Epic Message on Slander & Judgement
3 views
Do not miss this epic message from pastor Jeff on slander and judgement. You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video.
You can partner with us by signing up for All Access. When you do you make everything we do possible and you also get our TV show, After Show, and Apologia Academy. In our Academy you can take a course on Christian apologetics and learn how to witness to Mormons.
Follow us on social media here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApologiaStudios/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/apologiastudios?lang=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apologiastudios/?hl=en
- 00:00
- Here's what we do when we engage in malice and deceit and hypocrisy, envy and slander.
- 00:07
- We as the guilty ones, when we slander a brother or sister in Christ or we gossip, we walk up to God's dwelling place, to His temple that He's building and we try to destroy it.
- 00:21
- We try to pull it apart with our own hands. We try to set fire to God's own dwelling place.
- 00:29
- It isn't about the person in front of you that you might have conflict with and difficulty with.
- 00:34
- Understand that when I slander and envy and I'm full of malice and I gossip,
- 00:40
- I walk to God's temple that He resides in, that He protects, that He is growing and building up.
- 00:47
- I stand outside of it as an offender trying to set fire to God's house.
- 00:55
- We are God's temple being built up as little stones. When someone tries to gossip and destroy the body of Christ, they try to dismantle the stones from the temple.
- 01:07
- And I have one question to ask us. If I'm guilty of such a thing, if I'm guilty of trying to dismantle
- 01:13
- God's temple, what do you think a holy God that protects the holiness of His great name, what will
- 01:22
- He do to me if I'm someone that tries to tear down the temple that He is building?
- 01:33
- Gossip is dangerous. There's no way in one sermon for me as your brother and your pastor to unpack everything the
- 01:40
- Bible says about gossip. It is through and through. As a matter of fact, did you know that the
- 01:45
- Bible is actually quite limited on the things that it says God hates? Did you know that? I mean,
- 01:51
- I think if you asked all of us, we sat down together over coffee, we started exchanging, like, what do you think are the worst sins, like, personally?
- 01:57
- What do you think is the most destructive, like, how does it hurt families and marriages and children? Like, what are the worst sins?
- 02:03
- We could probably come up with a list, and they'd probably be some pretty graphic things. Like, we'll have murders in there, that's pretty bad.
- 02:08
- We think about all the different kinds of ways we've been hurt, so we'd throw those out there. But do you know that God actually has a fairly small list about things that He says
- 02:19
- He hates? And one of the things that God says that He hates is gossip discord.
- 02:30
- He hates it. People often say, well, it's the Christian cliche, right?
- 02:36
- Love the sinner, what? You see, goodness gracious, stuff gets passed around so easily in the
- 02:42
- Christian church, right? Love the sinner, what? Hate the sin. Christian cliche, that's just kicked about, that's what we say.
- 02:49
- Well, there's, I understand, there's truth, of course, to that in terms of how we live with somebody and love them and try to point them to God and to hate the sin.
- 02:57
- Of course, yes and amen to all that. But you know, when the consummation happens, and there is the final day of judgment that is coming,
- 03:06
- God promises that He is bringing the final day of judgment, I want us to all remember something in terms of sin and hating sin.
- 03:13
- When God has the last word and the final judgment happens and then the lake of fire is opened up as God promises that He will do, remember this, that it is not sin that goes into the lake of fire, it is people.