Waiting Out the Storm — Jim Cymbala

So let's open God's word. I'd like to start by introducing my remarks waiting through the storm. And it kind of relates to the book. I wrote Waiting out the storm. If you went to a travel agent. And he was trying to sell you on ten days to island in the Caribbean or in the Mediterranean.

And you had never been there. I didn't hear much about it. And you said so what's it like? Oh, listen. You're gonna be gone for ten days. But let me tell you how it'll be. First of all, you're gonna fly out of Kennedy.

You're gonna be on this airline. Their food is terrible. In fact, they might not even serve you food if you're in coach. They're gonna just give you some peanuts and they're stale. They're not even good peanuts and then you're gonna get there.

Well, what's the weather like it rains most all the time there where you're gonna go and the hotel. Uh it's got a nice view, but the bathrooms really aren't that clean and. And if they were talking like that to you would say what kind of kind of marketing is this?

Do you want me to buy the ticket? Do you want me to go? Anybody would say that's terrible marketing if you want to sell a piece of property. You want to sell a trip you want to sell a car you tell people?

Hey, it's the best. It's the bomb. This is you've never had anything like this. You'll love everything about it. There's no downside. No negatives. There is no downside. But of course we know in life there are downsides to some things and certain things have a very real Difficult part and if people are honest They can't market it or else they would be guilty of false Advertising if they left out some parts, for example a lot of years ago at a Rasmussell High School I was an all-city basketball player and recruited by some schools.

But because I had skipped a grade the schools that were interested in me wanted me to catch up and play against guys my own age. So they said you got to go to prep school for a year. We think that's best and the school that recruited me Strongly was the United States Naval Academy and because I was a kind of off-the-wall Brooklyn kid and My parents knew that I was a little bit out there.

They thought wow a military school under lock and key and with a uniform. Yeah, you get the idea I can tell. This is a safe place for our son to be. I Went to prep school for a year and while I was there I met people who of course we're gonna go into the Naval Academy with me.

It was a great prep school in Silver Spring, Maryland. I was then talked to by people at the Naval Academy the coaches. They dummied up a an appointment for me from some Senator or congressman in Utah because that's what you need and I couldn't get it from New York.

But I was there to play basketball, but it didn't matter that I had to play was there to play basketball. The Naval Academy is the Naval Academy when you graduate after four years. You're gonna be an ensign in the United States Navy.

And you're gonna have the distinction of being one of the 3 ,800 of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Where all these famous people went and so on and so forth. So what happened was I Would talk to these guys and they were telling me now, you know what you're getting involved in.

The Naval Academy is gonna give you a phenomenal education. It's free. It's paid for by the government and we want you to know that when you graduate you're not only gonna be an ensign you're gonna have a degree from the United States Naval Academy and that is a ticket to a lot of excellent things in life because there's not that many graduates and to go through that kind of discipline and to go through that kind of Difficulty and withstand it but it's not going to be easy.

Here's here's what it is. You will graduate. But the first year is gonna be like this. You're gonna have to go there at the end of June and you're gonna have to go through plebe summer. Which is July and August.

You're gonna go through July and August with just plebes there and a couple upperclassmen. Upperclassmen mean Guys that are sophomores juniors or seniors except they're called third classmen second classmen first classmen.

So you're gonna go through that and you're gonna have to learn how to get a military bearing. You're gonna have to learn how to shine your shoes. You're gonna have to get up every morning at 615 at the latest and you're gonna have to learn how to wear your uniform.

And how to stand. You're gonna learn how to eat properly you're gonna be in the largest mess hall in the world that feeds 3 ,800 people at once and You're gonna learn how to handle a rifle and you're gonna learn all of these things and you're gonna be tested physically.

They're gonna make you jump off a diving board. That just is very very high and you're gonna be forced to swim. I show that you can swim and a lot of other things and you can learn how to tie knots and all that kind of stuff.

But then the worst is gonna come. The upperclassmen return in September and then you're gonna go through what is called plebe year the first year as a freshman and they're gonna haze you and they're gonna try to break you and they're gonna yell at you and You have to obey everything.

They say ours is not to reason why ours is but to do or die. You need immediate obedience to every order if they say jump down and do 65 push-ups. You're gonna do 65 push-ups. If they spit in your face, you're not gonna do anything.

I said, thank you, sir. Yes, sir. You're gonna have to sit at a meal on the front three inches of your chair braced up. You can never look around and you're gonna have to lift your spoon and eat square meals like this sitting on just the front three Inches braced up with your neck in like that and just they're gonna be firing questions at you and yelling at you and you're gonna have to know the answer by the next meal or you're gonna get put on report and you're gonna be in trouble and They're gonna make you come around to their rooms at 620.

Which means you're gonna have to get up at 5 o 'clock and shine your shoes and when you walk in their room They might say go back and put on a different uniform. You're gonna have to race back. And then they're gonna try to break you down and you're not gonna get much sleep and sometimes which happened to me.

And I saw it in classrooms when we were studying some math course. The tendency was to fall asleep because you're under such stress and strain. Because these guys can walk in your room and mess up your day and some of them just get a dislike for you.

They don't like New York. Then they find out if you're from Brooklyn. They don't like Brooklyn at all. Now they're on your tail now and you can't avoid them. They are looking for you. Every moment is just stress in classrooms that you're falling asleep.

So I saw guys professors would say stand up if you're gonna fall asleep stand up so you don't fall asleep because if you don't learn you'll flunk your class. If you flunk your class you're gonna be tossed out of the Naval Academy and then have to go home and explain why.

You couldn't make it which nobody wants to do. So I saw guys not only stand up. But I saw a guy fall asleep standing up which I had never seen before he crashed down almost busted his head open. I saw other people biting themselves to stay awake because the pain would keep them awake for a certain amount of seconds.

So you'd see guys just Chomping down on their own hands to stay awake. Just stress stress stress, but then when plebe summer is over. You're gonna make it through that which everyone has had to do it.

You'll be then a sophomore and then there'll be nothing of that kind of hazing. Then you'll be a junior and if you want you can torment the plebes that are in the school then. Then you're gonna graduate you're gonna be an ensign and so on and so forth and that's just the way it is.

We're gonna tell you the truth. There's a great end to it and there's great prestige. But there's plebe summer. There's plebe year. It's hard oddly. Christianity has the same kind of approach of truth and advertising.

Christianity's Honest Truth About Suffering

There's no marketing anywhere in the Bible. Jesus nor his apostles that followed him never sold Christianity. They never made it sleek and Glossy and like This is beautiful with no downside. No, the forgiveness of our sins is promised.

How many say thank you Jesus amen and God will be faithful and he will be with us faithful to the end. That all things will work together for good to them that love God. There's a heaven awaiting us and that should this place be blown up while I'm speaking.

We know where we're going. Amen, and we're not going there for a few years. This is not ten days in st. Lucia. This is. This is heaven forever. How many are looking forward to going home to heaven but There's the journey.

There's the journey and the Bible is very honest About the fact that endurance is needed and it gives us warnings. So we won't be surprised or thrown off guard about some of the things that will go down in between the two comings of Jesus.

His virgin birth through Mary which we celebrate at Christmas time and his second coming. These are the two pivot points in God's view of history. His first coming and now he's coming again. Now many die before he comes again, but that's another way of his coming to you when you die.

Everything is going to be resolved then but then he's gonna come when one generation is alive here on the earth and it could be ours. So watch what Jesus and others say about the difficult side of it.

So you'll be ready for plebe summer. You'll be ready for plebe year you you won't we won't be thrown off. Let's look at Matthew 24. Jesus answered watch out and don't let anyone fool you. Many men claiming to speak for me will come and say I am the Messiah and they will fool.

Few people know what? Many people you are going to hear the noise of battles close by and the news of battles far away. But don't be troubled. Such things must happen. Wars and rumors of wars, but they do not mean that the end has come.

Countries will fight each other. Kingdoms will attack one another and there will be famines and earthquakes. Everywhere in another account of this same talk. It says that new and strange diseases will appear pestilence.

All these things are like the first pains of childbirth when the woman gets her first sign that the baby's going to be born. Then you will be arrested. What a way to sign up people to be your followers and then you will be arrested.

Oh great. This is great news. Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. That will be the course for some Christians. Everyone will hate you because of me. Many will give up their faith at that time.

They'll say I'm caving. I can't do this. They will betray one another and hate one another. Then many false prophets will appear and fool many people. Such will be the spread of evil that many people's love will grow cold.

Even his own followers will say Listen, this stuff is so nasty and ugly. I don't want to know about people their love will grow cold. But whosoever holds out to the end. Will be saved and this good news the gospel about the kingdom will be preached Through all the world for a witness to all people and then the end will come.

Much of this applied locally to what they would go through up until 70 AD. Let's say Jesus said this in the year 35 AD. Let's just round off numbers. 35 years later the Romans came in and destroyed the temple and Christians escaped because they listened to what Jesus had told them and there was a lot of stuff happening in that period of time.

But obviously this has relevance to the very end because it says and then the end shall come. So there's probably a double application. So what does Jesus tell us here because I just I don't want to go into detail.

I want to get to how do we weather the storm? How do we wait out the storm? So he says there's going to be wars and rumors of wars. Not maybe not possibly. Take it to the bank. There will be wars and rumors of wars.

Imagine Jesus said this 2 ,000 years ago and boy has it not come true and. Right now today with all the education we have and all the peace movements that have gone before us. People are being buried alive children being crucified.

So there's wars and rumors of wars. He then talks about the fact that there will be persecution. To his own believers, you're gonna be hated. People will not like you. You're not gonna fit into the world system.

Neither did I fit in to the world system? That's what Jesus is saying. You'll be hated by all men for my sake because of my name. There will be diseases. There will be earthquakes. There will be signs physical signs rocking and rolling on the earth.

Physical phenomena Will be accented then he talks about the fact that among his own people. Many will give up the faith because the pressure will be so much. They're gonna say hey, I'm done with this.

I'm out. Then he says even those that stay close to him and follow him. Days will get so evil that it'll crush their love for humanity and they're gonna get hard and a wall Will go up blocking their compassion and instead of weeping over people.

They're gonna be mad at folks. And that's what Jesus said. What happened. What kind of advertising is that to be his follower? This is why every whenever you hear Christianity marketed by the prosperity teachers or others just serve Jesus.

And you're gonna drive a Bentley and and all of that foolishness. It's total denial of the Word of God. But Peter goes further and says something else. We need to take into account. Let's look at it. Peter says in 2nd Peter, first of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear.

Whose lives are controlled by their own lusts or desires? They will make fun of you and will ask he promised to come didn't he? Where is he. Our ancestors have already died but everything is still the same as it was since the creation of the world the NIV has as.

Like King James has there will come mockers. This is another kind of truth in advertising. If you're gonna follow Jesus, you're gonna be made fun of this was said 2 ,000 years ago. How would they know that?

How would they know that Christianity would be a religion that people would make fun of. How do they know that because they were inspired by the Holy Spirit. You will be mocked and made fun of. Do you want to fit in with the world?

You want to be liked by everybody you want to be cool thought cool and part of the crowd. You can't be a Christian. Oh, no, you can't you're gonna mock you and make fun of you. You can say the most ridiculous stuff on television and in the media people accept it.

Even if you say two and two is five. You just mentioned Jesus how many know what's gonna happen? There'll be a mocking. There'll be a change. It's happened to me. But you will be made fun of you will be mocked.

So if you want to be in with the world and down with the world and you want to fit in with everybody Jesus is telling us here. No, you follow me. Peter saying you follow Christ. You're gonna be mocked and made fun of and people gonna say where's where's this coming?

He didn't come yet. Where's this coming? And when they say that they're fulfilling something said 2 ,000 years ago, but now worse. Remember the upside is peace that the world can't take away joy. Unspeakable and full of glory all things work together for good to them that love God.

I will lead you and I will guide you and when you close your eyes the final time or when I come. You are gonna go home to your reward. Your reward is not here on earth. If you're looking for payoff here on earth Christianity is not the religion for you.

Because here we have a fight. Am I right or wrong here here? We have a battle. This is according to Scripture. I'm not making this stuff up but worse and more insidious is Paul in the last letter that he writes says two different things about the last days and It's worse because it's not about earthquakes and famine and pestilence and Ebola's like things and Isis.

It's about within the church among the Christians. There's also warnings about that in the last days. Let's look second Peter 3. Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. Why would he say that?

Yo, Paul sell the thing sell the thing don't be talking so honestly some are gonna back away. He doesn't care. Remember that it will be difficult times in the last days people will be selfish greedy. Boastful and conceited they'll be insulting disobedient to their parents ungrateful and irreligious.

They will be unkind. Merciless Slanderers always talking violent and fierce. They will hate the good. They will be treacherous reckless and swollen with pride huge egos. They will love pleasure rather than God.

They want to have a good time rather than worship God. They will hold Here's the here's the killer. They will hold to the outward form of our religion. But reject its real power keep away from such people.

In other words. These folks are not out in the world talking trash. These people are in the church. They have a form of godliness. They seem like they're devoted to the truth. But they know nothing of the power of Christ to change their life.

To make them more like Christ. So Paul says this is going to be a difficult day because folks are going to have religion without God. Religion without Christ. Christianity without Christ or they'll be talking about Jesus, but it won't be the Jesus of the Bible.

They'll be making up other Jesus's white Jesus black Jesus. Prosperity Jesus, whatever Jesus wants you happy. That's his main thing in life is just to make you happy said this is difficult times because this will be happening within the body of Christ within the visible church and Then in the last chapter as we call it that Paul wrote.

It's his end of his letter in 2nd Timothy 4. He goes even further and pushes the envelope to this Timothy the time will come when people will not listen to sound doctrine. He's talking about in the church now.

But will follow their own desires and will collect for themselves. What are they collecting not stamps more and more teachers? Who will tell them what they are itching to hear. Notice. More and more teachers who will tell them what they are itching to hear and the teachers will respond to that.

They'll know the itch and they'll scratch it. They'll give them what the people want to hear. They will turn away from listening to the truth and give their attention to legends made up stuff. But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances.

Timothy endure suffering do the work of a preacher of the good news and perform your whole duty as a servant of God as. For me the hour has come for me to be sacrificed. It's going to die. The time is here for me to leave this life.

I have done my best in the race. I have run the full distance and I have kept the faith. And Now there is waiting for me the victory prize of being put right with God. Which the Lord the righteous judge will give me on that day and not only to me.

But to all those who wait with love for him to appear. Now boy you talk about straight talk, but that's what you want when you go to a doctor. Right if you've got some signs of Ebola now and you go in to a doctor.

Do you want to hear the truth or do you want to hear what you want to hear? No, doctor. Don't tell me the truth. Just tell me everything's okay. No, doctor. I don't wanna hear anything negative stuff.

I'm paying you a lot of money for this appointment. Do not tell me negative stuff. No, I took a Hippocratic oath. I have to give you the truth. This is what the truth speaking is here of the scripture.

False Christianity and the Need for Discernment

So Matthew 24 a lot of stuff happening in the world and among God's people. People folding their tent and walking away in 2nd Peter. We see their last day mockers will come. You're gonna serve Jesus. You're not gonna be popular all the time.

You'll have the body of Christ to get support from. You'll have peace and joy inside. But it can get real hostile out there. Can get real hostile. Paul in his last letters. What does he tell us? He tells us that.

Things are gonna be bad because there's gonna be a fake Christianity. There'll be people whose lives have never been changed, but they just go to church. They have a form of godliness. They have a form of religion.

Listen up everybody starting with the speaker. They have a form of religion. They go to church, but they're strangers to the power of God. They've never had that born-again life-changing Thing where they become a new creation in Jesus Christ.

But they have a form of religion. This is what makes it so insidious and deceptive and then finally he says. People are gonna have itching ears. They don't want to hear the truth. People do not want to hear the truth.

So they're gonna rather than stop going to church. They're gonna get people who will tell them what they want to hear. They're gonna make up their own religion. You know have Jesus in it, but it won't be the Jesus of the Bible.

It's gonna be a mixture of a lot of stuff and Teachers will Cash in on it because they'll give the people what they want to hear most times to get money from them, but you Timothy. You you be strong you be a good soldier.

Endure suffering if you have to do the work of an evangelist. Keep telling people about Jesus. Endure hardship. Because remember my time is ending now and I'm going to get receive my reward and remember brothers and sisters.

One second into eternity and you won't remember any of the junk down here. You think you're going through something and it's hard. Listen. Paul says what we go through here. It's not even worthy to be compared in the same sentence for the glory.

That's waiting for us up in heaven. Come on, how many say amen to that by clapping your hands? Like those guys that told me about plebe summer and plebe year. Jesus Paul, it's all in with the truth. They're gonna tell us so.

What do we what are some prescriptions here that we have from the scripture? Someone once said I just read it in the last month a great spiritual writer. He said the way the Bible sums things up is. In the end times, here's what's going to be anarchy in the world.

Anarchy in the world. Rebellion against all authority fussing fighting wars rumors of war. Anarchy in the nominal church. Apostasy people moving away from the doctrines of the Bible and making up new stuff.

Many times in the name of being relevant. We got to be relevant, but you can't be so relevant that you change what God said. How many say amen? That's not relevancy. That's foolishness. Anarchy in the world apostasy in the nominal church and then even among the choir and the pastors and the congregations.

Apathy. This has to be guarded against. The love of most will wax cold. They're gonna lose their fervor for Jesus. They believe in them. They've had an experience with them, but it's so easy to lose your fervor.

Am I right or wrong and To lose your love for people like you don't want to hear it anymore. You don't want to hear it anymore. I've had that I confess me to God and before you God knows. Sometimes I hear so many problems, and I hear so many nasty stories that I'm tempted to get angry.

I'm talking to someone who's hurt their wife or hurt a child and I lose the compassion. I have to ask God to help me. Because it can happen you just like circle the wagons turn on the television and let me just live in another world.

But that's totally not an option if you're gonna be a real follower of Jesus Christ. We got to be in all in am I right all in. What if Jesus would have said after he saw the disciples fumbling and the world hating him like you know what I'm out of here.

I'm going back to heaven forget the cross forget Calvary. I'm out. There's got to be a better option than this. No, he endured the cross did he not? Paul tells us because of all of this and remember it now.

There's a race that has to be run. You're in it you up in the balcony. You're Christian. You're in a race. Choir member, I don't care how long you've been a Christian. You're still in the race. Nobody gets an award for starting the race.

What do you get the award for? Finishing the race. This is what the whole warning is about. It's not those who start it's those who finish. We're in a race. Paul says that I have run the course. I run the race.

I didn't start and then stop. I ran it all the way through now. I'm gonna die. I'm still running. There's a fight notice Paul said I have fought a good fight. There's temptations there's Evil approaching us their satanic attacks to discourage us.

There's heartache. There's heartbreak. There's all kinds of things and you got to fight the good fight of faith and keep no I'm gonna still keep believing Jesus. I don't care. I don't figure it out, but I'm still gonna believe in Jesus.

I know there's tears in my eyes. I'm gonna wipe them away. I'm still gonna praise Jesus. Can we say amen to that by clapping our hands, that's the that's the fight. It's the fight of faith. It's not a fight against people.

It's not political. It's not against the Democrats or the Republicans. It's not against Culture wars and all of that that's not found in the Bible. We're not fighting culture wars we're fighting against principalities and powers and Finally, I've kept the faith.

You got to keep the faith. The faith that's in this Bible the faith that God revealed to you when you became a Christian. You got to keep it because Satan wants to rob us. He wants to rob us of the faith.

Why would Paul say I've kept the faith unless that was a battle. You got to hold on to the faith. Others are gonna lose the faith. I'm told by someone who knew him back then that Jim Jones started out as an Evangelical preacher and believed in the divinity of Jesus Christ and prayed for the sick and believed God could do miracles and look how he Ended up.

He obviously didn't keep the faith. So what do we do? How do we wait out the storm? So here's three things. I want you to remember as I close Summing up scripture what it teaches us as a reaction to Matthew 24 Peter reference and the two in 2nd Timothy that we read.

Here's what all the choir members have to do. Here's what we all have to do. No one's above this. This is for all of us. You have to maintain joy. You have to maintain joy. The joy of the Lord is our strength so wars rumors of wars pestilence diseases earthquakes air pollution, whatever.

Persecution against us. People mocking us. Whatever you have to maintain joy, you can't get bewildered. You can't lose one of the versions has keep your head. You got to remain calm and joyful. You can't get into anxiety and into shock and awe in your own life.

You got to say wait a minute. The Lord said this was gonna happen. How am I gonna throw up my hands and say why is this happening? The Lord said it would happen. Well, I don't know why that would happen.

Listen when we see him we can ask him he'll tell us. But right now we just got to get through it. How many say amen. I don't know why storms come. I just want to get through it. You got to maintain joy.

You got to keep a sweet spirit. You can't let the stuff affect around you affect you so that you get full of anxiety. Because then the world will see you're just like them. You have no deeper peace. You have no deeper joy.

Christians now have to shine like lights and while everything is going crazy around us. We're gonna stand praise God. I know my sins are forgiven. Oh, yeah. I don't know what's happening around the world.

I bow. I don't know all of that, but I know this. I know my Redeemer lives. I know he is with me. Can we say amen? I know my sins are gone. I know I'm going to heaven. Many things about tomorrow. I might not know but I know who holds tomorrow.

Many things about tomorrow. I don't understand but I'm gonna be joyful. That's why the Bible says over and over again rejoice always and again, I say rejoice. Be joyful because the joy of the Lord is your strength.

You're not going to be able to stand in faith if you're depressed. Let's get out of that let's be joyful. Let's be full of hope. Jesus is on the throne. He is king of kings and Lord of lords in the end the mockers and the demons and everyone every knee will bow.

Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Do you believe that say amen? You have to maintain joy. You can't be shocked. We can't give in to anxiety. We can't give in to fear. We can't give in to bitterness.

We can't get into getting mad at people who mock us. We need supernatural love from God so that people who even mock us and are acting ugly. We maintain our equilibrium spiritually speaking and we were full of joy.

Praise God. Oh Praise God, isn't it great to be around someone just so full of joy. They walk so close to Jesus that no matter what happens. They're just full of joy. Praise God, he's on the throne. Oh, did you read this though?

I read the praise God. He's on the throne. My God is able to deliver me and keep me and walk me through whatever. I have to be walked through. Number two, you got to be careful. You got to maintain. You got to maintain a joyful attitude.

Careful Self-Examination and Spiritual Vigilance

Keep joyful, but you gotta be careful. What do you have to be careful about? Based on all the scriptures they give you first of all be careful about yourself. Don't be ignorant of Satan's devices. You don't want to be one of these shallow people who have a form of religion, but don't know its power.

I'm talking straight now to you. I'm not yelling at anyone. I'm not condemning anyone. I'm saying as a brother in Christ to you pray for me. I'll pray for you, but we got to make it. Come on, how many are planning you're gonna make it we're gonna make it.

That's why Paul says work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it's God who works in you both to will and to do according to his good pleasure. So where's Satan tempting you? Where's your structural weakness?

Might not be drugs. Don't look on down on drug addicts that just happens to be their weakness. Yours might be a mouth that hurts more people than the cocaine hurts. It could be racial prejudice. It could be immorality.

Could be stuff done in secret. That is shameful. Examine yourself Paul says to see if you're in the faith. In other words check yourself. We got to do that every day. Why else would these warnings be in here?

We got to be careful. Be careful how you talk. Let's be careful how we walk. Let's be careful what we read. Let's be careful what we watch. Let's be careful because you see what's at stake here. This is not written to us just to fill up pages in Scripture.

This is written with real purpose. You got to be careful. Careful about your life. I can't run your life. You can't run mine. You've got to work it out with God, but be careful. Don't have a form of religion.

Be real about the thing. Be in the prayer meeting. Be all day and Sunday in church. I wish there was a fourth service like there used to be. I used to be in all four. I was so tired at the end That they just would get a body bag and ship me by FedEx to my house.

But you know what? I was a happy little camper because I've been in the presence of God for like eight hours. Not even thinking about myself. You know what the biggest joy in life is to stop thinking about yourself.

I would have whole days as God is my witness. Where I would be so consumed with what I was doing. Worshiping and preaching and praying with people that I would only be thinking about God and people the best days of my life.

You know what the worst days are when you're thinking about yourself. Me. When I'm going through and nobody knows I don't like her. I don't like the way she looked at me and then watch what you hear. Don't believe every preacher including the ones from this pulpit.

Listen to what I'm saying now. Be smart about this thing. You hear all these warnings about false prophets and false teachers. Why do you think that God put that in the Bible? So we should just believe everything we hear.

Listen to what Paul tells us in 1st Thessalonians. Do not restrain the Holy Spirit. Do not despise inspired messages. Put all things to the test. Keep. What is good? How many things should be put to the test?

All things. Every sermon every sentence Jim symbolist says. And any other pastor who speaks here or any? Visiting speaker. You don't believe anything anyone says unless it's in the Bible. But how will you know it's in the Bible unless you know the Bible.