WEBVTT 00:00.270 --> 00:07.330 and men. The title of my sermon this morning is the majority are wrong. The majority are 00:07.330 --> 00:13.210 wrong. Now we see here in the text, look at verse 13, enter ye in at the straight gate 00:13.690 --> 00:22.070 for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there 00:22.070 --> 00:28.150 be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which 00:28.150 --> 00:34.690 leadeth unto life and few there be that find it. So based on Christ's own words 00:34.690 --> 00:41.690 the many are going to the broad way of destruction and the few are going the way 00:41.690 --> 00:47.430 that leads to life. So just by you know understanding Christ's words we would 00:47.430 --> 00:52.470 have to realize that true religion and true faith and true Christianity will 00:52.470 --> 00:59.790 always be a minority position, a minority position by Christ's clear words here in 00:59.790 --> 01:04.490 the text that it's few. Now I'm not going to belabor this point because I want to 01:04.490 --> 01:08.030 really go through a lot of Bible but this passage when it says here 01:08.030 --> 01:11.790 specifically the straight gate it's meaning it's narrow meaning that there's 01:11.790 --> 01:16.170 only one way to heaven and that's through faith in Jesus Christ. Now there's 01:16.170 --> 01:20.810 many other religions there's many other beliefs in the world. Unfortunately 01:20.810 --> 01:28.110 all of them lead to hell. The reality is that the vast majority of beliefs out 01:28.110 --> 01:32.990 there are false and there's really only one way to heaven and that is through 01:32.990 --> 01:38.270 faith in Jesus Christ that is the only way to be saved. Now in this text you 01:38.270 --> 01:42.990 could probably apply this is mostly talking about just the big picture 01:42.990 --> 01:46.650 right we're talking about just every religion. Hinduism is a false 01:46.650 --> 01:52.350 religion. Judaism is a false religion. Islam is a false religion. Being an 01:52.350 --> 01:56.290 atheist of course is not going to lead you anywhere but to the grave and so any 01:56.290 --> 02:00.610 of these major religions unfortunately are just false religions they cannot 02:00.610 --> 02:04.390 save. Some people say oh there's thousands of religions there really 02:04.390 --> 02:09.770 isn't that many religions there's only kind of like five major religions and 02:09.770 --> 02:14.410 then there's of course a handful of just crazy weird groups and strange 02:14.410 --> 02:19.570 ideas but the vast majority of humanity falls into one of the five big 02:19.570 --> 02:23.070 categories. Then within those categories we understand there's different 02:23.070 --> 02:26.810 divisions and different classifications but for the most part it's basically 02:26.810 --> 02:30.430 Christianity if you include Catholicism is considered the largest 02:30.430 --> 02:36.670 religion in the world it's like 2.3 billion adherents it's simply like a 02:36.670 --> 02:40.990 billion Catholics eight or nine hundred thousand Protestants and then 02:40.990 --> 02:47.450 300 million Orthodox and so you kind of have that classification and again it's 02:47.450 --> 02:51.150 like 1.1 billion Catholics and I don't know if you add up the Catholics and 02:51.150 --> 02:55.030 the Protestants it's about 2 billion you throw in the Orthodox it's another 02:55.030 --> 02:59.770 300 so it's about 2.3 billion people that are under the umbrella of 02:59.770 --> 03:04.370 Christianity in any form but you know what is there maybe 8 billion people 03:04.370 --> 03:09.170 in the world so you know almost a third or somewhere in these ranges a 03:09.170 --> 03:13.550 fourth to a third of all of humanity falls under that umbrella then you got 03:13.550 --> 03:18.790 Islam Islam is another billion people you've got Hinduism is another like it's 03:18.790 --> 03:23.290 probably the third largest religion maybe like I don't know the exact number 03:23.290 --> 03:27.290 you can look it up later maybe a 500 million to a billion somewhere in 03:27.290 --> 03:33.550 that range but you've got almost half of the religions already right there 03:33.550 --> 03:37.710 plus you have a lot of atheists unfortunately at this point but there 03:37.710 --> 03:42.510 really isn't that many options beyond this so the vast majority of these 03:42.510 --> 03:46.890 beliefs though that are non-Christian you know are just pure Satanism 03:46.890 --> 03:52.770 worshiping idolatry obviously Islam isn't into idolatry but it's a very 03:52.770 --> 03:59.130 satanic false religion it's a perversion of the Bible and it's a 03:59.130 --> 04:03.990 huge corruption Mormonism kind of falls the same line as Islam but look the 04:03.990 --> 04:09.070 majority of this world are just wrong Christ said many are not saved the few 04:09.070 --> 04:11.670 are the ones they're gonna find the right religion and then even within 04:11.670 --> 04:16.530 Christianity though unfortunately the majority again are not saved look what 04:16.530 --> 04:20.150 it says further down in the text verse 21 not everyone that say the enemy Lord 04:20.150 --> 04:23.610 Lord shall enter in the kingdom of heaven so this is important because we 04:23.610 --> 04:27.830 just went from what I'm describing is like the whole world to now we're 04:27.830 --> 04:31.210 narrowing into Christianity everything under that umbrella right 04:32.290 --> 04:36.290 Catholicism orthodox Protestant everything under that umbrella anything that 04:36.290 --> 04:40.530 would at least give lip service to the God of the Bible okay so we understand the 04:40.530 --> 04:45.590 vast majority are not saved but then even under the umbrella of calling Christ 04:45.590 --> 04:50.250 Lord the Bible warns that many of them are not saved as well notice what it 04:50.250 --> 04:53.850 says here not everyone that say that me Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of 04:53.850 --> 04:56.930 heaven but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven notice 04:56.930 --> 05:01.490 this word in verse 22 many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not 05:01.490 --> 05:05.110 prophesied in the name and in the name of cast out devils and in the name of many 05:05.110 --> 05:09.810 wonderful works and then why profess them I never knew you depart from me ye 05:09.810 --> 05:13.810 that work iniquity a couple things that are interesting about this passage is 05:13.810 --> 05:18.110 you know they're there before the Lord they're not even saying they serve 05:18.110 --> 05:24.150 some other God he's not even necessarily saying they served another God and they 05:24.150 --> 05:28.090 even call him Lord so they're recognizing the right God they have the 05:28.090 --> 05:32.510 right title for him they're not like you're surprising me I thought you were 05:32.510 --> 05:37.730 someone else and yet they're not saved why are they not saved well they didn't 05:37.730 --> 05:41.150 do the will of the father did they that's what it says in verse 21 they 05:41.150 --> 05:45.350 didn't do the will of the father which is in heaven what did they do well 05:45.350 --> 05:47.870 what did they say that they did they said that they prophesied in the 05:47.870 --> 05:53.370 name they cast out devils and they did many wonderful works now some people 05:53.370 --> 05:56.550 would interpret this passage they're just lying about this or they didn't do this 05:56.550 --> 05:59.070 stuff or something like that that's a weird way to read the text and there's 05:59.070 --> 06:02.890 no indication that they didn't do these things I would I would venture to say 06:02.890 --> 06:06.750 if you're standing for God on judgment day you would probably point to the 06:06.750 --> 06:11.970 stuff that you really did and so who is this group of people well I'll tell 06:11.970 --> 06:16.110 you it is it's Catholics and Orthodox that's who it is and it's a lot of 06:16.110 --> 06:19.890 Protestants as well because again you look at them hey they're preaching 06:20.310 --> 06:23.050 it's not that they're not preaching it's not that they aren't prophesying 06:23.050 --> 06:25.470 the word of God they preach the word of God on a regular basis they have 06:25.470 --> 06:29.690 church services regularly all the time not only that many of the Catholics 06:29.690 --> 06:34.010 they're really into this exorcism stuff trying to cast out demons and cast out 06:34.010 --> 06:37.170 devils and they're using all their incantations and they're using all their 06:37.170 --> 06:40.570 incense and they're always praying to all these saints they're always praying to 06:40.570 --> 06:45.290 not be cursed it's very pagan type religion and then not only that of 06:45.290 --> 06:47.710 course the Catholics and the Orthodox are going to point to the fact that 06:47.710 --> 06:50.990 they did all these wonderful works and in their mind they've done a lot of 06:50.990 --> 06:54.550 wonderful works they've they've given money to the poor and they've they have 06:54.550 --> 06:57.310 their mother Teresa's and they have all these different people that they would 06:57.310 --> 07:01.510 point to and say look we've done all these works we tried to help people but 07:01.510 --> 07:06.950 the problem is did they ever say hey we believe that salvation was by faith 07:06.950 --> 07:10.710 and what Jesus Christ did did they say hey Jesus Christ died in the cross 07:10.710 --> 07:14.250 for all my sins did they say hey Jesus Christ rose again from the dead 07:14.250 --> 07:18.210 hey we thought we had an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous 07:18.210 --> 07:23.590 hey we trusted that our faith in Jesus is going to take us to heaven no what 07:23.590 --> 07:28.990 they said is we did works because the majority are wrong and the majority of 07:28.990 --> 07:32.290 people under the umbrella of Christianity think they're getting to heaven because 07:32.290 --> 07:37.590 of their works and notice what Christ says here he says to them and then 07:37.590 --> 07:43.830 will I profess unto them I never knew you I never knew you depart from me 07:43.830 --> 07:46.890 that work iniquity because here's the thing in order to get saved you have 07:46.890 --> 07:50.670 to admit that you're a sinner and you need a savior not that you worked your way 07:50.670 --> 07:54.710 to heaven and that's why the majority are wrong and the majority are not saved 07:54.710 --> 07:59.310 and it's a very sad reality but it's just the truth go view into Romans 07:59.310 --> 08:03.010 chapter 9 now go to Romans chapter number 9 this is a consistent theme we 08:03.010 --> 08:08.730 see in the Bible that people by and large are not saved even when in the 08:08.730 --> 08:13.390 right umbrella even into the right umbrella of Christianity and look 08:13.390 --> 08:18.670 unfortunately many Protestants while they're not necessarily as idolatrous and 08:18.670 --> 08:23.350 weird as the Catholics they still profess a works based salvation and look this 08:23.350 --> 08:27.370 will make people mad you get up and you say Billy Graham was teaching that you 08:27.370 --> 08:30.630 had to repent of your sins and turn over a new leaf in order to get saved and 08:30.630 --> 08:33.690 it's like well that guy's a false prophet because Billy Graham was not 08:33.690 --> 08:36.870 teaching salvation as a free gift he was not teaching his faith alone and 08:36.870 --> 08:40.150 he was not teaching that once you say once your savior always saved and 08:40.150 --> 08:43.110 so you know what I don't believe Billy Graham is saved at all and look at the 08:43.110 --> 08:45.890 fruit of Billy Graham's ministry when is it that you're running into people 08:45.890 --> 08:50.710 that got saved because of Billy Graham I don't believe John MacArthur is saved 08:50.710 --> 08:53.670 either because if you look at the fruit of his ministry and you look at the 08:53.670 --> 08:56.690 ministers that followed in John MacArthur's footsteps they don't 08:56.690 --> 09:00.730 advocate salvation by faith alone and he's notoriously known for 09:00.730 --> 09:05.130 establishing this term Lordship salvation and you can read his 09:05.130 --> 09:10.610 commentaries he's had his own like commentary Bibles like the John 09:10.610 --> 09:14.970 MacArthur study Bible where he commentates on Matthew 7 and these 09:14.970 --> 09:18.550 different passages and he says oh it's difficult to go to heaven because you 09:18.550 --> 09:22.750 have to turn away from all your sins and it's like well then no one saved because 09:22.750 --> 09:27.650 no one's given up all their sin no one stopped sinning and look it's not 09:27.650 --> 09:31.850 difficult to be saved if you believe salvation was a free gift by faith in 09:31.850 --> 09:35.090 Jesus Christ how could you then get up and say it's difficult it's not 09:35.090 --> 09:39.330 difficult and it's not difficult by any means of what you have to do it 09:39.330 --> 09:42.730 could be difficult in the sense that there's so many lies out there it's hard 09:42.730 --> 09:46.830 to find the truth but that's not what he was saying and that's not really 09:46.830 --> 09:50.870 necessarily what's being emphasized what is being emphasized by him and his 09:50.870 --> 09:55.250 ilk of false teachers is that it's difficult to give up all your sins you 09:55.250 --> 09:59.430 know how difficult is it's impossible let me explain something to you if 09:59.430 --> 10:04.410 salvation were by works it's not difficult it's impossible that's why 10:04.410 --> 10:08.330 it's silly to believe in such a thing because either a you follow all the 10:08.330 --> 10:12.550 commandments perfectly which is impossible or salvation's a free gift by 10:12.550 --> 10:16.170 faith and it's easy and what do you think if God loved you do you think you'd 10:16.170 --> 10:19.670 make salvation easy or impossible and look if it's impossible then what are we 10:19.670 --> 10:23.310 doing anymore let's just eat drink and be merry until we die but you know what 10:23.310 --> 10:27.190 God did make it easy he made it as easy as humanly possible without taking 10:27.190 --> 10:30.750 away your free will but here's something you have to do you have to 10:30.750 --> 10:34.670 humble yourself to accept the free gift of salvation you have to admit 10:34.670 --> 10:37.810 that what Jesus did is the only reason you're getting into heaven not what 10:37.810 --> 10:42.050 you do not your works not your turning over new leaf not something that's 10:42.050 --> 10:46.850 special about you not your ethnicity not your race not where you're born know 10:46.850 --> 10:51.410 what Jesus did his death his burial and his resurrection as the only payment 10:51.410 --> 10:55.550 for your sin and this is why Roman Catholics they don't really believe in 10:55.550 --> 10:58.450 Jesus Christ they don't really believe the gospel they don't really believe 10:58.450 --> 11:02.210 that Jesus paid all their sins because if he paid it a hundred percent they 11:02.210 --> 11:07.330 don't have to do any work like if I go to the restaurant and you pay all 11:07.330 --> 11:11.550 of my bill I don't have to go wash dishes to walk out of there it's already 11:11.550 --> 11:16.510 paid I can just walk out of the restaurant scott free and the same way that I get 11:16.510 --> 11:21.330 to go to heaven because Jesus already paid my bill I don't have to go wash 11:21.330 --> 11:26.510 dishes on top of that and if I did he didn't really pay the entire bill so 11:26.510 --> 11:31.010 you know what they're doing is they're calling Jesus a liar and they're 11:31.010 --> 11:33.870 blaspheming the God of the Bible and they do not believe the record that 11:33.870 --> 11:38.590 God gave of his son and they're not saved and they must humble themselves and 11:38.590 --> 11:42.670 repent of their false religion and put their faith in Jesus Christ that 11:42.670 --> 11:47.550 actually paid for all of their sins that's how salvation is acquired is 11:47.550 --> 11:52.050 through faith in Jesus Christ but even in times past it was no different 11:52.050 --> 11:56.790 there's no new thing under the Sun even of the entire nation of Israel the 11:56.790 --> 12:00.910 vast majority did not believe in him look John chapter 1 says he came 12:00.910 --> 12:06.610 unto his own and his own received him not the vast majority of God's own people 12:06.610 --> 12:11.970 the children of Israel rejected Jesus Christ so I says in Romans chapter 9 12:11.970 --> 12:15.670 look what it says in verse 6 not as though the word of God had taken none 12:15.670 --> 12:21.270 effect for they are not all Israel which are of Israel neither because they 12:21.270 --> 12:25.990 are the seed of Abraham are they all children but in Isaac shall thy seed 12:25.990 --> 12:30.070 be called that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not 12:30.070 --> 12:34.550 the children of God but the children of the promise are kind of the seed 12:34.550 --> 12:40.750 notice that those in Israel at this time in Romans chapter 9 here we're talking 12:40.750 --> 12:44.890 about first century Jews that are physical descendants of the seed of 12:44.890 --> 12:50.070 Abraham living in Israel what does the Bible say they are not the children 12:50.070 --> 12:56.750 of God so why would I believe then that a modern state of Israel with 12:56.750 --> 13:02.550 people who do not have as clean of a genetic lineage as these individuals are 13:02.550 --> 13:06.510 now magically the children of God right I mean think about it like we don't even 13:06.510 --> 13:10.290 have to question or wonder if the people in the first century calling 13:10.290 --> 13:14.610 themselves Jews living in Israel were genetically of the right ancestry they 13:14.610 --> 13:20.130 were and what is Paul saying they're not the children of God so then why 13:20.130 --> 13:23.870 would I think people that have been mingled for 2,000 years in Europe 13:24.430 --> 13:29.810 becoming Ashkenazi and whatever other mixes you want to mix in there then 13:29.810 --> 13:35.210 returning back now they're magically the children of God physically and look you 13:35.210 --> 13:39.110 have Christians today they'll say oh I know they don't believe in Jesus but 13:39.110 --> 13:43.930 God still considers them the children of Israel God still considers them his 13:43.930 --> 13:48.590 children no God told me in the Bible this is God's word he said they're 13:48.590 --> 13:55.190 not the children of God I don't care if they're 110% Abraham seed physically 13:55.190 --> 14:00.430 they're not the children of God I mean the 10% was the nose okay that was what 14:00.430 --> 14:07.390 was the extra 110% look that is not making you a child of God you know what's 14:07.390 --> 14:11.630 counted as a child of God Isaac was a picture of faith it's those that believe 14:11.630 --> 14:17.090 in Jesus Christ those are the real Israel the spiritual Israel those that 14:17.090 --> 14:21.810 are going to be saved the true children of God and look it's all nations it's all 14:21.810 --> 14:26.470 people it's all tongues that believe in Jesus Christ it's not genetics it's 14:26.470 --> 14:31.430 simply faith in Jesus Christ and look if you know even if it was genetic if we 14:31.430 --> 14:36.990 go back far enough we're all related sorry I know like some people like hate 14:36.990 --> 14:42.930 other races they're called racists okay let me explain something to you and 14:42.930 --> 14:49.510 you're not gonna like this if we go back far enough we're all the same we're all 14:49.510 --> 14:53.610 coming from the same mom and dad Adam and Eve and if you go back far enough hey 14:54.170 --> 15:00.270 Noah's our family because Noah's three sons and guess what you're you're back 15:00.270 --> 15:04.170 to Noah again okay you might want to sit here and be like oh well black 15:04.170 --> 15:12.910 people aren't the same as white people will we go back far enough we're all 15:12.910 --> 15:16.110 white people are racist it's like look Asians get racist amongst each other 15:16.110 --> 15:20.310 too it's like it's a little bit more obvious to tell the difference between a 15:20.310 --> 15:23.610 black person and a white person but you know with Asians you know for us 15:23.610 --> 15:27.850 Americans we're kind of like y'all are different you know but like to them 15:27.850 --> 15:31.690 that's highly offensive to them they think like oh wow how can you not tell 15:31.690 --> 15:35.410 you know the difference between us we're just like I don't know man I'm 15:35.410 --> 15:39.610 just telling you it's really similar looking and look as silly as that seems 15:39.610 --> 15:42.650 to us it's like it's just silly in general to think that mankind isn't 15:42.650 --> 15:47.490 the same we're all the same yeah there are obviously physical differences there's 15:47.490 --> 15:51.250 cultural differences there's geographic differences I get all that but at the 15:51.250 --> 15:55.170 end of the day it's meaningless it's meaningless in the eyes of God because 15:55.170 --> 15:58.590 you know what children of God it's not about genetics it's about where faith 15:58.590 --> 16:02.790 is is your faith in Jesus Christ and that's what makes you say oh well 16:02.790 --> 16:07.010 you're just wrong about race no the majority are wrong about race whether 16:07.010 --> 16:13.770 they're a genocist whether they're you know someone that's a hardcore racist of 16:13.770 --> 16:18.690 any flavor and look I even think being colorblind is stupid okay I think all 16:18.690 --> 16:22.630 of it's wrong okay hey we can accept that there's differences but realize 16:22.630 --> 16:25.710 that they don't really matter in a spiritual context and that's how we 16:25.710 --> 16:28.910 should we should approach it hey I'm fearfully and wonderfully made and 16:28.910 --> 16:33.470 every person can say that every single person can truly say that but you 16:33.470 --> 16:35.810 know we all have strengths and weaknesses but at the end of the 16:35.810 --> 16:38.550 day the only thing that really matters is believing in Jesus Christ for 16:38.550 --> 16:42.750 salvation and you know everybody wants to make it about race everybody wants to 16:42.750 --> 16:45.950 make it about their works or and you know the people that are the most 16:45.950 --> 16:49.870 racist in my mind oftentimes are Catholic and orthodox anyways because to be 16:49.870 --> 16:53.590 orthodox is basically a geographic cult anyways it's like the Greek 16:53.590 --> 16:57.370 Orthodox is the Russian Orthodox it's just like how is that not racist 16:57.370 --> 17:02.710 in a sense you know why is your geography the only group that's the 17:02.710 --> 17:06.770 save children of God or oh we're of Israel or we're the Jew or we're the what no 17:06.770 --> 17:11.790 no it's not about nations it's not about cultures it's not about skin color you 17:11.790 --> 17:16.890 know what it was faith in Jesus Christ that's what makes you saved and the 17:16.890 --> 17:23.610 vast majority are wrong on these issues look at verse 27 Isaiah is also crying 17:23.610 --> 17:26.930 concerning Israel though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of 17:26.930 --> 17:32.890 the sea a remnant shall be saved that's sad reality hey even if you have 17:32.890 --> 17:36.530 millions of people unfortunately many times it's the few that are actually 17:36.530 --> 17:40.610 saved go to Luke chapter 13 go back to Luke chapter number 13 I'll show you 17:40.610 --> 17:44.590 another passage on this but I don't want you to be confused the true 17:44.590 --> 17:47.850 religion according the Bible is few the true religion according the Bible is 17:47.850 --> 17:52.370 the remnant the true according to the text is not the majority it's the few 17:52.970 --> 17:57.790 it's the remnant it's the smaller subset that is always going to be the ones that 17:57.790 --> 18:02.250 are right so people will then mock you know whatever you believe or your faith 18:02.250 --> 18:06.830 oh you guys are small oh you guys are tiny oh you guys are the few well if 18:06.830 --> 18:10.990 you're the majority you're for sure wrong I mean being the few doesn't make 18:10.990 --> 18:16.930 you right but being the majority makes you for sure wrong okay like you 18:16.930 --> 18:20.530 cannot be in the right religion if you're the majority if you're the 18:20.530 --> 18:24.590 majority you're wrong it's just fact and point that's what the Bible plainly 18:24.590 --> 18:28.970 states so it's only ever going to be the few and we see this example in the Bible 18:28.970 --> 18:32.690 when we talk about few obviously these are general terms but we get some real 18:32.690 --> 18:38.310 numbers in the Bible boy it doesn't look good to have a big number the big 18:38.310 --> 18:41.410 numbers don't really work in favor look at Luke chapter 13 and this is 18:41.410 --> 18:46.250 similar to Matthew 7 look at verse 23 here's the question then said one of 18:46.250 --> 18:54.310 them Lord are there few that be saved I just like the question okay why would 18:54.310 --> 18:59.310 someone have asked this question I'm gonna explain why because nobody was 18:59.310 --> 19:03.450 following them because many people were turning them away because he was coming 19:03.450 --> 19:07.670 unto his own his own was not receiving him you know and so he's like the 19:07.670 --> 19:13.990 disciples are kind of like hey so is it like few saved because he wants to 19:13.990 --> 19:17.110 make sure he's on the right path because you think like oh this is the 19:17.110 --> 19:20.910 truth this is Jesus Christ in the flesh he's performing miracles why aren't 19:20.910 --> 19:24.930 every why is not everybody following him why isn't you know this is the 19:24.930 --> 19:31.610 majority is it few that are saved and he said unto them strive to enter into 19:31.610 --> 19:35.770 the straight gate for many I say and you will seek to enter in and shall not 19:35.770 --> 19:40.850 be able sad reality is yep most people are trying to get in and they're 19:40.850 --> 19:43.830 not gonna get in now look some people aren't even striving to get in 19:43.830 --> 19:47.410 the kingdom of God I mean look aren't there atheists and agnostics and 19:47.410 --> 19:51.070 whatever they're just trying their hardest to go to hell I mean we knock on 19:51.070 --> 19:54.070 the doors of some people and we're like hey if you died today you're hundred 19:54.070 --> 19:56.930 percent sure you go to heaven he's like no I'm definitely going to hell and I 19:56.930 --> 20:00.390 don't care about it and just like wow this guy's not even striving to get 20:00.390 --> 20:03.810 into the kingdom of God there are many people in this world that are not 20:03.810 --> 20:08.010 even striving but those that are striving most of them are still not 20:08.010 --> 20:11.610 even gonna get in most of them are wrong and they're not gonna get in 20:11.610 --> 20:14.630 because they want to believe in their works they're too prideful and they 20:14.630 --> 20:18.950 want to earn their spot in heaven instead of receiving it as a free gift go 20:18.950 --> 20:22.990 with the 1st John chapter 4 so point one of my sermon is this the majority are 20:22.990 --> 20:27.510 not saved title my sermon is the majority are wrong point one the 20:27.510 --> 20:32.930 majority are not saved that is just what the text plainly states and this 20:32.930 --> 20:36.890 is what this is what Jesus Christ said this is not even just oh that's old 20:36.890 --> 20:42.430 testimony this is Jesus Christ read letter words what do you want fewer 20:42.430 --> 20:49.750 saved number two is the majority are false prophets which would make sense right 20:49.750 --> 20:53.210 if the majority people aren't saved you kind of wonder like why because the 20:53.210 --> 20:57.010 majority of preachers in this world are false prophets the majority of churches 20:57.010 --> 21:01.590 in this world are false teachers and false prophets and so no I do not 21:01.590 --> 21:05.230 believe and have respect for most churches in this world most churches 21:05.230 --> 21:10.490 are trash and look they're everywhere but look you know people get mad about 21:10.490 --> 21:15.230 what I'm saying right now but don't we kind of accept this in so many other 21:15.230 --> 21:19.250 contexts in our world I mean what if I just said hey the vast majority of fast 21:19.250 --> 21:23.450 food restaurants are serving you trash food are people really shocked by that 21:23.450 --> 21:27.870 are people gonna be really mad at me and think that's really controversial and 21:28.650 --> 21:34.750 isn't there just a dime a dozen I mean there's a dime a dozen fast food 21:34.750 --> 21:38.250 restaurants and just terrible restaurants everywhere I mean there's so 21:38.250 --> 21:44.070 many restaurants I drive by and I think like how is this even open me my wife 21:44.070 --> 21:48.070 were driving this morning and I just said why do people even eat at jack in the 21:48.070 --> 21:54.930 box I don't know who I'm offending right now but I don't really care okay 21:55.430 --> 21:59.970 I'm just saying like and think about if people on a regular basis are just 21:59.970 --> 22:03.950 eating just trash food why would I think that they're gonna be magically 22:03.950 --> 22:08.090 different when it comes to the spiritual things he that is not faithful not which 22:08.090 --> 22:11.650 is least is also not faithful not which is much and so the people they're just 22:11.650 --> 22:15.350 gonna eat trash food boy they might just be the same kind of people that are 22:15.350 --> 22:21.570 easily consumed just trash religion trash truth trash versions of Christianity 22:22.210 --> 22:28.490 what why do people eat at jack in the box I'll explain it to you because 22:28.490 --> 22:33.550 it's convenient because it's close to where they live it's fast and cheap 22:33.550 --> 22:40.090 and easy and so you know what why do so many churches exist because it's cheap 22:40.090 --> 22:44.610 it's fast it's easy and it's close to where they live and you know that's true 22:44.610 --> 22:48.010 you know that the vast majority of people aren't willing to drive more than 22:48.010 --> 22:54.170 five or ten minutes to even go to a church and it's just like oh boy why 22:54.170 --> 22:58.550 do you think churches are trash I mean look in the Old Testament you have 22:58.550 --> 23:02.550 the Northern Kingdom Israel they're setting up a closer religion just so 23:02.550 --> 23:05.930 people won't travel down to Jerusalem they're setting up God's and Dan is 23:05.930 --> 23:09.170 the just so people won't travel down there because they want to make it 23:09.170 --> 23:12.250 convenient you don't think people thought hey let's make it even more 23:12.250 --> 23:17.210 convenient you got Micah and Jonathan setting up their own little house 23:17.210 --> 23:20.230 church or whatever so it can be real convenient for them in the book of 23:20.230 --> 23:25.810 judges okay this is not a new thing people want a convenient religion they 23:25.810 --> 23:28.870 want an easy religion that it's so funny they want to work their way to 23:28.870 --> 23:33.330 heaven by making it as easy and convenient as possible right and then 23:33.330 --> 23:36.450 the people that believe salvation is free they're driving two hours to come to 23:36.450 --> 23:41.210 church isn't that funny and actually making a lot of changes in their life 23:41.730 --> 23:45.730 because when you get the real religion you can see the difference just like 23:45.730 --> 23:51.010 hey I I'll drive an hour for good food I mean there are restaurants in DFW that 23:51.010 --> 23:54.350 I love and I have to drive you know a considerable distance just to get to 23:54.350 --> 23:58.470 that restaurant or it's expensive or it's inconvenient you may have to make 23:58.470 --> 24:04.170 a reservation whatever but it's like I would rather drive 30 45 minutes and have 24:04.170 --> 24:09.910 good food than drive three minutes and have trash food and it's like why does 24:09.910 --> 24:13.510 this church exist because some people would rather you know actually listen 24:13.510 --> 24:18.310 to a sermon that they enjoy drive like 30 or 40 minutes across town to hear a 24:18.310 --> 24:21.530 sermon they actually enjoy then two minutes and just be like why am I here 24:23.090 --> 24:26.670 then like well that's not true and that's not right this guy you know 24:26.670 --> 24:30.530 and you're kind of wonder like when are we gonna get to get to the sermon and 24:30.530 --> 24:34.830 there's me over like that and you're like that was a sermon you know what was 24:34.830 --> 24:38.930 that what's going on it's dark now I guess you want to take a nap I mean that's 24:38.930 --> 24:42.450 why so many people are just abandoning those kind of churches too it's filled 24:42.450 --> 24:47.370 with women and I don't I don't know why filled with a divorce a's all 24:47.370 --> 24:51.030 trying to swap wives and swap husbands and whatever trying to get 24:51.030 --> 24:56.970 more divorce counseling in our country is going to hell in handbasket why 24:56.970 --> 24:59.590 because the majority are wrong and the majority are false prophets look at first 24:59.590 --> 25:03.950 John 4 verse 1 beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether 25:03.950 --> 25:09.450 they're of God because many false prophets are gone into the world what 25:09.450 --> 25:14.690 does the Bible say many and again I show this verse often when I go so 25:14.690 --> 25:18.410 wanting after I get someone saved after I get someone saved and I'm 25:18.410 --> 25:22.650 parting I'll just be like hey I want to show you one more verse I want to show 25:22.650 --> 25:26.370 you this because I say look the most the majority of churches and preachers are 25:26.370 --> 25:32.830 false and you need to go to a good church because I don't I know that you know 25:32.830 --> 25:35.910 the chances of them coming to a good church are pretty low but they're 25:35.910 --> 25:39.450 even lower when you don't tell them this you don't explain to them hey 25:39.450 --> 25:41.930 the reason why you're not saved and you've gone to church your whole life 25:41.930 --> 25:48.710 is because your church is false and your pastor is a false prophet I mean how 25:48.710 --> 25:53.010 could you go to a church for 10 to 15 years and you never knew what the 25:53.010 --> 25:57.250 right gospel was I mean you could have rejected it but you shouldn't be 25:57.250 --> 26:01.750 ignorant you should not be ignorant I mean I don't even say you can go 10 26:01.750 --> 26:09.210 times and be ignorant of the gospel let alone 10 years 15 years but people will 26:09.210 --> 26:13.110 go back to those kind of churches as well go to 1st Kings chapter 18 go to 1st 26:13.110 --> 26:17.870 Kings chapter 18 let's get some literal numbers that the Bible brings up when we 26:17.870 --> 26:23.510 contrast true prophets versus false prophets because of course I can say 26:23.510 --> 26:26.790 few and many and that's subjective that that's kind of different in a lot of 26:26.790 --> 26:31.430 people's minds but let's think of some real numbers and let's think about our 26:31.430 --> 26:36.450 world hey if you take a test and it's a multiple choice test usually there's 26:36.450 --> 26:41.150 one right answer and three wrong answers right oh you're telling me the 26:41.150 --> 26:45.750 majority is answers on this multiple choice question or wrong yes there's only 26:45.750 --> 26:49.470 one that's right let's play some other numbers how about the lottery oh you're 26:49.470 --> 26:53.130 telling me every combinations wrong except for one yeah that's how the 26:53.130 --> 26:58.130 lottery works buddy let's think about some other numbers how about Noah and 26:58.130 --> 27:03.810 his family God floods the entire world and he saves how many people eight 27:04.790 --> 27:09.950 eight people and frankly speaking some of them are getting in on Noah's cred you 27:09.950 --> 27:15.570 know what I mean it doesn't even like ham how did that guy get in there you know 27:15.570 --> 27:20.930 just cuz it's just cuz of Noah not because of ham if ham wasn't related to 27:20.930 --> 27:25.290 Noah he would have died he wouldn't have been brought in I mean these are 27:25.290 --> 27:27.970 some severe numbers when you think about some of the numbers that God 27:27.970 --> 27:31.110 brings up here's some more numbers that I want to talk about 1st Kings 27:31.110 --> 27:37.410 chapter 18 look at verse 17 and it came to pass when a have saw Elijah that a have 27:37.410 --> 27:41.530 said in them art thou he that trouble with Israel and he answered I have not 27:41.530 --> 27:45.050 troubled Israel but thou and my father's house and that you have forsaken the 27:45.050 --> 27:48.910 commandments of the Lord and that has followed Balaam now that were sent and 27:48.910 --> 27:55.650 gathered to me all Israel on the Mount Carmel and the prophets of Baal 450 and 27:55.650 --> 28:00.410 the prophets of the groves 400 which eat at Jezebel sable so we have an 28:00.410 --> 28:08.570 actual showdown in the Bible it's one man of God versus 450 prophets of Baal and 28:08.990 --> 28:15.950 400 prophets of the groves so it's like you got 450 Catholics 400 Orthodox and 28:15.950 --> 28:22.530 one Baptist over here and a showdown on idolatry and you know who wins the one 28:22.530 --> 28:27.010 Baptist you know what I mean because frankly speaking doesn't matter the 28:27.010 --> 28:33.790 majority are wrong oh you telling me these 450 prophets are all wrong yes 28:34.330 --> 28:40.730 you're telling me the vast majority these church fathers are false yes I am you're 28:40.730 --> 28:44.630 telling me these billion Catholics are wrong yes I am but you know what that's 28:44.630 --> 28:49.750 not new that's not like uncommon in the Bible you know it'd be uncommon us one 28:49.750 --> 28:53.730 billionaire right and this one Baptist is wrong show me that story in the Bible 28:54.430 --> 28:59.030 isn't it always God's people being outnumbered isn't God's people being in 28:59.030 --> 29:03.470 the minority show me where they're the majority it's just not the story in the 29:03.470 --> 29:07.750 Bible okay and if it was in a rare circumstance let's say there was one 29:07.750 --> 29:12.150 exception the exception proves the rule that it's the vast minority plus I 29:12.150 --> 29:16.110 can't even find that story anyways so it's silly to sit here and think like 29:16.110 --> 29:19.730 oh we're right because we got a billion strong you know what that's just 29:19.730 --> 29:24.430 proof that you're wrong it's not proof that you're right I want to go to another 29:24.430 --> 29:29.770 place go if you went to let's let's go to Romans chapter 11 now Romans chapter 11 29:29.770 --> 29:33.390 I'm not gonna say the believer this point because it's pretty obvious but the 29:33.390 --> 29:38.450 vast majority of preachers and prophets in this world are false and I've made a 29:38.450 --> 29:43.770 couple different like charts recently they're called tear lists and it just 29:43.770 --> 29:46.550 pisses everybody off but it's just true you know it's just like I'm just 29:46.550 --> 29:49.190 showing all the different denominations of Christianity and how most of them 29:49.190 --> 29:52.510 are bad and false and it's like if it's not Baptist it's pretty much just not 29:52.510 --> 29:57.330 very good at all and then I showed like false prophets and boy just everyone gets 29:57.330 --> 29:59.890 mad about that but it's just like the vast majority of people are just false 29:59.890 --> 30:05.390 prophets no look obviously there's a lot of other saved preachers in this 30:05.390 --> 30:09.230 world you know I think a lot of independent funnel Baptist are saved I 30:09.890 --> 30:13.810 think that there's some Southern Baptist preachers that are definitely saved 30:13.810 --> 30:17.170 and doing some good work in this world now again some people get mad 30:17.170 --> 30:21.270 because they'll say oh well the Southern Baptist Convention their doctrinal 30:21.270 --> 30:25.230 statement the 2000 Baptist faith and message literally says that repentance 30:25.230 --> 30:28.970 is turning away from sin and I'm like well that's heresy and that's wrong and 30:28.970 --> 30:33.230 that's false I don't agree with it plus they're Calvinist in many ways like 30 30:33.230 --> 30:37.650 some percent of Southern Baptist are Calvinist some of them are just like 30:38.510 --> 30:42.290 indistinguishable from a non-denominational church okay some 30:42.290 --> 30:45.690 in the convention are on the on the fence of whether they're gonna be 30:45.690 --> 30:50.990 kicked out or not for women pastors or like wanting sodomites to be involved in 30:50.990 --> 30:55.010 the church and stuff so yeah they're screwed up don't worry I'm not gonna 30:55.010 --> 31:00.090 join the convention folks they don't they're not King James only their 31:00.090 --> 31:04.210 Holman Christian Standard Bible where instead of it saying well done now 31:04.210 --> 31:08.450 good and faithful servant it says well done now good and faithful slave and 31:09.230 --> 31:14.230 of course the Southern Baptist Convention was a literal reaction to 31:14.230 --> 31:19.210 people being against slavery there was a missionary gonna be sent out that owned 31:19.210 --> 31:24.790 slaves and because of that particular you know drama the Southern Baptist 31:24.790 --> 31:28.890 Convention formed because of that specific issue Northern Baptist churches 31:28.890 --> 31:32.430 did not want to fund a missionary because he owned slaves and so the 31:32.430 --> 31:36.490 Southern Baptist Convention formed as a direct response to that specific event 31:36.490 --> 31:41.330 it's brought up in their initial documentation okay that I don't really 31:41.330 --> 31:46.610 want to be a Southern Baptist but I'll say this I've looked up listen to and 31:46.610 --> 31:49.550 heard Southern Baptist preachers that are right on the gospel they're 31:49.550 --> 31:54.450 evangelistic they're non-Calvinist albeit they're not using a good Bible 31:54.450 --> 31:58.610 albeit they're weak albeit they have problems I'm not about to become them 31:58.610 --> 32:02.110 but I'll just be honest some of them are saved some of them are doing good 32:02.110 --> 32:07.230 you know a lot of the ones that are older grew up when it was kind of King 32:07.230 --> 32:12.150 James only version of Baptist it was a lot of salvation by faith preaching I 32:12.150 --> 32:16.930 mean Baptist used to be known no dancing no drinking you know none of this 32:16.930 --> 32:19.670 nonsense and now it's just like non-to-none and you're thinking like what 32:19.670 --> 32:23.950 happened to you guys you know so you know I'm not gonna sit here and pretend 32:23.950 --> 32:28.230 that every Southern Baptist is unsaved because this is not true you can find 32:28.230 --> 32:32.170 people are saved in a Calvary Chapel Church not all of them you can find a 32:32.170 --> 32:34.770 lot of people are saving these Bible churches you know you go around you 32:34.770 --> 32:37.510 find these Bible churches are gonna find some people are saved and then even in 32:37.510 --> 32:42.650 the broad umbrella of community church and non-to-none church you're gonna still 32:42.650 --> 32:47.890 find a decent number of people that are saved but you know once you get beyond 32:47.890 --> 32:53.730 that boy it's just a desert I mean you're not gonna find you're gonna it's 32:53.730 --> 32:56.870 a rare duck you're gonna find someone saved one of these Pentecostal 32:56.870 --> 33:00.250 churches one of these Methodist churches you start going down the 33:00.250 --> 33:04.570 list some of these Presbyterian churches Episcopal churches you know 33:04.570 --> 33:09.850 all this stuff it is just a desert is a wasteland and once you get to the Catholic 33:09.850 --> 33:16.250 Church it's virtually zero okay I've met one person in my entire life out soul 33:16.250 --> 33:19.750 winning that had the right answers about salvation and said he went to the 33:19.750 --> 33:23.790 Catholic Church but it was because his wife was dragging him there and his 33:23.790 --> 33:27.610 whole family's Catholic or whatever and he had gone I had ventured out of 33:27.610 --> 33:30.990 the Catholic Church at some point and and gotten saved or whatever but he was 33:30.990 --> 33:35.530 still going yeah but here's the thing he's not really Catholic is he he just 33:35.530 --> 33:38.610 kind of being drugged there it's like the dude that you see at the Taylor Swift 33:38.610 --> 33:45.570 concert or something it's like the bro is not a Swifty okay obviously his girlfriend 33:45.570 --> 33:50.430 or wife drug him there or he stumbled in by accident or something like that but 33:50.430 --> 33:54.750 you know I'm not gonna label the guy a Swifty for the record I've never been 33:54.750 --> 34:00.530 okay I'm just saying that you know it's not really fair to be like oh Roman 34:00.530 --> 34:06.510 Catholics are saved because I found this one random dude who just holds his nose 34:06.510 --> 34:10.510 and goes there anyways it's like it's despite the Catholic Church it's not 34:10.510 --> 34:15.950 because of the Roman Catholic Church when it comes to the Orthodox the 34:15.950 --> 34:20.190 statistics are so hard to have because I like never even met one in real life 34:20.190 --> 34:24.030 apart from them protesting you know last week it's just like they don't 34:24.030 --> 34:28.630 even hardly exist but I guarantee if you meet one they're virtually not saved 34:29.250 --> 34:33.170 because there's such a minority position that in order to be Orthodox you 34:33.170 --> 34:37.350 basically have to just fully believe in works-based salvation and it's just it's 34:37.950 --> 34:41.870 just it's just it's awful it's awful to see so many people have the name of 34:41.870 --> 34:46.090 Christ and not be saved but is it really different hey you go back into the 34:46.090 --> 34:49.750 first century and you can be part of Israel and the Jews and the vast 34:49.750 --> 34:54.010 majority of them are not saved you go back into the Old Testament and look 34:54.010 --> 34:57.330 the whole nation's given to idolatry and your King Ahab is given to 34:57.330 --> 35:02.610 idolatry and they persecuted all the prophets of God and they have 850 false 35:02.610 --> 35:05.970 prophets that have taken over your entire nation it's like is that really any 35:05.970 --> 35:10.970 different than we see today where 850 churches in the city are bad and one is 35:10.970 --> 35:16.630 good that's kind of the consensus that's kind of what we expect and so of 35:16.630 --> 35:20.410 course if the vast majority people are not saved and if the vast majority of 35:20.410 --> 35:23.450 preachers are false prophets well you know what usually happens is the 35:23.450 --> 35:28.150 vast majority people are given to idolatry they're given to idolatry and 35:28.150 --> 35:33.690 this is a major problem in the Bible and you know growing up I grew up Christian 35:34.470 --> 35:38.170 very sheltered from other religions and even Roman Catholicism so I didn't 35:38.170 --> 35:41.950 really think that idolatry was a thing I didn't really understand it I kind of 35:41.950 --> 35:44.790 was like oh yeah Hindus and stuff like that but let me tell you something 35:46.010 --> 35:49.850 idolatry is alive and well in America and all over the world and it's a big 35:49.850 --> 35:54.930 issue still yeah now Romans chapter 11 look at verse number four the Bible says 35:54.930 --> 35:58.850 but what say the answer of God on him I have reserved to myself 7,000 men who 35:58.850 --> 36:04.610 have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal even so then at this present time 36:04.610 --> 36:09.430 also there is a remnant according to the election of grace so it points back 36:09.430 --> 36:14.550 to an Old Testament story where there was only a small number of people that 36:14.550 --> 36:18.810 weren't worshiping idolatry and he says hey that's exactly how it is 36:18.810 --> 36:23.710 right now that there's only a small group a small percentage of people of 36:23.710 --> 36:28.030 remnant of people that would be saved and and the implication is that there's 36:28.030 --> 36:35.950 millions of Israelites 7,000 are reserved it's like there's millions of 36:35.950 --> 36:39.670 Israelites hundreds of thousands of Israelites 7,000 are not given 36:39.670 --> 36:44.650 into idolatry let's think about Shadrach Meshach and Abednego three 36:44.650 --> 36:50.310 guys amongst a multitude of leaders and everyone and you know what they're the 36:50.310 --> 36:55.910 only ones not bowing down to the idolatry and in this world in America hey let me 36:55.910 --> 36:59.270 tell you some of the Roman Catholics well they might not call their images 36:59.270 --> 37:03.830 Baal it is the same practice of worshiping icons and images and 37:03.830 --> 37:07.990 graven images and it's disgusting it's idolatrous it's wicked it has 37:07.990 --> 37:11.110 nothing you've got and they'll they kiss the stuff don't they they kiss 37:11.110 --> 37:15.890 the icons they kiss the graven images they bow down to these things look that 37:15.890 --> 37:21.230 that female statue is not Mary and they're they're like oh well but it's 37:21.230 --> 37:25.630 representing Mary you have the wrong Mary still yeah because their version of 37:25.630 --> 37:30.270 Mary is a sinless woman who ascended into heaven well that's not the Mary of 37:30.270 --> 37:35.310 the Bible folks and they're like how dare you you know disrespect the 37:35.310 --> 37:39.570 mother of God and they just kind of use this label to create a false 37:39.570 --> 37:44.290 doctrine about her and you know what it's it's not right and look I don't dislike 37:44.290 --> 37:49.130 Mary I like Mary the Mary of the Bible is a wonderful woman but let's just be 37:49.130 --> 37:53.290 honest about Mary does she really seem like this perfect person that can 37:53.290 --> 37:59.930 never make a mistake let's just let's just think about the Bible bringing her 37:59.930 --> 38:03.670 up okay and I'm not gonna turn all the verses let's just see what does the 38:03.670 --> 38:07.330 Bible say about Mary after she gives birth she has to go offer a sin 38:07.330 --> 38:16.350 offering doesn't sound sinless how about this the mother of God lost God do you 38:16.350 --> 38:21.330 think that's like you know the best parent in the world award you lose your 38:21.330 --> 38:27.270 own child for days like hey this was a this is a picture of the best person 38:27.270 --> 38:33.950 ever she lost her child for days you lost Jesus Christ like isn't he 38:33.950 --> 38:38.450 important it's like hey we want to pray to Mary to make intercession to God she 38:38.450 --> 38:45.810 lost him for a couple days like and it's like oh she comes to Jesus and he's 38:45.810 --> 38:50.550 like woman what have I to do with thee why would I think like oh well if you 38:50.550 --> 38:54.230 pray to Mary that message is gonna always get to Jesus well how about when 38:54.230 --> 38:57.130 it's like hey Mary and your brethren are standing without they desire to 38:57.130 --> 39:03.370 see thee and he's just like who is my mother I mean it's like I'm just 39:03.370 --> 39:06.110 quoting what the Bible actually says about her yeah and then think about the 39:06.110 --> 39:11.390 Catholic idea it's like oh we gotta pray to Mary who lost him who can't get his 39:11.390 --> 39:15.870 attention and he says what have I to do with thee that's the person that's gonna 39:15.870 --> 39:19.630 intercede for us like that's what the text actually says about her and the 39:19.630 --> 39:23.310 text doesn't say much about her now look I'm not trying to say like she's a 39:23.310 --> 39:27.970 bad person I'm sure she was a great mom I'm sure she was a wonderful lady 39:27.970 --> 39:32.370 I'm sure you know as far as sinners go she was at the top of the list let 39:32.370 --> 39:36.510 me tell you something she was still sinner she still made mistakes she still had 39:36.510 --> 39:40.910 bad ideas and misunderstandings about things and had to be corrected by Jesus 39:40.910 --> 39:46.650 at times and you know what is more important than being Mary is being a 39:46.650 --> 39:50.950 woman that fears God and keeps his commandments because Jesus said about 39:50.950 --> 39:53.790 those people yeah rather blessed that are they would hear the word of God and 39:53.790 --> 39:57.710 do it in a correction to the idea of oh my mother and brethren stand 39:57.710 --> 40:02.190 without to desire to see me and you know if she's so great which again 40:02.190 --> 40:06.190 I'm not trying to be negative too negative but if she's so great why is it 40:06.190 --> 40:11.610 that all his brethren don't even believe in him and then we're like oh that's 40:11.610 --> 40:15.230 not brother and that's just like cousins or whatever even if it was cousins I 40:15.230 --> 40:18.350 mean the mother of God can't even convince her own family to believe in 40:18.350 --> 40:23.410 Jesus like I don't know I'm just saying like when you look at the Mary of the 40:23.410 --> 40:27.330 Bible it's not the Mary the Catholics are worshiping and carrying a statue 40:27.330 --> 40:31.530 around they don't have like woman who lost Jesus for a couple days you 40:31.530 --> 40:35.650 know they don't like to have that hung up or like what have what have I to do with 40:35.650 --> 40:40.950 the or who is my mother these are just quotes from the Bible you'd be better 40:40.950 --> 40:44.670 off going to a church that only said those quotes on the wall than having a 40:44.670 --> 40:51.290 Mary statue because the Bible says to write it on the on the doorpost maybe 40:51.290 --> 40:54.690 we should just put that at the top of said best who is my mother you know 40:56.650 --> 41:01.430 it's they that hear the word of God and do it that's who is and look I'm 41:01.430 --> 41:05.650 not down on Mary she's a great woman she was obviously highly favored she 41:05.650 --> 41:10.550 obviously was used by God to bring in Jesus Christ she had a hard mission to do 41:10.550 --> 41:15.290 we should have respect for Mary we should love Mary but you know when we get to 41:15.290 --> 41:20.210 heaven and be like hey what how'd you lose him you know you know what praying 41:20.210 --> 41:26.850 to her is praying to a false idea a false doctrine to a false God and all 41:26.850 --> 41:29.670 the idolatry that's going on in the Catholic Church it's not limited to 41:29.670 --> 41:33.630 Mary they have all kinds of other false imagery false saints they basically 41:33.630 --> 41:38.750 will pray to anybody but God why because they're not saved go through the first 41:38.750 --> 41:43.710 Corinthians 10 and look this is a major issue in the first century in the era 41:43.710 --> 41:48.850 of the Gospels being written in this early time it's a major issue idolatry 41:48.850 --> 41:55.610 look at first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 7 neither be ye idolaters as some 41:55.610 --> 41:58.470 of them as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up 41:58.470 --> 42:03.190 to play first Corinthians 7 I'm sorry first Corinthians 10 verse 7 is 42:03.190 --> 42:06.070 written to an audience then saying look that story in the Old Testament is a 42:06.070 --> 42:10.290 story for you guys today about how they were idolatrous and you should not be 42:10.290 --> 42:13.790 idolatrous and look people are quickly given to idolatry I mean think about it 42:13.790 --> 42:17.830 Moses just took you out of Egypt goes up on the Mount and in less than 40 days 42:17.830 --> 42:21.890 you're already making a golden calf I mean that's just crazy it's crazy 42:21.890 --> 42:25.610 to just already be given an idolatry but that's that's mankind they just 42:25.610 --> 42:29.890 love idols for some reason there's so many more Bible verses on this go to 42:29.890 --> 42:34.150 Revelation 2 I'm not going to go to all of them there's so many verses in the new 42:34.150 --> 42:40.190 Testament against idolatry I heard some lame ex no I'd be pastor get up and 42:40.190 --> 42:43.190 say I'm surprised that people think there's idolatry in the New Testament 42:43.190 --> 42:46.890 it's just like what that's just what the Bible said I mean it's like 42:46.890 --> 42:51.030 constantly brought up why would you think it would go away I'm just gonna 42:51.030 --> 42:53.810 read this verse for you and I want to get you to Revelation chapter 2 but 42:54.340 --> 42:59.970 in 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 3 the Bible says for the time past of our life may 42:59.970 --> 43:03.450 suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles we walked in lasciviousness 43:03.450 --> 43:08.750 lust exes of wine revelings banquenings and abominable idolatries they said hey 43:08.750 --> 43:12.550 we used to be into this abominable idolatry we should not do such a 43:12.550 --> 43:17.890 thing anymore Revelation chapter 2 I want to look at verse number 20 the 43:17.890 --> 43:21.210 Bible says not withstanding I have a few things against thee because 43:21.210 --> 43:26.230 thou suffers that woman Jezebel which called herself a prophetess to teach 43:26.230 --> 43:30.330 and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrifice 43:30.330 --> 43:36.590 and the idols so again the Bible is warning and rebuking churches for 43:36.590 --> 43:40.370 getting into idolatry the Bible says in 1 John like little children keep 43:40.370 --> 43:42.970 yourselves from idols first Corinthians chapter number five 43:42.970 --> 43:46.430 brings up that someone be church disciplined for getting into idolatry 43:47.370 --> 43:52.150 oh but that's all first century it's already gone well wait a minute go to 43:52.150 --> 43:56.390 Revelation chapter 9 now okay because that is all first century everything I 43:56.390 --> 43:59.590 brought up is the first century first Corinthians chapter 5 44:00.110 --> 44:03.390 warning first Corinthians 10 warning first Peter 4 44:03.390 --> 44:09.830 warning uh first John 5 warning but you think if the old testament story 44:10.510 --> 44:14.530 a bad idolatry was supposed to warn the first century 44:14.530 --> 44:18.350 like we're talking about hey this is written so that in two thousand three 44:18.350 --> 44:22.010 thousand years from now y'all need to make sure to not be given idolatry but 44:22.010 --> 44:24.810 then it's going to magically stop a hundred years later and we're never 44:24.810 --> 44:26.050 going to have to deal with that issue ever again 44:26.870 --> 44:29.870 or the new testament will be written only for those group of people 44:29.870 --> 44:33.330 because you have to understand the new testament is written 44:33.330 --> 44:37.350 you know many of the epistles are written in 70 AD 80 AD 44:37.850 --> 44:41.650 they don't have the printing press they don't have the ability to 44:41.650 --> 44:45.010 mass distribute this so this information was limited to that 44:45.010 --> 44:48.050 first century audience by and large they didn't even get it 44:49.390 --> 44:53.570 oh and all of us getting it and reading it it has no impact for us today 44:54.130 --> 44:57.630 and no implication for us today well what does the bible actually say look at 44:57.630 --> 45:00.470 Revelation chapter number nine and look at verse number 20 45:01.890 --> 45:04.790 and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues 45:04.790 --> 45:07.810 yet repented not of the works of their hands 45:07.810 --> 45:13.890 that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and 45:13.890 --> 45:17.510 stone and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk 45:18.270 --> 45:22.510 that's the first thing brought up the first thing brought up is 45:22.510 --> 45:27.050 worshiping devils through idolatry and then it's saying what does it look 45:27.050 --> 45:30.950 like it's gold silver brass stone and wood 45:30.950 --> 45:34.790 and it's saying these things can't see they can't hear it's fake 45:34.790 --> 45:38.870 it's garbage it has nothing to do with Christianity it has nothing to do with 45:38.870 --> 45:42.550 God and look the vast majority are wrong on idolatry 45:43.250 --> 45:48.250 these Catholics are worshiping idols which are really worshiping devils my 45:48.250 --> 45:51.670 friend and it's wicked and look if they're 45:51.670 --> 45:54.590 doing it in the future this is not happening yet 45:55.250 --> 45:58.070 this passage is not talking about right now it's talking about in the future 45:58.590 --> 46:00.830 if in the future everybody's given idolatry 46:01.510 --> 46:03.950 and in the first century everybody was given idolatry 46:03.950 --> 46:06.170 why would i think in the middle it didn't happen 46:08.350 --> 46:12.250 if all the way back in the old testament always happening always happening 46:12.250 --> 46:14.150 always happening always happening first century 46:14.670 --> 46:16.810 then we have a story it's like hey in the future it's going to be always 46:16.810 --> 46:19.550 happening in mass quantity why would i think but there was this magic 46:19.550 --> 46:22.390 sandwich period where it never happened or wasn't going to happen 46:22.390 --> 46:25.890 no it's called the roman catholic church was happening happening 46:25.890 --> 46:27.350 happening happening happening happening happening 46:27.890 --> 46:33.630 and then occasionally you have sprinkled in people that were called iconoclasts 46:33.630 --> 46:36.690 or they would smash idols and images and they get mad about it 46:36.690 --> 46:39.430 and everybody lose their mind every once in a while 46:40.010 --> 46:42.210 and it's just like hey let's bring that back 46:43.550 --> 46:47.150 because i i mean how could you read this and think like 46:47.150 --> 46:49.770 you know what god's pretty cool with them doing this 46:51.550 --> 46:55.990 you realize that he's pouring out the worst plagues on mankind that's ever happened 46:56.670 --> 47:01.510 he's trying to destroy everyone in the most horrific manner possible 47:02.050 --> 47:04.970 and then he's saying but they didn't do something 47:06.050 --> 47:09.790 they didn't give up their idolatry yeah so you think god's cool with it 47:10.730 --> 47:16.710 maybe god's mad at the idolatry yeah how could you not read this passage and realize 47:16.710 --> 47:23.390 god's mad at the idolatry god's mad at the images and the idols and he wants you to not have 47:23.390 --> 47:28.750 them that's why he's killing people and yet they're so stubborn that even when he kills them 47:28.750 --> 47:33.890 they still go into idolatry just like the children of israel he kills them and they still 47:33.890 --> 47:38.690 crawl their way back into idols they still go back to the images they still go back to the 47:38.690 --> 47:43.250 groves they still go back to the false gods it's just like they can't get the wake-up message 47:43.250 --> 47:49.030 but you know what god forbid babdus would be so cowardly that they can't say what the bible 47:49.030 --> 47:53.370 actually says and say hey we should be against idolatry we should have nothing to do with 47:53.370 --> 47:59.370 these idols we need to break them we should be breaking them i mean how can you read this and 47:59.370 --> 48:04.410 think like god's not wanting them to break them god's not wanting to destroy them god's not 48:04.410 --> 48:08.170 wanting to get rid of them this whole passage is saying he's mad that they're not doing it 48:09.150 --> 48:16.830 he's not saying like hey let's leave that stuff alone hey coexist man why can't we just all 48:16.830 --> 48:22.930 coexist bro look because there's only one god and this god is the god of all people 48:23.370 --> 48:28.370 he's the god of gods is the lord of lords he demands that everyone repent go if you would to 48:28.370 --> 48:35.590 act chapter number 17 act chapter number 17 well i think people should just you know be able to 48:35.590 --> 48:41.410 worship whatever image and picture they want well god doesn't say that the second commandment says 48:41.410 --> 48:44.250 thou shalt not make into any graven image that's what the second commandment says 48:44.890 --> 48:48.490 and you know what the catholics don't care about that so they they mark out the second 48:48.490 --> 48:55.110 commandment they totally mark it out and they try to like twist the tenth commandment which is so 48:55.110 --> 49:00.590 funny because they even take the tenth commandment and they like reorder it it's like thou shalt not 49:00.590 --> 49:04.550 cover thy neighbor's house or whatever and then it's like their wife and it's like let's take the 49:04.550 --> 49:08.810 second phrase in this verse and move it up to the ninth and then we'll have the tenth be the 49:08.810 --> 49:12.830 one that's the first verse and we'll get rid of the second one i mean it's just like how is it 49:12.830 --> 49:19.530 not obvious i wonder why they had to mark through the graven image one it's because their whole 49:19.530 --> 49:25.490 religions based on images it was the state run institution for the roman empire why would i think 49:25.490 --> 49:29.770 that the roman empire would have got christianity right when do we ever see the majority being 49:29.770 --> 49:36.010 right again the majority are always wrong and of course whenever you make it obligatory for 49:36.010 --> 49:40.630 everyone to be a christian you're not going to have the best version of christianity okay 49:40.630 --> 49:46.550 good christianity comes from free will that's why i like you know steadfast baptist church 49:46.550 --> 49:52.970 oh just protestant reformation you know look at all the bad that comes from it sure but look at all 49:52.970 --> 49:58.790 the good too it's kind of like capitalism it's just like yeah with capitalism you get jack in 49:58.790 --> 50:05.390 the box but don't you get some awesome steak restaurants too don't you get texas brisket 50:05.950 --> 50:12.230 don't you get like all these awesome options too it's not like oh well you know capitalism 50:12.790 --> 50:17.190 is the problem cuz jack in the box no people suck is the reason why jack in the box exists 50:18.870 --> 50:24.750 okay us having capitalism gives us awesome options too uh communism's great where everybody 50:24.750 --> 50:30.150 gets a grain of rice to eat right that's wonderful no you don't want communism or all 50:30.150 --> 50:33.250 these other you know ideologies that's a different sermon for a different time 50:33.730 --> 50:38.890 but look god is not saying hey it's okay idolatry is cool i'm gonna look the other way 50:38.890 --> 50:42.510 no he says the actually the exact opposite he says i used to look the other way 50:42.510 --> 50:46.390 and i'm no longer gonna do it act chapter 17 look at verse 16 50:47.010 --> 50:51.210 no well paul waited for them in athens his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the 50:51.210 --> 50:55.890 city holy given to idolatry you know why paul sometimes just loses mine because he hated 50:55.890 --> 51:00.190 the idolatry and he was mad about it i'm not gonna read the whole passage look at verse 22 51:00.190 --> 51:04.070 then paul stood in the midst of mars hillan said you men of athens that perceive that in all 51:04.070 --> 51:08.310 things you're too superstitious you know what these catholics and these orthodox are super 51:09.250 --> 51:14.870 superstitious they think that if i break a piece of wood that god's gonna be mad at me 51:15.910 --> 51:20.130 they're like oh god's gonna curse you now it's like bro one of your own priest 51:20.130 --> 51:26.070 had a crucifix fall on his head and smash him and kill him you know like who's cursed 51:27.490 --> 51:31.550 the guy that literally had a crucifix fall on his head and kill him in front of everybody 51:32.550 --> 51:38.170 how about that guy you know you need to smash your crucifix before your crucifix smashes you 51:41.270 --> 51:46.850 that's the guy who's cursed hey you're superstitious these these graven images are 51:46.850 --> 51:51.310 nothing they're not god god doesn't like them god doesn't want them god to be happy if you 51:51.310 --> 51:55.610 broke them all right now look at verse 29 for as much then as we are the offspring of god 51:55.610 --> 52:01.610 we ought not to think that the godhead is likened to gold or silver or stone graven by art 52:01.610 --> 52:09.570 and man's device and the times of this ignorance god winked at but now commanded all men everywhere 52:09.570 --> 52:14.210 to repent because he had the point of the day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness 52:14.210 --> 52:18.450 by that man whom he had the ordain wherever he had given assurance into all men 52:18.450 --> 52:27.090 and that he had raised him from the dead look there is one billion Catholics headed for hell 52:29.190 --> 52:33.470 and if someone doesn't reach them they're gonna die and go to hell 52:34.310 --> 52:40.070 and you have fundamental badness getting mad like oh why is this badness giving us a bad name 52:40.070 --> 52:44.610 look they're gonna go to hell yeah what are you doing about it 52:45.530 --> 52:50.810 someone needs to wake these people up and the apostle paul's like hey i saw this whole 52:50.810 --> 52:56.750 city given idolatry and it just stirred me up to just preach against it and to get up on their 52:56.750 --> 53:00.490 little hill and say hey you guys don't even know what you're doing you don't know who you're 53:00.490 --> 53:06.610 worshiping i'll tell you the unknown god you're superstitious god's demanding your 53:06.610 --> 53:11.840 repent of all this idolatry all of this imagery all this false religion because he 53:11.840 --> 53:18.500 doesn't want them to die and go to hell and you know what they say about paul he turned the whole 53:18.500 --> 53:25.580 world upside down with the gospel he wasn't making friends he was making enemies jesus christ came in 53:25.580 --> 53:31.320 the temple and he flipped over the tables and he had a small court of whips and he's just going 53:31.320 --> 53:36.680 around driving animals out causing everybody to get mad he got them so mad they killed them 53:36.680 --> 53:43.780 folks why because these men are more interested in someone getting saved and turning from false 53:43.780 --> 53:47.760 religion than making friends and you know what's sickening is how many fundamental 53:47.760 --> 53:51.740 baptists have no problem allowing their catholic neighbors to die and go to hell 53:51.740 --> 53:57.880 and they're never even gonna know they thought differently what is it profit a man if all 53:57.880 --> 54:00.600 the fundamental baptists in the room know the catholic's going to go to hell and they 54:00.600 --> 54:05.700 do nothing about it yeah what is it profit a man if we realize how stupid and queer 54:06.520 --> 54:11.760 orthodoxy is and we never say it oh well you're gonna offend people good someone needs to wake 54:11.760 --> 54:15.620 them up out of their stupor someone needs to wake them up out of their false religion 54:15.620 --> 54:20.080 and other idolatry is not getting them in the heaven and it's not the right jesus and it's not 54:20.080 --> 54:24.080 the right mary and it's not the right gospel and it's not the true church they're being 54:24.080 --> 54:29.900 lied to and there's so many people dying and going to hell every single second can't someone 54:29.900 --> 54:36.100 care can't someone say something because your method of doing nothing is accomplishing nothing 54:37.780 --> 54:44.260 it's frustrating it makes me mad look at act chapter 19 verse 23 54:46.540 --> 54:51.070 and the same time there was no small stir about that way hey that's paul 54:52.060 --> 54:57.800 everybody's pissing everybody off man why verse 24 for a certain man named Demetrius 54:57.800 --> 55:04.440 a silversmith which made silver shrines for diana brought no small gain under the craftsman 55:04.440 --> 55:10.100 whom he called together with the workmen of like augmentation and said sirs you know that by 55:10.100 --> 55:16.740 this craft we have our wealth moreover you see and hear that not alone at emphasis but almost 55:16.740 --> 55:24.400 throughout all asia this paul has persuaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods 55:24.400 --> 55:31.260 which are made with hands so that not only this our craft is in danger to be said it not but also 55:31.260 --> 55:37.540 that the temple of the great goddess diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed 55:37.540 --> 55:43.700 whom all asia and the world worshipeth you know just insert mary and it's modern day catholics 55:43.700 --> 55:49.360 today isn't it and look why are they mad because they're afraid of losing money it's all about 55:49.360 --> 55:55.000 money it's all about wealth it's all about gain it has nothing to do with the truth it has nothing 55:55.000 --> 55:58.980 to do with what's good for people it's just people get mad because they don't want to lose their 55:58.980 --> 56:03.940 position their power their authority their money and so you know what you smash a mary and they're 56:03.940 --> 56:08.800 going to lose their mind not because i'm a real threat to them not because that little 56:08.800 --> 56:13.940 ceramic dolls are threatened to them because our true religion threatens their lies is what it is 56:13.940 --> 56:17.700 and they're so terrified and they're so scared but you know what if you're not 56:17.700 --> 56:25.720 pissing people off are you even a christian are you even a preacher i don't know how how wicked 56:25.720 --> 56:29.380 can america get to where you're preaching is finally offensive 56:31.540 --> 56:37.000 i mean we have trannies coming into church now i mean at what point is you're preaching to get 56:37.000 --> 56:43.040 offensive yeah yeah like we have hinduism and we have islam in our country and we have communism 56:43.040 --> 56:48.200 and we have feminism we have women leaders and governors and we have all kinds of fornication 56:48.200 --> 56:53.040 everywhere and everybody's given them the money and lust and drugs and people are dying from 56:53.040 --> 56:59.180 fentanyl how are you not pissing this culture off we have all kinds of catholicism and orthodoxy 56:59.180 --> 57:05.480 and false religion and non-denominational churches michael todd that guy's a freak we have pedophiles 57:05.480 --> 57:11.480 everywhere how are you not pissing someone off oh this new i'd be so controversial how are you 57:11.480 --> 57:18.360 not controversial how are you not getting people mad let me tell you something the majority are wrong 57:18.960 --> 57:23.260 the majority aren't even saved the majority are false prophets the majority are given to idolatry 57:23.260 --> 57:28.120 it's disgusting and you know what the majority of christians aren't even disciples go over to john 57:28.120 --> 57:35.820 chapter six someone needs to do something about this and you know what uh you're always causing 57:35.820 --> 57:42.600 drama you're always trying to get attention well good someone needs to you know i'll stop 57:42.600 --> 57:48.200 getting attention and being dramatic when everybody else is and then i still won't all right 57:50.700 --> 57:54.220 i'll do it when everybody gets reached i'll do it when all of the idolatry is gone 57:54.220 --> 57:58.440 i'll do it when everybody's heard the clear presentation of the gospel but you know what 57:58.440 --> 58:02.400 this is not going to happen so i'm not going to quit and i'm gonna i'm going to keep trying 58:02.400 --> 58:08.320 get people off of their false religion and get them mad and riled up and you know i'm gonna go to 58:08.320 --> 58:14.080 the doorstep humble and meek and with a bible in hand and i'm gonna instruct them in meekness 58:14.080 --> 58:17.700 and try to get them saved but you know what i'm gonna stir up a hornet's nest online i'm telling 58:17.700 --> 58:22.460 you that uh how are they gonna get saved how are they gonna get saved by you do nothing 58:24.280 --> 58:30.540 show me a better way show me you're just so kind loving honorary doctorate degree winning 58:30.540 --> 58:34.980 the catholic's over and then i'll follow suit show it to me 58:36.660 --> 58:40.800 john chapter six hey you know what pisses people off more than anything preaching 58:42.120 --> 58:46.520 i mean look at what it says in verse 60 many therefore of his disciples when they had heard 58:46.520 --> 58:53.080 this said this is a hard saying who can hear it you know most people after they heard Jesus 58:53.080 --> 58:55.700 preaching they weren't like wow i can't wait to hear that again 58:58.700 --> 59:07.470 they said who wants to hear this again skip down to verse 66 from that time 59:09.110 --> 59:13.350 many of his disciples went back and walked no more with them 59:14.770 --> 59:21.530 then said jesus under the 12th will he also go away well you could also x know i'd be 59:21.530 --> 59:29.670 i mean that's just the reality most people will not be a disciple only for a time 59:29.670 --> 59:34.610 then they hear a sermon oh he was talking about me yep bye 59:36.870 --> 59:40.450 that's the true religion you're gonna see most disciples walk away get offended 59:40.450 --> 59:44.290 go to psalm chapter three you're gonna have most people they can't take the heat 59:44.290 --> 59:49.070 they don't like the enemies they don't like the people coming against you they don't like 59:49.070 --> 59:53.190 being outnumbered 10 000 to one but you know what i say bring it on 59:54.370 --> 01:00:00.870 what does psalm three say verse one lord how are they increased that trouble me many are they that 01:00:00.870 --> 01:00:05.350 rise up against me many there be which say of my soul there is no help for him and god 01:00:05.890 --> 01:00:11.230 sila but thou a lord on a shield for me my glory and the lifter up of my head i cried on the lord 01:00:11.230 --> 01:00:15.910 of my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill sila i laid me down and slept i awaked for 01:00:15.910 --> 01:00:21.970 the lord sustained me i will not be afraid of 10 000s of people that have set themselves against 01:00:21.970 --> 01:00:28.810 me roundabout that's the attitude the attitude is not like let's get the majority we're gonna be the 01:00:28.810 --> 01:00:34.410 majority we're gonna we're gonna win the whole world over no it's like hey i'm not gonna be afraid 01:00:34.410 --> 01:00:39.950 even if i have 10 000s of people lined up against me i will still preach the truth 01:00:40.530 --> 01:00:46.350 how about read Jeremiah how many people are liking the truth back then one of the longest 01:00:46.350 --> 01:00:52.630 books in the bible Jeremiah 52 chapters and boy you were like this is a long book and then you get 01:00:52.630 --> 01:00:58.250 to the end and the final chapters are the longest chapters ever you're like oh i'm only four chapters 01:00:58.250 --> 01:01:05.770 away and 50 pages okay wow you know it's just like god's just like hey the sermon's just gonna 01:01:05.770 --> 01:01:11.690 get long you know you think i'm a long preacher how about Jeremiah how about paul preaching to 01:01:11.690 --> 01:01:18.850 where people fall at the window dying go over to x's 23 go to x's 23 i just have one final point 01:01:18.850 --> 01:01:23.490 i'm not going to belabor it but here's the thing we should realize the majority are wrong because 01:01:23.490 --> 01:01:27.530 number one they're not saved number two the majority are false prophets number three they're 01:01:27.530 --> 01:01:32.710 given to idolatry number four they're not disciples and number five most people are just 01:01:32.710 --> 01:01:39.310 not virtuous at all they have no desire to follow god's commandments axis 23 verse one 01:01:39.310 --> 01:01:45.130 thou shalt not raise a false report put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness 01:01:45.130 --> 01:01:51.530 thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil neither shout though speaking a cause of decline 01:01:51.530 --> 01:01:56.070 after many to rest judgment notice the implication brought up in the law hey a lot of times you're 01:01:56.070 --> 01:02:00.310 gonna have a multitude that wants to do evil how about like the multitude that wanted to 01:02:00.310 --> 01:02:07.670 dismiss the charges against lindsay clancy oh well how can all these women be wrong 01:02:07.670 --> 01:02:13.290 because the majority are wrong the majority wrong go to cleasy axis chapter seven go to 01:02:13.290 --> 01:02:19.570 cleasy axis chapter number seven how about in genesis 18 when abraham is trying to say to god 01:02:19.570 --> 01:02:26.630 like hey don't kill the sodomites what if there's 50 that's not even that many people that's like 01:02:26.630 --> 01:02:33.170 just this section of the church and in an entire town there's not even this section that goes to 01:02:33.170 --> 01:02:39.430 church and it's aid and like cares about the things of god that's sad then he's like okay how about 40 01:02:40.450 --> 01:02:49.990 how about 30 how about 20 and he's like i know this is just 20 nice people in it how about 10 01:02:49.990 --> 01:02:56.550 i mean think about it why did he why did he negotiate so far down because abraham even knew 01:02:56.550 --> 01:03:01.930 like i don't even think there's 50 people there was he thinking like of course everybody's good 01:03:01.930 --> 01:03:07.130 of course everybody goes to church there's for sure 50 righteous people in there he's thinking like 01:03:07.130 --> 01:03:14.110 dang uh how about 10 yeah he was probably still like should i go lower you know 01:03:15.650 --> 01:03:19.690 but but it's like in the story it's like god just walks away he's just like all right bye you 01:03:19.690 --> 01:03:24.310 know no i'll see if there was 10 there's not even 10 look at the numbers at cleasy 01:03:24.310 --> 01:03:28.730 axis chapter seven look at verse 27 behold this have i found say at the preacher counting one 01:03:28.730 --> 01:03:36.870 by one to find out the account which yet my soul seeketh but i find not one man among a thousand 01:03:36.870 --> 01:03:43.490 have i found but a woman among all those have i not found someone brought this up to me he had 01:03:43.490 --> 01:03:50.930 like a thousand women and he's like i haven't gone one isn't that isn't that crazy numbers though 01:03:52.190 --> 01:03:59.270 one out of a thousand seven thousand out of millions eight out of millions i mean these are the numbers 01:03:59.270 --> 01:04:05.270 one out of 850 these are the numbers the bible are actually giving we have 12 disciples a whole 01:04:05.270 --> 01:04:11.250 multitude i mean jesus is feeding five thousand men not including women and children and then 01:04:11.250 --> 01:04:18.230 it's 12 guys following him 12 out of 5000 seven thousand out of millions one out of a thousand 01:04:18.230 --> 01:04:25.590 eight out of millions why would i then think oh but today it's going to be the majority today 01:04:25.590 --> 01:04:32.910 it's the billion today it's the million you know the fundamental badness are the ones that are bad 01:04:33.430 --> 01:04:38.410 it's the it's the billion catholics versus the thousands of fundamental badness they're the 01:04:38.410 --> 01:04:44.130 ones that are bad it's like that doesn't fit the narrative ever it's never fit the narrative 01:04:44.130 --> 01:04:50.530 it never will fit the narrative oh well you guys are a minority you guys are a cult well in the new 01:04:50.530 --> 01:04:55.830 testament they called them a sect okay well this sect you know i want to hear about this sect 01:04:55.830 --> 01:05:01.250 you know that paul's is you know paul it's paul's doing that's the jew you know it's the jew 01:05:01.250 --> 01:05:07.590 coming out go over to proverbs seven i just want to look at two more verses look what is the 01:05:07.590 --> 01:05:12.110 goal of the sermon this is the goal of the sermon just to get you to realize that hey if 01:05:12.110 --> 01:05:17.570 we're in a minority position that doesn't mean we're wrong don't be offended by the numbers game 01:05:18.190 --> 01:05:23.770 don't be offended by oh 10 000 people are against you oh millions are against you or whatever don't 01:05:23.770 --> 01:05:28.970 be offended by that kind of stuff just realize hey true religion is always going to be minority 01:05:28.970 --> 01:05:33.150 most people aren't saved most preachers are false prophets most people are given idolatry 01:05:33.150 --> 01:05:37.850 most people won't be a disciple and most people won't even choose to be a virtuous person 01:05:38.330 --> 01:05:46.030 okay it's really hard to find so what is what is the goal of the sermon quit looking at what other 01:05:46.030 --> 01:05:54.570 people are doing and you choose to be the saved person that listens to the good preacher that's 01:05:54.570 --> 01:06:00.510 not given to idolatry that wants to be a disciple and you're going to choose to be virtuous because 01:06:00.510 --> 01:06:04.150 the majority aren't going to do it and if you're looking if you're waiting for other people 01:06:04.150 --> 01:06:08.090 to do it for you and show you the way you're just not going to ever make those decisions 01:06:08.090 --> 01:06:13.010 you have to as an individual say I'm going to do that as for me in my house we will serve the 01:06:13.010 --> 01:06:17.650 Lord as for me I'm going to get right with God as for me I'm going to read my Bible as for me 01:06:17.650 --> 01:06:21.910 I'm going to go to a good church as for me I'm going to go out soul winning as for me I'm going 01:06:21.910 --> 01:06:26.150 to serve God and I want to do the right thing even if the majority don't want to do it 01:06:27.430 --> 01:06:31.690 look at Proverbs chapter 7 verse number 12 you know when we talk about virtue 01:06:31.690 --> 01:06:39.790 the majority of women are horse in this world it's a sad reality Proverbs 7 look at verse 12 01:06:39.790 --> 01:06:46.690 now issue without now on the streets and life and wait at every corner it's really easy to find 01:06:46.690 --> 01:06:53.570 non-virtuous women go view the Proverbs 31 this last place I'll go Proverbs 31 you know it's 01:06:53.570 --> 01:06:59.770 really hard to find a virtuous woman oh that's just your opinion no it's also 01:06:59.770 --> 01:07:04.110 a comedian Shane Gillis's opinion too he says when he's going to work out 01:07:04.930 --> 01:07:09.830 all the women look like horse and then all the whores got mad about it 01:07:11.670 --> 01:07:15.410 but then it's like what they're like oh I'm liberated I'm liberated to be a whore 01:07:15.410 --> 01:07:20.250 and get paid money to be a whore and then you're like you're a whore and they're like 01:07:20.250 --> 01:07:25.930 ah you know it's like I'm not a whore I'm a whore that's paid you know it's just like okay wow 01:07:27.750 --> 01:07:33.110 so prostitute congratulations you elevated yourself from whore to prostitute 01:07:33.900 --> 01:07:38.190 what an accomplishment that you've made I mean according to the bible technically 01:07:38.830 --> 01:07:45.430 prostitutes are smarter than an adulterous wife okay it's better but is it really that much better 01:07:47.490 --> 01:07:51.930 look at Proverbs 31 verse 10 who can find a virtuous woman 01:07:52.570 --> 01:08:00.430 for her price is far above rubies what did the tech say most women are not virtuous otherwise this 01:08:00.430 --> 01:08:06.510 doesn't even make sense it's it's it's most women most women will not dress like a woman 01:08:07.110 --> 01:08:12.570 most women don't want to be a woman most women don't want to do what god created you to do 01:08:12.570 --> 01:08:19.070 and be as a woman but you know what who cares what everybody else is doing who cares what the 01:08:19.070 --> 01:08:24.550 majority is doing the majority are wrong why don't you decide to be a man why don't you decide to be 01:08:24.550 --> 01:08:29.690 hey I want to be one of these virtuous women and not care oh well my whole family thinks I'm weird 01:08:30.090 --> 01:08:36.370 because they're not virtuous oh well you know people aren't doing what I'm doing well that's 01:08:36.370 --> 01:08:41.270 of course because the vast majority are not virtuous vast majority aren't going to do 01:08:41.270 --> 01:08:45.870 oh the vast majority of people aren't going so many yep the vast majority of men aren't 01:08:45.870 --> 01:08:49.710 providing for their entire family the vast majority of men aren't telling their wives what to do 01:08:49.710 --> 01:08:53.690 the vast majority of people aren't coming to set fast about this church the vast majority of people 01:08:53.690 --> 01:08:58.070 aren't you know smashing idols I don't really give a crap what everybody else is doing you know what I 01:08:58.070 --> 01:09:02.450 care about whatever this book says because isn't that who we're supposed to be following is Jesus 01:09:02.450 --> 01:09:07.250 Christ and you know what praise god for the few people throughout history that decided I don't 01:09:07.250 --> 01:09:11.490 care what the rest of the world's doing I am going to do what the bible is saying I'm going 01:09:11.490 --> 01:09:16.490 to follow the god of the bible and I care what the Ten Commandments are and I care about 01:09:16.490 --> 01:09:21.830 you know getting people saved and I care about my family serving god and you know what we're 01:09:21.830 --> 01:09:26.910 never going to be in the majority that's okay I find living in the minority I just want to be 01:09:26.910 --> 01:09:32.630 right with god and you want to stop worrying about what everybody else is doing stop worrying 01:09:32.630 --> 01:09:36.890 about all the peer pressure stop well all these all these girls out there they're going 01:09:36.890 --> 01:09:40.810 in communication well don't be like them all these dudes are going out community for 01:09:40.810 --> 01:09:44.250 us don't be like them you know look at clavicular 01:09:46.230 --> 01:09:54.770 he's getting all these women he's getting horse look you know clavicular's lifestyle is a complete 01:09:54.770 --> 01:10:01.790 disaster the dude is just meeting just whore after whore after whore for just one hookup after 01:10:01.790 --> 01:10:07.510 hookup look the guy is going to be filled with stds the guy is going to have just a crazy 01:10:07.510 --> 01:10:13.450 amount of bastard children that'll probably be killed through abortion I mean the vast majority 01:10:13.990 --> 01:10:19.430 some of them will probably try to hang onto those children to try and sue him he'll be he'll drug 01:10:19.430 --> 01:10:26.370 through court all the time for custody happen to pay alimony happen to pay for all this stuff 01:10:26.370 --> 01:10:32.030 he might end up getting into adultery at some point and pissing the wrong guy off and that guy 01:10:32.030 --> 01:10:37.230 is going to end him if AIDS doesn't end him if you know the jews don't decide to end him 01:10:37.230 --> 01:10:41.550 and look he seems like he's just going off this cliff god might just turn him into a fag if he's 01:10:41.550 --> 01:10:47.170 not a fag already yeah he might get into child stuff or whatever other weird look being a 01:10:47.170 --> 01:10:54.050 whoremonger god is mad at god is not cool with whoremongers they're going to be judged by god 01:10:55.370 --> 01:10:59.410 don't think oh i just i'm just gonna live this this life of being a whoremonger you know 01:10:59.410 --> 01:11:07.250 be a guy that's been with one woman his wife that's cool why would i why would i want to trade 01:11:07.250 --> 01:11:13.210 places with convict curricular or whatever it's like he's always trying to go out and find some girl 01:11:13.210 --> 01:11:18.490 to be with i don't have to find what i already have one i already got my friday night set up my saturday 01:11:18.490 --> 01:11:23.350 night my sunday night and my monday night set up and you know what i'm never going to get an 01:11:23.350 --> 01:11:31.930 scd ever and all of my kids that i have my wife will never kill them praise god i'm never i'm never 01:11:31.930 --> 01:11:37.110 gonna have a lindsay clancy on my hands she's never gonna go down the abortion clinic and you 01:11:37.110 --> 01:11:44.510 know what they're gonna look like me too and why why would i want to trade places with a guy 01:11:44.510 --> 01:11:49.230 that has to go out and hope to find someone that's probably going to give him an scd 01:11:49.230 --> 01:11:53.510 probably kill his kids whenever he has them not actually love him at all 01:11:54.090 --> 01:12:00.310 to completely flatter him lie about him slander him trash him back whenever he trashes them 01:12:00.830 --> 01:12:04.470 like that that's not the life that you want to have men men you want to find a woman that 01:12:04.470 --> 01:12:08.990 loves you and is going to be with you and raise your children and be a virtuous woman 01:12:08.990 --> 01:12:13.630 that's what you want don't look for the majority of whores out there find you a virtuous 01:12:13.630 --> 01:12:20.790 woman and stick with her say well i don't know where to find one well you have to look okay 01:12:21.890 --> 01:12:29.370 you have to look and you know what elevate your game do more yourself be a high value man 01:12:29.370 --> 01:12:34.510 in a in a christian context not in these like worldly senses they're not attracting the right 01:12:34.510 --> 01:12:39.810 kind of woman the right kind of woman a virtuous woman would never even give clavicular one second 01:12:39.810 --> 01:12:46.350 of her time she'd probably flip them off okay she'd spill coffee on his face or something 01:12:47.230 --> 01:12:53.990 the guy's a prideful jerk okay you know don't don't chase the wrong things and and don't get confused 01:12:53.990 --> 01:12:57.870 about the majority oh but the majority of people are following these people who cares about that 01:12:58.370 --> 01:13:03.530 the social media influencer world who cares about who's following who or who's subscribing to 01:13:03.530 --> 01:13:07.670 who or who has all these views or all that kind of stuff it's a jewish sigh up anyways okay 01:13:08.410 --> 01:13:12.110 it's you know we might as well say everybody has six million followers okay 01:13:14.070 --> 01:13:17.510 because does it really matter the numbers can be whatever they want them to be 01:13:17.510 --> 01:13:21.290 it doesn't bench appear have like six million subscribers it's an interesting number i don't 01:13:23.210 --> 01:13:25.490 look don't worry about the majority worry about the few 01:13:26.650 --> 01:13:29.650 and you know if the marines can be the few the proud the marines why can't we be the 01:13:29.650 --> 01:13:33.110 few the proud the baptist all right let's go in prayer thank you for the father so much for 01:13:33.110 --> 01:13:36.350 your word thank you so much for giving us the truth i pray that we wouldn't be offended 01:13:36.930 --> 01:13:40.590 by the fact that most people aren't saved i pray that we wouldn't be offended by the fact that most 01:13:40.590 --> 01:13:44.870 profits are false i pray that we wouldn't be offended that the vast majority of people are 01:13:44.870 --> 01:13:49.530 given idolatry and it's wrong i pray that we wouldn't be offended that most disciples turn 01:13:49.530 --> 01:13:54.030 back and quit and give up and decide to just care about this world more than serving god 01:13:54.550 --> 01:13:57.650 and i pray that we wouldn't be offended by the fact that most people aren't virtuous 01:13:57.650 --> 01:14:00.470 that most people aren't going to serve you that aren't going to care about your commandments 01:14:01.150 --> 01:14:05.410 i pray that you would help inspire young people in this room to make the right decisions 01:14:05.410 --> 01:14:11.090 does not go the way of the world to not succumb to peer pressure, to not destroy their lives 01:14:11.090 --> 01:14:18.610 by seeking death. I pray that you could just help us to inspire the next generation to serve you 01:14:18.610 --> 01:14:23.450 and to love you. And even if no one else follows us, I pray that we would have the courage and 01:14:23.450 --> 01:14:27.070 the bravery and the faith to follow your commandments. In Jesus' name we pray.