Be Rigorous and Remember

Alright we are back to second Timothy actually was August of last year when we broke office. You know, I took along part of my 40th anniversary leave that you so graciously gave me last fall and I went deer hunting a lot in did some studying and we just now getting back to second Timothy were calling it beautify the bride because Paul is writing at this point. Definitely from prison. He's in his last days and he's actually in one since pastoring the church at Ephesus through Timothy so is writing this letter to get things in order in the local church in Ephesus do this with the million fix this with the ladies elder should be this way teach young men to do this just just to get everything in order and why, because the church the local church is the centerpiece of God's purposes and God's glory for both time and eternity. It's important what the church believes. Obviously, and it's very important how the church is structured and very important how the church function because this this beautification that happens when were pleasing to God is our reflection to the world of who our God is the God who is worthy of all honor and dignity and praise some distal church you can think that way.

This can't be just all that's preacher taught no misses us tall. We as a body of Christ. The way we love each other, minister together hold to the doctrines of the faith function the way were called to function biblically then we show forth the great wisdom, beauty and glory of our God it just a powerful thing so so Paul is helping Timothy to beautify the local church, the bride of Christ, both as to her fashion and her function that we come to second Timothy chapter 2 and will be reading verses 14 through 18th ministry.

One quick thing to the body of Christ, we gotta good crowd here today. I'm looking up in the balcony and I'm thinking I'll never get you out of there again. It's just it's just out of those were some cocaine get about this like I can come back down the but it does spread folks out and you know we were in a pandemic, and understand all of that but I don't think met fact I know there's just a few people that need this in my heart goes out to some of them because I know there's genuine concern and genuine fear and and that's is not something we want to be my glide of but the pardon took Ms. church is over the pardon to miss God's church is over after 40 years of preaching the word of God about the local church.

If I have to explain to you why at least showing up is essential. Explain to someone that being faithful to the assembly of God's churches to be without discussion then then somebody spell brightly me about teaching are you and your listening or understanding. And if you have a genuine issue of Outlook where with you hundred and 10% can't come.

We understand that you and your doctor when you decide. But if you're in fear.

It's time to rebuke that figure and get back to God's house is time to get back to her now again, actually our attendance been strong overall and I'm very grateful for your hearts and your conviction, but as your pastor I love you and in that love, own, exhort some. Let's get back to church that will keep the side areas for both those who are more vulnerable.

I think that's a wise thing will continue doing that, but Tom, the pandemic pardon is over now. We don't judge you. You go on vacation gift to me as I get that this just staying out of this point, we need to move on past that, except for those few that have really legitimate reason. And of course we love you and we support you if that's the case. Alright, now that out of the way second Timothy two verse 14.

Remind them of these things and solemnly charge them in the presence of God, not to wrangle about words which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers, stopping for a moment in the dancing apologists gets real practical and down to where the rubber meets the road about church issues here. Verse 15 now talking to Timothy the pastor here. Specifically, the apostle writes you'd be diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. You come to gets back to what's going on the nonsensical problems in the church for 16 but avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and fully to this mandate gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has Artie taken place and they upset the faith of some. Verse 19.

What a powerful verse. Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God staying, having this seal, the Lord knows those that are his and everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness this real quickly. He uses that phrase, however, nevertheless the foundation of God stands, that's referring to God's church got local church Timothy no matter what's going on the matter what's happening.

The habanera sinfully just crowds, split the church and a lot of people probably left Timothy's discouraged basis. Timothy, the foundation of God stands, I'm going to impact that in few moments, Melissa. It matters where you stand. It matters where your state now as we conclude will look at these two things quite thoroughly as as a true child of God you individually in your church must stand on the essential foundational doctrines of the faith not to be told with not to be adjusted not to be massaged, so the culture like us better. We must stand on the faith once for all delivered to the saints are also where to stand against the world and for God when it comes to morality and uprightness. We don't stand with the world. We stand for God so we send over your own sound doctrine and sound of moral conduct, all based on Scripture what Satan wants the church to do is to get over here and get kinda waffle Lyons doctrine, loose own doctrine and get loose and watchfully if not an out and out embracing of the and moralities. The world is presently standing in so God says don't stand over here with the world either on changing your doctrine defeated and better.

That's what they tell us you be more effective if you leave these doctrines off, etc. don't know that you stand on sound doctrine and stand on biblical morality don't stand with that crap stand over here true doctrine, true biblical morality will get to that in a moment. Now I've simply entitled this be rigorous and remember he's telling Timothy the sign that things Timothy don't you be rigorous about and some things I want you to remember. Now this is to pastor young pastor, but the truth is parallel for all of us. So you listen with attentiveness and discipline as we unpack this together.

First of all, Roman one Timothy be rigorous in preaching the central doctrines of the faith we been talking about that that's what he means in verse 14 with the two simple words remind them Timothy.

Remind them that means, go back and keep bringing up again, keep teaching and preaching again the foundations of the faith we see that really clear in verses 11 through 13.

The preceding content. It's a present, active, imperative, which means I'm commanding you, Timothy, and I'm commanding you to do this continually, it should be a cyclical part of your preaching and teaching the keep bringing up the foundational doctrines of the Christian faith you say faithfully preaching the word means we are constantly reminding the flock of things they already know that's important. And as we look here at this very point and we go further in a moment to look the fact of the don't tough don't allow these word regulars.

The spotting of the words and not essential physical things don't bullet the church we divide above the sink. He's already making those things a time to already in this letter.

So Paul himself is doing this cyclical reminder you sent him to keep reminding them the repetition of basic foundational truths routes throughout Scripture is no accident, now practically, for all of us was pull something out of this wise that true, why do you need to be reminded of French and in a continual way because you leak you get you get out of whack out in the world and not the least of which I get so weary to trust me. I get weary of what I meant to tell you and that is purchase unceasing wave after wave after wave of false doctrine that comes against God's church is the preaching past Bob to stand up afresh again and again and again and not that wave off of his local charter so it's just it just has to be done over and over.

I mean there's slippage in all of us. There's leakage in all of us when it comes to things that matter.

This be humble about it just admitted a man I mean were supposed to be brand-new with mostly brand-new and Christ were supposed to leak back down to look like the world were to be the new man in Christ. The Bible says were given a new covenant. The Bible says we have a new standing. The Bible says were new creation.

The Bible says we were saved were given new life.

The Bible says were of a new look lump of dough the bouncers. We have a new profit. We have a new priest. We have a new king. The Bible says word. We follow new teaching. We follow the new commandment were of the new wine of Christ and his truth. We have a new song in our hearts we function according to a new love, the agape love was placed in there by the spirit we now have a new family.

Our local church. We have a new hope. We have a new Jerusalem. We have a new future, the future heaven and earth. No wonder Jesus said in Revelation 21 five behold on making all things new. It's all new. Are you walking well in the newness of who you now truly are when problem is you got a good dose of getting filled up and walking afresh in Christ. If you are the true church conference. What about Tuesday you started leaking again and welding in Ephesians 424. The apostle uses another metaphor of this new man. This new life would live out in that metaphor uses.

He uses a garment of clothes when he says put on the new self, which is in the likeness of God been created in righteousness and holiness of truth put on the new setup that new creation. Your new creation put it off and is like putting on a garment putting on a garment is an heiress tense verb here, which means you put it on you. Keep it all and it's a full wardrobe before you walk in the totality of the new man you been given new spiritual undergarments.

New spiritual shirts and pants, new spiritual socks and shoes new spiritual Avastin jackets and overcoats new spiritual scarves and hats always made know you got a complete new metaphorically speaking, wardrobe, new spiritual man that you walk in. Now some of you come in different here here to church on Sunday and your no clothing is is is about all you hats often spiritual overcoats going one spiritual shoes often. Some of you come in on Sunday morning with a little more than your spiritual underwear own, spiritually naked, could you leak out during the week there was seepage mines not on the things of God, like it was early in the week, maybe on Sunday your heart's not in tune with Christ like it was maybe on Sunday and you got in the world to much coming here on Sunday morning looking like you been in a tussle and you have it's tough out there.

It's tough out there.

That's what we need to get together and get with one another again.

Will you come to the right place is I'm going to do for you what Paul committed Timothy to do for the church at Ephesus.

I'm going go back to the old book, and remind you afresh of the old truths and you go to get spiritually redressed that I'm not going give you some new fancy garment Lord knows we don't need the garments of Madison add Avenue rodeo Drive we need the old garments of the old truth once for all settled get ourselves back in line with that afresh. I'm going to see to it that if you lost some your spiritual clothing this last week that we get it back all but you spiritual socks back on and put your spiritual shoes back on, put your spiritual trousers back on in your spiritual shirt in your spiritual jacket back on and he spiritual overcoat and hat and scarf conflict cloud backup.

It filled up close back up with the nearness of Christ in your devotion to him led me to a fault. He must study and what's even more grievous to me today is the physical address of some even many pastors and pulpits. When a family that went up to Nashville for a couple years he was finishing up some schooling surpassed will be back I gotta go for get this to great. I'll be back to continue my job. I said all right, I'll pray if you find a church to find a good one now they came back, to you, knowing that been there for year year and 1/2 and we talk they were visiting church here and also how do you know what you find a good church up there. We were kind of teasing about you find anybody want a coat and tie anymore. The Pope and that this is what he said pastor no effect in the summer, but this fund is hard to find the pulpit where the past is not wearing short pants and sandals and a non-tub shirt now. I pray that if I'm going one day and a man comes up to this pulpit. He's got cut off blue Jean sandals then took shirt, the godly man will go up payment put their hand on his shoulder and say Sir, you can't preach your dress like that is beneath the dignity of our Lord that we serve. Now listen to this big outer appearance is not everything a man, but it is something it does make a statement I don't think that the man of God to come to the pulpit of God dress like he just left the chicken thought from the woods in Franklin County, they should look like some it's not everything I'm well aware you could be dressed in elaborate beautiful robes and clothing in your heart be far from God and that's wickedness. There is a sense of dignity in our outer drifts will look, I digress. That's not the point of the text but I just thought I'd throw that in this morning.

Pulses Timothy remind them. Remind them they may blow some of their spiritual clothing during the week and I need to get filled backup and get the spiritual garment back on and walk in the new man in Christ Jesus. Soaps will Timothy be a rigorous and a continuation I a repetition of preaching this sound essential doctrines of the faith Roman to Timothy also want you to be rigorous in rejecting the crafty dividers in rejecting the crafty dividers look in verse 14 we have budget conjunction. There bond of these things often charge them the presence of God, not to wrangle about words after the conjunction is not there. That's another burst me what point is not to wrangle about words which is useless and leads to the ruin of hearers so first he said that Timothy make sure when you're trying to go back to the old truths look back. But now, so not looking forward. There's some issues in the church there and you will have to deal with these issues he he says they like to wrangle about words. In other words, is a war of words.

These are those that would rise up in the church and start taking and they would start disputes and divisions over things that really don't matter trifling things is really the point is not there point.

The point is that they won't power and control the porters they want to follow so they'll start some will trifling well you know if you view the bird this way and really the subjective means this and really the pastors missing ball.

This little trivial, nonsensical, even silly nonsense to cause divisions and disputes in the church, things that don't matter now. Sometimes things really do matter. Matter fact included in the. The balance of the context here.

There was false teaching and it really was serious about false teaching be stopped to be correct. Within this whole matter of making big deals out of nonbiblical's are scriptural nonessentials. I think is the main thing with they were doing.

They were wrangling about words referring to the same folks he's Artie told Timothy in first Timothy 64 when guys do this kind of stuff. He says they're conceited and they understand nothing has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words which arise in the strife abusive language and evil suspicions. Now we know that some the oratory and the rhetoric of the ancient Corinthian culture was a big deal there.

The philosophers were were school dance and powerful aura.

Terry, their oratorical skills if you will were just had to be up here and people were drawn in by that kind of word salads if you will and capacity to do communicated Paul would say himself that he wasn't that good of a communicator, but he did tell them the truth. I don't think somebody special in order to be heard and followed just because they have eloquent speech, enticing delivery of their message but had very strong phrase here in verse 14.

Look at it solemnly charge them in the presence of God, and I think one of the reason Paul uses this powerful law can be command solemnly charge you is because Timothy's young pastor and beyond that, he's just naturally timid. He's just naturally insecure and pulsing Timothy. There's times when you're going to have to get tough. As a pastor times you have to deal with some of the stuff because they going to run the church will be wolves in the flock, and that's what pulpit Neil Paul met with this church just before he went into prison, and he preached there for a good while and he told about how he preach the whole counsel of God, to them and he said this record. Next 2030. He said to the elders of Ephesus from among your salesman will arise, speaking there's that word again words, speaking perverse things to do, what to draw away the disciples after them is what they want. They don't want you to get to God. They want to come to the they're just using the cloak of religion and the cloak of spiritual elitism to try to win you to their faction. These are crafty dividers, they are crafty Timothy watch him. Verse 14 he continues until all this stuff is useless. These distributors are, but self exalting troublemakers.

They have no real profit to the church and I can't help anyone. But in fact he says in verse 14 it if you let them go alone. Timothy it leads to the ruin of the hearers bill ruin people's faith, else will pull them down and that's the very thought here they're bringing people down spiritually. When I climbed there building them up, and Timothy you to write the opposite. You build people up and that's what we get to in III the third thing he says to be rigorous about. First of all that preaching the old truths over and over. Be rigorous in denying these crafty dividers any foothold in the church. Thirdly, Timothy.

Not not not know what Linda Pope Paul, just a moment you select that stuff. Preacher Domino yes but you got to stand with the preacher when he has to deal with these things so you need to understand these things to a man and again I was deeply touched even even my study this morning I get up early on Sunday mornings and I thought afresh about the number of our church plants in our church partners who are right now going through these very divisions in their church.

Paul talks about and there are pastors who didn't get to come to church like you that's generally maturing above this junk and I look at it. People that are against them and tried to divide the church and trying to pull the sheep a way to follow them that's painful and difficult, so those pastors need some people in their churches that will stand with them because they understand this is going on.

They see they know what it is. Well, thirdly, instead of wrangling with words. Timothy underestimate that stuff you verse 15. Be diligent to present yourself approved of God.

That's be rigorous in study and preaching.

So instead of trying to be a word Wrangler just preach the word study while and get ready to preach you see one of the key ploys of the enemy of God's church is to keep the pastor stressed out with troublemakers. Those who go to seat all non-issues. If you will, are nonessential issues are even those who wouldn't very outwardly try to attack the sound doctrine of the church. Or maybe they're jumping on secondary issues that don't deserve much of a hearing our attention and they keep the pastor so drained. He's unable to be gentle, diligent, like Paul said in studying and preaching.

It was a real battle for me in the early years of my pastor here. Maybe some well-meaning people any but a lot a lot a lot of people were critical about everything I did. I know I'm not lockable but nevertheless it just he would drain you. You try to talk to them. You try to be humble and listen and by the way, I did need to grow and mature.

I wouldn't embezzling money or teaching false doctrine but but I'm still growing as a Christian, so it help me grow yes but eat the ink that we so draining. There were so many years I came to the pulpit, with just enough energy to get that message. Satan loves that. That's why churches and pastors. And that's why so clear to Timothy, poor your energy here and don't let that other crap, get your energy continues in him. Verse 15 present yourself approved of God.

The idea present, there is. Give yourself over to this, and don't be distracted by other things approved of God means tested by trial, it means you're shown to be approved by burning your energy out in the study and in preaching of the word of God, you show you your one whose approved of God. It it it shows to the Crusades and the true sheep who sought your own and who you represent that he says so that you're not ashamed. I think one of the points Paul is making here and flow. The context is if you spend your time wrestling in wrangling with these people are just trying to cause trouble and you don't have time to study and preach. You won't be ashamed.

Timothy so they brought the office not saying Timothy at doing this but just think keep on pouring your primary energies into studying and preaching the word. Verse 15 continues accurately handling are rightly dividing the word of truth. Again, in contrast to the troublemakers who misuse the word of God, who twist and put a spin on the word of God to teach false doctrines to draw all men away after them. Timothy your Roth the opposite you rightly divide the word of truth. I think that means you interpret the text in its grammatical, contextual, historical, cultural, and overall systematic context. Give the people what the board is actually say just what I'm striving to do here cut it straight. He says that's what accurately handling means cutting straight Timothy the word cutting straight.

One scholar said is like a stonemason he is to cut those stones straighten square of the house will be off is like an engineer who builds roadies get out the slopes and the angles in the crown. I think I'll be right on that road is gotta be done is going to cut straight now.

I actually jumped over verse 16 through 1816 through 18 is an amplification of what he was dealing with when he told him to reject those crafty dividers which is rated even though it's going back to point.

He says again but avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it would lead to further ungodliness, with that's what is already said in verse 14 we should don't wrangle about words and delete to the root of the here.

I'm not saying there's nothing additional here, but I'm saying is the same vein of thinking.

Then he says what they'll do. Verse 17 to show you the depth of their evil and that the problem their talk will spread like gangrene that it's the idea of unknowing solar should be unknowing sore on the local church, Timothy P let these crafty dividers you have that old. He said Timothy new member Hymenaeus and fallacious in the 17 verse 18. They went astray from the tracing the resurrection are taken place they upset the faith of some. They were trying to form a new group follow us fully to sin, which is nine Amadeus would say finalize. We got a new understanding of thing is you sent to me this is already happened in so by the course with rigorously repeating the sound doctrines of faith stay the course with rigorously denying these crafty dividers and stay the course with pouring your primary energies in studying and preaching. None of the four that also Timothy B. Remembering the seal of assured success. This was a point of encouragement, Paul is saying here Timothy God's church cannot fail here so I says now. Again, it's likely, niacin folly to us had split the church we see that in verse 17 and 18 and I had other issues to initial Timothy's probably very discouraged Timothy thinking like I thought many times he hung up after this in working this things going down.

It's not going to work. I'm discouraged.

I'm depressed that probably were Timothy is the Paul rubbed him.

Nevertheless, verse 19 firm foundation of God stand Timothy no matter what they do no matter what they say, no matter how many people follow them no matter how deep your discourage you understand something. The chart is God's mark, thank God, not fatal, the firm foundation of God's life that you see God's true local church will stand. It is the end of all that has worn out many a skeptic and malicious attackers, hammers just pound on it pound on it and pound on it, but the church still stands.

First Timothy 315. Remember back in that book. He said the church is the teller and the support of the truth the church. The church is God's human agency to be the teller this for the truth, not any other ministries out there. Those are good, but not the church.

To me that's what you're about. We encourage that uses this word seal. Let's unpack this seal look in verse 19.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, the Lord knows those who are he is now there are two parts to this seal and the first part is Timothy the salmon authentication. By the way that the seal typically reflected on the King put in his signet ring in the wax droplet on papyri are parchment sheet and a Harold would go through the cities of the Kings country and he would show them the seal with the signet ring and pressed on it and I literally know everybody know that Harold has the authentic message from the king. We demonstrate not and watch the subspace have all come to stick so here's what pulsing Timothy God's building his true church through you, no matter what's going on and how much your discourage and how much the Hymenaeus and fallacious dividers may have gained a foothold. God's going to be his church because it has God's seal of authenticity on it that the sales got two parts. Part one of the seal is are you ready sovereign election sovereign election is what remains in verse 19 the Lord knows those who are.

Here's now from a human perspective of we are writing. This would say because those who believed our here's that's true that's not what he says he want you to see it from God's sovereign perspective. God knows those who are. Here's newborn is those who are God's cannot perish. Those who are God cannot fail.

Those who are God's will, not long. Follow the dividers because God saved them, and God keeps them in its divine sovereignty that you rest in. Here are some verses that had that same type of phraseology in them that I think are powerful amplifying cross-references.

John 1014 Jesus said I'm the good Shepherd and I know my own and moaned nobody first Corinthians 83 but if anyone loves God, he is known by him. Yes, we love them. But that's only because we were first known by him. Let me jump down to number 16, five. This is probably the most direct parallel to this passage here, and he spoke to call. Remember, color of the Bible says was a man of renown and he decided that he would overthrow Moses.

Carl according about the way, being a man of amount renown meeting.

He found that great leadership skills great organizational skills, great communication skills, great personality and charisma coming from the human perspective, you Sikora and Sykora will be leaving us Moses can't even speak well member the call rose up, and he spoke to Cornell disc of the same tomorrow morning the Lord will show who he is. He Lord knows who that here's the point. God has his elect remnant in the earth, and he will preserve is the truth.

The sovereign election and that's the seal part of the seal of authentication that were really God for really of any him and he will really keep us and this is a sale if you will, that is within each of us will pastor, how was it revealed to us that we have the seal of sovereign election well were taught of the Spirit who dwells in us that we only love him because he first loved us first John 419 there said thing and you then ask as your pastor, as Paul told the Ephesian elders right before he left them.

I declare to you the whole counsel of God I didn't leave off some of the doctrines that men don't like so much. I gave it all to and that includes the doctrine of sovereign election and something happens in your heart when your God. When you hear that truth you glory and it you don't understand it but you begin to grasp it and you think all my goodness. If he chose made to keep me so he might glorify himself to saving me.

This is going to stand because I didn't start it.did I do get it accomplished. God did the truth of sovereign election is the seal of authentication so it's going to stand.

He's taught us from the word and by the spirit that our assurance and our confidence is that we are he is Bockius sovereign election and we joyously and gladly are his captives. He came and took to Capt. for his own, not as a slave, but you he came and got me and he's enslave me to himself and he will keep me as his own. We neither started this journey, nor can finish it. He started it, and he will finish it. So Timothy, if the church blows up the so-called church leads the congregation. It blows up in disputes and divisions. The people will stay with you there faithful pastor Shepherd because you feed them the words of life and that she found the sheep.

They will be led away by the dividers. The be led to the man to get them truth. We cannot follow emotions and run away with the dividers God shows us and he placed us, our mother placed in us a deep desire for an a connection to the truth and we stay with the truth and with the truth preaching pastor Paul told Timothy. Thus, by this, the firm foundation will stand Timothy got started.

Now I get down to remnant this Turkestan not going away, not going to dissolve knuckle despite now that's the one part of the seal of authentication. Here's the other part of the seal of authentication. The last part of verse 19. And there's my conjunction is looking for while the goats and the rumors and notes not as perfect word of God and their time of said everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness, interest, I'll call that sanctified living the first part of the sale of authentication is sovereign election. The second part of the seal of authentication is sanctified living the Saints of God just do not live lot worldly's and that's the seal the third the authentic time for the real thing.

Now notice it is this not interesting to you that he puts on a parallel course sound doctrine and truth, i.e. sovereign election and parallel to that moral sanctified living, you say false teaching or unsound teaching is the corruption of sound doctrine and the end and corrupt doctrine is almost always accompanied by the corruption of morals did you hear that, don't wonder why the Methodist Church the Anglican church Episcopalian church, the liberal Presbyterian denominations and now Southern Baptist got weekend lie on Bible doctrine and they're starting to talk about will gay marriage. You know well the homosexual as a priest might be okay. It's okay sound doctrine and corrupt morals always flow together that's what he says he sound foundation that you stand on, including sovereign election and abstaining from wickedness are the seals of authentication real quick. Jude 1325 and in Jude 13 he talks about how were to earnestly contend for the faith that sound doctrine.

That's the body of doctrine once for all handed down to the Saints. He said, because verse for certain persons have crept in unnoticed. Those who were low before marked out for this combination of godly persons who toil with doctrine. This is what he says to turn the grace. The doctrine of grace into licentiousness. They take the glorious doctrines of grace I could preach over hundred years never dissolved and they put a spin on it so that they say grace means you have a license to sin. Sound doctrine and corrupt morals always go together. That's what he said little. We don't have time to first Johnson's exact same thing again in verse John 518 through 20. If you want to jot it down so note the parallels.

These two cars always run beside each other. Unsound doctrine and unsound morals. These are the kind you said that they're not for the doctrine once rocketed to the Saints. They will take the doctors twist them so they can justify indulgence in wickedness that when an individual or church begins to descend in wickedness. Here's the dissent in the wickedness of this mitten go on. First, there is toleration, they begin just well we know we know these guys are living openly in this one immoralities but you know we just we want to, then there's Association well but now he's a really big giver so you know we just these in open Sandoval to not talk about a brother who struggling with the sea and he's broken about it.

He's repentant you want to do better. That's everything we put our arms and those brothers and sisters and help my man were talking about a guy living openly embracing wickedness like the world does. Secondly Association well you know he's a great singer would just let them come in will associate with less than rental so that countries are said a man when a person first, then propagation, then you ask God's church correct that a professing church of God.

That's different than truly being one begin to propagate the very wickedness that God saved you to come out enough begin to embrace it. Here's what I must say you went from standing on sound doctrine, relative to now you have made your new stay unsound doctrine and worldly ungodly wickedness.Tim seal is happening all of a sudden beds convention is top had been all over our Tim. Those excess will recently Siri got sick of all the stuff out there now when we say leave the word abstain. In verse 19 were taught about this is the seal of authenticity. In other words, if you've made your stand on immoralities. The world is celebrating and promoting is in our world, celebrating and promoting immoralities. If that's where you stand. You embrace that they knew the sale of authenticity.

You like the sale of the unit, the genuine thing you're an imposter. I didn't say are you struggling and repenting and fighting I'm saying you've made your stand with, which is what we're seeing The word abstain. Here comes from two words abstain from wickedness is his last verse 19 mappings to depart from and to take a stand.

So what he saying is which side was the world here you used to be right here when you got saved you decided that's no longer who I'm standing with. That's not what I'm standing for. That's what I'll embrace or promote. I believe I've got a place on stand for what God's word says it may cost me something in this world, but I can do no different been taken captive by sovereign election obvious I'm here's about.

That's not a drudgery for me that's a joy for me. It is forever true child of God divides the very trustworthy Greek scholar says the word abstain means to withdrawal are absent are sale you withdraw from that position. The world position and you go to another one AP Robertson, the greatest Baptist Greek scholar this ever live sit it means to stand off from you'll take your stand with him anymore.

You stand on what the Bible says is right in these areas I believe are my struggle with moral purity, but we do not stand for it. We do not approve of it. We do not celebrate it.

We do not glorify will re-tinkers that we find in our minds, our hearts God for bid in our lives. This is the seal of authentication that separates the true Christian and the true church from the false. When the Methodist Church begin to embrace homosexual marriage and embrace abortion they lost their seal of authenticity with Episcopalian church begin to say will have homosexual men in the pulpit. They lost God's seal of authenticity Southern Baptist begin to say well you live in adulteries them church row. You have an open fornication stay on the church row. I didn't say fall into a struggle I'm saying live in it.

There's great tensions in the Bible and make that very clear.

All you live in it and bookkeeping church row now 7% and well you know these moral perversions in our culture. There were not so sure they're so bad row. I'm going to tell you what Southern Baptist are losing, you have not lost God's seal of authentication policies Timothy these guys called me all this trouble is God's will teach doctrines contrary to what I taught you to preach and teach you notes in their lives that embraced ungodly sexual perversions, immoralities of the Corinthian culture. Don't think no one they're not God's own and they know abstain from wickedness sanctified living is what I call Timothy you dismember this. They've let the seal of authentication archives Timothy you are. Stay strong and keep going on with the glory of God parents. We listen to you pastor don't quit, don't quit look were always loving and compassionate to any person, no matter what they're involved in, because there made in the image of God. Amen. All people image bearers are, but we must not encourage God for bid celebrate what the Bible calls wickedness because if you can walk down that road very far. Your proving I do not have the seal of the authentic Christian only. Don't quit parents keep taking it right teach it straight.

This teach our sons and daughters hate little boys you can grow up to be masculine you're going grow up to be man if it kills all of us little girls are going going to be a lady of God. Quit quibbling these lies of the world we don't stand over here the we abstain from wickedness.

Ours is a sanctified life we been set apart. We stand with what are God's. Because we are those who are the objects of his sovereign election. That's part of the seal of authentication and those who want to walk and not stand with wickedness and that's the other part of our seal of authentication yellow. This books 2000 years old. The exact same things happening in our culture that was happening in the Corinthian culture and the exact same thing is happening in our churches that was begin to happen in these churches. It's a divine book brothers and sisters in here, we stand a man