Alright, Titus chapter 2. I think
I put 1 Peter 2, but Titus chapter 2. The subject title is Peculiar
People in Perilous Times. I've been wanting to deal with
2 Timothy 3 for quite some time. It's been on my mind. And one
of the ladies said something very encouraging to me. She said,
oh, I'm looking forward to this. It's so vital, so necessary in
these times we live in. Peculiar people. This is written
six times in scriptures, four times in the Old Testament. Peculiar.
God calls His people peculiar. And twice in the New Testament.
Peculiar people. Look at Titus 2. This is one
of them. And 1 Peter 2. But Titus 2 verse
13, we're looking at verse 12. The grace of God teaches us to
deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. That we should live soberly,
righteously. and godly in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for
us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. And he says to
young Titus, These things speak and exhort rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Don't
worry about what anybody says about you. You tell them what
I have told you. Peculiar people, zealous of good
work. 1 Peter 2, for the sake of time,
I'll just quote these things to you. He said, God, you're
a royal priest to a chosen generation, a holy nation. The word holy
means for God's use. That's what holy man is. Set
apart, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated to God. The opposite
of holiness. God is worldliness. God saved
the people from the world, from giving themselves to the world,
from living for themselves. to God. That's what it's all
about. He says, a holy nation is a peculiar
people that you should show forth the praises of Him who have called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light. And on and on
it goes. Peculiar people. Peculiar people. We think of the word peculiar
as being odd. We're going to look at it, strange
people. Peter said, they think it's strange
that you don't, you're not running with them anymore, doing the
same things that you once did with them. They think something
strange has happened to you. Well, it has. And so peculiar
does mean that, but it means this. Hosea, turn to the little
book of Hosea. and mark it because we're going
to quote it in the second message as well. Hosea chapter 3. The word first means purchased. Purchased. Bought. And that's
what we just read. Christ redeemed us from all iniquity
and purified unto himself, for him, a peculiar people, a purchased
people. And this is what he did, making
them zealous of good work. Whereas they were once zealous
for nothing but sin and self, now they want to serve God. Like the second message, a willing
servant. peculiar. Hosea 3. Hosea 3. If you haven't read this book, if you haven't read it, read
it. If you haven't read it in a while, read it again. This
is one of my favorite books in all the Bible. It's the story
of redemption. A forlorn woman that Christ came
to save. And that's every one of God's
people. Why did He do it? For His glory.
Why did He do it? To save her from this world.
To save her from that life of perdition. Right? Verse 1, Then
said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman, and this is God
to Christ. Go love a woman, beloved of her
friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward
the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and all they love
is just wagons of wine and eating and drinking and sex and what
have you. They're like animals. You go
love her. You go buy her. Verse 2, I bought
her to me for 15 pieces of silver. Our Lord didn't buy us with a
corruptible thing, did He? What did He buy us with? His
own precious blood. And verse 3, He said, I said
unto her, this is it, you shall abide for me many days. Thou
shalt not play the harlot. Nope. You're no longer going
to be a harlot. You're mine. You're not for another
man. Read it. I shall not be for another
man. You're for me, and so will I
also be for thee. Married. Married. You see that? All right. So, we are bought with a price
because our Lord loved His people. Why did He do this? Because He
loved them. First loved them. And he did
it for the good pleasure of his own will. Why did he choose whom
he did? He just did. He didn't choose
him. He chose them. Because he did.
None were worth choosing. And he purchased them, not with
corruptible things, but his own blood. And he did it for his
glory. He did it for his glory. Now, him loving her is amazing. Hosea, that's who this is, this
Christ, loving Gomer, this harlot, that's amazing. She didn't ask
for him. She didn't call for him. She
didn't love him. He was taken care of the whole
time. He loved her all along while she was out there living
for everybody and herself. She didn't care about him. And
she attributed everything she had and was to somebody else
when he's the one that did it all the whole time. providing
for her, bearing with her, waiting to be gracious. God commendeth
His love for us in while we were yet sinners. That's amazing loving. Nothing
lovable about her or you or me. Nothing. And Him changing her from this
harlot who loved herself and loved this world and loved other
men and didn't love her Lord, for Him doing that, that's amazing
power. That takes amazing grace. Grace is not an offer. Grace
is not something you can sell. Grace is something God does to
you. and for you, not because of you, but because He's gracious
and loving and kind. It's amazing power, the power
of God, to take somebody who lives for themselves and lives
for this world and lives for sin and loves it all, to turn
them to hating that, to hate self. Once hated God and holiness
and loved sin, and now it's the other way around. What's it take?
With man, it's impossible. And get people to turn over a
new leaf. But you can't take the world out of their heart.
And God does. He said, I'll give them a new
heart. I was going to have you turn to Ephesians 1. The salvations
of the Lord. You know those verses. He chose
us. Ephesians 2, remember? He said you were once just like
the people of this world. Walked according to the course
the course of life, direction, the bent of your will, your mind,
your desires, children of wrath, even as others. But what do you do? Quicken, made alive out of darkness,
the darkness of ignorance, religion, superstition, the darkness of
sin. People do their evil mostly under
the cover of darkness, don't they? That's what our Lord said.
Men love darkness. That's what they do. There's
no darkness to God. He brings them out of darkness
into His marvelous way. And they become children of light.
They're no longer children of darkness, loving the darkness.
They love light. And they come to Christ. They
want their deeds They want their deeds taken away. There's darkness. They don't want darkness anymore.
They don't want to live like that anymore. Right? I know everybody in here is guilty.
Everybody in here is a sinner. We feel guilty when we hear these
things. But know ye not your own self, how the Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobate? Has not God given you a desire
to be like Jesus Christ? Has not God given you a loathing
for yourself, a hatred for yourself, a hatred for sin, a longing to
be done with this world? Either has or hasn't. It's the power of God. If that's
not there, God hasn't saved you. Good works. All the way through. All the way through. All the
way through. Good works. What are good works? I often wonder why anybody would
even ask that. Depart from evil and do good.
Isn't that what Peter said? Depart from evil. What do you
mean? You know what's evil. You know what's good. We just
saw it. What's good? What's everything
that's pure and lovely and good? What's good? Right here. Whatever's
written in this book. however Jesus Christ was. That's
good, isn't it? Man, I want to be just like Him. Good works? What are they? Good
works are whatever is done by God's people. God's people, redeemed
saints for His glory, for His honor, for His name. God's people
honor His name. They do not take His name in
vain. They don't do it. They fear His name. Right? So
either they do or they don't now. God's people, good works
are whatever is done by God's people for Christ's sake, for
His glory, for His cause, for the cause of Christ, for the
cause of the gospel, support of the gospel. Works of faith
and labors of love. Right? Good works are whatever
is done by God's people for the good of others. That's right,
in service to others. What did our Lord do? It says
He went about doing good. Isn't that what Peter said at
Pentecost? He went about doing good. All
He did was good. To who? Everybody. Everybody
went about doing good. What did He tell us to do? Same
thing. By love, serve one another. I didn't realize how much these
two messages will go together until just now. He served God's
cause, God's glory, and God's people. Isn't that what you want
to do? Sure is. Service to others. There are
no good works by unbelievers. Do you hear me? Without faith,
it's impossible to please God. You give your body to be burned,
it profits you nothing before God. If you don't love God, God's
glory, God's Son, God's salvation, it's works of iniquity. Right? Isn't that what the Lord
said in Matthew? He said, many will say of me today, we've done
many wonderful works in your name. We've cast out devils.
We've preached. We've given our lives. And he said, I never knew
you. You weren't doing this for my
glory, my honor. You're doing it for yours. You're
doing it to get a pat on the back. You're doing it so men
would acknowledge your good works. And he said, you're workers of
iniquity. That's not good works. Even though
they seem to emulate them or seem to fake them, not good works. whatsoever is not of faith is
what? Sin. Right? And our Lord one time
said, Scripture says this, even the plowing of the wicked is
evil in the sight of the Lord. What could be more honest labor
than a man out there plowing his field? If that man's not
giving God the glory for having that field, it's wicked. If he's
not giving God thanks for his plow and his ox and his field,
his house, and the very breath that he's breathing, he's wicked
to God. He'll be turned into hell. I
don't care how honest he seems to be. Not good words. It's not good words. Right? That's
what this Bible says. But on the other hand, Anything
God's people do for His cause, for His glory and the good of
His people, even a cup of cold water is a good one. Who brought this up here? John,
did you bring this to me? I need it. If you're doing what
I'm doing right now, you'd need it too. Scripture says he'll receive
a disciple's reward. for this? It's service. I need it. I need it. So, here's the thing. It's the power and the glory
of God. It's the work of the Holy Spirit. It's a denial of
the new birth and a denial of the Holy Spirit to say that God's
people aren't changed people. You know what? It's a complete denial of the
new birth and the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
leads and guides and directs God's people. They're not like
they used to be. Now, what am I going to say next? There's an old man in you. He's
still there. He's going to be there till the
day you die. He's no different. You can't change him. He's a
body of death that you carry around, and you hate the smell
of him. Who hates the smell of him? The new man. There's a new man. Paul said,
I delight in the law of God after the inward man. This new man.
Did you have anything to do with that new man? Oh, no. You're
born of God. Not of the will of the flesh,
not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, the will of man,
but born of God. He's receiving this Word right
now. The man has received Him. Who received Him? Born of God. So, that's a new man. Created
in the image of Christ. And he's going to grow. He's
not going to grow more righteous. He's not going to grow more accepted
by God. No, no. But he's going to grow in grace.
He's going to grow in love. He's going to grow more merciful.
He's going to grow more gracious. He's going to be more like Jesus
Christ every day. To measure the stature of the
fullness of faith. Like an old belief, fruit is
God's fruit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit.
You know all those love, joy, peace, gentleness, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. There's
no law against those. It's the law of grace that produces
it. Well, fruit grows. What does it grow? How does it grow? When fruit
gets older, what happens to it? It gets sweeter. It gets sweeter. Shouldn't we? Man, I think back to my preaching
and, you know, Stephen Montgomery transposed all those cassettes,
thousands of them, and I apologized to him. I said, please forgive
my hard edge and some things I said and the way I said them
and all these. And he was so kind and merciful,
he said, oh no, he said, no, no, you preach just the same
now. I know better. I know better, and I hope I preach
with more love and compassion. By the way, Richard Hodges is
in the hospital. He's had a heart attack. I hope
I have more burden for people's souls than I did then. I hope
I love people more now than I did then. Don't you? You know, we've got people in
our 80s, a bunch of them. Right there. Right there. Right
there. Right there. Right there. Don't wait. We're going to lose
them. It's just any minute now. Any minute now. Isn't it? I don't want to lose them. I miss Henry Soar. Don't you? Joe. Don't you? You grow in love. Don't you? You
grow. Yes, you do. That gives God the
glory, doesn't it? Take a sin-loving, self-serving
sinner and make him love God and holiness and hate himself.
Take an ungodly person and make them godly and worldly and make
them hate the world and love another world and look for another
world. That's a power of God. That gives glory to God. Peculiar. Peter said this. Look at 1 Peter 4. 1 Peter 4, look at this. It says
in verse 2, you know, Christ has suffered. We're going to
suffer also. Persecution, affliction. The
whole book of 1 Peter is about that. Suffering for well-doing,
suffering for righteousness sake. That is the cause of Christ,
the gospel, and it also means actual What you do in this ungodly,
unrighteous world. Yes, it does. If you do well,
he said, and suffer for it. Verse 2 said that we should no
longer live the rest of our time in the flesh to the lust of men,
but to the will of God. What's the will of God? Your
sanctification. Paul one time said, I will your
whole body, mind, soul, body, mind, spirit, all of you can
be wholly sanctified, the whole man. Every part of it. Verse 3, the time past of our
lives sufficed us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when
we walked in lasciviousness, lust, excess of wine, reveling,
banqueting, abominable idolatry. Now some in here lived a low,
low gutter. They were in the gutter when
the Lord found them, right? Don't raise your hand because
it's a shame You don't want to brag on our sinful path. And
then there were some in the pew who were self-righteous. That's
just as bad. Sin is sin. For some reason we
think, well, it's worse to be self-righteous. Sin will damn you. All sin. Don't be deceived. He said, because
of these things, sake, the wrath of God comes on the children
of disobedient men. fornication and adultery and
covetousness. That's what this book said, because
of these things. Let no man use vain words to
fool you, to get you not believing that God doesn't send people
to hell for living like that. He said you once did, but not
anymore. Didn't you? Such were some of
you. Were. You're washed. Who did it? He did it. How'd
he do it? The blood of Christ and the washing
of water. Right here. This is just Barbara
Ross. Boy, don't you miss Barbara.
I do. Charles, we're talking about
peculiar people. I had to bring them up. You talk
about peculiar people, strange people. I wish some of these
new people had met them. Barbara was zealous for the truth,
wasn't she? Oh, she'd be sitting in a restaurant,
somebody behind her talking after service at Sunday, talking about
their religion. He'd turn around and say, that
ain't true. Virgin, that ain't the gospel.
Boy, I love that, don't you? But Barbara, well, she was an
encouragement to me. Why did I bring her up? I don't
know. Because I love her. I miss her. I miss her. Some of you are going to be gone
real soon. Well, all right. Let's look at
Titus chapter 2. One more verse here. Then we'll
go to 2 Timothy 3. Titus chapter 2. I just listened to a message
by my pastor on this, and in fact, I loved it so much that
I paid, we paid, to have it transcribed in PDF form. Because I want to
use it, this, I want to read to you, I'm going to put it in
the next week's bulletin. But you need, everybody needs to
listen to that message. At the mouth of two or three
witnesses, the thing is done. It's on the grace of God and
good works, in Titus 2, and I'll give you that. But I've got it
right here, some of it, and I want to read it to you. In Titus chapter 1, it says,
Some profess to know God, but in works
they deny him. And he brought this out. He said
some religion, they profess to know God, yet by their works,
all they say about God, you know, God loves everybody and Christ
died for everybody, and all they do to build big buildings and
do it for money and all that, they're denying Him. Their works
deny Him. Their methods deny the grace
of God. They don't believe the gospel is the power of God. They
believe you put money under the pew to get people to come. You
have dinners and do this and that and the other to get people
to come. They don't believe in the power of God. The Word of
God is His power. You don't have to do any of that.
Just preach the Word, Timothy. Titus, preach the Word. I'll
bring them. You don't have to beg and plead and promise them. Just declare the Word. You stand
back and watch me work. That's the power of God. He said,
in works they deny Him. I didn't mean to preach on this. He said, others profess to know
Him and by their works deny Him. They profess to know God. He
said, sovereign gracers. He said, by their works they
deny Him. They're not supporting the gospel
ministry. People all over this country claim to believe God's
grace, and they claim to believe in the sovereignty of God, and
they claim to believe in the covenant mercy of Jesus Christ,
but they don't support the gospel. They're not members of a local
church. And anything they make, any money they make, goes for
themselves and their comforts and their luxury. They don't
support the gospel. They're not faithful in worshiping God. They're
not identified with a church anywhere. They don't sit under
a faithful pastor. They turn up at Bible conferences.
As far as promoting and supporting and being identified with the
ministry and the gospel and witness in a definite place with a burden
for the gospel for that people, they profess to know God, but
they're denying Him. And they're living their lives,
the world is their life, their jobs, their families, they don't
want to give it up. Their entertainment, vacations,
their wardrobes, their houses, their lands, their vacations,
that's their life. And their works deny that they
know God. It's sad, isn't it? It's sad.
But he said this, you speak to things, and this whole book of
Titus talks about the truth which is after what? Godliness. To turn a worldling to a God
believer and a God follower. That's what this whole book is
written about. Titus. And he said, this is sound
doctrine. Sound doctrine. For the grace
of God, and we read it, that brings salvation, teaches us
to deny ungodliness, worldly love, to live soberly and righteously,
because He's redeemed us a people zealous of good works unto Himself.
Now listen. Listen carefully. He said some
folks get the idea you can't preach works if you preach grace. If you preach the true grace
of God, you must preach works. If you preach the true grace
of God, you have to preach work, not as the cause of His grace,
but the result of it. And you know Ephesians 2, 8 through
10, don't you? When we first learned the Gospel,
Ephesians 2, 8. Yes! Yes! 2, 8. Yes! Well, keep reading. Right? I remember being so zealous for
the Gospel of God's grace that I didn't even want to hear the
word works. And if anybody ever brought it up, Ephraim works. It says it's unto good work. You know the Scripture. You know these Scriptures. We've
gone through verse by verse by verse. I'm not telling you what
God's Word doesn't say. I want to be faithful. Any man
that stands in this pulpit, I want you to say exactly what God's
Word says. Or else I don't want you standing
in this pulpit. But he didn't mean that. Isn't that what Satan said to
Eve, how he deceived Eve in the garden? Isn't that how it all
started? I know he said that, but that's not what he meant. You leave the explaining to God.
Right? You declare what He says. Preach
the Word to Him. He said some people get the idea
you can't preach works. James said if there's no works,
there's no grace. The whole book. I know men that
explain that way. The book of James. Martin Luther
didn't want the book of James in the Bible. Early on. I know later in his
life he thought, I was a beast. What's wrong with me? But he
came out of Roman Catholicism where everybody was saved by
works, by their own vain conversation. He came out of that. And he didn't
ever want to hear the word works. And so consequently, he didn't
want the book of James in the Bible. He grew to want it there. Guarantee that. Listen. If there's no works, there's
no obedience, no godliness, there's no grace. If God has not changed
my attitude, my walk, my talk, my spirit, I am not an object
of his grace. He gave himself that we might
believe, and to redeem us from iniquity, not leave us in it,
but drive us from it, save us from the sin. Not only the penalty
of sin, but the power of it. Didn't he say, and I love this
verse, and you see, I want help with the corruption within me,
don't you? I want help. I need help. And I believe you do too. I'm
trying to give you some help. Where's our help? Right here. He says he purified himself of
strange people and unusual people, separated people, people who
are zealous of good work. They're not running from good
work. They're not afraid of them. They're zealous of them. And
then he goes on to mention the church of which he was a pastor,
which I wholeheartedly agree with. And he was younger than
me. That message, he was younger
than me when he preached it. He said, right here in this church
and right here in front of me are godly people, generous people,
gracious people, kind people, loving people. The lovingest,
he said, forgiveness people I know. Isn't it so? It just is so. Who did this? It gives God the
glory. Every one of you is hanging your
head about yourself, but can't you say that about your brother?
Can't you? You don't say that about yourself,
but you say it about them. Look what God's done to this
person. I've seen change right before my eyes. Who did it? God
gets the glory. He went on to say, they're merciful,
they're kind, they're generous, they're gracious, they're forgiving. I've never asked you for money,
per se. Why? I love God and love the
gospel. And he told young Titus, he said
this, he said, these things speak, whatever they are, these things,
speak them and let no man despise you. And he quoted Spurgeon. Spurgeon said, I don't mind being
called an Arminian. I don't want to be one. He said, I don't mind being called
an antinomian, but I don't want to be one. And those of you who
know what that means, know what that means. And Spurgeon said, if you preach
God's word clearly enough, somebody's going to accuse you of being
an antinomian. If you preach what I'm preaching
this morning, somebody's going to accuse me of being preaching
works. Should we obey God or man? Okay. All right, now 2 Timothy 3, and
I'm not going to run out of time, but I'm going to take, both classes
are up here, and I'm going to take all the time I want. But 2 Timothy 3, you men that stand up here, you
need to read 1 and 2 Timothy all the time. Titus. Verse one, this know also, Timothy,
that in the last days perilous times shall come. And the things
he mentions from here on are not wars and calamities and disasters
and dangers to the flesh, but a general attitude of just unyieldingness. That's what it's all about. Men shall be lovers of their
own selves. There's never been a generation
that this fit more clearly than now. I said one time, what's
the most popular picture people take? Selfie. Now, brothers and sisters, we're supposed to hate ourselves
on Facebook. What does the Scripture say about
our faces? See, we needn't be ashamed of our faces. Don't you
see that? And I see pictures of believers on Facebook. I see them. They've got 10 or
15 or 20 pictures of themselves. I don't understand that. I don't
understand that. Do you hate yourself? Do you? Do you really? If any man come
after me, Christ said, let him deny We're not out here to promote
ourselves. That's the world. Look at me. Look at mine. Look what I've
done. Look what I have. Oh, it's by the grace of God.
We're here to promote God's grace. Hide your face. Promote His grace. You want men to see His face,
don't you? Come on now. Come out from among
them. Be separate. Peculiar people. Peculiar people. Lovers of self. Covetousness is idolatry. Out for the world. Money and
houses and love. We all have it. We're all rich
and increased with good. But here's what he told Timothy,
he said, charge them that are rich in this world that they
be zealous for good works, that they be not high-minded, that
if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. God gives us
all things richly to enjoy, but what for? Ourselves? No. Support the Gospel. Why does
God have His people earn so much money? And we do, to support
the Gospel. He knows we're not going to give
to where it hurts us, we're going to give the exam. He knows that.
But that's not why we have these things, is it? It's not. That's the world. That's the
world. Boasters, verse 2. Boasters. Oh my. Have you ever heard of a boastful
generation in your life? Everybody's bragging and boasting.
People, young people bragging and boasting. Old people bragging
and boasting about what? What is anybody doing? What is
anybody doing to boast of? For that matter, there's no room
for boasting at all. Because what do we have we have
not received? If we're going to do any boasting,
Paul said, Let us boast in glory and the cross of Christ, what
He did. Oh, He went about doing it. Let us boast in Him. Let us tell men, look what I
have. Look what He gave me. Isn't God gracious? Isn't God
good? I don't deserve any of this.
I earned this. Look what I've done. No, no.
I didn't earn any of this. He gave it to me. That's peculiar
people in this day and age. Romans 1, read it. When's the
last time you read that? Talks about people who are not
thankful, don't give God the glory, so he gave them over to
reprobate minds to become things like homosexuals and transgender
people. That's what happened. When the
pulpit doesn't preach what I'm preaching, this is what happens
to society. Romans 1, read it for yourself.
Verse 2, proud? Oh, my. Blasphemers? Oh, my. Young people, do not
ever take God's name. Don't say, Oh, my God. Don't
do it. God will not hold you guilty. It's forgivable, but don't do
it. You know better. Don't do it. Don't get used to
it. When the Lord first started dealing with me, I told you this.
I'll tell you again. The Lord first started dealing
with me. I had my cronies, my friends, ran to the same excessive
riot with them. And one of those was staying
with me in a little cabin I had in the woods. And he started
taking God's name in vain. And the Lord was dealing with
me. I said, please don't do that. That offends me. Don't take God's
name in vain. And he did it like five times
in my face. I said, I want you to leave. And I never had dealings with
him again. Never again. You don't have to
put up with that. Especially in your own house.
A man came to my house one time. A rich man came to my house one
time. And he started talking about my Lord. Blaspheming my
Lord. I said, you're not going to talk
about my Lord in my house like that. And he got offended, and I said,
well, you can just go home. Those that love God love His
glory. You know the same thing, well,
I've got to get one. Disobedient to parents. We've never lived in a generation
where Young people are so rebellious against authority that it's even
condoned that you have an attitude. Attitude means pride. You question authority. Disobedient to parents. Disrespect
for elders. Disrespect for adults. There's
never been a generation worse than this generation. Scriptures teaches respect for
authority. Scriptures teaches respect for
elders. Scriptures teaches us to say,
yes sir, yes ma'am, thank you, please, and so on and so forth. Children are so used to getting
their way, and people just lavish them with goods. Parents just,
you know, to keep them from pitching a fit, they just give them everything
and just buy their happiness. And they've turned into aliens. God's Word teaches us to rise
up before the elder. That's what it says. The hoary
head, the gray-headed person. Stand up in respect. Courteous. The Scripture talks about being
pitiful. Be courteous. Honor preferring one another.
After you, kids, run ahead. Young people won't speak to you.
I'm the pastor of this church. Young people won't speak to me. It didn't used to be that way. My daughter, when she was young,
real young, I'm talking four or five years old, he was like
every other child. And we'd go and people would
come in the church and she wouldn't speak to them. She's too busy,
you know. We compelled her. You know her now? Does she speak
to you? Is she going to wait on you to
speak to her? Uh-uh. We trained her up in the way
she should go. And she hadn't departed from it. She's outgoing,
loves people. Not talking about salvation,
it's talking about teaching them what they ought to do. Respect
for elders. Courteous, courteous. But she wouldn't speak. And Mindy
at one time said, if you do not speak, the next person that walks
in, if you do not speak to them, you're going to get it hard.
Well, she did. I mean, Mindy wore out. Yes, spanked her. That's what this book teaches
us. How's it turning out for you if you don't do what God
says? How's it turning out? And it's my generation started
this, isn't it? The baby boomers, the protesters,
that's my generation. Oh no, we're not going to stand
for authority. We're going to question it all. How'd that turn
out? Huh? This is what this book do. Well, Mindy wore her out, and
buddy, the next time she said, how you doing? How you doing?
Oh, did I miss anybody? Shouldn't she? Shouldn't we?
Isn't it love of self, waiting on somebody to speak to you? Isn't it? There's adults in here
that won't speak to me unless I go up and speak to them. Can
you believe that? I'm the pastor of the church.
Don't I deserve more respect for that? Don't these elders,
those people that have been around so long, don't they deserve respect
like that? Yes, this is what God's Word
teaches. And while I'm on the subject,
adults, these devices are a scourge to
our society. It's too easy. It's too quick.
It's too flippant. It shows no respect. Texting. I send out verses of Scripture.
I look them up. I take a long time to look them
up. I want just the right thing to help you. Some people will
never answer me. And I'm the pastor of the church.
No response. I send out what I'm going to
preach from. No response. Except from eight or ten of the
same people. The same people. That's respect. That's love. That's appreciation. It's just being common courtesy.
Where's common courtesy? Brother Stephen, there used to
be common courtesy, didn't there? I took a woman's coat off this
morning and hung it up for her. Ain't nobody does that anymore,
is there? A woman. I told her. A man one time opened
the door for a woman and she was a feminist. She said, oh,
don't do that for me. Don't you dare do that for me
because I'm a lady. He said, I didn't. I did it because
I'm a gentleman. This is what this book teaches
us. Respect. Respect. Parents teach your kids
that. Adults, I started to say, don't
abbreviate thank you. What's wrong with us? We used
to write letters. Again, the pastor of the church
or whoever it is, to show respect, don't say T.Y. Say thank you,
brother. Thank you so much for thinking
of me and contacting me. The only thing it's good for
is right now the Gospel's going out over this. It is. We've lived 6,000 years without
this stuff. And it's just ruined us. It's
ruined our society. Don't be that way, okay? A little
bursting heart. We're adults. We're believers.
Say, Brother, thank you. You've blessed my heart. Boy,
wouldn't that mean more? It sure is easy to punch a little
button and show a little emoji. An emoji doesn't show any emotion. Words do. Brother, sister, I
was thinking about you the other day and I want you to know that
my heart's going out to you and I'm praying for you. May the
Lord bless you this day. People used to write that down
and you'd get it in the mail and it meant something to you
and you kept them. Not now. Not now. Quick and easy. I'm
too busy. I'm too busy. I've got too much
to do. Disrespect. Isn't it? Do you agree with me? You're not agreeing with me.
You're agreeing with God. Fierce, read on. False accusers. You watch what you say about
anybody because somebody is going to believe it. And in this day,
there's never been more false accusers than now. People say
anything they want to say about anybody, and everybody believes
it. The slightest innuendo of evil
or wrongdoing about somebody, and somebody's going to believe
it. That's bearing false witness. God hates it. He hates it. Unthankful, unholy, unthankful. Give thanks to God
and thank one another for the least time. Thank you. Without
natural affection. Young people, homosexuality is
not normal. It's evil. It's perverted. Transgender. God's going to wipe this place
out. It's filthy, it's vile. They've even taken the gender
out of the Scripture. Do you know that? They've taken
the gender out to where they're not calling God Father and they're
not calling Christ the Son. They've taken it out. Do you
know that? That's modern perversion of Scripture. Did you know that?
Read it for yourself. I have. Why? Because God is our
mother, whoever she is. Have you heard them say that?
It's gone to pot. By the way, pot. It's drunkenness. It defiles
you. It makes you in a state where
you lose your mind. It's not normal. It's not good.
It's not right. It's wrong. Covering your body
with tattoos. That's desecrating your body.
Don't do it. That's another way you flaunt the flesh. Look at
my flesh. We need to cover our flesh. Fierce. Boy, you disagree with
somebody. Fierce. Despisers of those that
are good. Verse 3. Despisers of those that
are good. Brothers and sisters and young
people, this may be the norm of today, but God calls it evil. Wretched. Filthy. God look down
and see if there are any that understand. Do you understand?
Why do you understand? Because He's come and He's given
us an understanding. To purify people. To save them
from this world. He's taken us out of this world. And He's taken the world out
of us. And if He doesn't, He hasn't
saved you. He hasn't saved you. Young Timothy
and Titus and young Paul, you preach these things. Let no man
despise you. Warn them for me. If you fail
to warn them, he said, their blood's on your hands. But if
you warn them, and they turn from you, good. Yeah. All right.