Sermon this morning is be different, be different.
Titus chapter 2 in verse 14 says,
who gave himself for us that he might redeem us
from all iniquity and purify unto himself
a peculiar people zealous of good works.
I want you to notice there that it says
that he's redeeming to himself a peculiar people.
This is referring to the fact that God
is separating us as his people,
as being holy, as being separated,
as being different than everyone else.
And make no mistake about it,
God wants us to be distinctly different
from not just the world, that's obvious,
but even from other Christians,
even from other churches,
even from different individuals
that claim to be believers,
he wants us to be distinctly different
and he wants us to demonstrate that
in our personal lives.
Go with me if you would to 1 Peter chapter 2,
if you would.
1 Peter chapter 2.
1 Peter chapter 2, let me start off by saying
that God wants us to be a peculiar people
and it specifically says that
he wants us to be zealous of good works.
So that's one way that God wants us to be different
is not just in the works that we do,
but that we do them zealously, passionately,
that we would be zealous over the ministry,
over the things of God,
over the preaching of the word of God.
This means that we can't be lukewarm.
This means we can't be apathetic
towards the things of God.
We can't be apathetic towards church,
towards the Bible.
The Bible commands us to have fervency, right?
Be fervent in business, the Bible says,
to be passionate, to have a cloak of zeal
when we serve the Lord.
Why? Because we're saved, right?
We have the Bible.
We have Christ.
We have the right gospel.
We have salvation.
We are a treasure unto the Lord.
Therefore, whatever we do,
we should do with all our might.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do with thy might, the Bible says.
And obviously we could apply this to your job,
you could apply this to your family,
but just being a Christian in general
requires for us to have some zeal about ourselves, right?
He says be zealous of good works.
He said, well, you know, Pastor,
I know this one false religion
and they seem to be very zealous
over the things that they do.
Well, Titus chapter one and verse 16 says this,
excuse me, they profess that they know God,
but in works they deny him being abominable
and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate.
So just because someone participates
in what we would consider
to be an outward expression of works
doesn't mean that they're works that God accepts, right?
And it doesn't mean that just because they're zealous,
it means that it just lends veracity to their message,
lends veracity to their beliefs,
because at the end of the day,
you know, the apostle Paul,
prior to him being saved,
the Bible says that he was zealous
of his forefathers' religions, of the Jews' religion.
And we obviously know that he was in the wrong, right?
So just because someone is zealous and passionate
about their false religion,
it doesn't lend veracity to it,
just because they get a burning in the bosom
when they claim to read their false book,
just because they give their lives to just devotion
to their lies and to their religion,
to their church doesn't mean it's true.
God wants us to be zealous of good works
and good works, according to the Bible,
or referring to that which is done in Christ,
that which is done in salvation,
that which is done by saved people, right?
The Bible says in 1 Peter,
look at chapter two if you would.
1 Peter chapter two and verse nine,
it says here,
but ye are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a peculiar people,
that ye should show forth the praises of him
with called yet of darkness into his marvelous light.
This is obviously a quotation from the Old Testament
when God would address and describe his people.
He wanted everyone to know
that they were the chosen people of God,
that they were a peculiar treasure unto him
based upon that old covenant.
Well, now we're in the New Testament.
And as Peter is writing to those in Cappadocia,
Bethany, Pontius, Galatia,
obviously this is referring to Gentile believers,
it's not referring to Jews.
You know, this transitions over and says
that we are the chosen people of God,
we are the royal priesthood,
we are the holy spiritual nation,
and it says that we're the peculiar people, okay?
And it specifically says at the end of verse nine,
it says that ye should show forth the praises of him
who hath called the yet of darkness
into his marvelous light.
Meaning that obviously God views us as his chosen people,
but God wants us to demonstrate that to the world as well.
Through our light, right?
The Bible tells us, let your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
That means that there's Christians out there
that have a dim light, right?
They're not necessarily shining forth the praises of him
who hath called them out of darkness.
They're still involved in sin,
they're living godless and worldly lives.
They're not necessarily allowing their minds to be reformed
according to the Bible,
and so when the world looks at them,
they don't really see anything different about them.
And in fact, in a lot of ways,
sometimes they're a bad testimony to Christianity, right?
Why?
Because they're living a godless life,
maybe they're involved in fornication,
they're involved in drunkenness,
they're involved in drugs,
they're not in church,
and so when people find out that they're Christians
but they're living a certain way,
it causes people to kind of think,
why are you being such a hypocrite?
You know?
And what God's will is for us,
is for us to show forth that light.
Show forth the light of holiness, of righteousness
as his peculiar people.
Go to Leviticus chapter 20, if you would.
Leviticus chapter 20.
The title of the sermon is Be Different.
The goal for us as Christians
is that we would be distinguished from everyone else,
not just in how we believe,
but also in our conduct, our conversation.
God wants the world to look at us
and say there's something different about them.
Leviticus chapter 20,
and let's look down at verse number 23, it says,
and you shall not walk in the manner,
Leviticus chapter 20, verse 23,
and you shall not walk in the manner of the nation,
which I cast out before you,
for they committed all these things
and therefore I abhorred them.
So one of the first things
that God essentially teaches his people
when being different,
is he's saying, hey, don't be like the other nations.
Don't try to emulate the other nations.
And when he says other nations,
we can interpret this in a New Testament
to mean like the unsaved, right?
Don't be, you know, you're the spiritual nation
made up of a spiritual house,
built up a spiritual house and so forth.
Don't be like the other houses.
Don't be like the other nations.
This is similar to what the apostle Paul said,
I testify in the Lord that you walk
not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds,
having their understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them
because of the blindness of their heart.
God saying, hey, don't emulate or copy
the way unsaved people live.
Don't be like the other nations.
Don't copy their customs.
You know, the Bible also says in Jeremiah chapter 10,
be not dismayed at the signs of heaven
for the heathen are dismayed at them, right?
Basically saying like, hey don't copy the customs,
don't copy the practices, the ideologies,
the philosophies of this world.
Why, because you're a spiritual nation,
you're supposed to be different, okay?
He says, and by the way he also says in verse 23
for I, I, I abhorred them, okay?
Let me explain to you what abhorred means.
You know, today we don't necessarily
use that word a whole lot.
We just say, hate, okay?
So the Bible is telling us here
that God hate of the Canaanites.
and you know you have this this idea here that God loves everyone and in
general we know that he does because God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son but hold on a second we need a balanced view of this as well
though you know and often that you know that position is fomented so much that
that automatically means in the minds of people that God doesn't hate but
folks you know their hell exists and hell's God's ultimate expression of
hate because you don't send someone to hell that you love okay and there's
multiple examples in the Bible where God specifically says I hate them you know
the Bible tells us in Psalm 5 5 the wicked shall not stand in thy sight thou
hate us all workers of iniquity and you know you don't need to go to the
Hebrew to try to figure out what he means by that it's pretty clear okay
he abhors them he hates them we also see I believe it's in Hosea chapter 9
verse 15 he specifically tells Israel you know therefore I have hated them and
in case you didn't understand what that meant he says I will love them no more
okay you know and so we see here that these nations that there were that he's
removing from Canaan land in order for Israel to occupy the land he's
saying man I hate these people because they're full of infanticide sodomy
bestiality all manner of abominations therefore don't act like that don't act
like some homo don't act like some heathen don't act like some idolater I
hated them that's the reason I removed them from the land so you shall not
walk after the manner of the nation which I cast out before you for they
committed all these things and therefore I abhored them and what is that it's
kind of like a threat he's giving he's like you know if you start acting
like I'm a throw you out to verse 24 but I have said unto you you shall
inherit their land and I will give it unto you to possess it a land that flow
with with milk and honey I am the Lord your God which have separated you from
other people now I want you to notice verse 25 ye shall therefore put
difference between clean beast and unclean and between unclean fouls and
clean and you shall not make your souls abominable by beasts or by foul or
by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground which have
separated from you as unclean this is often referred to as the dietary laws
of the Bible right and you know this is essentially saying because there's
not anything inherently wrong with what the Bible would classify as an
unclean animal because we see if that was true you know then God's causing
his people to sin in Genesis chapter 9 when he specifically said you can eat
the unclean animals right this is obviously a law that he instituted at
this particular time in this era in order to symbolically represent that he
wanted his people to be separated from the unclean which is why he talks about
hey don't be like the other nations I abhorred them I'm gonna give you their
land and then he says in verse 25 ye shall therefore put difference between
clean beast and unclean beasts in other words a way to remember how
separated I want you to be from the other nations is that you're gonna
abide by these dietary laws that will remind you of that so it's just like
hey don't be like the cane and I because the cane and I in God's eyes is like
the shrimp it's like the swine it's like the the these unclean animals that
you're not supposed to touch and when you abide by that law you're reminding
yourself hey I'm not supposed to be like the other nations and so forth and
obviously we know that that changes in the New Testament New Testament tells
us that every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if every
received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer
first Timothy chapter 4 he goes on to say verse 26 and he shall be holy unto me
for I the Lord am holy and have I want you to notice this severed you from
other people that ye should be mine so he's saying here you're my people I
want you to be separated you shall not be like the other nations and then
he just says look just put it this way I've kind of cut you off from
everyone else I've severed you from everyone else demonstrating that God
wants us to be different separated holy unto him away from everyone else okay
go to Deuteronomy chapter 4 if you would Deuteronomy chapter 4 the title
of the sermon is be different we should endeavor as God's people to be
holy righteous and different distinctly different from everyone else
distinguished in this world based upon the principles and doctrines of the Bible
look at Deuteronomy chapter 4 and look at verse number 5 it says behold I have
taught you statutes and judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me you
should do so in the land whether you go to possess it keep therefore and do
them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the side of the
nations which shall hear of these statutes and say surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people so you know God is blessing Israel at
this particular time with knowledge and wisdom amazing statutes of civil law
and all these precepts that he's laying out in the Old Testament and he's like
I'm doing it for your benefit but I'm also doing it so that other nations
can be attracted to you okay I want them to see that you are a wise and
understanding people that you're valuable that you are that treasure until the
Lord he goes on to say in verse 7 for what nation is there so great who had God
so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon Him
for and what nation is there so great that that statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law which I set before you this day so in other
words he's like I want people to look at this nation be like man this
Israel is just an amazing nation not because there's anything amazing
inherently about them but because of their God because of what they believe
because of their convictions because of their laws you know in like manner
there's nothing inherently great about us now we're God's people we are that
treasure yes we're peculiar unto the Lord but it should be a reflection of
the laws of God in us right it should be the fact that they see what we
believe and see something different and think to themselves I want what that
person has because of what they believe what they abide by the statutes that
they hold to the convictions that they have go to Deuteronomy chapter 14
look at Deuteronomy chapter 14 if you would Deuteronomy chapter 14 title
the sermon is be different this is all introduction here Deuteronomy chapter
14 in verse 2 it says that it says this for thou art and holy people unto the
Lord thy God and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto
himself above all the nations that are upon the earth so again we see here
that God is explicitly saying you're supposed to be peculiar now peculiar
the way we would use it today is like you're kind of like weird right and I'm
into that particular point later on but in the Bible when the Bible says
peculiar obviously it could have that connotation but it's more closely
related to just different separated holy unto himself okay so there obviously
has to be some sort of characteristics some attributes that you have about
your life that makes you peculiar and this morning I kind of want to go
through some of the things that God wants you to be different in number
one go to Matthew chapter 7 if you would Matthew chapter 7 Matthew chapter
7 if you would too many Christians today are just kind of worldly right and when
we think of worldly we think of oh it's because they listen to Drake or
something right which you know that's just gay and all that but I'm just when
the Bible says worldly it's actually referring to the fact that you're just
conformed to the ideologies practices of this world the Bible says love not
the world not that the things that are in the world if any man love the
world the love of the father is not in him you know to be a worldly Christian is
someone who's been spoiled through philosophy and vain deceit right and not
after Christ it's someone who essentially has allowed the philosophies and
ideologies to essentially take preeminence over the Bible and the
Bible is always telling us you know cast down imaginations every high thing
that exalted itself against the knowledge of God it tells us to allow
the word of Christ to dwell in you richly it obviously tells us hey man
should not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded out of the
mouth of God I have esteemed the words of thy mouth more than my necessary foods
so it's obviously constantly emphasizing the importance of having God's word
above everything else and filtering everything that we do and believe based
off of the Bible this is what this is why we say that the Bible is our
final authority for all matters of faith and practice right what about the
church fathers though they're dead I don't know I don't really care what they
believe I'm not a church father's guy why would I appeal to an inferior
authority when I already have the living word of God in front of me I don't
need to compare notes with some dead dude who was alive a thousand years
ago to substantiate what I believe because I have the word of God right
here and the Bible says that the anointing which you have in you
abide within you and need not need not that any man teach you you know
we have the word of God we have the living word we have the holy spirit that
brings us into all truth you know the spirit searches all things yay the
deep things of God the Bible says and you know what obviously there's truths
that have been hidden from this world I hath not seen neither ear of heard
neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared
for them that love him but he has revealed them into us
so you know what there's a lot of wisdom and statutes that yeah people
a thousand years ago fifteen hundred years ago might have believed but guess
what I can have those truths too and I don't need to read I don't need to get
a book let's see what so-and-so said about this
particular I don't need to know because I have the holy spirit and I don't need
to dust him off he abides within me within me through salvation
I have the word of God and there's this you know there's this idea out
there that just being in close proximity to the first century ad
automatically you know means that it's just true
like oh so you're just going to disregard
hundreds of years of church fault yeah if they're heretics
yeah and you know just because someone's in close proximity to Jesus
physically doesn't mean they're right hey you know how about this
Judas Iscariot should we just lend veracity to him and say that he was
right because he was with them for three and a half years
he ate the food that he ate he slept where he slept he participated in his
ministry but the guy was a damnable heretic he was a child of the devil
and you know there's plenty of people that have existed thousands of years
ago who claimed to be you know adherents to the word of god to the
religion of god but they're lying well how do we know what's
true and what's not here how about this the bible
okay how about you give attendance to reading to exhortation
to doctrine you know oh so you're saying that all you have to do is
read your bible yourself well yeah that's number one for sure
but the bible also says that he gives us a local new testament church
he gave some apostles some prophets some pastors and teachers and evangelists
for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying
of the body of christ and it says that we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine
by the slight amount of cunning craftiness whereby they lie and
wait to deceive so according to the bible
we read the word of god and then we compare with our local living new
testament church you know someone that we can actually
talk to right not some dead dude okay and like oh what am i supposed to do with
all my church father books or whatever well here's the thing folks why don't
you just stick to reading the bible primarily
you know i'm not really into reading books about the bible when i have the
bible myself it was like let me find a book
about the bible why you have 66 right here
there's 66 books and then it's just like well you know i still think it's okay
to read okay you know i'll give you that if you've read the
bible repeatedly already if you've just read the word of god you're
already familiar with it you know it you believe
well you believe what it says you can point to scriptures to substantiate
your beliefs okay read whatever you want but if you don't know the bible
and you're going to these books outside the bible to learn the bible
folks i mean that's obviously nonsense okay
we need to go to what the word of god says and you know what it's not a drive
through it's going to take some time this is not a microwave process
it's not a drive-through we have to make sure that we study to show ourselves
approve them to god they work men they need not to be ashamed we need to
rightly divide the word of truth okay be different
all right point number one regarding being different is this be different not
unsaved be different not unsaved
you know you have a lot of people out there today that think that they're
different they think they're so special they think
they're so distinguished but they're not saved
and you know what we need to get back to being strict about salvation
get strict about what the doctrine of justification is
not giving some just weak definition of what salvation is
speak clearly speak as the oracles of god you know renounce the hidden things of
dishonesty as the apostle paul said and actually tell you what the bible says
about salvation and tell you what is not salvation
guess what let me just explain some giving your life to christ is not
salvation okay giving your life to christ
is a phrase that people use in conjunction with salvation
but it is a false gospel because salvation is not about christ
it's not about us giving our life to christ it's about christ giving his life
for us and this is why so many people are confused
about salvation they're so confused they experience
so much doubt they combat they just don't know what to believe
because they're involved in churches that are constantly speaking this
christianese this bastardized christianese language
that when they talk about salvation it's like oh you got to give your life
to him you got to make sure you love him
not true now when it comes to salvation salvation has everything to do with the
love of christ the love of god the sacrifice that he made
the life that he gave for you and i you know and the bible tells us for my
grace are you safe through faith and that not of yourselves
and it's crazy that you can quote these verses to people
and they're like yeah but you know st augustin said
well st augustin said anything contrary to what the bible says about
salvation bros and hell i don't care how many books he sold
doesn't matter you know why because god's no respecter of people
doesn't care how popular someone is and just because someone is popular doesn't
lend veracity to their message because that which is highly esteemed among men
is an abomination in the eyes of god that's what the bible says
okay you know look at matthew chapter seven verse 13 says enter ye in at the
straight gate for why does the gate and broad
is the way that leadeth to destruction
and many there be which go in their app because straight is the gate and narrow
is the way which leadeth them to life and few there be that find it
probably one of the most misconstrued passages of scripture in the bible
that a lot of false prophets will use to try to teach oh yeah see
the the right way of salvation is very difficult it's narrow
because it's so strict it's a hearing to god's word
and his laws but no when the bible says that broad is the way it and
narrows the way it's referring to how many people
are going in that particular direction
broad is the way because the majority of people in this world i hate to break it
to you are going to go to hell i don't want that i want people to be saved
and i'm doing my part training our church leading our church into missions
evangelism soul winning on a weekly basis to make sure that we do our
part to reconcile this world back to god through their faith in jesus christ
right you know if our gospel be hit is hit to them that are lost
you know the bible says that the god of this world has blinded the minds of
them which believe not let's the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is
the image of god just shining to them and it's our job to go on and preach
the gospel to them but here's the thing let me just be
realistic here and that is that there's going to be more
people in hell than there are going to be people in heaven
that's just the honest truth so when the bible says that broad is the way
it means that the majority of the people in this world are going to believe a
false gospel narrows the way not because it's hard
narrows the way because few there be that find it
few there be that believe in salvation by grace through faith in christ alone
exclusively upon jesus christ
you know oh find the verse that says faith alone
you know find me a verse in the bible it's funny how you know catholics always want
point out a verse that says faith alone and it's just like okay let's hold you to that same
standard find a verse in the bible says catholic find a verse in the bible that says pray to saints
find a verse you know find me purgatory in the bible doesn't exist
so it's funny how you don't want to hold yourself to that same standard now
you know faith alone here's a verse that strongly implies faith alone okay
therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law
how about that without the deeds of the law let me interpret that for you it's faith alone
because if it's saying therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
you're like oh it works no no no without the deeds of the law
it's alone it's alone
and so you know oh man no being different is repenting of your sins
no because everyone believes that every single christian denomination that doesn't believe the
right gospel believes you have to do some works at some point and you know what don't allow yourself
to be deceived and confused by people who say oh we don't believe it's by works
we should believe you have to believe and repent of your sins to be saved
you said the same thing that's what do you mean
you're trying to manipulate me or something are you gaslighting me you know to repent of your sins
for salvation is works because the same person will say no you don't have to keep the law to be
saved jesus did all the work for you and you know he's the one who kept the law we've all sin and
come short of the glory of god but you do have to repent of your sins to be saved well here's
the problem though sin is the transgression of the law so when you're sinning according to
the biblical standard you are essentially breaking god's law so to repent of your sins means that you
have to keep the law it's pretty simple no well show me a person that lives today that it has
turned from all their sins to be saved and when you start explaining these very logical concepts
to help them to understand how absurd it is to try to turn from your sins for salvation
they're like well obviously we're sinners we're just saying like you have to desire
to want to turn from your sin so what you're gonna say you have to turn from your sin you have to
desire you have to dream about what do you gotta do it keeps moving but let me just explain some to
you everyone believes a form of that everyone believes a form of that you're not different
you're not special because you believe that you have to do works you have to do you have to
repent of your sins you have to be baptized you know you're basically lumped in with muslims
you're lumped in with jews you're lumped in with Mormons you're lumped in with jahovah's witnesses
you're lumped in even with buddhists because they all believe in works for you know eternal life
for salvation the only one that is distinctly different is that which actually adheres to
what the bible says and it's it's it's amazing that the message of salvation in the bible is
so clear it's so clear we obviously know that the message of salvation can be deep in the bible
right it's very broad you know it's it's you know the doctrine of justification the doctrine of
imputation there's a lot of deep things surrounding the doctrine of salvation but hold on a second
you don't have to learn all that in order to be saved you just have to believe on jesus christ
because acts 16 30 to 31 you know when they're talking to the Philippian jailer the apostle
paul didn't go through the entire doctrine he just said believe on the lord jesus christ
and that shall be saved in the house why because god wants it to be easy to be understood
and yet if it's so easy why do people make it so complicated right if salvation is so easy
which it is then why are you making it complicated why don't you quote john 3 16
why don't you quote he that believe it on the sun hath everlasting life he that believe it not the
sun shall not see life with the wrath of god abideth on him why i'll tell you why because they're
heretics and they think that they're different but you know what they are different from us
but they're not different according to the bible they are not peculiar according to the bible
they are not distinguished according to the word of god if you want to be different believe
the right salvation the right salvation is yet to place your faith in christ exclusively
plus nothing minus nothing and let me just remind you once you have it you can never lose it for any
reason and if by grace and it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace that's what the
bible says you know jesus said i give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither
shall any man pluck them out of my yeah but you can walk away you can give the gift back
how how you know yeah sounds real cute it sounds very poetic okay but it's absolutely absolutely
absurd because there's no you don't know how to give the gift back and you know i've never met
a safe person that wants to give the gift back i do a lot of counseling i counsel a lot of christians
i help a lot of christians and one thing that never comes up is like i'm just trying to figure
how to give this thing back so i wonder if you could help me and give him the gift back
i know it's here somewhere you know i know it's like right here i just don't know how to give it back
you know i don't know how to walk away from salvation you know why because it's a stupid
concept and it doesn't exist you can't okay you know there's it doesn't exist it only exists
in the minds of those people who think that they're different but they're actually unsaved
you know and let me say this you know they if they continue to reject the gospel
that is a form of walking away from salvation not because they had it but because it's made readily
available to them and they're rejecting it and they're walking away this is what the bible means
when it says to fall from grace it doesn't mean that they're saved and then they lost their
salvation it means they're rejecting the message of salvation by grace through faith they've
apostatized what it's referring to so be different not unsaved learn the right gospel
and may i say this learn how to communicate the right gospel as well get the liberal non-denom
christianese out of your vocabulary start using biblical terminology when you're
describing salvation okay get the hobby lobby vocabulary out of your vocabulary
okay stop using whatever sign you just bought as your doctrinal thesis an explanation about salvation
let's use biblical terminology believe on the lord jesus christ use by faith use justification
not of works right you know without the deeds of the law quote the right scriptures and you
know one of the best ways to just start communicating the right salvation is not
being poetic is just quoting the bible when someone asks you what do you believe about salvation
just quote the bible just quote scriptures because who's going to be able to like you know combat that
you know everyone wants to be this political spiritual guru on social media where they want
to communicate salvation you know i just believe that the god almighty of the heavens and the earth
came down to save a right just say john three sixteenths stop trying to glorify yourself
uplift yourself take away from the glory of the cross and just say by grace through faith in christ
alone plus nothing minus nothing fees into verse eight through nine you know the bible tells us
that if a man you know john chapter 11 how does the verse go john chapter 11 is when he's talking
to mary someone help me out here i am the resurrection and the life whosoever believe it than me though he
were dead yet shall he live and whosoever live it and believe it than me shall never die thank you
brother dj got my memory going there you know the bible is telling us there that it's just
you know if you're dead and you're saved you're gonna be resurrected you're like oh yeah but that's
only for them well it says even if you're living and you believe you'll never die so how do you
i was literally saying there that if you're alive and you believe you will never die
pretty clear because we know we're gonna physically die one day it's obviously referring to the spiritual
death and we're not going to suffer the second death because we believe on the lord jesus christ
and i like what he says at the very end believe us though this
believe us though this oh man this just goes completely contrary to what what i've always
heard yeah because what you've always heard isn't different it's whatever one teaches
be different not unsaved go to first timothy chapter one
first timothy chapter one talking about being different this morning
the importance of being distinguished according to the bible be different not unsaved let me
different not heretical you know there's enough crazy stuff in the bible for you to believe you
don't got to add to it don't be a person who just wants to accumulate weird doctrines heretical
doctrines just because you want to be different just believe what the bible actually says first
timothy chapter one it says in verse three is i was sought thee to abide still at emphasis when
i went into mastodonium that thou may discharge some that they teach no other doctrine neither give
heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than god the edifying
which is in faith so do now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good
conscience and of faith unfaim from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling
so the apostle paul is telling timothy hey when you get to emphasis preach the word of god and
tell those bozos out there to stop preaching weird stuff false doctrine heresy because they've swerved
from the truth and now they're just vain jangling talk about things that the bible doesn't even talk
about okay now look folks we can have preferences we can have secondary tertiary beliefs but if it
just completely contradicts the bible don't be an idiot don't at this point you're just vain
jangling he says there in verse seven desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither
what they say nor whereof they affirm so it's just like these people all they want to do is
act like they're teachers of the bible act like they know the word of god but they don't know squat
in fact you know the fact that they're divulging their vain jangling demonstrates that they don't
know the bible and there's a lot that can fit into this description flat earth fits into this
description okay believing that you know the Sabbath is sunday there are churches church is like
you know church on sunday is the mark of the beast kind of thing these are these sabbath keepers
it's just like oh man if you if you go to church on sunday that's the mark of the beast you know
the vaccine is the mark of the beast these are nonsensical beliefs these are heretical beliefs
hey be different but don't be heretical plain and simple and look folks if you've read the bible
you know there's some crazy stuff in the bible a lot of crazy stuff and you don't even have to be
you know you don't have to like intentionally try to be weird or crazy because of the fact
that the bible is just crazy it's controversial enough you know be different don't be a heretic
make sure that if you think you found something in the bible but you're a young christian you're a
babe in christ you're tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine go compare
with a spiritually mature living person for that okay go to Hebrews Hebrews chapter 13 if you
and you know obviously we all want like a corner of the truth we just want to be this one that has
this one particular truth you know it's there's times when you will find deep truths in the word
of god and you can compare scripture with scripture but at the end of the day folks you know if it's
not there it's just not there don't try to fit it in there if it's not there in your endeavor
to want to be different don't end up becoming a heretic okay and look you know i preach
against jews a lot i do right you know uh i i you do a lot of content on jews i'm starting
to do a lot of content on muslims they're all offended right now as if i ever liked them you
know it's like you act like i've been on your side this whole time you know oh you've been bought
he got the call but we also don't want to just go so far deep into because you can go deep into
certain doctrines to the point where you become heretic on a lot of ways you know i know the jews
are a major problem israel's a major problem judaism is a major problem okay but you know
not everything is the jews though let me just be you did get the call i was like
you know at the end of the day let's be scripturally reasonable about these things
you know how about this you know here's here's a really heretical doctrine
and and this is what happens when people want to be different
they're like jews aren't real and they're just like you know jesus wasn't a jew
so in because they hate jews so much okay you know there's people out there that just
absolutely just despise jews okay there might be someone here you know they hate you so much
and you say you know oh you know jesus was a jew and obviously like we know that just because
he was a jew it doesn't mean that he approved of rabbinic judaism
understand but that's what they think they're like oh you're saying he's a jew that means
that's a strong point off for for the the enemy side and therefore you know it's gonna
lend veracity to supporting judaism the modern state of israel blah blah blah
but don't even say that like jesus wasn't a jew and he's like what
how are you gonna say jesus was not a jew in the bible literally says
that he's from the tribe of juda no he's a judaean that's a jew
how about the fact that jesus said the salvation is of the jews
how about john chapter four when he's talking to the samaritan woman and she says how can
being a jew you know and then jesus was like whoa whoa judaean woman
it's called judaean don't call me a jew i'll tell you why he didn't correct her
it's the same reason why he didn't correct thomas when thomas said my lord and my god because
it's true that's why but there's this weird doctrine where people in their endeavor to
become different they become heretical and actually deny what the bible clearly says
let me just remind you you can be against jews and judaism and still believe that the term jew is a
real word it's real word jesus was a jew and you know what just because i said jesus is a jew
doesn't mean that he is all about them which say they are jews and are not but are the synagogue
of satan it's absurd but this is what happens when people get involved in vain jangling
and i've i've literally given tons of verses to people who say these things and they just
completely ignore it and let me tell you what they bring to my attention history
well this historical account bible give me what the bible says and and this is why they
don't want to say it but this is basically what they want to declare into us and they want to
say that the bible is wrong about that that's really what they want to say at which point
why were you even having this conversation because if you're denying the final authority which is the
word of god okay if you're denying that then you're just a damnable heretic at the end of the day
and so you know you don't have to be so extreme that you just become this you start
glazing hitler okay and loving all things hitler you could just literally be right in the middle
in the biblical manner right here and just believe what the bible says okay be different
not heretical be different not unsaved be a peculiar person it's just like oh man
i'm so different i just hate jews why do you hate jews if the bible says we're supposed to just
love people if the bible says we're supposed to win them to christ and look let me make myself
very clear the only people that i despise and hate are those who hate the lord i don't think
that's all jews i know it makes up a lot of jews though i'm not gonna deny that okay and people
who blaspheme the lord they hate the lord jesus christ they brag about his crucifixion i mean i
hate ben Shapiro for sure i mean who i don't even think you're gonna be a christian for that
but you know i'm not just gonna hate every i'm not gonna paint it with a broad brush and
think that every single jew is just absolutely horrible because at the end of the day i do
believe they can be saved not at the same rate as everyone else obviously they're very close to
the gospel in fact we've had jews here that have gotten saved but you're like what they're in here right
now be different not heretical okay and like yeah but you know everyone online who cares
what everyone online says everyone online they don't know the bible they're all wrong
and so be different not unsaved be different not heretical and this next point is very similar to
that to my second point that i just said and that is be different not weird okay don't be a weirdo
look at heber chapter 13 heber chapter 13 and verse number nine it says be not carried about
with diverse and strange doctrines for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace
not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied there in he's talking about
strange doctrines and in its context it's obviously referring to dietary restrictions
that jews are placing upon people that are actually not found in the bible okay you know just
extra restrictions that the bible is not imposing these are strange doctrines
but we could apply this to just anything that's just weird okay go to first carinthians chapter 11
if you would first carinthians chapter 11 first carinthians chapter 11
let's talk about some weird stuff people believe okay and this is one that just kind of like
makes me mad okay because you know you have a lot of christians online right now and they just
want to be so different but they end up just getting involved in just strange weird stuff
and let me give you one example head coverings
you weirdo you know it's just like oh you know i went to go preach in texas a couple earlier
this year a couple months ago this year and a guy came out he's like oh man i love that sermon
that was a great sermon great just one question though i just i noticed the ladies here none of
them have coverings on their head why is that i'm like oh man this is one of those weirdos you know
and this is like you know the conversation was going so well we're getting along so well and you
just have to bring that up and i was like oh yeah they're not wearing it because the bible doesn't
command you to wear cloth on your head like that and he's like yes it does i'm like no it
doesn't and i was like i can show you from the bible and then i went to 1st Corinthians 11
and then which is the chapter he went to as well and it demonstrated that the covering is referring
to hair right and then he's like oh so you're just going to go ahead and deny hundreds of years
of church fathers it's like did they teach you wear head cover yeah yeah i'm denying that yeah for
sure you're all wrong yeah i don't care how old this thing is you know the just because it's satan's
old hinduism is old head coverings disbelief that if you as a woman are to be a godly woman
you know a godly christian you have to wear a doily on your head
that's what it is you guys you guys don't want to talk about
they just because they just want to be different no you're just being weird
okay look what it says and let's let's read it here 1st Corinthians 11
it says here in verse three but i would have you know that the head of every man is christ
and the head of the woman is the man and the head of christ is god amen every man praying or
prophesying having his head covered dishonoreth his head now the way they interpret this is like
if a man puts on a doily on his head or something then you're you're you're dishonoring god but that
doesn't exist never met a man pulling a doily on his head okay now what does it mean when he says
praying or prophesying well praying that's pretty you know we understand what that means right to
pray into the lord this could be referring to just public prayer private prayer we obviously
know what that means prophesying can be up for debate and interpretation because there's
various meanings of this in the bible one would be that preaching right prophesying means preaching
prophesying also in certain places means to foretell the future okay but believe it or not prophesying
also refers to singing and in fact we find this definition in 1st chronicles chapter 25 verse
1 when it says that they prophesied with the harp okay with the the the instrument of strings and
all these instruments and it talks about saw prophesying and it's referring to instruments
and singing so there's instances of the bible where prophesying simply means to preach but
it also means to sing so when we're singing the congregation together before the service
we're it's it's accurate to say that we're prophesying okay and I mean that may sound
different to you but it's because no one really talks about those definitions that are found in
the Old Testament I'm just I'm just saying to you that like when it says praying or prophesying it
could mean singing now when we can eliminate uh of what it means for the woman is preaching
because women are not allowed to preach in church okay in fact we look verse five says
but every woman that prays or prophesied with her head uncovered dishonor with her head for
that is even all one as if she were shaving so obviously it's not referring to preaching
because women are not allowed to preach in church okay amen you know it's against the bible uh you
know the bible tells us to learn in silence for the women to learn in silence and not to usurp
the authority of the man I suffered not a woman to teach and so forth and so you know if you
don't agree with that you're you're in the wrong church sure yeah you're never gonna see a woman
preach here okay now people women would hear that I was just like oh you're such a sexist
person I can't believe you said something like that we're not saying women can't preach period
because they can obviously preach the gospel which it's kind of interesting because I guarantee
women who are pro preaching behind the pulpit don't preach the gospel they probably don't go
in evangelize okay but they're allowed to go preach the gospel and they're allowed to kind
of preach to their children to teach their children the word of God but I guess that's
just not enough huh you just have to be behind the pulpit like a Joyce Myers and a Jezebel
you know preaching or whatever but it's unbiblical and so yeah how can a woman stand behind
the pulpit and preach the word of God that it's specifically prohibiting her to from doing what
she's actually doing right there okay and more importantly how can a man even sit there and
listen to that shut you ought to be ashamed of yourself you spineless stoneless person
just sitting there listening to a woman preach to you what's wrong with you
it's the gayest thing ever it's super gay how are there men in these churches
like these eunuchs in these churches these spiritual eunuchs
that are getting their face ripped by a woman behind the pulpit
and you know if this offends you it's because you haven't read the bible
the bible condemns it it's very clear 1st Corinthians chapter 14 talks about it
1st Timothy chapter 2 we have an example of a prophetess known as Jezebel in revelation
chapter 2 there is no good example of it okay and any example you find of a woman prophesying
is doing it outside of the church they're preaching the gospel they're getting people
saved and so forth so obviously we can say that maybe the prophesying in this particular passage
is referring to singing or at least it's just referring to preaching the gospel
to other people okay but it says in verse 5 that if a woman does these activities
with her head covered she's dishonoring her head her head being her husband so our head according to
the bible is christ the head of christ is god the head of the woman is the man the bible saying here
that if a woman covers her head especially when she's participating in these activities she's
actually dishonoring the bible by dishonoring her husband and it says for that is even
all one as if she were shaving so in other words it's like you might as well just shave
off her head okay and obviously we're already getting hints of hair being mentioned here right
it goes on to saying verse 6 for if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn and if it be
a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered for a man indeed ought not to
cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of god but the woman is the glory
of the man so you have this movement out there that asserts that once you come into
the house of god you got to keep your head covered right but think about how absurd this idea is
because they're asserting that a certain piece of clothing on their head
essentially demonstrates your godliness whereas first peter chapter 3 literally says that if a
woman is to be godly it's about the inner man not about the gold pearls costly array broided
hair anything outwardly doesn't demonstrate that someone is godly you know he says that he
esteems the hidden man of the heart putting a doily on your head does not change the fact
does not change whether you're godly or not okay it just changes our opinion about you
and now we think you're weird okay now here's the thing if someone were to come into our
church like a woman said the woman came into our church and said you know I don't think
this is my preference it's my conviction and you know I don't think it should be imposed upon
people I'd like to wear when I come to church you know we would allow it I would you know
I was like all right you know as long as you're not telling other people that that's what they
should be doing though okay as long as you ain't got a doily shop you're like hey you want to
not put this on real quick you know trying to distribute you know a little a little doily
doily up the whole congregation keep it to yourself but here's the thing you know the reason they want
to do this because they want to look holy they want to look just overly righteous they want to just
look really special they want to look no you look weird okay and this is not a justification
and it's interesting that the only way you can substantiate your doctrine is not from the
bible you have to address church fathers in order to lend veracity to your doctrine
it doesn't stand alone using the bible that's a problem when your core doctrine needs outside
sources outside books the commentary of church fathers or whatever to substantiate the claim
you know what then it's it's it's losing it's not a substantial doctrine because the bible should
stand alone okay the doctrines of the bible should stand alone now you say what is this
talking about well let's keep reading here it says in verse number eight for the man is not
of the woman but the woman of the man neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for
the man for this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels
nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither the woman without the man
in the Lord skip down to let's see here 13 judge in yourselves is it commonly that a woman pray
unto God uncovered doth not even nature itself teach you listen to this that if a man have
long hair it is a shame unto him verse 15 but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her
for her hair is given her listen to this for a covering case closed it's literally saying there
that the covering that he's referring to is the hair now look if you want to be different
you don't need a doily just follow biblical you know restrictions regarding hair length
you don't have to wear something weird on your head you don't have to wear a funny skull cap on your
head you don't have to wear a turban on your head you don't have to wear any weird thing on your
head you know to be different okay you could just follow the biblical prescription for being
different and I want you to notice what he says here again in verse 14 he says doth not nature
itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him that's pretty clear there
it's specifically saying or prohibiting men having long hair why because the bible is making
a case for gender distinction okay now it doesn't have a certain length like it doesn't give us
inches it's not giving us measurements of how that looks so we have to go according to nature
because he says doth not nature itself teach you meaning that when you naturally look at a person
you know their hair length should communicate their gender so if you're walking down the
street and you have long hair and someone you know confuses you for a woman that means your
hair is probably too long or if you're a woman and you know you got a clean fade
your fade is cleaner than mine your fade is cleaner than what dj can produce
grow that thing out look like a woman
and look I have to preach this every year because just in our culture especially within
christian culture people think that it's appropriate for women to have extremely short hair and for men
to have really long hair where the bible actually prohibits that and here's the arguments that people
will say well jesus had long hair really where where your church fathers is that where you're
going to point to the shroud of turn is that what you're going to point to you're going to point
to uh leonardo da Vinci's paintings about jesus you're going to point to you know caesar
as an example because there's nothing in the bible that essentially states that jesus had
long hair doesn't exist and he wouldn't contradict what the bible says now look folks there were
people in the bible that had long hair men that had long hair who were they someone tell me
samson and why and why did samson have long hair one person tell me he was a nazarite
now what is a nazarite it's a person who would make a vow okay and he was uh commanded to continue to
grow out his hair until he performed his vow so why was it a shame for men to have long hair
because when you looked at a man with long hair it was an indication this man has not performed his
vow that's what it meant and once they performed it came right off okay and so look i'm not
saying you have to get your hair cut like mine okay and to some of you like this is so irrelevant
because i ain't got no hair sorry bro i don't want to tell you all right some of you just already
you're already tuned out you're like next point you know you want to move on i get it you know
um people would be would people would even know if you had a vow to keep i get it you know
like how's the net really i didn't i didn't know you're a nazarist it's kind of wow
you know i'm not saying but what i am saying is that the bible condemns long hair on men though
the bible explicitly teaches and so here's my standard that i have for myself is that you
know my hair should just look like a man's hair okay the length of a man's hair all right and
the same thing for women you know no short hair on women and you know he's like well are you against
like shoulder length well that looks like a woman i'm not necessary for it and but i can't
prohibit you from doing that i can't restrict my daughters from that restrict my wife from doing
that if i wanted to but you know it's still basically what a woman looks like okay but
you know the butch dyke haircut has to go if that's the case okay and i'm not even referring to
because people people always come up with these examples like what about cancer obviously that's
different don't don't don't be dumb okay we're just just be reasonable here okay don't look for
reasons of why don't look for the exception to the rules what i'm saying okay i'm talking about
you intentionally cut your hair to look like elliott page or whatever
you know in the queer i'm talking about the the dyke because she's trying to look like a man as
much as possible but all she looks like now is just a lesbian she doesn't look like a dude
she just looks like a lesbian okay and so um what is first chrithians 11 saying here
you know it's showing us what it means when it actually says the covering of the head is
referring to the hair and again let me let me motivate you to make sure you follow these standards
if you violate these standards as a man or woman you're dishonoring your head okay if you're a woman
you're like well i'm gonna keep my fade and you know i'm gonna keep my 80s hairstyle you know when
you would go to the barbershop you look at those pictures on the wall they're just like these
80s haircut with the with the fade on the side or whatever i'm gonna keep it all right then
that means you're just you're intentionally dishonoring your husband yeah and you want everyone to know
and by the way by dishonoring your husband you're dishonoring god as well because he's the one that
commanded it okay and if you intentionally you say well i'm gonna keep my hair long okay then
you're dishonoring christ then that's what you're choosing to do you're just you're just publicly
declaring i'm willing to continue to dishonor christ because i want to keep my hair long
so the bible says okay and if you're gonna convince me of anything different you're just
gonna have to bring the bible with you because the only example is samson he was a nazarite the only
example are the those who kept the nazarite vow and guess what that was not a permanent thing
it would take it off because eventually they fulfilled the vow okay and so be different but
don't be weird be different but don't be weird be different don't put the doily on your head
it does nothing for your spiritual life by putting a piece of cloth
that you got from your dining room set in the 90s at grandma's house it's just does nothing
amen
go to 1st Corinthians 14 i have i have some notes here i got some notes you know i'm organized here
i can't read my writing though
you know we should be different but not weird in our church services too
right you know and what i mean by that you know don't be a hyper spiritual person
hyper spirituality is condemned in the bible okay this is what isaac chapter 65 renders as
being a holier than now where he's just a you in your endeavor to be so different
you just become this holier than now you're so spiritual you've read the bible three times this
week all the way through you're just better than everyone you you hate sin more than anybody else
you hate homos more than anybody you're just a holier than now hyper spiritual person and you're
weird and look we've had people like that come to our church i remember one time there's a
guy who came to our church he ended up getting thrown out because he was just a weirdo
but he he came to me and he said like you know because our church is just known for getting
the church bombed by homos the church was bombed by homos by the way just if you didn't know that
now you know okay uh sodomites exploded in my church you know they they they bombed they
targeted our church and they blew it up um but this guy you know he came to me he's just like
he came to me just on a random day he's just like i hate homos more than you
i was like i don't know
i don't know about that he said no i do i was like all right
my bad my bad bro i don't know but what does he do he's just being a hyper spiritual person
right he's just trying to make it seem as though he's just got the edge on being zealous
no you're just hyper spiritual now who's notorious for this the Pharisees were right
but you know when you come to church just be a normal person be yourself of course
and this is why it's good to attend a church why because it normalizes you if you are a weirdo
if you have these hyper spiritual tendencies it kind of levels you out a little bit
because you're around other people that will exhort you but they'll also kind of get on you a
little bit until you're not to be a weirdo okay you know we don't want people to walk into
church and look at the behavior of the believers and how disorderly it is and how hyper spiritual
it is and be like these people are crazy look at 1 Corinthians chapter 14
in verse number 23 says if therefore the whole church be come together into one place
and all speak with tongues and there become in those that are unlearned or or unbelievers
will they not say that you are mad now what is the apostle Paul getting on here he's saying you
know the church at Corinth was notorious for just having a disorderly service people are
prophesying they're also seeing hymns they're giving a revelation they're just it's just a
mixture of activities it's basically it became like a Pentecostal church everyone's just being
wild and so you know someone comes in it's just like you guys are crazy mad means like you're
crazy you know if they want to say that we're mad or crazy because of what we're preaching
that's one thing let them think that because they're crazy we know that for a fact but if they're doing
that because of the behavior of the congregants because it's just not orderly because people are
just trying to be super spiritual they're trying to be hyper spiritual holier than now's
that's not the unbelievers fault that's your fault okay be different not weird be different
not isolated go to uh john chapter 17 john chapter 17 if you would
john chapter 17
i know everyone wants to be a stoic nowadays and just like oh you know i just wish i could
just be on an island with just being the bible and god not god's will that's weird
island's are for visiting
right island's are for vacations but you know it's not god's will for us to be like a monk
and go into a cave with the candle and a bible and a hymn book and just live the rest of
our lives like that that's not god's will that's godless behavior actually is what it is
because there's no example of anyone in the bible who is a godly person who isolated themselves
to that degree okay for the rest of their lives obviously there's periods where we have to get
alone with god there's periods where we have to get alone with god to read the bible to pray
to fast but it's not god's will for you to just move out in the middle of nowhere
away from everyone because you just want to be so holy you just want to be so righteous you
just can't be around anybody it's like uh you know uh what's that false prophet's name uh
Kenneth Copeland remember how he bought himself a jet because he didn't want to be with all the other
demon possessed people on the airline or whatever you know he's a holier than now
he thinks he's better than everyone else but you know god's will for us is to socialize with others
he wants us to be with others he wants to be with god's people but he also wants us to reach
the center as well reach the unsaved right look at john chapter 17 and this is the Lord's
prayer for his uh for his disciples it says in verse number 14 i have given them thy word and the world
hath hated them because they are not of the world even as i am not of the world so you don't have to
move anywhere to be different because the bible says you from god's perspective you're already
not of this world we're sojourners and pilgrims on this world right we don't need to move to a
particular geographical location we don't need to go to the mountains from god's perspective
we're not of this world it says in verse 15 i pray not that thou should us take them out of the world
but that thou should us keep them from the evil so in other words god's will is not for you to
just leave up and go to the middle of nowhere god's will is for you to stay where you're at
reaching people and just be kept from the evils of this world right he says in verse 16
they are not of the world even as i am not of the world sanctify them through thy truth
thy word is truth meaning that if you really want to be different sanctified separated it has to be
through the word of god you don't have to move a geographical location people will know what you
believe and separate themselves from you you don't even need to separate from people in
certain instances just tell them what you believe and they'll be like i don't want to associate
with you anymore your family would do that your friends will do that you're like well how am i supposed
to reach people you'll reach people who want to be reached which is exactly the people that we want
to reach when he says sanctify them obviously we can you know say that this is referring to
cleansing them but in its context is actually referring to set them apart through thy word
through thy truth okay in other words if you want to be different you got to read the bible
you got to believe the bible you got to practice the bible the word of god is what sanctifies
the person it says in verse number 19 and for their sake i sanctify myself that they also might be
sanctified through the truth neither pray i for these alone but for them also which shall believe
on me through their word and let's just be honest go to go to matthew chapter 23 let's just be
honest you know most people who try to isolate themselves are just being hyper spiritual they're
not it's not because they just have some devoted love for god they want other people to see that
it's all it's all performative as the new word is right they're just being performative is what it
is they're just trying to demonstrate to everyone how holy they are how righteous they are how
they're just a monk they're just praised you know this monk lived and died without ever seeing a
woman you guys ever heard of the orthodox priest or whatever he's like this guy lived
and he died and he never saw a woman he's like well that sucks
to be born and die and never see a woman and then go to hell oh man
that sucks you know i'm glad i see my wife every single day i'm glad i'm married he's just like
oh man what a holy man nah he's regretting that right now
because there's dudes in this world who have seen a woman they die and go to hell but at
but bro never even saw that
they do this because they want to be highly esteemed in the eyes of men
they're not special they're not different they're just weird
okay look at uh matthew 23 verse one it says then spake jesus to the multitude into his disciples
saying the scribes and the Pharisees sit in moses seat all therefore whatsoever they bid you
observe that observe and do but do need do not ye after their works for they say and do not for
they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born and lay them on men's shoulders but they themselves
will not move them with one of their fingers and i want you to notice verse five but all their
works they do for to be seen of men they make brawler phylacteries and enlarge the borders
of their garments and love the uppermost rooms at the feast and the chief seats in the synagogues
and greetings in the markets and to be called of men rabbi rabbi but be not ye called rabbi
for one is your master even christ and all ye are brethren and call no man father upon the earth
for one is your father which is in heaven so we see here that they like these titles they like
to be all hyper spiritual only because they want to be viewed in the public as such oh man these
guys look at these guys how they pray look out how they fast you know it even says in matthew six
that when they would fast they would disfigure their face you're just like what's wrong i can't tell you
i can't i can't say you know and the lord's just like if you're gonna fast anoint your face
you know you know clean yourself up wash your face anoint your head don't look like you're
fasting because that's how the hypocrites are they disfigure their faces they look all sad
because they want you know like oh man look at that guy's fasting you know oh wow you know this guy's
so spiritual so holy look at how he dresses look at the dress that he's wearing you know
and you know let me just throw this in for good measure it says you know that you should call
no man father okay and here's the response of the catholics what do you call your dad
well number one i call him dad okay but it's actually biblical to call him father because
he's biologically my father when the bible says call no man father what is in the context of
religious leaders as noted by matthew chapter 23 and it's funny anytime you bring this up to
catholics they they pull up all the verses in the bible to use the word father oh you got me
oh you got me just because people are calling other people father they're like biological father
and it's like oh man you got me but hold on a second this is saying don't call a spiritual
leader father and it's interesting that they can bring up all of these other instances where
father is used but they can never actually give you the interpretation of this verse
oh really so okay so why did you say it no you understand it's okay to call people father
they misunderstand then give me the interpretation of it then you know and people are carried away
with this doctrine a lot i get people message me all the time they're like uh father mahiah
i'm like do i got a son or something so it's like father mahiah father so and so and i tell
him like i'm not catholic don't call me father okay don't don't don't call me that and they're
like oh sorry about and they don't even mean it in a like in a bad way but they're just here
so much online the thing is just appropriate to call any spiritual leader father but it's showing
you the people are on social media learning their doctrine from the internet more than the bible
itself because jesus literally said don't call any man your father what's the point
they want to be different but they're weird they're being hyper spiritual they're isolating
themselves they're getting strange doctrines and they're not getting it from the word of god
itself okay that's it i'm done you know what's the point the point is because i'm preaching
too long the point is you know we should endeavor to be different for sure peculiar people zealous
of good works showing forth the light of the glories gospel of christ right we have this treasure
in earthen vessels okay that the power may be of god and not of us this is what the bible says
you know all glory to god you know we want to make sure that we believe what the bible says
be different because of the bible be different because of the bible standards on our conduct
but not just be different for the sake of being weird in the eyes of the world
you know when you start doing that you will delve yourself into strange doctrines
you're going to end up getting involved in things that are outside of the parameters
of normality of the bible and so be a peculiar person but like the bible's peculiarity not
modern day peculiarity you know take the doily off your head get a biblical haircut amen
um you know believe the right doctrines okay believe what the bible actually says
and that's it let's pray father we thank you so much for your word thank you for
sanctifying us through your truth help us to continue to be set apart and i pray that lord
you'd help us to have submissive hearts unto the hard truths of the word of god today and lord
may we continue to be a holy nation a peculiar people unto you and help us to continue to
show forth the praises of him with called us out of darkness into your marvelous light
we love you we thank you for this things in jesus name amen