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1 Corinthians 61,11 -Conflict Resolution- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2024-04-21

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First Corinthians chapter six verses one through 11. Dare any of you having a matter against another go to the law before the unjust and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Knowing not that all we shall be judged or knowing not that we shall judge angels. How much more things to pertain to this life? If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there's not a wise man among you? No, not one that should be able to judge between his brethren. But brother goes to law with brother and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore, there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. That's a good podcast. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, and you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the spirit of our God. Father, thank you so much for our standing in Christ Jesus, and such were some of us. But Lord, you saved us. Lord, you sent people with the glorious good news of your kingdom, the glorious gospel, the power of the gospel to transform and change lives. Lord, we've been recipients. We've received you into our hearts and lives And Lord, by the power of your Holy Spirit, you've transformed us from body and soul to body, soul, and spirit. And in the power of your Holy Spirit, Lord, we have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. Thank you for the freedom, the joy, the blessing of having communion and fellowship with you. Thank you, Lord. We don't need to be slaves to sin anymore, hurting one another, breaking your heart. Father, thank you for the power of your Holy Spirit. We pray you pour out a fresh upon us and help us to live the Christian life in the power of the spirit. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Would you please be seated? How many of us have been to court to solve a legal issue? Maybe you challenged a parking ticket, went to the court and, you know, said, hey, this is unfair. I get these tickets all the time in Bremerton or whatever. Or maybe a custody battle over in Port Orchard at the county courthouse, and maybe it went to the state, maybe to the federal level, the federal ninth circuit court of appeals. Maybe you've also been in a lawsuit that's gone all the way to the supreme court or maybe you're one that goes to the world court, know. You've been you've been indicted as a criminal, one genocidal dictator maybe. And so whatever, you know. The Corinthians were suing each other. They were taking each other to court trying to resolve their differences and Paul says, stop. There's a better way. Resolve conflict by changing your number one, by changing your arbitrator. Verse one, dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints. So keep it in house. Keep it among the saints. You know, quit, you know, bringing your dirty laundry out and bringing it over to the courthouse for everyone to see, and all the whispering and gossip and slander and all that sorts of things. And so in first Corinthians eleven thirty one, if we would judge ourselves, we'd not be judged. So don't even let it go that far. Now the Jews, they had a system, the nation of Israel, where they would, bring their differences based upon the mosaic law. They would bring it into the synagogue and the elders would evaluate, you know, who was right, who was wrong, and and what the law would prescribe. The Muslims today in Dearborn, Michigan and such, we know that they have Sharia law that they judge their differences thereby, but the Greeks and the Romans provided public courts to resolve conflict. These trials would, first entail enlisting the help of arbitrators. They'd have three arbitrators that they'd give and one for each of you and then one in between. So each person would choose one, then agree on a third one and then the arbitrators must be at least 60 years of age so I wouldn't qualify. If this did not provide a solution, they would go to trial by jury consisting of 30 or more jurors according to the Romans and the Greeks. And so the Grecian and Roman society was extremely litigious priding themselves of their Roman law. The saints as in the church were to resolve their conflicts among themselves. And so we see in Matthew 18 as we studied last week a little bit, 15 through 17 that if somebody wronged you, if you know that they're doing something wrong, you go to them alone. And, if they repent, you know, you won your brother. If they you're doing something wrong and they still won't repent, then within the church, we bring a witness with us, and we go there and and we challenge them, based upon, right and wrong, based upon the word of God. And, and if they still don't listen, then we bring it before the church. And then we, as a church, we've gotta have, the leadership try and deal with these things, whether it be immorality or whatever it might be, whatever kind of a dis, you know, difference. So we try to arbitrate. We try to be a mediator. We try to reason with somebody based upon truth, based upon the word of God, based upon love, should be ruling and reigning. And and that's where the Lord has given us the ability within the church to handle these things within the church. Verse two says, do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? So believers are gonna rule and reign with Jesus. So you're gonna he's gonna go on to say not only the world, but the next verse, you're gonna judge angels. I mean, you're gonna be in the ruling echelon. You're going to be ruling and reigning as kings and priests with Jesus during the millennial reign. So Jesus is gonna be king of kings and lord of lords. David is prince. And within the nation of Israel, there's gonna be a hierarchy away where the 12 apostles are on upon thrones judging with with Jesus, the nation of Israel. And then in the Gentile community, you and I as part of the church are going to be ruling and reigning with Jesus as he rules and reigns with a rod of righteousness over the Gentiles as they they're in their natural bodies, and they begin to repopulate the planet. The holy spirit is still there. The holy spirit is still, you know, omniscient and holding people to a higher standard, you know, and all. But there still will be sin. There will be sin in the millennium. Case in point, at the end of the millennium when the devil is loosed, the devil's going to entice the Gentile nations that are repopulating the planet for a thousand years, and they're going to try to rebel against Jesus. So from time to time, you and I are gonna be catching people. I mean, right now, they wanna have, the ability with AI technology to try and, you know, bet on when you're gonna steal something or you might do something, you know. So they're gonna look for patterns with artificial intelligence and they're gonna pre kinda analyze you to see if you have the propensity to go commit a crime so they might try to arrest you before you do it. Well, guess what? God knows all things in the millennium. Right? He knows all things right now. And he's ruling with a, you know, rod of righteousness and removing the curse from the standpoint in Isaiah 11, we're gonna be able to see where there are gonna be these poisonous snakes and wolves, the lion and the lamb and the wolf will lie down together, you know, so the carnivorous aspect of predatorial aspects of the millennium are gonna be over. But but still, there's gonna be sin. And so the Lord's not gonna allow the pedophilia. He's not gonna allow things to continue. Everything's gonna be nipped in the bud, and you're gonna be part of his liaison of watching, ruling, keeping people in check, and, not, being so incredibly liberal and acting like, hey, this is love, and we call it love. You know? No. No. No. There's gonna be real love. There's gonna be real, identification of that which is sin, that which is right, that which is wrong. No ambiguity, no relativism, nobody doing that which is right in their own eyes. Jesus is almighty sovereign, and we're all going to be in submission unto him, or we're gonna be in trouble. Right? But you and I are gonna be in our new glorified bodies and we're not gonna be slaves to sin anymore. We're not gonna be sinning. So as he's looking future, Paul's saying, recognize the high calling God has upon your lives, you know. You don't need to be demeaning and and going so below society to bring an airier laundry out there to everybody. Let's handle it within. Let's not let's not, bring great occasion. As Nathan the prophet said to David, you've given great occasion of the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme God's name. So we should have a way of loving one another, caring for one another, and we recognize we're human beings and that we sin, and we, we have to be able to say I'm sorry. We have to be able to make it right, maybe pay up restitution, whatever it might be. But, we don't use, our liberty in Christ as a license to just try and get away with, you know, hurting one another and doing things that are detrimental to having close intimate relationship with one another. To the church of Laodicea, Jesus said in Revelation three twenty one, to him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and I'm sat down with my father in his throne. So you're gonna have a place of leadership. To the church of Thyatira in Revelation chapter two verse 26, Jesus said, he that overcomes and keeps my works under the end to him will I give power over the nations. You're gonna be ruling and reigning over the nations with Jesus. In Jude chapter, only one chapter, but verse 14, it's to be it says, behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his saints. So we go up to heaven for the marriage ceremony. We're there for the Bema seat judgment reward ceremony. We're being decked out. We see us in Revelation 19 coming back with clean garments and all. We see that there's crowns and, to be given, you know, crown of righteousness, a crown of rejoicing, a crown of life, a crown of glory, an incorruptible crown that fades not away, and we can lay these crowns at the feet of Jesus as the four and twenty elders, and we can be singing, you know, with the with the angels of heaven, thou art worthy, oh lord, to receive glory, honor, and power for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. And we get into chapter five, we're in heaven. Who is worthy to open the scroll and to lose its seal? And John's weeping, there's nobody worthy, you know, but the lion of the tribe of Judah, you know, and he sees them as a lamb that had been slain. And, and so we're able to take that beam of seat judgment and those rewards and lay them at the feet of the Lord and thank the Lord and all. But then when he comes back after that marriage ceremony because we understand the picture is that of a Jewish wedding. So the Jewish wedding is the engagement of the betrothal. We're engaged. According to Ephesians one, we've received the seal of the Holy Spirit. We've received the engagement ring in that we're marked out that we belong to Jesus. We've been redeemed. He's paid the price of redemption, but he hasn't come for that purchase possession just yet. So in Matthew 25, we're watching, we're waiting because the next stage is the fetching. The next stage of a Jewish wedding, he's gonna come at a time that we know not. No man knows the day or the hour. So we're watching, we're waiting, our lamps are burning because we got the holy spirit within us, and then Jesus said, I'm gonna come. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again that where I am there, you may be also. And at a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, he's gonna come and he's gonna shout and he's gonna take us up to heaven. Now when he comes back when he comes back after that's a ceremony. And then what happens after that is the the fourth stage of the Jewish wedding and that would be the marriage supper. John the Baptist is the friend of the bridegroom. So when he comes back with the saints according to Jude, we come back with him in his second coming. And so it says in Jude 14, behold the Lord cometh with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds that they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. So the Lord Jesus is gonna defeat the antichrist with the brightness of his coming, the Shekinah glory of his coming according to that second Thessalonians chapter two. And with the sword of the spirit, which is as he's going to with his mouth as he proclaims his word. At Armageddon, all the kings of the earth, all their technology. And I've been I've been I've been learning a little bit about the drones. I mean, Brit Brit Gillette, he's, been talking about how warfare is radically changing in the last four and a half years because of drones, very inexpensive drones. So anyway, all that technology, everything that they're able to muster against the Lord, he's gonna just destroy with the brightness of his coming. By him, all things consist, it says in Colossians. So he can just says, Adams go and and the big fireballs just just take out everybody, but the carnivorous birds are gonna come. We see in Revelation 16 and in 19, and they're gonna feast upon the kings of the earth, the bodies, the carcasses, all over Megiddo, all over Armageddon. And you and I are gonna come back with Jesus. We're gonna rule and reign with him, but he's going to bring a judgment according to Matthew 25, a sheep and goat judgment. Those that Gentile nations that make it out of the tribulation period into the millennium are gonna be judged before they get to go into the millennium of how they treated the nation of Israel. Are you treating the nation of Israel good? God says, he'll bless those who bless her, curse those who curse her. So during the time of Jacob's trouble, the seven year tribulation period, Zechariah thirteen eight nine says that two thirds of the Jews are gonna perish. The real Israel of God are those who believe in Jesus. And so one third remnant's gonna go through that refiner's fire. And remember, the nation of Israel is not the church. The church is already raptured in heaven, made of Jew, Gentile, barbarian, Scythian, bond and free, male, female, whosoever will let them come during the church age. So blindness in part presently in this dispensation is the church age. Blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. Romans eleven twenty five. And so that rapture, when the fullness of Gentiles are coming in, when we're raptured, there's a next dispensation which is the seventieth seven of Daniel, is the time of Jacob's trouble, the great tribulation period. At the end of the great tribulation period, the midpoint is the antichrist goes into the temple that isn't built yet, declares himself to be God, demands to be worshiped as God. Twelve hundred sixty days after that is the second coming of Jesus. We don't know the rapture date, if you're in the tribulation period, you could calculate the second coming day. Right? And the globalist, they know that he's coming, and they try to stop him from coming to the area of Basra in Southern Jordan, and the blood is gonna be as high as the horse's bridle. In Isaiah sixty three one through three, Jesus' garment, outer garment is just covered in blood because he's been trampling out the vintage. Right? He's been stomping his enemies. And so a 200 mile battlefield area from Basra, Southern Jordan, he's gonna come into Israel. He's gonna go up in his triumphal entry into, Jerusalem. There's gonna be cataclysmic events of splitting of the rocks and all water gushing out on down to the Dead Sea, and he's gonna come into the and there's gonna be a seventy five day interval though. Blessed is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day, so from the December to thirteen thirty fifth is a time of judgment. He's going to judge the nations as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats, and you and I are gonna be there with him judging and watching him judge these nations. Now after that, as we're ruling and reigning with him for a thousand years, at the end of the millennium, he's going to cause the devil to be incarcerated in the Lake Of Fire where the beast, the antichrist, and the false prophet already are. The wicked dead are being held in a place called hell, which is Hades or Sheol. It's a holding compartment, a place of torment, grievous torment according to Luke 16, the rich man and Lazarus, there's a gulf between the two. Right? So they're being held, but at the end of the millennium, there's a great white throne judgment. We're at the Bema Seat judgment for rewards, but the wicked dead are gonna be raised from the dead. No annihilation. No cessation of being. It's a place where the worm dieth not, the fire's never quenched. Just incredible judgment against those who choose hell over Jesus. Nobody goes to hell being sent there. People go to hell by their refusal to surrender to the love of Jesus. He gives them a lifetime to decide where they wanna spend eternity. He bodily raises them from the dead. They stand before the great white throne judgment according to Revelation twenty eleven through 15, and they're going to give an account. And boy, let me tell you, he keeps records. He can spin the the video. This is your life, and he spins it there, and he's very just, very fair. And so their punishment is based upon number one thing, what did you do with my son? That's what gets you into hell if you reject him. But if you reject him, now that whole weight of your life sin comes to bear upon the judgment that God's gonna place upon you for all eternity. Luke 12 says, some are beaten with few stripe stripes. Some are beaten with many stripes, which means knowledge brings responsibility. Those who know better and reject are more responsible and more culpable, and and they're going to be whooped on good. Right? So apostate pastor's probably the worst of all. Right? And so then there's gonna be judgment. In that regard, the great white throne judgment, so the, the devil's held in a place called the abyss till after the, at the end of the millennium. But the antichrist is immediately killed there at, Basra in Armageddon in the battle, immediately where he's there with his troops and, and also the false prophet. And they're they aren't even buried. Theirs is taken by the angels and cast into the Lake of fire. And the great white throne judgment, that's where the wicked dead wind up is the Lake Of Fire. Outside of Jerusalem was a a dump, a place of perpetual burning called Henna or Gahenna. And so the worm dieth not and the fires never quenched, perpetual burning. And, the wicked ones wanted to try and get a hold of Jesus and throw him in, you know, Gehenna, but Joseph of Arimathea and and and, Nicodemus begged for the body of Jesus that, he would have a proper burial. So the proper burial was Joseph of Arimathea's tomb, and many of the wealthy friends of Joseph said, why'd you give that poor carpenter, you know, your beautiful, wonderful, you know, tomb? And he says, well, he's only gonna need it for the weekend, you know. So and that's that's how it is with you and I. The resurrection is our hope, and, we have no fear of judgment, no fearful looking to of judgment. Our sins have already been judged at the cross of Calvary completely, past, present, future sins, all of them. He said, it is finished to tell us that I paid in full. It's all paid for. A death that you and I could never pay. There is now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. So you this morning here, that whole little thing on judgment and hell, you don't need to fear hell. Jesus died in your place. There's freedom, great joy, and blessing in knowing that you pass from death to life when you receive Christ. Right? But for the wicked dead, for those who continue to resist the Holy Spirit as the apostle Paul was resisting the Holy Spirit, the Lord apprehended him, Saul, Saul, who art thou Lord? I'm Jesus whom you're persecuting. Can you continue to kick against the goad Saul of Tarsus? What do you mean, Lord? You're resisting the holy spirit. You're tormented because you were a part of the the stoning of Stephen. You can't get it out of your head, Saul of Tarsus. Now you're a maniac. You're like going crazy after these Christians all the way to Damascus. But I'm here to rescue you. I'm here to apprehend you. I'm gonna make you a trophy of my grace, you know. Paul's able able to look back later and say that he was the chiefest of sinners, that he was a blasphemer, that he wasted the church. And he said that all that he had from the natural, like Moses, his first 40 in Egypt, he said he counted all his dung as refuse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. What a day that was when Jesus in the Shekinah glory revealed himself on the Saul of Tarsus and made him his trophy, made him his messenger of grace and of mercy. The people knew this guy was, you know, a terrorist, if you will, against the church and against Jesus, but the Lord, grabbed hold of him. The same way the Lord's grabbed hold of you. And such were some of you. Such were in the past tense. Right? I can't wait to get there, but we gotta work our way there. Alright? So Paul's Paul's chiding them. He's he's letting them know their high position. He's letting them know that, you know, you guys are blowing it. You're succumbing to the level of the the people on the planet of the world. You don't wanna be like the world. You're better than that. Don't go there. Don't go to that place. It says verse three, it says, knowing not ye shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? Now some of you are thinking, yeah, I got a few things to say to my guardian angel. Where was he? You know? No. It's not those angels. Those are good angels. It's the fallen angels. Right? The fallen angels have been tormenting you. Lucifer is an angel. He's a fallen angel. And one third of the stars fell with Lucifer according to Revelation 12. And so these fallen angels went with Lucifer in their coup, in the rebellion against the true and living God. And Saul Alinsky wrote a book called Rules for Radicals that Obama and Hillary really love, and he dedicated that book to Lucifer, the first real rebel. Right? Now, who can fight against God and live? These guys are suicidal. Why would you wanna fight against God? Why would you wanna rebel against God? But Lucifer did. Lucifer became intoxicated in his I will statements in in Isaiah 14 and a description of him in Ezekiel 28. And so he's an exalted rank wise, an exalted cherub, and then you have Seraphim, and then you have angels, and these are messengers of God. But these fallen ones these fallen ones, they got kicked out of heaven, thrust down to the earth. Satan seems to have access until Revelation 12, then he's really cast out. Jesus said he saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven, but he's the prosecuting attorney, and he's always trying to use the letter of the law to condemn you and I before the Lord. But we have an arbitrator. We have the Lord Jesus to arbitrate the accusations against us, you know. He ever lives to make intercession for us and, he comes to our defense when the accuser of the brethren, when the devil used the letter of the law to try and destroy us, and you know, I don't need to make excuses. I'm guilty. I'm guilty, but I'm not guilty because Jesus died in my place. If it's just me against the devil, I'm guilty. He doesn't need to lie about Rick Bodrey. Can just tell the truth about Rick Bodrey. Just use the letter of law. Rick's Rick's a jerk. Just just ask his wife. He's a jerk, you know. And, you know, I have no case. I have no defense, you know. But then Jesus, their father is one of mine. He's one of mine. I died for those sins. All of them. I took the punishment. I took the pain. I took everything that, was due him and I paid for it with my precious blood. And so that's the beauty and the blessing of being saved is that there's no fearful looking to of judgment for you and I. We walk in this newness of life. If we do sin, we confess our sin. He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteous. Fellowship's restored. But we don't lose our salvation and then regain it, lose it and regain it, we're saved to the uttermost. But for fellowship purposes, being caught in this body, this nature, this old nature fighting against the new nature, the new nature as we feed the new nature and yield to the new nature, we get victory over the old nature, but not 100% perfection. At least I've never met one. I'm not one. We all sin. Every single day we sin, but the mercies of the Lord are new every morning. Every morning is a new fresh day to lay that stuff aside to confess our sin and get rolling with Jesus again. So as far as these angels, we're gonna judge these fallen angels. In Ephesians six, Paul said the the planet is divided into with principalities and powers. Satan is not omnipresent. He can't be everywhere at once. So he has to use these these one third of the stars, the angels that fell, and position them around the governments of the world because he's the little g god of this world. He's the prince of the power of the air. And when Jesus was tempted, the devil, and Jesus didn't refute this ability, this authority the devil had. He says, if you bow down and worship me, I'll give you all these kingdoms of the world. Now how could he state that? Because Adam, our first federal head, relinquished dominion over the earth when his wife convinced him to partake of the forbidden fruit. Right? And so, oh, man, Lord, why'd you give me her? Well, we won't go there. Alright. So our last federal head, Jesus is the last Adam. So he's come as the son of man to represent humankind, not the angels. There's no plan of redemption for the angels, just for human beings. Those fallen angels get they're done. It's over. Barbecueed all eternity. You know? But you and I, we're made in the image of God, and he's gonna elevate you and I. We're gonna be elevated as a new creation in Christ Jesus, body, soul, and spirit. Adam, at the day you eat of it, you shall surely die. He died spiritually. And then the physical process of death took place and over a course of time. And so the newness of life, the eternal life that is given us, we're never going to die again. And so you and I, when these bodies cease to be able to house us because it's a tent, it's a temporary abode, and the holy spirit's living and dwelling within us, but we have a building of God not made with hands eternal in the heavens, we've got a new body awaiting us. And and so much like Jesus being able to walk through walls and going up to the celestial Jerusalem on up in heaven and and all that. So these these demons, these fallen angels, they're gonna be judged. And there's there's gonna be, maybe some that you have some words for. Are you kidding me? What you did to my daughter? What you did to my kids? Things like that. And, we get to judge our tormentors. Maybe judge the Bill Gateses and the Soros and all these guys that seem to be getting away with it throughout history. We were gonna watch them, definitely watch them be judged at the great white throne judgment, but we're gonna be a part of this, this judgment against them. And so, you know, we're made a little bit lower than the angels, but we're in an exalted position above the angels on into the millennium and on into eternity. And so what a blessing that is to know our station, to know who he's who he's made us. So in second Peter two verse four, if God spared not the angels that sinned, so thinking about Noah's flood and the angels, that were judged at the time of Noah's flood, excuse me, not just Noah's flood, but I mean the the the coup of of Satan when he was when he was fighting against the Lord and they're cast out of heaven. If God spared not the angels to sin, but cast them down into hell and delivered them for in the change of darkness to be reserved under judgment. So there's different compartments of incarceration. One is called Tartarus in in, second Peter. Another is the abyss or the abuso, a polion, where these really really bad angels apart before Genesis, you know, around the time of Genesis six before the flood, the Lord took some of them and they're already incarcerated. They're already being held back. Now, as we look in the book of Revelation, these compartments are opened up and the earth dwellers, in Revelation nine especially, when it talks about these beings coming out of out of hell, they've got tails on them like scorpions. They've got wings and they got teeth and the whole thing. It's a description of demons. It's a description of demons that are going to blanket the planet, begin to sting and devour men, and guess what? In Revelation nine, the people can't die. God doesn't let them die to escape the torment that's coming up. Isn't that heavy? It's kinda heavy. You know? I mean, I'm so glad I'm saved. I'm such a wussy. I wanna be saved. I'm not that tough. I'm just not that tough that I wanna tangle with those kind of things, you know? I don't like horror movies, none of that stuff. But for me, I could just read the book of Revelation. I'd say, you know what? I wanna be saved right now. You know. Why would anybody wanna go into the tribulation period? I I don't understand that. I'm just not tough enough to be a prepper in the tribulation period. I like a pre trib rapture. I like that we're gonna be rash here before God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world, and I'll shout it from the rooftops, and they wanna call me an escape artist, whatever. Great. I wanna escape it. You know? Jesus said, pray always that you'd kind of worthy to escape it. So I'm gonna pray always that I'd kind of worthy to escape it because he said it's not a good place to go or be or be a part of. Okay? So, you know, a man's gotta know his limitations according to prophet Clint Eastwood. You know? That's my that's my thing. So of angels, how much more are conflicts? So if you're gonna judge the world, if you're gonna judge angels, now Paul brings it home in the application, how much more are the conflicts that we go through? Is there a wise man among you? Is there anybody with discernment? Anybody that can reason and work the scriptures that can study the scriptures and look for right and wrong? Or are we just gonna be apostate and everybody do that which is right in their own eyes, and there's no official authority or right or wrong, everything's gray, everything's neutral. Well, I feel this. I feel this way, and it's not my fault, and that sort of thing. It's it's it's crazy. Verse four. If then you have judgments of these things pertain to this life, set them to judge who at least esteemed in the church. So even a babe in Christ knows that murder's wrong, abortion's wrong. You'd be a brand new Christian and know that abortion's wrong. The holy spirit's moving and working in your heart, your conscience is conflicted, and, you know that abortion's wrong. Nobody needs to sell you on the idea that abortion's wrong. So you're a woman or a man that comes in thinking from college that, hey, it's your body, it's your choice, and, it's an it's a issue of choice. I get to do with my body what I wanna do. But now, rather than lying to yourself or listening to the lies, now you're a new believer, you've been transformed and changed, and you don't even need to go through a class at church to learn that abortion's wrong. You instinctively know because the holy spirit's within your heart and life that you've been lying to yourself and allowing society to lie that abortion is murder, and there's no if, ands, or buts about it. It is murder. It will always be murder. The man, the woman, anybody involved, it's murder. The government funding it, it's murder. You're funding murder. You're genociding entire generations of children due to giving into a demonic spirit of population reduction. The devil wants to take as many people as he can to hell. The devil's anti family, the devil's anti marriage, the devil's anti gender, devil's anti anything that God's for, the devil's against it. He's the author of confusion. And so we have to stand up with the truth, stand against that stuff. And and I loved, years ago, I I, came to an understanding that the argument the argument for abortion by the advertisers was one in the abstract, one of choice. Who could argue with choice? A woman's choice. And there it's always, well, she got raped and then the baby was born. It's always that one, which is a very very minuscule amount of people that have that happen to them. But the argument is choice. It's your body. Until it's COVID, now it's not your body anymore. Everybody has to be mandated to be jabbed. You know? So wait a minute. What happened to that reasoning? You know? Throw that out the door. I don't wanna be jabbed. Well, it's you know, for the best of the whole, you gotta do it. It's love. Love your neighbor and all. So anyway, their their argument is in the abstract, that of a woman's choice or a man's choice. But in the tangible, in the real concrete aspects of life, this is a life. This is a baby. It's not a fetus. It's not just a blob of tissue. You know? At conception, you know, the life begins. And God knew this child even before she is conceived, God tells Jeremiah. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and ordained you a prophet under the ancients. Now, you've gone through an abortion or you're the guy that got the girl pregnant, there's forgiveness for you. God's forgiven you already. He's cast from the East to the West, remembers it no more. But don't continue to follow the lie and argue for, you know, the murdering of babies. I was I was I was a little upset when Arizona wants to make it so people can have abortions there and Carrie Lake and Donald Trump, you know, didn't take a stronger stand with Arizona against abortion. What happened there? That's a little strange. I thought you're against abortion. I thought we wanna stop this murdering. You're you're you're not gonna get anywhere being in the middle. You're either forming or against them. You're standing for righteousness or you're you're you're scattering away. There's no middle ground with Jesus. You can't be Pontius Pilate and wash your hands and try to appease politically, you know, everybody that's out there. You you gotta stand for righteousness. You gotta stand your ground. Amen. And so it's not in the abstract. The argument is tangible. This is a life. A life that God's given. And we have to be bold enough to make that judgment and state that truth all throughout society. Don't let them censor us. That's an important truth that we need to judge and just simply state it. And they'll be so angry at you. They're starting to throw people in jail who just stand outside the abortion clinics. You're just standing there, and they're being thrown in jail. They're so angry at you. You know? So it's getting to them, isn't it? The truth gets to him. You just keep telling the truth. And even as I said, even a brand new believer understands that murder, lying, stealing is wrong. Verse five, I speak to your shame. It is so that there is not a wise man among you, no not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren. So find a an arbitrator among you. Find somebody that can mediate this thing, that can listen to both sides and use the word of God and bring everything back to the authority of God's word. That's what we do. The authority of God's word. It's Jesus that's judging the matter. So there's a time in first Kings three where king Solomon, took the, was given the he was made king after his father David had passed away. And so as a king, he went up to Gibeon and he was offering some offerings and he was totally following the Lord as a young man. Later, he apostatized. He had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and many of the women that he brought into his life were foreign women, like, for instance, in chapter three, it says that he married one of the daughters of the Egyptians. So when when you marry a foreigner, now you're inviting their belief system into your home, into your country. So he would build temples, for these foreign women all over Israel, and during a lifetime, Solomon's lifetime, many people apostatized and went toward these foreign false gods and such. But anyway, this is a good chapter for Solomon. He he does something really good here. And so what happens is the Lord says, what do you want me to do for you? And Solomon says, well, I would pray. I'll give you three wishes. What do you want? And, he didn't say that, but it's kinda like that. And, he says, I want understanding so that I can judge your people. That's a pretty good thing. That pleased God that he said that. He's saying, I don't I don't I don't really have a whole lot of wisdom at this point. I know one day maybe they'll say on that, but but in any event, to judge your people is a high calling, and Lord, I need understanding. I need wisdom to be able to discern right and wrong if I'm the one, you know, judging your people. And it greatly pleased the Lord, and he says, well, didn't ask for riches, and you didn't ask for a long life, and you didn't ask for, you know, freedom from your enemies that are, you know, gonna be chasing you and such. So I'm gonna give you all those, and I'm gonna give you the wisdom, the wisdom of Solomon. So then we see the wisdom of Solomon, the fame of Solomon go all over the world, the known world, in that there were two harlots. And these harlot, the one harlot had a baby, and her roommate also had a baby three days later. And the one harlot went to a deep sleep and rolled over and suffocated her baby. How tragic. Killed her baby. And she woke up in the middle of the night, and she went into the other room where her roommate had her baby, and she did the switcheroo. She put the dead baby in the bosom of the woman with who had the child still alive, and then, brought the live baby to her bedroom. The next day when the mother woke up, she knew that the dead baby in her arms was not her baby, And she argued with her roommate, the roommate wouldn't give in, wouldn't listen. So they went before king Solomon. You all know the story. So before king Solomon, they began to argue and explain their case. And the one mother, the mother of the baby says, well, she she did this, and she took the baby and put the dead one in my hand. And the other lady say, no, I didn't. So Solomon says, get me a sword. Let's divide the baby. Each of you get half of the baby. And the mother of the baby immediately said, no. No. No. No. She can have the baby. The other woman says, yeah. Let's divide it. Solomon says, that's not the mother. The one that wouldn't see it divided is the mother. The wisdom of Solomon went all abroad, went everywhere. Wouldn't it be great if you had one person like that in Washington DC? Just just one. Just one. Just just one. I've always said, just arrest one criminal, and we would be we would be so I mean, you don't have to drain the whole swamp. Just just arrest one. Just just one, you know? But they won't arrest anybody, will they? Total immunity in their criminality. And, the courts, everything's messed up. We need Jesus back, you know? And and judgment begins in the house of God. If we in the church are corrupt, how are we to be able to discern or to be able to hold people accountable for their actions? How can we voice that which is right and that which is wrong if we're living according to the world? There's no difference in the church than that in the world. We're the same ones committing adultery, the same ones, you know, fornicating, porn, and defrauding, and, you know, just just like the world, you know. We've basically tried to Christianize the world. We've tried to take Jesus. Alright. Jesus blessed my life, but we're living like the world. Judgment begins at the house of God. If the salt has lost its savor, it's good for nothing. Now salt is a preserving influence. Your life is an influence. You're an influencer. And if your salt has lost its savor, if the putrification of meat is such that it's just putrefying, it's corrupting all around you, then that salt, the next level of usage of that salt would be once it loses that ability is to put it on the pathway so that when people are walking, it kills the, you know, it kills the grass, the vegetation, so you can walk upon that path. I bet you guys read a couple weeks ago where Bill Gates out of San Francisco is trying to throw into the atmosphere salt. Block out the sun with salt. Do you know what salt's gonna do when it comes down on the vegetation? Again, it's called famine. It's all about famine. It's about destroying our food. It's just mind boggling to me. The idiocy. But yet people are like, oh, no. Those are contrails. Those are contrails. You know? And that's not chemtrailing. That five g's good. You know? It's it's not microwaving us and our kids and the WiFi and the whole thing. You know, all the jab's good. I got four boosters, you know. It's really hard to hang out with people that are simply awake, that can discern left hand, right hand, that it's just reason, right and wrong. You don't need to have a degree. You don't need to be a, you know, a doctorate or anything, you know, in human behavior. You just it it's it's a no brainer. It's just a no brainer. You just need the holy spirit to help you and to follow God's word. And so where's the arbiter? In James one five, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that give to all men liberally and upright it not and it shall be given him. So if you're lacking wisdom, do like Solomon did. Ask God for wisdom. Ask him for understanding. We have not because we ask not. We ask him is. And so verse six, but brother goes to law with brother and that before the unbelievers. So it's scandalous. People are whispering in the community. Do you hear the church? Do you hear they're suing this guy, suing that guy? Do you hear he burned him? He burned her? Did this, that, the other? And John thirteen thirty five, by this, shall all men know that you're my disciples, that you have love one for another. So they don't see us loving one another, they see us hating and fighting one another. And so rather than, hey bro, you know, hey bro, or after they burn you, hey bro, you know, hey bro, you're not my bro, you just burned me, man. I bought some, tires off of marketplace. I got I need tires and so I I bought these wheels with tires and, paid cash for them and and they didn't fit. And so the guy told me they would fit and they didn't fit. But, man, what a nice guy. What a the guy's guy's amazing. So I I checked out machine shops to have them honed in the back to get them to fit, and I checked out spacers and evaluated it and looked at the pricing and all that, and I've I concluded that, you know what? I I just need my money back. And so this morning before church, I went over to the Best Buy and met with him, and, he gave me my money back. And I gave him the wheels back. And I mean, I didn't have to invoke, do you know who I am? You don't wanna burn me, man. I'm the Lord's anointed. Touch not God's anointed. I didn't need to do all that. You know? Just like, he's a he's a bro. He's just a good guy. You know? And then I gave him $20 for gasoline and the trouble and all that, but he was just so anxious to make it right. He just wanted it to be right. If I wasn't happy, he wasn't happy, you know. And that's the way it should be in a business deal, you know. If you're not happy, I'm not happy. When I had a carpet cleaning business in California, that was that was the standard. If somebody wasn't happy, I go redo it. No questions asked. You know? I'll just, hey, you find fault with, I'll do it again. And I didn't I didn't have any any very seldom did I ever have to go do that because I wanna make sure that, you know, that's a whole objective is make sure they're happy. You want repeat business. You want them to tell other people about you. You wanna build a business, not you know, one guy told me the the bait and switch guys. There was different ways you could market your business. You had the bait and switch guys that would say, hey, $5 a room. But they would take a a, you know, a a carpet cleaning job that entails has 10 components of it, maybe prespray, maybe, you know, hot water, maybe steam, you know, whatever. And they would they would just bring it down to, I'm only gonna spray water on your carpet. But if you want soap, if you want me to vacuum the water now for $5 a room, you get the water sprayed on your carpet. If you wanna pay me a little bit more, I'll vacuum the water back off and I'll use some soap and I'll use some deodorizer and I'll give you some perfume. So they go in there. It's called the low leader. It's like the car salesman gets you in there to the lot, but that car's mysteriously gone. Then they upsell you. Well, that's that's just crazy. So the guy that mentored me that helped me along this line, he says, no, those are all those guys down the bottom fighting over that kind of a market. You don't want that market. That kind of a client is very disloyal. They will always go with the lowest cheapest thing they can get their hands on. You want the cream on the top. And when you get the cream on the top, what they want is quality, courteousness, on time, and good workmanship. And they'll be loyal to you. They'll pay the fair price. They'll call you again and again and again, and that's how we built our business. And it was it was a perfect strategy. I didn't need to grovel down on the bottom and, you know, be a charlatan and always, like like, I can't do that anyway. It didn't it's just like, alright, you know, I came in there. It's a $30 job, but man, I left with $3,000. I really I'm a good liar, you know. I convinced her. So and and some of these guys do that. It can start out like $35.40 dollars, and they can wind up leaving with $4,500, a job that I just straight over the phone say, it's $250. You know, it's $2.50. And you get repeat business. So anyway, even the gay guys even the gay guys sing, why can't we be friends? Wanna sing that? You wanna sing it? They understand the importance of love in their community. Right? And so maybe they're projecting it towards us that we they want us to be able to love them in their sin or whatever. Well, we love them, but we don't love your sin, you know. So yeah. You wanna be friends? Can two walk together except they'd be agreed? So tolerance, no. No. We're not gonna tolerate tolerate that sort of behavior because it's gonna lead toward pedophilia. And we're not gonna let the society degrade to the point of our children being in the crosshairs. And that's what's happened. That's where tolerance has led because we didn't stand against the immorality. So resolve conflict by changing your arbitrator. Secondly, by changing your attitude. Verse seven. Therefore, now therefore, there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law one with another. So the public lawsuit, your defeat is broadcasted to everybody. There's no winner or loser in this when you go out there in public to parade your, you know, your laundry. It's gone viral, we'll say. Did you hear that, you know, that this church was suing that church or this pastor was suing that pastor, this Christian, that Christian, the community? Man, it's gone viral. Do you hear what they said? And one pastor, he's so blatantly such a bully that he tells people in his congregation that he's got $10,000,000 in a fund that will he will he will sue anybody that says anything bad about him. I'm serious. $10,000,000 to to litigate. And fortunately, much of his security team and his leadership are once again exposing him. And, boy, thank God because it's it's grievous. It's just so he's so incredibly mean, just such a meanness. And, it just makes me ashamed to, I'm afraid if I name them, then I'll get sued, know, so I gotta be quiet, you know. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? So take the loss. I've had to walk away so many times. Again, carpet cleaning. I have people that don't pay me. I got I could work real hard day and night and have an account that that I get paid once a month and it starts to build up the work, they might owe me $3 at the end of the month and I have to pay my guys and and all the everything, and then they don't pay you. What are you gonna do? Go to their house, knock on the door, you keep asking, they keep lying. Many times, I've had to walk away. Just walk away. Oh, you said go to small claims court and all that. Well, just walk away. Walk away. That's what I always did. I just always walk away. Learn from my, you know, learn from my failures, try to have greater discernment. Kathy's got a great poker face. I don't. I don't. They know I'm a dope. She says, you're a dope on a rope. They see you coming. They see you coming, Rick. You're you're an easy take, man. You're a fool. You know? She's like she's like brutal. She's brutal, man. Girls. You know? I can't wait to tell her I got my money back this morning because she was letting me know you're you got burned, dude. You got burned. Again, you got burned again. He says, no. You do wrong and defraud, not your brethren. So change the attitude. Forgive them. Sacrifice the money. Better financially than to lose spiritually. And the last thing you wanna do is let that angst that what they do to you get in your heart. God, you don't wanna go fight the guy. I'll be a cheer. You don't you don't wanna do that. You just you don't wanna threaten people or go that that's not you. That's not who you are. You just walk away. Just walk away. Gotta walk away. Even even when guys do things to your family, you gotta be careful. You'll wind up in jail. The courts are so weird. You can't get in a fist to cuff with with people. You can defend your family if you're there while it's happening, definitely. But you can't premeditatedly go over to the home and drag anybody out of their house and beat them because they were rude to your wife or your daughter. You'll go to jail even if you're in the right. So you better be real careful debate, the provocation. The enemy is always coming along, sizing us up, and trying to provoke us to get in the flesh. And we gotta be wise as serpents, gentle as doves, and I'll let that happen. Now I did post the thing of the priest that was guy came at him with a knife, and Jesus told his boys to buy a sword. You're living in a world that is evil. Self defense is good. And so I wrote on there, and I didn't get very many comments. People don't like my comment, but be wise as serpent and gentle as doves. Right? And I put gentle as doves with a 45. Yeah. Because everybody's gonna be gentle around you if you've got the 45. Right? There ain't nobody gonna come to a gunfight with a knife in this church. Right? And so everybody's gonna behave themselves and get along. And there ain't nobody coming down here with some knife, you know, because you guys, I've been told, you guys go shooting every Tuesday night. You gals everybody. And Sue told me, pastor, if somebody comes in here and tries to shoot you, please don't shoot them because you might miss and hit us. She says, we got your back. So I don't even need to form a security team at this church. You guys are all packing, you know? So I don't I don't even wanna know. I don't even wanna know. So who you are. But people are I hear that people are very polite when there's open carry everywhere. You know? You're gonna you're gonna be careful what you say and do around people that can defend themselves. You know? But when you go to schools or churches or places where everybody's unarmed, all of a sudden, cowards are emboldened to go in there like it's a shooting gallery and start shooting children up. You know? How ludicrous is that? So we understand the importance of keeping evil at bay, letting evil know that you wanna enter eternity? So I had a I had a woman when I went to North Dakota to drive truck for a couple months when we were when we were going through our demonic storm, and I was trying to figure out how to pay the Roxy, and I made two payments while I was there. But there's a lady next to me to my motor home there, and, she says to me, Rick, you be careful when you walk out there because there was a man because see these man camps, there weren't enough women to go around. There was a man out there that got raped. And I said, oh, holy smokes. I can't imagine that. I don't know if I could come back from that. So I said, well, in the state of Washington, I said, I've got a license as a minister of the gospel. I'm licensed to marry him. I'm licensed to bury him. And then I said, I also have a concealed carry permit. I pulled my gun out, and I said, if they're bad, I'll send them to hell. And I won the shock. She wanted to shock me, you know. I won the shock. At that moment, she goes, you can't send them to hell, you know. So anyway, I I thought it was funny. They just think that we're just these little wussies that we're just gonna go out there and let them all, you know, rape and pillage. It's they got another thing coming, man. We hold back. We're always holding back. We're always walking away. We're always turning the other cheek. We're always going the extra mile until we're forced to defend ourselves. And then we do what we gotta do because that's what love is. Love is protecting those around you against evil. So we understand that. But when we can walk away, we evaluate what's going on. We say, you know what? It isn't worth it. It isn't worth going to court and trying to get my, you know, pound of flesh from this brother that I, you know, go to church with. And, I like to factor in Luke 17 here. Luke 17 says, if he repents, forgive him. So obviously, in Matthew 18, I'm gonna forgive you if you wrong me in my heart because I don't need the bitterness of my heart. So I need to forgive you from my heart. But in Luke 17, it says, if you want fellowship with me, I better see repentance. Because I'm not gonna hang with you and lift my arms in all this and act like it didn't happen. So if he repents, forgive him from the standpoint of restore him to fellowship. Allow that person back into your life. I'm not gonna allow a person to be a a serial abuser in the church or in my life or my home, my family. You know, you get me once, and then I'm gonna look for fruit of repentance. I'll forgive you. I'll let it go. I'll love you, pray for you, but we're not gonna have that sweet fellowship we once did because I can't trust you. Same thing with a husband and wife. You're you're going to betray me in a marriage? Well, I'll forgive you, but I better see repentance. If I don't see repentance, then we can't resolve this marriage because it has to be based upon trust. But if I see the fruit of repentance, I can forgive you and we can stay married. We don't have to divorce. But it's again, it's based upon trust. Can I trust you? If we can't trust you, then you know what? You're gonna you're gonna wind up going from church to church burning people. And a lot of the wealthier churches, never happens here, but a lot of the wealthier churches, there seems to be always a guy that comes in and wants to make everybody rich. And everybody there wants to be rich, so it's the guy that begins to get them in a scheme or sell this, sell that, and and maybe it's bitcoin. I don't know, bitcoin might be good. But just just different business enterprises, and, and they pull a lot of money from people in, and then they find out later, oh, the guy's a fraud. Lost all of our money. You know? And sometimes it happens and it wasn't a fraud. It's just the business deal went bad. And and then the guy's reeling over the fact that, oh, man, that was on my watch. These people trusted me. They gave me money, and I'm sure he'd wanna pay them all back, everything, but if you go broke, you go broke. So then in that case, the, you know, the church obviously would forgive and not not ostracize the person. So change the attitude, forgive him. In Matthew five twenty three, Jesus said, if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there remembers that thy brother has ought against you, so guy has something against me, you know, burned him or whatever and there's something against me, but I'm gonna go to church and try and make it all good by putting some money in the tithe thing and singing and worship. He says, no. No. No. No. No. Go back and reconcile with your brother before you come in here and try and worship with me, you know. He says, leave there the gift before the altar and go that way. First be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with an adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary delivered the judge and the judge delivered the officer and thou be cast into prison. So remember the debt that God has forgiven us and and keep a short account. Make things right quickly, lest it escalate and and get worse. And so make sure that your account is clear with God. Make sure that you've received the free gift of eternal life by believing and trusting in Jesus Christ. So resolve conflict by changing your arbitrator, your attitude thirdly, by changing your activity. Verse nine. Knowing not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Do you know that? Do you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? No. Now when I was in school, school ministry, there was a there was a a teaching that you tie this in with Galatians chapter five. And when it speaks here of not inheriting the kingdom of God, the guy started teaching this as loss of reward, but not loss of salvation. And I had to challenge that real hard, and I had to, go toe to toe with the teacher. And I went to pastor Chuck and I let him know what was being taught, he says, that's ridiculous. And so we're not saying that people are gonna lose their salvation, we're saying they don't they aren't saved. They don't have salvation if they're gonna practice these things. And, it doesn't mean that you get to practice these things and claim to be a Christian and then say, well, I just lost my rewards at the Bemacy judgment, but I'm still saved. No. No. This is indicative of a habitual lifestyle of sin that's indicative of somebody that's not born again because if you're born again, you're gonna be miserable in your sin. There's gotta be some repentance. There's gotta be some resistance to that behavior. You don't license it. Antianomanism, no law. So here's what they do. Sloppy agape, cheap grace, easy believism, no repentance, no sin. Anything goes. And so they take the grace of God, they use this as a card, the grace card. I can do whatever I want. You can't judge me. Judge not lest you be judged. That's not true. Grace, the grace of God that you receive brings you to a higher responsibility because you've received the love of God, the Holy Spirit, you've received God's unmerited favor in your life. It brings you to a higher responsibility than when before you didn't have the holy spirit. You didn't know God. You weren't instructed in his word. Knowledge brings responsibility. So we don't we don't Christianize the behavior of the of the fallen world. So knowing you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. So why are you living like unbelievers going to court? Now, here's another thing. You can't escape the responsibility that we have in our culture to utilize the constitution, to utilize the Judeo Christian ethic that this country was built upon. Murder is murder, and murder is wrong. You can't call it abortion. Adultery is adultery is adultery is adultery is wrong. It's not having an affair. Don't change the terms. Don't water it down and take away the the sting of the action that you're you're involved in. Lying to get a loan is not creative financing. It's lying. You're a liar. Right? So don't don't give into that that idiocy, you know. So here's the verse. I I I I strongly disagree with pastors, some of whom are amazing men of God. But when they go along the lines of, you know what, we can't legislate morality. You ever heard that? We can't legislate morality. We gotta get out there and get everybody saved. Well, that's not gonna happen. Narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it. Broad is the way that goes to destruction, many go in there at. No. The only thing evil people understand is force, brute force. And God's given the sword for the government to maintain the good, To protect you and I who have no intention of murdering or hurting or robbing a store, to protect you and I from lawless people. So where was it I read this morning, somebody, Denver. They're going to defund the police because they got too many illegal aliens to to pay for. Wow. That's genius there, you know. So I disagree with the pastors. I disagree. Yes, we're gonna try and share the gospel and try and get people saved, but those saved people better be vigilant. They better be on their game. They better not just to try and coast in society and join all the blessings because unperceptibly over a period of decades, their freedoms are gonna be eroded and taken from them and the laws are gonna be changed and they're no longer gonna be safe. And so first Timothy one nine says, the law is not made for a righteous man. The police don't need to follow you around. You have no intention of breaking God's heart. You're living according to love. Right? Not made for you. But for the lawless and the disobedient, for the ungodly and for the sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers. That's what the law is for. You are you are to punish the evil doer according to Romans 13. Right? They they're gonna break into your house. They don't get to squat and stay there. They get to be dropped dead and and buried somewhere. You know? They they who who is calling up down and down up and, you know, it's it's mindless. It's idiocy. It's designed by the communist to break down society. A lawlessness. The antichrist is called the lawless one. He's lawless against God's laws and they become a god under themselves, these people. So they're antithetical to that which is good. They're fighting against God. They're in rebellion against God. And so I like communities that are law abiding communities because the law enforcement makes it so. And their hands aren't tied. They're able to enforce the law to keep the rest of people safe. Now, if people wanna get saved, that's even better. But if you don't wanna get saved, then quit whining. Follow the rules. This is this is a society right here. So you're the ones that are supposed to determine that based upon a Judeo Christian ethic, based upon the word of God. And so that's the importance of making sure you got a good sheriff in there, so that when the governor or anybody comes around, and this is one of gonna be in the future here, one of our strongest our strongest safeguards are gonna be godly sheriffs. The communities are gonna King County has already done it. Pierce County is trying to removing sheriffs because sheriffs swear to uphold the constitution. And sheriffs can say no to the attorney generals and the governors who try to enforce mandates that go against the constitution. So the mandate talk and the media helping the mandate talk to try and convince you that you don't have a choice about getting the jab or not, and you lose your job and all that other sort of thing. You notice the sheriffs didn't come and chide you and cite you for not wearing a mask. I got kicked out of so many places for not wearing a mask. Private business, they can do that. They don't want me there. They kick me out. Right? But I'm not going in there wearing a mask. Not gonna happen because it's a big fat lie. And I'm not I'm not gonna give in to the lie. So anyway, I'm just I'm just emphasizing not about me, but about the sheriffs in that they didn't have anything in their ticket book that they give a citation that, hey. You don't have a mask on. And, hey. You you you didn't get the jab. You can't go to church because you don't have a jab. Some pastors did that. You can't attend church if you don't have the jab. People people enforcing the jab on others. Yeah. The pastors got money to enforce it. The pastors are involved in what's called the clergy response team. When this thing breaks down, they're gonna try and get you into FEMA camps. So don't even trust pastors. Just make sure you can discern between good and evil, you know. Make sure you're doing that which is right. So he says, be not deceived. What a great podcast. I hear they got this really cool curly haired guy on there. People live in scandalous, sinful lifestyles and think they're saved. Scandalous sinful lifestyles and they pulled the Jesus card out. One of the things in business you need to be careful of is, I never and if you did this, I'm not saying you're bad. I'm you know, you're good people. You notice I don't put any Christian bumper stickers on my car, number one. Because I drive like a bat out of hell. A very good example, I know. But I'll blow you with coal on my way out. Number two, I never had a business card with a Christian fish on it. And the reason is is there's so many charlatans, so many frauds that know that you and I are easy takes, and they'll put a Christian fish on there. And as pastor Chuck says, you might want, you know, some work done on your house. And he says, make sure you get a contract. Don't just do it with a handshake and a promise because you'll find out that the price goes up up up up, and you know, everything, they don't perform the job. So don't don't get duped by that Christian fish on there, you know. And I always tried to, you know, let my light shine, my work shine, and not market Jesus. I never wanted to market Jesus. And what I mean by that also is when I would go to a men's retreat, lady I didn't go to ladies retreat, men retreats, or to church, or family camps, or anything. When I was at church, I did not network my business. I wanted it to be about Jesus. Let's talk about Jesus. I'm not gonna work the crowd and try and make all these people my customers. Now, if they hear what I do and they see my truck outside and they say, hey, I need my car, it's going great. Wonderful. But I I didn't wanna be working the crowd while I'm at church, you know. I wanna be at church, you know. So you wanna network, you know, on the side with with people? I mean, you provide valuable services that people need, that's great. But just don't let it go to the point of, well, you know, need I'm gonna go to a larger church because I can network my business with more people. You're missing the boat. Come to church to get to know Jesus and to use your gifts to edify and build people up. Make sure you're strengthened so you can go out in the marketplace and not have to give in to, you know, the things of the world. So he says, you're delusional. He says, neither fornicators. What's a fornicator? The sexually impure, pornoise. Jesus said, if you look upon a woman with lust in your heart, you're already an adulterer. Nor the idolaters, the Temple Of Aphrodite was in the city of Corinth and a thousand priestesses would come down. It was a navy town. How many guys and gals in the navy and you go to foreign ports, and as soon as you get to port, there's these places where the red light district. Well, in Corinth, there was a red light district. It was a a temple up on the Acropolis, the Temple Of Aphrodite. So men and women, a thousand women priestesses would come down and they would offer themselves to these sailors, to these business people and such. And these monies would go back up to the temple as a part of the whole religious system based upon the idolatrous practices of fertility goddesses, multi breasted and pictures and pornography and all to attract, to incite to incite men and women in that way. Nor adulterers, the sexual sins of the married, those who vowed, who promised to be faithful. That's all the Lord wants us to do is to be faithful to him. We're married to him and be faithful to our spouse, our children, our grandchildren, our dependent upon us to make it real for one lifetime. I asked Kathy if she'd marry me in the millennium. She said, nope. I thought it was a good idea to have Jesus marry us. That'd be great in Jerusalem. She said, nope. Just till death do us part, buddy. I've had enough. I've had enough. But she is faithful. She is faithful. Nor the effeminate. Effeminate. These are the sensualists. Those living for pleasure. Male prostitutes, transvestites. The word effeminate means soft. So Robbie and others would say, low t guys, really soft low t soy boys, the effeminate. And if you eat soy, I'll pray for you. You know, it's filled with estrogen. You're gonna get man boobs. You're gonna be effeminate. You need some testosterone. You need to be a carnivore. The effeminate, soft, low t, and I guess some people call them he she's, they're he she's, you know. Nor abusers of themselves with mankind, these are the homosexuals. 14 of the first 15 Roman emperors were homosexuals. Socrates and Plato were homosexuals. Nero was a homosexual and he had a little boy toy named Otho and Otho, he had him castrated and or excuse me. He he let's see here. Nero, he married a boy named Spores and he had him castrated. And when he was done with him, he passed him on to Otho, another sodomite. So they passed these little boys around, castrate them, been going on forever, and and that was the culture there. So he says, abusers of themselves with mankind, which would tie into Romans one, the picture there of you you deny creation, God gives you over to this aberrant kind of behavior, and we live in a time where rather than being ashamed of this behavior, there's an emphasis upon normalization to try and make it normal and acceptable, and it's misconstrued as being loving and kind and and otherwise, you're a hater, you're a bigot and such. No. Really, you're a lover of God. That's what you are. You're a lover of God, and you don't want your children, any children, anybody's children becoming castrated and a slave to these sodomites. Because you know what? They can't have their own kids. Ain't that weird? Although I've seen pictures of guys with belly. I don't know how they're doing that, but medically speaking, you know, boy, they're ugly too. Just really ugly. They make really bad women. Hurts the eyes. Hurts the eyes. If you don't laugh, you cry. It's so it's so bad. So God's discriminating. He allows choice. It's your choice, but he also judges. God's gonna judge you. He judges sin. He says, verse 10, in case in case you can't don't have any conviction about those first few, your your thing isn't sexual immorality, maybe thieves? Or how about this one, covetous? Have you ever been in a mode where you want more and more and more and more? The eyes of the wicked never full? So although adultery is here and effeminate and all those stuff comes into the church of the Bless Me Club, my best life now, I always want more. That's a sin of covetousness. The discontentment within our heart, never content with what we have, always wanting more. So nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards. So you have a liberty to have a glass of wine, you have a liberty to drink beers, that's fine. But at what point is your blood alcohol level such that you've come under the influence thereof? And if you allow it for a period of time, one beer, one glass of wine, it takes two now to calm you down, takes three, takes four, now you're under the influence. Now you're getting your first DUI, your second DUI. Now you're at rehab. But you're a Christian. So you need to repent. You need to stop doing that. You can't give into that behavior. If you continue in that behavior, it's indicative of somebody that's not saved. You're not saved. Be not deceived. You're not saved. Do you fall maybe? Yeah. But you get back up, you stop doing it. No revilers. Revilers would be people that are that are wanting to fight and yell and scream nor extortioners. You're extorting people with money and such shall inherit the kingdom of God. Now all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, Romans three twenty three. All of us are sinners, every single one of us. So where are you on the list? Did Paul leave you out? Did he leave me out? Now, what was your past? Hopefully, was in your past. See, one of the things happening is we're not allowed to evangelize homosexuals and lesbians and gays. We're not allowed to do that anymore because that would that would mean they weren't born that way. That would mean they don't have the gay gene. That why are you trying to change them when this is the way they are? And they're starting to legislate laws that you're not allowed to talk your own children out of a sex change because who are you to change their desire to go from a boy to a girl, a girl to a boy? Well, excuse me. I'm gonna do everything I can to reason with them and try and make them understand the ramifications of this sort of a thing. Heck yeah, I'm gonna share Christ with them. Share Christ with lesbians, gays, anybody, murderers, whoever. They're all on the list. We're all on the list. Did I say Moses was a murderer? Oh, I had to get in trouble. I said that one time. I got in lot of trouble. I think he murdered an Egyptian, but I think David murdered Uriah the Hittite. Think David committed adultery with Bathsheba. I think Abraham lied twice about Sarah. The father of our faith, the great man of faith twice, he said, in Egypt and Gerar. Tell him you're my sister. Right on. I can relate. And I love Hebrews 11. It's all it's gone. It's not there. Men and women of faith. And so what's your testimony? I was once blind, now I see. I was once a drunk, but I'm sober. I was once a whatever, just fill in the blank. We're all we all have testimonies of where we were now. None of these people were saved by psychology. None of these people had their behavior transformed and changed by psychology or talking to one of these counselors for $75 an hour. Freely we receive, freely we give. You need to talk to somebody, fine. Go talk. But Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. To the Jew first and also to the Gentile for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as is written, the just shall live by faith. So there's nothing more powerful than the transformation of a person where Jesus comes into their heart and life. Nothing more powerful to transform a man that was blind to be able to see. The woman with the issue of blood for twelve years, she went to the psychiatrist for twelve years and spent all of her money and still was no better off. She came to Jesus, she touched the hem of his garment and it she stopped bleeding. Right? That's a testimony. Mary Magdalene had seven demons in her. She came to Christ and the demons left her life. She had a testimony. All of us have a testimony. Our sin is in the past. If God can't save you and I, we're wasting our time here. Right? We need we need to start reading the book of Mormon or Freud and Roy or find the latest thing about nervous systems or whatever behavioral science and have pills and all that. No. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And he said he's given us to Peter, second Peter one verse three, that he's given us everything we need for life and godliness. Our gospel is not inadequate. Our gospel is more than able to reach a person and to transform and change them, turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God. To cause their eyes with the scales to the scales to come off. I was blind, now I see. Now, are you gonna fall? Yeah. We're all gonna fall, but you don't continue in it. There's a greater power operative in your life now, the power of the holy spirit. Sin shall not have dominion over you. You don't make excuses. You don't blame your mom or dad or an abuser or anybody. That's all in the past. They don't have power over you. If you sin now as a professing Christian, it's because you choose to sin. You choose to keep drinking. You choose to keep doing the porn. You choose to keep smoking the reefer. You can take the gummies, I guess. There's no THC in it. Right? Go ahead. Take a gummy. You nervous? Take a gummy. They're okay. Gummies are okay. Christian gummies. There's no THC. Right? I'm just joking. I don't know how it works. And, you know, you can go to heaven being a smoker, being addicted to nicotine. You can go to heaven being now be careful here what I'm saying. Don't misconstrue this. Some of you have a liberty to drink a beer, and you don't get drunk. Well, nothing wrong with that. You're going to heaven. But if you drink around somebody that can't handle their liquor and you cause them to stumble, and you shouldn't mix it at church, you shouldn't mix it in situations where there may be somebody there that's just come out of rehab and they have a real problem with with alcohol or drugs or whatever it may be, now you're causing a brother to stumble. So you refrain. You refrain in a public setting where you might stumble somebody. These idiot churches around here, they started having the what they called a bible study. It wasn't a bible study. It was just a means of signing people up to get them to tithe. And they had what they called icebreakers. They'd bring beer and they'd bring wine coolers to break the ice to get the thing started. It's idiocy. Just complete idiocy. So you'd go to one extreme, and then you go to the other extreme. I'm really angry. I'm angry. I'm beat something. So I came out of an alcoholic background, and, I can drink all the alcohol I want. I just don't wanna drink it. I saw the abuse thereof. But you're a gourmet cook, and you just need a little wine with that dinner. I'm fine with that. The bible's fine with that. Jesus drank wine. Right? But many would argue it didn't have corruption. It was more of a grape juice than it was the wine that went through the fermentation process of corruption and such. So wherever you're at with that, go there. But if you're drunk, a Christian drunk, you need to examine whether you're a Christian or not. Be not deceived. And don't stumble anybody or get ready for a millstone. Don't want to go there. I just don't want any. And he says, and such were some of you. Now we got a new list. Ain't that great? He has a whole list of behavior that you and I are well aware of. And I'm trapped. I don't know how I'm gonna get married. I don't know how I'm gonna have a family. I don't know how I'm gonna do this. I don't have the ability. And I'm just flowing with the world, same way the world, all my friends were all flowing the same direction. Nothing different about me, what I was doing. We're going to clubs, we're meeting girls, chasing girls, we're having fun, drinking beers, all that. But it wasn't the kind of behavior that would lend itself toward winning a woman that would trust me for her whole life long. Not until Jesus came into my heart and life. Not till he changed me and changed her. And such were some of you. So God saved you out of sin. Why? That you might continue in that lifestyle? No. Be delivered. Salvation means deliverance, means healing. God wanted to deliver you from that behavior. He says, but such were some of you, but don't you love the contrast? But but God. But God didn't leave you that way. But what a wonderful contrast. A change has taken place. And Mike and Shannon Goodson have a great testimony. Right? They have a wonderful testimony that they can tell you about. A previous life, BC, and now having Christ in their heart and life for many, many years, raising their grandkids. As far as I know, Sylvan Way Baptist reached out to them and helped them overcome the drug addiction, got them saved, and otherwise, they'd be dead today. They'd be dead. They would have died. Other people in this room were meth addicts, all kinds of drug addicts and alcohol and all all those sorts of things, but God rescued you. You have a testimony now. You can testify to people the great things that Jesus has done and is doing in your life. You don't go back to the pigpen. Such were some of you. That's who you were before. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature, the new creation. The old things are passed away. All things are become new. And notice the list, the new list, but you're washed. Completed action. You've been washed in the blood of Jesus. Revelation one five, unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Helpless to wash ourselves. In Psalm 51 verse two, David cried, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Helpless. Titus three five, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but as according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration or renewing of the Holy Ghost. That's transformation. That's being born again. God saved you. You are helpless to change your spots, to change yourself. You can't do it. So you're not only washed, but you're sanctified. Again, completed action. Sanctified. There's a positional. There's also a process of sanctification where we're being changed from glory to glory into the image of Christ. But this one, you are sanctified, means you're made holy. You're set apart from the world, set apart unto God. So not isolation from the world, but set apart from the world and that you're holy. You're not gonna defiled by the world and your purpose of being saved is you're set apart on the God. You're fit for the master's use. You belong to him. He purchased you with his own blood. And so made a made for him. In John seventeen seventeen, Jesus prayed, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. So if we're teaching the word of God here and not Freud and Reud, you are being sanctified. You are being made holy by the truth, by the word of God. The word of God is transforming and changing you by the renewing of your mind. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. So sow a thought, reap an action, sow an action, reach a habit, sow a habit, reap a destiny. The battle is in the head. The battle is you gotta take every thought, every imagination, high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bring it into captivity to the word of God. This is the word of God. Now you align your life and you go in the flow of what God's word by his spirit is teaching you. You're a doer of the word, not a hearer only. But if you aren't taught the word, you're not getting that work of sanctification, the washing of your heart and mind, and that transformation that takes place. So now you're a babe in Christ. You've been going to church for twenty years. You're in a rested state of development because the pastor did not feed you the word of God. Get me? And you've been hearing a whole lot of therapeutic messages, feel good messages, what how you're abused, butterfly kisses and everything, and you never grow. Never grow. It's pathetic. You leave that stuff behind. There's enough sin in your life to not worry about those that abused you. You look in the mirror and you say, Lord, change me. You're sovereign, you're in control, it happened. There's nothing I can do about the past, Lord. But Lord, I'm here to walk by faith. I recognize that you went to the cross and died for me, and you chose me, you transformed, you changed me, and Lord, please keep changing me. My biggest problem of my life, Lord, is me, not somebody else. Kinda harsh. It's not harsh. It's the only way to get moving, get growing. Let's just stay there. Don't wanna stay there. I don't wanna drum up all the stuff of the past and rethink it all through and keep going over it in my mind. It's garbage. Leave it alone. Don't glorify it. Don't give Satan any glory in it. I was blind, now I see. So a Christian in a post Christian era set apart, no compromise. Think about this for a minute. Daniel and the boys, they thought in terms of sanctification of being holy, it's better to be dead than to be defiled. Is that what you think? It's better to be dead. I'd rather die right here, Nebby, than be defiled by worshiping your image, by giving into your mandates, by giving into your whatever it is you're trying to do to get me to not worship the Lord. Once a year, the Christians in the first few centuries, all they had to do was pinch incense and say, Caesar is Lord, and they could live. But they refused. They were good citizens, good workers, did everything according to the law. But when it comes to their faith in Jesus, no, Jesus is Lord. They would rather be dead than to defile the name of Jesus. Is that the cry of your heart? I'd rather die. Polycarp at the end of his life, eighty and sixty years, he's been faithful to me. Why would I recant right now? Golly. Give me a break. But you're justified. So you're washed, you're sanctified, justified just as if you've never sinned. The charges have been removed. There's no charges against you. There's no accusation sticking. There's nothing in the ledger, nothing in the record. It is finished. I paid in full. Just as if you've never sinned, God sees you as righteous. Be your justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God and such were some of you, but God changed you. You were hopelessly lost, dead in your sins, powerless to change, bankrupt, depressed, depraved in your heart and mind. But God washed you, God sanctified you, God justified you, declaring not guilty. In first John two one, these things write unto you that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous. So Jesus represents us in the court of law in heaven. He's our arbitrator. He's our advocate and he has resolved all conflict for us. The question is, will we repent by changing our arbitrator, our attitude, and our actions? Will we forgive as we've been forgiven? Conflict resolution. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Now when my daughters would fight, and now Brittany's doing it with her kids. When my daughters would fight and they're in a conflict, we'd get get them there and we'd say, be ye kind. They'd have to sing it to the other one. So Britney'd have to look in the eyes of Jessica and say, be ye and boy, they'd hate doing that. Be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Ephesians four thirty two. So they first, Britney didn't wanna do that with their kids, but now they do it because they get in the conflict. And so where's the resolution? Be kind. The forgiveness that you've received, forgive the one that's wronged you. Let's get it over with. Let's let's let's let's do this. Yesterday, Evie was at the ball field, and there was a young lady there that they weren't talking. And something wrong, some ought there. So I tried to break the ice and get things rolling and couldn't do it. Pretty soon, the little girl says to Britney, do you wanna go over to the snack bar with me? And on the way to the snack bar, she says, I understand that I said some things that offended you, and and I just want you to know I'm sorry. And Britney says, oh, I forgive you. Now they're friends again. It's all it's all behind them. Right? And that's how we need to be in the body of Christ. And I thank you guys for the many times over and over and over again that you forgive me and my family, and how gracious you've been. When I make you so angry, say, I'm never going back there again. We are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God. Conflict resolution. God wants you and I to be ambassadors of reconciliation, not of having grudges and forcing these things and going to court and doing the ugly, you know. He wants our lives to be beautiful and the church to be beautiful and to to love one another. By this shall all men know that you're my disciples, they have love one for another. Let's pray. Father, thank you once again for your word that keeps us close, Lord, that holds on to us and doesn't let us drift into the myriad of different voices out there speaking, Lord. Help us to ever challenge and critically think and and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and every imagination high thing that exalts itself against you, Bring every thought to the authority of truth, of your truth. Lord, we desire to walk in that truth. We desire to not be those who are deceived, being deceived, continuing in that deception. Lord, I hate lies. I just hate the times we're living in, the escalation, the lies on steroids, the propaganda, just just so prevalent. The media and the government and churches and such. And Lord, I thank you that we can humble ourselves and we can walk as as children through just with a child like faith, just so much wanting to just know the truth, Lord. To just know what your word says. And we have a bible and we can read it and we can pray, and we know that we know that we know no matter what anybody else thinks, Lord, we know the truth. We know what you have to say. So Lord, help us to build one another up, strengthen one another, love one another, hold no grudges, no ought against each other. Let there be such a freedom to be who we are, the losers we are, Lord, but in an environment of love where people are constantly loving and building up and strengthening, watching over us. Don't We have to be hip hypocrites and put on airs and act like we're better than anybody and point fingers. There's just an environment to grow and to love, make mistakes, to get back up and keep going. Help us, Lord. Lead and guide us. We pray in Jesus' name. If there's anybody here that doesn't know Jesus, here's your chance. Anyone here this morning, you don't know Christ, you're not saved, lift your hand up. We wanna lead you in prayer. You're turning from your sins. You're crying out to God. God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Anyone here this morning? People wait for you. They'll wait for you. This most important moment for you this morning. It's your birthday. You must be born again. All of us had that moment. All of us had that moment where the Lord transformed and changed us. This is your moment. God's ordained. God's made an appointment for you here. Anyone this morning? Father, thank you once again. And Lord, as we partake of communion, we pray that you bless the intimacy, the fellowship that we enjoy, Lord. We don't take it for granted. We don't take it for granted, Lord. These are precious, precious moments in these last days, Lord. Bless, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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