Amen. Okay, we're in 1 John chapter 2 tonight and the title of my sermon tonight is they went out from us
They went out from us verse 19 says they went out from us, but they were not of us
For if they had been of us, they would have no doubt have continued with us
But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
And what I want to preach about this evening is the subject of apostasy here in 1 John chapter 2
Specifically verse 19 now this verse here has been misused in many different contexts by a variety of pastors and Christians
And they often interpret this to mean that if you as a Christian if you get out of church if you stop serving God if
You leave church if you stop serving God if you get involved in sin
That is an indication that you went out from us
Therefore it's also an indication that you're not really of us in other words
It means that you're not saved, but that is a false interpretation of this verse and unfortunately
You know it's misled a lot of people into thinking that you have to persevere in your works for Christ in order to maintain
Your salvation this believe this Calvinistic belief that you have to persevere in your works
You have to persevere in your service for God if you really want to demonstrate that you're saved
Okay, and they often use this verse in conjunction with Matthew 24 that says they then endured to the end the same
Shall be saved okay, and when it comes to Matthew 24
we obviously understand that the context of the chapter is referring to end times Bible prophecy and
specifically it's referring to
The fifth seal in that context the fifth seal where Christians are being put to death on mass and the Bible saying there
That if you're able to endure that persecution
Until the end you will be saved meaning your flesh will be delivered from the persecution of the Antichrist
Because that persecution according to the biblical timeline lasts for 75 days
Then comes the rapture if you make it to the rapture guess what your flesh is saved from that persecution
So Matthew 24 when it says they then endured to the end has nothing to do with salvation
It has to do with the deliverance of the body
But this is what people do they'll take scriptures completely out of context and they will apply them to other portions of scripture
Such as what we see here in first on chapter 2 verse 19 and they'll say well
You know if you really want to say that you're saved obviously we know that it's by faith
We know that it's by believing in Jesus
However, if you decide to get out of the congregation of God you start serving your sin
You start doing things that are not pleasing unto the Lord first on 2 19 applies to you
It's an indication that you're not really of us
But this is a false interpretation
That is heresy because quite frankly folks if you are saved if you're a believer in Christ
It doesn't matter if you continue in the service of God or not because the Bible says that we and first on
At first Peter chapter 1 that we listen to this are kept by the power of God unto salvation
What does that mean it means the one who's responsible for keeping us keeping our salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ
He's the only one who possesses the power to maintain our salvation for us
Not we ourselves and you know, it's an oxymoron to say oh, it's not of works
But you got to do works to make sure that you stay safe, you know
It's a retarded doctrine that has no substance in the Bible
You know, you don't have to persevere in your works to be saved to prove that you're safe to God
They're like oh, well, you know faith without works is dead being alone yet to others not to God though
You know God obviously sees that if we have placed our faith in Christ, you know, that's all that's needed
That is sufficient for our salvation
But definitely if you don't have works coupled with your faith, it's a faith that does not work
It does not produce any works that will benefit someone else. Okay, very important to understand that now in light of that
What is first John chapter 2 verse 19 referring to what is it talking about exactly?
Well, we have to understand what he means by they okay
And let me just teach you something real quick is that you know, a lot of times when people interpret the Bible false prophets
Specifically they will often isolate verses
And look if you isolate a verse you can pretty much teach anything you want
If you remove it from its context of the verses prior the verses after if you remove it from the context of the chapter
The context of the book the context of the Bible you can make that verse say anything you want
Which is why we have to what compare scripture with scripture compare spiritual things with spiritual
Why because out of the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
And you know that principle applies to Bible study as well
Okay, we have a variety of scriptures that teach us explicitly what salvation is and this is not
This is not in an application to salvation or to Christians when it says here they
We know who this is referring to look at verse 18
Little children. It is the last time and as you have heard that
Antichrist shall come what is that talking about it's referring to the fact that in the end times
There's gonna be a man known as the Antichrist also referred to as the man of sin the son of perdition
The beast as we see in Revelation chapter 13 and he is going to come so even though the apostle John is writing this
You know in the first century AD
He's foretelling of a time in the future where the Antichrist will come and Antichrist is someone who is coming in the place of Christ
He's obviously someone who's you know a contrarian to Christ
He's against Christ, but it's also referring to someone who is coming in his place
That is referring to the man of sin that we see in the book of Revelation. However, look what it goes on to say here as
You've heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrist
So this is telling us that even though there's going to be a
Main character Antichrist in the end times
We don't have to wait for the end times to find out who that is because there's many Antichrist that even exists today
There's many Antichrist that exist in John's day. This is referring to people who are coming in the place of Christ
They're against the Lord Jesus Christ. He says here. Whereby we know that it is the last time verse 19
They went out from us. Who are the day the Antichrists?
Okay, those who are against Christ those who are coming in the place of Christ
It's referring to false prophets false teachers. This is what it's being addressed here. I just got louder for some reason
I don't know that my ears pop or they're like a speaker just turned on
So it says they went out from us, but they were not of us
So the implication here is that these Antichrists were not originally referred to as Antichrist
They weren't referred to as false prophets and in fact they masqueraded as believers. Okay. Now. Who's the author of this book?
John
So if we're to look at John's life, who do you think he's referring to there? Well, obviously automatically you should think to yourself
Oh, this is referring to Judas
Judas Iscariot is a perfect example of someone who was among the twelve
He was of the twelve
He was given the apostleship by Jesus Christ, but he wasn't really of them now
Was he as noted by the fact that he went out from among them?
He says they went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been with us
They would have no doubt
continued with us now let's go to John chapter 6 before I give more of the interpretation of
Verse 19 here. Let's go to John chapter 6 if you would
John chapter 6
Now automatically we know that it's referring to Judas Iscariot, but did you know?
There were other Antichrists other than Judas Iscariot who came out from among them
Okay, because keep in mind it says Antichrist they went out from they went out from us for they were not of us
For if they had been of us, they would have no doubt continued with us. Yes
This applies to Judas Iscariot, but you know, there's a lot of people there are many quote-unquote
Disciples that apostatized even during Christ's time now look at verse number
59 it says these things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum
Many therefore of his disciples when they heard this said this is a hard saying who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it. He said into him that this offend you now
it's important to know
That you know I've often used this verse in a tertiary secondary tertiary way or you know
We talk about hey is this offending you like are you are you mad that I said this are you offended at this?
Are you being weak about this but really an offense in the Bible is referring to what a stumbling block
So when you think of an offense in the Bible
yeah, we often associate that with
Hard preaching offending someone because it goes against the grain it goes against their ideology
But an offense in the most literal way that it's being used in the Bible is referring to like a stumbling block
So in other words, you know for example the Bible talks about Jesus Christ being the stone that rock of offense
Meaning that when people come across him they stumble at the stumbling stone
They're not willing to believe on him is what it's saying. Okay
So what Jesus is preaching here in John chapter 6 is he's talking about salvation and he's using the illustration of
drinking his blood and eating his physical flesh as
Illustration of salvation. This is not teaching the false doctrine of transubstantiation is put forth by the Catholics
Okay, and you know the Catholics will always point to John chapter 6. Oh John chapter 6. He says you got to literally
Yeah, you know the Pharisees who were unsafe or the were also the ones who interpreted that passage just like that, too
That should tell you something. Okay, and it's interesting that the unsaved people in
John chapter 6 were the ones who interpreted just as the Catholics do and the ones that didn't interpret it that way were the actual
Disciples Peter James John they said to whom shall we go for thou hast the words of eternal life
And we believe in our shirt that thou art the Christ the son of the living God, you know
They didn't say oh, you know, we believed that we got to eat your flesh and drink your blood to be saved
They're referring to the eternal words that are coming out of his mouth because they actually understood what he was actually teaching
so he's using this illustration in order to convey salvation and
The disciples doesn't say specifically who but keep in mind during Jesus ministry. You know a lot of people following him
What is the disciples someone who follows Christ a?
Lot of the disciples they were like oh man, this is kind of hard, you know
You know, this is a hard saying
Who can hear it? They're like this is kind of tough
I don't know if we can accept this and what's so hard to accept about salvation
What's so hard to accept about the gift of eternal life? What he's explaining here and Jesus says
You know does this offend you? He they're murmuring at it verse 62
What and if he shall see the Son of Man ascend up where it was before so he's saying you know if this offends you wait
Do you see me ascend?
Okay, you're gonna stumble at that as well. What is Jesus saying if you're not willing to believe what?
I'm saying now. You're not even gonna believe even if I ascend up into heaven and you're able to actually be hold it with your eyes
All the way
This is an important point here because we got to realize that when it comes to place in our faith in Jesus Christ
We don't need any visible evidence
All right, we walk by faith not by sight. We accept these things by faith not by sight
That's why it's ridiculous to think. Oh Jews are gonna get saved in Revelation 19 when they see Jesus Christ coming in
It's not gonna happen
Okay, it's not gonna happen because they saw him come in the first century AD
They beheld them with their eyes and they still rejected him. Okay, so it's like if this offends you
What and if you shall see the Son of Man to send up where he was before?
It is the spirit the quicken it the flesh profit nothing the words that I speak into you
They are spirit and they are life now Jesus being very merciful here because in verse 63
He tells them hey by the way the flesh doesn't profit anything. It is the spirit the quicken it
In other words, it's like I'm talking to you about spiritual things here and obviously they're not catching
It's just going over their minds going over their heads now. Why is it going over there the disciples heads?
I'll tell you why because they're not saved
They may consider themselves to be disciples, but they're not really saved
Look what it says verse 64. How do you know that? But there are some of you that believe not
Okay
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not and who should betray him
We often use this verse to prove that Judas is scary was not saved and it's definitely true
He wasn't saved. He didn't believe okay
You know he is also the son of perdition. He is a first-century example of an antichrist
Okay, but we see here that it's also applicable to some of the disciples now
I'm not referring to the 12 disciples. I'm not referring to the 12. I'm not referring to the three
But just keep in mind there were a variety of people who followed the Lord Jesus Christ
Why do they follow him? Well because he fed them
Well because he performed the miracles because they like what he was saying
But when it came to a message like this in John chapter 6 it just oh, we're not going to cross that line
This offends us. This is a hard saying who can hear it this and it's just a message on salvation
He's like oh, you're offended. You're stumbling at this particular same
This is demonstrating here that you don't believe okay
Because it's just a message on salvation
Verse 65 and he said therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto me
Except that were given unto him of my father from that time listen to this
Many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him
What does this mean? It means they departed from the faith. That's what it means
Okay, and I do believe that when it says many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him
It's referring to people who essentially apostatized they went out from us for they were not of us for if they had been of us
They would have no doubt continued with us continuing what in believing
That's what it means to continue means to
Continue to believe that Jesus is the Christ continue to believe that it's by
Say salvation is by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ meaning that if someone claims to believe that
They profess to believe these things somewhere along down the road
They stumble at that message. It's a demonstration. They never believed to begin with
A lot of people have problems with this because they're like, oh, you know, no, it just means they lost their salvation
Well, here's the thing. There's absolutely no example in the bible of anybody losing their salvation
Does it exist?
There's no illustration of someone losing their salvation. There's no indication of anybody losing their salvation
There's just indication of people going apostate
And it literally says here verse 64
But there are some of you that believe not for jesus knew from the beginning
Who they were that believed not and who should betray him meaning that at the beginning of the ministry of jesus christ
When he collected the disciples he knew from the start these guys don't believe
These guys are not saved. They're kind of going along. They're just playing along. They're making this profession of faith
But they don't really believe in their hearts and look folks
It's important to make a profession of faith for sure
Which is why when we go out sowning we close the deal at the end of the gospel presentation
And aid them in calling upon the name of the lord
All right, because that's what the bible commands us to do
But keep in mind folks that if thou should confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and
Believe in thine heart that god would raise him from the dead. I'll show you safe
For what the hard man believe it's not the righteous but with the mouth confession is made into salvation
So yeah, you know if a person believes in their heart the natural byproduct of that is they they would ask for salvation
But you know what there's going to be people out there who ask for salvation, but they don't really believe it in their hearts
That's a legitimate thing
Where people claim to believe these things and look we have to do our part to make sure that we're very thorough in our gospel presentation
And that's why I think it's it's extremely important
That when we are preaching the gospel that we communicate that it's by faith in jesus christ exclusively
Meaning at the exclusion of everything else
Why well because you know you'll have catholics that you'll witness to and they'll agree with you on everything that you're saying
They'll agree that it's by faith in jesus christ
They'll agree. They're like, oh, yeah, I believe that. Yeah
Jesus it's by faith in jesus christ
You know by grace through faith in jesus christ, but then you're like, yeah
But it's at the exclusion of everything else including mary. Well, I don't agree with that
I'm telling you that happens all the time
They have no problem agreeing with you regarding those things until you tell them that it's like literally only by believing in jesus christ
And you can't add another belief to that another person to that another way of salvation that because you didn't you just can't be saved
okay
He says in verse 66 again from that time any of his disciples went back and walked no more with him
Then jesus then said jesus unto the 12th will ye also go away
Then simon peter answered him lord to whom shall we go thou has the words of eternal life
We believe in our sure that thou art the christ the son of the living god
Now I love this passage here because you know peter is is very
It's a very heartfelt confession, right?
to whom shall we go
That's the words of eternal life
It's just powerful. We believe in our shirt that thou art the christ the son of the living god is just like
Yeah, that's good
Verse 70 jesus answered him have not chosen you told me one of you's a devil just completely ignores him
He just looks at it. He's like didn't I choose you guys and one of you guys is a devil
And by the way verse 70 is a good verse for the calvinist amen
Because they're chosen yet one of them's a devil
Not interesting
He spoke of judice is scary the son of simon for he was that should betray him being one of the 12th
What is judice is scary it?
You know have to do with first john chapter 2 verse 19
What are the disciples that walked away have to do a first john 2 19?
I'll tell you what it has to do with they departed from the faith that were never really safe to begin with
Now let me tell you something go to go back to first john if you wouldn't
You and I aren't gonna have to come to grips with people doing this throughout our christian life
Okay, you're gonna hear about people
You know god forbid, but it may happen in our church one day
Or someone claims to be saved they are using all the christianese. They may even come to church for years
Okay, it is a thing and then somewhere along down the road
They stumble at the stumbling stone. They're not stumbling at some secondary tertiary doctrine
They're not gonna stumble at end times prophecy. It's not that they're stumbling at you know the jews
They're not stumbling at dispensationalism. They stumble out salvation
And you know what they depart from the faith and you know what that indicates to us this person was never safe to begin with
He says in first john chapter 2 verse 19 again
They went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been with us been of excuse me
They would have no doubt have continued with us
But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
And you know what you need to make sure that you're not a bleeding heart when this happens
Just a bleeding heart
Oh, but they were here though and I went soul-winning with them and all this then oh, but they said they read the bible
Yeah, but guess what they're apostates
You try to tell me that the 11 disciples weren't tripping out that judas was like an absolute devil
They spent three and a half years with him
They went soul-winning with him
They preached the gospel with him and you know, I do believe that he performed miracles as well
Not because he was saved but because god gave him the capability of doing so and they're probably like thinking like whoa
What in the world?
I mean folks judas the scary must have been someone who just you know was upright
Outwardly because no one suspected him
And you know, that's exactly how it's going to be
For us as a church. That's how it's going to be for other churches
You know, we need to make sure that we're not like well, they're just falling
You know, well, you don't fall into damnable heresy. Let me just tell you that first and foremost
It's not like man. I'm just struggling with just believing it's by works right now
It's just I'm going through this season. I think it's by works
You know, I I think I feel there's more evidence in the bible to demonstrate that salvation is by works
Now look folks if you agree with what we're talking about regarding salvation being by grace your faith
But you've never actually called upon the name of the lord to do so you better do that tonight
You better do it tonight. You're like, man, I can't remember when it was that I got saved
Well, and I don't really know if that ever happened then just pray right now
Just kind of shut me off right now and just pray thus within yourself unto the lord lord
I accept you as my personal savior. I believe on you for salvation
I know that it's not by works and I'm placing my faith in you exclusively better to do that
Then to become an apostate somewhere down the road because you're not really saved
Yeah
And folks, I'm telling you this happens a lot
Okay, apostasy abounds today
And obviously, you know when we look at for example the profile of a false prophet in 2nd Peter chapter 2
This profile can be broken up into four categories
If you study 2nd Peter chapter 2, we'll go there in just a bit
You have basically four categories of false prophets. You have the false prophet who wants to teach damnable heresy
Right, this is the person who isn't necessary. He's not a sexual pervert. He's not doing it for money
He's just in it to teach damnable heresy. He's in it to corrupt the scriptures
Right, there are false teachers among the people there are false prophets also among the people even as there should be false teachers among you
Who privately shall bring in damnable heresies?
Denying even the lord god that bought them you got that brother
Denying even the lord god that bought them
This is referring to someone who's teaching damnable heresy
Category number one damnable heresy category number two covetousness
Someone who
You know has the office of a pastor or a religious leader. Why because they want to make money
Is the joe holsteins of this world, right? These are the fake healers of this world
Category number three are those who hate magistrates. These are the usurpers
These are the people who want to have the preeminence among them
They like to have power over people and they will seek to destroy the reputation of the men of god in order to get it
The last category are the sexual perverts
And so false prophets these reprobates and apostates they fall into one of those four categories, okay
See why preach this because this week
You know, there's this guy out there. His name is kenny Baldwin
And you may not even know who that is, but he's a prominent pastor in the old IFB
Very prominent pastor. He was one at least
His dad was a very prominent pastor. Lou Baldwin was responsible for starting
tons of churches
Okay, he was he did a great work
But his son kenny Baldwin kind of rose up to the ranks
Became a pastor started a church was a major conference speaker
People loved him. They esteemed him. The guy's a freaking pedophile
Is arrested because he's sending new photos to a 15 year old boy
Disgusting and people were like, oh man, we're not for the grace of god. We'd be the what do you mean for what what?
Speak for yourself son
You know, oh man, well, david fell David committed adultery
David murdered and you know what these are sins common to man
I'm not justifying david sin, but find me a book chapter verse in the bible that talks about david committing pedophilia
It doesn't exist
Pedophilia is a disgusting
Abominable disgusting sin that merits the merits execution
Public execution at that and you know, it's associated with reprobation and being apostate
And you know, kenny Baldwin is not someone who just oh, he just stopped reading the bible
Bro, he never believed the bible
Bro's a homo
Yup. Yup. He's a homo. He denied the gospel long ago
Went apostate and was given over to a reprobate mind, which is why he was committing such filthy acts
Pray for him, you know pray for kenny Baldwin, you know just for what pray that he dies
But you know what this is this is the major problem with old ip churches
And again, you know, I'm a major advocate for old ip churches. You know this, okay
I'm probably the biggest advocate for old ip churches in our church
You know, I know a lot of you guys don't like old ip churches. Some of you don't you know, I actually do like them
But you know, they have a lot of blind spots
And one of them is this particular area
Where they just make excuses for people who are just absolute reprobates
And obviously some of it is just because of ignorance. They don't understand the reprobate doctrine
They were never taught but I don't know that I think sometimes the other percentage of people who struggle with this is because they're reprobates themselves or something
You just kind of wonder
Yeah, people on facebook, you know, and what drives me absolutely insane and just just bananas is when
You know something like this happens you find out about some pervert pastor
Doing some godless thing with kids some just reprobate and then these pastors hop on they're trying to be all hyper spiritual
And like, you know what another soldier has fallen
Bro's not a soldier
He didn't fall he's exposed
It's not falling. It's called getting exposed for being the absolute reprobate that he is
And look folks, let me just repeat it again pedophiles deserve the death penalty
They should be publicly shot in the head
That's what the government should institute upon these monsters
Because they destroy kids lives
A millstone should be tied about their neck and they should be drowned in the depths of the sea as the bible says
Okay, and any pastor, well, I just don't see god in that Jesus said that
He's the one who said that
Don't give me the spiritual hyper spiritual talk of another soldier has fallen
No, that's not the case. This dude went apostate long ago
Just like jack scopp just like these other perverts out there
And here's another thing is that
You know, you have these people like the like the preacher boys podcast
Right who's probably an apostate himself
And you you have these guys are like, you know, this happens a law in the high beach
This happens in every church. What are you talking about?
Not just ios churches. You ever heard of something called the roman catholic church?
You ever heard of monumentism
Apostasy happens everywhere
And you know what ifp churches are not immune to apostasy
Why because we can do everything we possibly can on our part to preach the word of god and preach the gospel
But people have to accept it in the pews
They have to accept the truth of the gospel in the pews
You know and you have this other argument from the other side is just like
Well, you know, I just see that people who go down this road of getting all liberal are just more likely
To be committing these horrible crimes and abominations
And you know, I get what they're saying about that because you know, these these non-denom churches are super liberal
And and you know, limp-wristed and it's very it's a very loose environment
But you know that that's not the biblical description of that though
The reason people do these things is because they reject the gospel
And this is the answer they'll say well these people profess to be christian. Yeah professed
You know, I don't I don't know if you know about this one sin called lying
There's a sin in the bible called lying
You know people do that
And you expect to tell you expect me to believe that some pedophile would not lie to your face
That's what they do. They're full of deceit. That's what the bible says
You know, oh man, we just got to pray for him and he just felt no they went out from us
Kenny bald one was not of us
He masqueraded. He has a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's a homo. He's a pedophile
He's the disgusting monstrous animal that needs to be put down
And you know what? I don't care if you think they get this gives ifp churches a bad name or not
Our church believes the pedophile should be put to death
But they're reprobate. They're apostate and you know again if it happens in our church
If ever an apostate comes out of our church and commits some wicked act like that
You better know for sure we will publicly condemn that person
Obviously there's nothing we could do on our part to like harm this individual maybe
But they will be we will turn them into the low
We're not gonna
You know hide it under a rug or something just sweep everything under a rug and just not talk about it
If this person is responsible for harming children committing crimes, they're gonna be turned over to the authorities
And that's you know, that's another problem that these ifp churches have
Is that they do sweep stuff under the rug
And move people around
You know, oh this guy commits pedophilia just move them to another church
Let them be a youth pastor somewhere else give them another chance, but folks pedophiles can't be reformed
It doesn't exist
Now it's important to note that when we talk about the reprobate and the apostate because look folks
You have to understand these things
When it comes to both they're two sides of the same exact coin
We're talking about two people
Who are beyond the hope of salvation they can no longer be saved
They're referred to as the reprobating Romans one in order to describe them for their perversion
Their sexual perversion perversion their degeneracy. That's what reprobate is about right the apostate is also the reprobate
But he's more closely linked to
Scriptural corruption, but they're both the same thing
And they both overlap one another
Okay, you know because you could have a reprobate out in public
Who's some sodomite?
Right. He's not a christian. He never identified as a christian. He might have been given the gospel
He might have known about the things of god and in light of that he rejected him became some pervert
But then you have people who grow up in church
People who hear the preaching of god's word
People who hear the gospel over and over and over again
They hear bible preaching over and over again, and they reject it. You know what happens apostate
Reprobate
That is a major danger my friends and folks. This is why it's important important, you know parents
We need to make sure we check on kids salvations
our kids salvations
you know
I have three kids that have made a profession of faith. They they they got saved
But you know what throughout their lives. I'm just gonna randomly check in
Not just assume
Why because you just never know
And you know what I teach a lot of saturated doctrine in this church
I teach a lot of bible we go through a lot of verses. I'm constantly quoting scripture
You know, I'm constantly saturating the services with the word of god
And I don't want anybody to become hardened towards the word of god because they're they never believed to begin with
It's a legitimate danger
Right
Not just for kids for everyone
But you know we need to make sure we check on our kids salvation and not just assume
And you know what you shouldn't assume that your friend you're brought to church is just saved like well
Don't witness them because he's already saved. No, let us check on their salvation
Let us check on them. They're saved and we'll just have a good conversation about salvation
right
Don't and look and if you talk to them and they're not saved don't take it as a as a insult to you
Just take it as like oh, I thought he was safe
You know, there's people that I thought I got saved and they weren't saved and they got saved later on
I'm not embarrassed about that because you know what there's not a competition of how many people we can just get saved
We know the goal is to just get people saved
So I have no issue with checking on my kids salvation
I check on their salvation. Okay, and I'm going to continue to do so throughout their lives
You know because it's great to be in a church where the bible is being preached and thundered forth and be able to just
Preach the word of god unfiltered, but as I mentioned whatever was sunday or last Thursday or whatever
You know the word of god can harden the heart as well though
Okay
You know, I remember years ago
And we often you know, I've preached against christian schools because christian schools essentially
You know, they do streamline the reprobation process. Let me just be real honest with you
You say why well because they're forced to go to the christian school students
And in the christian school, what are they getting just constant bible?
But they don't want to be there. There's students that don't want to be there
Kids just don't want to be there, but they're being forced their chapel services
And and and bible classes and they're constantly given the word of god and you know what it turns out reprobates
I've seen this personally when I used to work in a christian school. I saw this with students
You know, you have these guys that would come in. They were super on fire for god
They're a major fundamentalist. They preach the word of god now. They're a flaming faggot
They're married to some other dude
A dude married to a dude just denying the things of christ
Say how oh man, how did such a thing happen? I'll tell you how they rejected the gospel long ago
They went out from
I've gotten to a point where
I'm thinking of myself like I appreciate the men who have done
You know great things in my life in the old IFB, but you know what?
I gotta prepare myself in case I find out one of these guys ends up being a bad person
I'm not gonna assume that will happen. I just gotta prepare myself in case it does
Because I don't want to be a respecter of people
And just be completely devastated or something if I found something out like that
You say well then what would you do because you said that person was so influential in your life
I'll just say the word of god was influential in my life
That's just what I'll say
I'll say the word of god that this person was preaching influenced my life and that was it
And look, you know, you think of a guy like jack scott anybody who knows who jack scott is
Okay, he was the pastor of first baptist church of ham and the largest fundamental baptist church in america
I don't think in the world but in america for sure
It's the it's the church that jack house pastor. Okay, his son-in-law took over that which is jack scott
This guy's a reprobate. Okay posse reprobate false prophet for a variety of reasons
Okay
It's a major pervert
Sexual pervert. He's also, you know perverting the scriptures and so forth
But you know prior to all this I liked this preaching
I did
And I have pastor friends that also enjoyed his preaching because he was just a dynamic preacher
But you know just because I like that guy's preaching doesn't
You know that doesn't mean that when he was exposed
I'm just like well
I just think he fell because he was just so influential in my life or something. I was like this guy can pertinent hell for all I care
Whatever I got from him, you know, the wealth of the sinners laid up for the just amen
Whatever he taught from the bible that I glean wisdom from I'm just going to give credit to whoever he stole it from
And I'm not going to be like well, you know, he was influential
I do appreciate him for everything that he's a reprobate
And you know, there's a major issue with people like well, you know
He's such a great man jack scott did a lot of great things. Yeah, but folks you can't be a respecter of people
You can't be a respected people
If the guy is an absolute pervert
If he's an apostate if he's denying the word of god, which is exactly what jack scott did
Literally holding a conference called the king james summit in order to discredit the king james bible
We're talking about a fundamental baptist here
You know, he's talking about how you know when god hung jesus on the cross, you know, he hates you
He hates you just just teaching blasphemous things about jesus christ. You know at that point you say well, this guy's an apostate
And not make excuses. Well, you know, we're not for the grace of god bro. Check that guy's history
Whoever says that let's get that guy's computer and check his history real quick
You know, oh man, you know, everyone falls into sin. Let me see your phone, bro
Let me see your let let's do a search history on your phone real quick
Because you're making me very suspicious of you when you start defending pedophiles and apostates
You do well to just be like this guy's gonna get what he deserves pray for the victims and just keep your mouth shut
Or how about just keep your mouth shut period
And just say pray for the victims
Why do you feel like it's important for you to just back up an absolute apostate?
Rather than actually speak up for the victims
It's weird
But let me tell you why because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak it that's why
And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringing forth evil things
And he can't help but defend wicked people because he's probably wicked himself
That's how it works
They went out from us for they were not of us for if they had been of us
They would have no doubt continued with us go to first timothy chapter four first timothy chapter four
We'll come back to first john
First timothy chapter four
So the idea when the bible says here that they went out from us they would have no doubt continued with us
It's implying that there is a departure
From the truth right look at first timothy chapter one
I'm sorry first timothy chapter four verse number one says now the spirits speak at the expressly that in the latter times
Some shall depart from the faith
Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lies and hypocrisy
I want you to notice this having their conscience seared with a hot iron
So when it says that they departed from the faith, this is referred to apostasy
And I don't believe this is referring to christians, okay
I think it's just saying that in the latter times
People are going to depart from they're going to apostatize because they're allowing themselves themselves to be influenced by seducing spirits
Doctrines of devils and I want you to notice it says that they have their conscience seared with the hot iron
Okay, when you see or something you lose all sensation in it
Right
You see or something is like the the nerves are gone the sensation is gone
This is what Ephesians chapter four renders as what being past feeling
Me you could no longer feel
And this is the equivalent to what we see in roman chapter one that they're given over to a reprobate mind
To do those things which are not convenient. Why can the reprobate?
Why is the reprobate capable of committing them to some of the most heinous of crimes sins and abominations according to the bible?
Because they have a seared conscience
Doesn't bother them anymore. That's why they could commit pedophilia
Beastiality sodomy just disgusting acts because it doesn't bother them
Their conscience is seared with the hot iron
This is the punishment that they receive
Because of their rejection of the truth go back to first jawn if you would
first jawn chapter two
So they would have no doubt continued with us. What does it mean to continue in the faith?
It means that you basically believe the right salvation
The right beliefs about salvation about jesus christ to the very end
It doesn't mean you have to make okay. I gotta keep believing this. I gotta keep believing
I gotta make sure I believe it. Oh, I forgot, you know, it's just
It's referring to the fact that if you have these beliefs
And in the very end of life you deny those beliefs
It means that you didn't really believe them to begin with it was a vain belief as it says in first Corinthians chapter 15
Okay, I just think he's off doctrine. You know, a lot of people are off doctrine. It's true
Because people are just off doctrine sometimes, you know, it's believe weird stuff
Believe, you know dispensationalism
Flat earth
Zionism so all kinds of weirds beliefs out there, right? Yeah, amen
But when it says depart from the faith it's referring to like beliefs about the resurrection
So when you have the Corinthian church denying the resurrection, that's a made that's that's a major major problem there
Because part of the gospel
So he's like you believe them vain you're and he specifically says in second Corinthians chapter 13
Examine yourselves if you be in the faith
Know you're not your own selves that crisis in you except you be reprobates
So he's saying like you better make sure you examine yourself meaning like you better make sure you're actually saved
Not by your works
Not by your behavior, but by your beliefs
Do you actually believe this?
And look folks sometimes people worry they're like man, I wonder if i'm a reprobate
Are they worried like man am I in this situation? What do you believe?
If you believe the right thing you got nothing to worry about
You're good
And let me also say this, you know if you're worried that you're a reprobate then that's one of the indications that you're not
Because reprobates don't care
They don't care
You know, they're they're they're just like they're good being a reprobate. They're good being a little faggot
They're cool with that
Don't bother them, right
Don't really bother them. They're like that
But if you're struggling is just like well, that's probably an indication that you're not because you're you're just you're just
You know, you're you're you're basically carnal or you know, you're struggling with something
But it doesn't mean that you're a reprobate, okay
It says that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
So the bible's telling us here that like god is doing us a favor when he exposes these people
Right
So when Kenny Baldwin came out as a pedophile, I was just like thank god that he's exposed
You say why well number one he can't keep harming children, right? And look, you know this
Disgusting pervert would go and preach at churches and just collect numbers of teenagers
You know and there's like these testimonies of people like this pastor said like man
One of my church members was at this conference and he said that Kenny Baldwin gave him his number
And he's like if you ever need anything just let me just just call me and the the teenager felt like really uncomfortable. I was just like
That's kind of weird. You know like why would you do that?
It is weird
And thank god nothing happened, but you know what whatever 15 year old boy is the victim I I guarantee you he's not the only one
That they might be made manifest this is what the bible means in 2 Timothy chapter 3 that these shall proceed no further
So god just exposes them and you know what it's just like how much more exposure do you need in order to understand that this person's wicked
You're so you know consumed with preserving the reputation of IFP churches and churches this and that
And just being such a godly self-righteous person you forget that you're not loyal to the bible
By defending these pedophiles and perverts
He says they went out from us, you know Judas went out so everyone can know that he's an absolute betrayer
He's a traitor. He's an apostate. He is the son of perdition. God wants you to know that
You know god has a problem with the people are like they go out and just like pray for them
Look at them over there hanging
Look at him just hanging look at his bowels just gushed out poor guy
Man he just
He's the treasurer
God doesn't like that
In i in whose eyes a vile person is condemned. That's what the bible says
The person who dwells on the holy hill is the one who actually hates that person
Because they're a traitor to the christian faith
Okay, and again not every time a person is made manifest. Is it through
Perversion pedophilia
Here's a good way to determine if someone went apostate if they go to a church like this and then become a catholic
That's an apostate
If they become an orthodox
apostate
If they become a Mormon
apostate
Okay, if they become a part of if they become a muslim
Apostate
If you leave the christian faith the beliefs not our church
Not you know this congregation if you are a christian and you abandon you depart from
The fundamentals of the christian faith of salvation the bible the trinity the resurrection the principles of the doctrines of christ
Your apostate according to the bible
I
Look what it goes on to say in chapter 2. This is how we know this is this is the context
Verse 22 says who is a liar but he that denyeth
That jesus is the christ he is antichrist that denyeth the father and the son who served to deny the son
The same as not the father but he that acknowledges the son hath the father
Also, so this is all in the context, right? It's saying if you deny these things then you're not you don't have god
You deny the father and the son you deny the son and you claim to have the father you are apostate
Okay, and we're talking about people who claim to believe these things in times past and no longer believe them
We're not talking about the person you meet at the door who doesn't believe these things
They claim to be an atheist or something like that because they could still be safe
We're talking about someone who made the profession to believe in these things
Got themselves up to be in church at 10 30 in the morning on a sunday
acted like a christian
Went through all the the rig of morrow of being a fundamental baptist
Sung the hymns god of king james bible
Even went out and did some evangelism
That's a person who's claiming to believe these things and doesn't really believe them. That's an apostate right there
That's a person who's denying jesus christ and make no mistake about it
You know god is angry with that person. He's furious with that person
You know years ago. I think it was back in 2018 2019. I might have told the story here. I don't remember
um
But you know we had gone on a mission trip to aruba did I tell the story recently
We went on a mission trip to aruba with pastor anerson and faithful ward and various other churches joined
And it was great, you know, it's just meant a lot of new people and I got paired with the guy and his wife, okay
And you know, we spent a couple. I mean it was like a like a seven-day trip or something like that
And it was great. We got a lot of people saved. Well, this guy was newly married to this girl
And she you know, this is her first time going out first time on a missions trip
She was learning how to sew in then she started preaching the gospel there
And it was just one of those things like man, this is awesome. It's a great trip
and you know
Just good ratings overall just like one of those nice trips, right
A couple months go by
She goes apostate
She just says like I don't believe in any of this
Like I don't believe in cod. I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in the bible
I don't believe in any of it
And he I remember him calling like he's just like I'm like devastated like my wife's not saved
And she became extremely wicked ended up divorcing him and and doing all this stuff or whatever and just kind of just being an absolute atheist
Okay, and I remember him explaining. He's like I remember when we came back
You know, uh, she was a stayed-home wife
And she would just listen to you
Pastor Anderson and and Roger. I'll call him Roger right now
You know, he's he would listen to all three of you for hours every single day
Now if you do that
Kudos to you amen. You just got to get rid of the Jimenez one, all right
Because bro's a gooner
You know
That's good when you're listening to preaching right you're feeding the spirit
You are listening to bible content. You're increasing your knowledge
But if you're a person who's not saved though
Right and you're listening to hours on end of the truth and in your heart you're saying that's not true
That's not true. I don't accept that I reject that
And then you tell people oh, yeah, that was good
Oh, yeah, that was a good sermon
But here you don't believe it
You're pissing god off
Because you're making a mockery of the truth
You're making a mockery of the truth, you know, let me see if I can find this verse real quick
I would say talk amongst yourselves, but you shouldn't do that right now
and so, you know, she would listen to the uh
She listened to preaching on end and then after a while
It was like a it was like a switch. It just went off and then she just no longer believed it anymore. I don't know. Oh, here it is
Let's go to uh, ezekiel 33
I don't have any notes. So I'm just
You know trying to remember all these passages here
You know, if you're just listening to preaching and you're reading the bible and then you're also preaching the gospel
And you don't even believe the stuff that you're preaching
You're leading other people to believe these truths or to claim to believe these truths
And and you don't believe it yourself
That's insanity
That's evil
That's like super wicked
Because in your heart you don't really believe it. It's a ezekiel 33 ezekiel 33 folks, you know
It's like someone sitting in here right now
And you just completely hate my guts
Okay
And you just don't agree with what I'm saying. You don't you you just reject it in your heart
But then you come up to me and be like, hey, that was good. That was good
But you're just lying. You're just like lying in your heart. Do you actually believe these things?
You know, god will punish you with strong delusion and you will give you over to a reprobate mind
Look at ezekiel 33. It reminds me of ezekiel 33
And look down your bibles at verse number 31
It says here and they come unto thee as the people cometh
All right, let's go to 30 actually verse 30
Also, thou son of man the children of the people of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls
And in the doors of the houses
And speak one to another every one to his brother saying come I pray you and hear
What is the word that cometh forth from the Lord?
So they hate ezekiel but they're like, oh come talk about the bible
And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words
But they do them not but they will not do them for with their mouth they show much love
But their heart goes after their covetousness
So they're being fakes. They're being phonies, right
And lo thou art unto them
as a very lovely song
Of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well
On an instrument for they hear thy words, but they do them not. What is he saying?
You know, there's people out there that just like to listen to preaching just because it's entertaining to them
I mean hered
Hered jesus gladly, right or he heard john the baptist gladly
You know a lot of people just like to be entertained by these prophets
But they don't actually believe what's being sated and you know what that make that makes god bad
Yeah
Why because you are making a mockery of the truth
Because the the word of god has a lot of power
Right, and so it penetrates. It's like and it's not just the word of god. It's like the holy spirit using the word of god
And it's like tugging at your heart. It's saying this is true. You need to accept this
Stop messing around stop projecting this and then in your heart you're like
Who does he think he is this is so fake
I hate this, but then you keep coming back for more see
Be not deceived god is not mocked
For what's over a man so that shall we also reap and you know
God doesn't give us like a timeline of when this takes place, but there comes a point where god just like
All right, he's done cut him off
Cut him off
You know, he's he's made such a mockery of the truth
He's not willing to turn when the proof comes when i'm trying to reach him when i'm trying to reach her
They keep rejected in their hearts. They're making a mockery. Look. He's saying that he likes a sermon. That's a lie
He's singing to hymns, but it's a lie. You know what he does just makes him a reprobate
Makes him a reprobate
And you know what? Kenny Baldwin that happened a long time ago
Long time ago
He's a wolf in sheep's clothing
Seeking to take advantage of the innocent. That's a fact
Okay
You know may the word of god never be a very lovely song to you
As an unsafe person and if you like the song just accept the song amen
And look we we've literally had that in our church
We've had people come to our church. Listen to me who were here for years
Teenagers who were here for years
And they never got saved now. They're a complete reprobate
Like well, you know, what do you mean reprobate? I'm talking about they married
You know, they're a girl who married a girl
Sodomite
You say why did that happen? I'll tell you why because there's so much preaching being thundered forth here
It just hardened the heart of that person to the point where they said I don't want it and god gave them over to a reprobate mind
The word of god is powerful, but it's also dangerous to the person who makes a mockery of it as well
Go to heber's chapter three. Let's look at heber's chapter three
It's not that like oh it's just these churches that have these loose environments and you know ccm
Obviously ccm is super gay. Okay
You know the church is super gay
That's that's a fact you're right about that
Okay, and if you don't know what ccm is it's contemporary christian music
Okay, just in case you don't know what that is. It's the really gay music
It's what gay people produce when they claim to be christians
Ccm is what gay people do
The kind of music gay people make when they claim to be christians
Okay, so make sure you remember that the next time you listen to a song
A gay man wrote that it's a very lovely song
Um
So, you know, obviously the these types of churches
Are super gay and all that but at the end of the day at the end of the day folks
The apostate is made through the word of god
You have to like come to grips with that
It's the bible that makes people apostate
I'm not blaming the word of god. I'm blaming the person's
rejection of the word of god
That does that
Look at heber chapter three
And let's look at verse number six
It says but christ as a son over his own house whose house are we
If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope
Firm unto the end this doesn't mean that we have to hold on to it
It means if you believe this hope hope is that faith until the end then yeah, christ is over you
You are a partaker of christ
He goes on to say in verse seven, wherefore as the holy ghost sayeth today if you will hear his voice
Harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness
When your father's tempted me proved me and saw my works 40 years
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation
And they said they do always err in their heart and they have not known my
Waste skip down to verse 12 take heed brethren
Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief
In departing from the living god
He's and he's talking to christians here, but he's like hey, you better make sure that you are an actual believer though
And you better give he to make sure there's not an evil heart of unbelief to the point where you end up departing from the faith
as an apostate
He says verse 13 but exhort one another daily
While it is called today
Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin for we are made partakers of christ
If we hold the beginning of our confidence
Steadfast unto the end while it is said today today if you will hear his voice
Harden not your hearts as in the provocation. What is he saying? You know
You got to make sure that you actually believe the right doctrines. You believe the right salvation
Don't just play along
Hey teenagers don't just play along
There's there's no shame and you come into church for this amount of time
And you're like i'm just afraid that you know if i get saved right now
My parents are going to be disappointed. No, they're not going to be disappointed in you
They're going to be extremely happy that you got saved today if you're not
I will be extremely happy
If you got saved today people in our church will be extremely happy if you got saved today and no one's going to be like
What but i thought
Didn't you get saved long ago?
And i can't believe
And even if someone did do that, which would be really stupid
But even if someone did do that you should just be like yeah, but at least i'm saved now though
And he's saying here we need to exhort one another daily, you know part of the exhortations we need to talk about salvation
Talk about salvation. You know, I I got one child right now
Who's not saved?
But it's almost as if they're starting to become awakened to the truth
They start asking questions, you know
And they start saying like
I think I need to get saved
You know or am I going to get saved today?
They'll still say things like that and then you know we'll give them the gospel
We'll teach them but it's not it's still kind of going over their their heads
But you can see the light is starting to wipe because dad always talks about salvation
You know the church constantly talk about the gospel. This is exhorting one another daily
Okay
Look what it says in verse number 16 for some when they had heard
did provoke
How be it not all that came out of the egypt by moses, but with whom was he grieved 40 years?
Was it not with them that had sin whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that what believe not
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief
Now what what example is he given here?
He's saying, you know the people in the wilderness before they went into the promise land
They died on the other side
And in fact, there are certain people they were like on the border of the promise land
But they never went in why because of their unbelief
And that is a picture it symbolically represents someone who is hearing the word of god
They refuse to hear it. They refuse to accept it and believe it
And they don't make it to the promise and they don't make it to salvation because of their unbelief
It's a posthumousy go back to first shon
I'm giving you the reality of this
You know doctrine here that this does happen
Okay, and you know
Obviously we should do everything we possibly can to make sure that it doesn't but there's only so much we can do
Right, there's only so much we can do we can preach the bible
We can make salvation as clear abundantly clear as possible
We can talk about it. We can we can do everything we possibly can but at the end of the day people have a free will
And they have to choose to believe these things
Look at second john if you would second john
This would be the last verse because uh, actually, I don't know yet. We'll see I'm not going to speak too soon
Look at verse nine. It says who serve a transgressive and abideth not in the doctrine of christ
Hath not god he that abideth in the doctrine of christ
He has both the father and the son so the bible is telling us here that someone who transgresses they pass over
Right, they go beyond the boundaries of the doctrines of christ. They don't have god
They don't have christ. This is an apostate go to jude if you would the book of jude
You say to yourself
You know, I get what you're saying
But like how can someone like Kenny Baldwin for example?
Just being a church like that
be pastoring a church
Teach the word of god claim to lead people to christ
Talk about the things of god
Be a king james only is
preach at conferences
Do all these things and it just doesn't bother him
You know, don't you think the word of god would have like
Convicted him or he would felt some sort of illumination from that
How is it that he can just continue like that and nothing ever happened? Well, look what it says in verse
Let's see here
verse 13
Actually, let me see here
Look at verse 12. These are spots in your feast of charity
Listen to this when they feast with you
feeding themselves
without fear
You know why they can do this because they have no conscience
They're not afraid of being exposed
They can go to you and be like brother feast with you and there's just no fear whatsoever
This is what I mean when I say the reprobate don't care
If you're afraid is because you have actual fear
You know, you're just like oh man, but this person has no fear of god
They can literally go to conferences feast with you do all these things and they're not scared
Of getting caught why because they're absolute psychopaths
They feast themselves without fear clouds
They are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice
They plucked up by the words go to 2nd peter chapter 2
2nd peter chapter 2
Very similar wording here it says in verse 13 and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness
As they they counted pleasure to write in the daytime spots. They are and blemishes
Sporting themselves with their own deceivings
While they feast with you meaning they kind of come to you they have a
A form of godliness they sport themselves with their own deceivings
They try to act and look like a christian, but they're lying to you, but they have no fear of being caught
They don't really care
So that's why we have to really rely upon the lord to expose these people
Right
I mean that's one of the things that I literally have on my prayer list
I pray lord make manifest the folly of the infiltrators
I don't have to do the job myself. I preach the word of god
I preach what the bible says
I try to keep my ear to the ground, but you know what? I'm not on a witch hunt here
I'm not going to be on a witch hunt trying to figure out. Who's the Judas Iscariot?
I don't even think we have a Judas Iscariot, but we might I don't know
But I don't think we do
How can you live like that? I'll tell you how I just got to rely upon the lord to make manifest the folly of the infiltrators
Because this is his church. This is his congregation
This is you know
This is his flock
I'm the under shepherd and I just have to have faith that god will make manifest the folly of the infiltrators
But let me also say this
Just because that's the case doesn't mean you should be careless though
Kids I mean parents watch your kids in church
Don't just let them go in the rooms by themselves with other kids
Don't just let them run amok and go into the dark corners
I know you love the fellowship and you know, we love the fellowship here
But you need to be paying attention to what's going on in our church
But this is a fundamental Baptist church though. This is a new IFB church. How this is a family integrated church
Yeah, and it's inside of a sin-filled world
Where infiltrators actually exist
And I'm not calling anybody an infiltrator here, but you know what just because I don't believe there's infiltrators here
Doesn't mean I'm going to be reckless either
With my parenting, you know, I tell my kids I want to I want you to can I play nope
You you be where I can see you
I want you to go into some dark corner
You know and you know, I don't want you to go to the kitchen
No going to the kitchen no going to the mother-baby rooms alone
With other kids it's not going to happen
And you know what we need to make sure that we're vigilant with our kids regarding that
Just because it's a Baptist church doesn't mean nothing can happen
Oh, is that not here? Yes here
And so yeah, you know, we have confidence that the Lord will make manifest the folly of the Kenny Baldwin's
That absolute perverts, but you know what I don't want him or anybody else to take anybody down with him
And unless kids because of the fact that people are just reckless
Watch your kids
You know watch your kids be vigilant take care of them
Keep an eye on them have rules for them have boundaries for them have guidelines for them
Yeah, but you know, we just trust look
I'm all for trusting people but there has to be a line where you're just like this is one area. We just don't
We don't cross over
Okay, plan is simple. They're like family. I get that but you know what at the end of the day
Those are your kids though
And you know like the people in our church they are like family, but you know
It just that's just a cute saying that we like to say to say we love each other
But I do I love you guys you guys are cool
I like you guys
I like you, you know, but you know what this is this is literally my family though, okay
That's just it, you know, some of you guys are you guys are like my spiritual sons, but that but spiritual emphasis on spiritual
You know
And so we need to make sure we recognize that and not just think well, we're all one big happy family
Yeah, but you know what unfortunately, it's just a sinful world. And so don't be stupid
Okay, be vigilant
Be sober because your adversary the devil walk at the bow seeking whom he made of our
Plain and simple
Okay, all right. Let's let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word lord help us to
Identify the false prophets but recognizes there's only so much we can do and I don't think it's our job
To point out who may be the false prophet in our church because I don't even think there's any
But if there is I have full faith in you that you will make manifest their folly
And we could all we can do is preach the word of god preach the gospel
Not be ignorant
Not give people too much the benefit of the doubt
And and recognize that you know, there's gonna be times where there is a Judas Iscariot that comes through and we may not see it
John didn't see it. Peter didn't see it. James didn't see it
We obviously know the lord Jesus Christ did he knew from the beginning
But I pray that you'd help us as your people to
Be discerning and may you protect us as your flock from the Kenny Baldwin's of this world
pray for the victims
of the people that
He molested lord or or was inappropriate with lord
I pray father god that they would find solace within your word
And I pray that the churches that they're a part of would stand with them and and preach against that wicked reprobate
And maybe bless this as we go on our way. Bless the fellowship and follow in Jesus's name. We pray amen