 Amen. All right. Keep your place there in 1 Timothy chapter 6 and look down at verse number 3 So this is the second sermon in the hung-up series So in the first sermon we talked about we're talking about in general things that hang you up in this Christian life Things that get'll get you stuck and cause you to not be able to move forward in the Christian life And the first sermon we talked about, you know past failures You know hanging you up and stopping you from moving forward and we looked at how God wants us to put our hand to the plow and move forward, you know Forgetting about past failures learning from them, but moving forward this evening. I want to talk about look down at verse number 3 I want to talk about this evening. Let's read these two verses and I'll explain The title of this the sermon this evening the Bible says in 1 Timothy 6 3 if any man teach otherwise and can it can Sent not to the wholesome to wholesome words Even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness He is proud. So basically this is talking about somebody who who doesn't Listen to the words of Jesus Christ. I mean, what are the words of Jesus Christ? The words of Jesus Christ are the Bible to us It's the King James Bible that we have in our hands this evening. These are the words of Jesus Christ, you know Jesus is that word, you know, so it's more than just the words of Jesus Christ, you know It's the word of God who Jesus is and the Bible says that if people don't consent to you know What doctrine will all the doctrine the doctrine of the Bible as we know it that that person is proud and knowing nothing and Consent not to you know, it says knowing nothing but doubting about questions and stripes of words Whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmising so the Bible says that look if you don't accept the words of Jesus Christ, you know nothing. I Mean the Bible says so that's what I want to talk about this evening in the second part of this hung-up series is getting hung up on past beliefs Past beliefs that you may have had you may have been taught in your life, you know, so you're sitting out here this more or this Evening, I'm sorry, and you're saved. So, you know congratulations, you know, you're saved, you know, you have eternal life You know, especially Unfortunately, especially those of you may be got saved in adulthood. You've probably got a lot of things You know lingering in your mind things that you were taught earlier in your life, you know These things may contradict your Christian faith And if you're a new Christian, you're probably going to have more of those than a mature Christian But look they may contradict the Bible itself these beliefs that you had before these things that you were taught before They may contradict the words of Jesus Christ as we just read in 1st Timothy chapter 6 So look the more you learn the Bible as a saved Believer, you know, you just get saved and then you start learning what the Bible says you get in church The more you learn the Bible the more of these contradictions you're going to run into Unfortunately, so how do we move past? past beliefs is is the point of this evening sermon and look turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 The bottom line is now that you're saved you might have to take out some trash In in in your life and in your mind Unfortunately because of the world that we live in today look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 in verse number 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ look, that's you He is a new creature old things are passed away Behold all things are become new So look all things are become new if you are saved the bottom line All right, so you might have to take out some garbage in your life So, you know, that's by the way one of the reasons, you know with all things become new when you get saved You know, I've had the opportunity over the last several years to visit many different independent Baptist churches in the country Especially, you know like-minded Baptist churches in the country And it's funny because you go into these churches and if you come into these churches with your family You almost have an instant connection with a lot of these people in these churches because you know We all have kind of the same set of beliefs You know, we've all basically taken out a lot of trash In our lives and we most you know, we mostly agree on the basics of what's happening In this life because of the Bible we agree on that right? We instantly get along because of that It's a great thing But look you may still meet people and maybe you Still have some strange hang-ups from things from the past. All right, so this evening We're going to look at some of those. This is by no means a comprehensive list This list is largely Compiled from my personal experiences and the things that I've gone through maybe they're the exactly the same as yours Maybe they're not but I'm just going to give you, you know, just an idea of Methodology of identifying some certain things that you may have to just take out in your life and realize that the Bible doesn't teach That even though you were taught that. All right, the first thing is this If you've received a worldly education, you've got a lot of trash to take out A lot of trash to take out turn to 1st Timothy chapter 6. Keep your place there From the chapter that we just read 1st Timothy chapter 6 and look at verse number 20. You were just in verse number 3. Look at verse number 20 Where the bible says oh timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babblings And oppositions of science falsely so-called Which some professing have aired concerning the faith grace be with the amen look almost all subjects Of worldly education that the public school system is is teaching and pushing Have an anti-bible godless agenda to them Almost every single subject except math that I can think of has a godless worldview injected into it So the bible here in 2nd and 1st Timothy chapter 6. He's warning of oppositions of science Falsely falsely so-called he's saying look there's these people that I mean what is science think about science Science is you know researching the physical world. That's what scientists do right? I mean I am a scientist You're looking at one it either you research the physical world But look don't you think That if you're researching the physical world You're going to have better success if you understand who built the physical world That's what timothy is talking about here. He's saying hey, there's these scientists So-called You know and their teeth they've aired according to the faith like they don't even know Who created anything and they've aired it's a it's a fatal error So look even paul knew this these people just like we're dealing with today These people existed in his time these people existed in the time of paul There's so-called scientists is what he's saying so look unfortunately These are things that are very deeply rooted in some people even people that are saved I I hate to report to you even christians you say you know what things I mean look Science goes hand in hand real science goes hand in hand with the bible The physical world and the study of the physical world Goes hand in hand with exactly everything that the bible says I've not found a single contradiction Where the bible says as a matter of fact once you know more about the physical world and you know more about the bible You will find more matches As far as I mean we brought up some of those in certain sermons here, but here's a big one Here's a big one from the public school system the teaching on you know the origins of life and evolution I mean that is a huge one this idea that we all evolved from the lowest organism That you know we came our our nearest relatives our apes right And that ultimately we came from this single-celled organism and then Ultimately, you know, we're related to monkeys and deer and puppies and whatever right cats hanging in trees I mean you name it we're related to all of them Right, but you're thinking you know and then this thinking it I mean you're realizing well I've never seen anything like that in my lifetime Well, the reason is is because the earth is just really really old You can't you can't even fathom it. I mean it took like 4.6 billion years for this to happen And you're just like wow Billions of years I can't even imagine that you know it must be true Right because look, I mean that's a really long time Hey, plus or minus 50 million years by the way Okay, I mean that's a pretty good. That's a nice little margin of error I can be off by 50 million years and I'm still right, but anyway That also leads to matching theories of how the universe came into I mean look this is taught today All this and many christians still believe this stuff I'm not sure how and we'll get to that in a minute But look this leads to theories like the big bang theory because if god didn't create the universe The public school is never going to admit that the government school system is never going to teach That god created you So if god didn't create the universe this leads to theories like you know the big bang theory This idea that this massive explosion Happened and all of a sudden here we all are you know 4.6 billion years later just like that I mean look, let me read you an article from space.com The big bang theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began I Agree it is it's the leading theory out there amongst secular scientists so-called As it at its simplest it says that the universe as we know it started with a small singularity Don't forget that that's phrase then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today So you see the universe is 13.8 billion years old the earth is 4.6. So I didn't contradict there Okay, the phrase now this is still from space.com. Okay The phrase big bang theory has been popular among astrophysicists for decades But it hit mainstream in 2007 when a comedy show with the same name premiered on cbs The show follows the home and academic life of several researchers including an astrophysicist Now did you really reference a tv sitcom in your scientific explanation of the universe? You know coming into existence. I just read what they wrote In their article, but look folks. I mean, it's this idea that first of all first of all, here's the beginning of it I mean, I just love it right everything it exploded right, but everything it was a small singularity Meaning everything was compressed everything that you know in the universe was compressed into a microscopic microscopic dot Microscopic all the mass in the universe was Compressed into a microscopic dot now look science. Here's what science used to be Science used to be the study of the physical world And the study here's what the study would be you would come up with a you ever heard of a hypothesis You're like I have a theory and then here's what you do with the theory You test it you experiment with it. That's why scientists 150 years ago looked a lot like engineers today Because they actually did experiments and they tested their theories Okay, now look nobody could come up with a machine Or a process Or even a diagram that anyone would take seriously that could compress this pulpit into a microscopic dot Yet we're supposed to believe that every piece of mass in the universe was compressed magically into a microscopic dot And you're just like okay. Yeah, but you don't know anything about pressure and temperature, buddy It's like I know so much about pressure and temperature you all don't even want to know I mean I could park it here for hours and hours and hours and talk about pressure and temperature Here's the thing we'll park it just for a couple minutes. Here's the thing about pressure and temperature I used to work at a power station a power generation station is a thermal process. Okay, you make Heat you boil water you make steam and it turned a turbine that turned a generator and made electricity So here's the thing about the the machine at this power plant Now your car if you have a sports car that's really powerful has probably 300 horsepower maybe the machine at this power station Was 750,000 horsepower One of them and there was two At the power plant 750,000 horsepower the machine itself the thermal process that ran the machine was about 32 efficient You say that's bad Right, that means for one pound of fuel that we burned we only utilized 0.3 pounds of that the rest was wasted You say that's bad. Well your car is almost is also a thermal process. It's about 20 Efficient it's even worse So the only you think if I was at this power station and we burned a thousand tons of coal an hour At this power plant a thousand tons an hour A ton is 2,000 pounds We burned a thousand tons of coal an hour Don't you think that if we could have made that power plant plant more efficient, we would have done it Of course we would have we would have saved money made more product But look everyone knows how to make the plant more efficient You know how you do it with any thermal process what you do is you increase the temperature and the pressure That's what you do But here's the problem We could just keep increasing the pressure and the pressure and the pressure But the problem is you hit a wall in our universe that we live in because there's no material available in the known universe That can contain pressures above the pressures that we use today That's why there's so much study And science and engineering on alloys and different materials because look they're trying to come up with stronger steels And stronger alloys and stronger, you know nickels and things like this that can contain higher pressures Because you contain those higher pressures You can make more efficient thermal systems. So look You can't come up with a process that can that can compress things. I mean You couldn't compress the pulpit Why are we to believe That you can compress the entire universe into a microscope. It's it's stupid Stupid isn't even the right word I mean, I mean Stupid is not even the right word It's so out there. Look, I mean evolution the big bang theory They're widely accepted as fact today And and it's really it's just this idea. I mean christians today are so afraid To confront the scientific community. It's embarrassing I mean from my from my perspective and then you say, okay, you know turn to genesis chapter Okay. Well, maybe god maybe god used this is the worst thing when christians compromise, right? Maybe god used evolution to create the earth man Okay, let's look at that I'm with you. Let's study it out. It'll take about six minutes Turn to genesis chapter two I'll prove it to you straight up on its face Right here. Maybe god used evolution to create The world over 4.6 billion years to create you and you know this whole, you know, monkey's turning it Like you've seen the diagram, right? Like the monkey just starts all of a sudden. He's got a top hat on and he's going to the bank All right, genesis two. Here's the thing. That's a it's a cartoon drawing Somebody drew it Look at verse number one The bible says thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them And on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day From all his work which he had made look god created the earth and everything on it and in it In six days and he rested on the seventh. Well, what if a day is 800 million years, man? Okay, let's go with that go to genesis chapter one What if a days a billion years you ever heard this one? Here's the problem with that The bible again look at genesis chapter one in verse number five The bible says and god called the light day and the darkness he called night And the evening and the morning were the first day. So look here's the thing Here's what we've just learned that what's a day a day is an evening plus a morning Is one day? So when you have night and you have day 12 hours and 12 hours as we know it maybe it was different We're going to check that out. Okay, but if it's a night and day That cycle is one day the bible says so if a day is a billion years old Here's what i'm getting at if a day is a billion years old That means that you had a night that lasted 500 million years I mean, how how's your garden going to do? How many gardeners we have here? How's your garden going to do if you have a night that lasts for 500 million years? It's dumb It's dumb I mean, I mean never didn't everybody do this. I mean in public school I did this experiment where you took the bean plant And like one person put it out, you know in the regular thing Outside where there's night and day and one person like put it in the closet Like what did the bean plant in the closet look like it's like, you know, it's dying It's not going to make it Think how cold it would be Like in North Dakota, man, when it was night it was like 40 below zero If it would I mean, it would be that cold all the time So my point is this there's no reconciling the bible with this garbage If I mean the bible tells you how old the earth is it's like 6,000 some years It's some change That's what it is There's no it's like it's what at least be intellectually honest with yourself and say I just don't believe the bible Don't sit there and try to compromise the bible because it doesn't it doesn't match at all It's not even close. Here's another one global warming This idea that you know global warming. We're all going to die because of global warming It's taught us fact today this it's it's basically not even global warming this earth worship Turn to romans chapter one and then keep your place in romans one because we're going to park it there too This earth worship turn to romans chapter one This is just pervaded the The public education system and you're really starting to see it with the people that are coming out of this system Look at romans chapter one and verse number 22 The bible says professing themselves to be wise they became fools And changed the glory of the uncorruptible god into an image made to like corruptible man Into birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things Wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their bodies between themselves Who changed the truth of god? So this is the truth of god the words of jesus christ into a lie And then what did they do? They worshiped and served the creature more than the creator You know, I know several people who would rather see a human being die than an animal I mean, this is the type of deal this is look this is why Godless people and if you haven't recognized this trend you just need to open your eyes a little bit This is why godless people will be rabid usually be rabid environmentalists Because they worship the creature more than the creator Look folks if god, I mean look, I mean it makes sense right if god didn't do it If they don't believe god did it and they don't believe the bible You know if the bible doesn't have the answers we must find them And then they they I mean imagine somebody as first timothy chapter six says Who knows nothing? Going and looking for answers What kind of mess are they going to get themselves into? Well, look at what we're dealing with today That's what it is. I mean you have these people that are that are foolish I mean god gave them up they changed the truth of god into a lie And then they go out looking for answers and this is what you get 4.6 billion years monkeys into men, you know little tiny microscopic dot into all of us I mean it's it's dumb, you know if god isn't in control we are is the bottom line But look here's here's talk about a fatal assumption though What's a fatal assumption a fatal assumption is it is an assumption that you make That from that point forward Invalidates any other assumptions that that you come up with that's a fatal assumption in a scientific process If you're trying to figure something out, but usually fatal assumptions used to be Brought up and invalidated because your experiments wouldn't work And that's how it used to be you laugh. That's how it used to be I would have a theory I'm like hey if I put this widget here and put a magnet over here and spin this thing around or whatever I'm going to get this out of the other end and then I test it and it doesn't work and I'm like Oh I made us a fatal assumption somewhere that doesn't happen anymore You just have all these people just coming up with all these You know concoctions and cooking books on you know statistics to make it look like, you know, they're right But look, I mean the bottom line is go again to genesis 822 the bible says this Or I guess you haven't gone there yet, but go to genesis 822 Here's how I know here's why I don't lay awake at night Worrying about global warming and environmental impacts on the world Okay, because genesis 822 the bible says this it says while the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and cold and heat And summer and winter and look day and night So we know you know, you can't even say that hey, maybe maybe it wasn't that a day was You know 500 million years and a night was 500 million years. Maybe it just stayed day No, because it says that day and night that process will not cease Until god ceases it and then we just studied in matthew 24 and 25 What's going to happen? We get the sequence of events and how it's going to end and guess who's in control of the end God God is in control of the look. He's going to end this thing And not only is he going to end it. He's going to end it in a very specific way that we will recognize And nobody else will recognize Look, i'm i'm not saying we should dirty this thing up. I hate littering I mean, but that's so ironic to me I hate look this was the biggest one of the biggest pet peeves living up and growing up in the country All that you know hunting season comes along and all these people from the city come out And they throw beer cans in the ditch and they treat the countryside Like it's their own personal garbage can and then we go out and we make hay And we just wrap up all these cans and garbage in the hay bales And it's just it's they just turn the countryside into a trash can So let me ask you this. Why don't these environmentalists in california care that their state is covered in trash? I mean this state looks like a landfill You're lucky. It's not windy here. It was one windy day in sacramento. It looks like a landfill There's garbage flying everywhere. Why does no one care about that? I'm not for garbage everywhere. I'm against it Here's another one that you're going to be taught you in romans one Here's another one that you might have to take some trash out from things that you've been taught after you get saved Things that you've been taught in the past things you've been influenced by things that there's just so much propaganda out there about That just makes a person sick And look it's changed people It's changed good people That to think in ways that you know, they shouldn't be thinking turn to romans chapter one. Here's another one unnatural people And I don't even I don't even like talking about it To be honest People that get saved today are likely to be programmed already by this one I mean look there's now a hundred and five a hundred and five different orientations I mean look The bible just has two Natural and unnatural the bible just cuts right through the confusion For us and not only does it cut through the confusion for us, but look it explains how it happened It explained how I mean that was one of my biggest questions as a kid growing up in the 80s in the 90s I saw all this homosexuality being spread everywhere and all this stuff happening and being accepted over time And like my biggest thing was I was just like how's this happened? How's that happened to somebody? I mean it was it's confusing You know it's confusing, but the bible tells us look at romans one Look at verse 24 the bible tells us they turned on god He gave them up Romans 1 verse 24 Wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their bodies between themselves Who changed the truth of god into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who was blessed forever amen And don't get confused about all these different terms that you're hearing about out there I'm not even gonna I refuse to even name these terms in this church Some of these things that are coming out now because god uses two categories in romans chapter one in verse 26 For this cause gave god gave them up to vile affections for even their women to change the natural Use into that which is against nature So they went from being natural to unnatural And likewise also the men leaving the natural Use of the woman burned in their lust towards one another men with men working that which is unseemly And receiving in themselves that recompense of their error Which was me and even as they did likely not Did not like to retain god and their knowledge god gave them up over to a reprobate Mind a rejected mind to do those things which are not Convenient not convenient means not normal not natural Okay So look It's a cause and effect Here remember the cause and effect. Let's go back to third grade. It's a cause and effect. So look at verse 21 the cause You say so why I always wondered why How did it happen the cause was this because that when they knew god they glorified him not as god Neither were thankful but become vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened That's the cause and then verse 25 they changed the truth of god into a lie. Look don't change the truth of god I mean the bible talks in revelation about you know people that change the word of god. They're done Same thing here They change. I mean look it's he didn't say, you know, they just didn't care about it He didn't say that they were just you know Indifferent to it. No, they changed it into a lie I mean they changed the word of god and worshiped and served the creature more than creator who's what that's the cause They turned on god. They changed his word verse 30 says they became haters of god Now let me ask you a question does I mean because we meet unsaved people every single week Do most unsaved people hate god? No The vast majority of unsaved people do not hate god They just they're indifferent many of them. That's that's what I would say the vast majority of americans are They're just indifferent. They're just comfortable They're just comfortable in their lost state right, but look They became these people became haters of god And god gave them up for it He turned on them and you know you say well, you know god could forgive all sin. Look it's cause and effect It's not about it's not even about the sin is the effect The sin is the effect certain unnatural things only happen Once god has given you over to that rejected mind That's how it happens It's the only thing that explains what we're seeing in this world today folks. It's the only thing So look ignoring romans one and other teaching On this in the bible is a fatal assumption for a church It's a fatal assumption for a church to say oh, it's just it's just another sin to just ignore romans one It's just something else and then just oh bring it all in Because look, you know, why is it a fatal assumption? Here's why verse 31 is why Verse 31 here's the effect So we know what the cause is We caught the causes they turned on god they hated god they changed god And god gave them up the effect is this Without understanding covenant breakers. This is describing who they who they are now who they've become without understanding I mean sounds familiar right without understanding no knowledge Without understanding covenant breakers without natural affection funny how natural just keeps popping up again And again and again It doesn't matter make up 150 Make up 200 make up 300 Who cares this is still right? It still explains everything because it's natural and unnatural But here's what I the word I really want you to focus on Implacable Implacable, do you know what implacable means? Underline that in your bible because we don't hear enough about this today Implacable here's the definition of implacable Having very strong feelings of hostility or disapproval that nobody can change Implacable So they're hostile towards god. They're they're they're disapproving of the bible. They're all these other things You know haters of god Unmerciful, I mean all these horrible things that we read here and they can't be changed I mean that's that's a scary situation And that's why it's a fatal assumption for a church or for a christian in general to Not recognize this scripture to not recognize the bible's teaching here number one. It has all the answers. It explains everything They cannot be saved They cannot be changed. They're done No, look, I mean It's sad Okay, look, I'm not I'm not unmerciful. It's sad But when it's to this point it's done I mean it's sad we should reach people We should get out there and we can reach as many people before this happens But at this point they're done But I mean the box it's right there. It's not hard to understand Yeah, I mean it's not it's not fun to talk about it goes against it goes against what everybody's teaching in the world today But it's a complete and and logical explanation It's what the bible says and it should motivate us to get out there and reach people I mean we have to get to people before these people get to people Is the bottom line? It's a race I mean look you just need to accept what the bible says You know once you get saved you just need to be like, you know what? I just need to just the bible says that I believe it Here's the next thing Political opinions, let's get political tonight Democrats versus republicans If you're a democrat raise your hand. No, I'm just kidding. Don't I don't want to know Turn to second kings chapter 18 Second kings chapter 18 Now first, let me say this I'm not against voting Okay, I vote You know, I'm not against voting in local elections National whatever but here's here's what I do want to say that being said trusting on political leaders is trusting a bruised read Okay, the bible the bible we're going to read about egypt here in just one verse Okay, but the bible compares egypt egypt can be looked at as the as the world Okay, as we talk about separating from the world We could use that comparison as the bible uses that comparison and many times actually happened in stories in the bible Where people trusted on egypt where they should have been trusting on the lord So egypt can be looked at as the world spiritually look at second kings chapter 18 and verse 21 The bible says now behold thou trust us upon the staff of this bruised read Even upon egypt on which if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it So as so is pharaoh king of egypt onto all that trust on him look It was the same in jeremiah's time It was the same in jeremiah's time They trusted and they fled to egypt and god's just like you know, you're not going to escape judgment there And they got judged there. I mean egypt could not protect them from god's judgment So look this country, you know our egypt is these political leaders that we have today Is what i'm trying to get at you know trusting in you know, donald trump to save us. I mean, it's a bruised read I mean i'm trying to burst your bubble if all you do is sit around and watch fox news, but It's a bruised read. I mean this country needs just like the old testament israel. They need to trust in the lord Not in these political leaders look in the meantime, you know In the meantime being saved, you know looking at the world itself by the way your your your view of the world should change Right when once you get saved Your view of the world should change, you know you think about things like Like conflict and wars that go on in the world. I mean that should really change Once you get saved and start learning the bible because look i mean the bottom line is you should look at i mean first of all maybe maybe Not everything that our country does is right. Have you ever thought about that? It's possible Just because we are america Everything that we do is not right You know maybe our attitude and really this is the big one right here your attitude Towards the rest of the world your attitude towards the lost should change I mean it should go from you know kill them all To let's save them all I mean your heart towards people should change the heart towards the lost should change I mean look i'm all about as far as wars go. I am all about defending our country from foreign invaders Okay, I mean if like somebody invades this country i'm there. Okay, but here's the thing that's never happened as far as My lifetime Nobody's come here and invaded us in our lifetime yet. We've been in a lot of war In our lifetime So i'm not here to get political this evening, but as a christian you should now view the lost world differently Period policies our biblical worldview should change your view on policies I mean you should I mean you should it should lead us in a certain direction morally We should not support all these policies trying to force everyone to accept unnatural people We should not support these policies that support abortion obviously I do not believe you can be saved and support abortion. I mean I said it I don't know. I I can't I can't logically connect that Period I can't lie. I mean maybe you don't know maybe you're not educated about it Maybe you don't know what it is or all these different things But when someone explains it to you and you're still like, um, you know, I I don't know at that point I've got too many logical disconnects However, you know, we need to look With that all said on all these policies that we should be for, you know The evangelical vote in this country and all this stuff that we should be for and we should be against We need to recognize that our battle's a spiritual one I mean our look carrying the gospel to the lost is our grassroots movement I mean, it's that's our that's our political movement here Is being ambassadors for christ that that's our that's our fix And look it actually makes a difference You know, it's not it's not like trusting on somebody that's just a bruised read Like our political movement is the movement that will make a difference in the country I mean, I've been watching I've been watching christian conservatives my whole life trying to get roe v. Wade overturned I mean from yeah, we finally got bush in you know, oh We finally got another bush in office You know, and then oh trump's gonna save us or oh, you know the from president to president to Judge to judge to judge. It's all a bruised read You're saying why you know, it's look it's a scam It's a scam. I mean why you say why? Why isn't it working? Why isn't it working because here's why it's not working, right? Here's why it's not working Look say say you have a broken machine. I mean we have a broken machine out here I mean the first thing you do is you figure out What is broken on the machine? Right, I mean isn't that the first thing you do? Do I need a new belt? Do I need a new pulley? Do I need a new piston? What do I need? What's broken on this machine? So Then you know how once you know what's broken. You know how to take it apart and fix it Look the problem in this country is the same problem that you see when you read the The stories of the children of israel and the old testament. It is a it's not a problem with donald trump It's not a problem with george bush. It is not a problem with barack obama. It is a problem with the morality of the people That is the problem The problem in the united states the problem with america is americans That's where the problem lies That's why look That's why We can do something about it Because who are we dealing with we're dealing with the people We're showing i mean look we're showing people we're trying to show people the truth That's what this sermon is about. We're trying to show people, you know how to get to heaven But from there we're trying to teach them all the truths of the bible We're trying to hey, we're trying to wake up. We're trying to you know Somebody who's been in public school for 12, you know years or whatever. We're trying to take their conscience We get them saved and we're trying to take their conscience and like like get it moving again All right, we're trying to revive that law that god put in their heart Because if they got saved it wasn't dead It wasn't seared to death So they get saved and now we got to just we got to bring them back and guess what that will start to fix the people Because that's the problem You think we had a bunch of bible believing saved christians We'd ever end up with any of these presidents we've had in the last 50 years or 80 years. I don't know 100 years No The like the problem the problem is us The problem is is the people in the country So that's how you change it. I mean you find you find the problem and you go after that problem And that's what we're doing. That's I mean, that's why we're so focused On the people here How about this Beliefs past beliefs how about past religious Beliefs how about past religious culture that maybe you had you're saying what are you talking about turn to romans chapter 14 Turn to romans chapter 14 How about past holidays and the way that you used to go about celebrating holidays now? Look i'm not against holidays and he's it neither is the bible look at romans 14 in verse number five The bible says one man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind He that but here's the catch in verse number six He that regarded the day regard it unto the lord and he that regarded not the day to the lord He doth not regard it he that eateth eat it to the lord for he giveth god thanks And he eateth not he that eateth not to the lord. He eateth not And give it god thanks. So he's saying look there's nothing wrong with celebrating a day You know on its face. There's nothing wrong with celebrating christmas on its face But you know there is something wrong if you do it in a way that doesn't glorify god That's not regarding god There is a way you know there is a problem if you celebrate a day that's supposed to be celebrated for god But you know it blasphemes god You're saying what are you talking about i'm talking about easter bunnies and santa clauses that's what i'm talking about You're saying really are you attacking the easter bunny Look the turn to second timothy chapter one the bible has a lot to say about this too The bible has a lot to say about this look at second timothy chapter one look at verse 14 For verse number four i'm sorry i'll read for you second peter chapter one and verse 16 for we have not followed Cunningly devised fables when we may known unto you the power and coming of our lord jesus christ But we're eyewitnesses of his majesty so it says that there's these fables out there. They're cunningly devised They're smartly thought of i mean they're they're they're crafty Which means they have a purpose for something second timothy four four says and shall turn away their ears from the truth And shall be turned unto fables so look these fables They turn you from the truth the bible says i mean that sounds dangerous. How's that possible? Here's the thing i'll explain to you how it's possible I was always against these things. I was always even before i was saved I was always against santa claus easter bunny all this stuff because why in the world what i teach my kids about jesus And then make up a bunch of garbage in parallel with it Because what happens when they find out? That you know this part you made up And then i'm like oh, yeah, but i was telling you the truth about There's the line right there and that was the part That That was true and that was the part that was a lie. Look you lose credibility. It's extremely dangerous christians should have no part of it. I mean look somebody found out years ago years ago Like 15 years ago that we didn't do the santa claus thing and like they're like you're the worst parents ever They're like what's wrong with you And and i mean they're like i mean then they even pulled our child aside and said look look garratt Santa claus and jesus our friends Hey, let's blur those lines As much as we possibly can That way they have no idea what's true When they get old enough to what? Understand the gospel and actually understand the law and actually get saved Let's confuse them from an early age With a bunch of toys and fables and turn them from the truth. Look it's dangerous I mean, it's not funny. You're like easter bunny and santa claus It's not funny. It can turn people from the truth It turns people from the truth And you lose credibility as a parent So that's the real danger tooth fairies harry potter I mean that that's a little bit different than holidays But look i mean what you're doing with stuff like that is like really are you against harry potter? Look what you're doing is you're taking an Extremely wicked thing like witchcraft and you're making it not seem so sinful But the bible says i thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Look witches are to be executed Harry potter should be executed according to the bible And we're going to teach kids that it's it's a joke. It's a game Everybody in this room if you went to public school knows about kids that experimented with witchcraft Every single one of you it's common And it's common because of things like this because people make light of it But it's not funny because look the things in harry potter I mean they're playing with real things Those things really exist in this world Evil spirits demons satan all real And it's not to be made light of it's very serious So don't normalize evil No matter what you were i mean you need to you need to just do some culture cleaning If this is what you know you think is normal So look there's a lot of things i just brought up a few things we're running out of time here I just brought up a few things it was kind of a shotgun things But look you need to do a do a if you especially if you've been saved for just a few years do Do a check in your life about what things. Hey, do I have look? I never wanted to be someone who believed what I believed just because that's how I was taught from when I was a kid I mean I I was able to look at different people from around the world that I met over the last 20 years or so people from China and india and armenia and russia All over the world and I was able to clearly see the influence that the culture that they grew up in had on them And still has on them and I never wanted and I started to think what Has the culture if they grew up in a culture. I grew up in a culture What is my culture given me? That's not what the bible says What I want to know what I want to know is not how I was raised What I want to know is what's true That's why you know, you know brother montell and I joke about this all the time up in Up in sacramento like you can't find two guys that grew up different more different I mean he grew up in like the big city and you know His big, you know tough guy in the city and I grew up on the farm, you know and all this and you know I never even met a black guy until I was in college I'm serious. You know like is that that's real I never even met a black person until I went to college And here brother montell who grew up in such a different culture that I did now we've both kind of converged in the same culture It's like we're we're brothers But it's because we we both kicked off our culture And we've met and we just we've cleared out our culture And we've met with the culture of the bible So look it's not In my life, I want to know what's true and that's what you should want to know too And here's the thing we we found it It's not like we don't know where it is. We found the truth. We just have to learn it We just have to accept it We just have to I mean all the answers are here. I mean you literally have all the answers I mean don't act like that, but you have all the answers I mean That's why these people that don't believe the bible and they go out searching for all the answers That's how they end up so messed up Because they don't believe the truth and they go out looking for their own truth And the bible says they're fools and they have no knowledge and I mean They just get lost in the weeds Big time So you have the I mean you have the truth and everything folks. It's not just It's not just salvation You have the truth and everything How stupid would it be to hang yourself up on a past culture? Or a past belief I mean you have you have the truth just learn it utilize it Teach it to others. I mean there's your life right there There's your life Don't get hung up on past beliefs. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer