Does Doctrine Matter - Part 2 — Derek Melton

Matter. I didn't read the bulletin out loud, but you can read it. Go to Romans chapter six. I started two weeks ago up on a small exhortation about the importance of biblical doctrines. Kind of ironic being I'm not watching the John Bevere series with you, but I'm in meetings with our pastors and last week Donna came to me said guess what he talked about it talked about doctrine and that amazing.

And again I know sometimes that we have this seeming dread that grips us whenever we start mentioning that we're going to minister on doctrine. You're like man this is going to be dry if you know what true biblical doctrine is the essence of life.

It's not the dry crusty theology that stays in the the corridors of universities. We're talking about the essence of the gospel my friend doctrinal truths that we need to have rooted and grounded in our heart.

The Necessity of Biblical Doctrine

If you and I are to stay rooted and grounded in Christ we need these biblical doctrines. And never in my years of ministry have I had the sense of urgency to preach about the importance of solid biblical doctrine as I have now.

It's something that God's worked in me for the last month or so. In fact I'm just recently Greg Gordon was sermon index and I we've been buddies for a while and just talking back and forth and he's invited me to preach at one of his conferences coming up in May and I asked him what he wanted me to preach on if he truly wanted me to preach because I really don't feel like the caliber of preacher that they normally have at their conferences and I told him that but he told me that I could share what I felt was important and something that God has been dealing with my heart.

And so them people are probably going to hear about the importance of strong biblical doctrine and the the importance of that in the life of the of the saved regenerated child of God. Amen. And so we are living in a time where the doctrines that are coming forth from a good a good number of the pulpits across our land especially in the Western Hemisphere are unbiblical in nature and they talk about Jesus but it's all all of its centers around the whims and the needs and the desires of man instead of the glory and the majesty of God.

And it is my endeavor in life that by God's grace and God's power to turn this upside down thing right side up that we all come together if there be 20 of us if there be five of us if there be two of us or two thousand of us that it's all done for the glory of God.

That everything that we preach every message every sermon that we pour out to the hearts and the lives of the people that it's about the glory of Almighty God because that is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ all things under the glory of God.

Now Romans 6 16 to 18 says this know you not that to whom you yield your servants to obey his servants you are whom you obey whether of sin unto death or obedience under righteousness. But God be thanked that you were the servants of sin.

But you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine that was delivered unto you being then made free from sin you became the servants of righteousness. Now in first Timothy 416 you can turn there if you want or if you want to listen to me read it.

It says take heed unto thyself and to the doctrine. Take heed unto yourself and unto thy doctrine and continue in them. For in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee. We need strong solid biblical doctrine the preaching of the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But we need that more today than anytime. Mark through history if I could say that correctly. Let's pray father just enlighten our understanding with truth. Father. We don't just need an awareness but a revelation of truth.

Father. I pray that you would press upon us Lord God our need for these great doctrines of the faith Lord. That we'd be no more children tossed to and fro by every doctrine of man. But father God that we could be fixed upon the truth of the Word of Almighty God the sovereign Word of God.

Lord God that we not be swayed neither to the left nor to the right before the God. That would be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord. Father God. I pray Lord God that you would unveil and reveal and impress upon us our need for solid biblical doctrines.

That we not fall away or astray in this hour. Father God give me the time of the learn. Let me be able to speak this word with precision with an unction with an anointing that it not be me but Christ within me the hope of glory in Jesus name.

Amen. Now I'm not going to go back and talk about anything really I talked about last time. We have those CDs back there and they're free of no charge to you. Do you want part one. So we're going to engage in part two and first Timothy chapter four.

Doctrine Is Life, Not Academic Theory

If you'll go ahead and turn with me there in your Bibles we're going to launch out upon this. We have to overcome some mindsets that we have that doctrine is boring blood. We have to embrace the realities that doctrine is life.

We have to get past some of these these notions that we've been taught to us by by a failing religious culture. That this is only that doctrinal issues are only for the theologian to be expressed within the halls of the seminary by the professor into the student and to be kept within those confounds.

But we have got to come to the knowledge of the truth that biblical doctrine is imperative unto the life of every man woman boy or girl that's truly born of God. But we need these doctrines to keep us from going astray unto doctrines of demons.

If there ever was a time to learn these doctrines of devils was it an epidemic an epidemic. Today's the day. Today is the day it doesn't take much investigation to to come to a finding that there is a lot of damned heresies being taught abroad especially on Christian television shows.

Now the Word of God says in 1st Timothy 4 verse 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith. Beloved talk is talking about departing from biblical doctrine.

It's about practices. It's about the lifestyle whereby we have lived according unto the Word of God that they're going to be some that depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits. And the doctrines say doctrines doctrines of devils speaking lies and hypocrisy having their consciences seared over with a hot iron.

So we see here the Spirit of God speaking expressly to the last days especially the last of times that was going to be an exodus from the biblical foundations of doctrinal truth into the look to the lies in the air of unbiblical heresy.

But yet it's all embraced in the name of religion. 2nd Peter chapter 2. Please turn with me please. I have two great passions. One is studying of the Word of God. Rarely do I find myself in the kind of state that I find myself whenever I'm studying the Word of God.

And those of you that are good brands that you like to open your Bible and get on your knees and to pray. And as God begins to reveal divine truth unto your spirit man you know what I'm talking about.

There's no there's no greater feelings of of just being engulfed in the enormity of God's presence. That when you have the Word of God open and that God begins to speak to you by his Spirit as you're dividing the Word of Truth rightfully and studying and preparing and crying out to God for revelation.

And as God begins to pour that revelation forth listen if you're not familiar with that sensation by that commitment then you need to get before God on your knees with your Bible open and pray. And when God begins to reveal his holy word to your heart by the Holy Spirit beloved you're going to be completely overtaken to whereby you're going to become a lover of the study of the Word of God it completely overtakes you.

It comes so one of the most heightened times of your life is the whenever you're studying the Word of God. And then a second is preaching that revelation that God gives is number two and to be able to share that with those that you love.

Now in 2nd Peter chapter 2 the Word of God says. And there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privately shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Now I don't have time to go into to deep revelation here about this passage but I'll tell you that in there denying the Lord that bought them what it is is a denial of the doctrinal truths of the Word of God.

These people are not people that say we don't believe in the supremacy of Christ but these are a people that have engaged themselves in a heretical worldview concerning sacred scripture. They allow things to creep into their belief system that are extra biblical and are unbiblical.

And so that begins to be a part of their other doctrines. And so is it denying the truth of the doctrines of Christ about the glory of God. And it's a denying of allowing that to have place in their lives in their hearts.

Are you with me. It's not a saying well I just don't like Jesus anymore and we're just going to go down to the bar and get drunk and then go sleep with some girl we don't know. It's not what it's talking about.

And the Word of God says. And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of the way of truth being evil spoken of and through covetousness they shall with faint words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not in their damnation slumbereth not is talking about.

There are those that creep in that introduce other doctrines other than the biblical doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact the Word of God says that the way of truth beloved this is the way of truth.

Look at me this is the way of truth. There is no other way but they introduce extra biblical principles unbiblical principles that are not in line with the with the doctrines of Jesus Christ. And so by them the way of truth is evil spoken of.

We have to have a culturally relevant relevant gospel. I'm gonna get on my bandwagon before we even get going here. One of the greatest delusions my friend to mark the end of times is a doctrinal delusion and beloved.

If there is a doctor or doctrinal foundation in your life there is no open door or nor at nor access for doctrinal delusion. It's those that do not have a foundation laid those that do not have a work.

Listen to me. I've been a student of the Word of God for nearly 20 years now reading the the the Word of God and reading the the the Puritan writers and and even all the way back to guys like like Augustine reading their writings and just studying and praying and seeking the face of God.

And beloved. I am still working on a foundation of biblical doctrine in my life. I have not arrived nor of you the beloved. We students and followers of Jesus Christ. We are hungry for truth. Amen. We would desire truth.

That we're living in a generation my friend that all that rejects disciplined studies of the of the truths of the Word of God. We're living in a very undisciplined culture a very undisciplined society.

We're very disciplined at watching TV. We're very disciplined at social events but beloved when it comes time to open the Bible up and they get before a holy and a majestic God we're a very undisciplined culture a very undisciplined generation.

Whenever it comes to the discipline study of doctrinal truth we live in a generation but that all but rejects it and beloved. What we find is that this is a become a snare that captures multitudes of church attending and professing believers in Jesus Christ to bring them underneath the lies of a very strong delusion as a word of God speaks.

This marked distaste for biblical doctrine is the very gateway through which heretical and damnable fallacies flow. Whenever we have a distaste for biblical doctrine my friend for a disciplined life a devoted life to it we study the Word of God and seek these things as good Berean Christians to see if they are so or not.

Whenever we reject the biblical doctrines where we have a distaste for biblical doctrines it is the very gateway that heretical doctrines flow and multitudes are led astray. Let us stray into new exciting religious experiences.

Listen to me authentic experiences powerful experiences but demonic experiences. I pray to God this pierces your heart and beloved. When we don't have a foundation laid in our heart of solid true and powerful and scriptural biblical doctrines beloved.

It's the gateway to where the enemy comes in and leads us astray into other extra biblical religious experiences that all be it powerful but yet the power that's behind it the foundation underlying it is satanic and devilish and ungodly.

And that's exactly what Timothy is being warned of by the Apostle. It's exactly what Peter is warning us of. It's about about a doctrine that creeps in unawares because we are not biblically founded upon the doctrines of Jesus Christ to whereby we know the truth that we have a standard an incident our heart that this is the doctrines of Jesus Christ and any new thing that crept that creeps in in the name of Christ.

But it's not out the Spirit or the Word of Christ that we say. No way we'll have nothing to do with it or with any of those that participate with it. Whether there are experiences that take place in the name of religion that are not of the power of God that are not of the presence of Christ that are not of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

They're extra biblical experiences. And these experiences and these lying spirits through that we are speaking about have become a pandemic. They're empowered by the spirits of seduction wrapped in the guise of modern fundamental excellence applauded by cultural acceptance.

But it leads us blinded followers into experiences that are since essentially intimate and borderline erotic. I was talking to a preacher the other day about a new way that's come into the church and I can't even talk to you about it because of the explicit nature of it and it's taking place within the walls of what people are calling a church borderline erotic and beloved.

This idealism that I'm talking about this morning is not some distant occurrence that's waiting to fulfill itself in the future. It's happening right now and it's happening in our city. It's being participated in by people that you possibly know and people that you possibly love.

And earlier I mentioned the word pandemic and I speak that emphatically. The influences of these seductive spirits and the power of them is all demonic. And it's becoming a pandemic in the church. And many unaware believers are not too concerned about these ongoing and relatively new forms of worship but they are the most deadly poisons that hell has admitted as of yet to date.

More so than pornography these pandas pandemic of deceptive doctrines that are creeping in and distracting and taking people captive extra biblical and unbiblical practices all underneath the guise of the name of church.

Are you with me. And beloved those people that are fellowshipping within the sanctums of these religious seductive services. They're twice dead to whom as the Word of God declares the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

Very strong words. Isn't it twice dead to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for other forever. And you may say pastor what do we need to mention these things in our preaching. And I must instruct us my friend that our lack and biblical doctrine and the practical adherence to the doctrines that we that we know that we're hearing that we apply to our life is the very catalyst that empowers spiritual seduction and opens avenues for those that are that are that are unstable to fall headlong into doctrinal error or better yet said doctrines of demons.

Beloved. Not everything that looks like Jesus is Jesus. Not every assembly that uses the uses the name church is a true church. There is the use of the name of Christ a miss. Are you with me. There's an assembly of people in a religious setting my friend that is a mess without the foundation being laid of solid biblical doctrine.

My friend we cannot call any assembly a church. Even if it plays guitars even if it sings religious songs even if it lifts up their hands even if it preaches sermons even if it makes altar calls it does not constitute a church.

The reason that we can comfortably coexist with these heretical and demonically empowered religious assemblies is because the depth of our doctrinal deficiencies is so acute that we can barely tell the difference.

We can barely tell the difference. Dearest friend listen to me. If we are not individually and corporately rooted and grounded in the scriptural doctrines of truth the truth of the Word of God we can rest assured that we will gladly cohabitate with the very spirit of Antichrist that is vehemently set against God set against his glorious truth simply because we lack in the biblical foundation to be able to differentiate between the two.

The Emergent Church and Cultural Accommodation

Now creeping into the religious scene today is a powerful movement. I'm gonna talk about it this for a little bit so that you need those you can be aware if you have the book of the shock at home burn it please.

It's devilish. I know Stephen Curtis Chapman has given his endorsement. I understand that burn it burn it. Saddle up your horses and burn it beloved. Creeping into the religious scene in this hour that you and I are setting here hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ being preached.

There's a powerful movement that is organized it is demonically empowered. And there are cultists and they call themselves emergent Christians. I'm going to talk about the emergent church. Beloved. Don't you understand.

This is not Christianity. Make no mistake about it my friend. It is not Christianity. Nonetheless it is a very fast it's growing religious cult in the Western Hemisphere. I'm gonna read to you some of their beliefs and I want you to see that there are people that you know that claim to be born again that have the same beliefs and the same mindset.

And this should cause us to shudder and tremble and fear the emergent church. And I got this from apologetics index on the Internet and I'm going to give a few of their beliefs. Number one. The world is radically changing and the church must radically change with it.

But if the church changes with culture the church is in bondage to culture. Let me tell you something friend. And I've told my mother this. You don't have to be a drug addict to know how to minister to a drug addict.

Are you with me. You don't have to be an alcoholic to know how to minister to alcoholics. Let me tell you friend Jesus Christ was no drug addict. Jesus Christ was no alcoholic and he ministered and is ministering now by the power of God.

You don't have to experience the sinful life to be able to minister to those bound in sinful lifestyles. The gospel of Jesus Christ the unchangeable the immutable Word of God is the gospel that we preach that changes lives beloved.

Whenever we become a church that's culturally sensitive and culturally aware and are changing and mutating to adapt to culture we have fallen away from the gospel of Jesus Christ and from the doctrines of our God and we are ensnared with the very same spirit to it.

They're ensnared by emergence believe that postmodern modernity represents a dramatic break with the past and that only an extreme transformation in the church can keep the church relevant and effective in this environment.

What they say is need is not just a change in methodology. They said we need a whole new kind of Christian. You know the kind of Christianity that Paul preached is no longer viable. The kind of Christianity that the that the Apostles lived is no longer important or valuable.

The kind of Christianity that was lived by the martyrs that were burned at the stake namely Tyndale and great men of God that died for the faith that no longer is it relevant to our society under the cultures crying for a new kind of hyper-tolerant Christianity that embraces every sin as okay.

Next they say since the church has been culture bound for so long we must re-examine and question every belief and practice in the church finding new ways to define and express these. And it goes on to say that visiting the blogs and the web of emergence we can't call them emergent Christians because they're not Christians.

In emergent lost folk one will find that absolutely any doctrine or any moral standard can be questioned. It seems at times that emergence are engaging in a complete reinvention of Christianity accompanied by a radical redefinition of Christian terms.

The a Carson points out that the emergent post foundationalism is based upon yet another of their false antithesis saying in effect the antithesis demands that we be God with all of God's omniscience or else forever be condemned to knowing nothing objective.

For sure. One of the leading role men that's leading this movements a man by the name of Brian McLaren. In his book the new kind of Christian he goes on to say that scripture is neither authoritative nor a foundation for faith.

They also go to say this that since we cannot know absolute truth we can only experience what is true for our communities. So what's relevant to us in our group. There is no absolute truth but this is absolute truth.

Let God be true and all man be a liar. God's Word is true it's absolute. And since we cannot know absolute truth we cannot be dogmatic about doctrine. Emergency orthodoxy is generous that is inclusive of many beliefs.

Christians that have thought historically to be heretical they embrace many leading emergence echo McLaren's refusal to assert Christianity superiority to other world religions. What chamber of hell did this guy come from.

Since we cannot know absolute truth we cannot even be dogmatic about moral standards. Absolute stands on issues such as homosexuality they're viewed as obsolete. Activities such as drinking clubbing watching sex sexually explicit movies and the use of profanities are seen by some emergence as opportunities to show those who are not part of the Christian community that we don't think that we're better than they are by giving them a sense of or by giving off a sense of moral superiority.

Hello. He's like pastor. This is like some something that's on Mars right now. Listen. The fastest growing religion in the Western Hemisphere. They're outgrowing evangelicals. Ten to one. The emergent church.

I could read more less. I'm starting to get sick at my stomach. There's a whole lot more here. I've got pages of the stuff. We're all welcome to join the conversation as long as they behave in a kind in an open-minded manner.

Emergence believe that believers they reject any posture which hints at exclusivism. Dogmatic evangelicals however are not treated as kindly in the conversation as other are as others are. Listen. This is their doctrine.

The ultimate goal of the emergent church is to make the world a better place to live. The urge. The emerging church movement envisions a utopia in which the oppressed of the world are free. The poor are no longer in pot impoverished the environment is clean glory to God it's all green.

And this paradise is achieved through social activism. Many emergent leaders think it is selfish folly to live for the return of Jesus Christ. The fastest growing religion in the Western Hemisphere. It's a hyper tolerant the embrace all that we're just going to stand around the campfire and cook bonbons and sing kumbaya as we all go to hell together.

There are no absolute moral standards. The the Word of God is relative and not absolute. In fact it's outdated. It's throwing away. We'll write a new one that matches who we are. It's culturally irrelevant.

What's going on. We don't have any doctrinal foundation to stand up against it. The masses are following this demonically empowered lie that's captivated them. Why. Because they are not lovers of the truth.

It's the love of the truth beloved doctrinal truth that is our safeguard against these demonic and doctrinal anomalies. Listen to the Word of God. Second Thessalonians chapter 2. Go ahead and turn there.

Let me tell you something. If we are not embracing the need that we have for doctrinal truth beloved will be swallowed up by these these foul doctrines of man that completely destroy your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and then make you a man pleaser someone that that bends with every with every shift of culture.

Let me tell you what these doctrines of devils will swallow you up just like the whale swallowed up Jonah swallow you. You'll have nothing more with. You can withstand them nothing. God tell you beloved.

Our God has been burning this into me that I need to prepare the people that people need to have a doctrinal where's a doctrinal foundation. The doctrines of our God that have been proven true for thousands of years that we are not moved away from them in the quest to be more culturally relevant.

Make me puke my goodness. 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 10. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. And them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Doctrinal neglect fuels doctrinal deficiency which leads to doctrinal apostasy.

It's altogether possible to attend a doctrinally sound church and remain a doctrinally unsound pew warmer. Attending a church that preaches sound doctrine beloved is not necessarily a safeguard a safeguard exclusively.

We must be individually lovers of the truth believers that diligently search the scriptures beloved. To see if these things be so the love of the truth will be demonstrated by a diligent a disciplined study of the scriptures as well as being a man or a woman of God that submitted to the preaching of the doctrines of Christ.

Six Practices for Growing in Biblical Knowledge

They may ask how can we increase in biblical knowledge. How can we increase in this biblical revelation. And I'm going to give you about six points right quick. If you want to write them down then I'm going to change gears.

The first of which is prayerful study of the Bible with strict attention being paid to the foundational doctrinal subjects beloved. I'm not just speaking words that have no worth. I'm speaking to you the truth that will keep you from these heretical idealisms that will terminate your faith.

Prayerful study of the Bible with strict attention being paid to foundational doctrinal subjects. Number two. Being perpetually submitted to the powerful preaching of the whole Council of the Word of God.

Perpetually being submitted to the powerful preaching of the whole Council of God's Word. Number two. Number three. Surrounding yourself with like-minded believers that are lovers of the truth lovers of the truth.

Number three. Number four. Separate yourself from the fellowship with those who participate in idolatrous religious practices that might be a little bit tougher on you than you think. There's folks in your life that you appreciate and like a whole lot that are participating in religious idolatry and the Word of God says that we're not a touch the unclean thing.

Number five. Read books upon solid biblical doctrinal subjects ie regeneration repentance faith. Nothing. Not that modern garbage. I'm talking about faith. May authors like Wesley Whitefield Spurgeon great men of God and on the character of God.

Listen. You won't find it at Mardell's get on Christian books. Calm and order a David Tozer's book on the attributes of God called the knowledge of the Holy. It'll undo you by just the majestic revelation of who God is.

What about the second coming of Christ. The second coming of Jesus Christ by doctrinally accurate authors most of which are older than a hundred years old. And lastly spend time in prayer petitioning the spirit of truth to illuminate the truth of God's Word to your heart.

Amen. Six little points of what you can do to increase in doctrinal knowledge and doctrinal revelation. Now are y 'all okay. Listen in my notes. Everything that you're hearing other than the the random comments that I make that make people mad is in my notes.

If you want a copy of these I'll be glad to email them to you. Just give me your email address and I'll send it to you if you want to go back over this and I'd encourage you to do that now. I want to begin to lay out a foundation right quick for the historic and the authoritative biblical doctrines that we need deeply embedded into our spirits.

The Westminster Catechism and the Chief End of Man

My friend I'm going to begin to lay a foundation of the historic and the authoritative biblical doctrines of the Word of God. Albeit is imperative to mention the need for sound biblical doctrine. It's equally imperative for us to understand what constitutes biblical doctrine and what these doctrines really are.

It's one thing to talk about how much we need it. But if you still don't know what it is so we're going to lay a foundation. I'm going to start this morning and over the next several weeks I'm going to give an in-depth treatise of the sound biblical doctrine the biblical doctrines of the faith of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and so that you will know what you need from the Word of God.

Amen. Throughout history men have produced documents outlining the fundamentals of pure biblical doctrine. And one of these historic documents is called the Westminster Catechism. And there's the longer and there's the shorter version.

And this was penned a few hundred years ago. It's biblically sound lining out the doctrines of the Christian faith as directed by the Word of God. And the first three articles of 107 articles of the shorter Westminster Catechism are as follows.

And they're in question form but they're articles one two three and the other hundred and five fall under these three. Number number one. What is the chief end of man. Why are we here. Why have I been created.

But this is important doctrine. Why are you on this earth. Why have you been created. What is your purpose in creation. What has God ordained for you to do and to be. And the answer is man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.

To glorify God the chief end of man now beloved. This is sound biblical doctrine historically authoritatively it's the Word of God. God has created mankind for his own good pleasure. It is my calling.

It is my purpose in life to glorify the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords the majestic God that we serve Jehovah our God Yahweh and enjoy him forever not only in my earth and experience but forever throughout eternity.

Question one. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever beloved. Any doctrine that gravitates away from that reality it's false doctrine and it's a lie from the pit of hell. Hello beloved.

We're living in a day in time to where doctrine is pronouncing that God is the servant of man. And I have. I have been taught and I have heard taught. And in my younger foolish days I didn't know any better.

I have taught. Oh God's mercy. I told Pastor Pete in an email. If it wasn't for the mercies of God I'd be struck dead. I'm I'm serious. I would be struck dead because I have taught this to young people that you can command God taking completely out of the context the scriptures and the Psalms.

I was teaching what I was taught by man not what I was taught by the Word of God. Let me give you an article number two of the shorter Westminster catech. What Westminster catechism. What rule hath God given to direct us upon how we may glorify him and enjoy him.

What's the means to whereby we can glorify God enjoy God. The answer is the Word of God. The Word of God which is contained in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

It's from the Word of God. It's from the Word of God. Question number three. What do the scriptures principally teach. The answer. The scriptures principally teach that what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God requires of man.

The first three articles in this shorter catechism cover the other hundred and five or hundred and four. There's a hundred and seven altogether articles of the shorter Westminster catechism and so again the subsequent hundred and four articles are all in proportion to the first three articles albeit important I don't think that we have time today to do a lengthy instruction upon all of them.

Now is everybody okay. Is it good as you go falling asleep. Anybody like a nice cold lemonade. I would too. I want to make some statements. Friend. I want you to be alert and conscious of what I'm saying.

Coinciding with the first article of this catechism. All biblical doctrine hinges upon and rotates around the principle that man's chief in is to glorify God. And it's the very purpose for mankind's creation being so any doctrine that gives emphasis to or centers around man's delight man's comfort man's happiness man's fulfillment man's entertainment or any other man centered or man purpose is a flawed and unbiblical doctrine.

True biblical doctrine my friend is rooted and grounded upon the truth that God is the center of all things and that man's purpose is to glorify him. There are current doctors being herald abroad that promised the very idealism that God is man's servant whenever man becomes in want whenever man becomes uncomfortable whenever man suffers like whenever man is bored it's the responsibility of God to meet those needs and desires that man has.

It's being taught internationally. You and I both know what we've seen it we've listened to it. And most of us have to get this perch from us because it's rooted in us. Many of you here today my friend you've been influenced by these doctrines of devils beloved.

It's not the responsibility of God to serve you. It's not his responsibility to entertain you. It's not his responsibility to meet your needs and desires. On the contrary it's man's responsibility to glorify God and hence meet and minister to his needs minister to his desires.