WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.960 Amen we're here in chapter seven of our study through second Corinthians and I feel like the 00:05.960 --> 00:12.080 doctrine and what's happening in these passages is is really great content but unfortunately it's 00:12.080 --> 00:16.440 very difficult language and so I think a lot of times things are missed and so my goal through 00:16.440 --> 00:20.460 these chapters is really just to try and and break things down and hopefully we can really 00:20.460 --> 00:25.340 understand what the chapter's saying but it says here in verse number one having therefore these 00:25.340 --> 00:31.480 promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit 00:31.480 --> 00:37.340 perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Now I want to take a few minutes to really unpack this 00:37.340 --> 00:45.560 particular verse in the Bible but it is telling us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the 00:45.560 --> 00:51.320 flesh and spirit which makes sense considering our previous chapter and our previous chapter 00:51.320 --> 00:57.920 it's really emphasizing separation and so separation from the idolatry separation from 00:58.940 --> 01:03.000 unbelievers and it's trying to say hey come out from among them and be separate say at the Lord 01:03.000 --> 01:07.100 and that he wants to be a father unto them and that they're going to be a good ambassador 01:07.540 --> 01:11.440 and there's a lot of language just kind of describing the process of sanctification 01:11.880 --> 01:17.340 in a practical sense practically speaking if you want to be more holy if you want to be 01:17.340 --> 01:23.920 more Christ-like you can't hang out with the world and be really godly you can't just be with 01:23.920 --> 01:29.240 false religion and be really godly you have to separate yourself in some way practically speaking 01:29.240 --> 01:34.120 meaning you're gonna have different friends you're gonna actually go to church you're gonna be around 01:34.120 --> 01:41.220 God's people these are just practical steps to help us in the cleansing of ourself from 01:41.220 --> 01:46.480 the flesh and cleansing ourself from what the Bible says the spirit here notice perfecting 01:46.480 --> 01:54.240 holiness in the fear of God the word holy means to be set apart now the Bible will use different 01:54.240 --> 01:59.060 words to say the same thing it'll just say sometimes this is set apart sometimes it'll 01:59.060 --> 02:07.540 say sanctify sanctify is in a lot of cases the process of setting something apart holiness is kind 02:07.540 --> 02:12.620 of like you've arrived at being set apart so there's the idea hey i want to set this apart 02:12.620 --> 02:19.640 so then i sanctify it by setting it apart trying to set it apart and then once it is set apart it's 02:19.640 --> 02:26.480 holy so you know when we're striving for holiness we're striving to sanctify we're trying to set 02:26.480 --> 02:31.480 separate something we're trying to make it different we're trying to make it unique we're making it 02:31.480 --> 02:38.220 stand out and perfecting again is completing accomplishing this particular goal and notice 02:38.220 --> 02:46.100 what causes you or what should be the motivation for us to set ourselves apart the Bible says the 02:46.100 --> 02:53.120 fear of God so how in the world could you then downplay the fear of God if this is what actually 02:53.120 --> 03:00.460 motivates us to be Christ like you know there's this idea that you're sanctified just fully 03:00.460 --> 03:06.360 in every way the moment you get saved and this is not true act this is not true according to 03:06.360 --> 03:11.840 Bible there is a sanctification that happens in the sense that you've been set apart from the world 03:11.840 --> 03:15.720 as now you're saved you've been sanctified in the sense that now you're a son of God so you've been 03:15.720 --> 03:21.520 set apart in that sense but then there's another practical step of acting like a child of God 03:21.520 --> 03:25.800 that's a progressive sanctification that we should go through in the rest of our lives 03:25.800 --> 03:31.780 so you an identity become a child of God but then you should start acting like a child of God 03:31.780 --> 03:37.060 by separating yourself and allowing God to be a father to you in a practical sense and of course 03:37.060 --> 03:41.940 that's what chapter six is really articulating and notice what causes you to be sanctified is the 03:41.940 --> 03:47.660 fear of God whereas I've heard preachers get up and say well actually we're automatically 03:47.660 --> 03:52.940 sanctified and the fear of God is a wrong spirit it's demonic it's satanic you know and again 03:52.940 --> 03:56.820 that's the exact opposite of what the Bible is saying the Bible is actually saying the fear 03:56.820 --> 04:01.880 of God is what caused you to be sanctified and isn't it funny that the same guy who teaches your 04:01.880 --> 04:07.780 automatically sanctified is becoming less set apart through his actions and let's be specific 04:07.780 --> 04:11.760 we're talking about Joe Jones okay Joe Jones a guy that used to be a fundamental Baptist 04:12.500 --> 04:17.500 and used to have a lot of high standards that come with typical fundamental Baptist 04:17.500 --> 04:23.200 you know beliefs he just it just changed his church is no longer fundamental Baptist church 04:23.200 --> 04:27.540 it's like heritage of grace community I don't know what it is it's just a bunch of words 04:27.540 --> 04:32.180 thrown together it's a word salad but the guy is now you know now we don't need to wear shirts 04:32.180 --> 04:36.920 and ties at church anymore and now it's just a house church and now you know it doesn't matter if 04:36.920 --> 04:41.880 men dress like men women dress like women it's just you know just all these different beliefs 04:41.880 --> 04:45.880 and all these different standards that a lot of fundamental Baptist have it's just like 04:45.880 --> 04:49.980 no we don't need that we're not going to do that anymore and so in fact they're not separating 04:49.980 --> 04:55.100 themselves anymore they're actually becoming more like the world and then he also simultaneously 04:55.100 --> 04:59.180 teaches that we don't need to fear God that it would be wrong to fear God that Christian shouldn't 04:59.180 --> 05:04.260 fear the Lord this is a bad attitude that God won't punish Christians you know we'll sometimes 05:04.260 --> 05:08.440 suffer the consequences of sin because they have natural consequences but it's not that God would 05:08.440 --> 05:13.580 actually really be actively punishing his children or or doing anything like this to them 05:13.580 --> 05:17.900 whereas the bible teaches the exact opposite the bible says that for whom I love I 05:17.900 --> 05:23.700 chasen he's like hey those who I love I rebuke and chasen you know be zels therefore and repent you 05:23.700 --> 05:27.520 know he's telling like hey if you be without chastisement then are you a bastard and not a son 05:27.520 --> 05:35.100 as Hebrews clearly articulates so again these ideas are really ingrained and everywhere in the text 05:35.100 --> 05:40.100 that hey sanctification is a process after salvation and it's something that we 05:40.100 --> 05:45.220 accomplish through the fear of God now what are we fearing exactly we're not fearing hell 05:45.880 --> 05:49.980 hell has been taken off the table if you believed in the Lord Jesus Christ you are saved 05:49.980 --> 05:55.980 you can never go to hell that's very clear in the bible and once you're saved you're always saved 05:55.980 --> 06:01.400 you have eternal life you're a child of God you're now as an identity of child of God you can 06:01.400 --> 06:05.700 never change that nothing will separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our 06:05.700 --> 06:12.060 Lord but that doesn't mean that you're absolved of all consequence and what I I try to articulate 06:12.060 --> 06:15.900 sometimes when I'm preaching the gospel or you know if I'm going out I'm knocking on someone's 06:15.900 --> 06:21.840 door and I'm talking to them about the gospel is I'll say well look if you get saved your eternal 06:21.840 --> 06:29.040 consequence has been satisfied but your temporary consequence in no way has been satisfied meaning 06:29.040 --> 06:33.100 that if you do something against God you've sinned against God there can still be consequences 06:33.100 --> 06:37.540 in this life for that sin and getting saved isn't going to stop you from receiving that 06:37.540 --> 06:42.380 if anything it causes you to have a higher likelihood of being punished and receiving 06:42.380 --> 06:47.400 consequence in this life but your eternal consequence has been satisfied because think about it that's 06:47.400 --> 06:52.480 what Jesus really did Jesus really died and he really went to hell and he really bore our sins 06:52.480 --> 06:57.580 and he really rose again from the dead so he took care of and satisfied our eternal consequence 06:57.580 --> 07:03.660 for sin but he did not say well now if you lie steal cheat commit murder there'll be no 07:03.660 --> 07:08.660 earthly consequence and God would never punish you it's exact opposite and in the same way that 07:08.660 --> 07:12.780 a father loves his children you know a father or mother that loves their children they will still 07:12.780 --> 07:16.740 punish them and the reason why they even punish them in the first place is because they love them 07:16.740 --> 07:21.140 according to the bible the bible says he that spared this his rod hated the son it doesn't 07:21.140 --> 07:25.240 say he loves them it says he hates them because the reason why you punish your children 07:25.240 --> 07:28.500 is because you love them you want them to be well behaved and you don't want them to 07:28.500 --> 07:34.660 suffer the consequences of bad actions of bad behaviors of destructive lifestyles and so you're 07:34.660 --> 07:39.500 trying to warn them and teach them to be good and to have good manners and to have a good lifestyle 07:39.500 --> 07:45.080 and a good you know conscience and a good attitude and these things are important to help them be 07:45.080 --> 07:50.500 successful in life and so someone that doesn't want to punish actually has the bad spirit 07:51.440 --> 07:56.080 now this is important I think and just for me when I read verse number one I get a little 07:56.080 --> 08:01.740 confused when I see this you know it says from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit because a lot 08:01.740 --> 08:07.620 of times in the bible the word spirit typically is referring to things of god or is talking about 08:07.620 --> 08:12.340 like the holy spirit and so it's it's like how do you have the filthiness of the spirit 08:12.340 --> 08:16.020 but the bible actually does bring this up a couple different places and I want to 08:16.020 --> 08:20.340 go through some verses with you to look at this but go to first Corinthians chapter two 08:20.940 --> 08:25.440 and let's kind of get an idea of what we're talking about because the bible is saying 08:25.440 --> 08:33.360 that we can have a filthiness in our spirit okay now what I I believe and I didn't even look this up 08:33.360 --> 08:38.940 you can look it up yourself but what I believe the bible means by spirit is a couple different 08:38.940 --> 08:44.120 things here's some synonymous words that I would use to describe spirit would be attitude 08:45.820 --> 08:52.260 mentality desire or affection and I think that you know we we even understand that 08:52.820 --> 08:58.320 even though you're saved you can still have a bad attitude you still have a bad mentality 08:58.320 --> 09:03.400 you can still have bad desires you can still have bad affections and the bible talks about 09:03.400 --> 09:09.320 the spirit of man as being distinct from the spirit of god now I'll show you this look at 09:09.320 --> 09:16.300 first Corinthians two verse number 11 for what man know what the things of a man save the spirit 09:16.300 --> 09:22.920 of man which is in him even so the things of god knoweth no man but the spirit of god so notice 09:22.920 --> 09:29.680 the bible's contrasting the spirit of man from the spirit of god so we have a spirit that's within 09:29.680 --> 09:35.120 us and it says here in verse number 12 now we have received not the spirit of the world 09:35.120 --> 09:40.860 but the spirit which is of god that we might know the things that are freely given to us 09:40.860 --> 09:44.040 of god so again the bible is talking about the spirit of man versus the spirit of god 09:44.040 --> 09:50.300 so I was talking about the spirit of the world versus the spirit of god so even though you're saved 09:50.920 --> 09:57.420 you still are going to have the spirit of man period and then number two you can have bad spirits 09:57.420 --> 10:03.940 affecting you in this world which the bible is describing a spirit of the world what is that 10:03.940 --> 10:10.900 like a mindset of the world an affection of the world an attitude of the world being a 10:10.900 --> 10:17.020 worldly Christian this would be someone having a bad spirit okay and so we have to understand 10:17.020 --> 10:22.220 that even though you're saved we want to also try to get away from those type of spirits and 10:22.220 --> 10:26.820 those type of attitudes and those type of mentalities that the bible is warning against let's 10:26.820 --> 10:29.980 let's go to a few other verses and we'll see some of this look at if you would 10:29.980 --> 10:36.240 Ephesians chapter four Ephesians chapter number four and how the bible talks about 10:36.240 --> 10:42.120 it's important for us to clean up our spirit now what is the spirit of man well 10:43.260 --> 10:48.620 you know I think in other passages when we contrast these ideas there's the idea of 10:48.620 --> 10:53.800 like the spirit of like an animal versus the spirit of like a man and in the sense that 10:53.800 --> 10:58.980 you know an animal doesn't fully understand what it's like to be a human and a human doesn't 10:58.980 --> 11:04.960 necessarily have the same attitudes as an animal so you know who understands what it's like to 11:04.960 --> 11:11.080 be a man that would be a man right mankind understands what the human experiences and animals 11:11.080 --> 11:17.080 have a different experience and of course Jesus Christ the bible even says that he took he was 11:17.080 --> 11:23.300 a partaker of our nature so that he would know what it was like to be like us and to have that 11:23.300 --> 11:29.240 kind of experience okay and so but here's the thing being a man and all that is to be 11:29.240 --> 11:31.880 mankind and all the attitudes and all the mentalities and all the things that 11:31.880 --> 11:37.520 all the experiences that we have are not the spirit of God and so you can't understand the bible on 11:37.520 --> 11:42.920 your own you still need the spirit of God to enlighten you and to teach us the word of God 11:42.920 --> 11:47.020 and so that's why the carnal mind doesn't understand the things of God that's why false 11:47.020 --> 11:54.280 religion can't understand the bible fully now they can understand the the the carnal aspects 11:54.280 --> 11:59.700 of the bible okay a carnal person can understand the carnal truths found in the bible you know 11:59.700 --> 12:04.160 the bible says hey honor your father and mother it doesn't take a spiritual person to understand 12:04.160 --> 12:08.360 that you should obey your mom and dad okay it doesn't take a spiritual person to understand 12:08.360 --> 12:14.200 that the death penalty is what God requires for murder and that that's the right attitude okay 12:14.200 --> 12:18.880 it doesn't take it doesn't take the spirit of God to know that children should obey their 12:18.880 --> 12:22.080 parents and love their parents and the fathers should love their children and children should 12:22.080 --> 12:26.860 love their fathers and but these are this is what the bible describes natural and a natural 12:26.860 --> 12:31.700 thing would be what's in the spirit of man in the spirit of man is the attitude to love mom and dad 12:31.700 --> 12:36.540 and for mom and dad to love their children and for you to obey and all these different things these 12:36.540 --> 12:41.260 are just carnal truths that can be understood whether you're a Baptist a Christian saved not 12:41.260 --> 12:46.280 saved lived on an island live in a community it doesn't matter it's just normal now the bible 12:46.280 --> 12:53.220 warns in the end times there will be some people that are given over to a a like unnatural 12:53.220 --> 12:57.280 state of mind and it warrants that there will be people that will be lovers of their own selves and 12:57.280 --> 13:02.100 there'll be people without natural affection again this is an exception this is not the norm 13:02.100 --> 13:08.320 because just virtually everyone just loves you know these these things that are what we call 13:08.320 --> 13:13.760 natural men love women that's natural you know it'd be weird if a man doesn't love a woman 13:13.760 --> 13:19.800 he loves men that's unnatural and it's just as unnatural and disgusting as gross as that is 13:19.800 --> 13:25.060 would be for a woman who doesn't love her own children or would hurt or harm her own children 13:25.060 --> 13:32.380 that's an unnatural that's without affection okay and you know I understand that obviously having 13:32.380 --> 13:37.240 children can be difficult and I understand having relationships can be difficult but there's just 13:37.240 --> 13:42.420 a natural love that we have for these things there's a natural tendency for these things 13:42.420 --> 13:48.500 and that is not of God so if you see someone that loves their children deeply we can't be 13:48.500 --> 13:54.940 conclude this person's saved this person's of God you know I heard Matt Walsh get up and he teaches 13:54.940 --> 14:01.160 like a really weird universalist doctrine not even like a very traditional catholic doctrine even though 14:01.160 --> 14:05.020 our catholic doctrine even though he's a catholic he's kind of basically teaching universalism and 14:05.020 --> 14:10.940 he was basically just saying if anybody just loves anything then I think God can work with that 14:10.940 --> 14:15.060 and I think that they're gonna ultimately find their way to heaven you know and it's just 14:15.060 --> 14:22.340 like look it's not thou shalt love anything and go to heaven it's hey believe on the Lord Jesus 14:22.340 --> 14:28.960 Christ and thou shalt be saved okay and the you know to love anything is just to be normal 14:29.760 --> 14:37.760 okay that's the default to not love anything is extremely weird reprobate unnatural you know 14:37.760 --> 14:42.820 not the normal human experience at all okay and even reprobates in many cases still love 14:42.820 --> 14:47.760 something they might love disgusting things they love something okay and even reprobates could 14:47.760 --> 14:52.080 still love their own selves or love their own you know family members that like them back or 14:52.080 --> 14:56.720 something it's not a godly attitude to love those that love you okay so those are the normal 14:56.720 --> 15:03.160 natural things okay but along with our normal natural instincts sometimes we still have 15:03.160 --> 15:09.060 desires that are wrong you know it's normal for a man to love a woman but you know what it's 15:09.060 --> 15:13.920 wrong to commit fornication it's not that it's unnatural it is natural and in the spirit of man 15:13.920 --> 15:18.280 you know he may have that desire to commit fornication but you know what that's not the spirit of God 15:18.280 --> 15:23.060 that's the spirit of the world it's the wrong attitude and so if you get saved as a young 15:23.060 --> 15:28.020 person if you get saved as a teenager you need to reject that spirit that you have the 15:28.020 --> 15:32.940 commit fornication that attitude that desire that affection and you need to clean it up 15:32.940 --> 15:38.320 and have a godly affection and say hey I am going to you know wait until I get married 15:39.640 --> 15:45.500 it's not that it's not that it's like gross or weird or something it's normal it's natural it's 15:45.500 --> 15:50.640 the spirit of man for that you to have desire one toward another but what is the spirit of the 15:50.640 --> 15:56.060 world saying hey if you like them it's okay but the god's word is saying no you need to wait 15:56.060 --> 15:59.680 no god word is saying hey you need to have this attitude you have to have this affection 15:59.680 --> 16:05.960 Ephesians chapter 4 look at verse 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind 16:05.960 --> 16:11.620 and that you put on the new man which after god is created in righteousness and true 16:12.200 --> 16:16.820 holiness so notice according to the bible we need to be renewed in the spirit of our minds 16:17.480 --> 16:21.660 meaning we have to get the right attitudes the right mentalities the right desires 16:22.280 --> 16:26.440 have to be constantly refreshed in us and we're constantly cleaning ourselves up with this 16:26.440 --> 16:29.720 that's why hanging out with the right people is going to help you have the right spirit 16:30.300 --> 16:34.740 if you're hanging out with the wrong crowd well they may entice you 16:34.740 --> 16:39.800 to do the things of the world it's not that they're not natural they are natural they're natural to the 16:39.800 --> 16:44.600 carnal mind they're natural to the world they're natural to what they want to do but you know what 16:44.600 --> 16:48.680 you have to get around the right people they're going to help you to have the right attitude 16:48.680 --> 16:53.480 and that's perfecting us and true holiness and and going to church and again even in church you 16:53.480 --> 16:57.900 can have bad people wanting bad affections i'm just saying in general hey you want to be around 16:57.900 --> 17:02.760 people that want to serve god you want to read the bible you want to actually serve god 17:02.760 --> 17:06.440 and we need to constantly renew ourselves why are you on a Wednesday night hearing the word of 17:06.440 --> 17:11.120 god being preached hopefully it's to renew some of your spirits renew some of your attitudes 17:11.120 --> 17:16.040 some of your desires and be recalibrated to say hey this is the right mentality this is the 17:16.040 --> 17:21.580 right attitude that i should be having here oh go to 2nd timothy chapter one 2nd timothy chapter 17:21.580 --> 17:28.700 one and i'm just kind of going to i'm just picking out a few verses on this but i think 17:28.700 --> 17:33.940 this is an important point i'm spending a lot on verse one but i think i struggle a little bit 17:33.940 --> 17:38.000 was just how that's that word spirit is being interpreted here and i think this is important 17:38.000 --> 17:46.040 to understand 2nd timothy chapter one look at verse number seven the bible says desiring 17:47.020 --> 17:52.180 i'm sorry i'm in the first 2nd timothy chapter one verse seven for god have not given us the 17:52.180 --> 17:57.620 spirit of fear but of power and of love and of sound mind so again notice this is a bad spirit 17:57.620 --> 18:03.680 being afraid so you're afraid of what the world will say about you you're afraid of what the 18:03.680 --> 18:09.200 world will do to you for serving christ or being godly and god's not giving us that spirit so 18:09.200 --> 18:13.460 that's a spirit that we need to clean ourselves up of and not being afraid of man not being 18:13.460 --> 18:18.820 afraid of this world look at james chapter four just flip to the right a little bit more james 18:18.820 --> 18:26.980 chapter four so i'm just trying to give you there's there's so much more that could be 18:26.980 --> 18:31.620 best to let the the bible tell us some of the spirits that it's bringing up so you don't want 18:31.620 --> 18:36.980 the spirit of fear that's a bad spirit that we need to clean ourselves up from here's another one 18:36.980 --> 18:41.780 the bible brings up in james chapter four verse five that was hitting on do you think that the 18:41.780 --> 18:49.280 scripture says in vain the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy so notice again like the 18:49.280 --> 18:55.520 bible is saying hey we sometimes have this spirit in us of envy and it's causing us to lust 18:55.520 --> 19:00.800 after or desire things that we shouldn't desire and of course again this is something that we need to 19:00.800 --> 19:06.540 clean up we need not be envious we need to not desire that which we shouldn't have go over to 19:06.540 --> 19:13.460 first peter chapter three verse number four and then on a positive side so it's kind of like saying 19:13.460 --> 19:17.880 don't have this attitude here's an attitude the bible is telling us to have first first 19:17.880 --> 19:22.440 peter chapter three verse four but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which 19:22.440 --> 19:28.260 is not corrupt even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of god of 19:28.260 --> 19:35.940 great price so selling women a good spirit is one that's meek and quiet of course there's 19:35.940 --> 19:42.960 a tendency for you know in our culture especially in our society especially for women to give 19:42.960 --> 19:49.320 it over to feminism and and to really try to assert themselves to be manly and to be loud 19:49.320 --> 19:56.080 and outspoken and hear me roar and and all these women getting up and saying men need to just shut 19:56.080 --> 20:01.560 up and it's like what is the bible saying the bible is saying that a godly woman is one that's 20:01.560 --> 20:08.840 a meek and quiet spirit you know i can't i can't even imagine my wife getting on a video 20:09.550 --> 20:15.080 to the world and telling men that they need to shut up like can you imagine that 20:15.620 --> 20:21.800 like i would just i would i couldn't believe it you know but there are there are pastors wise 20:21.800 --> 20:27.500 getting on the internet just telling men they need to shut up and you know it just it just wild 20:28.160 --> 20:32.500 and of course feminism never even makes sense anyways because you know what what is it they 20:32.500 --> 20:36.860 usually are saying men need to shut up about well i would say number one is probably abortion 20:36.860 --> 20:41.720 you know you see a lot of women getting up and saying you can't talk about a woman's body 20:42.280 --> 20:47.920 you know this is my body my choice is a big mantra and they're saying you're not allowed to talk about 20:47.920 --> 20:53.460 it and men shouldn't talk on this issue they don't know what it's like but but this is what's funny 20:53.460 --> 21:00.060 to me in their logic men are not allowed to bring up abortion or talk about abortion whereas most 21:00.060 --> 21:07.580 abortion doctors are men so you can have a man abort the child you can go to an office where 21:07.580 --> 21:12.020 a man will explain to you what abortion is well probably not probably not if he did you probably 21:12.020 --> 21:17.020 wouldn't do it but he'll at least tell you just some general instructions of what the procedure 21:17.020 --> 21:22.960 will be like and then he'll go in and he'll he'll perform the abortion and he'll get paid for the 21:22.960 --> 21:28.240 abortion but god forbid a man would say hey you shouldn't have a more abortion but it's like 21:28.240 --> 21:33.000 those men need to shut up but the men that will actually perform the abortions they can 21:33.000 --> 21:37.460 talk about it apparently it's like no how about just men can talk about whatever they want 21:39.360 --> 21:46.560 now again i get like there is general wisdom and not necessarily being really dogmatic about 21:46.560 --> 21:50.300 things you've never experienced you know if you've never been in the military and you're just 21:50.300 --> 21:53.920 trying to explain exactly what it's like to be in the military you know maybe you're not always 21:53.920 --> 21:58.640 going to give the right advice you know hey if you're a single guy and you've never had kids 21:58.640 --> 22:03.540 you may not be the best person for everyone to go to and explain how to have and raise children 22:03.540 --> 22:09.860 but you know what if a single guy gets up and just says what the bible says about being a good parent 22:09.860 --> 22:15.120 you know if there's nothing wrong with that you know there's nothing wrong with someone 22:15.120 --> 22:20.140 getting up and explaining what the bible says or here's another thing there's nothing wrong 22:20.140 --> 22:24.480 with a single person someone that's never been married saying hey when i'm a parent this 22:24.480 --> 22:28.700 is what i want to do with my kids or this is what i believe or hey i think this is bad parenting 22:29.120 --> 22:33.400 because you know hopefully they are forming good opinions before they even have kids that they 22:33.400 --> 22:37.540 could recognize like hey that doesn't look like a good form of parenting over here or hey this 22:37.540 --> 22:41.380 doesn't look like a good idea over here and getting mad about those things it's okay for 22:41.380 --> 22:46.020 them to have those opinions i'm not going to sit here and say single guys can't have opinions 22:46.020 --> 22:50.660 because they're a single guy but you know what i'm not going to ask them for dating advice 22:50.660 --> 22:55.300 because i personally you know don't think they're the best advice giver on that here right i'm not 22:55.300 --> 23:00.200 going to go to a divorced person and say hey give me marriage advice i'm struggling in my marriage 23:00.200 --> 23:05.180 i'm just i'm not going to do it but wait i'm not saying that they can't give their opinion 23:05.780 --> 23:10.600 because maybe they'll say hey don't do it maybe they give good advice but you know what it's 23:10.600 --> 23:15.540 silly when we have women in this world getting up and saying that men cannot speak on quote 23:15.540 --> 23:22.260 women's issues or a woman's situation you know oh well you've never experienced it you know there's 23:22.260 --> 23:27.240 women getting up saying you can't talk about postpartum depression because of this lindsay 23:27.240 --> 23:34.700 klancy trial or case or something but according to the cdc only one and eight women experience 23:36.060 --> 23:40.360 postpartum depression clinically diagnosed with that particular diagnosis after a birth 23:40.360 --> 23:44.740 so does that mean seven out of eight women can't talk about it because they've never had it 23:46.260 --> 23:51.600 i mean how what's the logic and again according to the the case she didn't even have that she had 23:51.600 --> 23:58.600 postpartum psychosis which is a different even more different diagnosis than pbd so can only 23:58.600 --> 24:03.500 those people talk about it it's like oh well you can't talk about murder because you've never 24:03.500 --> 24:09.580 murdered anybody you know what you can't pastor shelly you can't talk about you know 24:09.580 --> 24:13.200 other groups of people because you're white so you can only talk about white man 24:13.200 --> 24:16.640 but here's the thing if i get up and only talk about white people and white issues then 24:16.640 --> 24:21.880 i'll be considered a bad person too right i mean what have i said i'm only going to talk about 24:21.880 --> 24:27.720 white white issues and white people and white things like everybody's like oh you're racist 24:27.720 --> 24:32.060 or something it's like hey you know shouldn't we just be able to talk about anything we want 24:33.140 --> 24:38.280 you know it's like hey you talk about issues with other groups of people you're bad you 24:38.280 --> 24:41.640 talk about things are going with women you're bad how about we just get to say whatever we 24:41.640 --> 24:45.360 want we say what the bible says that's right isn't that the isn't that the first amendment 24:45.360 --> 24:50.080 anyways you know i like the first amendment now you're not obligated to listen to anybody's opinion 24:50.700 --> 24:56.700 you know i you can do whatever you want but at the end of the day it's silly to have women getting 24:56.700 --> 25:01.960 up and just saying like hey men can't have an opinion men shouldn't be talking when the 25:01.960 --> 25:07.620 bible is saying that women are the ones that are supposed to be meek and quiet i mean think 25:07.620 --> 25:12.800 about the logic god is saying women be quiet and then you have a woman getting up saying men 25:12.800 --> 25:18.900 should be quiet i wonder which spirit that is well i'll tell you this it's not the spirit of god 25:18.900 --> 25:24.060 it's not the spirit of meekness it's not the spirit of quietness it's a filthy spirit that needs 25:24.060 --> 25:29.500 to be cleaned up by the word of god oh how dare you say that well i'm gonna say whatever i want 25:29.500 --> 25:35.280 so buck was that about this church go if you would to uh go back to second gurney chapter 25:35.280 --> 25:39.820 seven look i'm not saying that women aren't smart i'm not saying that women don't have good 25:39.820 --> 25:44.120 opinions i'm not saying that women can't have experiences that you learn from look i talk to 25:44.120 --> 25:49.040 my wife all the time and she teaches me things all the time and you know even about these issues 25:49.040 --> 25:55.060 these these postpartum issues because i've had we've had eight pregnancies seven children 25:55.060 --> 26:04.760 i've been there i've seen it you don't think i can't speak from experience you think you 26:04.760 --> 26:09.840 plus years of going through that you think i was like oh pastor shelly doesn't know anything about this 26:10.300 --> 26:15.260 like was i just not paying attention for the last 12 plus years i think i could 26:15.780 --> 26:19.600 intelligently speak about it especially from a man's perspective from a male perspective 26:19.600 --> 26:24.400 and again if the whole goal is to educate men on this issue wouldn't you want a man that's gone 26:24.400 --> 26:29.320 through that to explain to other men what's going on or or now we're supposed to have 26:29.320 --> 26:32.920 hey let's have my wife have a class for all the men to explain to them 26:33.740 --> 26:40.000 what postpartum is like you know that doesn't even make sense it's silly it's just not what the bible 26:40.000 --> 26:45.600 says it's not real okay what is the right attitude for women being meek and quiet 26:46.300 --> 26:49.300 what's the right attitude for women being submissive of their husband what's the right 26:49.300 --> 26:54.040 attitude for women asking their husband for help asking their husband for guidance and look 26:54.040 --> 26:58.780 we're not trying to shut down conversation we're trying to have conversation in the right places 26:59.320 --> 27:04.460 it's like hey you want to talk about this talk to your husband about it don't go blabbing your 27:04.460 --> 27:08.340 mouth a bunch of other women and and saying it online and just trying to exert your opinion 27:08.340 --> 27:12.180 you know what did it accomplish for a woman to get up and scream at a bunch of men to shut up 27:13.380 --> 27:16.840 oh you're trying to shut down conversation well that conversation sure 27:17.440 --> 27:20.320 but you know what why don't you take all the effort energy and talk to your husband about it 27:20.320 --> 27:23.900 you know and talk to somebody that wants to listen or wants to hear about it okay 27:24.240 --> 27:27.400 you know and at the end of the day we need to make sure that we're cleaning ourselves up 27:27.400 --> 27:33.600 with the right attitude oh well you know that that's just your opinion no it's what the bible says 27:33.600 --> 27:37.380 and why would a woman do this why would a woman decide you know what i'm not going to blow my 27:37.380 --> 27:42.560 mouth off i'm not going to you know tell men to shut up it's because they have a fear of god 27:43.940 --> 27:48.940 they're perfecting holiness in the fear of god and they say you know what this attitude is the 27:48.940 --> 27:53.280 wrong attitude is the wrong opinion and so i want to fear god and i want to have the right 27:53.280 --> 27:59.680 kind of attitude and i want to you know be meek i want to be quiet what is meek it's humble right 28:00.160 --> 28:04.440 what is the opposite of this thinking that you're well not everybody's built like me 28:05.320 --> 28:09.140 emotionally and physically not everybody can handle what i can handle not everybody's as smart 28:09.140 --> 28:14.160 as i am not everybody knows everything i know that's the opposite of meek meek is thinking 28:14.620 --> 28:19.120 lowly of yourself you know what would be a meek attitude a woman saying i need a man or i need 28:19.120 --> 28:24.920 a husband or i want his opinion instead of saying what my husband doesn't know anything about this 28:25.520 --> 28:29.680 my husband couldn't help me in any issue you know this is what i get accused of saying like 28:29.680 --> 28:34.380 women should ask their husbands at home like well what is what does my husband know about which 28:34.380 --> 28:42.300 you know detergent to use in the washing machine and i'm like first of all maybe he does i mean 28:42.300 --> 28:47.840 like let's let's see let's go to the company that makes the detergent and see if men are in charge 28:49.540 --> 28:55.240 that maybe even created the detergent it's like what do you know about fixing the washing machine 28:55.240 --> 29:00.180 you know it's like the washington breaks you have to have your husband come in and fix the 29:00.180 --> 29:04.000 washing machine and then you're going to claim what a man know about you know washing machines 29:04.000 --> 29:09.400 it's like he can fix it okay and maybe he can't but they don't get some other dude in there to 29:09.400 --> 29:14.940 fix it you know i like tag team or whatever when's the last time your washington broke down 29:14.940 --> 29:21.860 you had a bunch of chicks come in and fix it you know and it's just silly look i'm not saying 29:21.860 --> 29:29.100 that women can't be intelligent but it's silly to then just act like guys are buffoons and can't 29:29.100 --> 29:33.300 figure out anything they couldn't know about cleaning or they couldn't know it's like okay 29:33.300 --> 29:36.820 let's go find a professional cleaning company and let's see who's running it 29:38.340 --> 29:41.520 let's i mean again it's just it's just crazy their logic 29:42.160 --> 29:47.500 but again why it's not the right kind of logic it's just an attitude it's a bad attitude okay 29:47.500 --> 29:52.620 what would be a meek attitude hey i think that men are actually can be smart and men are actually 29:52.620 --> 29:56.740 intelligent and we need men and you know what i'm kind of impressed with the infrastructure of 29:56.740 --> 30:01.480 america you know i'm actually kind of impressed with all the technologies and the advancements 30:01.480 --> 30:04.940 and hey you know here's an attitude how about the fact that ai is just kind of amazing 30:04.940 --> 30:10.660 yeah who made that you know and in which you know it's cool about ai it can literally answer anything 30:12.060 --> 30:17.880 where do you think we got all those answers from it's like you ask ai anything it can basically 30:17.880 --> 30:22.240 tell you everything i guess it was just a bunch of women getting together explaining to ai how 30:22.240 --> 30:29.980 everything works right you know this attitude is a bad attitude we need to recognize hey 30:29.980 --> 30:35.880 we need to be meek we need to be humble we need to ask other people things oh why go to church and 30:35.880 --> 30:41.960 here's some guy tell you you know what the bible says well that's a meek attitude right and even if 30:41.960 --> 30:46.220 you're smarter than pastor just saying i need church anyways maybe even if i'm smarter than him 30:46.220 --> 30:50.440 he can give me a better attitude you know or we can remind me of something you know the guy 30:50.440 --> 30:56.880 that doesn't need church well he's he's so separated he's usually mega ultra super separated or 30:56.880 --> 31:01.720 whatever but then he ends up not being separated when you really look at his lifestyle he goes to 31:01.720 --> 31:08.080 holy grace community whatever you know heritage something but again you know think about this 31:08.080 --> 31:12.660 holiness you know we're perfecting holiness in the fear of god what's another way to look at this 31:12.660 --> 31:17.120 how about marriage and i'm spending a lot of time on this but this is important think about marriage 31:17.120 --> 31:26.100 what is it typically called holy matrimony what what is that mean okay well matrimony is the 31:26.100 --> 31:33.000 union of one man one woman together in a marriage what would make it holy what what is holy matrimony 31:33.520 --> 31:39.120 when you're getting married you know what you're saying you're saying i only want to have a 31:39.120 --> 31:45.800 relationship with you in this way like i'm setting you apart you apart from all other women 31:45.800 --> 31:52.660 you know as a husband you're saying this is my wife and i'm setting her apart from all other 31:52.660 --> 32:00.540 women this is my wife and i'm gonna exclusively be with her and i'm gonna have and hold her and i'm 32:00.540 --> 32:06.500 gonna love her for better or for worse not anyone else that's what makes it holy that's what makes it 32:06.500 --> 32:11.820 you know set apart that's the sanctifying process here and so when it comes to god 32:12.350 --> 32:18.560 what what are we doing we're setting god apart and we're saying hey this is this is my god 32:18.560 --> 32:25.560 and i'm gonna i'm gonna serve him and i only want to worship him and i only want to be with him 32:25.560 --> 32:31.360 and again this is major in the context of chapter six this chapter six is like idolatry you know 32:31.360 --> 32:34.880 we don't want to go to the houses of idolatry and we don't want to go to the house of false 32:34.880 --> 32:39.320 religion and we don't want to be participating in this ecumenicalism you know we need to 32:39.320 --> 32:44.860 separate ourselves and make god holy right in the sense that this is our only god you know 32:44.860 --> 32:50.900 we need to make america holy by saying hey only the god of the bible is going to be worshiped 32:51.320 --> 32:57.540 we need to get rid of the hinduism we need to get rid of the idolatry of the roman catholic church 32:58.000 --> 33:05.180 we need to get rid of islam and we need to be a holy land and say hey this is only for the 33:05.180 --> 33:10.080 this nation is going to be separated under the god of the bible that's what makes it holy 33:10.080 --> 33:16.800 hey you're you're standing on holy ground this is only for god right this is a place only for god to 33:16.800 --> 33:23.100 be you know this is what the idea of holiness is being separated okay and we're we want to separate 33:23.100 --> 33:30.560 ourselves unto the god of the bible perfecting holiness in the fear of god unfortunately our 33:30.560 --> 33:36.740 nation doesn't fear god because if you feared god you wouldn't want these other religions in 33:36.740 --> 33:42.660 there because we want to anger god we want to make god upset we want to disappoint god you know if you 33:42.660 --> 33:48.120 love your wife you're going to only be with your wife if you're being with other women you're showing 33:48.120 --> 33:53.260 a lack of love you're showing a lack of holiness for your wife and so we want to perfect holiness 33:53.260 --> 33:58.320 by thinking about our wives and being with our wives and separating ourselves under our wives and 33:58.320 --> 34:03.680 doing good under our wives you know this is what it means to be holy in the same way that our 34:03.680 --> 34:09.060 nation needs to be holy unto the god of the bible and of course in verse one it says having 34:09.060 --> 34:15.520 therefore these promises what are the promises well the promises are rewards you know when you 34:16.180 --> 34:19.760 sanctify so when you separate yourself under the god of the bible and you serve the god of the 34:19.760 --> 34:24.760 bible well in chapters five and six it's bringing up the idea that there's going to be 34:24.760 --> 34:30.620 rewards for those who actually serve god in their life and so why why would i separate myself 34:30.620 --> 34:38.240 why sanctify myself why become holy for the reward okay why why be exclusive in marriage 34:39.200 --> 34:47.020 there's a reward to that there's a reward to having one person that you both are in holy matrimony 34:47.020 --> 34:52.160 together there's a special bond there it's different than than people there's out committing 34:52.160 --> 34:56.840 fornication and doing whatever they don't have the same rewards of marriage you know even 34:56.840 --> 35:01.920 just carnally speaking you get married you can file jointly your taxes and you get a bigger 35:01.920 --> 35:07.960 tax break by simply being married that's one of the rewards of marriage and getting married 35:07.960 --> 35:12.760 officially and so there's going to be reward system there's a reward system to separating 35:12.760 --> 35:17.260 yourself under god and serving god these are these are promises what's another promise 35:17.260 --> 35:21.460 that he'll be a father unto us that's what he said in chapter six at the very end he said 35:21.460 --> 35:27.040 hey if you come out from among them be separate he's going to be a father unto you so by separating 35:27.040 --> 35:31.380 ourselves and sanctifying ourselves unto the lord he's going to treat us differently and 35:31.380 --> 35:34.900 he's going to be like a father unto us and that's a promise that he's making to us he's 35:34.900 --> 35:39.640 saying hey you separate yourself unto me i will be a father unto you you don't want 35:39.640 --> 35:44.500 him to be an enemy you don't want him to be going against you you don't want to be distant 35:44.500 --> 35:47.920 from him you want him to be like a father unto you where he's protecting you providing for 35:47.920 --> 35:53.680 you guiding you and of course that happens with what sanctifying yourself separating yourself 35:53.680 --> 35:58.560 so we get the fatherly relationship we get the rewards that come and we're doing this so so 35:58.560 --> 36:03.560 let's reverse one again having therefore these promises rewards having a father relationship 36:03.560 --> 36:10.420 dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting 36:10.420 --> 36:14.280 holiness in the fear of god we want to get the right attitudes and the right behaviors 36:15.080 --> 36:19.360 okay and we want to do that in the fear of god we're fearing that god would what punish us 36:19.840 --> 36:26.120 discipline us chasing us that there be consequences for not being holy and what's not being holy 36:26.120 --> 36:31.000 being exactly like the world acting like the world behaving like the world doing the things that 36:31.000 --> 36:34.360 the world's doing then you're going to suffer the consequences you're not going to have god 36:34.360 --> 36:37.300 as your father you're not going to receive reward and of course not only that you can 36:37.300 --> 36:44.020 receive punishment and for being in rebellion okay let's look at verse number two receive us 36:44.020 --> 36:49.280 we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man 36:50.860 --> 36:56.700 I like this verse because you know what he's basically saying he's saying you have no legitimate 36:56.700 --> 37:04.900 reason to not treat us with love respect and receiving so you know this is kind of sad 37:04.900 --> 37:10.540 but in America today you have churches that are at odds with one another or you know because you're 37:10.540 --> 37:16.840 of a certain camp or flavor of fundamental badness they won't receive you but it's like wait a minute 37:16.840 --> 37:24.560 did I wrong you no did I corrupt you no did I defraud you no well then you're supposed to 37:24.560 --> 37:30.740 receive us okay but again if someone wronged you then you have justification potentially not 37:30.740 --> 37:35.000 want to receive that particular person if someone had corrupted you well you have reason not 37:35.000 --> 37:39.860 necessarily receive that brethren if they defrauded you then you have a particular reason not 37:39.860 --> 37:45.860 necessarily receive that brethren but you know you can't just reject the brethren for for no 37:45.860 --> 37:50.880 reason without cause what should be the default we should receive the brethren and again this 37:50.880 --> 37:55.500 could look in a few different ways obviously wrong them maybe they did they like trespassed 37:55.500 --> 38:02.420 against you they stole from you they lied about you they they attacked you they're saying negative 38:02.420 --> 38:05.880 things about you it makes sense that someone would say hey I don't want you to come to our church 38:05.880 --> 38:11.380 because you're lying about us or you're attacking us you're saying bad things about us or another 38:11.380 --> 38:15.900 one corruption if they're coming in with a false doctrine they're coming in with the 38:15.900 --> 38:20.080 wrong bible or they're coming in with the wrong gospel or they're they're they're bringing 38:20.080 --> 38:24.260 something into the church that's corrupting the church well sorry you can't come in with 38:24.260 --> 38:29.380 this heresy you can't come in with that false doctrine or defrauding them you know in some 38:29.380 --> 38:35.220 sense that they're they're saying one thing but it's not true whatever that is it could be 38:35.220 --> 38:39.900 you know hey they're coming under the guise of being friendly but they're there as an 38:39.900 --> 38:45.520 infiltrator to spy out or to take advantage or rip you off financially or whatever it is 38:45.520 --> 38:49.140 but he said hey we didn't do that to y'all so you're supposed to receive us 38:49.140 --> 38:54.480 verse 3 I speak not this to condemn you for I have said before that you are our hearts to 38:54.480 --> 38:59.820 die and live with you great is my boldness of speech toward you great is my glorying of you 38:59.820 --> 39:06.100 I am filled with comfort I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation for when we were coming 39:06.100 --> 39:09.800 to Macedonia our flesh had no rest but we were troubled on every side without our findings 39:09.800 --> 39:13.820 within our fears nevertheless God they comforted those that are cast down comforted us 39:13.820 --> 39:17.960 by the coming of Titus and not by his coming only but by the consolation wherewith he was 39:17.960 --> 39:22.440 comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire mourning your fervent mind toward me so 39:22.440 --> 39:28.300 that I rejoiced the more so in verse 3 he's saying hey our hearts are with you notice he said 39:28.300 --> 39:34.200 you are in our hearts to die and live with you he's like hey I'm right or die I'm with you guys 39:34.200 --> 39:42.560 I love you guys verse 4 great is my boldness of speech toward you meaning that you know he's 39:42.560 --> 39:49.520 he's very confident in the love that he has for them and he's very positive towards this church 39:50.220 --> 39:54.740 okay and he says great is my glorying of you he's talking positively about the church 39:54.740 --> 39:59.880 he loves the church you guys are a great church I am filled with comfort and exceeding joyful in 39:59.880 --> 40:04.920 all our tribulation so he's been comforted during his difficulty and he's been in jail 40:04.920 --> 40:08.240 he's been in prison he's been going through difficulty you know people trying to kill 40:08.240 --> 40:13.460 him verse 5 for when we were coming to Macedonia our flesh had no rest but we were troubled on 40:13.460 --> 40:17.900 every side without we're fighting within we're fears so he's saying man I was going through a 40:17.900 --> 40:23.160 hard time like just every day every second of every day is just a constant fight constant 40:23.160 --> 40:30.400 persecution no rest notice our flesh had no rest whether that be like they're just not getting 40:30.400 --> 40:34.900 sleep they're having to go from town to town house to house they're running they're kind 40:34.900 --> 40:41.080 of running for their life in many cases a lot of fighting a lot of issues a lot of fears of the 40:41.080 --> 40:46.980 government there's just constant pressure there's people watching them and he said verse 6 nevertheless 40:46.980 --> 40:51.860 God that comforted those that are cast down comforted us by the coming of Titus so even though 40:51.860 --> 40:55.000 he's going through a hard time even though life's difficult right now even though he's being 40:55.000 --> 40:58.780 persecuted even though he's on the run he's saying I was comforted though when Titus showed 40:58.780 --> 41:05.380 up and he said and not by his coming only so not only that he see him but by the consolation 41:05.380 --> 41:10.340 wherewith he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire your morning your fervent 41:10.340 --> 41:13.740 mind toward me so that I rejoice more so he's basically saying like hey I was on the run 41:13.740 --> 41:17.520 I was having a hard time I'm going through a lot of persecution a lot of people are against me 41:17.520 --> 41:23.260 a lot of hate but then Titus showed up and I felt I felt like comforted a little bit like 41:23.260 --> 41:27.760 okay well at least I got Titus you know to go with me you know and like sometimes going 41:27.760 --> 41:31.660 through difficulty it's just nice to have a friend or someone that's there just someone 41:31.660 --> 41:37.380 that can go with you but not only that Titus was there that Titus had a good attitude Titus is 41:37.380 --> 41:43.880 like refreshed Titus is like happy Titus is like going strong and why was he he was going strong 41:43.880 --> 41:51.480 because of the church the church basically energized Titus and then Titus is energizing Paul and 41:51.480 --> 41:57.200 he's giving him comfort and he's helping him feel better about his situation notice he 41:57.200 --> 42:02.560 said he told us your earnest desire your morning your fervent mind toward me so he just like hey 42:02.560 --> 42:07.960 the fact that the church cared about me just motivated me to keep going you know think about it 42:07.960 --> 42:12.720 someone that's being persecuted heavily and being attacked constantly just knowing that 42:12.720 --> 42:16.780 there's people out there rooting for you kind of just helps you just keep going and keep 42:16.780 --> 42:21.920 pushing through and saying okay it's still worth it you know it still means something 42:21.920 --> 42:25.400 and so it's important that when someone's going through difficulty when someone is 42:25.400 --> 42:28.860 struggling especially being persecuted for the cause of Christ that there's just people 42:28.860 --> 42:34.600 they're saying like hey i'm with you man hey we're we're on your side hey we're praying for you 42:34.600 --> 42:39.360 hey we're upset when bad things happen to you because we know you're a good guy and we know you're 42:39.360 --> 42:44.680 going through this difficulty you know unfortunately some people kick me when they're down it's 42:44.680 --> 42:49.640 like something bad happens to them that you're serving god something bad happens to them and 42:49.640 --> 42:53.980 they're like well you kind of deserved it or maybe it's because you're serving god you know and 42:53.980 --> 42:59.000 i've heard this i've heard people in our churches you know just not directly but just indirectly 42:59.580 --> 43:03.960 people just you know maybe they're serving god and something negative happens they get a flat 43:03.960 --> 43:08.520 tire or they lose their job some of the bad happens and like their mom or dad will be like 43:08.520 --> 43:12.160 oh that's because you're going to a cult you know or that's because you're going to a bad church 43:12.160 --> 43:16.940 or you know you go soul winning and something bad happens or you you maybe spend a lot of 43:16.940 --> 43:20.920 money or whatever and it's just like oh well that's because you're wasting money going to 43:20.920 --> 43:25.320 this place or doing this is like you know people kicking you when you're down as opposed to the exact 43:25.320 --> 43:30.720 opposite of hey i'm with you hey let me help you out or hey i'm praying for you oh man that's 43:30.720 --> 43:35.960 terrible i'm sorry that happened to you you know and again for paul he's saying man the fact that 43:35.960 --> 43:39.460 titus showed up and he was encouraged by the church and he sees that the church is rooting for 43:39.460 --> 43:43.020 you it really encouraged him and you know we've had pastors that go through difficulties 43:43.420 --> 43:47.960 you know you pastor me he gets his church bombed he comforts people like that when you say hey 43:47.960 --> 43:52.740 we're sorry that happened to you but we're you know we're with you and we're fighting for you 43:52.740 --> 43:56.740 and we're excited that y'all are gonna keep going and pressing towards the mark you know we have bad 43:56.740 --> 44:01.220 things and people stick up for us it helps us feel you know better or whatever you know our friend 44:01.220 --> 44:04.840 pastor anderson going through a lot of difficulty when people go online or they send him a card 44:04.840 --> 44:09.040 or they're telling him whatever it helps encourage him to want to keep going not to kick him when 44:09.040 --> 44:13.740 he's down you know and kick people when they're down it makes a difference even to people like 44:13.740 --> 44:18.760 apostle paul i mean the possible we think is like the greatest kitchen ever but even him he needs 44:18.760 --> 44:24.340 comfort even he needs encouragement even he needs refreshing because sometimes when you're in the 44:24.340 --> 44:28.700 front lines and you're in the in the midst of a battle it's difficult and when you have other 44:28.700 --> 44:33.020 people that are praying for you caring about you concerned it helps you feel like okay this 44:33.020 --> 44:38.160 matters okay i can keep going says in verse eight for though i made you sorry with a letter 44:38.700 --> 44:42.520 i do not repent though i did repent for i perceive that the same epistle that made you 44:42.520 --> 44:48.000 sorry though it were for but a season so again why is this important to him though 44:49.120 --> 44:55.240 because think about it it's like you you leave your church the church is doing bad things and 44:55.240 --> 44:58.880 you're like i kind of have to tell them that they're doing some bad stuff and you send the 44:58.880 --> 45:02.420 letter well then you're kind of like you're kind of worried like how how are they gonna respond 45:03.380 --> 45:08.940 but see when when the news comes back that hey they got your letter and they did they fixed it 45:08.940 --> 45:12.100 they fixed the issue and now they're on the right path and they're praying for you 45:12.460 --> 45:17.620 you're just like yes you know praise god and he's saying like when i wrote this letter 45:18.920 --> 45:23.400 you know at first when i it's like you he writes the letter he sends it in the mail and 45:23.400 --> 45:26.420 then he's like trying to get it back out of the mail he's like oh man i don't know if i should 45:26.420 --> 45:31.700 have sent that because he's saying at first i repented okay that's what he means he says for 45:31.700 --> 45:34.220 though i made you sorry with the letter i don't repent but he says though i did repent 45:34.220 --> 45:37.560 so he's saying at some point after writing the letter and sending to them 45:37.560 --> 45:42.720 he kind of doubt crept in his mind and he was kind of like i don't know if i should have done that 45:43.200 --> 45:46.880 or i don't know how that's going to go down or i'm kind of worried how they're going to take that 45:47.600 --> 45:53.360 but he's saying in hindsight right now i don't repent because he sees how it worked and he's 45:53.360 --> 45:58.220 like wow i'm so glad i did even though after i did it initially i was kind of like oh i don't 45:58.220 --> 46:02.260 know if they're going to take this well and then when they got right he's like i'm so glad i 46:02.260 --> 46:08.440 sent it now you know what i think it's really important about verse number eight is that it's 46:08.440 --> 46:15.760 separating two words okay he says for though i made you sorry with the letter i do not repent 46:15.760 --> 46:21.300 okay though i did repent for i was saying you know what he's contrasting he's not saying that sorry 46:21.300 --> 46:27.820 and repent are the same word right because he's saying hey i made you sorry with a letter 46:27.820 --> 46:34.400 i do not repent so you can't say that's that repent means sorrow here okay because that would be 46:34.400 --> 46:40.320 contradiction it even gets it even gets clearer in verse nine now i rejoice not that you are made 46:40.320 --> 46:46.420 sorry but that you sorrowed two repentance for you were made sorry after a godly manner that you 46:46.420 --> 46:53.760 might receive by us and nothing for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be 46:53.760 --> 46:58.320 repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh that notice of the bible and consistently in these 46:58.320 --> 47:03.760 three verses use of the word sorrow and repentance not meaning the same thing at any point in fact they 47:03.760 --> 47:08.700 can't be the same thing because you can't say hey i'm so glad that sorrow worked to sorrow man 47:09.360 --> 47:16.180 so glad that you're so sorry that you came sorry no everyone that reads this knows exactly 47:16.180 --> 47:21.720 what it's saying what does repent mean changing your mind i'm glad you were sorry so that you 47:21.720 --> 47:27.220 changed your mind he's saying i don't change my mind for having written this letter even though 47:27.220 --> 47:34.220 i had changed my mind but i then realized no i'm glad i didn't change my mind i'm glad i did do it 47:34.800 --> 47:40.840 and again why because it's made them sorry and he's saying clearly in verse number nine 47:40.840 --> 47:45.620 that they were uh not that you were made sorry but that you sorrowed two repentance 47:46.140 --> 47:51.460 so think about it if repentance means sorrow that statement can't make sense 47:51.960 --> 47:59.020 because he's saying hey i'm i'm glad for something not that you were sorry but that because you were 47:59.020 --> 48:03.940 sorry do you understand what i'm saying let me let me impact this a little bit more because 48:03.940 --> 48:08.460 this is a really important point all right in verse number nine now rejoice not that you 48:08.460 --> 48:14.500 were made sorry but that you sorrowed two repentance okay if repentance means sorrow 48:15.700 --> 48:22.920 then that is contradictory to what he just said of saying not that you're sorry because again the 48:22.920 --> 48:27.120 whole point was i didn't want to just hurt your feelings i didn't want you to just feel bad 48:27.120 --> 48:32.920 i wanted you to change but here's the thing if i said oh i didn't want you to be sorry 48:32.920 --> 48:38.100 so that you could be sorry that doesn't make any sense he's saying the only reason i made you 48:38.100 --> 48:43.780 sorry was so that you would change but i wasn't hope i wasn't wanting you to be sorry i didn't 48:43.780 --> 48:48.260 like that you were sorry i didn't rejoice that you were sorry i'm just simply rejoicing that you 48:48.260 --> 48:53.780 changed and you know what this proves that repentance is not about being sorry it's about 48:53.780 --> 48:59.100 changing because getting saved is not about how sorry you feel it's about believing on the 48:59.100 --> 49:05.360 lord jesus christ and changing what you believe yet isn't it so funny that your repent of sins 49:05.360 --> 49:10.360 group will go to this passage in the bible to prove that you have to repent of your sins to be 49:10.360 --> 49:14.540 saved meaning you have to actually feel so sorry that you are not going to sin anymore or something 49:15.120 --> 49:20.160 whereas what the bible teaches is that you can't stop sending number one and number two it's not 49:20.160 --> 49:27.600 about how sorry you feel it's about changing your mind now again this is not this passage isn't 49:27.600 --> 49:32.820 even about salvation okay that's another point that's really important here he's not saying 49:32.820 --> 49:37.640 i'm so i'm so upset that none of y'all are saved and so i wrote a letter so that y'all would get 49:37.640 --> 49:42.940 saved he's saying hey you guys had some things that you were screwed up on and i was sending you a 49:42.940 --> 49:48.940 letter that you would get those things right okay and that they repented okay and they were made 49:48.940 --> 49:54.060 sorry after a godly manner that they that you might receive damage by us and nothing notice 49:54.060 --> 49:57.660 that you can make someone feel sorry and they have no damage 49:59.340 --> 50:03.720 oh that's damaging you hurt their feelings according to the bible you can you can hurt 50:03.720 --> 50:08.620 someone's feelings without causing any damage these are these are really important points done 50:08.620 --> 50:17.780 pack and again it doesn't the truth doesn't hurt people okay now it may hurt your feelings 50:18.420 --> 50:24.020 but it doesn't damage you the truth should not damage you the truth should help you 50:24.020 --> 50:30.800 but the truth may really hurt your feelings it may cause you to feel sorry and to feel sorrow 50:30.800 --> 50:37.020 but the goal is to what to change for godly sorrow work of repentance to salvation 50:37.920 --> 50:44.000 not to be repented of now again what it says salvation here but we're not talking about 50:44.000 --> 50:48.800 it's salvation of going to heaven or hell we're talking about is being saved from 50:49.480 --> 50:53.960 whatever they're doing that's bad save from the consequences of that or save from something 50:53.960 --> 51:01.680 that's bad save from a bad spirit save from a bad attitude save from a bad action and again here 51:01.680 --> 51:06.020 it's the godly sorrow work of repentance to salvation not to be repented of meaning that 51:06.020 --> 51:11.780 you know if you actually have a true godly feeling about something you'll change and never 51:11.780 --> 51:19.260 do it again you say hey you know I was I got drunk and I realized that that was bad and I have a 51:19.260 --> 51:25.840 godly sorrow over it to where I'm not going to get drunk anymore whereas a non godly sorrow would 51:25.840 --> 51:30.680 say well I feel bad about it but then they get drunk the next night okay because he says but the 51:30.680 --> 51:37.000 sorrow of the world were death it's like you can feel bad and still it didn't it didn't really 51:37.000 --> 51:42.100 change anything you just you're just sad you got caught or you're just sad there's a consequence 51:42.660 --> 51:47.100 but a godly sorrow says I don't want to do it anymore a godly sorrow is actually a change 51:47.100 --> 51:51.080 meaning that hey I got drunk but I'm not going to get drunk I'm not going to drink anymore and 51:51.080 --> 51:54.760 I'm not going to get drunk anymore and what a godly sorrow does is it leads to repentance 51:54.760 --> 51:59.660 to be saved for the salvation of what of alcohol the salvation of drunkenness the 51:59.660 --> 52:03.660 salvation of the destruction of your life that can come through alcohol and through drugs 52:03.660 --> 52:07.880 and through fornication you know someone commits adultery hey they need to have a godly sorrow 52:07.880 --> 52:13.160 over that where they're never going to do that again someone steals they need to have a godly 52:13.160 --> 52:17.740 sorrow over that where they're never going to do that again you know your wife runs her mouth 52:17.740 --> 52:23.660 online she needs a godly sorrow which is never going to do that again okay hey whatever it is 52:23.660 --> 52:27.380 a godly sorrow say hey I'm not gonna do that hey you railed and you got caught 52:27.380 --> 52:31.580 or you were slandering someone and you got caught well I'm gonna have a godly 52:31.580 --> 52:35.480 sorrow I'm not gonna do that again that was a bad attitude that was a bad spirit and I want to be 52:35.480 --> 52:39.440 cleansed and the holiness and the fear of God and I want to not do that anymore and go through 52:39.440 --> 52:42.940 that direction anymore and this is the salvation that we're talking about we're not talking about 52:42.940 --> 52:47.480 going to heaven or hell folks and again what is the context well in chapter six remember in 52:47.480 --> 52:51.700 verse two for you say it I have heard thee in a time accepted in the day of salvation have 52:51.700 --> 52:56.000 I suckered thee billed now is the accepted time billed now is the day of salvation 52:56.000 --> 53:03.580 meaning hey if you're saved you need to get out of that house of idolatry today or now is the 53:03.580 --> 53:10.080 accepted time now is the day of salvation to leave that house of idolatry to leave that false 53:10.080 --> 53:16.320 religion to leave those bad friends to leave that that bar hey it's like hey when should you 53:16.320 --> 53:23.080 quit drinking now hey when when when should you quit committing fornication now when should 53:23.080 --> 53:29.580 you quit adultery now hey when should you quit just being a bum or a drug addict or whatever 53:29.580 --> 53:36.860 hey when should America quit Islam now now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation 53:37.560 --> 53:42.320 hey when should America drop all the bad bible versions and get a king james only right now 53:43.140 --> 53:47.780 now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation and you know what our country needs 53:47.780 --> 53:53.480 a godly sorrow so that we can be saved from these wicked attitudes and not go back to them 53:53.480 --> 53:58.920 we need to be saved from Hinduism we need to be saved from Islam we need to be saved from these 53:58.920 --> 54:03.100 modern bible corruptions we need to be saved from these bad attitudes and these bad spirits 54:03.100 --> 54:08.280 hey we need to be saved from communism hey we need to be saved from women governors and women 54:08.280 --> 54:12.360 presence I know it hasn't happened but hopefully it'll never happen and you know we need to 54:12.360 --> 54:16.680 be saved from these bad attitudes hey we need to be saved from feminism we need to be saved 54:16.680 --> 54:19.000 from all these wicked, you know, evil people 54:19.000 --> 54:20.380 that are attacking soul winning 54:20.380 --> 54:22.380 and bad attitudes and bad spirits. 54:22.700 --> 54:23.480 Today is the day. 54:23.900 --> 54:25.980 Hey, you know, we need to be saved from Zionism. 54:26.920 --> 54:28.500 This is a bad doctrine. 54:29.120 --> 54:30.900 You say, when is the right time for your church 54:30.900 --> 54:32.020 to give up on Zionism? 54:32.300 --> 54:32.640 Now. 54:33.960 --> 54:36.580 Now is the accepted time to take that Israel flag 54:36.580 --> 54:39.420 out of your church, I won't call it stupid, 54:39.620 --> 54:41.060 but I'll call this flag stupid, all right? 54:41.560 --> 54:43.760 Take it out of your church and get rid of it. 54:44.400 --> 54:44.760 Now. 54:45.240 --> 54:47.860 Now is the accepted time, you know, 54:47.960 --> 54:49.900 and all these fags sympathizers, 54:50.180 --> 54:51.340 we need to be saved from them too. 54:52.720 --> 54:54.660 You know, praise God, if you're in a church 54:54.660 --> 54:56.100 we already saved from fags, 54:56.160 --> 54:56.940 but you know what, you need to be saved 54:56.940 --> 54:58.100 from fags sympathizers too. 54:58.780 --> 55:00.180 Because it's just, it's a cancer 55:00.800 --> 55:03.060 that's causing so many problems in our society 55:03.060 --> 55:04.660 and so many problems in churches today, 55:05.060 --> 55:06.000 and we need to be saved from that. 55:06.220 --> 55:07.720 You know, be saved from the reprobates today 55:07.720 --> 55:11.880 by understanding that fags are homosexual predators. 55:12.380 --> 55:13.640 They all are, okay? 55:13.860 --> 55:15.620 They are pedophiles and they will hurt 55:15.620 --> 55:17.560 and harm children and you need to be saved from that. 55:17.900 --> 55:19.460 And in the fear of God, you need to get away 55:19.460 --> 55:21.420 from these people, believe in what the Bible says 55:21.420 --> 55:23.300 about them so you don't become Genesis 19. 55:23.880 --> 55:26.320 So you don't become Judges 19. 55:26.720 --> 55:29.760 So you don't become Genesis nine like Noah 55:30.260 --> 55:32.300 who has even taken advantage of a family member. 55:32.680 --> 55:34.120 And unfortunately, let me tell you something, 55:34.260 --> 55:36.220 a lot of these predators harm family members. 55:37.180 --> 55:39.600 Don't, do not put your family around the uncle, 55:39.980 --> 55:43.000 do not put him around the, you know, 55:43.260 --> 55:47.120 you're some relative, some brother or brother-in-law 55:47.760 --> 55:50.440 or hey, this is my mom's new boyfriend, 55:50.940 --> 55:53.820 he used to be a homo, there's no used to be, okay? 55:55.480 --> 55:57.800 You cannot make that which is crooked straight, all right? 55:58.160 --> 55:59.880 That which is crooked cannot be made straight. 56:00.120 --> 56:01.040 And all God's people said? 56:01.540 --> 56:02.600 That's right, all right? 56:02.980 --> 56:04.640 Hey, no fags allowed. 56:05.540 --> 56:06.760 I don't even like that word. 56:06.920 --> 56:07.640 Well, you know what? 56:07.640 --> 56:08.760 I don't like it either. 56:09.520 --> 56:11.240 But if we, here's the thing, 56:11.580 --> 56:13.640 if America implements Leviticus 2013, 56:14.280 --> 56:16.500 then I'll stop saying it for a day. 56:20.340 --> 56:23.940 No, but I mean like, why are you so offended by the word? 56:25.740 --> 56:26.060 You know? 56:26.380 --> 56:28.400 I mean, it's like you're either offended by the word 56:28.400 --> 56:28.940 or the people. 56:30.020 --> 56:31.600 And at the end of the day, you know, 56:31.800 --> 56:33.260 if you get rid of the word, 56:33.640 --> 56:35.520 well then pretty soon you're just gonna have them 56:35.520 --> 56:36.880 everywhere, you know? 56:37.580 --> 56:38.920 They get offended by that word, 56:38.940 --> 56:40.900 so it helps me to like keep them away from us. 56:42.820 --> 56:44.660 Look, we need to realize that we need to have 56:44.660 --> 56:46.720 a godly sorrow and we need to be safe from some things. 56:47.180 --> 56:48.280 We need to be safe from the spirit of the world. 56:48.360 --> 56:49.460 Well, I don't like that, you know, 56:49.480 --> 56:50.340 the world doesn't believe that, 56:50.720 --> 56:52.340 the world is pro that, well, 56:52.520 --> 56:53.580 but I don't have the spirit of the world, 56:53.640 --> 56:54.180 I have the spirit of God. 56:54.520 --> 56:55.140 Yeah, I did, yeah. 56:55.840 --> 56:57.340 You know what I also am just mad about? 56:57.780 --> 57:00.680 All these, all these Baptist who keep attacking us 57:00.680 --> 57:02.500 and you know what their number one thing is? 57:02.820 --> 57:03.740 Oh, there's these people 57:03.740 --> 57:05.260 that are just so against the sodomites. 57:05.800 --> 57:07.860 There's all these pastors that preach too hard 57:07.860 --> 57:08.920 against the sodomites and stuff. 57:09.200 --> 57:10.200 It's like, what spirit are you? 57:10.420 --> 57:11.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 57:11.960 --> 57:14.080 Because you know, we're just saying what the Bible says. 57:14.400 --> 57:18.040 I mean, how can I get up and quote the Bible 57:18.430 --> 57:19.720 and be too over the top? 57:20.420 --> 57:22.200 I mean, if the Bible is saying 57:22.200 --> 57:24.180 that they're suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, 57:24.480 --> 57:26.040 if the Bible is saying that they're supposed 57:26.040 --> 57:26.780 to be stoned to death, 57:26.980 --> 57:29.320 if the Bible is saying that they're reprobate, 57:29.740 --> 57:31.180 how can I even be over the top? 57:31.300 --> 57:33.140 What is over the top at that point? 57:34.860 --> 57:36.140 I just, I just, I'm not, 57:36.300 --> 57:37.480 I'm not gonna be cool with that. 57:37.960 --> 57:40.340 You cannot be over the top with this group for me. 57:41.300 --> 57:42.420 I don't even know what that means. 57:42.860 --> 57:43.460 It's scary. 57:44.340 --> 57:45.240 I'm scared of you. 57:46.360 --> 57:47.980 I'm afraid of you if you think 57:47.980 --> 57:49.260 that I'm even being over the top. 57:49.920 --> 57:52.400 You know, there's like Jeff Owens, I think it was. 57:52.840 --> 57:54.600 Some people thought that he was over the top 57:54.600 --> 57:56.460 and is preaching on that particular issue. 57:56.860 --> 57:57.940 He still didn't offend me. 57:59.360 --> 58:00.580 Still didn't offend me. 58:01.140 --> 58:02.800 I'm not gonna be offended by that kind of preaching. 58:03.760 --> 58:06.020 And I will continue to preach it no matter what. 58:06.440 --> 58:08.000 Look what it says in verse number 11, 58:08.160 --> 58:09.260 for we hold this self same thing, 58:09.920 --> 58:11.380 that you sorrowed after a godly sort, 58:12.080 --> 58:14.240 what carefulness it rod in you, 58:14.640 --> 58:17.060 ye what clearing of yourselves, ye what indignation, 58:17.500 --> 58:20.260 ye what fear, ye what vehement desire, 58:20.800 --> 58:23.040 ye what zeal, ye what revenge. 58:23.960 --> 58:25.700 And all things you have approved yourselves 58:25.700 --> 58:26.400 to be clear in this matter. 58:26.500 --> 58:29.180 He's saying, look, when you have the right attitude, 58:29.380 --> 58:30.760 when you do something wrong, 58:31.900 --> 58:33.220 and you have the right attitude, 58:33.220 --> 58:34.100 what is the right attitude? 58:34.420 --> 58:35.640 I want to fix it. 58:35.780 --> 58:37.940 I want to fix it. 58:38.560 --> 58:41.080 It's saying, hey, you're careful now. 58:41.880 --> 58:43.580 Hey, if someone calls you prideful 58:44.440 --> 58:46.600 and it's based in some legitimacy, 58:47.260 --> 58:49.120 you should think like, I need to be more careful 58:49.120 --> 58:51.400 and I need to try and make sure I'm not being prideful. 58:52.220 --> 58:54.360 You know, ye what clearing of yourselves. 58:54.640 --> 58:56.400 Hey, I want to make sure I'm getting rid 58:56.400 --> 58:57.800 of whatever this is in my life 58:57.800 --> 58:58.960 that they're accusing me of. 58:59.360 --> 59:01.280 Hey, what indignation. 59:01.280 --> 59:03.980 You know, you're upset about the situation, 59:04.220 --> 59:05.860 but you know you're upset with yourself. 59:06.840 --> 59:08.360 You know, when people are just blaming everyone else, 59:08.640 --> 59:10.160 it shows that they didn't really get it. 59:11.060 --> 59:12.200 And it's not a godly sorrow. 59:13.220 --> 59:15.480 What fear, you know, if they're not fearing God 59:15.480 --> 59:17.920 and the consequences of this, it's not a godly sorrow. 59:18.200 --> 59:20.040 You know what kind of exhibits a godly sorrow? 59:20.180 --> 59:21.020 He usually gets a bad rep, 59:21.400 --> 59:22.720 but you know what kind of exhibits a godly sorrow 59:22.720 --> 59:23.940 is Simon the sorcerer. 59:24.440 --> 59:25.980 Because as soon as he gets called out 59:25.980 --> 59:28.140 for his pride and for his bad attitude, 59:28.140 --> 59:30.460 he's like praying to, you know, 59:30.560 --> 59:32.940 he's asking Peter to pray for him 59:33.360 --> 59:34.960 so that he's like, hey, will you pray 59:34.960 --> 59:36.100 that these things won't happen to me? 59:36.360 --> 59:37.940 He's showing you like he has a fear of God. 59:39.100 --> 59:39.660 And that's a good attitude. 59:40.020 --> 59:42.080 You know, people like Josh Howerton, 59:42.360 --> 59:44.160 he'll get up and say Simon the sorcerer is not even saved. 59:45.400 --> 59:47.940 Okay, and then he'll point to that example 59:47.940 --> 59:49.100 as a reason why he's not saved. 59:49.200 --> 59:50.680 And I'm thinking like, but this guy's kind of demonstrating 59:50.680 --> 59:53.260 the fear of God after getting called out, 59:53.740 --> 59:55.160 that seems like the right thing. 59:55.240 --> 59:56.340 I get it that he was sinful. 59:56.340 --> 59:58.220 I get that he had an issue there, 59:58.600 --> 01:00:01.900 but you know, being saved is not gonna stop you 01:00:01.900 --> 01:00:05.620 from having bad attitudes or bad behaviors or bad desires. 01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:07.500 And of course, the spirit of God will cause us 01:00:07.500 --> 01:00:10.480 to fear God and wanna change when we get called out, 01:00:10.600 --> 01:00:11.920 when we do something wrong. 01:00:12.640 --> 01:00:14.020 Hey, what zeal, what desire? 01:00:14.600 --> 01:00:15.060 What revenge? 01:00:15.340 --> 01:00:15.900 What's the revenge? 01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:18.120 The revenge is not to get the person back 01:00:18.120 --> 01:00:18.940 that called you out. 01:00:20.640 --> 01:00:23.820 The revenge is to do the right thing. 01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:26.900 Saying, hey, I was guilty of this. 01:00:27.040 --> 01:00:29.760 I had this bad attitude, but I want to revenge 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:31.520 in the sense that I wanna get it right. 01:00:32.240 --> 01:00:35.880 And I wanna have a chance to get back 01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:37.760 to the right attitude, the right behavior, 01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:41.200 the right desires here, the right zeal, 01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:43.400 and get back at the sin. 01:00:43.600 --> 01:00:46.300 Get back at myself for whatever bad attitude I had. 01:00:46.540 --> 01:00:47.800 You're not avenging other people. 01:00:48.020 --> 01:00:48.660 But you know what I noticed? 01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:51.320 A lot of people, when they get called out 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:56.960 or someone just even graciously mentions them or something, 01:00:57.060 --> 01:01:00.080 they lose their mind, they get offended. 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:02.540 And instead of trying to fix the problem 01:01:02.540 --> 01:01:04.700 or feeling like, hey, maybe I should address the issue 01:01:04.700 --> 01:01:05.920 in my life, they get offended. 01:01:06.060 --> 01:01:07.400 And again, that's the whole point of hard preaching. 01:01:07.540 --> 01:01:09.360 The hard preaching is so that you'll be like, 01:01:09.520 --> 01:01:11.720 hey, I need to fix myself, not getting mad at the pastor. 01:01:12.620 --> 01:01:13.600 Not getting mad at the preacher. 01:01:14.220 --> 01:01:16.280 Not getting mad at the guy that called me out 01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:18.840 but saying, hey, I wanna fix this issue. 01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:20.560 I see what the Bible says. 01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:22.020 That's right. 01:01:22.420 --> 01:01:23.840 God wants me to change this. 01:01:24.200 --> 01:01:25.100 So I'm gonna do it. 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:26.940 But most of us don't want, 01:01:27.120 --> 01:01:28.980 most of us wanna justify all of our actions, 01:01:29.220 --> 01:01:31.900 all of our behavior, all the things that we did. 01:01:32.260 --> 01:01:33.020 And I'll tell you this, 01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:35.680 most people cannot take ownership for their wrongdoing. 01:01:35.980 --> 01:01:37.460 And it's very frustrating. 01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:40.260 And think about it as a parent. 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:43.780 As a parent, you don't expect your children to be perfect. 01:01:44.260 --> 01:01:46.220 Your children make mistakes all the time. 01:01:46.720 --> 01:01:47.120 And you know what? 01:01:47.120 --> 01:01:48.460 You're not so much as concerned 01:01:48.460 --> 01:01:50.560 with how often they're making mistakes 01:01:50.560 --> 01:01:53.360 as how they react when you call them out. 01:01:54.160 --> 01:01:56.640 You'd almost rather your kids make more mistakes, 01:01:56.780 --> 01:01:57.900 but when they get called out, 01:01:58.020 --> 01:02:00.560 they genuinely get it and they're asking for forgiveness 01:02:00.560 --> 01:02:02.180 and they're taking ownership to try and fix it 01:02:02.180 --> 01:02:05.200 rather than they only get caught once today or something. 01:02:05.420 --> 01:02:07.360 But when they get caught, they're flippant, 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:09.060 they're excusing the behavior. 01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:10.500 They're always blaming. 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:12.280 I mean, for some reason, our kids, 01:02:12.420 --> 01:02:13.980 they always blame the toddler. 01:02:16.060 --> 01:02:20.720 It's like, who got this cup out of the cabinet up here 01:02:21.250 --> 01:02:23.200 and filled it with ice and poured it over here 01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:24.180 and it's like the toddler. 01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:26.640 You're like, bro, no. 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:30.580 Like it's not a miracle worker child over here. 01:02:30.980 --> 01:02:33.160 She's not super human. 01:02:33.180 --> 01:02:35.560 She didn't fly up there and do this. 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:37.600 It's like, why'd you punch your brother, the toddler? 01:02:37.720 --> 01:02:38.260 It's just like, no. 01:02:38.940 --> 01:02:41.960 It's like, why are you always blaming someone else? 01:02:42.470 --> 01:02:43.660 And look, anytime it's like, 01:02:43.740 --> 01:02:44.520 why did you punch your brother? 01:02:44.660 --> 01:02:45.660 It's like what they did first. 01:02:46.640 --> 01:02:48.340 It's what they did or what's going on. 01:02:48.660 --> 01:02:51.200 It's never taking ownership for what they did 01:02:51.670 --> 01:02:55.120 or how they behaved and they never start with what they did. 01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:57.500 They always start with what someone else did. 01:02:57.820 --> 01:02:58.920 Look, this is not the right attitude. 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:00.400 The right attitude is to take ownership. 01:03:00.940 --> 01:03:02.080 When you're called out, 01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:04.260 appreciate the person that's calling you out, 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:04.980 fix the issue. 01:03:05.080 --> 01:03:06.400 And again, that's what he loves about this church 01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:07.400 is he called them out. 01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:10.740 They got called to the carpet and yet they fixed it. 01:03:10.740 --> 01:03:11.900 They fixed the issue. 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:14.300 They cleared themselves in this matter. 01:03:14.860 --> 01:03:17.020 Notice that they cleared themselves in this matter. 01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:19.560 It's, we're all gonna have issues. 01:03:20.020 --> 01:03:21.300 We're all gonna make mistakes. 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:23.720 But how do you respond when you get called out? 01:03:24.020 --> 01:03:24.740 And you know what I've noticed, 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:26.880 and this is why sometimes I do this, 01:03:27.200 --> 01:03:28.840 is like when I feel like there's someone 01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:30.560 that's causing problems or whatever, 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:31.960 sometimes we'll just call them out 01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:33.740 because here's the thing, 01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:35.060 when you call them out especially publicly, 01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:37.780 you end up seeing what kind of attitude and spirit they're of. 01:03:38.200 --> 01:03:40.520 Are they gonna get clear in this matter? 01:03:41.460 --> 01:03:44.060 Or are they gonna dig in and do it even worse? 01:03:44.940 --> 01:03:46.380 And it just becomes really clear. 01:03:46.500 --> 01:03:48.280 It's like, hey, I think you're railing about this situation. 01:03:48.660 --> 01:03:50.800 It's like the railer just gets more vicious 01:03:51.240 --> 01:03:52.040 and more railing. 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:53.860 And the guy that had the right attitude 01:03:53.860 --> 01:03:55.720 would be like I'm so sorry and would fix it 01:03:55.720 --> 01:03:58.500 and be careful and be cautious about it or whatever. 01:03:59.120 --> 01:04:00.400 And again, that's why sometimes 01:04:00.860 --> 01:04:03.120 it's important to have open rebuke. 01:04:03.240 --> 01:04:06.100 The Bible warns about open rebuke because it's a reality. 01:04:06.100 --> 01:04:08.800 But usually calling something out 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:11.000 helps figure out where this person's at, 01:04:11.140 --> 01:04:13.160 what their motivations are, what their heart issue is. 01:04:13.780 --> 01:04:15.400 And of course the possible way to do this at the church, 01:04:15.500 --> 01:04:17.880 calling them out, add a letter, it was public. 01:04:18.540 --> 01:04:20.740 And of course, because of this public letter, 01:04:21.160 --> 01:04:21.820 they got right. 01:04:22.720 --> 01:04:24.360 Think about the logic of, 01:04:25.060 --> 01:04:27.600 people will say like everything should be private 01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:29.920 or something, but it's like these are epistles 01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:30.940 written to the whole church. 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:34.140 Calling them out and sometimes calling out specific people 01:04:34.140 --> 01:04:36.640 with really specific issues in the church, 01:04:36.820 --> 01:04:38.780 I mean, that's the whole context here. 01:04:40.200 --> 01:04:40.980 Look at verse 12, 01:04:41.140 --> 01:04:42.740 wherefore, though I wrote unto you, 01:04:42.860 --> 01:04:44.780 I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, 01:04:45.100 --> 01:04:46.520 nor for his cause that suffered wrong, 01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:48.320 but that our care for you in the sight of God 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:48.980 might appear unto you. 01:04:49.460 --> 01:04:50.960 He's saying he called someone out. 01:04:51.560 --> 01:04:52.900 But he's saying that wasn't the main reason. 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:54.340 I wasn't like writing this epistle 01:04:54.340 --> 01:04:56.000 just for the guy that needs to be called out. 01:04:56.620 --> 01:04:57.960 And I wasn't writing the epistle 01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:00.920 for the guy that got harmed or injured 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:02.420 by this particular process. 01:05:02.820 --> 01:05:04.600 I'm just kind of doing it in general 01:05:04.600 --> 01:05:07.260 so that the whole church can get right. 01:05:07.860 --> 01:05:09.260 Okay, he's saying, but that our care for you 01:05:09.260 --> 01:05:10.420 in the sight of God might appear to you. 01:05:10.420 --> 01:05:13.040 And he's saying, I want it to be clear that I care about you. 01:05:13.300 --> 01:05:14.580 You know, a lot of times people call you out 01:05:14.580 --> 01:05:15.500 because they care about you. 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:18.120 If they stop calling you out, 01:05:18.220 --> 01:05:19.640 it's usually because they don't care about you at all. 01:05:20.640 --> 01:05:22.780 Okay, and so you don't want to be careful 01:05:22.780 --> 01:05:24.140 because here's the thing, 01:05:24.380 --> 01:05:25.780 someone gives you a criticism, 01:05:26.620 --> 01:05:28.820 someone says something to you and you respond poorly. 01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:30.820 Well, then maybe they're never gonna give 01:05:30.820 --> 01:05:31.700 that criticism anymore. 01:05:31.700 --> 01:05:32.960 They kind of see how you are 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:34.360 and then they're gonna stop caring about you. 01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:35.800 Okay. 01:05:36.700 --> 01:05:38.640 Hey children, you know why your parents love you so much 01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:40.700 is because they're always trying to get you to fix things. 01:05:41.420 --> 01:05:43.080 If they didn't love you, then they wouldn't. 01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:45.680 You know, maybe you have a bad attitude sometimes. 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:47.400 Maybe you have a bad spirit sometimes. 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:48.640 And you know what? 01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:50.360 Your parents are trying to help you with that, 01:05:50.620 --> 01:05:51.540 to get over things. 01:05:51.980 --> 01:05:53.900 Don't think, oh, my parents are always on my case. 01:05:54.300 --> 01:05:55.380 They're probably trying to help you 01:05:55.380 --> 01:05:56.120 because they care about you. 01:05:56.160 --> 01:05:56.680 They love about it. 01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:57.180 They love you. 01:05:57.560 --> 01:05:59.180 Oh, my dad's always on my case. 01:05:59.180 --> 01:06:01.900 Oh, my dad's always upset with this attitude. 01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:03.980 Or dad's always upset with this behavior. 01:06:04.220 --> 01:06:05.440 Or dad's always upset with me doing this. 01:06:05.660 --> 01:06:07.500 Okay, well, maybe he just wants you to get it right 01:06:07.500 --> 01:06:08.080 or fix it. 01:06:08.680 --> 01:06:10.160 And you know what, if your parent didn't, 01:06:10.240 --> 01:06:11.820 it showed that he actually doesn't really love you. 01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:14.960 If your mom and dad aren't on your case 01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:17.980 and are not paying attention and are just like, 01:06:18.380 --> 01:06:20.760 just leave, that shows that they don't care 01:06:20.760 --> 01:06:21.680 about you as much anymore. 01:06:22.240 --> 01:06:23.420 And they're just fed up with you 01:06:23.420 --> 01:06:24.600 and they're done with you, okay? 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.220 The one that's putting up with you 01:06:26.220 --> 01:06:27.180 is the one that loves you. 01:06:27.240 --> 01:06:28.120 The one that's disappointing you 01:06:28.120 --> 01:06:28.740 is the one that loves you. 01:06:28.740 --> 01:06:30.940 The one that's giving you that information, loves you. 01:06:31.420 --> 01:06:32.640 It's like, oh, Pastor Shelley preaches 01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:33.340 really long sermons. 01:06:33.580 --> 01:06:34.240 It's because he loves you. 01:06:36.780 --> 01:06:37.560 Think about it. 01:06:37.580 --> 01:06:39.000 I mean, if you just showed up 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:40.620 and I just started preaching 10-minute sermons, 01:06:42.340 --> 01:06:43.720 doesn't, didn't really explain much of the Bible, 01:06:44.140 --> 01:06:45.220 would you say that I care about you? 01:06:48.700 --> 01:06:50.040 Who's the pastor that cares about you? 01:06:50.740 --> 01:06:52.140 The one that wants to give you all these, 01:06:52.220 --> 01:06:54.400 oh, this guy never says anything negative to me. 01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:56.160 Is that the one that cares about you? 01:06:56.780 --> 01:06:57.920 Or is it the one that's saying, 01:06:57.920 --> 01:06:58.740 hey, you have a bad attitude, 01:06:58.860 --> 01:07:00.240 you have a bad spirit, hey, you need to fix this, 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:01.220 hey, you need to get this corrected? 01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:04.320 I mean, what's the guy that cares about you? 01:07:06.340 --> 01:07:08.580 And you know, I preach sermons, this is what's funny. 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:10.520 I love verse 12 so much, okay? 01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:11.820 This is so funny about it. 01:07:12.020 --> 01:07:13.500 It's like, you get up and you preach a sermon 01:07:13.500 --> 01:07:14.640 and this is like, is that about me? 01:07:16.560 --> 01:07:17.640 But isn't that kind of attitude? 01:07:18.180 --> 01:07:20.200 He's like, oh, he wrote that epistle because of me. 01:07:21.020 --> 01:07:22.240 You know, the guy that got wronged. 01:07:22.340 --> 01:07:23.760 No, he wrote the epistle about me 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:25.080 because I'm the one that got wrong, you know? 01:07:25.500 --> 01:07:26.680 The guy that did wrong, he's like, 01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:27.920 I didn't even preach it for either of y'all. 01:07:28.540 --> 01:07:31.160 I was just doing it because I care about the whole church 01:07:31.160 --> 01:07:31.960 and I want things to be fixed. 01:07:32.560 --> 01:07:34.520 And it's like, as a pastor, you get it up and you're just like, 01:07:34.660 --> 01:07:36.800 hey, I want to preach about this idea 01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:37.960 or this subject or whatever 01:07:38.340 --> 01:07:40.000 and it's probably going to affect a lot of people. 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:42.380 And it's like, ah, that was about me. 01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:45.240 Well, yes, but no, okay? 01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:47.420 And that's why my attitude is always just yes. 01:07:48.140 --> 01:07:50.280 And what I find is so funny is it's like, 01:07:50.680 --> 01:07:52.100 he's like, Pastor Shelley's attitude. 01:07:52.300 --> 01:07:53.220 It's like, when I'm preaching, 01:07:53.420 --> 01:07:54.500 someone comes like, was that about me? 01:07:54.560 --> 01:07:55.120 And I'm just like, yes. 01:07:55.120 --> 01:07:57.820 And there's like people that are like attacking me. 01:07:58.700 --> 01:07:59.920 It'll be like, hey, were you preaching about me? 01:08:00.120 --> 01:08:00.260 No. 01:08:02.700 --> 01:08:07.460 You're like, come on, bro, it's pretty obvious, you know? 01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:08.500 But it's just funny. 01:08:08.640 --> 01:08:10.040 That's why I always adapt the attitude. 01:08:10.580 --> 01:08:11.280 Am I preaching about you? 01:08:11.420 --> 01:08:12.060 Yes, I am. 01:08:12.700 --> 01:08:13.860 Yes, I'm calling you out. 01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:15.140 Why? Because you know what? 01:08:15.140 --> 01:08:15.980 We need to take some ownership 01:08:15.980 --> 01:08:17.340 and you know what the preaching is for you. 01:08:18.120 --> 01:08:20.520 But don't get offended about it being personal. 01:08:21.280 --> 01:08:23.200 Don't get it offended if it touches you a little bit. 01:08:23.500 --> 01:08:24.740 Don't get offended if it's like, 01:08:24.740 --> 01:08:26.440 I think I've said something like that before. 01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:27.260 I've had this attitude. 01:08:27.620 --> 01:08:28.120 You know what you care about? 01:08:28.220 --> 01:08:28.760 Is it true or not? 01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:29.680 That's right. 01:08:29.900 --> 01:08:30.980 And look, even myself included. 01:08:31.320 --> 01:08:32.340 If someone preached about me, 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:33.840 but like what they said was true, 01:08:34.120 --> 01:08:35.600 I'm just like, yeah, well, you know, 01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:36.840 they're right and I need to fix it. 01:08:36.900 --> 01:08:37.960 Or, hey, you know what? 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:39.360 This is an attitude that I should change 01:08:39.360 --> 01:08:40.500 or have a better behavior about. 01:08:41.220 --> 01:08:42.620 You know, it's usually we don't like it 01:08:42.620 --> 01:08:43.780 when it's about us and it's a lie. 01:08:44.500 --> 01:08:45.800 And it's not true, okay? 01:08:45.940 --> 01:08:47.100 That's where it's kind of offensive. 01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:48.700 I care more about the truth 01:08:48.700 --> 01:08:50.120 than I care about my own personal feelings. 01:08:50.300 --> 01:08:50.780 Verse 13, 01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:52.820 therefore we are comforted in your comfort, 01:08:52.820 --> 01:08:55.380 yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we 01:08:55.380 --> 01:08:56.360 for the joy of Titus, 01:08:56.700 --> 01:08:59.360 because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 01:09:00.260 --> 01:09:04.340 For I have boasted anything to him of you. 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:05.500 I'm not ashamed. 01:09:06.020 --> 01:09:07.960 But as we speak all things to you in truth, 01:09:08.100 --> 01:09:09.180 even so are boasting, 01:09:09.780 --> 01:09:11.540 which I made before Titus has found a truth. 01:09:12.200 --> 01:09:14.240 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, 01:09:14.780 --> 01:09:17.740 whileest he remember the obedience of you all, 01:09:18.200 --> 01:09:20.060 how with fear and trembling you received him. 01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:21.380 I rejoice therefore 01:09:21.380 --> 01:09:22.980 that I have confidence in you in all things. 01:09:23.120 --> 01:09:24.480 So he's basically saying, hey, look, 01:09:25.080 --> 01:09:28.840 I was comforted by what happened with Titus 01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:31.200 and I was right about bragging about you guys. 01:09:32.060 --> 01:09:34.840 You know, anything that I boasted him about saying, 01:09:34.860 --> 01:09:35.740 hey, this is a good church. 01:09:36.040 --> 01:09:36.720 They love God. 01:09:37.080 --> 01:09:37.940 They can handle it. 01:09:38.180 --> 01:09:39.340 They can handle the hard preaching. 01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:40.660 It was right. 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:41.480 And you know what? 01:09:42.080 --> 01:09:44.340 As a pastor, as a preacher, as a Christian, 01:09:44.700 --> 01:09:47.060 I love churches that can handle the Bible. 01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:49.860 I love churches that can take correction. 01:09:49.860 --> 01:09:53.480 I love churches that can take the truths of the Bible. 01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:55.860 You don't have as much desire 01:09:55.860 --> 01:09:57.300 and as much boasting in a church 01:09:57.300 --> 01:09:58.720 like they can't handle that doctrine. 01:09:59.040 --> 01:10:00.580 They couldn't handle that sermon. 01:10:00.980 --> 01:10:02.240 They couldn't handle that chapter. 01:10:02.860 --> 01:10:04.120 They couldn't handle that word. 01:10:04.740 --> 01:10:06.260 They couldn't handle that idea. 01:10:06.900 --> 01:10:10.080 That's not as much fun as the church. 01:10:10.540 --> 01:10:12.340 Hey, here's a church that loves the truth. 01:10:12.560 --> 01:10:13.860 Here's a group of people that, 01:10:14.060 --> 01:10:15.720 hey, if you tell them they're doing something wrong, 01:10:15.780 --> 01:10:16.380 they'll fix it. 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:17.920 You come into a church and say, hey, 01:10:17.980 --> 01:10:19.660 you're soul winning needs to improve in this area. 01:10:19.660 --> 01:10:21.120 Instead of them getting offended, 01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:22.580 they're just going to fix it 01:10:22.580 --> 01:10:23.840 and they're getting better at soul winning this area. 01:10:24.220 --> 01:10:25.840 Hey, a church is struggling with gossip. 01:10:26.100 --> 01:10:26.780 You get in there and say, hey, 01:10:26.820 --> 01:10:27.900 you guys are struggling with gossip. 01:10:28.120 --> 01:10:29.080 They're going to stop gossiping 01:10:29.080 --> 01:10:30.940 and they're going to get right on that particular issue. 01:10:31.480 --> 01:10:31.640 Right? 01:10:31.940 --> 01:10:33.240 Whatever the issue is in the church, 01:10:33.340 --> 01:10:35.160 you've got a God committing fortification in the church. 01:10:35.660 --> 01:10:36.980 He's going to get right on that issue 01:10:36.980 --> 01:10:37.880 and the church is going to get right. 01:10:38.080 --> 01:10:39.220 The church is going to back up that issue. 01:10:39.540 --> 01:10:41.180 Hey, you're kind of off on the Lord's Supper here. 01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:42.460 Let's do it this way. 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:44.080 They're going to get right on the Lord's Supper. 01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:46.120 Hey, they're hanging out with the wrong kind of people. 01:10:46.460 --> 01:10:47.360 They're going to say, you're right. 01:10:47.360 --> 01:10:48.840 Let's stop hanging out with the wrong people 01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:49.560 and let's get in church. 01:10:49.780 --> 01:10:51.880 Instead of being like, oh, he's wrong about that 01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:54.860 or he's naive or I can handle it. 01:10:55.380 --> 01:10:56.800 Every Christian can handle it, right? 01:10:58.220 --> 01:11:00.740 No, I'm so strong in my Christian life. 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:01.800 I can hang out with those people. 01:11:02.240 --> 01:11:03.460 I can do that kind of stuff. 01:11:03.660 --> 01:11:04.660 I can go to those places. 01:11:05.360 --> 01:11:06.440 You know, the mature Christian would say, 01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:08.660 I'm not going to go there or hang all these people 01:11:08.660 --> 01:11:09.860 because I don't think I can handle it. 01:11:10.120 --> 01:11:11.400 The temptation is too strong. 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:13.260 I don't want to have that kind of spirit. 01:11:13.460 --> 01:11:14.600 I don't want to pick up their attitudes. 01:11:15.380 --> 01:11:17.200 No, no, no, I can watch Modern Family 01:11:17.200 --> 01:11:18.580 and I won't be affected with feminism. 01:11:20.140 --> 01:11:20.780 Can't, really? 01:11:21.980 --> 01:11:23.720 Oh, I can watch this and do this 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:24.640 and I can listen to this 01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:25.680 and I can go hang out with those people 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:26.720 and I won't be affected. 01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:27.580 I'm so strong. 01:11:28.120 --> 01:11:29.000 I'm an awesome Christian. 01:11:29.480 --> 01:11:31.660 No, no, no, what a meek, humble attitude would say, 01:11:31.740 --> 01:11:33.320 hey, I'm going to separate from those people. 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:36.080 And I want to serve God. 01:11:37.400 --> 01:11:39.560 You know, what's the whole essence of this chapter? 01:11:39.780 --> 01:11:42.140 Getting right with God and taking Christianity seriously. 01:11:42.740 --> 01:11:44.180 Why? Because it can help others. 01:11:44.580 --> 01:11:45.480 It can encourage others. 01:11:45.890 --> 01:11:48.160 When a church takes Christianity seriously 01:11:48.620 --> 01:11:50.480 and takes the problems that they have seriously 01:11:50.480 --> 01:11:51.520 and encouraged Paul. 01:11:52.140 --> 01:11:52.820 And you know what? 01:11:52.860 --> 01:11:54.340 We need to take Christianity seriously. 01:11:54.860 --> 01:11:57.040 We need to take being a steadfast Christian seriously. 01:11:57.200 --> 01:11:58.740 We need to take being a fundamental Baptist seriously 01:11:59.250 --> 01:12:00.620 so we can encourage other people. 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:03.860 There's a lot of people trying to deconstruct the faith. 01:12:04.480 --> 01:12:05.980 Trying to tear down Baptist. 01:12:06.120 --> 01:12:07.560 They're trying to tear down fundamentalism. 01:12:07.840 --> 01:12:09.780 They're trying to tear down the King James only position. 01:12:10.180 --> 01:12:11.480 They're trying to tear down soul winning. 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:13.280 They're trying to tear down all these attitudes. 01:12:13.280 --> 01:12:13.920 But you know what? 01:12:13.940 --> 01:12:15.240 If we take it seriously 01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.240 and we're not making a joke out of being a Baptist, 01:12:18.360 --> 01:12:20.200 we're not making a joke about being a fundamentalist. 01:12:20.320 --> 01:12:23.140 We're not making a joke about our belief systems. 01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:25.160 Well, then you know, I encourage other people. 01:12:25.780 --> 01:12:26.500 You know, we believe that 01:12:26.500 --> 01:12:28.320 you don't have to change anything to be saved. 01:12:28.900 --> 01:12:30.120 You just believe in Jesus Christ. 01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:31.600 But you know what? 01:12:31.660 --> 01:12:32.780 What if then we come in here 01:12:32.780 --> 01:12:34.240 and we didn't change anything? 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:37.080 Well, then we could make our doctrine look silly. 01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:39.000 Right? 01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:41.120 I mean, if we say, you know, 01:12:41.120 --> 01:12:43.280 hey, we give Christian liberty, 01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:45.160 but those that get saved 01:12:45.160 --> 01:12:46.500 are gonna be entwelled by the Holy Spirit 01:12:46.500 --> 01:12:48.400 and when they hear the conviction of the Holy Bible, 01:12:48.660 --> 01:12:49.840 they're gonna become holy 01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:51.100 and they're gonna separate themselves 01:12:51.100 --> 01:12:52.240 and they're gonna become like Christ. 01:12:52.700 --> 01:12:54.100 But then if none of us are being sanctified, 01:12:54.220 --> 01:12:54.880 none of us are being holy, 01:12:55.180 --> 01:12:55.460 you know what? 01:12:55.480 --> 01:12:57.080 We're gonna make Christ doctrine look bad 01:12:57.080 --> 01:12:58.880 and we're gonna be bad ambassadors of Christ 01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:00.740 and the ministry's gonna be blamed. 01:13:01.240 --> 01:13:02.080 The ministry's gonna be blamed 01:13:02.080 --> 01:13:04.280 because we didn't actually do what the Bible is saying here. 01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:06.080 And so we wanna make sure 01:13:06.080 --> 01:13:08.300 that we're not a bad example for Christianity. 01:13:08.660 --> 01:13:09.900 We're not a bad testimony 01:13:10.380 --> 01:13:11.240 for the Word of God, 01:13:11.620 --> 01:13:13.100 but rather we're separating ourselves 01:13:13.100 --> 01:13:14.660 and we're perfecting ourselves in holiness. 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:17.240 And of course, you know, 01:13:17.320 --> 01:13:18.940 this is gonna encourage other people 01:13:19.400 --> 01:13:20.420 to do the right thing 01:13:20.420 --> 01:13:21.820 when they go through tribulation, 01:13:22.040 --> 01:13:23.240 when they go through difficulty. 01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:25.180 And you know, I would say 01:13:26.360 --> 01:13:28.260 another application we could take from this is, 01:13:29.240 --> 01:13:31.600 you know, when you take things seriously, 01:13:31.820 --> 01:13:33.220 you help those that are teaching you. 01:13:34.240 --> 01:13:35.220 You know, if you're a student 01:13:35.780 --> 01:13:38.380 and you're going to class in any capacity, 01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:40.680 you know what, take your studies seriously 01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:42.100 because it'll help your teacher 01:13:42.100 --> 01:13:43.140 feel better about the class. 01:13:44.280 --> 01:13:45.440 Hey, if you're a kid, 01:13:46.260 --> 01:13:48.920 take your parents' rules more seriously, 01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:50.980 take their instructions more seriously 01:13:50.980 --> 01:13:52.360 because it'll encourage them as a parent. 01:13:53.360 --> 01:13:54.400 You know, if you're a kid, 01:13:54.540 --> 01:13:55.720 you won't do anything your parents say, 01:13:55.900 --> 01:13:56.700 you don't care what your parents say. 01:13:56.940 --> 01:13:58.280 Like it's gonna discourage your parents 01:13:58.280 --> 01:14:00.320 and they're not gonna wanna keep investing in you. 01:14:00.860 --> 01:14:04.140 If you actually take your parents' instructions seriously, 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:06.540 it's gonna encourage your parents. 01:14:07.020 --> 01:14:08.760 You know, as members of this church, 01:14:09.160 --> 01:14:10.660 if you take church seriously, 01:14:11.420 --> 01:14:13.220 if you take reading the Bible seriously, 01:14:14.160 --> 01:14:15.480 if you take soul winning seriously, 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:16.840 it's gonna encourage me as your pastor. 01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:19.320 I mean, I can't imagine if I got up 01:14:19.320 --> 01:14:20.820 and I scream and yell about going soul winning 01:14:20.820 --> 01:14:22.100 and then no one goes soul winning, 01:14:22.620 --> 01:14:24.340 well, that's gonna really discourage me as a pastor. 01:14:25.380 --> 01:14:25.840 You know, if you get up 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:26.840 and you preach on church attendance 01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:28.020 and then no one comes to church, 01:14:28.220 --> 01:14:30.560 well, it's gonna be kind of discouraging as a pastor. 01:14:31.240 --> 01:14:33.480 You get up and say, hey, husbands, love your wives 01:14:33.480 --> 01:14:35.680 and then husbands are being jerks and selfish. 01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:37.160 Well, then it's gonna discourage the pastor. 01:14:37.740 --> 01:14:39.080 You know, hey, we should have Christians 01:14:39.080 --> 01:14:40.960 take the Bible seriously. 01:14:41.200 --> 01:14:42.280 We should take our Christianity seriously. 01:14:42.320 --> 01:14:44.400 It's gonna encourage those that are leading and teaching. 01:14:44.900 --> 01:14:46.520 And you know what, as a church, 01:14:47.240 --> 01:14:49.160 we need to be taking church seriously 01:14:49.160 --> 01:14:51.100 so it'll encourage our sending church. 01:14:51.780 --> 01:14:53.380 It'll encourage other churches 01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:55.660 to take Christianity seriously. 01:14:56.480 --> 01:14:58.100 And you know, this church taking their Christianity 01:14:58.100 --> 01:14:59.400 seriously helped the apostle Paul. 01:15:00.080 --> 01:15:01.380 And you know what, we should try to do that 01:15:01.380 --> 01:15:02.780 in our lives because, you know, 01:15:02.780 --> 01:15:04.960 our behaviors affect way more than ourselves. 01:15:05.460 --> 01:15:08.020 They affect other people and other Christians. 01:15:08.820 --> 01:15:10.480 And you know, what we can learn from this lesson 01:15:10.480 --> 01:15:11.800 is that when we perfect in holiness, 01:15:12.020 --> 01:15:13.420 it's not gonna just only affect us, 01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:15.500 it affects so many other people. 01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:17.240 And let us not be accused 01:15:17.240 --> 01:15:18.840 of not taking Christianity seriously, 01:15:19.460 --> 01:15:21.020 but those that are actually steadfast 01:15:21.540 --> 01:15:22.680 and growing in holiness 01:15:23.200 --> 01:15:24.500 and trying to draw closer to the Lord. 01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:25.340 Let's close in prayer. 01:15:26.460 --> 01:15:28.120 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word. 01:15:28.240 --> 01:15:30.480 Thank you so much for these instructions. 01:15:31.060 --> 01:15:32.700 Thank you for giving us an opportunity 01:15:32.700 --> 01:15:35.460 that when we strive to be set apart 01:15:35.460 --> 01:15:36.920 and we strive to draw closer to you, 01:15:37.280 --> 01:15:38.960 that we receive special promises 01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:41.840 and rewards of you being a father unto us. 01:15:42.420 --> 01:15:44.340 I pray that you would help us to be an encouragement 01:15:44.910 --> 01:15:47.600 to other Christians, to other pastors, to other churches. 01:15:48.400 --> 01:15:49.880 I pray that you would help children 01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:51.060 to encourage their parents 01:15:51.060 --> 01:15:53.260 and for members to encourage their pastor 01:15:53.260 --> 01:15:57.280 and for us to all take our roles and lives seriously, 01:15:57.760 --> 01:15:59.300 that we take Christianity seriously. 01:16:00.060 --> 01:16:02.560 And I pray that we would take marriage seriously. 01:16:03.300 --> 01:16:05.480 And I pray that we would understand what holiness is 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:07.860 and that we'd actually have a fear of God 01:16:08.220 --> 01:16:10.160 and would be motivated to do the right thing. 01:16:10.220 --> 01:16:11.160 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.