Sunday Message: Tackling Ten Timeless Truths, Part 6

Got your Bible, Hebrews chapter 13.

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He was up to 13. Now, I'm going to preach this

sermon differently than I preached the first service.

So in fact not totally different but completely different almost.

Okay, so I'm going to begin this way as you turn to Hebrews

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chapter 13, we will look at verse number 9 today, I'm going

to be in this way years ago, in our church, first started, we

had a man in our church, who was a dear friend of mine who was

involved in our recording Ministry.

And the day one, when we met in a park, we began recording all

of our sermons because when the church began, we wanted to be on

the radio and the Lord had opened the opportunity for us to

be on the radio, just one hour a day that was at 4:00 in the

morning but that's all we got. But we took it.

And so we had to record everything that we that we

preached. And of course, he was there to

be courted on that Sunday. We first started in 1994 and of

course, Don Davis who still works are sound Ministry is with

us today still here after 20 years.

Wow, Don. What commitment?

You're great, man, but he worked with with Don and so we went

from the from the, from the park to, to a school and we were to

school for about a year and then we moved to a church in Glendora

church is no longer there. They sold the church and built

houses there. Unfortunate.

But we went there and this man still was involved in a

recording. The unfortunate thing about it

is so many times because we use different equipment at different

times, sometimes the recording didn't take.

So I had to come back on Monday and re-preach Sunday, sermon, or

come back on Thursday and re-preach Wednesday night's

sermon. Okay, that happened quite a few

times probably 13 or 14 times less than 20, but more than more

than N. And of course this man would

come and he lived close to the church.

He would come in and we record the message and hear the message

again. and, After a period of time, you came to realize that

this this man had had begun to adopt a different belief than

the church. And I remember he went through

our membership class, he was a member, he's signed our

doctrinal statement and all that kind of stuff.

But word got back to me that he was beginning to learn in

believe something different about the Christ.

And so we came to realize that he no longer believed in the

deity of Christ, that Christ was God In the Flesh.

So I set him down and began to talk with him about these

things. And as we sat down, we talked

about them. And and I said, who are you

listening to? Who are you talking to?

Well, he was taking Jehovah's Witnesses and bringing them into

his house and talking with them about what it is, they believed

he did this on a regular basis. And the more he did it, the more

he realized he didn't believe that Jesus was God In the Flesh.

And so as I was talking to him in my office one day and going

through, scripture with him, I said you proved to me that Jesus

isn't God. Go ahead.

Try it. Sweet ride.

I kept saying wrong verse can't do that wrong again and wrong

again and so you can explain to him the deity of Christ and how

the Bible so eloquently. And so clearly presents.

That Jesus is God In the Flesh from the Old Testament to the

New Testament from Genesis to revelation.

We spent hours talking about the deity of Christ, and he just

would not. Believe.

So I said to him, listen, I will give you one more verse and

that's John 8:24, unless you believe that I am, he you will

John 8:24

die in your sins. Unless you believe that Jesus is

the god who spoke to Moses from the burning bush and Exodus

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chapter 3, you will die in your sins.

That's all I have for you. Because you don't repent for

what you believe about. Jesus Christ.

You will spend eternity. Inhale.

He said, okay. You know, if my office unless

the year later he was dead. He never turned his life around.

But he got caught up listening to the wrong kinds of people.

Did he lose his salvation? No, he didn't lose his

salvation. He never truly was bored again

to believe with, to begin with. That's why he was so easily

duped and led astray sync with these.

Four tells us that Satan blinds our minds so that we don't

believe in the deity of Christ. That won't believe that Jesus is

actually God In the Flesh. Because once you believe that

Jesus is God, okay, you can begin to understand that the

work on the cross was sufficient for your saving Saving Grace.

So it's unfortunate that that took place, but over the years

as Elders, we've had to deal with people in the church who

have listened to others outside the church that have led them

astray. We've even had to discipline

Elders in our church, who began to believe different things,

other than what, the Bible actually taught about the

identity and the ministry of Christ himself. and that was,

Unfortunate, it is unfortunate. But we are supremely concerned

about what people believe about the gospel.

What they believe about Christ. And so we want to keep our ear

close to the ground to hear what's being taught in Sunday.

School classes was being taught at home.

Bible studies what's being taught with our young people,

our college students because we want to know that truth is being

taught. Why is that so important?

Because Hebrews chapter 13 verse number 9, the writer of Hebrews

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gives us the sixth principle, the sixth Timeless truth that we

need to tackle as well as to treasure.

And that is in verse number 9, which we just way do not be

carried away by varied and strange teachings.

What is good for the heart to be, strengthened by Grace, not

by Foods through which those who were so occupied.

We're not benefited. The sixth truth is that you need

to refuse to listen to wrong teaching.

Refuse to listen. To wrong teaching.

Right of Hebrews is writing to. Hebrew people there Jews, right?

Jews are big on dietary laws. They're big on ceremonial laws.

There are big on rituals. Okay.

So much so that they were external trappings that they

believed would draw them closer to God.

They didn't but that's what they believed.

So the writer of Hebrews is going to say to them, listen I

know what you believed before. You gave your life to Christ,

don't go back in that direction, don't listen to those various

kinds of teachings, and strange teachings.

That will take you back to a place.

That will not be a benefit to you spiritually.

But you need to be enriched and nourished by the words of God's

grace. Very important statement.

Because the church today in America is being tossed to and

fro by every wind of Doctrine and that's unfortunate.

Preachers are mainly at fault for that and I'm a preacher.

So I can say that because we sometimes don't do what we've

been called to do. To preach the word in season and

out of season. But more about that.

In a moment, it's imperative that we understand that.

That to pick up on varied, kinds of teachings is dangerous.

I mean, most churches are filled with with babes babes.

You know when you get your your grandkids or your kids together

and they're really small, all right in there.

Crawling on on the ground, right?

When they come across an object they get it!

They pick it up and the first thing to do is put it where in

their mouth No matter what it is, no matter where it is, no

matter where it's been, they're going to pick it up and put it

in their mouth. That's the way most Christians

are in the church. They're crawling around

listening to all kinds of teaching and trying to put it in

their mouth thinking that it's going to help them.

But in reality, it's going to hurt them because it's not sound

Doctrine, it's not the truth of the word of the Living.

God So the writer of Hebrews says, listen.

I know about your your rituals in your your ceremonies in your

dietary laws, put those things aside, never put aside the moral

law, right? Because the moral law is Eternal

Word of God that sustains forever, but the ceremonial laws

are ritualistic laws. Those dietary laws that you're

engaged in are not going to help you in your walk with the lord.

They're only going to drag you down.

So he says, don't be carried away, don't be removed.

Removed by them. Don't be caught in the Trap.

Because if you are, it's not going to benefit you because it

hasn't been in benefited anyone else ever.

You get so many times the church finds itself.

Trying to feed off of things that do not benefit them. so

right here who says, refuse to listen To wrong teaching.

Now, the writer of Hebrews did not have to battle social media,

right? That was not a thing back in

those days today, you can listen to anybody anywhere at anytime,

right? Everybody's got a podcast.

Everybody's got a YouTube channel.

Everybody's got this going on. So are you going to do is tune

in listen. But you got to make sure you

listen to the right people. So we times people say, well,

you know, he was so good. He always talked about Jesus.

Well, if he talks about Buddha and Muhammad, you're not going

to listen to him. So certainly is going to talk

about Jesus because if you listen, if he talks about

Buddha, you're not gonna listen to him.

That's not Mohammed, you know, you can tune them out.

But he said it so enthusiastically.

He said it was such conviction. Yeah.

But didn't he see? What was true.

What was right? What was pure?

What was holy? There are a lot of charlatans

out there. A lot of people out there that

don't teach the truth. And the unfortunate thing is

that there are many Christians who fall?

Prey to that kind of teaching. Satan loves to destroy your

testimony. Satan wants to divide the church

Satan wants to destroy the people in the church.

You know, so many times, we think that we we leave here.

We're going to go out and fight Satan, no, no Satan's here.

He's in the church. You think he's out there

someplace? Well, yeah, the lust of the

flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life.

This is that has nothing to do with Satan, that's just you be

careful about your lust for the flesh.

Your pride of life, right? Your lust of the eyes.

No, we can fall prey to all kinds of sin.

And Satan doesn't have to tempt us because we are so prone to

falling into sin. But in the church, Inside the

church. Is where Satan loves to exist.

He loves to be in the church. We can divide the church sow

dissension in the church get false teachers that are rise

within. The Church of Paul says in Acts

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chapter 20, He is looking to destroy from the inside out.

He wants his, he wants to destroy for.

The I said I didn't but he can't write, he couldn't destroy the

outside, in just look at what covid did covid.

Did nothing to destroy the church.

But yet. if you can work on the inside and get false teachers to

arise from the inside, you can destroy the church.

All you got to do is read the book of Revelation, Revelation,

2 & 3, And see what Satan did to the church at Ephesus.

When Paul said these words to those in Ephesus and accept the

20, He said. Verse 28 be on guard for

yourselves. And for all the flock among

which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the

Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

She's challenging the Ephesian Elders.

You need to Shepherd the Church of God, you need to protect the

church. Because Christ shed his blood

for the church. He says, verse 20.

I know not, I think, or this is the possibility, or this might

happen somewhere down the road. So, watch out now, he says, I

know very emphatic. I know that after my departure

Savage wolves will come in among you not sparing the flock and

from among your own selves men will arise speaking perverse,

things to draw away the disciples after them.

Therefore be on the alert remembering that night and day

for a period of three years. I did not cease to admonish

each. One of them are which each one

with tears and now I commend you to God in the word of his grace

which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance

among all those who are sanctified I have one protection

than only one. It's the word of his grace.

Nothing else I can do for you. I've been here for three years.

I'm on my way out. And when I leave, mark it down,

Savage wolves will arise from among your own.

Selves is a Savage was going to cover the outside, then arise

from the inside. So the only thing I can do is

commend you to God and the word of his grace, which is able to

build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who

believe because you only protection, you only defense

against false teaching is the truth of the word of God.

That's it. Need to master it.

Paul said to those in galatia church at galatia.

Oh Church what has happened to you, who has Bewitched you Who

has come in among you, who has turned you aside.

That has got you to believe another gospel.

How is it? You had begun in the spirit.

But now you're trying to be perfected In the Flesh.

How is it? You began so good.

And now things are so bad. What happened to you guys?

That was the church at galatia? Church of Ephesus.

It's not around today. Because of false teaching Came

From Within and destroyed the church.

Paul says, in Romans 16 verse 17, the church at Rome.

Romans 16:17

He says, now, I urge you Brethren, keep your eye on those

who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the

teaching which you learned and turn away from them for such men

are slaves. Not of our Lord Christ, but of

their own appetites and by their smooth and flattering speech,

they deceive, the hearts of the unsuspecting, be careful, watch

out. People are they're going to

cause dissension among you going to deceive you and Lead.

You astray be very, very careful.

And then Paul says, in first technique with these 11 false

prophets are deceitful workers disguising themselves as

Apostles of Christ. No wonder for even Satan

disguises himself as an angel of Light.

Therefore it is not surprising. If his servants also disguise

themselves as Servants of righteousness, whose end will be

according to their deeds. In other words, Satan is a

master of deception. A Master of Disguise.

Goalie back to the Book of Genesis.

The third chapter He deceived. Adam and Eve, he told a lie.

They believed a lie. The sin into the world.

Satan is a master of deception. He always disguises himself as

an angel of Light. In his emissaries, they disguise

themselves as angels of light, they look good on the outside.

They, they smell good on the outside, but on the inside,

that's Christ would say they're as rotten as dead men's bones.

Remember in Matthew chapter 7, when Christ was ending The

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Sermon on the Mount, he talked about false teachers, beware of

false teachers that are among you, right?

They look like like sheep on the outside, but inside there,

they're wolves, Savage, wolves and who's he talking about?

He's talking about Pharisees scribes Sadducees.

He's talking about the religious establishment of his day in

Jerusalem. These are the guys, you got to

watch out for. Watch out for the homosexual or

the adulterer or the drunkard. You know, they're Sinners.

Gotta watch out for those who disguise themselves her false

teachers. Who get you to believe that what

they're saying. Is right.

Church at colossae. Second chapter First number 8,

Paul says the same thing. John gets in love.

At first John 4 verse. Number one is this test the

spirits so John gets in on as well.

Peter second, Peter chapter 2. He gets you in on the

conversation about false teaching and Jude.

Yep. Same with Jude jube that verse 3

beloved. I while I was making every

effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the

necessity to write to you, appealing, that you contend

earnestly for the faith, which was once for all handed down to

the Saints. Why for A certain person's have

crept in unnoticed those who are long beforehand, marked out for

this condemnation, ungodly persons who turned the grace of

our God, into licentiousness and deny our only master and Lord

Jesus Christ. Juices, I want to write to you

about our Salvation because it's so great. but, but, There are

certain men that have crept in unnoticed.

Many turn the grace of God into licentiousness who deny our Lord

and savior. That is they tell you that you

can go ahead and send us. Okay?

Because because God's grace will cover that.

It's okay live as you want to live And yet he says they've

crept in unnoticed, but they're here, Jesus warned, and Matthew,

and the gospels they're coming. Paul warned, when I leave, they

will arise within Peter. John Jude all said they're

coming until June funny says, guess what?

They're already here. They have crept in and you don't

even know they're among you. Wow.

That's amazing. Think about that.

And so, the writer of Hebrews says, You got to refuse to

listen to wrong teaching. You can't be listening to those

who because of their dietary rituals or because their

ceremonial ax, or because their holy days or, because of their

clothes and wearing those kinds of garments.

It's going to make you any better in Christ eyes or even

commend you to God. That's first, Christian Saint.

Paul says listen, no matter what you eat.

You're never going to please God by what you eat.

Let's First Corinthians chapter 8.

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Because God doesn't care about what you eat Pastor.

How can you say that? Because the kingdom of God is

not about eating and drinking. It's about righteousness.

Peace and joy. In the Holy Spirit, the king of

Gods internal. What defiles a man comes from

within the man, not from what the man takes on the outside and

puts into me, right? That's why Christ told Peter and

exit. Through 10 don't call anything

unclean that I've already labeled clean.

Meaning, that Cornelius was going to be the first Gentile.

Who was born again in the book of Acts and great things are

going to happen because in the Gentile world because of the

work of Christ on calvary's Cross.

So important. So, the writer of Hebrews says,

I want to warn you about something.

Good to refuse to listen to wrong, kind of teaching the

church needs to be discerning. And the only way he can learn to

discern between what is good and what is evil, what is right and

what is wrong is to know the truth of the Living God that's

it. So Paul in his epistle to the

church at thessalonica, gives the Clarion call for discernment

in the church. He says these words in first

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Thessalonians, chapter 5 verse number 19.

Verse number 20 do not despise prophetic utterances.

Do not despise prophetic utterances.

Remember, we told you last week and the week before that

Proverbs 13, 13 says what don't despise the word of God.

Or you will be in debt to it. Don't disregard what God says,

don't despise, what God says, don't turn a deaf ear to What

God Says, or you'll be in debt to that.

In other words, you'll suffer the consequences of those who

live and Disobedience to the word of God.

Then we took you to Proverbs chapter 16 last week to show you

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that he listens to the word will be rewarded.

Proverbs 23:23 says by truth, never sell it, do all you can to

Proverbs 23:23

obtain truth because truth is the only thing that matters.

And now Paul comes in first and 25 says, do not despise do not

disregard, not look down upon prophetic utterances.

In other words, he's not telling them not to look down upon

prophecy or people predicting the future.

That's not what he's saying. Prophetic utterances is the

reiteration of biblical truth. So those who prophesy

biblically, who give to you, the truth of God, do not despise.

The prophetic utterances given to you by those who give you the

truth of God's word. Don't despise it.

He says instead examine everything.

Good words. Go.

I get mods 0, which means to scrutinize to test.

It's a process by which you take something through a grid to

prove whether or not it's authentic and genuine.

This is what you got to do. Make sure that you don't despise

prophetic utterances, that you listen to them.

But you examine everything. Everything that has spoken, I

would I would expect that every one of you would examine

everything that I say every Sunday just don't say well

Pastor Lance that, it must be true.

Don't do that, that's the wrong attitude to have examine it.

Re-read it. That's why when we preach the

word we take you from verse 2 verse 2 verse 2 verse by because

the Bible interprets the Bible. So if Paul said it Peters mother

said Peter said it Jude's going to say juice said it John's

going to say it. Why?

Because Jesus said it's all over the place.

So the Bible proves the Bible. So it's imperative that we

examine every prophetic utterance and then you cling to

that which is good. And you abstain from, every form

of evil. That's a verse of my mom and dad

used to always go to me. When I I was a kid growing up,

hey abstain from every form of evil, and that's true, you

should do that, right? But that's not what the verse

says. The verse says, abstaining from

everything that's evil about what you just examine about.

The prophetic utterance, that's not true.

That makes sense, that's what it means.

So you don't despise prophetic utterances, first Thessalonians

5 verse number 20, but then you examine everything, that's been

spoken, hold fast, that which is good cling to that, which is

Hold on to that which is true. But abstain shun get rid of

everything, that's evil, that was spoken.

That's the certain. That's what the Discerning

Spirit. Does seem weird to use in first

1 Thessalonians 4 · chapter mention

Thessalonians chapter 4. When it says, we are to abstain

from sexual immorality, we don't dabble in sexual immorality.

No, we abstain from it. You turn away from me, you shut

it. Okay.

First, Peter 2:11 abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against

your soul, right? In other words, stay away from

those things will seems to with those who teach evil things

things that are unprofitable cling to that, which is good.

Not don't cling to that, which is entertaining, but cling to

that, which is good, which is true, which is accurate.

But abstain from every form of evil that style you.

So Paul says the same thing, the right of Hebrews says by

refusing to listen to wrong gun, you teaching The call for

discernment in the church is huge.

For the most part, the church is undiscerning.

Why is that? How does that happen?

What office is it this way? Tragically.

There are many in the contemporary church.

Who also lacks spiritual discernment.

Such people are far better at staying in tune with cultural

Trends. Then they are at appreciating

and understanding biblical Doctrine in some cases.

Hold churches, have shifted their focus from the clear

teaching of scripture, to the felt needs of Sinners.

They want to make the church service comfortable and

non-confrontational As a result, the message a champion are

theologically week and the people, they serve our

doctrinally naive. Those churches are defenseless

Against Terror. So true.

Most people in the church are not equipped.

To defend against Terror. Paul says, if you just for God's

given gifted men to the church Apostles prophets evangelists

pastors and teachers. Those are gifted men that God

has given to the church. There are spiritual gifts that

every one of you has but God gives gifted me into the church.

So the church will be equipped. The church should be mature that

you should grow up through the preaching and teaching of the

word of God. So that people are not tossed to

and fro by every wind of Aaron being deceived by spirits that

will come along and move them astray.

So Paul says listen examine everything.

Why? because, for the most part,

People are taught by men, who all they want to do is be

contemporarily relevant. Who want to be in style?

Who will be cool with the things they say, who want to tell?

Good stories to get you to laugh or or sad stories because you to

cry play on your emotions. They didn't the lights in the

service, have smoke that comes out in a service because it's

all about the mood that they can create thinking that he can

manipulate you into believing what they're saying.

All that. You need to refuse the turn away

from This author goes on to say there are six reasons.

For the disturbing lack of discernment that characterizes

the contemporary church. Number one, he says, The recent

Trend among many image evangelicals to minimize the

importance of Doctrine. Those this Camp argue that

biblical Clarity is both divisive and and loving to them.

It puts up walls, lack humility, and hinders Unity.

The reality however, is that the church has suffered severe

consequences for abandoning, its commitment to sound Doctrine.

So true Number two, he says the church has become less objective

in its Outlook substituting. Unconditional Truth for moral

relativism and postmodern subjectivity.

Instead of seeing truth in terms of black and white, many

Christians treated as a gray area, the Bible is clearly

antithetical. It makes absolute distinction

between right and wrong truth. And error.

Then the three part of its contemporary Vengeance.

T strategy. The church has a bend in its

commitment to the power of scripture and become preoccupied

with his image in order to reach the culture is become just like

the culture. if you go to church, And your church is just

like your culture you're not in church.

You're in the culture. That'd be different, right?

Uniquely, and distinctly different than the culture.

Because that is a number four in consequence.

Of the previous point, the church's current lack of

discernment stems from a failure to properly study and interpret

the scriptures. That's true.

Number five. He says, is it General

abandonment of church discipline in Evangelical circles, when

God's people fail to confront sin, and heresy wickedness,

within the body goes, unchecked the congregation, and evidently

accumulates more, and more unregenerate members,

unbelievers, who feel comfortable, because their sin

issues are never addressed even Grievous immorality and major,

ethical lapses are sometimes overlooked ignored under a false

pretense of love, but a church cannot effectively promote

discernment if it happily condone sin or primarily

consists of unsaved. Sinners, after all the

congregation that thinks incorrectly about Holiness shows

that it also thinks incorrectly about truth.

So very true. And lastly says, the church is

lack of. The sermon is the rampant void

of spiritual maturity within its ranks.

Those who are those with a superficial understanding of

scripture, a weak grasp of sound Doctrine, and a deficient view

of God cannot be discerning. Why is it our children, don't

discern between good and evil, right?

And wrong because they're not spiritually mature. as they

begin to grow in their walk with the Lord, their senses are Fine,

tuned to hear error. You need to be able to listen

for error and no it when it arrives and no, the cling to

that, which is good and abstain from every form of evil.

Listen, if everybody in the church was this way, it would be

so magnificent. That's why we teach you

Doctrine. Let you do it during our

announcement side. Why don't we teach you Doctrine

every quarter because we want you to know what the Bible says

about anthropology. What the Bible says about

theology. What the Bible says about

homology, pneumatology ecclesiology eschatology, right?

We want you to know those things.

Why? Because you need to be fed

truth, fine, fine doctrine. That helps, you understand the

truth between good and error. Unless we teach you, those

things you're not going to learn them.

I can't teach you every Doctrine from the pulpit, but we can

teach you what are what we believe, and teach it on a

consistent basis. So you can grow in your

understanding of the gospel and the god, you serve.

That is so important. That's why the greatest study

you can ever embarked on. Is he attributes of God, right?

Just studying the attributes of God, knowing your God who he is,

how he functions. All those things.

Just expound your understanding of the beauty and nature of the

Living. God.

And so, it's important that we understand these things.

So, the writer of Hebrews says in Hebrews chapter 13 verse

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number 9, do not be carried away.

Do not be removed by varied and strange teachings for it is good

for the heart to be, strengthened by Grace, not by

Foods through which those who were.

So I keep I'd were not benefited, they do you, no good.

But if you're nourished in the words of Grace, if you're

strengthened by those words, that's what you need.

That's why Paul said that. If he's an Elders, I commend you

to God and the word of his grace, which is able to build

you up, and to give you an inheritance, it's the word that

saves, it's the word that sanctifies him.

Christ has Sanctified them in truth.

My word is truth. It's the word that satisfies job

said, it Job chapter 23, right when he said, Ed.

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I treasure your words more than my necessary food, why?

Because he knew that only thing that could satisfy him amidst,

all of us pain and it's all of his turmoil.

I missed all of the abuse he was receiving was what truth that's

all that matters. It's all I have.

It's only you can satisfy the man.

His wife couldn't satisfy him. She was nowhere to be found.

His friends couldn't satisfy him.

That's for sure. They can say anything good.

His health was in shambles, he lost his children, he lost

everything. So how does the main find

satisfaction when his life is totally tone of torn apart?

The only place you can find satisfaction in the truths of

God's holy word. See that's where it is.

But if you don't know the truth, Candlelight, the truth.

And move toward that truth. suppose that committee to God,

the word of his grace, which is able to Build You Up, It's God's

word that does that. And we need to come to grips.

With that. I have in my presence here since

the year 2001. My welcome mat.

It's kind of old now and grungy See that's clean that used to

because I keep stepping on it, but I had this underneath my Pew

out of here, is since a man gave it to me when I preached on 1st

Thessalonians 2 verse number 13, where the church of thessalonica

put out the welcome mat for the word of the Living.

God, it's my constant reminder, that, when I opened the word of

God, I must welcome everything that God says And so I keep it

here and there, he my pew. As a constant, reminder never

do. I sit down stand up or walk

around the front, without knowing that's there.

Because as your pastor, if I don't put a welcome mat out to

the word of the Lord, why would you write?

And so, Paul commended the Church of thessalonica because

they welcomed what was said, they received with joy and

became imitators of Paul and Silas.

And they realize that God's word was everything because he

welcomed it in. And Paul says, the reason you

welcome it is in is because it does a work in.

You, who believe in, there's been a mighty work done in your

lives because you believe, But so many times.

We don't want to welcome the word.

All right, Hebrews says these words.

Hebrews chapter 19, I'm sorry. Progress at the 19th.

Forgive me verse number 27. Cease listening.

My son. To discipline.

Cease, listening my son to discipline and you will stray

from the words. Of knowledge.

What a powerful verse. That all powerful, right?

But they're powerful for this occasion.

Do you know what happens when you stop listening to

discipline? You stray from the words of not.

Why is it people in the church stray away from the truth?

Because they will not listen to the words of discipline.

The words are discipline only come from the truth of God's

word. What does God's word say, right?

And so when you when you tell them what God's word says they

are the words of discipline, they're the words of training.

Their the words of of development that the words of

instruction And if you refuse to listen to those words, guess

what you will eventually stray away from the words of

knowledge. Why because you become

accustomed, not doing what God's word says.

When you become accustomed, not obeying, what God's word says,

it's easier to disobey the next time, and then the next time,

and then the next time and then you got it.

Thanks Tom. That's Stop listening to

discipline my son. And you will certainly stray

away from the words of knowledge. if I could tell you

how many times, Over the 28 years that we've been together,

we've warned people of that. They still care.

We each other. It will affect you down the

road. You will stray from the words of

knowledge are not prophets. I'm not claiming to be prophets

or Center profits. We're just quoting to you.

What God says in his word is going to happen.

Because you refused to listen to the words of discipline.

You will stray, from the words of knowledge, it happens.

It always does why Proverbs 13 13.

If you despise the word of God, you'll be in debt to the word of

God. Israel, is that way.

Israel is so important to learn from Everything in the world is

about Israel said that for 28 years going to see if the next

28 of God gives me that long. Everything is about Israel.

Always has been always will be okay. and God speaks to Israel

in the book of Jeremiah He says these words.

Jeremiah 50 verse number 30. An appalling and horrible thing

has happened in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely.

And the priests rule on their own authority.

And my people love it. So, Other words, the prophets

don't speak the truth. They just prophesy falsely.

And the priests. They don't follow my authority,

they follow their own authority. And because they do the people

just love it. They eat it up.

They eat it up. So the Lord says this and

chapter 6, verse number 10, behold the word of the Lord has

become a reproach to them. They have no Delight.

In it, he ever met someone who no longer is Delights in the

word of the Lord. You're met someone who when they

hear the word of God, it becomes reproach to them.

Why is it? Simply because they have not

refused to listen to wrong teaching.

They listen to prophets who prophesy falsely.

They've listened to priest to work under their own authority.

And they love it. So, Paul said, in second,

Timothy 2:56, the preach the word in season out of season

reprove rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and patience,

why? Because the time is coming when

they will not endure sound Doctrine anymore.

You don't want that. You know God's word doesn't

tickle your ears. God's word boxes, your ears?

Read your ears, boxed. Not a good feeling, that's God's

word. If your is being tickled, that's

not God's word because God words, confronts sin and deals

with it so that you're convicted and changed.

So God says this to Israel. This is the Lord stand by the

ways and see and ask for the ancient paths the way they used

to be. Where the good way is and walk

in it and you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, we will not walk. In it.

When you refused. To listen to the words of

discipline. You will walk away from the

words of knowledge. so, I said, I watched Men over you.

A mission to warn you of impending judgment.

Saying, listen to the sound of the trumpet but they said we

will not listen. Therefore hero Nations and Noah

congregation was among them. Hear o Earth behold.

I am bringing disaster on this people.

The fruit of their plans. Because they have not listened

to my words. and that's for my law, they have rejected it also,

He who despises the word will be in debt to the word.

He who ceases to listen to discipline will stray away from

the words of knowledge. And God says, come this way.

Walk the ancient past. Listen to what I had to say.

We will not. I'll give you a Watchman.

Who warned you who blow the trumpet to let you know, of

impending judgment. We will not listen.

Really. Okay, I will bring disaster

about you. And Israel.

Yep. For 70 years. they went off into

Babylonian captivity simply because they did not refuse.

To listen to wrong teaching. They delighted and listening to

false teachers. And he delighted in listening to

priests who functioned under their own authority through

God's Authority. It cost him dearly.

I don't want that for me. I don't want that for you.

I don't want that for any believer.

I want us to understand the beauty of God's holy word and

the prize that we possess in holding in our hearts hiding it

in our hearts, handling it correctly.

So others will hear and believe and know this is the way walk in

it. Let's pray father thank you for

today. Thank you for your word.

Thank you for the greatness of your truth.

Our prayer Lord is that everyone of us.

Every single one of us would truly. long to listen to you

only There are so many people out there that are talking.

Insane things. It's just aren't true.

We need to be discerning. And the only way that happens is

to be completely, commended and committed to the word of your

grace. We can be built up in the faith

and know the truth of a living. God as you leave this place

today, help us to live for you. until you come again, as you

most surely will in Jesus name, amen.