1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:06,600 We celebrated our Rachel has a family reunion that we do and 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,600 it's in East Texas and this is the 14th year of us doing this 3 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,880 family reunion and we like to call it Country weekend. 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,760 So Country weekend pretty much is her massive family shows up 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,000 at a lake house with some of our super close personal friends. 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,040 And we just spend a few days together playing at the lake Jet 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,080 skis just, you know, I see, I understand what you're talking 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,160 about the sun like I look like 50 Shades of brown up here. 9 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,440 So the I don't know why I said that I'm a little sleepy this 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:46,840 morning so so like it's it's a great time now in year three or 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:52,240 four of our country weekend we started a tradition where Friday 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,880 night was the fajita dinner. Like that was like, that's what 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,360 they want. You know, that's what everybody 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,240 wants to do. If I eat a dinner Friday night, 15 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,520 chicken, steak, whatever they have. 16 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,080 And what I realized real quickly is that cultures are different. 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,080 For you guys that don't know my wife, she is country white girl, 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,840 He's Texas, you know, Southern belle. 19 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,360 And so we grew up a little bit differently. 20 00:01:16,950 --> 00:01:21,790 And I I quickly realized that the way that people view fajitas 21 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:24,870 and Mexican food in some cultures are a lot different 22 00:01:24,870 --> 00:01:27,990 than in our culture. I say ours because the it's the 23 00:01:27,990 --> 00:01:31,310 Mexicans adopted me back in the Texas. 24 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:34,470 They're like, we want Ricky, you're like, we'll take you, you 25 00:01:34,510 --> 00:01:37,550 know, you know we'll take him. You could have, you know one got 26 00:01:37,590 --> 00:01:40,270 real on our side but like we want him, right. 27 00:01:40,590 --> 00:01:45,270 So, So I remember like the first time we did it, I was like that 28 00:01:45,270 --> 00:01:47,510 ain't it. This is not going to work for 29 00:01:47,510 --> 00:01:50,390 me. So I volunteered to bring the 30 00:01:50,390 --> 00:01:52,910 meat and all that stuff the next couple of years. 31 00:01:53,510 --> 00:01:56,070 So now it's like me and Mario we grill it all out. 32 00:01:56,350 --> 00:02:00,710 So the next year I went to meet meet Pueblo the kind of city 33 00:02:00,710 --> 00:02:04,430 right and right yeah shout out and and I mean that's like the 34 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:08,270 best one so so I wanted to show out so I brought like the pounds 35 00:02:08,270 --> 00:02:11,710 of the fajita meat and the the chicken, the marinated chicken 36 00:02:12,030 --> 00:02:14,110 and. Grilled it. 37 00:02:14,110 --> 00:02:16,030 They loved it. But the problem was like, they 38 00:02:16,030 --> 00:02:20,510 brought the sides. Yeah, you know where it's going, 39 00:02:20,710 --> 00:02:24,070 right? Not all tortillas are the same, 40 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:27,470 right? You know, so I had the meat and 41 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:30,350 everything, and they busted out with the mission packets of 42 00:02:30,430 --> 00:02:34,430 tortillas, the flour tortillas. And I was like, no, like, no, 43 00:02:34,430 --> 00:02:37,750 this is so fake. Like this is the audacity that I 44 00:02:37,750 --> 00:02:41,590 have Pueblo kind of city on me. And you decided to bring 45 00:02:41,590 --> 00:02:43,390 mission. No, that's that's terrible. 46 00:02:43,590 --> 00:02:46,230 And then they just warm him up in the microwave, like, come on, 47 00:02:46,350 --> 00:02:50,350 bro, No, no, no. So then the next couple of 48 00:02:50,350 --> 00:02:52,270 years, I was like, I'll handle it. 49 00:02:52,390 --> 00:02:56,590 You guys just show up and eat because, you know, like the real 50 00:02:56,590 --> 00:02:58,470 flour tortillas, You have to cook them. 51 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,560 You know, you put them on the hot grill and like, you flip 52 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,160 them with your fingers, you lose all the hair on your knuckles. 53 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,120 That's how you know it's hot enough. 54 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,040 And and then, like, when it bubbles, you flip it over real 55 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,560 fast. You see, I know what's up, 56 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,400 right? So, like, and then you're cooked 57 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,320 like, that's how you could tell the real flour tortillas from 58 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,160 the fake ones. Now here's the crazy thing. 59 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,240 Some people are cool with the Mission tortillas. 60 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,280 They're they're cool with the fake stuff because that's all 61 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,510 they know. They don't know the good stuff 62 00:03:27,510 --> 00:03:29,670 yet, right? They haven't been introduced to 63 00:03:29,670 --> 00:03:33,710 the good stuff. I could easily tell a fake flour 64 00:03:33,710 --> 00:03:37,190 tortilla from a real one, right? I mean, I'm pretty sure y'all 65 00:03:37,190 --> 00:03:39,270 could too. And if you can't, we're going to 66 00:03:39,270 --> 00:03:41,710 pray for you. Let's meet afterwards, let's 67 00:03:41,710 --> 00:03:46,700 talk and we'll fix that. You know, so so it's it's like 68 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,060 this whole fake versus real when it comes to that. 69 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:51,940 And some people just don't understand. 70 00:03:51,940 --> 00:03:54,460 They don't know because they haven't been introduced to like 71 00:03:54,460 --> 00:03:57,860 the real flower tortillas. And what John is going to look 72 00:03:57,860 --> 00:04:01,220 at today is that, you know, he, we've been talking about truth 73 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,180 and he's going to say, you know, there's some guys out there that 74 00:04:04,180 --> 00:04:06,700 he's going to call deceivers. And they're like they're going 75 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:09,420 to come off as real tortillas, but they're actually mission 76 00:04:09,420 --> 00:04:11,020 tortillas. They're fake. 77 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,320 Right. They they look real, like you 78 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,160 could buy them at the store. They served its purpose, but 79 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,519 they don't preach the truth. They're actually preaching a 80 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:22,520 false gospel. They're they're they're teaching 81 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,120 a false doctrine. And and John's even going to go 82 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,200 a little bit deeper here because we got to pay attention to the 83 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,520 word studies. It's not just deceivers talking 84 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,600 about false things. It's also the way they live 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,720 their lives. So it's not just false things, 86 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,840 but it's false motives. And and John's going to be like, 87 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:39,720 man, you got to watch out with these guys. 88 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,080 You got to watch out with deceivers, like don't let them 89 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,040 pull you away from the truth. And then he's going to go and 90 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,960 talk a little bit about what it looks like when you encounter 91 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,960 somebody that is a deceiver. So that's going to be next week 92 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,040 though. So. 93 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,680 But, but it's really evident here, so even in the Christian 94 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,520 realm, even in Christianity. You know, our world is full of 95 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:09,240 fake tortillas versus real ones. And we got to realize what makes 96 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,080 them deceivers, what makes them fake. 97 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,840 And really, it's the truth. It's if they get away from the 98 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,400 truth. So, man, my, my prayer today is 99 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,160 that you guys leave here in courage. 100 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,120 That you guys leave here with like just like a little bit more 101 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,000 pep in your step in. The last Sunday was a little bit 102 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,880 heavy. So I was like, man, can we 103 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,120 lighten it up a little bit? So, so let's go ahead and read 104 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,440 we're we're only going to look at like 3 verses today. 105 00:05:31,450 --> 00:05:35,170 And then we'll wrap up the book a second John next week. 106 00:05:35,530 --> 00:05:40,170 So let's start on verse 7. And I'm only going to read to 9. 107 00:05:40,890 --> 00:05:42,490 And this is what the Word of the Lord says says. 108 00:05:42,530 --> 00:05:46,770 I say this because many deceivers who do not acknowledge 109 00:05:46,770 --> 00:05:50,850 Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh have gone out into the 110 00:05:50,850 --> 00:05:54,010 world. Any such person is the deceiver 111 00:05:54,010 --> 00:05:57,850 and the Antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose 112 00:05:58,250 --> 00:06:01,660 what we have worked for. But that you may be rewarded 113 00:06:01,660 --> 00:06:05,300 fully on in verse 9. Anyone who runs ahead and does 114 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:10,420 not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God. 115 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:14,380 Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and 116 00:06:14,380 --> 00:06:16,700 the Son. I'm just going to read verse 10 117 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:20,380 and 11 just for context. If anyone comes to you and does 118 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:24,300 not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or 119 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,220 welcome them. Anyone who welcomes them shares 120 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:30,770 in their wicked work. So let's pray real quick, 121 00:06:31,130 --> 00:06:33,170 Father, We thank you so much, Father, you're doing. 122 00:06:33,170 --> 00:06:35,250 We thank you because you are faithful to us. 123 00:06:36,010 --> 00:06:37,890 Father, we thank you for the rain this morning. 124 00:06:38,330 --> 00:06:39,810 Just cool things down a little bit. 125 00:06:40,730 --> 00:06:44,170 And Father, I pray that that you just help us to hear your word, 126 00:06:44,170 --> 00:06:48,450 Father, and help us to to see what you have to say to us. 127 00:06:48,890 --> 00:06:51,410 And Lord, we also want to thank you for our children, Father. 128 00:06:51,810 --> 00:06:55,890 It is such a joy to hear kids in this place to hear them running 129 00:06:55,890 --> 00:07:00,130 and playing and and and yelling. Father, it's it's just it's it's 130 00:07:00,490 --> 00:07:05,010 evidence of a growing church and a joyful church. 131 00:07:05,290 --> 00:07:08,170 So Lord, we thank you so much for all of them and then we pray 132 00:07:08,170 --> 00:07:10,490 all these things didn't matter. All right. 133 00:07:10,490 --> 00:07:12,610 So let's go ahead and start on verse 7. 134 00:07:13,170 --> 00:07:14,810 So last week we talked about truth. 135 00:07:14,810 --> 00:07:17,650 John, continue to remind. Hey, know the truth. 136 00:07:17,650 --> 00:07:21,010 Abide in the truth. You you have to make sure that 137 00:07:21,010 --> 00:07:23,770 that everything about your life is about this truth. 138 00:07:24,050 --> 00:07:25,730 And then last week we talked about that. 139 00:07:25,730 --> 00:07:27,850 We know that truth reveals certain things. 140 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:32,050 Truth reveals our truth. So truth reveals truth. 141 00:07:32,050 --> 00:07:35,250 Truth truth reveals the truth about ourselves. 142 00:07:35,650 --> 00:07:38,770 So whenever we line our lives up with the truth of the gospel, 143 00:07:39,050 --> 00:07:42,010 which is the good news, it helps us realize the bad news. 144 00:07:42,580 --> 00:07:45,900 So it is like the good news of Jesus Christ versus the bad news 145 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,820 that we are sinners, we are terrible people, and that we 146 00:07:48,820 --> 00:07:51,100 need a Savior. But truth also reveals a 147 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:52,820 solution. Who is Christ? 148 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:56,060 And then truth also reveals complete joy. 149 00:07:56,740 --> 00:08:00,100 Now John is going to take all of that and he's going to give us a 150 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,500 reason why he tells this fellowship his body believers 151 00:08:04,660 --> 00:08:07,420 when he told them last week. So look at verse seven. 152 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:11,950 It says, I say this because. Many deceivers. 153 00:08:12,270 --> 00:08:14,990 The reason I'm telling you guys all this stuff, the reason I 154 00:08:14,990 --> 00:08:19,270 keep bombarding you with this whole idea of truth and love and 155 00:08:19,270 --> 00:08:22,310 how we have to abide in it, is because there's going to be a 156 00:08:22,310 --> 00:08:24,150 whole bunch of fake tortillas in this world. 157 00:08:25,150 --> 00:08:29,350 There's going to be a bunch of deceivers who do not acknowledge 158 00:08:29,390 --> 00:08:33,710 Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, and they have gone out to 159 00:08:33,710 --> 00:08:37,059 this world. So I started thinking like, 160 00:08:37,059 --> 00:08:39,860 deceiver, what does that mean? So remember, the Old Testament 161 00:08:39,860 --> 00:08:45,980 was written in Greek. So that word deceiver is planos. 162 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:48,620 It's kind of where we get the word planet from. 163 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:53,580 And the word planos means a wanderer. 164 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:58,900 It means to wander. Any Marvel endgame fans out 165 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,300 here, Right? So think about the name Thanos. 166 00:09:03,020 --> 00:09:05,140 You know it comes from the Greek word here. 167 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:08,020 Plainos. It's like a wonder it he just 168 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:13,180 goes everywhere, but also not just a wonder but also he's 169 00:09:13,180 --> 00:09:16,060 going to you wander from the truth of scripture. 170 00:09:16,540 --> 00:09:19,300 So when you hear the word deceiver, that means it's 171 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:23,860 someone who is going to try to get you to wander away from 172 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:26,060 scripture. They're going to corrupt it. 173 00:09:26,460 --> 00:09:30,380 They want to lead you astray. They're they're imposters. 174 00:09:30,660 --> 00:09:32,580 And then when you look at the scripture like. 175 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,920 Man, what? How else do they talk about 176 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,160 deceivers? So I'm just going to spit some 177 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,640 verses out here. It's not going to be on the 178 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,360 screen, but you can just kind of just cross reference. 179 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,840 Paul says that these people are like false brothers or false 180 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,680 brethren in the church. That's out of Second Corinthians 181 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,880 11/26. In the Book of Jude, verse 13, 182 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,200 Jude calls them wandering stars, which are headed for the black 183 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,970 darkness of eternal judgment. Jesus in in the book of Matthew 184 00:10:04,970 --> 00:10:10,130 24 chapter I'm sorry, the book of Matthew, Chapter 7, verse 15. 185 00:10:10,570 --> 00:10:14,450 Jesus calls them their wolves and sheep's clothing and he 186 00:10:14,450 --> 00:10:16,610 warns them. He warns us in the Olivet 187 00:10:16,610 --> 00:10:20,210 discourse, which was another sermon that we did in Mark, he 188 00:10:20,210 --> 00:10:23,970 says false Christ and false prophets will arise and they 189 00:10:23,970 --> 00:10:28,130 will show great signs and wonders so as to be misled if 190 00:10:28,130 --> 00:10:31,810 possible even the elect. So a lot of even like a lot of 191 00:10:31,810 --> 00:10:33,730 deceivers, they're going to do some crazy stuff. 192 00:10:33,930 --> 00:10:35,610 They're going to, they're going to heal people. 193 00:10:35,610 --> 00:10:37,410 They're going to do some signs and wonders. 194 00:10:37,690 --> 00:10:40,930 But it's not going to be in the name of Jesus that you and I 195 00:10:40,930 --> 00:10:43,130 serve. It's going to be in something 196 00:10:43,130 --> 00:10:45,530 else's name. It's going to be to pull you 197 00:10:45,530 --> 00:10:47,450 away from the truth to Scripture. 198 00:10:48,130 --> 00:10:51,530 And I'm even seeing that today. Acts 2029. 199 00:10:51,870 --> 00:10:55,550 Paul talks to the church and he says false apostles, deceitful 200 00:10:55,550 --> 00:11:00,190 workers disguising themselves as apostles of Christ, disguise 201 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:03,830 themselves as servants of righteousness whose end will be 202 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:07,990 according to their deeds. So what's Paul telling us here? 203 00:11:09,270 --> 00:11:11,950 They're not just going to be able to talk about it, but their 204 00:11:11,950 --> 00:11:14,470 lives are not going to match what they preach. 205 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,040 So they're going to know all about the Bible. 206 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,040 They're going to know all of this information. 207 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,040 They're going to know the Scripture. 208 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,760 But their life's going to look totally different. 209 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,600 That's a deceiver. That's somebody that you cannot 210 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,960 trust when it comes to Scripture. 211 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,720 Their lives don't align with the truth. 212 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,360 So when we talk about deceivers, we got to not just look at false 213 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,280 doctrine, but we also have to look at false motives. 214 00:11:40,290 --> 00:11:44,850 Why are people like, what is it about people that want people to 215 00:11:44,850 --> 00:11:48,330 know Christ? And what we see here is that 216 00:11:48,330 --> 00:11:52,730 instead of uniting, they divide. You know, Jesus talks about the 217 00:11:52,730 --> 00:11:55,170 church being a United Church. That's how the world's going to 218 00:11:55,170 --> 00:11:58,130 know that that that we love each other. 219 00:11:58,950 --> 00:12:01,710 But if somebody's in there trying to divide the church in 220 00:12:01,710 --> 00:12:04,510 the name of God, that means that they are deceptive. 221 00:12:04,510 --> 00:12:07,350 They're deceiving. They're not loving, but they're 222 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:12,390 selfish and they're prideful. They want you to join their 223 00:12:12,390 --> 00:12:16,710 misery. And then my last thing I got a 224 00:12:16,710 --> 00:12:19,670 question is like, are they trying to make followers of 225 00:12:19,670 --> 00:12:21,270 Christ? Are they trying to make 226 00:12:21,270 --> 00:12:25,190 followers of themselves? Everybody loves the crowd. 227 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,080 And when you see some of these guys that they just want people 228 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,680 to listen to them. They're like, man, are you 229 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,600 really trying to make disciples? Are you just want people to 230 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,080 follow you? You see, there's like that inner 231 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,560 pride that we got to watch out for. 232 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,880 So I say this in verse 7 because many deceivers who do not 233 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,640 acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, remember 234 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,840 John is writing to the Gnostics here. 235 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,750 A lot of people deny. Jesus Christ as being 100% man 236 00:12:59,750 --> 00:13:04,270 in 100% God. So they accept his deity but 237 00:13:04,270 --> 00:13:08,230 they deny his humanity which does not work because if we 238 00:13:08,230 --> 00:13:10,930 think about Jesus. Christ being Lord, even His 239 00:13:10,930 --> 00:13:15,410 name, it's Jesus, Yeshua it's Lord our salvation. 240 00:13:15,410 --> 00:13:18,490 And He's the Messiah, the coming 1, the Savior. 241 00:13:18,490 --> 00:13:24,050 He has to be 100% human and he has to be 100% God to be the 242 00:13:24,050 --> 00:13:27,290 atoning sacrifice for all of the sins of the world. 243 00:13:27,810 --> 00:13:32,770 So if you deny Jesus Christ being Lord and Savior and truly 244 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:37,650 God, you are denying the existence of God. 245 00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:43,260 And and to be honest with you, when you deny who Jesus really 246 00:13:43,260 --> 00:13:48,500 is, then that is the beginning of a false religion, a heresy or 247 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:51,740 a cult. Because the truth is Jesus is 248 00:13:51,740 --> 00:13:56,740 not the Archangel like Jehovah witnesses claim Jesus is not a 249 00:13:56,740 --> 00:14:01,540 prophet like Islam claims. Jesus is not a good example like 250 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:05,420 Hinduism claims. And we could go on and on about 251 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:09,330 what Jesus. Who Jesus is to various cults 252 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:13,250 and religions. Some people say like he's the 253 00:14:13,250 --> 00:14:17,890 son of God, but he's not God. So if you deny the deity of 254 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:22,410 Christ, then that is not the same thing as Christianity. 255 00:14:23,090 --> 00:14:26,250 You're you're you're following something totally different, but 256 00:14:26,250 --> 00:14:29,730 not just who Jesus is. But if you deny the work of 257 00:14:29,850 --> 00:14:33,010 Jesus in your life, you're you're following something 258 00:14:33,010 --> 00:14:36,550 false. So if for you, if if salvation 259 00:14:36,550 --> 00:14:41,550 is not only by grace and not only by faith, if you have like 260 00:14:41,550 --> 00:14:44,750 this workspace salvation, you're following something totally 261 00:14:44,750 --> 00:14:45,950 different. That's not the gospel. 262 00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:50,590 It's false. And John is calling you out 263 00:14:50,590 --> 00:14:51,750 here. He's like, man, anything that 264 00:14:51,750 --> 00:14:53,430 you're following, you're following a deceiver. 265 00:14:54,110 --> 00:14:55,710 They're they're trying to hustle you. 266 00:14:56,070 --> 00:14:58,870 They're trying to get something out of you, because that is not 267 00:14:58,870 --> 00:15:02,490 what this is. So he's saying who? 268 00:15:02,890 --> 00:15:05,410 Those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ is coming in the 269 00:15:05,410 --> 00:15:07,650 flesh. All these folks have gone out 270 00:15:07,650 --> 00:15:11,330 into the world. Any such person is a deceiver, 271 00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:15,570 and he's the Antichrist. Now there is an Antichrist that 272 00:15:15,610 --> 00:15:18,130 they talk about in the Book of Revelation, but this isn't it. 273 00:15:18,450 --> 00:15:21,810 What John is referring to is the spirit of the Antichrist. 274 00:15:22,410 --> 00:15:26,650 So anything against the gospel, anything against Christ, that's 275 00:15:26,890 --> 00:15:29,810 which is the word. Antichrist is the Spirit. 276 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,320 Of Antichrist. It's the spirit of I want to go 277 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:39,320 against the truth of the gospel. Now look at verse 8. 278 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,120 Now look what he says. Then watch out. 279 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,560 So he's giving us a warning as a fellowship. 280 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,680 Now he's addressing this fellowship of believers. 281 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,880 He's saying watch out that you do not lose what we have worked 282 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,120 for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 283 00:15:58,780 --> 00:16:01,260 So what he's talking about here and he's he's warning the 284 00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:04,500 church. He's like be vigilant, be 285 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:07,940 discerning, be suspicious. Or like the kids say, be suss, 286 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:13,180 Ask questions. Because what's at stake is 287 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:19,620 extremely vital for the future. You know, John wants them to 288 00:16:19,980 --> 00:16:24,760 experience the full reward. Now there's two things where 289 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,760 John is talking about when we look about when we talk about 290 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:33,880 reward here, he wants them to to experience the full fruit of 291 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,680 their work. Now, like any faithful pastor 292 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,240 like John and Paul are talking about, is concerned that they 293 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,520 don't lose ground spiritually of the people that God has put 294 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:52,680 under their watch. And I know we see this a lot. 295 00:16:53,990 --> 00:16:56,870 I see this a lot, especially talking with other churches and 296 00:16:57,110 --> 00:17:00,550 how our church is thriving and growing and then they allow 297 00:17:00,550 --> 00:17:03,790 someone to come in with false doctrine. 298 00:17:04,470 --> 00:17:08,510 Someone that divides someone and and then with all that they work 299 00:17:08,510 --> 00:17:13,630 for it becomes divided and you lose a lot of ground that you've 300 00:17:13,630 --> 00:17:16,550 already covered. So the fruit that. 301 00:17:17,170 --> 00:17:20,130 That they're talking about is the fruit of watching believers 302 00:17:20,130 --> 00:17:25,490 walk in obedience to Christ. Man, let me tell you something. 303 00:17:25,490 --> 00:17:29,410 If you leave one person to Jesus, you're going to be 304 00:17:29,410 --> 00:17:32,290 hooked. It's going to become your life, 305 00:17:33,090 --> 00:17:35,450 like there's no greater joy, there's no greater feeling. 306 00:17:35,450 --> 00:17:39,770 And to to see somebody go from death to life, it's not about, 307 00:17:39,770 --> 00:17:41,530 like, transforming your behavior. 308 00:17:41,890 --> 00:17:44,090 It's not about, like, I used to say, bad words and I don't do 309 00:17:44,090 --> 00:17:46,810 bad words anymore. No, I'm talking about like a 310 00:17:46,810 --> 00:17:50,930 true heart change. When you experience that 311 00:17:50,930 --> 00:17:54,690 firsthand, it changes you. You're like, man, like, I want 312 00:17:54,690 --> 00:17:58,090 to give my life to this. And I'm going to use every 313 00:17:58,090 --> 00:18:02,570 aspect of my life to tell people this amazing news, how Jesus 314 00:18:02,570 --> 00:18:05,930 changes you and he saves you and he loves you and he wants to 315 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:09,010 transform you and your family. It's an it's an amazing thing. 316 00:18:09,730 --> 00:18:12,570 That's the fruit that John is talking about. 317 00:18:14,930 --> 00:18:19,130 But if we leave, if we let deception, if we let the anti, 318 00:18:19,170 --> 00:18:21,370 the spirit of the Antichrist come in, if we let all these 319 00:18:21,370 --> 00:18:24,890 things infiltrate the church, you're not going to be able to 320 00:18:24,890 --> 00:18:27,810 experience it because you're going to be too busy trying to 321 00:18:27,810 --> 00:18:33,050 fix with somebody else broke. Instead of being on watch like 322 00:18:33,050 --> 00:18:35,970 he talks about in Berse. He's saying, man, watch out for 323 00:18:35,970 --> 00:18:38,930 this stuff. You know, Paul had the same 324 00:18:39,290 --> 00:18:40,650 fear. I'm going to go ahead and read 325 00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:41,650 it. I don't know if it's good. 326 00:18:41,770 --> 00:18:45,010 I don't think it's going to be on the screen, but. 2nd 327 00:18:45,010 --> 00:18:49,930 Corinthians Chapter 11. I want to reach his fourth quick 328 00:18:49,930 --> 00:18:54,210 verses because Paul is seeing this in the Church of Corinth 329 00:18:56,210 --> 00:18:58,650 and it says this in in 2nd Corinthians 11. 330 00:19:00,770 --> 00:19:05,050 I hope you will not put me in a little. 331 00:19:05,130 --> 00:19:07,850 I'm sorry. I hope you will put up with me 332 00:19:07,850 --> 00:19:11,370 in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me. 333 00:19:12,230 --> 00:19:15,190 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. 334 00:19:15,550 --> 00:19:19,590 I promised you to be one husband to Christ so that I might 335 00:19:19,590 --> 00:19:22,510 present you as pure virgin to him. 336 00:19:23,990 --> 00:19:28,030 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's 337 00:19:28,030 --> 00:19:33,150 cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere 338 00:19:33,150 --> 00:19:37,990 and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and 339 00:19:37,990 --> 00:19:41,270 preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached. 340 00:19:41,810 --> 00:19:45,570 Or if you receive a different spirit from the spirit you 341 00:19:45,570 --> 00:19:50,490 received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you 342 00:19:50,490 --> 00:19:56,970 put up with it easily enough. See what Paul's concern for the 343 00:19:56,970 --> 00:20:03,970 the church that he was planning and pastoring in in Corinth was 344 00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:07,130 just that, That people were going to fall for a gospel that 345 00:20:07,130 --> 00:20:10,860 was not one that he preached. And then they're going to buy 346 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:13,340 into a spirit that was not one that he brought in. 347 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:17,940 This happens a lot, and he's concerned. 348 00:20:18,580 --> 00:20:21,180 And that's the concern. Now what else? 349 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:25,820 What is the other full reward? The other reward is the reward 350 00:20:25,820 --> 00:20:30,100 that you receive in glory and eternity, you know, So as 351 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:32,500 believers, whenever we perish from this earth. 352 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:36,220 Our life doesn't just end it actually, it just starts to 353 00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:39,060 begin because we'll be in the presence of the Lord. 354 00:20:40,460 --> 00:20:43,620 But the Bible also talks about there's a reward for those 355 00:20:43,620 --> 00:20:48,180 believers who remain faithful to the calling of the truth here on 356 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:50,820 this earth that you will receive in heaven. 357 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:55,060 So I always get that question like, well, Ricky, what if 358 00:20:55,060 --> 00:20:58,340 someone denies Christ and they're on their deathbed and 359 00:20:58,340 --> 00:21:01,620 then like 2020 or 10 or 20 minutes? 360 00:21:02,030 --> 00:21:05,790 Before they pass away, they pray and they accept Jesus and then 361 00:21:05,790 --> 00:21:09,630 they go to heaven. What do like, is that fair? 362 00:21:09,630 --> 00:21:12,110 What do they guys like? Yes, that's that's great man. 363 00:21:12,110 --> 00:21:14,230 That's that's God's grace on our lives. 364 00:21:15,030 --> 00:21:17,470 But for those who have been faithful, year after year, day 365 00:21:17,470 --> 00:21:21,990 after day, in the obedience of Christ, there's a reward that 366 00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:25,630 you get in glory. There's an additional reward 367 00:21:25,630 --> 00:21:28,270 that you get. And what Paul is point or what 368 00:21:28,270 --> 00:21:31,590 John is pointing out is like you don't want to miss out on that. 369 00:21:32,380 --> 00:21:38,260 Just because you missed the mark, you know, in 2004, I don't 370 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:43,860 know how if anybody here watches like the Olympics 2004, the 371 00:21:43,860 --> 00:21:48,220 Olympic Games were in Athens, Greece, and the NBA puts 372 00:21:48,220 --> 00:21:51,060 together this dream team. Anybody familiar with the dream 373 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:53,020 Team, right? They take all the greatest 374 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,260 basketball players, they put them together and they send them 375 00:21:55,260 --> 00:21:58,900 to the Olympics. And in the 2004 Olympics, they 376 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:03,340 had this really stacked team and I mean they had LeBron had Allen 377 00:22:03,340 --> 00:22:07,260 Iverson, Tim Duncan, Carmelo Anthony Mulberry, Dwyane Wade. 378 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:11,220 The list goes on is all this is amazing at group of athletes 379 00:22:12,380 --> 00:22:15,660 there the US is always expected to win the gold medal and 380 00:22:15,660 --> 00:22:18,220 basketball which is like common sense. 381 00:22:18,220 --> 00:22:24,140 Of course, the first game they play and the Athens Olympics 382 00:22:24,380 --> 00:22:27,730 they lose. To Puerto Rico anyway. 383 00:22:27,770 --> 00:22:33,970 So it's true. First game they lose by 19. 384 00:22:34,090 --> 00:22:35,490 Puerto Rico, everybody's freaked out. 385 00:22:35,490 --> 00:22:36,490 Like what? What happened? 386 00:22:37,010 --> 00:22:41,210 So that year 2004 with all these amazing players, they actually, 387 00:22:41,250 --> 00:22:45,250 they win the bronze medal. What happened? 388 00:22:45,250 --> 00:22:49,090 You had all these amazing people and the more you read about it, 389 00:22:50,370 --> 00:22:55,550 it was really the coach. So Larry Brown was the coach in 390 00:22:55,550 --> 00:22:59,070 2004, and what Larry Brown decided to do was he tried to 391 00:22:59,070 --> 00:23:04,030 run the team as it was his own team, the Philadelphia 76ers, 392 00:23:05,870 --> 00:23:09,950 didn't work at all. Even got to the point where 393 00:23:09,950 --> 00:23:11,950 players quit like they went home. 394 00:23:12,350 --> 00:23:14,270 They were like, I'm not wasting my time with this. 395 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,440 So you have this group of amazing talent, all these All 396 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,120 Stars, and instead of letting them do their thing and letting 397 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:25,320 them win, and he tried to micromanage their game and it 398 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,840 did not work. So you had all of this set up 399 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,080 nicely. All you had to do was kind of 400 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,720 just got like manage players, let them do what they're best at 401 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:37,680 and you'll see them win the gold. 402 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,120 But what he did was he decided to try to do his own thing. 403 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,240 And it actually ruined it for the United States. 404 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,360 See, what what John is getting to here is that John is just 405 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,640 telling us he's like, man, make sure that you your focus is 406 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,880 correct. Make sure you don't ruin what's 407 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,720 already put in place. What's put in place is the 408 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,560 truth. What's put in place. 409 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,080 We have his word. But when you try to step in and 410 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,800 try to add your own spin to things, you're going to end up 411 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,710 losing. See, God's truth is what works. 412 00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:17,270 God's truth has always worked. It stands the test of time. 413 00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:21,270 There's been men and women who have given their lives to the 414 00:24:21,270 --> 00:24:24,830 gospel, and it's always been pushed forward. 415 00:24:25,470 --> 00:24:28,230 But when we try to step in and think that we're better than 416 00:24:28,230 --> 00:24:31,830 this, that we could manage this, we're going to fail. 417 00:24:33,230 --> 00:24:37,710 And then the last verse anyone who runs ahead and does not 418 00:24:37,710 --> 00:24:39,790 continue in the teaching of Christ. 419 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:44,620 Does not have God. Whoever continues in the 420 00:24:44,620 --> 00:24:47,060 teaching has both the Father and the Son. 421 00:24:47,660 --> 00:24:49,180 This is a difficult verse. Y'all. 422 00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:54,380 If you teach anything that's not the gospel, you don't belong to 423 00:24:54,380 --> 00:24:57,660 him. There's a lot of people that say 424 00:24:57,660 --> 00:25:00,140 things in the name of Jesus. There's a lot of people that 425 00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:01,620 claim things in the name of Christ. 426 00:25:01,860 --> 00:25:04,820 And what he's saying is like, no, like if you continue in the 427 00:25:04,820 --> 00:25:07,500 teaching of the deceivers, you don't belong to God. 428 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:12,210 You're not his. That's a difficult truth for us. 429 00:25:12,890 --> 00:25:19,650 But if you do, then you have both the Father and the Son. 430 00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:24,570 Man, that's a that's a that's a hard truth for many of us. 431 00:25:26,650 --> 00:25:28,450 So what do we do with this passage? 432 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,000 Because the next couple of verses talk about those who come 433 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,320 in your way and that teach something that's not the gospel, 434 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,040 like you're not supposed to help them out, and if you do, you're 435 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,000 actually helping them in their foolishness. 436 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,280 What does that mean? So remember, John is writing 437 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,960 this to a fellowship of believers because that's kind of 438 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,840 not the most loving thing, just to, like, tell people to keep it 439 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,800 moving. But what he's saying is that 440 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,510 you. Are able to do that in love and 441 00:26:02,510 --> 00:26:05,590 you can still treat people with respect and you can still be 442 00:26:05,590 --> 00:26:10,950 kind and even use apologetics but you are not to aid them and 443 00:26:10,950 --> 00:26:12,710 helping get their foolishness out. 444 00:26:14,670 --> 00:26:18,110 You know, I was thinking about this we have we have a close 445 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:23,430 family friend who doesn't really believe what we believe and I 446 00:26:23,430 --> 00:26:27,600 remember he asked us if. If I would be willing, if if me 447 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,160 and my wife would be willing to get our friends together. 448 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,440 So that way he could kind of pitch a presentation of what he 449 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,560 believes to us. And, you know, Rachel being the 450 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,000 social worker, super kind. Oh, OK. 451 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,560 I'll see what we can do. I'll check their schedule. 452 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,080 And then in my mind, I'm like, hold on a second. 453 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,920 No. Oh, like #1. 454 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,160 You're grown, man. You do that yourself. 455 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,440 And I'm not your assistant, but I'm not going to gather people. 456 00:26:53,860 --> 00:26:57,660 To listen to a teaching that is not the truth and just buy into 457 00:26:57,660 --> 00:27:00,900 your foolishness. If you want to do that, you keep 458 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:02,820 it moving. I would love to be front row. 459 00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:04,020 I have a lot of questions for you. 460 00:27:04,860 --> 00:27:08,140 But if you think I'm going to aid you and you trying to tell 461 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:11,140 people what your belief system is, you've got another thing 462 00:27:11,140 --> 00:27:14,260 coming. And that passage is here. 463 00:27:15,780 --> 00:27:18,900 Because if anyone comes to you and does not bring this 464 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,100 teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 465 00:27:22,690 --> 00:27:26,650 Because anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work. 466 00:27:30,290 --> 00:27:32,770 So I was just thinking about like, man, how do we what? 467 00:27:33,050 --> 00:27:34,290 What? What do we do? 468 00:27:35,410 --> 00:27:37,370 How do, how is this encouraging to us? 469 00:27:37,930 --> 00:27:39,330 Because these are some hard truths. 470 00:27:40,610 --> 00:27:43,610 So what I want to do, just for the next couple of of moments, 471 00:27:43,890 --> 00:27:46,370 John is talking to the fellowship of believers. 472 00:27:46,850 --> 00:27:52,170 He's talking to a, a, a church. We we know that based off of 473 00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:55,810 verses one through 6. So I want to encourage us 474 00:27:55,810 --> 00:27:58,570 talking to a fellowship of believers. 475 00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:03,930 I want to encourage us talking to city posts church and I want 476 00:28:03,930 --> 00:28:06,810 to make some promises and I want to make some truth statements 477 00:28:07,090 --> 00:28:11,530 based off of the text that I hope will encourage you today 478 00:28:12,450 --> 00:28:14,530 and we'll have only got 3 and then we'll be done. 479 00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:17,450 I actually had 20, but then I was looking at the time. 480 00:28:17,450 --> 00:28:23,430 I was like, I'm mine. Let's go to first one, number 481 00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:26,350 one, this is something I want us to know about City posting about 482 00:28:26,350 --> 00:28:29,230 this church. We acknowledge the deity and 483 00:28:29,230 --> 00:28:31,710 humanity of Jesus Christ, period. 484 00:28:32,670 --> 00:28:37,710 We acknowledge that Jesus is 100% man and he's 100% God. 485 00:28:39,190 --> 00:28:43,870 So if you look at verse 7, he's saying a lot of deceivers, man. 486 00:28:43,870 --> 00:28:46,390 They don't acknowledge Jesus is coming in the flesh. 487 00:28:47,350 --> 00:28:49,710 And what I want to tell you is that here at City Post. 488 00:28:50,550 --> 00:28:53,950 We do acknowledge Jesus is coming in the flesh and he did 489 00:28:53,950 --> 00:29:01,230 come as the perfect sacrifice. And I also want to say that he 490 00:29:01,230 --> 00:29:05,350 is the only way to salvation. That's John 14 six. 491 00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:06,910 He said, I'm the way, the truth in the life. 492 00:29:07,230 --> 00:29:09,390 No one comes to the Father except through me. 493 00:29:10,430 --> 00:29:14,270 And I also want to tell you that he is the only way to salvation. 494 00:29:14,630 --> 00:29:19,240 He is the only way to God. It is only through grace that we 495 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,520 are able to be saved. There's not anything that you 496 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:27,320 can do to earn God's acceptance so that any man could boast he 497 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,760 is the Lamb of God that the the John the Baptist was telling us 498 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,080 about. Where John the Baptist says I 499 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,360 must decrease so that way he could increase like I'm not 500 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,280 worthy to tie his sandals up. He's the Lamb of God. 501 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,710 He's the one. That saves us. 502 00:29:42,710 --> 00:29:47,270 He is the absolute truth. He is the only way to eternity, 503 00:29:47,670 --> 00:29:50,630 and he is the only one worthy of our worship. 504 00:29:52,670 --> 00:29:55,590 So there's some of us in here who don't really believe this. 505 00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:58,750 I'm telling you with love and truth. 506 00:29:59,310 --> 00:30:02,230 Jesus Christ is Lord and he's the one we're worshipping in 507 00:30:02,230 --> 00:30:04,910 here. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, 508 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:09,390 but Jesus Christ is God. He's the one that died. 509 00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:11,270 He was buried and he resurrected. 510 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:13,580 And listen, I'm going to say this with a lot of love. 511 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:18,300 He doesn't need his mom's help. He is Lord. 512 00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:22,180 He's the one who is reigning at the right hand of God right now. 513 00:30:50,630 --> 00:30:54,030 Here's some promises that I want to give you based on the text 514 00:30:54,710 --> 00:30:58,390 City post church. We will watch out for certain 515 00:30:58,390 --> 00:31:00,830 things. We're going to be on the watch 516 00:31:00,830 --> 00:31:04,470 out now I know a lot of people are like, well church should be 517 00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:06,270 inviting to everybody. Yes it is. 518 00:31:06,430 --> 00:31:08,230 We want the whole world to come in here. 519 00:31:08,670 --> 00:31:11,730 But if you think. That you're going to come in 520 00:31:11,730 --> 00:31:15,010 here and start teaching things and running things and 521 00:31:15,010 --> 00:31:17,970 influencing people. If you don't believe that Jesus 522 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:22,530 is 100% man and 100% God, that's not going to work in here 523 00:31:22,570 --> 00:31:24,490 either. So what are we going to do? 524 00:31:24,490 --> 00:31:30,210 We're going to watch out for non biblical ideologies here at this 525 00:31:30,210 --> 00:31:32,610 church. We look at everything through 526 00:31:32,610 --> 00:31:35,960 the lens of scripture. I know a lot of people like to 527 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,120 use other authors, and that's great to subsidize some of the 528 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,440 teaching, but if it ain't in scripture, it's not going to be 529 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,640 taught here. So we're going to look out for 530 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,040 non biblical ideologies. We're going to call out bad 531 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,160 theologies. If something don't match up, 532 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,400 we're going to call it out in a loving way. 533 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,960 We will point to false doctrine and we are going to call out 534 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,940 wrong motives. So if you're not about Matthew 535 00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:08,100 28, if you're not about the Great Commission, about making 536 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,540 disciples of Christ, if everything that you're about is 537 00:32:11,540 --> 00:32:13,980 about you and about your organization, about what you're 538 00:32:13,980 --> 00:32:18,740 trying to grow, if anything about Jesus, then we're not 539 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:23,820 going to push that forward. We will call that out. 540 00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:29,580 What's difficult about this, a lot of church kind of lean and 541 00:32:29,580 --> 00:32:32,580 sway on these things. For the purpose 542 00:32:51,780 --> 00:32:54,580 Because in all honesty, the the church in America has come very 543 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:57,630 become very consumeristic. And when things are 544 00:32:57,630 --> 00:32:59,950 consumeristic, they're run like businesses. 545 00:33:00,190 --> 00:33:03,430 And when you have a business, you need a higher bottom line. 546 00:33:03,430 --> 00:33:06,310 It's all about like how we build this thing, how do we get more 547 00:33:06,310 --> 00:33:08,630 money, how do we get more staff. And you have to be very, very 548 00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:12,230 careful. So we will not lean, we will not 549 00:33:12,230 --> 00:33:13,630 sway. We're going to stay straight 550 00:33:14,150 --> 00:33:16,430 whether people like it or not. That's who we are. 551 00:33:18,590 --> 00:33:21,030 So City Post is going to be about that. 552 00:33:21,030 --> 00:33:25,760 We have to check those things. And and we're going to and we 553 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,560 don't say this to try to be like mean or proud or prideful. 554 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:35,200 We do this because scripture requires us to the Our Lord 555 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,920 tells us to do this. Then the third one, we will not 556 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,880 lean and we will not sway, but we will take a stand. 557 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:51,000 We will not lean and we will not sway, but we will stand, you 558 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,440 know in in the culture that we live in today. 559 00:33:54,790 --> 00:33:59,710 And I've seen this especially as pastors and as churches, we are 560 00:33:59,710 --> 00:34:04,230 called sometimes to lean in certain directions politically, 561 00:34:04,790 --> 00:34:08,070 culturally, kind of what's happening in in, in, in what's 562 00:34:08,070 --> 00:34:12,590 going on in our world. But what City Post will not do 563 00:34:12,590 --> 00:34:15,310 is we're not going to do either lean or we're not going to sway 564 00:34:15,310 --> 00:34:17,989 from the truth, but we're actually going to stand on the 565 00:34:17,989 --> 00:34:19,750 word of God and the truth of the gospel. 566 00:34:21,050 --> 00:34:23,090 So we're going to call, we're going to stand on the truth. 567 00:34:23,090 --> 00:34:26,810 We're going to call sin whatever the Bible calls sin, we're going 568 00:34:26,810 --> 00:34:28,770 to call holiness. Whatever the Bible calls 569 00:34:28,850 --> 00:34:33,290 holiness, we're going to preach an allegiance to Jesus Christ. 570 00:34:33,969 --> 00:34:38,409 We're not going to like oh, it's okay if if no, like whatever the 571 00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:41,690 the truth it is, that's what we're going to stand on and 572 00:34:41,690 --> 00:34:45,730 we're not going to sacrifice our kids on the altar of sports or 573 00:34:45,770 --> 00:34:49,600 other activities. Our kids are going to be our 574 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,080 focus and we're going to raise them in the truth of the gospel. 575 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,920 So whatever the world calls parenting, we're going to ignore 576 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,640 that and goes exactly to what Scripture calls parenting. 577 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:06,120 We're going to stand on the truth of the family, on how men 578 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:11,400 should be the the the leading roles of the household, how we 579 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,880 should be the spiritual leaders of our house, how we're held up 580 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,360 to a higher accountability. Because that's what God says. 581 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,720 So we're going to stand on these truths at City Post Church. 582 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,920 Now one last thing I will say, we're going to do all of this 583 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,600 for the next one. We're going to do all this in 584 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,840 love and truth. So we're going to stand on the 585 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,200 truth. We're going to lean on it. 586 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,120 We're going to, we're going to tell, we're going to, we're 587 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,680 going to call some things out. But we're going to do this with 588 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,240 the spirit of love and we're going to do this standing on the 589 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:47,760 truth of the gospel. Because we want to make sure 590 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,560 that we find ourselves as as be, as having our hands clean to 591 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:56,760 what God has called us to do.