What Do We Do With Grace? | Pastor Jeff Shipley

The Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Coming Sermon Series

Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military size.

Couple of weeks ago I Shared with you folks that I would begin a series on the Palestine-Israel conflict the historical Aspects of it, but also the theological ramifications of it, and I tell you they are many and I hope.

Well, I will start that next Sunday, and I hope to try to wrap that up Within three weeks, but to be honest with you. There's about 5 ,000 years of recorded history there. So it's probably an exercise in futility, but I hope that it will at least start a conversation.

Especially with those folks who are not converted. Luke chapter 10 this is a familiar passage with you people who grew up in church. I'm not one of them, but I have come to know this passage. Something else other than quote the Good Samaritan.

I really actually I hate that title. I really do. It's it's so much more than just an ethical or moral lesson sometimes the world and in the church helps tries to breed within the gospel of Jesus Christ a philosophical Humanistic understanding of what really Harmonutically Jesus is trying to say and once again.

I encourage you strongly please don't be Church people for the love of God. Don't be church people be Regenerated believers in the name of Jesus Christ who understand good Harmonetics and understand what Jesus is trying to say here.

We're gonna try our best today to discuss it now before we do. In reference to this sermon. I want you to look at your little notes that you were given at the door. I'm gonna give you a couple of minutes, and I want you to do story time with Pastor Jeff.

Story time with Pastor Jeff read that on the back.

About a guy named Zach and y 'all are slow readers.

Good gracious you Tennessee folks help out to Mississippi folk. This is a true story. This is a true story. We're literally four government agents agencies and 75 people. Watched a man man drowned to death now.

Immediately of course there are those within our community. Who would immediately blame the police Department for this or blame the fire department or the Coast Guard or the beach and the rescue. But in reality the ultimate responsibility of this young man's death was this young man absolutely categorically without a doubt.

But it is also true to understand and this is something our society what used to make America great was the individual Responsibility and the entrepreneurship of our country that has now become a welfare state.

And we rely on the government who has no onus or responsibility. To save your life. I know people say all the time Well if the police would have done this the police would have done this. It is not the police department's job.

To protect your home. I know that sounds weird. But it's not that is not what they're there to do. They're there to enforce the law. You say well, it's against the law to break into a house. Yes in the general sense.

But you've got to quit blaming the cops the fire department the US government and everybody else for your failures in life. Yeah, right. But here's the second thing and in relation to that the church is failing.

I hear it all the time. And yes, I agree that the church is weak. I hear these little yuppie missionary kids that get $50 ,000 years through the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program go across the ocean.

I know four of them personally and for two years work in the mission field in Turkey and other places. But they are told you cannot openly share the gospel with anyone. You can't do it. It's against the law and Then these same people turn around and look at the church and say well the church in America is dying.

It's all dribbled up. Hey you arrogant slob. You wouldn't be where you are today in that foreign country if it were not for the church in the United States of America. Be very careful where you throw rocks.

It is true that churches today are on the struggle bus now. I'm here to tell you and report to you that Wheaton Baptist Church ain't one of them. Okay I'm here to tell you that this place is rocking and rolling and it's not because of an entity or a pastor or creed it's because of the sanctification of the individual member taking Responsibility for what God has given them and turning it around and sharing it with somebody else.

You see you can't sit there and say the name Wheaton Baptist you can't say well pastor Jeff as Awesome as a man as he is as good-looking and a perfect specimen of the male human species that he is. You choked up their car a little bit and you give her some water.

I am NOT Responsible for your success or wait a minute your failures in Jesus Christ. I have people that tell me all the time and they're hippie Christians and I love them. We need hippie Christians. Okay, we do a few of them.

You gotta have break in case somebody's crying, you know, send in the hippies, right? But people tell me all the time. Well pastor that guy quit coming to church. Yeah, okay. You guys understand I'm not here to notice who's not here.

I am here to notice who is here people say all the time. Well, what about the lost sheep? Jesus went out and found the one and left the 99. That's great. That's Jesus Christ in case. I know I'm wonderful.

But in case you haven't realized I'm not the Holy Spirit of God. Okay church. Let me ask you a question. Where are you and here's the indictment that we're going to talk about today. Why are you telling me who's not here?

Why aren't you going and getting them where are you. Well, I'm not a pastor. Oh, okay. So I have a different Spirit of God in me than it was in you the same Spirit of God that saved me the same blood.

That Jesus that saved me is the same blood that saved you the same promises of God for my life. Are the same promises of God for your life? Can we just be honest for a second the reason we you aren't doing what you had to do had nothing to do with.

Here's the other one Christians always say or I'm sorry church people always say this well, I would come to church. But I was wounded in my last church. Wow, go take a baby aspirin and grow up a little bit.

Grow up a little bit. Here's what you need to do. I want you to take whatever happened to you. And there are some horrible things that have happened. Okay, there are some horrible things that have happened in churches.

But I want you to take that and put it into perspective of those lashes hitting Jesus's back and his blood splattering 30 feet away. I Want you to put in perspective as he hung on that cross and he said father forgive them.

For they know not what they do when you put it into that context. How wounded are you really and How much are you gonna struggle in the victimhood of your own life rather than Responding to the call God has given us.

Grace Cannot Be Earned or Lost

This is the last sermon in a series on grace. We have talked about grace that is unearnable. You cannot earn grace. It is Unlosable you can't lose grace, but the question I have for you this morning is what are you going to do?

With grace read with me Luke chapter 10 starting in verse 25 and behold a lawyer pneumococcus. Is Mike here today? Mike Gilroy, are you here? Dang it. I was gonna make fun of him a whole bunch today. All right, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test saying teacher What shall I do to inherit eternal life?

He said to him what is written in the law? How do you read it? And he answered you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength and with all Your mind and your neighbor as yourself.

And he said to him you have answered correctly do this and you will live but he Desiring to justify himself said to Jesus who is my neighbor? 19 times in the New Testament. 19 times that are recorded.

Someone comes up to Jesus and says this what must I do to have eternal life? Some of you are in this room and you're asking that same question I know on the outside. You're a Christian because you ask Jesus Christ your heart and all that garbage that's found nowhere in Scripture.

I get that I get the fact that you're a good moral person. But you still in the wee hours in the morning or in those moments after failure because your sanctification is so weak. You begin to wonder What must I do to inherit eternal life?

I want you to notice something grace is three things how we respond to it. The first thing is we Discard it. How do you discard the grace of God? Well, it's very evident if you look there in verse 29 but he wanting to justify himself the Antithesis of grace is this it is justification by self.

You may say to yourself Well, I am a good person. I'm a good guy. I'm not a child molester. I'm not a Politician. I'm not any of those other things so ergo. Because I'm not those things God will accept me.

What you fail to understand what that lawyer failed to understood. Was that there are none who are righteous. The entire Bible from Old Testament in the New Testament Theologically and systematically tells us over and over and over again.

There are none that are righteous. No, not one and you who are sitting chewing on your fingernail playing on your phone right now. It is to you whom you probably need to listen to this. Mmm guys, you understand that eternity is one heartbeat away from at your feet.

You're not listening to me. I'm an idiot. But the Word of God here for you today. This may be your opportunity to find out what it is to truly be justified. Anyways Jesus sits there and there's a mild sarcasm in Jesus's words.

He actually says to him. You're a lawyer, what's the Word of God say? How do you read it and he answered correctly and Jesus affirmed that? Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and all your strength and love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus said you have answered correctly. But this God Discarded that grace and I'm gonna tell you why it's a trick question. If you want to go to heaven All you got to do is love your Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your might.

Every day, is there anyone in this room even after you become a Christian that it's done that. Is there anyone in history? Don't say Jesus, please. Is there anyone in history that has done that not even close?

Now notice what the lawyer said in his cross-examination of Jesus who is my neighbor you see because in his mind He dismissed the first one and focused on the second one. Why. Because he went to church every Saturday Sunday.

He was person who tithe he was the person who read his Bible every day. He had his daily bread or Billy Graham's moment devotional or Charles Spurgeon's day and morning nightly readings and in his life He didn't cut smoke or drink or have tattoos.

So, of course, he loved God. So he dismissed that entirely but then he goes and his question to Jesus is based upon a preconceived Racial understanding. Now you have to stay with me for a minute for those you folks that don't regularly attend Witten little question.

How many races of people are there? One there's one race of people, please. Please leave here smarter than you walked in. There are not multiple races of people. There's not Filipinos. We have Filipinos.

Koreans. We got black folk white folk. We got I don't know. What else we got in here red. No, we got redneck out there, man. That's spray for those things. We got some Mexican eases. Huh? Okay, we definitely got daggers daggers.

Me Pazano. We have all those people but scientifically and in reality, they're all homo sapiens sapiens every single one of them. Okay, a Chihuahua and a German Shepherd are both. Stop being stupid. Okay, we'd all appreciate it.

But the reality here is that Jesus When he asks him this and the lawyer tries to cross-examine. He wants to know who his neighbor is now you have to understand that to the Jew. They are it. They are the skit and skimless give me us.

That's it. They were the bees knees. Everybody else was less than you see because God the Creator the one who destroyed Egypt God told the people of Israel you are my chosen people from out all the peoples of the earth.

I choose you and they went around like Fred Sanford and George Jefferson man saying that's right. That's right. We back. We ain't like the rest of you chattel. We are God's chosen people. He called us the apple of his eye and so everybody else is Less than so in the Jews mind.

The only neighborhood he had was the national ethnic understanding of a fellow G. That's who his neighbor was and so Jesus knowing that's what his heart is. Gave this example now you have to understand that the three people that he lumped together Was going to be so offensive.

Some of you folks like a fin folks, you know Jesus what he did right here was Horribly offensive to a Jew so he sits there goes Hi, boy. Let me tell you a story. Jesus replied a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among Robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed leaving him half-dead.

Now by chance a priest was going down that road and when he saw him he passed by on the other side Verse 32 and so likewise a Levite when he came to the place and saw him pass by on. The other side there are those people that disregard grace and try to justify themselves.

Disregarding Grace Through Self-Justification and Tribalism

But there is another type of people and I tell you they are reserved. The people who disregard grace are Lost and going to hell. The people who disrespect grace are the people who claim to know Jesus.

And here's what Jesus is sitting there saying first of all He says a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And of course, there's always some little dorky atheist who couldn't make the football team on his computer going.

How do you go down from a city? Well, I put a map on your little notes for you and it just so happens. Jericho is 800 feet below Jerusalem so you have to actually think three-dimensionally life is bigger than your computer screen.

So anyways, the guy is going down now. We know from historical accounts outside the Bible one of them by the name of Josephus that the road from Jerusalem To Jericho was inundated. It was like What's a really bad part?

What's a really bad road in Memphis? Summer poplar all those roads you are gonna get jacked going down that road if you went by yourself. You're gonna get jacked. You just will okay, you're gonna get car jacked mule jacked, whatever you ride.

They're gonna come down and they're gonna jack you and so this guy is going down the road. And he gets jumped he gets rolled he's laying on the side of the street. Jesus says a Priest comes by and as he's walking down by chance.

He sees Aisha laying on the ground right there all bloody and this is what he does. And he keeps on going. Church people Christians. Do you disregard grace. Well no pastor. I'm saved by grace. I learned Ephesians 2 8 9 and got a Bible badge in Sunday school for it.

What are you doing with it? Do you know what the word compassion? There is no definition for compassion that does not include action. There's no such thing. Well, I love you. Okay, I told chicks to that at 6 1 6 every weekend.

You know what I'm saying? No, you know what I'm saying? It's sad that half my church actually knows what 6 1 6 is. That's not that's that's not what we're talking about here. See compassion is this little baby Alina.

Her little fuzzy head. Little. I don't even know what color her eyes are. Are they blue? Oh, they are got her eyes and her smile. My heart is done. She's out waddling. And she falls in the swimming pool and I go.

She's trying her best. Her fingernails being chipped away at the concrete struggling to climb out of the pool. Lungs slowly filling with water listening to her choke and die. And I'm screaming John 3 16 to her the whole time.

I Love you. I Cross symbol on it. Oh, I love you Lena. Come up out of that water and I'll help you. I'll call 9 -1 -1 and I'll rely on the pastors or the churches. To come rescue her because who am I?

I'm not certified Red Cross. I actually I am but in this story, I'm not. It's funny Christian those of you that have been saved by grace separated from death and been given eternal life. You stand by and watch.

As somebody drowns. Praying for them the whole time. You have disrespected the grace of God. Do you know why Israel was chosen to be God's people? They were chosen to be the workers. They were chosen to be the ones to take God's message out of that room out of that nation.

That's what God gave them the hope the prophecy. They gave them he gave them everything to go and share it with a lost and dying world. And some of us can't even invite someone to go to church. Can't even invite them.

You know, what really torques my backside. You know, it really chaps my butt. It's when I see 79 people of Witten Baptist Church Working their brains out to serve 2 ,300 people you see it. It's just like Kay said and she did pretty good for a blonde.

Didn't she that was a beautiful little Picture of what a vinaigrette of what we should be doing. But it was handing out the gospel. Every person that came in here received the gospel of Jesus Christ 2 ,300 times.

You know what chaps my rear end is when I see I haven't seen it in a long time. But a couple three years ago. I sat and watched a family from this church. Walk up. Stand in that line playing with their kids.

Go through the line walk through those doors. Walk through every booth that we had collecting candy and then walk their butts back out. Who do you think you are? It ain't here for you. We are here for them.

You have disregarded the grace of God to such an epic part of your life that it did not even dawn on your Brain to pitch in and help those who are already working. That we were handing to people starving to death.

And you had no shame. You had no conviction dare. I say I doubt you had the grace of God in your life. Now there's always someone who says pastor. You're being a little harsh. Well listen here Bucky beaver badge.

Listen here you little hippie. You take the grace of God and soil it you Stain it to such a degree that the only thing we hold up and the world sees is the failures of the Individuals instead of the corporate working of the people's.

How many people say well I don't want to go to church because it's for For Jesus, I mean it's great. We have people from Mason, Tennessee coming. Yeah. And Marty and Karina we love them, but they're from Mason, Tennessee.

And they are an anomaly. They have all their teeth, but we want to reach the people in this neighborhood. We want that and that's what makes Witten different. We want the ones no one else wants. That's who we want that is our calling from God.

We were offered 2 .7 million dollars for this piece of property 2 .7 million dollars, and we said keep it preaching this community. Because we don't want to discard the grace that saved me. Because I still remember where I came from.

I Still remember my failures. I still in the middle of the night. Sweat bad dreams because of the things I did yet in the morning time. I am renewed because his mercy is renewed, and I want to share that with somebody else.

I Ain't up here to try to be super pastor. In fact I have more days behind me than I do in front of me. But I tell you this with every burning passion of every atom of my body. I want to stand before God and him say to me well done thou good and faithful servant enter into the joy of thy kingdom.

I Want to go down swinging and that ain't just some zealot thing that somebody's saying to get an amen. That is the core of who I am. I want to go down swinging. If you're a member of this church. That is what you have agreed to.

You're not like the priest who stands in the supple halls of gilded buildings. Trying to shout out the door. Jesus loves you you are a fellow warrior of this place where you are. Encouraged in here taught in here you are held accountable in here, but you were to go out there.

And share the gospel. We shall not disregard the grace of God. It wouldn't for it is by God's grace. We are saved through faith. Look at this next cat. The Levite now does people get confused about this understand this every priest was a Levite.

But not every Levite was a priest. Okay kind of think of it like this the Levites. Think of it like this the priests are kind of like the deacons the Levites are kind of like the pastors. Sorta sorta, but that's as close as I can get right now.

Okay, so the priest walked by and he was like. This is awkward, I'm feeling very awkward about this, and he keeps walking his little Nancy way down the road. But then here comes the Levite. That title the epoch the rose the schooling the Education he can read and memorize the whole first five books of the Bible for you.

Literally take a day and a half and recite it word for word for you. He gives you goosebumps. He's a super Christian. Now look what he does he walking up down the road. And it says as he came by he saw it he came upon him.

You know what he did he 240 to his butt. You say to me, what's he mean he teeth for have you ever been driving down to 40 and for whatever reason. Those mesmerizing blue lights are flashing and as you're driving down the road.

You're doing this. Because you got to look right you got to look. You gotta look. You might know him. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what here. Oh, I hope it's not yeah. Human nature is this. Human nature is this in our entertainment in an everyday life drama and the pain of humanity.

Has become our entertainment. It has become our entertainment every time a war breaks out. Fox News CNN MSNBC. The ratings go through the roof. Why. Well because I'm really concerned about the whole geopolitical situation in the Middle East.

No, man, you're in a taint. You hear Russell Crowe in the gladiators arena saying are you not entertained? Yes, give me more. But there's no compassion. There's not even a prayer lifted up involved. You just want to come across that person and that Levite goes.

Dang boy that look like that hurt. Mmm glad it ain't me peace and he walks on down the road. How do we disregard God's grace? You see. And and try to get this this is not philosophical this is theological.

Dare I say doctrinal, how does the world see an invisible God? He they see it through the church. Do you know why so many kids rebel against their parents? Because the parents will send them to Sunday school class, but not mimic it in their day-to-day lives.

The kids see mom and dad. Driving to the church on Sunday morning with their finest garb upon them. Arguing and bickering and calling each other names and when they hit the church parking that chamber of their vehicle opens a Metamorphic takes place.

Oh good morning. God bless you. Oh, it's so isn't it a beautiful day. Hallelujah, and then we wonder in amazement and call them names. Call them everything in the book when they dare to say The Emperor has no clothes.

It's full of hypocrites now if you're one of those people in here today and You've had your little feelings hot because of the hypocrites come in and join us. Anyways, one more won't matter because you are a hypocrite.

You are the hypocrite. You you got an exhaust fan in your bathroom. You stink, too. So do we we're just trying to all demonstrate a little grace for a lost and dying world. So show on up and go to work.

So we have people who have discarded grace disrespected grace. But praise God. You've got a lot of folks in this church that demonstrate grace. Jesus gets to this part and as he's used the Priest and the Levi he finally comes upon the Samaritan verse 33 remember.

When you're reading Scripture, you need to like big butts. Every time it says but in Scripture, it's not just a juxtaposition. It is something that needs in the comparison and contrast. But it's about to give you the ultimate axiom of what Jesus is saying.

It says but a Samaritan. Don't miss that but a Samaritan on his journey came up to him. And when he saw the man He had compassion and he prayed over him and said good luck and went on his way. How did he have compassion?

Oh, he went over to him. Bandages wounds pouring on olive oil and wine and then he put him on his own. Animal brought him to an end and took care of him the next day. He took out two denarii gave them to the innkeeper and said take care of him.

When I come back I will reimburse you for whatever extra you spend guys. Do you know what the Samaritans were? To the Jew. They were the trailer park trash. I'm sorry. We got some folks living in trailers.

They were the Frazier folks. We got folks from Frazier. They were us. Okay. Let me give you an example when I go to a pastor's conference. This around here. This is how I show up. You know why. Because this is how I show up on Sundays.

This is how I dress at home because I'm not gonna be different than I am. Okay, so I show up. I'm the only dude in the room without a master's degree. Most of them have doctrines. Okay, I Don't care now.

It's funny a lot of the brothers in Christ. They'll sit there and go. Hey Jeff. What's up, man? How you doing, man? I'm doing good brother. How you doing? I'm doing great. God. Love you. Peace. Praise love me.

I'm gone. But there are some other guys. They're like this when I walk in I'm like, I don't walk in. That I think they have a class in Southern Baptist Seminary on how you're supposed to approach people because it's like.

Men, it's like they sashay. And when they're younger they have the skinny jeans on with the polo shirt. You know and the slick back 10-inch part hair with the horn-rimmed sissy glasses and you know it I'm just like dude.

You were a man before you were pastor. Can you act like one please please stop doing this? Please. Right. There are some folks that look down on other folks. Well, because they don't look like they belong.

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? That's who the Samaritans were to Jews in reality the Samaritans were half breeds split half power. Man, that's where you white folk and you black folk y 'all losers them half breeds.

Man, they're the cutest thing in the world. Ah. So cute, I just want to kiss little fats off of oh. But they're the they're the ones that are like half they used to be half Jewish, but they married Unwashed people, you know.

And Jews hated them. Except there was this guy named Jesus and John chapter 4 who went to a well because he had to meet a chick a female Who was a Samaritan and he showed up on that day and that is when a church was born in ten different cities from the words of one Woman that I'm so sick of men being pansies.

But anyways, that's another sermon. Samaritan walks up. He sees the situation now notice what the scripture says and he had compassion. It wasn't a feeling. It wasn't gas. It wasn't a prayer service. Compassion is love in work clothes and he went to work.

He didn't check his criterium of his medical training. He didn't check the gender. He didn't check the nationality. He didn't check anything about that man. He saw a need and Immediately he had compassion.

And he bound up his wounds and let me tell you something about grace. Christian do you know when you know when it's grace is. When it costs you something now listen for God so loved the world that he gave his only son only son.

People say well, yeah, I'm in ministry. I get up here every week and I sing a song. That's not ministry. I Know I know that just stresses some of you out you need to get over the 1950s. That is not ministry.

Wait a minute getting up here and preaching is not ministry. I am NOT ministering to you. I am preaching to you now all day today. Six different people are coming up and going to talk to me all day long.

About issues and I'm gonna have to spend my time when I could be watching football and eating popcorn in my recliner. It's gonna cost you Christian let me ask you a question. What are you paying in your time and cost to minister to people?

Well, I sent a shoebox to little Mexican children last Christmas. I I Just there are people who've told me I just you've been to church 30 years and you're still that big of a loser. Really you sent a shoebox to Mexico.

It's gonna come back across the river. Anyways build that wall now listen ministry. It's okay focus. Where's your ministry? What is it costing you. This guy poured oil and wine onto the wounds. Now there are some preachers sit there and go.

Well that represents the Holy Spirit and that represent I don't know. I think it represents all in one. Okay, I think it represents all in one it costs that man to do that. But wait, there's more. He puts him on his animal on his Vehicle and you know what he does if he's on his animal.

What's that mean walking, baby? Walking some of you young men that keep parking up here. I swear I'm gonna have your cars towed. I'm gonna slick your tires walk your lazy butt from the other side of the parking lot and like the pregnant women and Visitors and old people park up here walk your butt up here.

Well, honey, I want to walk with my wife. She'll still be there drop her off and you walk. Come up with something other than an excuse. Okay, by the way, why am I as a senior pastor don't have a special parking place.

Oh Yeah. Walk something. Let your sacrifice be acceptable to God when he gets to the end. He starts taking care of him. He starts taking care of him, but then he pulls two days wages out of his pocket.

Ain't no pennies. He pulls out two days of hard labor. Out his pocket and he gives it to the innkeeper and says hey take care of him. I'm gonna come back and if he eats up that. Whatever he eats up when I come back.

I'll hook you up. One of the rules. 20 years ago when I came here when I came here 20 years ago the pastor had a clothing fund. An education fund a car fund a book fund and a convention fund. This church was taking in $1 ,200 a week from 50 people.

We couldn't even keep the lights on but the pastor has all of that. Oh Yeah, I forgot mileage. I was like, do you get paid to drive to work? Well, no, then why do I? Well, I don't get paid to drive to work.

Get all that crap out of there. Get all that crap out of here. And then we did this we made a new rule that we have defended to the death around here. Pastors don't collect money. Count money. Know who spends.

Know who gives. We don't know any of that mess. And I'm gonna tell you why because I know Jeff Shipley. I Dude, I know me. Let's say Brittany here gives $10 ,000 a week to this church. Vicki gives a buck.

They both call me. Who am I going to answer the phone? Tell me like well pastor. You're a very no. He's called. I'm gonna tell you how it is. Right. I'm gonna tell you like it is. I don't want to know I do get statistics.

And let me tell you something. Some of you people are disgusting. I'm gonna tell you why you're members of this church and You give nothing. Like the whole pastors talking about money. No you godless heathen.

I'm talking about grace and your lack of it. Well pastor, I don't make a bunch of money. I don't either. I give every week. So what's your point? Well pastor, I can you stop please being a 12 year old kid?

Who's busted and keep coming up with excuses to keep ruining your life instead? Why don't you repent humble yourself and get right with God? I hate talking about money. Money is Disgusting to me. I hate it with a flaming passion almost as bad as Alabama.

Okay God, I thought LSU was gonna do it. I'd gum it and roll through. But what it's a measurement of is what are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to sacrifice? I don't see it. I don't count it.

I don't want it and I'm here to tell you I don't care about it. I I got people for that I care about you and where you at and the maturity and matriculation of your life from a godless child In Christ to a mature person in Christ.

Well pastor, how do I mature faith? Trusting God instead of yourself guys. You are putting so much stock and pieces of paper with dead white dudes faces on it. Like that's really gonna give you security.

You want to know what it is to know peace? Watch this quit trusting yourself or any agency of men including religion and start trusting in Jesus Christ. Now I'm gonna close now because that looks like I've gone over a little bit and my ADD people are freaking out.

Okay. That's okay. That's okay. Okay. Focus just second. I want to little music peoples to come up but listen to me. Where are you this morning? Have you discarded focus? If you got to go go on and go rest everybody listen.

Have you discarded grace in other words? You've put faith in a prayer a church or a pastor. Instead of the Word of the Living God. If you have you're gonna be burning in hell right next to the child molester and everybody else is rejected.

God your crap stinks, too. If you think your morality Justifies you you've lost your ever-loving mind. Number two, you really are saved, but you've disrespected grace by not giving what God told you to give.