 Good afternoon pastor. Hey John welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor David unfiltered and Some of you might have just watched our previous one and you may notice that we're in the same setting same location It's because pastors leaving out of town tomorrow, which is Wednesday, and we're recording both. There's recordings, and I'm wearing the same Pastor today This episode and we'll I know we can be brief on this regarding cancel culture and How has cancel culture affected pastors and teaching the truth in churches today? Cancel culture. Yeah, I think that's in that is a mentality that is infected a good number of people I don't know that all people have been infected. I think that there are there are news agencies that are broadcasting that it's affected everybody and I think to some degree Cancel culture has affected a Percentage of people and they're very vocal about it and they use social media once again and a variety of other means to to to condemn people that don't agree with what they have to say and Unfortunately, there there seems to be a number of Businesses that actually think these people what they have to say matters and that to me is Is ridiculous? So when it comes into the church There are pastors who are very timid They're they for some reason are afraid to offend sensitive hearers and When they say something that may be cutting or at least Seems to be cutting to somebody with hypersensitivities They get the letters and they get the negative comments after church and in some denominations They may even be warned by their board that they're going to be fired For speaking in an unloving or an ungracious way and sometimes Sometimes the boards are made up of Carnal men who aren't even saved, you know the church did them as a business So it does affect it does affect a lot of people John Maybe maybe more than even I at this moment think so with the pastors I'll be honest with you pastors for the longest time Seem to have not all but some have given given in to just a fear of the world anyway That's not a new thing. You know, we're told by By Paul and first Timothy and throughout his writings to to Timothy that he needs to remember To stir up the gift of God, which was Which he received through the lane on on the hands of the elders and all and then he needs to remember that God hasn't given to him a Spirit of fear but a power love and a sound mind It would appear that Timothy perhaps had a bit of a timidity and he lived and he ministered in a very Hostile environment. He was pastor of Ephesus and the church in Ephesus was filled with hostility. I mean, you know That was a center of pagan worship and all and so You know, he he lived in the midst of a lot of pressure and a lot of quote-unquote cancel culture that existed there And so what do you do? Well, you have to have fear So you fear God if you're gonna fear someone fear the one Who has a power to not only Judge but to cast you into hell if you're gonna fear anybody God can take your life Jesus said and also cast you into hell. That's the one fear and so Every pastor is called to have a fear of the Lord But we're not to be afraid of telling the truth and afraid of the people in the reaction For the longest time I've been in in pastoral ministry for a long time and on Many occasions on Sundays people will cancel me and how do I know that they just get up and walk out? They just walk out, you know, they're rude and they're kind of people that don't listen They're going to argue in their heart. So they walk out and I had to get used to the reality of that So I could I could easily give in to the temptation to try and tickle ears and make friends and be popular But I don't because I have to answer to God he called the pastor to speak the truth in love And like Paul asked the Galatians have I therefore become your enemy because they tell you the truth. I Believe that that the truth should be spoken, but in a loving fashion Unfortunately for some speaking truth isn't loving and so as a result of that They they try to cancel you so what is the past pastor to do fear the Lord and be trust worthy to handle his word and To present his word as as clearly as possible And Paul made that clear when he was speaking to the Ephesian elders there in the city of my leaders He said that I haven't hesitated to to give to you the entire counsel of God And therefore he said I am no longer in any way responsible for you. You've received it now You're responsible for what you've heard and so I think that's what God has called the pastor to do is to teach the Love the people but don't avoid the hard subjects and present them as biblically as you can and Let the let the Lord sort out the sheep from the goats and then on that day You'll we will hear well done. Well, you want to hear that you want to you want to be his faithful messenger You want to love the sheep? You're not a harling. You're not there for the paycheck You're there for the eternal reward. And so if your heart is there if you fear him and love the people I Think you could have an effect. Well, thank you pastor Thank you so much for your time and addressing this and and again I want to have you join us by the time you get this message for a Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 a.m We have children's ministry invite your friends and family and we look forward to seeing you and come with us To Israel come with us to Israel. It's gonna be an exciting time. Yep. God bless you guys. Thank you pastor David