They Went Out from Us - Pastor Bruce Mejia

Amen. Okay, we're in 1 John chapter 2 tonight and the title of my sermon tonight is they went out from us

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They went out from us verse 19 says they went out from us, but they were not of us

For if they had been of us, they would have no doubt have continued with us

But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us

And what I want to preach about this evening is the subject of apostasy here in 1 John chapter 2

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Specifically verse 19 now this verse here has been misused in many different contexts by a variety of pastors and Christians

And they often interpret this to mean that if you as a Christian if you get out of church if you stop serving God if

You leave church if you stop serving God if you get involved in sin

That is an indication that you went out from us

Therefore it's also an indication that you're not really of us in other words

It means that you're not saved, but that is a false interpretation of this verse and unfortunately

You know it's misled a lot of people into thinking that you have to persevere in your works for Christ in order to maintain

Your salvation this believe this Calvinistic belief that you have to persevere in your works

You have to persevere in your service for God if you really want to demonstrate that you're saved

Okay, and they often use this verse in conjunction with Matthew 24 that says they then endured to the end the same

Shall be saved okay, and when it comes to Matthew 24

we obviously understand that the context of the chapter is referring to end times Bible prophecy and

specifically it's referring to

The fifth seal in that context the fifth seal where Christians are being put to death on mass and the Bible saying there

That if you're able to endure that persecution

Until the end you will be saved meaning your flesh will be delivered from the persecution of the Antichrist

Because that persecution according to the biblical timeline lasts for 75 days

Then comes the rapture if you make it to the rapture guess what your flesh is saved from that persecution

So Matthew 24 when it says they then endured to the end has nothing to do with salvation

It has to do with the deliverance of the body

But this is what people do they'll take scriptures completely out of context and they will apply them to other portions of scripture

Such as what we see here in first on chapter 2 verse 19 and they'll say well

You know if you really want to say that you're saved obviously we know that it's by faith

We know that it's by believing in Jesus

However, if you decide to get out of the congregation of God you start serving your sin

You start doing things that are not pleasing unto the Lord first on 2 19 applies to you

It's an indication that you're not really of us

But this is a false interpretation

That is heresy because quite frankly folks if you are saved if you're a believer in Christ

It doesn't matter if you continue in the service of God or not because the Bible says that we and first on

At first Peter chapter 1 that we listen to this are kept by the power of God unto salvation

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What does that mean it means the one who's responsible for keeping us keeping our salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ

He's the only one who possesses the power to maintain our salvation for us

Not we ourselves and you know, it's an oxymoron to say oh, it's not of works

But you got to do works to make sure that you stay safe, you know

It's a retarded doctrine that has no substance in the Bible

You know, you don't have to persevere in your works to be saved to prove that you're safe to God

They're like oh, well, you know faith without works is dead being alone yet to others not to God though

You know God obviously sees that if we have placed our faith in Christ, you know, that's all that's needed

That is sufficient for our salvation

But definitely if you don't have works coupled with your faith, it's a faith that does not work

It does not produce any works that will benefit someone else. Okay, very important to understand that now in light of that

What is first John chapter 2 verse 19 referring to what is it talking about exactly?

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Well, we have to understand what he means by they okay

And let me just teach you something real quick is that you know, a lot of times when people interpret the Bible false prophets

Specifically they will often isolate verses

And look if you isolate a verse you can pretty much teach anything you want

If you remove it from its context of the verses prior the verses after if you remove it from the context of the chapter

The context of the book the context of the Bible you can make that verse say anything you want

Which is why we have to what compare scripture with scripture compare spiritual things with spiritual

Why because out of the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

And you know that principle applies to Bible study as well

Okay, we have a variety of scriptures that teach us explicitly what salvation is and this is not

This is not in an application to salvation or to Christians when it says here they

We know who this is referring to look at verse 18

Little children. It is the last time and as you have heard that

Antichrist shall come what is that talking about it's referring to the fact that in the end times

There's gonna be a man known as the Antichrist also referred to as the man of sin the son of perdition

The beast as we see in Revelation chapter 13 and he is going to come so even though the apostle John is writing this

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You know in the first century AD

He's foretelling of a time in the future where the Antichrist will come and Antichrist is someone who is coming in the place of Christ

He's obviously someone who's you know a contrarian to Christ

He's against Christ, but it's also referring to someone who is coming in his place

That is referring to the man of sin that we see in the book of Revelation. However, look what it goes on to say here as

You've heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrist

So this is telling us that even though there's going to be a

Main character Antichrist in the end times

We don't have to wait for the end times to find out who that is because there's many Antichrist that even exists today

There's many Antichrist that exist in John's day. This is referring to people who are coming in the place of Christ

They're against the Lord Jesus Christ. He says here. Whereby we know that it is the last time verse 19

They went out from us. Who are the day the Antichrists?

Okay, those who are against Christ those who are coming in the place of Christ

It's referring to false prophets false teachers. This is what it's being addressed here. I just got louder for some reason

I don't know that my ears pop or they're like a speaker just turned on

So it says they went out from us, but they were not of us

So the implication here is that these Antichrists were not originally referred to as Antichrist

They weren't referred to as false prophets and in fact they masqueraded as believers. Okay. Now. Who's the author of this book?

John

So if we're to look at John's life, who do you think he's referring to there? Well, obviously automatically you should think to yourself

Oh, this is referring to Judas

Judas Iscariot is a perfect example of someone who was among the twelve

He was of the twelve

He was given the apostleship by Jesus Christ, but he wasn't really of them now

Was he as noted by the fact that he went out from among them?

He says they went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been with us

They would have no doubt

continued with us now let's go to John chapter 6 before I give more of the interpretation of

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Verse 19 here. Let's go to John chapter 6 if you would

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John chapter 6

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Now automatically we know that it's referring to Judas Iscariot, but did you know?

There were other Antichrists other than Judas Iscariot who came out from among them

Okay, because keep in mind it says Antichrist they went out from they went out from us for they were not of us

For if they had been of us, they would have no doubt continued with us. Yes

This applies to Judas Iscariot, but you know, there's a lot of people there are many quote-unquote

Disciples that apostatized even during Christ's time now look at verse number

59 it says these things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum

Many therefore of his disciples when they heard this said this is a hard saying who can hear it?

When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it. He said into him that this offend you now

it's important to know

That you know I've often used this verse in a tertiary secondary tertiary way or you know

We talk about hey is this offending you like are you are you mad that I said this are you offended at this?

Are you being weak about this but really an offense in the Bible is referring to what a stumbling block

So when you think of an offense in the Bible

yeah, we often associate that with

Hard preaching offending someone because it goes against the grain it goes against their ideology

But an offense in the most literal way that it's being used in the Bible is referring to like a stumbling block

So in other words, you know for example the Bible talks about Jesus Christ being the stone that rock of offense

Meaning that when people come across him they stumble at the stumbling stone

They're not willing to believe on him is what it's saying. Okay

So what Jesus is preaching here in John chapter 6 is he's talking about salvation and he's using the illustration of

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drinking his blood and eating his physical flesh as

Illustration of salvation. This is not teaching the false doctrine of transubstantiation is put forth by the Catholics

Okay, and you know the Catholics will always point to John chapter 6. Oh John chapter 6. He says you got to literally

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Yeah, you know the Pharisees who were unsafe or the were also the ones who interpreted that passage just like that, too

That should tell you something. Okay, and it's interesting that the unsaved people in

John chapter 6 were the ones who interpreted just as the Catholics do and the ones that didn't interpret it that way were the actual

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Disciples Peter James John they said to whom shall we go for thou hast the words of eternal life

And we believe in our shirt that thou art the Christ the son of the living God, you know

They didn't say oh, you know, we believed that we got to eat your flesh and drink your blood to be saved

They're referring to the eternal words that are coming out of his mouth because they actually understood what he was actually teaching

so he's using this illustration in order to convey salvation and

The disciples doesn't say specifically who but keep in mind during Jesus ministry. You know a lot of people following him

What is the disciples someone who follows Christ a?

Lot of the disciples they were like oh man, this is kind of hard, you know

You know, this is a hard saying

Who can hear it? They're like this is kind of tough

I don't know if we can accept this and what's so hard to accept about salvation

What's so hard to accept about the gift of eternal life? What he's explaining here and Jesus says

You know does this offend you? He they're murmuring at it verse 62

What and if he shall see the Son of Man ascend up where it was before so he's saying you know if this offends you wait

Do you see me ascend?

Okay, you're gonna stumble at that as well. What is Jesus saying if you're not willing to believe what?

I'm saying now. You're not even gonna believe even if I ascend up into heaven and you're able to actually be hold it with your eyes

All the way

This is an important point here because we got to realize that when it comes to place in our faith in Jesus Christ

We don't need any visible evidence

All right, we walk by faith not by sight. We accept these things by faith not by sight

That's why it's ridiculous to think. Oh Jews are gonna get saved in Revelation 19 when they see Jesus Christ coming in

It's not gonna happen

Okay, it's not gonna happen because they saw him come in the first century AD

They beheld them with their eyes and they still rejected him. Okay, so it's like if this offends you

What and if you shall see the Son of Man to send up where he was before?

It is the spirit the quicken it the flesh profit nothing the words that I speak into you

They are spirit and they are life now Jesus being very merciful here because in verse 63

He tells them hey by the way the flesh doesn't profit anything. It is the spirit the quicken it

In other words, it's like I'm talking to you about spiritual things here and obviously they're not catching

It's just going over their minds going over their heads now. Why is it going over there the disciples heads?

I'll tell you why because they're not saved

They may consider themselves to be disciples, but they're not really saved

Look what it says verse 64. How do you know that? But there are some of you that believe not

Okay

For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not and who should betray him

We often use this verse to prove that Judas is scary was not saved and it's definitely true

He wasn't saved. He didn't believe okay

You know he is also the son of perdition. He is a first-century example of an antichrist

Okay, but we see here that it's also applicable to some of the disciples now

I'm not referring to the 12 disciples. I'm not referring to the 12. I'm not referring to the three

But just keep in mind there were a variety of people who followed the Lord Jesus Christ

Why do they follow him? Well because he fed them

Well because he performed the miracles because they like what he was saying

But when it came to a message like this in John chapter 6 it just oh, we're not going to cross that line

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This offends us. This is a hard saying who can hear it this and it's just a message on salvation

He's like oh, you're offended. You're stumbling at this particular same

This is demonstrating here that you don't believe okay

Because it's just a message on salvation

Verse 65 and he said therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto me

Except that were given unto him of my father from that time listen to this

Many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him

What does this mean? It means they departed from the faith. That's what it means

Okay, and I do believe that when it says many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him

It's referring to people who essentially apostatized they went out from us for they were not of us for if they had been of us

They would have no doubt continued with us continuing what in believing

That's what it means to continue means to

Continue to believe that Jesus is the Christ continue to believe that it's by

Say salvation is by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ meaning that if someone claims to believe that

They profess to believe these things somewhere along down the road

They stumble at that message. It's a demonstration. They never believed to begin with

A lot of people have problems with this because they're like, oh, you know, no, it just means they lost their salvation

Well, here's the thing. There's absolutely no example in the bible of anybody losing their salvation

Does it exist?

There's no illustration of someone losing their salvation. There's no indication of anybody losing their salvation

There's just indication of people going apostate

And it literally says here verse 64

But there are some of you that believe not for jesus knew from the beginning

Who they were that believed not and who should betray him meaning that at the beginning of the ministry of jesus christ

When he collected the disciples he knew from the start these guys don't believe

These guys are not saved. They're kind of going along. They're just playing along. They're making this profession of faith

But they don't really believe in their hearts and look folks

It's important to make a profession of faith for sure

Which is why when we go out sowning we close the deal at the end of the gospel presentation

And aid them in calling upon the name of the lord

All right, because that's what the bible commands us to do

But keep in mind folks that if thou should confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and

Believe in thine heart that god would raise him from the dead. I'll show you safe

For what the hard man believe it's not the righteous but with the mouth confession is made into salvation

So yeah, you know if a person believes in their heart the natural byproduct of that is they they would ask for salvation

But you know what there's going to be people out there who ask for salvation, but they don't really believe it in their hearts

That's a legitimate thing

Where people claim to believe these things and look we have to do our part to make sure that we're very thorough in our gospel presentation

And that's why I think it's it's extremely important

That when we are preaching the gospel that we communicate that it's by faith in jesus christ exclusively

Meaning at the exclusion of everything else

Why well because you know you'll have catholics that you'll witness to and they'll agree with you on everything that you're saying

They'll agree that it's by faith in jesus christ

They'll agree. They're like, oh, yeah, I believe that. Yeah

Jesus it's by faith in jesus christ

You know by grace through faith in jesus christ, but then you're like, yeah

But it's at the exclusion of everything else including mary. Well, I don't agree with that

I'm telling you that happens all the time

They have no problem agreeing with you regarding those things until you tell them that it's like literally only by believing in jesus christ

And you can't add another belief to that another person to that another way of salvation that because you didn't you just can't be saved

okay

He says in verse 66 again from that time any of his disciples went back and walked no more with him

Then jesus then said jesus unto the 12th will ye also go away

Then simon peter answered him lord to whom shall we go thou has the words of eternal life

We believe in our sure that thou art the christ the son of the living god

Now I love this passage here because you know peter is is very

It's a very heartfelt confession, right?

to whom shall we go

That's the words of eternal life

It's just powerful. We believe in our shirt that thou art the christ the son of the living god is just like

Yeah, that's good

Verse 70 jesus answered him have not chosen you told me one of you's a devil just completely ignores him

He just looks at it. He's like didn't I choose you guys and one of you guys is a devil

And by the way verse 70 is a good verse for the calvinist amen

Because they're chosen yet one of them's a devil

Not interesting

He spoke of judice is scary the son of simon for he was that should betray him being one of the 12th

What is judice is scary it?

You know have to do with first john chapter 2 verse 19

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What are the disciples that walked away have to do a first john 2 19?

I'll tell you what it has to do with they departed from the faith that were never really safe to begin with

Now let me tell you something go to go back to first john if you wouldn't

You and I aren't gonna have to come to grips with people doing this throughout our christian life

Okay, you're gonna hear about people

You know god forbid, but it may happen in our church one day

Or someone claims to be saved they are using all the christianese. They may even come to church for years

Okay, it is a thing and then somewhere along down the road

They stumble at the stumbling stone. They're not stumbling at some secondary tertiary doctrine

They're not gonna stumble at end times prophecy. It's not that they're stumbling at you know the jews

They're not stumbling at dispensationalism. They stumble out salvation

And you know what they depart from the faith and you know what that indicates to us this person was never safe to begin with

He says in first john chapter 2 verse 19 again

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They went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been with us been of excuse me

They would have no doubt have continued with us

But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us

And you know what you need to make sure that you're not a bleeding heart when this happens

Just a bleeding heart

Oh, but they were here though and I went soul-winning with them and all this then oh, but they said they read the bible

Yeah, but guess what they're apostates

You try to tell me that the 11 disciples weren't tripping out that judas was like an absolute devil

They spent three and a half years with him

They went soul-winning with him

They preached the gospel with him and you know, I do believe that he performed miracles as well

Not because he was saved but because god gave him the capability of doing so and they're probably like thinking like whoa

What in the world?

I mean folks judas the scary must have been someone who just you know was upright

Outwardly because no one suspected him

And you know, that's exactly how it's going to be

For us as a church. That's how it's going to be for other churches

You know, we need to make sure that we're not like well, they're just falling

You know, well, you don't fall into damnable heresy. Let me just tell you that first and foremost

It's not like man. I'm just struggling with just believing it's by works right now

It's just I'm going through this season. I think it's by works

You know, I I think I feel there's more evidence in the bible to demonstrate that salvation is by works

Now look folks if you agree with what we're talking about regarding salvation being by grace your faith

But you've never actually called upon the name of the lord to do so you better do that tonight

You better do it tonight. You're like, man, I can't remember when it was that I got saved

Well, and I don't really know if that ever happened then just pray right now

Just kind of shut me off right now and just pray thus within yourself unto the lord lord

I accept you as my personal savior. I believe on you for salvation

I know that it's not by works and I'm placing my faith in you exclusively better to do that

Then to become an apostate somewhere down the road because you're not really saved

Yeah

And folks, I'm telling you this happens a lot

Okay, apostasy abounds today

And obviously, you know when we look at for example the profile of a false prophet in 2nd Peter chapter 2

This profile can be broken up into four categories

If you study 2nd Peter chapter 2, we'll go there in just a bit

You have basically four categories of false prophets. You have the false prophet who wants to teach damnable heresy

Right, this is the person who isn't necessary. He's not a sexual pervert. He's not doing it for money

He's just in it to teach damnable heresy. He's in it to corrupt the scriptures

Right, there are false teachers among the people there are false prophets also among the people even as there should be false teachers among you

Who privately shall bring in damnable heresies?

Denying even the lord god that bought them you got that brother

Denying even the lord god that bought them

This is referring to someone who's teaching damnable heresy

Category number one damnable heresy category number two covetousness

Someone who

You know has the office of a pastor or a religious leader. Why because they want to make money

Is the joe holsteins of this world, right? These are the fake healers of this world

Category number three are those who hate magistrates. These are the usurpers

These are the people who want to have the preeminence among them

They like to have power over people and they will seek to destroy the reputation of the men of god in order to get it

The last category are the sexual perverts

And so false prophets these reprobates and apostates they fall into one of those four categories, okay

See why preach this because this week

You know, there's this guy out there. His name is kenny Baldwin

And you may not even know who that is, but he's a prominent pastor in the old IFB

Very prominent pastor. He was one at least

His dad was a very prominent pastor. Lou Baldwin was responsible for starting

tons of churches

Okay, he was he did a great work

But his son kenny Baldwin kind of rose up to the ranks

Became a pastor started a church was a major conference speaker

People loved him. They esteemed him. The guy's a freaking pedophile

Is arrested because he's sending new photos to a 15 year old boy

Disgusting and people were like, oh man, we're not for the grace of god. We'd be the what do you mean for what what?

Speak for yourself son

You know, oh man, well, david fell David committed adultery

David murdered and you know what these are sins common to man

I'm not justifying david sin, but find me a book chapter verse in the bible that talks about david committing pedophilia

It doesn't exist

Pedophilia is a disgusting

Abominable disgusting sin that merits the merits execution

Public execution at that and you know, it's associated with reprobation and being apostate

And you know, kenny Baldwin is not someone who just oh, he just stopped reading the bible

Bro, he never believed the bible

Bro's a homo

Yup. Yup. He's a homo. He denied the gospel long ago

Went apostate and was given over to a reprobate mind, which is why he was committing such filthy acts

Pray for him, you know pray for kenny Baldwin, you know just for what pray that he dies

But you know what this is this is the major problem with old ip churches

And again, you know, I'm a major advocate for old ip churches. You know this, okay

I'm probably the biggest advocate for old ip churches in our church

You know, I know a lot of you guys don't like old ip churches. Some of you don't you know, I actually do like them

But you know, they have a lot of blind spots

And one of them is this particular area

Where they just make excuses for people who are just absolute reprobates

And obviously some of it is just because of ignorance. They don't understand the reprobate doctrine

They were never taught but I don't know that I think sometimes the other percentage of people who struggle with this is because they're reprobates themselves or something

You just kind of wonder

Yeah, people on facebook, you know, and what drives me absolutely insane and just just bananas is when

You know something like this happens you find out about some pervert pastor

Doing some godless thing with kids some just reprobate and then these pastors hop on they're trying to be all hyper spiritual

And like, you know what another soldier has fallen

Bro's not a soldier

He didn't fall he's exposed

It's not falling. It's called getting exposed for being the absolute reprobate that he is

And look folks, let me just repeat it again pedophiles deserve the death penalty

They should be publicly shot in the head

That's what the government should institute upon these monsters

Because they destroy kids lives

A millstone should be tied about their neck and they should be drowned in the depths of the sea as the bible says

Okay, and any pastor, well, I just don't see god in that Jesus said that

He's the one who said that

Don't give me the spiritual hyper spiritual talk of another soldier has fallen

No, that's not the case. This dude went apostate long ago

Just like jack scopp just like these other perverts out there

And here's another thing is that

You know, you have these people like the like the preacher boys podcast

Right who's probably an apostate himself

And you you have these guys are like, you know, this happens a law in the high beach

This happens in every church. What are you talking about?

Not just ios churches. You ever heard of something called the roman catholic church?

You ever heard of monumentism

Apostasy happens everywhere

And you know what ifp churches are not immune to apostasy

Why because we can do everything we possibly can on our part to preach the word of god and preach the gospel

But people have to accept it in the pews

They have to accept the truth of the gospel in the pews

You know and you have this other argument from the other side is just like

Well, you know, I just see that people who go down this road of getting all liberal are just more likely

To be committing these horrible crimes and abominations

And you know, I get what they're saying about that because you know, these these non-denom churches are super liberal

And and you know, limp-wristed and it's very it's a very loose environment

But you know that that's not the biblical description of that though

The reason people do these things is because they reject the gospel

And this is the answer they'll say well these people profess to be christian. Yeah professed

You know, I don't I don't know if you know about this one sin called lying

There's a sin in the bible called lying

You know people do that

And you expect to tell you expect me to believe that some pedophile would not lie to your face

That's what they do. They're full of deceit. That's what the bible says

You know, oh man, we just got to pray for him and he just felt no they went out from us

Kenny bald one was not of us

He masqueraded. He has a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's a homo. He's a pedophile

He's the disgusting monstrous animal that needs to be put down

And you know what? I don't care if you think they get this gives ifp churches a bad name or not

Our church believes the pedophile should be put to death

But they're reprobate. They're apostate and you know again if it happens in our church

If ever an apostate comes out of our church and commits some wicked act like that

You better know for sure we will publicly condemn that person

Obviously there's nothing we could do on our part to like harm this individual maybe

But they will be we will turn them into the low

We're not gonna

You know hide it under a rug or something just sweep everything under a rug and just not talk about it

If this person is responsible for harming children committing crimes, they're gonna be turned over to the authorities

And that's you know, that's another problem that these ifp churches have

Is that they do sweep stuff under the rug

And move people around

You know, oh this guy commits pedophilia just move them to another church

Let them be a youth pastor somewhere else give them another chance, but folks pedophiles can't be reformed

It doesn't exist

Now it's important to note that when we talk about the reprobate and the apostate because look folks

You have to understand these things

When it comes to both they're two sides of the same exact coin

We're talking about two people

Who are beyond the hope of salvation they can no longer be saved

They're referred to as the reprobating Romans one in order to describe them for their perversion

Their sexual perversion perversion their degeneracy. That's what reprobate is about right the apostate is also the reprobate

But he's more closely linked to

Scriptural corruption, but they're both the same thing

And they both overlap one another

Okay, you know because you could have a reprobate out in public

Who's some sodomite?

Right. He's not a christian. He never identified as a christian. He might have been given the gospel

He might have known about the things of god and in light of that he rejected him became some pervert

But then you have people who grow up in church

People who hear the preaching of god's word

People who hear the gospel over and over and over again

They hear bible preaching over and over again, and they reject it. You know what happens apostate

Reprobate

That is a major danger my friends and folks. This is why it's important important, you know parents

We need to make sure we check on kids salvations

our kids salvations

you know

I have three kids that have made a profession of faith. They they they got saved

But you know what throughout their lives. I'm just gonna randomly check in

Not just assume

Why because you just never know

And you know what I teach a lot of saturated doctrine in this church

I teach a lot of bible we go through a lot of verses. I'm constantly quoting scripture

You know, I'm constantly saturating the services with the word of god

And I don't want anybody to become hardened towards the word of god because they're they never believed to begin with

It's a legitimate danger

Right

Not just for kids for everyone

But you know we need to make sure we check on our kids salvation and not just assume

And you know what you shouldn't assume that your friend you're brought to church is just saved like well

Don't witness them because he's already saved. No, let us check on their salvation

Let us check on them. They're saved and we'll just have a good conversation about salvation

right

Don't and look and if you talk to them and they're not saved don't take it as a as a insult to you

Just take it as like oh, I thought he was safe

You know, there's people that I thought I got saved and they weren't saved and they got saved later on

I'm not embarrassed about that because you know what there's not a competition of how many people we can just get saved

We know the goal is to just get people saved

So I have no issue with checking on my kids salvation

I check on their salvation. Okay, and I'm going to continue to do so throughout their lives

You know because it's great to be in a church where the bible is being preached and thundered forth and be able to just

Preach the word of god unfiltered, but as I mentioned whatever was sunday or last Thursday or whatever

You know the word of god can harden the heart as well though

Okay

You know, I remember years ago

And we often you know, I've preached against christian schools because christian schools essentially

You know, they do streamline the reprobation process. Let me just be real honest with you

You say why well because they're forced to go to the christian school students

And in the christian school, what are they getting just constant bible?

But they don't want to be there. There's students that don't want to be there

Kids just don't want to be there, but they're being forced their chapel services

And and and bible classes and they're constantly given the word of god and you know what it turns out reprobates

I've seen this personally when I used to work in a christian school. I saw this with students

You know, you have these guys that would come in. They were super on fire for god

They're a major fundamentalist. They preach the word of god now. They're a flaming faggot

They're married to some other dude

A dude married to a dude just denying the things of christ

Say how oh man, how did such a thing happen? I'll tell you how they rejected the gospel long ago

They went out from

I've gotten to a point where

I'm thinking of myself like I appreciate the men who have done

You know great things in my life in the old IFB, but you know what?

I gotta prepare myself in case I find out one of these guys ends up being a bad person

I'm not gonna assume that will happen. I just gotta prepare myself in case it does

Because I don't want to be a respecter of people

And just be completely devastated or something if I found something out like that

You say well then what would you do because you said that person was so influential in your life

I'll just say the word of god was influential in my life

That's just what I'll say

I'll say the word of god that this person was preaching influenced my life and that was it

And look, you know, you think of a guy like jack scott anybody who knows who jack scott is

Okay, he was the pastor of first baptist church of ham and the largest fundamental baptist church in america

I don't think in the world but in america for sure

It's the it's the church that jack house pastor. Okay, his son-in-law took over that which is jack scott

This guy's a reprobate. Okay posse reprobate false prophet for a variety of reasons

Okay

It's a major pervert

Sexual pervert. He's also, you know perverting the scriptures and so forth

But you know prior to all this I liked this preaching

I did

And I have pastor friends that also enjoyed his preaching because he was just a dynamic preacher

But you know just because I like that guy's preaching doesn't

You know that doesn't mean that when he was exposed

I'm just like well

I just think he fell because he was just so influential in my life or something. I was like this guy can pertinent hell for all I care

Whatever I got from him, you know, the wealth of the sinners laid up for the just amen

Whatever he taught from the bible that I glean wisdom from I'm just going to give credit to whoever he stole it from

And I'm not going to be like well, you know, he was influential

I do appreciate him for everything that he's a reprobate

And you know, there's a major issue with people like well, you know

He's such a great man jack scott did a lot of great things. Yeah, but folks you can't be a respecter of people

You can't be a respected people

If the guy is an absolute pervert

If he's an apostate if he's denying the word of god, which is exactly what jack scott did

Literally holding a conference called the king james summit in order to discredit the king james bible

We're talking about a fundamental baptist here

You know, he's talking about how you know when god hung jesus on the cross, you know, he hates you

He hates you just just teaching blasphemous things about jesus christ. You know at that point you say well, this guy's an apostate

And not make excuses. Well, you know, we're not for the grace of god bro. Check that guy's history

Whoever says that let's get that guy's computer and check his history real quick

You know, oh man, you know, everyone falls into sin. Let me see your phone, bro

Let me see your let let's do a search history on your phone real quick

Because you're making me very suspicious of you when you start defending pedophiles and apostates

You do well to just be like this guy's gonna get what he deserves pray for the victims and just keep your mouth shut

Or how about just keep your mouth shut period

And just say pray for the victims

Why do you feel like it's important for you to just back up an absolute apostate?

Rather than actually speak up for the victims

It's weird

But let me tell you why because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak it that's why

And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringing forth evil things

And he can't help but defend wicked people because he's probably wicked himself

That's how it works

They went out from us for they were not of us for if they had been of us

They would have no doubt continued with us go to first timothy chapter four first timothy chapter four

We'll come back to first john

First timothy chapter four

So the idea when the bible says here that they went out from us they would have no doubt continued with us

It's implying that there is a departure

From the truth right look at first timothy chapter one

I'm sorry first timothy chapter four verse number one says now the spirits speak at the expressly that in the latter times

Some shall depart from the faith

Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lies and hypocrisy

I want you to notice this having their conscience seared with a hot iron

So when it says that they departed from the faith, this is referred to apostasy

And I don't believe this is referring to christians, okay

I think it's just saying that in the latter times

People are going to depart from they're going to apostatize because they're allowing themselves themselves to be influenced by seducing spirits

Doctrines of devils and I want you to notice it says that they have their conscience seared with the hot iron

Okay, when you see or something you lose all sensation in it

Right

You see or something is like the the nerves are gone the sensation is gone

This is what Ephesians chapter four renders as what being past feeling

Me you could no longer feel

And this is the equivalent to what we see in roman chapter one that they're given over to a reprobate mind

To do those things which are not convenient. Why can the reprobate?

Why is the reprobate capable of committing them to some of the most heinous of crimes sins and abominations according to the bible?

Because they have a seared conscience

Doesn't bother them anymore. That's why they could commit pedophilia

Beastiality sodomy just disgusting acts because it doesn't bother them

Their conscience is seared with the hot iron

This is the punishment that they receive

Because of their rejection of the truth go back to first jawn if you would

first jawn chapter two

So they would have no doubt continued with us. What does it mean to continue in the faith?

It means that you basically believe the right salvation

The right beliefs about salvation about jesus christ to the very end

It doesn't mean you have to make okay. I gotta keep believing this. I gotta keep believing

I gotta make sure I believe it. Oh, I forgot, you know, it's just

It's referring to the fact that if you have these beliefs

And in the very end of life you deny those beliefs

It means that you didn't really believe them to begin with it was a vain belief as it says in first Corinthians chapter 15

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

Okay, I just think he's off doctrine. You know, a lot of people are off doctrine. It's true

Because people are just off doctrine sometimes, you know, it's believe weird stuff

Believe, you know dispensationalism

Flat earth

Zionism so all kinds of weirds beliefs out there, right? Yeah, amen

But when it says depart from the faith it's referring to like beliefs about the resurrection

So when you have the Corinthian church denying the resurrection, that's a made that's that's a major major problem there

Because part of the gospel

So he's like you believe them vain you're and he specifically says in second Corinthians chapter 13

2 Corinthians 13 · chapter mention

Examine yourselves if you be in the faith

Know you're not your own selves that crisis in you except you be reprobates

So he's saying like you better make sure you examine yourself meaning like you better make sure you're actually saved

Not by your works

Not by your behavior, but by your beliefs

Do you actually believe this?

And look folks sometimes people worry they're like man, I wonder if i'm a reprobate

Are they worried like man am I in this situation? What do you believe?

If you believe the right thing you got nothing to worry about

You're good

And let me also say this, you know if you're worried that you're a reprobate then that's one of the indications that you're not

Because reprobates don't care

They don't care

You know, they're they're they're just like they're good being a reprobate. They're good being a little faggot

They're cool with that

Don't bother them, right

Don't really bother them. They're like that

But if you're struggling is just like well, that's probably an indication that you're not because you're you're just you're just

You know, you're you're you're basically carnal or you know, you're struggling with something

But it doesn't mean that you're a reprobate, okay

It says that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us

So the bible's telling us here that like god is doing us a favor when he exposes these people

Right

So when Kenny Baldwin came out as a pedophile, I was just like thank god that he's exposed

You say why well number one he can't keep harming children, right? And look, you know this

Disgusting pervert would go and preach at churches and just collect numbers of teenagers

You know and there's like these testimonies of people like this pastor said like man

One of my church members was at this conference and he said that Kenny Baldwin gave him his number

And he's like if you ever need anything just let me just just call me and the the teenager felt like really uncomfortable. I was just like

That's kind of weird. You know like why would you do that?

It is weird

And thank god nothing happened, but you know what whatever 15 year old boy is the victim I I guarantee you he's not the only one

That they might be made manifest this is what the bible means in 2 Timothy chapter 3 that these shall proceed no further

2 Timothy 3 · chapter mention

So god just exposes them and you know what it's just like how much more exposure do you need in order to understand that this person's wicked

You're so you know consumed with preserving the reputation of IFP churches and churches this and that

And just being such a godly self-righteous person you forget that you're not loyal to the bible

By defending these pedophiles and perverts

He says they went out from us, you know Judas went out so everyone can know that he's an absolute betrayer

He's a traitor. He's an apostate. He is the son of perdition. God wants you to know that

You know god has a problem with the people are like they go out and just like pray for them

Look at them over there hanging

Look at him just hanging look at his bowels just gushed out poor guy

Man he just

He's the treasurer

God doesn't like that

In i in whose eyes a vile person is condemned. That's what the bible says

The person who dwells on the holy hill is the one who actually hates that person

Because they're a traitor to the christian faith

Okay, and again not every time a person is made manifest. Is it through

Perversion pedophilia

Here's a good way to determine if someone went apostate if they go to a church like this and then become a catholic

That's an apostate

If they become an orthodox

apostate

If they become a Mormon

apostate

Okay, if they become a part of if they become a muslim

Apostate

If you leave the christian faith the beliefs not our church

Not you know this congregation if you are a christian and you abandon you depart from

The fundamentals of the christian faith of salvation the bible the trinity the resurrection the principles of the doctrines of christ

Your apostate according to the bible

I

Look what it goes on to say in chapter 2. This is how we know this is this is the context

Verse 22 says who is a liar but he that denyeth

That jesus is the christ he is antichrist that denyeth the father and the son who served to deny the son

The same as not the father but he that acknowledges the son hath the father

Also, so this is all in the context, right? It's saying if you deny these things then you're not you don't have god

You deny the father and the son you deny the son and you claim to have the father you are apostate

Okay, and we're talking about people who claim to believe these things in times past and no longer believe them

We're not talking about the person you meet at the door who doesn't believe these things

They claim to be an atheist or something like that because they could still be safe

We're talking about someone who made the profession to believe in these things

Got themselves up to be in church at 10 30 in the morning on a sunday

acted like a christian

Went through all the the rig of morrow of being a fundamental baptist

Sung the hymns god of king james bible

Even went out and did some evangelism

That's a person who's claiming to believe these things and doesn't really believe them. That's an apostate right there

That's a person who's denying jesus christ and make no mistake about it

You know god is angry with that person. He's furious with that person

You know years ago. I think it was back in 2018 2019. I might have told the story here. I don't remember

um

But you know we had gone on a mission trip to aruba did I tell the story recently

We went on a mission trip to aruba with pastor anerson and faithful ward and various other churches joined

And it was great, you know, it's just meant a lot of new people and I got paired with the guy and his wife, okay

And you know, we spent a couple. I mean it was like a like a seven-day trip or something like that

And it was great. We got a lot of people saved. Well, this guy was newly married to this girl

And she you know, this is her first time going out first time on a missions trip

She was learning how to sew in then she started preaching the gospel there

And it was just one of those things like man, this is awesome. It's a great trip

and you know

Just good ratings overall just like one of those nice trips, right

A couple months go by

She goes apostate

She just says like I don't believe in any of this

Like I don't believe in cod. I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in the bible

I don't believe in any of it

And he I remember him calling like he's just like I'm like devastated like my wife's not saved

And she became extremely wicked ended up divorcing him and and doing all this stuff or whatever and just kind of just being an absolute atheist

Okay, and I remember him explaining. He's like I remember when we came back

You know, uh, she was a stayed-home wife

And she would just listen to you

Pastor Anderson and and Roger. I'll call him Roger right now

You know, he's he would listen to all three of you for hours every single day

Now if you do that

Kudos to you amen. You just got to get rid of the Jimenez one, all right

Because bro's a gooner

You know

That's good when you're listening to preaching right you're feeding the spirit

You are listening to bible content. You're increasing your knowledge

But if you're a person who's not saved though

Right and you're listening to hours on end of the truth and in your heart you're saying that's not true

That's not true. I don't accept that I reject that

And then you tell people oh, yeah, that was good

Oh, yeah, that was a good sermon

But here you don't believe it

You're pissing god off

Because you're making a mockery of the truth

You're making a mockery of the truth, you know, let me see if I can find this verse real quick

I would say talk amongst yourselves, but you shouldn't do that right now

and so, you know, she would listen to the uh

She listened to preaching on end and then after a while

It was like a it was like a switch. It just went off and then she just no longer believed it anymore. I don't know. Oh, here it is

Let's go to uh, ezekiel 33

I don't have any notes. So I'm just

You know trying to remember all these passages here

You know, if you're just listening to preaching and you're reading the bible and then you're also preaching the gospel

And you don't even believe the stuff that you're preaching

You're leading other people to believe these truths or to claim to believe these truths

And and you don't believe it yourself

That's insanity

That's evil

That's like super wicked

Because in your heart you don't really believe it. It's a ezekiel 33 ezekiel 33 folks, you know

It's like someone sitting in here right now

And you just completely hate my guts

Okay

And you just don't agree with what I'm saying. You don't you you just reject it in your heart

But then you come up to me and be like, hey, that was good. That was good

But you're just lying. You're just like lying in your heart. Do you actually believe these things?

You know, god will punish you with strong delusion and you will give you over to a reprobate mind

Look at ezekiel 33. It reminds me of ezekiel 33

And look down your bibles at verse number 31

It says here and they come unto thee as the people cometh

All right, let's go to 30 actually verse 30

Also, thou son of man the children of the people of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls

And in the doors of the houses

And speak one to another every one to his brother saying come I pray you and hear

What is the word that cometh forth from the Lord?

So they hate ezekiel but they're like, oh come talk about the bible

And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words

But they do them not but they will not do them for with their mouth they show much love

But their heart goes after their covetousness

So they're being fakes. They're being phonies, right

And lo thou art unto them

as a very lovely song

Of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well

On an instrument for they hear thy words, but they do them not. What is he saying?

You know, there's people out there that just like to listen to preaching just because it's entertaining to them

I mean hered

Hered jesus gladly, right or he heard john the baptist gladly

You know a lot of people just like to be entertained by these prophets

But they don't actually believe what's being sated and you know what that make that makes god bad

Yeah

Why because you are making a mockery of the truth

Because the the word of god has a lot of power

Right, and so it penetrates. It's like and it's not just the word of god. It's like the holy spirit using the word of god

And it's like tugging at your heart. It's saying this is true. You need to accept this

Stop messing around stop projecting this and then in your heart you're like

Who does he think he is this is so fake

I hate this, but then you keep coming back for more see

Be not deceived god is not mocked

For what's over a man so that shall we also reap and you know

God doesn't give us like a timeline of when this takes place, but there comes a point where god just like

All right, he's done cut him off

Cut him off

You know, he's he's made such a mockery of the truth

He's not willing to turn when the proof comes when i'm trying to reach him when i'm trying to reach her

They keep rejected in their hearts. They're making a mockery. Look. He's saying that he likes a sermon. That's a lie

He's singing to hymns, but it's a lie. You know what he does just makes him a reprobate

Makes him a reprobate

And you know what? Kenny Baldwin that happened a long time ago

Long time ago

He's a wolf in sheep's clothing

Seeking to take advantage of the innocent. That's a fact

Okay

You know may the word of god never be a very lovely song to you

As an unsafe person and if you like the song just accept the song amen

And look we we've literally had that in our church

We've had people come to our church. Listen to me who were here for years

Teenagers who were here for years

And they never got saved now. They're a complete reprobate

Like well, you know, what do you mean reprobate? I'm talking about they married

You know, they're a girl who married a girl

Sodomite

You say why did that happen? I'll tell you why because there's so much preaching being thundered forth here

It just hardened the heart of that person to the point where they said I don't want it and god gave them over to a reprobate mind

The word of god is powerful, but it's also dangerous to the person who makes a mockery of it as well

Go to heber's chapter three. Let's look at heber's chapter three

It's not that like oh it's just these churches that have these loose environments and you know ccm

Obviously ccm is super gay. Okay

You know the church is super gay

That's that's a fact you're right about that

Okay, and if you don't know what ccm is it's contemporary christian music

Okay, just in case you don't know what that is. It's the really gay music

It's what gay people produce when they claim to be christians

Ccm is what gay people do

The kind of music gay people make when they claim to be christians

Okay, so make sure you remember that the next time you listen to a song

A gay man wrote that it's a very lovely song

Um

So, you know, obviously the these types of churches

Are super gay and all that but at the end of the day at the end of the day folks

The apostate is made through the word of god

You have to like come to grips with that

It's the bible that makes people apostate

I'm not blaming the word of god. I'm blaming the person's

rejection of the word of god

That does that

Look at heber chapter three

And let's look at verse number six

It says but christ as a son over his own house whose house are we

If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope

Firm unto the end this doesn't mean that we have to hold on to it

It means if you believe this hope hope is that faith until the end then yeah, christ is over you

You are a partaker of christ

He goes on to say in verse seven, wherefore as the holy ghost sayeth today if you will hear his voice

Harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness

When your father's tempted me proved me and saw my works 40 years

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation

And they said they do always err in their heart and they have not known my

Waste skip down to verse 12 take heed brethren

Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief

In departing from the living god

He's and he's talking to christians here, but he's like hey, you better make sure that you are an actual believer though

And you better give he to make sure there's not an evil heart of unbelief to the point where you end up departing from the faith

as an apostate

He says verse 13 but exhort one another daily

While it is called today

Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin for we are made partakers of christ

If we hold the beginning of our confidence

Steadfast unto the end while it is said today today if you will hear his voice

Harden not your hearts as in the provocation. What is he saying? You know

You got to make sure that you actually believe the right doctrines. You believe the right salvation

Don't just play along

Hey teenagers don't just play along

There's there's no shame and you come into church for this amount of time

And you're like i'm just afraid that you know if i get saved right now

My parents are going to be disappointed. No, they're not going to be disappointed in you

They're going to be extremely happy that you got saved today if you're not

I will be extremely happy

If you got saved today people in our church will be extremely happy if you got saved today and no one's going to be like

What but i thought

Didn't you get saved long ago?

And i can't believe

And even if someone did do that, which would be really stupid

But even if someone did do that you should just be like yeah, but at least i'm saved now though

And he's saying here we need to exhort one another daily, you know part of the exhortations we need to talk about salvation

Talk about salvation. You know, I I got one child right now

Who's not saved?

But it's almost as if they're starting to become awakened to the truth

They start asking questions, you know

And they start saying like

I think I need to get saved

You know or am I going to get saved today?

They'll still say things like that and then you know we'll give them the gospel

We'll teach them but it's not it's still kind of going over their their heads

But you can see the light is starting to wipe because dad always talks about salvation

You know the church constantly talk about the gospel. This is exhorting one another daily

Okay

Look what it says in verse number 16 for some when they had heard

did provoke

How be it not all that came out of the egypt by moses, but with whom was he grieved 40 years?

Was it not with them that had sin whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that what believe not

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief

Now what what example is he given here?

He's saying, you know the people in the wilderness before they went into the promise land

They died on the other side

And in fact, there are certain people they were like on the border of the promise land

But they never went in why because of their unbelief

And that is a picture it symbolically represents someone who is hearing the word of god

They refuse to hear it. They refuse to accept it and believe it

And they don't make it to the promise and they don't make it to salvation because of their unbelief

It's a posthumousy go back to first shon

I'm giving you the reality of this

You know doctrine here that this does happen

Okay, and you know

Obviously we should do everything we possibly can to make sure that it doesn't but there's only so much we can do

Right, there's only so much we can do we can preach the bible

We can make salvation as clear abundantly clear as possible

We can talk about it. We can we can do everything we possibly can but at the end of the day people have a free will

And they have to choose to believe these things

Look at second john if you would second john

This would be the last verse because uh, actually, I don't know yet. We'll see I'm not going to speak too soon

Look at verse nine. It says who serve a transgressive and abideth not in the doctrine of christ

Hath not god he that abideth in the doctrine of christ

He has both the father and the son so the bible is telling us here that someone who transgresses they pass over

Right, they go beyond the boundaries of the doctrines of christ. They don't have god

They don't have christ. This is an apostate go to jude if you would the book of jude

You say to yourself

You know, I get what you're saying

But like how can someone like Kenny Baldwin for example?

Just being a church like that

be pastoring a church

Teach the word of god claim to lead people to christ

Talk about the things of god

Be a king james only is

preach at conferences

Do all these things and it just doesn't bother him

You know, don't you think the word of god would have like

Convicted him or he would felt some sort of illumination from that

How is it that he can just continue like that and nothing ever happened? Well, look what it says in verse

Let's see here

verse 13

Actually, let me see here

Look at verse 12. These are spots in your feast of charity

Listen to this when they feast with you

feeding themselves

without fear

You know why they can do this because they have no conscience

They're not afraid of being exposed

They can go to you and be like brother feast with you and there's just no fear whatsoever

This is what I mean when I say the reprobate don't care

If you're afraid is because you have actual fear

You know, you're just like oh man, but this person has no fear of god

They can literally go to conferences feast with you do all these things and they're not scared

Of getting caught why because they're absolute psychopaths

They feast themselves without fear clouds

They are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice

They plucked up by the words go to 2nd peter chapter 2

2nd peter chapter 2

2nd peter chapter 2

Very similar wording here it says in verse 13 and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness

As they they counted pleasure to write in the daytime spots. They are and blemishes

Sporting themselves with their own deceivings

While they feast with you meaning they kind of come to you they have a

A form of godliness they sport themselves with their own deceivings

They try to act and look like a christian, but they're lying to you, but they have no fear of being caught

They don't really care

So that's why we have to really rely upon the lord to expose these people

Right

I mean that's one of the things that I literally have on my prayer list

I pray lord make manifest the folly of the infiltrators

I don't have to do the job myself. I preach the word of god

I preach what the bible says

I try to keep my ear to the ground, but you know what? I'm not on a witch hunt here

I'm not going to be on a witch hunt trying to figure out. Who's the Judas Iscariot?

I don't even think we have a Judas Iscariot, but we might I don't know

But I don't think we do

How can you live like that? I'll tell you how I just got to rely upon the lord to make manifest the folly of the infiltrators

Because this is his church. This is his congregation

This is you know

This is his flock

I'm the under shepherd and I just have to have faith that god will make manifest the folly of the infiltrators

But let me also say this

Just because that's the case doesn't mean you should be careless though

Kids I mean parents watch your kids in church

Don't just let them go in the rooms by themselves with other kids

Don't just let them run amok and go into the dark corners

I know you love the fellowship and you know, we love the fellowship here

But you need to be paying attention to what's going on in our church

But this is a fundamental Baptist church though. This is a new IFB church. How this is a family integrated church

Yeah, and it's inside of a sin-filled world

Where infiltrators actually exist

And I'm not calling anybody an infiltrator here, but you know what just because I don't believe there's infiltrators here

Doesn't mean I'm going to be reckless either

With my parenting, you know, I tell my kids I want to I want you to can I play nope

You you be where I can see you

I want you to go into some dark corner

You know and you know, I don't want you to go to the kitchen

No going to the kitchen no going to the mother-baby rooms alone

With other kids it's not going to happen

And you know what we need to make sure that we're vigilant with our kids regarding that

Just because it's a Baptist church doesn't mean nothing can happen

Oh, is that not here? Yes here

And so yeah, you know, we have confidence that the Lord will make manifest the folly of the Kenny Baldwin's

That absolute perverts, but you know what I don't want him or anybody else to take anybody down with him

And unless kids because of the fact that people are just reckless

Watch your kids

You know watch your kids be vigilant take care of them

Keep an eye on them have rules for them have boundaries for them have guidelines for them

Yeah, but you know, we just trust look

I'm all for trusting people but there has to be a line where you're just like this is one area. We just don't

We don't cross over

Okay, plan is simple. They're like family. I get that but you know what at the end of the day

Those are your kids though

And you know like the people in our church they are like family, but you know

It just that's just a cute saying that we like to say to say we love each other

But I do I love you guys you guys are cool

I like you guys

I like you, you know, but you know what this is this is literally my family though, okay

That's just it, you know, some of you guys are you guys are like my spiritual sons, but that but spiritual emphasis on spiritual

You know

And so we need to make sure we recognize that and not just think well, we're all one big happy family

Yeah, but you know what unfortunately, it's just a sinful world. And so don't be stupid

Okay, be vigilant

Be sober because your adversary the devil walk at the bow seeking whom he made of our

Plain and simple

Okay, all right. Let's let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word lord help us to

Identify the false prophets but recognizes there's only so much we can do and I don't think it's our job

To point out who may be the false prophet in our church because I don't even think there's any

But if there is I have full faith in you that you will make manifest their folly

And we could all we can do is preach the word of god preach the gospel

Not be ignorant

Not give people too much the benefit of the doubt

And and recognize that you know, there's gonna be times where there is a Judas Iscariot that comes through and we may not see it

John didn't see it. Peter didn't see it. James didn't see it

We obviously know the lord Jesus Christ did he knew from the beginning

But I pray that you'd help us as your people to

Be discerning and may you protect us as your flock from the Kenny Baldwin's of this world

pray for the victims

of the people that

He molested lord or or was inappropriate with lord

I pray father god that they would find solace within your word

And I pray that the churches that they're a part of would stand with them and and preach against that wicked reprobate

And maybe bless this as we go on our way. Bless the fellowship and follow in Jesus's name. We pray amen