Church Etiquette

You should know how to act in church ... 

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We'd like to welcome everybody to another episode of Simply Put. And we just want to say we appreciate all of our listeners. Thank you for listening, and we really appreciate your support. We really do. It goes a long way. So I want to start by saying this, guys. Just a quick announcement, as always. There's a few ways you could help support our ministry if it's something that you wanted to do. The first way being downloading our content, right? It's free, it doesn't cost you anything. You're already listening to it. So just you downloading our content helps support us tremendously. Now the second way, if you wanted to be a little more bold about it, is we have a Cash App. A Cash App which is $ Ministries, all one word. And that's if you want to donate any kind of funds of any kind. Those funds go directly from Cash App to our ministry. So if you want to help to support the ministry, you can take it a step further if you would like. And again, Cash App, Dollar Sign KFE Ministries, all one word. Alright. The third way, guys, is if you scroll to the bottom of the episodes, you'll see a link to be a sponsor. I believe it starts as low as three dollars a month. Again, a really cheap, easy, simple way to be a sponsor and help support us. So there's a few different ways you can help support the ministry, guys. Obviously, downloading our content absolutely free. And so, with that being said, guys, let's go ahead and get into some preaching. Alright, guys, so I want to start at 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 15. 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 15. It says this, guys. It says that God's going to tarry long. And the reason why he's doing it is because he's hoping that you'll learn how to act in church by him doing that. The word tarry means to delay in acting or doing something. So God's not going to react or act upon something or do something immediately. He's going to delay in doing it. Why? Because he's hoping that you ought to know how to behave yourself in the house of God. You don't believe me. First Timothy chapter 3, verse 15. But if I tarry long, so if God delays in acting or doing something, it's so that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God. It's right there, guys, in black and white. If God doesn't answer your prayers right away, immediately, right away, right out of the gate, it's because he's hoping that that will teach you how you should act in the church, in the house of God. So let's go figure out how we're supposed to act in the church of God, right? Because we don't want God to keep to keep delaying, right? We don't want him to keep holding back. We don't want him to keep delaying on acting or doing something. So let's figure out how we're supposed to behave in church. And if you were never taught how to behave in church, I get it. And if you want to continue to not learn how to behave in church, if you if you like being ignorant, if that's your thing, change the podcast. Because after this episode, you're going to know how you ought to behave in the house of God and in church. So let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 35. 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 35. Right? Now this is Paul who wrote this. Paul wrote the book of Corinthians. Also an apostle, Paul. Right? Paul's an apostle. He wrote the book of Corinthians. 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verse 35. Says this, guys. And this I speak for your own profit. So again, Paul's telling you, he's telling you this for your own benefit, not for Paul's benefit, for your benefit. He's telling you how you should act because he also cares about you. He doesn't want God to delay in acting or doing something. So he's going to tell us what God's expectation is when you walk into the house of God. The house of God is supposed to be the church that you go to every week. So let's figure it out, right? It says this, guys. Not that I may cast a snare upon you, right? We don't preach law, sin, judgment. We don't do that because again, that's a snare. We're not trying to cast a snare on you, guys. We're trying to give you good moral instructions, not bad ones. Remember, our job is to edify you. Edifying means give you good moral instructions. To cast a snare on you, that's not giving you good moral instructions. So we're not going to do that. But for that which is calmly, right? Calmly, which is calmly, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction. So let's focus on the last part. Attend the Lord without distraction. When you come into church, when you when I say come into church, guys, we don't have a physical building. But we do have a podcast. That's our church, that's our building. So we'll use us as an example, right? Attend the Lord without distraction. When you listen to our podcast, guys, you're to listen to it with no distractions. It doesn't mean you listen to it while you're cleaning. It doesn't mean you listen to it while you're putting your son to bed. It doesn't mean you listen to it while you're just hanging out with your friends. Oh, just background noise. That's not attending without distraction. Guys, listen, when you listen to our podcast, you're listening to Jesus talk. We're telling you what Jesus said. We're telling you what Jesus in the Spirit said. We're telling you what God said. What we're saying isn't coming from us, it's coming from God. That's why we're getting it from the book, which means it's coming from God. If we're getting it from the Bible, that means it's coming from God. It says attend the Lord without distractions. When you come to our church, in other words, you listen to our podcast, in order for you to get the full benefit of our podcast, the full benefit of listening to our podcast, the Lord, God, Jesus in spirit is telling you, is asking you. He's not asking you, he's telling you. To attend without distraction. When you listen to our podcast, you're listening to it on the way to work while you're driving. That's not without distraction, guys. Your distraction is you're driving. Your distraction is you're focused on the road. Which I'm not knocking you for. God bless you. I hope you do keep your eyes on the road. But my point is, guys, if I'm listening to our podcast, right, it'd be no different than you going into church, a physical building, and playing on your phone while the pastor is talking. You wouldn't do that, right? That's the same thing as you listening to a podcast, whether it's ours or anybody else's, and driving at the same time. Or, hey, let me clean while this is playing. You're distracted. Your full undivided attention is not on the Lord. It's not on Jesus in spirit, God Himself. Half of it is the other half's on you vacuuming, or the other half is on you driving a car, or the other half is on you watching your kids. Attend without distraction. You won't get any benefit or the full benefit because you're going to miss half of what we're saying. And if you miss half of what we're saying, you're not going to benefit at all from our podcast. Information is what changes your lives. Information, the truth, is information. That information is what's going to make changes in your life. If you only have half the information, it's never going to work. So, again, you should know how to act in church. Whether it's a podcast or a physical building, the Lord Jesus, God Himself, deserves your undivided attention. And so when you're, even if you're not a pod listening to a podcast, guys, even if you aren't even listening to a podcast, right? I'm gonna even I'm gonna even eliminate us out of the equation or any other podcast for that matter. I'm even eliminating a physical building. Let's say I'm reading my Bible. Let's say I'm just studying my Bible, reading it, right? I'm not preaching, I'm not going to a physical building, I'm not even going to church, right? I'm just at home with my Bible. When I study my Bible, guys, there's nobody around me. I have a wife, I have a son. But when I when I go to my office and I close my door to study my Bible, it's just me and my Bible in that room. I have no distractions. Guys, I don't, I'm not watching my son while I'm studying my Bible.

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I'm not watching the TV while I'm studying my Bible. I'm not listening to music while I'm studying my Bible. Because those are distractions. Attend the Lord without distraction. 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 35. Right? Again, we started it at 1 Timothy chapter 3, chapter 3, verse 15. We started there. Where I just told you God's going to delay in acting or doing something in hopes that you'll learn how you ought to behave in the house of God. Our podcast for that hour is the house of God. Your Bible, even if you're not listening to anything, your Bible is the house of God. So when you study your Bible, you are to study it without distraction, guys. No TV, no dog, no family, no friends, no games. Right? I'm not texting, texting or calling, right? Anyone while I'm studying my Bible? I'm not playing with the dog while I'm studying my Bible. Because when I'm studying my Bible, guys, I've now entered the house of God when I study my Bible. So if I study for an hour, that's an hour of just me and my Bible, literally nothing else, guys, unless I gotta get up to use the bathroom. There's no distractions. If you're reading your book while you're waiting for your food to cook, or you're reading the Bible because you're just waiting for your coffee to brew, you're distracted because he doesn't have your undivided attention. You're only reading it because you're buying time to do, you know, for before your coffee's made. Or you're trying to just say I got a few minutes, I'll just take a quick look at it. That's a distraction because whatever you're thinking about, whether it's your coffee or whatever you're gonna do, once that little small window's over with of time that you've decided to read your Bible, that's what you're thinking about. So if in other words, if I'm if I'm making coffee, right, which only takes about five minutes at best, and I decide I'm gonna read my Bible while I'm waiting for my coffee to be made, I'm it's a distraction, guys, because I'm not really focused on my Bible. I'm really just waiting for my coffee to get done. So I'm really more focused on that. I'm looking to see if my coffee, every couple of seconds I'm looking up. Oh, is my coffee done? That's a distraction. It pulls my eyes away from the Bible because I have to look to see if the coffee pot's done. I have to listen to hear if the coffee pot's done. I'm waiting to listen to that. So God doesn't have my undivided attention. Attend without distraction, guys. Jesus deserves that. He's owed that. Now let's go to the next thing, guys. This is a big one. Your churches hate to follow this one. Let's go to a class uh Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes, chapter 5, verse 1. Chapter 5, verse 1, Ecclesiastes. Now this one's a tough one for churches. Pastors don't preach this. We do, because we're real pastors. We do, because we meet the qualifications. Says this, guys. Keep your foot when you go to the house of God. And be more ready to hear than to give sacrifice to fools, for they consider not that they do evil. So, guys, just focus on the first two lines. Keep your foot when you go to the house of God. Remember, I just told you, if I'm making food, right, while I'm studying my Bible, number one, it's a distraction. We've already cleared that error. But more importantly than it being a distraction, it says keep your foot. What do you do when you're cooking food? What do you do when you're doing laundry? You get up every so often to check it, right? Make sure it's done, right? You want to make sure your laundry's done. You want to leave it in there too long because what happens if you leave your laundry in the machine too long? If you leave it in the washer too long, it gets smelly, stinky, moldy, and then we gotta rewash it, right? You leave it in the dryer too long, well now it's wrinkled to shit. Now we gotta pull out the iron and iron them all out. Or redry them. So you're constantly checking. You're moving your feet, you're getting off your ass to go check, and you're not sitting where you're at and staying with the Bible. Guys, when I'm when I'm studying my Bible, I don't get up to check to see who's at the door. I don't get up to check to see if my food's done. I don't get up to check to see if my coffee's done. I don't get up to check to see what my wife's doing. I don't get up to check to see what my son's doing. Right? Keep your foot. Stop moving. So again, guys, keep your foot. That's the first thing. Stop moving around. Remember, if you didn't have that distraction, attend the Lord without distraction. If you didn't have that distraction, you wouldn't be getting up, right? If you didn't have that distraction of food or laundry, you wouldn't get up. You wouldn't move your foot every two minutes to go check it. And don't tell me, well, I only check it once or twice. No, you're justifying. We don't like, we don't listen, justify it to somebody else. Satan loves justification. Go tell him about it. We don't justify, guys. We make a mistake, we accept it, we move on. We correct it, we move on. We don't justify, we don't make excuses. Satan does. Go make go go talk to him. Go have that conversation with him because we don't have those conversations. Your faith, your soul, your eternal place where you're gonna be is too important for us to have that conversation. Now, again, what else does it say? And and let's not forget this part. Be more ready to hear. Be more ready to hear, guys. Be more ready to hear. Now, uh again, be more ready to hear. If you're split fifty-fifty between the laundry or cooking and the Bible, you're not more ready to hear the Bible. You're not more ready to hear the food, whether it's done or not, or your laundry, whether it's done or not. Right? Be more ready to hear. It's a 50-50 split. I'm I'm I'm ready to hear the Bible half the time, but the other half the time I'm ready to hear that that bell go off so I can get to my cup of coffee. Or that bell go off so I know my laundry's done. I'm listening for it. 50-50, right? I'm sort of I'm studying my Bible for an hour because the dryer takes 45 minutes. So I'm studying my Bible for 45 minutes because that's how long a dryer takes. Well, guess what? I'm waiting for that 45 minutes to be up. I'm uh I'm more ready to hear that bell go off in 45 minutes. But in the meantime, I'm more ready to hear the Bible. It's 50-50, guys. It's not without distraction. When you're being taught theology in churches, theology is a distraction. Theology, the actual definition of theology, is the study of God and they don't want to tell you this, and religious beliefs, two separate things. The study of God, again, supposed to attend without distraction. 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 35, attend without distraction. Theology is the study of God and religious beliefs. That's 50-50 split. That's not without distraction. Theology is what somebody thinks. That's their the that's what that's their theory on what the Bible says and how they understand it. They're leaning on their understanding, their own understanding, which is a contradiction of the Bible. But we'll save that argument for another day. The point is, guys, go down to Ecclesiastes chapter 5, verse 1. Be keep your foot. Right? Don't be so quick to run and listen to some idiot at some seminary school because he's got all this money and he's convincing. He's got good words, fair speeches. Keep your foot right there in the Bible. Don't move. Don't go get up every 10 minutes to check your laundry, see what your kids are doing. Don't do that. This is how you ought to behave in church, guys. We're not just making this up. This isn't our rules. It also says be more ready to hear. Right? Be more ready to hear. You're not more ready to hear the Bible if you're waiting on something else because you're just doing it to buy time. If you're studying theology, you're not more ready to hear. You're studying half of the time you're studying God, the other half, the Bible, the other half of the time you're studying theology, somebody else's theory on what they think it says. That's a 50-50 split. That's not more ready to hear God. That's a distraction. Now, with that being said, guys, again, be more ready to hear. Right. Now, I wanna I want to throw this up there too, guys. When you go to church, right, people that go to seminary schools are taught law. They don't attend without distraction, obviously. If they're studying God half the time, the other half the time is theology, which is their their theory, somebody else's theory at that, it's not even their own. But they're attending with distraction, not without distraction, by studying theology. They're not more ready, they're not ready to, again, keep your foot when you go to the house of God. They're not they haven't even stepped foot in the house of God, let alone keeping their foot in the house of God. They're being taught law. The school is predicated on law, which is why they get a seminary, uh degree in seminary school for theology. They're not more, they don't keep their foot. They don't even take one foot into the house of God. They don't even have a foot in there to begin with. They don't have a foot in God to keep. But furthermore, it says be more ready to hear. They're not more ready to hear, guys. They're ready to debate, to convince you that what they're saying is true. Without a shred of evidence, other than some idiot's theory. That's what theology is, theory. Go to Romans chapter 1, verse 29 through 32. Romans chapter 1, 29 through 32. It says this, guys, and I'm not gonna read this whole thing. Go back and read it on your own. We encourage you to do so. That's a very powerful thing. But we are gonna get some of it out, uh we are gonna go over some of it because it's it's too important not to. Being filled with all unrighteousness, right? These people who talk about sin, talk about the law, they're filled with unrighteousness. Unrighteousness, guys, let me just simplify it for you. If somebody is unrighteous, they are unright. The word right is literally in the word righteous. So if they are unrighteous, they're not right in what they believe. What would make them wrong? The easy answer. They're preaching law of Moses, law, not the law of Christ. Faith. So the unrighteous are preaching the law of Moses, the law. The righteous, the ones that are right, again, that word right is in the word righteous, are preaching faith. Two commandments, not 613. They're preaching the law of Christ. These people who are unrighteous, who are not correct in what they preach or teach or say, they're full of a lot of things, guys. Full of a lot of things. But the one thing that I want to really focus on is they're full of debate. If I tell you guys, right, which I never would, but let's just say I told you, once you get married, that's it. You have to stay married forever. There's no way out of it unless one of you dies, right? If I told you that, I took that stand, right? Which it's not accurate, but just assuming I told you that. And somebody came up to us and said, Hey, Ken, gotta be honest with you, man. You're wrong. The Bible don't say that I gotta, it's either once we get married that, you know, I'm stuck until one of us dies. It doesn't say that. And they went back and showed me, look, man, we're under faith, right? Marriage is under law, we're not under the law anymore, we're under faith. And furthermore, Jesus says that you can leave for any reason except for fornication. I would say, well, gee, I stand corrected. You're right, appreciate you. Thank you for telling me. Thank you for the correction. I would I would go back and I would tear down the, I would I would literally take down the podcast, that that episode that made that claim. I would take it down and I would put up another one with accurate, truly accurate information. I wouldn't be offended, I wouldn't debate my point. I wouldn't sit here and say, Well, I know that you just proved me wrong. I know you just showed me receipts because you showed me the Bible. I know you just showed me that Jesus literally said that in black and white. But I'm gonna double down and say that I'm still right and this da-da-da-da, and then use 15 other verses that I just pulled out of a hat to try and make a case and convince this guy that even though he's right, he's not. We wouldn't do that, guys. We would take, again, that's what makes us blameless, is that we're not offended by the word. We're not offended when we say something and it's wrong, and somebody comes to us with receipts and shows us the word and says, Look, dude, you're dead wrong. It says it right here. I'm gonna shake your hand and thank you for correcting me. I'm gonna be happy that you corrected me. And I'm gonna be happy to tear down the podcast that I made where I was wrong and put a correct one up. I'm gonna shake your hand, I'm gonna invite you to hell. I might even take you out to dinner for telling me that. Guys, I've said stuff, not in a podcast, but just in my own studies and my own notes. And my wife has corrected me on things. So again, I didn't, we didn't fight about it. I didn't say, oh, who are you to tell me? Oh, you're my wife, you're a woman. You can't tell. No, I didn't say any of that, guys. I told her, thank you. I love you, thank you. I'm so glad you pointed that out to me. This is awesome. Now I got it, now I got it right. Someone who isn't blameless is your Pharisees who defend, debate their stance, even when found and proven wrong. That's what your church does, guys. They don't attend without distraction because their degree that they're getting comes from a seminary school which teaches theology, which teaches two separate things at the same time. The Bible and theory. Somebody else's theory at that. They're not more ready to, they don't keep their foot in the house of God. They ain't even put a foot in the house of God, let alone keep a foot in the house of God, because they're learning theology. They're not more ready to hear, they're more ready to debate. Right? Someone who believes in the law of Moses, someone who believes in the law, who preaches 613 commandments, or better yet, 16 out of the 613 commandments, who doesn't even know all 613 commandments. It's filled with a lot of things, guys. But they're filled with debate. That's one of the many things they're filled with. Guys, we're not here to debate the Bible. We're here to tell you what it says. You can accept it or not, you can accept it or reject it. It's entirely up to you. Our job is to give you good moral instructions, to give you, to edify you, give you good moral instructions, to give you information straight from the horse's mouth, to give you the truth straight out of God's own mouth. Now, what you do, that information is entirely up to you. You can accept it, you can reject it, entirely up to you. That's where free will comes in. Right. So again, guys, everything that we do, everything that you do, should be done for the Lord. Right? So I'll give you an example. When you go to a church to listen, whether it's picking up your phone and listening to a podcast, wherever you listen to your podcast at, doesn't matter. Listening to your podcast, going to uh the actual physical building of a church, either way, doesn't matter. You're doing it, guys, for the Lord. Right? You're not you're doing it because you want to know the Lord. When I clean a building at night, I'm cleaning it because it's the Lord's building. I'm cleaning it for the Lord. I get a paycheck for it, yes, of course, absolutely. But the reason why I care about what I do, the reason why I put so much heart into it, it's not because I love the building, it's not because I love cleaning, it's because I'm cleaning for the Lord. Right? When I give a homeless guy 20 bucks, right, I'm doing it for the Lord. I'm not doing it for the homeless guy. I'm doing it for the Lord. That's what the Lord would do. I'm doing it for him. Right? God doesn't need me to give anybody anything. But if I if I give this guy 20 bucks and I'm doing it for the Lord, God's giving this homeless guy love through me. In the same way that I had my burdens of the law lifted from me through the body of Christ. I'm not Christ, guys. I'm not Jesus Christ in sandals, I'm not God, I'm not Jesus in spirit, not at all. I'm not an apostle, I'm not a prophet, I'm just a dude trying to tell you the truth. You can put pastor on my title, that's fine. But the point is, when you do that, you're doing it out of love. That's what makes you doing it for the Lord come into play. Do everything with love. Because that's what God does. God does everything out of love. God doesn't have to do anything, guys. He doesn't have to give you salvation, he doesn't have to have you worship him, he doesn't need your money, your women, your cars, he doesn't need anything from us at all. Everything that Jesus, God benefits nothing by giving us salvation. He benefits nothing by giving us love. He benefits nothing by giving us Jesus Christ, his son and flesh. He benefits nothing from that. We get all the benefit from that. As believers, we are taken out from under the law at that point. We are given grace at that point. We were selected to be believers before the foundation of the world. We benefit all of it. God gets no benefit from it, but still does it. Why? Because He loves us. I benefit nothing giving a homeless guy 20 bucks. I benefit nothing. The homeless guy gets all the benefit. Right? If you're gonna do something for the Lord, guys, people do this all the time. They say they're doing something for the Lord. Oh, I'm just doing the Lord's work. Right? But then they bitch about it. Remember, we're we're gonna teach you how to act in church. So let's let's let's go ahead and throw up the last one just to make sure that we got all of our bases covered. Philippians chapter 2, verse 14 through 16. Do all things without murmuring and disputing. All things without murmuring and disputing. That includes debate. If you're debating somebody, you're doing murmurings and disputings. You're disputing what I'm saying. If you reject the truth, you're disputing it. So if a church is preaching law and I walk in there and I say, Listen, you should be preaching faith, they're disputing what I'm saying. They're saying I'm wrong. They want to debate that's disputing. Without murmuring and disputing. I just told you. We don't dispute somebody when they come to us and say, hey, listen, you got it wrong on this one, and I can prove that you were wrong, and I'm gonna show you the truth. We don't we don't dispute that. Either we accept it or we don't. If it's the truth, we accept it. If it's not, we reject it. If you can prove it, we and it's the truth, we accept it. If you can't prove it and it's a lie, we reject it. You should know how to how to act in church, guys. So that's just a quick recap, right? 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 15. You ought to know how to behave in church. How do you behave in church? 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 35. Start with doing it without distractions. Attend the Lord without distractions. Start there. Read your Bible. Undivided attention. Nothing on, no radio, no TV, no kids, no wife, no cars, no friends, no distractions. Stop thinking about your money, stop thinking about your bank accounts, stop thinking about what if this, what if that. All you should be focused on is what you're reading, what's in front of you, the Bible. Don't be so quick to get up every two minutes. Ecclesiastes chapter 5, verse 1. Keep your foot. Stop moving. Keep your ass right there. Stay right in the Bible. Stop moving. Stop jumping around. There's no reason for you to keep getting up every two minutes, every five minutes, or three times, or two times, or five times. No reason for it. Jesus ain't got up once. You need to stay right there. Hard to listen when you're getting up every two minutes. Be more ready to hear. Be more concerned about hearing what God has to say than hearing whatever the hell else is going around, going on around you. Because I promise you, what God has to say, you're gonna want to hear. That's certainly more important than a stupid bell going off because your laundry's done or your coffee's done. Certainly more important, right? What God has to say, be more ready to hear. What God has to say is definitely more important than what your wife's got to tell you. Definitely more important than what your kids got to tell you. Definitely more important than what either one of them are doing. I promise you it is. Remember, Jesus alone is the one who decides who's getting in and who's not. Who gets judgment, who doesn't. Right? We're under faith. We don't have judgment. We don't have sin. But if you don't believe, can't say the same for you, my friend. And again, guys. If you're if you're found wrong, right? Excuse me, stand corrected. Don't do what it says in Romans chapter 1, verse 29 through 32. Don't debate. You're wrong, you're wrong. It's that simple. Don't debate. Remember, 2 Timothy 3.16 says what? All scripture is inspiration of God for reproof and correction. For reproof and correction. If you're wrong, because the Bible, because God says you're wrong, accept it. Don't debate it. Keep your mouth shut. Learn. Be more ready to hear. If you're waiting to talk, because you're waiting to make your point, so you can convince somebody a lie is true, sound like what Satan does. You're not more ready to hear. You're more ready to talk. And just to cap it all off, guys, Philippians chapter 2, verse 14 through 16. Do it without bitching. Right? If I'm wrong, I don't say, well, gee, I know I was wrong, but you know, the stupid thing threw me off, man. No, guys, listen, accept it. Be happy that you were corrected. Don't bitch that you were corrected. Don't bitch that you were wrong and you were found wrong and found a liar, as the Bible puts it. Don't get mad about it. Be happy that your mistake was caught before you were able to tell 15 million other people and send them to hell in a handbasket. Be thankful for everything. That includes the correction. Be thankful that I have a Bible. Be thankful that you have a Bible that you can go to and use for correction because I got news for you guys. Not everybody in the world has a King James Bible. Not everybody in the world can afford a King James Version Bible. Not everybody in the world lives in a country where it's even legal to own a Bible. Now, I don't know where the U.S. is going, where this is all gonna end up. Maybe the U.S. will get there at some point where they'll start taking everybody's Bibles. Like they're taking everybody's guns or trying to. I don't know. I'm not a fortune teller, guys. But what I do know is that right now, right here in the United States and in most countries, you have an opportunity to have a Bible, a King James Bible. Not a book, not a new King James book, not an NIV book, not a Christian standard book, a Bible, a King James. Still a King James. Again, guys, if I'm debating, it goes against Philippians chapter 2, verse 14 through 16. If I'm debating, that's not supposed to act in the house of God. That goes against what it says in Philippians. In Philippians, it says, not no murmurings. Do all things without murmurings and disputing. Disputing. If you're debating with me, you're disputing that what I'm saying is true. Is that how you're supposed to act in the house of God? According to God, that's a no. Now, according to your church, I don't know what the hell they believe, because the bar changes every week because there's no standard because they're lawless. So one week it's it's homosexuality is a big problem. The week after that, the pastor finds out his kids getting all of a sudden, well, it's okay. I must have misread that one. The standard changes. One week it's okay. You're supposed to only give 10% of your tithing. Week after that, it's well, gee, I was wrong. You can give as much as you want, any amount you want. The standard changes. Half of his members think it's okay. And in most Christian churches, half of those members think it's okay for the death penalty. It's okay to kill somebody, it's so the death penalty's okay. The other half will tell you, no, it's not okay. It's outrageous. And you're gonna have some of the congregations gonna say, well, you know, I know murdering's wrong, I know killing's wrong, but you know, if it's for if it's for to defend our land and it's the military, it's the soldiers, it's the troops are fighting to defend our land, our freedom, then somehow there's some justification for it. Now it's okay. It's three different standards I just gave you. One says it's not okay to kill, one group says it is okay to kill. The third group says, well, it's okay to kill under these circumstances. Well, it's act of war, oh, we're in war, all they're military. They're defending our rights. Whatever. That's three different standards, three different bars, it's always moving because there's no law they're following. They can't follow the law of Moses, and we I've done a podcast on this, guys. Go back and listen to it. They're not following the law of Moses because they couldn't possibly follow 613 commandments. Impossible. They were born unperfect. And they're not following the law of Christ because they're rejecting it. Love your neighbor, love God. They're not following either law. They're lawless, they're not following either law. Law of Christ, out the window. They don't even want to accept it. They don't want to retain the knowledge of God. They like their own traditions. And guys, we're gonna do an entire an entire podcast episode of Man's Doctrine, and you're gonna see exactly what we're telling you. It's right there in black and white. All you gotta do is open the book and look, and if you know where to find it, it's gonna be a problem for those people. So again, guys, you've now been taught how to act in church. Please remember these things. Because where you end up is is should be your highest priority. And and the information we're giving you is going to help ensure that you get to heaven. Dismiss what we're saying, guys. You're playing Russian roulette. We're telling you how to act in church because God wants you to know how to act in church. And if we're if we're attending church with distraction, if we're attending church, but we're moving every two minutes because we gotta go to the bathroom, I gotta check my phone, I gotta do this, I gotta do that. Or you're or you're more ready to flap your gums because you want to debate, because you want to defend or convince the congregation that the law is good and that the law is what should be taught, and the law is the truth, which it's not, then I don't know what to tell you. Right? I I don't know how to help you. Because none of that is going to help you, none of that is gonna save you. We want to give you information that's gonna get you to heaven, not to hell. So with that being said, guys, until next time, God bless. Please, please know how to act in church.