Mimesis

we're going to talk about mimesis today mimesis means to imitate and man from the beginning of time has in a sense practiced mimicking or trying to imitate what he sees to gain knowledge and in a sense this is okay in the natural sense probably we could look at the spider and she would teach you how to weave you know well man not being able to produce silk or a web naturally is going to have to get some fiber but and you might look at the birds and the swallow constructs a nest and makes it pretty tight with mud and sticks and what have you but naturally man is on a little higher level than the animals however god taught them also and we can learn from them and naturally god's nature is god's nature we're a part of that nature creation but he expected more from us that is to say that we could use discernment and ingenuity and be able to far surpass what the animal kingdom can do as a matter of fact he told us to take charge of the animal kingdom but still it is that part of man that likes to imitate many people in a community that go to church for various reasons sometimes not necessarily get closer to god but to make an impression on the community imitate the larger crowd by going to the larger buildings and say whoa whoa i just really love to worship the lord in the largest places where there's the most people you know it just makes them they like to imitate and feel good and so forth now also many times in in a very unfortunate case is people like to listen to what someone they respect our love says and take it verbatim without checking them out and imitate what they say or do my grandpa said the bible said in ii nebuchadnezzar chapter 2 that we can be real careful but everything will work well and i believe what my grandpa said and so it is naturally there isn't a second nebuchadnezzar but a lot of people wouldn't know that do you know something there's not even a first nebuchadnezzar there just isn't one okay but biblical illiteracy will really help one out as far as imitation is concerned the antichrist himself is the probably the greatest of all limitators mimesis and it's something you want to be very careful of but yet at the same time you're instructed to imitate certain people that's to say our father as best you can and the son that he sent to us and this word is not used all that many times in the new testament nemesis in the english but at the same time it has a special meaning and as much as it really means to imitate me me oh homie is the greek word and the shorter of it is memos and you can kind of pick up the english from that to mimic or to imitate open your bibles to the third epistle of john let's see what these words say when they are mentioned in god's word and we're just going to take this real easy today and it's a very simple lecture but at the same time there is some depth to it for those that choose to seek that depth and understanding in the third epistle that's the little bitty short one it's just before the book of jude just before the book of revelation we find it written to the elder unto the well-beloved gaius that simply means lord or master of that house whom i love in the truth now truth is what truth is the word i love him because he is true receives the truth in the word beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in help even as thy soul prospereth now your soul is going to prosper from hearing god's word whether you're ever healed or not it comes first you can you can rest assured it is god's promise that your soul will be made whole if you get into the truth of god's word and he even wishes also that your physical body would find health also but he leaves no doubt that the soul prospereth that finds truth verse 3 for i rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth there's that word again that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth you the truth is the word right they walk in the word they try their best to do as the word would suggest naturally many of us fall short all of us fall short somewhat we're just not perfect but thus repentance verse 4 i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth paul was a teacher a teacher elected by god he had no choice in it god struck him down so get up in there and get after it all right but basically that's shortening it but that's what it's that's what he told him and he didn't argue with him because he blinded him kicked him and kind of watered him around until paul said yes lord whatever you say okay some of you he had must do the basically twist your life around occasionally till you wake up and say yes lord all right but they were paul's spiritual children is what it means five beloved thou did us faithfully whatsoever thou doest for the brethren and to strangers brethren that is to say your brothers and strangers that seek that walk that seek that truth there's a little bit of a qualifier does that mean the whole world no it doesn't it doesn't say that at all and you want to be real careful because the christian heart many times take in takes in an all-encompassing number and it's good to work with the all-encompassing number but to take them in you better know who it's talking about verse 6 which have borne witness of the charity before the church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort thou shalt do well in other words if you treat that godly sort in a godly way you're going to be blessed when they're out preaching the word in other words verse 7 because that for his name's sake they went forth it wasn't for their name it wasn't for anything they had but it was for the name of jesus christ and to spread that truth that way that walk that they went forth taking nothing of the gentiles they didn't for fear it might be misunderstood or something of that nature so it was eight we therefore ought to receive such again to receive such what those that are delivering the word of jesus christ and those that seek the truth in jesus christ all right such that's what such means that's the that's what's being addressed that we might be fellow helpers to the truth in other words it behooves one to expedite and to help in any way one can if you have faith if you don't hey have a good day have a good trip but one that cares about furthering god's word and it may be planting a seed to a neighbor it may be just being a good person around the people you work with never mentioning a word concerning jesus christ but in your very life they see him god doesn't particularly care for religious religious hypocrites that have to go around see my little christian button do you know what that means that beats up a christian okay well you shouldn't have to tell people right in other words they should know it by your actions by how you care and conduct yourself it sets you apart from those that have no faith and you know what someone is that has no faith it means they don't believe many would say i i'd really like to believe but i've had such a rough life well they have a rough life because they don't believe all right god would partake and take a lot of that off of them if they'd wise up and come in out of the rain of the world you know and get a little protection from he whom protects and strengthens okay verse nine i wrote unto the church but diatrophys i mean he was the head mole duck in the local church in this place okay who love us to have the preeminence among them received us not i mean we went down to that high muckety duck there in that church and he told us to hit the road jack and he told anybody else that came by walking in the way and with the real truth we don't need you here just please pass right on by okay because he sought the preeminence and the preeminence that he sought was self-gratification and elevating his position in his position only you've got to watch churches sometimes they're that way the subject is those that carry forth the name of jesus christ for his sake that is to say christ's sake not their own but we didn't get any help from the local church there that's what he's saying 10 wherefore if i come i will remember his deeds which he doeth pratting that's a nice little word we got a lot of pratters and knit pickers pratters against us with malicious words and not content therewith neither doth he himself received the brethren and forbideth them that would and casteth them out of the church i mean he excommunicates people bang bang just like that because they won't respect him you know it's always the lord you understand that should be foremost in your mind and everything else is secondary beloved follow there's your word mimic the word follow is mimos in the greek you imitate to the letter you follow it to the letter you do it to the letter not that which is evil don't mimic some evil nut like the head of that church down there that's what he's saying but that which is good he that doeth good is of god but he that doeth evil hath not seen god why they have no faith well i want to believe and i'm beginning to believe just a little bit there's no such thing as believing a little bit you either believe or you don't there's no halfway christians you either are or you're not so don't try to kid yourself ever well believe what believe the word that god spoke and nothing became everything to his own choice and you know we have people today in the scientific community that would like to question god and how he could speak and this that and the other and along comes the el nino which is a condition in this in the south pacific simply because god refuses to cause a wind to blow a certain way the hot water stays on top without moving to the lower depths to pick up the cooler water and right now off peru the water temperature is over 10 degrees hotter than it normally is and this causes all kinds of things to happen everywhere affects the weather everywhere affects the jet stream don't ever underestimate god he's got it laid out real nice friend and once science catches up and after loading off offloading 80 buoys out across the south pacific they finally said aha now we see well he's really had that there all the time and it's an occurrence el no nino meaning the christ child because it happens always in the christmas months we're approaching that time and boy is it going to be a ripper this year stand by god's in control it's easy to have faith is what i'm saying that's my point 12. demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth itself yea and we also bear record and we know that our record is true paul didn't have any doubt about it it's real easy when when god knocks you down on the road to damascus and wallows you around a little bit and says get up from there and go to a certain city you'll find a man there have him lead you there boy because you're not going to be able to see and he'll tell you many things and when god speaks to you directly that way it kind of takes you away from having to depend on faith and it becomes a reality and in a sense it kind of robs one of the gifts that come with believing totally on faith after you once see okay so what i'm saying my point being paul knew exactly what he was talking about because he had seen 13. i had many things to write but i will not with ink and pen right into thee 14 but i trust i shall shortly see thee and we're going to speak face to face peace be to thee our friend salute thee greet the friends by name there's a tenderness there those friends what are your friends your fellow servants well what are fellow servants those that are hooked up to the yoke not talking about the others okay and don't think i'm talking down on the others it's for them it's for their good that you're here is to be able to reach them sooner or later but we're talking about a close-knit working here of what it is that you're to follow you're not supposed to follow them certainly to get in good with them that's to say a non-believer one without faith well if i just kind of give in a little bit and did this that the other well you're to be reasonable but you're not to to compromise any of your beliefs you're supposed to stand for something and not be a reed shake it in the wind and that that you're supposed to stand for that makes the difference is christ is the word is the truth we're given some fantastic examples of what makes faith work in hebrews chapter 11 which is known as the faith chapter but it just so happens that in connection with this we find this same word memos something you're supposed to imitate and i think that makes it very important that we search it and look at it from that angle that is to say faith because you need to understand faith and why it is that you have it so turn with me to hebrews chapter 11. let's just cover a few of the verses verse 11 chapter 11 verse 1. now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen what this word substance means in the greek it's your title deed do you know what a deed is that proves ownership a deed is your guarantee this will work for you that's what faith is verse two for by it the elders obtained a good report through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god do you believe that well if you don't you don't have faith do you believe the first earth age as the word stipulates a lot of people don't have know not such a thing exist so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear things which can be seen it was ordered through the dispensations of time it happened exactly as it is and science is catching up you know they're catching on hey this old snail that was created about 10 million years ago it still looks like the same one we got today you know they're they're getting there give them a little time verse four by faith abel offered unto god a more excellent sacrifice than cain in other words abel believed in god and believed what he said was true and that he was able to back it up by he offered unto god a more excellent sacrifice than cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous meaning he was right do you like to be right well faith will get you there god testified of his gifts and by it he being dead yet speaketh in other words we still talk about him verse five let's go with verse five by faith enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because god had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased god he was a preacher i mean that enoch was a preacher jude will declare that that he preached what did he preach that the flood was coming and in preaching that the flood was coming then certainly he was doing god's work and in doing god's work certainly he earned the right god saw fit to just literally pick him out of it giving you an example ultimately what shall happen at some time and when you are changed into a spiritual body and are translated that's going to happen to all of us at some time in in verse six but without faith it is impossible listen to this now this is very important it's probably the whole lecture hinges on this one verse but without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to god must believe that he is there's no other way you can approach him and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him diligently means sincerely not not playing games not playing church not making an appearance of being a christian not wearing some little necklace and hey now there's nothing wrong with wearing a necklace i want to make that clear but it doesn't make you a christian wearing some little dove of peace doesn't make you a christian it's what's in here it's what's in your heart and mind that makes you a christian and without faith you can't even get close to god well i wonder why he won't answer by prayers well have you ever read this verse that'll answer it for you verse six it's impossible to please him i mean a total empire and you know god all things are possible with him but this is one thing that's impossible for you to be able to do is to please him and if you don't please him i don't know what do you do to your children when they displease you well he's about the same you know when it comes to handling plea children that displeasure him that is to say that don't pleasure him so i don't know it's everyone's choice we all have free will to do as we please but without faith if you don't have that you're kidding yourself you're wasting your time and you need to get into the word and document some of the scriptures that prove god created this earth he's in control and he'll bless you by faith noah being warned of god of things not seen as yet there wasn't any water running down the streets there wasn't even a river close by moved with fear with reverence preparing an ark to the saving of his house he built a big old boat right out in the middle of nowhere well i guess it was somewhere come to think about it but not likely in a shipyard by the which he condemned the world in other words he set himself apart from it he wouldn't follow it he didn't reminisce it and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith now i want to read that again to you because so many people just have a habit of reading over things how do you inherit heaven what is your what is your deed to enter heaven well let's read it there again by the witch he condemned the world and became heir he did what he became heir of the righteousness which is by faith you either got it or you don't and that's what gives you your your deed to walk up to saint peter and say i got a ticket all right that's that's not the way it works but we'll say that you know for those that that might not understand the more in-depth beauty of truth that is to say his word it gives you that ticket it gives you that right faith gets you in faith causes your uh your is your ability to please god and when you please him he's going to bless you that's just uh that's just the way it is that's the way it will be and faith is a wonderful important thing eight by faith abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whether he went he didn't know but on faith hey you know you don't even know what this place looks like abraham but it's going to be all yours i'm going to give you a deed to it well that's kind of the way you are today you're going to inherit the kingdom what does it look like well this word will the truth will tell you what it looks like all right and and uh the thing is do you have the faith to walk out and to step out or to make a stand to receive the deed and faith is the um momentum that gets that ticket for you there is no other way to please god you just got to believe him otherwise why would he want to mess with you you're not worth messing with it's like uh it's no different than i feel a little guilty putting this down in an earthly matter but let's take a salesman you know many of you ever car shopped you know you walk in and say i just like to look at a new lincoln i probably shouldn't mention a car let's say a executive automobile you know for the sake of television you know and you haven't got a dime okay you just want to see one i just want to sit in the seat and see what it feels like you know and the salesman comes in and he's hi there and you know come right in we have this lincoln and that lincoln and and you get in and you say i'd just like to try the feel of it would you just jump right in there you know kick the tires a little bit be my guest well it's good i just wanted to sit in here because i haven't got a dime to my name and i can't buy one i just wanted to see what it felt like and that salesman will likely turn up on you because he's got two other people waiting over here that are interested that do have tender green you know so now put yourself in god's place do you think god is smarter than a car salesman um i hope you know he's smarter than a car salesman and he's not going to waste his time on somebody that doesn't have the the substance in as much as it is faith that purchases it you got to have it to please him and like i say i feel a little guilty and uh and have a kind of a guilt complex for talking about used car salesmen not well our new ones either you know they're they have to eat they have to make a living and but b that is it may that's the way god feels about it and when i say he doesn't care about you if you don't i'm not being cruel it's just that he's intelligent and until you're ready he's going to leave you alone and let you go however deep down you wish to go and incidentally if you do it his way and work real hard hey you can afford a lincoln if you want one but you got to do it his way and have his blessings and it doesn't happen overnight all right just be that as it may all right but abraham believed and he walked right on out there and you should too by faith he so adjourned in a land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with isaac and jacob the heirs with him of the same promise i mean the whole family was promised that and how long he goes and it was a good long while before i uh isaac was even born and he still believes you know went through a lot skip on to the 12th chapter verse 1 wherefore seeing we also are composed about with so great a cloud of witnesses uh that's just like the cloud that's going to fly people away only it's down here on the ground and it means a big crowd it also means a big crowd where the fly away boys talk about it okay let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us the sin easily beset you i don't know how many hang-ups do you have how many weaknesses well try to set them aside as best you can you're not going to be able to set them all aside but work at it and let us run with patience that means endurance the race that is set before us now why did i bring you here to hebrews because i haven't given you the word memos yet i'm just about to okay you're all familiar with that 12th chapter skip on to the 13th okay in verse seven where's the subject is the same all right it's continued right on through all right remember verse seven of the thirteenth chapter of this great book of hebrews remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of god whose faith follow that's memos you're supposed to follow their evil their their shortcomings their weaknesses no it didn't say that follow their faith considering the end of their conversation now who are we talking about preachers no i just read you let's see there was abel enoch i mentioned paul he was certainly one that was sent to you one of your leaders that brought the word directly from god that's what it's talking about follow them in faith follow the example of their faith it doesn't mean necessary to follow some preacher as as many preachers would say yes this means you must respect every word i say well they may not quote god's word i don't know that's up to you to decide you know what i mean but you can always get god's word by listening to those he sent the sent ones that he spoke through such as paul matthew so daniel so on and so forth all of them respect them and hey how much faith do you took i don't think it took old daniel to sit down in that lion's den saying here kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty you know nice kitty you know are the three hebrew children in the furnace the fire the fiery furnace all right lord's not gonna let it get too hot in here for me you know and but their faith brought them on through hey those are fantastic examples of what little doubt you should have especially in this generation where you have science to align if you're intelligent enough that is to align with god's word and it'll prove it it'll prove god's word that it is true and yet satan's enemies try so hard at this time to down christianity it was real interesting to watch the media this weekend you know they're having a promise keepers meeting there it's probably an extreme right-wing conservative group because they're promising to love their wives they're promising to follow god there's got to be something wrong down below this somewhere why are they doing it you know amazing to me at how the liberal media can pick at christianity christianity is because christianity is and you know they did a nice little thing on another program today about a little lady that had bible classes in this community and was starting them all over the country just the people getting together because the churches weren't teaching bible and just starting little bible studies in the homes of the area and just wonder why she's doing this well because she has faith stupid that's why and you know this goes out on television too so really i want to say that in a nice way you know to win a few friends and influence people but really doesn't it challenge one's sanity at some of the things that at the links that some people will go to to confuse what is so simple children can see it and understand it well be that as it may verse i don't want to digress but follow that's memos again follow considering the end of their conversation you consider the conversation why because it's the word it's the word of god and when you consider this word that means meditate on it try to understand it verse 8 jesus christ the same yesterday and today and forever beloved he's not going to change the plan on you you can count on it he's not going to be slippery about the situation he's always the same so it doesn't take a smart person to get onto the word that he sent and to have faith in it through those that he chose to send it by verse 9 be not carried away with diverse and strange doctrines for it is a good thing that the heart be established that your mind be set in concrete if you choose established with grace grace of what of christ not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied therein they won't meets won't help you a whole lot it will if you some but it's not going to heal your soul in other words the little things of this body don't mean all that much compared to setting your mind in concrete christ is not going to change the word is fixed get into it that's what he's saying and faith is your key to the kingdom faith is the key to pleasing your father and when you please him you're going to get blessed that's just the way it is get ready for it you're going to be blessed now paul and philippians would give us a little teaching here my memory doesn't fail me and [Music] he's doing naturally some of his good teaching i'm going to pick it up in the third chapter about the 12th verse and we're going to find this word somewhere in here it escapes me at the moment but but i'll recognize it when we get there verse 12 not as though i had already attained either were already perfect but i follow after if that i may apprehend that or capture that for which also i am apprehended or captured of jesus christ now let's break that down just a little bit again there's the word follow and it will be mentioned again and that's the one i really want um what he's saying here i'm not perfect yet and beloved no one in the flesh is perfect but you strive to capture through that word as much maturity as you can obtain 13 brethren i count not myself to have apprehended i haven't captured it yet but this one thing i do for getting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before how many of you mope and moan and groan about what's already the water that's already under the bridge how many throw up something to your wife that went under the bridge ten years ago or vice versa how many you know how well i worry about that you really are a busy person if you're going to worry about something that happened 10 years if you haven't improved or matured past worrying about that you you have got a problem all right really a problem that's what paul said it'll help you a bunch if you can get your mind in first second third fourth or fifth and keep it out of reverse okay got it that'll fit want it 14. i pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus boy it's kind of it kind of behooves one does it not when you hear paul say i'm pressing for it i'm trying i haven't got there yet but i'm trying then maybe you can better understand and have a little more patience with yourself as to when you fall short okay let us or our brethren our family be patient let us therefore as many as be perfect now this word in the greek is mature all right it means you're thinking with maturity not as a little child be thus minded and if in anything you be otherwise minded god shall reveal even this unto you it means if if you're in a class and you're studying and you don't understand every little detail don't worry about it put it on the shelf and god will make that known to you as you are supposed to receive it sooner or later 16. nevertheless we're to we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing in other words try to live up to it that that you receive to this point maturity try to live up to it brethren be followers there's that word again mem oh switches to say mimic together of me and mark them which walk so as you have us for an ensample in other words you've got us it's this simple you've got us to use as a judge of what you should mimic or imitate but he said there are some and as much as you've got me for an example apply that to the others why verse 18 for many walk of whom i have told you often i've warned you about it and now tell you even weeping i've got tears in my eyes that they are the enemies of the cross of christ now beloved that's why you must be careful in separating those that follow from those that don't i'm not telling you to hate those that don't by any means but don't imitate them don't follow them or they'll lead you down primrose lane oh but brother you don't understand have you ever been in that place and felt the spirit well if you can really discern spirits it was probably an evil spirit in many cases if it didn't go by god's word but they were so happy hey satan loves to make them happy you want to be very careful of new religions let me ask you something if jesus is the same yesterday today and forever why would you want some different message than his because if it's something different it's not going to be around long anyway and i would think you would want to be around forever well how do i know you use paul as an example that's what he has told you here and he said it with tears in his eyes he said it grieves me that these people have fallen by the side and haven't stuck with a word and this applies to many things like but it's so sweet to just think about just jumping and flying away you know just it just does something real religious to me to think about flying in a cloud well jesus didn't teach that so why would you want to do that well i want to that's what they said it would well if you follow that you're imitating all right be careful paul said it with tears in his eyes for our conversation i'm sorry uh 19 who's whose end is destruction whose god is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things gets sidetracked anything that goes in the name of religion that isn't part of christ's reality is not christianity well again how do i know use paul as your example use daniel as your example use all those that god sent with his word as your example and judge likely the likewise 20 for our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the savior of the lord jesus christ in other words when you speak of god he is in heaven wherever god is that is heaven and if he sent the word then you're studying the heavenly word who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself that's why it's so easy for you if you have the faith to go out and work with these that don't have it god is able hey he can change them if you put the seed there and it's meant to be and it will grow he'll change them especially when we have the events about to transpire that are that is to say the appearance appearance of the spirit's messiah if you have forewarned someone and they see you delivered before him and the holy spirit begins to speak through you then certainly they're going to know that what you had said was true just plant the seed don't worry about it only god can make it grow and then we go from there using the example set forth in our father's word i want to go to ii thessalonians and chapter three in closing in closing um let's let's we started with whoa i've got the wrong thessalonians i'm about to give you a first thessalonians instead of two and that won't work for this case okay verse 2 of chapter 3 the second book of thessalonians and we're going to conclude with this verse 2 reads and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith they don't have what they don't have faith well that's bad because faith is what pleases god right we got it we've got it but the lord is faithful you can count on him who shall establish you and keep you from evil as long as you have that faith beloved i don't care how wicked or evil someone is he will establish you in and give you the strength and the blessings verse 4 and we have confidence in the lord touching you that you both do and will do the things which we commanded you that you follow us you follow our command you follow the example that we have set forth verse 5 and the lord direct your hearts that's to say your minds into the love of god and into the patient waiting for christ now let's say a word on patience god is long-suffering and very patient but when we look around us today in this world sometimes it's difficult for us to gain that patience make sure that you do in other words god knows everything and god knows who is deserving of a seed being planted that they have an opportunity to enter that kingdom with you that beautiful soul though it's misguided needs to be touched and if we ask that the end come today there would be and it may for all i know but what i'm saying is god does know when and he's got work for us to do and there are many people that are worth being saved worth having the opportunity so that's what seed planting is about and your faith your faith being unshakable when it's set in concrete in your mind with god assisting you and blessing you just simply by being you set an example in your community that draws people to it oh and you're going to get some knocks and bumps from those that have no faith but should that bother you if anything pray for them because they're not happy they are not happy campers especially in this generation so we can afford to be generous so let us improve in our patience 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 and not after the tradition which he received of us that he doesn't follow us he refuses it that means don't walk after them withdraw yourself why you're what are you going to gain if you've planted a seed and they've maybe grounded into the dust a little bit made light of it laughed then separate yourself don't plant more seeds than otherwise i don't i mean don't dig a hole and cover them up just move away all right and continue doing what you're supposed to do why shouldn't we cover them up well i'll show you in a moment verse 7 for yourselves know how you ought to follow us boy there's that word again memos imitate you need something to go by you need a gauge i'm it he's saying all right i'm the one and of course daniel isaiah all of them that god sent they're the ones follow them for we behave ours behave not ourselves disorderly among you there's a little bit concerning loafing in the greek in this don't be lazy okay don't be lazy about what you do what he's saying is we didn't take your money we didn't ask for it you know we didn't do something religious like passing a plate real quick you know before and in the middle and at the end you know we just did god's work we weren't lazy uh eight neither did we eat any man's bread for naught but wrought we worked with labor and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you such a good example you know when to the people as to what you're doing what you're doing for are you doing it for money no okay why because you don't receive any money all right that's what that was paul's philosophy verse nine not because we have not power that's to mean right boy you know every servant is worthy of his hire but to make ourselves an example in sample an old anglo-saxon word that means example unto you to follow us imitate memos just like we do it us 10 for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat and that's just the way it is you know a lot of people in this generation have some big old overgrown child maybe 22 to 30 years old that is not going to school won't work but they sure expect mom and pop to feed him and maybe even gripe at mom a little bit about the cooking if it falls just right hey saw that end of that suckers to the table off where that sucker sits all right don't feed him yeah boot him out make him work because oh what my word it's my child my own flesh and blood and you're proud of it okay we're to love our children and everything but we're also to set an example and i don't know how many you've ever heard of tough love but sometimes it's necessary but that's what paul is saying here if they don't work don't feed them all right eleven for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly they're lazy and working not at all but are busy bodies when somebody uh it would seem that maybe i shouldn't say this but i'm going to because i want to i feel like it all right i feel led of god to say it if we didn't have so many people on welfare they wouldn't have time to to be so ruley and be at every disorderly organized rebuttal of something good screaming you know at uh screaming at the um the boys that just met in washington dc you know who else has got time to go down there and march around with signs you know except people that won't work now there are people that make stands that are expensive in cost but sometimes in a socialist system we develop our own traps okay be that as it may god doesn't like lazy people and you know something i don't either i don't particularly care for them well will you teach them yes i'll plant a seed and then i'm through with them until they can grow up and be a citizen that we can be proud of or that at least tries if somebody won't help themselves you can't help them well but isn't that awful no that's love that is real genuine love it hurts to have to turn someone away that's hungry starving for truth but until they're ready until god touches them you're going to have to love them enough that you can let them go until they're ready to have help all right that's god's truth that's tough love it but it's real love okay um but you brethren verse 13 but you brethren i'm sorry it's verse 12. now then that are such we command and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread that's the way it should be but ye brother and be not weary in well-doing don't worry don't be weary in doing what's right a tough love is what's right and some people just don't love enough to put it out okay i put tough love out on television and it draws me some flack you know if i could just be a sweet dude you know and just say pleasing things to people it would be so much easier but that wouldn't be real love okay it really wouldn't think about it all right do what's right okay call it like the word states it whether it pleases man or not verse 14 and if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man this is why you shouldn't cover them up okay i said dig a hole and put cover them up don't do that note them um that note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed pretty soon he's going to change all right sooner or later 15 yet count him not as an enemy this is important this is part of tough love don't count him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother you warn him you warn him by planting the seed sixteen now the lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means the lord be with you all why could he know he would because they had faith if you have faith and if you're pleasing to god if you imitate what they did now it's one thing to imitate a spider and weave or a bird and build a nest but you can build a better one they get by so imitate god as best you can is it possible well we haven't captured it yet but never tire of working at it to imitate that that is good is it always easy no tough love doesn't come easy sometimes but i'll guarantee you one thing it is worth it you know occasionally you will hear me come down and just rain uh little bullets of correction on somebody that says i just want to work but when i'm off you know and and everything i just feel like if i take a few extra days until i know i'm feeling better this is the happens to be one of the last cases and i rained down on that guy and i said you're taking advantage of your employer you're setting a bad example you know and if when you're ready it's one thing to be ill but when you're ready what'll make you well quicker than anything is work it will how many of you have just felt like really down and once you got to work and got your mind off of it hey wasn't that bad you know you felt pretty good well this person wrote me a letter after i told him to get a hold of his bootstraps and pull himself up and be a man and he really thanked me he said i really appreciate that i got three letters from some poor little ladies that didn't have anything to do and was saying what a bully you are what a bully and from one reverend oh dear brother oh dear brother you teach the word so well but why can't you find kindness and be touched by the holy spirit and say a kind word to folks well what i'm saying is you can't please everybody so what do you want to do please god okay always please god how do you do that follow the example set forth by you in the word when you please him you're going to be blessed and you will also be a blessing to those that might even criticize you that's fine they criticized christ and when you teach his word with authority you're going to be criticized all also so don't don't think that you're such a sweet person that everybody's going to love you even if you are teaching god's word they're not okay and they're going to criticize don't worry about it you're still helping them you're doing everything you can and the main thing god will bless you please god and hope and follow him imitate him not the world and then everyone that is worth their salt will love you too they will and the others we still got some work to do because the lord only knows we've got enough work to do on ourselves father we thank you for your word and the examples that you have set forth that are so easy to follow but that we could father but that we could follow them and mature that we would never sin and fall short but the flesh is strong as we live in it father forgive us our sins and give us that path and make it clear in our minds that we may follow we ask it in yahshua jesus precious name amen

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Published: Thu Jun 24 2021