Caught in a TRAP (Part 2) - Tolerance*Relativism*Apathy*Political Correctness - (Sep 23, 2017)

I hope you guys have enjoyed the presence of Lord thus far last week you know we talked about how the gospel just has been so incredibly watered down and you know how I how I take issue with that and I felt like I needed to apologize last week and the Lord had given me the green light to do that but I think the reason why he he did that to be honest with you I don't think was his idea to do it but when I heard from over a hundred people outside the synagogue saying that you know it was something that they absolutely needed to hear and it was a game changer for them I realized how important it is to just speak the words that God gives me whether whether you know I can't guarantee that they his words per say but I have to at least be willing to stand up for what I think he wants me to say with that being said you know some of you have been here for as long as I've been here for 15 years I am Phatak and I get very passionate I don't know how it happens but it does not happen here it happens anywhere and everywhere that I that I talk about God I get very excited kind of like people get excited about the things they get excited about and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with getting excited about those things but you see people that are excited whether they're sports casters or you know what whoever they are and and I think it's it's right to be passionate about what what you really are excited about but sometimes sometimes I just I just want to preface it by saying you know they said this sometimes a righteous signning nation that comes over me a little bit and you just got a don't don't worry so much how I say things per se but I cannot apologize for what I say because what I'm saying is just what the Word of God is saying I'm not saying anything more anything that's though I can't I can't really apologize for that so last week we talked about you know moralistic see it's you know therapeutic deism and we went over the principles and the basic tenets of and I think it's very important for you to if you're gonna spend time on anything get get a hold of that and and study it and get a hold of the scriptures it's very very very important so you can see where we stand on what's going on not just in America but in the world and we spoke a little bit about obviously Paul and his letter to Timothy and I want to share with you some more scriptures and I want to let you know that speaking the truth is an act of love but it comes with a price it there's no ifs ands or buts just from being a father and being a coach and so on and so forth speaking the truth is absolutely an act of love but there is a price to be paid and there's listen and there's no way around that price you can't you can't go to the discount rack when you speak in the truth okay no no read that's special it's it's full price okay now let me show you another prophet jeremiah and in the 6th chapter 14 first obviously these scriptures aren't totally in context so by all means go home and read them in context but he's saying they and that they is the prophets and priests and israel at this time thank you so they dressed the wound of my people you know he's see how personal it is with him these are his people you see he's not a gun for hire he's not a hireling he loves his people and they dressed the wound of my people but only superficially saying there is perfect Shalom perfect peace when when there is no Shalom Jeremiah is pouring out the message on the people he love's of impending doom it's coming the axe is already at the at the base of the tree and it's it's not going to be reverted because Jeremiah knows they're not going to repent III believe with all my heart that we are at a crossroad right now in America that if we repent revival will come but if I was a betting man I don't think it's gonna happen that doesn't mean I don't hope for it to happen and that doesn't mean I don't pray for it to happen but just looking at the signs I just don't think it's gonna happen however I still stay hopeful because where there's God there's hope and there's God so he is he is giving pouring this message out on them and he's saying that the priests and the prophets a bold-faced lying to the people look at this word superficially I just I just have to concentrate let me concentrate okay I just got to connect the word is killall and it's carelessly and casually and on the surface in other words I think Jeremiah is saying my people are broken and shattered and you guys are putting band-aids on a spewing artery blood is pouring out of their artery and you're coming along with a with an adhesive bandage and you say it's not so bad and you'll be fine but things are anything but fine judgment is coming to Israel women are going to be assaulted children are going to be murdered this is what's coming and the priests and the prophets are saying it will be okay which I believe it's what's happening today I believe it's a total parallel going further on in Jeremiah chapter 20 verses 7 through 9 it says this you fool me I don't know I have been your dupe you overpowered me and you have prevailed all day long on the laughing stock everyone makes fun of me whenever I speak I have to cry out I shout violence and destruction this was his message it's coming thus the word of odd annoy becomes for me the cause of reproach and derision all day but if I say quote I won't think about him meaning I'll just cut myself off from God let me let me just by a show of hands how many people in this congregation have been ordained or I have passed it at some point you don't have to be pastoring right now just show me by a hand can you raise the hand higher I'm having a real hard time seeing this I don't know what you're embarrassed of it's a high calling that's a lot of you okay we'll get together afterwards and talk about it my point is my point is not to check your ordination papers my point is that he's saying I just want to get away I won't think about you God I know that every single one of you in ministry has said that I just spoke to a guy 46 years in ministry I said did you ever feel like leaving he said every single day he said to me every single day and the guy has a stellar record he says I won't think about him meaning God I just I'll just cut you off I'll go on my merry way and I'll do something else I get another job I won't speak in his name anymore then it seems as though a fire is burning in my heart imprisoned in my bones I wear myself out trying to hold it in but I just can't do it if you read The Book of Jeremiah you will see the ravings of a very very depressed person today they would lock him up and over medicate him the Prophet here regrets his ministry because it's incredibly unpopular he wants to be the smiling guy that comes out and says this is the day the Lord has made and everything's going to be fine and he's saying basically if I can paraphrase in my version he's saying you pushed me into this God and I'd let you do it because when you called me I answered the call so even though you pushed me it's kind of on me too and I'm mad at myself and now my life stinks everybody in Israel hates me I'm not well-received they don't invite me to any parties that I go look who's coming you know mr. happy he's mocked he's hated they want to kill him and then he says but I just can't stop every time I try and quit a fire burns in me and it wears me out I'm more miserable trying to stop than to keep going I just can't hold it in does anybody know what I'm talking about oh yeah now going on to another contemporary Ezekiel this guy had some some ministry I mean did you do you remember what God said to Ezekiel in the 14th chapter xiv verse he said even if Noah and job and Daniel do you know those three giants there was no great a man than ever lived than job Noah got to build the ark and he only brought his family and to save them and Daniel they said we know you up here whenever your name is mentioned and you pray we instantaneously send an angelic host to answer you you're well known you hear those three guys it even if they begged me I'm still sending judgment now listen to it listen to ezekiel chapter 2 he said to me human being now what is all your versions if you don't read the complete Jewish what does it say son of men what does that mean anybody human being that's a dead giveaway that's my version but what does that mean guys you've read these things thousands of times the whole Gospel of Luke Yeshua refers to himself not as the Son of God as the Son of Man don't you want to know what it means why didn't you just look it up I'm not being hard I'm saying you just we just read this so flippantly this is the Word of God there's nothing like it we study things on the internet that aren't even founded in Scripture some of them are extra biblical most of them are anti-biblical this is it's let me just read the whole thing to you he says to me human being but see the exclamation point it's not like human beings like human being you see you have to look at the grammar that it was written in there's a reason why there's those marks and he says not hey stand up there's a big difference when you save somebody hey do you mind standing up if somebody says to me stand up I'm getting ready how's this if somebody says to me I'm getting ready but that's beside the point that's just me I want to speak with you another exclamation point as he spoke to me a spirit entered me and put me on my feet I love when I read this and you've read this at that I'm like wow but when you read it it wasn't Wow why isn't that something I am sending you to the people of Israel and again he says I'm sorry I missed the mr. section he said human being again I'm sending you to the people of Israel that nation of rebels who have rebelled against me they and their ancestors have been transgressing against me to this very day because they are defiant hard-hearted children still claiming them as his children I am sending you and you are to tell them here is what Illinois Elohim the Lord our God says whether they listen or not this rebellious house will still know that a prophet has been among them exclamation point very very strong verses of Scripture very strong human being or a son of man identifies Ezekiel as the creature he's saying you are nothing but a creature do you understand I am the Creator it's putting him in his place when you schewe called himself the son of man it was almost humiliating it highlights if you will Ezekiel's humility before Israel's Almighty so it's putting him in his place before he tells him what he needs to do in other words the Lord sternly puts him on his feet and he says get up son and prophesy regardless of the results you're not doing this to win them over or to push them away you're doing this because I told you now I know my kids could relate to this because a lot of times over the years it's like if I say something I'm not saying this because I want the reason why you're doing this is because I said to do it now if I can be this Stern and this emphatic and expect direct results to my children where do you get off when God gives you a command he's saying aye aye it doesn't matter what happens okay they're gonna know that they will prophesy too so that when they meet me and I looked them in the eye and I'm saying I don't know you and they'll go you didn't tell us and he goes sure did just like everybody here you can get a Bible and in Walmart you can get a Bible at a dirty motel you can get a Bible you know on TV now I mean it's unbelievable nobody has an excuse those excuses are over forget it and then like I did with Jeremiah let me just show you two verses in Ezekiel 3:17 through 18 he says human being again hey creature hey creature you don't like to be called idea I won't call you that but to create again hey creature I have appointed you to be a watchman for the house of Israel not just the Prophet listen this is crazy when you hear a word from my mouth you ought to warn them for me you're my mouthpiece okay I can't talk to them like you can because I'm spirit but I'm gonna send my spirit through you and you're gonna open your mouth and these are the words that are gonna come out if I say to a wicked person you will certainly die and you Ezekiel fail to warn him to speak and warn the wicked person to leave his wicked way and save his life then that wicked person will die guilty no question he's out but I will hold you responsible for his death some a lot of times young people write to me and they want to be a pastor they want to be a shepherd and I just left they have no idea they think it's having a microphone Ezekiel tells you that their blood is on your hands no question I can't get away with it I might get away with it with you I might be able to fool you but when I sit with him I am responsible for everything and if I did not warn and a person dies when God told me to warn then their blood is on my hands and I'm out so you think I'm gonna risk being out and it's the same thing in the family you're a pastor their blood is on your hands isn't the world gonna blame you god they must have been awful parents right don't they always do it it don't matter if you're perfect parents right they blame you until something happens with their kid and then like oh wow okay and I love the ones without kids right they have all the answers he's saying it's on music and Zeke's saying wow thanks a lot I mean I didn't even answer this this is crazy this responsibility is crazy and then we have the great Apostle Paul acts 20 he says you know that I held back nothing that could be helpful to you what a guy and then I taught you both in public and from house to house he said when we sat down your homes I thought I was just hanging out watching the game I was teaching now listen emphatic exclamation point I know that none of you people among who I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will ever see me again he's leaving they're not gonna see him again he knows he knows where he's going therefore I testify on this day that I am innocent of the blood of all four I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole plan of God this is this is to the Ephesians you'll read that letter it's chock full because he was there for three years it's a very potent letter you'll hear people quote from it constantly constantly it's all about the body of Messiah and Paul states that he'll nothing back from the Ephesians that would hinder their spiritual well-being he held nothing back even though some parts of God's Word a very unpopular or difficult Paul did not omit any of it Paul convinced that he would never see his ephesians brothers again and he letting them know that as a watchman same thing it's not like in the old testament they were watchmen he was a teacher so he was a watchman and as a watchman he blew the shofar and he never did not blow the shofar so he's saying my hands are clean from your blood guilt if you walk away or choose to take that path it's not on me do you see the courageous example guys all you pastors and proposed pastors and teaches Sunday School teachers we have here or ministers do you see the courageous example for all of us who would consider teaching and preaching God's Word do you see what he left us the messages don't add don't take away stop reading on the Internet you don't know these sites you don't know who's responsible chapter verse chapter verse you feel me because when you're in trouble you're not going to quote the Internet you're gonna quote this so you better know it to quote it we are so very concerned today about our nutritional intake we try to eat very well I was eating like this way before it was popular in the 70s does anybody remember eating like crazy healthy in the 70s before anybody knew about it you went into a health food store everybody looked like they were dying and the thing smelled like feet now it's Whole Foods must be the golden calf milk is like $42 1/2 gallon but do you see how people today are so overly concerned about their their nutritional intake but so unduly concerned about this spiritual intake do I think one abrogates the other no should you eat good yes the Bible says physical training is of some importance but spiritual training is of greater they're both important but where's your priorities men today we hear these people preaching it's full of preservatives it's full of additives it's full of colorings it's full of artificial ingredients and GMOs ghastly modified origins and we take it in get further on in acts just three more verses in acts 20 Paul continues so said he's leaving them I remember man I remember how this is a I just want to take a look see if I wrote this down I remember the first time I was in India and I was leaving Samuel and it says he read when when he had finished speaking I would speak at them singer by he kneeled down and I kneeled down with them when we prayed and they were all in tears as they threw their arms around his neck and kissed them and I wrote Samuel and Greg and India what's in the most was his remark that they would never see him again he's leaving they're never gonna see him again and he's so sad because he says I know that after I leave savage wolves will come in among you and they won't spare the flock even from among your own number men will arise and teach perversions of the truth in order to drag away the students the Talmud Dean after themselves so stay alert exclamation point remember that for three years night and day with tears in my eyes I never stopped warning you exclamation point Paul was aware that after his departure from this congregation they would be attacked from without and from within false teachers would come in the minute God gives you a blessing Satan is at the door he is gonna be on the other side of this parking lot the second you leave today he's gonna be knocking on your door at home he's gonna be knocking on the door your heart he is coming should you be afraid most people don't want to hear this this is too much for me this is insent it's too much for you to be warned that the enemy is coming to destroy your vineyard you don't want to be warned that's the saddest thing I've ever heard he says stay alert look at the word it's it's it's basically my name Gregorio that's what Gregory means to be vigilant to be watchful to watch metaphorically to give strict attention to to wake up to be cautious be careful about the decisions you make be careful about the company you keep so careful to watch the food oh I can't do that I can't eat that and then just engulf spiritual crap take heed well some calamity will suddenly I remember I don't know what happened it came out of nowhere a roaring lion you ever go and I've been there I've been to Africa I've seen the Lions in the grass attack an elk out in no way you can't even see him and the elk is just drinking and drinking and gun and he tries to get away and man outline is in him and that lion knows he's not going nowhere and then the other Lions come out the other demons and they feast they feast off our soul Paul is an emphasis for three years wanting them day and night not not not once in a blue moon every day and every night lovingly warning them if Paul were alive today and he preached the way he preached would he be charged with being out of balance would people say he's not loving some of your churches you go to could Paul preach at your church today well he could preach at Beth yushua any day with that being said look at what he says to Timothy his spiritual son who's gonna take over for him he says a slave of the Lord has that how's that stop there no no Timothy was supposed to be a slave no sweet pea if you're a disciple whether you're female or male you're a slave that's nominal what do you mean oh there's some people that it's like the Apostles display prophets a slave rabbi maybe you see yourself in slave no sweetheart no no no we're all slaves a slave of the Lord shouldn't fight on the contrary he should be kind to everyone a good teacher if you are a bond serving the Lord you have to know how to teach and not resentful when mistreated not if you're mistreated when you're going to be mistreated all the time Oh trust me I'm telling you I'm not ask you to take a violet out for me I'm showing you the scripture also he should be gentle as he corrects he has to correct his opponents you know how many people come up to me afterwards and want to challenge me after on the book of Revelation I the minute I see the spirit that they're coming with I don't give them a hard time I goes up yeah we can't do this right now because they're not coming to discuss they're not coming to sit down in love and share they're coming to win an argument the minute I see that they're turning the sword of God into the sword of the enemy I tell them put it back in your sheath I'll see you I don't go this some of you go there I don't go there I will spend my time disciple increased souls I'll spend my time preaching the gospel to lost souls I'll spend my time helping the poor the room the orphan but if you're some Christian nut who just wants to prove his point find some other you know what do you call that that that thing you're whack yeah find some other pinata it ain't happening for God may perhaps grant them he's not even sure but if he does this right God may perhaps grant them the opportunity I can't grant the opportunity in a rebuke and a correction I can't maybe God will if they humble themselves maybe God maybe he won't I don't know that's his department but if he does grant the opportunity to turn from their sins acquire full knowledge of the truth full knowledge of the truth not some truth full knowledge of the truth and they come to their senses they wake up and come out of the fog of this Gnosticism and secret knowledge that these false teachers were bearing people with there is no secrets it's all cats out of the bag and they come to it and they escape the trap of the adversary after having been captured alive by him you see the life they can't get out and they're doing the enemy's will and the buek is helping them get out of the snare they're caught in the net they can't get out and if you just walk by and do nothing who are you but they'll hate me who are you I'll give it a shot Billy a slave of Messiah must contend for the truth with the purpose of instructing men as opposed to winning an argument stop arguing a person wrongs his own soul by refusing to bow to the Word of God at that point it's on them you blow the shofar it's off you but why are you blowing the shofar do you really care nobody cares about how much you know till they know about how much you care do you really care are you crying over soles you're just trying to win your argument so many people come out of here and they argue and sadly enough they make a bad name for me and my family like that's what I'm about you act like you know Beth you shoe is the only holy abode in planet Earth and that Messianic Judaism is perfect I know a lot of Messianic Jews that are imperfect you're looking at one if you have some truth praise the Lord but don't hammer somebody with it men need to be corrected just like your children need to be corrected because if you don't they ignorant Lee go on with the mistaken notion that their view is in accordance with the Scriptures and you make them twice dead we need to be a hundred percent loving and a hundred percent truthful this is biblical balance if there ever was such a thing I don't like the word balance I hate it it's a word to that's used over and over and like moderation and tolerance and all these crappy words that the world is throwing at us but if you want to have biblical balance then it's 100 percent truth and 100 percent love spirit and truth you got to have the right heart and the right information nevertheless the objective that Paul is telling Timothy is to help the Brethren escape the trap we're caught in a trap we're caught in a trap in America and you know why you know the suspicious minds we're caught in a trap but we can't walk out and you know why because we love the world too much baby now before I show you some scriptures that I talked about Isaiah I talked about Jeremiah I talked about Ezekiel I talked about of course the great Apostle Paul to the Gentiles now I want to talk about the greatest of all greats Yeshua you hear this word tolerance right tolerance amazes me because people that are asking believe is to be tolerant are totally intolerant to what we believe they will sit with us as long as we tolerate now do I tolerate guys I've spoken to radical Islamic people in Israel who would blow me up in a heartbeat and I'll sit with them and talk yes I will and I'll let them know I'm never gonna believe like you believe because I believe in the Bible is what I believe I believe that everybody is entitled to believe whatever they want to believe but the tolerant people are crazy because they want you to totally tolerate they want you to give them the right to believe but they won't give you the right to what you believe so tolerant people of the most intolerant people I've ever met it's like an oxymoron or just being a tolerance the principle of Tolerance is permissiveness okay it's open-mindedness and it's wide thinking do you hear what I said wide thinking look at what your schewe says in his only sermon Matthew 7 it goes from 5 to 7 he says going through the narrow gate these people call you narrow and some of you used to be devout believers but you sucked up you don't know how it happened the world just got in and now you don't want to say anything you don't want upset while I'm at work I can't Bowl I'm a believer I'm not a believer Sunday morning or Saturday morning going through the narrow gate for the gate that leads to destruction is wide remember wide thinking the gate that leads to destruction is tolerance that would be the 21st century version and the road broad now people use this for evangelistic purposes this is not evangelistic it's not you can use it you can apply it but that's not its interpretation that's its application Yeshua is ministering to his disciples and he you could be saved but you're gonna have a really crappy life and you're gonna have very little treasures stored in heaven and that's not what you want do you if somebody offers you tickets to a game who's my football fans here if somebody offers you tickets to a game and they either offer you on the 50 online the 10 or all the way up in the nosebleeds what are you going with so when you're schewe says who will be greatest in the kingdom what do you want to do you want to be least I don't want to be greatest so your shoe can run around saying see that guy I want to be greatest I want to be as close to your shoe as I can get you want to be as close to the game I want to be as close to your shoe ax and he's saying many travel it sadly enough the masses the masses in the believing community travel the wide road he said that 2,000 years ago and it was never more true than today so what road will you travel it's your call you can't change you can't influence the road I travel and I can't influence that's your call but put the narrow gate few fights a hard road but there's abundant life and only a few find it be part of a few men this is an acronym trap tolerance is the first the next is relativism this is a theory that morals and truth are not absolutely subjective everybody has their own concept of truth and you have to give that to them if you're going to be tolerant so tolerance and revelat ism they're like the yin and yang in the world system Yeshua says something different he says that that's absolutely not true that there's no absolute truth when he says I am the truth he's not saying I speak some truth he says I'm the source of all truth Who I am my being every single solitary truth comes from me I am the truth and then the a is apathy I mean the people in the body is so apathetic I mean it's crazy they're so pumped for the weekend they're so pumped for their they came they're so pumped for their parties they're so pumped for all this crap and they're not pumped about God should you be pumped about the weekend sure shouldn't be pumped about a vacation sure shouldn't be pumped about you out in sure but priorities what happened man of God that you're not excited about God anymore what hasn't he done for you you're a little mad about the discipline you know how loving he is to keep you on the straight and narrow so you don't ruin your life and go through the wide gate [Applause] apathy it's this indifference it's a lack of passion you know what it is what have what have well let me show you what EV to the church at what have he says to them I know what you were doing you were neither cold nor hot I wish you either one or the other exclamation because you are whatever that's what whatever is whatever is lukewarm it's it's very telling guys I don't even want to I don't I don't even want to read the last part to me that's like horrific that I would cause God to have an upset stomach and make him violently hurl me out of his mouth and the last thing which is just tolerance the trap tolerance relativism apathy and political correctness this is just oh it's the ideology or the behavior to minimize offense its liberalism liberalism and political correctness are basically synonymous this is Matthew 15 let me set the stage view the religious leaders the pastor's of the day are arguing why issue as disciples don't wash their hands they don't follow the traditions of the elders they break the tradition of elders Yeshua said some they break the traditions the eldest you're breaking the traditions of God you're worried about your rules and I'm worried about my father's rules and your traditions are abrogating the very commandments so he says this to them he's not winning them over right I mean these are the movies in the shakers you know this would be like coming across a guy you know you know if I go around and go to some of these churches and and and wrap the guy up in the Torah and proclaim them King I get a $20,000 offering to do that is it worth it sell your soul for that my soul was bought with a priceless price there's no price that you could pay me to sell that soul it's not for sale so the talmud dean because they're new they're following you schewe they don't know him they know him pretty well but they're also concerned see they're playing both sides a lot of us do this we got the world and we got the Lord and we hold on to both and we claim we don't but we do and we just try to find a balance how much of this can I love and how much of this can I still have how much can I hold on and treasure and still when I die make sure I'm in and we try to balance the act and so they come up to your shoe and they go hey we don't mean to offend you but you're kind of ruffle their feathers these are these are big shots these are the leaders and teachers in Israel comes from and says did you know that the perishing were offended by what you said are you aware of this like like he didn't know he's trying to offend them buddy when you're offended the Word of God is a double-edged sword you have this if you're offended today you know what you could do you could shoot me or you could change and if you shoot me then it's on God because I blew the shofar do you know that the perishing were offended by what you said let's see issue his response listen to what he says in their presence every plant that my father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots he's saying these are not planted by the Lord they're not planted you know many congregations out there that I'm not planted by the Lord he says but let them be I'm not gonna go after him uh-huh no way I'm not messiahs cop mm-hmm I'm responsible for right here let them be he says they're blind imagine saying this right in front of them they come up to him the parishes over there and he's like they're blind blind guides and if you follow them you'll both fall in the pit so you have to let the blind guides out there you got to let the falsities out there so you'll know the truth there has to be contrast there has to be but then I could see him saying and just for the record if you think they're offended now wait till I get to chapter 23 look at this now they're he's not giving in he's not letting up on them because he cares about them every time you she was so the Pharisees he wept when he saw that children is really said look sheep without a shepherd he cried he cared he wasn't being mean he cared they don't understand what love is love isn't manipulation I'll do for you and you do for me that's manipulation that's of the enemy that's not love so finally they're trying to just like man give us a break and he says use snakes you serpents and then he said it's that's not enough bad insulting them he said just for the record your fathers were serpents to you come from a long line of crafty manipulative folks how are you going to escape being condemned can he can he Joe I can see them going in the 21st century you're judging me Jesus you know that little white girl voice you know you're judging me I can't take it you're not being tolerant they say that a Christian would say that Jesus why are you judging me because he's the judge yeah a gnome the Hinnom Valley but he'll 12 times hell was spoken about in the New Testament 11 times out of your shoe his mouth it's only funny until someone loses the salvation right you know I just want to end with the section of Scripture i I just resonate with Paul very very much always had always will and many people see Showell as a great rabbi they see him as rob shovel this this great rabbi not that I think I'm a great rabbi that's not wise resonate I just resonate with his heart I'll you'll see what I mean but people fail when they read the scriptures and they read his epistles they failed to see him his past the Paul they never see him they seem as this great exhort of this great teacher this great rebuke they never see his heart they miss it all the time so I'm gonna show you some scriptures because I think he deserves that I don't think I pretty much know he would have never imagined being the humble man of God he was that anybody would be talking about him except maybe in a negative way never would he think somebody would read his letter and study it and speak well of him but I'm here today to give him some honor and pay tribute to him second corinthians 2:4 he won't even visit them he has to rebuke them because they let false teachers in in false teaching but he can go to see them because he's so worn out and tired that he needs them and yet he says at the beginning of the letter if I hurt you how you gonna help me so I won't even I want to visit you so bad but I won't I'll just write you a letter man you want to talk about a heart of a guy golly I wrote you greatly distressed with an anguish heart and with many tears not in order to cause you pain but to get you to realize how very much I love you they think get it they just didn't know how much he loved them because god forbid you correct somebody look at this word distressed it talks about the same word as used in the Greek for tribulation ellipsis it's great pain not pain great anxiety now you might say rabbi but we read Philippians and he says rejoice in the Lord don't be anxious in anything right guys they were being tortured okay it wasn't like today oh I'm under such a enemy I tried to charge my iphone last night it's in charge I'm under attack no no you didn't plug it in properly they're being killed in Philip I don't you understand and he's just trying to encourage them he's just trying to help them he he's just saying a word not lying to them just hang in there Messiah is coming he was anxious every single day of his life he lived in constant anxiety constant I'll prove it to you Paul's heart here in the beginning of this letter to the people of Corinth his heart was breaking and he was extremely sad over having to correct them he didn't want to I don't want to correct my kids it's it takes energy sometimes you feel guilty depending on how you do it you want them to just be good right so that you could ignore them Paul's heart was breaking guys it's breaking and he's so sad over having the crack he loved them so much as one would love their own children he wasn't married these were his kids look at the word anguish not only is he stressed out of his mind but he's in misery he's in torment Paul is in excruciating pain as he's writing this letter it's killing him guys no one really likes confrontation and no one likes to be confronted but the gospel as well as souls of men must be preserved and that takes confrontation they should not interpret this letter as an attempt to hurt their feelings but rather as proof of his love for them can you imagine this is proof that he loves them and they're taking is you're hurting us human beings we should realize that any person who would do what he's doing really has an interest in us the sad fact is that Paul was more torn up about the sin in Corinth then the Corinthians were you know what I'm talking about right some of you were your kid goes left when they should go right and it's tearing you up and not them you can relate to this this is very relatable and then later on in the letter Paul has to attest to his apostolic ministry because they're letting in these BB which herbal type false teachers they're letting them come in with their fancy talk and their fancy garb and their fancy words and all their eloquence and they and they let them in and Paul's like so you're gonna make me most Paul never boasted the only time he boasted was the time he was deathly afraid and they put him in a basket over the wall he would only boast in his weaknesses he would never boast he said if you're gonna boast he repeated what Jeremiah said in 924 you who are wealthy don't boast wealth you were strong don't boast in your strength you were wise don't boast in your wisdom if you're gonna boast boast that you know the Lord meaning he knows you and he says so you're gonna make me do this you're gonna make me do this I hate having to do this and yet he does it why because he loves them he loves them look at 2nd Corinthians 11 it says I would like you to bear with me a little foolishness you see this please bear with me I am jealous for you with God's kind of jealousy since I promised to present you as a pure virgin in marriage to your one husband the Messiah does anybody know what that means probably not right in Judaism there's something called the era seam it's the patrol when somebody's patrol they're as good as married they're just waiting for the consummation of the marriage right now we have patrol - Yeshua we are as good as married at the wedding supper of the Lamb we will consummate our vows when a father would allow his daughter to be patrolled in Judaism he would have to commit at that patrol that is his Ronson's responsibility to keep that little girl pure till the wedding night it was his responsibility was on him Paul being a Jewish man writing to in a Jewish way it's so sad right that in Christianity we think the Bible was written by a bunch of Methodists isn't that sad and we don't even understand the power that it has such power and Paul saying unlike your father Corinthians and I have to present you to your husband Yeshua I'm personally responsible for your purity so just just bear with me just bear with my craziness okay you understand what's at stake here when you see somebody crazy that loves you and going after you what is the matter with you and so few people are willing to go after you you think they love you when they're sucking up to you and bind your little gifts you can work harder for them they use a new man I promise to present you as a pure virgin in marriage to your one husband the Messiah there it is and I fear he's anxious and afraid that somehow your minds may be seduced away from the simple and pure devotion single hardness just as Eve was deceived by the serpent they come in and they cater and appeal to your intellect and your knowledge crazy he was crazy about them he felt personally responsible for their welfare let's continue first someone comes and tells you about some other yushua than the one we told you about or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or expect some some so-called good news see back then back then they were watering it down and changing it you don't think they're doing it today you don't think it's worse don't you see the judeo-christian concept everything spirals down to your shoe ax touches down on Mount Zion and then it spirals up it won't spiral up it's spiraling down but that does not mean listen to me that you have to spiral down with it you're responsible for you daniel said i'm resolute i don't care what happens in babylon I don't care what my Jewish brothers and sisters do I'm resolute they tell you about some other good news is different from the good news you already accepted and you bear with them well enough meaning you bring them in I killed myself I didn't take a nickel from you Paul says these guys are lining their pockets with you and you're listening to them he says I don't consider myself inferior to these super emissaries he's being sarcastic he wasn't a skilled speaker he was a DS Dems and O's see a lot of people think he was eloquent where do you get that from tell me where in the scriptures do you see was helping I hear people say the old-time all Paul was eloquent no no Paul was the furthest thing from eloquent he had no filter and he shot from his hip but what he did know he knew Lord because he spent countless hours in his presence that's what he knew he said nope I'm not a skilled speaker but I do have knowledge anyhow we have made this clear to you in every way and in every circumstance Paul was concerned they were being hoodwink able you know what hoodwink able is to word I make up it's like you're not hoodwinked you know what I mean but you can be he knew they were hoodwink able they showed a readiness to entertain these false teachers look what he says later on in second Corinthians 11 22 27 we're almost home guys he says are they Hebrew speakers he hates doing this he doesn't want to do this he wants to be with them and he wants to prays with them and he wants to hang with them and he wants to laugh with them and he wants to enjoy the presence of God but they're veering off he says so they Hebrew speakers he says so my they impressed you with a Hebrew of a people of Israel so am I are they descendants of Abraham so am I are they servants of Messiah because I'm talking like a madman this is crazy of me to do this he said but I'm a better one you want to get down to brass tacks fine fine he says I've worked much harder I've been in prison more often I've suffered more beatings been there death over and over again five times I've received four delicious do you have any idea what this man's back looked like do you have any idea what that was like to receive those lashes with bone and ripped up your back three times I was beaten with rods do you have any idea what that's like there's no orthopedic surgeon guys he's hung up by his ankles and metal rods they're beating him breaking all his bones do you have any idea how he walked what he looked like what his face looked like once I was stoned I mean tied up and they throw rocks at him to kill him three times I was shipwrecked I spent a night and a day a whole night in a whole day in open sea holding on to a plank let's continue in many travels I have been exposed to danger danger from rivers dangers from robbers changes from the Jews changes from the Gentiles changes in the city dangers in the desert dangers at sea danger from false brothers he says I have toiled and endured hardship often very rarely having a decent night's sleep starving and thirsty and I've been cold and I've been naked so these super emissaries have something over me he's saying okay but here's the kicker this is I'm gonna turn the great rob shoal into pastor Paul before your very eyes you're ready nothing's up my sleeves watch the next verse and besides these external matters he's saying that's not my issue that's not what disturbs me most there is the daily pressure of my anxious concern for all the congregation's I shared this with a thousand pastors in Tennessee I said you know why you're overwhelmed because you think it's gonna be easy look at this word pressure nobody would think this is what it means it means that if you are a superintendent or an oversee if you're called to be a pastor of a congregation you're gonna have incredible anxiety daily you know how many Shepherds are out there that aren't Shepherds these clowny gentile Hebraic teaches who sit there and amaze you with where the ark is they could care less about you they have such knowledge who cares he says I have this pressure I can't go and this concern look at look what he says daily he says ìthe anxiety and worry and here's the kick of the next verse he says who is weak without my sharing his weakness guys I got widow's writing in widow's they tell me they write in and they send in 25 bucks on fixed income it's like it's like killing them to send that and some of you wouldn't think about putting a nickel in the flippin ministry and they write me letters and they answer me questions they ask me questions and I don't even have the time and it kills me because I see my mother I see my mother alone writing to somebody and saying I've been watching for a year you blessed me so much it's changed my life but I'm a son and could you please and I don't even have I I can't find the time I have a letter sitting right on my desk I'm gonna answer it Monday but I just want you to know out there I I don't have all it's not that I'm shutting my responsible it's impossible for me to answer all the letters I can't do it anymore I can't I can't find time for them and find time for her find time for me find time for you find time for them pray that God sends us somebody really I kid you not he's saying who is week without my sharing his weakness who falls into sin without you see what he's saying look at this word week when you're feeble and powerless and sick pull the saying I'm carrying around this daily care for the churches and I'm exhausted he's saying you guys don't know the half of it if one of you was weak he said that I'm weak if one of you suffers then I suffer he says when somebody comes to the end of the rope and they're ready to pull the trigger I feel the desperation of my own bones when someone is duped to it in sin does not a fire burn in me here's the bottom line for some of you passes some of you passed is watching or some of you people that want to become pastors here's the bottom line Church making is heartbreaking and church mending is never-ending and with that in mind I want to pay tribute to a couple of guys we're out of here John Huss 1369 - 14 15 considered the first church reformer burned at the stake for coming against the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church when he was about to expire he cried out Christ son of the Living God have mercy on us he gets it John Knox 1514 1572 founder the Presbyterian Church in Scotland I'd like to see him preach those messages today he was known as the thundering Scotsman as it was said that his funeral quote here lies one who never feared any flesh he didn't have a fear of men because he had such a great fear of God Jonathan Edwards 1703 1758 reformed Congregationalists widely regarded as one of America's most important and original theologians he played a critical role in shaping the first Great Awakening in America his sermons sin is in the hands of an angry god would go would say like a lead balloon in the Presbyterian Church George Whitfield 1714 to 1770 in English American cleric one of the founders of Methodists ISM who preached 18,000 times 210 million listeners in Great Britain in the American colonies at the end of his life during a terrible sickness they urged them you have to stop preaching and he said quote I'd rather wear out than rust out and let me show you one quote from Charles Spurgeon 1834 - 1892 some Monda vines whittle away the gospel to the small end of nothing they bring down salvation to mere possibility they make certainties into probabilities and treat verities he's very brilliant man that's truth as mere opinions when you see a preacher making the gospel smaller by degrees and miserable until there's not enough of it left to make soup for a grasshopper get you've gone with him as for me I believe in an infinite God I believe in an infinite atonement I believe an infinite love and mercy and I believe in an everlasting covenant I believe ordered in all things ensure in which the substance and reality is an infinite Messiah amen I was a big fan of dr. Martin Luther King huge huge and I was able to meet his son on a fluke I I knew I knew the the culture very well the black culture the african-american culture if you will because the Jews played a huge part in their culture most black folk don't sadly enough even know that that that it was down here in the south when the poor black people were trying to fight for their civil rights but had no education and no money they couldn't fight but because religious Jews in the Northeast I'm talking Pennsylvania and New York and New Jersey those three states a tri-state area they knew the Torah and the Torah teaches treati nobody like an alien because you were once an alien in Egypt and they saw their plight so they came down here pro-bono and fought and if it wasn't for the Jewish attorneys out of the Northeast you would not have your rights I'm not bragging about that that's just a fact and dr. King loved the Jewish people for obvious reasons he knew what they did he loved them and I got to sit next to his son on a plane because I was I was coming home from preaching Australia and I was taking the last leg of the flights from LA to to Atlanta and I was sitting in coach like I always knew of course and and one of the flight attendant said would you'd like to sit in first class and I was like you know not necessarily and they said look it's there's an open seat if you want to sit there well I never sat there before in my life so I thought okay you know it's a short flight okay so I sat and I sit next to King son and I turn and I he looked very tired and I said look I you know you look very tired I don't really want to bug you but this is a crazy opportunity I have because you've heard this a million times but I loved your dad he was highly highly anointed highly anointed if you listen to what he said he didn't waste there was no football stories there was no fillings everything he said was a sermon every sentence he said was a message and I said a couple of questions for you and then I'm leaving you alone you go back and whatever you need to do I promise I won't bother lush to trip one did your father like the Jewish people he said no my father adored the Jewish people I said okay I said - I heard a story about your father and I would love for it to be authenticated I heard that he got a call in Selma Alabama and they said King if you keep preaching what you're preaching and teaching what you teach and we're gonna kill you and we're gonna kill your family at that point he hung up the phone he was afraid like anybody would be and he said that from what I heard the story he said he could go forward cause if he went forward he was gonna die but he couldn't retreat but he was treating he'd give up and shrink back and disgrace God so he was stuck and he got on his knees and he cried he said I'm not perfect but I've preached the gospel all over the world I've tried my best I've made my fair share of mistakes but no all the time I've been preaching I've never heard your voice never heard your voice and all of a sudden he heard you're not alone Morton you're not alone and that was enough for him to go forward King then said in Selma Alabama on March 8th 1965 and I quote a man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right and I say if you don't stand for something you're bound to fall for anything guys I'm gonna make my own decisions you're gonna make your own decisions I don't mean to be pushy but hear me this is a time like no time to be radical about your faith not unloving not abusive not argumentative but to hold on to it because things are going to spin more and if you're not you're gonna spin out of control with it this is not a time to have superficial faith or be lukewarm this is a time to press and press and press like never before keep thinking about that meeting just think about the meeting you're all gonna have one when you're in a room there's nothing but two chairs and all of a sudden you're sitting there you just sitting there and and it's dark and all of a sudden the light comes on and your shoe it looks you in the eye and you hear him say he did really good you look good I knew a faithful and I'm so glad you're here press on Messianic soldier press on and don't give up not for nothing it's gonna be worth it let's stand together next Shabbat is Yom Kippur if you've never celebrating Yom Kippur I recommend you do some people fast some people don't fast they feel like it's it's something of the past and so when it says afflict your soul look there's different schools of thought out there right some people tell you these feasts have nothing to do with anybody some will say it's just for Messianic Jews some will say it's for mr. Andrews and mr. Gentiles that want to be part of Israel you'll hear all you'll hear all different different streams and all different theories you have to be convinced in your own mind and you have to decide what you want to do I'm a big fan of fasting I don't think we do it enough the bottom lines say if you fast it says when you fast and it really it really heightens the senses you know but anyway I don't want to put anything on you you don't have to fess to come here some people wear traditional white you don't have to you don't have to do anything really you have to do whatever you feel like doing and you'll be responsible that but next week is Yom Kippur and we're gonna try to figure out how we should celebrate as believers in Yeshua because we can I don't want to celebrate it traditionally I did that my whole life and I don't want to not celebrate it so I got a press in and figure out God what do you want us to do hopefully hopefully we'll come up with something be blessed treat each other nice and be salt and light when you leave here may the Lord bless you and keep you may the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and may the Lord lift up his very countenance upon you and give you peace in the name of the principle peace you sure you have a record on Oy Vey you smear ha your Illinois porno vilaça Wanaka yes ah ho poor novella ha the assembly hall Oh I love you guys shabbat shalom

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Published: Tue Sep 26 2017