WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 00:00.600 Amen. 00:00.780 --> 00:02.940 I want to thank Pastor Shelley for the invitation to preach. 00:03.380 --> 00:04.640 We're in Leviticus 19. 00:04.860 --> 00:06.400 Let's look down at verse 19. 00:06.620 --> 00:13.080 The Bible reads, You shall keep my statutes, thou shalt not let thy cattle gender, that's 00:13.080 --> 00:20.140 talking about breeding, with a diverse kind, thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled 00:20.140 --> 00:25.820 seed, neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 00:25.820 --> 00:33.440 So we have a component here of the holiness code and in the Old Testament you've got different 00:33.940 --> 00:34.800 sets of laws. 00:35.000 --> 00:39.800 You have the moral law, you have ceremonial laws, you have feast days, etc. 00:40.860 --> 00:45.840 And when it comes to these ceremonial laws, you know, the New Testament makes it clear 00:45.840 --> 00:51.580 that they have been done away with in Christ, but that doesn't mean that there aren't spiritual 00:51.580 --> 00:55.680 applications and truths that we can extract from a passage like this. 00:56.020 --> 00:59.360 And in this section it says, You shall keep my statutes. 00:59.540 --> 01:01.960 And then it lists a bunch of improper mixtures. 01:02.460 --> 01:07.400 So things that shouldn't be combined together, they should remain separate. 01:07.860 --> 01:14.640 It lists several different, you know, items here and statutes where God is saying, 01:15.020 --> 01:17.080 do not mix these things together. 01:18.120 --> 01:19.280 What do we see? 01:19.280 --> 01:22.280 Well, first of all, it says, You shall keep my statutes. 01:22.720 --> 01:25.660 It's going to go into statutes on improper mixing. 01:26.320 --> 01:29.900 And then it says, you know, no breeding different kinds of animals. 01:31.320 --> 01:36.260 So again, gender is referring to breeding and it's saying, you know, you have one kind 01:36.260 --> 01:40.060 of animal, it shouldn't be breeding with another kind of animal. 01:41.080 --> 01:46.880 This can produce like a weird sterile hybrid of some kind, so you don't want that to 01:46.880 --> 01:47.140 happen. 01:47.140 --> 01:49.120 It talks about no mingled seed. 01:49.260 --> 01:51.580 You don't want to sow your field with mingled seed. 01:52.480 --> 01:57.820 And then it talks about no woollen and linen being mixed together as well in a garment. 01:58.380 --> 02:03.460 Now when the Bible uses the term mingling, it's talking about mixing, combining, blending. 02:04.160 --> 02:10.020 And look, in some instances, God is saying, you have two mutually exclusive options. 02:10.440 --> 02:11.780 You have to pick one. 02:12.260 --> 02:13.700 You can't combine the two. 02:13.700 --> 02:15.880 It's one or the other. 02:16.980 --> 02:18.480 Binary options here. 02:18.940 --> 02:23.700 Why? Because you may have two options that are incompatible with each other and so you 02:23.700 --> 02:24.500 can't have both. 02:25.020 --> 02:29.740 Let's look at Deuteronomy 22 and we'll get another angle of this passage right here. 02:30.220 --> 02:35.860 Because in Deuteronomy, it restates the holiness code with a little bit different 02:35.860 --> 02:41.220 wording, but it's still a warning against mixture and it's warning against mixing 02:41.220 --> 02:41.620 things. 02:43.800 --> 02:46.000 And like I said, there's spiritual application. 02:46.220 --> 02:51.860 I'm not going to be up here for the next hour giving a dissertation on farming and livestock. 02:52.840 --> 02:57.140 I would imagine that if I did that, there would probably be a lot of sleeping heads. 02:57.900 --> 02:59.880 I don't know how I would make that very exciting. 03:00.260 --> 03:02.340 But there's going to be some spiritual application. 03:02.520 --> 03:06.060 But first, we have to understand what God's saying practically because the practical 03:06.060 --> 03:09.500 truth can help us to extract spiritual truths. 03:09.500 --> 03:13.480 And again, certain mixtures are forbidden. 03:14.280 --> 03:15.180 Now, not every mixture. 03:15.340 --> 03:20.020 It's not like all mixing is wrong, but there are some cases where it is wrong. 03:20.320 --> 03:23.500 And in Deuteronomy 22, we get an example of that. 03:24.360 --> 03:26.300 Now, verse five talks about not cross-dressing. 03:26.440 --> 03:27.580 I just wanted to make that point. 03:28.420 --> 03:30.240 If you're a man, you wear man's clothing. 03:30.780 --> 03:33.540 And if you're a woman, you wear woman's clothing. 03:33.860 --> 03:35.020 How about that for not mixing? 03:35.780 --> 03:38.280 Our society needs to get that through its thick skull. 03:38.280 --> 03:41.280 That men should dress like men and women should dress like women. 03:41.420 --> 03:42.960 This shouldn't be a controversial point. 03:43.160 --> 03:47.080 And yet it is in 2026 because our society has lost its mind. 03:48.700 --> 03:49.860 I'm going to calm down now. 03:49.980 --> 03:50.900 Let's read verse number nine. 03:51.260 --> 03:54.580 So look what it says in verse number nine. 03:54.720 --> 03:57.660 The Bible reads in Deuteronomy 22 and verse nine. 03:58.360 --> 04:02.300 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seeds, 04:02.460 --> 04:05.340 lest the fruit of thy seed, which thou hast sown in the fruit of thy vineyard. 04:05.360 --> 04:07.020 Notice, be defiled. 04:07.020 --> 04:10.420 So you don't want to have an improper mixture of seeds 04:10.420 --> 04:13.820 because the result will be a defiled product. 04:14.540 --> 04:19.760 It says in verse 10, thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.700 And so this is distinct here, whereas in Leviticus it was talking about, 04:24.800 --> 04:27.340 you don't want to cross-breed animals. 04:28.040 --> 04:32.800 Here it's saying you don't want the ox and the ass to be plowing together. 04:33.320 --> 04:36.400 And ass, of course, in reference to a donkey. 04:36.400 --> 04:40.380 Verse 11, thou shalt not wear a garment of diverse sorts 04:40.380 --> 04:43.380 as of woollen and linen together. 04:43.780 --> 04:47.680 So no diverse seeds, lest the fruit be defiled. 04:47.780 --> 04:50.340 You have no plowing of the ox and the ass together. 04:50.800 --> 04:53.620 And then you don't want woollen and linen to be mixed as well. 04:53.740 --> 04:58.620 And the title of my sermon is, these things cannot be mixed. 04:59.240 --> 05:01.560 These things cannot be mixed. 05:01.740 --> 05:05.860 I'm going to talk about mutually exclusive options here, 05:05.860 --> 05:08.120 where you cannot combine the two. 05:08.620 --> 05:10.380 You see, there's a tendency for Christians 05:10.860 --> 05:13.880 to think that they could have the best of both worlds, 05:14.040 --> 05:19.360 that they could take A and they can combine it with B and be right with God. 05:19.820 --> 05:23.020 But that's not how it works in certain situations. 05:24.060 --> 05:27.460 And I'm going to talk about exactly what those are here in just a minute. 05:27.720 --> 05:29.340 But let's go back to Leviticus 19. 05:29.980 --> 05:33.720 Again, these things cannot be mixed. 05:34.800 --> 05:37.920 I'm talking about mutually exclusive options. 05:38.220 --> 05:40.040 It's either one or the other. 05:40.260 --> 05:41.080 It can't be both. 05:41.740 --> 05:43.940 And Jesus says this multiple times. 05:44.260 --> 05:45.480 How about in the book of Revelation, 05:46.020 --> 05:48.480 when he rebukes the church at Laodicea, 05:48.880 --> 05:51.960 and he says, hey, I would that you were either cold or hot. 05:52.620 --> 05:53.740 But you're lukewarm. 05:54.160 --> 05:55.180 It's like, pick a side. 05:55.780 --> 05:56.560 You can't have both. 05:57.060 --> 05:57.940 Which one do you want to be? 05:58.240 --> 06:00.720 Do you want to be zealous and hot for the things of God 06:00.720 --> 06:02.840 and on fire for the things of God? 06:02.840 --> 06:04.860 Or do you want to be lukewarm? 06:05.220 --> 06:07.300 Do you want to be on autopilot spiritually 06:07.880 --> 06:11.120 and not accomplishing much and kind of just going through the motions? 06:11.960 --> 06:15.300 And we as Christians should strive to be hot. 06:15.620 --> 06:17.460 We should strive to be zealous. 06:17.860 --> 06:20.420 It shouldn't be said of us that we're Laodicean Christians. 06:20.680 --> 06:23.640 I know that the old IFB likes to pretend 06:23.640 --> 06:26.000 that we're in the Laodicean church age. 06:26.300 --> 06:28.660 But I would say to them, speak for yourself. 06:30.200 --> 06:34.400 I don't see any Laodicean church age in front of me right now on a Sunday night. 06:34.680 --> 06:38.260 I see people who are zealous for the things of God as it should be. 06:38.360 --> 06:39.480 All of us can improve though. 06:39.580 --> 06:40.960 We all have a lot of work to do. 06:41.040 --> 06:44.720 We shouldn't be satisfied with where we're at in terms of our zeal. 06:45.340 --> 06:49.400 And so we should take passages like that as an admonition for us. 06:50.280 --> 06:53.100 In Mark 2, I had you turn back to Leviticus 19. 06:53.760 --> 06:55.800 Jesus said this though, I'll quote it for you. 06:55.800 --> 06:59.460 No man also soweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. 06:59.920 --> 07:03.880 Else the new piece that filled it up, take it away from the old, and the rent is made worse. 07:04.060 --> 07:06.320 And no man puteth new wine into old bottles. 07:06.780 --> 07:12.680 Else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred. 07:12.940 --> 07:16.040 But new wine must be put into new bottles. 07:16.380 --> 07:17.820 So again, Jesus, he did preach. 07:18.260 --> 07:21.160 Certain things cannot be mixed in this parable. 07:21.460 --> 07:25.600 And he talks about you don't want to put a new cloth in an old garment. 07:25.800 --> 07:30.420 He says you don't want to put new wine into old bottles. 07:30.720 --> 07:33.500 These things should remain separate from each other. 07:33.740 --> 07:35.160 They shouldn't be mixed. 07:35.280 --> 07:36.640 You can't mix these things. 07:36.840 --> 07:41.380 And you know, it kind of reminds me of these bozos who want to combine 07:41.380 --> 07:47.100 the Old Testament law that has been done away with and the New Testament. 07:47.860 --> 07:52.380 And they basically want to just destroy the distinction between these two 07:52.380 --> 07:57.760 and sort of improperly combine them together and make the claim that you have to follow 07:57.760 --> 08:01.340 Old Covenant law that has been done away and fulfilled in Christ. 08:01.720 --> 08:06.320 Things like the meats and the drinks, the diverse washings, the carnal ordinances. 08:07.700 --> 08:13.660 And some of them will go even so far as to claim that the name of Jesus is wrong 08:13.660 --> 08:15.640 and that it should be Yeshua. 08:16.600 --> 08:18.700 I had somebody preach this to me. 08:19.280 --> 08:24.320 I got in an Uber in California and I was thinking to myself, you know what? 08:24.680 --> 08:27.160 How cool would it be to get the Uber driver saved? 08:28.240 --> 08:30.360 But unfortunately for me, that didn't happen. 08:30.440 --> 08:33.940 Instead, that guy wanted to preach to me and he wanted to preach about 08:33.940 --> 08:37.340 blending the Old and New Covenant together and this Yeshua trash. 08:38.400 --> 08:42.160 Now the Bible says no man by the spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed. 08:42.420 --> 08:48.020 I find it personally offensive for somebody to tell me that Jesus's name shouldn't be Jesus. 08:48.700 --> 08:50.120 It's personally offensive. 08:50.640 --> 08:54.300 Look, there's tons of jokes that you could make and I'm going to laugh along right with you, 08:54.360 --> 08:58.940 but you don't mess with the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and expect me to be okay with it. 09:00.040 --> 09:06.000 And in fact, as I'm sitting in the car, sometimes you have intrusive thoughts and 09:08.160 --> 09:14.940 I kind of looked at the door handle and I thought to myself, you know, I could open it 09:16.200 --> 09:17.680 and get out, right? 09:18.700 --> 09:20.900 But needless to say, I didn't jump out of the car. 09:21.100 --> 09:24.240 I stayed in and I did argue with the guy. 09:25.640 --> 09:28.140 But regardless, we could all move on from that story. 09:28.220 --> 09:33.200 The point is there's people out there who preach this trash and it deserves to be rebuked. 09:33.280 --> 09:34.940 They're called Judaizers folks. 09:35.720 --> 09:38.840 These are the Judaizers today and they don't understand this concept 09:38.840 --> 09:43.720 that you can't mix that which is not supposed to be mixed, which God said not to. 09:43.720 --> 09:48.560 The reality is there are elements of the old covenant that have been done away with 09:48.560 --> 09:51.320 and so we don't have to follow them. 09:51.360 --> 09:55.200 The Bible says which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse washings and carnal 09:55.200 --> 10:00.520 ordinances, which were imposed on them until the time of Reformation Calvary. 10:01.020 --> 10:08.640 And so there's been a change of the law and the thing is a good way to help you understand 10:08.640 --> 10:14.180 this would be like, let's say you have, you know, you're working and you have a boss who leaves 10:14.180 --> 10:15.960 and now you have a new boss come in. 10:16.400 --> 10:16.840 Well, here's the thing. 10:16.920 --> 10:22.660 The new boss isn't going to necessarily restate everything that the old boss had in place 10:22.660 --> 10:25.980 in terms of rules and statutes and hours and things like that, 10:26.000 --> 10:28.840 but you could expect them to tell you what did change. 10:29.180 --> 10:31.620 And when it comes to the old covenant and new covenant, 10:31.860 --> 10:34.140 the New Testament tells us what changed. 10:34.140 --> 10:38.860 Where it's silent, we can conclude that it must be the same. 10:39.680 --> 10:42.660 So let's look at Leviticus 19 and verse 19 here. 10:43.400 --> 10:44.500 Again, it says, 10:44.660 --> 10:48.440 He shall keep my statutes thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind. 10:49.040 --> 10:51.360 Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed. 10:51.560 --> 10:55.440 Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 10:56.320 --> 10:59.140 And look, there's carnal reasons for this. 10:59.600 --> 11:03.320 If you have mingled seed, the product is going to compete for sunlight. 11:03.320 --> 11:08.240 It'll compete for soil and nutrients and things of that nature. 11:08.580 --> 11:10.760 And it'll just not work. 11:11.320 --> 11:13.740 You could have a messy harvest, disunity. 11:13.940 --> 11:14.920 It might not even grow. 11:15.960 --> 11:19.480 The ox and the ass, if they're plowing together, they have different strengths. 11:19.700 --> 11:22.140 And so the ass will be left behind or killed. 11:23.180 --> 11:26.580 If you crossbreed, you could have a weird hybrid that's sterile. 11:27.960 --> 11:32.360 And woollen and linen creates a garment that is cheap 11:32.360 --> 11:35.560 and of a very low quality and easily rips. 11:36.220 --> 11:39.420 Now let's look at Romans 11 and we'll get into some spiritual application. 11:39.620 --> 11:40.520 Romans chapter 11. 11:41.360 --> 11:43.740 So the first thing that the Bible tells us is, 11:44.140 --> 11:47.000 Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 11:47.620 --> 11:51.880 Linen is plant-based and this represents works. 11:52.720 --> 11:56.180 Whereas woollen is what you would find on a sheep, 11:56.340 --> 12:00.280 this represents the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. 12:00.280 --> 12:04.600 We are all sheep spiritually and we have his imputed righteousness on us. 12:04.800 --> 12:08.940 And the first point is this, you can't mix faith and works for salvation. 12:09.280 --> 12:13.920 You can't mix faith and works for salvation. 12:14.260 --> 12:16.640 And I realize I'm talking to a saved audience here, 12:16.720 --> 12:21.860 but for us we need to make sure that we emphasize this when we get other people saved. 12:21.940 --> 12:23.740 Because we don't want them to be confused. 12:24.120 --> 12:26.800 We don't want them to think that they can just add Jesus 12:26.800 --> 12:29.660 to whatever false religion they currently believe. 12:29.660 --> 12:31.960 But rather they have to actually change their mind. 12:32.660 --> 12:36.220 Now in Romans 11 the Bible makes this clear when it says in verse 5, 12:36.780 --> 12:42.080 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 12:42.860 --> 12:49.700 And if by grace then is it no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. 12:49.860 --> 12:56.040 But if it be of works then is it no more grace, otherwise work is no more work. 12:56.040 --> 13:00.180 So notice salvation can only be faith or works. 13:00.420 --> 13:03.200 They cannot be blended together. 13:03.440 --> 13:05.560 They cannot be mixed together. 13:05.860 --> 13:08.820 These are mutually exclusive options. 13:09.140 --> 13:12.780 You have to pick the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, 13:13.140 --> 13:17.980 his blood shed for us at Calvary or your works, not both of them. 13:18.100 --> 13:24.080 And Romans 11 makes that crystal clear that when you mix these two concepts together 13:24.080 --> 13:26.100 it is insufficient to save. 13:27.020 --> 13:32.120 Just as sure as that garment of woollen and linen is what I would describe, 13:32.220 --> 13:34.580 and the Bible describes it, strange apparel. 13:34.780 --> 13:38.740 I think that the Bible makes reference to this in Zephaniah chapter 1 13:38.740 --> 13:43.760 when it talks about people receiving the judgment of God who have on strange apparel. 13:44.040 --> 13:45.620 And it is strange apparel. 13:45.740 --> 13:50.220 Those who are walking around with woollen and linen is easily damaged, easily torn. 13:50.400 --> 13:52.380 That's not the imputed righteousness of Christ. 13:52.380 --> 13:55.780 Let's look at Galatians 5 together, Galatians chapter 5. 13:56.780 --> 14:00.160 Meanwhile, I'll read to you this verse where it says, 14:00.440 --> 14:03.720 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, 14:04.100 --> 14:06.920 but by the faith of Jesus Christ. 14:07.120 --> 14:12.140 Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ 14:12.140 --> 14:18.200 and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 14:18.840 --> 14:21.320 I don't know how many times the Bible has to tell you this. 14:21.320 --> 14:28.620 It's just over and over and over again that the Scripture says faith not works. 14:29.020 --> 14:31.020 You cannot combine the two. 14:31.480 --> 14:32.440 That's strange apparel. 14:32.880 --> 14:35.000 That's woollen and linen together. 14:36.120 --> 14:37.960 Mixing that which cannot be mixed. 14:38.060 --> 14:39.880 Let's look at Galatians 5 and verse 4. 14:41.120 --> 14:41.900 The Bible says, 14:42.040 --> 14:44.920 Christ has become of no effect under you. 14:45.440 --> 14:50.620 Whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace. 14:51.320 --> 14:57.520 Those who are trusting in the law, trusting in their ability to be good, 14:58.220 --> 15:00.280 the Bible says they are fallen from grace. 15:00.400 --> 15:02.280 Now you have to understand that, 15:02.860 --> 15:03.680 see the Bible says, 15:04.760 --> 15:08.280 the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. 15:08.780 --> 15:10.660 Now those who've rejected that grace, 15:10.920 --> 15:12.960 they've rejected the gospel in God, 15:13.960 --> 15:18.320 they've fallen from grace because they're not trusting in that to be saved. 15:18.320 --> 15:21.040 Now some people will twist this and take it out of context 15:21.040 --> 15:23.500 to teach that you could lose your salvation 15:23.500 --> 15:27.500 when in fact the passage is actually talking about them. 15:28.320 --> 15:30.980 It's talking about them and yet they want to use it 15:30.980 --> 15:34.620 to attack us when in reality it condemns them 15:34.620 --> 15:36.120 because they're trusting in the law 15:36.120 --> 15:39.000 and they've fallen from grace and they're the false prophet. 15:41.640 --> 15:43.960 Let's look at Romans 6, Romans chapter 6. 15:46.040 --> 15:50.080 So there has to be a total and complete trust in Jesus alone. 15:50.420 --> 15:52.920 We need to make sure we emphasize that out of solanings 15:52.920 --> 15:56.180 so that people are not confused because if there isn't 15:56.180 --> 15:59.200 then Jesus will say to them as he does in Matthew chapter 7, 15:59.420 --> 16:02.400 I never knew you because they're trusting in their works. 16:03.960 --> 16:06.560 They talk about how have we not prophesied in thy name 16:06.560 --> 16:08.160 and then I may have cast out devils 16:08.160 --> 16:09.940 and then I named on many wonderful works 16:09.940 --> 16:11.260 and Jesus says I never knew you. 16:12.300 --> 16:15.780 Now Romans 6, I believe it talks about this as well in verse 3. 16:15.940 --> 16:18.000 It says Romans 6 and verse 3. 16:18.520 --> 16:23.400 Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ 16:23.400 --> 16:25.220 were baptized into his death? 16:25.740 --> 16:27.700 So how someone baptized into Jesus? 16:28.280 --> 16:32.060 Well, you have to understand that baptism is a full immersion. 16:32.440 --> 16:35.500 So for me to be baptized into Jesus, 16:36.540 --> 16:39.220 there's a figurative sense in which that can take place 16:39.220 --> 16:42.480 which is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ 16:42.480 --> 16:44.760 and fully being immersed in Jesus 16:44.760 --> 16:48.220 rather than 50% Jesus, 50% myself. 16:48.700 --> 16:50.020 There has to be a full immersion. 16:50.280 --> 16:51.540 It's not faith and works. 16:51.680 --> 16:54.820 You're fully immersed in Christ alone to get you to heaven. 16:55.080 --> 16:56.220 Now what is this called? 16:57.160 --> 16:58.700 This is called repentance. 16:59.380 --> 17:00.660 And let me tell you something. 17:01.080 --> 17:03.020 We believe in repentance here. 17:04.320 --> 17:07.320 The church that you're sitting in right now believes repentance. 17:08.340 --> 17:09.700 You say, why are you mad? 17:09.980 --> 17:12.180 Because people keep saying the opposite. 17:12.640 --> 17:13.440 And you know what? 17:13.460 --> 17:15.720 It pisses me off because it's a lie. 17:16.600 --> 17:19.160 And I hate lies and I hate false accusations 17:19.160 --> 17:21.440 and yet we're constantly plastered with this lie 17:21.440 --> 17:23.000 that we don't believe in repentance. 17:23.300 --> 17:24.400 When we do believe in it, 17:24.440 --> 17:26.540 we preach it every single time we go soul-winning. 17:26.860 --> 17:29.280 Every single time we get someone saved, 17:29.480 --> 17:30.900 we preach repentance. 17:33.820 --> 17:35.980 But someone said we don't believe repentance. 17:35.980 --> 17:37.160 And I'm going to tell you who it is 17:37.160 --> 17:38.340 and I'm going to use the name 17:38.340 --> 17:41.260 because I don't care he deserves his name to be shouted out. 17:42.840 --> 17:45.480 Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church 17:46.680 --> 17:49.880 and Apologia Radio is a slanderer. 17:52.320 --> 17:53.100 I'll get to that. 17:56.620 --> 17:57.720 Man, don't spoil it. 17:57.820 --> 17:58.020 All right. 17:58.160 --> 17:58.460 All right. 17:58.540 --> 17:59.180 Let's keep going here. 17:59.300 --> 17:59.900 So he says this. 18:00.180 --> 18:00.840 Listen to this quote. 18:00.980 --> 18:01.140 Okay. 18:03.320 --> 18:04.400 He says he... 18:04.960 --> 18:07.000 So let me explain the context here. 18:07.260 --> 18:09.500 He's talking about Pastor Anderson. 18:10.620 --> 18:12.860 Now what he says about Pastor Anderson, 18:13.020 --> 18:14.080 believe it or not, is wrong 18:14.720 --> 18:16.540 and he's attacking all of us 18:16.540 --> 18:18.840 because we believe the exact same thing 18:18.840 --> 18:20.520 and every saved person in the world 18:20.520 --> 18:21.720 believes the exact same thing. 18:22.300 --> 18:23.280 This is what he says. 18:23.920 --> 18:26.580 He does preach a false gospel without question. 18:27.280 --> 18:28.360 Now I'm going to stop right there 18:28.360 --> 18:30.200 and say if you think Pastor Anderson 18:30.200 --> 18:33.020 preaches a false gospel, you're not saved. 18:36.620 --> 18:38.360 And he's a false teacher. 18:39.200 --> 18:41.660 He denigrates the gospel of the apostles 18:41.660 --> 18:44.160 and essentially mocks the idea 18:44.160 --> 18:46.820 of calling people to repent and believe. 18:47.720 --> 18:48.280 No, we don't. 18:48.880 --> 18:53.220 To turn from sin to trusting in Christ. 18:53.560 --> 18:54.180 All of that. 18:54.420 --> 18:55.560 Direct quote right here. 18:55.640 --> 18:59.160 You can't say that I'm misrepresenting the guy. 18:59.800 --> 19:01.060 He says he does not. 19:01.220 --> 19:03.780 He denigrates that idea of repentance and faith 19:03.780 --> 19:05.500 so he is a false teacher. 19:05.800 --> 19:07.900 He does preach a false gospel. 19:09.760 --> 19:12.120 So he's accusing us of not believing 19:12.120 --> 19:13.740 in repentance and faith. 19:14.020 --> 19:16.640 He's saying that we preach a false gospel. 19:16.780 --> 19:17.940 And again, we, why? 19:18.040 --> 19:20.120 Because we believe the exact same thing. 19:20.240 --> 19:21.660 So he's accusing us too. 19:22.640 --> 19:24.740 Now this is utterly preposterous. 19:24.940 --> 19:26.280 We don't deny repentance. 19:26.520 --> 19:27.000 But you know what? 19:27.160 --> 19:29.360 If you believe repentance is a turning from sin, 19:29.960 --> 19:31.860 yeah, we deny your false repentance 19:31.860 --> 19:35.400 but we believe in true, here's the thing, 19:35.520 --> 19:36.900 we believe in the right definition, 19:37.380 --> 19:40.120 true repentance in the context of salvation. 19:42.960 --> 19:45.720 Because we define repentance correctly, 19:46.060 --> 19:48.040 that doesn't mean that we reject it wholesale. 19:48.460 --> 19:51.860 We reject your false marred version of it, Jeff Durbin. 19:54.320 --> 19:56.440 He says repentance is a turning from sin. 19:57.260 --> 19:59.180 The problem is God repents in the Bible 19:59.180 --> 20:00.420 more times than man. 20:00.420 --> 20:01.120 Did God sin? 20:01.620 --> 20:02.660 Of course not. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.160 The word repent is a neutral word. 20:05.540 --> 20:07.060 It just means to turn or change. 20:07.720 --> 20:10.480 So you can have it even used 20:11.040 --> 20:12.880 in the context of something positive. 20:13.400 --> 20:15.520 Like in the book of Jeremiah it literally says 20:15.520 --> 20:18.480 that God may repent of the good blessings 20:18.480 --> 20:21.900 if the people continue down their wicked ways. 20:22.140 --> 20:24.280 And then obviously God does in some instances 20:24.280 --> 20:25.940 repent of the evil that he said 20:25.940 --> 20:26.840 he would do under the people 20:26.840 --> 20:29.940 if they decide to change their ways as well. 20:29.940 --> 20:31.460 They don't get destroyed physically 20:31.460 --> 20:33.500 as a result of God's judgment. 20:33.500 --> 20:35.920 But the point is God repents in the Bible. 20:36.120 --> 20:39.060 The word is defined by its context. 20:39.200 --> 20:40.720 And in the context of salvation 20:40.720 --> 20:43.840 it is a turning from unbelief to belief. 20:44.120 --> 20:46.560 And this is why when we get someone saved 20:46.560 --> 20:49.160 we ask them, hey, did you change your mind 20:49.160 --> 20:50.620 about how to go to heaven? 20:50.800 --> 20:54.000 And if they say yes, you proceed to pray with them. 20:54.400 --> 20:56.640 But this guy, Jeff Durbin, 20:57.080 --> 20:58.700 he literally, or Durbin whatever, 20:58.700 --> 21:02.940 he literally says that we deny repentance. 21:03.300 --> 21:05.060 And of course this is a total lie. 21:05.340 --> 21:07.820 But here's the thing, he's pretending to not understand. 21:08.260 --> 21:10.020 He's pretending to not understand 21:10.020 --> 21:12.120 because this individual is cunning. 21:12.860 --> 21:14.440 He is a cunning person. 21:14.880 --> 21:15.640 He knows better. 21:15.920 --> 21:16.920 He knows what we believe. 21:17.200 --> 21:18.580 He's misrepresenting on purpose. 21:19.140 --> 21:21.740 And this is a guy who thinks drinking is okay. 21:22.140 --> 21:23.140 And you know what? 21:23.420 --> 21:25.820 He allegedly told his drill sergeant 21:25.820 --> 21:28.380 that he was a homo to get out of the military. 21:28.700 --> 21:32.100 Does this seem like a guy that we should get doctrine from? 21:32.800 --> 21:34.780 First of all, he doesn't even have salvation right. 21:35.160 --> 21:36.020 And second of all, 21:36.280 --> 21:39.160 he literally allegedly, according to his own parents, 21:39.560 --> 21:42.300 told the drill instructor that he was a fag. 21:44.280 --> 21:47.200 So an unsaved sodomite, let's all rally around him, right? 21:47.760 --> 21:48.840 Does that make any sense whatsoever? 21:49.440 --> 21:51.240 Of course not, if you have a working brain. 21:51.820 --> 21:53.820 But yet some people can't figure this out. 21:54.100 --> 21:57.080 This Jeff Durbin is a false prophet bound for hell. 21:58.100 --> 21:59.040 He's a devil. 21:59.380 --> 22:00.960 He perverts the gospel of Christ. 22:01.080 --> 22:02.840 The Bible says, let him be accursed. 22:03.200 --> 22:05.180 I want nothing to do with this fool. 22:05.400 --> 22:08.880 I want nothing to do with somebody preaching damnable heresy, 22:09.160 --> 22:12.140 falsely accusing us of denying repentance 22:12.140 --> 22:14.400 when all we do is actually define it correctly. 22:14.820 --> 22:17.600 Because we don't mix faith and works here in this church. 22:17.760 --> 22:19.880 The Bible is, you know, obvious. 22:20.040 --> 22:21.620 It's obviously tells us it's clear 22:21.620 --> 22:23.840 that you can't mix these two concepts. 22:24.400 --> 22:25.560 Jeff Durbin does. 22:25.560 --> 22:27.260 And so guess what? 22:27.380 --> 22:29.480 As a result, he's going to burn in hell when he dies. 22:33.400 --> 22:35.820 But you know, I'm not surprised that somebody like that would lie. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.340 False prophets, of course, have a proclivity to lie. 22:40.460 --> 22:43.500 But regardless, you know, turning from sin is works. 22:43.920 --> 22:45.840 You know, the Bible says in God saw their works 22:45.840 --> 22:47.540 that they turned from their evil way. 22:49.300 --> 22:52.300 And so he teaches a workspace gospel. 22:52.660 --> 22:54.260 The Bible also tells us the time is fulfilled 22:54.260 --> 22:55.580 and the kingdom of God is at hand. 22:56.060 --> 22:58.620 Repent ye and believe the gospel. 22:59.260 --> 23:01.180 Turn from whatever you were trusting in before 23:01.700 --> 23:04.320 and believe only in Jesus Christ to be saved. 23:04.800 --> 23:07.420 Let's go to 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1. 23:09.820 --> 23:13.440 You could look at Acts 19.4, Acts 20.21, 23:13.620 --> 23:15.740 and it defines repentance for you. 23:17.800 --> 23:19.900 This is the milk of the word, folks. 23:21.520 --> 23:23.920 But he pretends to not understand our position. 23:25.680 --> 23:27.520 You can't mix faith and works. 23:27.800 --> 23:29.880 Therefore, you know, we need to make sure we emphasize that 23:29.880 --> 23:30.980 when we evangelize. 23:31.440 --> 23:33.940 But what else did we see in the holiness code? 23:34.440 --> 23:34.600 It said, 23:34.680 --> 23:39.760 So God prohibits mingled seed. 23:40.240 --> 23:43.820 And I already explained why practically, 23:44.120 --> 23:46.020 but let's look at a spiritual application of that 23:46.020 --> 23:49.780 in 1 Peter 1 and verse 23, where the Bible reads, 23:49.780 --> 23:54.100 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, 23:54.620 --> 23:57.940 but of incorruptible, pay attention to this part, 23:58.520 --> 24:03.680 by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 24:04.360 --> 24:07.420 So the incorruptible seed is the word of God. 24:08.240 --> 24:10.820 And remember, in Leviticus it said, 24:10.980 --> 24:13.680 Don't sow your field with mingled seed. 24:14.460 --> 24:16.960 As believers, we need to make sure that we're sowing, 24:16.960 --> 24:22.140 not with mingled seed, but rather with the incorruptible seed 24:22.140 --> 24:23.700 of the word of God itself. 24:25.040 --> 24:26.640 Now what would be mingled seed? 24:27.400 --> 24:33.460 Well, a lot of churches are trying to sow with mingled seed, 24:33.820 --> 24:38.260 meaning that their congregations are filled with every Bible you could imagine. 24:38.420 --> 24:40.240 There's people with the KJV. 24:40.640 --> 24:42.540 There's people with the ESV. 24:42.860 --> 24:44.660 There's people with the NASB. 24:44.660 --> 24:49.400 And imagine just trying to fulfill the Great Commission 24:49.400 --> 24:51.800 with a bunch of mingled seed where you're sowing 24:51.800 --> 24:53.300 different kinds of seeds everywhere. 24:54.380 --> 24:55.480 It's not going to work. 24:56.060 --> 24:58.000 Imagine trying to fulfill the Great Commission 24:58.000 --> 25:00.680 where some people are going out with the King James, 25:00.840 --> 25:02.740 other people are going out with the New King James, 25:02.900 --> 25:05.240 other people are going out with an ESV, 25:05.480 --> 25:08.300 with an NIV, with these critical text Bibles. 25:08.640 --> 25:10.320 The product will be defiled fruit, 25:11.020 --> 25:15.180 just as sure as the agricultural law told us 25:15.180 --> 25:18.040 not to mingle these seeds lest the vineyard 25:18.040 --> 25:20.100 ends up with a defiled product. 25:20.540 --> 25:24.840 And the thing is, the word of God can't be our final authority 25:25.440 --> 25:28.160 if we're using a whole bunch of different Bibles 25:28.160 --> 25:29.380 that say different things. 25:29.680 --> 25:33.140 And the modern versions are completely distinct 25:33.140 --> 25:34.640 from the King James Bible. 25:35.460 --> 25:38.300 And they produce false doctrine as a result. 25:38.300 --> 25:42.360 They produce false doctrine, which is defiled fruit. 25:43.380 --> 25:45.440 And churches shouldn't be blending these together. 25:45.980 --> 25:48.160 Let's look at Isaiah 30, Isaiah chapter 30. 25:48.840 --> 25:52.400 My next point is you can't mix modern Bibles with the King James. 25:52.860 --> 25:56.540 You cannot mix modern Bibles with the King James Bible. 25:56.960 --> 25:59.460 Isaiah 30, it says in verse number 8, 26:00.000 --> 26:04.720 a passage here that articulates the doctrine of preservation. 26:04.720 --> 26:07.180 Isaiah 30 and verse 8. 26:08.280 --> 26:10.760 Again, you cannot blend a whole bunch of Bibles together 26:10.760 --> 26:14.440 in one congregation and expect to be effective 26:14.440 --> 26:18.240 when you go out and sow seed that has been mixed together. 26:18.560 --> 26:21.280 You have to have the incorruptible seed, the word of God, 26:21.440 --> 26:24.760 in order to be successful at the Great Commission. 26:25.100 --> 26:26.960 Look at Isaiah 30 and verse 8. 26:27.220 --> 26:30.060 The Bible says in Isaiah 30 and verse 8, 26:30.240 --> 26:33.380 now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book 26:33.380 --> 26:37.180 that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. 26:37.480 --> 26:38.940 How long does God's word last? 26:39.680 --> 26:39.940 Forever. 26:41.160 --> 26:43.700 It has been preserved throughout all ages. 26:44.100 --> 26:45.260 It lasts forever. 26:45.720 --> 26:47.720 This is the doctrine of preservation 26:47.720 --> 26:50.460 and the modern versions are incompatible 26:50.460 --> 26:52.100 with the doctrine of preservation 26:52.100 --> 26:55.600 because they stem from corrupt manuscripts 26:56.460 --> 27:00.880 that were literally unearthed in the 1800s. 27:01.740 --> 27:04.260 So they were absent for all of that time. 27:04.760 --> 27:05.680 They weren't in use. 27:06.000 --> 27:07.100 They weren't being preserved. 27:07.440 --> 27:10.840 They weren't being passed down from generation to generation. 27:11.500 --> 27:14.840 And so we shouldn't be mingling our seeds 27:14.840 --> 27:20.180 with the NIV, the ESV, the NASB, and going out and sowing 27:20.880 --> 27:23.080 because these things say different things. 27:23.200 --> 27:24.680 They teach different doctrines. 27:24.780 --> 27:27.080 They're opposed to the King James Bible 27:27.080 --> 27:28.440 that you have in your lap. 27:30.880 --> 27:34.840 Now I want to prove this to you because here's the thing. 27:36.040 --> 27:39.640 If the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God, 27:40.340 --> 27:44.720 we can expect that the received text Bibles that came before it 27:44.720 --> 27:46.580 say essentially the same thing. 27:46.980 --> 27:48.620 And that's exactly the case. 27:48.940 --> 27:50.900 You could watch the preserved Bible documentary 27:50.900 --> 27:52.660 for proof of that where we go through 27:52.660 --> 27:53.780 and we show you the Tyndale 27:53.780 --> 27:55.980 and the Coverdale Bible and the Matthews Bible. 27:56.180 --> 27:56.500 Why? 27:56.680 --> 27:57.980 Because in the English language, 27:58.560 --> 28:02.580 God did preserve His Word and, yes, the English Bible 28:02.580 --> 28:05.120 did go through a refining process 28:05.120 --> 28:07.020 up until the King James Bible 28:07.020 --> 28:09.240 when it reached its completion point. 28:09.600 --> 28:10.940 And I think the same thing is true 28:10.940 --> 28:13.080 for the printed Greek New Testament 28:13.080 --> 28:17.620 where it starts out with the Erasmus Greek New Testament 28:17.620 --> 28:19.740 and you go through, you have Stefanus, 28:19.880 --> 28:22.560 you have Elzavir's edition of the Greek New Testament, 28:22.560 --> 28:25.560 which is where we get the term textus receptis. 28:25.560 --> 28:29.400 You have Beza and then you have in 1894 the Scrivener. 28:29.900 --> 28:33.320 This, by the way, is essentially just a synthesis 28:33.320 --> 28:36.120 of the Greek that underlies the King James Bible. 28:36.360 --> 28:39.620 It was not back translated from the English. 28:40.060 --> 28:40.600 That's stupid. 28:40.920 --> 28:44.640 In reality, it just synthesizes Stefanus and Beza 28:44.640 --> 28:47.200 to give you the Greek that the translators used 28:47.200 --> 28:50.200 when they translated the King James Bible. 28:50.320 --> 28:51.920 And then of course you have the Daniel Bomberg, 28:52.140 --> 28:53.880 Hebrew Old Testament as well. 28:53.880 --> 28:56.160 And that is the preserved Word of God, 28:56.500 --> 28:58.880 the Hebrew, the Greek and the lingua franca 28:58.880 --> 29:00.600 of our world, the English. 29:01.300 --> 29:03.540 And yes, it went through a refining process 29:03.540 --> 29:07.780 and that's why these Bibles that come from the right source, 29:07.960 --> 29:10.800 the right textual stream, the received text of Scripture 29:11.220 --> 29:12.520 say the same thing. 29:12.900 --> 29:15.140 Meanwhile, here are your modern versions. 29:16.180 --> 29:19.660 Matthew 17 verse 21, absent. 29:21.920 --> 29:26.180 They emit entire verses, they're just gone. 29:27.260 --> 29:29.680 So literally, if you have a modern version of the Bible 29:29.680 --> 29:33.740 and you open it up to Matthew 17, 21, you'll see nothing. 29:34.020 --> 29:35.340 You'll see an empty space there. 29:35.700 --> 29:36.860 Now, there's still a verse number. 29:37.200 --> 29:38.340 Why? I have no idea. 29:38.740 --> 29:40.240 It's still there, but there's no verse. 29:41.400 --> 29:41.880 And you know what? 29:41.960 --> 29:44.200 That's also true for Matthew 18 verse 11. 29:44.440 --> 29:47.060 That's also true for Matthew 23 verse 14. 29:47.320 --> 29:49.640 That's also true for Mark 7 verse 16. 29:49.640 --> 29:52.900 That's also true for Mark 9 verse 44. 29:53.300 --> 29:54.680 Mark 9 verse 46. 29:55.120 --> 29:56.560 Mark 11 verse 26. 29:56.920 --> 29:58.500 Mark 15 verse 28. 29:58.840 --> 30:00.560 Luke 17 verse 36. 30:00.960 --> 30:02.600 Luke 23 verse 17. 30:02.960 --> 30:04.380 John 5 verse 4. 30:04.660 --> 30:05.900 Acts 8, 37. 30:06.460 --> 30:07.640 Acts 15, 34. 30:08.120 --> 30:09.260 Acts 24, 7. 30:09.620 --> 30:10.860 Acts 28, 29. 30:11.340 --> 30:12.580 Romans 16, 24. 30:12.900 --> 30:13.520 They're all gone. 30:14.340 --> 30:17.100 They're just deleted, gone, not there. 30:18.080 --> 30:20.800 But there's a problem, because my Bible says, 30:21.220 --> 30:23.940 man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 30:24.220 --> 30:26.880 How am I supposed to do that if I'm literally reading in the Bible 30:26.880 --> 30:31.020 and there's just parts that are just gone, deleted, blank spaces? 30:33.720 --> 30:36.540 And not only that, the modern versions say 30:36.540 --> 30:38.500 the opposite of the King James in many places. 30:38.680 --> 30:40.100 And I'm going to demonstrate that for you now. 30:40.640 --> 30:42.280 That's why we can't sow with mingled seed. 30:42.560 --> 30:43.960 It'll create a different product. 30:44.280 --> 30:46.840 You'll get strange and new doctrines 30:46.840 --> 30:48.420 from the modern versions. 30:48.680 --> 30:51.340 You'll get defiled fruit from the modern versions. 30:52.340 --> 30:53.540 Go to Hebrews 6. 30:53.680 --> 30:54.460 Hebrews chapter 6. 30:54.580 --> 30:55.320 I'll prove this to you. 30:56.840 --> 30:58.880 The Bible says in 1 Timothy 3, 30:59.380 --> 31:00.440 and without controversy, 31:00.840 --> 31:02.720 great is the mystery of godliness, 31:03.240 --> 31:06.720 God was manifest in the flesh. 31:07.420 --> 31:09.880 So the Bible tells us God was manifest in the flesh. 31:10.220 --> 31:11.500 How did that happen? 31:11.760 --> 31:14.700 Of course, through the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God. 31:15.240 --> 31:17.360 So this is a great passage you could use 31:17.360 --> 31:20.260 to prove the deity of Christ. 31:20.720 --> 31:21.900 Now here's the NLT. 31:22.580 --> 31:23.920 It says without question, 31:24.360 --> 31:26.580 this is the great mystery of our faith. 31:27.000 --> 31:29.140 Christ was revealed in a human body. 31:29.600 --> 31:32.480 So it's not that God was manifest in the flesh. 31:32.780 --> 31:37.060 According to the NLT, the new living translation, 31:37.760 --> 31:38.560 even though it's not living, 31:39.040 --> 31:41.000 it's a new load of trash if you ask me, 31:41.920 --> 31:45.460 it says Christ came in a human body, 31:45.540 --> 31:46.360 revealed in a human body. 31:46.760 --> 31:49.780 Now Hebrews 6, we're just talking about repentance, 31:49.980 --> 31:50.920 notice in verse 1. 32:02.600 --> 32:03.960 What is this talking about? 32:04.060 --> 32:07.840 It's saying that the foundation of our faith is what? 32:08.420 --> 32:11.860 One of the components is repentance from dead works, 32:12.480 --> 32:13.560 faith toward God. 32:14.140 --> 32:15.880 Dead works don't save you. 32:16.240 --> 32:18.380 So you have to repent of trusting in those 32:18.380 --> 32:21.580 and instead place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 32:22.020 --> 32:23.320 Well here's the NLT again. 32:23.840 --> 32:24.260 It says, 32:24.720 --> 32:26.900 so let us stop going over the basic teachings 32:26.900 --> 32:28.500 about Christ again and again. 32:29.080 --> 32:30.840 Let me just stop there for a second and say, 32:31.140 --> 32:33.100 it's amazing to me how these modern versions 32:33.100 --> 32:36.520 not only accomplish just deleting a bunch of scripture, 32:36.520 --> 32:38.100 but they also sound dumb. 32:38.600 --> 32:40.020 They don't have that majestic, 32:40.300 --> 32:41.500 awesome sound of the King James Bible. 32:42.080 --> 32:42.220 It says, 32:42.400 --> 32:45.240 let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. 32:45.680 --> 32:46.880 Surely we don't need to start again 32:46.880 --> 32:50.700 with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds. 32:52.660 --> 32:54.340 Well there's your repenting your sins. 32:54.440 --> 32:55.300 If you're looking for that, 32:55.500 --> 32:57.420 you could just grab an NLT I guess 32:57.420 --> 32:58.740 and you'll find it right there. 32:59.240 --> 33:00.980 So is the foundation of our faith 33:00.980 --> 33:02.580 repentance from evil deeds 33:02.580 --> 33:05.340 or is it repentance from dead works? 33:05.980 --> 33:08.080 Those are two completely different concepts. 33:08.260 --> 33:10.240 Again, you cannot mix these things together. 33:10.700 --> 33:11.920 You want to read the NLT? 33:12.140 --> 33:14.340 You want to read the King James Bible at the same time? 33:14.640 --> 33:17.000 You're going to come out with two very different doctrines. 33:17.160 --> 33:17.800 You've got to pick one. 33:19.700 --> 33:21.680 Look at 2 Corinthians 2. 33:22.000 --> 33:23.440 2 Corinthians chapter 2. 33:25.600 --> 33:27.740 A few more examples of this I want to get to. 33:30.080 --> 33:32.620 2 Corinthians 2 and verse 17. 33:34.240 --> 33:38.560 It says, 2 Corinthians 2 verse 17, 33:38.800 --> 33:41.640 for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God. 33:42.080 --> 33:43.060 Here's the ESV. 33:43.780 --> 33:47.300 For we are not like so many peddlers of the Word of God. 33:48.100 --> 33:50.580 Okay, again there's a problem here. 33:52.300 --> 33:55.120 Is Paul not as many which corrupt the Word of God? 33:55.760 --> 33:57.120 Or peddle it? 33:58.880 --> 34:01.860 Now to peddle, what would be wrong with peddling it? 34:01.860 --> 34:04.240 I mean, isn't that just giving it to somebody? 34:04.360 --> 34:04.800 Maybe I'm wrong. 34:04.920 --> 34:05.860 You could correct me afterward. 34:06.100 --> 34:07.860 But this is totally different. 34:08.700 --> 34:10.220 And so you can't have both. 34:10.460 --> 34:11.760 Let's look at 1 Samuel chapter 1. 34:11.880 --> 34:12.820 1 Samuel chapter 1. 34:12.900 --> 34:14.300 I'll read for you a different example here 34:14.300 --> 34:15.800 as you go to 1 Samuel chapter 1. 34:17.040 --> 34:18.440 The Bible says elsewhere, 34:19.200 --> 34:20.460 I fear lest by any means 34:20.460 --> 34:22.520 as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, 34:22.640 --> 34:24.080 so your mind should be corrupted 34:24.080 --> 34:26.860 from the simplicity that is in Christ. 34:27.920 --> 34:29.100 But the NIV says, 34:29.700 --> 34:31.600 I'm afraid that just as Eve was deceived 34:31.600 --> 34:32.800 by the serpent's cunning, 34:33.260 --> 34:34.920 your minds may somehow be led astray 34:34.920 --> 34:37.440 from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 34:38.120 --> 34:40.380 So is it simplicity that is in Christ 34:40.380 --> 34:42.000 or devotion to Christ? 34:42.320 --> 34:44.060 These are two opposite concepts. 34:44.660 --> 34:46.100 You can't have both. 34:46.760 --> 34:48.560 Is it simplicity or devotion? 34:49.120 --> 34:49.820 You gotta pick one. 34:50.940 --> 34:52.260 Now in the Old Testament, 34:53.080 --> 34:55.500 the modern versions also have a bunch of issues 34:55.500 --> 34:57.920 because they either translate poorly 34:57.920 --> 35:01.020 or they appeal to the Septuagint, 35:01.020 --> 35:03.300 which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament, 35:03.680 --> 35:06.040 or they appeal to the Dead Sea Scrolls, 35:06.720 --> 35:08.540 and it creates a bunch of weird issues. 35:09.020 --> 35:10.580 But here in 1 Samuel 1, 35:10.700 --> 35:11.620 look at verse 24, 35:11.960 --> 35:13.460 1 Samuel 1 and verse 24, 35:13.940 --> 35:15.080 and when she had weaned him, 35:15.600 --> 35:16.340 she took him up, 35:16.400 --> 35:17.080 this is talking about Hannah, 35:17.320 --> 35:19.360 with her with three bullocks. 35:19.860 --> 35:21.920 So she has three bullocks with her. 35:22.400 --> 35:23.320 The NIV says, 35:23.680 --> 35:24.840 after he was weaned, 35:25.120 --> 35:27.000 she took the boy with her young as he was, 35:27.020 --> 35:28.760 along with a three-year-old bull. 35:29.220 --> 35:32.380 And the NIV cites the Dead Sea Scrolls for this change. 35:32.700 --> 35:35.700 So you could see how the source text changes the English. 35:36.120 --> 35:37.000 So what's the point? 35:37.560 --> 35:39.860 Okay, did Hannah have three bullocks 35:39.860 --> 35:41.980 or one three-year-old bull? 35:42.460 --> 35:43.440 You gotta pick one. 35:44.160 --> 35:45.600 You say, well, this isn't that important. 35:46.120 --> 35:49.120 Folks, I want to have the right story here, okay? 35:49.920 --> 35:52.440 And look, I want every detail to be accurate. 35:52.620 --> 35:53.740 If I don't care about accuracy, 35:53.740 --> 35:54.800 then I'll just go ahead and read 35:54.800 --> 35:56.720 the Koran's version of Joseph's story. 35:57.160 --> 35:58.800 Like, we can just all do that then. 35:59.100 --> 36:00.260 Like, what's the difference, right? 36:00.280 --> 36:01.840 We want to have the accurate story, 36:02.260 --> 36:04.920 and these are two very different things that it says. 36:06.020 --> 36:07.020 How about Proverbs 18? 36:07.200 --> 36:07.360 It says, 36:07.520 --> 36:09.420 the words of a tail bearer are as wounds 36:09.880 --> 36:12.320 in the incorruptible seed, the Word of God. 36:12.640 --> 36:13.540 The ESV says, 36:14.000 --> 36:16.580 the words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels. 36:17.620 --> 36:18.260 Well, hold on a minute. 36:19.100 --> 36:21.980 Are they as wounds or are they delicious morsels? 36:22.380 --> 36:23.980 You can't have both. 36:24.320 --> 36:25.180 They're different. 36:25.180 --> 36:26.920 You can't mix them together. 36:28.340 --> 36:30.200 So people are like, oh, it doesn't matter. 36:30.440 --> 36:31.760 You know, the modern versions, 36:32.020 --> 36:35.040 they're just changing the these and the dows 36:35.040 --> 36:36.700 and making it easier to understand. 36:36.920 --> 36:38.160 No, they're changing the meaning. 36:39.020 --> 36:40.720 That's the issue that we have with it. 36:40.800 --> 36:41.980 It's changing the meaning 36:41.980 --> 36:44.780 and saying something completely opposite 36:44.780 --> 36:46.800 to what the King James Bible says, 36:47.000 --> 36:49.080 which is why you cannot mix 36:49.080 --> 36:51.060 the modern critical text Bibles 36:51.060 --> 36:54.360 with the Bibles that came from the preserved line, 36:54.360 --> 36:55.800 the received text of Scripture. 36:58.920 --> 37:01.500 How about this also in Proverbs 18? 37:01.840 --> 37:04.060 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. 37:04.800 --> 37:05.800 Here's the NLT. 37:06.500 --> 37:08.400 There are friends who destroy each other. 37:09.160 --> 37:11.560 What in the heck did I just read? 37:12.760 --> 37:13.720 Here's another one. 37:14.300 --> 37:16.700 A person of too many friends comes to ruin. 37:17.480 --> 37:18.420 Total opposite. 37:18.720 --> 37:19.840 The King James is telling you, 37:19.880 --> 37:21.780 hey, if you want friends, be friendly. 37:21.780 --> 37:24.620 These other ones are just saying the dumbest crap. 37:25.720 --> 37:28.600 One who has unreliable friends comes to ruin. 37:29.800 --> 37:31.860 The critical text Bibles don't even agree 37:31.860 --> 37:33.200 with each other in this passage. 37:33.860 --> 37:34.700 So you know what? 37:34.960 --> 37:36.200 You need to be an NIV only. 37:36.680 --> 37:37.680 You got to pick one then. 37:38.040 --> 37:39.760 Hey, it's like what Joshua said. 37:39.900 --> 37:41.840 It's like, choose you whom you shall serve. 37:42.120 --> 37:43.560 You know, choose you to stay whom you shall serve, 37:44.080 --> 37:45.160 which false gods you want to pick 37:45.160 --> 37:46.820 if you don't like the God of the Bible so much. 37:47.060 --> 37:49.300 You don't like the King James too hard for you to read. 37:49.420 --> 37:50.740 Well, you better pick one of these modern versions 37:50.740 --> 37:52.760 because even they don't agree with each other 37:52.760 --> 37:54.020 in a lot of places. 37:54.420 --> 37:57.760 You got to pick one mutually exclusive options. 37:58.100 --> 38:00.960 These things cannot be mixed. 38:01.300 --> 38:04.020 Proverbs 11, he that wineth souls is wise. 38:04.860 --> 38:05.940 You want to be wise, you go soul winning. 38:06.200 --> 38:07.140 Here's the NLT again. 38:07.660 --> 38:09.180 A wise person wins friends. 38:15.630 --> 38:16.530 Speaks for itself. 38:16.690 --> 38:17.390 I have nothing else to say. 38:17.590 --> 38:19.310 Let's look at Ecclesiastes 4. 38:19.750 --> 38:20.650 Ecclesiastes 4. 38:22.630 --> 38:24.910 A wise person wins friends. 38:25.710 --> 38:26.610 Wow, great. 38:27.050 --> 38:28.250 Thank you for that NLT. 38:28.410 --> 38:30.750 I really appreciate you changing out a verse 38:30.750 --> 38:32.950 that tells us about the importance of soul winning 38:32.950 --> 38:35.510 to tell me about how a wise person wins friends. 38:36.210 --> 38:36.770 Wonderful. 38:37.470 --> 38:38.310 That's awesome. 38:38.890 --> 38:39.870 Except it's not. 38:40.030 --> 38:42.430 Let's look at Ecclesiastes 4 and verse 4. 38:42.670 --> 38:44.650 Ecclesiastes 4 and verse 4. 38:44.970 --> 38:47.850 Again, I considered all travel and every right work 38:47.850 --> 38:49.610 that pay attention to this. 38:50.050 --> 38:53.890 For this, a man is envied of his neighbor. 38:54.430 --> 38:56.010 Now the ESV says, 38:56.610 --> 38:59.690 then I saw that all toil and all skill and work come from 38:59.690 --> 39:01.490 a man's envy of his neighbor. 39:01.790 --> 39:02.690 This isn't going to be... 39:03.470 --> 39:04.390 Okay, you guys got it. 39:04.470 --> 39:04.670 All right. 39:04.830 --> 39:06.270 I was going to say it's not immediately obvious, 39:06.270 --> 39:07.410 but everybody was like, what? 39:08.410 --> 39:09.650 It says the opposite, folks. 39:11.670 --> 39:13.370 Okay, the King James is saying, 39:13.710 --> 39:15.510 for this, a man is envied of his neighbor. 39:15.850 --> 39:21.030 The ESV says that work comes from a man's envy of his neighbor. 39:21.850 --> 39:25.150 So are you envied because you work hard, 39:25.350 --> 39:27.570 or do you work hard because you're envious? 39:28.030 --> 39:28.750 Which one is it? 39:29.030 --> 39:29.830 It can't be both. 39:30.110 --> 39:31.830 So you want to mingle these seeds together 39:31.830 --> 39:33.290 and go out and sow your seed. 39:33.410 --> 39:36.570 Don't be surprised when you have a corrupt fruit 39:36.570 --> 39:37.830 that results from that. 39:37.970 --> 39:40.850 And you have people believing a bunch of weird garbage 39:41.630 --> 39:43.410 because that's what those Bibles say. 39:45.750 --> 39:47.230 And again, if you didn't get it, 39:47.510 --> 39:50.550 the King James is using the word envy passively. 39:51.630 --> 39:56.270 A man is envied by his neighbor because of his labor, 39:56.530 --> 40:00.150 whereas the modern translations are using it actively 40:00.150 --> 40:04.050 as the source of envy, the complete opposite message, 40:04.630 --> 40:06.970 because they're opposed to the King James 100%. 40:07.810 --> 40:08.510 I got to move on. 40:08.590 --> 40:09.590 I can go all night about that. 40:10.330 --> 40:12.630 Let's look at 2 Corinthians 6 together, 40:12.930 --> 40:13.830 2 Corinthians 6. 40:15.890 --> 40:16.830 So you know what? 40:16.970 --> 40:18.750 Instead of walking a thin line 40:18.750 --> 40:21.110 between all these critical text Bibles 40:21.110 --> 40:22.470 and the King James Bible, 40:22.730 --> 40:25.670 why don't you just stick to the preserved word of God this evening? 40:26.510 --> 40:28.110 And we need to educate ourselves 40:28.110 --> 40:30.170 and show people these differences 40:30.170 --> 40:33.070 because there's a lot of confusion about this topic 40:33.070 --> 40:35.270 and people think that it's no big deal. 40:35.590 --> 40:37.330 Oh, you're just splitting hairs. 40:37.810 --> 40:38.270 No, I'm not. 40:38.390 --> 40:40.490 I just showed you how they're totally different from each other. 40:40.870 --> 40:42.330 The meaning is different. 40:42.470 --> 40:44.690 It says the complete opposite of the King James 40:44.690 --> 40:45.830 in many places. 40:46.150 --> 40:47.470 And it teaches work salvation 40:47.470 --> 40:49.590 and it deletes a bunch of verses as well. 40:52.290 --> 40:53.990 So the next point I want to make is this. 40:54.190 --> 40:55.910 You can't mix, excuse me, 40:55.970 --> 40:58.190 you can't mix a believer with an unbeliever. 40:58.610 --> 41:00.810 These are two things that shouldn't be mixed together. 41:01.390 --> 41:03.070 The Bible tells us that you know, 41:03.110 --> 41:06.650 thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 41:07.030 --> 41:10.610 So God is prohibiting plowing the ox with the donkey 41:10.610 --> 41:13.710 because then the donkey would probably just die, 41:13.910 --> 41:16.470 wouldn't be able to keep up with that work. 41:16.970 --> 41:19.050 And also something else to keep in mind too 41:19.050 --> 41:22.870 is that the ass is an unclean animal, 41:23.170 --> 41:24.710 whereas the ox isn't. 41:24.910 --> 41:27.470 And so you're mixing the clean with the unclean. 41:27.710 --> 41:30.690 These two things should remain separate. 41:31.170 --> 41:35.150 You don't want to mix believers with unbelievers. 41:35.450 --> 41:38.470 In this context though, I'll get into that. 41:38.550 --> 41:40.630 I'll get specifically which context I'm talking about. 41:40.710 --> 41:42.770 I'm not saying like you have to go live in a compound 41:42.770 --> 41:46.170 and not ever interact with an unsafe person. 41:46.170 --> 41:47.330 That would make no sense. 41:47.850 --> 41:49.570 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 14, 41:49.930 --> 41:51.690 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 14, 41:52.310 --> 41:52.550 it says, 41:52.910 --> 41:55.850 be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. 41:56.870 --> 41:59.090 For what fellowship at righteousness with unrighteousness 41:59.090 --> 42:01.250 and what communion at light with darkness, 42:01.810 --> 42:02.870 wherefore, verse 17, 42:02.970 --> 42:03.810 I'm gonna skip down for time, 42:04.170 --> 42:04.790 verse 17, 42:05.010 --> 42:06.510 wherefore come out from among them 42:06.510 --> 42:09.290 and be ye separate, sayeth the Lord, 42:09.410 --> 42:11.890 and touch not the unclean thing, 42:12.330 --> 42:13.330 and I will receive you. 42:13.810 --> 42:15.710 So just as sure as the ox and the ass 42:15.710 --> 42:17.790 aren't supposed to be plowing together, 42:18.230 --> 42:21.270 we don't want to be mixing with the unsaved. 42:21.890 --> 42:24.170 Now the ox can represent a pastor. 42:24.470 --> 42:26.970 The Bible talks about this in 1 Thessalonians 5 42:26.970 --> 42:27.650 where it says, 42:28.110 --> 42:30.830 thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn 42:30.830 --> 42:33.570 and in reference to the elder of the church. 42:34.290 --> 42:35.790 And the way I think about it is this. 42:36.130 --> 42:37.830 You don't want to have a church 42:37.830 --> 42:41.010 where it's mixed with safe people and unsafe people. 42:41.350 --> 42:43.230 The church is for the saved. 42:43.430 --> 42:45.390 The church is for the saved. 42:45.390 --> 42:47.730 We shouldn't be unevenly yoked 42:47.730 --> 42:49.810 with unbelievers in church. 42:50.210 --> 42:52.870 So we don't want to have an improper mixing there 42:52.870 --> 42:55.130 in the context of the New Testament church. 42:55.410 --> 42:57.430 Now if somebody comes in 42:57.430 --> 42:58.810 and they're not saved, 42:59.050 --> 43:00.910 we'll give them the gospel, no problem. 43:01.010 --> 43:02.690 And that happens all the time 43:02.690 --> 43:03.910 where somebody comes in, 43:04.010 --> 43:04.770 they get the gospel, 43:05.150 --> 43:06.550 Lord willing, they get saved. 43:06.830 --> 43:08.170 Maybe they even get baptized. 43:08.750 --> 43:09.470 That happens. 43:09.790 --> 43:12.310 But this church is geared toward the saved. 43:12.810 --> 43:13.890 And you say, well, this is obvious. 43:13.890 --> 43:15.810 Why would you have to even say this? 43:16.150 --> 43:17.270 Well, there's a lot of churches, 43:17.430 --> 43:19.390 even in the old IFB where, 43:19.610 --> 43:20.310 and God bless them, 43:20.390 --> 43:21.270 there's old IFB churches 43:21.270 --> 43:22.930 that are doing great works for God. 43:23.030 --> 43:24.970 I'm not trying to be overly negative here. 43:26.030 --> 43:27.590 So there's the caveat, all right? 43:27.750 --> 43:30.170 You can not be offended now. 43:30.670 --> 43:31.410 But the point is, 43:32.030 --> 43:32.490 a lot of them, 43:32.530 --> 43:33.870 they don't really seem to understand this 43:33.870 --> 43:35.510 because they gear their service 43:35.510 --> 43:38.430 toward getting people saved every single Sunday. 43:40.050 --> 43:41.150 And it's like, 43:41.310 --> 43:43.350 the issue with that is people aren't going to grow. 43:44.230 --> 43:46.610 Because if you're just hearing salvation every week, 43:47.210 --> 43:48.770 you're not getting other doctrine. 43:48.870 --> 43:49.570 You're not getting fed. 43:49.730 --> 43:50.330 You're not going to grow. 43:50.570 --> 43:51.330 But here's what they'll say. 43:51.770 --> 43:52.150 They'll say, well, 43:52.210 --> 43:53.590 if you want the meat of the word, brother, 43:54.030 --> 43:54.550 you better, you know, 43:54.630 --> 43:56.490 you're going to have to sign up to the Bible college. 43:57.050 --> 43:58.250 You go to the Bible college 43:58.250 --> 43:59.930 and they'll give you the meat of the word. 44:00.050 --> 44:02.630 You can learn all about dispensationalism, brother. 44:03.370 --> 44:06.470 You could learn about the pre-trib rapture there, 44:06.490 --> 44:09.070 or they just bring a guy in 44:09.070 --> 44:11.270 to teach you the pre-trib rapture 44:11.270 --> 44:12.090 and things like that 44:12.090 --> 44:13.590 because they don't really know 44:13.590 --> 44:14.690 end times, prophecy, whatever. 44:15.050 --> 44:16.330 But my point is, you know, 44:16.790 --> 44:18.410 I don't agree with this mentality 44:19.270 --> 44:20.550 because I believe 44:20.550 --> 44:22.750 that church should be geared toward the saved 44:22.750 --> 44:25.150 and you shouldn't have to go sign up 44:25.150 --> 44:26.470 to pay thousands of dollars 44:26.470 --> 44:28.230 to learn the meat of the word. 44:28.490 --> 44:29.970 It should be done every Sunday morning, 44:30.170 --> 44:31.830 Sunday night, and Wednesday night at church. 44:32.290 --> 44:33.530 And praise God. 44:33.630 --> 44:34.310 We're part of a church. 44:34.450 --> 44:35.310 Don't take it for granted 44:35.310 --> 44:37.410 where the man of God gets up 44:37.410 --> 44:38.990 and he feeds you the Bible 44:38.990 --> 44:40.390 and he doesn't filter it 44:40.390 --> 44:41.430 and he gives you everything 44:41.430 --> 44:43.110 from the milk to the hard meat 44:43.110 --> 44:44.110 whether you like it or not. 44:44.630 --> 44:45.730 That's what we have here. 44:46.010 --> 44:47.470 And that's the way it should be 44:47.470 --> 44:49.670 because how is the ox supposed to plow 44:49.670 --> 44:51.490 with a bunch of asses? 44:53.730 --> 44:55.050 Some of you laughed and you're immature. 44:57.110 --> 44:59.170 How are you supposed to plow with donkeys? 44:59.770 --> 45:00.630 It doesn't work. 45:00.930 --> 45:03.330 And the pastor has to have saved brethren 45:03.330 --> 45:04.930 to fulfill the Great Commission 45:04.930 --> 45:06.290 to go out and preach the gospel 45:06.290 --> 45:07.410 of Jesus Christ. 45:07.670 --> 45:08.650 And he can't do that 45:08.650 --> 45:10.310 if there's a bunch of unsaved people 45:10.310 --> 45:11.130 in the church. 45:11.350 --> 45:12.450 It's not going to be as effective. 45:12.550 --> 45:14.490 In fact, I would argue it'll be dysfunctional 45:14.490 --> 45:16.790 if you have like the Repeniors' Sin section here, 45:17.270 --> 45:18.690 the Yeshua section there, 45:19.130 --> 45:20.610 the Judaizers there, 45:20.910 --> 45:22.830 and the baptismal regeneration. 45:23.410 --> 45:25.970 You have to be baptized to be saved section over here. 45:26.150 --> 45:27.330 Sorry, Diego and Samuel. 45:27.790 --> 45:29.730 It's like, what the heck is this? 45:30.730 --> 45:31.690 Hey, I want to go to a church 45:31.690 --> 45:33.310 where everybody believes the same thing 45:33.310 --> 45:34.290 about how to go to heaven 45:34.290 --> 45:35.210 at the very least. 45:35.730 --> 45:37.690 Yeah, we have different views on food. 45:37.830 --> 45:38.370 I get it. 45:39.050 --> 45:40.310 I understand that. 45:41.390 --> 45:43.210 Some of you may not like what I eat 45:43.210 --> 45:44.330 on a regular basis. 45:45.290 --> 45:46.130 That's all right. 45:46.670 --> 45:48.090 Hey, no problem with that. 45:48.530 --> 45:50.630 Some of you may cheer for different sports teams. 45:50.810 --> 45:51.570 Okay, great. 45:51.910 --> 45:52.530 I don't care. 45:53.190 --> 45:53.990 Doesn't bother me. 45:54.090 --> 45:54.390 But you know what? 45:54.410 --> 45:55.790 At the very least, we understand 45:55.790 --> 45:57.930 and we agree on how to go to heaven. 45:58.450 --> 45:59.930 And that's how it should be 45:59.930 --> 46:01.190 in every New Testament church. 46:01.590 --> 46:02.670 I should have to walk in 46:02.670 --> 46:03.570 and be worried 46:03.570 --> 46:04.990 that somebody's going to preach to me 46:04.990 --> 46:06.410 some damnable heresy. 46:06.410 --> 46:08.470 That's not the way it works. 46:08.630 --> 46:10.850 And that's not how church should be geared. 46:11.210 --> 46:12.650 It should be geared toward the saved 46:12.650 --> 46:14.750 so we can grow together in the Lord. 46:16.730 --> 46:19.930 Let's look at nothing. 46:20.290 --> 46:20.770 I have more to say. 46:21.250 --> 46:22.110 So here's the thing, folks. 46:23.310 --> 46:24.710 Another way you could apply this 46:25.270 --> 46:27.990 is when it comes to friendships. 46:29.150 --> 46:30.790 You know, the Bible asks the rhetorical question, 46:30.950 --> 46:31.950 can two walk together 46:31.950 --> 46:33.750 except they be agreed? 46:34.370 --> 46:35.890 You want to be evenly yoked? 46:35.890 --> 46:39.530 Your closest friends should be people 46:39.530 --> 46:41.290 who are saved, in my opinion. 46:41.810 --> 46:43.230 Your closest friends. 46:44.010 --> 46:45.650 I'm not saying it's like impossible 46:45.650 --> 46:47.670 to have a friend who isn't saved 46:47.670 --> 46:49.190 and you're trying to work on him or whatever. 46:49.630 --> 46:50.170 It's not what I'm saying. 46:50.450 --> 46:51.610 But I think the closest people 46:51.610 --> 46:52.710 that you have in your life, 46:53.090 --> 46:54.610 hey, they should be spiritual family. 46:55.210 --> 46:56.710 And that's the case for me. 46:57.570 --> 46:59.410 I love my spiritual family. 46:59.750 --> 47:00.490 They are my family. 47:00.590 --> 47:01.970 Just period, you know. 47:04.090 --> 47:05.490 Now, let's talk about, 47:06.070 --> 47:07.970 I want to talk about marriage here, marriage. 47:08.850 --> 47:10.650 Now, in Leviticus 19, it said, 47:10.770 --> 47:12.110 thou shalt not let thy cattle 47:12.110 --> 47:13.650 gender with a diverse kind. 47:13.970 --> 47:15.330 So you don't want crossbreeding 47:15.330 --> 47:16.810 of the livestock because 47:17.450 --> 47:21.290 it will lead to a weird offspring 47:21.290 --> 47:23.610 that is either just not going to live 47:23.610 --> 47:25.650 for very long or it'll be sterile 47:25.650 --> 47:28.770 or just, you know, 47:29.490 --> 47:30.870 just dysfunctional in some way. 47:30.870 --> 47:31.390 All right. 47:33.810 --> 47:35.930 And so you need to marry a saved person 47:35.930 --> 47:37.390 is the point I'm trying to make here. 47:37.510 --> 47:40.290 You don't want to go outside of the 47:40.290 --> 47:41.710 family of God in the sense 47:41.710 --> 47:42.670 like you want to marry somebody 47:42.670 --> 47:43.990 at the very least who is saved. 47:44.490 --> 47:46.210 Now, look, I think beyond that, 47:46.490 --> 47:47.810 my recommendations would be, 47:48.130 --> 47:49.870 hey, make sure you're aligned 47:49.870 --> 47:51.670 on serving the Lord as well, though. 47:52.110 --> 47:54.170 So yes, the person should be saved, 47:54.290 --> 47:54.910 bare minimum. 47:55.130 --> 47:56.210 They got to check that box. 47:56.430 --> 47:57.970 But they should also be somebody 47:57.970 --> 47:59.090 who you're aligned with 47:59.090 --> 48:01.630 on serving Jesus Christ as well 48:01.630 --> 48:03.370 on where you're going to go to church, 48:03.570 --> 48:05.690 level of zeal, etc. 48:06.110 --> 48:07.350 Now, look, it's totally normal 48:07.350 --> 48:09.090 for within a marriage 48:09.090 --> 48:10.830 to have one spouse that's a little 48:10.830 --> 48:12.070 more zealous than the other. 48:12.350 --> 48:14.070 And sometimes it ebbs and it flows 48:14.070 --> 48:16.190 where perhaps the wife is more zealous 48:16.190 --> 48:17.030 at some points, 48:17.270 --> 48:18.350 the husband's more zealous 48:18.350 --> 48:19.230 at other points, whatever. 48:19.430 --> 48:19.930 I get that. 48:20.210 --> 48:21.850 But you don't want to put yourself 48:21.850 --> 48:24.190 in a scenario where you're fighting 48:24.190 --> 48:25.830 about where to go to church 48:25.830 --> 48:27.350 or you're fighting about doctrines 48:27.350 --> 48:27.910 of the Bible. 48:28.350 --> 48:29.410 You say, well, I'm married 48:29.410 --> 48:30.630 to an unsaved person. 48:31.050 --> 48:33.370 Well, look, that could be the case. 48:33.670 --> 48:36.470 And if it is, be the best spouse 48:37.030 --> 48:39.450 you can possibly be. 48:40.110 --> 48:41.410 And you may win them over. 48:42.110 --> 48:42.850 That's what the Bible teaches. 48:43.390 --> 48:44.890 Let's look at James 4, James 4. 48:46.550 --> 48:47.750 I'm going to go to my last point 48:47.750 --> 48:48.810 now, James chapter 4. 48:54.580 --> 48:56.140 So we want to make sure 48:56.140 --> 48:57.300 that we're evenly yoked. 48:57.300 --> 48:58.020 We want to make sure we're 48:58.020 --> 48:59.140 evenly yoked at church. 48:59.420 --> 49:00.460 You don't want to mix saved 49:00.460 --> 49:01.480 and unsaved at church. 49:01.480 --> 49:03.000 You want your closest friends 49:03.000 --> 49:03.680 to be saved. 49:03.760 --> 49:04.460 You don't want a mixing, 49:04.740 --> 49:05.620 improper mixing 49:05.620 --> 49:07.080 of saved and unsaved 49:07.080 --> 49:09.000 in terms of your closest relationships. 49:09.400 --> 49:11.020 And when it comes to marriage, 49:11.960 --> 49:13.100 hey, single guys, 49:13.520 --> 49:15.520 don't go out and marry a Muslim. 49:16.120 --> 49:17.680 Don't go out and marry a Jew, 49:18.600 --> 49:20.180 which that's never going to happen 49:20.180 --> 49:20.920 anyway, I would imagine. 49:21.280 --> 49:23.120 But at least make sure 49:23.120 --> 49:23.880 they repent of that. 49:24.520 --> 49:26.080 Make sure that you're marrying 49:26.080 --> 49:27.120 somebody who's saved 49:27.120 --> 49:28.660 and in alignment with you 49:28.660 --> 49:29.620 doctrinally. 49:30.040 --> 49:30.900 And then there's other things 49:30.900 --> 49:32.700 as well that you should look out for. 49:32.800 --> 49:33.860 And you can listen to some marriage 49:33.860 --> 49:34.520 sermons on that. 49:34.720 --> 49:36.040 But James 4, 49:36.160 --> 49:37.300 so I'm talking about crossbreeding 49:37.300 --> 49:37.520 here. 49:37.660 --> 49:38.800 It produces a weird hybrid. 49:39.180 --> 49:40.740 And the thing is, 49:40.760 --> 49:43.220 is that this sterile hybrid 49:43.220 --> 49:44.660 may not be able to actually 49:44.660 --> 49:45.420 reproduce anything. 49:45.560 --> 49:46.500 You can't produce anything. 49:47.040 --> 49:48.100 And I think of how 49:48.100 --> 49:49.740 if you combine, 49:50.000 --> 49:50.880 makes me think of how 49:50.880 --> 49:51.840 if you combine 49:51.840 --> 49:53.720 the friendship with God 49:53.720 --> 49:55.740 with the friendship of the world, 49:56.060 --> 49:57.160 what you're doing is 49:57.160 --> 49:59.100 you're creating a weird hybrid 49:59.100 --> 50:00.160 that's not going to be 50:00.160 --> 50:01.000 productive at all. 50:01.860 --> 50:04.240 And this is why the Bible tells us 50:04.240 --> 50:06.000 you have to pick one. 50:06.520 --> 50:07.700 You can't have both 50:07.700 --> 50:10.520 mutually exclusive options. 50:10.700 --> 50:12.000 Look at James 4 and verse 4. 50:12.760 --> 50:14.500 My last point is you can't mix 50:14.500 --> 50:15.940 the friendship with the world 50:15.940 --> 50:17.620 and friendship with God. 50:18.040 --> 50:19.220 Not possible. 50:19.500 --> 50:20.600 James 4 and verse 4. 50:20.700 --> 50:21.620 Notice what the Bible says. 50:22.280 --> 50:23.260 Ye adulterers 50:23.260 --> 50:24.540 and adulteresses 50:25.180 --> 50:26.140 in a spiritual sense. 50:26.340 --> 50:27.000 Know ye not 50:27.000 --> 50:29.620 that the friendship of the world 50:29.620 --> 50:31.860 is amnesty with God. 50:32.560 --> 50:33.500 Whosoever therefore 50:33.500 --> 50:34.880 will be a friend of the world 50:34.880 --> 50:36.700 is the enemy of God. 50:37.600 --> 50:40.120 So ye either are a friend of God 50:40.120 --> 50:42.360 or you're a friend of the world. 50:42.560 --> 50:43.620 It is not both. 50:44.180 --> 50:45.280 You can't have both. 50:45.640 --> 50:46.840 You can't mix both. 50:47.600 --> 50:48.540 These are things that 50:48.540 --> 50:49.420 cannot be mixed. 50:49.520 --> 50:50.640 They're mutually exclusive. 50:50.880 --> 50:51.700 You got to choose being 50:51.700 --> 50:52.580 a friend of God 50:52.580 --> 50:54.020 or a friend of the world. 50:54.160 --> 50:54.920 Which means what? 50:55.340 --> 50:56.320 You got to get rid of 50:56.320 --> 50:57.680 the world's philosophies 50:57.680 --> 50:58.340 on marriage. 50:58.340 --> 50:59.400 You got to get rid of 50:59.400 --> 51:00.800 the world's philosophies 51:00.800 --> 51:02.080 on the family 51:02.080 --> 51:04.220 and on general conduct. 51:04.400 --> 51:05.400 And you got to go with 51:05.400 --> 51:06.540 what the Bible says 51:06.540 --> 51:08.260 whether it appeals to you 51:08.260 --> 51:09.300 or not in the flesh. 51:11.260 --> 51:11.980 And look. 51:12.580 --> 51:13.860 There's people out there 51:13.860 --> 51:16.200 who used to identify 51:16.200 --> 51:17.380 as new IFB. 51:17.640 --> 51:19.720 And they did seem to be 51:19.720 --> 51:21.260 separated in that sense. 51:21.440 --> 51:22.160 But you know what? 51:22.740 --> 51:24.100 Now they look like the world. 51:25.200 --> 51:26.540 Now they left 51:26.540 --> 51:27.780 and they're morphing 51:27.780 --> 51:29.540 more and more into the world 51:29.540 --> 51:31.360 and adopting the world's 51:31.360 --> 51:32.120 philosophies. 51:32.520 --> 51:33.280 What does this look like? 51:33.500 --> 51:34.280 They start getting soft 51:34.280 --> 51:35.160 on the sodomites. 51:35.880 --> 51:37.740 They start getting ultra 51:38.380 --> 51:40.060 shaman tissue paper 51:40.060 --> 51:42.100 soft on the sodomites today. 51:42.280 --> 51:43.280 And it's disgusting 51:43.280 --> 51:44.640 and it's embarrassing 51:44.640 --> 51:45.660 and it's a shame 51:45.660 --> 51:46.780 and a reproach 51:46.780 --> 51:48.600 to the name of Jesus Christ. 51:48.820 --> 51:49.720 If you're going to claim 51:49.720 --> 51:51.160 Christ and be soft 51:51.160 --> 51:52.160 on a bunch of filthy 51:52.160 --> 51:53.700 disgusting faggots today. 51:54.480 --> 51:56.060 We need more meta God 51:56.060 --> 51:56.840 to repent 51:56.840 --> 51:57.880 and go from 51:57.880 --> 51:59.100 thinking that oh, 51:59.180 --> 51:59.900 you need to love them 51:59.900 --> 52:00.680 and be good unto them 52:00.680 --> 52:02.060 to having a righteous 52:02.060 --> 52:02.880 kind of hatred 52:02.880 --> 52:04.240 that the Bible talks about 52:04.240 --> 52:05.520 in Psalm 139 52:05.520 --> 52:07.480 and Second Chronicles 19 too. 52:07.860 --> 52:08.620 And guess what? 52:09.020 --> 52:09.900 The sodomites fit 52:09.900 --> 52:11.920 under that umbrella of us, 52:12.120 --> 52:12.380 you know, 52:12.540 --> 52:13.400 being able to hate them 52:13.400 --> 52:14.320 since Romans 1 52:14.320 --> 52:15.680 tells us that they're haters of God. 52:16.960 --> 52:17.720 You read Jude, 52:17.860 --> 52:19.300 you read 2 Peter chapter 2. 52:19.360 --> 52:19.820 But what's the point 52:19.820 --> 52:20.680 I'm trying to make here 52:20.680 --> 52:21.760 is that there's people 52:21.760 --> 52:23.840 who they leave a church 52:23.840 --> 52:24.420 like ours 52:24.420 --> 52:25.600 and then they slowly 52:25.600 --> 52:27.300 but surely start to adopt 52:27.300 --> 52:28.620 the world's philosophy 52:28.620 --> 52:31.080 on a number of different topics 52:31.080 --> 52:32.200 including this one. 52:32.340 --> 52:33.260 And they get all soft 52:33.260 --> 52:34.160 on the sodomites. 52:34.400 --> 52:35.120 And let me tell you something. 52:35.420 --> 52:36.860 I believe that this 52:36.860 --> 52:39.380 is a judgment of God on them. 52:40.140 --> 52:40.520 You know what? 52:40.600 --> 52:41.600 You want to hate your brother 52:41.600 --> 52:42.360 so much 52:42.360 --> 52:43.920 and you want to walk in darkness 52:43.920 --> 52:45.660 and you want to be so blinded. 52:45.840 --> 52:46.420 Well, you know what? 52:46.740 --> 52:48.260 Hey, don't be surprised 52:48.260 --> 52:49.700 if you end up 52:49.700 --> 52:50.940 being some kind of 52:50.940 --> 52:52.360 sodomite sympathizer 52:52.360 --> 52:53.140 like an idiot. 52:53.760 --> 52:55.640 You know, this is a judgment of God. 52:55.800 --> 52:56.560 If you're looking around 52:56.560 --> 52:57.580 and all you see 52:57.580 --> 52:58.720 are a bunch of fag, 52:58.920 --> 52:59.980 fag sympathizers 52:59.980 --> 53:01.460 and some faggoty little group 53:01.460 --> 53:02.140 that you have, 53:02.400 --> 53:02.660 you know what? 53:02.740 --> 53:03.340 You're under the judgment 53:03.340 --> 53:03.720 of God 53:03.720 --> 53:04.540 in the curse of God. 53:05.800 --> 53:06.320 And you know what? 53:06.420 --> 53:07.280 My Bible says, 53:07.780 --> 53:09.060 He that saith under the wicked, 53:09.240 --> 53:10.060 thou art righteous, 53:10.540 --> 53:11.800 nations shall abhor them. 53:12.080 --> 53:12.800 I don't want to be 53:12.800 --> 53:13.460 in that position 53:13.460 --> 53:14.920 and you want to hate the brethren. 53:15.320 --> 53:15.940 You want to look more 53:15.940 --> 53:16.700 like the world 53:16.700 --> 53:17.320 and you want to become 53:17.320 --> 53:18.360 a friend of the world. 53:18.480 --> 53:19.460 Don't be surprised 53:19.460 --> 53:21.320 if that's what happens to you. 53:21.560 --> 53:22.540 And I think it's the judgment 53:22.540 --> 53:23.700 of God on some of these people. 53:23.780 --> 53:24.380 They want to hate 53:24.380 --> 53:25.600 their brethren so much. 53:25.840 --> 53:26.760 Well, then they just become 53:26.760 --> 53:27.660 a bunch of faggoty 53:27.660 --> 53:29.400 little sodomite sympathizers. 53:29.800 --> 53:30.620 And I get it. 53:30.700 --> 53:31.760 Some of them were infiltrators 53:31.760 --> 53:32.400 from the beginning. 53:32.560 --> 53:33.280 I understand that. 53:33.600 --> 53:34.920 But you become more 53:34.920 --> 53:35.480 like the world. 53:35.620 --> 53:36.020 What happens? 53:36.320 --> 53:37.500 You start preaching feminism 53:38.620 --> 53:39.880 and you start preaching 53:39.880 --> 53:40.400 a bunch of 53:40.400 --> 53:41.520 boss, babe, 53:41.860 --> 53:42.780 you go girl, 53:42.960 --> 53:43.320 slop. 53:45.220 --> 53:46.600 It's like vomit inducing. 53:46.720 --> 53:47.420 I can't even say it 53:47.420 --> 53:48.320 without wanting to vomit. 53:49.120 --> 53:49.860 You start preaching 53:49.860 --> 53:51.480 dishonoring your parents. 53:52.180 --> 53:53.360 You start preaching 53:54.260 --> 53:54.620 heresy 53:54.620 --> 53:55.720 and then you fight 53:55.720 --> 53:56.640 on the wrong team. 53:57.480 --> 53:58.320 You start fighting 53:58.320 --> 53:59.880 on the wrong side of the war. 54:00.860 --> 54:02.260 And make no mistake about it. 54:02.340 --> 54:03.120 We're in a war today. 54:04.120 --> 54:04.780 And you know what? 54:04.860 --> 54:06.500 The forces of hell 54:06.500 --> 54:07.740 are coming against 54:07.740 --> 54:08.780 our movement right now. 54:08.980 --> 54:09.900 And so we need to have 54:09.900 --> 54:10.560 a bunch of people 54:10.560 --> 54:11.760 who say in their heart, 54:11.860 --> 54:12.060 you know what? 54:12.060 --> 54:12.520 I'm not going to be 54:12.520 --> 54:13.480 a friend of the world right now. 54:13.660 --> 54:15.040 I'm going to be a friend of God. 54:15.320 --> 54:16.380 I'm going to get zealous 54:16.380 --> 54:17.620 and hot for the things of God 54:17.620 --> 54:18.600 to be a friend of God 54:18.600 --> 54:19.600 and just to shoot 54:19.600 --> 54:20.560 the things of this world 54:20.560 --> 54:22.220 because we're in a battle 54:22.220 --> 54:22.860 right now. 54:23.040 --> 54:24.200 And the forces of hell 54:24.200 --> 54:25.220 are coming against us. 54:25.380 --> 54:27.160 So we need as many soldiers 54:27.160 --> 54:27.780 as possible. 54:29.900 --> 54:31.240 Here's what the world says. 54:31.440 --> 54:32.080 No spanking. 54:32.860 --> 54:34.400 Always the teenager doctrine 54:34.400 --> 54:35.700 that just gets them 54:35.700 --> 54:36.840 totally triggered 54:37.680 --> 54:39.080 about not spanking teens. 54:39.580 --> 54:41.320 So they say no spanking. 54:41.740 --> 54:43.840 They say 50 50 marriage. 54:44.620 --> 54:46.900 They say love the homos 54:46.900 --> 54:48.740 which nobody does naturally. 54:48.820 --> 54:50.080 Anyway, every normal person 54:50.080 --> 54:51.040 on the inside is like 54:51.040 --> 54:52.080 they're gross and filthy 54:52.080 --> 54:52.640 and disgusting. 54:53.340 --> 54:54.680 It's okay to be gay 54:55.700 --> 54:57.060 which I do think it's okay 54:57.060 --> 54:57.640 to be gay. 54:57.760 --> 54:58.500 It's okay to be happy. 54:58.940 --> 55:00.480 I want everyone to be gay 55:01.060 --> 55:02.140 but you know I don't want 55:02.140 --> 55:03.360 everybody to be 55:03.360 --> 55:04.720 a filthy disgusting fact. 55:05.700 --> 55:06.760 Serve money. 55:07.340 --> 55:09.060 Listen to blasphemous music. 55:09.640 --> 55:11.000 Dress like a whore 55:11.000 --> 55:12.140 in the miniskirt 55:12.140 --> 55:13.460 like a prostitute. 55:14.960 --> 55:16.180 Divorce and drink 55:16.180 --> 55:17.160 and party 55:17.160 --> 55:18.300 and live it up 55:18.300 --> 55:19.200 because tomorrow 55:19.200 --> 55:20.280 we all die. 55:21.040 --> 55:21.960 That's their mentality. 55:22.720 --> 55:24.240 And what does this produce? 55:25.160 --> 55:26.860 What is the world offering you 55:26.860 --> 55:28.720 in summation? 55:29.160 --> 55:30.620 What are they offering you? 55:31.040 --> 55:32.320 Something that is meaningless. 55:33.080 --> 55:33.720 Okay. 55:34.020 --> 55:34.740 This is nothing 55:34.740 --> 55:36.300 but a bunch of just 55:36.300 --> 55:38.280 vacuous empty 55:38.960 --> 55:39.600 nonsense 55:39.600 --> 55:41.860 that will not fulfill you. 55:43.120 --> 55:44.360 This is vanity. 55:45.140 --> 55:46.780 And that's why a lot of people 55:46.780 --> 55:47.920 are depressed today 55:47.920 --> 55:48.720 and they don't know what 55:48.720 --> 55:49.600 to do with themselves 55:49.600 --> 55:51.180 because this is what they're looking 55:51.180 --> 55:51.740 or excuse me 55:51.740 --> 55:52.740 this is what they're living for. 55:54.060 --> 55:55.100 But the Bible says 55:55.100 --> 55:56.620 the grace of God teaches us 55:56.620 --> 55:57.600 to live soberly, 55:57.640 --> 55:58.260 righteously 55:58.260 --> 55:59.480 and godly 55:59.480 --> 56:00.980 in this present world instead. 56:01.760 --> 56:02.980 And so if you want to be 56:02.980 --> 56:03.660 God's friend 56:03.660 --> 56:05.180 you need to stay separated. 56:05.900 --> 56:06.780 You need to make sure 56:06.780 --> 56:07.680 not to mix that 56:07.680 --> 56:09.560 which God has told you 56:09.560 --> 56:10.000 not to 56:10.000 --> 56:11.100 which is of course 56:11.100 --> 56:12.300 being a friend of God 56:12.300 --> 56:13.440 and a friend of the world. 56:13.960 --> 56:14.620 You know don't ever give 56:14.620 --> 56:15.460 into the temptation 56:16.100 --> 56:17.960 to mix the world's 56:17.960 --> 56:18.600 philosophies 56:18.600 --> 56:19.600 the Bible says that 56:19.600 --> 56:20.800 hey the wisdom of this world 56:20.800 --> 56:22.160 is foolishness with God. 56:22.420 --> 56:22.860 Don't get 56:22.860 --> 56:24.100 give into the temptation 56:24.100 --> 56:26.020 to mix the world's philosophies 56:26.020 --> 56:27.120 with the word of God. 56:27.240 --> 56:27.740 You can't do it. 56:28.120 --> 56:29.420 They're opposed to each other. 56:29.820 --> 56:30.560 The fact is they're 56:30.560 --> 56:31.900 mutually exclusive options. 56:32.740 --> 56:34.280 Mutually exclusive options. 56:34.880 --> 56:36.080 And you just can't have both. 56:36.460 --> 56:37.600 You can't mix both. 56:38.240 --> 56:39.200 You gotta have one. 56:40.000 --> 56:41.440 And I'm telling you 56:41.440 --> 56:43.100 if there's ever a time 56:43.560 --> 56:44.800 to make the decision 56:45.320 --> 56:46.580 to be a friend of God 56:46.580 --> 56:47.820 and get all in 56:47.820 --> 56:49.560 and stop being apathetic 56:49.560 --> 56:51.020 it is right now. 56:51.380 --> 56:52.800 Because we've got friends 56:52.800 --> 56:53.880 who are under attack. 56:54.100 --> 56:55.420 We've got the forces of hell 56:55.420 --> 56:56.540 coming against us 56:57.220 --> 56:57.740 relentlessly. 56:58.080 --> 56:59.020 And you say oh well 56:59.020 --> 57:00.240 if they succeed at 57:00.240 --> 57:01.220 getting rid of 57:01.220 --> 57:02.280 Pastor Ederson 57:02.280 --> 57:03.780 then maybe we'll be okay. 57:04.120 --> 57:05.400 No they will set 57:05.400 --> 57:07.080 their big ugly target 57:07.080 --> 57:07.840 on us next. 57:08.820 --> 57:09.440 It'll you know 57:09.440 --> 57:10.620 it'll embolden them 57:10.620 --> 57:12.180 and they are gonna come 57:12.180 --> 57:12.700 after us. 57:12.860 --> 57:13.700 We need to be ready. 57:13.900 --> 57:15.020 We need to be sold out 57:15.020 --> 57:15.960 for the things of Christ. 57:16.120 --> 57:16.560 We need to be 57:16.560 --> 57:17.260 you know 57:17.260 --> 57:18.600 more excited about 57:18.600 --> 57:19.140 soul winning 57:19.140 --> 57:20.480 than ever before. 57:20.780 --> 57:22.120 Because at the end of the day 57:22.120 --> 57:23.500 there's only one side 57:23.500 --> 57:24.300 that you could pick 57:24.300 --> 57:25.620 the friendship of the world 57:25.620 --> 57:26.860 or the friendship of God 57:26.860 --> 57:28.680 and you better pick the Lord's side. 57:30.120 --> 57:31.200 Because if there's ever 57:31.200 --> 57:32.120 a time to do that 57:32.120 --> 57:32.960 it's right now 57:33.860 --> 57:35.040 as we are under 57:35.040 --> 57:36.040 relentless attack 57:36.040 --> 57:37.220 from the most obsessed 57:37.220 --> 57:38.180 satanic 57:38.180 --> 57:38.880 evil 57:38.880 --> 57:40.700 rotten degenerates 57:40.700 --> 57:41.880 that I may have ever seen 57:41.880 --> 57:42.420 in my life. 57:43.580 --> 57:44.840 And they're not gonna stop. 57:45.700 --> 57:46.760 They watch everything 57:46.760 --> 57:48.220 they are obsessed. 57:48.640 --> 57:49.780 They are stalkers. 57:49.900 --> 57:51.020 They're probably watching 57:51.020 --> 57:51.920 this right now. 57:52.220 --> 57:53.120 And you know what 57:53.120 --> 57:54.780 I am so happy 57:54.780 --> 57:55.740 about that 57:55.740 --> 57:57.160 because I want them to watch. 57:57.320 --> 57:58.180 I want them to hear 57:58.180 --> 57:59.260 what I have to say 57:59.260 --> 58:00.120 and I want them to see 58:00.120 --> 58:00.760 the contempt 58:00.760 --> 58:01.680 that I have for them 58:01.680 --> 58:02.840 because I stand 58:02.840 --> 58:03.480 against evil. 58:03.640 --> 58:04.880 That's why they hate me so much. 58:05.020 --> 58:05.680 And you know what 58:05.680 --> 58:06.280 we need to stand 58:06.280 --> 58:07.340 against evil as a church 58:07.340 --> 58:08.540 and we need to be sold out 58:08.540 --> 58:09.460 and we need to be a friend 58:09.460 --> 58:09.780 of God 58:09.780 --> 58:11.320 and say nuts to this world. 58:13.020 --> 58:14.340 You can't mix it anyway. 58:16.800 --> 58:18.520 So when we look at 58:18.520 --> 58:19.480 these statutes here 58:19.480 --> 58:20.120 I just want to recap. 58:20.500 --> 58:21.420 I said you can't mix 58:21.420 --> 58:22.920 faith and works for salvation 58:22.920 --> 58:24.380 the woollen and the linen. 58:24.780 --> 58:26.160 You can't mix 58:26.160 --> 58:27.760 the King James version 58:27.760 --> 58:29.100 and the modern versions 58:29.100 --> 58:30.320 the mingled seed. 58:31.140 --> 58:32.860 You can't mix the saved 58:32.860 --> 58:33.820 with the unsaved 58:34.460 --> 58:35.920 in the context of church 58:35.920 --> 58:37.320 and your closest friends 58:37.320 --> 58:38.360 and your marriage 58:38.360 --> 58:39.360 as well 58:39.860 --> 58:40.940 the ox and the ass 58:40.940 --> 58:42.340 and then you can't mix 58:42.340 --> 58:43.420 friendship with God 58:43.420 --> 58:44.900 and friendship with the world 58:45.700 --> 58:47.000 which I would classify 58:47.000 --> 58:49.900 as a weird crossbred hybrid. 58:50.840 --> 58:52.580 And we look at these statutes 58:52.580 --> 58:53.860 I think that we could look 58:53.860 --> 58:54.940 at them through the lenses 58:55.440 --> 58:57.300 of New Testament Christianity. 58:58.380 --> 58:59.320 Meaning what? 59:00.020 --> 59:02.700 If you apply these separation statutes 59:02.700 --> 59:04.200 you'll have a successful 59:04.200 --> 59:05.040 Christian life 59:05.040 --> 59:06.640 and a successful church. 59:07.400 --> 59:09.140 It starts with faith alone 59:09.140 --> 59:10.000 for salvation 59:10.000 --> 59:11.840 and making sure people understand 59:11.840 --> 59:13.060 that when we evangelize 59:13.060 --> 59:15.300 it's sowing unmingled seed 59:15.720 --> 59:17.460 the incorruptible word of God 59:17.460 --> 59:18.860 which is without error 59:18.860 --> 59:20.660 100% accurate. 59:21.000 --> 59:22.540 It's being equally yoked 59:22.540 --> 59:23.560 with fellow believers 59:24.200 --> 59:24.840 and you know what? 59:24.920 --> 59:26.120 It's friendship with God 59:26.120 --> 59:27.320 rather than this world. 59:28.980 --> 59:30.380 And in the Christian life 59:30.760 --> 59:31.780 I'm just warning you 59:31.780 --> 59:33.080 you're going to come across 59:33.080 --> 59:36.080 mutually exclusive options 59:36.080 --> 59:38.300 you can't have both 59:38.300 --> 59:39.720 don't mix together 59:39.720 --> 59:41.100 what God has told you 59:41.100 --> 59:42.320 not to mingle 59:42.320 --> 59:43.120 because understand 59:43.120 --> 59:44.460 there's some things 59:44.460 --> 59:45.840 that just don't mix. 59:46.500 --> 59:47.700 Now look colors mix 59:48.240 --> 59:48.920 I don't get you 59:48.920 --> 59:49.780 you want to marry somebody 59:49.780 --> 59:50.600 who's a different color 59:50.600 --> 59:51.180 go right ahead 59:51.180 --> 59:51.960 sorry racists 59:52.560 --> 59:54.340 but I don't care 59:54.340 --> 59:56.540 black, green, yellow, red 59:56.540 --> 59:57.780 doesn't matter to me 59:58.400 --> 59:59.260 you can go brown 59:59.710 --> 01:00:00.860 you can go whatever you want 01:00:00.860 --> 01:00:02.380 you can go desert color 01:00:02.380 --> 01:00:02.960 if you want 01:00:04.100 --> 01:00:05.600 but what matters is 01:00:06.180 --> 01:00:06.640 spiritually 01:00:06.640 --> 01:00:07.600 where do they stand 01:00:08.460 --> 01:00:09.340 and that should be 01:00:09.340 --> 01:00:10.140 the way that we think 01:00:10.680 --> 01:00:11.140 so 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:12.820 that's all I have 01:00:12.820 --> 01:00:13.360 let's power our heads 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:13.900 forward to prayer 01:00:13.900 --> 01:00:14.720 Father in heaven 01:00:14.720 --> 01:00:16.160 we thank you Lord God 01:00:16.160 --> 01:00:16.920 for our church 01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:17.560 and I just pray 01:00:17.560 --> 01:00:19.060 that you help us to understand 01:00:19.060 --> 01:00:20.120 that there's certain things 01:00:20.120 --> 01:00:21.140 that don't mix together 01:00:21.140 --> 01:00:22.900 help us not to mix them 01:00:22.900 --> 01:00:25.000 help us to be separated 01:00:25.460 --> 01:00:26.620 and help us to be 01:00:26.620 --> 01:00:27.160 your friend 01:00:27.160 --> 01:00:27.840 rather than the friend 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:28.340 of the world 01:00:29.780 --> 01:00:30.860 because we know 01:00:30.860 --> 01:00:32.540 that we are under attack 01:00:32.540 --> 01:00:33.620 every day Lord God 01:00:33.620 --> 01:00:35.700 and we need to make sure 01:00:35.700 --> 01:00:36.340 that you know 01:00:36.340 --> 01:00:37.260 we're on the right side 01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:39.160 and being effective 01:00:39.160 --> 01:00:40.260 in the battle 01:00:40.260 --> 01:00:41.900 and contributing positively 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:42.820 we love you 01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:43.760 and in Jesus name I pray 01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:44.000 amen