(Part 2) Refuting Those Who Contradict

Jesus said in Luke 6 26 beware when all men speak well of you for so did their fathers. To the false prophets see the false prophets prophesy smooth words. Peace peace when there is no peace. They say things like God loves everyone Unconditionally no matter what now that sounds great.

Problem is the Bible never says that matter of fact the Bible says the opposite there is a condition and the condition is faith in Jesus Christ. You see the prophets and the Apostles. They would preach messages like Repent and turn back to God that was the average sermon by a prophet right repent.

In Acts chapter 2 verse 40 the most famous sermon ever preached Peter on the day of Pentecost. You know apart from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount where Jesus warned about hell in the Sermon on the Mount by the way.

But where did Peter say in his famous sermon? He called people to repent and be baptized and in Acts 2 verse 40. He said be saved from this perverse Generation. See that doesn't make people very happy if I say hey this generation that's alive today.

It is a perverse Generation. Yeah, that's not gonna fill up stadiums. That's not gonna get you a deal with serious radio, right? Oprah is not gonna invite you on her show when you're Preaching like that now if you come along say everybody's saved everybody's a child of God.

God loves everyone. Unconditionally every everything everyone's going to heaven everything's great. Then Oprah will have you on but you see how this works, okay? So Peter. Basically any pick any sermon in the Bible.

It's pretty pretty much the same message repent or else. You know Peter be saved from this perverse generation. I can only imagine what he would say today. How much more perverse is it? Well, I guess Peter wasn't very tolerant and inclusive, but you know pastors.

Forget all that stuff for a moment. Forget what people think. Forget what people want and how they're following false teachers pastors need to just. Don't worry about what people think do what God says do what the Bible says is your job.

Pastors need to exhort again. Titus 1 9 pastors need to exhort people in Sound Doctrine and we need to be able to refute those who contradict. So identify the source. Who's teaching this? What are they teaching.

Why is it wrong chapter and verse explain it biblically? That's what we need. Basically, we just need to be biblical. Bottom line we just need to be biblical. This is why I am a big believer in Expository preaching a pastor should stand up in front of the church on Sunday morning.

He should open the Bible and he should teach and preach from the Bible. Oh, I know that's revolutionary. That's all you need to do. Preach from the Bible and do it in Context. Not use a verse out of context as a springboard to launch into something.

You know you want to talk about. No. Nor should a pastor be playing the word association game. I mean Rick Warren is famous for this a pastor will have an idea something that they want to talk about. So they search multiple translations to look for a particular word that sort of ties in to their desired topic.

Now the Bible verse that they use that word. The verse may have nothing to do with the overall subject. But it's you know a word that's in the verse and a word they're using that's the connection word association.

It's just a it gives you the illusion that they're actually preaching a biblical sermon when most of the time it's anything. But so there's all sorts of games that people play. It's like Joel Osteen I don't know if he still does this but remember how he would start out every TV show every Sermon quote-unquote he'd hold up his Bible.

Is it this is my Bible. It is what it says I can do and what a blah blah blah whatever he says and then he puts it down. And he never opens it again. He doesn't preach from it. It's like how do people not see this and of course many do.

But this is just the environment the modern Evangelical environment. It's a sorry state of affairs. So again, this is the whole problem when someone when someone is biblical. When they're just doing the job description like God lays it out in Titus 1 9.

No, you're the problem, even though you're doing the right thing, but the people doing the wrong thing. They're famous. They set the tone. They got Billy Graham who backed them up and praised them up 30 years ago.

So they can do no wrong and you you're just a jerk. That's kind of the way it shakes out. But what we need to do is rightly Handle the Word of God. 2nd Timothy 2 15 says be diligent to present yourself.

Approved to God a worker who does not need to be ashamed. Rightly dividing the Word of Truth and that means to rightly handle The Word of Truth. A pastor should be going through the Bible chapter by chapter verse by verse.

He shouldn't be jumping around and Skipping things like okay. I'll preach this part of Matthew, but not that part and not this part and not that part. But then then I'll preach this but not that. What is that that's censorship if you refuse to preach about certain subjects?

If you refuse to preach certain passages of the Bible. Pastors are censoring the Bible. That's what they're doing. They refuse to tell people what the Bible says they refuse to preach it as is. So here's the thing if you preach if you just do What God says, you know what Paul says?

You know preach the word if you just preach verse by verse. Here's why that is so important. It ensures that you will get that the people will get God's message and not man's. Now going back to Titus 1.

You can't preach through the Bible the New Testament, especially without touching on the subject of false teachers. Contradict sound doctrine since every New Testament letter with the exception of Philemon was written at least in part in order to address False doctrine and you know bad doctrine and bad behavior all the New Testament letters cover this subject.

So it's a major theme. So if you just preach through the New Testament, you're gonna be talking about this often. You get the point but this podcast is meant to kind of reinforce this point because let's face it you Depending and I don't know most of my viewers most of my list I don't know what you're listening to but the average person you're not getting this from most ministries.

So this type of thing is lacking today. So I'm trying to help fill the void and There are many others doing this as well, but we are in the small minority. We're sort of like a voice crying out in the wilderness if you will, you know.

We're we're trying to call the church back to its roots to have a prophetic voice once again. But when you try to do that When you simply try to be biblical you find that you get criticized and that's okay, that's fine.

But you don't just get criticized from the atheists and the skeptics you unfortunately You get criticized by other believers. So just a few final thoughts. What really led me to do this specific? Podcast this episode is really all the people that come on my youtube channel and they leave comments about how you know, I I'm not being Christlike because I critiqued Mormonism or something like that just like What so here's what people do.

They'll leave comments about how Jesus would never criticize another religion so the the video that I Have on YouTube that gets by far the most comments just like I don't know how many every day. It's my video kingdom of the cults where I address Jehovah's Witnesses Mormons Christian science and you know, especially Mormonism and Christian science.

I mean, this is not Christianity not by a long shot as of the time of this recording I have about like 8 ,500 comments on that video and One that I read today one comment is really stood out. And I've heard variations of this same remark before but here's what one guy said.

He said well if you were Christlike if you were really like Jesus, you wouldn't be talking bad about other religions. You know, my first thought is okay. Can I disagree with the Church of Satan and still be Christlike?

Would that be okay? Can I be Christlike and speak against Baal worship. Well, what if I'm critical of the Pharisees religion? Can I still be Christlike because I'm pretty sure Christ criticized that right?

So I responded and I know I probably shouldn't respond, you know, my daughter tells me don't respond to YouTube comments you know, that's but I and I ignore most of them, but sometimes I Realize maybe I should ignore it, but I Responded I basically told the guy I Told him well to be Christ.

Okay, let's talk about Christ. Let's talk about what Christ did. I said in John chapter 4 Jesus told the Samaritan woman that her worship was wrong. I Jesus did say your religion is wrong. He told her that What you worship?

You don't know Jesus said we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. So according to Jesus Christ himself the worship of the Samaritans The worship they were involved in was wrong. They worshipped at the wrong place.

They had a false priesthood. They were not following Moses the way the Jews were. So the fact is Jesus actually did speak against her organized religion. Of course Jesus also spoke against certain sects of Judaism in particular the Scribes and Pharisees and then in the book of Revelation Jesus Referred to a specific religious group as being a synagogue of Satan now I don't want to overstate my point, but I was just thinking where do people get this idea?

What is this guy thinking that he would come on and actually try to correct a pastor and say well Jesus never did this. Okay, here's the thing. Where are they getting this idea? I think I know. But that you know, my Jesus would never speak a bad word about anyone ever.

You know Jesus only spoke. This is the idea people have in their mind that Jesus only Spoke about love and acceptance. Jesus never said anything negative about anyone ever. That's what they believe. Where did they get that idea?

Here's the thing? These people their view of Jesus either comes from Hollywood or More likely I think The Jesus that these people have in mind. Their Jesus is really more like Joel Osteen. Yeah, he's always positive.

Right. This is what they're getting. This is what most people are getting from modern evangelical Christianity that Jesus is like. The Christian pastors you see on TV. They're always positive. They never preach anything negative.

They're always smiling positive only all the time and they're for everyone no matter what in Jews Muslims Hindus all religions. They all love God. Everything's great. Everyone's saved. I Think that's where they get this idea.

I don't think it's from TV in Hollywood I mean that might be part of it, but I think it's actually from Evangelical pastors that they get this idea or the you know, the the big names. So here's the problem.

Not only is that a false Christ? I mean that that Jesus that's all positive all the time never says anything negative about other that's a fake Jesus that Jesus doesn't exist. That is idolatry. They have created fashioned and molded to Jesus in their own vain imagination.

But here's why it becomes a problem or how it becomes a problem for Christians this false idea that people have about Jesus. It then gets put on people like me it then gets put on pastors. So when I do a video about how the religion of Mormonism is wrong or some other pastor You know fulfills his job description Titus chapter 1 verse 9.

He refutes those who contradict when we do things like that. Or if I preach a sermon where I speak about a particular behavior I say it's wrong people should repent of it all the even even when we're reading straight from the Bible.

It doesn't matter because now the accusation is you're not being like Jesus. You're not being loving Jesus would never do that doesn't matter if it's true or not. That's the narrative. Right, it's it's the liberal Narrative that has found its way within Evangelical Christianity, it's leading people astray.

It's causing people to worship a false Christ and it's demonizing the pat it helps to demonize the pastors who are just Doing what the Bible says refuting those who contradict. Or maybe somebody's attending a liberal church where the pastor never preaches against in the only people he ever Criticizes or you know conservative Christians or something like that.

We had a church in town that did that the only time the pastor would ever criticize anyone was Against conservatives until he drove them all out of his church. That's another story for another day. But you know someone attends a church like that.

They're they're certainly not following Titus one. They're certainly not calling out false teaching. So when that becomes the norm it creates this environment where Preachers are no longer held to a biblical standard.

They're held to a fake worldly standard. People bottom line they want a pastor who's like, mr. Rogers. They want a pastor who's more like mr. Rogers. Not, you know, Peter or Paul or John. People should consider for a moment.

The what you see on TV is fake. Okay, even the ministries on TV at best. It's heavily edited and polished. It's not real life the Apostles. Here's what I love about the Bible the Apostles the Old Testament prophets all the characters in the Bible they were real.

The Bible gives us a real and Raw and honest assessment of things the men we see in Scripture are presented to us warts and all. Not like the guy on TV who's smiling every time you see him. It's like there's no way he's really like that in real life you know, it's a persona and This is something we have to realize.

Okay, what were presented on television. It's it's not real. It's not accurate and most of the time it's not biblical. You know the the characters in Scripture. Were joyful at times but at times they were you know, it's like real life.

They got discouraged. They said a lot of positive things, but the preachers in the Bible. Some of the greatest saints they said some negative things they dealt with all sorts of emotions same with Jesus.

Jesus gave us the Beatitudes. He said a lot of wonderful things that make you feel good. But then he also called the religious leaders of his day a brood of vipers. So Jesus was not one-dimensional. The point of this podcast just to try to help.

I know I'm kind of going on and on here I might have to break this into two parts. But I just want to help people think Biblically, so in conclusion Titus chapter 1 verse 9. This is all part of the job description.

It's part of my job description to hold fast the faithful word. Which is in accordance with the teaching so that I will be able and all pastors will be able To both both to exhort in sound doctrine and we will be able to refute those who contradict it.

So that's what I'm trying to do. If you would please pray for me. Thank you for all those who have prayed and give me those Encouragements, it does mean a lot. I appreciate all of your support. I Didn't become a pastor to win some sort of popularity contest.

I certainly didn't create my youtube channel or start this podcast for that because you know. Get more critics Than you do fans, I think but that's not what this is about. It's just about doing the right thing.

Trying to take the Word of God you read it. You believe it you apply it you try to teach others. That's what it's all about. I'm just trying to be faithful to the calling that the Lord has placed on my life.

It's like Paul told the Corinthians. He said woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. Well, I feel the same way and I've not only been called to preach the gospel and to preach what's right and true. It is also part of my calling for the last time Titus 1 verse 9.

It is also part of my calling to refute those who are preaching a false gospel and Seek to corrupt the Word of God refute those who contradict. I'll close with this Ephesians 5 verse 11 says and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

Well, but people don't like that. Some will say all sorts of negative things about you. Yeah, that's true and It's the same for some of you listening if you try to share These things with your friends your co-workers.

You try somebody says they're a Christian. But they're listening to false prophets and their their life is just to live. They're living their life contrary to what the Bible says. You try to talk to them about it.

They call you judgmental and they call you all the names that you know, I'm hearing right? And if it doesn't go well don't get discouraged. It's easy to do rather be Encouraged. Remember the words of Jesus himself in Matthew 5 11 and 12.

He says blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely. For my sake rejoice Jesus says and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven. For so they persecute don't feel alone right?

You're not alone for so they persecuted the prophets Who were before you? Thanks for listening and until next time may the Lord be with you and have a great day.