F4F | How to Biblically Critique a Sermon Part 2

The Gospel as the Standard for Critiquing Sermons

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Rosebro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

So I thought what we would do today is another installment of how to biblically critique a sermon. We're gonna deal with a particular Bible-twisting technique known as Narcissus. Narcissism and Isis is mixed together.

We all know what narcissism is, love of self. Isis is reading into the biblical text things that are not there. We're supposed to exegete, we're supposed to read out what's in the biblical text, not read in things that are not there.

And this is a kind of a classic example of it, but with a text that many people are not familiar with. And so we're gonna spitball this together. I intentionally didn't cross all my t's and dot all my i's.

I was gonna say cross all my i's and dot my t's, but you get the idea. I purposely left the sketch for this particular episode not fully filled in so that I can walk you through again what is my process when I'm critiquing a sermon.

What am I looking for? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna head down to Church of the Highlands down in Alabama, and let me pull this up here, and there we go. We're gonna be listening to, her name is Charlotte Gamble?

G-A-M-B-I-L-L. Not gamble as in gambling, but Gamble, I don't know. And you're gonna note already, if you are biblically discerning, then you're gonna note that if you see this, what you're seeing right now, happening at your church, your church is in rebellion to the Word of God.

Now I'm not gonna dedicate any time talking about that because I've talked about it exclusively and in depth in a other episode of Fighting for the Faith, and what we'll do is we'll put a link to it up here, and this is the episode, the name of the episode is Living Proof Beth Moore is an Autonomian.

Living Proof Beth Moore is an Autonomian, and let's just say that I go in depth as to why you would immediately, just by looking at this, know that you're dealing with a church that is in rebellion to the Word of God.

All of that being said, we're going to listen to her sermon, the name of the sermon is Lo de Bar, and let me set it up this way. What if I told you that God had, through inspiration of the Holy Spirit, written a story, had a historical account recorded for us in the Old Testament, whereby if you lost your job because of COVID -19, there are promises there regarding you and your circumstances, and immediately you might be cynical and skeptical, and you should be.

So what we're gonna do, we're gonna listen to a large swath of this and kind of pick it apart, and like I said, I haven't done all, I haven't fleshed everything out, so that way you can kind of see how I work through things like this, what am I looking for, and how would I work on correctly handling a historical narrative like the one she's gonna be working through.

So here's Charlotte Gamble and Lo de Bar. I'm gonna open the Word and talk to.

Us about something that I really hope helps you this morning, and more than that, I hope it becomes a message that then you use to help someone else. We heard, didn't we, from Pastor Chris last weekend that we're here right now...

I wasn't there, it's a different Pastor Chris, I'm the same. ...to get this good news out. There's never been a time when the Gospel is more needed to be heard for.

Those that have lost all sense of hope... Now I agree, people need to hear the Gospel, and my immediate question for Charlotte would be, how do you define the Gospel? If you want to know what the Gospel is, by the way, Scripture defines it for us, so we do not need to speculate regarding that.

It's found in 1 Corinthians 15, opening verses of 1 Corinthians 15.

And I hope that this becomes something else, language for you to help yourself and then help others in this season we find ourselves in. Have you found at all, at any time in this kind of pandemic season that we're in, saying these words, it's just unfair?

Has anyone said that, or is it just me? Like it's just unfair that we can't do Church as usual, it's unfair that I can't go to the Star.

In the way that I want to go to the Star. Okay, now, when I am evaluating a sermon, one of the things I immediately want to figure out is, what is the problem that the sermon is going to address? In the last installment of How to Biblically Critique a Sermon, we took a look at this concept.

I kind of fleshed it out. Every sermon has a problem that it is going to be addressing, so I think Charlotte here is beginning to lay track on what the problem is. Circumstances being what they are, because of the consequences, the ramifications of the COVID -19 pandemic, and I know some of you don't believe that there's a pandemic.

I get that, I'm not trying to make a political statement here. The point is that regardless of whether or not you think it's a pandemic or a plandemic, I don't even want to go there. The idea here is that people have lost their jobs.

That's undeniable, and with the riots, there's been businesses that have been burned to the ground, there have been businesses that have been shuttered, that have been closed up. And then don't even get me started about the hurricanes.

We continue.

It's unfair that my job doesn't look like it used to look, or I can't see my friends like I normally see them. It's unfair that I have to sit in service with this mask on my face. It's unfair that I can't hug all the people I want to hug.

I don't know whether you've said that, but I have said that several times. And the truth is, this season that we are in, it has treated us all differently. And for many of us, we have experienced some unfair circumstances.

We didn't ask for them. We didn't create them. We kind of just have had to put up with them. And you know, a lot of us in this room and watching at home right now, it's affected us in different ways. For some, there's been a loss of employment.

For others, if you're in the hand sanitizer business, you're doing really well right now.

Others, you're not. Bummer that I didn't have stock in Purell. Oh well.

Your business is struggling because of the circumstances beyond your control. It's unfair. It's unfair. If you're a parent in here, you'll have children that have probably used the same words to you. It's unfair.

Something in their way. It's unfair. Why do I have to take out the trash? What is...

Yeah, I've heard that one.

Their siblings treated. They might say, it's unfair. And as a parent, what do you say in response? Life's unfair, right? You've all said it, yeah? You have. And that's the truth. Life is unfair, and you might think, well, this is not a very uplifting message, Charlotte, this morning, but we need to know that about life.

We need to face that about life. There are seasons that are just unfair. That's the best way to describe them, and just like we try and teach our children, I think sometimes...

The Problem of Unfairness and the Christian Worldview

Now, this is where I have a problem with the way the problem is presented. So, if you want to kind of put this in a proper biblical perspective, the reason why the world is, you know, in the futility that it finds itself in is because of our sin.

If you really want to drill down in this, you can go into Ecclesiastes, talking about how everything is meaningless. And so you'll note, the story of humanity is the story of calamity, of catastrophe, of, despite all of our best efforts to construct something that is lasting and that is good, it all comes crashing down, and then, of course, we all die.

So, you know, if Jesus tarries in a hundred years, we're all dead. So, you know, it's just, is that unfair? No, this is the consequence of our sin and rebellion against God. So, already I have a problem, because at a church, a church should be taking a biblical worldview and understanding how the biblical narrative comes into play regarding catastrophes and pandemics and global economies melting down and things like this.

This is all a result, this is the consequence of our collective sin. No one particular sin, but as a whole, our rebellion against God. So,.

Already we've got a problem here. We forget as adults that these are the things that we have to learn to navigate as believers. And so today, I want to speak into the place of unfair, whatever that looks like.

Speak into the place of unfair. What's the cash value of that statement? And so you'll note that even from back when I was a kid in an evangelical, there's Christianese. And so now we've got new phrases that have been added to Christianese, and one of the phrases is speak into.

I'm going to speak into unfair. Okay, all right. I have no idea what that means. All right, so if you want to give me hope, then you need to point me to the solution to our sin and its consequences, and that's our crucified and risen Savior.

Okay, so let me give you a couple of assumptions that I work from based on Scripture. So let's take a look at a couple biblical texts to get things rolling here, at least lay a little bit of foundation.

In the Gospel of John, chapter 5, Jesus is talking to those who do not believe in Him. He says, you search, or one translation says, you diligently search. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life.

It is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me so that you may have life. Okay, so according to Jesus, the Bible is about Jesus, and coming to Him is the necessary thing. He is the resurrection and the life.

Anyone who believes in Him, even though he dies, yet shall he live. They will never die, Christ says. So the Scriptures are about Jesus. They're not about me. They're not about you. If you must read yourself into the Bible, then read yourself in as the problem, not the solution.

Just say it, because each and every one of us are sinners. And then you'll note then when we talk about the Old Testament, how do you rightly understand the Old Testament? Well, one of the texts that helps us out along these lines is found in Colossians chapter 2.

After Paul writing about the record of death that stood against us being canceled, that Christ set it aside and nailed it to the cross, it goes on to say, therefore, in light of that, let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

These are a shadow of the things to come. The substance belongs to Christ. So the New Testament teaches us that the Old Testament are types and shadows that point us to one degree or another point us to Christ.

And so we'll know that we're going to rightly handle a biblical text when we end up with Jesus as the solution. You know, you get the idea. So sin's the problem, Jesus is the solution. And as you read different accounts in the Old Testament, especially when you read the writings of the Church Fathers, you're going to note that they obsessed with finding a way to connect it back to Jesus and saw these historical narratives as types and shadows that point us to Christ.

Now there is one other text that I'm thinking about off the top of my head, and it's found in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, I think, let's see. Yes, here it is. So Paul says, And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

Paul apparently was a boring preacher, he even killed somebody during one of his sermons because a fellow fell asleep and fell out of a window, broke his neck. But don't worry, the Apostle Paul could operate in signs and wonders of the Apostles and raise them from the dead.

So that was kind of him. But anyway, he says, and listen to these words, Now, just take this verse out of context, post it on Twitter or Facebook, and watch the people come unglued. I've had that happen to me before.

What do you mean, nothing except for Jesus? That's ridiculous. The whole Bible isn't about Jesus, just the little parts of the Gospels, that's about Jesus. Uh-uh, uh-uh, the whole thing. I chose to know nothing among you except for Christ and Him crucified.

All right, this is like a major thesis sentence. And then if you really wanted to kind of drive the point home, I think it's the Gospel of John, it's the tail end of the Gospel of John. Yeah, let's see here, I'm not quite there yet, let's see here.

There it is. Now, Jesus did many other signs, John 20 verse 30. Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book, but these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

And I think this is more than just the thesis statement of the Gospel of John. I believe this is the thesis statement of all of Scripture. All of Scripture is God-breathed. It points us to Christ. And then kind of in that regard then, a wonderful statement in the book of Revelation chapter 19.

Again, there's no notes here, I'm just kind of doing this off the top of my head. Oh, did I put Romans? I did put Romans. Hang on a second here. This senior moment, so tragic, yet so true. Anyway, Revelation 19, there we go.

I'm in Revelation chapter 19, and there is a wonderful statement, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Even the prophets, they're all pointing to Jesus.

The prophets are pointing to Him coming, the apostles have written about what He did when He was here, and also then point back to what He accomplished during His earthly ministry, and where He is now, ascended to the right hand of the Father, ruling and reigning presently.

So you get the idea. So everything's got to find its terminus in Christ. All the consequences of our sin have to do with sickness, disease, poverty, catastrophes, natural disasters, all those things, you get the idea.

So that's our groundwork here. So let's see where Charlotte.

Grace, Favor, and the Misuse of Jabez

Goes then with this. Unfair. And that is the grace and the favor and the goodness of God.

Now, I'm going to back this up because I am a firm advocate for the grace and the favor of God. Absolutely. But the question is, how is she defining that? See, that's the next question. Just because somebody uses the term grace and favor, doesn't necessarily mean that they're talking about the real grace, the real favor that's found in Scripture.

So I back this up 15 seconds so we can hear the context again of this statement.

That looks like in your life right now, and I want to give you hope today in your place of unfair, because there's something else that is also unfair, and that is the grace and the favor and the goodness of God.

Okay, so the grace and the favor and the goodness of God is unfair. Okay. It is really unfair. He lavishes it upon us when we don't deserve.

It. And what do you mean by that exactly? We're talking about the forgiveness of sins,.

Eternal life. What are we talking about? He sends it following after us on a daily basis. Following after us? Mercy and His goodness and His kindness is extended towards us when we're not actually deserving of it.

We do not deserve God's kindness at all. So here's the thing. You'll note that oftentimes you're going to hear things that sound right, and bits of it are going to be spot on. The trick in discernment is not determining between right and wrong oftentimes.

It's determining the difference between right and almost right. Correct and almost correct. That's the subtlety about doing this, and it requires you to have a firm grasp and understanding of the Scripture.

It's unfair that He would do so much for us when we feel in return we can do so little for Him. So the good news is if you feel like you're in an unfair scenario right now...

The good news is that Christ died for our sins. See, that's the thing. The good news of the Gospel is that Christ died for our sins and was raised again bodily on the third day. That's the good news. See 1 Corinthians 15.

What she said is not the good news, but she's saying good news in the context of the problem that she set up.

That there is hope for you today. That there is a story that God is writing by His grace and favor today that maybe you just need reminding of.

God's writing a story. Okay, so already I'm frustrated because there's a lot of error mixed in here, and the way she's talking about things is not the way the Bible describes things.

The Bible, there are so many people that had to deal with unfair circumstances. It wasn't fair that Moses was born as a boy at a time when there was an edict in the land to murder all the baby boys. That was unfair timing for his birth.

Unfair. Now she's kind of ripping biblical stories out of context and weaving them into the problem that she's laid out for us. It was unfair that Moses was born. It was unfair. That's not an emphasis of any text as it relates to the exodus or the birth of Moses.

It wasn't fair that there was a guy whose mother, when she looked at him, could only think about the pain that she endured to bring him into the world, and so literally called him Jabez, which means pain.

Imagine if you were in a household with your siblings. Okay, time for dinner, Stephen. Come downstairs, Heidi. Pain, get down here right now. You'd be like, this is so unfair, right? But I love Jabez because you know what?

He took his unfair circumstance to God, and he said, God, I wonder if you could write me a different story. I wonder if where I was named Pain, you could enlarge my territory.

Okay, so this reminds me of the big fad that occurred more than a decade ago. This was like a decade and a half, almost two decades ago. The big prayer of Jabez fad. I mean, one verse in all of the scripture turned into a whole book.

God, expand my territory. Boy, people want to hear about that. So, okay, we're majoring on minors here.

I wonder if you could do something to change this script, and God said, I like you. I like you've not just lived with the title somebody gave you, but you've come to the one who can rename you.

It's not a faithful retelling of the mention of Jabez in the Old Testament. We've read a few things into the biblical text that are not there.

That's who we are coming to. The one who rewrites, renames the story.

All right, so when I see something like that, you know, my familiarity with the scripture tells me there's something wrong, but let's do this. So Jabez, Jabez, Jabez. Let's see here. I need to find the actual reference.

It's not in the New Testament, Roseboro. When I do my searches, I need to open up to all text here. So Jabez. All right, so Jabez is mentioned, not that much. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of the thing about Jabez.

The clans. Okay, so we are looking at 1 Chronicles 2, 55. The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez. That's not what we're looking for here. So we're looking now for 1 Chronicles 4, and starting at verse 9.

All right. Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him in pain. Yes, that's his name. Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain.

God granted what he asked. Yeah, that's all of it right there. Whole book written on it. I mean, there were tchotchkes, whole prayer of Jabez prayer shawls, and tchotchkes, and Bible covers, and things like this.

Oh, God, that you would enlarge my border. Oh, yeah, a lot of border enlarging prayers were out there because of the book, The Prayer of Jabez, but that's all we know about him. That's it. So already, you know, you got some major issues here, because what Charlotte said regarding Jabez and what God said to him, that's not in the text.

So already, she's twisting it pretty.

Bad. Let me back this up so you can see that. God said, I like you. I like you've not just lived with the title somebody gave you, but you've come to the one who can rename you.

Yeah, God didn't say any of that, so that's a problem. Today, that's who we are coming.

To. The one who rewrites, renames the story. God didn't rename Jabez. Of our lives. So, I want to take us to a place in the Bible where there's a story that plays out of a very unfair circumstance that someone has to deal with, and I want us to learn from what they did so that we can do the same thing in our life.

Alright, now, that's an important statement, and that tells us a lot about her theology and how she understands the Bible. Listen to what she said.

Plays out of a very unfair circumstance that someone has to deal with, and I want us to learn from what they did so that we can do the same thing in our life.

So, we're supposed to learn what they did so that we can do the same thing in our life. Yeah, this is not what the Old Testament histories are about. Jesus said, you diligently search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have life, yet they are the very Scriptures that testify about me, and you refuse to come to me so that you may have life.

So, I assure you, the story that we're going to hear regarding Lodabar and Mephibosheth have nothing about some application that you're supposed to perform so that you can get the same results as Mephibosheth, because you've got to know, Mephibosheth, he didn't do anything except for receive the good graces and the mercy of King David.

I'll let her spin the story.

Mephibosheth, Lo-debar, and the False Promise of Self-Help

This message is about a place called Lodabar. Everyone say, Lodabar.

Which means, no pasture. That's what the word means.

Lodabar. Lodabar was an actual place where people actually ended up living. It was not a great place. It wasn't a place that you would go on to Zillow and say, I think I would like to live there.

Now, in my research regarding Lodabar, it's important to note this. Lodabar is on the other side of the Jordan, and that's important. It's in the area of Gilead, and that's also important because Mephibosheth is a surviving son of Jonathan, which would make him a competing heir to the throne of Israel.

So Lodabar is, well, it's technically outside of Israel. That's kind of the point here.

I'm pretty sure the property was fairly cheap in Lodabar. It wasn't on the top tourist spots in the area. Lodabar literally means this. It was a place of no pasture, no woods, and no thing. Not attractive, right?

Where do you live? Where there's no pasture, no woods, and no thing.

The two words, Lodabor, I think is the way it would work when you're not declining it. It just means no pasture. That's just the literal translation of.

The name of the place. But that was an actual place that existed. And I think in this season, maybe we can feel, or maybe there's something that's happened in your life that's caused you to feel, wow, I am living in Lodabar.

Now, this is a classic technique. And this is where you are already way off the rails, and you're not understanding a proper sense of what the Bible is saying. Lodabar is not an allegory of a problem in your life.

And see, this is the issue, is that when you do this, you're allegorizing the biblical text, and rather than the biblical text being a type and shadow that point us to Jesus, the biblical text then become a type and shadow that point us to something in your life.

So you do not have a Lodabar, you do not live in Lodabar. That's not the point of this text in this way. Again, the terminus needs to find it in Christ. This is type and shadow, Jesus is the substance, so we're going to look for a way, how do we connect this back in a way that we can see that we maintain the historicity of the text, we don't want to deny that, while at the same time noting that the theological significance is going to have a connection back to Jesus.

So what she's doing here is doing violence to the text, and this is always like the major move in Narcissus, where you're going to read yourself into the biblical text. I assure you, you're not in here, at least in the way she's playing it out.

I feel I have no pasture. I don't feel secure anymore. I feel all the things that made me feel comfortable have been removed. I feel like I don't have a voice anymore. I don't have a place where I can express myself anymore.

I feel like everything that was connected to me is somehow has been disconnected. That is called Lodabar.

No, it's not. You're the first person I've ever heard say that.

And if that is where you are, or where you know someone that you love is currently living... Do you live in Lodabar, Alabama? It's time... Wouldn't that be Lodabar? Time to help them step out of Lodabar into the grace and the favor of God.

So you have to step out of Lodabar and into the grace and favor of God. So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta. And you gotta know, when you gotta, that's law. So are you in Lodabar? Well, it's kind of your fault, because you haven't stepped out of Lodabar.

God's grace and favor is there for you, but you gotta leave your Lodabar. It's just bad theology all around.

The person that lived in Lodabar was a young man. He went there from a very early age. His life was very unfair. That's how he ended up there. His name was Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth's story is told in Samuel, the book of Samuel.

And in 2 Samuel, we're given a context for what actually happened to Mephibosheth. Let me read to you how his life literally, in a moment, turned from good to very hard. It says in verse 4,. This is what happened.

And Jonathan, his father, came from Jezreel. Now the news that came to him at this young age was that both his father and his grandfather had died on a battlefield.

Right. And this is in the bigger story of the struggle between Saul, who was a wicked king whom God was judging, and cutting him off, and cutting his monarch dynasty of Israel, and the ascent of David, who was at that time the anointed but not yet coronated king of Israel, which has messianic implications like you wouldn't believe.

The story of David, in so many ways, is parallel to the life of Christ. His story is in type and shadow, and the fulfillment is in Jesus. You can make connections back, and you'll note that Jesus is the descendant of King David, will sit on the throne of his father David forever and ever, you know, in a world without end.

Absolutely, that's going to be the case. I would point you to, like, Revelation 20 and 21, you know, to give you an example of what we're looking at coming here. All of that being said, you can't understand the theology properly unless you are making connections back to Jesus, the son of David, and things like this.

So there's a reason why things go poorly for Mephibosheth, and this has to do with his grandfather's evil and rebellion against the Word of God.

It's pretty unfair that overnight this young boy lost the two people in his life that he looked to, his father and his grandfather. And now because he's in the royal household, there's a urgency to get him to a place where he's not endangered for his life, because there will be a fight over who took over the.

Dynasty of the household. This is most certainly true. So he would have a competing claim to the throne of Israel. And so the person that he should have.

Been able to trust, the nurse looking after him, it says she picks him up, and she was beginning to flee, fleeing out the house. And as she hurried to leave, she dropped him. He fell, and he became disabled.

His name was Mephibosheth. In one moment, his life went from one reality to a whole nother reality. He went from a prince to a fugitive. He went from able-bodied to disabled. He went from a palace lifestyle to the location that he was taken to of.

Maybe you feel right now, you were in one place, and now you're in another.

Are you in lo de bar? See, this is just a violent...this is doing violence to biblical text. That's not why this account is written. The stories ultimately have their terminus in Christ, not you and me.

This is a ridiculous way of handling these texts. This is wrong.

And now you're not. You felt like you knew what was happening with your future. Now you have no clue what the future is going to look like. That was his life.

Are you in your lo de bar? Are you experiencing your Mephibosheth moment?

It's not what this is about. And so let's draw some lessons from this man's journey. What did he learn? How did he end up leaving lo de bar?

By the grace and mercy of King David.

The news I have for you today, church, you are going to leave lo de bar. I'm telling you.

I'm not in lo de bar. I left it long ago because I never went there. None of us have been there.

You are going to leave lo de bar. Some of you don't think it's possible to get a different story out of this season, but God is writing the story already that's going to blow your mind.

Now, this is where I have to make an important point. And that is that already we can see what she's about to do. And I've seen this done thousands of times. And that's not hyperbole. Over the time that I've done my podcast, you know, reviewing hundreds of sermons every year, and there were hundreds more that never made the cut.

That being the case, I've seen this done thousands and thousands of times. And the idea here is that what she's going to end up doing is making promises for God that God has not made and read into this text steps or decisions that somebody made in order to get themselves out of a bad circumstance.

And if you just follow that pattern, you can get out of your bad circumstance too. That's not a promise that's given to us in Scripture. So keep this in mind. In the New Covenant, what we are promised is the forgiveness of our sins and eternal life given as a gift.

God is the one who raises us from the dead spiritually, and then as our God, he cares for our needs. We are also promised suffering and persecution in this lifetime. This is just what we are to expect as Christians.

These are the promises for us. And we're just passing through. Our life is a vapor, a smoke. We're here today, we're gone tomorrow, and nobody remembers us anymore. That's how that goes. So the idea here is that if you lose sight of what the real promises are of the New Covenant, and you start to make promises for God that he has not made, note this, God is not required to keep those promises that you're making for him that he didn't make.

And when you come up with artificial or counterfeit promises, you get people trusting in God for things he has not promised to give them. And when the inevitable happens, and God doesn't make good on these promises because they were not promises he ever made, people say Christianity is false.

It's bovine scatology. It isn't true. The preacher lady told me that I can get out of my load of bar, and my load of bar has gotten worse. I followed all the steps she said I needed to follow, just like Mephibosheth followed.

And my load of bar is even worse than it was before. And they'll say Christianity isn't true. And the reason being is because this woman's in the real sense. She's blaspheming. She's making promises for God he has not made at all.

And that's the problem here with this technique. This is not exegesis. This is eisegesis. And she's reading in promises that ain't there.

And so I want us to learn from Mephibosheth's story. The first thing I want us to learn is this. Number one, your status life gives you does not alter the significance within you.

The status life gives you does not alter the significance within you. So now we've got a problem. We're scratching itching ears, and we're ignoring an important text. Let me pull that up here. Romans chapter 3.

You want to talk about your significance? Okay. Paul writes, and this, by the way, this verbiage that we're about to read, and this is found in Psalm 14 and 53. This occurs three times in Scripture. Pay attention.