 Amen all right so keep your place there in first Timothy chapter 6 so we're finally back in our in our boot series we're talking about the boot is the six sins that will get you kicked out of church and we've gone through three of them already we've gone through being a drunkard we've gone through fornication we've gone through being covetous and tonight well I guess we have three left tonight we're going to talk about sin number four which is being a railer we're going to talk about being a railer what it means to be a railer and let me just say before we start the sermon that as far as I know we don't have a problem with this in this church so but what I can say is that we are probably going to have this problem at some point so we're going to talk about what it means to be a railer but I just want to come off and say that you know I'm not yelling at anybody specifically because as far as I know this is you know we're a small church and thank goodness we don't have this issue maybe we do and I just don't know but I'm pretty sure we don't but I want to talk to you about the dangers of this I want to talk to you about what it means to be this how it happens and just things really four main things that you need to guard yourself from in especially in a church and then I want to talk about just I'm going to take this opportunity tonight to talk to you about you know being a church member and how we can be better church members and and get this culture that we need to have here at Verde Baptist Church so it's a it's a good segue into a lot of good things to talk about all right so first of all you know the Bible talks about being a railer in several different verses if you look at 1st Timothy 6 4 the Bible says he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and stripes of words where have come cometh envy strife railings evil sir surmising so first of all in 1st Timothy 6 4 we learned that you know he's proud it comes from a place of pride being a railer and you see that it's it's it's lumped in with all these different things called envy and strife and evil surmising so there's a lot of bad things that are lumped around this word of railings okay first Peter 3 9 says not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing meaning if someone's railing against you you shouldn't rail back against them 2nd Peter I'll just read a few examples for you before we get into the sermon 2nd Peter chapter 2 11 says whereas angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord Jude 1 9 says yet Michael the archangel archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said the Lord rebuke you so rebuke the sorry so railing is to complain or protest strongly and persistently about something you know when you think about railing it's basically you know backbiting complaining about you know things gossip leads to railing gossip is a family member of railing it's actually a pretty big problem in churches it's like I said it's not to my knowledge a problem here but I imagine at some point it will be so we need to have sermons like this we need to know what it is how to identify it so you're in 1st Timothy chapter 6 where does willing come from and why do people do it okay this backbiting this this this constant complaining about things and look at 1st Timothy 6 4 and let's start reading in verse number 1 what as many servants is under the yoke counter own masters worthy of all honor that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed telling us how we are to you know be as servants under our masters and they that have believing masters let let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved or takers of the benefit these things teach and exhort if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strife of words where of come and be strife railings and evil surmiseings turn to Proverbs 16 so we see that railing comes from railing and all these other things by the way and be strife evil surmiseings evil surmiseings mean you know plotting against people you know and all these types of things going around behind people's backs and doing all these types of things it comes from a place of being proud so what is the exact opposite of being proud is being humble okay look at Proverbs 16 verse 18 the Bible says pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall so what pride is the source of the most dangerous sins they all are rooted they come from a place of pride and railing evil surmiseings strife is you know it's no different you know it's this attitude really when it comes down to it railings gossip evil surmiseings all these things it comes from a place of I know better I wouldn't do it that way that's where it comes from okay and it's unfortunately a pretty big problem in churches so let's talk about the railing let's talk about the railing so we can identify this person and not get you know lumped in with this person you know this is the guy who or the gal who is basically complaining about people especially leadership by the way they're complaining about how things are done constantly now personally in your life you need to be able to identify these people and stay away from these people that is just personal protection for yourself and an organization if they want to be successful whether it be a business or a church or whatever they need to learn to understand how to identify these people too and they are good at identifying these types of people let me just say that because for yourself personally these people will lump you in with them and let me just tell you that a bad attitude and being lumped in with these types of people it it's like a cancer and it spreads to different people and it can spread to you you could end up in a situation where you're upset over things you don't even know why you're upset that's how it can affect you that's how it can affect a person so let's look at some specific examples I want to give you four specific areas tonight to watch out for railing in your life turn to Ephesians chapter 6 Ephesians chapter 6 Ephesians chapter 6 the first area I want you to look out for is applies mostly to men is I want you to look out for railing in the workplace or railing at work because there let me give you just tell you right now there is always this guy there's always this guy and you're all nodding your heads he's complaining about the boss or the company or how things are run or policies or anything you will always have this guy he's going to be there so what do we do as far as Christians what do we do if we don't want to be lumped in with this type of person you know does this mean you know by the way is this mean that you have to love everything about the way your company does things or about the way you know the the boss or the manager makes decisions no absolutely not you know young people especially that I've seen that cannot hold down a job this is a big red flag for me when I see somebody who can't stay in a job for longer than you know a few months or you know they can't even make it to a year it is largely because of this they either are a railer themselves or they just automatically are drawn straight to the railer in the company and when you get a young guy who has who knows nothing because he's a young guy and he comes into a company and he just pretend you know he thinks he knows everything that's just it's not going to work out for him so you need to be able to identify the railers look down at Ephesians 6 in verse number 5 this doesn't mean you have to love every single decision in the workplace that you work at in verse number 5 the Bible says Ephesians 6 5 servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh these are the people that you work for according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of heart as unto Christ not with eye service as men pleasers don't just tell them that you're going to do a good job or you're going to do things the way they want actually do it you this is saying that it doesn't matter who you work for what I work for some dirtbags I work for some fools in my life but look you go to work and you do your job as you're doing it unto Christ that's the answer you go to work like you're working for the Lord that's the answer you don't complain you don't backbite the boss you go and you serve at work like you're serving the Lord that's what the Bible says there is no reason under the Sun that the crit that you shouldn't be able to walk into a workplace today or be a manager of a group of 20 people and say that's the Christian that's a Christian that's a Christian because they work the hardest that's the way it should be that's the it should be that easily identified they don't complain they do the job to the best of their ability they're on time they're not leaving early you should be able to pick out the Christians because they should you should be serving at work like you're serving the Lord is what the Bible says and it says it again in verse number six not as I service as men pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart and let me tell you something that will change your attitude at work because I mean that will change your it doesn't matter who the boss is if I go to work like I'm serving Christ if I go to work and I'm a lazy pile at work and I don't do anything and I'm trying to get by with as little as possible and and I'm complaining about everything it's too hard or I don't like the way they did this you know that first of all God's gonna chastise me for that but I should work as I'm serving Christ it makes it so much easier no matter who you work for it makes it so much easier because I know who Christ is and I know what he expects of me so that's what I do at work that's what we should do at work okay example number two example number two railing at church railing at church like I said this is we're small church we're just starting we're a small you know pretty tight-knit core of people here and as far as I know there isn't this issue here but as we grow this issue will come up and let me just prepare you for this fact you know you are probably not going to agree with every decision that is made here as a matter of fact let me just guarantee you're not gonna do you're not gonna agree with every decision that is made here okay there's gonna be decisions that are made at this church because this is a pastor run church they're gonna be decisions here that you're like you know what you know what self I wouldn't have done it that way you say to yourself just keep those thoughts to yourself it is the main thing it's when you start letting those things out that you're gonna find yourself in trouble look no two men are gonna do things exactly the same do you understand that do you understand that no two men out there especially you know strong you know men that like you know know how to lead are not are usually not gonna typically do things exactly the same way okay now look if you see something bring it up if you see a problem bring it up I mean there's a reason that when we have meetings at the church here with the leaders of the church with guys that are serving in certain capacities that when the meetings over I go around the room brother Matthew do you have anything brother Trevor do you have anything brother Frank do you have anything if you see something if you see a problem that needs to be fixed bring it up look leaders that never listen will soon be surrounded by people that have nothing to say I believe in that but things here you know look I've actually been accused of being too direct at times that may shock you okay and I'm trying to get better and softer with people in my old age but I can tell you right here that if there's something that comes up you know that is not gonna happen here I'm pretty much just gonna tell you that's the bright side of me I'm not gonna lie to you or tell you oh that's great when it's not great I'm gonna try to be nice but I'm just there's gonna be times when I say we just aren't gonna do that and that's that's okay that's okay all right at the end of the day folks things need to run a certain way around here and here's here's news for you too I'm not the pastor of this church so I'm accountable so things need to run a certain way and I'm accountable for the things that happen here to my pastor and I'm gonna I take that seriously so if you see something bring it up that's I don't want you to get me wrong but let me just give you a testimony on something that I've learned and I'm sure my wife would agree with this as well as I have moved from church member to you know ministry leader there are so many things that I didn't understand that I now understand there were things that I didn't understand at Verity Baptist Church where I was like I don't really understand why that policy is there I don't really understand why but see what I was doing I was like self I don't really understand why that policy is there self I don't understand why things are done that way but I just assumed see I have no experience in the ministry I'm not proud as far as the ministry I'm like I'm sure there's a reason I'm sure there's a reason I'm sure that pastor and the leaders of that church that have been doing ministry for years and years and years and years and years there's there's a reason that they do it that way so that's the end of it myself and my conversation with myself is over at that point you know but if you go about and you let it go into backbiting and complaining that is when things will go bad okay because that turns into railing look in general just in general if you're the type of person and just think about this statement for a second if you're the type of person I don't think anybody here is but there are people like this and they're like they're just destined for failure if you're the type of person that has to be in charge like you have to be in charge but you're not in charge it's always going to go bad always okay all right so turn to Romans chapter 6 Romans chapter 6 if you want to get leadership you know what if you want to be in a leadership position you need to learn to be in a servant's position that's the bottom line okay and we've talked about that extensively but here's what's going to happen well let me just go back to the to the ministry testimony I didn't really finish that thought but here's here's the the main reason that I have found that things are done certain ways where I didn't understand why they were done that way and here's the main reason because you don't know the full story because me sitting in the pew when I look up at a decision that's made in an organization I'm like yeah I don't know why that decisions like that or that why they have that policy there and the reason is and I can see it in many different areas now as I've gone into the ministry is that I don't I didn't know the full story and I don't know the full story so the bottom line is as a lay person in a church here's the thing you're not going to know the full story probably most of the time you're not going to know the full story because the leaders of the church or the pastor of the church is not going to sit down with you and just tell you all the things that are just his you know his privilege to know basically that would be a disservice to other people in the church does that make sense so there's a lot of things that people in the ministry know that so there has to be a certain level of humility taken at your level and at my level right I'm accountable to I'm just as accountable to people as you are okay all right Roman 16 verse number 17 the Bible says now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which he had learned and avoid them you will end up this is what will happen you will end up marked very quickly if you operate in this way where you have to have your way and you're not in charge but you need to be in charge both at work or at church this will affect you you will be marked very quickly there was a young kid several years ago that I really like this kid but he was just really struggling with with holding down a job he was he wasn't that young he was in his late 20s and he couldn't hold down a job he was married he had a child and I was like man you gotta I'm trying to help him and he had just started a new job and I was super excited for him and he came in to church and I was like how's your new job going how was your first day and and he said to me oh yeah well you know I found out you know that we're underpaid and management is just taking advantage of us and and he just goes off on this rant and I about picked him up and put him through the wall because I said to him he didn't even say he was talking to anybody but I told him I said look whoever you're talking to you stay away from that person you get to work and you change as many tires as you can and you do the best job that you can and whoever that person you've been talking to on that first day you stay away from him because he's probably already marked because that guy that railer he's always looking for the new guy to walk through the door so he can because most people are probably sick of his garbage so he gets the he gets the new guy and he's going to fill his ear but you've got to stay away or you're going to end up marked with these people okay young young men listen this is how to not operate at a job okay all right example number three so we see railing at work railing at church things we need to be careful with example number three railing with friends here's the thing here's probably what's going to happen here I fear it's already happening you're going to make friends in this church it's it's it's inevitable I mean thank God but there's dangers in small groups okay and we are a small group so it's you know it's not so dangerous for us but you will never have small groups encouraged here this by the way is one of the things that when I first started at Verity Baptist Church where I was like that's kind of a strange rule I wonder what that's all about it's it's what I mean by never have small groups encouraged is that we're never going to have young married groups and all these separate little Bible study groups and we're not going to encourage that type of thing here because what that does is it creates clicks because where there's small groups there's people that are excluded that's the first reason that's not really on topic of what we're talking about but what inevitably happens in small groups is you end up with small groups that end up trashing other people outside of their group it's dangerous so we're never going to have that kind of thing encouraged here and with this sermon and with this topic I'm gonna I'm gonna go on a little bit of a rabbit trail for a few minutes and I just want to talk to you and I'm glad it's just the core people here tonight I want to talk to you about a couple issues and these issues are I've talked to you a lot about culture and the culture that it is my goal to bring to this church because let me tell you and and I you may get sick of me hearing me say this let me tell you this not every church all you know churches may have the same doctrine but they certainly don't all have the same culture and it's very important to me that we have a very specific culture here so let me just take a few minutes and if the women if they could take a break from the monopoly game in the in the mother-baby room do they play monopoly in there whatever yeah if they could just take a break and listen because I need their help to I need I need I need you all to listen turn to Proverbs 18 Proverbs 18 I am this this is one of I am very serious about the two things I'm gonna bring up here Proverbs 18 look at verse number 24 are you all there I want to I want you all to look at it Proverbs 18 in verse number 24 the Bible says a man that have friends must show himself friendly you know that doesn't sound like rocket surgery right but it's true if you want to have friends you must actually be friendly and there's a friend that stick it's closer than a brother look let me let me paraphrase this a church that wants to be friendly must show itself to be friendly and this is going to take effort from all of you this is going to take actual effort okay so here's a specific detail that I want you to help me with here's the first one right here I want to have a group of men and women in this church that are constantly scanning for people sitting alone help me with this I don't ever want to see someone in this church whether it be a visitor or somebody that has been here before sitting by themselves I want to rely on the core group of people here both men and women to help me with that because that will help us be a friendly church because guess what your flesh you know what your flesh is going to want to do Garrett and Johannes are going to just if they just want to just hang out and play chess because they're they're the same age they have the most in common there may seem to get along their friends it's difficult for Garrett and Johannes to scan around and be like oh there's so-and-so sitting by themselves I'm going to get out of my comfort zone and go and be a blessing to that person sitting by theirself but that's what needs to happen folks and I'm not picking on you two guys I'm just using you as an example but this is what we need to be it takes effort it takes stepping outside that comfort zone okay look we need ambassadors of friendliness in this church look somebody help me one of the ladies helped me with this I talked to her husband one of the ladies helped me with this on Thursday night we had some visitors come in and one of my wife was busy giving the gospel with somebody will talk about that in a few minutes and one of the ladies helped me with this situation and that's appreciated that's what we need okay we need people like that that would that would just not even have to be asked that would just see it they're looking around for that type of situation because look folks here's something you may not know we are having people come in off the street here that are depressed they're thinking about suicide they're there they're in the lowest part of their life we're having those people come into this church in all the time now they're walking in off the street some of them are saved they're all saved now but they're coming in and they're there at the lowest point of their life and that's part of the first works is just showing yourself friendly you know maybe they just need somebody to sit next to them and I'll get into some more detail about what I would like you to do in these situations in a minute but they just need someone to be loving towards them that's what they need so how's that for a Bible preach in fire breathe in church we need to we need to be loving towards people you understand because I mean these people are there at the bottom of the barrel that's what that's part of the first works is discipling people so help me with that help me ladies help us be watching you can be an incredible blessing to people that's the kind of church and then when we have you know 80 percent of the ladies that are doing this people will walk out of here and they will be like that is the friendliest church I've ever been to and that's what we want to be we want to be the hardest preaching church there is we want to hold nothing back we want to preach what nobody else will preach but we want to be friendly and loving towards people so help me that's what every single person in this room can do kids you're not getting out of this we need you too there's little kids coming in here that have never seen a bounce house before and we need you to be ambassadors of friendliness because you know what you guys you kids you like hanging out with just your friends and I get but when you see other kids come in and other kids are going to come in here you need to bring them into your friends you need to go up to them and say hey let me introduce you to the other kids in this church and you know what that will just that that could be the turning point in some child's life and you kids can do it you eight-year-olds you nine-year-olds you seven-year-olds you could make that kind of difference in a kid's life okay that's what we need to be the second thing I want to talk to you about the details and I haven't I brought this up to some of the men but I was looking for a reason or a way to bring this up to the church I want to bring it up now I want to explain to you the logistics of personal workers and and how this works in this church okay now when people come into this church off the street off the sidewalk most of them will not be saved okay but the way that we're going to manage things and operate here is that what we need you to do is be friendly to them we will have very specific people that will approach them at specific times to give them the gospel okay these are what we're calling our personal workers of the church Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento has several personal workers that are men and several personal workers that are women here right now it is my wife and myself and that will change but right now it is my wife and myself so what we need you to do when people come in and they sit down or they come to a potluck we need you to be friendly with them we need you to make them feel comfortable we need you to get them whatever they need we need you to talk to them we need you to let us know that there's a visitor in the church and then at a specific time after the church service either my wife if it's a woman or myself if it's a man we'll approach them and offer to give them the gospel and as we grow the church and get more personal workers that will be your job as a personal worker should you serve in that capacity but here's what we don't want we don't just want just anybody just walking up to these people and giving them the gospel and there's several reasons for that i'm going to give you those some of those reasons the first reason is this this may be their only chance to hear the gospel this may be it for them is their one chance is what they hear here another reason is that we don't want people being bombarded by people asking them you know what you believe are you saved all this kind of stuff and they're just like whoa i mean that's happened before not here but i mean it's happened and there are also situations where people might have visitors come like a relative or an uncle or a cousin where they just don't want them approached that way those type of situations maybe maybe it's a relative of yours who you've tried to give the gospel so many times they're just they're just they're not there and you've convinced them to come to church you just want to hear them they want to hear the preaching but you're like i don't want them to be pushed away i mean that's if that's your prerogative and we don't want to bombard those people either so the only way it can be managed is through these personal workers so what we need is for i want you to always like all the adults and the children just be scanning even our own church people i have seen it recently with our own church people sitting by themselves don't let it happen go up and talk to them hey how's it going how's work come up with four questions in your mind that you just asked generically to anybody here's a good good conversational tip just ask people about themselves how are you how's work how is your family how is your children all these things get people i mean just make conversation make people feel comfortable here don't let people sit along all right and look if it's a woman sitting by herself there's nothing i can do i need help from the women in the church and i need help from the men in the church with the men okay look the church is going to grow we're going to have visitors come in here and that's the danger of a small church with a nice good core of people like we have we're really plugged in is that we just get so tight that people come in and they know right away i'm not i'm not part of that i'm not part of that group no no no we don't want that here okay and then again the personal workers just remember there's visitors just let us know and we will handle the gospel all you have to do is be friendly easy okay all right back off the rabbit trail back onto the sermon example number four this is my last example but it's my i don't want to say favorite but it's my biggest pet peeve out of all the examples and that is railing online railing online look the internet today has become a market for railing that is just accepted as okay and i disagree wholeheartedly it is still railing so here's a rule of thumb if you won't say it to someone's face you shouldn't say it online you know people get especially nasty behind an anonymous keyboard and it's almost turning into a generational problem but it should not be it should not be us and look once again i've said this before i can't follow you home but i don't want to follow you home i have no interest in that but look just remember that when you're online in all these different groups and all these different things that you know what you represent verity baptist church if people know where you go to church and you're throwing all this garbage on the internet like i said nobody here but i mean it could happen you represent this church just remember that you know it's not okay i mean look i've seen some very nasty things said online by brothers and sisters about other brothers and sisters it's it's no good we shouldn't be anywhere near it okay turn to proverbs 26 proverbs 26 here's a good way to measure i'll give you a good way to measure how you you know knowing if you should get involved in something and you know what just i would never comment online on anything ever period unless it's something positive you know don't get me wrong you know cheese sandwich hamburger or whatever that's positive i think i don't know maybe it's railing i don't know i don't know what that means proverbs 26 verse 17 the bible says he that passes passeth by and medalleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that takeeth a dog by the ears i love that if it's not your business stay out of it there's a lot of stuff that goes online even in your world that we need to stay out of we need to not have any part of here's basically two rules just ask yourself this question does it involve me and do i have any authority in the situation and if both of those answers are no which it almost always is stay out of it or you might as well be grabbing a dog by the ears just stay out of it turn to first timothy chapter five look here's another thing about online uh ramblings and all this stuff that goes online inevitably if you are someone that knows everything online anyway you will already be marked in the sense of people will look at you like what are you doing all day seriously it's going to happen to you if you're somebody that knows every single little detail about what's happening online people are going to be like man what in the world what do you do all day and that's the best case look down at first timothy chapter five and this is a problem that especially in cultures like ours where the men are working or they're supposed to be working and the women are at home this is a problem that the bible actually says that the women are going to struggle with more i can't believe you said that look at first timothy chapter five verse number 11 but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against christ they will marry having damnation because they have cast off their first faith and with all they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busy bodies speaking things which they ought not and look men and women anytime i've seen railings and gossip and all these things get totally out of hand it is always because that person has nothing to do remember a few weeks ago when we preached about unemployed i went off about unemployed men it's because when men are unemployed they cause trouble that's why it's almost a hundred percent of young unemployed perpetually unemployed men that end up causing trouble in churches hundred percent of them that's been my experience maybe there's a good one out there but the bible says they're worse than an infidel and the bible seems true from my experience at this point so look if you're and even ladies if you're spending tons of time online and you're feeding all this stuff to your husbands and your husbands are going out telling people they're just be like man uh isn't your wife raising your kids i mean what's she doing on youtube all day facebook all day look everybody knows these people get marked easily everybody knows that so-and-so's wife is the reason he believes all these dumb stupid things and that you know she's not doing anything except being on youtube and facebook all day everybody knows it they're marked so stay away from it it's a terrible testimony it's a terrible testimony so first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 11 getting thrown out of church for these six sins let me just read it for you again but now i've written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard extortioner with such a one no not to eat but to the point where railing where your railing becomes an issue it's found out about that you're railing about usually the leadership most times it it's going to get to the point where there needs to be biblical correction you know see see Matthew 18 i mean hopefully you've seen you've begun to see the damage that a railer can do to a church you know and if correction doesn't doesn't work out you know you're going to get thrown out you know seen it happen it's it's not pretty nobody wants that to happen but you know people openly question openly questioning the pastor's decisions to other people and just you know they shouldn't be done this way and it should be this way and it should be i mean you're going to get kicked out of church i mean at this point at the point where it gets to that point the person has already been talked to several times i mean most good men in a church in a situation like that are going to even step aside and try to help who is ever doing it be like hey you know you can't operate this way and if you're just going to get thrown out you know it can be done in very manipulative ways by the way so be careful for this you know it can be done by just asking innocent questions well did you know that the pastor you know forgot about this or you know just little subtle things like that or did you know that you know that that they don't do this here or they don't do it this way here where they did it they did it this way over here when i was there but you know i just just noticed very subtle little things like that those types of things look those types of things will do damage to a church i mean you can't operate that way so what do you do if somebody comes up to you in situations like that and tries to do things like that well you just have to just stop it in its tracks you just be like if somebody comes up to me and says did you know that you know brother trevor and this and that and this and that hey well let's go talk to him about it let's go talk to him you know brother trevor said this let's go ask him about it that's how you stop that and if they go with you and they thought you can get to the bottom of it but most times you can be like oh no it's not a big deal but now that they will know now they will know that they can't come and talk to you in that capacity so you can stop it and it's pretty easy i mean personally i think it's pretty easy to identify it should be easy to identify if you're a mature person and it's pretty easy to stop in its tracks as well just don't just don't talk about people behind their back first of all and if you notice that somebody's coming to you with a problem that looks a lot like a dog and they're like hey look at this dog grab his ears for me don't grab the ears of the dog if it's not your business and somebody's trying to drag you into something that's not your business don't grab the ears of that dog if you have no if it doesn't concern you and you have no authority in that situation it's a dog by the ears friends so it's it's easy to identify it's easy to stop young men especially i mean listen to me when you start work when you start work this man will be there he will be there you ask your dad this man's always there he's always there he's always disgruntled there's young men like this there's older men like this he's disgruntled he hates the company he hates the boss you stay far away from this man you say i just i'm just here to do my job to the best of my ability and i just want to learn and you just go to work like you're working for jesus christ that's what you do and you will you will go far you just operate with some integrity basically is the whole point of the sermon all right stay far away from it it's contagious you give you a bad heart towards people too you'll find yourself just having a bad heart towards people you don't even know why so railing here you go folks all right let's bow our heads and have a have a word of prayer dear heavenly father we thank you for your rules in the bible we thank you for all the wisdom that you've given us that help us just navigate this world that we live in lord that help us navigate you know this world that we have to go out and work in lord we ask that you protect this church and or give us some strong men and women that can recognize negative influences lord what i asked that you just just give us a loving heart in this church to where when people come in you know that need not only the gospel lord but they just need you know some people to just kind of love on them that you give us a heart for that here lord and just make us ambassadors of of christ lord in in all ways that we possibly can be lord we thank you for your word and everything that you've done for us in jesus name we pray amen