1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,100 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist sermon archives. 2 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,100 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty, Baptist 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:13,100 Church in Eastern Massachusetts. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:17,400 or contact us at my Liberty, Baptist dot org or just look us 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,800 up on Facebook. And now, we hope that this 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,200 message from God's word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:33,700 Chapter 12. Because we'll have to see how 8 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:38,700 far I go tonight. And I don't have any pain there, 9 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,900 but I know that it's kind of hard getting it out so we will 10 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,300 do the best, we can this evening. 11 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,500 But I'm glad to be back in the Book of Judges. 12 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,400 It's been over two months since we have been in the Book of 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,300 Judges and so we are back this evening. 14 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:52,800 Thank you. Anthony, in Judges chapter 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,900 number 12. So Judges chapter 12. 16 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,300 This evening in a message that II mean I'm so excited about 17 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:02,600 this title. I really am pack the car and the 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,900 subtitle in have it. Yeah. 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,300 All right and I would say this I think I called Marsha a couple 20 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,700 of days ago is like mashaa it's pasta and as soon as it came out 21 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:14,800 of my mouth I said you know that doesn't even sound right it 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,200 doesn't sound like she in fact she refused to call me back she 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,400 didn't want to talk to me after I had called her in that manner 24 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,800 and I don't blame her. She was us know, there was a 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,000 spirit of wisdom and her part and I appreciate that. 26 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,500 Just add a little bit of encouragement but no, you know, 27 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:31,800 it's funny. There are ways after living here 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,300 in the Boston are almost 10 years. 29 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:37,000 We moved here in April of 2012 and living in this general area 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,900 for almost 10 years. Now, there are some ways you can 31 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,900 know whether someone is from the Boston area or not. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,700 And it's not just by the accent because not everyone from the 33 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:51,600 Boston area has the stereotypical Hollywood Boston X 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,600 and although, there are some who do have it but it's more 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,500 stereotypical than anything Else. 36 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,900 But there are some ways you could tell whether someone was 37 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,300 from Boston or not. If I was to put a box of 38 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:07,300 sprinkles in front of you, sprinkles for ice cream and ask 39 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:09,500 you what are these. If you were from this area, 40 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,200 you'd say they are Jimmy's. All right, very good. 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,700 You pass the test. That's good. 42 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:15,600 Fun to take you to water fountain at the local public 43 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,700 school. Now, is to say, what's the name 44 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:21,000 of this thing right here? You would call it a bubbler. 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,800 That's right? Or a bubula depending on how 46 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,100 deep into the accent. You are, if Were to go to Dunkin 47 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,300 Donuts. And you were to order a coffee 48 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:31,300 with cream and sugar. You wouldn't say, I want a 49 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:35,300 coffee with cream and sugar, you'd ask for a regular, that's 50 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,500 what you would ask for. I always laughed at the story. 51 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:40,800 Brother Sam Davis has told me the story at least half a dozen 52 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,700 times about the first time he went to Boston and he asked for 53 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,500 a regular coffee, this is what kind of coffee. 54 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:47,300 Do you want? He goes, oh, just regular. 55 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,400 And he meant just a black coffee because he said, 49 other states 56 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,700 of the Union, a regular coffee. Just it being regular would be 57 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:57,700 just a black coffee. She and they brought it back 58 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:01,100 with cream and sugar. He says, I this unfortunately 59 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:03,600 has cream and sugar and she goes, that's what you asked for. 60 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,300 You'll want it a regular and he said, well I wanted regular, but 61 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:09,900 this has cream and sugar, and she goes, that's what you asked 62 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:11,000 for you. It was right. 63 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,900 Like it was Abbott and Costello routine until finally. 64 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:17,400 She gave it him a black coffee and said, there you go, but it's 65 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,900 not regular. And so that's you know, there's 66 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:22,800 some one of the things I love about living around here is 67 00:03:22,808 --> 00:03:25,400 there's some things that are very distinctly and very 68 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,100 uniquely Lee Boston or very distinctly and uniquely 69 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:31,600 Massachusetts. And while you might think this 70 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,300 is just small talk, I'm making before sermon that couldn't 71 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:36,300 possibly have anything to do with the Bible. 72 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,900 If you read ahead in Judges chapter 12, you would realize it 73 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:44,000 has everything to do with our text here tonight because there 74 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,300 was a group of men who couldn't pronounce one word right and 75 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:52,100 because it 42,000 men died. So make it start to think about 76 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,600 parking your car, in Harvard Yard and saying it the right 77 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,000 way. When you consider that zone, I'm 78 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,100 going to ask you to remain seated tonight and we're going 79 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:02,300 to read and Judges chapter 13. We're gonna start a little bit. 80 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:04,600 We actually start to begin the chapter just to give us a little 81 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,900 bit of background and remind us, where we were a couple months 82 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:10,300 ago. The last time we address this 83 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:14,700 text, so Judges chapter 12 verse number 1, and the men of Ephraim 84 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:17,700 gather themselves together and went northward and said unto 85 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:19,800 jeptha. Remember, he's the current judge 86 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,600 where four passes now over to fight against the children of 87 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:27,700 Ammon and did not call us to go with the, we will burn 9 house 88 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,800 upon the with fire. Remember the constant complainer 89 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,100 those men of Ephraim. They were the complainers and 90 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,200 jeptha said unto them. I am, I people weren't great 91 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,000 Strife with the children of Ammon and when I called you, you 92 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,400 delivered me not out of their hands and when I saw that, he 93 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,400 delivered me not, I put my life in my hands and passed over 94 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,200 against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into 95 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,500 my hand, wherefore then are you come up unto me this day to 96 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:58,100 fight against me and Jeff the gathered together, all the men 97 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:01,900 of Gilead and smoke and fought with Ephraim and the men of 98 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,000 Gilead smote Ephraim. Because they said he gileadites 99 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,200 are fugitives of Ephraim among the ephraimites, and among the 100 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:11,500 Manan sites. And so, it seemed like the men 101 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:13,400 of Ephraim were much better at talking than they weren't 102 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:18,000 fighting and so Gilead. And jeptha in particular have 103 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,500 won the day. However, It says in verse 5 that 104 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,300 the gileadites took the passengers of Jordan before the 105 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:25,800 ephraimites. And it was so that when those 106 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,100 ephraimites which were Escape said, let me go over that the 107 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:32,200 men of Gilead said unto them, art thou any free of Might. 108 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,500 And if he said nay, then they said unto him. 109 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:42,600 Say now shibboleth, say now shibboleth, and he said, 110 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,800 shibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce it right? 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,200 Then they took him and slew him at the passage. 112 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,500 Jordan. And there fell at that time of 113 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:59,100 the ìiî of mites 40 and 2000 and jeptha judged. 114 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,500 Israel. Six years then digest of the 115 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,600 gileadites and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. 116 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,400 We see in our text here tonight that we kind of need to address 117 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,600 some of the who are these people. 118 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,200 We have jeptha, we have the ammonites, we have the 119 00:06:14,207 --> 00:06:16,400 gileadites, we have the ephraimites, and people are 120 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,700 fighting, and people don't seem happy and 42,000. 121 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:21,900 Men are I'd have died, what's going on in our text here 122 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:23,800 tonight. And remember, jeptha was the 123 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,500 judge who was brought in, he was forsaken by his own people 124 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:31,300 because of the past that he had because he was born into a 125 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:35,800 household. His mother was a woman that had 126 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,700 had an illicit relationship with her father and all of these 127 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:41,600 things came into play. He was thrown out from his 128 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,400 household, he was thrown out of his country, but at the same 129 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,400 time, he had amassed a certain amount of army of people who'd 130 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,900 also been displaced people. I've been treated poorly and he 131 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,500 had an army and so his own people to gileadites called him 132 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,000 back and say, we need your help because the ammonites are 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,800 oppressing us, and we know, you have an army ready to go. 134 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,300 Ready to fight. Will you defend us? 135 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:02,600 And he said, I will defend you. I will help you. 136 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,400 I will put the oppressors out from our land, but you'll have 137 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,900 to make me your judge. You won't throw me out like you 138 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:09,900 did. When I was just becoming an 139 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:11,500 adult know. You'll have to make me your 140 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,800 judge, and make me your leader, which they readily agreed to. 141 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,900 And so, it was through that time, that jeptha and his army 142 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,600 were able to win a Wait, military victory over the 143 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,400 ammonites, but when we get to chapter number 12, there were 144 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,600 the men of Ephraim Ephraim and Gilead were both regions that 145 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,900 were to the Eastern side of the Jordan River. 146 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:34,300 They were kind of what we would call the wild west but for them, 147 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:38,800 it will be the wild east of the nation of Israel because they 148 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,100 were kind of on the outskirts. These were people's that live 149 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,000 more on the land. These were people that were more 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,500 ranchers and farmers and those type of things they were very 151 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:50,800 heavily into that in the land of Elliot and in Ephraim and 152 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,200 Manasseh and such. And so they get to this area 153 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,200 here and the ephraimites say we wanted to help you and you 154 00:07:58,207 --> 00:08:01,500 didn't call us and so because of the great offense that you have 155 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:04,500 put against us, we're going to kill you when you kill your men. 156 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,900 Now we saw from our text and I'm not going to re-preach the 157 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:11,200 message, I preached two months ago but the idea is Gilead or 158 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,500 rather Jeff the had called them, they had not come but now that 159 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,100 they had won the day, they wanted to be included. 160 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:22,300 Das some of the victors of the day just like the old saying 161 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:27,800 goes that defeat is alone, but victory has a thousand fathers. 162 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,400 And so they didn't want anything to do with Jeff though, when 163 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,600 they thought the odds were long. But now the jeptha and the 164 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,700 gileadites had one, they feel offended that they weren't 165 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:40,299 included in this military Expedition and so in Zwolle, it 166 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:44,300 devolves into what becomes a Civil War and we find in verse 167 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:46,000 number 4. It says in Jeff, the gathered 168 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,400 together, all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim and Men 169 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,400 of Gilead smote Ephraim because they said you gileadites are 170 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,500 fugitives of Ephraim among the ephraimites and among the many 171 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:58,600 sights and the men of Ephraim had done this in the past. 172 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,400 We even look that this was not the first time that they had 173 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,900 done this, they did this with Gideon some years back as well 174 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:07,300 or they refused to fight. But then afterwards, it said, 175 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:09,500 well, why didn't you call us? Because that's kind of what 176 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,400 complainers do. Don't they love to be the Monday 177 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,900 Morning Quarterback. They don't offer any help, but 178 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:17,200 they love when everyone's done the people that actually do the 179 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,400 working saying, well, why didn't you call Us. 180 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,800 We would have loved to help when they were nowhere to be found. 181 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:25,800 And so when this argument devolves into war with, I 182 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,800 believe Jepsen, the gileadites being right with the Lord and 183 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,500 the men of Ephraim not having the right spirit and not being 184 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:33,700 right with the Lord, this fight occurs. 185 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,200 And as I mentioned, as we were reading the text, the men of 186 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,000 Ephraim were great talkers but they weren't great Fighters. 187 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,700 And it's probably also another characteristic of those were 188 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,400 complainers that love to talk but when you had put a 189 00:09:43,408 --> 00:09:45,500 broomstick in there and all of a sudden they don't know what to 190 00:09:45,508 --> 00:09:49,100 do. And so it says this brings us to 191 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:50,900 Where we are in our text tonight. 192 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:54,800 It says in verse number 5 and the gileadites took the passages 193 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,800 of Jordan before the ephraimites. 194 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,200 And it was so that when those ephraimites which were Escape 195 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,300 said, let me go over that the men of Gilead said unto him. 196 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,700 Art thou in III might if he said nay then they said in him say 197 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:11,200 now shibboleth kind of read in a verse number 6 just because of 198 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,500 the pattern of the verse there. But this is what happens the 199 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,600 ephraimites are starting to lose the battle and as such They are 200 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,800 retreating from the battlefield. And so the Fords, their the 201 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,100 streams of the Jordan River that are nearby. 202 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:29,300 They realize the gileadites realize, if they get across 203 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,600 these streams, if they get across these four words, they're 204 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:32,500 gone. We're never going to get our 205 00:10:32,508 --> 00:10:34,200 hands on them. And so, what they do is, they 206 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,900 stop all of the ways of retreat. They put guards at posts at each 207 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,600 of these streams at each of these four words places where 208 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,800 the ephraimites would try to cross the Jordan River and all 209 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:50,300 of a sudden, not be able to be caught again and so, As they're 210 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,600 stopping these men on the battlefield, they ask them. 211 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,200 Hey, are you with ephraimites? We'll listen, if you are with 212 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,900 the gileadites, you see another gilja tight, you're happy to see 213 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,200 one of your brethren. They have a sword in their hand, 214 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,700 but if you're an E4, you might who's running away from the 215 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,700 gileadites and you see a man of Gilead there with a store. 216 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:11,800 And says, are you need for you? Might imagine your blood 217 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,700 pressure is about to go up quite a bit, isn't it? 218 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,100 And so it's an Ephraim a'ight. It's only in their best interest 219 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:19,500 to say. Oh no. 220 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,800 I'm not one of those ephraimites, I'm one of you, but 221 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,900 here's the thing. There were no driver's licenses. 222 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,800 There were no passports, there were no identifying documents 223 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,300 that they would have been carrying around with them. 224 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,200 How could they have known the gileadites? 225 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,000 Whether they were truly ephraimites or not, how could 226 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,700 they have known? Could I put it this way if they 227 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,900 were Friend or Foe? Well, there was a regional 228 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,400 dialect that they had there was, could we put it this way and 229 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,600 accent that the ephraimites had that the other people did not 230 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,800 have in the area and these accent did not allow them to 231 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:57,700 form the sound in different words, you know, kind of like, 232 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:02,800 saying, yard, You know, or pastor? 233 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,500 And the idea like here where we know in the Boston area we like 234 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,800 taking ours off of some words and somehow depositing among 235 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,900 other words that have no business having the are in the 236 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:16,500 first place. Well, they had this sound that 237 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,600 they could not pronounce the ephraimites as the gileadites 238 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:24,800 would say, here's the password. You say the password will let 239 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,900 you over. You can't say the password, your 240 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:28,600 Annie free of Might and you're dead. 241 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:31,600 Are you ready? Here's the word shibboleth. 242 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,100 Shibboleth to pasture. What does shibboleth mean. 243 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,200 The interesting is thing is doing some studying this week. 244 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,700 There's a lot of disagreement about what the word shibboleth 245 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:42,500 actually means. There's some that believe it 246 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:45,000 means stream which would, you know, make sense because they 247 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,800 were right there next to streams. 248 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:50,200 But really the idea is what's important is not what the word 249 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,800 meant, but what the word sounded like, can you say the word 250 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,300 shibboleth? And I can only imagine. 251 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:00,600 Because I know sometimes we read these verses in black and white 252 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,800 and we don't remember, we don't think maybe These are real 253 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,200 people, real events and could you imagine knowing that you 254 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,800 have to say the word shibboleth and you don't know that your 255 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,300 mouth can actually pronounce it right on the first time. 256 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,000 And, you know, if you can't say it, right? 257 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:18,700 You're about to die and the ephraimites as much as they 258 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:25,900 tried to say shibboleth. They said both laugh and every 259 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:30,200 single ifrah might who said the word Sybil leth. 260 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,700 Die. Because of an accent. 261 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:37,300 Now, by the way, this isn't the only time in the Bible where 262 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:39,800 someone's accent gives them away. 263 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:44,000 You'll remember that in Matthew chapter 26, when Peter was 264 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,500 warming himself by the fire that there were those who questioned 265 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:50,800 him and they questioned where he was and whether he's a type of 266 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,900 disciple of Christ because he was From Galilee and then he 267 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:57,200 believed that those of Galley, had a fairly distinct accent. 268 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,600 Matthew 2673 says, and after a, while came unto him, they that 269 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,400 stood by and said to Peter, surely thou. 270 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,200 Also, one of them for thy speech, be re at thee, your 271 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,300 speech betrays, the fact that you are Galilee and in your with 272 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,800 Jesus Christ. And maybe that's also the case 273 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,200 in Acts chapter 2 verse 7, where it says on the day of Pentecost 274 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,200 and they this is the crowd and they were all amazed and 275 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,200 marveled saying one to another behold are not all these which 276 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,400 speak galilaeans kind of like this mean, how could hayseeds 277 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,200 like this actually know what they're talking about because 278 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,300 many people thought the galileans were unlearned because 279 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,400 The way they talked and because of the way they often handle 280 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,500 themselves and so accents, you know, we sometimes you know, 281 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,000 laugh about them and we look at different regions of the 282 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,700 country. They have different accents or 283 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:48,400 even different accents in different parts of the world. 284 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,300 And even some here tonight, have different accents depend on 285 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:52,800 where you lived or where you didn't live. 286 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,000 And I think of, even my family, my wife's family living in 287 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,100 Scotland, she's the only one that doesn't have a Scottish 288 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:00,200 accent, but she also lived in Australia. 289 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,900 And I've heard a recording of her when she's about 12 years 290 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,300 old singing Once where Singing with a Scottish / Australian 291 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:09,000 accent, at the same time as one of my favorite things I've ever 292 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,600 heard in my life in such an awesome thing. 293 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,200 But she has a sympathetic accent wherever she goes. 294 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,300 She takes on the accent of the area until we got to Boston. 295 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:19,000 It seems like but she had the Scottish accent then had some of 296 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,700 an Australian accent and then got to Oklahoma and got really 297 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,800 confused, which is pretty much what happens when you get to 298 00:15:23,808 --> 00:15:26,500 Oklahoma. You get very confused and so 299 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,600 accents. And so the shibboleth here was 300 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,900 such and, you know, the word shibboleth is actually something 301 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:34,300 that's coming to Modern vernacular. 302 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,400 Cooler. Today, it's actually something 303 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,400 today that this is actually the definition of shibboleth. 304 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:40,700 If you were to look it up in the dictionary. 305 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:45,400 It says this in modern context, a shibboleth is any identifying 306 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,800 word manner of speaking or behavior that shows someone to 307 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,800 be part of a particular group. It's a way to know if someone's 308 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,200 a local or not, for instance, during the Revolutionary War. 309 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,900 If you were to go to Faneuil Hall, even today, I think I 310 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,900 mentioned this before, we would have Faneuil Hall. 311 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,300 Today, very high, the top of Faneuil Hall on the Weathervane. 312 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:09,700 There is a grasshopper. If you were a local to Boston, 313 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,400 you would know it's a grasshopper but if you are not a 314 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,100 local, it's high enough up there, that's really hard to 315 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:16,400 make out what it is. And who would think a 316 00:16:16,408 --> 00:16:20,100 grasshopper is on a top of a Weathervane on top of a large 317 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:22,600 building like that. And so it was That during the 318 00:16:22,608 --> 00:16:26,500 Revolutionary War, if someone was believed to have been a spy, 319 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,700 they would take them to Faneuil Hall. 320 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:31,800 And they would say this, what's on top of Faneuil Hall. 321 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,300 And if they knew as a grasshopper, it was obvious that 322 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:37,600 they were a local. If they did not know, it was a 323 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,000 grasshopper, very likely they were a spy and usually they were 324 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,700 put to death. What's the grasshopper on top of 325 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:46,100 Faneuil Hall? It's actually one of America's 326 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:50,800 oldest and most famous shibboleths I'll give you a 327 00:16:50,808 --> 00:16:52,600 shibboleth that you have used before. 328 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,000 I know you have whether you realize it or not you ever had 329 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,900 someone who was from out of town, come to town and you're 330 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:02,100 driving down the interstate and you see a sign and you say this, 331 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,200 hey Is the name of that City. Worcester. 332 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,400 Worcester. We're sure we're sure Worcester 333 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:15,599 and you say no it's Worcester or Worcester depending on where 334 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,099 you're from, that's a shibboleth. 335 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,599 What about Leo, Minster? What about Peabody? 336 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:30,800 Or Haver Hill. Or even part uh, kit which is 337 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,100 learned over the last few years as Pawtucket. 338 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,300 What about? Quincy people say Quincy. 339 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:40,100 But if we know, if you've been around Long of its Quincy with a 340 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,800 hard Z at the end know, I said some of those wrong on purpose 341 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,300 and some of those, right? But you know, the first time we 342 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:50,400 went to Haverhill, we called it have her Hill and you know what, 343 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,200 everyone the church realized. Yeah, you've never been here 344 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,700 before. When I was a teenager, we came 345 00:17:55,700 --> 00:18:00,400 to through on the Mass Pike through Worcester and someone 346 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,700 who was in the car, so that was a local said, what do you think 347 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,800 the name of that place is and roared with laughter as a bunch 348 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,100 of teenagers? Tried to say Worcester, they had 349 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:12,700 no idea and we had no idea, you know, that it's a simple that 350 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,800 it's something to local nose easily, but someone who is not 351 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:22,200 local, can't really put their mouth around and explain away 352 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,800 the local wood and So you say pastor, this is very 353 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,600 entertaining, this is very interesting. 354 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,900 I love talking about Boston accents, and Faneuil Hall, and 355 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,800 all this, and sure that's there in the Bible, but I mean, Pastor 356 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,800 is our is our possibly anything about this that could do with us 357 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,300 today. And of course, I think you've 358 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:41,400 been around Liberty Baptist Church enough if I'm standing 359 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,400 behind the pulpit. I'm talking to you tonight. 360 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:48,200 Yes, there is something about this text, and about the idea of 361 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,400 a shibboleth, it is very much appropriate for us to understand 362 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,900 and apply to our lives. And I think, I'll put it this 363 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,700 way. There's a General application. 364 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,200 I want, you understand? And there's a specific 365 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,200 application. I want to understand tonight 366 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,600 about why this shibboleth is so important to the context of how 367 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,200 we live today. There's a General application, 368 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,500 but there's also a specific application. 369 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,800 The general applications of the one, we like, because it's the 370 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,900 ones that don't really apply to us specific applications of the 371 00:19:15,908 --> 00:19:17,800 ones that typically get a little bit uncomfortable because it 372 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,200 hits a little too close to home. So because that let's start with 373 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,700 a General application. First tonight, the idea of a 374 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:25,300 ship. Both may seem remote and 375 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,600 unnecessary but I believe it's not it. 376 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,000 And here's one of the reasons a General application of the 377 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,900 understanding of this text is necessary, you know, there are 378 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:38,700 many, who claim to know, God, there are many, who claim to 379 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:42,700 speak on behalf of God, there are many who call themselves 380 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:47,100 bible-believing groups. But yet, how do you know, 381 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:53,700 whether someone or some entity? Is a Bible believer or not, did 382 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,000 you? No, that the Bible gives us some 383 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,500 shibboleths to know whether someone actually is a Bible 384 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:02,100 believer or not. And I'm not talking about 385 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:04,900 whether Someone Saved or not, I'm not telling you that I can 386 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,000 look into someone's heart and tell whether they're going to 387 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,500 heaven or not. If I could say that tonight, 388 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:10,800 you'll be flying against everything. 389 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,700 The word of God says, but the Bible does say this to judge 390 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,700 righteous judgment and our they're not religious groups out 391 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,500 there that say we speak on behalf of Jesus Christ. 392 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,600 Isn't it important for us to know whether that's a group, we 393 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,500 should follow or not aren't there? 394 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:29,700 Those who wave the flag of Jesus Christ, that their leaders of 395 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:34,000 thought they are leaders of theology that they say, oh yes, 396 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:36,600 we believe in Jesus Christ. Well, isn't important. 397 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,000 If we know whether they believe in Jesus Christ, before we start 398 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,700 reading their books, listen their podcast, and be influenced 399 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:46,300 by who they are. Who be important that we use a 400 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:50,500 Bible given shibboleth to know whether they are. 401 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,300 Are a true Bible believer or not? 402 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,900 One of the ways we could do that and we can take our leave of 403 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:57,600 this text will return a couple different places. 404 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,000 Turn to First, John chapter 4 tonight 1st, John chapter 4, 405 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,600 First John chapter 4 verse number 15, here's a shibboleth. 406 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,700 How do you know whether an organization believes in the 407 00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:30,000 Lord or not? Well, here's one first John 408 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,400 chapter 4 verse 15 whosoever shall confess. 409 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,900 That Jesus is the son of God. God dwelleth in him and he in 410 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:41,400 God, you say, well Pastor, what's the big deal about that 411 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,300 at? That seems to be something 412 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:45,900 that's very obvious. Well, it's not as obvious as I 413 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:49,300 would think because there are groups that call themselves, 414 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:51,900 Christian groups. Today the Mormon Church the 415 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:55,900 Latter Day, Saints Church, would say to us that they are 416 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:59,000 Christians, just like we are. But the question is, does that 417 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,200 mean that they're Christian just because they call themselves 418 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,300 Christians? Well, one way we could know 419 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:06,500 whether that's the case or not is to apply a Bible shibboleth, 420 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:08,600 which would be this whosoever shall confess. 421 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,400 That Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him and he is in 422 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,100 God. What about first, John 5 verse 423 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:19,000 7, Also, with that for, there are three that bear record in 424 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,900 heaven. The Father, the word and the 425 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:25,100 Holy Ghost and these three are one. 426 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,200 Now, the word Trinity is not used their. 427 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,200 However, we see the doctrine of the Trinity there, don't we? 428 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,500 That God is one God. It's not three different gods. 429 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,200 He is not three different gods. He is one God, but yet, he's in 430 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,400 three distinct persons. The Father, the word, and the 431 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,600 Holy Ghost, the word being John 11, Jesus Christ. 432 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:50,300 The Had its taught neck, 1729 and Romans 1:20 in Colossians 433 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:53,200 2:9 and John 14:26. I don't know. 434 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,600 This are to have you write those all down, but this idea that, 435 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:02,400 that Jesus Christ is God and that he is part of a Triune god, 436 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,700 father, Son and Holy Ghost. Listen. 437 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:07,300 There's a lot of people who would say this, we believe in 438 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:11,700 God, I could bring a Muslim up here tonight and I could bring a 439 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,500 Jewish man up here tonight and I could say, Do you believe in God 440 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,400 and Do you believe in God? And they would all say yes, we 441 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,500 all believe in God. And maybe they would even say 442 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:24,700 this, we all believe in the god of Abraham, but here's the 443 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,700 shibboleth. Confess the name of Jesus 444 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:32,200 Christ. Confess the name of Jesus 445 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,200 Christ. And you know what, the more 446 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:38,200 wood, you know what the the Muslim will do he'll say? 447 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,100 Sybil leth. Because his mouth can't frame 448 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 the word. We'll ask our Jewish friend on 449 00:23:47,008 --> 00:23:48,600 this side. Say the word. 450 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:55,100 Jesus Christ is Lord saying. Civil f. 451 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,100 Cuz he can't get his mouth around it. 452 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,900 Now, imagine we take a, a Mormon on one side and we take a 453 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,100 Jehovah Witness on another side and maybe we even get a 454 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,900 Christian Scientist up here, and of course, Christian Science, 455 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,100 Mary Baker, Eddy got its founding up in this very area, 456 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:16,100 you could go down to do Boston today and you could go see the 457 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:19,600 immense buildings and things that they have there and all the 458 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,100 Mary Baker Eddy houses that are around including one in 459 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:26,300 Stoughton in a place that she live and imagine we take them 460 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:29,400 and say this, there are three that bear record in heaven. 461 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:33,500 Can you confess that? There are three, the Father, the 462 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,400 word, and the Holy Ghost. You know what they would have to 463 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:45,900 say, all three of them. Sybil f. you can't say, That's 464 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:49,500 why I've asked Jehovah Witnesses before they will say to make a 465 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:52,300 place of agreement. Oh, we believe that Jesus is the 466 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:56,400 son of God and I'll say this or the, we believe he's the son of 467 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:57,500 God. I say, well, that's fine. 468 00:24:57,700 --> 00:24:59,200 But you also believe that he's God. 469 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,700 The son saying this, do you believe that he is part of the 470 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,000 Triune God? Which by the way, the son of the 471 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,300 term, Son of God does not take away from his deity. 472 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:09,300 All he had to do is go to the Book of Daniel and realize 473 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:12,800 actually elevates his deity. But at the same time to help 474 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,200 them understand that he's part of a Triune God. 475 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,200 I believe he's God the son but do you believe he's the son of 476 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,000 God or the other way around? You understand what I'm saying? 477 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:24,600 That's what trouble. All right. 478 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,500 I'm trying to squeeze some pity out there and you know what 479 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:34,000 they'll say Symbol F. They can't say it and there are 480 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,100 times that we as Believers need to have discernment and 481 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,500 understand where people stand in these areas. 482 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Because if we do not, we may be influenced by wrong teaching, we 483 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,100 may be influenced by wrong Theology and so we have to take 484 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:51,200 those things and ask can you frame these words? 485 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,100 That that is a that is a Bible term. 486 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:58,400 In fact, so compare first John four fifteen and first John 5:7 487 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,700 to this verse second John verse 7. 488 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:03,700 So just to Age away. 2nd. John verse 7. 489 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:09,100 So compare what we just read with this. 490 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,400 For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not 491 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,100 that. Jesus Christ is come in the 492 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:17,300 flesh. What is it? 493 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,400 This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 494 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,400 It is not the Antichrist but as a person that is opposed to 495 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,700 Christ, they have the spirit of antichrist within him. 496 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,400 So what do we have to do? There are times we have to 497 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,900 impose some Bible shibboleths to know whether someone is of the 498 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:36,700 right Doctrine or not and I know. 499 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:39,100 Time to get into this tonight, but I would also say there are 500 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:41,200 other shibboleths in the Bible as well. 501 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,700 Including this does someone believe in the death and burial 502 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:49,600 and resurrection of Jesus Christ that he bodily died and was 503 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,000 buried and he rose again on the third day, what about this is a 504 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,700 shibboleth, the blood atonement. There are some of those who 505 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:59,900 would actually deny the fact that Jesus Christ blood was 506 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:04,300 necessary, including at one point, John MacArthur himself, 507 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,700 the blood atonement being necessary. 508 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,200 For salvation, that is a shibboleth. 509 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:11,400 What about this salvation by grace? 510 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:16,700 And not of Works Ephesians 2:8 and 9 teach us that our 511 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:19,600 Salvation is not of ourselves. It's the gift of God, not of 512 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,500 Works. Lest any man should boast. 513 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:24,500 What happens if someone teaches there's oh, Jesus Christ. 514 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,600 Oh, he's the son of God, Jesus Christ. 515 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,600 He's part of the Triune God but you can come to him through your 516 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,800 works. That's a shibboleth that tells 517 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,500 us. That's not something that I want 518 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:37,000 to be a part of, that's not something I want to be 519 00:27:37,008 --> 00:27:42,900 influenced by as Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, is 520 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,900 salvation, plus nothing that I can do. 521 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,500 If you have to add something, you do to the gospel message, 522 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,600 that makes you part of the Gospel in adding to Salvation. 523 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,500 And there's nothing that I can add to Salvation. 524 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,300 All I can do is confess Jesus Christ as my Lord and ask for 525 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,200 forgiveness of my sins and repent. 526 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,500 That's what I must do. That's the shibboleth. 527 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,800 What about the reality of sin? There are preachers out there 528 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,400 today that if you were to ask them this, can you just say the 529 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,900 word sin from the pulpit? I'm not trying to be cute 530 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:19,700 tonight, but there are preachers. 531 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,700 That literally will not even use the word sin from the pulpit. 532 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,400 And if you were asking when the pulpit, could you say sin, they 533 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,100 would go see. Sybil ethe. 534 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,200 They can't say it. What does that mean? 535 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,600 Well, that's not someone that I want to be influenced by. 536 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,600 I told you that I was reading a book by Joel Osteen a few years 537 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,600 ago and I got it online and I got it on purpose and it was 538 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,700 talking about how to have your best life now or something along 539 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:50,500 the vein that he normally teaches on and because it was an 540 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:53,700 electronic book, I literally could find a word. 541 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:57,400 You just go in the search box and find a word. 542 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:02,100 I put the word sin in and I found the word sin in this 200 543 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,200 plus page book. One time. 544 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:06,500 And so I thought, well, maybe it's a mistake. 545 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:08,600 So, you know, sometimes when you search you can search for every 546 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,200 form of the word. And so I put sin in the search 547 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,200 box and I made sure I was searching for every form of the 548 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,400 word one time. How can you have the kind of 549 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,500 life that God wants you to have without addressing sin in your 550 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:21,700 life? You know what that is. 551 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:24,800 That's a shibboleth to me. They go that's not probably 552 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,100 something I need to be influenced by because I want to 553 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,600 make sure that I understand that I'm a sinner that only Jesus 554 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,300 Christ can save me and that a lot of the problems I have in my 555 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:35,100 life are seeing problems. That every problem I have in 556 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:39,900 life is a sin problem that's joke about that but I can tell 557 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:41,700 you that there are problems in our life that are seeing 558 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:45,400 problems their self created. And so what do we do when I see 559 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,200 a teacher like that I'm just telling you for my life. 560 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,600 This is why I say that's a shibboleth I do. 561 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,200 Want to be influenced by that, I don't. 562 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,500 So there's a General application tonight. 563 00:29:56,500 --> 00:30:01,000 That the word helps us understand who we should be 564 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,700 influenced by the word tells us who we should listen to, because 565 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:09,500 we want to make sure that someone who is speaking. 566 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:13,100 Who is teaching, who is influencing us is being true to 567 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:15,700 the word of God. And that's true of preachers. 568 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:19,100 That's true of theologians. That's true of movements, that's 569 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:22,200 true of denominations. That's true of religious 570 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,200 organizations. You name it. 571 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:28,200 God has given us this shibboleth to be able to say, I need to 572 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,100 know that you are teaching and preaching what the word of God 573 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:34,600 says. Now by the way we cannot make 574 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,600 shibboleths out of our own preferences. 575 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 We have to make sure our shibboleths actually come from 576 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,500 the word of God. And there are some people who 577 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,800 cause Division and sow Discord because of preferences and not 578 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,700 because of Bible teaching and preaching and we have to be 579 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:52,900 careful, even our own Spirit, not to be that way. 580 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,000 But God has given us these things in his word to make sure 581 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,700 he smoke is very clear and 2nd. John 7, look. 582 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:03,100 If you can't confess that, Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, get 583 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,000 away from that person. They've got the spirit of 584 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,400 antichrist. John later on says this, hey, 585 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:11,000 don't even better. Godspeed, I mean it's serious. 586 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,700 Don't even bid them. Godspeed. 587 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:14,700 So that's the general application here tonight. 588 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,300 And if I was to just close up the Bible and say, amen, I mean, 589 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,400 I think we would all be, you know, that's that's good. 590 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,600 Pastor, that's helpful. That's, that's something that 591 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,300 could I can take and I can use, you know, as I kind of go 592 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:27,700 through life and do those things. 593 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,600 But I would also say to you that there is a specific application 594 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,400 that comes from our text here tonight. 595 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,500 And that's this. Let me remind you the definition 596 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,300 of shibboleth. Is any identifying word manner 597 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:44,700 of speaking or behavior? That shows someone to be part of 598 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:48,600 a particular group? Any identifying word manner of 599 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,900 speaking or behavior? That shows someone to be part of 600 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:55,400 a particular group. Now, tonight, you should be able 601 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,600 to tell if someone is a believer, By what comes out of 602 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,400 their mouth. And maybe could I make it a 603 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,300 little bit more specific? Someone should be able to tell 604 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,500 whether you are a believer. Depending on what comes out of 605 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:14,800 your mouth or not. because a lot of times we say, oh, I'm a 606 00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:19,200 Believer, but we can't say shibboleth because what comes 607 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,900 out of our mouth is not good, and right? 608 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:26,100 And holy, can I, our speech should show that? 609 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,200 Were the children of the light not that were followers of the 610 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,800 flesh? Are speech, should show that. 611 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,100 We are children of the light and not followers of the flesh. 612 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:39,000 Luke 643 a good man out of the good Treasure of his heart 613 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000 brings forth that which is good. And an evil man out of the evil. 614 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,900 Treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil for out 615 00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:48,100 of the abundance of the heart. The mouth speaketh, do you see 616 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:51,400 What comes out of our mouth is a shibboleth of what's actually 617 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,200 inside the heart. Ephesians 4:29, let no corrupt 618 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,700 communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is 619 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:03,000 good to the use of edifying that it may Minister grace to the 620 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,600 hearers. That's a shibboleth Colossians 621 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,600 4:6. Let your speech be always with 622 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,600 Grace seasoned with salt. That ye may know how you ought 623 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,900 to answer every man and others should be able to tell if we're 624 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:22,800 a Believer by how we walk and by how we talk. 625 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:27,000 Matthew 720 says this wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know 626 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000 them. When we scream at someone in our 627 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,500 home but we blow our top but we're saying is civil leth. 628 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,400 Sybil leth. When we sing the songs of faith 629 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,500 during the song service, but we don't treat our Brothers and 630 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,800 Sisters in Christ with the same dignity that we just sang about. 631 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:49,400 We're really saying symbol F heard a preacher. 632 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,800 Say many years ago, that the time the Christians Li the most 633 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,900 is during the song service trust and Obey. 634 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,100 I surrender all we sing these words. 635 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:03,600 But do we actually think about and mean them or really just 636 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,100 saying civilized When we take it out on the person who answers 637 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:10,600 the phone after we've been on hold for 30 minutes. 638 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:17,199 We're really saying civil F. It's a revealer that our heart 639 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:22,800 is not as clean and pure, as we say, it is. 640 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,600 It's so easy to do because we live in a fallen world and 641 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,199 people aggravate us Annoy Us, some do it on purpose, some do 642 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,600 it on accident. Some of it is just the fact that 643 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,800 we live in this world and and this world's a mess, but we lose 644 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,000 opportunities to be able to be the person that God calls us to 645 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,100 be when we cannot form the word shibboleth. 646 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:53,800 And we look like someone who's not a Believer could you imagine 647 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:58,900 what would happen when we act like the non-believers in the 648 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:04,500 world? Should just stop here, but I'm 649 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:09,700 going to tell the story. And I've been fighting in my 650 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:11,800 mind for the last two days, about whether I should tell the 651 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,300 story or not. A few weeks ago. 652 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,400 Las Vegas. We're not Catholic, it's not 653 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,900 confession. But Thanks, Sam. 654 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:31,700 Cuz I was on my way there, but so We all have different things 655 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:34,000 that set us off. We all do. 656 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,700 I'm going to ask you to say, Amen, I'm telling you a fact. 657 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,100 Okay, you can all look at me like a cow. 658 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:41,300 Look at a new gate. I'm just telling you, the fact, 659 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,200 we all have different things that Annoy Us. 660 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,800 And the funny thing is that what annoys me, probably doesn't 661 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,700 annoy you and sometimes maybe you're around other people and 662 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:54,000 they think you're on for being annoyed by that and you think 663 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,700 they're odd for not realizing how incredibly crazy everyone 664 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,800 else is for not being annoyed by that, So, I have, I have this 665 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,700 pet peeve about going to Walmart. 666 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,600 I could just stop there but I'll continue about going to Walmart. 667 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:13,100 There's never anything open. You have to check out yourself. 668 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,000 There's 18 people hovering over you. 669 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,400 While you check out yourself, there's cameras recording you. 670 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:24,700 While you check out yourself, there's TVs showing you that 671 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:29,400 they're recording you, while you check out yourself, and then as 672 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,700 if all of that is not enough, there is someone at the door who 673 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:35,900 is smiling at you. When you came in and said, Isn't 674 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:39,500 it a great day and now they want me to produce the receipt of 675 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:43,300 what I just did 10 feet away from them just three seconds 676 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:47,200 ago. And it annoys the fire out of 677 00:36:47,207 --> 00:36:50,600 me. Yeah, so good. 678 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,700 Yeah, I know this this I feel like we're having a breakthrough 679 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,300 here right now so it does and some of you are saying but 680 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,000 that's so that's so trivial, right? 681 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:08,700 That went a octave or two above it, it's just I don't want to 682 00:37:08,707 --> 00:37:11,500 get into why it really bugs me, and I'm thankful for some people 683 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:15,900 that agree with me anyway. So so we were my wife and I were 684 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:19,200 out a few weeks ago. It's late. 685 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,300 I don't want to be at Walmart and it's obviously employees 686 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,200 want to be at Walmart. I'm in line waiting to go 687 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,500 through the line. Oh, guess what? 688 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:29,300 You have to check yourself out. It's all self. 689 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:31,400 Check out tonight. Okay, let me check it out. 690 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,800 She's got a car, she's doing stuff. 691 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,500 I got a card, I'm doing stuff. I take the receipt and I just 692 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,800 shove it in my My pocket, I'm not even thinking about it and 693 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,600 we walk out and I realize there's the guy. 694 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,400 He was so friendly coming in, but he's checking receipts 695 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,200 because he's going to make sure that those grapes are paid for. 696 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,200 And so, I try to tell Diane follow behind me fall behind, 697 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,800 because what's followed by me? And he's talking to somebody and 698 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,100 I said, this is my time. He's checking someone's receipt. 699 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,600 So or spinning around this guy who's checking someone else's 700 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,800 receipt and he said she didn't shoot me sir. 701 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,400 No, no one's ever stopped me before when I walk out. 702 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:13,000 And I'd like to think I'm pretty articulate. 703 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,600 But I was caught somewhat by surprise and he says, I need to 704 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,900 see your receipt and I said, well why? 705 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,600 He says, well I need to see your receipt. 706 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:27,300 Well and I don't want to get in the legalities of all this to 707 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:28,800 be. Honestly, I believe legally. 708 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,400 I don't have to show him my receipt. 709 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,800 It's not Costco it's not BJ's where you sign an agreement 710 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,200 saying that they check your receipt. 711 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,800 I just we were trying to check out and the sand and the Machine 712 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,400 stopped working and different people to come fix the machine 713 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,700 for us. We had in an effort for 714 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:51,400 efficiency. They've got more people helping 715 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,000 us then if one person was checking out. 716 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:59,800 And so we get into a little Disagreement, I never raised my 717 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,800 voice. Never yelled at the guy, but I 718 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,000 was miffed. And the more we went, he says, 719 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,800 well I'm I'm going to have to I'm have to write your 720 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,700 information down. I said, well, go ahead. 721 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:19,300 I didn't steal anything and he he's telling me to wait, I don't 722 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,100 want to wait, we're going back and forth. 723 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,700 We're going around or two. And finally, I just said, let's 724 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,400 go. And I'm looking at my wife, 725 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,700 whose eyes are filled with amazement and sorrow and 726 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:32,600 disappointment all of the same time and we're out of there. 727 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,200 Now, some of you think your pastor is not not able to do 728 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,500 these things, your pastor is more than able and willing to do 729 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,000 these things. At a moment's notice. 730 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,100 Here's where we have difficulty in life. 731 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,900 I believe I was right. But in the course of being, 732 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:52,300 right, all he could hear was Sybil left. 733 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:59,900 Because all I can hear. In my desire to be white. 734 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:04,800 And I think it's unjust and I think it's foolish and I think 735 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,000 they use all kinds of excuses. Like I even read on their 736 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000 website, was it? We're just trying to make sure 737 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,100 that, you know, you don't get overcharged. 738 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:12,900 Oh sure. You're trying to make sure that 739 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:14,500 it's because you look at the cart. 740 00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:15,700 You're not even looking at anything. 741 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:17,700 You're looking at the receipt you're pretending like you know 742 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:19,400 what's going on and you check it off. 743 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,200 And by the way I'm not just venting I'm going somewhere 744 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,700 here. Just make sure you know this I 745 00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:29,700 was so willing to have my rights and Justice that all you could 746 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:33,900 hear was civil up. There has to be a way where we 747 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:39,800 can get that, which is right as best as we can, but still be 748 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,700 distinct and different as Believers. 749 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,200 Maybe to be the only one who was cheerful in not showing his 750 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,300 receipt or maybe talking to him about it now. 751 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:51,500 He may, he may not have cooperated from the looks of it, 752 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,000 he was going to cooperate, no matter what and maybe. 753 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,400 Yeah. They I really pretty sure they 754 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,600 put all the Napoleon's at the door at Walmart. 755 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,200 Nene like it man but here's end of the week of Christmas. 756 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,000 Yes. So But I wonder how many times I 757 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,400 have lost opportunities to reach somebody because I was so 758 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,300 wanting to get the food right? Or to prove my point. 759 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:24,200 Or to make sure that the person who cut me off gets cut off in 760 00:41:24,207 --> 00:41:29,900 a, in a moment. that all they hear is someone saying civil 761 00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:35,400 with See, it's a little bit more concerning than the General 762 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,300 application. Well I mean I have rights what 763 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:43,500 we do and I believe Romans 13 says that we have rights and 764 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:46,300 responsibilities in this government and in the land that 765 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:48,900 we live that we need to, you know, protect and we should be 766 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:51,400 careful about. But at the same time, I am 767 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,900 supposed to be distinctly Christian before. 768 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:58,800 I am distinctly American So that's dual loyalty. 769 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,900 Not do a Lords, they have single loyalty and that's the Lord 770 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:04,400 Jesus Christ. There's no dual loyalty about 771 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,000 it. But here's what I know. 772 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:09,600 I've also gone to a Dunkin Donuts and I'm going to give you 773 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,400 this and I'm going to be done and I'm not telling stores the 774 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,700 sake of stories, but I feel like this is a problem that we, as 775 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:17,300 Believers have. And it's a problem that I have 776 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:22,000 sometimes Dunkin Donuts on Five Corners here if you live in 777 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,800 East. And you know, and this is being 778 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,500 recorded and put online. It is the worst Dunkin Donuts. 779 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,300 Probably known to man on Five Corners. 780 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:33,100 They don't get stuff, right? They'll keep your change as a 781 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:40,600 donation. and that just really, It's a kindred spirits but the 782 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,100 damn, we should get some coffee after church. 783 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:43,500 Just not at that Duncan. All right. 784 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:48,200 But that's right. So, but it really bugs me but, 785 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,900 you know, a few weeks ago, I got to meet a woman there named 786 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,500 Julia. And started talking to her and I 787 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:56,500 gave her a track. We went there yesterday to 788 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:00,500 counsel with a couple at the Dunkin Donuts and I recognized 789 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:03,700 her at a table. She was on her break again and I 790 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:05,500 couldn't remember a name, I looked at my phone because 791 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,400 actually type names on my phone sometime so I can remember them. 792 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:09,700 I said are you Julia? She goes. 793 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:11,400 Yes. You remembered of course I would 794 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,400 do. We started talking to her 795 00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:18,200 invited her to church again. I'm praying that Julia will come 796 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:24,200 one of these days to church, you know, Julia's salvation is more 797 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,800 important. Than Navy me. 798 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,300 Losing a bunker to it dumped him. 799 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:33,300 Now that doesn't mean that I don't go to them and say, no, 800 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:37,500 you know, you really shouldn't take my money, 75 cents return 801 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:39,700 and change is not a 75 cent tip for you. 802 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:43,200 I'm not saying we shouldn't do that, but there's a way to do it 803 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:47,300 while being a distinct believer, so that you can say shibboleth. 804 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:53,800 And show that what is on. The inside is a Believer who 805 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,000 wants to honor Christ, Ceci Velasquez, actually a lot 806 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,200 different than just pack. The kind have a yard, and 807 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,200 Jimmy's and Worcester at all that stuff. 808 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,700 It's actually a pretty serious thing and it's a password that 809 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:11,300 God has given for us to understand those who are Bible. 810 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:15,400 Believers are not in a general sense but also specifically it's 811 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,800 a reminder to us that we better make sure what we say with the 812 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:24,000 outside matches what Christ has done in the inside and if we 813 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,700 have some words that are coming out, Out on the outside that are 814 00:44:26,707 --> 00:44:28,800 not, right? We can't say, well, it was just 815 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,300 a mistake. Well, the Bible says out of the 816 00:44:30,308 --> 00:44:33,100 abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. 817 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,200 And so before we rebuke the mouth, we better go rebuke the 818 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,300 heart and get the heart, right? And then the mouth will be 819 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,700 right. Thank you for listening to the 820 00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:45,400 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 821 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,900 If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we 822 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:52,700 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at info, 823 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:56,900 at my Liberty Baptist dot org. 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