WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.320 Amen. 00:01.000 --> 00:01.440 Okay. 00:01.540 --> 00:02.940 We're in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 00:03.040 --> 00:06.000 We're going to be here, the majority of the sermon, but we are going to visit some 00:06.000 --> 00:06.380 other scriptures. 00:06.560 --> 00:07.440 So just keep that in mind. 00:07.600 --> 00:08.860 Have a little piece of paper or pen. 00:09.260 --> 00:14.240 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse number 4 says, Now there are diversities of gifts, 00:14.640 --> 00:15.640 but the same spirit. 00:16.140 --> 00:20.220 There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 00:20.660 --> 00:25.900 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh 00:25.900 --> 00:27.280 all and on. 00:27.280 --> 00:31.740 The title of my sermon this evening, excuse me, is variety is the spice of life. 00:33.280 --> 00:35.680 Variety is the spice of life. 00:35.900 --> 00:40.220 When you read the Bible, you actually see that variety is a major theme that is stamped 00:40.220 --> 00:41.980 throughout the Word of God. 00:42.120 --> 00:46.780 You have the Bible, for example, 66 books that essentially fundamentally teach the same 00:46.780 --> 00:50.900 exact thing, but is written by a variety of different authors with different backgrounds. 00:51.340 --> 00:56.260 And in fact, many of the books in the Bible address obviously the specific doctrines, 00:56.260 --> 01:00.740 but from a different perspective, you think of the four Gospels that fundamentally teach 01:00.740 --> 01:04.160 the same exact thing about Jesus Christ, but it is from their perspective. 01:04.460 --> 01:09.440 You think of the 12 disciples that are centered around following the Lord Jesus Christ, yet 01:09.440 --> 01:10.900 all of them are just completely different. 01:11.340 --> 01:16.120 You have the sons of thunder, you have some that were fishermen, you have tax collectors, 01:16.560 --> 01:21.000 you have one that was a Canaanite, just various backgrounds coming together to 01:21.000 --> 01:22.900 follow the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:23.280 --> 01:26.460 And of course, we know that the Bible is just filled with a variety of different 01:26.460 --> 01:31.820 principles, different Bible characters, diverse backgrounds centered around the 01:31.820 --> 01:32.540 same truth. 01:32.660 --> 01:36.220 And it's important for us to realize that variety is not a bad thing, okay? 01:36.560 --> 01:40.000 It's good to have a variety of different choices and so forth. 01:40.520 --> 01:44.460 Now let me start by saying that variety is not at the exclusion of 01:44.460 --> 01:46.380 scriptural unity, okay? 01:46.820 --> 01:51.080 Meaning that we obviously have to believe in the fundamentals of the faith. 01:51.080 --> 01:55.040 We need to make sure we agree on that, which is most important, but outside of 01:55.040 --> 01:59.440 that, it's okay to have a little bit of variety in preferences and not everyone 01:59.440 --> 02:02.340 has to be exactly like us, okay? 02:02.780 --> 02:06.200 Now you're in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, point number one regarding variety being 02:06.200 --> 02:11.120 the spice of life, that is that unity does not mean uniformity. 02:11.760 --> 02:14.980 Unity does not mean uniformity. 02:15.080 --> 02:15.840 What is uniformity? 02:15.840 --> 02:24.100 Uniformity means sameness or consistency in form, character, appearance, behavior or 02:24.100 --> 02:24.660 manner. 02:25.360 --> 02:30.160 Uniformity is the expectation that everyone must be alike in areas where 02:30.160 --> 02:32.100 differences could legitimately exist. 02:32.780 --> 02:37.940 So even though God wants us to be unified around the word of God, around 02:37.940 --> 02:43.700 the doctrines of the faith, around salvation, Jesus Christ, our biblical 02:43.700 --> 02:48.760 convictions, it doesn't mean we need to be exactly the same in every area. 02:48.900 --> 02:52.840 We have to have the same exact preferences, the same exact personality, 02:53.480 --> 02:54.700 the same exact gifts. 02:55.060 --> 02:59.160 There can be variety in those things and in fact, God encourages that. 02:59.620 --> 03:02.700 Again, we see in verse number four of 1 Corinthians 12, there are 03:02.700 --> 03:06.560 diversities of gifts, but I want you to notice this, but the same spirit. 03:07.200 --> 03:09.840 So there could be people who have different gifts, spiritual gifts, 03:09.940 --> 03:13.320 according to Romans chapter 12, 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and so forth, 03:13.320 --> 03:17.320 but just to understand, just because someone is not wired exactly like you 03:17.320 --> 03:18.840 doesn't mean that they don't have the spirit. 03:19.200 --> 03:19.380 Okay? 03:19.880 --> 03:22.200 You say to yourself, oh man, I get annoyed with this person because 03:22.200 --> 03:24.540 they're just too much of filling the blank. 03:24.840 --> 03:27.460 Well, it just means that they're different than you, but guess what? 03:27.560 --> 03:28.320 They're still a Christian. 03:28.660 --> 03:29.980 They still love the word of God. 03:30.380 --> 03:31.520 They still love truth. 03:31.820 --> 03:33.440 They still believe the same things that you do. 03:33.680 --> 03:36.840 They're just not exactly like you are and that's okay. 03:37.280 --> 03:39.880 And I don't want to get ahead of myself, but let me just say this is that 03:40.320 --> 03:43.180 if our church was just filled with the same exact person, 03:43.520 --> 03:48.060 the same exact personality, first of all, we would be an extremely annoying church. 03:49.560 --> 03:50.040 Right? 03:50.480 --> 03:54.020 If everyone in our church was just like you, it would be horrible. 03:54.440 --> 03:56.220 If everyone was just like me, it would be horrible. 03:56.760 --> 04:01.320 Now, obviously we're all going to share some of the same preferences in general, 04:01.600 --> 04:04.980 but just to understand this is that God created us with different personalities, 04:05.400 --> 04:07.900 different gifts, different strengths and different weaknesses. 04:08.460 --> 04:10.540 And, you know, when we come together in a church, 04:10.840 --> 04:13.160 these things are meant to complement one another, right? 04:13.580 --> 04:17.400 Someone's strength is meant to help our weaknesses and vice versa. 04:17.800 --> 04:19.980 We need to recognize that we need to have unity, 04:20.300 --> 04:22.460 but not necessarily have this conformity 04:22.460 --> 04:27.300 where we all have to be exactly alike in every single area of life. 04:27.460 --> 04:30.120 He says there are diversities of gifts, same spirit, 04:30.660 --> 04:34.140 differences of administration, but the same Lord. 04:34.300 --> 04:36.020 Now, the way we can apply that is this. 04:36.020 --> 04:39.600 Not every church has to be exactly like ours, okay? 04:40.340 --> 04:42.540 And even churches that are like us, 04:42.660 --> 04:44.300 even churches that we would affiliate with, 04:44.480 --> 04:46.700 we don't have to do everything exactly alike. 04:47.240 --> 04:49.600 You know why? Because there are differences of administration. 04:50.380 --> 04:51.760 And in fact, he goes on to say in verse 6, 04:52.040 --> 04:54.460 there are diversities of operations. 04:55.300 --> 04:57.960 Now, you know, in the early years of our church, 04:58.020 --> 05:01.120 when we went independent, I kind of had to deal with this a lot 05:01.120 --> 05:04.920 because people had this idea that we have to be exactly like our sending church. 05:05.390 --> 05:07.700 And look, our sending church is an awesome church. 05:07.840 --> 05:09.640 The sending pastor is an awesome pastor. 05:10.020 --> 05:12.100 And in fact, I learned a lot from him. 05:12.420 --> 05:15.040 A lot of things that we do here are because of him. 05:15.220 --> 05:17.140 You know, I decided to continue those things 05:17.140 --> 05:21.040 because I agree with that style of church, the new FB church. 05:21.380 --> 05:23.680 I agree with that. I believe we're a new FB church. 05:23.960 --> 05:26.580 And so obviously whoever you're sent out of, 05:26.700 --> 05:28.600 whatever pastor church you're sent out of, 05:28.800 --> 05:31.060 you're going to share some of that DNA in your church. 05:31.200 --> 05:32.860 It has to be that way, right? 05:33.440 --> 05:35.540 You know, it'd be weird if it's just like we go independent 05:35.540 --> 05:36.940 and all of a sudden it's like, well, 05:37.000 --> 05:38.440 now we're a Presbyterian church. 05:39.440 --> 05:40.200 What is that? 05:41.080 --> 05:44.240 You know, you obviously are going to have a lot of the same DNA. 05:44.720 --> 05:47.440 And in fact, you're going to share some of the same DNA 05:47.440 --> 05:49.220 with other churches that didn't send you out. 05:49.820 --> 05:51.580 Your other churches are going to influence you. 05:51.720 --> 05:53.240 Other pastors are going to influence you. 05:53.420 --> 05:55.860 And that's okay because the diversities in those churches 05:55.860 --> 05:59.180 can often help us in our ministry here and vice versa. 05:59.600 --> 06:01.200 But let me say this, that doesn't mean 06:01.200 --> 06:04.520 that we have to be exactly like every other church. 06:04.980 --> 06:05.240 You understand? 06:05.740 --> 06:07.780 It doesn't mean we have to be exactly like faithful word. 06:08.180 --> 06:10.760 It doesn't mean we have to be exactly like church foundation, 06:11.200 --> 06:13.200 like steadfast Baptist church and so forth. 06:13.460 --> 06:14.300 And there's definitely some churches 06:14.300 --> 06:15.820 that we don't want to be anything alike 06:15.820 --> 06:17.240 that used to be new IP, you know what I mean? 06:18.280 --> 06:20.160 The point being here is that there's differences 06:20.160 --> 06:22.980 of administration, differences in operations. 06:23.340 --> 06:24.800 And it's important for us to recognize 06:24.800 --> 06:29.720 that every church has a diverse way of dealing with things, 06:29.720 --> 06:32.200 a variety of operations and administrations 06:32.200 --> 06:34.200 that we should not stand in judgment of 06:34.200 --> 06:35.880 on their end or our end. 06:36.200 --> 06:37.900 Well, you know, I used to go to this church 06:37.900 --> 06:38.920 and this is the way we did it there. 06:39.280 --> 06:41.080 Great, praise God, but guess what? 06:41.160 --> 06:41.840 Here we do it different 06:41.840 --> 06:43.420 and they do it differently over there. 06:43.680 --> 06:45.080 There's actually nothing wrong with that 06:45.080 --> 06:46.580 because at the end of the day, the Bible says 06:46.580 --> 06:47.740 it's the same Lord. 06:48.340 --> 06:49.800 And the Bible says in verse number six, 06:50.040 --> 06:51.060 it is the same God. 06:51.240 --> 06:53.260 Listen to this, which worketh all in all. 06:54.140 --> 06:54.980 Me, guess what? 06:55.220 --> 06:56.980 God is working in those churches. 06:57.480 --> 06:59.180 God is using that pastor. 06:59.180 --> 07:03.060 God is using that congregation just as he's using us 07:03.060 --> 07:04.760 and just because there's differences, 07:05.120 --> 07:07.540 there's a variety of different ways that they do things, 07:07.780 --> 07:09.540 doesn't mean that God isn't using us. 07:09.960 --> 07:11.540 Doesn't mean that God isn't using them. 07:11.980 --> 07:14.360 God's just operating in a different way over there. 07:14.740 --> 07:17.500 And so this is important to understand that we want unity 07:17.500 --> 07:19.520 and in fact, we want unity with other churches too, 07:19.780 --> 07:20.460 to a certain degree, right? 07:21.420 --> 07:23.800 You know, I want unity with old IFB churches, 07:24.040 --> 07:25.280 it's just they don't want unity with us. 07:25.420 --> 07:25.740 You know what I mean? 07:25.840 --> 07:26.540 That's just the only problem. 07:26.980 --> 07:28.680 You know, I want unity with old IFB churches. 07:28.680 --> 07:31.060 Why? Because many of them believe in the right salvation. 07:31.920 --> 07:34.920 Many of them believe they're King James only. 07:35.400 --> 07:36.340 They're soul winners. 07:36.900 --> 07:38.440 They believe in the right doctrines. 07:38.760 --> 07:40.440 And so why wouldn't we want to get along 07:40.440 --> 07:41.620 with the church like that, right? 07:42.020 --> 07:43.920 If they are operating in that manner. 07:44.320 --> 07:47.220 Now look, I don't agree with all the operations 07:47.220 --> 07:49.040 of the old IFB though, right? 07:49.560 --> 07:52.260 I don't necessarily want a Sunday school class. 07:52.720 --> 07:53.980 I don't want bus ministry. 07:54.700 --> 07:56.800 You know, I'm not gonna have a Christian school 07:56.800 --> 07:59.060 or a Bible college or whatever it may be. 07:59.400 --> 08:02.800 These are the administrations and operations of the old IFB. 08:03.260 --> 08:03.560 But you know what? 08:03.580 --> 08:05.500 Apparently God's still using many of them 08:05.500 --> 08:06.600 even though they have that. 08:06.960 --> 08:09.440 That's a different administration, a different operation. 08:09.920 --> 08:12.640 But we have the same Lord, it's the same spirit. 08:13.160 --> 08:13.740 But here's the thing. 08:14.060 --> 08:15.540 You know, sometimes people could look at that and say, 08:15.560 --> 08:17.040 well, why don't we do something like that? 08:17.500 --> 08:18.220 Why don't we do it? 08:18.440 --> 08:20.020 If it's working for them, I'll tell you why 08:20.020 --> 08:21.540 because we have a different operation here. 08:22.260 --> 08:23.480 And that doesn't work for us 08:23.480 --> 08:24.700 and we're not really interested in that. 08:24.700 --> 08:27.000 And again, you know, when you think of the bus ministry, 08:27.200 --> 08:28.900 for example, we will never have a bus ministry 08:28.900 --> 08:31.600 but I'm not gonna stand in judgment of a church that does 08:31.600 --> 08:33.700 because I know that there are sincere people 08:33.700 --> 08:35.980 who are in bus ministry. 08:36.360 --> 08:37.960 They actually wanna get people saved. 08:38.080 --> 08:41.040 They bring tons of people to church every single week. 08:41.120 --> 08:42.280 They get those bus kids saved. 08:42.500 --> 08:44.000 They get families integrated into the church 08:44.000 --> 08:44.840 and they're doing a good job. 08:45.460 --> 08:47.080 I personally know people who do that. 08:47.540 --> 08:48.320 You know, my brother-in-laws 08:48.320 --> 08:50.800 are super heavily involved in bus ministry 08:50.800 --> 08:53.040 and I can tell you, you know, 08:53.040 --> 08:55.400 with confidence that every single one of them 08:55.400 --> 08:57.440 tries to make sure as best as possible 08:57.440 --> 08:58.400 to make sure that they're saved. 08:58.800 --> 09:00.880 Get them baptized, they bring them to church, 09:01.040 --> 09:02.700 they try to get them integrated into the church 09:02.700 --> 09:04.200 and so forth and I think that's great. 09:04.600 --> 09:06.020 Are there churches out there 09:06.020 --> 09:08.160 that just use bus ministry to beef up the numbers? 09:08.360 --> 09:08.880 Of course. 09:10.140 --> 09:12.140 You know, a lot of times people look at a church like ours 09:12.140 --> 09:14.380 like, oh, you guys only run 200, we got this many. 09:14.580 --> 09:15.980 Yeah, because of bus ministry though. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.880 You know, a lot of these churches don't run like 200 09:19.880 --> 09:21.760 but really they're running like 500 09:21.760 --> 09:24.260 because 300 of those kids are actually from bus ministry. 09:24.940 --> 09:25.660 But you know what? 09:25.800 --> 09:27.180 I'm not gonna stand in judgment of that 09:27.180 --> 09:30.320 unless of course, you know, people start asserting 09:30.320 --> 09:32.420 that you can't be an independent fundamental Baptist 09:32.420 --> 09:33.580 if you don't have a bus ministry. 09:33.940 --> 09:36.180 At that point, now we're running into a problem, okay? 09:36.500 --> 09:38.080 They need to have this philosophy 09:38.500 --> 09:40.140 that we have a different operation, 09:40.640 --> 09:42.860 a different administration and we're not the same 09:42.860 --> 09:46.560 but that's okay because variety is the spice of life. 09:46.920 --> 09:47.200 You understand? 09:48.080 --> 09:49.940 And so, go to Romans chapter 12 if you would. 09:49.940 --> 09:50.740 Romans chapter 12. 09:52.200 --> 09:54.700 Unity does not mean uniformity. 09:55.180 --> 09:56.860 So there should be differences between 09:57.380 --> 09:58.720 independent fundamental Baptist church 09:58.720 --> 10:00.100 and look, there should be differences 10:00.100 --> 10:02.380 between new IFB churches as well. 10:02.740 --> 10:04.460 There should be differences in the operation, 10:04.700 --> 10:05.640 the way we do things. 10:05.980 --> 10:07.480 That's okay and I'm explaining to you why. 10:08.120 --> 10:10.320 When there's differences between churches like ours, 10:10.640 --> 10:12.980 they can glean wisdom from us and vice versa. 10:13.500 --> 10:15.580 If we did everything exactly the same 10:15.580 --> 10:16.460 there's no room for growth. 10:17.340 --> 10:20.120 So we need to be unified in our beliefs, 10:20.400 --> 10:21.420 in the fundamentals of the faith 10:21.420 --> 10:24.680 but not necessarily be exactly the same. 10:24.800 --> 10:26.060 We're gonna share some of the same DNA 10:26.480 --> 10:27.700 but not exactly the same. 10:27.780 --> 10:28.740 Look at Romans chapter 12. 10:29.280 --> 10:30.900 We're gonna come back to 1 Corinthians 12. 10:31.240 --> 10:32.560 Romans 12 verse four says, 10:33.020 --> 10:35.400 for as we have many members in one body 10:36.020 --> 10:38.040 and all members have not the same office 10:38.560 --> 10:40.420 so we being many are one body in Christ 10:40.900 --> 10:42.940 and everyone members one of another. 10:43.400 --> 10:45.340 Having then gifts deferred according to the grace 10:45.340 --> 10:47.060 that is given to us, whether prophecy, 10:47.180 --> 10:49.020 let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith 10:49.480 --> 10:51.660 or ministry, let us wait on our ministering 10:51.660 --> 10:53.620 or he that teacheth on teaching, 10:54.300 --> 10:55.960 he that exhorted on exhortation, 10:56.400 --> 10:58.080 he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity, 10:58.760 --> 11:00.260 he that ruleth with diligence, 11:00.680 --> 11:02.860 he that showeth mercy with cheerfulness. 11:03.000 --> 11:05.760 I've taught on this passage many times in the past 11:05.760 --> 11:07.380 regarding the seven spiritual gifts 11:07.380 --> 11:10.520 and I think this is a great thing to take into account 11:10.520 --> 11:12.620 especially when dealing with people in church 11:13.040 --> 11:14.380 because then you realize, oh, 11:14.880 --> 11:16.640 the reason I'm annoyed with this person 11:16.640 --> 11:18.720 is because we have different spiritual gifts 11:18.720 --> 11:20.800 but if I understand how they operate 11:20.800 --> 11:23.220 I can coexist with them. 11:23.400 --> 11:24.860 I can appreciate their strengths 11:24.860 --> 11:29.020 and vice versa, I know why they're wired the way they are, 11:29.720 --> 11:31.120 why they do things the way they do, 11:31.500 --> 11:33.420 why because there's diversities of gifts. 11:33.920 --> 11:36.720 If we were all prophets, this church would just explode. 11:38.020 --> 11:40.800 If we were all mercies, it'd be a liberal church. 11:43.520 --> 11:45.400 It'd just be a compromising church. 11:46.160 --> 11:47.660 If it was all mercies, it'd just be 11:47.660 --> 11:48.760 an absolute compromising church. 11:49.060 --> 11:50.180 If it was all prophets, 11:50.340 --> 11:51.980 everyone here would be labeled a reprobate. 11:54.720 --> 11:56.860 If it was all teachers, guess what? 11:56.940 --> 11:58.620 It'd be just a really boring church. 12:01.840 --> 12:03.220 Fact, that's a fact. 12:04.380 --> 12:06.500 We wanna make sure that we have 12:06.500 --> 12:09.180 a variety of different types of people 12:09.180 --> 12:10.720 with different types of gifts 12:10.720 --> 12:12.200 because we compliment each other 12:12.200 --> 12:15.320 and look, when people have different spiritual gifts 12:15.320 --> 12:16.840 and different personalities, 12:17.280 --> 12:20.280 it forces us to enact spiritual principles 12:20.820 --> 12:23.700 like mercy, patience, grace. 12:24.100 --> 12:25.180 It gives us an opportunity 12:25.600 --> 12:27.680 because look, prophets like to hang out 12:27.680 --> 12:29.620 or prophets, mercies, everyone just likes 12:29.620 --> 12:31.860 to hang out with each other who are just exactly alike. 12:32.460 --> 12:34.360 That's even, teachers like to go with the teachers 12:34.360 --> 12:37.180 and that's okay but you know what? 12:37.420 --> 12:38.600 In order for you to enact 12:38.600 --> 12:40.380 some spiritual principles in your life 12:40.380 --> 12:41.500 you have to actually interact 12:41.500 --> 12:42.840 with people who aren't like you. 12:45.780 --> 12:47.180 Races like to be with races, 12:47.460 --> 12:48.800 well you know races gotta get around 12:48.800 --> 12:50.140 some black folk, okay? 12:51.260 --> 12:53.160 So you can actually behave like a Christian 12:53.160 --> 12:54.660 and enact those principles, amen? 12:56.440 --> 12:58.080 So when it comes to the subject of variety 12:58.080 --> 13:01.040 it's important to note that God demands unity 13:01.560 --> 13:04.420 but not necessarily uniformity, okay? 13:05.020 --> 13:06.740 God demands unity around the truth 13:06.740 --> 13:08.680 and the fundamentals of the faith 13:08.680 --> 13:11.960 but gives allowance for diversity. 13:13.300 --> 13:14.040 And look, again, 13:14.200 --> 13:16.340 he doesn't want everything to be exactly the same. 13:16.400 --> 13:18.680 Think about the orchestra, okay? 13:19.680 --> 13:20.560 I don't talk about the race 13:20.560 --> 13:22.020 and the orchestra or anything like that. 13:22.420 --> 13:23.680 Just think about orchestra for example. 13:24.380 --> 13:25.560 When you think of an orchestra 13:26.560 --> 13:28.720 every instrument that's playing the same note 13:28.720 --> 13:30.500 isn't necessarily in harmony, right? 13:31.960 --> 13:35.020 Harmony is actually a result of different instruments 13:35.680 --> 13:37.180 contributing different parts 13:37.180 --> 13:38.680 according to the same composition. 13:39.760 --> 13:41.560 So like if everyone just does the melody, 13:41.840 --> 13:42.400 yeah it sounds good 13:42.400 --> 13:44.200 but it doesn't become beautiful 13:44.840 --> 13:47.140 until everyone just plays a part, 13:47.440 --> 13:48.600 a part of the composition. 13:49.060 --> 13:51.000 Then it's like everyone working together 13:51.000 --> 13:53.520 even though individually they sound different 13:53.520 --> 13:55.060 they play a different instrument 13:55.060 --> 13:57.780 but when they get together to compose a piece 13:57.780 --> 13:58.460 it sounds great 13:58.820 --> 14:00.240 and that's exactly how a church is. 14:00.660 --> 14:04.420 If we're all violins and trumpets 14:04.420 --> 14:05.240 or whatever it may be 14:05.240 --> 14:07.000 it would just sound really loud. 14:07.280 --> 14:08.960 It just sound like oh, there's just all trumpets 14:08.960 --> 14:10.940 but because we're a church filled 14:10.940 --> 14:12.480 with a variety of different instruments 14:12.480 --> 14:13.660 just by way of illustration 14:14.160 --> 14:16.560 we can compose a beautiful piece, understand? 14:17.080 --> 14:20.000 And this is why God wants us to be different. 14:20.400 --> 14:22.280 Variety is the spice of life. 14:22.360 --> 14:24.020 We can believe the same Bible 14:24.480 --> 14:26.960 have the same doctrines, preach the same gospel, 14:27.380 --> 14:29.000 have the same biblical standards 14:29.000 --> 14:31.140 but with diversities in our personalities 14:31.140 --> 14:32.380 and preferences. 14:32.860 --> 14:33.580 And you know what? 14:33.840 --> 14:34.980 Churches can do the same 14:34.980 --> 14:36.840 and they should do the same. 14:37.520 --> 14:38.600 And you know, here's the thing, 14:38.740 --> 14:41.300 like years ago there was a man 14:41.300 --> 14:43.600 by the name of Pastor Hiles, okay? 14:43.960 --> 14:45.140 Some of you know who that is, 14:45.220 --> 14:46.660 some of you may not know who that is. 14:47.060 --> 14:48.480 He had probably the largest 14:48.480 --> 14:51.400 fundamental Baptist church during his time 14:51.400 --> 14:53.440 and was responsible for starting 14:53.440 --> 14:55.320 like a lot of fundamental Baptist churches, 14:55.840 --> 14:56.480 like a lot of them. 14:56.540 --> 14:57.680 He did a great work, 14:58.420 --> 15:00.180 started a major soning movement, 15:00.600 --> 15:01.800 was a super hard preacher. 15:02.440 --> 15:04.080 He was in Ham in Indiana. 15:05.160 --> 15:07.080 And you know, he started a lot of churches, 15:07.200 --> 15:07.640 it was great. 15:08.020 --> 15:10.000 But the only problem is that a lot of these churches 15:10.000 --> 15:11.680 were just exactly like him. 15:12.600 --> 15:13.520 And I'm not joking, 15:13.820 --> 15:15.540 let me give you an example to this, okay? 15:15.980 --> 15:17.640 Like Brother Hiles had this thing 15:17.640 --> 15:19.340 where because he never, 15:19.760 --> 15:20.160 I don't know, 15:20.220 --> 15:21.960 I don't know if it's because of his health or whatever, 15:22.260 --> 15:24.740 but he was always coughing during his sermons. 15:25.320 --> 15:26.240 Like he was clearing his throat, 15:26.380 --> 15:26.480 he'd be like, 15:29.180 --> 15:30.400 he'd just do that all the time. 15:30.680 --> 15:32.300 And it was kind of like something that was like, 15:32.460 --> 15:33.480 he was known for. 15:34.160 --> 15:37.360 Well, the churches that were started by him, 15:37.440 --> 15:38.860 that were inspired by him and started by him, 15:39.140 --> 15:40.380 they would preach exactly the same, 15:40.460 --> 15:40.860 they would cough. 15:43.360 --> 15:45.640 They would do the same thing. 15:48.140 --> 15:50.500 Now look, we should copy Brother Hiles 15:50.500 --> 15:51.180 as much as possible 15:51.180 --> 15:52.580 because he was successful in a lot of ways. 15:53.240 --> 15:55.160 But bro, like sneeze instead or something, 15:55.160 --> 15:57.900 like I got cleared, go do something else. 15:58.760 --> 16:00.740 It got to a point where it was kind of ridiculous 16:00.740 --> 16:01.480 and it was like, 16:01.580 --> 16:03.520 a lot of people would mock these preachers 16:04.120 --> 16:06.100 because there would even be preachers 16:06.100 --> 16:10.040 who would not only mimic his cough 16:10.040 --> 16:11.400 and clearing of the throat, 16:12.320 --> 16:14.320 but they would even mimic his stories. 16:15.460 --> 16:16.740 Like they would just use his stories 16:16.740 --> 16:18.720 as though they're the ones who are experiencing 16:19.220 --> 16:21.180 whatever story Brother Hiles was talking about 16:21.640 --> 16:23.580 to the point that even there's an instance 16:23.580 --> 16:25.340 because Brother Hiles' wife, his name was, 16:25.480 --> 16:26.080 what was her name? 16:27.040 --> 16:27.300 Beverly. 16:28.360 --> 16:29.320 Okay, so he was like, 16:29.740 --> 16:32.040 Beverly one time, you know. 16:32.340 --> 16:34.120 And there's a pastor got up, coughed, 16:34.280 --> 16:35.740 told the story and said, Beverly. 16:36.980 --> 16:38.120 Beverly wasn't his wife. 16:40.340 --> 16:42.780 That's called uniformity, okay. 16:43.720 --> 16:46.640 And I think it's important for every preacher boy 16:47.220 --> 16:49.300 and anybody who's practicing to preach 16:49.300 --> 16:51.700 to find a preacher that they want to sound like. 16:51.700 --> 16:53.120 I think that's 100% valid. 16:53.860 --> 16:55.560 Every preacher does that, okay. 16:56.180 --> 16:58.700 You know, as I grew as a preacher, early years, 16:58.840 --> 17:00.620 I've always had someone that I would want to mimic 17:00.620 --> 17:03.020 their delivery the way they preach 17:03.020 --> 17:04.600 because that's just how it works, okay. 17:04.680 --> 17:06.060 You find someone that inspires you, 17:06.360 --> 17:08.500 you find someone whose delivery inspires you 17:08.500 --> 17:09.460 and you mimic that, 17:09.540 --> 17:11.560 but eventually you kind of have to make it 17:11.560 --> 17:13.220 your own style, you understand. 17:13.820 --> 17:15.340 And use your own wife's name, 17:15.420 --> 17:17.440 don't use my wife's name, you understand. 17:19.100 --> 17:20.800 So you know, churches should be the same. 17:21.400 --> 17:23.800 Thank God for these house churches 17:24.760 --> 17:27.020 because that makes it easy to find a good church. 17:27.200 --> 17:28.220 It's like, well, if that's a house church, 17:28.380 --> 17:31.140 you're gonna find a King James only soul winning church, 17:31.500 --> 17:32.860 hard preaching and so forth. 17:33.480 --> 17:35.800 But it can cross some lines there 17:35.800 --> 17:37.480 where it just becomes weird, you understand. 17:38.400 --> 17:39.360 And so we need to make sure, 17:39.440 --> 17:41.500 go to Luke chapter nine, if you will, Luke chapter nine. 17:42.840 --> 17:44.880 We need to make sure that we have unity 17:45.380 --> 17:48.020 but not necessarily seek out uniformity 17:48.440 --> 17:51.160 where we have to be exactly the same 17:51.160 --> 17:54.620 in every single way, every single aspect, 17:55.060 --> 17:58.240 every mannerism, the way we do church, 17:58.560 --> 17:59.640 the way we run the ministry. 17:59.900 --> 18:02.800 There needs to be, you kind of need to fly on your own 18:02.800 --> 18:05.380 and start coming up with your own ways of doing things, 18:05.480 --> 18:08.220 your own administrations and operations and so forth. 18:08.600 --> 18:10.060 And again, this also means 18:10.060 --> 18:11.720 that we shouldn't necessarily stand in judgment 18:11.720 --> 18:13.260 of another church just because they don't do it 18:13.260 --> 18:15.500 exactly like we do, okay. 18:15.880 --> 18:17.400 Because that's wrong, you know. 18:17.820 --> 18:20.320 God, if we're independent Baptist churches, 18:20.960 --> 18:22.280 we're independent, we're autonomous, 18:22.800 --> 18:24.040 let me explain to you what that means. 18:24.340 --> 18:26.780 It means that God is leading that church 18:27.320 --> 18:28.680 in that particular operation. 18:29.240 --> 18:33.040 And it'd be wrong for us as a foreign church 18:33.360 --> 18:34.720 that has nothing to do with that church, 18:34.780 --> 18:35.820 even though we believe the same 18:35.820 --> 18:37.460 to try to impose upon them 18:37.460 --> 18:40.580 to conduct ministry exactly the way we do it 18:40.580 --> 18:42.240 because God is leading that pastor, 18:42.620 --> 18:44.340 he's leading that church and we have to be content 18:44.340 --> 18:44.620 with that. 18:44.900 --> 18:46.580 Well, I just think they're just, you know, 18:46.700 --> 18:47.580 they just kind of suck. 18:47.860 --> 18:50.680 Well, you know, that might be true in some areas for sure. 18:51.120 --> 18:53.000 But you know what, if they're preaching the gospel, 18:53.560 --> 18:54.660 they're preaching against sin, 18:55.040 --> 18:57.120 yeah, maybe the degree of hardness of the preaching 18:57.120 --> 18:58.820 is not exactly up to par 18:58.820 --> 19:00.180 of what we would consider to be the standard. 19:00.580 --> 19:01.880 You know, that's not our thing, 19:02.000 --> 19:04.080 but it doesn't mean that God isn't using them though. 19:04.600 --> 19:06.580 And it doesn't mean that God's not pleased with them 19:06.580 --> 19:08.480 either, because God is pleased with them. 19:08.540 --> 19:10.240 And let me tell you, there's a lot of churches out there 19:10.240 --> 19:11.920 that I wouldn't intend. 19:13.460 --> 19:14.620 Like, I wouldn't be a member of. 19:16.220 --> 19:18.340 But it's not because I think they're a bad church though. 19:19.120 --> 19:20.980 It's not because I think they're a horrible church. 19:21.340 --> 19:23.260 It's just that I like my preaching a little more fiery. 19:24.060 --> 19:25.960 You know, I like to hear that for every once in a while. 19:26.100 --> 19:27.840 Fag, fag, yeah. 19:29.120 --> 19:30.200 Not the other one. 19:31.360 --> 19:32.000 Yeah, gotcha. 19:32.780 --> 19:35.580 You know, there's certain preaching that I just prefer. 19:35.840 --> 19:36.600 And obviously I'm the pastor, 19:36.620 --> 19:38.280 so you know, I can do that here. 19:38.480 --> 19:39.720 But I'm just saying like, if I was a member, 19:39.720 --> 19:41.920 I wouldn't necessarily go to every other church out there. 19:42.480 --> 19:43.740 But here's the thing though, 19:44.140 --> 19:46.460 I know that God is using other churches though. 19:47.360 --> 19:49.320 And I know that God is pleased with that pastor, 19:49.460 --> 19:50.360 he's pleased with that ministry. 19:50.760 --> 19:52.420 You gotta keep in mind that God is still working 19:52.420 --> 19:53.920 through the members of other churches. 19:54.440 --> 19:55.580 And may I even say this, 19:55.820 --> 19:56.960 even churches done are not fundamental 19:56.960 --> 19:59.400 Baptist churches, believe it or not. 19:59.880 --> 20:00.880 There's probably churches out there 20:00.880 --> 20:02.280 that they're just called church, 20:03.100 --> 20:04.800 or fellowship, or you know, 20:05.320 --> 20:07.380 and you know, it's not my style of church. 20:08.120 --> 20:09.860 I wouldn't want to go to a church like that. 20:10.140 --> 20:13.360 You know, it's not necessarily what I would even consider, 20:13.860 --> 20:14.500 but I can't necessarily, 20:14.660 --> 20:15.840 if they have the right doctrines, 20:15.940 --> 20:17.260 they're right on salvation, 20:17.680 --> 20:18.740 they're right on the Bible. 20:19.120 --> 20:20.460 And let me say this, there's churches out there 20:20.460 --> 20:21.580 that are not fundamental Baptist churches 20:21.580 --> 20:23.220 that do use King James, believe it or not. 20:24.440 --> 20:25.900 You know, I can't necessarily say, 20:26.020 --> 20:27.140 well God's not working through that church, 20:27.220 --> 20:28.380 because if they're seeing people saved, 20:29.700 --> 20:30.800 they're seeing people saved, 20:30.960 --> 20:31.780 God's working in that church. 20:32.020 --> 20:33.680 You know, I gave this illustration a while ago, 20:33.700 --> 20:36.700 but I remember one time coming back from Belize, 20:36.700 --> 20:37.960 I think it was like on our first trip, 20:37.980 --> 20:40.120 and I was with someone and we're in the airplane, 20:40.440 --> 20:43.280 and he was a, what do you call it? 20:43.420 --> 20:44.140 Is it a male stewardess? 20:44.240 --> 20:44.780 Is that what you call him? 20:45.260 --> 20:45.820 A stewardess? 20:47.260 --> 20:47.800 Flight attendant. 20:48.140 --> 20:49.060 He's a male stewardess. 20:50.440 --> 20:51.300 He's a flight attendant. 20:51.800 --> 20:53.220 But you know, he kept walking by, 20:53.280 --> 20:54.200 we had our Bibles open, 20:54.720 --> 20:55.820 and then he's just like, 20:55.900 --> 20:56.500 are you guys Christians? 20:56.800 --> 20:58.520 They're like, yeah, we're actually missionaries. 20:59.020 --> 21:00.600 He's like, you guys are missionaries, man, that's awesome. 21:00.880 --> 21:03.340 And he was like long haired, 21:03.640 --> 21:05.880 definitely not our style, okay? 21:06.940 --> 21:09.160 And you know, automatically, I'm gonna tell you right now, 21:09.280 --> 21:10.520 as soon as he said that he was a Christian, 21:10.660 --> 21:12.800 I'm like, this guy's like some sort of liberal, 21:13.140 --> 21:14.220 he's not a fundamental Baptist, 21:14.560 --> 21:15.380 and I don't think he was, 21:15.780 --> 21:18.800 but I definitely stood in judgment of him, okay? 21:19.320 --> 21:20.120 But he was just like, 21:20.240 --> 21:22.700 I just came back from a mission's trip with these folks, 21:22.800 --> 21:24.640 and we got like 50 people saved or whatever. 21:24.920 --> 21:26.340 And obviously that kind of terminology 21:26.340 --> 21:29.480 is used only by people who actually get people saved. 21:30.580 --> 21:32.240 You don't hear that from people 21:32.240 --> 21:34.700 who go street preaching or something like that, 21:35.140 --> 21:37.680 or they dig a well in some foreign land or whatever. 21:38.060 --> 21:39.340 That typically comes from people 21:39.340 --> 21:40.280 who are actually doing souling. 21:40.780 --> 21:42.000 And he was like really excited, 21:42.140 --> 21:43.460 how many did you guys get saved? 21:44.160 --> 21:45.320 And it made me think like, 21:45.420 --> 21:47.160 oh man, I thought this guy was like, 21:47.720 --> 21:49.180 I mean he's a flight attendant, you know what I'm saying? 21:49.420 --> 21:52.000 Like, you know, but here's the thing, 21:52.080 --> 21:53.040 I probably won't go to his church, 21:53.060 --> 21:54.320 I would never go to his church though. 21:55.060 --> 21:56.120 But it helped me realize like, 21:56.180 --> 21:58.680 well God's working in this person's life 21:59.320 --> 22:00.380 and in that church. 22:01.080 --> 22:02.440 Now again, this is not to say 22:02.440 --> 22:03.980 that I would become a member there, 22:03.980 --> 22:05.940 or I would even recommend for someone to go there. 22:06.240 --> 22:08.380 I'm just saying that when the Bible talks 22:08.380 --> 22:10.740 about diversities of operations and administrations, 22:11.040 --> 22:13.000 it doesn't mean that God is working in those churches. 22:13.780 --> 22:16.700 And it doesn't mean it's the exact fit for you or for me, 22:17.060 --> 22:19.060 but we have to concede to the fact 22:19.060 --> 22:20.520 that God is using some of these people 22:20.980 --> 22:22.560 to change people's lives, okay? 22:23.320 --> 22:25.840 Look at Luke 9, verse 49. 22:26.780 --> 22:28.480 It says, and John answered and said, 22:28.580 --> 22:32.000 Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name 22:32.000 --> 22:35.680 and we forbade him because he followeth not with us. 22:36.500 --> 22:37.940 Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not. 22:38.520 --> 22:40.140 For he that is not against us is for us. 22:41.160 --> 22:44.060 Now look, the Lord is correct, amen, he's right. 22:44.220 --> 22:45.580 He's just like, why are you gonna stop him? 22:46.380 --> 22:47.700 He's obviously doing the work 22:48.180 --> 22:50.780 and so don't forbid him, let him continue doing that. 22:51.120 --> 22:52.600 That's what he's explaining to him. 22:53.020 --> 22:55.220 But here's the thing, like 100% agree. 22:55.720 --> 22:57.860 Now I'd rather just be with John with Jesus though. 22:58.240 --> 22:58.960 You understand what I'm saying? 22:59.420 --> 23:01.000 So even though I can recognize 23:01.000 --> 23:03.860 that there's men out there doing great works, 23:04.260 --> 23:06.300 they're getting people saved, they're changing lives, 23:06.840 --> 23:09.840 I wanna be as close to the truth as possible, 23:10.340 --> 23:10.640 you understand? 23:11.220 --> 23:13.480 So I wanna be at the church where I wanna be like 23:13.480 --> 23:15.980 doing ministry with Jesus more than anything. 23:16.580 --> 23:18.860 And so I wanna be at the church that's closest 23:18.860 --> 23:20.620 to the Bible, that has the doctrine 23:20.620 --> 23:21.720 that is closest to the Bible, 23:22.180 --> 23:23.600 but I'm not gonna stand in judgment and say 23:23.600 --> 23:24.640 these people aren't doing works 23:24.640 --> 23:26.520 because the Lord said they're not against us, 23:26.560 --> 23:28.140 they're for us and they're doing great works 23:28.140 --> 23:28.740 over there as well. 23:29.130 --> 23:30.840 And that's the attitude we need to have, my friends. 23:31.120 --> 23:37.220 Is that God expects unity, but not necessarily uniformity. 23:37.300 --> 23:38.580 Go to 1 Corinthians chapter one, 23:38.640 --> 23:40.180 1 Corinthians chapter one if you would, 23:40.660 --> 23:42.440 and then we're gonna go to Ephesians chapter four. 23:43.420 --> 23:44.940 1 Corinthians chapter one 23:44.940 --> 23:48.100 and then Ephesians chapter number four. 23:48.360 --> 23:51.600 Diversity, variety is the spice of life. 23:51.780 --> 23:55.420 Point number one is that unity doesn't mean uniformity. 23:55.420 --> 23:58.520 Also wanna mention that we must have uniformity 23:58.520 --> 24:01.200 where God demands uniformity. 24:01.440 --> 24:03.560 So you don't wanna take this philosophy too far 24:04.040 --> 24:05.140 and think to ourselves, oh, 24:05.160 --> 24:07.280 we just let every Tom Dick and Harry in the church then. 24:07.620 --> 24:10.040 Because obviously if people are wrong in salvation, 24:10.620 --> 24:12.180 people have to get corrected on that. 24:12.480 --> 24:14.820 If people are wrong on doctrines, 24:14.980 --> 24:16.020 they need to be corrected. 24:16.420 --> 24:19.520 Can two walk together except they be agreed, right? 24:20.420 --> 24:21.900 Psalm 133 verse once says, 24:21.900 --> 24:24.400 behold how good and how pleasant it is 24:24.400 --> 24:27.460 for brethren to dwell together in unity. 24:28.100 --> 24:29.520 Now look folks, in our church, 24:29.620 --> 24:31.420 we wanna make sure that we're unified 24:31.420 --> 24:33.780 around the fundamental doctrines of the faith. 24:34.500 --> 24:35.820 But thankfully, listen to me, 24:35.960 --> 24:37.600 thankfully a lot of us agree 24:37.600 --> 24:41.260 on secondary and tertiary doctrines, right? 24:41.740 --> 24:44.360 Like the Jews, like replacement theology, 24:45.180 --> 24:46.500 like the reprobate doctrine. 24:46.920 --> 24:51.120 These are secondary and tertiary positions, okay? 24:51.120 --> 24:52.240 You understand what I'm saying? 24:53.220 --> 24:54.320 And I think it's great 24:54.320 --> 24:56.880 because the vast majority of people in our church 24:57.440 --> 24:58.260 agree with us. 24:58.620 --> 24:59.680 But let me say this, 25:00.060 --> 25:02.120 if someone comes in doesn't believing that, 25:02.280 --> 25:03.880 don't ostracize them for it. 25:04.520 --> 25:06.340 Because we need to have unity, 25:06.960 --> 25:10.600 we need to have uniformity where God demands that, okay? 25:10.940 --> 25:12.760 So if he wants us to have the same Jesus, 25:13.080 --> 25:14.620 we gotta have the same Jesus, right? 25:14.920 --> 25:16.660 So we're gonna let some Muslim in here. 25:17.880 --> 25:19.480 Well, I believe Jesus is the Christ. 25:20.080 --> 25:20.680 No, you don't. 25:21.640 --> 25:23.400 You do not believe that Jesus is the Christ. 25:23.540 --> 25:24.720 You don't believe that Jesus is God. 25:24.900 --> 25:26.180 Take that stinking thing off your head. 25:26.620 --> 25:27.900 If you're gonna come to church 25:28.560 --> 25:29.760 and look like a Christian 25:30.220 --> 25:31.840 and confess Christ to be God. 25:33.580 --> 25:35.220 That's not something we're gonna compromise on. 25:35.520 --> 25:37.120 Cause God demands uniformity. 25:37.340 --> 25:38.440 But you have people out there like, 25:38.540 --> 25:40.240 well they believe that he's the Christ 25:40.240 --> 25:41.580 and so that's good enough for me. 25:41.820 --> 25:42.720 Then you suck as a Christian. 25:43.480 --> 25:44.360 You don't know your Bible. 25:45.060 --> 25:47.820 Because these people, the Muslims, Islam, 25:48.020 --> 25:49.780 they hate Christians, they use Christians. 25:50.300 --> 25:51.500 They don't believe in the Bible. 25:51.640 --> 25:52.440 They mock the Bible. 25:52.840 --> 25:54.960 And yeah, they tiptoe around a tulip 25:54.960 --> 25:56.300 so that when they're around with you, 25:56.840 --> 25:58.980 they walk on eggshells when they're around with you 25:58.980 --> 26:00.120 until they outnumber you. 26:00.500 --> 26:01.740 And then they turn on you too. 26:03.560 --> 26:04.940 And so we need to make sure 26:04.940 --> 26:06.480 we have uniformity where God demands. 26:06.580 --> 26:07.840 Look at 1 Corinthians 1, verse 10. 26:07.920 --> 26:08.760 This is not how to beseech your brethren. 26:09.340 --> 26:10.920 By the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 26:11.320 --> 26:13.680 they all speak the same thing. 26:14.400 --> 26:16.720 That there be no divisions among you, 26:17.040 --> 26:18.920 but they be perfectly joined together 26:18.920 --> 26:22.040 in the same mind and in the same judgment. 26:22.540 --> 26:24.780 So even when it comes to things of judgment, 26:24.940 --> 26:27.800 if we are church disciplining someone 26:27.800 --> 26:29.260 from the congregation because of sin, 26:29.620 --> 26:32.540 we need to be unified in that area, okay? 26:32.960 --> 26:35.180 Meaning we can't have bleeding hearts in our church. 26:35.580 --> 26:35.840 Amen. 26:36.760 --> 26:39.560 If I throw someone out because they're unrepentant, 26:39.560 --> 26:41.000 because of some heresy, 26:41.520 --> 26:43.080 some dandable heresy that they're teaching, 26:43.460 --> 26:44.320 you can't be like, oh. 26:48.300 --> 26:51.400 And if that's you, just keep your mouth shut. 26:52.680 --> 26:55.100 Be unified with the church because if the church agrees 26:55.100 --> 26:57.840 that this person should not be in the congregation 26:58.460 --> 26:59.580 because of filling the blank, 26:59.980 --> 27:00.520 then guess what? 27:00.740 --> 27:02.100 You need to agree with the church 27:02.820 --> 27:05.580 or you can join them, okay? 27:06.440 --> 27:07.860 And look folks, bleeding hearts 27:07.860 --> 27:10.460 are destructive to a local congregation 27:10.960 --> 27:12.060 because at the end of the day, 27:12.180 --> 27:15.280 what a bleeding heart does is they're following their heart. 27:16.460 --> 27:18.040 I just don't think it's right. 27:18.660 --> 27:19.440 Well, that's your problem. 27:20.060 --> 27:22.020 If you weren't thinking, you wouldn't have thought that. 27:23.600 --> 27:25.080 You need to make sure you're in line 27:25.080 --> 27:26.060 with what the word of God says. 27:26.160 --> 27:27.240 Look at Ephesians chapter four. 27:27.800 --> 27:29.020 Ephesians chapter four. 27:30.320 --> 27:33.740 So obviously, we need to have unity 27:34.220 --> 27:36.160 and make sure that we agree with one another 27:36.160 --> 27:37.640 in the fundamentals of the faith, 27:37.640 --> 27:39.540 in the judgments of the church. 27:39.900 --> 27:41.280 Look at Ephesians four verse one. 27:41.480 --> 27:42.940 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, 27:43.340 --> 27:45.040 beseech you that you walk worthy 27:45.040 --> 27:46.440 of the vocation wherewith you are called, 27:46.980 --> 27:49.000 with all lowliness and meekness with long suffering 27:49.000 --> 27:51.240 for bearing one another in love, 27:52.180 --> 27:55.160 endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit 27:55.620 --> 27:57.400 in the bond of peace. 27:58.300 --> 27:58.980 Look at verse four. 27:59.220 --> 28:01.960 There is one body and one spirit 28:01.960 --> 28:05.260 even as you're called in one hope of your calling, 28:05.780 --> 28:08.780 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 28:09.560 --> 28:11.900 one God and Father of all who is above all 28:11.900 --> 28:13.280 and through all and in you all. 28:13.520 --> 28:14.100 And you know what? 28:14.240 --> 28:15.900 We need to agree with that. 28:16.680 --> 28:19.360 You can't just be like, well, and here's the thing. 28:19.680 --> 28:23.080 You know, if someone comes in our church 28:23.080 --> 28:26.500 and let's just say they are a Presbyterian, okay? 28:27.100 --> 28:28.260 Because Presbyterians are saved. 28:29.340 --> 28:30.440 You know, we're not gonna tell them to leave 28:30.440 --> 28:32.380 because if he believes in the right salvation, 28:33.080 --> 28:34.540 if he believes in the right doctrines, 28:34.540 --> 28:36.400 he can call himself a Presbyterian all he wants. 28:37.120 --> 28:39.200 Yeah, he obviously has baptistic beliefs though, 28:39.900 --> 28:40.180 understand? 28:40.920 --> 28:43.580 But if he persists to call himself a Presbyterian, 28:43.960 --> 28:46.160 you know, then he can be, you know, 28:46.200 --> 28:47.980 the inferior denomination here if he wants. 28:48.440 --> 28:50.460 It's perfectly fine, you know? 28:50.940 --> 28:52.180 And there's nothing wrong with that. 28:52.340 --> 28:54.160 What becomes wrong is if he tries to start 28:54.160 --> 28:56.660 when people over to Presbyterian beliefs, 28:56.780 --> 28:59.260 which is largely associated with Calvinism, 28:59.920 --> 29:00.420 understand? 29:01.140 --> 29:03.480 So we need to have some wiggle room here 29:03.940 --> 29:06.360 and recognize, you know, my goal, 29:06.820 --> 29:09.060 what I endeavor to do is when people come to our church, 29:09.140 --> 29:12.200 we make them as Baptist as possible, right? 29:12.700 --> 29:15.040 Try to make them as Baptist as possible. 29:15.740 --> 29:17.080 And let me just say this, you know, 29:17.780 --> 29:21.280 the larger our church gets is great, right? 29:21.500 --> 29:22.620 Larger church gets is great. 29:22.900 --> 29:24.800 But I'm just gonna tell you, the bigger our church gets, 29:24.920 --> 29:26.340 the more we're gonna start winning people 29:26.340 --> 29:27.180 who are not Baptist. 29:27.700 --> 29:29.400 I don't wanna get at myself, but we are gonna start, 29:29.540 --> 29:31.140 I mean, we have one people who are not Baptist. 29:31.140 --> 29:33.720 And we're slowly making them Baptist. 29:34.520 --> 29:35.760 But let me just tell you this, 29:36.260 --> 29:38.560 many of them are not gonna be full-fledged, 29:38.640 --> 29:41.040 fundamental Baptist the way we would consider them to be. 29:41.380 --> 29:42.180 It's just not gonna happen. 29:43.020 --> 29:45.280 You know, we're just thankful they even made their way 29:45.280 --> 29:48.400 around to the reparative doctrine, to the right salvation. 29:48.980 --> 29:50.460 But in a lot of ways, they may not be that way. 29:50.720 --> 29:52.680 And you know what, I'm completely fine with that. 29:53.460 --> 29:54.860 I'm perfectly fine with that. 29:55.200 --> 29:58.520 Here's where I think everyone should be very unified, 29:58.520 --> 30:01.440 though, as close as possible to the pastor and to the Bible. 30:01.760 --> 30:03.800 Let me tell you, when we deal with leadership, 30:05.860 --> 30:07.240 when it comes to the congregation, 30:08.060 --> 30:10.360 you know, variety is the spice of life, amen. 30:11.220 --> 30:12.620 It's okay if you have some people here 30:12.620 --> 30:13.660 who come from different churches, 30:14.080 --> 30:17.200 they come from sandals, they come from boots, 30:17.500 --> 30:20.740 you know, whatever clothing church there is over there, 30:21.000 --> 30:23.460 from cloaks, you know, whatever it may be. 30:23.940 --> 30:25.880 But you know, none of them are gonna be 30:25.880 --> 30:27.340 leaders in the church though. 30:28.520 --> 30:30.140 Because when it comes to leaders in the church, 30:30.460 --> 30:32.300 I want people who are as close to being 30:32.300 --> 30:34.900 a new IVB fundamental Baptist as possible. 30:36.180 --> 30:37.460 Because I ain't trying to argue with you, 30:37.500 --> 30:38.500 I don't want you arguing with me. 30:38.780 --> 30:39.760 You need to get on board, amen. 30:40.520 --> 30:42.020 Making sure that we agree with one another. 30:42.180 --> 30:43.060 Oh, that's not fair. 30:43.280 --> 30:44.380 I didn't say you can't come to church. 30:45.580 --> 30:47.260 I didn't say you can't go so many. 30:47.380 --> 30:48.980 I didn't say you can't enjoy the preaching, 30:49.140 --> 30:50.500 participate and be a member of the church. 30:50.760 --> 30:52.340 I'm saying if you're gonna be a leader though, 30:53.040 --> 30:55.940 we need to make sure we have unity in that regard. 30:55.940 --> 30:56.480 Understand? 30:57.520 --> 31:00.020 You know, a presbyterian is not gonna be a leader in our church. 31:01.620 --> 31:02.880 And I think that's important. 31:03.040 --> 31:05.160 And when I say leader, I'm not just talking about team leaders, 31:05.280 --> 31:07.840 I'm talking about even ushers and stuff like that. 31:08.820 --> 31:11.620 You know, orchestra members or whatnot, okay? 31:12.520 --> 31:15.060 Anybody who holds some sort of visible position 31:15.060 --> 31:17.420 of ministry, I consider to be somewhat of a leader. 31:18.320 --> 31:19.960 And so we need to make sure 31:19.960 --> 31:22.100 they're fundamental Baptist, new IV Baptist. 31:22.700 --> 31:23.520 That's my standard. 31:23.660 --> 31:24.840 That's the operation that I have here. 31:24.840 --> 31:26.980 The reason I say that is because I've had experience 31:27.380 --> 31:28.920 in church plans of times past, 31:29.700 --> 31:33.400 where there's like full-fledged Calvinist ushers. 31:34.540 --> 31:35.500 And you know, they were like, 31:35.920 --> 31:38.120 you know, and I remember bringing this up to the leadership 31:38.120 --> 31:41.280 and saying, hey, this guy, he uses an NASB. 31:42.000 --> 31:44.360 He doesn't use a King James and he's an usher. 31:44.840 --> 31:46.460 And at that, he's trying to be a head usher. 31:47.060 --> 31:48.400 He's like, how are we gonna work with him? 31:48.420 --> 31:49.580 And I'm like, I'm all for working with him, 31:49.660 --> 31:51.540 but let's not let him be a leader though. 31:52.300 --> 31:54.040 Cause you know, this is weird. 31:55.020 --> 31:57.900 And so he was willing to conform and get a King James, 31:58.260 --> 31:59.640 but I still wasn't comfortable with that 31:59.640 --> 32:00.980 cause I just felt like he just did it 32:00.980 --> 32:03.040 just so he can hold this position of leadership. 32:04.220 --> 32:05.600 You know, we're not gonna have some Calvinist. 32:05.760 --> 32:07.360 Calvinists can come to church if they want to here. 32:07.980 --> 32:09.400 But we're definitely not gonna have a Calvinist 32:09.400 --> 32:13.000 become a leader, an usher, a piano player or something. 32:13.160 --> 32:13.880 You're not a Calvinist, right? 32:14.580 --> 32:15.700 Alex just checking, you know what I'm saying? 32:16.340 --> 32:18.180 You know, we're not gonna have any, why? 32:18.320 --> 32:19.080 Because at the end of the day, 32:19.140 --> 32:21.140 the closer we get up to the leadership, 32:21.140 --> 32:22.600 the more we have to have in common 32:22.600 --> 32:24.940 regarding the fundamentals of the faith 32:24.940 --> 32:27.460 and even some preferences as well, okay? 32:28.120 --> 32:30.740 But the more we trickle down to the congregation, 32:31.220 --> 32:34.340 there should be leniency with what people believe 32:34.340 --> 32:37.080 as far as their preferences are concerned, okay? 32:37.640 --> 32:38.260 That's important. 32:38.640 --> 32:40.200 I don't know, a lot of people don't agree with me on that, 32:40.280 --> 32:41.240 but that's a fact. 32:41.460 --> 32:43.140 That's just how it's supposed to be, okay? 32:43.560 --> 32:44.640 Cause I know sometimes people are like, 32:44.700 --> 32:46.000 I wish you were more strict than that area, 32:46.200 --> 32:47.300 but you're not the pastor though. 32:48.180 --> 32:50.320 And we have to understand something folks that, 32:50.320 --> 32:52.820 you know, there's a danger in wanting everyone 32:52.820 --> 32:54.540 to be exactly the same. 32:55.140 --> 32:57.460 And I'm gonna get into why that's a danger in just a bit, 32:57.920 --> 32:58.200 okay? 32:59.520 --> 33:01.420 We need to conform where God demands us to conform, 33:01.540 --> 33:03.280 but to have liberty where God allows us to have variety. 33:03.620 --> 33:04.840 Go back to 1 Corinthians 12. 33:05.300 --> 33:06.800 1 Corinthians 12, point number three 33:06.800 --> 33:11.120 is that variety allows the body to function properly. 33:12.000 --> 33:14.440 We need to have variety in order 33:14.960 --> 33:16.340 for the local New Testament church 33:16.340 --> 33:19.440 to operate properly, function properly. 33:19.440 --> 33:22.440 Look at verse 13 of 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 33:22.960 --> 33:25.700 It says, for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body. 33:26.500 --> 33:28.080 Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, 33:28.520 --> 33:29.880 whether we be bond or free, 33:30.440 --> 33:32.400 and have been all made to drink into one spirit, 33:32.780 --> 33:35.980 for the body is not one member, but many. 33:36.840 --> 33:39.380 If the foot shall say because I am not the hand, 33:39.540 --> 33:42.820 I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 33:43.280 --> 33:46.020 And if the ear shall say because I am not the eye, 33:46.380 --> 33:48.720 I am not the body, is therefore not, 33:48.720 --> 33:50.640 excuse me, is it therefore not of the body? 33:50.940 --> 33:54.740 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? 33:55.060 --> 33:56.980 So it's just like, what if everyone was an eye? 33:57.540 --> 33:58.780 You look like a weirdo. 33:59.980 --> 34:01.440 You know, it's just like, what if everything, 34:01.500 --> 34:02.380 you just look nasty. 34:03.740 --> 34:06.080 He says, if the whole were hearing, 34:06.820 --> 34:07.520 where were the smellings? 34:07.620 --> 34:08.800 Like, what if everything was just an ear? 34:09.620 --> 34:10.540 You're just all ears. 34:13.060 --> 34:15.120 But now have God set the members, 34:15.340 --> 34:16.800 every one of them in the body, 34:16.800 --> 34:18.500 as it hath pleased him, 34:18.940 --> 34:20.380 and if they were all one member, 34:20.600 --> 34:22.480 where were the body, but now are they many members, 34:22.760 --> 34:24.500 yet but one body? 34:24.960 --> 34:27.060 So a church entirely composed 34:27.640 --> 34:29.740 of one type of Christian is gonna experience 34:29.740 --> 34:31.820 severe deficiencies, and it actually becomes weird. 34:32.480 --> 34:33.340 It actually becomes weird. 34:34.620 --> 34:36.620 If all of us are exactly the same, 34:36.920 --> 34:39.380 have the same exact preferences, we become tribal. 34:40.740 --> 34:43.360 And when we become tribals, it's like us four and no more. 34:43.980 --> 34:45.940 Someone comes with a different view, 34:45.940 --> 34:48.660 a different conspiracy, a different idea, 34:49.080 --> 34:51.260 and it's just like, nope, can't let that person in here. 34:51.360 --> 34:52.600 You gotta be exactly like us. 34:52.860 --> 34:56.140 Now you're acting like a cult, you understand? 34:56.640 --> 34:59.080 We have to allow for differences 34:59.080 --> 35:01.800 and give a little bit of liberty in these differences. 35:02.460 --> 35:05.420 Now look, again, my preference would be 35:05.420 --> 35:08.580 that a person comes to our church, they get saved, 35:08.840 --> 35:10.600 and then they become just a straight, 35:10.660 --> 35:14.600 fundamental Baptist, new IFB in all the way, 35:14.600 --> 35:16.180 and I will not hinder that at all. 35:16.240 --> 35:18.060 I want them to become that, okay? 35:19.760 --> 35:21.500 But here's the thing, is that they have to choose 35:21.500 --> 35:22.320 to do that though. 35:23.160 --> 35:25.060 And not because we're threatening them 35:25.060 --> 35:25.980 or something like that. 35:26.880 --> 35:29.060 Like oh, you know, if you're not one of us, 35:29.760 --> 35:32.300 you know, then, you know, get the hell out. 35:34.020 --> 35:35.800 And don't tell the pastor I said that. 35:37.340 --> 35:38.360 If you do, I'm gonna keep, 35:38.520 --> 35:40.500 you know, you just start threatening people. 35:41.260 --> 35:42.580 You need to gotta be patient with people. 35:43.080 --> 35:44.180 And look, I'm trying to prepare you 35:44.180 --> 35:46.820 because we have reached a lot of Calvary Chapel types, 35:47.740 --> 35:52.080 and they're not fundamental Baptists at all. 35:52.600 --> 35:54.980 And because you got saved in a new IFB church, 35:55.160 --> 35:55.960 this is your standard. 35:56.720 --> 35:58.760 So you think anything that's like different than that, 35:58.840 --> 36:00.520 you're just kind of like, it gives you the ick. 36:02.180 --> 36:03.300 You get the ick. 36:03.820 --> 36:05.740 And I get it, I get it. 36:06.060 --> 36:07.300 I'm just explaining to you though 36:07.300 --> 36:09.300 that like we're gonna have people that come. 36:09.800 --> 36:11.880 Like, and let me also explain, 36:11.980 --> 36:13.200 this might be part of my other point, 36:13.200 --> 36:14.220 but I'm gonna say it right now. 36:14.940 --> 36:17.160 You know, this is kind of what happened to the old IFB. 36:17.940 --> 36:20.020 Because old IFB, guess who they would reach? 36:20.640 --> 36:21.520 Other old IFB. 36:22.860 --> 36:24.440 They would reach other Baptists. 36:25.300 --> 36:29.140 And so they really stopped reaching like other people, 36:29.380 --> 36:30.600 they come from different backgrounds 36:30.600 --> 36:32.260 because they felt threatened by them or something. 36:32.880 --> 36:33.160 You understand? 36:33.700 --> 36:35.820 And what happens is they became very tribal, 36:36.580 --> 36:39.100 very cultish, so that if someone came to their church 36:39.100 --> 36:41.160 believing, you know, I don't know, 36:41.260 --> 36:42.240 in replacement theology, 36:42.240 --> 36:43.520 they were like kicked out. 36:45.060 --> 36:45.760 That's weird. 36:46.680 --> 36:48.100 If you went to that church believing 36:48.100 --> 36:49.220 in the post-trip pre-rath, 36:49.480 --> 36:51.400 it's just like, not in this church, 36:52.500 --> 36:54.540 get this Anderson out of here. 36:54.720 --> 36:56.840 It's just like, you guys are like a cult. 36:57.960 --> 37:01.000 There was no room for that in the old IFB. 37:01.040 --> 37:02.580 They just like, if you weren't exactly, 37:02.820 --> 37:04.460 you have to be pre-tribbed, 37:04.460 --> 37:06.420 you know, worshiped, Benjamin then, yahoo. 37:08.540 --> 37:10.460 You just have to be all Israel 37:10.460 --> 37:11.660 and all it is just like, 37:11.900 --> 37:13.680 if someone came with a different idea 37:14.640 --> 37:16.980 of N times prophecy, of the Jews, 37:16.980 --> 37:19.480 you just like automatically they're ostracized for it. 37:19.620 --> 37:20.040 Why? 37:20.360 --> 37:23.560 Because they felt like everyone had to be exactly the same. 37:24.120 --> 37:27.780 And look folks, we do not wanna follow that same pattern. 37:28.760 --> 37:29.200 Okay? 37:29.660 --> 37:31.680 Now look, I believe I'm right on Israel. 37:31.980 --> 37:33.020 I know that I'm right on Israel. 37:33.340 --> 37:35.020 I know that I'm right on N times prophecy. 37:35.300 --> 37:37.300 So if someone comes here believing the pre-trip rapture, 37:37.500 --> 37:38.500 I'm just gonna say you're just wrong. 37:39.820 --> 37:41.660 You can be here, but you just gotta put up 37:41.660 --> 37:43.460 with all the preaching against the preacher rapture 37:43.960 --> 37:44.840 and all the good preaching 37:44.840 --> 37:47.300 about the poster pre-rath rapture and N times prophecy, 37:47.460 --> 37:48.280 but you can come. 37:49.500 --> 37:51.700 You just gotta tolerate me talking crap 37:51.700 --> 37:52.800 about your beliefs though, 37:52.880 --> 37:54.420 but you can still be here though. 37:55.080 --> 37:57.640 You just gotta put up with me ripping on this 37:57.640 --> 37:59.340 and you're all embarrassed in the service or whatever, 37:59.420 --> 38:00.600 but you can still come. 38:00.680 --> 38:01.700 I'm not kicking you out though. 38:02.240 --> 38:04.320 And let me say this, I know this is crazy. 38:04.840 --> 38:07.740 People can come believing the Jews are God's chosen people. 38:08.660 --> 38:10.400 I know, you go out, walk out right now. 38:11.480 --> 38:13.460 They can come believing that, that's okay. 38:13.940 --> 38:14.940 It's super weird. 38:16.720 --> 38:19.340 And we've had people come to our church believing that. 38:19.760 --> 38:24.660 This church at this site, they believe that 38:25.120 --> 38:27.180 and they'll talk to me about it and I'm just like, 38:29.060 --> 38:30.440 let's do it, let's spar. 38:31.320 --> 38:32.680 And then they're just proven wrong 38:32.680 --> 38:33.500 and it's just like, 38:33.500 --> 38:35.000 but they like the preaching. 38:35.820 --> 38:37.480 They just think I'm wrong about that, but that's okay. 38:37.860 --> 38:38.880 They have every right to be wrong. 38:41.160 --> 38:41.820 You know what I mean? 38:43.060 --> 38:44.160 I'm not threatened by that. 38:44.460 --> 38:48.140 Here's the thing, I allow for that variety in our church. 38:49.360 --> 38:52.120 Now look, obviously we're not gonna have a lot of Zionist 38:52.120 --> 38:53.400 in our church because of the fact that 38:53.400 --> 38:54.940 my stuff is online. 38:55.540 --> 38:56.400 And let me just tell you this, 38:56.560 --> 38:59.060 whoever comes to this church looking for a church 38:59.060 --> 39:00.940 knows exactly what this church is about. 39:01.380 --> 39:03.600 If you don't just stumble in here, okay? 39:04.620 --> 39:06.580 Transvestites don't just stumble into our church. 39:07.040 --> 39:08.120 Oh, it's looking for a church. 39:08.700 --> 39:09.660 Oh, it's looking for a church. 39:09.920 --> 39:12.160 It's just like, it's just not gonna happen. 39:13.500 --> 39:15.060 And the day and age in which we live, 39:15.160 --> 39:17.180 you're not just gonna not know exactly what we're about. 39:17.580 --> 39:19.700 And we've had people in the past, 39:19.980 --> 39:21.640 even in this year, they're like, 39:21.660 --> 39:23.320 oh, we just look you up. 39:23.600 --> 39:24.860 You don't just look me up. 39:25.240 --> 39:27.700 You know what we're about, okay? 39:28.720 --> 39:29.380 What was that? 39:31.540 --> 39:33.180 I'll allow for diversity on that one. 39:34.120 --> 39:35.980 I don't know if he was imitating the tranny or what. 39:39.220 --> 39:40.440 Turn me off a little bit. 39:41.700 --> 39:44.400 The point that I'm making here is that, 39:44.840 --> 39:46.240 you know, if we were all just, 39:46.380 --> 39:48.240 and look, here's the great thing about 39:49.740 --> 39:51.460 allowing diversity in the church, okay? 39:51.640 --> 39:53.720 In this regard, you know, 39:54.440 --> 39:56.580 let's just say diversity and end times prophecy. 39:56.780 --> 39:58.240 This is a church that believes 39:58.740 --> 40:00.140 in a post-repriorath rapture, 40:00.140 --> 40:02.340 but, you know, allowing others 40:02.340 --> 40:04.300 with different viewpoints to come to our church, 40:04.660 --> 40:05.860 it helps you out too. 40:06.640 --> 40:08.200 Because if we're all saying the same thing, 40:08.300 --> 40:11.220 it's easy for you to just have a raw, raw rally 40:11.220 --> 40:12.120 where we all agree. 40:12.380 --> 40:14.120 But what if your beliefs are challenged though? 40:14.600 --> 40:16.780 Let's see you defend it, right? 40:17.460 --> 40:17.960 That's just it. 40:18.180 --> 40:20.860 We've had Preterists come to our church, you know? 40:21.200 --> 40:22.600 The only time it becomes a problem 40:22.600 --> 40:25.000 is if they start spreading it and trying to win others 40:25.860 --> 40:28.820 and trying to like draw away disciples after them. 40:28.820 --> 40:29.760 That's when it becomes an issue. 40:30.420 --> 40:33.420 But if they're diplomatic, they're behaving themselves, 40:34.080 --> 40:34.860 they're allowed to stay, 40:35.160 --> 40:36.780 and we could even discuss it as well. 40:37.260 --> 40:39.020 That's something you couldn't do with the old IFB though. 40:39.580 --> 40:42.220 You could not challenge any ideas in the old IFB. 40:43.260 --> 40:44.720 You can't challenge it. 40:45.060 --> 40:46.080 This is what it is. 40:46.440 --> 40:47.780 I don't wanna talk about it. 40:48.000 --> 40:49.500 You can't have a sit-down with the pastor. 40:49.660 --> 40:50.680 That's exactly how it is 40:50.680 --> 40:53.000 in a lot of fundamental Baptist churches of yesteryear. 40:54.060 --> 40:56.500 They don't accept variety, okay? 40:57.380 --> 40:58.620 And so we don't wanna be a church. 40:58.720 --> 41:01.360 It's just one type of Christian, one type of background. 41:01.860 --> 41:02.420 We all agree. 41:02.700 --> 41:05.020 And look, we all like to be kind of like the same. 41:05.380 --> 41:05.960 It's just, you know, 41:06.360 --> 41:07.780 we like to be around the same people. 41:08.440 --> 41:11.240 That's just, that's kind of how we're wired. 41:11.620 --> 41:13.880 But it's important to introduce variety 41:13.880 --> 41:16.740 into the gene pool as well, okay? 41:17.620 --> 41:18.820 Now you're in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 41:18.860 --> 41:20.680 Point number four is that variety allows 41:20.680 --> 41:23.500 different weaknesses to be compensated 41:23.500 --> 41:25.680 by different strengths. 41:26.320 --> 41:26.620 Okay? 41:27.260 --> 41:29.100 Look at 1 Corinthians 12 verse 21. 41:29.300 --> 41:29.440 It says, 41:58.980 --> 42:00.400 What is he saying? 42:00.800 --> 42:02.380 You know, when one part is weak, 42:02.580 --> 42:04.660 the part that's strong, it compensates for that. 42:05.120 --> 42:07.100 It complements that, it helps that. 42:07.840 --> 42:09.800 But if we're all strong in one area 42:10.520 --> 42:12.380 and our ideas are not challenged, 42:12.940 --> 42:14.740 it's not put to the test, 42:15.020 --> 42:17.640 then we end up having these major weaknesses 42:17.640 --> 42:19.080 in our spiritual DNA. 42:19.860 --> 42:22.200 The recessive genes start popping up 42:22.620 --> 42:24.520 because you become spiritually inbred. 42:26.060 --> 42:27.480 And that's what we want to avoid, right? 42:28.720 --> 42:32.020 We want to avoid being spiritually inbred Christians. 42:32.780 --> 42:34.400 And I'm telling you, that's what happens to the old IFB. 42:34.660 --> 42:36.320 You're just, they're just inbreeding 42:36.320 --> 42:37.520 with other old IFB men. 42:37.700 --> 42:38.660 And that's how it is in the South. 42:38.900 --> 42:39.800 I don't mean like literally, 42:40.040 --> 42:41.860 although that is a literal thing, right? 42:41.960 --> 42:42.440 Isn't this true? 42:43.000 --> 42:43.520 This is true. 42:43.660 --> 42:45.080 We got Southern Baptists here. 42:47.000 --> 42:47.920 There you go, see? 42:48.440 --> 42:50.700 In the South, let me explain to you, okay? 42:50.820 --> 42:52.280 Brother Tim, raise your hand, Brother Tim. 42:52.840 --> 42:54.200 All right, wave your hand, 42:54.200 --> 42:55.040 thank you, Brother Tim, no, I'm just kidding. 42:56.200 --> 42:58.340 In the South, okay? 42:59.380 --> 43:01.880 There's tons of fundamental Baptist churches in the South. 43:03.080 --> 43:05.440 Hundreds and hundreds of fun, 43:05.540 --> 43:07.700 I mean literally like on every corner, 43:08.260 --> 43:09.620 there's fundamental Baptists, okay? 43:11.440 --> 43:14.740 And all they do is just share their members, right? 43:15.600 --> 43:16.900 Like one member is just like, 43:17.420 --> 43:20.820 I don't like the color of the carpet on the church. 43:21.160 --> 43:22.500 And then they just leave the church 43:22.500 --> 43:23.540 and go to the church down the street. 43:24.480 --> 43:25.300 Literally what happens? 43:25.940 --> 43:27.140 And I'm not exaggerating at all, 43:27.260 --> 43:28.520 this is literally what happens. 43:29.200 --> 43:32.180 Like I don't like that we're spending all the money 43:32.180 --> 43:36.300 on the sprinklers, we're going to this church instead 43:36.820 --> 43:38.340 and they just pick up their family 43:38.340 --> 43:39.860 to go to the church down the street. 43:40.240 --> 43:42.100 And I am not exaggerating, 43:42.160 --> 43:43.760 my accent is not exaggerating at all. 43:45.780 --> 43:48.000 This is a fact, they do this. 43:48.620 --> 43:51.800 And all they do is they just share members 43:51.800 --> 43:52.500 one with another. 43:53.320 --> 43:54.900 So they just become just like each other. 43:55.480 --> 44:00.600 Just disgruntled, inbred, southern, fundamental Baptist. 44:01.360 --> 44:02.440 I don't mean literally inbred, 44:02.540 --> 44:06.060 although that may be play a role in that whole thing. 44:06.380 --> 44:09.720 And the West Virginia area, that can be like that. 44:09.800 --> 44:10.860 That's a thing, it's a thing. 44:11.520 --> 44:13.060 I'm talking about spiritually inbred. 44:13.760 --> 44:15.280 They just know, listen to this, 44:15.580 --> 44:18.720 they only know how to reach fundamental Baptists. 44:19.560 --> 44:20.740 We don't want to be a church 44:20.740 --> 44:22.760 that only knows how to reach fundamental Baptists. 44:22.920 --> 44:25.260 We only know how to reach new IP Baptists. 44:25.500 --> 44:27.900 We want to be a church that's able to reach outside of that. 44:29.240 --> 44:32.400 Like wow, we're going to reach these other churches 44:32.960 --> 44:33.940 because we're completely different. 44:34.300 --> 44:36.460 We just got to, I mean, don't we have the Bible? 44:36.900 --> 44:38.960 Don't we have the corner on the truth on these things? 44:40.080 --> 44:43.300 We can inspire people to want to be fundamental Baptists. 44:43.920 --> 44:45.460 I've wanted to tell people to the Lord, 44:45.860 --> 44:48.280 to salvation as well as the King James Bible. 44:48.280 --> 44:51.720 You know, but people have this idea is like, 44:51.740 --> 44:53.840 well King James is only like a Baptist thing. 44:53.960 --> 44:55.640 It's really hard to win other people who use like 44:55.640 --> 44:57.380 NIV and ESV. 44:57.760 --> 45:01.260 Yeah, so we got to teach them the right way, okay? 45:01.800 --> 45:04.280 And look, I want to reach fundamental Baptists, 45:04.340 --> 45:05.520 but I'll be honest with you, 45:06.120 --> 45:08.880 that pool is just kind of done for like, 45:08.940 --> 45:11.020 I'm not really interested in winning old IAB anymore. 45:11.920 --> 45:13.040 You know, they're kind of setting their ways. 45:13.860 --> 45:16.640 We might have old IAB every once in a while come here. 45:16.640 --> 45:17.820 You know what I mean? 45:18.160 --> 45:20.820 If they want to get in trouble or something like that. 45:21.000 --> 45:22.860 But it's very rare when we would have, 45:22.900 --> 45:25.520 I think, of an old IAB person come here. 45:26.080 --> 45:27.540 I can't even count on my hand 45:27.540 --> 45:28.720 how many times that's happened this year. 45:29.200 --> 45:30.820 Have we had any old IAB come here? 45:31.180 --> 45:32.500 Maybe on accident or something like that? 45:32.540 --> 45:34.400 I don't think so, okay? 45:35.620 --> 45:37.180 But I don't want to just reach old IAB 45:37.180 --> 45:39.200 and I don't want to just reach new IAB either. 45:40.560 --> 45:42.460 I'm not trying to convince people in the new IAB 45:42.460 --> 45:43.020 to come here. 45:43.300 --> 45:44.180 I think it would be great 45:44.180 --> 45:46.360 because it reinforces the ministry. 45:46.880 --> 45:48.120 They come ready made. 45:48.920 --> 45:50.880 You know, they got the reparated dog, 45:50.960 --> 45:52.200 they got everything on lock. 45:53.000 --> 45:55.380 They know all the stuff that we agree with 45:55.380 --> 45:56.260 and I think that's great. 45:56.620 --> 45:58.420 But I want to reach outside of that though. 45:58.820 --> 46:00.620 And if you don't like that, you're weird. 46:00.920 --> 46:01.740 You want to be inbred. 46:03.340 --> 46:05.340 You want to be an inbred type person. 46:06.560 --> 46:07.980 You know, I just want to reach, 46:08.240 --> 46:10.180 your accent is going to start changing soon. 46:13.620 --> 46:15.460 And look, this is in the Bible, my friends. 46:16.380 --> 46:18.500 Let me explain to you, let me give you an example of this. 46:18.900 --> 46:21.240 Because look, we're comfortable reaching people 46:21.240 --> 46:23.540 as long as they believe all the stuff that we believe. 46:24.960 --> 46:26.720 But you get a little uncomfortable 46:27.200 --> 46:28.260 if they don't believe the rubber. 46:28.440 --> 46:29.460 Man, they don't believe the rubber, Dr. 46:30.080 --> 46:30.480 They're done. 46:32.520 --> 46:33.300 Can't work with them. 46:33.940 --> 46:34.620 Can't work with them. 46:35.540 --> 46:36.060 Can't happen. 46:36.640 --> 46:38.280 I don't know what we're going to do, you know? 46:39.600 --> 46:43.040 Just teach them why you're scared for. 46:43.980 --> 46:45.760 Let me tell you, this happened in the Bible. 46:46.720 --> 46:49.720 The church at Jerusalem only reached Jews. 46:52.720 --> 46:53.740 They only reached Jews. 46:54.420 --> 46:55.980 And you know what happened when they only reached Jews? 46:56.120 --> 46:57.120 They became Judaized. 46:57.960 --> 46:58.600 It got all weird. 46:59.240 --> 47:00.320 James got all weird. 47:01.040 --> 47:02.860 They only want to reach Jews and they got all weird. 47:03.140 --> 47:05.140 Who's the only one that actually went outside of that? 47:06.480 --> 47:10.640 Paul started a bunch of churches filled with Jews and Gentiles. 47:11.220 --> 47:15.740 And he's like a Jew ethnically reaching these Gentiles, 47:16.080 --> 47:18.040 preaching about what they're struggling with. 47:18.320 --> 47:21.640 And he's getting people from Asia Minor. 47:22.120 --> 47:23.600 He's getting people from Greece. 47:24.000 --> 47:25.200 He's getting people from Rome. 47:25.560 --> 47:27.020 He's able to reach these people. 47:27.560 --> 47:29.240 And obviously he's trying to go into a place 47:29.240 --> 47:31.260 to reach proselyte Jews. 47:31.540 --> 47:33.860 But in general, the majority of the churches 47:33.860 --> 47:35.460 are composed of Gentile believers. 47:36.860 --> 47:37.260 Why? 47:37.380 --> 47:38.900 Because if not, you're going to end up 47:38.900 --> 47:39.680 like the church at Jerusalem. 47:39.680 --> 47:41.920 It's all inbred, okay? 47:43.680 --> 47:45.320 You know that you're going to end up having 47:45.320 --> 47:47.280 a spiritual Hasburs' chin, you know? 47:47.760 --> 47:48.900 Because you're just completely inbred. 47:49.340 --> 47:51.920 And look, Jews physically are like this too. 47:56.880 --> 47:58.660 Jews, that's why they look the way they look. 48:01.140 --> 48:02.300 Ashkenazi Jews, how many of you know 48:02.300 --> 48:02.880 what I'm talking about? 48:03.240 --> 48:03.960 They look weird. 48:04.140 --> 48:06.760 It's not just because they're false religion. 48:07.460 --> 48:13.600 Yes, but Ashkenazi Jews have these physical deformities 48:13.880 --> 48:14.780 where you look at them and it's like 48:14.780 --> 48:16.020 someone's up with this person. 48:17.100 --> 48:18.160 But I'm going to tell you why. 48:18.360 --> 48:20.180 It's because a lot of it has to do 48:20.180 --> 48:23.160 with those recessive genes because they're basically 48:23.160 --> 48:25.620 just marrying within the same population 48:25.620 --> 48:27.480 for generations on end. 48:28.500 --> 48:32.600 And they end up becoming just genetically 48:32.600 --> 48:33.740 inferior in a lot of ways. 48:34.060 --> 48:36.460 That's why like Jews have all these illnesses 48:36.460 --> 48:39.120 that these genetic illnesses that they struggle with 48:39.120 --> 48:42.460 is just very common because they're just marrying 48:42.460 --> 48:43.540 within their own kind. 48:43.640 --> 48:44.980 They're not building any type of resilience. 48:46.160 --> 48:47.060 That's why it's important. 48:47.420 --> 48:50.280 I think it's good to diversify, okay? 48:50.980 --> 48:52.240 Even racially, yes. 48:54.280 --> 48:55.920 That's what happened to the Indians 48:55.920 --> 48:57.640 when the Europeans took over. 48:57.880 --> 48:59.880 European takeover was good in a lot of ways, amen. 49:00.460 --> 49:00.800 So why? 49:00.800 --> 49:02.820 Because these Aztecs are just kind of 49:02.820 --> 49:03.760 marrying within each other. 49:04.280 --> 49:05.440 That's why they're not really strong. 49:05.640 --> 49:06.740 That's why smallpox can kill them. 49:09.160 --> 49:11.260 But then the Europeans came in, 49:11.360 --> 49:13.140 they mixed in with them and they improved the genetics. 49:13.460 --> 49:14.200 That's God's will. 49:15.420 --> 49:17.120 That's how God wants it to be done. 49:17.460 --> 49:19.580 He's not against interracial marrying 49:19.580 --> 49:20.520 or anything like that. 49:21.080 --> 49:23.420 Don't bring that racist nonsense here. 49:24.080 --> 49:26.840 It's like, we gotta preserve the white man or something. 49:27.680 --> 49:28.540 You want to preserve the white man, 49:28.600 --> 49:29.080 give him the gospel. 49:30.800 --> 49:32.300 Now look, if you're a white man, 49:32.360 --> 49:34.340 you only want to marry a white woman, 49:34.680 --> 49:35.780 you're more power to you, you know? 49:36.460 --> 49:37.980 That's what you want to do, okay? 49:39.520 --> 49:40.340 I'm not against it. 49:40.380 --> 49:41.540 That's your preference, that's okay. 49:41.640 --> 49:42.480 I'm not gonna condemn that. 49:42.880 --> 49:44.780 I'm just saying for you to try to use the Bible 49:45.160 --> 49:47.560 to try to justify that as another story, 49:47.960 --> 49:50.280 since Moses literally married an Ethiopian woman. 49:51.820 --> 49:53.000 And if you're a Christian, 49:53.160 --> 49:55.120 you esteem Moses married a black woman. 49:57.960 --> 49:58.680 An Ethiopian. 50:00.900 --> 50:01.680 Black woman. 50:02.300 --> 50:03.200 Darker than Maury. 50:06.800 --> 50:08.000 Kofi, right? 50:09.120 --> 50:10.280 Where's the other black people here? 50:11.460 --> 50:12.480 You know, dark. 50:13.420 --> 50:15.220 Obviously, Moses didn't care. 50:16.240 --> 50:17.400 And you know, the Lord didn't care either. 50:18.440 --> 50:20.740 And so, you know, the point that I'm making here 50:20.740 --> 50:22.740 is you don't want to become like this spiritually, 50:23.500 --> 50:27.920 you know, just spiritually inbred person, 50:28.280 --> 50:31.080 where you're not building up a resilience towards, 50:31.340 --> 50:33.200 you know, spiritual illnesses. 50:33.760 --> 50:37.440 We need to diversify here and reach other people 50:38.060 --> 50:40.980 and not feel threatened when the people that we reach 50:40.980 --> 50:42.200 are not exactly like us. 50:43.340 --> 50:44.380 Give them some time. 50:45.180 --> 50:46.060 Because here's the thing, 50:46.140 --> 50:47.000 sometimes people are like, 50:47.480 --> 50:48.860 well, you know, they need to fall in line 50:48.860 --> 50:49.580 with all these beliefs. 50:49.900 --> 50:51.820 Yeah, but you're a spoon-fed all these beliefs though. 50:52.320 --> 50:54.520 Like, you learn them like quick. 50:54.920 --> 50:55.980 And praise God for that. 50:56.700 --> 50:58.580 These things were streamlined to you. 50:58.720 --> 50:59.880 You gotta understand, a lot of these people 50:59.880 --> 51:02.800 just grew up in these liberal, limp-rested churches, 51:03.400 --> 51:04.800 and that's all they've ever known. 51:05.720 --> 51:08.620 So it's great that they like are hopping in here, 51:08.960 --> 51:09.800 trying to learn the truth. 51:10.000 --> 51:11.180 We just gotta understand, a lot of them 51:11.180 --> 51:14.900 are coming with this liberal baggage, right? 51:15.760 --> 51:16.900 And so we gotta work with them. 51:17.480 --> 51:19.480 But you know, I like it, I love it. 51:19.560 --> 51:21.060 I love the fact that there's Calvary Chapel 51:21.060 --> 51:21.940 of people coming to our church. 51:22.660 --> 51:23.640 I think it's great. 51:24.120 --> 51:26.080 Because it's such a liberal church. 51:27.440 --> 51:29.880 It's like the complete opposite of this church. 51:31.380 --> 51:34.460 These gay churches are just like completely opposite. 51:35.300 --> 51:37.880 And so they're not coming here for the smoke and mirrors. 51:38.920 --> 51:40.360 Look how, look how I'm preaching. 51:40.600 --> 51:41.940 Look how low the ceiling is. 51:42.920 --> 51:44.180 We got one spotlight. 51:45.180 --> 51:46.400 You know, look at this place. 51:48.160 --> 51:50.080 You know, we're not, you know, 51:50.960 --> 51:52.580 there's no bells and whistles here. 51:53.640 --> 51:55.300 Got a little platform here, you know what I mean? 51:55.840 --> 51:56.860 Just so people on the back of the seat, 51:56.880 --> 51:57.940 because I'm short, you know, 51:59.100 --> 52:02.860 it's not necessarily a physically just impressive place. 52:03.420 --> 52:05.160 So whoever comes here is coming for the content. 52:06.880 --> 52:09.020 And if they're going from some place like that, 52:09.060 --> 52:10.620 where they do have the bells and whistles, 52:11.380 --> 52:13.380 and they have all the fancy whatever, 52:14.120 --> 52:16.540 you know, the pastor's flying in through a zip line 52:16.540 --> 52:20.120 to lend the pulpit, you know what I mean? 52:20.580 --> 52:21.700 I mean, I wouldn't mind doing that here. 52:21.700 --> 52:22.860 I think that'd be kind of cool, you know? 52:24.340 --> 52:25.960 You know, but then they come here, 52:26.060 --> 52:27.500 obviously they're coming here for substance. 52:28.380 --> 52:30.100 So give them some credit. 52:32.580 --> 52:36.460 We need to introduce a new spiritual gene pool 52:36.460 --> 52:39.420 into this place, because we need to help them 52:39.420 --> 52:42.320 become strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 52:43.220 --> 52:46.940 And so, you know, Jews, man, 52:47.020 --> 52:48.080 you don't want to be like those Jews. 52:49.700 --> 52:52.260 These endogamous Jews just marrying within their population 52:52.260 --> 52:55.800 for generations on end, and just coming out all weird. 52:56.840 --> 52:59.160 And, you know, oh, we're just, we're just gotta be just, 52:59.300 --> 53:00.680 that's why, you know, you hear about these people, 53:01.060 --> 53:03.060 like these, there's like these white people, right? 53:04.280 --> 53:05.900 And sorry to say the same thing in the same sentence, 53:06.120 --> 53:07.500 you know, Jews and the white people, you know, 53:07.720 --> 53:08.260 you have these white people, 53:08.320 --> 53:09.760 they literally go into the middle of nowhere 53:09.760 --> 53:11.140 to make their own community compound, 53:11.420 --> 53:12.780 where it's just only with white people. 53:12.900 --> 53:14.800 In a couple generations, they're gonna be ugly, 53:16.020 --> 53:17.720 very low-resilient and everything, 53:17.840 --> 53:19.300 because they're just mixing in with each other. 53:19.580 --> 53:22.300 Who else are they gonna marry, you know? 53:22.520 --> 53:27.280 And so, you don't want this bottleneck effect spiritually 53:27.800 --> 53:30.620 in our church, historical founder effects, 53:30.840 --> 53:33.040 where it's just like, everyone's just old IEP, 53:33.160 --> 53:35.720 just mixing in with old IEP, only reaching old IEP, 53:35.860 --> 53:37.380 only reaching old IEP, it's just like, 53:37.740 --> 53:40.420 then you become weak and you can't learn anymore, 53:40.780 --> 53:41.080 understand? 53:41.840 --> 53:43.760 And so very important, go to Romans 14, if you would, 53:43.760 --> 53:51.160 Romans 14, weaknesses are exposed 53:51.160 --> 53:53.160 when we introduce new people to the church, 53:54.540 --> 53:56.380 because then they're gonna start bringing up problems 53:56.920 --> 53:59.320 or doctrinal issues that maybe you've never heard of. 54:00.020 --> 54:00.780 And you're like, oh, you know what? 54:00.780 --> 54:02.260 I need to go back to the drawing board on that. 54:02.680 --> 54:04.520 I need to like research that, 54:04.940 --> 54:06.560 because I didn't even know that was a problem. 54:06.700 --> 54:09.660 Yeah, that is an issue, and we have to learn about that 54:09.660 --> 54:11.760 to kind of refute that, you understand? 54:13.180 --> 54:16.040 And so the problem is that, oh, here's point number five. 54:16.740 --> 54:21.680 Variety prevents us from thinking our way is the only way, okay? 54:22.620 --> 54:27.260 It prevents us from thinking that our way is the only way. 54:27.340 --> 54:28.760 We need to make sure that we recognize, 54:29.180 --> 54:30.460 yeah, we're right on the Bible, 54:30.560 --> 54:33.000 but other people are right on the Bible too, okay? 54:33.560 --> 54:35.360 And you don't have to come to church like this 54:35.360 --> 54:37.820 to get saved, there's plenty of other churches 54:37.820 --> 54:38.720 that can get you saved. 54:39.560 --> 54:42.200 There's plenty of other people who are right on the doctrines 54:42.200 --> 54:44.380 that we're right on, they agree with us, 54:44.380 --> 54:45.600 but they're not fundamental Baptists. 54:46.260 --> 54:46.680 And guess what? 54:47.100 --> 54:50.200 We're not necessarily the only ones, okay? 54:50.660 --> 54:52.460 There are other churches that are doing great works, 54:52.580 --> 54:54.700 and we can't have this mentality of like, 54:55.160 --> 54:56.920 yeah, but we're like the best though. 54:57.620 --> 55:00.660 You know, and obviously there's a healthy way 55:00.660 --> 55:01.860 of thinking that where it's just like, 55:01.880 --> 55:03.220 I do think our church is the best, great? 55:03.560 --> 55:05.380 But never think that at the exclusion 55:05.840 --> 55:07.800 of thinking that every other church is just bad. 55:09.220 --> 55:11.560 Like we're the best and everyone else just sucks. 55:12.060 --> 55:14.740 You know, everyone else is just apostate, 55:15.080 --> 55:17.540 everyone else they just don't do soul winning right, 55:17.980 --> 55:19.340 everyone else they don't teach right, 55:19.400 --> 55:21.280 they don't preach right, that's a wrong attitude to have. 55:21.540 --> 55:23.720 We're not the only ones who are right, okay? 55:24.600 --> 55:25.760 Romans 14 verse five says, 55:26.000 --> 55:28.020 one man esteemeth one day above another, 55:28.640 --> 55:30.340 another esteemeth every day alike, 55:30.740 --> 55:34.700 let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 55:35.100 --> 55:37.700 And I would say this principle definitely applies 55:38.250 --> 55:41.460 if you were to just put it into the liberal church. 55:42.160 --> 55:43.160 Because think about this, you know, 55:43.380 --> 55:45.580 in the liberal churches long hair 55:45.580 --> 55:48.320 is just completely permissible for men to have, right? 55:48.980 --> 55:50.240 No one questions that. 55:50.540 --> 55:52.260 Everyone follows the same narrative 55:52.920 --> 55:56.180 of long hair and drinking alcohol, isn't that true? 55:57.140 --> 55:58.380 Like if you go to some, 55:58.720 --> 56:00.220 if you go to an east side Calvary Chapel 56:00.220 --> 56:01.900 and you ask about alcohol and long hair, 56:02.060 --> 56:03.840 everyone's gonna tell you the same exact answer. 56:04.620 --> 56:06.100 Jesus turned the water into wine, 56:06.720 --> 56:10.200 low on for the stomach's sake, you know, not in excess. 56:11.000 --> 56:12.460 You know, Jesus had long hair. 56:12.920 --> 56:14.400 Everyone's gonna say the same exact thing, 56:14.660 --> 56:16.700 but you take any one of those and you put them here 56:16.700 --> 56:19.840 into a new spiritually genetic gene pool, 56:20.500 --> 56:24.200 those ideas will be challenged from the Bible. 56:24.860 --> 56:25.440 And you know what? 56:25.780 --> 56:28.020 If they've been around their own people 56:28.620 --> 56:30.220 saying the same thing over and over again, 56:30.300 --> 56:31.300 thinking that they're right, 56:31.720 --> 56:32.900 but you put them here, 56:33.400 --> 56:34.740 they're gonna realize like, oh man, 56:35.340 --> 56:38.240 I never actually learned what the Bible says about alcohol. 56:38.880 --> 56:40.620 I've always heard this about it. 56:40.700 --> 56:42.000 I never seen this verse. 56:42.240 --> 56:43.760 I didn't know that verse was there. 56:44.480 --> 56:46.000 Why? Because they thought that they were right. 56:46.380 --> 56:48.120 Because everyone's just saying the same exact thing 56:48.120 --> 56:48.520 over there. 56:49.140 --> 56:49.760 You understand what I'm saying? 56:50.300 --> 56:51.320 So what do they need? 56:51.540 --> 56:53.620 They need a fundamental Baptist to go over there 56:54.020 --> 56:55.740 or they need to come to a fundamental Baptist church 56:55.740 --> 56:57.780 so their ideas can be challenged. 56:58.460 --> 56:59.420 And they're not the only ones. 56:59.660 --> 57:01.040 A ton of churches are like this. 57:01.800 --> 57:03.800 A lot of Calvary Chapel liberal churches 57:03.800 --> 57:05.240 will tell you the same exact thing 57:05.240 --> 57:07.880 regarding long hair and alcohol. 57:08.220 --> 57:09.240 I promise you that. 57:10.740 --> 57:11.460 But why? 57:11.640 --> 57:12.520 Because I'm telling you right now 57:12.520 --> 57:15.040 there is no new gene being introduced. 57:15.360 --> 57:16.340 There's no variety. 57:16.880 --> 57:17.760 Because they look at us 57:17.760 --> 57:19.200 and like all these fundamental Baptists, 57:19.460 --> 57:21.020 they're so abrasive. 57:21.340 --> 57:22.720 They're so mean-spirited. 57:23.260 --> 57:24.560 They're so this, then, the other, 57:25.060 --> 57:26.680 you know, they're a bunch of, 57:27.380 --> 57:28.280 what do they call us? 57:28.540 --> 57:30.300 Not, they're, 57:31.860 --> 57:33.040 not Bible thumbprint. 57:33.040 --> 57:34.060 Something about the law. 57:34.240 --> 57:34.600 What do they say? 57:35.080 --> 57:35.440 Legalist. 57:36.560 --> 57:37.280 They're legalists. 57:37.560 --> 57:38.580 They're just, you know, 57:38.900 --> 57:40.660 I bet you they're King James only 57:41.140 --> 57:42.780 and they look down on us. 57:43.960 --> 57:45.720 But when you challenge their ideas 57:45.720 --> 57:47.440 with the Bible, they have nothing to say, though. 57:48.980 --> 57:50.280 Oh, you're just mean-spirited. 57:51.720 --> 57:53.840 Oh, you just, you just, you just rude. 57:53.940 --> 57:54.780 You don't have the spirit. 57:55.360 --> 57:56.960 It's because you don't have the fruit of the spirit. 57:58.440 --> 57:59.620 I don't have long hair 57:59.620 --> 58:01.080 because I don't have the fruit of the, oh, okay, yeah. 58:01.360 --> 58:02.560 Oh, I don't get pissy drunk 58:02.560 --> 58:03.560 because I don't have the fruit of the spirit. 58:03.680 --> 58:04.700 Oh, okay, I got it, yeah. 58:05.080 --> 58:06.680 Yeah, real good argument there. 58:08.480 --> 58:10.280 You know, variety prevents us 58:10.280 --> 58:11.600 from thinking that our way is the only way. 58:11.980 --> 58:12.820 And let me just give you, 58:12.860 --> 58:14.820 let me drop a truth bomb on you right now. 58:15.440 --> 58:17.820 50 years from now, there's gonna be churches 58:17.820 --> 58:20.020 that are gonna point out the errors in our church. 58:20.900 --> 58:21.520 That's a fact. 58:22.760 --> 58:24.800 You may not even like that, but it's true. 58:25.900 --> 58:28.140 Because every church, every church in every generation 58:28.540 --> 58:29.660 has a deficiency. 58:30.440 --> 58:31.200 That's just how it is. 58:32.040 --> 58:33.000 And you know what? 58:33.080 --> 58:34.500 We don't recognize our deficiencies 58:34.500 --> 58:37.200 because our, we're fighting a particular battle 58:37.660 --> 58:40.700 and the deficiencies we have aren't necessarily magnified 58:40.700 --> 58:42.320 because we're not really focused on that right now. 58:42.840 --> 58:43.880 That's just how it is. 58:44.840 --> 58:46.980 You know, again, I think of Jay Frank Norris, 58:47.760 --> 58:51.460 who in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, 58:51.460 --> 58:53.080 he fought some incredible battles 58:53.840 --> 58:57.660 against evolution, against modernism, you know, 58:57.760 --> 58:58.660 against alcohol. 58:58.660 --> 59:02.040 And these were like really big things in those days. 59:02.900 --> 59:03.360 Huge. 59:04.260 --> 59:05.480 And people would have, you know, 59:05.540 --> 59:07.320 accredited him for seeing a lot of people saved, 59:07.780 --> 59:09.240 fighting evolution, because you know, 59:09.340 --> 59:12.340 during those times, a major problem within churches 59:12.800 --> 59:14.500 is that churches were becoming liberal, 59:14.560 --> 59:16.140 but not the way you and I would consider 59:16.140 --> 59:17.040 liberal churches. 59:17.180 --> 59:19.240 We're talking about liberal in their theology. 59:20.100 --> 59:20.980 You know what that means? 59:21.120 --> 59:22.600 It means they started believing, 59:23.020 --> 59:24.920 oh, maybe evolution is true 59:24.920 --> 59:26.660 and the Bible teaches evolution. 59:27.420 --> 59:30.460 So they would mix these modernistic ideas 59:30.460 --> 59:32.040 and try to impose it into the Bible 59:32.040 --> 59:33.640 and he fought against that. 59:34.060 --> 59:36.200 He's like, the Bible must be read literally. 59:36.820 --> 59:39.620 It's the word of God, six-day literal creation, 59:40.020 --> 59:42.520 evolution is a lie, and he fought that battle. 59:42.840 --> 59:44.100 You're like, well, what was his deficiency? 59:44.540 --> 59:45.640 Bro, he was a Zionist. 59:46.660 --> 59:48.700 He was a hardcore Zionist. 59:49.060 --> 59:50.260 He loved Israel. 59:51.560 --> 59:53.680 But you know, that wasn't necessarily a battle back then 59:54.480 --> 59:56.140 because everyone just agreed with that 59:56.140 --> 59:57.860 and just, they didn't really, you know, 59:57.960 --> 01:00:00.320 maybe the Lord, the spirit of the Lord 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:03.280 wanted them to focus on fighting modernism 01:00:03.280 --> 01:00:04.920 in local New Testament churches 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:07.360 and then generations later, 01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:10.140 Zionism would be fought thereafter. 01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:12.640 But here we are, years later, we're like, 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:16.340 well, that was a deficiency in J. Frank Norris's time 01:00:16.740 --> 01:00:18.460 where they didn't fight Zionism, 01:00:18.460 --> 01:00:19.840 but they fought against these other battles 01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:21.800 and praise God for that, you understand? 01:00:22.300 --> 01:00:24.000 But now we're fighting that battle. 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:25.980 So every generation of every church 01:00:25.980 --> 01:00:27.760 will have some form of deficiency. 01:00:29.220 --> 01:00:30.780 And you know what, you gotta be okay with that. 01:00:31.300 --> 01:00:33.620 Don't think, no, we got it all, we got it all. 01:00:34.460 --> 01:00:36.300 We know, we got it all down packed. 01:00:37.020 --> 01:00:38.180 Yeah, we got it all down packed 01:00:38.180 --> 01:00:39.420 in the battles that we're fighting. 01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:42.060 But there's certain battles that we're not fighting, 01:00:42.240 --> 01:00:43.820 that we're kind of blinded to right now 01:00:43.820 --> 01:00:45.940 because we're not necessarily focused on them right now. 01:00:46.260 --> 01:00:46.920 It's not an issue. 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:48.880 Look, I'm gonna tell you right now. 01:00:49.160 --> 01:00:51.300 You know, in, let's say, 50 years, 01:00:52.040 --> 01:00:53.160 someone's gonna call us out and be like, 01:00:53.160 --> 01:00:55.040 didn't preach enough against bestiality. 01:00:58.700 --> 01:01:00.540 Cause it's not really like a major thing. 01:01:00.640 --> 01:01:03.060 It is in Pakistan or whatever, but, you know, 01:01:03.900 --> 01:01:05.520 but it's not like a major thing here. 01:01:06.520 --> 01:01:07.980 And they're gonna be like, yeah, you know, 01:01:08.040 --> 01:01:11.280 these guys are really hard on homos. 01:01:12.120 --> 01:01:13.700 You find a lot of sermons on homos, 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:15.380 but not enough sermons on bestiality. 01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:17.860 And we think about this earlier, 01:01:18.100 --> 01:01:18.800 it's just like, why would we? 01:01:18.920 --> 01:01:21.060 That's not, but you never know, 50 years from now, 01:01:21.060 --> 01:01:22.800 that might be like a major thing. 01:01:23.520 --> 01:01:25.220 And churches could look back and say, 01:01:25.560 --> 01:01:27.820 that was a deficiency in their time. 01:01:28.380 --> 01:01:30.340 They didn't really talk a whole lot about that. 01:01:30.580 --> 01:01:32.060 But you know what someone's gonna get up and say, 01:01:32.160 --> 01:01:33.440 but that's because that wasn't a battle 01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:34.860 that was there for them at that time, 01:01:35.120 --> 01:01:36.980 but it is now, okay? 01:01:38.580 --> 01:01:41.520 Last point, you know, and before I get into this last 01:01:41.520 --> 01:01:43.020 point, let me say this is that 01:01:43.020 --> 01:01:45.060 we don't wanna become just like an echo chamber. 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:47.480 And even within our church, folks, 01:01:48.060 --> 01:01:49.080 you know, I know a lot of you guys 01:01:49.080 --> 01:01:50.800 like to hang out with your little crew. 01:01:51.260 --> 01:01:52.860 You got your Instagram friends here. 01:01:53.160 --> 01:01:54.680 You got your ex friends here. 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.380 You know, you get in with your little friends 01:01:58.380 --> 01:02:00.760 and you guys bounce off the same ideas 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:04.040 off of each other and talk about this. 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:06.080 You know, don't become an echo chamber 01:02:06.620 --> 01:02:08.040 of Christians in our church, 01:02:08.040 --> 01:02:10.420 or you only wanna be around people that agree with you. 01:02:11.300 --> 01:02:12.560 Get around some people in our church 01:02:12.560 --> 01:02:13.620 that disagree with you. 01:02:14.540 --> 01:02:16.040 You know, I know after the service, 01:02:16.340 --> 01:02:17.920 you guys are just gonna shoot straight towards 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:19.380 the person that agrees with you the most. 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:20.500 That's a fact. 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:22.480 You're like, well, they're not here. 01:02:22.660 --> 01:02:23.440 Then you're just gonna go home. 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:26.580 That's a fact. 01:02:26.980 --> 01:02:28.000 You're gonna get around the people 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:29.260 who are sensitive like you, 01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:30.680 who are hard like you, 01:02:31.060 --> 01:02:32.440 who are zealous like you, 01:02:32.580 --> 01:02:34.900 who are just like you, 01:02:34.980 --> 01:02:36.740 who share your same viewpoints like you, 01:02:36.980 --> 01:02:39.300 who share your same political viewpoints as you, 01:02:39.580 --> 01:02:41.740 who share your same views on race like you, 01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:45.660 who just are extreme in certain areas like you. 01:02:45.780 --> 01:02:46.600 That's just how it is. 01:02:47.180 --> 01:02:49.140 Get around some people who don't agree with you. 01:02:50.340 --> 01:02:51.520 Be willing to talk to people. 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:53.440 You know, I'm willing to talk to Geo. 01:02:53.500 --> 01:02:53.880 He's a runner. 01:02:54.140 --> 01:02:55.240 You know, that ain't my thing. 01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:55.680 You know what I mean? 01:02:56.260 --> 01:02:58.240 I'm gonna fellowship with him, though, you know? 01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:01.280 I'll hang out with the inferior, 01:03:01.580 --> 01:03:03.820 you know, the weak things that I'm just kidding. 01:03:03.980 --> 01:03:04.240 I'm kidding. 01:03:04.520 --> 01:03:05.660 I'm kidding, brother Rick. 01:03:05.780 --> 01:03:06.060 I'm kidding. 01:03:06.860 --> 01:03:08.120 You know, I don't like running. 01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:09.280 I just don't like it. 01:03:09.300 --> 01:03:10.700 But I could talk to him about that, though. 01:03:12.260 --> 01:03:13.980 It doesn't intimidate. 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:15.000 And it's not like, well, 01:03:15.040 --> 01:03:16.320 I kind of don't like talking about this. 01:03:16.820 --> 01:03:18.340 You know, hey, those of you who don't live, 01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:19.600 go talk to someone who lives. 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.220 Ah, but then we get into the conversation of lifting. 01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:25.820 Oh, God forbid someone inspires you to become healthier. 01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:29.700 God forbid someone would actually encourage you 01:03:29.700 --> 01:03:31.560 to get in the gym because you're fat 01:03:31.560 --> 01:03:34.160 and you're just overweight 01:03:34.160 --> 01:03:35.760 and you're just not healthy. 01:03:36.100 --> 01:03:37.200 Your bones aren't healthy. 01:03:37.620 --> 01:03:39.200 Get around the people that'll challenge you. 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:42.740 Don't become a group of just echo chamber Christians 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:45.820 where you're just reinforcing your own ideas 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:48.640 it's never challenged and you're just encouraged 01:03:48.640 --> 01:03:51.160 to be exactly how you are the entire time. 01:03:52.560 --> 01:03:53.820 It's not healthy, my friends. 01:03:54.780 --> 01:03:56.180 I know you guys don't like it, that's okay. 01:03:57.400 --> 01:03:57.740 I don't care. 01:03:58.540 --> 01:04:00.240 Number six is demanding uniformity 01:04:00.240 --> 01:04:03.040 where God allows a variety creates self-righteous division. 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:07.060 You know, you can't demand uniformity. 01:04:07.120 --> 01:04:08.380 Oh, you gotta believe just like this. 01:04:08.660 --> 01:04:10.560 Well, if it's not a fundamental of faith, no, I don't. 01:04:11.240 --> 01:04:11.480 Okay? 01:04:12.120 --> 01:04:13.200 I don't have to believe that. 01:04:14.020 --> 01:04:14.380 Okay? 01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:17.520 And we have to recognize that we don't want to be those 01:04:17.520 --> 01:04:19.260 who are teaching for doctrines that commandments have been. 01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:20.960 But you know what? 01:04:21.120 --> 01:04:23.260 That's not just in doctrine, just in personality too. 01:04:23.980 --> 01:04:26.740 Get around people who you don't necessarily click 01:04:26.740 --> 01:04:27.980 with 100% of the time. 01:04:28.980 --> 01:04:29.340 Why? 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:31.000 Because it's important for you to learn 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:32.400 how to fellowship with people 01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:33.780 who are not exactly like you. 01:04:34.720 --> 01:04:36.200 Oh, I don't like really talking to people like that 01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:36.900 because they're really rude. 01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:38.960 We probably need to be around some rude people. 01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:40.920 Might be a little soft. 01:04:42.100 --> 01:04:44.340 Might be like overly sensitive all the time. 01:04:44.580 --> 01:04:47.060 Get around some people who help you develop some thick skin. 01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:50.100 You know, this is why I'm done here. 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.240 This is why, you know, I'm not for like all Chinese church. 01:04:55.300 --> 01:04:56.260 All black church. 01:04:57.200 --> 01:04:58.260 All Mexican church. 01:04:59.140 --> 01:05:00.020 In America of course, 01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:01.720 because if you're in Mexico, you got no choice, 01:05:01.820 --> 01:05:02.060 you know what I mean? 01:05:04.100 --> 01:05:06.800 But there's churches like that in the United States 01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:09.460 where it's like, I only want to go to a black church. 01:05:09.560 --> 01:05:09.740 Ha! 01:05:10.940 --> 01:05:14.300 I like to go to the black church and they're all, whoo! 01:05:17.020 --> 01:05:19.180 Yeah, that's entertaining for like a week 01:05:19.180 --> 01:05:20.940 and then it's just like, can we like, 01:05:21.300 --> 01:05:22.360 can you stop acting a fool 01:05:22.840 --> 01:05:24.380 and get serious about doctrine or whatever? 01:05:25.200 --> 01:05:25.600 You know what I mean? 01:05:26.600 --> 01:05:28.420 That's good for an Instagram clip or whatever. 01:05:29.020 --> 01:05:29.680 But those people are like, 01:05:29.740 --> 01:05:31.380 I only want to go to a black church 01:05:31.380 --> 01:05:33.160 because I want to be around black people. 01:05:33.860 --> 01:05:34.620 And look, let me say this, 01:05:34.660 --> 01:05:35.960 we need more black people in our church 01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:37.500 to stop being racist people, okay? 01:05:40.540 --> 01:05:42.680 We do need more black people in our church, you know? 01:05:43.160 --> 01:05:46.240 We only got like three right now in this service, I think. 01:05:46.420 --> 01:05:47.840 And I don't even know if Adrian counts 01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:48.700 because he's like half. 01:05:50.680 --> 01:05:52.080 He's a light skinned, you know? 01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:55.320 It's like, not even that much of a percentage. 01:05:57.100 --> 01:05:58.800 Kofi and Mori make up the large percentage. 01:05:59.000 --> 01:05:59.660 Will's not here. 01:05:59.860 --> 01:06:01.760 He would, you know, was that four? 01:06:02.100 --> 01:06:02.820 We got four here. 01:06:03.300 --> 01:06:04.280 We need more black people. 01:06:05.700 --> 01:06:06.840 You know, I'm not four. 01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:10.460 We need all black church or how about this? 01:06:10.660 --> 01:06:12.340 Well, let's just keep black people out. 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.740 We don't want too many black people in our church. 01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:15.900 Kind of nonsense is that. 01:06:17.340 --> 01:06:19.260 And some of you are like, well, what's wrong with that? 01:06:21.640 --> 01:06:23.740 I think that's a good idea, you know? 01:06:24.700 --> 01:06:26.240 And look, this is some of the old IFP did. 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:28.360 Let me tell you this story. 01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:29.320 You guys ready for a story? 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:29.920 Some lore? 01:06:31.420 --> 01:06:34.960 You know, back in the day, in Brother Kyle's day, okay? 01:06:35.680 --> 01:06:37.300 There was a guy named Jim Vineyard 01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:40.020 and, you know, he was in charge of the bus ministry 01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:44.120 and he would go into the bus and count 01:06:44.120 --> 01:06:46.020 how many black kids there were in the bus. 01:06:46.740 --> 01:06:48.960 And there's too many, we got too many bleep 01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:49.880 in the bus right now. 01:06:50.540 --> 01:06:52.440 So he'd just pick up my random and throw them out. 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:55.680 We're a true story. 01:06:56.580 --> 01:06:57.540 And some of you are like, 01:07:01.980 --> 01:07:04.160 damn, that's kind of, you know, for real, can we do that? 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:06.840 No, you can't do that, okay? 01:07:07.420 --> 01:07:09.360 And there's like too many whatever in the church, 01:07:09.620 --> 01:07:11.860 too many whatever in the bus out, you know? 01:07:12.500 --> 01:07:14.920 And, you know, whatever, you're saying, 01:07:15.060 --> 01:07:17.040 well, pastor, different administrations and operations, 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:18.880 you know, there's differences in, 01:07:19.020 --> 01:07:22.660 same spirit though, same lore or whatever, you know? 01:07:24.260 --> 01:07:26.740 But, you know, I'm against an all Chinese church. 01:07:28.140 --> 01:07:30.060 I don't think we should have an all Chinese church. 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.000 Can't understand anything, you know? 01:07:33.680 --> 01:07:36.580 I'm against all black, I'm against all Mexican church too. 01:07:37.720 --> 01:07:39.420 You sound racist, I'll be racist, 01:07:39.580 --> 01:07:41.220 all equal across the board over every race. 01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:42.760 I want a church to be filled with everything. 01:07:44.420 --> 01:07:45.820 Can't have an all Mexican church 01:07:45.820 --> 01:07:47.500 because then we'd start church late all the time. 01:07:50.040 --> 01:07:53.580 You know, it would be horrific. 01:07:55.240 --> 01:07:56.400 You know, what else we got? 01:07:56.540 --> 01:07:57.880 Can't have an all white church either. 01:07:59.300 --> 01:08:00.680 Oh, now you speak of. 01:08:02.580 --> 01:08:04.020 Yeah, I don't want an all white church. 01:08:04.160 --> 01:08:06.820 And look, I'm not specifically picking the demographic 01:08:06.820 --> 01:08:08.180 of every, you know, we're like, 01:08:08.220 --> 01:08:09.040 how many we got in here? 01:08:09.160 --> 01:08:10.000 One time we did that though. 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:12.360 We tried to count how many of each race we had, 01:08:12.540 --> 01:08:13.500 but then people were like, 01:08:13.540 --> 01:08:15.180 that's not really white or whatever, whatever. 01:08:16.740 --> 01:08:18.960 All white church, all Filipino church, 01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:20.120 if we're all Filipino church, 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:22.660 we'd be having Pollux every single Sunday. 01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:25.280 Marshmallows on spaghetti, we'd be having diabetes. 01:08:29.460 --> 01:08:30.960 There's an issue when it's just too much 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.420 of one particular ethnicity or whatever it may be. 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:36.040 Just let it be folks, heaven is mixed. 01:08:37.780 --> 01:08:40.100 And you have to learn how to get along with people. 01:08:40.700 --> 01:08:41.660 And look, church is good 01:08:41.660 --> 01:08:43.260 because it'll give you a culture shock too. 01:08:43.780 --> 01:08:45.140 Maybe you didn't grow up with black people. 01:08:51.320 --> 01:08:52.840 You know, I grew up with black people 01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:54.340 so I don't have problems with black people at all. 01:08:54.860 --> 01:08:56.300 I grew up with them, you know, 01:08:56.380 --> 01:08:58.360 I got in fights with them, I got jumped by them, 01:08:58.360 --> 01:09:01.840 you know, I got jumped, I almost got robbed by them, 01:09:01.940 --> 01:09:04.000 you know, it's just, I grew up in Long Beach, amen. 01:09:04.160 --> 01:09:05.080 That's where I grew up at. 01:09:05.820 --> 01:09:07.000 So I know what that's all about. 01:09:07.240 --> 01:09:09.680 But even then I'm not prejudice against black people, no. 01:09:10.320 --> 01:09:12.260 You know, I'm not, I don't hate black people at all. 01:09:13.140 --> 01:09:15.000 I recognize patterns like everyone else though. 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:16.800 Everyone recognizes patterns. 01:09:18.100 --> 01:09:21.340 I recognize patterns in every ethnicity, okay? 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:24.120 I think a church should be diverse. 01:09:24.260 --> 01:09:25.560 I don't think you were like, well, you know, 01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:27.520 I think we should, I think this should be 01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:28.700 an all Indian church. 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:30.460 Don't even let me get started. 01:09:32.320 --> 01:09:32.840 Okay. 01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:38.120 You know, we need to be diverse. 01:09:39.020 --> 01:09:40.300 We want diversity. 01:09:41.160 --> 01:09:44.280 Not in beliefs, but in the people that we reach. 01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:47.820 And you need to learn how to fellowship with people 01:09:48.280 --> 01:09:49.720 that are not your skin color. 01:09:51.060 --> 01:09:53.480 And not be afraid of black people or something. 01:09:54.140 --> 01:09:59.360 Or like, so are you Mexican or Salvadorian? 01:09:59.400 --> 01:09:59.900 I'm Guatemalan. 01:10:00.200 --> 01:10:02.480 What is that, Mexican or Salvadorian? 01:10:03.660 --> 01:10:06.220 You know, are you Japanese or Chinese? 01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:10.040 You know, learn how to talk to people. 01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.000 Learn, you know, expand your horizons 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:14.400 and your knowledge about other people. 01:10:14.780 --> 01:10:15.980 And don't think to yourself, well, 01:10:16.080 --> 01:10:16.880 I don't really like it here 01:10:16.880 --> 01:10:20.060 because this church doesn't really have my race here. 01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:21.360 You know? 01:10:22.040 --> 01:10:25.900 Well, you know, it's the human race. 01:10:26.240 --> 01:10:26.540 Here you go. 01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:27.340 How about that? 01:10:28.580 --> 01:10:28.600 Okay. 01:10:29.380 --> 01:10:33.200 And so variety is the spice of life. 01:10:34.360 --> 01:10:35.160 Enjoy it. 01:10:35.320 --> 01:10:38.660 And don't allow your mentality to be influenced 01:10:38.660 --> 01:10:42.040 by X, Instagram, TikTok or whatever, 01:10:42.280 --> 01:10:43.820 to think, well, you know, 01:10:44.100 --> 01:10:45.460 this is the one world view 01:10:45.460 --> 01:10:46.820 that I think everyone should have. 01:10:47.080 --> 01:10:49.280 No, allow yourself to be challenged by the Bible, 01:10:49.280 --> 01:10:51.200 by the preaching of God's word and by others. 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:52.120 Let's pray. 01:10:52.200 --> 01:10:53.440 Father, we thank you so much for your word. 01:10:53.620 --> 01:10:55.660 Thank you for the variety that we've seen, Lord. 01:10:57.040 --> 01:10:58.020 And in our church, 01:10:58.140 --> 01:11:01.520 and I think church should be for every single race. 01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:02.360 Lord, why not? 01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:04.740 And we're not talking about every single culture 01:11:05.220 --> 01:11:08.300 because we wanna have a Christian culture in our church 01:11:08.300 --> 01:11:09.620 where we believe the Bible, 01:11:10.300 --> 01:11:12.320 we believe in salvation by grace through faith, 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:14.360 we believe in the Trinity, 01:11:14.620 --> 01:11:16.100 we believe in the King James Bible, 01:11:16.620 --> 01:11:19.260 but it's okay to have differences in other areas. 01:11:20.140 --> 01:11:22.500 And so, Lord, I pray that you'd help us to recognize 01:11:22.500 --> 01:11:23.720 the importance of variety 01:11:25.200 --> 01:11:28.260 and to recognize that not everyone has to be exactly like us. 01:11:29.040 --> 01:11:30.940 Help us to not be spiritually inbred 01:11:31.460 --> 01:11:33.240 that we would be willing to reach out 01:11:33.700 --> 01:11:35.580 to other peoples of different types of churches 01:11:35.580 --> 01:11:36.680 and Christian backgrounds 01:11:37.280 --> 01:11:39.380 to help them to understand what the truth is. 01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:40.140 We love you. 01:11:40.220 --> 01:11:40.440 We thank you. 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:41.360 Pray the things in Jesus' name.