Living a Separated Life - Part 2 | Pastor Roger Jimenez | Verity Baptist Church

amen all right we're there in second Timothy chapter number three second Timothy chapter number three and I'd like you to look down at verse number 16 second to me 3:16 s very famous passage in scriptures 2nd Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16 says this all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works and this morning I began the the first of a two-part series here on the subject of separation and this morning we kind of laid the foundation and for separation we learned about the doctrine of separation and when we ended this morning sermon I just want to remind you because we're gonna pick up this afternoon sermon just right where we left off this morning sermon if you remember I have the guys come up here and we talked about how separation is not a distance from the world because the problem with considering or thinking of separation as a distance is that the world is waxing worse and worse they're getting worse as they go along and if we simply keep our distance from the world we will eventually you know be where the world used to be so separation is not a distance from the world it's not like as long as we're not as bad as the world we're okay separation should come out of conviction in regards to what we believe and where we stand and then we should have standards that guide those convictions so what I want to do tonight is help you understand and teach you how to develop some personal standards and convictions for your life personal standards and convictions for your life and for your family and I want to begin by just kind of defining some terms and giving you some things and if you're able to write notes I'd love for you to write some of these things down but I want to begin with number one and the first kind of point tonight is this let's talk about scriptural principles whenever we begin as Bible believing Christians and as Baptists and by the way a Baptist is a bib lettuce Church tonight you know and you say why are we Baptist because as Baptists we are biblical that means is that the Bible is our authority I used to have a pastor who used to teach us you know when the Bible is your boss you're a Baptist and that's you know how it should be now unfortunately not all Baptists are doing that but that's what our foundation that's where we came from so everything we believe must come from the Bible and when it comes to separation we should learn from scriptural principles principles gathered from biblical teaching and that's what we see here in this passage if you look at verse 16 again he says all scripture all of the Bible all of the Word of God is given by inspiration of God he tells us the things that are there profitable for and we're going to talk about those here in a minute but I want you to notice the result of those things verse 17 that the man of God may be perfect the word perfect in our King James Bible is not the same as how we use it today today we talk about something perfect as it's being you know excellent or flawless but the word perfect in our Bible simply means it's complete its entire its whole the Bible says that all Scripture is profitable to make us the men of God the people of God the women of God you know perfect complete mature notice what he says throughly furnish the word furnish means supplied or equipped unto all good works and we need to understand that where we lay the foundation is the Word of God we must be very careful about not trusting our ways or the the ways of the world or the ways of men proverbs 14:12 you have to turn there but the Bible says this there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death and if you just simply allow your mind and your life to be guided by the what seems good to man you know you're gonna end up destroying your life and you know I'm not preaching about this tonight but a great illustration of this if you want to study it out because you know I know as a pastor I've been pastoring now for over eight years and I've dealt with a lot of people you know try to help a lot of people and counseled people and often I hear people saying like well I just think this is or I just think this is what God wants me to do or I just believe this is how the Lord is leading and it's like yeah but I'm showing you a verse here that says the exact opposite I'm showing you what the Bible says and if they got up do you think well I just think this is what God has for me and and here's what's interesting if you want to learn you know how things go and when men do that which is right in their own eyes study the book of Judges and specifically the end of the book of Judges because if you read the book of Judges you know you begin most of the book from the beginning till so close to the end it's just a chronology a history of the book of Judges but once you get towards the end of the book of Judges you find these two statements you it's one statement that's repeated twice you know and it says in the book of Judges that in those days there was no king in Israel and every man did that which was right in his own eyes the first time you see that statement in the book of Judges I can't remember I want to say it's chapter 18 or somewhere around there towards the end you see that statement then you see the statement again at the end of the book of Judges and those two statements kind of our book ends to the end of the book there where it's not giving you a chronological history anymore it's just kind of giving you some you know it's like an appendix it's giving you some extra stories about the times of the book of Judges and here's what's interesting when you start at you know in those days of no king in Israel every man did that which is right his own eyes in the book of Judges when you first see that statement and you just start reading from there to the end of the book of Judges where you see the statement again you know that you will find the craziest stories in the entire Bible I mean you'll find the most insane stories in the entire Bible including the judges 19 story which is probably the most violent and you know just story that you'll ever read about in the entire Bible you know but all of those stories you know every story in between those two terms it's just some of the craziest weirdest you know just off-the-wall things and you say why would God do that why would God put that in Scripture and I think God just put that little section of the book of Judges in there for us and he kind of just book ended it with those statements because he wants us to know when men who do that which is right in their own eyes this is the result there is a way seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of that so we need to just decide that our guiding principles for life will come from the Bible because here's what you need to understand the Bible has the answer for every question you have the Bible has the answers for everything you need to know I mean do you believe that do you believe that the Bible will will direct you in every area of your life notice there are second Timothy 3:16 again he says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable notice number 1 for doctrine someone said this doctrine is what is right you know here we're told that it's given by inspiration of God and it's profitable for doctrine it'll tell you what is right for reproof reproof is what is not right reproof is telling you what's not right so you got doctrine that's telling you what is right you got reprove telling you what is not right for correction that's telling you how to get right and then he says for instruction and righteousness that's telling you how to do right and the Bible is telling us here that God can give you whatever you need if you need to know what is right he's got doctrine if you need to know what is not right he's got reproof if you need to know how to get right he'll give you correction if you need to know how to do right he'll give you instruction so here's what we need to understand when it comes to separation we begin with scriptural principles we begin with understanding the Word of God and here's what you need to understand this is probably one of the reasons why this movement we call the new IV movement is as successful as it has been and this is also probably one of the reasons why the old IFB movement is failing and dying you say why because you know the old I I grew up old life B I've been an independent funnel Baptists my whole life and you know a lot of the old life be preaching not anymore but back in the days of Curtis Hudson and Jack Hiles and those guys a lot of their preaching was good preaching obviously there's things that we disagree with today but a lot of the things that they said were good things they said good things but you know what I believe is where they failed is they failed to teach the Bible if you listen to preaching from the old IP I was just we were just caught a little bit of the preaching from Sacramento this morning and brother Suk is preaching he was bringing this up now sober the Oliver it's funny he's bringing that up because I was going to bring it up in my sermon tonight but if you listen to the preaching of the old IFB you know the jack house the Curtis Hudson's those guys you know great preaching Lee Roberson those guys great preaching but you know they're real shallow on the Word of God there's not a lot of Bible in there preaching and I believe that that's where they failed because they preached a lot of good standards but they fail to attach those standards to scriptural principles you know we need to teach our people as pastors and moms and dads need to teach their children you know not only what to do but why we do it not only what our stand is but where we get that from the Word of God and attach every standard to a conviction and attach every conviction to a scriptural pattern that's why I at Verity Baptist Church in churches like ours you know we give you the Word of God in heavy doses we give you a lot of Bible in the sermons because of the fact that we want to attach everything to a scriptural principle now do me a favor and keep your finger there or put a ribbon or bookmark there in second Timothy we're going to come back to that area of the Bible but go to me to the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament towards the end of the Old Testament you find those major prophets Isaiah Jeremiah lamentations Ezekiel right after that you've got the Book of Daniel and go to Daniel chapter number one so I'm just defining some terms for you we begin with scriptural principles scriptural principles you need to make sure that you understand not only what you believe but why but why you believe it Daniel chapter number one Daniel chapter number one and I want you to look down at verse number 8 Daniel chapter number 1 and look down at verse number 8 the Bible says this but Daniel purposed in his heart now in this story we have Daniel who's been kidnapped from the nation of Judah and he's now in Babylon and he's there with the rest of the children that were chosen in the captivity and they're being forced or they're going to be forced to eat certain things that is prohibited by the Old Testament law and I want you to notice what the Bible says here about Daniel says that he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the Kings meat nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the Prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself so I want you to understand we talked about number one the you know scriptural principles but I want you to notice secondly that we must also have solid convictions not only should we have scriptural principles but we should also have solid convictions and here's what I want you to understand a conviction is something that grows out of a scriptural principle we have a biblical principle as to something that should be done and then we grow out of that we bring out of that a conviction a solid conviction for our life see Daniel was taught as a young child and obviously he's living during the Old Testament times when they're falling the Old Testament Mosaic law and he was taught that the law of Moses says here's the scriptural principle the law of Moses teaches that there are certain things you shouldn't eat and certain things you shouldn't drink and certain things that should not go into the mouths of a believer and Moses and Daniel were taught that from the was taught that from the law of Moses and out of that scriptural principle he grew a conviction which told him I am NOT going to defile myself with the Kings meat and I want you to understand some things about convictions law in my life and in your life we better have some convictions that have grown out of some scriptural principles we learn the Bible we learn what the Bible says but then we develop we have some scriptural patterns and we develop some solid convictions for our life now again I'm just kinda defining some terms for you this this this afternoon but let me give you some thoughts in regards to some solid convictions first of all convictions are not subject to consideration a conviction is not something that you put up for questioning notice what it says here for Daniel it says that he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the Kings meat this was not up for debate this was not up for question this was not up for consideration it wasn't like Daniel was there now with Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar saying you're gonna eat these things you're gonna drink this wine you're gonna do these things and Daniel said let me think about that see once you develop and let me just warn you not only teach you but warn you once you develop a conviction you need to understand that a conviction is not something that is up for consideration it's not something that we kind of just decide on a you know a basis you know just on a you know today might be different than tomorrow which might be different than yesterday a conviction is something that once it's decided it's done we don't bring it up for debate we don't bring it up for questioning we don't bring it up for consideration again let me give you an example for myself for me maybe not maybe you hopefully you but maybe not you but for me I am a soul winner out of conviction because from a scriptural principle I can tell you that from the Word of God that God has commanded me to be a soul winner I have been commanded by God to go out and preach the gospel but you know for me that's for some people it's just something exciting they do you know because it's this kind of this cool thing I'm going to go to this marathon there's going to be a hundred people there I'm going to go to the Philippines or I'm gonna go to Malawi or I'm gonna go do this and I'm gonna go do that and it's an exciting thing it's a fun thing it seems like everybody else is doing it might as well try it but you know when you do something out of excitement you may not do it a year later or two years later when it's not exciting anymore but you know for me I'm just telling you for me I'm a soul winner out of conviction I just decided this is a scriptural principle and I'm gonna go strolling because God told me to and it's not up for debate so you say well pastor Jimenez what are you gonna do when they outlaw soul-winning well here's what I'm gonna do in the outlaw soul-winning I'm gonna keep soul-winning you say what because I'm a soul winner out of conviction so when in the book of Acts the Apostles were told to no longer preach in the name of Jesus and then they were brought before the council and they said did not we straightly command you that too not to preach in his name and behold you filled Jerusalem with his doctrine you Peter stood up and said hey we ought to obey God rather than men why because it was a conviction that was not up for consideration it's not something we consider I'll give you another example and I'll get more into this later in the sermon but I go to church how to conviction I decide a long time ago I'm gonna go to church when the doors are open in the house of God I'm gonna be there out of conviction so you know what I don't wake up on Sunday morning and I just you know I think myself I gotta go to church today I don't get up on Sunday my kids don't get up on Sunday they're like dad are we going to church today you say oh well that's cuz you're a pastor yeah but you know what I had that conviction before I was a pastor it's just I just do it out of conviction so a conviction is something that we don't question a conviction is something that is not up for debate a conviction is something that has been purposed in our heart and it's not up for consideration now let me just give you an example you know I was talking with some of the geysers we were talking about some of the things that we're doing in Sacramento and something we're doing in Sacramento that I'm really excited about is we are going to be broadcasting the preaching of our church on a TV channel down in Sacramento I know that makes me a TV preacher so I'm sorry about that we'll see how long it lasts right but Thursday there's a Christian there's a Christian public access channel that is allowing us because you know that I don't know why the Lord blinded their eyes I guess but they're allowing us to put our preaching on TV and it's it's a local thing it's it's a pretty big thing I mean it goes if you're familiar with Northern California it goes from Fresno all the way up to the Oregon border there's a is a range where there there's a potential of reaching up to 1.5 million homes and we're going to be putting our preaching on TV for one hour a week every Tuesday at 7 p.m. here's a commercial for you Tuesday at 7 p.m. starting this coming Tuesday the first Tuesday in November now we're excited about that and I'm praying that the Lord will allow that to continue and that the Lord will use that in a mighty way but you know what if a came to me two weeks from now and said you know what you you can't be on TV saying the things you say you need to compromise your preaching or we're gonna take you off TV you you know what I would do I just tell him to take me off TV because it's something that it's a preference I have it's something that I think would be nice or good or cool but I'm not doing that out of conviction you're to say what I'm saying I'm not doing that I'll do it if they let me do it but it's not a conviction for me but there's some things see cuz nowhere in the Bible did God tell me that I have to put my preaching on TV but God told me that I better go out soul-winning so convictions are brought out of they are grown out of scriptural principles and convictions are not up for consideration but there's a second thing well actually you're there and Daniel go to Daniel chapter 3 let me show you another example of this third example of convictions in Daniel chapter 3 you have the story of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and this of course the story where Nebuchadnezzar raised up the idol and he's having everybody worship the idol looking verse 12 it says there are certain Jews whom thou has set over the affairs of the province of Babylon he their being you know snitched on huh because they didn't bow down Shadrach Meshach and Abednego these men O king have not regarded thee they serve not my god nor worship the golden image which thou has set up and this was their personal conviction they weren't gonna worship this Idol then never has there in his rage and fear he commanded to bring Shadrach Meshach and Abednego then they brought these men before the King Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them is it true oh Sh a drag Meshach and Abednego do not ye serve my God's nor worship the golden image which I've set up now notice Nebuchadnezzar is going to give them another chance first fifteen now if he be ready he said go ahead and get ready I'm gonna give you another chance then at what time you hear the sound of the cornet flute harp sackbut psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of music he said the music is going to start back up and when you hear the music he said get ready because if you fall down and worship the image which I've made well but if you worship not he shall be cast the same hour into the midst of the burning fiery furnace and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hand so here you have Shadrach Meshach and Abednego they decided they are not going to worship the image why did they decide that well they decided that off of a scriptural principle because the Bible says that we should worship only the Lord that we should not worship idols so they had a conviction that they're not going to worship this Idol so whenever the music started playing everybody bowed to the idol they stayed up the people go to the king and say hey Shadrach Meshach and mango they're not worshiping your idol they're not worshiping your gods and Nebuchadnezzar says I'm gonna give you another chance we're gonna have the music play again you better bow when it does or I'm gonna throw you into the fiery furnace I love the answer that comes from Shadrach Meshach and Abednego look at verse 16 they said the Bible says this Shadrach Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king o Nebuchadnezzar I love this they said we are not careful to answer thee in this matter they said we don't have to think about it we don't have to pray about it we don't have to consider it this is a conviction that was drawn from a biblical principle it's a scriptural principle and we've developed a solid conviction we don't have to think about it we're not careful we're not mincing our words we're not going to worship your idol why because convictions are not subject to consideration but let me say secondly this about convictions not only our Commission is not subject to consideration but convictions are not subject to compromise Loui verse 17 notice what they said if it be so and I love the words that they use our God whom we serve is able to deliver us that song we sing in the in the hymn book he's able he's able our Lord is able it comes from this verse here but it says they said look our God because because he said to them you know who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hand and they said well our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but then they said this in verse 18 but if not they said if God has a different plan if God chooses not to deliver us out of your hand they said but if not being known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy God's nor worship the golden image which thou has set up I just want you to understand this here you have you say why did Shadrach Meshach and Abednego make such a great impact for God in their culture in their society why did Daniel make such a great impact for God in his culture in his society why does any Christian ever make a big impact for God it's Christians who live their lives out of conviction a conviction is something that's not up for consideration we don't think about it we make the decision and once it's done it's done once that once I decide to be a soul winner out of conviction that means I'll die being a soul winner once I decided to tithe out of conviction that means all tied til I die but once I decided certain things out of conviction once I decided certain things out of conviction they're not up for consideration but they're not up for compromise they're not what we're not going to compromise on it we don't we're not careful about it here's what I'm saying there are some things you ought to be willing to die for there are some things you ought to be willing to go to prison over now there are some things that are stupid to go over to go to prison over there are some things that are not worth us dying over you know I I uh I I believe that that as Baptists you know and as fundamental as Baptist you know I believe that we ought to dress nice for church you know we had a dress as nice possible and we have a rule in Sacramento I'm not talking about the church people we don't have rules for the church people before people that are on staff or people that stand up behind the pulpit you know we have a rule that when they stand behind the pulpit if they're gonna read the Bible if they're gonna lead music if they're gonna preach that they should wear a shirt and tie that's my preference you know I think it's a good preference you say well why can you prove that from the Bible I can't tell you from the Bible where it says is that you better wear a shirt and tie you say well then why do you guys do it why is your perfect here's why it's my preference because when you look at every preacher that preaches casually they're all idiots they're all preaching heresy they're all and I'm not saying that everybody has a tie on it's preaching true I'm just saying you know you look at preachers that wear a suit and tie and you've got some that are good you got some that are back but you look at the preacher that has a Hawaiian shirt on and flip-flops on there's not one of them that's preaching right they're all preaching stupid they're all preaching heresy you know so that's my preference you say what repentance what have they made a law that said you can't preach wearing a tie I take the tile it's not worth dying over not worth going to prison over pastor man what if they made a rule say you're only allowed to preach out of the NIV then I'd go to prison over that and I'm Ricky preaching out the King James you say why because some things are a conviction not wrong with preferences what a high preference is you have to decide you know I like this I don't like this I think this is a good idea I think that's not a good idea but when it comes to convictions is there anything in your life that is not up for consideration and you're not willing to compromise on they said we're not going to serve the other God go to Daniel chapter 6 let me give you a third thought on conviction not only is it not subject to consideration not only are they not subject to compromise but lastly they're not they're not subject to circumstances our convictions don't change based on circumstances well we don't believe in you know circumstantial ethics where something might be right in one circumstance and be wrong in another circumstance you know when it comes to convictions it's either right or it's wrong period let me give you an example of this and you reciting a lot of this in Daniel look at Daniel chapter 6 this of course Daniel himself when they passed the law that he wasn't allowed to pray verse 6 knows recess then the presidents and princes assembled together to the king and said thus unto him King Darius lived forever all the presidents of the kingdom the governors the princes the councilors and the captains of consulted together to establish a royal statute to make a firm decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for 30 days save of thee O king he shall be cast into the den of life so they made a law saying you're only allowed to pray to pray to King Darius you can't pray to any other God verse 8 now O King established of the Curia and sign the writing that it may be not changed according to the law of the Medes and the Persians which Ultra is not and of course we don't have time to go through the whole thing the reason they made the law is because they were envious of Daniel and they had seen Daniel remember we talked about this morning they had seen Daniel his testimony that he was a man of prayer and they said I know what we'll do we'll pass a law against prayer and that'll teach Daniel notice verse 9 wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree verse 10 now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem knows what it says he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God there were some things in Daniels life that were not going to be reconsidered or were not going to be compromised and it didn't matter what the circumstances were see he you say oh oh he prayed when it was legal to pray but when it wasn't legal to pray anymore he didn't change it he kept doing what he was doing you know some people look at the story and say well isn't Daniel you know why is he got to open the window and make such a show of it you know but here's what I want you to understand look at the last part of verse 10 as he did a 4-time see Daniel did exactly what he would have been doing before see before when it was legal before when nobody cared before when it didn't matter he used to open up his windows and pray in fact he did that so much and so consistently that people knew that if they passed a law against it that they would be hurting Daniel so imagine if Daniel would have all of a sudden now he's closing his curtains you know he wanted to talk he wanted to show people hey I'm not changing anything this is a conviction I have and it's not gonna change based on search stances it's not going to be changed based on you know I'm not going to reconsider it I'm not going to compromise on it here they outlawed prayer the circumstance has changed and he said I'm just gonna keep doing what I've been doing go go to second Thessalonians chapter number three if you kept your place in second Timothy if you head backwards you go past first Timothy into second Timothy 2nd 2nd Thessalonians chapter number 3 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 so we've been talking about these things we've been talking about scriptural principles the Bible says this but sanctify the Lord God in your heart and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh of you the reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear we need to have a scriptural principle for everything that we believe and out of those scriptural principles we grow out some solid convictions some things that we we say this is a conviction in my life I'm not going to reconsider it I'm not gonna compromise on it I don't care if the circumstances change I don't care what anybody says this is what I'm going to do and it grows out of a out of a scriptural principle but I want to give you a third definition tonight and that is steering standards we have solid as we have scriptural principles we have solid convictions and we have steering standards now what is a steering standard a standard is something that regulates your convictions a steering standard is something that kind of steers your conviction so you have a conviction but then you set up some standards to help you regulate those convictions so I'll give you an example I I mentioned to you earlier I am a a so we're out of conviction I think there are some of you that are soul winners out of conviction you know it is my conviction to go soul-winning but then I've set up some standards to make sure that I'm I'm regulating or I'm enforcing or I'm applying my convictions you know I have a standard that I go soul-winning on Saturday mornings on Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. we have soul winning at Verity Baptist Church Sacramento and that's my soul winning time I also try to go saw winning on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. we have another soul winning time on Thursday and you know for myself and for the staff you know we want to be there for Thursday at 2:00 and then we want to be there for Saturday at 10:00 you know I regulate my conviction of being a soul winner by having a standard that I go soul-winning on Saturdays now look do I think it's the same to go sewing on Sunday no do I go sewing on Sunday no you say why don't you go so when I was under you know I preached the times a week on Sunday I like to keep my afternoons I just kind of write open to be able to fellowship with church people that I see only once a week and then to kind of review my notes and get ready for the evening service so I choose to not go sewing on Sundays we have about 30 or 35 soul-winners on Sunday down in Sacramento every week that works for them praise the Lord for them I go on Saturday they go on Sunday some people go other days whatever that's fine that's that's fine and good nothing wrong with that now I think people how to go soul-winning when they go saw when he doesn't really matter but you ought to have a plan to regulate those convictions I go I I go soul-winning out of conviction and I've got some standards for my personal life Saturday mornings my time Thursday afternoon is my time you've got some standards that kind of steer your life or guide your life to help you to help you regulate and enforce and apply those convictions 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 look at verse 6 now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly notice what it says here and not after the traditions which he received of us see there are some things that are not a conviction there just may be a tradition and Jesus spoke negatively of the traditions of men and we'll talk about that here in a minute but in this verse we're told there are some traditions that aren't bad traditions you say you know Lord willingness this church you don't have a full-time guy who's in charge of running the services but one day when you have a a pastor that's here full-time for you you know hopefully he's going to set up midweek service a Wednesday night service and a Sunday morning service a Sunday night service and Wednesday night service I would encourage you to go to all three services you say well can you show me in the Bible where it says we have to go to church on Wednesday night okay then do it on Thursday you know I don't know you know can you show me in the Bible where it says to go no you know but here's what I know it's a tradition of Independent Baptist to go to church you know midweek to have a midweek Bible study I think it's a good tradition I don't think it's a bad tradition I think there's something to be said for upholding two traditions I can tell you this the people that are that are saying let's have less church are the Liberals you know so there are some things they're not a conviction maybe they're just a tradition but it's a good tradition it you should keep it up you should keep it going it's great there's nothing wrong with some good tradition some standards to help you guide your life to steer you in the right direction so we talked about scriptural principles we've talked about solid convictions we've talked about steering standards now let me let me sort of apply this you know and give you some real-life applications to help you gather this go to Hebrews chapter 10 if you're there in second Thessalonians are going to go pass for a second timothy titus philemon hebrews I want to give you some I want to give you just a couple of examples of this you say passenger - why are you preaching this here's why I'm preaching this I'm teaching you about principles scriptural principles biblical principles you learn the Bible you grow out of the biblical principles a solid conviction a conviction is something in real you say how do I know if it's a conviction you know it's a conviction of is something that you know you should not reconsider you should not compromise on and it doesn't change based on circumstances once you have those solid convictions you develop some standards to help you regulate those to help you enforce those to help you make sure you're applying those in your life I believe each and every one of you needs to develop if you haven't already developed some convictions and standards every husband and wife how to have a talk about these things how do you want to raise your children how do you want to leave your home for the husband you know as a pastor you know I try to have some convicted some convictions from the Word of God and teach some standards and things like that and if you haven't developed some standards in your life I want you to do that but what I want to do is I want to just give you some examples of standards that I have in my life so you know how does it start well it starts with a biblical principle right it begins with a scriptural principle so let me give you some scriptural principles all right Hebrews chapter 10 verse 25 notice what the Bible says Hebrews chapter 10 in verse 25 says this not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together now the word assembling there is talking about the church service because a church is not a building a church is a congregation a church is a congregation or an assembly of believers in fact in the Bible you can you can see the word Church being used synonymously with the word congregation and also with the word assembly and here we're told not forsaking we're told not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together here we have a scriptural principle where the Bible says that we should not forsake the assembling I believe the Bible is teaching in the first that it is a sin and it is wrong to skip out on church now you know let me just say this obviously if you're sick okay you know I don't think God wants you coming over here and spreading your disease everywhere either you know obviously if you're sick you know use common sense or you know things happen like that but but you just to decide I'm just not gonna go to church you know I believe this versus teaching against that now some people will argue that just I'll play the devil's advocate some people argue that because I'll say look this verse says you shouldn't be skipping on the church service and people will say no no that verse is not about skipping out on the church services that verse about just quitting Church altogether so it's somebody's getting mad at church and saying I'm just gonna forsake church altogether and I'm just gonna quit on Church you know so the question is is it about skipping out on church services or is it about quitting Church altogether I believe it's about skipping out on church services now you can definitely apply it to quitting Church altogether but here's why I believe it's about church services because knows what it says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is the word manner means custom or habit here's what he's saying he's saying some people have the matter some people have the habit some people have the custom of just skipping out on Church you can't really have a habit of quitting on church because like once you quit on Church altogether you just do it one time and it's done you see I'm saying so here's what he saying you say some people they have this habit where they're just not real consistent to church they're just kind of hit and miss they just go one week then you won't see them for a couple weeks they go another week then you won't see them for six weeks they go another week then three months might go by then they might go one or two times in a row and then you won't see them again for a year and here he says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as a matter of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more so much the more so much the more you know what that means that means as you see that they're approaching is talking about the Day of Judgment God saying this as we get closer to the end times because remember evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse what he's saying as we get closer to the end we need church so much the more we don't need less church we need more church we don't need less fellowship with God's people we need more fellowship with God's people we don't need lots preaching on the Word of God we need more preaching of the word of God so much the more as we get closer to the end he says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together so here's the scriptural principle don't skip out on church and I'm not talking about your sake okay I'm not talking about you were on your way to church and you know the tire blew out and you were caught in a blizzard and you know whatever and a bear attacked you okay whatever you know if it's just like you know you were trying to get there and it just didn't work you know if God providentially kept you away whatever okay but I'm talking about just people who just for no reason they're just like I'm not gonna go to church I'm gonna skip out Sunday you know here's the scriptural principle not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of something let me give you another scriptural principle go to Colossians chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 if you kept your place in 2nd Thessalonians you're you're just going going backwards from 2nd Thessalonians you got 1st Thessalonians then you got Colossians right before that Colossians chapter 1 here's another scriptural principle and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things he talked about Jesus might have the preeminence he might have the preeminence the word preeminence means imminent above or before others superior or surpassing anything else the Bible says here that he talked about Jesus is a head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things not some things not most things not you know mainly main things he says that in all things he might have the preeminence so according to Bible here's a scriptural principle we should put God first above anything else you don't have to turn there max Matthew 6:33 says this but see keep first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you so let's put all this together we have some biblical principles here that in all things he might have the preeminence that we should seek first the kingdom of God that God in Jesus Christ and God's Word and the things of God should come first in our lives we have another scriptural principle not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together that we shouldn't skip out in church and we shouldn't have the manner or the custom or that habit of skipping out of the church you know so here's the scriptural principle honestly I didn't come up with this principle this is a principle that was handed down to me from my mom and my dad I told you I grew up old IFB I've been in fundamental Baptists my whole life and in an armed home when I was growing up in our home we were taught and this is something that my parents taught us in their home and as I grew up and I got married and I we had children we you know took this on in in our home now but you know something I was taught growing up is that we don't skip out on church for any reason we don't skip out on Church for any reason we put God first every time my parents I remember as children they were sitting this out they wouldn't set us down and they would teach us kids we put God first in everything there's nothing more important than God there's nothing that takes priority over God and you know we were taught we don't skip church for any reason when I was growing up we used to play baseball I wasn't we were in Little League when we were growing up and you know I remember being in Little League as a kid and you know we would have a Wednesday night we were Baptist so we had Wednesday night Bible study I remember that we would have these Wednesday night games and our Bible study on Wednesday night started at 7:00 at 7:00 p.m. and our literally games started at 6:00 p.m. and they would go two hours two and a half hours or whatever it might be and on Wednesday night we would go to the go down to the park we do you know at 5:45 and we'd stretch with the rest of the team and we'd warm up with the rest of the team and the game would start at 6 p.m. and we'd play with the rest of the team and when it was about 6:45 we were about how way through the game I remember my dad would say pack up your bags let's go we're going to church you think did you like that as a kid you know when I was a kid I didn't really like it that much when I was a kid because ask me why do you always leave in the middle of game on Wednesday nights when I was a kid you know you pack up let's go and sometimes we complain in the car wall why can't we stay and finish the game well son we put God first baseball is not more important than God son none more important the god son see people something think they look at people like me or pastor Aaron and say wow you guys are making such a impact in your life and people have to say to me and I think God for it people will say man pastor Jimenez you're so young and here you're doing such a great things for God and pastor Anderson he's so young and you're accomplishing so many things forgot I wonder part of that was because we had parents that tunnels to put God first I wonder if there's something that happened in the mind of an eight year old in a 9 y in a 10 year that had parents say hey son there's nothing more important than God I remember being out on vacation and we'd go somewhere and you say we're on vacation and we get up and we find a church and I or we go to church on Sunday is it on vacation I remember my dad telling me this we don't take a vacation from God son we may take a vacation from work we may take a vacation from school we may take from vacation look I think that's good people go on vacation you got to go to V I tortures people get away go on vacation but when you're on vacation go to church somewhere find a church in here if I I love it when our people go to church on vacation because they go to some old IFB Church and they come back and they're like I love our church so much you know I'm like yeah you remember that you know but here's what you say pastor ah now you're stepping on my toes you know I never understood this idea where people want to come to church and they just want to have the pastor agree with everything they say or everything they do they never want to be challenged or rebuked look if you want that go to the liberal Church down the street you want a positive only sermon every week you know here's what I'm telling you is I develop and you know you say what do you teach your kids I teach my kids we put God first in any everything there's nothing more important than God there's no gay use like people tell me all pastor you know I'm not gonna make it to church on Sunday night because the Emmys are on I mean they they don't send me that anymore you know but it's like I'm like you know here's I think myself okay so the Emmys are more boring than God I mean ask yourself this question ask yourself this question when you're trying to decide you know I should I skip out on Church ask yourselves president what would God want me to do Scott want me to stay home and watch the Grammys or the Emmys or the Superbowl or does God want me to go be under the preaching of his word with fellowshipping with his people I'm just I'm just telling you these are my convictions these are passed down to me from from my parents and and and I'm passing it on to my children I'm just telling you there are something you say pastor what are they outlawed Church I'd go to church is that I'd go to church I'd die for that it's a conviction it's not up for compromise it's not up for consideration it's not up for debate it's not gonna change with circumstances we're gonna go and look something we just I remember growing up but this is a phrase that we were told just growing up not just my family but other families you know when the when the doors are open in the house of God we're gonna be there you know and we just do that even if it's not a church service harvest party whatever's going on hey let's just there's something going on at church let's be there why because Christ who is our life because the things of God oughta be our Allah to be our our life our life ought to be surrounded by those things so you know here's scriptural principle not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together scriptural principles in all things he should have the preeminence so the conviction that grows out of that is we're gonna make the house of God and the things of God a priority and we're not gonna allow anything to get before that and then here the standards we choose to go to church whenever the church doors are open it's a conviction I'm willing to die for it I'm willing I'm willing to go to prison for it now there's some things I'm not gonna go to prison for you can't wear time I'll get rid of the time maybe I'll get one of those like cowboy ties you know and with that with a little string josé's this is this allowed you know I'll get I'll get a bowtie you know but there's some things that we're gonna died over go to Deuteronomy Deuteronomy chapter 22 Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 22 let me give you another another example of this and I don't want to overwhelm you with too many things but let me just kind of give you another example of this God I want you to understand and here's all I'm saying look you don't have to take my convictions and my standards and I don't have to necessary take your conviction and your standards but here's all I'm telling you do you have convictions that I've been drawn out of and grown out of scriptural patterns do you have standards in your life do you have standards that help you regulate those things our standard was you don't you don't play ball don't you excite growing up you know we there's some things we don't do we're on vacation where we're not going to take a vacation from God you know what I like about the new IV movement is you know the new IV movement has taken it a step further you know our our people their vacations are like going to the red-hot preaching conference you know they're so it's like not only are we not gonna take a vacation from God we're gonna make God our vacation you know so that's even better praise the Lord for it Deuteronomy 22 look at verse 5 here's a here's a biblical principle let me give you another example here's a scriptural principle the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God here's a scriptural principle from the Word of God a woman should not wear that which pertains to a man and a man should not put on a woman's garment God says that there are some things that women wear that men are not wear there are some things that men wear that women are not wearing I don't have time to develop this whole thought but you know if you study the rest of the Bible it's very clear than the Bible men wore pants they wore breeches as what the Bible says you can look up the business in the Bible you want to look it up here King James Bible and the kingdom that was not spelled Bri but it's spelled bre e CH es breeches but it's breeches talking about pants you know it's also called hosen which is kind of a Germanic type word talking about pants in the Bible you only see men wearing pants and of course for centuries you know even even even the Unites States of America for the for a long time men wore pants women wore dresses and that was based off of this principle right here this biblical script right here women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination the LORD thy God okay this is what the Bible says business goal principle women should wear pants men should wear dresses I'm good night not that the opposite of that it's the TV preaching is already it's already started the opposite of happen good night go to Exodus 20:8 women should wear what did I say dress is there you go and men should wear pants Exodus 28 and I'm already becoming a liberal Exodus 28 you're there in Deuteronomy just head back numbers la Vega's Exodus Exodus 28 liquors 42 here's another scriptural principle exodus 28:42 and thou shalt make them linen breeches right that's what I was telling you only men were breeches in the Bible and thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness I want you to notice what the Bible calls nakedness from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach now the loins without getting too descriptive is is your is is basically your reproductive organs okay and and it says that God wants you to cover that from your loins to your thighs now it's saying to cover all of that from the top of your loins to the end of your thighs that is considered your nakedness in isaiah 47 in verse 2 you have to turn there but in verses 2 & 3 as this take the millstone and grind meal uncover thy locks make bear the leg uncover thy thigh pass over the rivers verse 3 and thy nakedness shall be uncovered so he said your nakedness is gonna be uncovered when you uncover your so he'll understand in the Bible your thigh is your nakedness God says that your when you show your thigh you're showing your nakedness so what can we learn from that well what you learn from that is that when you're wearing a miniskirt ladies or short shorts you know ladies and in the culture unfortunately we live in men you know - you know when you're shown your thigh you're showing your nakedness that's what the Bible says so here's the scriptural principle men should dress different than women women should wear dresses men should wear pants and use another scriptural principle your thighs your nakedness so from those scriptural principles out of that grows a solid conviction this is the convention that I have that my wife has that we have for our our daughters is that they ought to wear dresses that cover their thigh dresses down to cover their their entire thigh you say where do you get that from I get that from the Word of God it's a scriptural principle that was developed into a solid conviction now let me tell you something for me ladies wearing dresses and for my wife and by the way my wife was saved when she was 17 years old when my wife when I met my wife I gave her the gospel she got saved when I met my wife we were 17 years old working at Subway she was an atheist she was in college she graduated early she was in college she was an atheist you know it took it took me about three months to get her saved give her the gospel many many times and when my wife got saved you know it was before we ever dated or anything like that you know she started reading the Bible started going to church she developed all these convictions on her own she gave up her pants on her own you know she started soul-winning on her own all those things and we can eventually we got married and things like that but you know we have a conviction and I'm saying that to say this that it's not me imposing honor this is her own conviction now as a leader in the home I don't think anything wrong with a man making a decision imposing it on his on his on his wife and children if needed I'm just telling you in my home that's not the case this was her own conviction that she has held from 17 years old when she got saved you know we don't believe women should wear pants that's not up for debate because people say to us like oh well women shouldn't wear parent unless you go to the snow okay well going to the snow okay that's nice when you live in California and you don't have any snow okay but like in Boise you don't go to the snow the snow comes to you you know I'm saying so like oh well when you're in the snow do you you know yeah they you know they they wear leggings or whatever you know they've figured out they put something on you know here's what I'm saying it was everything we do everything we do my wife and my daughters do it with with skirts and dresses what if you go horseback riding they used to go horseback riding with dresses back in the eighteen hundred's you can do it now what have you ride a motorcycle you can do it look where there's a will there's a way Oh what what if your wife you know what if she's working out my wife works out in dresses in skirt you know and like you know there's like a certain material sure she goes on the treadmill and and she's dressed properly she's dressed honestly it's not a you say well what if there's something look I we have not found in activity that my wife could not do without a dress on but if we find it you know when we here's what I believe if there's an activity she can't put you cannot do in a dress then it's just an activity that a lady should not do if there's something that she can't do that you just want to do it but we have found that there's nothing we go swimming and raise you go swimming and dresses we go you know we've done everything it's been fine but that's a condition that we've developed and are like it's not up for consideration it's not up for compromise it doesn't change with circumstances and we've got standards you know we're our senators and let me let me just kind of explain this to you and then I'll finish up go to Matthew chapter 15 Matthew 15 this is a standard we have in our home we've chosen in our home we've chosen that is standard for our girls and you know what my wife does is she wears skirts that go to her at least to her mid-cap she wear skirts I go to her mid-calf now that's just a standard we've chosen in our home that's something work on you know our girls wear skirts that go to their midcal you know they can wear skirts that go down to their ankle we don't have a problem with that but we don't allow them and my wife chooses not to wear skirts that go above her makeup now that's our standard what does the Bible say the Bible says that you're supposed to cover your thigh so if your skirt or in your home you decide your daughters or whatever to wear skirts that go down to their knee then you know if that's how you feel comfortable that's fine you know let me give you some things to think about you're supposed to cover your thigh so sometimes you see these ladies you know they're like well I've got it down to my knee so it's covering my thigh yeah but then you sit down and it's like whoop and you're uncovering half your thigh or they've got some slit that comes a halfway up and we can see your thigh because your nakedness okay so you know we've chosen to have skirts that go down to their mid cut that's our standard now you say well I don't agree with that I think it needs to go down to that look the Bible says cover your thighs long as you're covering thigh you're following God toward I'm just telling you we've decided to have a standard our standard may be a little higher than your standard that's fine you may have standards that are a little higher than our standards in different areas that's fine my question is this you have standards do you have things that you can go to and say from a scriptural principle we have grown this solid conviction and we have these steering standards that steered that guide the way we dress the places we go the things we do now you know I don't I don't I don't drive in vehicles with ladies that I you know without a the lady that you know with my wife or or a lady that I'm not that you know I'll Drive my vehicles my mom you know driving a vehicle with my sister or my niece whatever I don't drive in and it goes with with ladies I'm not I'm not married to you know we're not related to you say well why is that you know can you find the verse in the Bible you know I can't find a verse in the Bible that will tell you but I can I can look at the story of Joseph when he was in the house with Potiphar's wife and the Bible says nobody else was there and then he was accused of something he didn't do and I can learn from that and say man this is maybe there's something that as a pastor at the very least I should be careful about not meeting with ladies without having somebody else there use the other thing now you say well that's a little extreme well you may think it's extreme I think it's safe you say well pack your bags what if you're driving on the street and you see one of the ladies of your church and her car's broken down and a bear is changing I'm sitting you know and and she's there you know he's gonna leave her there yeah I'll call uber okay I'll call a taxi how about I throw my keys and I walk the rest of the you know whatever you know here's what I'm saying there's a will where there's a will there's a way people always trying to throw the or what about this what about this you know I'll go out there I'll fight the bear and I'll just tell her and take the car okay or whatever you know I don't know where this bear came from I think it's a Boise thing isn't it like wooded here or something here's what I'm saying is you ought to have standards in your life and you know you have to go home and develop some convictions and standards some things you'd be willing to die for that's a conviction and some things that'll guide what you do what you do where you go what you say the way you live your life because look this is how we live a separated life this is how we live a separate life it's something that we purpose in our heart member Daniel he purposed in his heart not to defile himself with the king with the portion of the Kings meat these are decisions that are made before the circumstances come we make the decisions in fact you know you teenagers you want to be pure you want to get to you the altar of your wedding day and be able to say that you're pure before God that you are that you kept yourself pure for your husband or for your wife you know you make that decision right now you decide that right now you don't decide that when you're in the back seat of a car and you things have already gotten a little heated you make the decision that you don't get in the back seat of the car to abstain from the appearance of evil to not make provision to the flesh to make sure that you're not putting yourself in that bad situation do you understand I'm saying this how you guide your life through standards that regulate your convictions that are grown out of scriptural patterns let me just say this when it comes to standards remember we saw the verse and Thessalonians about traditions okay here's a negative verse on traditions Matthew 15 verse 2 why do that disciples transgress the traditions of the elders for they wash not their hands when they eat bread and he answered and said unto them why do ye also transgress the commandments of God by your tradition let me just say one thing about standards because we as fundamentals and something I've noticed even in the new IFB movement is we are very you know there's something about us that we just would love to fight I guess we like to you know and run wrong with fighting for the for the things of God right earnestly contend for the faith but sometimes we think that contending and being contentious are the same thing and they're not and you know something we need to be careful about is about you know don't fight over standards and don't allow your standards again not not something not a conviction that comes out of workout but something just you know like I said my wife and I we decided in our home the girls ago our girls are gonna wear a dress to medica but you know when we go to church and there's other girls there little girls there or whatever and they got skirts up to their knee we don't like to look down on them look up worldly they are you know just be careful about keeping your heart right yeah okay that's our standard that's what we're that's what we decided someone else we decided to do something else that's that's between them and God you know I'm never gonna look down at somebody for having a higher standard than we do I'm never gonna look down on somebody for having a lower standard than we do you know as long as they're following a conviction praise the Lord for it now I'm gonna preach convictions I'm gonna teach standards I'm gonna give people example of standards I'm gonna encourage them to have standards but you know just be careful of not becoming this type of Christian says well we do this and they don't do that and we have this standard and they don't happen it well you know just be that's between you and God it's between you and God make sure you keep your heart right and make sure that we don't because some people get to a point where they actually start like the the Pharisees are transgressing the commandments of God by their traditions and they start actually committing sin when God tells you to love your neighbor when God tells you to speak evil of no man but gonna break those Commandments because you've got these standards nothing wrong with standards just don't get a little too hyped about your standards you know but I just want to I want to understand especially you know as a new church kind of getting started and getting settled you ought to develop some convictions and you know when your pastor shows up here and he starts preaching some convictions and starts preaching some standards and trying to help you grow you know embrace that and realize that he's trying to help you and we're all trying to help you to live a separated life why because God because God wants to have a relationship with you God wants you to draw closer to him and we God wants you to be holy for I am holy saith the Lord let's bow our heads and have a word

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