The Emasculated Modern Church

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You can say what you want, but you won't around me. Black sheep among misfits, a misfit in the trailer park at night.
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A misprint with the sixth sense, been sick ever since my brother died of an O .D.
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My two cents never made sense, either to me or anyone else inside of the sheep fence.
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My 9th Smith on my right side. Why you staring at your cop dot sign and my
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John Hancock on the dotted line? Tell me what's the bottom line. The bottom line is
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I'm not right. I'm not left, but this elephant won't fight. There's nothing left but the spotlight.
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Hold my beer, you can find me in the moonlight. You can say what you want, but you won't around me.
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I'm within the deep end and I can't find my assigned seat to sit in.
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My theology don't fit in. Black sheep of the Reformation sheep pen. To the
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Reformed, I'm just another Baptist baptized again. The bastard child of Anabaptist, host to child of Reformation society.
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We don't need your education. Give me a Bible and a bookshelf of dead men.
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Cigars, bourbons, and beer cans. Bow ties, tattoos, and bearded men. Making Reformation great again.
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You can say what you want. You can say what you want, but you won't around me.
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You can say what you want. You can say what you want, but you won't around me.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jeff. And I am one of the hosts of Open Air Theology.
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I am also one of the elders at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church in Tallahoma, Tennessee.
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Something just fell. I don't know which one of y 'all dropped something. So if you're ever out in Tallahoma, Tennessee, please stop by and hang out with a brother.
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And I'm going to pass it to my left, right. Well, hi,
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I'm Haps Addison, one of the hosts here of Open Air Theology and Passing the
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Torch School of Apologetics. And I, too, am here in Tennessee. Passing it down like the
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Brady Bunch. Yeah, Pastor Braden Patterson with Valley Baptist Church in Hagerman, Idaho.
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We worship God on Lord's Day at 11 a .m. If you're in the area, we'd love to see you. It's a real blessing to be able to hang out with these great brothers in the faith here,
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Jeff and Haps, and just being a part of Open Air Theology. All right, well, man, it's been a crazy month and a half.
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We had the conference. We had some troublemakers.
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And the last time that we did a video, we talked about that some. And then they went on by they,
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I mean, Kevin Thompson, the YouTube tough guy. Went on to run his mouth, not only about me, which is fine.
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Apparently, you know, he was running his mouth about the kids at the conference as well.
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And so, you know, I don't know if any of y 'all know Kevin Thompson, but yeah.
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Nobody really knows Kevin Thompson. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what, son.
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James White texted me the other day and he said, hey, did you see this video? And I said, yeah,
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I saw it. I said, that's the YouTube tough guy. I said, because if Peter ran his mouth like that at the conference,
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I wouldn't be a pastor today. Hallelujah. Hallaback. Hallaback.
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But he was a Marine. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you don't know who
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I am. Hi, my name is Jeff. And I'm just not the one.
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So, yeah. Kevin Thompson is I'm going to try to keep my pastor right now.
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So, yeah, he's not a good day. I wouldn't consider him a brother.
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I would consider him an accuser of the brethren. And he's someone that runs his mouth about little kids.
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That's sad. But outside of that, you know, we're just trying to put our best foot forward.
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We're looking forward to the next conference. And I know last week, I mean, was it last week that we, no, it was the week before.
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When was it that we had our last Open Earth Theology? Two weeks ago. Something like that.
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But we announced that the name of the next conference. Well, the name has somewhat changed.
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Brayden, would you like to introduce the new? I mean, the topics are basically going to be the same, but with a little more in your face.
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We are trying to figure out something that would be good for all the different topics. And it's still on sanctification. But the name for this 2025 conference for Open Air Theology is going to be
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War. Open Air Theology, War.
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Because as we all know, those of us who are Christians, that the spirit wars with the flesh.
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And so we're going to Bigfoot. Yeah. I would like to go.
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If I'm listening, if I'm lying, I'm dying. I would like to go to a Bigfoot conference. And I would be a speaker if they asked me.
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Just saying. I would be a speaker. Now watch you get some invitations. Yeah, come on.
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So tonight's topic is the emasculated modern church.
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Kind of reminds me of Paul in Galatians where he wished that those who preached the
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Abrahamic covenant according to the flesh circumcision would emasculate themselves.
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When I was preaching through this, I mentioned that he wished that they would be as they're circumcising.
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They would cut off their manhood and become like women unable to have authority over men.
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That'll preach. Oh, gosh. So what do we do with this topic?
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Right. How is it that the modern church is emasculated?
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Let's talk about it. And what we'll probably do is we'll probably ask some questions and give some answers.
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Brayden, you want to. I've been talking for about five minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this idea we were talking the other day and it was just about all the ways that the feminism, how effeminate in totality it seems to be that the entire church across the
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United States specifically is. And it really the conversation really kicked off because we were talking about how there's so many
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Christians that don't like to use the words that we see in the Bible. Like, for example, fearing
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Yahweh or drunkard or homosexual or anything along those lines that are
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God. God calls, like even those those three that I mentioned right there, those two that I mentioned right there, sin, like we should be
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OK with using the word that's sin. Like and there's so many Christians today that say
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I'm a Christian. And yet they they they don't want to offend at all. They don't want to.
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They don't want to call it as it is. They don't want to call a spade a spade. And so there's almost this type of thought of I got to tiptoe around, be tolerant of the culture and not offend anybody in the process.
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And so that's what we what we that's the whole reason of the topic that we're talking about is the masculated church.
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Why is it so malnourished? Why is it not behaving like a man? And what how does this even affect us individually, us in our church, us in our evangelism, us in our worship, us in several examples?
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And so that's kind of what we're tackling today on that topic. Yeah. So if you ask me,
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Jeff, what is the problem with our world? Why is it that our world seems to be falling apart?
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I would say the answer to that question is it's the church's fault.
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The world is in the condition that it's in because of the church. The church, in my opinion, has stopped fearing
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God. And if you say, yeah, but you are part of the problem.
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If you say, but but fear doesn't really mean fear. You are a part of the problem.
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I was, as most of y 'all know, I am a UFC fan.
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Right. I trained in martial arts most of my life. And I've mentioned this in the pulpit. And I want to I want to gleam off of this a little bit.
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So there's this fruity, in my opinion. I mean, his last fight, he wore nothing but pink.
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Right. He looks like a clown. His name is Sean O'Malley. He may mention whenever he went over over to some
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Muslim territory of how he can respect them because they fear God.
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But he doesn't respect Christians because Christians don't fear God. And then
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I saw a video. What's that lady's name? I mentioned it to you,
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Brayden. Andrew Tate.
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No, but but she was he was being interviewed by Candace Owens. Candace Owen. And Candace Owen was like, you know, you used to be a
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Christian. We could really use you on our side. And he made mention that Christians don't fear
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God. And as much as I disagree with so much of what these guys are saying, they're right.
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They're right. Christians do not fear God. I want you to picture this.
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I want you to imagine right now that you are in the middle of the ocean and you are in a rowboat.
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Right. And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a big old whale jumps up right in front of you.
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Do you fear the whale or do you have respect for the whale? Or let's say that all of a sudden, as you're in this rowboat, a bunch of sharks start swimming by you.
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Or do you fear the sharks or do you respect the sharks?
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Ladies and gentlemen, God not only created those big sea monsters that could swallow us or eat us.
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He created that big body of water. Matter of fact, the scripture says that he holds it in his hand.
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He could crush everything. And yet we're not to fear him.
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I'm sorry. I'm on a little tangent here. But but but but growing up, I feared my daddy.
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Even as a man, I feared my daddy. Well, my dad said,
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Jeff, do something. Guess what Jeff did. I did the something that he told me to do.
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Not because I loved him. And yes, I did love him. But I feared my father. My kids do not clean up after themselves.
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Right. And they would never clean up because they love their dad.
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They only clean up when I say clean your room now.
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And they clean their room now because they have a fear of their dad.
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It's healthy to have a fear. Not that I'm going to destroy them.
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But I would punish them if they don't clean their room. Right.
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And there's something that my dad would never do. Right. He would never make me not his son.
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We're not saying that you fear God because he's going to like if you're a Christian, he's going to remove from you your salvation.
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Ladies and gentlemen, God is the Lord. He is our
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God. And we are to fear him. And the reason why the world is in the position that it's in is because Christians stopped fearing their
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God. We stopped proclaiming his holiness. We stopped proclaiming what we are supposed to do as Christians.
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And that's the third use of the law. We are to to read this book and do what it says.
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And people talk about they want revival. You are not going to get revival if you don't do what this book says.
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Yeah. You know, I, you know, I honestly believe that the reason why that there's a lack of a fear of God, that that people have a different God, people.
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I mean, I got to be honest. You have a lot of people out there that have I say this all the time, that they have a profession of faith and not a possession of faith.
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Because if you did fear God, you keep his commandments and his commandments is to is to believe in his name and love your neighbors.
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And it's also to do as he commands is to go and make disciples. And I think that what we've done is we've got the cart before the horse in Christianity and stuff.
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And we're so in tune to numbers and bringing people in and and making church attendees and not making followers of Jesus Christ, because followers of Jesus Christ follow
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Christ. They pick up their cross and follow him. You know, and sooner or later, you're going to have to get up on that cross.
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You know, and it's it's we're not training young men.
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And I think it also it's has to do with a lot at the household also, you know, because it's
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I think it was Michael that said it earlier. But but it's it's really a servanthood and leadership.
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And so if you're training your kids to just to sit around, eat food all day and play video games and all this and that and just show up to church, well, guess what they're going to do?
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They're going to do just that, you know. But if we're training them in righteousness and in raising them up and preparing them for what's out there.
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All right. And what's within the church, because right now a lot of people see this, the church that we're all experiencing and in right now.
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And it's it's dead. It needs revival. Revival actually is repentance.
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All right. That's that's true. Revival is repentance. And we all fall short of the glory of God.
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Yes. But we're we're not training them to go and proclaim the gospel because because they don't know the gospel.
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I just mean, Jeff just did a show the other night where me and a friend of mine out in Southern California went to like 100 churches and just we just seen this influx of people day after day after day.
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That that, again, profess to know Christ. And we go to these churches just asking them what the gospel is.
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They don't even know the basics. So if they don't know the basics, look what you're going to get.
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Yeah. You know, I like how you brought that. Pick up your cross and follow after me. The reason why we don't see
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Christians doing that right now is there's no there there is no fear of Yahweh.
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If we understood that he is the king of kings and the Lord of lords, he's sitting upon his throne.
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I'm more fearful of him than I am of the world. Put me on the cross. Let me follow after him.
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Let me get on the cross and follow after the Lord Jesus because I'm fearful of him, not fearful of the world.
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My my my thought, I've I've got several places in the
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Bible where I was thinking about through with this Hebrews 10 31. It says it is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living
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God. Job. This is a text I preached through recently. Job.
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Job 28 at the end of the chapter, he says in verse 28.
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So he said to man, behold, the fear of the Lord.
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That is wisdom and a turn away from evil is understanding we we should fear
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God. We we have to. And so I look at like Andrew Tate in that example, he brought up Jeff with with that interview with him and Candace Andrew.
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Obviously, we know theologically he was not a Christian, right? There is no being a Christian and leaving and not being a
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Christian, but he professed to be a Christian. But he actually didn't really possess a fear of Yahweh. He still doesn't have that fear.
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And even he as a secular unbeliever can see how the the false professors of Islam and the false professors of all these different other religions, they have a greater fear of their false
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God than Christians have of the one and only God. And that it affects everything that we do within the
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Christian church. We we. We're so worried about offending people.
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Pastors are even so offended of worrying people, offending people because what are the people just do so? So the pastor is effeminate because he's worried about offending somebody because he knows that the congregation is effeminate, because if they are offended, he knows they're just going to walk out the door and go to the church down the street from him.
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There's no accountability there. It's it's systematized in every aspect of the church today.
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And it's something that we have to be warring against within our local congregations, explaining the holiness of God and and his immutability.
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The same God that says some pretty eye opening things in the
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Old Testament, the ways that the Old Testament saints pray to him. He's the same God that we pray to today.
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And that's that's. I recently said this, if you can say amen to a wonderful salvific like I was just telling these guys before we came on here, if you could say amen to the
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Yahweh as my shepherd, the Lord is my shepherd. But you can't say amen to let me turn to Psalm 69.
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If you can't say amen, Psalm 69 verse, let's see here.
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Psalm 69, verse. Twenty seven and twenty eight, add iniquity to their iniquity and may they not come into your righteousness.
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May they be blotted out of the book of life and may they not be recorded with righteousness.
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Like what? Like we can't say most Christians today. That's not in the Bible.
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No, that's in the same book that we have all these wonderful. The Lord is my high tower is my high place.
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I worship all those kind of wonderful psalms. And if you can say amen to those things, you ought to be saying amen to even these kind of attacks.
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We want a God that is worthy of our fear. And that's the reason why there's sin in the church is because people are not fearing
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God. I mean, let's just call a spade a spade.
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Right now, if I wanted to kind of go off of, you know, like perhaps said that revival is repentance.
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And I've been saying ever since we've been going through the book of Acts, focusing on the gospel, that revival is when
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God's people do what the word of God says. Revival is when God's people do what the word of God says.
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Whenever God's people do what the word of God says, three things happen. Revival, church growth and persecution.
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All right. Everyone wants revival. Everyone wants church growth. But they don't want the consequences that come from those two things.
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And that is repentance. And I may mention this past Lord's Day. Hatch was there. You can go online and listen to it.
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That if you don't like what's said from the pulpit, this might not be the church for you.
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I am going to preach the word of God. I'm going to call you to repentance.
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I'm going to call you to go out and reach your neighbors with the gospel.
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And why should you do that? Because God has commanded it. He's commanded his disciples to make disciples.
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I mean, Matthew, chapter 10, verse 28, Jesus speaking, he says, Do not fear those who can kill the body.
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But cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
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Fear him. We are to fear God. When I witness to someone, my main agenda is to put the fear of God in them.
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That's what I want. I want them to fear God. I want them to know that God is holy and God demands us to keep his commandments.
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First John, chapter two, verse three. This is how we know that we have come to know him if we keep his commandments.
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The one who says that he knows him and doesn't keep his commandments is a liar. Chapter three, verse 23 and 24.
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This is his commandments that we believe in the name of the son, Jesus Christ.
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And we love our neighbors as ourselves. If you're loving your neighbors as yourself, that's what you're doing.
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You're not lying to them. You're not stealing from them. You're not coveting something that's theirs.
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You don't see them having something and you want it so bad that you wish that they didn't have it and you had it.
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You're not trying to sleep with their husband or their wife.
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Right. You love them. But the most loving thing that you can do for your neighbor, especially if they don't know
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Christ, is be that witness for them. We are called.
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I mentioned this last week in the creation mandate. Adam, I mentioned this at my church last week.
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God told Adam and Eve, what he told them to do, fill the earth and multiply. God tells
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Noah and his seven and his three sons, along with their wives, to fill the earth and multiply.
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Jesus tells his disciples, in other words, fill the earth and multiply. Go into all the world, make disciples.
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Christians are under the same mandate. As that creation, as of creation to multiply and fill the earth.
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How do we multiply and fill the earth? We, you and I, preach the gospel. God grants the birth, the new birth.
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Right. And when a person is born again, we teach them. We baptize them.
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We teach them. We bring them up in the nurture and care of the Lord. Humans beget humans.
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Christians, through the word of God, beget Christians. We are called to reach our neighbors.
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And you can only do that if you fear the Lord. Yeah. And, you know, also, you know, we really got to,
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I mean, let's really be honest about this. And we have different denominations out there and whatnot and stuff like this.
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But if you start with a man centered gospel, you're going to end up with the man centered results.
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And if the whole church is structured around appeasing to the man and to the woman and all that type of stuff, you're going to get these results.
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And what happens when you you have a man centered gospel, you bring them into this self delusion because they're already centered on themselves anyways prior to Christ.
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And so when you bring them into this, they're not in the hot pursuit of piety. They're in there.
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They fall in. Explain the difference between piety and pietism.
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So, you know, piety is we're in the pursuit of righteousness and holiness and we have a fear of God.
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And this is that what we are pursuing. It's something that we it's like you you had this itch, this urge, this need to consume, to draw closer to the
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Lord and stuff. But pietism is what do I got to do in order to get basically
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Jesus off my back and get me into heaven? What do I got to what do I got to do to what boxes do
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I got to check off? So piety good, pietism bad. Yes.
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And so that's what you get with a man centered gospel rather than a God centered gospel.
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So I think it all starts right there, because if somebody is given a man centered gospel, they already don't have a fear of God.
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So it starts at the top and it trickles down, you know, and that's that's the problem right there.
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It's because it has become a man centered gospel, man centered religion.
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And remember, religion is worship of God. Yeah. Actually, Rene just said
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America is full of pietism. Mm hmm. That's true.
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Yeah, that's right. Actually, thank you for your comment. You know, my mind, since we're talking about the fear of fear of the
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Lord right now, like I my mind is taking me just to the story of Noah and the ark.
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Right. Here you have the entire world and their thoughts are continually evil and blasphemous to God.
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And Noah finds favor in the eyes of the Lord. And then he builds an ark.
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And I just like think about being on the ark and feeling those waves, hearing.
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I mean, undoubtedly, you would have been hearing people drown at first. Like, could you could you imagine that scene right there and know that God detests sin?
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And I'm so fearful of it. Do you do you think the people were sleeping in their beds all comfy? Or do you think that they were shuddering underneath that storm that was beating against the boat the entire time that there was a fear there?
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I even go back to like the whole like I think Christians, they they they don't realize this.
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But like in Revelation, chapter 22, when it says, come, Lord Jesus, if you're a
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Christian that has ever prayed that, do you realize that you were praying the most severe, imprecatory prayer that you could ever utter?
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Come, Lord Jesus. What are you asking for? Come and judge the wicked forever.
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Yes. All those unbelieving neighbors you have, if Jesus comes tonight, will suffer in this and smoke and torment throughout all eternity.
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When God answers that prayer. Yep. Come, Lord Jesus. Right. Like that's and you have
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Christians that that don't even they're they're just taking a nap on the ark. They're just like,
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I'm good. I don't need to fear about this. I don't need to worry about this. Like, or what about that message you preached,
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Brayden, at the conference? You made mention in the Old Testament concerning limited atonement about about the father having to sacrifice the lamb for his firstborn.
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Right. When God gave this message to Moses. Right. Do you think that those guys, those fathers with the firstborn would have.
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Put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost if they did not fear God. I say no.
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They saw all the plagues come in and saw how they were being protected and saw how everyone else was suffering.
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And then they were told, listen, unless you slaughter this lamb, consume it and put the blood on the doorpost and the lentil, your child, your firstborn son is going to die.
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They believe that in fear, slaughter the lamb, consumed it and place the blood on the door.
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Yep. I like think about like you go into the average typical
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Christian church today and there's I don't want to offend anyone. There's no eagerness to go out and preach the gospel.
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There's no concern about the neighbor. Truly, there's really no fear of Yahweh inside the house of God in those cases.
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And you listen to their music. What kind of music are they listening to?
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Is it something that actually reflects the attributes of God or is it something that they could replace the name of Jesus with their boyfriend or significant other?
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There's no fear there. There's no fear there. They have taken
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Jesus who is sitting upon his throne and have put him in the hippie outfit and made him into the biggest wuss that no man would ever be scared of.
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And you can't do that with hymns. You cannot do that with hymns. You cannot contribute your boyfriend's name in any hymn.
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Nope. You go sing a mighty Christ is our God. Yeah, right. Come now found like you can't beat out my vision.
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Like, no, you just can't. And that's what the church for many years was writing and singing and praying amongst with one another is things that actually reflected the true attributes of God.
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And so, like, it's feminism and the masculated type of thinking that is inside the church is so systematized and everything that we have.
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It's in our music. It's in the preaching. It's in the congregation. It's it's in the way that we behave and act in our lives.
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I'm never going to tell my neighbor about the gospel. I'm never going to worry about going out and doing evangelism. You then
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I think you see that in the prayer life of the Christian as well. You don't see an actual reflecting of prayers like what
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David was uttering. Where else can we go with that? There's so it just this is why the church is as weak as it is today.
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We have geared church to try to get the children to come in and then try to get the women to come in and the men like it's not that important.
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Like and you look at statistics and when a whole family is converted to Christianity, it's when the husband is the first one to come into it.
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And I'm sorry, but husbands aren't going to come into a weak church. They're not. They're not.
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They're not like in the little kids ministry that you got going on. They don't like the effeminate music that you're singing.
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You need to be calling men to repent and believe in the gospel. That's how you make change in the world is by acting like men inside the church and the church ought to be fearing
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Yahweh and actually obeying his commands. I mean, like I said, you go to that first Corinthians text that drunkards and homosexuals and all these things.
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How many people today say, oh, I'm a Christian. And yet you you're like, oh, I don't like to watch the preacher at the
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LGBT pride parade because that just that's I got a cousin that's gay. I got a cousin.
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That's that's I got a cousin. That's a queer. That's an ally. That just doesn't come off right.
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Fear Yahweh. Fear Yahweh. Stop that. You fear you're fearing the world.
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You're fearing your family. You're fearing what people would think about you. I don't care what the culture thinks about me. I care what
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God thinks about me. And, you know, it's, you know, and, you know, the beautiful thing about, you know, the
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Lord and his his words that he has preserved for us, you know, here.
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I mean, like I just pulled up Second Timothy right here and it really comes down to this.
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He warned us ahead of time. That this was going to happen, and you see when you look out through church history, it's so funny because I look back at like Charles Spurgeon when he's saying the people of these this this time and where he was over in England and everything weren't fearing
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God. You go here over and over and over and over again. It's kind of like a
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Nile mill thing. I don't know. But the just right here, you know, he says,
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I charge you in the presence of God, Second Timothy four and of Jesus Christ, who is the judge, the judge who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing in his kingdom, preach the word, be ready in season analysis, reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teachings.
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But this is the part right here for the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wonder off in myths.
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And. You know, just to finish it, he says, as for you, always be sober minded, endure suffering and do the work of evangelism, fulfill your ministry.
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But we see that we have people that that do not endure sound doctrine and they look for teachers to tickle their ears.
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And so that that's that's what you see that's going on. It's not rocket science. You see it.
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And and that is the the the wide path. And then over here is the narrow path and the wide path leads to hell.
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All right. And that's why there's so many people in it, because it's all about them. And they have more of a fear of man than a fear of God.
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That's that's over here. Yeah. You got pastors today that are tucking their weenies behind the pulpit because they're too afraid to actually tell people to repent, believe in the gospel, bro.
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Yeah. Clip it. You didn't use the right pronouns.
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No, it shouldn't be funny, but it's it's a sad thing, but it's pretty funny. What have we done to him?
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He's always had it in him. Yeah, he's always had it in him. He just needed somebody to get it out of.
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Like, it's just it's crazy, dude. Like, I just man, it's somebody just it's so sad.
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Christian nationalism isn't sound doctrine. Well, I think you need to tell me again, this isn't a thing on Christian nationalism.
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Yeah, it's not. And I don't claim the title, but I would say that I'm more like in practice, more of a
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Christian nationalist than people who claim the title. And I say that because I go out regularly and evangelize my neighborhood.
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I want my neighbors to become Christians. All right.
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So and also, you know, like when it's us going out there again, I'm going to bring it back to this and we have a man centered gospel and everything with a man centered gospel.
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There's not a real true call to repentance and faith and showing them that they're they're a sinner in the hands of an angry
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God. And and this man centered gospel teaches them and puts us in them.
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Jesus came to save you from you. Instead of no, no, no. Jesus came to save you from him.
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That that's that's where it's at right there. That's right.
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I digress. We're saved from God, by God, by God. All right.
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I mean, listen, it's God's wrath. Yeah, that we are to fear again.
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Jesus says, do not fear those who can kill the body.
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So right now, so so first century Judaism.
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Now, at this time, the Jews wasn't weren't legally allowed to put you to death.
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But underneath the law, you know, those certain sins that you could commit that required a sacrifice.
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But blaspheming, adultery, there's some other things like you could be put to death by stoning.
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Right. Jesus says, don't fear those who can kill you, who can kill your body, who can take your life.
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But fear him who not only can kill you, but can throw both your body and your soul into hell.
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Speaking of this last day that's coming upon the whole world, fear him.
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Right. Jesus didn't pull any punches right here. It says, do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth.
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I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. I've come to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter in law against her mother in law.
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And a person's enemy will be those in his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.
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And whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
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Whoever finds his life will lose it. And whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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I think preachers who try to soften what Jesus says here are cowards.
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You say, Jeff, but we're Christian. If you do not pick up your cross and be ready to die for the faith, you are not worthy.
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You have put your hand to the plow and look back. You know, I was two things.
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I was I was I was watching. I forget who it was in a reminder.
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It was about missionaries, you know, missionary work and how it's
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American missionary work overseas has gotten to the point where they're just going on vacation.
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You know, and but the old missionaries, they would. So the old missionaries had this expression that wherever they were going, they would pack their coffins and with all their belongings to go get sent to that area because they know they were going to go preach to people that want to kill them.
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You know, and again, out here in you know, when when we we we try to soften everything, especially when it comes to evangelism.
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And I look at that. That's why, you know, I'm not really dogmatic on various types of evangelism like my wife's dad.
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Dad has been a follower of Christ for like 50, 60 years.
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He's getting ready to turn 80. He the only way he can evangelize now is he invites the
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Jehovah's Witnesses in the in the Mormons in and he gives them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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He goes to the homeless shelters any minute. He's finishing the race.
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He's finishing the race. And I was with them one time and we were out.
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It was a house Bible study or I think our church meeting or something like that.
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And some of the younger, you know, guys full of, you know, he always had his name's
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Larry. He always had something to add to the conversation, you know, like from, you know, wisdom. This is wisdom coming out.
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And they said, Larry, why do you why do you keep coming here? And he goes, because I fear
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God. And he meant it. And it was like my respect for him just hit the roof.
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Because this is an older man that is still pursuing holiness, still pursuing righteousness, still trying to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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And he's retired. Wasn't it Paul Washer that said the problem with preachers today is that no one wants to wants to kill them?
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Yeah. Or is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I had something else
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I was going to to to go off of what you said, but I forgot. But yeah,
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I mean, that's a strong conviction right there. Right. We're supposed
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I mean, especially as I would say all Christians, but especially for Steve Lawson.
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Thank you, Tom. Steve Lawson said that it definitely sounds something like something
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Paul would say. Right now. But that's the problem.
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Right. I mean, the reason why, in my opinion, that the church is weak is because it has weak ministers in the pulpit.
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Everything is going to flow from the pulpit. Revival, everything. Right. Obedience. If the pastor is not being obedient, the congregation is not going to be obedient.
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Right. And it's just kind of it's it's that trickle that that that that flow and well that that that drop of water that that turns into an ocean.
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Right. That's why I've been saying ever since we started the the act series, which we've completed last week, revival will come if and when the church is obedient.
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And this is speaking of the third use of the law. So so by way of reminder, there's the three uses of the law, according to.
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So, you know, the Lutherans and the reform, it's the same ones, except for.
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The second and the first are just the order is different. So so as reform, we would say the first use of the law is a mirror and we use the law when we evangelize to show people they're seeing.
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And so so we got this mirror, this law, and we and we use this mirror to show them who they are, that they've broken
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God's law. They committed treason against the king. We want to put the fear of God in them so they will turn in repentance and faith.
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Now, that's what we're called today. But ultimately, as reform people, we know that it's God granting them repentance and faith.
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Right. Second use of the law is called a curb. And this is where we do. We are to use general equity.
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We're to use God's law as a way to keep men from being as evil as they could be.
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And so our government is supposed to use the law to keep men from being as evil as they could be.
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It's called a curb. And as you know, if you're walking down. So if you know you're walking in your neighborhood, the speed limits 30 miles an hour on main highways, they'll usually have a sidewalk.
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And so if the car is going 30 and it hits the sidewalk, there's a good chance that it's not going to jump the curb and run over somebody.
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But if the car is going 70 miles per hour and a 30 hits the curb, it can jump the curb.
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So it's not saying that it actually prevents people from doing all evil, but it is to keep them from being as evil as they could be by all by having punishments.
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Right. And the third use of the law is what I say is a flashlight. So as we read the
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Bible, we got to recognize law and gospel distinction. We need to understand that as we're reading the
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Bible, that Christ has kept the law in our place. And by him keeping the law, we are righteous in repentance and faith.
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We are righteous before God. However, we're still to be obedient to what
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Christ has told us to do, just not by way of establishing our own righteousness. This is what
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Romans chapter 10, verses one through five is talking about. This is where the Jews erred.
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They took that law and tried to establish their own righteousness. Christ is our righteousness.
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He kept the law. So as we read the Bible and it tells us to go and make disciples, that's a command.
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Listen, ladies and gentlemen, that's a command. I don't care if you're a lady or a gentleman.
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I don't care if you're five years old and you've received the gift of repentance and faith.
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Tell your little five year old friends about Jesus. We're called to evangelize.
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We're called to beget Christians, beget Christians. It is a command.
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We are to obey that command. Brian Brady just said, you are calling men to be men?
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Question mark. Example, please. Well, you know,
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I, I, I, you know, I, I got what do you want me to give you some examples? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's he, he, he, he himself is kidding.
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Okay. Yeah, but, but yes, please. If you are, have ever left a church because you're offended at something that was said from the pulpit, be a man.
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If you have ever not shared the gospel with somebody because you thought it would offend them, be a man.
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If you have ever thought that there's so many examples that like, like the example upon example, like we could call out several churches that are acting like this right now.
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We see it in the SPC. Like you have emasculated men in the SPC. You have it in all the non -credal denominations,
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Calvary chapels, all the non, big non, non denominations. They all need to be men.
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And they need to go back to looking like and acting like and behaving like those martyrs of old that carried their cross and acted like men.
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Yeah. So yeah, my wife, my wife just said, if you let your wife lead your household, yeah.
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If you're letting your wife lead your household, be a man. That's not okay. I, I got to say that since my wife said it.
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And also, Brian, you know, first Corinthians 16, 13, it's being watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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So he was, that is men, a man telling, you know, another man to act like men.
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You know why? Because they weren't acting like men. Yeah. And I would also say that like there's, there is a, there is a true hyper on, on all sides of these things.
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Right. If you have the guy that says, I'm a man because I can ignore my wife. I am a man because I don't consider the, what my needs and my household are.
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I am a man because I go to the gym all the time. Like those, those aren't the qualifications of what being a man is, is what we are getting out of this.
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Maybe I'll ask you guys, what would you say if being a man needs to be done? Like what
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Haps already mentioned from that first Corinthians 16 text, act like men. What would you say is the rule of man within creation?
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Matt says, have long hair like a girl, be a man and cut it. That's right. That's right.
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Yeah. You, you just need to take what's back here and put it right here.
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Now, if you got a mullet, that's different. Repeat your question again,
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Brayden. Yeah. What, what is, what, what is the biblical definition of what a man should look like?
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Or behave like? Well, I think you can go in different areas, right? Yeah. I'm sorry.
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These comments are killing me. Bigfoot's not real and molds are a bad idea.
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Oh my Lord. Listen, we're going to fight. We're going to be interviewing for a new host for open air theology.
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So we need some bigfoot supporters. Yeah. So, so, so I would say there's different things when it comes to man.
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Right. So first of all, a man is the lead his household. Right.
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He is to be a good father. Again, he's to be a good husband.
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He's still to love his wife. And he does this by looking to Jesus Christ.
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I made this statement. I don't know how many times I've, you know, if, you know, basically speaking to women.
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If you're if your husband doesn't put Jesus first. Believe me when I say this, you are last.
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You are last. Right. It takes the fear of God, the love of Christ, live in a life looking to Jesus Christ to be the man that we are called to be that the that the word of God calls us to be right.
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I can get a hundred percent sure that if I did not fear
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God and love Christ, I would not be a faithful man.
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Right. Like you talk about being blown around by every wind of doctrine. Men are blown around by every lady that walks around the street that walks on the street.
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It takes being rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ, focusing on him to not, excuse me, stare at the ladies.
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Right. To not allow that to come into your your courtyard.
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Right. If I wouldn't, if I didn't fear God, I'd be like every other man, allowing those temptations to come in.
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The Bible is clear. Resist the devil and he will flee.
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Resist the devil and he will flee. A man is someone who resists the devil, loves his wife as a father to his children because he is looking to Jesus Christ in the fear and admonition of God.
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You know, and it's, you know, when it comes to biblical masculinity, it's also embodying the characteristics of Christ.
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You know, and really, you know, if we love Christ as he loves the bride, if we love
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Christ as he loves us, that's how we're going to be towards our wives. And for a lot of people, they take this biblical masculinity to a different level.
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We've seen it recently with some people that take it to a different level and they start getting things mixed up.
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Like the woman is to submit, the children are to obey. And then they kind of reverse it.
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The woman is to obey and the children are to submit. And what happens is when we leave our fathers and our mothers and we come and we become one flesh, it's that three -stringed cord.
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It's God is at the center and then us. So it's God that is at the center.
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And, you know, there's a lot of men out there that have maybe lost a leg or maybe they can't, you know.
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And so we're not, we're not saying anything like, you know, like, like you get a social security check.
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Your wife is. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did you see that?
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Did you see that, Matt? He's messing with us. Matt, I know you're not an hour away from me, son.
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Don't be pulling my leg. Don't be pulling my leg.
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I'm not messing. He's a Baptist now. No, he's not.
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I thought it was something I was saying. I just became a postman. He's officially a
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Baptist now? He's back. Guess who's back. Back again.
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Matt is back. He's not dipping babies no more? Guess who's back.
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Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back.
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Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back.
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Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back. Matt is back.
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Matt is back. I feel myself look up, Matt is back. Bring them all the way through the water, lord, not just a little sprinkle here and there.
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I'm sorry about that. Sorry about that. D it was too good.
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I'm shocked. Me, too. I mean, miracles. But like what.
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I like my crying right now. And like I was saying, you know, um, it's, uh, you know, that there's just, you know, that there has to be love and compassion within the home.
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There has to be, uh, um, but no compromise to the truth. You know,
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I mean, there's, there's no compromise to the truth and everything, but you know, every family's a dynamic and everything, and they have their own hurts habits and Haggis or whatnot.
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But if Christ is at the center and he's the one that's being feared and he's the one that's, he'll, he'll be glorified and all of it.
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So that's my take on it. So, um, Fred from YouTube said that he was confused.
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So can you put the, can you put the comment on the, on the, on the lives? I don't know how to do any of that.
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You did it earlier. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well maybe, let me, let me try. Well, while you're trying, I'll explain.
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So we have a brother, Fred, uh, um, we do two different live streams on YouTube and on Facebook.
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And so, uh, we, we got a comment from a dear brother. There it is on Facebook. Oh, screen capture it quick before he removes it.
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Yeah. So yeah, go ahead. No. Yeah. So Matt, Matt's just been, uh, he's a, he's a dear
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Presbyterian brother of ours. And you said sanctification is a process.
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It is. We're going to be preaching about it. Yeah. I, I would just echo everything that you guys have just said about that.
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I think I do think, uh, that we look to the person that examples for us the most, the most clear and perfect way of what manhood is not as Jesus Christ.
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And so if the husband represents Christ and the wife represents the church, what did
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Christ do for the church? He provided for her. He prayed for her. He was a mediator for her. He, he, he did all these things for her.
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And so it was a sacrificial love that he had towards the church. And so like, that's what we have in our, in our life, in our house households, we provide for our family.
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We love our wife. We love our children. Um, yeah. And I, I would, I would even say this too, uh, which
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I think these brothers have done also already a great job at explaining this. Who, uh, is Christ also called he's called our, the second
01:00:04
Adam in which ways did the first Adam failed to be a man ran away from God, covered up his own sinfulness, blamed the woman, didn't take accountability for his actions, didn't crush the head of the serpent.
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I mean, the list goes on and on and on and on and on about what the first Adam failed to do and how he is actually a bad representation of what, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the, the renewal of the image of God that is found in Christ.
01:00:43
Jesus. He, he's a bad example of what biblical manhood is. You know what always got me, uh, you know, like when you go back to the creation story and stuff is why did he let her stand next to the tree to begin with?
01:00:58
You had this whole huge garden. Well, it doesn't say what tree that, that he was, that she was standing at.
01:01:05
Well, she was looking at the fruit. Yeah.
01:01:14
Yeah, he was. You know, she, she, it was definitely a visual thing, but it doesn't, it doesn't necessarily say that she was kind of, you know, propped up, leaned up on the tree.
01:01:26
Wait, you didn't read that part. But doesn't it make you think that this is why, you know, you know, like, like, like in my home, like this is my home.
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Right. And, and I have, you know, as a man and you know,
01:01:40
I have weapons everywhere. I have, I have, I have two guns and three knives on me right now.
01:01:46
Okay. Uh, and, and if someone comes through that door unwanted, trying to hurt my family,
01:01:54
I'm taking them out. Right. That's what
01:02:00
Adam should have done. Talking about crushing the head of that serpent. Right. Like, like, like if we're just figuratively speaking, right.
01:02:09
Yep. He was called to protect his wife, but he's allowing a snake in.
01:02:18
We boat lock our doors to keep snakes out. So in one sense, it's not an overreaction of what took place there, but it is what
01:02:30
Adam should have done. He should have prevented the snake from entering into the garden.
01:02:37
Yep. Right. In the same way that I, as a husband and a father, and someone who's just paranoid, my, my house is full of weapons just in case the snake, a criminal, a robber, a murderer tries to enter into my home.
01:03:01
Yep. So I'm just going to say it like, this is just touching the tip of the iceberg on a lot of the things that we are going to be talking about in the year of 2025 at the war conference that we're having on sanctification.
01:03:19
Yes. And it's going to be good. And, and, and listen, um, Brayden and myself perhaps wasn't around.
01:03:25
He, uh, the last few days to, to talk with us about this, but we got some big plans for conferences coming up in the future.
01:03:36
I mean, we're already working on 2026 and 2027. All right. Like, like we got some really big ideas coming, um, things that we believe is going to benefit the church messages that should bless the people as long as, you know, these videos are that we're, that we're putting out.
01:03:59
Um, so, so just be on the lookout. Uh, and we're also working in ministry wise to, to get open air theology better established.
01:04:09
So, uh, I believe we're, we're about to get us the, uh, because like here, the last two conferences we've been basically bumming off of my church.
01:04:21
The church is 501 C three. And, uh, and so we're fisting this year, open air theology within a few months, open air theology will have its own 501
01:04:33
C three, where we'll be able to stand on our own two feet. And so, um, and there's a lot of like,
01:04:40
I don't know if y 'all paid attention, if y 'all watched the videos, like the video quality, isn't that good?
01:04:45
The sound quality isn't that good. And so, we're hoping that will be the last time.
01:04:53
We're hoping that the next conference will have better, better audio and, and, and, and better visuals.
01:05:01
Uh, but it's going to cost us a lot of money to, to make these things possible.
01:05:06
So, um, it would definitely be a blessing for, for anyone that has financial blessings that would like to partner with us and help us to make this, this dream of, of open air theology, um, becoming a full established ministry to be possible.
01:05:27
So if we are blessing you in any way with, with what we do, right, we have our little niche, right?
01:05:33
Sometimes we sit here and argue with one another and sometimes which is fun, right? Have you ever seen a bunch of guys that could just, you know, argue and just go at it and they, but, but, and we're not even mad at one another, like, like that's special, right?
01:05:48
And so, you know, if we, if we are blessing you in any way, you know, and if, and if, and if you haven't liked that and you can help us get better audio equipment and stuff like that, that would truly be a blessing.
01:06:00
So that way the next conference, like my, I don't know if you, if you, if you listen to my message, my microphone went out, like the recording, like you can still hear me from the boom mic, but it went out.
01:06:12
And, um, and, and we just don't want that to happen again. So if you're, if, if you're financially blessed and you can help us with, or you might have a, a solution for us, it might not be money.
01:06:22
You might have a solution. I don't know what that solution is. Um, it'd be really cool.
01:06:29
You'd be a lot cooler if you did help us out. Okay. Love it.
01:06:38
Well, is that it? Are we done for the night? I don't know. Does anyone have any questions about the effeminate church or the emasculated church?
01:06:47
Uh, the limp. Yeah. The slip of the knife church that ended up cutting themselves.
01:06:55
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The circumcision party.
01:07:06
What is it? Okay. Qualifications. It's hard to read some of these.
01:07:13
Yeah. Thank you, Wesley. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Wesley.
01:07:22
And then it's conference was amazing, man. I still get paid. I get people contacting me quite often.
01:07:27
Oh yeah. Right. Talking about the conference, how, how it was fun, and how they were edified and how they're looking forward to next year.
01:07:35
I was, uh, uh, Tom Shepherd was texting me today about it, man. Talked about how he's looking forward to it.
01:07:42
And then he's preaching at the next one. Yeah. He's preaching at the next one. Yeah. He told me he's reading a whole bunch of books, preparing himself for it.
01:07:49
Right. So what's he preaching on? I can't, I don't remember. Tom, what are you preaching on?
01:07:57
What's your topic, Tom? That's not a good man.
01:08:03
If you're a true Baptist brother, you need to be there, son. Yeah. Not a good excuse, man. Out of town.
01:08:11
Pull your Baptist card. Overcoming sin. Ooh. Yeah. And that's basically what we was touching on today.
01:08:20
Right. Like how are you going to overcome sin if you're not looking to Christ and fear in God? Listen, if you have no fear of God, guess what you're going to continue to do?
01:08:29
Continue to live in sin. Sin. Yeah.
01:08:34
And I just, you know, oh yeah. I remember what I was going to say earlier. Right. And how many times have you spoke about the fear of God?
01:08:43
And someone says, says to you, but the, it, it doesn't, it ain't actually telling us to fear
01:08:50
God. It's telling us to respect him. How many times have you heard that? In your Christian life? It's a pretty regular thing and it usually is them that are, they're trying to say, oh yeah,
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God is this God of love. And we're it's always this lessening of who God is, is what they're trying to do with it.
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Like, like I cannot even understand if somebody says to like, it's a reverent fear in the sense of like, and then they go into the analogy of the father, like how you have, like,
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I can be okay with somebody like going towards there. But typically in response to that, it's like, no, it's, it's, it's more just this respect of it's this lovey dovey.
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It's the whole making Jesus into this hippie savior, knocking on your door that's going on there.
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Yeah. It's the same thing. It's the same thing with how many times have you heard somebody saying, oh man, he just, he's an alcoholic.
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It's the same exact thing, right? Like, no, he's a drunkard. But how about we use biblical terms like drunkard, like, or, oh man, he idolater.
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Yeah. Oh man. You know, like when it comes to like when, when
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I, I did a drug counseling and, and everything like this, it was, you know, let's, let's just get back to biblical, you know, get biblical again.
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And what it is is you're committing idolatry and you're offending the Holy God. And it's okay to say that you've offended a
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Holy God. You need a savior. You are in rebellion and you need to repent and put your trust in Jesus.
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And faith in Christ. And, but yeah, you know, I idolatry, I, oh, he cheated on his wife.
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No, that's adultery. You know, I mean, I mean, we got to get back because I think what's going on in the church nowadays and what's going on in our societies is people are redefining words.
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Yeah. You know, and it is so bad, you know, like it's to the point is to where, uh, you know, like, well, again,
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God warned us they'll call good evil and evil good, you know?
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And so you had this redefinition of words. Yeah. And I would say that there's a, you know, like I don't,
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I don't, a Christian is not to fear that God is going to throw them into hell.
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Right. The unbeliever is to fear. Like this is the second, first use of the law.
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You've offended a Holy God, repent and believe if you die outside of repentance and faith, you're going to be thrown into hell.
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Like that's the message, right? But like the, go ahead.
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Sorry. Well, I was just trying to say like, my fear is not that he's going to throw me into hell. Right. But listen, it's genuine fear.
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I fear that God is not going to use me. Right. Like if God's going to bring a revival to Tallahoma, I hope he uses me.
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And I fear that if I allow myself to slip into sin, he's not going to use me.
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Brayden, if I don't listen to him, if I don't do what this book tells me to do, he's not going to use me.
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Why would he? Right. And I can give other examples of how
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Christians should fear. Again, I don't fear he's going to throw me in hell, but I do fear
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God and I fear him so much and love him so much. I want to do what this book tells me to do using the third use of the law.
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How many churches did we see shut their doors because they feared the government more than they did? Oh my gosh, dude. Yeah, it's like that simple.
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95 % maybe, maybe even more like, like that just shows like the, the, and that's,
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I, I saw what Pastor Kyle's wife said there. Yeah, that's good. That, that, that is true.
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Like that, that, that's how we are, we become better disciples and conform to the image of Christ is because we fear him and we actually are wanting to be obedient.
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Like, I mean, imagine for a moment the weak president that we have right now, Joe Biden and this man that actually it's pretty one that doesn't convey much fear, right?
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If you were to go and scratch a vehicle of his, would you not somewhat be fearful?
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Or if you were to break a, a specific thing of his, wouldn't you be somewhat fearful about the consequences that the president of the
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United States could bring against you? Like, okay, what, what, like let's think about that even more. Let's, let's put yourself in the shoes of a, of a, of a previous ruler or King or something along those lines.
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Were you not fearful of breaking the King's decrees? Let's take it back even more.
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If we really believe that at the resurrection of Christ, he was given a throne, he was given a throne and, and that he sits upon it, that he's the
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King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, that he's been coronated and inaugurated as our King. Shouldn't you be fearful of breaking his laws?
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Shouldn't you be fearful of what he has commanded you to do? Shouldn't you be fearful of everything that he said, do this?
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Like, like that's, that's the type of fear that we should be having towards him. Yeah. Jarrett mentions slavish fear and yeah, and that's definitely not what we're talking about.
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Again, I think the, you know, the unbelievers should fear the wrath of God being sentenced to hell.
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Christians, we do have a healthy fear. And then this healthy fear that I'm speaking of, again,
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I could give many examples. The example I just gave is, is, is it, if I'm not being obedient, the
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Lord is not going to use me. And one of the prayers I find myself praying most often, and I know your brothers can agree in ministry, is that the
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Lord will use us, that, that, that, that he will use me, that he would use
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Covenant Reform Baptist Church, right? Because he doesn't need me. He doesn't need you.
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He doesn't need my church to carry out his purpose. But I pray that he does use me.
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But if I'm not a, if I'm just reading about it and not being about it, he's not going to use me.
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And I want to be used of God. And I, I think that's the prayer every
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Christian should pray. Lord, send me, send me, use me.
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If you're going to do something, can I be involved with it? And the answer is you can be involved with it.
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But if you're not being obedient, he's not going to use you. Maybe use you as an example.
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You know, I just still can't believe that's a Baptist now. I'm still chirping. Oh yeah, man. Well, I don't know, man.
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He's kind of, if he says that he believes in Baptist, if he says he believes in Bigfoot, he's going to take my spot.
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Yeah. We got to find, we got to find a pool of water and really get them in there.
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That's right. You know, instead of the squirt gun effect. Yep. All right guys,
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I'm going to get going. Yeah, we're going to shut it down. Well, everybody, we love y 'all. I'm glad you love your new church home.
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Notice he didn't say that he was truly Baptist. He just said he loved his new church home. That's kind of.
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It'll come. Give it a month. Hap, you got any last words? Glorify God and enjoy him forever.
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Brayden. Stay Baptist, be a man. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to be a real man, be 1689