was good? Yeah, that Jesus' dress was like the glory of a woman's wedding dress. I think that's the one that got him nuked, right? His preaching was nuked after that because that's a, you know, it's a false doctrine. You know, first of all, Jesus didn't wear a dress. He wore pants, didn't he? But you know, you look at your Sunday school flannel graphs and all this stuff and you're gonna see Jesus in a dress. Any picture you see of Jesus, which we're not supposed to make pictures of Jesus, but any picture you see, he's always got long hair, he's always wearing a dress. You know, like he's an imam or something. He didn't wear a dress. Why would he say not to wear long clothing and then he wears long clothing? That doesn't make sense. So number two, the bozo removes himself. Turn to 1 John chapter two, 1 John chapter two. So one, we remove the bozo when we find out that they're doing one of the things that would get them kicked out of church. Number two, the bozo removes themselves. Look at 1 John chapter two, verse 18. It says, little children, it's the last time and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time. So as time goes on, there's more antichrists. How long did this get written? About 2,000 years ago. So there's probably many more now. The Bible talks about there being many false prophets. Now look at what it says in verse 19, it says, they went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us, but they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. Made manifest, being shown that they are not one of us. How did they know that they were these antichrists? Because they were of us and then they went out and then they didn't want to have anything to do with this anymore. Like Manly Perry gets a following and then stabs Pastor Anderson in the back and all of his friends and comes up with this weird and strange doctrines. It's already been preached a lot, so I'm not gonna dwell on that, but good night. Just the fact that he's saying that Jesus didn't go to hell for three days and three nights. Changing his preaching about it, garbage. And then going after us for copyright strikes because he's probably getting destroyed by Pastor Shelley's multiple sermons that he's just wrecked him with. And you know when people type in that old path Baptist church, they're finding all the false doctrine that he's teaching and it's pissing him off. So he wants to go out, he can't fight, he can't preach, he's way out of a wet paper bag, so instead he goes and just copyright strikes all of our stuff because he can't refute it. Because if he could refute it, he'd get out and refute it and say something about it, but he can't do that because he's a false teacher. Period. So, and anyway, so there's people that are gonna be in our churches, we're gonna think they're friends, and then they're gonna write everybody's name in their Bible and then try to go through it and say look at how many people I've gotten saved. What a weird thing to do while you're driving. Look at all, Cameron, look at all these people I got saved, I'm trying to find this one so I can pray for them while I'm driving. Weird. But those types of people they go out from among us, I mean we see the weird things that they do, but here's the thing about Christians, is that we're very forgiving people. And we know that sometimes people need to be made normal, right? Sometimes people come in, they're not exactly normal. None of us were all normal either, right? But like as far as like doing weird things like that, I mean those are things that should catch our eyes, and especially in a church like this, I mean obviously you caught it, but we are forgiving people, you know? We want to give people the benefit of the doubt and think well maybe they just need to be shored up on this, that, or the other thing. But the Bible says that there's many anti-Christ, right? And it says that they go out from us because they're not of us. And that they might be made manifest if they were not all of us. Turn to 3 John 9, 3 John 9. 3 John 9 says, I wrote unto the church, but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Do you think, so Diotrephes is obviously the leader of this church, but what happened? Well, he loves to have the preeminence. Who's supposed to have the preeminence? The Lord Jesus Christ is supposed to have the preeminence, but Diotrephes loveth to have the preeminence among them and receiveth us not. Sounds like he went out from among them because he was not of them. And then when they tried to come back to him, then he doesn't want to receive them. Why? Because he was a wolf. And it sounds just like Manly Perry, again. Diotrephes Perry. You know, his cousin or something, his distant cousin. But why, why do I say that? Well, because that's what he's saying, too. He wouldn't receive one of us into his church. And obviously, I wouldn't want to go. But that's exactly what he said, is he didn't want any new IFB people in his church. He would throw them out. He would cast them out of the church. Well, we're saved. So why would you have a problem having saved people in your church? Saved, tithing, soul winning people. What would be the problem? Well, because that's not who he is. That's not who he is. And you're like, well, look, his soul winning techniques are just weird, okay? His counting people that didn't call upon the name of the Lord, that's weird. Yeah, we had 80 people saved today with souls for roles, or whatever he was doing during the pandemic. Souls, roles for souls. 80 people saved this week, yeah, sure. How many of them called upon the name of the Lord, though? You know, so if someone just says they believe, I can walk up to a door, I can go and count lots of people being saved every day if I just wanted to go out with my little techniques of saying, do you believe in Jesus? Yes, okay, well, that's another one saved. You know, you can do that. Can't you? I know old IFB people that do that. Hey, you know, we're just here inviting you to church. Do you believe in Jesus? Yes, I do. Okay, well, bye, have a good day. How many people say they believe in Jesus but they don't believe the truth? A lot of people. So, but Diatrophes is one of these people that went out from among them but was not of them. He was a first generation, you know, disciple, apparently, or at least a second generation, and got sent out. You know, sometimes bozos get sent out, don't they? Sometimes bozos get put into positions of church leadership and then they turn on the people of God. You know, Pastor Perry, if you wanna call him a pastor, used Pastor Anderson and Pastor Jimenez in order to get a following, and he even admits that on audio. I was just using them so I could start my church. Well, yep, it worked. Now he's got his own cult. So, look at verse 10. Says, wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds, which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words, and not content therewith. So, not only not content to do prating against them with malicious words, but he's not even content to do that. Neither doth he receive the brethren and forbideth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. Doesn't sound like a very good Christian, does it? Doesn't sound like a saved man to me. Look at verse 11. It says, beloved fall, not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. So, at some point, this diatrophies exposed himself as a wolf, exposed himself as a man that went out from them, but he was not really of them. And we're gonna have people that do that same thing too. They're gonna go out from us and they're gonna prove that they're not of us. So, bozos can remove themselves. They just, they'll reveal themselves in situations and then, you know, they'll leave before they can get kicked out and things like that. So, look at Philippians chapter one, verse 28. Philippians chapter one, verse 28. Philippians one, verse 28. Says it, and nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition. An evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation and that of God. So, there's people that are adversaries of us and they try to terrify us and try to do all kinds of manner of evil against us and it says to them it's an evident token of their perdition. It's evident that they are against us and hate us and hate the things of God. And so, a token is a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of a fact. So, the fact that they're doing these things and revealing themselves as wolves and fighting against soul winning, fighting against churches like this church, why did they do that? It's an evident token of their perdition. It's a fact, it's a representation of a fact that they're going against us like this, that they're not of us. And it's hard for us to imagine that every person that turns against us like this is some kind of reprobate, but it doesn't surprise me. I've seen a lot after being in the ministry for five years almost. I mean, I've seen a lot of just treachery and backstabbing people that you thought you were friends and you know, the first time I ever met Bo Ballard, he was really nice. I walked up, he said, hey, I'm Bo Ballard. Shook my hand, right? He was nice, but then the next time I saw him, he was like talking crap to me on a live stream because I was sticking up for Pastor Shelley because of the railing accusations that he was making. So people can seem nice, but you know what? There are people that are just gonna reveal themselves and that's okay, bye. At least we know where they stand afterward, but they'll still try to go down swinging, won't they? They'll still try to go down railing. I mean, I listened to one of his recordings after he got kicked out last night before I went to bed and he's just a pompous jackass is what he is. And he is a railer and Pastor Shelley was really nice to him. Even kicking him out, I thought he was very gracious because I probably would have freaked out, but anyway, Pastor Shelley has good patience. I mean, he's a good man. So turn to First Corinthians chapter six. First Corinthians chapter six. So I was talking to a pastor friend of mine who's being attacked by ruckmanites, his churches. They're being attacked by ruckmanites and they're trying to overthrow them. They took their bank account over and they just today, right after church, they were issued lawsuits against them and the whole church members for defamation of the character of one of the deacons that got fired. And he has mental anguish and he's all sad about it. So he's trying to sue the people at the church for firing him and kicking them out. So First Corinthians chapter six. Let's see what the Bible says about this. Dare any of you having a matter against another go to the law before the unjust and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you? Are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more the things that pertain to this life, if then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge which are least esteemed in the church? Does it say you're supposed to have lawsuits against other believers? No, the Bible says that you're not supposed to take these types of matters to the law. It's wicked. And so these bozos that got kicked out and you know, there's railing accusations against me when it comes to this whole thing. I'm just the guy's friend, you know. I'm not promoting their church. I'm not doing anything like that. But you know what I am doing is I'm gonna stick up for someone that I find as a friend. You know, when I become friends with somebody, I don't like get my new IFB checklist out and just say, hey, you know, do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you believe this? I just, you know, the guy invited me to preach in his church. Big deal. That doesn't mean I endorse every single thing he believes. But it's been, it's turned into a giant controversy apparently. I mean, even to the fact that they were, you know, giving fake restraining orders against him while he was out working at night. Like these two railing women that are kicked out went to him while he was working at his secular job because he gets like partial payment or whatever and served him and pretended they were real served papers. They like drew him up and faked a whole bunch of stuff on it. That's how crazy these ruck one nights are. Just so you know. And apparently I was seen by eye witnesses, eye witnesses, walking to the bank with the pastor to take the money out of the bank to steal it from the church. I mean, anybody that believes that stupid, idiotic stuff, I'm not even gonna name who it is, but it's just so stupid. But what's really going on is there's a faction of ruck one nights in this church that are trying to overthrow the pastor, who they voted in unanimously by the way, as the pastor. And it's funny because we act like everybody gets ordained like the pastors in our movement do. You know, most people, we were talking about it last night at Heartland, when you graduate, you sign this paper, right? And then they ordain you as the pastor at the Bible college. Is that how ordinations are supposed to happen? We act like, you know, all these old IFB churches ordain people the way we would. And so if they voted someone in unanimously at somebody else's church, what do I have to do with that? Do I have some kind of power over somebody else's church? That's insane. So I'm, you know, they're the ones that are actually breaking all, violating all this stuff, railing. You know, when I was there, they couldn't even send men to come and challenge me. They sent women to come and challenge me. If you watched any of those sermons, I don't know if you have or not, but they're the ones I did in Yakima, one of them. These women are yelling at me inside the church, you know, asking me questions while I'm preaching, and I finally just said, you know what, the Bible says women are supposed to keep silence in the church. You know? And then the next time they came, you know, after they served the fake subpoena, the next time they came, they sent women that were already kicked out of the church to come, because you know what, they know that we're not gonna lay hands on them and throw them out like we would the men. Because I was standing at the door waiting for the men to come, and they're too cowardly and scared to come, and apparently, they have to sue church members because they can't handle their name being, they can't handle being called a heretic because they're ruck-a-nites and idiots, so. But they tried to come, the women tried to come in the church, and I kicked them out too. I was like, you're a bozo. They're like, who? I was like, you're bozos, you're not coming in. Who's a bozo? I was like, you, you're the bozo. And I told them to get out. You know, the pastor gave me the right to do that, so I took advantage of it. But they are bozos. How are you gonna sit there and let women just sit there and rail in church against the pastor while the church services are going on? You can't do that. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen, and now they're filing lawsuits against the people, the people that don't even have anything to do with it, just all church members. It's like, you wanna talk about getting reasons to be kicked out? Well, first of all, they stole the church, they're the ones that hijacked the bank account for the church. That's covetous, isn't it? Kicked out. They're the ones that were railing against their pastor, kicked out. They're the ones, the deacons are the ones that tried to fire the pastor. Did the deacons have a right to fire a pastor? No. Bye. They're causing division. Right. And now they're, this guy's filing like a, you know, not a, he already has a restraining order against him. From the pastor, he's putting his hands on the pastor as they're trying to fire him. So I'm just saying all that to say this, people will reveal themselves in due time. But who's on the side of right? I mean, if they're saying they're a believer, they're suing them for calling them heretics. So if they're really saved Christians, then they should know that you don't sue fellow Christians. You don't take them to the law. It's wicked. So number one, we remove the bozo. Number two, the bozos will remove themselves sometimes. And then number three, God removes the bozo. Sometimes God does it. So let's look at 1 Corinthians chapter five, verse four. 1 Corinthians chapter five, verse number four. 1 Corinthians five, verse four. 1 Corinthians five, verse four says, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glory is not good, know ye not, that a little leaven, leaven at the whole lump, purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as your unleaven, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Now we just did the Lord's Supper at our church. I know that you guys did too. And I heard a little bit of Pastor Shelley teaching about this subject. And sometimes pastors don't know what's going on. I know that we're accused of being a cult, but believe it or not, I don't have cameras in all my church members' houses. I don't have speakers telling them when it's time to come to church. I don't know everything about their finances and their lives. I don't know anything like that. So people could be getting away with doing things. But part of the Lord's Supper is we're supposed to examine ourselves and make sure that we're not doing any of these sins that would get us kicked out of church because here's the thing, if someone's sitting in church and they're a fornicator, nobody knows about it except for them. You know, what is God going to do to that person? He's gonna make them sick or kill them. That's what the Bible says, right? So let's look at, let's see. Go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Verse number 27. See, because God is going to remove the leaven that we might not know about. Or maybe that person, you know, that bozo that needs to be kicked out, is just, you know, they're sitting there, they don't want to leave. And sometimes it's, you know, then it's God is gonna take care of business. God's gonna do that and He warns us about things. Now obviously there's Judases that can creep into, but saved people can die just as well as an unsaved person for committing these types of sins and staying in church. God wants us to be a good, a wholesome lump here, doesn't He? So God is the one that knows who's sitting in church committing these sins that shouldn't be in the services. Look at verse 27, it says, Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. So the Bible instructs us to examine ourselves, doesn't it? And then it says, For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation unto himself. Now this isn't talking about you're gonna go to hell, unless you're talking about a false prophet, okay? But damnation can just be your body being destroyed, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. So look, if they won't reveal themselves, if the pastor doesn't know that they need to be out, then God can just get them out another way. And that's why I instruct people when they take the Lord's Supper, hey, make sure you're not committing any of these sins before you partake. It's not in there as a warning for no reason. Many are weak, and so I always try to get sick before we do the Lord's Supper, so it doesn't, you know, I don't want people thinking anything crazy, you know. But I was sick before the Lord's Supper this year, and it kind of led into the next week. I was like, I was already sick before I took it, so don't even think anything, all right? But God is going to get the people out that we can't get out, the ones that won't reveal themselves. You know, and some people will just get stuck in the church, and for whatever reason, God just allows these people to be in amongst us, this mixed multitude that takes place sometimes. So it's always like a, it's always like a, you know, a problem, and God just allows this to take place for some reason where people will stay in our churches and cause problems, and you know, but sometimes it's just the pastor being negligent, and a lot of times that's probably what it really is, because if you know about it, you should do something about it. You can't just let that kind of stuff slide as the pastor. And then, you know, sometimes people just move on, and they're like, well, I can't handle these stringent things against me, you know, I want to be able to fornicate whenever I want, and some Christians actually think that they don't have to follow God's laws anymore, and they're wrong about that. But look what it says in verse 31, for if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, but when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together, eat tarry one for another, and if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. So, and remember, the context of this is people were not taking the Lord's Supper seriously, they were bringing food and acting like it was some kind of a feast, and they weren't discerning the Lord's body. So we have to understand that, but you know, people are gonna get out by hook or crook, you know, God's gonna get people out that need to be out, and that means by any way possible. So sickness or death, and then you think about people like the reprobates, cause not everybody is a reprobate that gets kicked out. Not everybody's a reprobate that leaves. So, and Judas hung himself, didn't he? He took the Lord's Supper and he went out and killed himself. Pretty much right after that, he went and betrayed the Lord Jesus, kissed him at the Garden of Gethsemane, and then went and hung himself. Look at Acts chapter one, verse 16. Acts chapter one, verse 16. Acts 1 16, the Bible says, Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to him that took Jesus, for he was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. So he got a pretty cruel thing happened with him after he even hung himself, then he fell and his guts all gushed out. That's pretty gross, isn't it? But, you know, it was called the field of blood because of that. And that's a warning to anybody that would be a Judas type person that God's gonna deal with them in a very harsh way. So look, these people that get away with, you know, you see, it seems like they're getting away with talking all this crap and starting all this stuff, getting people fired from their jobs, just lying and slandering people, the people of God and godly pastors, you know what, they're not going to get away with it. And even if they live to be 99 years old or whatever, like Billy Balaam, they're still not going to get away with it. God's still going to deal with them. Look at Proverbs chapter four, verse 14. Proverbs chapter four, verse 14. And look, it's hard for us to understand people like this It really is. Because if you're just a saved person, it's hard for you to understand this type of person. But look at what the Bible says. Enter not into the path of the wicked, verse 14, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away, for they sleep not, except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause someone to fall. There's people out there that are like this, and that's hard for a person that's saved to understand how someone could get like that. To where they can't even go to sleep unless they've done some kind of mischief. Their sleep is taken away. They got insomnia. Isn't that what that means? When your sleep is taken away, you just can't sleep? It's called insomnia. Unless they cause some to fall. There's people out there, they're psychopaths. They're psychopath reprobates, right? I think there's a movie about that or something. But anyway, there's people like that, and hey, we don't understand how people like that think. It's hard for us to imagine that, but there are people out there like that. But guess what? God is not gonna let them get away with it forever. They're not gonna get away with it. It's not acceptable to Him. And you know what, honestly, all three of these things, all three of these ways that people get out of our churches that are bozos, I'm acceptable, it's acceptable to me with all of them. Any way that they get out, I'm cool with. If I have to kick them out, if they reveal themselves and leave, or if God just takes them out or kicks them out or gets them out of here, whatever way that happens, I'm happy with the end result of it. Because I don't want these people breathing the same air that I'm breathing in the same room. Now let's look at Matthew chapter 13, verse number 27. Matthew chapter 13, verse number 27. And like I said, God has His purpose for doing the things that He does, and maybe it's just so that trash collector can come and collect some more trash that needs to be taken out, and then they all get out together or something. You know, God has that trash collector system, doesn't He? Look at verse 27. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, sir, didst not thou sow good seeds in thy field, and whence then hath it tares? Talk about weeds. And he saith unto them, an enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, nay, lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them. So sometimes getting these bad people out can cause other people that are good people to get drawn out with them, and we've seen that happen. People leave churches like ours because they don't see it as being fair to what happened to that other person. It's because they don't look at the Bible the way that they're supposed to look at it. That's the problem. They just don't understand that, and so it can cause damage to get some of these people out at the wrong time. And that's why you have to have the goods on people. That's why you can't just say, I know that person's evil. They show me all the red flag signs, but if you kicked that person out and got him out, what would happen? Well, he just kicked him out for no reason. He didn't have any evidence that that person was a railroad. You see, we have to do things the correct way. We have to play by the rules, which sometimes is hard for me to just, you know, it just makes me angry, because you know that they're bad, and you want them out, but you have to play by the rules. They don't. These evil, wicked people will just lie and deceive and pull people out of churches. They have no problems making you lose your job, making you lose your livelihood, throwing you in jail, whatever. You know, if they could get us thrown in jail, they would do it in a heartbeat. But we have to live, we have to abide by the rules, but that's because we're the good guys and they're the bad guys. So look, we gotta understand that it's not a bad thing for people to get kicked out of church sometimes. It's not a bad thing for people to move on, and sometimes you don't know why they did, but maybe God got them out of there just because he knew that they needed to be somewhere else. And again, Cameron's not a bad guy, okay? He's moving because he's trying to do something great for God, right? So I'm not talking about those kind of people, but we have to understand this concept. Look at verse 30 in Matthew chapter 13. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest, I will say unto the reapers, Gather ye together the first, the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn. God knows where everybody's supposed to go. So we need to understand that. And again, I've gotten to the point where I'm glad that certain people are gone. And I just figured God bounced them out because they left because it was God's will or whatever. And so, again, Pastor Jimenez is also right when he says there's some people that are sitting in church that are liabilities, and you know what, I will try to actively get someone out that I think is a bad person. I will try to get the goods on them. I mean, I'm not looking to get goods on everybody. I don't have like a secret list where I'm like, okay, Dylan, he had that red flag. But you know, you make mental notes sometimes. He's got red hair, red flag, no, I'm just kidding. But you know, some people just suck. And they suck at life, they suck at preaching, they suck as church members, they suck as friends, and they're just terrible people. There's nothing wrong with getting those types of people out of our churches, and I'm glad when they leave. So don't be disheartened when some false prophet gets kicked out or some bad person gets kicked out. And you know, as a pastor, I take when families leave personally, you know, and you do that. It's just part of being a pastor. But you know, I always think to myself, well, what could I have done differently? How could I have helped these people? Because there's people that just leave and they're just backslidden, you know? And I'd like to help them. I'd like to have found a way where I could have helped them stay in church. But you know what, again, maybe God had a reason why he didn't want them there anymore. So you know, some people are just, some people are not bozos, but they just need to go. So anyway, and you know, if you're a spiritual person, we can restore people. In Galatians chapter six, it talks about, in verse number one, brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. So again, the bozos can be brought back in as long as they're not bozos anymore, right? So, and we should be spiritual, but don't get yourself tempted in trying to restore that person. So just to recap, bozos leaving is a good thing, not a bad thing. People that are bozos can be restored eventually. And number one, we can get rid of them. Number two, they get rid of themselves. Number three, God gets rid of them for us. But remember, it's not always a bad thing, all right? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for this great church, Steadfast Baptist. Pray once again, Lord, that you would just continue to bless this church. Everybody that's traveling home, I pray you'd keep them safe and give them traveler's mercies, Lord. And just pray that you would, like I said, continue to bless the church here and the leadership. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. Number 183. Oh, how I love Jesus, the last thing for tonight. Amen. There is a name I love to hear. I love to sing it's worth. It sounds like music in my ear. The sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus because he first loved me. It tells me of a savior's love who died to set me free. It tells me of his precious blood, the sinner's perfect plea. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus because he first loved me. It tells me what my father had in store for every day. And though I tread a darksome path, yield sunshine all the way. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus because he first loved me. Because he first loved me. It tells of one whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe. Who in each sorrow bears a part that none can bear below. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus because he first loved me.