 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to unfiltered. Pastor, you know, yesterday at the end of Romans chapter one, we're in the end of the study. There was, we had a conversation afterwards about the sway of the world. And in your study, you mentioned how creation has an understanding. And we were chit chatting a little bit about that. But as we're walking back to your office yesterday, you were sharing a little bit more about developing the sway of the world. And one of the things that I find interesting in the name of Christianity, there has been this acceptance of tolerance within the church. And this can range from gender, transgender homosexuality, drinking, drug use. It can range a variety of different things. But a lot of times these people are saying it's in the name of love. Christ is love. And we talked a little bit about this before. Christ is love. God is love. Love is peace. Therefore, we need to be tolerant of everything and anything. And how has that crept into the church and corrupted the true love of Christ? It seems to me that this attitude of placing tolerance as the 11th commandment, if you will, is, it just lacks a biblical basis. On the one hand, the new virtue, it seems to me, that is promulgated and has been for some time, John, is this attitude or this idea that tolerance is a high moral quality and that people who really know what love is are going to tolerate people, even if these people aren't living up to the standards that perhaps that individual who's watching them has for themselves or even line up with what Scripture says concerning the world and the influence of the enemy and all of the things that pertain to to how we think and how we act. And so over the years, tolerance has become one of those words that seems to broad brush to the point where you accept everything and in doing so, you are very tolerant. When in fact, the most tolerant people on the face of the planet are actual Christians because we are people who can live in the midst of evil and not be harsh and not be judgmental. We are actually tolerating in a certain sense what is taking place without reaching out and attacking and maligning or being vicious. We have an attitude of hating the sin but loving the sinner. So of all people on the face of the earth, though that would be something contrary to what a lot of people think, John, we have a tendency of tolerating or putting up with things because we know that unless this person's heart is changed by the gospel and unless they have God's Holy Spirit empowering them, what they do is what they're going to by nature do. So when the church begins to kowtow to the modern morality and modern definition of what Christianity is, that's where we have our problems because you can love and you can care but not accept what's being done. And so of all people, we look into scripture and we see Lot and Lot's in Sodom and Gomorrah and he's not only there but he's actually risen to a certain position within the city and all and yet we're told in scripture that his righteous soul was grieved constantly by the evil that was surrounding him. So we live in a world that lies under the sway of the wicked one. We know that the enemy is the one who is energizing people to evil deeds because it is their nature and we're not there making judgments of these people. We're loving them enough to tell them the truth. And so the question has to be asked, so when did telling the truth become a hate crime? We have a group of intellectuals and philosophers who would say that you're forbidden to use certain words because it causes certain people to feel bad about themselves. It's just a slow erosion of what the society actually at one time was capable of doing which is policing itself through the use of words and expressions that were able to communicate a certain position or a feeling that you had. Now they're saying you can't even call a man a man or a woman a woman. I just was looking at some new definitions so a woman is supposed to be somebody who is an egg bearer and the man is supposed to be somebody who has the capacity of producing sperm. I mean that's how crazy our society has become. They don't even want to say man or woman. And so are we to tolerate that? Are we supposed to say okay you can have my mind, you can tell me how to think and what to say because that's appropriate therefore I tolerate that? Or are we people who say you know I'm not about to be brainwashed by your by your craziness to be honest with you and excuse me so today there's much confusion about what love is and I think part of the reason is because we have failed to actually recognize the biblical definition of love and the various aspects or words that in the New Testament at least refer to love for what it is. And so you know love speaks the truth. We are to speak the truth in love. Love God is love. Love became incarnate. Jesus Christ, God in the flesh showed us what love is. So if you want to see how love acts just look at Jesus Christ in Matthew 23 just look at the things that would cause him to be irate. Look at the things that he would say as it was pertaining to his message and the response of people to it and you'll get a more balanced view of what it means to love and what it means to tolerate. And we got just about a minute left Pastor. There's postmodern approach and love versus the biblical love of Jesus Christ. It always seems like there's this battle going on between that and you know this postmodern view is tolerant acceptable. You know you never want to ruffle the feathers but you mentioned it briefly yesterday and in terms of the Super Bowl commercial that you know it's okay for somebody to spend have a yacht of 500 million dollars but to spend an ad on Christianity. Again there's that postmodern thinking that Christians have to be weak. You have to be submissive and you cannot speak your voice. Yeah that's crazy to be honest with you. Yeah somebody has a 500 million dollar yacht and people applaud him because he's chosen to have the best of the best. But when people put on a commercial to reach the multiple millions of people to at least encourage them to investigate the claims of Christ oh yes there's this outrage oh that money could have been spent on and everybody has an idea of how Christians are supposed to spend their money because when it's all said and done the the unbeliever thinks the message of the gospel is foolishness and so what you're doing is you're spending money on something that really doesn't matter when in fact you know if a person is not influenced by commercials then you have to wonder why did they charge so much for 30 seconds right? 7 million dollars for 30 seconds if they actually believe that that really were true that that we don't influence people through commercials through visual things then why'd you spend your money on that? It just has always been wacky to me it's always been it makes absolutely no sense and so I do pray that the Lord will use even that that commercial those two commercials and I do in the Superbowl I do pray that it causes people you remember to think you remember when John 316 that fellow would be there yes yes people didn't even know what John 316 is but many started looking to see what it is you know where'd that come from oh that's in the Bible what's it say so it caused the conversation to take place it caused people to actually investigate or hear so I think something like that preferably will have an impact and so yeah I can't take my cues you we as believers from the world you know because the world would well the world crucified Christ yes they they're not interested in his message and so because it is under the the ruler of this age you know and it's the sway comes from the enemy and the flesh is attracted to those things we have to speak the truth of love. Amen well I want to invite you guys to come out this Sunday to join us for 830 and 1045 services as you're taking us through the book of Mark and it's going to be I was looking at your notes it's going to be a good study and so I want to invite you guys to come out to join us for that and then those that are going to Israel after second service we have our last meeting with Inspire Travel it's going to be in the sanctuary and then all servants all the servants that serve in our church in any capacity we have a ministry morning which is February 25th on a Saturday at 9 a.m. with Pastor David I'd love to have you guys out and join us and so thank you guys for tuning in Pastor thank you so much for spending time with us God bless you guys