Rebuilding Mount Sinai

You do go to sleep. You can say what you want. Not having this tonight i'm telling. You want around me. Can y 'all hear it? Sheep among misfits. A misfit in the trailer park at night a misprint with the six cents.

Been sick ever since my brother died. If I know. Never made sense either to me or anyone else's side of the sheet. My knife's hit on my right side. Tell me what's the bottom line? The bottom line is i'm not right.

I'm not left but this elephant won't fight. I'll tell you what. I couldn't hear it. Nothing. Nothing. Tell us how you really feel about it. Jeff. I feel like i'm gonna freaking punch this freaking iPad.

Hey.

Hey How are you. Is debbie on there. Hi debbie.

Hi, debbie. Hey, what man? This has not been my day not been my day. Not been my day. What happened? Why is it not your day? I had a migraine all day like. The pull pillow like I got ran over by a mac truck walked into my office and just fell out.

It is the lord's day. It's the lord's day, but it wasn't my day in the lord's day.

It sounds like you're making it all about you right now. Well, it kind of is.

Will you stop messing with the lights? You're not cool. Like like you're really not. Hey, i'm just saying if I had. You're trying to make it. You're trying to make it darker. So your beard looks more pristine, but it's not.

It's not that everybody it's coming in real thick. Hey, I just want to let everybody know this episode is going to be a lot of bullying brayden.

I'm, just oh, yeah, I forgot to start it out. Hey everybody. Welcome to the open air theology show. My name is jeff. I'm one of the co-hosts here at the open air theology show and I am one of the Pastor elders at covenant reform baptist church in telehoma, tennessee.

If you're ever out this way, please stop and check us out. I'm gonna pass it over to this jack leg.

Okay Give me I I just gotta go grab something real fast.

One second something's wrong. No, y 'all leaving me now. Wait a minute. You see you say that they just purposely raptured themselves like. Like I need new friends. I need new friends. Right, you look better.

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Wait.

Clear is what you're saying right now. My name is brayden patterson. I'm the i'm the pastor of out of a out of galley baptist church. My hagerman idaho. I'm getting ready to go to grace bible church of moore park california to be a pastor there.

Just like to everybody look my hands grew. So. Yeah, let me go ahead and pass it down to that guy. Yeah, my old man.

I like to remind brayden that I have a better beard than him every chance I get. And I go to grace bible church in bernie, texas. We meet on lord's day At 10 30 a .m. As well as 6 p .m. On the lord's day sunday I we also do evangelism and i'm so thankful to know brayden patterson and jeff, but really brayden Boom.

You can apply for a friendship at openairtheologyconference .com. I'm taking applications. Um, I won't be doing much venting right? Uh, just. Right, we got to do better. Like that's just we got to do better.

I don't know who to ask how your lord's day went but.

Well, I would ask I would ask Tom how his day was.

It was good, which one's tom. I'm tom Kenny. Can you not read?

No, i'm just like what a headache. Be nice. It was good. Switching the scenes it was good. We got to listen to michael beck, uh preacher earlier today. It was a great lord's day service. It was lots of fun.

Um. Because where's where's tom going or where's brayden going? Sorry and i'm not confused. I'm confused too. Well, and I do want to just let everybody know on the podcast. We had some things come up and so we we had to go a little bit later than normal, too.

I'm gonna go shut my computer real fast.

Did you introduce yourself? Yeah as brayden how good we did our church service today. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so, uh, what we have so yeah, michael beck, uh preached earlier today. Did brayden already say that?

So you're pretty much the exact same thing. So then. Uh brayden preached tonight on uh, basically in philippians.

Hold on. Let's wait for the jack leg. Okay, i'm taking them off the screen. Is he coming. There he is.

All right I just want y 'all to know is how how gay they are right now.

This is i'm. This is not gay. This this is no hashtag. No homo. Yeah, this is no homo. No diddy. No diddy. No diddy.

Anyway, isn't that cool though guys? We got Brayden patterson here next tom shepherd in texas. Let's see the height and difference. Yeah. Oh Oh my god, look at that. And i'm taller than tom look at the difference.

Put your hand up look at that. It's it's it's bad. Oh, that's a good view right there. Go ahead. Look at that. That's bad I can't like. You gotta look at debbie's hand. Debbie put your hand here. There you go.

Look. Look debbie's hand is bigger than brayden's hands. That's how small his hands are. This is no lie. Oh small paws. Hey small small paws. Oh, I poked me. I he poked me in his eye with his fist.

I Told everybody at the beginning of this everybody's gonna make fun of me today. And i'm gonna take the high road come on and be christ-like and let them make fun of me. So go ahead guys.

How do you do it? What are we doing?

This feels like diddy stuff, right?

Hey orthodox macarthur. I heard rumor had it. That you visited the church in tele homa didn't see today. That's that's what I heard.

That's good. And he brought it. They brought me a gift. They did.

A cigar. That is a mighty gift right there. That is good. Yeah.

Like right there boy, how do you get to.

Oh and sam sam harris red. Was doing free haircuts. Anybody need a free haircut. Over at uh, covenant reformed baptist church in tele homa, tennessee. Hit up red. He's doing them for free. He accepts trips in the form of cigars.

Yeah, you come to the crbc. On the lord's day you can get a haircut as well. They love each other there. And god honoring ways. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, we we we we're all about washing feet.

Right, that's right. In cutting hair and holy kisses. So our day was good. So today I got to. I got to uh, listen to michael beck's sermon earlier this morning um. He preached saying to the lord had a good lord's day morning.

Uh later in the evening braden patterson got to preach in philippians and talk about his testimony, um. Being converted from uh, mormonism. It was an excellent sermon. Encouraged a lot of people um good stuff.

And then evangelism. We went out yesterday at the alamo dome in san antonio and we had. Including brady and about 12 people.

Yeah, it was awesome. It was about showing. It was really cool. Yeah 12 people from our church.

But 12 people from our church actually came down and we had open air preaching uh me and a guy by the name of daniel, uh, bobby trejo and then um. And then braden and myself we all open air preach and then we had other people doing a whiteboard.

Are you going to heaven? Asked that question. So a lot of people a lot of good conversations a lot of good.

Gospel conversations. And it's pretty hot. It was we got summer. Yeah.

Texas sun. Yeah, it was hot. Um. So it was. It was a good lord's day and good it was a weekend day. Very cool, very cool.

So tell us what happened to you. Jeff I just had a migraine man. I went. I went to bed last night. Like it's probably about midnight. I my head started started hurting and then it just it just kept building the pressure and everything and.

Probably about halfway through my sermon man. I felt like I was gonna fall out and then after the sermon was over with. Like I you know, we have that big old meal afterwards and like we had like it was an amazing time.

Taking place that I wasn't really able to get involved with. I walked into my office cut the lights off and just kind of fell to my knees and just next thing I know I was laying on my stomach out in my office floor like that.

My head was hurting so bad I was really dizzy. As I was preaching I would look down at my notes and like every once in a while I could see what was written there. But sometimes I'd look down and I couldn't see anything.

It was just kind of blurry. And uh, so I was just kind of having to try to remember what was there. Everyone seems to say that it was a good message. I haven't listened to it yet. So I don't know. Hmm.

Well, you're feeling better now. Yeah, um, so when I came home, I came home probably about five o 'clock or so I took some excedrin and went and took a nap. I woke up at seven. And my headache was gone.

So.

Well, praise god. Good. That's that's a good deal.

Yeah, but I still feel kind of like my brain is kind of cloudy kind of like like a hangover feel that makes sense so. Hmm, probably all those dispensational books you've been buying and reading. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you know, it is what it is.

You you see basically what happened was after the sermon you got raptured for a bit.

Sounds like to me. And you had a secret rapture. You can't even remember.

Hello, yeah, but it was good seeing the. What happened did I miss it. You did. You got raptured for a moment dude. I'm telling you in my brain dude I'm telling you. I feel like i'm on some heavy drugs and i'm.

It ain't matter my eyes. Debbie put that up on the screen. Debbie just says something nice about bruce. Oh, let's say brayden has a good personality. That's like something you say to someone when you're about to break up with them.

You know, you're a real nice guy and all. Yeah, it's not it's me. It's not you. You're you're a sweet guy.

See everybody they're doing this. Hello. I'm taking the high road and it's.

All right. Yeah, but let me ask you this if you're thinking bad thoughts like you might as well just say it.

That's right, you know when you leave her alone.

You got john macarthur study bibles that you're preaching from pew bibles. Yeah, sure.

I do have a johnny mack study bible, you know that macarthur guy. He's a poop starter, I don't know if y 'all knew that about him. Orthodox macarthur or john macarthur orthodox both of them. Yeah, yeah, I had heard no, but it was a joy meeting him and his family like like whenever so.

He didn't tell me who he was. He didn't reveal himself to me like when he first got there. I walked back. Yeah, I was all polite to him and stuff. Like if I knew it was him. I would have been like That was all polite to him.

So he took the hand and uh, tell him I hope they stuck around and stuff like that. Then I ended up falling out in my office, but then I come back out and. And they stayed for the food and there was fellowshipping with the believers at the church.

And then I walk up to him start talking. I guess we was talking for about 10 minutes and he finally revealed himself to me. I kind of just grabbed him. Because I know he knew who I was by then so I was like well I can I can punch him in the stomach and it's fine.

Yeah. Really cool guy man. Beautiful family. He brought me a cigar. Yeah, it was a it was a joy. Joy meeting a really good dude.

Today I heard on the other macarthur. I actually heard that he's feeling better. And who did I. Matter of fact, I can't remember who texted me earlier this morning or this afternoon. You read that macarthur was doing a a q a tonight.

So it sounds like he's in better health.

Yeah, that's good. So jeff thought he was smoking a cigar, but it was a blunt. That's why it was so disoriented. That's right. Got me.

Is he what was he doing? Are you back in there now? I didn't want to be around tom anymore.

I don't blame you. I'm just joking. I'm going back up get out of my room. Good lord. You're getting on my nerves. Huh? Pick a spot. I'm getting you got a nice office.

Thank you, I got nice lighting too. Brayden brayden's a weirdo.

I am okay. So brandon, I see the hair like right here and down here, but where. Oh, where'd he go? I was talking about his cheeks.

Yeah, so tell us all right. Church and all that. Jeff.

Okay, so so about the uh, the building. Yeah. All right. So. Hopefully. Hopefully. Everyone who who's curious Concerning the building is listening, uh, or will listen uh. Yeah, so. Okay, so i'm trying to remember well have I said anything on the podcast about what's going on.

So Talking about a purchase you were looking on or working on paperwork for a loan.

Yeah, okay well so they offered so the building that that we're looking at the church building I told y 'all it's a really nice church building. Uh, it's valued at eight hundred thousand. They offered it to us for four hundred thousand.

We're broke right we counter offer a hundred thousand. And then they gave us another then they countered offer our hundred thousand to a hundred and twenty five thousand. Listen this building. It's really nice.

Like if we could get this thing like it would just be such a blessing well. There's a there's a family in our church. Who is basically? Has given thirty thousand. For a down payment and uh. So we're trying to get a loan and and and so the thirty thousand will take care of the down payment.

And that will leave us I think like 90 something to pay off 96 or something like that to pay off. I think it's going to be for a 12-year mortgage for like 800 a month, I think it is which is way cheaper than my house.

Um. However We still don't have enough money for the closing right so, um I'm trying to figure out a way to come up with ten thousand dollars. It would just be such a shame. For us not to get this building, um.

So, uh, we're trying to figure out um, no, it's on your neck dude get it off. No, are you gonna let me talk. Yeah, yeah, so with my business with my business I could uh, uh, uh, the uh, I use something called square space whenever people buy stuff from me.

Yeah, and they've offered me $11 ,000 loan however. In paying it back it takes 20 of everything that I sell. And so and it leaves me where i'm literally Having to miss food like I like i'm having to skip skip meals and stuff like that.

So it it it leaves me struggling because I took out a loan before and it it really hurts us a lot. So we're just trying to figure out a way to um to to challenge people. From our church and our church is small.

We're broke that family the one that's given 30 000. They're like the only one that has anything so Just trying to figure out a way to come up with ten thousand dollars so I'll be praying for us. Um, it would just be a shame if if we messed out on this building, so be praying for us yeah, so.

What we're thinking is where's the kitchener? So you're gonna find out you're.

Uh. You may be going out of them with another counter offer. I'm gonna try to go back to one thousand one hundred thousand, right? But I'm, not sure if they'll take it because they got another church trying to buy it as well.

And I think the other church is willing to pay the four hundred thousand. Okay, so here's so we got. But they really like me.

So somebody said we got three can somebody just said we got three count here. Here's what we're thinking guys. Is that brayden. And I think that we should um.

Start a go fund me. Start a go fund me.

Uh brayden and I are going to contribute. Uh, we need ten thousand dollars for jeff to get to close on this church. What do you guys think about us doing that? Would if you guys if we did that would you guys be willing to share it around?

Um to help jeff get this church, it would be.

The money would go straight to the church's account, right? Yeah, right.

So Please be praying about that. Hopefully we could get this.

Hopefully, I mean they could also. They could also go to our our church website if they wanted to. They don't you know you know. If y 'all want to help a brother out. Like you can go to our church's website.

We have a link there for tightly to give and just put down there for the building um. And that's what it would go to. Um, so today. Our church was packed. It's a small church. Yeah, if if five more people Would have been there like there would have been no place to sit if two other people came like it was just it was.

So packed how many people was that then do you would you say? So I didn't mean five people because we had we had a few families out. So if those few families would have been there.

With five you've outgrown your building is what you're saying. We've outgrown our building. What. Well praise the lord for that. How many how many people would that be about?

Oh, it's not many because we have a small small building. 40 50 people. How many. Yeah something like that. So we usually have about 30. We have about 30 members and then we have a. Like I'm, i'm doing membership meetings almost every week now.

Like the lord is growing our church. We had a baptism today. I'll be meeting with that family this coming up week. I was going to meet with them today, but my mind brain got in the way um like The lord is growing our church.

And he's growing it through street preaching just going out on the streets in our own neighborhood.

Jeff evangelist street preaching that stuff. It doesn't work man. It works for us. Oh, no.

That stuff. I thought that was a spider that landed on you guys. What's that?

It's a freaking spider all the yeah, so so so sam sam was there all the queues were full. I mean it was yeah. Can you imagine? Because you guys aren't in any any luxury building right now. No, we're in a storefront property and it's it's it's it's it's bad like if you were to see that no one knows where a church like.

The state won't even allow us to put up a sign that's going to where as traffic can see it. They're allowed so we're right beside a tattoo shop a bar and a thrift store with a tech with a tobacco store in front of us.

They're all allowed to have a sign to where traffic can see them. They will not allow us to have a sign right.

So imagine what you know, you know because the fact of the matter is Anybody has a church building. People are going to check out a church building. Yeah, if you actually have a designated Church that has a sanctuary in it.

This is a beautiful building. Have you do you have a picture of the picture of the of the building?

Do you have a picture of the picture of the picture of the building if I was to send one to the uh group? Could you uh? I could do that. Yeah. Okay, because I don't know how to do it. So let me send one your computer.

If you want to touch the computer, all right guys watch watch this. Tom is now lifting his weight on this show and he's using.

My computer. I'm gonna send a few pictures. I'll send one of the building and i'll send one of the of the inside and stuff like that.

Can you see us right now when you go off the screen like that? Yeah.

I can see you. Look watch this. So, okay. Can you see us right. Here's a little bit different than mine, obviously. How do I get the.

What are you trying to do. Nice thing. Can you do. Never mind. That's all good. Jeff he's got us now. I'm trying. Give me a second. Hey, jeff. You gotta hurry boy. He's a grump Grumpy.

I'm a grumpy old man. Mm-hmm.

I don't like there's one. Listen y 'all texas has big spiders and I don't like it. There's a big one up there right now.

60 people today at jeff's church. 60 Jeff, that's so cool, man. Actually, actually i'm gonna take that back. There was 60 people at christ church.

Yeah, it's not my church. Wait, oh gosh, gosh, wait, what are you doing? What don't you copy? I just don't want them to see this part right here. So just time out.

Do you know what you're doing? Yeah I do. I'm gonna send one of the sanctuary as well. Now it does need a paint job because it's got lavender walls. We're doing the paint. We already got your paint. I I know a guy who paints.

Who has a painting company?

He doesn't know how to do it. Yes, I didn't knew it.

You could probably drag that over. No, I need it to be. Why does it not do. Don't worry don't. What's happening. Drag that. What is going on right now, okay, we're just gonna do this. Let's have to. Yeah, like I don't want that to be up there.

How do I all right? I sent some Thanks, dude.

We're trying. Oh, wow, that's cool, well we could see it our our audience can't though. Go get your computer. Dude, go get your computer. He doesn't know how to use a mac obviously.

Because he's a megalomaniac. Y 'all don't remember that crisscross. Sorry. Crisscross and make you jump jump daddy mac make you jump jump. Sorry, you're about to throw my outfit on backwards and start dancing.

So I.

So, what are you guys. What are we doing today, I don't even know what we're talking about.

So right now we're talking about church. We're supposed to be talking about the long gospel distinction concerning the uh, what was said by uh, what's his name. Who's joe booth? Joe booth. Yeah. Yeah, and I and I just want to point out like when he comes to you know, here comes brayden.

I'll point it out in a minute. What am I doing on my computer again the pictures? What?

Oh my lord, so if he was in tennessee, I'd. Okay, here we go. Yeah, so that's one of the outsides. And um, and you can see like it has stained glass windows like it's beautiful. The the other side looks identical to it and it has a a balcony upstairs.

We're definitely gonna have to change the color of that interior. Yeah, I think that you ought to let me pick the colors.

There it is. Yeah, so yeah. That is not I mean.

Like the The ground as well like it has so much space. I mean, it's just phenomenal. Phenomenal. Yeah, like it would just be a a true Miracle blessing of god for us to get something like this if if if we don't jump on this opportunity.

Like this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity for a bunch of trailer park kids. You know what i'm saying? Also. Listen, listen. Right next door next door. Like we share like you can't pull into this place without pulling into the church.

It's a trailer park. Just saying i'm just saying. Does the bell work? In the church the way. The bell, I don't know. What. You didn't try the bell. I didn't try the bell. Well, how do you know did you not hear.

There's a trailer park.

That's fantastic. Yeah. I mean this is this. It would be like going back home. I know I. Yeah. That's hanging out in the straight light. I mean if that doesn't have jeffrey rice written all over it. I don't know what does.

Listen, my wife made me so mad when she wanted to get a house. I'm like, let's get a trailer. I'm like you're ruining my. I got a reputation. You got dreams.

You know, you know you can even go highfalutin and get a double wide. That's right.

I wish they made them double stack. You know what i'm saying. Like a two-story trailer. Put some wheels on it.

It's spinning. You can you can put them on blocks and keep the tires spinning on. So you go over and spin them with your finger, what are we talking about tonight guys.

So, uh. Rebuilding mount sinai. What does that mean tom.

It means that we wouldn't be going back to the law to So now that we have we are we are justified by faith In christ through the person work of christ. And our faith is in christ alone for our eternal salvation.

That we we wouldn't be going back to the law Um to think that we would be able to continue to be righteous uh by doing good works. We are our faith would continue to be totally dependent To keep us In the person work of christ alone.

In other words about the object of our faith Was not only sufficient enough to save us But it's to continue on in saving us. And so we don't go about Going back to the law as if we were to try to earn our justification.

We're already justified. But we're not going to earn our sanctification either. We're going to continue To bend to depend on christ alone um. And and be confident in his work that was already accomplished on the cross.

So it's working. Yeah. Hebrews 12 troy, uh, dickerson just posted on that that's 100 right. Hebrews 12 is. Not only does it refute presbyterian theology of talking about the covenants being the same But it also talks specifically about this clear distinction law and gospel distinction that we're talking about.

I left my bible out with tom where i'd be reading it right now.

I'm going back out. Do you want someone else to read it? I mean yeah go to go read go read hebrews 12 All of it. Oh, he just disappeared. What man. Listen, I just don't know where I find people at like I just.

All right, hebrews 12. Let's go All right. Let's see. I think he's wanting to focus on. The kingdom that cannot be shaken before that. You're looking before that. Okay.

The text I preach from at the church i'm going to.

What would you preach from. You want to start from 18 through 29? Well, it might be that one.

So i'll read verse one and two. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. No, go ahead. You don't want me to read first one. Therefore since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us laying aside every weight And the sin which is so easily entangled us let us run with endurance the race that is set before us Fixing our eyes on jesus the author and perfecter of our faith Who for the joy set before him endured the cross despising the shame?

And has sat down at the right hand of the throne of god that's a great so the reason the reason I would I would say in that because Now that we've been justified now that we have been adopted into the family of god We Are we're not going to go back to thinking that we can Earn our justification or earn or be pleasing to christ.

By doing it's not by our doing as if we are just going to Change behavior. It's not just about putting on. It's it's about putting off and putting on so there's a there's a dual aspect of it. But the whole point is is it's that we're trusting and keeping our faith fixed on christ alone.

So fixing our eyes on jesus the author and perfecter of our faith. That's really good. Tom. Thank you. Thank you. It's wonderful to have you here, by the way. I'm so glad that you were able to visit. Thank you.

Yeah, i've been too bad. Jeff wasn't able to come. I honestly.

There wouldn't have been enough room on the screen. So we probably are better without him. Yeah.

Anyway, i'm not a big guy. I was so you were gonna go to hebrews 12. Yeah, hebrews 12.

Listen, I want to say something. No, you're interrupting. Y 'all run your mouth and I. Listen, i'm gonna take you off the screen if I have to i'm gonna say this. Listen, you don't know how annoying it's been when we're having this our face time on facebook.

Trying to talk. Are you shut up? We're trying to talk and instead of them looking at the phone and talking I'm, i'm looking at both of them looking at each other and talking i'm thinking what the heck I just feel like a third wheel.

That is a nice bible. Who made that? Oh my freaking goodness.

Oh, man. So back to the text. Tom, yes. Yeah, would you like to look at this? Yeah, what where you got? So look. We can share a bible look.

For you have not come to what may be touched a blazing fire and first wait.

We got to tell them what verse we're reading 12. Wait brayden. We have to tell the audience what text we are looking. Go ahead and tell them. It looks like it's okay. You're you're big fingers and hands.

We can drop an ash in his bible hebrews 12. Hebrews 12 and it looks like we're gonna go. Let's go ahead and start at verse 18. All right.

Let's go ahead and read verse 18. I'm gonna read verse 18. Yeah. And you have not come to what may be touched a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest And a sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words may the hearers beg that no.

You're a bird nugget, you know that. Just run your mouth run your mouth.

Wow, all right back to the text interrupting god's word that's that's that's.

That's messed up dude. Uh, but they could not endure the order that was given. Start over and be serious. Here we go, man.

The whole verse go ahead. Listen, this is open our theology. We're not serious.

Go ahead. What was it right here? Okay. Verse 18. Go ahead. For you have not come into the mountain that Can be touched with. Wait you.

Come on I was looking at you too.

Quit looking at me. For you have not come to a mountain that can be playing with his leg and good quit touching me. Stop.

You read it ain't nothing getting done tonight ladies and gentlemen.

I'm thankful we're saved by the gospel because we have leaf keeping the law over here.

I can read it for you have not come To a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire And to a darkness and a gloom and whirlwind And to the blast of the trumpet. Here you can read the thing. Oh, man.

You read it. What are we where are we at dummy?

Right and the sound of words which was such that those who heard begged that no further words be spoken to them. For they could not bear what was being commanded. If even a beast touches the mountain it will be stone.

And so terrible was what appeared that moses said I am full of fear and trembling but you Have come to mount zion and to the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem. And to myriads of angels to the festival gatherings and assemblies of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven and to god the judge of all.

And to the spirits of the righteous made perfect and to jesus the mediator of a new covenant and to the blood or the Sprinkled blood which speaks better than the blood of able. Yeah. So the point in that text is it's quoting from it's it's quoting and hearkening back to what we see in exodus 19 on.

And exodus 19 it talks about moses mediating the covenant for the people While receiving the law. And it talks about that if if anybody comes up to this mountain as moses is giving the law they're gonna die.

They'll be put to death. And then from there, there's a continual Continual you break this law of death you break this law of death you break this law of death. And so you can almost imagine what hebrews is talking about.

They cannot bear it. They they. They realize that they were owed death right there and there was no such thing For them to have a life In this mountain. And so if you were are if we confuse law and gospel.