 Amen. So keep your place there in Judges chapter 21. We're going to get there in a few minutes. We're not going to be there right away, but just put a bookmark there if you would. So this evening on our anniversary weekend, my anniversary message to you tonight is kind of to try to reference Pastor Jimenez's sermon this morning. I want to try to kind of take Acts 20 verse 27 where Paul said, for I have not shunned to you to declare unto you all the counsel of God. I want to get you to just be able to appreciate coming to a church or being part of a church where the whole counsel of God or all the counsel of God as the Bible says is declared unto you as the Bible says. I've not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. I think we can take that for granted. Sometimes we sit in churches for years and good churches under good preaching for years. I think we can take that for granted. So what I want to do this evening is I want to kind of open up a can of worms, but I want to show you what we're up against out there. I want to show you what we're up against with the philosophy of the world. Our philosophy is this. Our philosophy is all the counsel of God. That's why it's a pastor's job to declare unto you every single word that the Bible says. Whether or not it's in season, out of season, as Pastor Jimenez said this morning, whether or not it's at a time when you feel like you wanted to hear that or not. It's the pastor's job. It's the man of God's job to just declare that to you no matter what. So you say, why is that important? Why is that important? Now remember just reading, this isn't the Bible, but Sun Tzu wrote a book called The Art of War. And he said in this book, a very famous quote, he said, you know, no thine enemy. He says, no thine enemy and no thyself. And in 100 battles, I'm paraphrasing, in 100 battles you won't lose any basically is what he said. But to know what we're up against is very important in our Christian lives. So that's what I want to talk about this evening. I want to talk about a competing philosophy with the Bible that we are up against today. Now this philosophy, it's a can of worms, it's a sermon series, it's a dozen sermons. But I want to just give you four or five points on what this philosophy is about. And when I'm giving you these points, I want you to think about all of the things that you experience out in the world in your job, with school, wherever you're dealing with people out in the media, whatever it is that maybe it'll help you warn you against things you're bringing into your home, you know, through screens, through media, things like this, is this competing philosophy with the Bible. What I want to talk about tonight, and I want you to realize how it's infecting everything around us. What I want to talk about tonight is this philosophy called postmodernism. Postmodernism. You say, what is that? Well, I hope at the end of the sermon tonight you have an idea of what it is. I'm going to give you some specific details and four or five points about what postmodernism is all about and, you know, things that you'll see that are affected by postmodernism. Then I'll sum it up for you and then I'll show you, like, you know, why it's just such an attack on the Bible and actually how the Bible has the answer to this philosophy as well. So keep your place in Judges Chapter 21. We're going to come back to Judges Chapter 21. You just remember the story of Judges 21. You're reading that story and you're like, that's messed up. That's a messed up story. Alright, I was actually going to preach a sermon series called messed up stories in the Bible. You know, I still may, but, you know, most of them are in the book of Judges. Alright, these messed up stories and I'll get to that, why those are in the Bible as well. So we're talking about postmodernism. Postmodernism, this philosophy has been around for several hundred years, two, three hundred years really, but it's really picked up and it's defining the culture in the United States especially over the last 50, 60, 70 years. It's defining the culture. It's defining art. It's defining books. It's defining media. It's defining movies. It's defining TVs. It's all part of this philosophy called postmodernism. Some, you know, some famous names that you may have heard of are people like Michael Foucault, Frederick Nietzsche, if you've ever heard that name, was a postmodernist that died in 1900. Karl Marx was into postmodernism. You know, so you can see kind of where this is going. Let's take a look at what this is about. Postmodernist, here's point number one. Let me just define what it is. The philosophy is for you. Postmodernist, and these definitions are not my definitions. I'm using definitions from Britannica Encyclopedia, okay, on what postmodernism is. So I'll give you five points, and then we'll just look at what the Bible has to say. Here's the first point right here on postmodernism. You say, what in the world is this about? Postmodernists dismiss the idea that there is an objective reality. That's point number one. Okay, so first of all, to understand what that means, we need to understand what the word objective versus subjective means. You probably know this, but just to clarify, basically, objective means that it's not, you know, it's not defined by someone's opinion. It's just something that's real. Like, that chair right there is an objective fact. That chair is sitting right there in front of Brother Victor. You know, subjective is like, you know, opinions. You know, like, how you may have, you may like certain foods. Like, some people might like crickets, and other people might not like crickets, right? That is a subjective opinion, right? Like, no offense. Hey, kill and eat, right? Kill and eat. But the point is, like, some people may have different opinions on restaurants. Some people may have different opinions on art. You know, some people may have different opinions on like, a Google review is an opinion, right? That's a, that's a subjective opinion. Okay, so there's objective, which is just, it's just real. It's just there, okay? Now, do you hear what I said about postmodernists? They said, there is no objective reality. You know what that means? That means, there is no reality is what they're saying. It's like, there is no real reality. What they're saying is that reality is not objective, but it's subjective. Meaning, what's real is, what's real to you may not be real to me. Meaning, is that chair really there or not? This is where stupid scientists like, you know, come up with all these multiverse theories and like, oh, there's all these different, you know, universes happening at the same time. This is, this is where it's in science too. You see what I'm saying? So it's like, what's real? I mean, what's real? What's, what's real in your universe might not be real to me. It is, reality itself is objective. Now, you've already checked out and you're like, this is dumb. I get it. But this is defining a lot of things today. How tall is a building? That's objective. I can measure that. I can put a tape measure or a laser or whatever. I can measure how tall the building is. You know, guilty or not guilty verdict by a judge. You know, that should be, if it's a good judge, it should be objective. The judge should take in data, should take in evidence and make, it doesn't matter if it's his brother-in-law. He should take in that evidence and make an objective opinion on that. It shouldn't be subjective to be like, ah, it's my brother-in-law and I, I, I, I'm mad at him today and the evidence, like, he was mean to my sister and the evidence kind of says that, like, he probably didn't do it but I'm sending him to jail because I can't stand him. He's my brother-in-law. All right? So look, objective, some things are supposed to be objective. You know, we can all have different opinions on what our favorite kind of seasoning on a hamburger is but justice itself should be, it better be objective or, you know, it's not justice. All right? Objective looks at data. It looks at actual, you know, evidence, not feelings and then it makes judgment. Okay? It makes judgment. All right? So the post-modernist denies that. He says that there is no objective reality. There is no, what's real to you might not be real to me. All right? Right there, it's, look, it's weird. All right? It's weird and like a logical person, which we'll get to that in a few minutes would reject this right away. Okay? But this is what this philosophy is all about. The post-modernist, point number two. Point number two. Turn to John chapter seven. John chapter seven. The post-modernist denies descriptive and explanatory statements of historians, of history and even scientists. Go to John chapter seven. The post-modernist says that you can never really know what happened. That you can never really truly know what happened in the past. You can never really know what history is. Are you starting to see the problem here? Especially when you look at the verse on the front of your bulletin? It says, you know, you can never really know what's true. So obviously, you could never have an objective judge if you could never really know what's true. Well, I have 18 witnesses. Doesn't matter. You can't really know what's true ever. So everything is subjective. You can never really know the truth of what happened in history is also what they deny. Turn to John chapter seven. Look at verse number 24. So you could never really be that judge that makes a judgment call. You know, you could never be, I mean, isn't that kind of what we're hearing today, by the way? Don't judge. Don't judge. Don't judge. Why don't you tell a judge not to judge? How would that work for the country? It doesn't make any sense. Look at John chapter seven in verse number 24. Jesus himself says, judge not according to the appearance. Well, look at this. Judge righteous judgment. You say, hey, you know, you gotta, you gotta, there is a judgment that's right is what the Bible is saying. So, I mean, obviously just the word judgment means discerning good from evil. That's all that word means. It means being able to tell what's bad and what's not. But if, you know, they're saying that you can never know what's good and what's bad. So you could never judge anything. Don't judge. See where this comes from? Is this in churches today? You bet it's in churches today. This is what it's all about. It's this post-modernist philosophy creeping into everything. And look, you could never even know what happened not only just five weeks ago at a crime scene or whatever, but you could never really know what happened 50 years ago in history. You ever heard of like revisionist history? I bet you if I looked at a history book of what kids are learning in school today, it would be completely different than what I learned when I was in school in 1980, whatever. Because it's changing constantly. That's why revisionist history happens. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 13. But guess what? The Bible says something different. The Bible says that you can rely on evidence. The Bible not only tells us that you can judge rights as judgment, it gives us a methodology on how to do so. It's completely opposite of this philosophy. Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 13. 2 Corinthians chapter 13. Look at just the first verse in 2 Corinthians chapter 13. Look, God tells us that you want to find out what happened. You actually, if there's an event that happened, whether it's historical or it's criminal or whatever, the Bible is telling you, you want to find out the truth. This says there is an objective truth and you want to find it out. And then he gives us a method on how to do it. 2 Corinthians chapter 13. Look at the first verse. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Here the Bible is telling you, you know, the philosophy of Deuteronomy 19 verse 15 where it's saying, hey, you want to find out what happened? You should have two or three witnesses. Is that perfect? Well, maybe not it's perfect every time, but it's a methodology to find what? The objective truth. What actually happened? The post-modernist says you could never know. You could never know what actually happened. Look, this is why churches today, I mean, what is a big part of the Bible? It's history. A big part of the Bible, one of the chapters that we just read in Judges chapter 21, which we'll talk about later, is what actually happened. Well, it's not a great thing that happened, but it's what actually happened. And there's a point that it's in the Bible, but that happened is what the Bible is saying. It says you could never know. This is why churches today, you look at churches and they don't declare all the counsel of God, they pick and choose certain things. You're not going to hear Judges chapter 21, Judges chapter 20, and Judges chapter 19 read out loud in too many churches today. I guarantee it because they don't declare all the counsel, they pick and choose. Well, how could they do that? When you have a clear verse like Acts 20 verse 27 and it says, declare unto you all the counsel of God. How could they just pick and choose? Because you know what they do? They could say you never could really know what actually happened. You could never really know because it's all subjective. You ever heard churches say, turn to, I'll give you an example, turn to 1 Timothy chapter 2. I mean, this used to blow my mind. Before I was even saved, the woman pastor would like make my head explode. I mean, it's just one example. And just because the Bible is so clear about this. Look at 1 Timothy chapter 2 and look at verse number 12. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse number 12. I mean, it's just one of those things where it's like not hard to understand what the Bible is saying. You know, it's just a role that women are not to have. And so you have a woman pastor standing up preaching politely the Bible where the Bible says this, but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to observe authority over the man, but to be in silence. Well, that would be a boring sermon. Open your Bibles and she says nothing because that's what she would have to do. So, I mean, this isn't to be down on women. This is just not a role that the Bible says that they're supposed to have. It's very simple. It's very clear. It's not complicated. So, how does a church get past that? Here's how they get past it. That was just subjective to the culture of the day. That's what they say. That that reality was just, that was just the culture of that time. I've heard this explained this way. That was just the culture of that time and our culture is different so our what? Our reality is different. But the Bible is objective. It's not subjective. The Bible is very clear. See, now you're starting to see how dangerous this is and how it creeps into everything. Even churches. You know, the Bible, that turns into, have you ever heard this out so when the Bible was written by men? And those men had a certain culture and they wrote it into the Bible. Kind of pulls the Holy Spirit out of that whole thing, too. Kind of pulls the eternal, the eternal God that we serve out of the words of the Bible. Does it not? You see the danger here? The Bible is not subjective to whatever culture you are living in. But that's what they're after. Right? Look at verse number or reason number three. Reason number three. So first of all, they don't even believe in an objective reality. Your reality can be different than my reality. They don't believe in the idea that you could even know what actually happened. They don't believe in a truth that you could know that happened in the past. So they deny much of the Bible just right there. They believe everything is subjective to the culture that you grow up in. And that leads to point number three, where post-modernist reason and logic, reason and logic themselves depend on the culture that you came from. Because of your culture, post-modernism teaches, all ideas and religions are equal. Because, you know, I had somebody tell me this in my family 20-some years ago. They said, you know, I was arguing, I was Lutheran at the time, and I was arguing Lutheranism with a Catholic relative. And the relative said to me, look, they just threw out this post-modern idea, modernism idea, where they said, you're a Lutheran because you were born and raised Lutheran. I'm Catholic because I was born and raised Catholic. That's just the way it is. That's post-modernism right there. You're saying, you are who you are because that was your culture that you were raised in. So that's your truth. I'm Catholic because, you know, they're both wrong and they're both the same, which is irony. But don't, you know, we don't have to go there. But the point is, they're saying all ideas, all cultures, and all religions are the same. They're equally valid according to the culture that the person was raised in. Is that what the Bible says? Turn of Galatians chapter one. Turn of Galatians chapter one. John 14-6, one of the most famous verses that you see, like, pasted all over telephone polls in town, you know, and all this. You know, it's one of those verses where, like, you see half the verse posted on refrigerators and bumper stickers and all this. John 14-6, you turn to Galatians one. John 14-6 is where Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And everyone just loves that part. And we're just like, well, first of all, he says, the way, the truth, and the life. He doesn't say a way, a truth, and a life. He says, the way. But then he follows up and he says, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. He's saying, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. He's like, nobody else is getting to heaven only that way. Look, that's the opposite of this. Your culture, hey, however you were raised, that's your truth, bro. That's what's being taught in post-modern philosophy. No, there's one truth. And if it's not, if you are not saved through Jesus Christ, you're on your way to hell. That's what the Bible says. It's the opposite of what this is. Turn to Galatians chapter one, verse number eight. Galatians chapter one and verse number eight. Galatians chapter one. Look at verse number eight. Let me get there myself. Galatians chapter one, verse number eight. The Bible says, but though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. He's not saying, hey, the gospel can be changed if you grew up in India. He's not saying the gospel, your gospel can have works or can have baptism added to it if you grew up, you know, in Jerusalem or wherever else. It's saying, look, it's saying, if anybody preaches anything other than what I tell you, no matter where they're from, no matter how they were raised, it's like let them be accursed. That means damned. You see how like the language that's used here, the strong language that's used against this type of thing, he says it twice, verse nine, as we said before. What do you mean, Paul? What do you mean before? It's like the verse before I'm just going to tell you again. I'm going to tell you again. He said, as we said before, so I now say again, if any man preached any other gospel unto you than you have received, let him be accursed. Let him be damned. Look, that's serious. That's as serious as it gets. Right there. It's the exact opposite of what this philosophy is teaching. You see, look, if you're a soul order, you know this isn't true. You know that, oh, you know, you only believe this gospel that you're preaching out there because, you know, you were raised Baptist, or you were raised, you know, by, you know, it's just certain cultures, their truth is different. You know that's not true. You go out and you preach the gospel. I don't care. You go preach the gospel to somebody from India, somebody from Russia, somebody from, you know, wherever, and they're just like, how many times have you heard this from people from all different cultures? They're just like, that makes so much sense. It doesn't matter what culture they're from. They could be Hispanic. They could be from the Midwest. They could be from any part of the world, from any culture, anywhere, Philippines, Asia, everywhere, and they're just like, that makes so much sense. Because that's the simplicity in Christ. And it has nothing to do with the culture that you came from. It's just the truth that matches. You know what the culture that it matches is the Romans 2.15 culture of the law God wrote in your heart. That's the culture that it matches, which, guess what? Everyone started with that. That's why it fits. Here's the fourth one. Here's the fourth one. So are you seeing the attacks on the Bible here? Are you seeing the attacks on the Bible in everything that you see out there, in everything that you see in all these churches out there? Look, I'm trying to get you to appreciate a church that declares all the counsel of God to you, because this is what we're up against today. Here's another one that they attack, language. Language itself, and you know this is true. Language itself is just changing. It's just changing. Post-modernist claim that, let me just read you this quote and then I'll explain what it says because it sounds like Jordan Peterson wrote this. Post-modernist claim that language is semantically self-contained or self-referential. The meaning of the word is not a static thing in the world, or even an idea in the mind, but rather a range of contrast and difference with the meanings of other words. Jordan Peterson had to be involved with that. What that means is that language itself is subjective. Meaning if you say a phrase, it might not mean the same thing as if I say a phrase. Look, I mean you can break this down. You can break this down into actual words. You know this is true. Like people are changing what words mean today. People are changing what words mean today. Turn to Psalm chapter 12. Turn to Psalm chapter 12. I mean you say, I don't know, is this a problem? Is this a problem? I mean I don't know. Are other Bible versions a problem? What are they doing? They're changing words. What are they doing? They're re-arranging. What are they doing? They're deleting words. They're changing the meaning of things. But what does God say? God says in Psalm 12.6.8, pure words. Look, the Bible here is saying these words don't change. It says these words don't change. They're pure. As silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times. Look at the front of your bulletin. Look at the front of your bulletin. John 17.17. Sanctify them through thy truth. Well what's true? Can we really even note? No. Thy word is truth. The Bible is truth. This idea that words mean nothing. That phrases that I would say mean nothing. This is how politicians get away with what they do. Here's the most famous one I can remember. Read my lips. You guys are all probably too young to remember this. Read my lips. No new taxes. Two years later it raises taxes. Oh you took me out of context. I didn't really, that's not what I meant. It's like no, but that's what you said. This is how politicians can just like say these things that are just, I mean they'll just fact-check them and they're like they're completely not like, like the president used to fly airplanes or whatever he said last, you know, whatever the weird thing he said lately. And it's like it's provably not true. It's like yeah just took me out of context. Because like phrases, words, they just mean nothing. They mean nothing anymore. This is, I mean it's just like us. We should have no part of this by the way. We should have no part of this. Like if I say like, you know, brother Israel I'll come help you fix your car on Saturday and then I just don't show up. And he's like, man, Pastor Jared, what's going on? Oh, I didn't, I didn't really mean that. You thought I was, yeah I was just kind of like saying like maybe I could go or you know maybe I could come. No, I said I will help you. And then I didn't go. But this is a huge problem. This is a huge problem and we should have nothing to do with that. Look, a lot of people they just say things. Turn to Matthew 5. Turn to Matthew 5. We should have no part of these type, being these type of people that just say things. You're in a group of people and you just want to say something like, hey I can help out with that or hey I'll do that or I've done that. And then it just completely not true. But I just, you know, I just said it. I didn't really mean it. Like it takes like one or two times for you to do that where people lose all trust in you. You know, a good name. A good name is what we should be after. Look at Matthew 5 and verse 37. Does Jesus say that language, that the words coming out of our mouths should be subjective? That they should just like have like weird meanings? Like the King James Bible has to be our dictionary. Because people are changing words all the time. They're changing phrases. They're saying that you don't have to say things. You know, if you say things it doesn't matter. If you promise something it doesn't matter. This is the world we live in today. I mean haven't you heard the saying like a man is as good as his word? This is why people don't accept checks anymore. I mean it used to be like you could just write a check for something and just give it to somebody that you sold, you know, something at your house to. Nobody would ever take a check anymore. Why? Because people's word isn't worth anything. Because they say things and it's just a lie. It's just not true. We should have no part of this. Look what Jesus says. He says let your communication be yay, yay, nay, nay, for what's whatsoever is more of these cometh of evil. Jesus saying say what you're going to do and do what you say. Because you don't have to be like I swear on my mother's grave or whatever. You know, just say I'll be there Saturday and then be there Saturday. Just decide as a Christian, as a Bible, the Bible is telling you that you just need to be the person that when you say it you do it. That's it. And then, look, then people, you will have that good name. You will, I mean that's what the Bible says. That's objective, my friends. That is not subjective. Look, in a nutshell, this, I gave you four points here, but in a nutshell what this postmodernism is, is relativism. It's just relativism of everything. I'll read you just a nice little snippet from the internet here, kind of that sums it up nicely. Postmodernism is a philosophy that focuses on the reality of the individual. It denies statements that claim to be true for all people and is often expressed in a pared down style in arts, literature, and culture. I'll get to that in a second. But you know what the miracle of the Bible is? The biggest miracle of the Bible. It is the only book ever written. This is how you know God wrote it. It's the only book ever written that applies to every person that has ever lived and will ever live. There's no other book you could say that about. There's no other book that will just declare all the counsel of God that will counsel everything that you need in your life. That applies not to just 2022 Americans, but people that lived from Adam to now. They just deny that. It says you can't claim truth for all people. That's exactly what the Bible does. It claims truth for all people. It says it's expressed. Now here's where you're going to see it in your life. It's expressed in arts, literature, and culture. This is where Hollywood comes in. This is where Hollywood comes in. Now look, don't go watch movies. But look, how many times can you think of movies that I saw in the 80s and the 90s especially where like this was a critically acclaimed review and you go to the movie and you come out of the movie going like what in the world? It was just like some weird like like I'm not even talking about perversion which that's part of it too. But I'm just talking about something where you're just like it's just all these ideas and you're just like what in the world I don't even under I mean how could that even make any sense? It's on purpose because what they're trying to do is throw out all this weirdness out there. Art, look at all these art you know we talked about this with Satanism a couple weeks ago. You look at all these painters. They don't paint an objective person. That's a portrait. I can do that with my phone. What they do is they paint some weird distorted weirdness. Why? Because it's all subjective. Some people may like this weirdness. Look at like the Tim Burton weirdness that happened many many years ago. All these weird distorted freakish creatures. It's trying to just throw all this weirdness at you to try to get you just to accept that there is nothing that's weird. You see? There is nothing that seems abnormal. There is no like poetry is a bad one too. The only poetry that I that I trust is Brother Stuckey's conservative Christian poetry. Poetry is a lot of poetry is twisted stuff. It's it's it's perversion and it's just it's more this just throwing weirdness out there at you because what is there? There's no anchor. There's no truth. There's nothing that's not weird. That's why you see all this weird perverted crazy stuff. Look you have to be so careful because it's just it's in everything. It's all over TV cartoons. I mean just inevitably you'll see cartoons if you're in a dentist's office or whatever. They're they're weird now. It's weird stuff. It's just weirdness everywhere. There is no right. There is no wrong. It's just this big floating point. There is no abomination. There's nothing none of that. That's why you see what you see. It's all post-modernism relativism thrown into everything. Look it's directly attacking the Bible. This idea is directly attacking the Bible because why? Because the Bible is truth. The Bible is truth. One of the you know the ironic things about you know the Bible is Pontius Pilate you know what? He was a post-modernist. You say why? What did he ask Jesus? What did he ask Jesus when Jesus was standing next to him? Jesus said you know he's like I'm paraphrasing but Jesus said basically people that are you know people that love the truth you know they will hear me basically Jesus said and Pontius Pilate said what? He said what is truth? And the total irony of that is that truth itself was standing right next to him. Thy Word is truth. Thy Word is truth. John 1 1. The Word became flesh. John 1 14. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh. The Word is truth. Thy Word is truth. Jesus is the truth. The literal truth was standing next to this post-modernist. He's like what is truth? It's right there. Jesus didn't say anything. It's beautiful. But the point is this. The Bible is truth. The Bible is history. The Bible look the Bible is data. The Bible is data that we are to use to what? To take in to judge. To be an objective judge. This is the Bible. So you say like what in the world? I mean who thinks of this stuff? Who thinks of this stuff? I mean these guys they thought of this stuff 50 years ago, 60 years ago, 70 years ago, right? Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 1. Here's the beauty of it. Let's solve it right now. Let's solve it right now. Here's the beauty of the Bible. Look we have this. We can crack the code with the Bible. And here's the advantage that we have. The advantage that we have is that the natural man received not the things of God. So all these brilliant philosophers and all these people that came up with all these twisted ideas they can't even understand what the Bible says. They're walking around with this wheel this this invention that they have that they thought up and they're like yeah look what we've got here. We invented this you know 60 years ago 150 years ago or whatever it is but look what the Bible says let's crack it right here. Ecclesiastes 1 9 says the thing that have been is that which shall be and that which is done that which shall be done and there's what? There's no new thing under the sun. See here's the problem. Here's the problem with thinking you can never know what happened in history as you will never know what did happen in history when the Bible has history for you. If you think that there is no truth you never will know the truth because the Bible is the truth. Look if you want to know history here's just a little tip for you here's that because like it's really with all these different weird sources of media now it's it's kind of hard to figure out what's actually going on in the world sometimes. The best way to know history I mean I don't care if we're talking about the foundation of the country I don't care if we're talking about the civil war I don't care if we're talking about this you know the best way to know what actually happened in those times is to read what people that lived in those times actually wrote read that read the journals read the diaries you know read the the civil war it was all confused about civil war to this day read the letters that the state sent on why they seceded from the union they told you why it's written in history why slavery that's why oh states rights no it was slavery it was the states rights to have slaves is what it was look read what people actually wrote then there's no biased there's no bias that's the quickest way to get to the truth you want to know what it was like being a settler going across the planes and trying to get to california from missouri or wherever read the diaries of the kids that were in the wagons read the diaries of their parents that's the best way to get to how that actually was just you can find out read what you know what those are it's kind of like what the bible says like two or three those are eyewitness accounts is what those are that's how you can know what actually happened you know what the bible is an eyewitness account there's a witness holy spirit we know it's true how do we know it's true because it's a miracle because because it's the only book that applies to everyone who's ever lived or ever will live it's a miracle in itself just the fact that it exists we know it's true so look these modern philosophers over the last 200 years they're walking around with this thing this postmodern philosophy and they think they got something new but the bible says there's nothing new so let's look down and now go back to judges chapter 21 judges is full of messed up stories and when you look especially when you're reading the old testament just understand that the bible is history the bible has a lot of history in it just because you're reading these messed up stories don't don't think like that's what god wanted them to do you know that's all that's you're reading judges 19 you're like man this is jacked big time what's going on here this is crazy what's going on here you just think of the stories in in in judges themselves you got a bimblek in bimblek you know son of gideon it's just like betrayal revenge lying murder more betrayal everyone dies it's like who won nobody it's like who was good who was bad nobody was good like there's situations where there's everybody's bad even today especially especially today i think a judges 11 you know it seems like a godly guy you know makes a makes a this is why jesus said just say name name don't take oaths anymore please please stop taking oaths please please please the guys like swears basically to sacrifice his own daughter to god yeah that's what god wants god's like don't murder people especially don't pass your children through the fire promises god that he's going to murder his own children or his own child and he does it that's messed up you're like what is going on here then you get to judges 19 you got this guy he comes into this town with his concubine and it's just this town's filled with sodomites and and and perverts and they try to like break down don't forget they were after the guys first and these guys in this house this one guy's got his daughters and this other guy's got his his concubine and these guys are trying to beat down the door and they're like to bring the man out because they want to like you know and and the guys are like no take take my daughter and you're like ha ha he's messed up what's going on here and then finally they throw the concubine out to save themselves it's like who's right it's like yeah these are wicked sons of belial the bible says like everybody's wrong you're like what is going on here and they killed this poor woman and then it gets even worse then they go to they go like the whole they need like cuts out of pieces and sends her out to everybody all the tribes you're like what in the world is that in the bible somewhere that you're supposed to do that and you know and then all the tribes of israel like come against benjamin and against this city and they're like send the men that did this i mean that's at least like okay send out the men and then the try the entire tribe of benjamin's like no we're gonna protect them and so they go to war they like wipe out the entire tribe of benjamin and they wipe out everybody that was protecting these wicked sons of the devil that did this all right they wipe them out and then in judges 21 that we just read they're like there's 600 of these these because they wiped out the men the women and the children of benjamin and there's 600 men hiding in a cave and now they're all upset maybe some time has gone by and they're like who are these poor benjamites gonna marry these 600 and so the first idea to come up with is like well who didn't come to war with us they're like well there's a city over there let's let's go kill everybody over there and steal all their women i mean it's like god's like men stealing against the bible death penalty so they go and they steal 400 women from this city and then they're like oh we're still 200 short so what do they do they're like oh there's this big party in this other city and all the women come out and dance just go steal 200 more it's crazy you're reading this and you're just like what in the world is going on how could this possibly be happening you're just like nobody's right they're all doing all this wicked stuff i mean how would you like to live here by the way how would you like to live there in that that situation now look at judges 21 and verse number 25 i mean they're just like you're just like you read this and you're just like what in the world i mean you're almost ready to be done with the book of judges at that point i mean you're like all right can we get out of this but look what it says in verse 25 in those days there was no king in israel okay i get that but look at the last part it said every man did that which was right in his own eyes you know what that means every man was a post-modernist every man thought truth was subjective every man thought what was right was what he thought was right i want a wife i'm gonna steal your daughter look that's that may be good for the guy that wants a wife and thinks that there's no right and no wrong but it's bad for the daughter bad for the the father bad for the family bad for everybody else but that's what this leads to that's what when there's no truth this is why this this atheist argument all these philosophers are atheists by the way and i'll show you they're much worse than that all these philosophers that's why he's this atheist idea i hope i'm i'm i'm putting to bed this atheist idea that you could have a moral society without the bible because of everything subjective you know you get you get judges 19 20 21 that's what you get why is why are those why are those crazy stories in the bible why would god put stories in the bible like that that literally no church today would read except this one why would he do that because this is exactly what we're dealing with today that's why you see why it's in the bible it's in the bible because it doesn't matter what's right in your own eyes it what matters is thy word god's word that's what matters postmodernism is i mean judges that society in judges 19 20 21 is what postmodernism produces so when hollywood celebrities get up and start telling me their opinions on stuff like that's dangerous to me that's dangerous to my family they're trying to they're trying to make a society like that is what they're doing no one would want to live there but here's my point that was 500 we cracked it with just the bible with just a few verses in the bible it's not new there's nothing new there's nothing new imagine no truth folks you don't have look you don't have to believe the bible this is coming to you're starting to see all kinds of articles about this too but you don't have to believe the bible to reject that there is no truth you don't have to you don't have to believe the bible to believe that two plus two equals five is wrong you don't have to believe the bible to to believe that you don't have to be saved to believe that you just have to have logic and reason to believe that you know they're teaching this now there's there's people pushing this like it's it's just it's traumatizing should be teaching math and just like telling them that they're wrong if they come up with the wrong answer two plus two equals five let me tell you something i mean that that's going to alienate people that's going to make people what feel bad let me tell you something folks you don't want to fly in that airplane that's built by the two plus two equals five guy i've met the two plus two equals five guy look you don't want to post modernist mechanic working on your car you know what i'm saying you take your car to the mechanic and you know he brings it out and he's not like the carburetor like bolted to the roof of the car and you're like man it doesn't run man and he's like bro look at how great that looks i just feel like it belongs there and you're like but how am i supposed to get anywhere it won't even it won't move he's like but bro you look like you're doing 100 miles an hour look at that carburetor up there it's ridiculous it's ridiculous to even think i mean you wouldn't want to drive across that bridge built by the post modernist structural engineer gravity you know why why is that because gravity is real that's why because gravity is objective physics is real economics is real thermodynamics is real heaven and hell are real this is the real problem right here it's not heaven isn't some made-up thing we go up to some guy and ask him if hey do you do you know if you're going to heaven when you die and he's just like wait it's not even real look that doesn't make it not real we know it's real whether he thinks it's real or not all these philosophers that are dead by the way and all the ones that have named are dead they all believe in heaven and hell every single one of them the minute they died and they open their eyes in hell they're like oh i get it we were wrong heaven and hell is real whether you feel it or not because it's objective reality the bible is objective objective so i i can't even imagine where there's no truth can you imagine how confused people are today when they're seeing all this art literature hollywood movies people are so confused look you know the beauty of this church and the beauty of your church when you go back to your church is you know the truth and you know why it's happening there's no confusion with you you're at peace and you know what you you take how how you see all this this subjectiveness and you just let that motivate you to be like yeah you know what we got to show other people we got to show other people that all this garbage is wrong imagine a imagine a world where words mean nothing i mean turn to james chapter three you know language is changing it's relative i i get it people are taking this philosophy the meaning of words is changing hollywood's changing the meaning of words you know what they've done they've changed the meaning of the word love into just lust that's what they've done they've taken the meaning of the word love and turned into perversion love is sacrifice love is what jesus did for us the king james bible is my dictionary it must always stay that way hate and judgment are always bad but you know what whenever somebody tells you don't judge you know hate and judgment are always bad you know that's an evil person because they don't want you what is what is the word judge mean it just means recognizing evil versus good it's an evil person that says i don't want you to recognize evil it's a wicked person churches are wicked today that are saying that don't judge anything are you kidding me the word god is not it's not a being it's an idea to many people it's a it's some kind of entity floating in the ether or just some philosophy or whatever look i was at the grocery store yesterday like words are being invented i asked the guy because i knew i was preaching this sermon there's a there's a nice guy two two clerks one was checking me out and the other was checking somebody else out and they're kind of back to back and they were talking to each other talking about football or something like that and the clerk that was checking me out he kept saying furl furl furl and i'm just like like the guy saying yeah and then the defense and this and that is furl furl and i'm just like what's he saying i asked him i was like man what are you saying like what's that word he's like for real for real for real he was like you know what he was saying and i right away i connected i was like oh he's saying amen don't start saying furl but he's basically just he's like invented like some weird conglomeration of words he's like you know the guy's like yeah the patriot's this and they can't even find tom brady and fall fall fall and i'm just like what's happening here the guy's like you're so old probably that's what he was probably thinking but look it's not just individual words it's it's the idea that we can just say anything did you turn to james chapter three remember the late 90s i'm an outdoors guy i'm an outdoorsman in the late 90s i looked up this i looked up the show it's still going 43 seasons the the show survivor started remember this show look this show has changed our culture i'm telling you you say why because i thought this was going to be like a show where like people are like camping out trying to like survive against like they're going to like put this guy on an island and let some tigers go i'm like this is worth watching but it wasn't what it was was just a bunch of pee it's just a wicked show but it's a bunch of people who just like get together and just lie about each other and they form alliances against each other you know what they do like whatever they can say that's good for them they say it wherever they can trick the other people into thinking they say it that their words don't their words don't mean anything it's just it's defined a culture of just this this lying this gossip this back biting that it's like that as long as it's good for you and your team or whatever that it's okay i mean people use that i hear that term all the time like in the workplace yeah you know inform an alliance or whatever you know it came from that show this is the power of this wicked you know philosophy and hollywood and media well we have to be so careful they're these things are not harmless they're changing they're changing people they're changing generations look at james three six what is that what does thy truth say what does the the council of god say it says the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so the tongue among our members is that defile with the whole body and set upon fire the course of nature as it is set on fire of hell that's pretty strong words you know what that means this is why the words that you can that you say to people can define what people think of you this is why the words that you say behind somebody's back can like actually do real damage to people they can do damage to ministries they can do damage to you know god's kingdom on earth i mean it's not it's not just it's not just words that mean nothing that is not what the bible says language is objective you have to say what you're going to do and do what you're going to say and it matters and look it doesn't take a man it takes a man like one time telling me something and then like he doesn't do it for me just to be like make a note just like okay that guy just says stuff that's damaging to you i mean that's damaging to you know a person's reputation it's against the bible turn to proverbs chapter 10 here's another one here's another one i mean just just this power of language think about just like language is not a just a harmless thing like the things that we say i mean there's a reason that matthew 18's in the bible where you just like man if you got a problem and you want to you know you got a problem or a conflict or something it's like you have to do it this specific way because why because you could hurt people you know and the bible is like giving you a methodology to not do that we'll get proverbs 10 18 the bible says he that height of hatred with lying lips and he that other slander is a fool so the bible here saying hiding hatred with lying lips so it's it's like you know what this is this is flattery this is like you know i i you know brother is real nice tie but i can't stand his tie no i mean seriously if if you don't mean something you shouldn't say it you shouldn't just tell people you know how great they are you just tell me the bible is just the flattery is wicked as hell you know the bible says that people that flatter you you know what they're doing they're they're hiding things from you they're they're the bible says that they're laying a snare for your feet because why because what we say matters because i mean look i mean i like your tie but that's that i just said the same thing but i mean it i think it's nice i think it's nice that you wore a suit yesterday we were out so many because that makes our church look good i mean this isn't flattery because i like i mean it you know it's if i'm just constantly just laying on all the and you know what that would hurt me because people would be like the guy's fake the guy's fake he doesn't mean anything you know people would start to suspect that person like because look the bible says that somebody that's that's hiding hatred they're they're after you they're after you and utter and slander look it's all look it's all post modernism pull out your bulletin just pull out your bulletin see how do i have one here i mean just look what the bible says in john 1717 it says sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth notice the word that it says twice in this verse this whole idea there's no truth is what i'm trying to get you to understand with this philosophy the bulletin says thy word is truth your word is truth and look a man is as good as his word and god's the best because his word is truth itself twice it says truth truth it says god's word is so true it's true it'll his word will literally sanctify you nobody can say that about their words i mean god's word will sanctify you the only way we could sanctify somebody is by using god's words you know by rebuking exhorting all these things that pastor hymen has talked about this morning i mean sanctify means like purified make holy you're like what in the world there's nothing there's no phrase i could ever make up that would make you holy i i can i can sit up here and what do i do i don't i don't make up these great ideas and all this stuff it just i just sit here and i just like read i read what god's word say and that's what sanctifies you and i expound on that and that's what sanctifies you has nothing to do with things that i make up in my head it's only reading god's word and giving it to you that's how you're sanctified that's how powerful god's word is that's how true god's word is that's how opposite of post modernism god's word is that's why satan is doing what he's always attacking god's word through false bible versions through you know all these different things that he you know half god said from the very first run in with satan trying to this is just another satanic attack on the truth of god that's all it is but it's in everything you go see some painting on the wall downtown on some building that some weird guys face like whatever it's it's it's against the bible because it's post modernism weirdism you should look at that and be like that's not what a person looks like what in the world was that guy like on drugs or something when he did that is that an accident that's what people should be saying but instead it's just like people are just embracing weirdism because it's just like there's no anchor point that's what they're trying to get you to understand with all these different things it's just just cutting away at you a piece at a time but we know but we know what it is here's another thing you know all these people these these modern philosophers like michael faucet and jock dorida these guys died one died in 1984 the other died in like 2000 2000 something early 2000s they were also they were also trying to they were lobbying to get look there's no truth remember there's no truth there's no right there's no wrong they were lobbying to reduce the age of consent for children their pedophiles does that surprise you they're reprobates does that surprise you with the things that i told you it's just like i was telling you that the person that says don't judge that's these people what's their whole life think about this for a second you must recognize these things you see you're going overboard with this no i'm not listen these people that are telling you that there is no right and there is no wrong they're the most wicked people because they're evil don't judge they're evil they don't want you to recognize the fact that they're evil i mean these look i mean you don't even have to look too far to find this about these people they're they're they're reprobates thank god we have the bible is all i can say go home and appreciate your church go home and appreciate the man of god that's standing up and they're just preaching all the council of god for you because this is crazy stuff and like i said this is a sermon series i just like just touched on it but it's in everything art literature think about all the news articles you see about parents that have been arguing the argument of parents in public school trying to get these books out of the library has been going on since i've been alive oh you can't put these these books that teach all this this weird stuff in school and that you know these good parents are trying to get this this perversion out of school it's been going on forever it's post modernism they're trying to just expose expose expose but no the bible is truth and that is our truth and and whether or not these people believe it's it's everyone's truth so it's wicked it's against the bible and we need to be aware of it watch for it watch for it and everything and everything that you see and they knew be able to protect your families from it appreciate the word of god read it learn it listen to it preach let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer