1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,100 First Timothy chapter 3, I always wear a suit coat on 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,600 Sunday on Wednesday nights but I don't usually wear a suit. 3 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:09,000 I'm very dressed up for something for Wednesday night. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,900 And but I was Henrico actually Appointed hired. 5 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:18,700 I don't know what to do with the exact, right word is but a new 6 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:23,600 fire chief and he asked me to come and do the invocation for 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,400 his swearing-in Ceremony this afternoon. 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,800 I was very privileged to be able to do that and God's given us 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,400 really some good opportunities with the chaplain chaplain. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,700 See the chaplain program and being able to Branch out and do 11 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:37,500 some other things as well because of it. 12 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:43,400 And so looking forward to that I'm actually going to a Fort Lee 13 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:45,800 army base tomorrow. They're doing a prayer breakfast 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,000 down there and they invited me to come and be a part of that as 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,200 well. And so we'll be doing that first 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:51,900 thing tomorrow morning for a few hours. 17 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:56,100 And again just just great opportunities and not not out 18 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,100 there trying to make a name for myself or anything like that. 19 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,800 But obviously the this is a little bit loud, turn it down. 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,300 Thank you. But the just just the more 21 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:08,400 opportunities got gives us the more opportunities. 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,800 We have to get the gospel out. So we'll take them and we'll use 23 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,500 them and I'll just trust that God knows. 24 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,800 What's best? And so I want to what I want to 25 00:01:17,808 --> 00:01:21,800 talk about tonight and I usually have a lot of Bible verses that 26 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,900 we turn to and I'm not going to do that tonight. 27 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,200 I really want to kind of set the stage for what we're going to be 28 00:01:26,208 --> 00:01:27,800 talking about over the next couple weeks. 29 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:31,800 But really what I want to talk about. 30 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,700 This is this is right along with the whole idea of what it means 31 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:36,900 to be a Baptist and we just went through that entire thing. 32 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,100 We use that acrostic what you know, what are the Baptist 33 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:41,600 distinctives. And we're not going to we're not 34 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,300 going to review those tonight just for the sake of time but I 35 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:49,600 want to talk about the meaning of biblical fundamentalism and 36 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:53,900 it's very misunderstood. It's very, it's being distorted. 37 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,900 You have Neo Independent Baptist, you have new 38 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:02,600 Independent Baptist, a lot of things that are changing and and 39 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,600 really there's a lot of I don't know if hesitancy is the right 40 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,500 word, but really, it's just, it's just a round, the word 41 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:12,700 fundamentalist. I considered myself to be an 42 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,600 independent fundamental Baptist, and, of course, now that's being 43 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,000 defined as ifb, you know, and people are, people are using 44 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,100 that as a disparaging term, you know, you're an ifb and, and, 45 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:28,800 you know, in there are certain there are certain just like 46 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,700 there is within any dump denomination. 47 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:34,100 That gives it a bad name for certain for certain reasons and 48 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:38,400 because of certain things, Is but the whole movement if and I 49 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,500 don't even really like using that word movement, but the 50 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:45,100 whole, the whole idea of being an independent fundamental 51 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:48,700 Baptist is being distorted. And so I want to, I want to 52 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:51,900 really kind of set the record straight talk about what it is 53 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:55,900 and so because again, we live in a day when fundamental or 54 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,900 fundamentalist have been misused, it's been abused. 55 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:03,400 It's been misapplied, both in our secular end is as well as 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,700 within Christianity, but the Word, fundamental, simply means 57 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,500 of central importance, or affecting the underlying 58 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,100 principles. And structure of something that 59 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:16,700 word fundamental has been used for years and years and years to 60 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:18,700 mean the exact same thing. Right? 61 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:21,600 When we hear the news media talks about Islamic 62 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,100 fundamentalist we automatically think of terrorists, right? 63 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:27,800 Because they are holding true. When we hear of radical 64 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,100 fundamentalist, we think of people who are off base in some 65 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,600 extreme or or harmful way, but the connotation that has led a 66 00:03:33,608 --> 00:03:38,100 lot of Americans to fear that. Fundamental or two to question 67 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:40,700 those who claim to be fundamental when it pertains to 68 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:43,400 their belief in the Bible. But think about it, this way. 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,700 If you were to take the example of a basketball coach, who 70 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,900 believes in the fundamentals of basketball, you would not have 71 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:54,400 any hesitancy to applaud that coach. 72 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,900 Right to say, man, there's a coach who sticks with the 73 00:03:56,900 --> 00:03:59,600 fundamentals of basketball. And what does that mean? 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,400 It means he's teaching, he's teaching them how to pass, how 75 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,200 to shoot, how to play defense, how to play all Offense and and 76 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,400 doing that in a fundamental way. And you might imagine someone is 77 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,100 focusing on those things that those are the fundamentals of 78 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:15,300 basketball. They are of central importance. 79 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,000 If you're not teaching somebody how to do that in basketball, 80 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:20,399 you're not teaching them the fundamentals and they're not 81 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,200 going to learn how to play basketball very well. 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,000 So in fact, those skills are so important when it comes to the 83 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,000 structure of that sport that if you compromise or if you change 84 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,100 that or if you forget that, you're not going to have the 85 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:35,600 sport of basketball, you might have some other Name that 86 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,300 similar to the sport of basketball. 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,700 You might have another game. That is an offshoot of the game 88 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:42,800 of basketball, but you don't have the game of basketball 89 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,500 anymore when you get away from the fundamentals of what 90 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,400 basketball is. And so the what the original 91 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,500 sport of basketball was intended to be. 92 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:53,200 And again, that's exactly what we're talking about when we're 93 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,500 talking about a fundamentalist or somebody who is a fundamental 94 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:00,000 Christian. We are literally just focusing 95 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,500 around the central importance of the word of God, the doctrines 96 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,000 of the word of God. So we're going to discuss this 97 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,900 idea really for three primary reasons, and I want to give you 98 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,700 those tonight, as we as we head into this and really before we 99 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:15,500 get into the lesson tonight, but the first reason, why is for 100 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,300 those Christians that are seeking to understand more 101 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:21,200 clearly, what Biblical fundamentalism truly is. 102 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,500 And again, there's a lot of, there's a lot of misconception 103 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:28,300 around that idea of being a Biblical fundamentalist. 104 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:31,200 There's a lot of confusion today on Bible versions. 105 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,700 A lot of confusion on Bible interpretation. 106 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,000 There's a lot of confusion. On ecumenical relationships. 107 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,400 And there's a, there's a vast movement out there. 108 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,200 That's trying to water down the truth. 109 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,000 And, you know, to blend all of the religions together for the 110 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,900 sake of unity, and for the sake of Tolerance, and that is not 111 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,500 Christianity. We're moving away. 112 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:53,900 When you move away from the fundamentals, you are moving 113 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:56,600 away from what it actually is, you're moving away from the 114 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,300 things that are of central importance. 115 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:00,800 And the more you move away from those things, it's a dangerous 116 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,100 course. It's quickly going to take us 117 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,600 away from what Biblical Christianity is all about. 118 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,700 Not all roads, lead to the same place, not all religions are 119 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,800 teaching the truth, not and and I'm going to try not to get 120 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,300 sidetracked on some of these things. 121 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,200 But there's so many of these things that are out there in our 122 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,900 culture today, you know. Well you just need to find your 123 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:21,300 truth. No, you didn't need to find your 124 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:23,100 truth. You need to find the truth. 125 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,300 Doesn't matter what you think the truth is, it matters what 126 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:28,600 the Bible says. The truth is and whatever you 127 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,900 think, doesn't matter when it comes to comparing it to the 128 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,000 word of God. If it lines up with the word of 129 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,900 God, then you're right. If it Line up with the word of 130 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,700 God, then you're wrong and it doesn't matter what your truth 131 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:41,100 happens to be. So hopefully that will clarify 132 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:41,700 for us. What? 133 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,400 A fundamental bible-believing, Christian really is, that's the 134 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,100 first reason. The second reason is that there 135 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:50,500 are those that are outside of biblical fundamentalism 136 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:52,200 attempting to redefine who we are. 137 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,700 And again, the secular media, the liberal Elite of our culture 138 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,300 are trying to redefine those, who believe the Bible literally. 139 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:03,700 And they say that we're extreme, or they say that we're even 140 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:07,000 dangerous, right? Again, it's the ones who are who 141 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,900 are preaching, what has been preached for hundreds and 142 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,600 hundreds of years from the Bible, but because culture has 143 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,000 changed in the last 25 years and the mindset around. 144 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,100 A lot of these things that the Bible preaches and teaches 145 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,300 against or for that matter. Even the things that the Bible 146 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:26,200 preaches and teaches in favor of it has changed culturally and so 147 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,800 religion has changed along with it but the Bible didn't change. 148 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,700 So when we continue to preach, the things that are in the Bible 149 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:37,200 that have been preached for hundreds and Thousands of years, 150 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:40,200 all the sudden were extreme and we're dangerous. 151 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,500 And that's not the case. We're just trying to stick to 152 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:43,900 the fundamentals of the word of God. 153 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:46,000 That's going to hopefully help us to see through the smoke and 154 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,900 mirrors of the secular world and help us to truly understand that 155 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,700 the ideas that bible-believing Christians hold to. 156 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,400 And we've already talked about some of that when it comes to 157 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,200 the Baptist distinctive. So we're not going to spend a 158 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,700 lot of time necessarily speaking directly to those but biblical 159 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:05,000 fundamentalists are no more dangerous or extreme than a 160 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:06,900 Basketball coach that's holding to the fundamentals of 161 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:09,500 basketball. So, regardless of how they look 162 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:12,900 at us from the outside, or what they perceive us to be from the 163 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:15,600 outside, or however, they are trying to redefine us from the 164 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,900 outside, it's no different than what we've always been. 165 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:21,200 We simply believe the basic doctrines and the values of the 166 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,200 Bible, and that's what we're going to explore as we as we get 167 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,900 through these lessons over the next few weeks. 168 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:30,600 So, the third reason, then why it's necessary to help us 169 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,600 understand these things. And why we're going to discuss 170 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,500 these is because there are those within the Fundamentalism who 171 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:38,000 are trying to redefine who we are. 172 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:42,799 And as we as we get into it, I'm going to give you some names of 173 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,600 some people who are kind of leading that charge and leading 174 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,400 the charge away from what the Bible is teaching and what we 175 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:55,900 have always stood for. So, there are those who are 176 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,300 polarizing around personalities and polarizing around 177 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,800 methodologies or institutions. And again, it's a lot of times 178 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,900 in its, it's It's an attempt to build a greater constituency 179 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:12,400 around themselves and and try to gather more people to to 180 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,900 themselves or, you know, gain more popularity or whatever 181 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:16,800 else. There's a lot of different 182 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,000 reasons why people do that. But we're hearing the word 183 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,900 fundamental applied to personal preferences or matters of taste 184 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:26,100 rather than to the unchanging truth of the word of God and we 185 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:28,000 have to protect that at all costs. 186 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,700 So the truth is that we're going to look at over the next few 187 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,300 weeks or just just as much a fundamental part of our American 188 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:35,900 history as they are a part of our Jannetty. 189 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:39,400 And again, it's not that we're coming up with something new. 190 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:42,500 It's not that we're trying to redefine who we are. 191 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:44,900 It's not that we're that we've gone more extreme. 192 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:49,400 It's just that we feel like this is what the Bible says. 193 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,100 This is what we've always stood for. 194 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:53,900 This is what we've always believed and as the world and 195 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:58,100 Christianity changes were not changing and so that gives us a 196 00:09:58,108 --> 00:10:01,700 bad perception in a lot of ways. But this this is what has always 197 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,400 been taught and preached. And so tonight, I really want to 198 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,000 give you the First in this little say series it's really 199 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,700 more of a miniseries. That's kind of a part of this 200 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:11,200 series and what it means to be a Baptist. 201 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,600 But it's the topic that we're going to look at tonight and 202 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,000 it's really kind of the the overall theme of the entire 203 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,500 thing, which is the meaning of biblical fundamentals. 204 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,900 I want to give you a little bit of history with that tonight. 205 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,700 But in first Timothy chapter 3 there, I want to kind of set the 206 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:27,400 table, or give you a little bit of a background into exactly 207 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,800 what we're talking about here. In 1st, Timothy Chapter 3, and 208 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,300 verse number 15, Who wrote the book of 1st Timothy? 209 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,800 Say it Paul, right, right. And who was he writing to 210 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,000 Timothy, right? Timothy was a young preacher 211 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,700 boy. If you will, under Paul's 212 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:46,000 Ministry, Paul was helping to train Timothy. 213 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,900 And so a lot of first and second, Timothy and Titus are 214 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:52,100 considered to be the Pastoral Epistles. 215 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,700 He was essentially training. Timothy, how to be a pastor and 216 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,300 of course, then Paul did leave him in different places and he 217 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,200 was able to continue on that work, but that will give you a 218 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,400 little bit of context and what we're talking about here, Now, 219 00:11:05,408 --> 00:11:07,000 does anybody else? And you can probably look at 220 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,200 this in your Bible and see this, but what else do we see in first 221 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,200 Timothy chapter 3? What do we see in first? 222 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,600 Timothy chapter 3 qualifications for a pastor and the 223 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,300 qualifications for a deacon, right? 224 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:22,400 So that's that's the context of the chapter verse number 15, 225 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:25,300 says this. But if I tarry long that thou 226 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:28,800 mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of 227 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,000 God, which is the Church of the Living, God, the pillar and the 228 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 ground of Truth. And without controversy, great 229 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,600 is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest In the Flesh. 230 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:41,100 Justified in the spirit seen of angels preached unto the 231 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:43,700 Gentiles believed on, in the world received up into Glory. 232 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,200 Now that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself 233 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,400 in the house of God, he was not yelling at Timothy for running 234 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,200 around in the auditorium and jumping on the chairs. 235 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,700 That's not what he was saying. You better behave yourself. 236 00:11:55,700 --> 00:11:58,000 He wasn't telling him, he wasn't talking to him. 237 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,200 That way, he was saying and talking about the idea of what a 238 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,300 church ought to be. And the way a church out a 239 00:12:04,308 --> 00:12:06,100 function in the way of church ought to run. 240 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:09,300 So in our text here in 1st Timothy Chapter 3, The Apostle 241 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:13,600 Paul is writing to Timothy with respect to the church and he's 242 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,700 reminding Timothy that the church is to be the pillar and 243 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:21,500 the ground of truth. If the church is not doing that, 244 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:25,100 then what else do you have that? You can fall back on if the 245 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:27,100 church is not the pillar in the ground of truth. 246 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:29,000 Then where can you turn right now? 247 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,500 Obviously, we always have the word of God. 248 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:34,300 We have the Bible and that is our that is are Our ultimate 249 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:36,000 truth. And there are plenty of churches 250 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 out there who are not standing on the truth of the word of God. 251 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,900 And so they're, they're ultimately not the pillar in the 252 00:12:40,908 --> 00:12:43,200 ground of truth. But that's what the church is 253 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,800 intended to be. And that's what it's supposed to 254 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,500 be. And I believe that without 255 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:48,700 bible-believing churches, America would collapse. 256 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:51,200 And that's why we're seeing America collapsing. 257 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:54,800 Now, because we're moving away from this bible-believing, and 258 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,000 we're moving more into preferences and more into 259 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,000 seeker-friendly things, where we'll do whatever we have to do, 260 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,300 to get people to come in and as long as people. 261 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,500 Pilar coming in, then. We're successful. 262 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:09,200 And that's not the case. Yes, we want people to come in. 263 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,100 Absolutely. We want people to come in and we 264 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:13,400 should be doing everything we can to try to get them to come 265 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,500 in. But it's not, it's not the 266 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:18,600 pragmatism idea where the ends justify the means. 267 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,400 And if that means that we gotta get up and dance around on the 268 00:13:21,408 --> 00:13:23,600 stage and have all this contemporary Christian music, 269 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,500 then we'll do it. If it's going to bring people in 270 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,900 or you know, if we just do this or do that, or whatever else, it 271 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:33,500 is that they're doing in these new modern churches, today to 272 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:35,400 try to get people in and it's working. 273 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,400 They're getting people in but they're not. 274 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,500 Giving them the truth and that church is not the pillar in the 275 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:43,000 ground of truth. It's a country club with a with 276 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,700 the Christian name on it. Well, if you can call it that 277 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,900 you know, the rock or the bridge I mean that's a that's a generic 278 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:51,300 name for a country club, you know? 279 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:54,200 I mean even country clubs are more specific about what they 280 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,300 are. Then a lot of these churches 281 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:57,600 nowadays. But in 1st Timothy Chapter 3, 282 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,100 and verse number 16 Paul is elaborating on the truth. 283 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:05,900 He says, and without controversy great is the mystery of 284 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:08,600 godliness God was manifest In the Flesh. 285 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,500 Justified in the spirit, seen of angels preached unto the 286 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,000 Gentiles believed on in the world received up into Glory. 287 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,600 So in this, in this verse here, Paul is Paul is giving a 288 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,600 first-century statement of faith. 289 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,500 If you will we have a statement of faith for our church. 290 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:25,600 But he's claiming the fundamentals of the faith that 291 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,400 God became a man, right? And that Christ Jesus, as the 292 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,800 God man was crucified. He rose again? 293 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,700 The third day, I mean Paul is laying down some fundamentals 294 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:39,400 here and he Was telling Timothy, these are the things that you 295 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,000 need to be standing on, right? So he's reminding Timothy that 296 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,800 the church is supposed to be the pillar in the ground of truth. 297 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,300 But in our day, what's happening is these truths are being 298 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,900 tested, their being there being questioned everywhere. 299 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:55,700 And it's vital that we know what the truth is our that we know 300 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,600 what we believe and we know why we believe those things, right? 301 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,500 We've been doing a series for a long time and there's a lot of 302 00:15:02,508 --> 00:15:04,400 different off shoots going, a lot of different directions. 303 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,600 But what, what I believe and why it's important to Why we say, we 304 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,200 believe the things that we believe and well that's just 305 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,700 what my church teaches is not a good enough answer. 306 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:16,400 Well, it's somewhere in the Bible that's not a good enough 307 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,500 answer. You need to know why you believe 308 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:21,100 the things that you believe otherwise you're going to get 309 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,400 somebody to come in here and start teaching things that are 310 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,600 moving away from those fundamentals and you're just 311 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,500 going to follow them because you don't even know why you believe 312 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:28,700 what you believe in the first place. 313 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:34,500 So Christians have to not only attend biblically fundamental 314 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,300 churches but they have to adhere to the fundamental truths and 315 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,300 the the doctrines of the Bible, if we want to truly stand for 316 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:42,800 our faith and where they start, moving away from those 317 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,600 fundamentals, we either need to do everything. 318 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,900 We can to try to bring them back to that, or we need to leave 319 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:50,400 because if it's if we're not preaching the fundamentals of 320 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,000 the faith, if we're not preaching those true. 321 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,800 So the word of God, then we shouldn't be there, something 322 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:03,300 has to change and of course if our Christian Life is Let me say 323 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:05,700 it this way. Thank God for the exterior 324 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,600 manifestations of an inward change right when God changes 325 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,300 our heart. It ought to change the way we 326 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:16,000 look on the outside too. But if your Christian Life is is 327 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,800 just about an exterior look and you don't know the scriptures, 328 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,600 you don't know. You know, the, the Bible and the 329 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,700 verse is that form your beliefs, then you're a very, very shallow 330 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:29,500 Christian. And we need a clear 331 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:31,900 understanding of the basic doctrines of the word of God. 332 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,100 But then number, Read the the primary question about 333 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:37,100 fundamental, mm, is this, what is your Authority? 334 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:40,400 What is your Authority? And of course, the very, very 335 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,500 first thing that we talked about when it came to, what it means 336 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:47,600 to be a Baptist, is what Biblical Authority, right? 337 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,500 The Bible ought to be our Authority. 338 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:53,400 But what's happening so many times is that it's the Bible 339 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,300 plus tradition or it's the Bible plus preferences or it's the 340 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:01,300 Bible, plus, whatever else that happens to be. 341 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:04,099 And if your final Authority is the Bible, then you're going to 342 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:05,400 believe in. You're going to follow the truth 343 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,300 that are Central and foundational in the Bible. 344 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:11,500 Well, Or not the media or the intellectual Elite or the 345 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:18,000 so-called, you know, theologians and and they're the ones 346 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,599 honestly, that drive a lot of this fundamentalism away from 347 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:24,200 the Bible or if I should even say fundamentals and they're not 348 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,500 driving fundamentals and they're driving Christians away from 349 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,000 fundamentalism because of the things that they're teaching and 350 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,800 preaching and writing books about everything else. 351 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,400 But you know, whatever they say about it, there's nothing to 352 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,600 fear about a fundamental bible-believing Christian 353 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:41,800 because we are And show to the foundation of Christianity, 354 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,300 adhering, to the fundamental teaching of the word of God is 355 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:46,200 what made America great. Now, let me give you some 356 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,500 examples here. And again, I'm being very 357 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,800 practical tonight, but I say spiritual at the same time, I'm 358 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,400 not using a lot of bible verses to talk about these things and I 359 00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:58,500 because we're kind of giving you a broad view of it but there's 360 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:01,400 not only a lot of different isms in the world. 361 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,100 There's a, there's also a lot of fundamentalisms in the world and 362 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,500 if you think about it for a for just a few, Few seconds to try 363 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:12,200 to think of some other fundamentalist that, you know, 364 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,400 that that would be different from Baptist Independent Baptist 365 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,000 fundamentalist whatever. Obviously I mentioned one a 366 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,700 little bit earlier, but we've all been awakened to the idea of 367 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:26,200 Islamic fundamentalist, right? And Islamic fundamentalist is 368 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:31,000 somebody who takes particular portions of the Quran and you 369 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,400 know portions from clerics to a literal extreme that leads them 370 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,400 to go on these jihadist missions. 371 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,500 And you know, that's what Honestly, that's what led to 372 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:41,200 911. That's what has led to a lot of 373 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,500 these terrorist attacks in a lot of these other places as well, 374 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:45,700 right? It's Islamic fundamentalism but 375 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,200 they are going back to the fundamentals of their faith. 376 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,600 There's Mormon fundamentalist, right. 377 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,900 Those Mormon fundamentalist would take the Book of Mormon 378 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,900 and claimed it to be equal with the Bible. 379 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,600 The Mormon fundamentalist would believe the book doctrines and 380 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,500 Covenants. And in section of 132 verse 61, 381 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,500 it says, you may have spouse as many virgins as you like, 382 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,000 without committing adultery. Well, that's where they get the 383 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,900 idea of polygamy. Right? 384 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:13,700 And now there are a lot of them are trying to distance 385 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:16,600 themselves from that because well we you know, things have 386 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,300 changed, you know, we don't believe that anymore, but if you 387 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:23,600 are a Mormon fundamentalist, then you will believe that 388 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,500 because it's there and it's in their book and they haven't, it 389 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:28,500 can't be changed a fundamentalist. 390 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,600 Mormon would have believed the Journal of discourses volume 1 391 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,400 page. 121 says, remember that God, our heavenly father was 392 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:40,400 once a child and mortal Like we are and rose step by step in the 393 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,300 scale of progress, right? That's what a Mormon 394 00:19:43,300 --> 00:19:45,500 fundamentalist is going to believe fundamentalist. 395 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:47,500 Mormon would say, they believe the Journal of discourses that 396 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:51,200 was written by Brigham Young volume 10 page. 223 says the 397 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,200 Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like 398 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,600 himself. Now we've gone all the way 399 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,400 through the Book of Mormon and and talked a lot about the 400 00:19:59,408 --> 00:20:01,900 different ideas of Mormonism and everything else, I'm not trying 401 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:03,700 to do that tonight. But what I'm saying is there's 402 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:07,500 fundamentalist Mormons and those fundamentalist Mormons are going 403 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:11,400 to get tin and get into their books and their doctrines and 404 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:12,500 everything else. And they're going to hold to 405 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:14,400 those things. But there's there's examples of 406 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,200 groups that believe the basic Central teachings of their 407 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,000 religions. And we have examples of that all 408 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 over the place there, examples of how following a like, and 409 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,500 laid down a very dangerous in a very destructive path. 410 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:28,800 I mean, honestly, you have you have Cults that get started and 411 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,300 books that are written within those Cults. 412 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,900 And those people follow those things and they are, they're 413 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:35,100 making their way down a very dangerous path. 414 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:38,400 But, and I think in the same way a fundamentalist Christian, Is 415 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:43,000 somebody who believes the central basic truths of the 416 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,900 Bible? Somebody who has chosen to make 417 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:47,800 the Bible, his final Authority for life. 418 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:51,200 We're not using the Bible, plus some traditions that the church 419 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,400 has done for years. We're not using the Bible plus, 420 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,200 some confessions we're not using the Bible plus like what the 421 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,400 Jews do, the Bible's, the the Jews use the Old Testament and 422 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,000 the talmud and the tell mood is a commentary of the Old 423 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,600 Testament. And what's happened is you've 424 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,900 got commentary on the Commentary on the commentary of the Old 425 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:11,400 Testament. What they say is that the 426 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,700 average Christian knows more of the Old Testament than the Jews 427 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:19,000 do because they know so. Well, the tell mood which is all 428 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,300 the commentary on the Old Testament that they don't even 429 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:24,100 know the Old Testament, right? But that's that's what we're 430 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:26,700 talking about. We're just getting back to the 431 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:30,000 basic fundamental Central truths of the Bible. 432 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,400 Biblical fundamentalism has everything to do with. 433 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,500 What somebody believes about the word of God. 434 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,400 Biblical fundamentalism is what? Going to be is what separates 435 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,500 those who believe God's word is infallible from those who 436 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:46,000 question, the word of God. We're going to talk a little bit 437 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,600 about the history here in just a second or the birth of 438 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,000 fundamentalism in America and we're going to see that there 439 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,100 are a lot of people who have questioned the legitimacy of the 440 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,600 Bible, but it separates that biblical fundamentalism is going 441 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,800 to be what separates those who believe the Bible is the final 442 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,000 Authority from those who accept some other authority, like 443 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,300 papal, Authority, or No experience or any of these other 444 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:11,200 things. So, how did fundamentalism in 445 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,100 America come around? Well, over 100 years ago? 446 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,000 And here's a name that you'll recognize Charles Spurgeon 447 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,600 battled for Bible beliefs in London. 448 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,800 It's it became known as the downgrade controversy. 449 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:27,800 What was happening, there was a lot of things that were 450 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,700 happening in in the world at that time and in and I say in 451 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:36,700 the world, but really in Christianity, in general around 452 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:41,400 that time, but He stood against the theologians and Pastors in 453 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,600 the Baptist Union, who began to accept evolution as a way of 454 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,100 creation. Now, I know that sounds to be 455 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,600 completely opposite of each other. 456 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,600 How do you accept evolution as a way of creation? 457 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,500 Well, what they what happened was and we're going to talk 458 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,200 about this in just a little bit, but the idea of evolution was 459 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:03,100 introduced as a scientific fact and because Evolution was an 460 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,100 alternative to Creation which is what the Bible. 461 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:09,300 Very plainly says in the very first verse in the Bible, in the 462 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:11,700 beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. 463 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:16,400 If you believe in evolution, then you have already distanced 464 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,100 yourself from the word of God based on the very first verse 465 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:21,800 that we find in the Bible. But what happened is the idea of 466 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,400 evolution came about and all of these not just feel logical 467 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,500 liberals. But anybody who wanted to try 468 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:33,300 to, in any way. Oppose this the Bible jumped on 469 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:35,500 this idea of evolution. Well then it kind of made the 470 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,600 Christians look like they were a little, you know, Awkward. 471 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,300 They were a little bit out of touch with what was going on in 472 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:46,700 the scientific world. So they started trying to marry 473 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:51,100 the idea of Evolution To Creation and believe it or not. 474 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:55,200 Scofield is one of the ones who jumped on that and and and 475 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,000 introduced what was what is known as the day age Theory. 476 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,300 We're basically one day was not a 24-hour period, like we know 477 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:07,000 it to be and like, what we believe in the Bible, but one 478 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,000 day was an Age. So God created the plants and 479 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,500 then allowed them to evolve in this age and then he went on to 480 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:20,700 the next thing and and created the animals and they were able 481 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:23,400 to evolve through that whole process and it wasn't just a 482 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,900 24-hour period. It was an age, it was an ERA and 483 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:29,400 so they believe that God created those things. 484 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,900 But then they then they tried to marry that with the idea of 485 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:34,100 evolution. Well, that just really started 486 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:36,200 making everybody question everything that they knew about 487 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,900 the Bible and so Charles, Urgent preached against that false 488 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:44,200 teachings and ultimately led a great number of people out of 489 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,100 the Baptist Union when the members of the Baptist Union 490 00:24:47,100 --> 00:24:48,600 would not sign a statement of faith. 491 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,200 Declaring that the theory of evolution was against the Bible 492 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,100 on, this was this was Baptist. This was back in the 1800's so 493 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,400 that encroachment of theological liberalism was not limited to 494 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,300 England. It found its way to America and 495 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:04,700 Fundamental Bible Doctrine was generally. 496 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,800 Well known it was for the most part believed in America. 497 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:12,500 You didn't need fundamentalism because everything was 498 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,100 fundamentalism. It was just Christianity. 499 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,700 It's just what it was. There was no such thing as 500 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,000 fundamental Christians, and then liberal Christians, or whatever 501 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 else, because it was just, that's what if you are a 502 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,500 Christian, this is what you believed, right? 503 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,300 But, you know, it doesn't doesn't take long for you to go 504 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:33,900 to Washington DC and start walking around. 505 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:37,600 A lot of those monuments, in a lot of the Bible verses that are 506 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,100 found. Channel 2, our Christianity are 507 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:42,400 edged, all over the place inside the capitol. 508 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,300 Inside the, you know, inside the White House on the Supreme 509 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:47,900 Court, building mean all over the place. 510 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,100 You see Bible verses etched on those buildings and it just you 511 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,800 know just again just proves that that Fundamental Bible Doctrine 512 00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:00,300 was generally well known and believed in early America but 513 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:05,000 fundamentalism as a movement really didn't gain any any steam 514 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,900 or any momentum until after the Civil War. 515 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,900 Because after the Civil War, a great theological compromise, 516 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:14,500 also started to take hold in our country and German rationalism 517 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,500 began to find its way into the American pulpits. 518 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:20,900 If there's anything that has been a huge detriment to 519 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:27,200 Christianity, it's this German theological mindset and I'm not 520 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,600 blaming the Germans. I'm just saying that that was 521 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,800 really kind of where the birth of a lot of this theological 522 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,300 liberalism was, that's where a lot of it started and American 523 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,000 started going. Were there to these German 524 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,200 universities and coming back with a huge skepticism of the 525 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,300 Bible and of the doctrines of the faith. 526 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,300 And then those are the ones who started getting into these 527 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:51,800 institutions of Higher Learning where, you know, you had places 528 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,300 like Harvard, that was, you know, started to train preachers 529 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:59,000 and now all the sudden Harvard is not even, it's not even 530 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 doesn't have anything to do with Christianity at all. 531 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,300 How does that happen that happens? 532 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,600 Because you allow this theological liberalism to get 533 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,100 in. Everybody starts questioning 534 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:10,000 everything about the The Bible instead of just believing it by 535 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,200 faith. Which by the way the Bible has 536 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,000 never been disproven ever not in one area of science. 537 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,300 Not in one area of archaeology, not in one area of anything. 538 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,100 Has the Bible been disproven? There's been many times when 539 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,100 they thought they've disproven the Bible but then it always 540 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:30,000 turns out that the that whoever it was, that was disproving. 541 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,400 The Bible ended up getting proven wrong later on. 542 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,400 Bubble has never been proven wrong. 543 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:40,100 And so this German rationalism Movement that began in the 1700s 544 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:42,200 with these German Scholars and religious leaders. 545 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,100 And they were trying to marry secular thought with Biblical 546 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,500 teaching. And the intention was to bring 547 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,700 secular reason to Biblical teaching and essentially to 548 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,500 remove the Divine to remove the miraculous from the word of God. 549 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,600 And when you follow that, course, the scripture became 550 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,200 subject to human reasoning, and when you, when you subjected to 551 00:28:00,208 --> 00:28:04,900 human reasoning, now it's you know, it's it makes the mind, 552 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,700 the final Authority rather than the truth of the word of God. 553 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,300 And that movement was nothing less than a direct spiritual 554 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:14,400 attack on the Christian faith, but it was, it was around that 555 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800 time. The, the late 1800s, when a lot 556 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:23,000 of these, theologically liberal ideas began to swirl, in Europe, 557 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,400 in Germany and made their way to America. 558 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,400 Well, a lot of German Scholars, of that day were prejudiced 559 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,000 against the scriptures, and I'll read you a few quotes. 560 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,200 I'll give you a picture of this guy because he was one that was 561 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,500 very well known as name was Immanuel Kant, but he wrote in 562 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:41,400 the late 1700s that Quote, a man's conscience was equal to 563 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,300 the word of God. A man's conscience is equal to 564 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:50,000 the world of to the word of God. He questioned the the atonement 565 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 of Jesus Christ. He questioned a lot of other 566 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,600 things that got people thinking in that direction. 567 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,000 But other theological theologians in the school of 568 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000 so-called higher criticism, began to question all the rest 569 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,500 of the foundational doctrines of God's word, 11 of those guys was 570 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:07,900 a was a guy by the name of Frederick shrill mom. 571 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,700 Ochre. That's not a German name. 572 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:13,000 I don't know what it is, but he said Doctrine is only the 573 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,100 expression of feeling the Bible is not our final Authority. 574 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,100 When you start making statements like that, you are treading on 575 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:23,000 very, very dangerous ground. The Bible is not our final 576 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,100 Authority, it's your mind. It's what you think. 577 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:27,400 Well, that's what, that's why do you think there's people running 578 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,300 around saying find your truth? You know, Live Your Truth. 579 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,200 It started in there. Another one his name was Ernst 580 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,700 trost but he said The early 1900's quote that Evolution was 581 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:44,300 the unfolding of the new out of the old and that Jesus Christ 582 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,000 was merely a symbol of the highest truth. 583 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Someone can know in essence there were not only questioning 584 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000 but they were beginning to literally tear apart. 585 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,500 The word of God in their seminaries and in their 586 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,400 conferences, all over Europe and eventually it made its way to 587 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,300 America. And again, that movement, 588 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:03,500 questioned every literal detail of the Bible, the Bible said it. 589 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,400 Well, now we need to question it and see if we can prove whether 590 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,900 it's right or not. And if we can't Prove it, then 591 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,100 it's wrong. And that I mean if you're if you 592 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:16,400 could if you can take any part of the Bible and say that you 593 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,600 don't believe it for this reason or that reason or whatever, then 594 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,800 you can do that with the entire rest of the Bible or at the very 595 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,100 least you can't tell somebody else that they can't do that 596 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:27,000 with the entire rest of the Bible because that's exactly 597 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,300 what you've just done. But then in nineteen are, sorry, 598 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:35,600 1859 Charles Darwin, published the book called the origin of 599 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,900 the species by the way. Charles Darwin was not the first 600 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:42,800 one to come up with the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin was 601 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,700 the one who popularized the theory of evolution in his book, 602 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:49,900 the origin of the species and a lot of people as I kind of 603 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:53,500 mentioned already including so-called clergy began to hold 604 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,700 to the concept of evolution. One of those men of out of many 605 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,400 who started to propagate. This liberalism was a guy by the 606 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,900 name of William, Rainey Harper. It was the founder of Chicago 607 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:06,600 University and there's actually a university that's named after 608 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,100 him now. But he said, this, we need to 609 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:14,100 recognize the humanity of Jesus and the mistakes of Jesus, and 610 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:17,600 we need to stress the dignity and the Divinity of man. 611 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,800 If that is not taking everything that the Bible teaches and 612 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,100 everything that is the fundamentals of the faith and 613 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:29,800 taking Jesus, who is God and trying to bring him down to 614 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,900 human level, and taking man, who is human and bring him up to the 615 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,700 god level, then you've turned everything in the word of God on 616 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:41,500 its head, and then nothing is sacred. 617 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:44,700 Nothing is truth. Nothing is fundamental anymore. 618 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:46,900 But I think it's pretty interesting to note too that 619 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:49,700 these same liberal themes in the same Rationalism is still being 620 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:52,100 taught in seminary, still being preached in pulpits. 621 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:53,900 All the way across America to this day. 622 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,600 But a lot of those main Mainline denominations could never be 623 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,100 classified as fundamental because they, you know, their 624 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,100 preachers are denying the fundamental truth of the word of 625 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,700 God. But in the face of compromising, 626 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:09,000 the late 1800s, and the early 1900's came, the rise of what 627 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,600 became known as biblical fundamentalism and biblical 628 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,700 fundamentalists. Because when all of this was 629 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:18,100 going on, you had a whole group of people who are starting to 630 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:21,800 say On why are we questioning the Bible through a secular 631 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,000 lens? Why are we trying to prove the 632 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,500 Bible through secular theology or secular secular terminology? 633 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:30,700 Why do we have to prove the Bible in this way? 634 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,400 The Bible stands on its own two feet. 635 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,800 The Bible stands for itself, we don't need other people doing 636 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,200 that. So God's stirred the hearts of 637 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,300 men who are Faithfully serving him turn over to Jude and 638 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:44,000 there's only one chapter in Jude. 639 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,400 But these men took a stand on the word of God and they 640 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,400 followed the teaching that we find in Jude verse 13. 641 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:57,000 Jude 13. Beloved. 642 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,800 When I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common 643 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,000 salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you 644 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:10,200 that ye should earnestly contend for the faith, which was once 645 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,100 delivered unto the Saints. What happened was they began to 646 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,400 earnestly contend for the faith again where before they didn't 647 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,200 really have to. Because everybody who was a 648 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,600 Christian believed, essentially the same thing, they believed 649 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,400 those fundamentals, they believe that Jesus was God, they 650 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,800 believe. He died on the cross, they 651 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,900 believe that he rose from the dead, they believed in the 652 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:32,100 Virgin birth. They believe that the Bible was 653 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,500 the final Authority. Now, you would all this 654 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,600 theological liberalism that was swirling all over the place and 655 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,900 it became necessary for them to take a final stand if you will 656 00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:45,300 against all of those things. And so they began to they 657 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,200 started to earnestly contend for the truth, through preaching, in 658 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,200 their own pulpits. But they started to host Bible 659 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,500 conferences and they started to publish books and they started 660 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:57,600 newspapers that were crying out. Against this rationalism and 661 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,400 this theological liberalism and not all. 662 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,300 But a lot of the things that we still see in existence today 663 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,400 when it comes to Publications and everything else, got its got 664 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,500 their start back then because there was such a necessity 665 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:13,300 necessity to stand up against those things beginning in the in 666 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:15,800 1878. And I know this goes a ways 667 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,900 back, but the premillennial Bible Conference and also what 668 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:24,400 became known as the Niagara Niagara Bible conferences and 669 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,100 maybe some of these are names. That you'll recognize, but you 670 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:29,500 had a Jay Gordon. He was a, he was a pastor from 671 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,800 Boston. You had John Duffield. 672 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:37,300 He was a, he was from Princeton College Hudson Taylor, he 673 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:38,699 founded, the China, inland mission. 674 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:42,500 We Blackstone he was a Methodist preacher who wrote the book 675 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,600 Jesus is coming. It was a best-seller in that 676 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,400 area. A lot of others that were around 677 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,300 their two names that you would recognize and names that you 678 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,000 would at least know whether or not you know who they were. 679 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,300 But there's dozens and dozens and dozens of these men who Came 680 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:00,700 out in strong, stand of the fundamental doctrines of 681 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:04,600 Christianity, and especially the word of God, they were all men 682 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,700 who rejected this allegorical, allegorical rationalism. 683 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,800 And this rationalistic approach to the Bible. 684 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,300 They believe the word of God to be the truth, as it was the 685 00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:18,200 literal word of God. And so during those conferences, 686 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,300 do a lot of these fundamentalist leaders created, Statement of 687 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:25,200 faith statements of faith. I guess it's probably the best 688 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,500 way to do it, but that affirm their belief in everything that 689 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,700 I just mentioned, when it comes to the authority of the word of 690 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:33,500 God. The the literal return of Jesus 691 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,400 Christ. And, and the, you know, the duty 692 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,900 of Christians everywhere to preach the message of the gospel 693 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:41,100 and they laid down those fundamentals. 694 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:44,400 And so the impact of those conferences was was very 695 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,600 profound was a great book. If you, if you, it's pretty 696 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,200 thick and I think I think I had to read it when I was in. 697 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,900 College but I referenced it again and found a lot of great 698 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:59,700 information in it but it's called in pursuit of Purity and 699 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:02,700 David Beale was the guy that wrote that but but this is what 700 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:06,500 he said, was a result of the Niagara Bible Conference. 701 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:10,300 There was five major outcomes and I'm just going to read them 702 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,200 to you because this is what he said. 703 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,100 But number one, the conference spawned new missionary activity 704 00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,300 and evangelism number to the conference, contributed to the 705 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:21,800 rise and spread of large Bible Conference movements, The number 706 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,500 three, the conference had a significant impact on the rise 707 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:28,400 of the Bible Institute and Bible College movement number for the 708 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,200 conference, gave early expression to fundamentalisms 709 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,800 emphasis on concentrated, Bible study and he says number five 710 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,100 that the conference. Precipitated a vast amount of 711 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,000 fundamentalist literature especially on the subject of 712 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,400 Prophecy, the person and work of Christ, the Holy Spirit and 713 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:48,300 missions, but a great emphasis and honestly, where before there 714 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,900 was no need for that, there was no necessity of that. 715 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:53,900 Now, Was because of this theological liberalism and 716 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,000 honestly, it's just as much of a need for that today as there 717 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,300 ever has been because it's only getting worse, where, you know, 718 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:02,600 where before all of those ideas had been introduced and 719 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,700 everything else. Now they're here and they're 720 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,500 here to stay because of so many different institutions that are 721 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:10,400 doing that. Let me let me share with you 722 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,700 one, quote and will be closing up here very quickly. 723 00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:19,700 But he said this, this is an account from somebody who had 724 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,700 tended, this Niagara Bible. Conference. 725 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:25,000 And he said this those were the days of Brooks and West and 726 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,800 Parsons and Erdman and Moorhead, and Nicholson, and Needham and 727 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,200 Gordon. Oh, what discussions were held 728 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,700 in those dates, how? The Lord Jesus Christ was 729 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,900 exalted, how the Holy Spirit was honored and how the Bible was 730 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:39,600 expounded, the bread of life, broken and distributed at the 731 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,200 Niagara Bible Conference is feeding the children of God and 732 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,300 this land to this day, there have been Bible conferences 733 00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:49,200 since all stimulated by this one but they have been like so many 734 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,500 steeping zuv the same tea. So, after the turn of the 735 00:37:52,508 --> 00:37:55,200 century, you had a lot of these men that began to emphasize the 736 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,200 fundamentals as they were called. 737 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,900 And this is, so you can see where the ideal fundamentalism 738 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:04,900 is starting to get its rise, but are a Tory, that's a name, 739 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:06,900 you'll recognize row. Lot of books, about the person, 740 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:12,500 and the work of the Holy Spirit TT Shields J, Frank Norris lot 741 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:16,200 of these men and men that that, hopefully, at least a little 742 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,900 bit. You recognize their names, but 743 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:19,900 when they stood up reach, I'm on the fundamentals. 744 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:22,400 Nobody questioned. What they were saying about the 745 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,300 word of God because it was just, it was the word of God. 746 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:26,800 And that's what they were teaching and preaching. 747 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,300 And so, those in a lot of others, took a strong stand 748 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:33,500 against liberalism took a law, strong stand against rationalism 749 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,400 and they earnestly contend for the faith and defended, the 750 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:37,900 fundamental doctrines of God's word. 751 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,900 But the thing is, most of those men died before 1950. 752 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,800 This happened in the late 1800s, early to Middle 1907 by 1950. 753 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,500 A lot of these men who were the first in the, Only 754 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:56,200 fundamentalist died by 1950 since the 1950s a lot of 755 00:38:56,207 --> 00:39:00,000 different Baptist groups have come into existence but most of 756 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,700 those Baptist groups came out of other Baptist groups that were 757 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:05,800 turning away from fundamental doctrines and becoming 758 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,600 increasingly allegorical or rationalistic in their approach 759 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,000 to the Bible. And so, what's happened is 760 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000 though, as a result of these men standing for the fundamentals 761 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,200 are over 13,000, independent fundamental Baptist churches in 762 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,700 the United States. And that number is dwindling 763 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,000 because a lot of them are changing from what they used to 764 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,500 be. Sadly even those that would be 765 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,700 what we would consider in our circle of influence. 766 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:34,500 In our circle of friends that are changing from become from 767 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:38,000 being independent, fundamental Baptist to taking that name off 768 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,300 or you know we're still Baptist but we're not independent 769 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:43,800 fundamental Baptist because we don't like the connotation that 770 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,600 comes along with that. We don't want people to get the 771 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,100 wrong idea of who we are or whatever else. 772 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:52,500 And you know a lot of those things are Aging and moving, but 773 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:55,500 what a rich history we have is bible-believing Christians. 774 00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:59,200 That's, you know, the fight that they had to go through in the 775 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,200 things that these men had to stand for what a great heritage 776 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,800 of Faith that's been handed down to us. 777 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,900 So, what was it that they were contending for? 778 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,500 Was it was it the architectural style of a church building? 779 00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:14,000 Was it, the color of the pews was that the, you know, the 780 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,500 color of the walls, you know, their favorite personalities, 781 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:20,800 our institutions, where they were they contending for? 782 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:25,000 Reference or taste know they were, you know they were 783 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,700 fighting for what they believed and they were fighting a greater 784 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:34,500 enemy for a greater truth. They were trying to take back 785 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,000 what was trying to be, what had been changed. 786 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,500 And that was the the great fundamental doctrines that we 787 00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:44,700 find in the word of God. And maybe, for somebody who is a 788 00:40:44,707 --> 00:40:47,300 non-Christian looking at it from the outside. 789 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,600 You know where they were? They I guess the question would 790 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,700 be where they contending for something dangerous, right? 791 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:57,000 Because now if you're a fundamental is if you're a 792 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,900 Christian fundamentalist, your extreme, you're dangerous. 793 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,900 You're you know you're one of these Bible Thumpers or whatever 794 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:06,700 else they want to say about it. You you're the ones that need to 795 00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:10,200 be eliminated, your the far-right conspiracy. 796 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,000 And it's I mean we're not we're not even political right? 797 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:17,100 But but you're dangerous, if you believe the fundamentals of the 798 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:19,900 Bible. During today's misuse of that 799 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:21,900 word fundamental and secular media. 800 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,900 What were these men fighting for. 801 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:29,400 They were literally fighting for the fundamentals of the truth of 802 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,600 the word of God, that's not dangerous. 803 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:36,600 That's necessary. Because the more, it moves away 804 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,600 from that the farther you get away from that, the less you 805 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,700 have Christianity, and the more Christianity dies, the less you 806 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:45,600 have to pass on to the next generation and eventually there 807 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,500 will be no Christianity at all. We have got to stand for the 808 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:52,700 fundamentals of the faith. It's not just about preference, 809 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:57,400 it's not just about, you know, We need to do it because of this 810 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,400 or that we've got to do it. Because if we don't there will 811 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,000 be no Christianity to pass on to the next Generation. 812 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,100 The more you water down, I mean, it's like it's like if you take 813 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,100 if you were to take a glass of Kool-Aid let's say and you take 814 00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:16,400 a An Empty Glass and you dump half of the glass of Kool-Aid in 815 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,400 it and half a glass of water in it. 816 00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:21,900 You still have Kool-Aid but it's very very watered-down right 817 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:24,900 now, you take that one and mix that with another half glass of 818 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:27,400 water. And is still Kool-Aid, but now 819 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,600 it's watered down even more. And now you take that glass and 820 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,800 you dump it in there with and eventually you really can't even 821 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,400 taste the Kool-Aid in it at all and they still call it Kool-Aid, 822 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,900 but it's not right. And that's exactly what's 823 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,600 happening. When we're passing these things 824 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,600 down to the Next Generation. If we don't take a stand on the 825 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,000 fundamentals of the faith and stand for those things that we 826 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,800 find in the word of God and hold those standards high in every 827 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,500 aspect of what we're doing. Then eventually it gets so 828 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:56,400 watered down that what you have is not even Gianna T anymore. 829 00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:58,900 And now you have a whole group of people who are still 830 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:00,900 Gathering or still getting together for church, they're 831 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,500 still doing all these things but what their but what they're 832 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:07,100 doing is not Christianity, it's just a country club, it's just a 833 00:43:07,107 --> 00:43:12,200 gathering and so it's not that it's not that we are dangerous 834 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,300 or that we're trying to stand up because we love controversy or 835 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:18,500 because we like to be in the minority or any of those things. 836 00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:22,900 It's because if we don't do it then who's going to and if you 837 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:25,700 don't hold that line and you start letting that line, Of the 838 00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:28,600 next generation is going to let it go even more and the next 839 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,200 generation is going to let it go even more and eventually you 840 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,700 don't have anything that resembles what we find in the 841 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:36,200 word of God is Christianity. So that's what we're going to 842 00:43:36,207 --> 00:43:39,300 discuss over the next few weeks. We're going to find out that 843 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:44,400 quite the opposite of. What the perception of 844 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,300 independent fundamental Baptists is is actually the opposite of 845 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:49,900 what a lot of people think these. 846 00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:54,300 These men were fighting for the very truth that makes us free, 847 00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:56,800 right? You shall know the truth and the 848 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,500 truth shall set you free. And that's exactly what they 849 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:02,100 were fighting for, and that's exactly what we need to continue 850 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:04,700 fighting for today. Let's talk some more about this 851 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:07,800 as we get into it over the next couple weeks, but let's pray. 852 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,800 And then will be dismissed. Father, we love you again, we 853 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,800 thank you for what these men that went on before us, stood 854 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,400 for what they were willing to fight for what they were willing 855 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,300 to lose in order to preserve the truth that we find in the word 856 00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:21,600 of God. I pray that you would help us to 857 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,800 stand strong on those truths, but it should help us to never 858 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:28,000 let Let them bend, never let them slip and God that we'd hold 859 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,300 the standards high in every aspect of Christianity that been 860 00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:34,300 handed to us. God, I pray that you'd help us 861 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:37,700 to pass on to the next generation of strong firm, 862 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,100 foundation in the word of God, a strong Authority in the word of 863 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:44,100 God and God that we would continue to stay in for the 864 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:46,400 fundamentals of the faith. Thank you for all that you do 865 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,200 for us in Jesus name. Amen.