WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.279 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.600 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:21.600 And turn with me in your Bibles to James chapter 3. 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.800 Boy, this has been a great series for me. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.199 And I many of you have shared with me how it's really. 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:44.719 You'd been through the book of James and read through it, but some of the insights that God's given us as a church body, I call it the practical application of Proverbs in the New Testament. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.759 James is the Proverbs for the New Testament. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.200 No doubt in my mind. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.399 No doubt. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.840 Because it deals with all the practical issues. 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:55.840 Now, I'm excited. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.079 Benji was asking me, did I know where we're going on our next series? 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:01.600 I said, absolutely. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:10.640 God has really, as I pray through these different where he wants us to go next, I'm very sensitive to that. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:16.959 And what I've normally try to do, we do uh I'll preach an Old Testament book. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:29.359 We'll look into the Old Testament because the Bible says in Romans 15, 4, whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:35.120 It's unbelievable how the New Testament reinforces the Old Testament. 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:36.959 They don't contradict each other. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.719 And they're both for today. 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:40.000 They really are. 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.519 So uh, and then we went from Jonah to James. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:49.840 And uh this fall, I'm looking, and then I sometimes I'll do a topical series. 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:56.640 But this fall, God, with the election coming up, I mean, it's crucial. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.599 But by the way, they're always crucial. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:01.519 Every election's crucial. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:06.239 Every four years you hear the politicians say, This is the most important. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.760 Well, they're all important. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.360 But let me remind you, God's the most important. 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:13.520 And God's still in charge. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.680 But people will ask me, say, well, we've just never seen anything like this before. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:19.599 Oh, let me let me help you. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.520 Let me tell you what scripture says. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.719 There's nothing new under the sun. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:26.560 Ecclesiastic. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:29.599 There's nothing new under the sun. 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:38.960 It has been and will be, it's just a really a reproduction of something that's already happened. 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.240 That's why Romans 15, 4 is so important in the Old Testament, so important. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.439 Whatsoever things are written aforetime, were written for our what? 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:48.560 Learning. 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.120 That we, through uh patience and comfort of the scriptures, can have hope. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.759 What that hope means is that we can understand how to react to the situations that are going on today. 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:00.879 Can I get an amen? 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:09.919 So, my next series after the summer is gonna be A Country in Crisis. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:12.080 Because guess what? 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.919 Nations and countries have always been in crisis. 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:17.919 It's nothing new. 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.520 So we're going to the book of Joshua this fall. 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.039 It's gonna be awesome. 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:32.879 And we're gonna see how Joshua and his family and his team handled a nation or a country in crisis. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:38.639 So it's gonna be exciting, it'll be relevant and applicable for today. 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.560 So that's where we're going next. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:42.719 James chapter 3. 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.639 Loose lips sink ships. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.479 Or another title I would have given it. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.439 I thought about it, and I put it under my title. 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.039 Talkers, beware. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.360 Talkers, beware. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:06.159 Now, by the way, most of us would say, Well, I'm not a talker. 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:07.840 That's a good chance you are. 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.439 Because if you have to tell me you're not a talker, you're probably a talker. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:14.240 Hello? 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.000 You okay out there already? 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.160 No comment. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.439 Darren, we're we're sunk. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.079 We're we're we we they know we're talkers. 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:25.279 Yeah. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.639 Big ships. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:32.639 But but listen, what James is talking about here is unbelievable. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:38.720 The Bible makes the control of the tongue a matter of great importance. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:47.839 In fact, when I was working on this all week and sitting there and watching the kids play in the ocean, I thought to myself, our Lord himself, here's what he said. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.399 I've given you several verses there. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.959 By the way, does everyone have a worship guide? 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.720 I want to make sure everyone's got a worship guy. 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:55.839 Everybody's got a worship. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.800 Got one right back here, a few back there. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:00.879 Harry, okay? 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.000 So you can go with me, fill it in, take it home. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.879 These are verses that you must put in your Bible. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.240 You must read constantly and memorize them. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:16.319 They will bless your heart, and hopefully they'll help you control that little muscle called the tongue. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.519 One of the smallest muscles in our body can do so much damage so quickly. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:22.560 Hello. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.439 Loose lips sink ships. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.399 Loose lips destroy lives. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:30.959 So, listen to what Jesus said. 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:44.319 Jesus said in Matthew chapter 12, verse 37 By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.680 Matthew 12, 37, in the introduction. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:52.720 The book to Proverbs and Psalms abound in warnings about our speech. 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.319 Listen to what it says. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.199 He that guards his mouth keeps his life. 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:04.879 But he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction. 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.199 Proverbs 13, 3. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.439 And then Proverbs 18, 21. 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.279 Death and life are in the power of the tongue. 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.600 That is a powerful verse. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.199 Death and life are in the power of the tongue. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.879 And then listen to this one. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:25.519 I had never really memorized this verse before, and it really grabbed me for the first time. 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:27.360 People talk about let's be cool. 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:28.560 You want to be cool? 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:29.680 You want to be cool? 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.079 You got to learn to control that cool tongue. 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.160 Listen to what it says. 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.519 Proverbs, uh this is uh actually uh Psalms. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.000 Psalms, no, it's no, you're right. 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:42.319 You're right. 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:43.120 Thank you, Jason. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:44.480 Proverbs 17, 27. 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:45.680 Listen to what it says. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.399 He that spares his words, watch, hath knowledge. 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.079 And a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.120 Now the King James says, he is of a cool spirit. 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:00.959 You want to be cool? 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.480 Understand that you got to learn to control your tongue. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:12.319 And then, I love Proverbs 21, 23, whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.959 Now watch what he says in Psalms. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.839 What man is he that desires life? 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.600 Boy, this is powerful. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:27.040 What man is he that desireth life and loves many days that he may see good? 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:32.480 Then keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking God. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.639 And then Psalms 39, verse 1. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.839 I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue. 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.959 I will keep my mouth with a bridle. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:46.079 Wow. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.560 Anyone have you ever ridden horses? 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.680 You ever put a bridle on a horse? 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.240 Once that bridle gets on that horse, guess what? 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.519 You got him. 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:03.600 Now you may have problems getting it on, and the reason you have problems getting on, he knows what's coming. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:09.199 And he knows once that bridle gets on that tongue, it's gonna hurt. 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.240 If he doesn't obey. 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.319 I thought to myself, hmm. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:21.120 If I don't obey, that bridle's gonna hurt. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.959 Beautiful parallel there for Christians. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:40.799 If we don't adhere to the bridle of the Holy Spirit in our lives telling us which way we should go and which ways we shouldn't go, it's gonna hurt. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:43.360 Is that not good? 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.120 Is that not good? 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:46.559 It's gonna hurt. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:51.279 So, and then the famous verse, we all know it, Psalms 19, 4. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:52.399 You've got to memorize it. 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:59.840 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:00.720 Wow. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.559 Everything we say should be acceptable in God's sight. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:10.480 There are also many statements about the benefit of the tongue, and we'll be looking at them today. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:14.080 But it tells us that your tongue's like a choice silver. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:18.960 Your tongue is wise, your tongue is great wisdom. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:28.080 In fact, the last part of this chapter we'll look at next week will be the world's wisdom versus the word's wisdom. 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:40.159 And that your wisdom is a direct, is in direct proportion of your life walking with Christ, or your life absent of Christ. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.919 Either you're living by God's wisdom or the world's wisdom. 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.200 There is no in between. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:46.559 You say, and that's not true. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:48.080 I'm living by my wisdom. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:48.639 Guess what? 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:50.080 That's the world's wisdom. 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:54.799 Your wisdom, if it's not godly, is worldly. 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:56.159 One or the other. 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.679 So that's going to be a message within itself. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:01.279 So we see that. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:09.919 And the Bible speaks of lying tongues, flattering tongues, deceitful tongues, false tongues, backbiting tongues, and so on. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:15.279 Paul speaks of the day when every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:18.799 Philippians 2.11. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:26.960 So James expresses himself more strongly right here about the dangers of the tongue than any other New Testament writer. 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:33.840 Indeed, the matter of speech is mentioned in some way in every chapter of the book of James. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:41.440 I told you, verse 19 and chapter 1 and verse 20, he talks about slow to speak, slow to wrath. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:48.000 And then in James chapter 1, verse 26 was made to the emptiness of man's religion. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.840 When a man says he's something but he's not, he's empty. 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:52.960 It's not real. 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:57.919 So, again and again, over and over in chapters 4 and 5, we'll see. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:04.559 His readers, uh, he says that we're guilty of fault finding and malicious gossip. 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:13.360 So again, every place you see in the book of James, there's a major reference to our tongue. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.440 Would you not say the tongue's pretty important to God? 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:30.720 I'm convinced, after 35 years of ministry, that the tongue is the most destructive thing in a church of anything else. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.200 I believe that. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:35.279 I really do with all my heart. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:36.320 I've seen it. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:37.519 I see it. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.240 I've seen it and I see it all the time. 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:49.759 That we we always, again, and what I'm about to say, I wish I could tell you I'm a great example, but I'm not. 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.519 I'm striving to be. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:57.440 But my grandmother used to tell me, I can see her in heaven right now saying, that's right, daddy boy. 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:04.879 If you can't say something good, don't say it. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.240 But no, there are no butts. 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:16.240 For every idle word that men may speak, they will give an account of it in the day of judgment. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.039 You say, What does that word idol mean? 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:20.240 Everything you say. 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.240 That's what it means. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.440 Everything. 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:24.799 That's pretty powerful. 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.639 So, with that said, let's look at loose lips and ships. 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:34.000 First thing I want us to look at is the warning about teaching. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.039 Powerful, powerful statement in verse 1. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:37.679 Look at it. 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:40.480 My brethren, be not many masters. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:46.960 The Greek word did means teacher. 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:48.399 It means teacher. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:13:05.600 The word was used, did daskalos, 40 times in reference to Jesus, 10 times in reference to teacher, seven times in reference to master, and one time in reference to the doctor, the doctor of philosophy, the doctor of education. 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:07.919 For me, the doctor of theology. 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:08.399 What? 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.399 For Susan, doctor of education. 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:14.080 I mean, that's the highest you can go in the education realm. 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.320 So we see that this word meant teachers. 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.080 It is the warning given by James at the very beginning of the chapter. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:23.840 Now let's look at the clarification. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.600 Be not many masters, teachers. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:34.399 But the word carries with that, word teacher carries respect, honor. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:44.159 It carries with it a high position of power, but yet also a higher position of accountability. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.919 Because I want you to notice something, folks, what he says here. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.039 Authority, prestige, position, all that. 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.559 But hey, look, be not many masters. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:05.279 The warning is not, hey, hey, to the warning is say, don't you seek after those positions of high power, high prestige, all in the limelight, all that. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.120 Don't you go seeking after, you know, a lot of people like to be in the limelight. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.600 They like positions of influence. 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:14.720 That's really what it is. 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.240 A teacher is a very influential position. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:19.360 Amen. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.879 Oh, very, I can look back right now in my whole life. 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:24.320 I'm 62 years old. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.279 I know I don't look it. 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:26.159 Thank you very much. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:36.159 But hey, in all these years of growth and maturity, I can look back right now and see my coach Parker and Coach Heath. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:47.519 I can remember the teachers and coaches that had a, I mean, a monumental impact on my life and my thinking and my discipline and my actions. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:56.639 In early, in junior high up, I can think of Miss Ruth Houston, my second grade teacher. 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:02.559 She's the first one that says, Danny, you can do anything you put your mind to do. 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:04.879 I'll never forget that. 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:06.879 I'll never forget that. 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.840 And she would always say, she used a little, I think I can, I think the little train. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.519 We had that in her, she had that train on the side of the wall. 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.200 I can see it to this day. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.080 I think I can. 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:18.720 I think I can. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:19.360 I think I can. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:20.080 I think I can. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:21.039 I think I can. 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:23.519 And then under that she'd say, don't ever quit. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:24.960 Don't ever quit. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:26.799 And that's there. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:33.360 And then as I got into my Christian walk, the runner that we put over Eric's bed, I can see it to this day. 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:34.080 He's running. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.279 And there's the eagle. 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.480 And he says, run that you may win. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.480 Run that you may accomplish. 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.919 And Isaiah 40, 31 was on that thing. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.320 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:47.919 They shall mount up wings as eagles. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:49.360 They shall run and not be weary. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:50.879 They shall walk and never faint. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:52.240 I can see it. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.000 My thinking, which led into my actions. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:06.559 It's so important how teaching and influence is in our lives. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.720 I want you to see what Paul said. 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:10.879 I want you to see what Paul said to Timothy. 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.200 1 Timothy 4, 6, 16. 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.039 Listen to what he told young Timothy. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.919 Take heed unto yourself and unto the doctrine. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:18.960 That's the teachings. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:20.000 Continue in them. 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:25.360 For in doing this, thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.919 Now, that's the King James, but other reading. 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:39.519 What that means is you stay true to your teachings from the Word of God, from your parents that were righteous, your grandparents, and not only is it going to save you, but you're going to be an example. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:45.440 Your life's going to be an example because you're living what you know is true, and you're going to save others. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.720 And that translates into your family. 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.120 Now that's powerful, preacher. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.720 That's it. 00:16:55.440 --> 00:17:00.799 And then go over to 1 Timothy chapter 6, right there, and listen to what he said in verse 20. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.000 I think I had that too. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:03.759 Did I have that one, Jason? 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:04.880 I can't remember. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:05.599 There it is. 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:06.960 Timothy. 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.839 Keep that which is committed to thy trust. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.400 Woo! You know when you get saved, what is committed to your trust? 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:15.920 The word of God. 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:17.440 Do you understand that? 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.400 Once you and I get saved, the word of God is committed to our trust. 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.839 And then he says, avoiding profane and vain babblings. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:27.440 That's useless talk. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.440 That's useless living. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.839 And oppositions of science falsely so-called. 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:34.960 Boy, does he hit it? 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:44.720 In other words, he says the humanistic philosophies that all our most of our universities, especially our secular universities, teaching, he says, don't listen to that garbage. 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:46.880 You think humanism just started? 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.519 No, it was way back in Paul's day. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.799 And you know what humanistic thinking is? 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:59.279 Basically, is I'm gonna help you cut through the chase, that you can ultimately become your own God. 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:03.519 That's what the Romans thought, absolutely. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.200 So he's saying, don't be a part of that. 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:10.559 Don't, hey, don't set your children under that. 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:12.480 Don't set yourself under that. 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.759 And remember, we're dealing with false teachers here too. 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:21.759 And false teaching that was going on right there in Jerusalem and in the church. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.240 Hey, was faith versus work, salvation. 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:28.799 Right there, right then. 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.279 It's been carried on ever since. 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:35.200 So he's given a profound warning. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.799 Take heed unto them and yourselves. 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.279 Notice the second thing. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.640 We see the specifics in the warning. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:46.400 Take heed. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:50.240 Don't be, hey, don't be eager to be a teacher. 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.400 Don't be eager to, hey, have that position. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:57.279 And then look at the support. 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.200 We shall receive the greater condemnation. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:02.960 Oh my soul. 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.680 The greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:08.880 You agree with that? 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.720 What did Jesus say? 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.480 For whom much is given? 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:12.960 What? 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.519 Luke 12, 48. 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:16.559 That's what he said. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.599 The greater the responsibility. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.599 Now listen, don't miss this. 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.279 The greater the retribution. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:27.279 Hello. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.400 See, we want the position. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.720 We just don't want the responsibility. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:37.039 We want the power. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:39.920 But we don't want the responsibility. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:42.400 You can't have one without the other. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:45.119 Let us not be deceived. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:45.920 God is not mocked. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:49.039 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.720 It's gonna happen. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.799 You cannot outrun that powerful statement. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:56.160 You can't do it. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:57.920 And here we see it right here. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:00.799 He says, greater condemnation. 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:06.160 If you want to be a leader, you will have more responsibilities and have to carry a bigger load. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:06.799 That's true. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:14.480 Many want position for the prestige it gives them, but they do not want the responsibility to carry it out. 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:19.200 And they sure don't want the consequences of that position. 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:26.319 Every knee's gonna bow, every tongue's gonna confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.759 Now, I want to see something. 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.839 I have Hebrews, I want you to see something about teachers and preachers, especially. 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:33.519 Hebrews 13, 17. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:34.799 I want you to understand something. 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:36.799 First of all, let me say this. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.960 I do not take this position lightly. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:40.559 I never have. 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:46.400 Because one day, what, 33 years now in the ministry, I think. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:56.720 One day I'm gonna stand before the Lord and I'm gonna give an account of everything I've preached, I've said for all these years of ministry. 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:07.920 Now, ladies and gentlemen, that means as a pastor teacher, that I have had a lot of opportunities to influence people in one or two directions. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.799 The right direction or the wrong direction. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.519 And I will give an account of that. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.160 Obey them that have the rule over you. 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:22.559 And submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:23.440 Why, why, why? 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:23.920 Did you hear? 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:26.160 I don't let me read that. 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:28.799 Submit yourselves, for they watch. 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:31.359 This this is the phrase that gets me. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.640 For they watch for your souls. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:38.480 They must give an account. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:41.200 I tremble when I read that. 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.240 I tremble when I read that. 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:53.039 That's why you better not be a mama called, hey, a people called, or a self called pastor teacher. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:22:01.519 Because you will stand, and there is a tremendous Condemnation coming. 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:05.759 If you led those people in the wrong direction. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.200 Now let me take that to you and me as parents. 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:11.759 The same holds true. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:17.599 Train them up in the way that they shall go, and they'll never depart from it. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.640 Now they didn't say that they wouldn't sway. 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:22.799 We've all been there. 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:35.440 But if they're trained right, loved right, taught right, lived right in front of, I'm here to tell you, it will never return void. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.279 I believe that. 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:44.079 We're working with our grandkids right now and our daughters and just watching them begin to train their children. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:49.680 And it's a blessing to see the spiritual teaching already. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:51.440 Thank God for Iwana. 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:54.240 Thank God for children's church here. 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:56.319 Thank God for vacation Bible school. 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:57.599 That's why you want to. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:58.559 Let me tell you something. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.160 It's it's yes, it's great to have them in sports and God bless you. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:03.759 I played it, all that. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:10.960 But let me tell you what's a lot greater than any sports, any any other thing that they do for social entertainment. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:14.799 The greatest thing you can do is put the word of God in their hearts. 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.279 That's the greatest thing. 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:22.240 Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.759 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light into my path. 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:29.759 That's the greatest thing you can do. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.880 That's why, thank God, and I look out here, and some of you have been so faithful. 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:38.400 You're here on Sundays, your kids are here on Wednesday nights in our youth group. 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.559 What God's doing there and I want to what? 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:41.759 Thank God. 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:52.640 Ladies and gentlemen, if God's not worth about three or four hours a week to help you, I meant indoctrinate your children in the right things of God, something's wrong. 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:53.920 Jesus. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:57.519 God help us. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:59.839 God help us. 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:04.480 Oh, and at home, it's so important how you live and teach. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.000 It's so important. 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.880 Listen to Matthew 12, 36. 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:10.720 Listen to what Jesus said. 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:11.680 Powerful. 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:16.559 Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart. 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:20.880 Some of the sternest words ever uttered by Jesus. 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:22.640 I think I have them. 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:23.759 Do I have them, Jason? 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:27.599 Matthew 23, 2, 3, and 24, are they there? 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