Sunday Morning Sermon Series - Galatians 1

Now I want you to pay attention.

It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military size.

Will in the book of Galatians we're gonna start in chapter 1.

We're gonna start in chapter 1 now.

Paul is serious.

Usually when Paul writes a letter he starts out in this flowerly language.

Peace and grace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed you with all

spiritual blessings at heavenly places.

For he hath ordained before and he goes on and on and on and on like some preachers, you know

but here in verse 6 Paul gets straight to the point and he says this.

I am astonished That you are so quickly Deserting

him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a

different gospel.

Ladies gentlemen, I Want you to understand and once again, this is addressed to

believers.

I want you to understand that anything other than the gospel of Jesus Christ is not

going to bring peace to your life.

You know how they train the Secret Service.

It's amazing.

Some guy years ago when the Secret Service What the Treasury Department was in charge of

finding counterfeit bills?

They tried to get an example of every counterfeit bill and Every method

used to make counterfeit money and then finally some guy stood up and said why are we doing this?

Why are we getting our people to try to memorize and recognize falseness.

The best way to do that is to inundate and Familiarize that individual with what

is absolute truth and then they will be able to spot by knowing the truth.

Anything that is not truthful.

Does that make sense?

Yeah guys.

We as God's people when facing adversity We sometimes try to use

something other than absolute truth as a canon or a measurement or a standard

Defined truth.

Here's the number one thing Christians try to do.

You ready?

Well, I feel led to believe.

I Feel I feel that I think

that.

It's hilarious.

When I went to the MIT class the other day.

These are supposed to be the Delta Force of wit these guys are being trained

to be leaders and teachers of the Word of God and Brother Jeremiah asked a question

and there was like a smattering of opinions.

Well, I think I think I think.

And then someone said this well pastor Josiah said

and they quoted something.

Brother Jeremiah sat there and Waited and then after about a five -minute discourse

someone said well in the Bible it says.

And brother Jeremiah stopped class said yeah.

You got it.

Now if you don't quote scripture You're looking at counterfeit or at

the best a facsimile of truth to find peace.

What's really funny is when brother Jeremiah told pastor Josiah this pastor Josiah said this.

I never said that.

It's amazing.

Guys, let's get right to it as Paul did to the Galatian Church.

Now.

Remember this is the Church of Galatia.

It's a region.

It's it's not a singular church.

It was a circulatory letter written to the state of Alabama.

Well, they can't read the state of Tennessee.

Okay, it was a region of the Roman Empire now Let's first look the true

gospel can deliver us from at the adversity of sin.

Look at verse 4 listen to this.

It says this Who gave himself for our sins to

deliver us from this present evil age?

According to the will of our God and father.

Understand this the truth of dealing with adversity is this that if you are a born -again

believer today you have been rescued from the penalty of sin, but not

the presence of sin and this Translation here does a mediocre job in

Communicating that understand this understand this you as a child of God

have been Justified by faith, which means you have been rendered Innocent.

Did you in the Greek you have been rendered innocent?

Okay, you have been rescued from the penalty of sin.

I will never pay in Eternity for my sin for Christ has

paid it all.

Okay.

I have also been rescued from the power of sin.

Okay, that means that the Holy Spirit that lives within me is able

to help me overcome the power of sin.

Here's what most Christians to they try to rededicate their lives to Christ without ever

repenting of their sin.

And it don't work does it how many times you bought on that island cried and prayed and you still in the

same sin?

But you've never Repented and using the gospel of Jesus Christ and the formula

God put out you want to make sin in Your life as less palatable

as you can and fight it on your own.

Don't work does it?

That's why some of you are still going to go to hell see.

Because you come to a church building.

I believe in Jesus, but nothing in your life was ever changed.

But repentance was the first word out of John the Baptist mouth.

No out of Abraham's mouth.

Out of Moses's mouth out of the entire law of the Old Testament.

But yet out of the mouth of Christ.

It was the first one as well Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.

You're gonna go stand before God one day as that man in Matthew 7 did that Jesus spoke about.

And God's gonna say who are you and this is what you're gonna present don't read it.

Matthew chapter 7.

Lord, you know me.

Lord, I fed the poor God.

I healed the sick now.

Listen to this.

I cast out demons in your name.

This was a preaching individual.

This was a pastor.

This was a man who everyone thought believed in God.

Yet what are the words of Jesus?

Depart from me you worker of iniquity for I never

knew you.

Hmm how many demons you cast out?

Shoot the fact that you actually got up in time to show up at church is the highlight of your Christian life.

That's the height of high -water mark, I've been to church three weeks in a row.

Well, I know I'm a Christian.

I'm trying to help you.

I'm not trying to make fun of you.

See, I'm trying to give you some truth because the adversity and the defeat you are

facing are going to continue.

Because you're listening to the rules and moral understandings of a religious idea.

Rather than the repentance and the freedom found in the blood of Jesus Christ.

Can you hear what I'm saying to you some of y 'all your rear ends have just grown legs because your butts walking all over

that chair.

That's called conviction.

That's where the mask of religion is starting to crumble away in your heart from the truth

of God's Word penetrating that godless religious understanding.

Now the question is in a few minutes is gonna be what you gonna do to it.

I'll pastor.

I've been a member.

I don't want to hear it all don't care.

It's gonna do you as much as good as it did as a man in Matthew 7.

God's Word can rescue you from the penalty in power of sin, but here's a reality.

It won't rescue you from the presence of sin.

You see that's sanctification.

See that's sanctification.

I was watching The history channel the history channel man, and

there's a AHC or something anyways, it's got a bunch of military history on it, and man.

I'm nerd now right and As I'm sitting here watching this I'm working at my desk.

You know I'm building something you know and all of a sudden.

This is the history channel.

I hear oh I ain't gonna explain or describe

it anymore because it gets a little weird.

But it was a chick.

Advertising a soft drink.

And I look up, and I'm like going what?

What's this got to do with having a coca -cola or Sprite or whatever it was and there was this 20 -something year old

girl.

Making this noise and you know

something like that.

I Would copy it, but I'm afraid some of you men might get a little you know confused.

But it you know something

like I did not probably do well Pastor John stay seated.

Listen to me for a second you can't escape it now.

Here's what some of you legalistic heathens try to do and we're gonna get to you in a second you try to

Take and remove Your presence from the world when God said you were to be in the world, but

I'm tempted yeah.

That's why you have the Holy Spirit of God.

You don't win a fight by running away.

See you can't be the salt of the earth unless you win the earth now as first

John says love not the world neither the things that are in the world for the love of the Father is not in

the world.

Now you're not gonna find me going to the purple diamond down there to witness about Jesus.

I ain't gonna grab my Bible and a roll of $1 bills and go down there, okay?

I actually get my dollar away from snaggletoots.

All right the point is.

The point is is this You cannot Get in bed with the

world and still maintain a reality of the image of the righteousness of Christ.

But at the same time you can't hide in here and the moral cultural Legalism you called

Christianity and escape it either.

I've got to reach out and Sometimes and when we do real good at this

I mean we go get the ones no one else wants you have been delivered from the penalty in the power.

But not the presence and if you're not strong enough to realize that truth in the adversity of that presence can

be overcome.

Then you still are in your infancy of your Christian walk.

And you need to get sanctified a little bit by accountability and actually learning something other than John 3

16.

Second point.

Understand this to distort this truth whether you are a Christian a

pastor a deacon or anything else is an indictment not only on

your life as a Christian.

But you are dangerously close to recognizing the fact that there is punishment waiting for

you that you have not Experienced before read with me here versus starting in verse 6 he said that

I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you to the grace of God and Turning to

a different gospel not that there is actually another one.

But there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel

Contrary to the one we have already preached to you Let him be accursed as

we have said before.

So now I say again if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one

you have received Let him be accursed now understand that that word

accursed might be just a little like yeah.

That would that relapse start the level all over again, or you know I'm have to have timeout or I got detention

understand the power of that word Anamathia it actually means to be damned

to be damned.

Guys If you notice whenever we have a guest preacher preach up

here.

You will see a pastor one of our pastors sitting right there.

And I'm gonna tell you why.

I've had to do this twice in my career twice in my career as a pastor.

Because it's guy starts preaching something other than what's in here that pastor has

my Command to walk over here and remove this guy from this pulpit.

I've had to do that twice once here and once in Nashville.

You know why.

Because it is my job to protect you people from hearing stupid.

Now let me take that a step further.

I Am not above being stupid.

I'm not.

So all of you guys hold me accountable.

If I'm preaching to you something other than the gospel of Jesus if I ever trade the gospel of Jesus

for the gospel of Jeff.

You need to fire me then.

You don't need a committee.

You don't need just say pastor smoking crack.

He got to go and walk me to the door and here's why

here's why?

Guys.

There are almost 11 ,000 Baptist denominations in

the world today.

11 ,000.

Let me say that again 11 ,000 Baptist denominations there

are over 34 ,000 denominations in the United States.

Just on its own.

Now why do we have so many denominations?

Because we have traded the truth for man's theology and men try to build

ministries around themselves the day.

You hear of Reverend Jeff Shipley ministries is the day.

You know somebody hijacked my account.

I am NOT in the ministry of Jeff Shipley.

I'm in the ministry of Jesus Christ.

Okay, if you start writing checks the ministries based on people's names I guarantee you that same idiot

has a reserved parking lot by the front door with his name on it.

He is the same pastor that is more in love with titles and the glory that comes from preaching the gospel

than the reality of the truth of the gospel that sets people free and They ever comes

and no matter where you go when I die.

You better make sure a man who can preach word God's Word not just unapologetically.

But truthfully fills this pulpit because the distort the true gospel has Consequences

for that who is preaching but also those who receive

you fathers take note of that.

You take note of who you sit your children under and learning now.

How do we have?

Distortion of truth.

Well here was here.

We go go to chapter 2 and I'm going to talk to you just real quickly about two of the biggest

Distortions of the gospel of truth two biggest distortions.

Chapter 2 verse 21.

It's one of my favorite verses in the whole world.

It says this I Do not frustrate the gospel of Jesus Christ

for if righteousness comes by the law Then Christ died in vain.

Let me put that to you in Jeff terms.

I'm not changing the gospel.

I'm changing the wording watch.

Man I am NOT gonna touch.

I am NOT gonna play.

I am NOT gonna mess with the peace of God.

You go to heaven by the grace of God only.

What were the people coming to the Galatian churches doing it were the Jews?

It was the Jews who were Christians who were coming and say Oh brother.

You accepted Jesus Christ your Savior and Lord.

Excellent.

Have you gone down the local synagogue and got snippety snipped?

But some of you don't know what I'm talking about, that's okay you can go to pastor Josiah he'll explain it to you but

They were coming the same.

Oh, you've been saved by the grace of God great, but you don't look like us.

You're not dressing like us some of you old heads in here.

We got very few but some of you old heads need to listen and repent of them arrogant ways.

Well, they don't dress like us look like us or talk like us so they cannot be among us you

godless heathen.

With your 30 -year church membership.

Have you never matured past the point of your own?

Scruples to actually Understand the grace of Almighty God and not only you damaging the children of the

grace of God in this generation.

You need to look at the reality in the mirror of the truth of Jesus Christ and understand with you truly found grace in

the first place or not.

Because there are some people that have the greatest church attendance.

And they're usually the idiots that stand up and say well.

I've had my letter in this church for 30 -something years.

They're usually the idiots are gonna split gates of hell wide open.

Here's how they first tried to use the distortion of truth.

They took the gospel of Jesus Christ and said this well.

Let's add to it just a little bit to make sure they're really saved.

Watch this.

Oh Man, here we go.

You ready?

Holiness coming up out of this tub.

Right.

I mean I can feel it because when I put water in here and you get dunked in

it.

Man, your sins are washed away.

What about that thief on the cross man?

He sat there was dying on the cross and he chose to do one thing.

He chose to believe in the words of the Savior Jesus Christ and Jesus

said to him I'm telling you the truth this day.

You will be with me in paradise.

Did he say go get baptized or join your local Baptist Church or please put on some

more?

Respectable clothing.

Now the grace of God does this it takes you where you're at it accepts you where

you act.

But then it's gonna change you forever.

Some of y 'all want to hold that.

Well, it'll accept me where I'm at without the reality of it's gonna change you forever and see that's the second

part.

It flip -flops.

Some of us want to deny the grace of God.

But then this some of us want to deny deny the commands of grace.

Hear what I'm saying to you.

Some of you in this room, you've never come to a place in your life.

Oh, yeah.

God God forgave me.

I'm looking at a couple you right now.

Because you counsel with me.

You counsel with me and you actually think you're going to heaven.

Because your grandmammy made you feel special in the kitchen.

Over a hot cup of hot cocoa when she was talking to you about the Lord and you prayed some stupid

little prayer in that kitchen and mama or grandma cried and took you down to the front of the

church and you got baptized and Nothing changed in your life.

Huh.

Read the verse prior to chapter 2 verse 21.

It says this I am crucified with Christ.

Yet nevertheless, I live yet.

No, not I but Christ that lives within me and the life.

I now live in the flesh.

I live by Of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

See you want to bypass verse 20 to get on down to verse 22 21.

But you have to understand for you to be truly saved.

For you to understand the truth that overcomes adversity.

For you to understand the difference between the counterfeit and the reality.

It means this if you are truly a Christian as Luke 9 23 says.

Jesus said if any man wishes to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow me.

Not that day.

You know, one of the vernaculars that I hate in the church is this when did you get

saved?

I Got saved on all get blah blah blah blah blah.

Knowing your day doesn't make you saved.

Knowing the Savior does.

What you wear does not Communicate that you're a Christian.

What you do with the grace of God does.

You see loves God.

God's love came down through Jesus Christ.

Our job is that we go out.

Stop worrying about you coming down on folk.

That's God's job.

Okay, that's God's job.

I'm not here to condemn the world.

The world's already been condemned.

Okay, if you read Scripture very carefully all of the words of condemnation aren't for the

world.

They're for believers.

We need to hold ourselves Accountable.

Stop worrying about the strippers that the purple diamond are doing and start worrying about what you and your

family are doing.

Now, let me explain to you what I mean by accountability.

I'm gonna pray for you.

That is not accountability.

Pastor will you please pray for me?

No.

No, I'm not gonna pray for you.

I know that sounds horrible, but you don't need my prayers.

What you need is about four or five of the fellow believers in here with size twelves polishing their boots on your butt.

That's what you need.

I know I know that sounds harsh and I know some of you were offended.

But if you are used as a green light to indicate you're the idiot I'm talking to

your self -righteousness and your thought process that you can continue to

mature in the Christian life without brothers and sisters.

Holding you accountable you are out of your mind.

You're the person that will go to a Baptist bookstore.

Spend $32 on a little devotion book and a pencil with a fuzzy little thing on it.

Made in a sweatshop in Vietnam for the glory of God by the Southern Baptist Convention.

You'll make a little place in your office or in your kitchen and you'll put a little coffee cup there and have your

little devotion.

Books, it'll last three days.

If you're lucky.

And then three years later going man, I really need to do a devotion again.

The height of your spiritual maturity is to do a devotion.

Guys, can we talk for a second?

Please stop making that please.

Stop making that the height of your spiritual growth.

God doesn't want your stupid devotion.

He wants your life devoted.

Can we be real for a second?

Please.

Your church attendance and your dumb devotions like they're so tiring I just it just makes me

feel tired all over.

Well, I'm doing my devotions.

You know, that's like your 32 year old son that still lives at home says I took out the trash.

I'm gonna be beating him about the head and shoulders.

Really?

I want to get little badges little Baptist badges

for you and give you one.

So maybe you'll matriculate past the kindergarten age of your Christian life.

It's just tiring.

I'm sorry I needed the vent for a second.

I Haven't had a day off in 31 days.

I'm losing my mind.

Okay.

This is where all y 'all are supposed to go.

Thank you.

God.

Taking my bottle and I'm going home.

Committed if you can't commit to Christ, you'll commit to anything second thing.

Consistency.

Oh my god.

How many of y 'all struggle with your consistency in your Christian life the rest of you are liars guys.

Listen to me you just are I Struggle with mine.

I'm a licensed ordained senior pastor.

I'm sorry.

It's just the way it is.

We all struggle.

You know the best struggler helper.

The best help for you.

I'm sorry, baby.

Hang with me the best help for my struggle is is when pastor Josiah

a brother Shane or even hey.

For those, you know, if you know Justin you will hear the word.

Hey, it's a hey.

Hey.

Hey, hey.

God, it's like an arrow through my skull be silent stinking cop

listen.

Notice how the jack -booted thugs are all kind of over in that area.

There's one.

There's one.

There's one.

There's one.

There's one.

Oh.

Where was I.

Be consistent.

I anyways and kids this brings me the next part of my sermon when you're young don't smoke

crack, okay.

Consistency is one of those things that I struggle with but I have a bunch of people

Who are involved in you know, how many accountability groups?

I'm a part of five.

Five.

I have a guy who takes great pleasure in calling me.

But he will not let me talk to him on the phone.

I have to be on the video text.

So I heard what's it called FaceTime.

I have to be on the FaceTime, right?

I get on the FaceTime.

He goes, how you doing pastor?

Doing good, bro.

How are you?

Hmm you looked at pornography that week.

No, sir.

He'll just sit there and look at me for a sec.

It's very uncomfortable.

He'll look me in the eyeball and go did you just lie to me?

No, sir.

Man, do you know how good it feels to say?

No, sir.

You know It when you succeed it feels good now, I'm gonna be honest with you

at 54.

That's not really the questions that he needs to be asking me.

I'm just gonna be honest with you.

Okay?

All right.

I ain't 20 no more you boys will get there.

Trust me.

But here's what he'll do ask me how much you weigh boy.

Well, I'm down to 285.

Thank you.

Kiss my.

I'll beat your ass me that again.

That's when you know, that's what you need accountability on when you get defensive some of y 'all smile look at my bad ride

back there.

He's like you.

When you get defensive over the questioning, you know, that's the thing that you're struggling with.

Okay, and he'll ask me how consistent are you being now now?

I'm just gonna let all y 'all know a year ago.

I was three the heaviest I ever was was 317.

Okay, and I know that's hard to believe because before you you see the image of the perfect

specimen of the male species.

But I've gone down to 285.

Okay, and the reason that has happened in a consistent manner is because I have had

people Crawling up my backside little Jeremiah.

I hate him with a passion.

Little Jeremiah.

He's so annoying.

Because this is how he holds people accountable.

He doesn't come up to you and say Is that a good idea?

This is what he does.

Hey, she's gonna be eating that.

And we'll talk to you until you just act we ask because you want him to shut up.

How many of y 'all can agree.

I understand what up?

Yeah.

God man, he's so annoying.

But you got to have consistency.

It's not just about commitment.

It's about consistency as well.

You can get on an airplane and fly to France and that pilot can be really committed.

But unless he's consistent the whole flight and doing his job.

It ain't gonna be a good day.

I Got you halfway there.

You ain't Karen, right?

You're in the Atlantic Ocean.

Consistency is as important as commitment and then the last thing is this look at the last few

words of verse 10 consecration.

Consecration you say pastor we just talked about commitment.

Commitment consecration on the same thing.

Now some of you don't know what that word means and that's cool.

That's cool.

That's cool.

I Joined a group

one time and to be part of that group I had to

receive a Mark on my body.

I'm trying to be really cool about this because I don't want to glorify sin and

I Was willing to do that.

No problem.

Until they pulled out a blowtorch a pair of vice grips and a gutter nail

and Then I was like Let's talk about this

guys.

How consecrated are you if you look at the last part of verse 10?

This is what Paul refers to himself as a Slave.

Some of your Bibles may say servant.

That's okay.

The Greek word is doulas.

Doulas.

Struggle to be a doulas and that shouldn't be that hard for most of you because you're already dorks lots.

It's just a little step away.

Okay doulas.

Are you a slave of Christ?

Okay, if you are.

How many rights do you have?

What right do you have to be offended if you're a child of God.

I'm writing a letter to Bartlett City Hall because they don't took that.

And you know how many people are gonna be saved by that nativity scene.

Millions out of taking the Ten

Commandments out of a courtroom that you are taking sin out of your own life.

Come on yes.

How consecrated to Christ are you today?

Some of you in this room.

You are so wrapped in sexual proclivities and Bondage

you can't find your way out.

Some of you little girls are gonna keep getting abused by codependent relationship with a guy

who does not Love you.

Oh, no, but he wrote me this note on Valentine's Day and went out and spend $2 on a rose at the 7 -eleven.

Oh, it just listen.

I used to stop at a graveyard and brought my girl and her mama flowers every date.

Every they thought I was the sweetest guy in the world.

I wouldn't take them off a veteran's grave, but everybody else is fair game.

I would show up with two bundles of flowers and that woman thought I was the nicest guy in the world that I treated her

daughter bad.

But they were free.

How consecrated are you.

How many rights do you got?

How many rights do you claim.

Some of you are in this room right now.

And you feel like you have this right this right and this right if you are a child of God.

You ain't got no rights because you're supposed to be a slave.

Oh I know.

That's a politically charged word.

All the black folks get all up in there about that.

Well y 'all gonna get up in there.

But the most black folks that I know that are born -again believers, they ain't gonna get all up in the air about it.

I know you're uncomfortable.

Be uncomfortable.

You're too inundated with the culture of this stupid world rather than the culture of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Stop.

How many rights do you got now?

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

Huh.

Man now I will exercise those rights to vote.

I'll exercise those because I pay for them rights in taxes, which means are they really

rights?

I don't want to get in a political lesson.

But anyways, I Will do those but I have given up the right to be apathetic

to the gospel.

I have given up the right to have my will try to walk beside God's will.

I've given up the right For happiness, I've given up the right to not be tired Christian.

Stop saying you're tired.

It's so Infuriating you don't do anything.

Well, brother Jeff, I work two jobs quit one move into a house that cost you.

$800 ,000 a year.

Stop trying to live like the world and reinvest your time and your resources into the

kingdom of God.

Brother Jeff, I got to keep up with man.

This is some of y 'all still in high school.

I went to a school where everybody wear duck heads and Polos and eyes odds, you know what

I did on the weekends.

Beat him up.

Took their money.

Loved it.

I found a pair of angled needle nose pliers.

Me and my brother did went to all.

I'd better not say that.

But we went to a certain vending machines in a certain section of town and shoved paper towels up the vending machines came back

two.

Days later with employers pulled them out.

We made bank.

Right.

I didn't care about them people's.

Guys quit worrying about stupid things.

It don't matter what you wear.

It don't matter what you look like it don't matter where you come from.

You are now a slave of Jesus Christ.

I'm asked the music dudes and dudettes come up now.

Let me ask you please don't zip up your Bible and disengage and go to your phone.

Focus just for a second longer.

Remember this.

I.

You're an idiot.

So am I.

Okay, just because I'm up here preaching.

Doesn't make me this.

Okay.

We're all in the stupid boat together.

Okay, I don't have any more holiness than you do.

Same spirit of God send me same spirit of God send Vicki.

Okay, Scott finds that hard to believe but it's true.

Okay.

You can't come to me.

I'll pray with you.

I'll show you in Scripture what it says.

Okay.

All right, but this church or the pastors cannot

save you.

Okay, that water that we baptize you with same water comes that goes to the toilets

before not after but before.

It ain't sanctified and holy and you can throw it on vampires.

Okay, it don't work like that.

But I can be one beggar showing another beggar where to find food.

Okay, now I do that.

If you are not a hundred percent sure.

Please if you're not a hundred percent sure that you are going to heaven.

Leave where you're at and come down here and find someone who can show you the truth

of the adversity.

That you're facing.

Number two if you're not a member of a church that's holding you accountable.

Okay, you need to find one and now some people say well, I'm an introvert.

I'm embarrassed.

Guess where that exception is found in Scripture go ye therefore unless you're an introvert.

It ain't there.

It ain't there.

Well, brother Jeff, I don't have your personality.

Personalities are not spiritual gifts.

Okay, they're not listed in there.

Yeah, that's part of that whole consecration slave rights thing.

You don't have a right not to be embarrassed.

You don't have a right not to be made fun of look at me.

I'm bald and I'm fat and I can't even tuck my shirt in.

I get made fun of all the time, right?

It's okay.

Well, this is a church get made fun of together.

That's what churches do and when Whitten would be like, come on, man.

Cuz we'll jack you up man.

No, I'm just kidding, but we will just get.

But don't touch our people.

Just get not really guys.

If you are not a member of a church.

You need to come join one now.

Unlike other churches just to give you fair warning.

You will be held accountable if you're one of those people that say

really.

If you're one of those people that say listen.

That's between me and God that ain't nobody's business.

Maybe you need to go on the belly where you can hide in that back pew and keep

living that life.

Okay.

But if you actually want your life to change.

Come on, join someone's gonna help you do it.

Number three if you have not been baptized.

You've heard me you might think making fun of baptism.

No, sir.

I have not.

I've made fun of you believing that baptism will save you.

Okay.

Jesus gave us the example of baptism as one of the very first things new believers

need to do.

Because what you're doing is taking off the uniform in the world and you're making a public declaration.

This is the team I'm playing for now.

Okay, number four if you're hurting in here.

If you're hurting in here, or you just need prayer or you just have a question.

Where did the dinosaurs go with Adam and Eve?

That's okay to come on up talk to one of the pastors.

Last one number five if none of those four things apply to you.

Then go find someone that it does in other words.

Stop being an idiot Christian who looks at the screen holds the back of the chair with your hands in your pockets.

Waiting to know when this is going to be over so you can go eat at Chili's.

Okay, in other words stop coming to church and actually be the church.

Well pastor.

I don't know someone.

I don't know anybody.

Well, you're gonna have about 15 minutes to find someone out.

Okay.

Or do you need to go to another EE program?

Do you need really need another Romans road to figure out how to actually minister to somebody or you

just need a little humility?

Which one?

Slave humility, no, right scripture truth your thought process lies.

Are you gonna repent or is it just gonna be another manic Sunday?

80s people got it guys stand up with me and if God has called you today you submit to him

right now.

You repent and you come as God leads.