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Monday, February 01, 2016

The Jews and Their Lies - Part 1

The Jews and Their Lies - Part 1

By Pastor Steven L Anderson

July 27, 2014

The part of the chapter that I would like to focus on is beginning in verse 22 there where the Bible reads "who is a liar, but that he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ. He is antichrist that denieth the father and the son. Whosoeer denieth the son, the same hath not the father, but he that acknowledgeth the son, hath the father also." And what I want to point out there in verse 22, when it says " who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?" He is basically saying that there is no greater liar in this world than the one who would say that Jesus is not the Christ. If anybody is a liar, it's someone who says that Jesus is not the Christ, or that Jesus os not the Messiah, because that's what Christ means. So basically, one who does not believe that Jesus is the Messiah, according to the Bible is Antichrist. And the Bible teaches here, that ah, you know, if you don't have the son, you don't have the father.

And so what I want to preach about this morning is the subject of "the jews and their lies", that's the title of the sermon this morning. "THe Jews and their Lies". Because that's what the Bible says, anyone who does not believe that Jesus is the Messiah is a liar.

Now turn if you would to John Chapter 5, I'm going to get into the first lie of the jews. John chapter number 5. And that is the lie that they believe the first five books of the Bible, or the Torah. You see if you talk to those that practice Judaism, they will tell you that the most holy book in their religion is the Torah. And when they say the Torah, they are referring to the first five books of the Bible. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and deuteronomy. These are the most important books unto them, and they say "we believe every word of the Torah" but let me TELL you something, it's a lie. Now who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? He is antichrist. And so it shouldn't surprise you that when they say that they believe the first five books they're lying. Now look down at your Bible there in John chapter 5 verse 46. It says, "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believed not his writings, how shall ye believe my words." Right there Jesus Christ says, "if you would have believed Moses, you would have believed me." So for someone to say "well I believe in Moses, I believe those first five books of Moses, but I don't believe in Jesus Christ"- that is a lie and Jesus Christ said "you can't. If you believed moses, you'd also believe me."

Now, go to Genesis chapter one, because if we re going to talk about the first five books of the Bible, if we are going to talk about the Torah, let's go to the first chapter. You see, most christians today think that when the Jews read the Bible, you know, they believe everything until Mathew one. You know "they believe the whole Old testament, and when we get to Mathew one, we lose them." But, I'm going to prove to you that when we talk of the Jews today, we don't lose them in Mathew one, we lose them in Genesis one. They stop believeing the Bible in Genesis chapter one. Their Book the Torah, they don't even believe the first chapter, let aloone the rest of the book. Ok, look what it says in genesis 1:21. "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly (and I want you to notice this phrase)... AFTER THEIR KIND. And every winged fowl, after his kind, and God saw that it was good, and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth, and the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature AFTER HIS KIND, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth AFTER HIS KIND and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth, AFTER HIS KIND, and cattle, AFTER THEIR KIND, and everything that creepeth on the earth, AFTER HIS KIND, and God saw that it was good." God is very repetitive in this chapter with that phrase "after his kind", because God knew that there would be a lie someday that things do not reproduce after their kind, but that things "slowly are changing and evolving from one kind and into another" and that "the dog does not necessarily beget a dog", but htat eventually over time, organisms keep evolving and getting more complex. And it;s a lie, it's not Biblical because Genesis one is really clear that God created all the different animals and that they only reproduce after their own kind. But yet when you talk to the Jews today, they don't believe it.

We talked to four Jewish leaders this week. We talked to these Rabbi's, and we talked to everything from an orthodox Jewish Rabbi, to a reformed Jewish Rabbi, pretty much the two ends of the spectrum, we talked to everything in between. And let me tell you something they all believed in evolution. THe orthodox Rabbi said he believed in evolution. The reformed Rabbi said he believed in evolution. THey believe in the big bang, they believe in evolution. THey DENY this scripture that teaches a literal creation, and animals bringing forth after their own kind. They don't even believe chapter one- JESUS WAS RIGHT... when he said if they believed Moses' writing they would believe his word.

To these same people we brought- turn if you would to Genesis 17- but to these same people we brought up the story of Adam and Eve. They didn't believe in it. We brought up the story of the tower of Babel. THey didn't believe in it. We brought up the story of Noah's ark. They didn't believe in it. "ah, it's figurative, it's symbolic". They didn;t believe any of it, okay? When you look at their practice today, they don't even follow the rules in these first five books, because you say " well, okay, maybe they reject alot of the early stories in Genesis as being symbolic or figurative, but surely they're following the rules and ergulations of the Torah, I mean that's what their whole religion is based upon"... but they don't. Let me give you an example, look at Genesis chapter 17. It says in verse 23 "And abraham took ishmael his son and all that were bron in his house and all taht were bought with his money, every male of Abraham's house, and circumcised the fllesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day as God had siad unto him. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmeal his son wsa thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. inthe selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son, and all the men of his house, born in the house and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him." Now of course we know that circumcision is a big part of Judaism. It's HUGE. And yet, in this scripture, we read that Abraham was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised. His son Ishmael wsa thirteen years old when he was circumcised. All the servants, all the men of his house they were all different varying ages, but they were all adult men being circumcised at all ages. yet today, when you talk to the Jews - and just so that we're clear, circumcision is the removal of the foreskin, okay? And when we talk to the Jews today, we said "what if an adult ocnverts unto Judaism? Are they going to need to be circumcised?" And here's what they said... "Well... we don't.... what we do is basically, we just, do a little pin prick with a needle, until one drop of blood comes out, and then we just call it circumcised." so basically, if an adult converts unto Judaism, them getting circumcised does not have anything to do with removing their foreskin, oh no, it's just, little needle, one drop of blood comes out, and we'll just call it circum... that's not what God said. That's not what Abraham did. Abraham didn't get poked with a needle. Ishmael didn't get poked with a needle. I mean this just shows you how they're not taking what God has said and following it, they've got their own manmade religion. They've got their own idea. God didn't say "poke it with a needle and make a drop of blood come out". Now let me jsut make it clear, that in the New testament, we don't believe in circumcision. The Bible is real clear that in the NT, that in Christ, neither circumcision availeth anything, neither uncircumcision. If you have any doubt about that, read Galatians chapter 5. We in the NT do not practice circumcision, but here's the thing- We're not claiming to! We're not claiming to follow these old testament customs that have been done away in Christ. We're not claiming to practice animal sacrifices or circumcision or these type of rituals that are done away in the New testament, but they are, and they're lying. They're not following it, they're rejecting the stories, they're rejecting the practice, they reject the practice of circumcising Adults, you know they don't do the animal sacrifices.

God said that He gave the blood to be an atonement on the altar for their souls. We know that Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain once for all. John the Baptist pointed unto Jesus and said behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. We believe that the animal sacrifices stopped with the Lord Jesus Christ, because when Jesus CHrist died on the cross, he was the sacrificial lamb, once for all, and as Jesus died on the cross and said "it is finished", we know that the veil in the temple was rent in twain. Remember that veil that seperated the Holy place, from the most holy place? It was torn down the middle. God tore that veil, and that system of the Levitical preisthood, of the animal sacrifices, is done away in the NT. But ask yourself, "why are the Jews not doing animal sacrifices?". Of course they will lie to you and say "well the only reason we don't do the animal sacrifices is because we don't have the temple." Of course that doesn't really make any sense since God never even told them to build that temple. When did God tell them, "build a temple"? No, who's idea was it to build the temple? David had it in HIS heart to build the temple unto the Lord. And when David wanted to build the temple unto the Lord, God sent a prophet unto him, that said unto him " I never told you to do that! I never came up with that!" But you know what, he said "it was good that it was in your heart, that you wanted to build me a temple." So he said that his son solomon would be allowed to build that temple unto the Lord. So David's son solomon did build a temple unto the Lord, and God sanctioned that, but that was never God's original plan. God's original plan was the tabernacle. And the tabernacle was a tent that was portable, that could be pitched in different locations. And so the tabernacle was God's plan, which is why in the book of Hebrews, when God gives us all the OT symbolism, He is not talking about the temple. All throughout Hebrews- read the book of Hebrews in the NT- it's all about the tabernacle. Bcause that's the one that God came up with. God said build a tabernacle, okay? Now, you say "well no Pastor Anderson, you can only do sacrifices in that temple and since the temple is gone, no sacrifices." Well if that's the case, then they should really look long and hard at their religion, and their god, that has allowed them to have no temple for almost 2000 years. So God gives them a religion that says "it's all about these animal sacrifices, it's all about the blood on the altar, it's all about the day of atonement, and it's all about these holidays, and these feast days, and they all have sacrifices, and it's all about the passover". And He gave them a religion like that, and then He kicks them out of their land, SCATTERS them throughout all nations, allows their temple to be destroyed and NEVER to be rebuilt again, MAYBE GOD'S NOT PLEASED WITH YOU!!! I mean thing about it! Their saying "oh, we can't do our sacrifices, because we don't have our temple". WHY DOESN'T GOD GIVE YOU A TEMPLE? Because you are in rebellion against God! That's why. Because you rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, that's why. And by saying "well we have no temple, we can't do animal sacrifices, they're just admitting "God's rejected us, God's destroyed our temple. We have no place to do sacrifices." You know what, we have a lamb. We have a sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know why God allowed the temple to be destroyed? just to show them "you're done. It's done." The blood of christ is what cleanses us from sin.

So when you talk to the Jews, they say that they believe the Torah, but it's... "you guys believe in creation? (no) Adam and Eve? (No) Noah? (No) Tower of Babel? (No) Circumcised adults? (No) Animal sacrifices? (No)" "TEN COMMANDMENTS? SURELY you believe in the ten commandments, if you're saying you believe in the Torah- I mean the stone tablets that moses... who they say is the greatest prophet... "Moses is the greatest is prophet". Of course we know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest prophet. But they say Moses is the greatest prophet, and you would think that certainly the stone tablets that were brought down from the mount and put int the ark of the covenant... We talked to a reformed Jewish Rabbi, which is the most common type of religious Jew is a reformed Jew, that;s the most typical synagogue that you are going to see, and he told us, he said that "ah, you know, it just depends on what society accepts. Right and wrong is based upon what society accepts." He said for example if we are in a society where someone decides that stealing is wrong... well then, stealing is wrong. But if we are in another society, where stealing is not wrong then stealing would be okay. that's what he told us! and we have him on film saying that by the say. (laughs) But anyway, I asked "so there's not an absolute of just thou shalt not steal?" No. No.

That's why the Jews believe that it's okay for them to steal from gentiles. As long as they don't steal from each other. In fact, and some of this stuff is so crazy, that... turn to Mark chapter 7. But some of this stuff is so crazy, you almost don't even believe it. When I heard some of this stuff, I didn't even believe it, until I went home and researched some of this stuff, but it's all true. For example, I heard it said, that they take an oath once a year on the day of atonement called the Kol Nidre oath. Which is spelt K I L... N I D R E. And this oath that they take every year in the synagogue on the day of atonement says that every contract agreement, oath, vow that they;ve made for the last 12 months, and for the next 12 months, is all null and void. Did everybody get that? They go to their synagogue once a year on th day of Atonement, and they make an oath called the Kol Nidre oath, which says "everything I've promised, and everything I am going to promise for the next year, I go back on it. It's all null and void." Which allows them to lie, cheat, steal and break contracts. LOOK IT UP. I mean even just go to wikipedia, it's under judaism, they have the aramaic text, they have the english text, you can see it all right there, it's all documented. I mean what kind of a religion takes an oath like that? "So I've been LYING all year, and I'm going to LIE all next year, and God just forgive me for that right now, because I'm just absolving myself of any responsibility from everything I have vowed, everything I am going to vow, every document that I sign..." THEY DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN THOU SHALT NOT STEAL!! They flat out told me! "Do you believe thou shalt not steal?" NO!!! Only if society says it's wrong to steal. What in the world? THat's the first lie of the Jews. Number one, they say they believe the Torah. It's a Lie. Number 2, they teach that the Talmud is the word of God. Now go if you would to Mark chapter 7, verse 3. It says "For the Pharisees and all the Jews except they wash their hands oft eat not, holding the tradition of the elders, and whe they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be which they have recieved to hold, as the washing of cups and pots, brazen vessels and of tables. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? He answered and said unto them, well hath Esais prophesied of you hypocrites, these people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do, and he said unto them, full well ye reject the commandment of God that ye may keep your own tradition." Look what it says in verse 13. Let me get there myself, I've got to turn to that page in my Bible. Just reading it from my notes. In Mark 7:13 the Bible reads "making the word of God of none effect through your tradition which ye have delivered and many such like things do ye." So what the Bible is explaining here is that the Jews of that time had recieved alot of traditions passed down unto them and this is known as the traditions of the elders. This stuff did not come from the word of God. It did not come from the Torah, or the words of Moses, or Genesis through deuteronomy. It didn't come from any part of the OT, but it was just traition passed down from the elders, and it was alot of strict rules about just washing your hands and washing cups. You know, hey I'm not saying to not run the dishwasher, but this is not somehting that is commanded by God. That you have to do all these washing that they are prescribing. And Jesus Christ rebukes these teachings, and the key verse, is when he says in verse 7 "howbeit in vain they do worship me , teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." He says "you reject the commandment of GOD, that ye might keep your own tradition." We already proved in point one that they reject the commandment of God, they reject the Torah. But it's that they might keep their own tradition.

Now, if you know what the Talmud is, basically the Talmud is a written version of these traditions of the elders that were passed down. See the Talmud was written down several hundred years after Jesus Christ lived. Several hundred years later they wrote down the Talmud. But waht it was was just a compilation of all these oral laws- these traditions of the elders. Now the Bible is real clear in Ecclesiastes 12 fro example, it says "fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." That means that once you have feared God and kept HIS commandments, you don't have any duty beyond that. You don't have to keep all these man made rules. God gave all the laws that He wanted the children of Israel to follow at mount Sinai. He didn't add a whole bunch of other Laws. But the Jews, they lie and say that the Talmud is the Word of God, even though it came hundreds of years after Jesus, and it just contains all these traditions, and elders and Rabbis that have "passed down their wisdom". They claim that that is the word of God, but it's not the word of God. Because Jesus rebuked it. Jesus said that this stuff actually denies the word of God. Now, what they claim is that when Moses got the written the written law at Mount Sinai, where he got those 5 books- Genesis through to deuteronomy- they claim that in ADDITION to the written law, he also got an oral law. And they call that the "oral Torah". So there is the "Written Torah"... Genesis through deuteronomy, and the "Oral Torah", which is just other stuff that God told Moses that he was supposed to do that "just didn't get written down". (sarcastically) "Oh but he told it to him! I promise you!" So according to these people it was never written down for a couple of thousand years. so for couple of thousand years, this was just passed down by the rabbi's. And if you want to know the true story about all the little laws that you have to follow, you've got to go to the elders, the rabbi's. And these people in Jesus' day, had already started with this oral tradition GARBAGE that does not go back to Moses at all. THat's a LIE. It's not of the word of God, okay. And they had already been using this tradition, and Jesus rebuked it, and then hundreds of years later they wrote it down in a book. But it's not really a book. It's like a an encyclopaedia of books. The talmud is not a book that you could just hold in your hand like this. It's thirty six, or thirty eight volumes. We talked to an old man, we talked to a Jewish Rabbi that had been a Rabbi for decades and asked him "have you read the whole thing cover to cover?" No. But he told us it was the word of God. But he's never read the whole thing, why? Because it's so long. Because it's just these nitpicky rules and regulations regulating every little thing. And I mean these Jews, they don't just keep the sabbath, like "hey, let's rest on the sabbath". No, it's like "you can't flip a lightswitch on the sabbath. You can't ride an elevator on the sabbath." I mean it's just all these weird rules. But you can pay a gentile to flip a switch for you. It's just all this crazy stuff that God never mentioned. So the Talmud is not the word of God. Jesus said it's the tradition of men. But even then, he said they were teaching it as the commandment of God. "You're teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Now, the Talmud is one of the most wicked, blasphemous, works ever written. It's horrible. And for these Jews to say that the Talmud is the Word of God... From Orthodox to reformed, they said that the Talmud is the word of God. And they said the whole thing.

First of all let me just point out htat the Talmud is blasphemous of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because keep in mind, this was written hundreds of years after Christ, okay? Let me just give you some of the blasphemy of the Talmud, okay? First of all the Talmud calls Jesus the "son of Pantera" at least 8 times. so 8 times it refers to the Lord Jesus CHrist as the son of Pantera. You say well "who is Pantera?". Well, it's not the metal band, you know, from the eighties. But let me tell you something, when I'm done explaining who Pantera is, you will realise how satanic that metal band is for calling themselves that. Why are they named that? It's a blashemous name, you know. Alot of the rock and roll uses alot of satanic, you know, look at the names of some of these... "Judas Priest"... "Black Sabbath"... "Pantera" okay? Jesus is called in the Talmud at least 8 times the son of Pantera. Well this is what it is. Around 150-200 AD, after Christ, there was a philosopher named Celsus, and here's what he wrote about Jesus, listen to this. "Jesus came from a Jewish village, and from a poor countrywoman, who earned her living by spinning." He says that "she was driven out by her husband who was a carpenter by trade, as she was convicted of Adultery." Then he says, that "after she had been driven out by her husband and while she was wandering about in a disgraceful way, she secretly gave birth to Jesus." He states that "because he (Jesus) was poor, he hired himself out as a workman in Egypt. And there tried his hand at certain magical powers, on which the egyptians pride themselves. He returned full of conceit because of these powers and on account of them gave himself the title of God." The Mother of Jesus is described as "having been turned out by the carpenter, who was betrothed to her, as she had been convicted of adultery and had a child by a certain soldier named Pantera." Okay, so this blasphemous wicked philosopher made up this fake story of Jesus being the bastard son of a roman soldier named Pantera. And that mary was just whoring around with all these different men, and that she had conceived Jesus with a man named Pantera, and consequently kicked out of the house by Joseph for comitting adultery. And then the Talmud turns around and calls Jesus 8 times the son of Pantera. And it says also about 8 times, that Mary comitted adultery with a guy named Pantera. So they're taking this story and just running with it in the Talmud. Just stating that Jesus Christ is the bastard son of a roman soldier named Pantera, and that his mother Mary who the Bible calls a virgin, and then after obviously she gave birth to Christ, then she came together with her husband and concieved other children. Look, why would anyone write such a blasphemous story about Jesus? This isn't some historical account from somebody who is living at the time of Jesus. This is people several hundred years later, writing down in the Talmud, the most hateful, blasphemous things they can think of about Jesus, to say that he is a bastard. To say that his mother is a whore. To say that his mother is an adulteress. They claim that Jesus went down into egypt and learnt black magic and sorcery and that's how he did his miracles. Look, Jesus said in the Bible, or it says of Jesus in the Bible, that the Jews said "he casts out devils by (what?) ... by beelzebub." So they're accusing him of that in the NT. And they still are accusing him of that in the Talmud. Not only that, but the Talmud teaches and I will give you the exact section, it's called Gittim in the babylonian Talmud. Gittim section 56B- 57A... says that Jesus of Nazereth is being punished for all eternity by being boiled in hot excrement. That's what they think of your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And you say, "oh, we're Judeo-christian." Not me. "Oh, the Jews believe in the same God we believe in." Oh really? That leads me to my next lie of Judaism. The first lie is that they believe the Torah. The second lie is that the Talmud is the Word of God.

Here is the third lie. They believe that God is both male and female. Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 11. They believe that God is both male and female. They will call God, "she". Now is that the same God that we believe in? Because from Genesis to Revelation, God is always referred to as "He" or "Him". From Genesis to revelation. And when they gave us their justification when we talked to these Rabbis... And they gave us the justification they said "wel God made both man and woman in His image, and so therefore, you know, Gods both man and woman. God is both male and female." But, let me just prove that wrong to you from the Bible. Now, they have a word in Judaism, called "shikinah". And sometimes you will hear people pronounce this word "shekinah". And I remember my whole life, growing up in baptist churches, hearing preachers talk about the shekinah glory of God. Who has ever heard a christian preacher talk about the shekinah glory of God? Look at all the hands around the room. You've heard christian preachers talk about the Shekinah glory of God. Now I always assumed, ok they're just going back to the Hebrew. That must be the Hebrew word for glory, it must be Shekinah. You know how preachers like to show off and use hebrew and Greek words, just to sound cool and knowledgeable. So whenever I heard all these preachers saying "the shekinah glory of God", I assumed they were going back to the Hebrew. Did you know that that Word NEVER occurs in the Hebrew Bible one time? that word "shekinah" is never in the Hebrew Bible. You will never find that word in the scriptures. That Word was never used before the time of Christ. That word, is a name that they came up with for God, after they rejected the Lord Jesus CHrist and went on practicing their wicked religion judaism, they started to use that word as a name of God, and this is what they say- "it's a FEMININE name of God. It's the FEMININE aspect of God." In fact, I don't know if I stuck it in the pulpit, I meant to, I printed out an article off a website called HABBAD??? .org. And this is a major Judaism website of Hassidic orthodox judaism. And on this orthodox jewish website, they had an article called "who is shekinah and what does SHE want from my life". Oh you got my article for me? Thankyou honey. My lovely assistant here will give me this blasphemous article. Alright so... (laughs). This is from and orthodox Jewish website Kabbat.org, and it says "who is shekinah and what does SHE want from my life?". Shekinah is derived from the word "shokan", "to dwell within". "The shekinah is God, as God is God is dwelling within. Sometimes we translate shekinah as "the divine presence"." Listen to this... "The word shekinah is feminine and so when we refer to God as the Shekinah, we say SHE! Of course, we are still referring to the same one God, just in a different modality." You're not referring to the same God that I am referring to when you say "SHE"! It is this new age, mysticism, believeing in this eternal Goddess. And let me tell you something... New age mysticism comes from Jewish Kabbalah. Jewish Kabbalah is the source of new age mysticism. We asked the reformed rabbi if he... "oh yeah"- he loves Kabbalah, he teaches Kabbalah, he believes in the Kabbalah. These Hassidic Jews of the orthodox, they believe in Kabbalah, and that's where they're getting... and WHAT IN THE WORLD is a BAPTIST PASTOR USING the word SHEKINAH???? From these Kabbalah balieving false teachers, Christ rejecters. They actually say, "that's the feminine side". And I've actually heard Baptist preachers say that in a f amily the woman is the holy spirit of the home. becuase they say the Father, the son and the holy Ghost, and the Holy spirit, that's represented by the wife in the home. Because the Holy spirit is feminine, because it is the "Shekinah". Why would you get their doctrine from these? They don't worship the same God. But let me just disprove this to you, because, we already know that if you are reading a king james Bible, God is going to be always "He" and "Him". All the way from Genesis to Revelation. Every single time, it's going to be "He" or "Him". God is never referred to as a a "she" in the Bible. That should be enough for you right there. Of course, alot of these new Bibles are trying to make everything gender neutral. Just to fit in with our gender neutral society. But let's see if what they're saying is really true.

Look at first Corinthians chapter number 11. And look at verse number 4, the Bible says "every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head, for that is even all one, as if she were shaven." Now isn't God giving here a different rule for men and women? He says the man must have his head uncovered, and the woman is to have her head covered. And He explains that her hair is given her for a covering, and that it's a shame for a man to have long hair, which means to be covered. And it's a shame for a woman to have short hair, which would be being uncovered. That's what this passage is about if you read the whole chapter, okay? But notice what He says in verse 7. "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man." So in verse 7, is the woman the image of God? No. It's very clear. The man does not cover his head, because HE is the image of God, the woman is the glory of the man. So it doesn't say here, that it is the same. Because, think about it. If the woman was the image of God, then basically she wouldn't be able to cover her head either. Isn't that what it says. Let's read it again. I just want to make sure we don't miss this. "For a man indeed ought NOT to cover HIS head, forasmuch as HE is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man." That's why even in Genesis chapter one, you don't have to turn there, that's why even in Genesis 1:27 it says "so God created MAN, in His own image, in the image of God created He him. Male and female created He them." They were created male and female, but HE was created in the image of God. What does it mean to be in the image of God? To look like God. That's what it means, to be... Look, Adam brought forth a son in his own image, and named that son Seth. Why? Because looked like Adam, just like my son looks like me, just like your son looks like you. And when God created man in his own image, God created Man that looked like Him. Now God does not look like a woman. It doesn't mean that a woman has any less value. Of course the soul of woman is just as valuable as the soul of man, and in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so not anything disparaging of women, or that they are of lesser value, but it is just a fact that God is masculine. And that's why God created the masculine in His image. Because He is masculine. Becuase when Jesus walked on this earth, He was a man. And God, "the Father", is masculine. And so this is a blaspghemous teaching, of new age mysticism, of worshipping, you know, "mother earth" and the female spirit, and the Goddess and the Kabbala and the new age. That's where all this stuff is coming from. Lie number one, that they believe the Bible. They don't believe it. "Well, just the Torah!" They don't even believe that. Lie number 2- that the Talmud is the word of God. No, it's the traditions of men. The traditions of the elders. Lie number 3, is that God is both He and She. Nope. You know, and we could even combine with that, another lie, we will call this lie 3B. That they worship the same God that we worship. When God said, "If you don't have the Son, you don't have the Father". Listen to me now, "He that denieth the son, the same hath not the Father, but He that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also." How can anyone say that the Jews have the same God that we HAVE, when God said that if you don't "HAVE" the Son, then you don't "HAVE" the Father. Then how can you say they HAVE the same God?? So they don't have the Father. THEN WHO DO THEY HAVE??? They have some God that they worship. They have somebody. Or.... Who is SHE, that they have? Shekinah.(sarcastically pretends to worship) "Oh, Shekinah..." okay? That's who they're worshipping. A false God. And they're calling our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ "son of Pantera". Son of and adulterer. Son of an adulteress relationship. Wicked as hell.

Number 4, go if you would to 1st Thessalonians chapter 2. The lie that the Jews did not kill Jesus. The Jews call this the "Myth". They say the myth that the Jews killed Jesus. Let me explain something to you. The fact that the Jews killed Jesus is not a myth. It's fact. It's Biblical fact, okay? Now, today, if we were living in Germany or Canada, it would be illegal for me to read the verses that I am going to read for you right now. Literally. It is illegal to even read these verses in Germany or Canada. Thank God we are in the United states of America, where we can read this without being hauled off to the Hoosgau, okay? But it says here in 1st Thessalonians 2:14, "For ye brethren, became followers of the churches, which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus, for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus-" Now... What does that say? Yeah, it says "even as they have of the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and they please not God, and are contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway, for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost." You say "no pastor Anderson, the Jews are under the blessing of God." No, the Bible says they are under God's wrath. "Oh man, if you bless them, God will bless you." No. They are under His wrath. God's not even blessing them. But we're supposed to bless them? And you know, I am going to get into that later, because that is so ridiculous to apply what God said unto Abraham, unto the Jews. When the Bible says that the promises were made to Abraham and to His seed, and that His seed is Christ. But I am getting ahead of myself. Now go to acts chapter 3. Acts chapter number 3. The Jews killing Jesus is not a myth. It's Bible. 1st Thessalonians 2 tells us clear as day that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus. We talked to a rabbi and he was literally just angray and hitting the table and saying "the apostle Paul said in 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 that the Jews killed Jesus and that's where this lie started from". No, it's not a lie, it's the truth, it's the Word of God. But no only that, because with some of the jews and some of the rabbis that we talked to, here's what they said "well it wasn't the Jews as a whole that killed Jesus." They said it was just the rulers. it was just a few leaders, a few chief priests, just a couple of rulers, so you can't pin that on the whole nation back then. It was just just a few leaders that killed Jesus." I've heard them use that. Let's see if that lines up with scripture. Look at Acts chapter 3 verse 13, it says "the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified His son Jesus, whom YE delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go." So here he is preaching to thousands of Jews, if you get the context of the story. He is preaching to thousands of Jews. Five thousand believe on him, okay? He preached to thousands of Jews, and he says, "YOU delivered him up, when Pilate was determined to let him go", but there's more, keep reading. "But ye denied the Holy one and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. And killed the prince of life, whom God hath raised form the dead whereof ye are witnesses. And his name through faith in His name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know. Yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect in the presence of you all, and now brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers." Wait a minute, I thought it was just the rulers? I thought it was just a few rulers that did it? No. He said, "YOU did it". He is saying it to thousands of people. "You did it, as also did your rulers." That means it wasn't just the rulers, it was the people also. Because if we read the scriptural account, the people are crying out, a massed throng of thousands and thousands of the Jews, are crying out "CRUCIFY HIM!" And he (Pilate) says "shall I crucify your king?"- (the answer they gave was) "we have no king but Caesar". "I am free from the blood of this just person" said the roman Pilate. "His blood be on us, and on our children!" That's what they said. Read the gospel. They said "His blood be on us and on our children". Now look, I'll be honest with you. I don't blame the Jews today for killing Jesus. It was thousands of years ago, right? I mean, if we run into the Jews today, can we really blame them and say "you killed Jesus"? No, that's ridiculous, that is silly isn't it? If I were to blame todays jews and say "You killed Jesus". No. Peter was saying that to the people who literally yelled "Crucify him!". That's who he said that to. It would be like if somebody just said "All white people are guilty for enslaving black people." Hundreds of years later. I mean, can I really be held responsible for something... I mean, my ancestors didn't even live in that part of the country, okay? But can I really be held responsible for something that happened hundreds of years ago? It would be like if all the native Americans were just mad at the White people of today. "You took our land!" It's like what in the world? That was hundreds of years before I was born. So it would be silly for me to get up and blame todays jews for killing the Lord Jesus, okay? But here is the thing. They claim responsibility for killing Jesus in their own Talmud. Because in the Talmud it said that they executed Jesus of Nazereth, that they basically stoned him for being a sorcerer. For operating with black magic.

So first of all, number one, they claim responsibility for killing Jesus in the Talmud. Number 2, they're the ones who said "His blood be on us and on our children", I didn't say that! And you know what Jesus said? "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." So even Jesus, when he was dying on the cross, he was trying to forgive them and saying "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". So, obviously the Jews can be saved. Obviously they can believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We should not hate Jews. In fact, go to Romans chapter 11. Romans chapter 11. Luke 23, Jesus said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do", okay? SO there is forgiveness, just like in acts chapter 3, the part that I read where he said "you killed Jesus". He said, "You know what, I know you did it through ignorance, as did also your rulers" and he gives them the opportunity to repent. And what did they do in that passage? Many of them recieved Christ. It's a great story in Acts chapter 3. Of the Jews being told "you killed Jesus", and they said, "you know, you're right, we're sorry" and they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. But people will try to spin this around, and say "You're preaching hate toward the jews". Now hold on a second, if I tell the jew "you are blaspheming the Lord Jesus Christ with your religion, you do not believe the Bible, you are following the doctrines of man, your religion is an antichrist religion according to 1st John chapter 2." People will call that hate, but is that really hate, just to tell somebody the truth? You know what whould be a hateful thing to do to the jews? Just tell them, "you're fine". I mean think about it. If I hated the jews, you know what I would say to them? "You guys are saved, you guys are fine, you guys are going to heaven." And then just laugh as they went to Hell. But the person who loves you is going to warn you and tell you the truth. I mean if you are walking toward that cliff. If you are on the path of a false religion. Someone who loves you would warn you and tell you the truth, and tell you "you're not saved, you need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." What are we doing when we are out soulwinning? We are warning all men. We are warning them that there is heaven and there is hell, you've got to believe on Jesus Christ. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved. And if we look at Peters preaching, he is not playing games, is he? He is not mincing words. He says "you with wicked hands, have crucified the Lord of glory. You need to repent. You need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." He made it very clear. He did not say to them "oh, you guys are just like us, we're all believing in the same God. I'm okay, you're okay." The false prophet John Hagee, who has ever heard of John Hagee, televangelist? This false prophet John Hagee says we do not need to evengelise the jews. He is the antisemite. He is the hater of Jews, if he says "don't evangelise them". Look, what more hateful thing could you do to somebody than to not evangelise them? Because if you don't evangelise them, they go to hell, they don't have any hope, of being saved, of believing in Christ. So John Hagee is the Jew hater. By lying to them and telling them "oh, you're saved, you're on your way to heaven, you're of God's people." It's not true. And that leads me to my fifth lie of the Jews. And that is that the holocaust was the christians fault. Blaming the holocaust on christians. Now everybody knows what the holocaust is. That's when the nazis massacred alot of Jews, and they executed alot of jews in concentration camps. It's horrific. You know, any time you see people being rounded up and executed, of ANY nationality, of any religion, it's wrong! You shouldn't just execute. You think of even in Waco, texas, all of the people that were following that wicked cult of David Koresh. Obviously that was a wicked cult of David Koresh. But do you believe that the 17 little children that were in that complex just deserved to die, just because they were part of that cult? They didn't know better. And alot of the jews today, they're just decieved, they're blinded. Catholics today are blinded, Muslims today are blinded. We should not hate the Jew or the Muslim, or the Catholic. We should evangelise them. We should give them the gospel. We should want them to be saved. So obviously when we look at the nazis and the holocaust, we realise that what they did was horrific. Just as all the other genocides throughout history have been horrific. You know, when youlook at Joseph Stalin Massacaring tens of millions, and you look at Mao Tze Tung massacaring tens of millions, and you see all different types of ethnic cleansing that have taken place in all parts of the world. That have taken place in africa and in europe. And all of these horrific events of murdering innocent people are not of God. And they're not of the new testament. Okay? So the NT teaches no such thing. The NT does not teach us to massacre or wipe out any nationality or any religion. you know, you will have alot of Christians today that will say, "hey, let's just nuke the muslims". That's not of God. Why would we kill innocent people, women, children, just because they're part of a false religion. We should love them, we should give them the gospel, we should want them saved. So just hating other religions, or just hating other nationalities or races is not og God. It's not of the NT. In fact, acts 17:26 says that God hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determind the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. According to Acts 17, God has made of one blood all nations of men. SO to sit there and say that you know we should hate any religion or any nationality is not coming from the NT is it? it's not coming from the Bible. So to pin the holocaust on the christianity is ridiculous. it's a lie. And I'm going to disprove it right now. But look if you would at Romans 10:1. I know I said Romans 11, but look at Romans 10:1 first of all... It says in Romans 10:1, "Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved." So here is the apostle Paul not being hateful toward Jews, as he is often accused of being "so HATEFUL toward jews, by saying that they killed Jesus, by saying that they're under God's wrath". He's just telling the truth when he says they killed Jesus, and he's just telling the truth when he says they're under God's Wrath! Look, John the Baptist said "He that believeth on the Son, hath ever;asting life, and he that believeth not the son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." That applies to Jew or gentile. That applies no matter what nationality you are. But look at Romans 11:28. The Bible says in Romans 11:28, "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes, but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes." This is speaking of the Jews. And in Romans 11:28, he says that the Jews are enemies of the gospel, that's pretty obvious isn't it? When you look at the fact that they blaspheme Jesus in the Talmud. We even talked to a Rabbi who said "well yeah, maybe they killed Jesus, but he probably deserved it if they killed him". That's what the rabbi told us.

Okay, so we know that the Talmud is antichrist, because who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist. We know that the Jews are the enemies of the gosp- you say "they're our friends". No they're not. Not my friends. You say "are the jews your friends?". No. (sarcastically fearfully screams). The Bible says that they are our enemy. He says "as concerning the gospel, the are enemies for your sakes". He says they are enemies of the gospel of CHrist. SO when it comes to the gospel, they're enemies. But watch this, he said "but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake." So in the latter part of that verse, is that teaching us to hate jews or to love jews? love them! "Well you just they're our enemies". Well do you remember this famous quote- "Love your enemies"? So, just because you say the jews are enemies of the gospel, that doesn't mean we hate them. Just because you say, the Jews killed Jesus, and again, we're not talking about todays jews, the jews of 2 thousand years ago killed Jesus. That's not a hateful thing to say. In fact, Peter loved them, and was getting many of them saved in that chapter, acts chapter 3. So what we have to understand is that this lie, that hating Jews and massacare of jews comes from christians or the NT, is a lie. It's just simply not true. There is nothing in the NT that says "hate Jews" or "kill Jews", or "massacre Jews". Now, you say, "well where did Hitler get his ideology from?". He didn't get it from the Bible. Newsflash! Hitler was not a christian! Now, sure, Hitler was baptised catholic as a baby, just like everybody in germany virtually is baptised something or other. I mean the cast majority of people in germany are either baptised catholic or baptised lutheran, it doesn't mean they believe in it. And Hitler was not devout. Hitler did not believe the Bible. In fact, there is a famous Nazi propaganda film, it's THE MOST famous nazi propaganda film. And it's called "the eternal Jew". Who has ever heard of that before, it's a really famous... couple of people have heard of it or seen it. It's a very famous film that is an antijew nazi propaganda from 1940, and let me tell you something. That film denies the Bible repeatedly. It does not quote the Bible in a positive light. It is not using the NT as a justification. It's all about race in that film. That film makes it clear that is based on evolution and race. You see Adolf Hitler was hateful of the Jews because he believed in "the Master Race". Remember how he believed in white supremacy, thats what he believed. So Adolf Hitler believed that the white man, the aryan man, or the nordic man, as he called it, was superior. And that the jews and other semitic people were inferior. So he wanted to cleanse them of that race. It had nothing to do with religion. It wasn't like the jews could be given a chance because here is the thing. The catholics, when they persecuted jews in times past, they gave them the opportunity to convert. They said if you convert away from Judaism, then you'll be fine. And so you have all kinds of millions of people in spain and Portugal, who converted from Judaism from Christianity, which is mainly catholicism really, which is not a true form of christianity. But you have alot of Jews that converted to avoid persecution. But that wasn't an option in nazi germany. Because in Nazi Germany, it had nothing to do with religion. IT had nothing to do with the NT, it had nothing to do with christianity. There is not one word in those nazi propaganda films saying "hey, the jews killed Jesus, hey, we love the NT". Nothing. He denies both old and new testaments in that film. He denies the truths of the Old and new testament in "the eternal Jew". Why? Because nazi germany led by Adolf Hitler was a result of darwinian evolution.

So if you want to talk about what wicked ideology led up to the holocaust, and what wicked ideology was behind nazi germany, I will tell you exactly what it was, don't pin it on Jesus. Don't pin it on the apostle Paul. Don't pin it on christianity. It ought to be pinned on atheism. It ought to be pinned on evolution. Pin that on charles Darwin. Because charles darwins book is called "the origin of the species". But if you look at the whole title, if you look at the cover page, it says "the continuance of FAVOURED RACES". And in Charles Darwin's book "the origin of the species" where he taught evolution, he taught that white man is the most evolved, and that Brown or Black man is less evolved- look, that is the ideology that Adolf Hitler was operating under. And so the Jews are lying. Every jew that we talked to, every rabbi blamed the holocaust on the christians. "CHRISTIANITY!". And I said "wait a minute, I thought that was all about race?". "yeah, but well , still! STILL is the christians!". "But did Hitler believe on Christ?". "Well, no...". "Did they have an option to convert to christianity?". "No...". "So they're just being cleansed because (hitler thought) they're an inferior race?". "Er, Yeah. But it's still the christians to blame!". Look, christians don't teach evolution. Christians don't teach eugenics. Christians don't believe in Charles Darwin. Christians do not believe that the white race or any race is superior to another. We believe that God has made all nations of one blood! And we believe that there is no difference between the jew and the Greek. We don't believe the Jew is better than the greek, and we don't believe the Greek is better than the Jew.

It's funny, Paul Wittenberger and I, the director and producer of this film, went down to the film that we were filming today, because this part of a documentary that we're doing, that's why we have been talking to all these rabbis this week. But, Paul Wittenberger went down to a DNA lab in Tempe, and we decided to get our DNA tested, to figure out if we are of God's chosen people, okay? (LAUGHS) Now here is the thing. I don't believe that the jews are God's chosen people. You know who I believe are the chosen people? Believers in Jesus Christ of all nationalities. Red annd yellow, black and white, if you believe on Jesus Christ, you're the chosen nation in the NT. And Christ said that there would be one fold and one shepherd. That's why we shouldn't have a seperate chinese church, a seperate black church, a seperate messianic church, a seperate church for this... No. It should be all nations. God said his house is a house of prayer for all nations. And all nations should be in one fold with one shepherd. We should not segregate out church by nationality. There is no difference between the jew or the greek. God's chosen people are believers. You say "But we wanted to get our DNA tested to figue out if we are the special chosen ones, okay?" but really the reason why we wanted to get our DNA tested is because I am of european descent. I have actually studied my ancestry, just as a hobby. I know "avoid genealogies". But it was just for fun. I checked out my ancestry and I am mainly of english descent. The vast majority of my blood is english blood. Most of my ancestors came over here in the 16, 17 hundreds. But I also have alot of swedish and danish, irish and swiss. So pretty much all of those barbarians, the barbarian tribes of europe. I'm definately of japheth, from what I've studied. But when we went to the DNA lab, he said "expect surprises". Because he said there are ALWAYS surprises. ALWAYS. And we asked him, "how far does this go back?". And he said "this will go back four or five thousand years. And he said, we are going to tell you, we test against 400 different nationalities, I mean just all different...". He said just of the jews, they test against 9 different subgroups of the jews, the sephardic jews, the ashkenazi jews. He said "we're going to test you against 400 different nationalities, and we're going to give you the top 50." The top 50 in order, like, you are the most of this, then this, then this. And he said "expect surprises". He showed us his own and it was such a mixture of so many things. Let me explain something to you. Nobody walks into that DNA lab and just walks out with one thing on the list. You know, it's just like... Caucasian. Or just like, somebody just walks out, it's just like... Jewish. It's just like, Chinese. No. And I will tell you why. Because mankind has been mingled alot in the last... I mean if you think that today there are just pure Jews and pure gentiles, you are very mixed up. The Jews were scattered into all nations. And if the jews were scattered into all nations, and if many of them converted, to other religions, and many of them were even forced to convert to other religions... They did DNA testing on the people of spain... 25% of them had jewish blood, in spain. 25 per cent. Thirty to thirty five percent in parts of portugal. All over mexico, people today are discovering that they are descended from Jews. All over brazil and south america, why? Because there are so many jews who converted to catholicism in the spanish inquisition and at other different times. But not only that, there are entire nations of people who converted from other nationalities, they converted to Judaism. In the DNA lab we picked up a brochure, it told us in the brochure about the Khazars. And it said the Khazars were a nation of caucasian and central asian type people, around azerbaijan or ukraine today would be the area, and he said for hundreds of years, they existed as a nation that practiced Judaism. Starting in the 8th century after Christ. So all these white people with red hair, in the ukranian region converted unto judaism. And when their empire fell apart, they were scattered all throughout europe.

So alot of the people today who call themselves jews, are not even of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We talked to a rabbi, and we asked him if that's true, he said "well I don't even think I am of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob". He said "I'm the son of converts". "so why are you God's chosen people again? You don't believe the Bible and you're not even descended from Abraham? Why are christians considering you God chosen people again?". But here is the funny thing. I'd be willing to bet that Paul Wittenberger and I are going to come back with some Jewish on that list. Why? Because my ancestors are from europe, his ancestors are from europe, mainly germany. Germany is one of the biggest places where Jews lived, before the holocaust. So obviously there is intermarriage. And this guy explained to us, that alot of times, the people who people think are their ancestors, are not their ancestors. You know why? Adoption. CHildren are adopted, and that gets forgotten. I don't say, you know 10 generations ago, they were adopted. I don't know that. You know, adultery, adoption. There are all types of different ways that paternity... people commit adultery, people tell their children "this is your dad" and it's not really their dad. People are adopted. People are just fornicating. And the guy said, "if your ancestors are from a coastal region, where ships are coming and going all the time from all over the world", he said "you are going to have a alot of stuff mixed in". I was like "how dare you say that about my ancestors! (Joking, Laughs) Why are you saying that my ancestors are a bunch of fornicators and adultereous sailors?". But he was telling us, look, it's just reality. He is an expert. He is a scientist. He studies this stuff. He sees it every day. Every day people come in and get their DNA checked. And he said they're always shocked, they're always surprised. Why? And here is a great statement that he made. He said you know what, if you go back far enough, we're all the same. Because I said "well how far back is this going to go?". He said "you know what? the reason we only show you the top 50 is because if you go back far enough, you go back 5, 6, 7 hundred years, we're all the same." He said "especially if you go back 3, 4, 5 thousand years, we're all the same!". Why? because it's not like, well, these people are from Shem, these people are from Ham, these people are from Japheth... Anybody who knows anything about geneaology or DNA knows that that is ridiculous. To think that "these people are just purely white people". And "these people are just purely hispanic" and just purely black, and just purely chinese and just purely...". I'm telling you. It's not how it works. Because there are conquerors that come in and take over, and you know, all different travelling and migrating and different things of that nature. It doesn't matter what our nationality is. It doesn't what our ethnicity is. If it mattered God would tell us "embrace geneaologies". But instead He tells us to "avoid geneaologies". Why? because it does not matter what race we are of. It's meaningless. So don't you walk out of this sermon and say Pastor Anderson is a racist. Pastor Anderson is antisemitic. I promise you, I would be willing to bet every dollar that I have, which isn't that many, but I would be willing to bet every dollar that I have, that something is semitic is going to come back on that result. And when I say semitic I mean of Shem. That's one third of the nationalities on the world. There is no way that it is going to come back, just from Japheth from 1-50. Just not going to happen my friend.

So to sit there and say "you're racist, you're antisemitic!". I told a guy, I was out soulwinning, I told a guy. "You know the talmud was written after the NT". And he said, "you're a nazi, you're a skinhead". What in the? My hair is not that short buddy. But he called me a racist nazi skinhead. All I said, Quinn you were with me Quinn, is that all I said? He said, "our religion is older!". I said "Well, no, because you're religion is based on the Talmud which was written AD 500. And the NT is older than that." And he called me a skinhead. But this is what people will do to cover up for their lies, they just try to kill the messenger. And attack you. "You're a racist. You hate Jews!!". No, I don't. I never said anything hateful in this sermon toward the jews. I never said anything racist in this sermon. I am talking about a false religion, of judaism. Now listen, I am only halfway through my notes. I am going to do the other half tonight. You say, "no, that's got to be all the lies". No, there's more. Alright (LAUGHS) so... Just a quick review. Number one, the lie, they say "we believe the Bible". It's a lie. "We believe the Torah". It's a lie. Number two, they say "oh, the Talmud, that's from Moses, that's the Word of God". It's a lie. 2000 years later. Number 3, they say "oh, you know God's both male and female". That's a lie. "oh the jews didn't kill jesus, that's a myth". Well... that's a lie. They did. Not saying "YOU did", but they did. And last of all they say "oh the holocaust, that was christianity that did that". No, that was evolution and eugenics and darwinian theory that did that. Adolf Hitler was not... People say "Adolf Hitler was catholic!". He wascatholic like all kinds of people say they're catholic. But they never go to church, don't believe in it. They think, just because they are baptised... Hitler did not believe in any type of christianity, he was of Darwin and atheism. These are half the lies, the other half we will get into tonight. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for your word Lord, and most of all we thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Our messiah, the Word made flesh. We thankyou so much for the glorious NT of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Lord. Help us not to be fooled by so many that want to get us to go to the jews to teach us, and to go to the Torah, as if there is some difference between that and what we already have in our Bible. Just please help us to follow NT beliefs that you have given us Lord. And in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Friday, January 29, 2016

2 Thessalonians 1 Verse-by-Verse Bible Study

2 Thessalonians 1 Verse-by-Verse Bible Study

Video

August 12, 2015

Second Thessalonians, Chapter number one, the bible read, "Paul and Sylvanus and Timothius, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our father and the lord Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace from God our father, lord Jesus Christ." Now this book starts out with pretty much the identical wording that first Thessalonians started out with, it's from the same people, to the same people. In fact a lot of the same subjects are discussed in both books. Both books have a big emphasis on end times bible prophecy. They talk a lot about tribulation, they talk a lot about the second coming of Jesus Christ, and this chapter is no exception.

Now notice in verse number two it says, "Grace unto you and peace from God our father and the lord, Jesus Christ." When you read Paul's epistles, over and over again, you'll see something similar to that. Grace unto you and peace. It's interesting because it's always in that order, it's always grace and then peace. Why? Because the Bible teaches, for example, in Romans 5:1 it says, "therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ." So the Bible says by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast them. Before we're saved the Bible says that we're at amity with God, the wrath of God abides on those who do not believe in Jesus Christ. But, we have peace with God through salvation, which is through faith, which is by grace. That's why it's always in that order. Grace unto you, and peace, because you're never going to have peace without the grace of the lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says there's no grace to the wicked.

So the Bible says in verse number three, "we are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is neat, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of everyone of you toward each other abounded." Now, we all have faith, and obviously without faith, you wouldn't even be a child of God, you couldn't even be saved, because we're saved by faith. But, our faith grows after we're saved. The bible talks about how me move form faith to faith in Romans chapter one. So getting saved is easy, the bible says that if thou shalt confess by mouth to Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Some people wonder, did I believe enough, how much faith do you need? There was a guy who came to Jesus and said, "Lord I believe, help thou, mine unbelief. So that guy has a doubt, and yet Jesus came through for him, even though he had that doubt.

So the question is, how much do you have to believe. Jesus talks about the fact that even if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would be able to say to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea and it would be done for you. So it's not the quantity of our faith that matters, it's not how much did you believe or how much faith did you have. The thing that matters is whether all of your faith is on Jesus. The bible says in Act 8:37, "If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayeth." So it's not how much faith you have, it's just whether you choose to put all of your faith in Jesus. You can't be saved by having part of your faith in Jesus, and part of your faith in Buddha, or part of your faith in Jesus and part of your faith is in your own works, your own deeds. Rituals that you've gone through at your church, or the fact that you go to church. No, it has to all be the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and all of your faith is in him that saves you.

So you can have very little faith. But if you have enough faith to confess with your mouth to lord Jesus, just enough to say it, and believe, then that's enough faith to get you saved. But as we go through our Christian lives, hopefully our faith is increasing, we grow in faith. As we go through the Christian life we have less doubt and more faith. That's what the bible is talking about here when it says, in verse number three, it says "your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounded." So one of the things that he's complimenting this church for is that they're getting better, they're not backsliding, they're not going backward, but actually they're growing. Their faith is better than it was when he wrote first Thessalonians, their charity, their love one toward another is increasing and abounding as they go.

Look at verse four, "so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God." Now our modern word fro glory there would be bragging. He's saying we boast about, we brag about what a great church the church of Thessalonica is, "so that we ourselves glory in you, in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure." Now, tribulation is a very important word in the Bible, and it is especially important when we're talking about end times bible prophecy, because of course there's going to be the great tribulation that everyone talks so much about. When it comes to the rapture, or the doctrine of us being caught up together in the clouds with Christ when he returns and the trumpet sounds, people will talk a bout a pre-tribulation rapture, meaning a rapture that comes before the tribulation, a rapture that could happen any moment.

Then there are those who, rightly, believe in a post-tribulation rapture, meaning a rapture that comes after the tribulation. But what confuses a lot of people, is that they don't realize that the tribulation is not the same thing as God pouring out his wrath on this earth. Because people have been tricked into thinking that God pouring out his wrath is somehow referred to as the tribulation, they say "well why would God pour out his wrath on his own people?" Not realizing that, yes, the rapture is pre-wrath, but it's nor pre-tribulation. Because tribulation and wrath are two completely different things.

Now, it should be easy for someone to figure that out if they just read the New Testament a few times, because over and over again the New Testament uses this word tribulation, and it's so consistent, the way it's used. By the way, you look it up for yourself, 90% of the time the word tribulation is used in the New Testament, it's talking about believers going through tribulation. So we're not talking about the wrath of god. No, tribulation, simply put, means trouble, or affliction, or persecution. Those are words that are associated with tribulation in the New testament. Right here in this verse we see it coupled with persecution. He says "we thank god for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure." Notice persecution and tribulation are used in the same breath. Let's keep reading.

"Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer." So the suffering that they're going through, that's the persecutions and tribulations. Then it says this, "Seeing it as a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you." Now notice how it's used interchangeably with trouble there, he said they're troubling you, so God's going to give them tribulation in return. This is one of the few verses that refers to unbelievers going through tribulation as well. But of course, anybody can go through tribulation. Everybody has trouble in their life, I mean unsaved people, saved people got through trials, afflictions, troubles. Unsaved people could be persecuted for all manner of reasons, and so that has nothing to do with the great tribulation, except for the fact that the definition of the word applies to the great tribulation. So the tribulation is just a time of trouble, it's a time of affliction, and it's a time of persecution. And it is a time that Christians will be here for, and there's plenty of Scripture to prove that, and I'm going to prove that this evening from this very passage.

But let's keep reading here, it says "Seeing it as a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled," you see that? So it's used together with tribulation, "to you who are troubled, rest with us when the lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels." So let's look at a few scriptures on tribulation, flip over to second Corinthians chapter one. Second Corinthians one, because remember I told you that tribulation is associated with the word trouble, the word affliction, and the word persecution in the Bible. Look at Second Corinthians, chapter one, verse three, the Bible reads,"who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort, wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." So you see that tribulation and trouble are again used interchangeably again there.

Flip back to Romans, chapter number five, Romans chapter number five. Which is where that great verse is found, in verse one there, "therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," but the Bible reads as we continue in that chapter, "by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of god. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Now what did Paul say over in second Thessalonians chapter one? He said that he had gloried about them in the churches because of their patience and faith in all their persecutions and tribulations that they endure. So what are they being commended for? Patience and faith in tribulation.

What's he say in Romans five? The same thing, he says, that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope make us not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us for when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. SO what do we see here, tribulation in our live, troubles, trials persecutions, they work patience. Why? Because we learn that we have to put up with these things. We have to go through these rough times, we have to make it through these dark tunnels to get to the light at the other side. So, the more tribulations we go through, the more patience we develop, we learn to be content. We learn to have patience and to wait, but then it says that patience worketh experience. Obviously the more times we patiently go through tribulation, the more experience we have with it.

Then it says that experience worketh hope. And what does hope mean? Hope is when we believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and our hope is increased because of the fact that we've been through tribulations int he past and God always got us through it in the past, so if he always got us through it in the past, he's going to get us through it this time. Why? We have experience. We have patience, and that gives us hope. And he said hope maketh not ashamed. What he means there by being ashamed, if you study the bible on the word ashamed. When people are ashamed, basically it's when they've put their trust in somebody and they're let down. The bible talks about how if we trust in the Lord, we will not be ashamed, we're not going to be let down by him. We're not going to be left with egg on our face that basically God didn't come through for us. So he's saying, hope maketh not ashamed, God's not going to let us down. If we hope in him, if we trust in him, he's going to come through for us, and the more tribulations we go through, the more we know that to be the case.

So let me ask you this, are tribulations good in our live or bad? Well they're good, because they're working patience, he said we glory in tribulations. Does that sound like it's a bad thing? No, he's saying we glory in tribulations because we want patience, we want experience, we want hope. It's like David said in psalm 1:19, "it's good for me that I've been afflicted, that I might thy word." Afflicted, tribulation, those two words are related. So all throughout the bible we see that this is something that Christians go through, it makes them stronger and it builds their character.

Now back in second Thessalonians, chapter one, it says that "we ourselves glory in you and the churches of god for your patience and faith, and all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer." Seeing it as a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. Why is that a righteous thing with god. Well, if someone troubles someone else, then god is going to bring that back around to them. Because the bible says, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." He that leadeth into captivity shall go away into captivity. He that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Notice those tow words, patience and faith. So all this stuff goes together when you study the bible and put it all together. That was a quote by the way, from Revelation chapter 13, which is an important tribulation chapter.

We see here that the bible is saying that God will punish those who trouble us. That's why the bible says, "vengeance belongeth unto me, sayeth the lord, I will recompense." Which is why is says here that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and on them that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. Now this is a key here, because it says in verse seven, to you who are troubled, rest with us when? So we have some timing here, because he's talking about the fact that the believers who today are struggling, going through trials and tribulations, are one day going to have rest from their trials, rest from their troubles, rest from their labels, and the question is, when will they get that rest? Well the bible tells us when that rest will come.

The bible says when the lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. So is this saying, well you know you're going to have rest with us before the tribulation, you're going to disappear like on the Left Behind movie, and everybody's going to be wondering where is everybody and nobody's going to see Jesus coming in the clouds because it's a secret rapture. Is that what this passage is teaching? No this passage teaches that we will have our rest, we will go to our rest when Jesus is revealed from heaven, meaning that people see him, and when he comes in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not the gospel, or know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ.

You see, Luke 17 makes it crystal clear, that just as the same day Noah entered into the ark, the flood came. And the same day that Lot was removed from Sodom and Gomorrah, God rained fire and brimstone. It's going to be exactly the same, in the day when the son of man shall be revealed, same word. It says when the son of man shall be revealed, then shall two be in the field, the one shall be taken, the other left, etc. All of this fits together, the only people who don't see it are people who just don't want to see it, because Luke 17 is consistent with first Thessalonians four and five, second Thessalonians one is telling us the same thing. And all the other passages the book of Revelation, it all fits together perfectly once you just read it and take it for what it says. Now stop and think about this, back when we were in first Thessalonians, we nailed down the timing of the rapture right there in first Thessalonians, because it said that the timing of the rapture was basically the same timing as the day of the lord.

He described the rapture and he said, but of the times and seasons brethren, you have no need that I write unto you, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the lord so cometh as a thief in the night for when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction come up on them, as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. So notice the same day that we're caught up together to be with Christ in the clouds, sudden destruction is coming upon them, those that are the unbelievers. Doesn't that sound like in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not god and obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. Not only that, but when you go to the book of Revelation and you look up where the day of the lord occurs, easy to find, because the sun and moon are darkened and the stars fall, Revelation six.

What do you see in Revelation six happening? Well first there's silence in heaven about the space of half an hour and then he's raining fire and brimstone, that's the first step to God pouring out his wrath. The first trumpet, and in fact, even before the first trumpet sounds, just when the seventh seal is opened, the angel takes fire from the altar and casts fire into the earth, but then when the first of the seven trumpets sounds, when the first trumpet sounds, it talks about fire and brimstone raining from heaven, and the third part of the trees being burnt up and all of the green grass burnt up. It sounds to me like Jesus Christ in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. So the when here is key.

Look at Revelation chapter one if you would, Revelation chapter number one because revelation chapter one makes this very clear as well. Right toward the beginning of the book of revelation, while you're turning there I'll read to you verse nine, because verse nine gives us another great mention of tribulation in the bible. It says, "I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom in patience," notice how patience and tribulation are often associated, because it's something that we have to patiently endure, "and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the aisle that was called Patmas for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." Back up to verse seven, this is right at the beginning of the book of revelation. I consider this to be the most important verse in the entire book of Revelation, this is the key verse.

The reason I say that, it's given a place of preeminence, notice it has an amen right before it and an amen right after it. It's set off by amens, like it's just a standalone verse there, just its own statement. It reminds me of when you'd write an essay in school and they'd have you give a topic sentence, or some kind of a key sentence. This is the key sentence of the book of revelation it says, "Behold, he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him, even so, amen." Again fits perfectly with the day of the lord. Hey, Jesus is coming in the clouds, and the unbelievers will be wailing, they will be weeping, and the trumpet will sound and the believers will be caught up together with Christ and those who are on this earth will have God's wrath poured out upon them, so the pre-tribulation rapture is false. Okay, because this all happens after the tribulation.

The bible says in Matthew 24:29 that after the tribulation the sun and moon are darkened, the stars fall, etc. That's when the day of the lord takes place, that's when the rapture takes place, that is known as the second coming of Jesus Chris, and that is when he begins to pour out his wrath on this earth, pouring out his wrath will take place over the ours of several years, and then at the end of those several years, Jesus Christ will ride in on the white horse at Armageddon and set up an earthly millennial kingdom, Satan will be bound into the bottomless pit, etc. So back to second Thessalonians chapter one here, now that we got that timing nailed down of when our rest will some, and we notice that is fits in perfectly with Matthew 24, mark 13, Luke 21, first Thessalonians four and five, all of the passages fit together perfectly.

Look what it say is verse eight, "in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our lord, Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and for the glory of this power. Now there's a doctrine out there that a lot of people teach that hell is separation from God, and this is a really popular doctrine, the Jehovah's witnesses will take about this, the pope has made statements about this, and even independent baptists will constantly tell you that hell is separation from god. Many even have it in their statement of faith. Now this is a bad doctrine because of the fact that it's used to try to tone down what hell is really like, instead of focusing on what the bible focuses on, that hell is fire, brimstone, torture, torment, no rest day or night, no water, this horrible place. Here's what they say, " Well hell is just being separated form god."

If you would, flip over the Revelation 14, keep your finger there and save Thessalonians one, but go to Revelation 14. I've even heard them say this, "Well the worst part about hell is that you're separated from God." Not the fact that you're on fire, not the fact that you're there forever being tortured, but no, no, no, the worst part is that you are separated from God. Nonsense, here's the thing about that. Unsaved people don't really care if they're separated from God. In fact there are plenty of atheists and plenty of reprobates out there who would be glad to tell you that they would enjoy being separated from God for all eternity. In fact, when you describe the God of the Bible to them, they'll say things like "Well if that's the way God is, then I'd rather just go to hell, just to get away from him. I don't even want to go to heaven if the God of the Bible is real."

We've all heard atheists make statements like that. But the truth of the matter is that those who are in hell are not separated from God. This view is a false doctrine, and it was created by people who wanted to downplay the significance of hell, people like Billy graham, people like the pope, who want to be popular, and they basically would just say, "well hell is just separation from God." I remember when I was a teenager, and you know you do a lot of prank calling when you're a teenager sometimes, but anyway, I was a t a friends house, and we were used to calling 1-800 numbers and whatever as a kid. So he calls the 1-800 number on the Billy Graham crusade. He said, "let's call the Billy graham crusade and see what they say." So he calls the Billy Graham crusade on the 1-800 number and asks them hey what do I need to do to be saved, and of course they gave him a totally wrong answer.

But he asked the operator, and I was sitting there listening with him, he asked the operator he said, "well, what about hell? What do you believe about hell." And he said, "well, I don't want to go beyond what the bible says." Because my friend point blank asked him is hell a place of fire? He said "well the bible doesn't really tell us." He said, "now I don't want to go beyond what the bible says," he said, "but there's one thing we know about hell, is that it's separation from God. That's the one thing we know. Fire, not sure." It's amazing how people still listen to Billy Graham, when he flat out said, "I don't know if there's any fire in hell." Well you're not reading the bible then Billy boy, because the bible says over and over again hellfire, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, I'm in torment int his flame. Hey just in case you don't understand, fire, flame! I mean just, every possible way of telling you you're on fire in hell, but look at what the bible says in the Revelation 14 and tell me if hell is separation from god according to the Bible.

It says in verse nine, "and the third angel followed them saying, with a loud voice, 'if any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ,and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the lamb.'" So the bible says they'll be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of Jesus, because the lamb is Jesus. Then it says in the next verse, "And the smoke of their torment I sendeth up forever and ever and they have no rest day or night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." Not only that, but back in the book of Psalms, David said if I ascend into heaven, thou art there, and he said if I make my bed in hell, behold thou are there.

See god is everywhere, he's in heaven, he's in hell He's everywhere. He's omnipresent is the word that we would use to describe that, and right here it specifically tells us, that people who are being tormented in hell are being tormented in the presence of the lamb. So it's not a separation from God, it's torment in his presence. Now keep your finger there in Revelation 14, and back in second Thessalonians one, you'll see a verse that is sometimes misused to state that hell is separation from god, because they'll point to this verse that says, who shall be punished, verse nine, of course the flaming fire was in verse eight, but in verse nine it says "who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his power." They interpret that as, away from the presence of the lord, away from the presence of his power.

A big reason for this is because a lot of the new modern perversions of the Bible actually change this verse to something along those lines. This is one of the reasons that it's so important to be reading a King James bible, because the new version have been tampered with. They're being translated from there false manuscripts, the Vaticanist, the Sinaiaticist manuscripts, just all of Westcott and Hort influence, Nestle Allen, all this garbage. The King James is the only bible that has all the verse in it, that's untampered with. That's a whole another subject for another sermon. But one of the main changes that, one of the biggest, most popular versions will make, to this chapter, is that they'll change this verse. So for example, the NIV, the best-selling book in america today in 2015 will change this verse, instead of saying "from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his power," it says that they'll be shut out from the presence of the lord, so they add that in to change the meaning.

Now if we look at the verse for what it actually says, it says they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his power. What this is actually saying, and I'm going to prove it to you, what this is actually saying is that the destruction is from the presence of the lord. It's not saying that they're going somewhere away from the presence of the lord. It says they'll be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord, and from the glory of his power. I'll prove it to you, go to Revelation 15, you got your finger there in Revelation 14, and we can compare grammar with grammar. Here's a verse in Revelation 15:8, that uses the same exact grammar as second Thessalonians one, it says "and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no man was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angles were fulfilled.

Now notice the beginning there, the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God. IS that saying away from, shut out from? No, what it's saying here is that the glory is coming from the Lord. So it says, the temple is filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, that's the source. So look back at second Thessalonians one, they'll be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his power. Say word from the glory, from the glory. Both say from the glory and it's both talking about the source of where the destruction's coming form in this passage or where the smoke is coming form int he other passage.

Now go back to the book of Isaiah, because you say, "well how is the destruction coming from the lord?" Well it should be obvious because of the fact that hell was created by God. A lot of people think of hell as being some kind of a kingdom of the devil where he rules and reigns. Go to chapter 30 in Isaiah, but actually hell is a place where the devil himself will be tormented for all eternity. He's not going to be ruling and reigning down there. He's a victim of the punishment of hell. It's actually God who rules over hell. Jesus said "I have the keys of hell and of death." And the angel of the bottomless pit that opens and shuts it, known as Abadon, or Apollion in the book of Revelation is not the devil.

Here's the proof, he throws the devil into hell a few chapters later. So how could they be the same person? Look at Isaiah chapter 30, verse 33. For Tophet, and tophet is a word being used here for Hell. Because tophet is gahenna, the valley of the sun of hennum. If you study the word tophet int he ible, you'll see it's synonymous with the valley of the suns of hennum or Gahenna, which is a picture of hell in the Bible. The bible says in verse 33, "for Tophet is ordained of old. Yay for the king it is prepared, he hath made it deep and large, the pile thereof is fire and much wood, the breath of the lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it." So it is actually the lord's breath that kindles the fires of hell according to Isaiah 30, verse 33. That concept is present throughout the bible that hell is somewhere that God created as a punishment for the devil and his angels. And he created it and it's a place that he rules and reigns over because he rules and reigns over everything and everyone because he's God.

So the bible says in second Thessalonians, chapter one, "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction form the presence of the Lord and fromt eh glory of his power." Now some people will try to say obey the gospel means you have to work your way to heaven. I've had people pull this out and say, "Well you know you have to obey the gospel." But here's the thing, what is the gospel? The gospel is the good new. Gospel literally means glad tidings. So if the gospel is the good news and if the gospel is defined in first Corinthians 15 as the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, that Jesus died for our sins and that he was buried and the rose from the dead, if that's what the gospel is, is that Jesus died for our sins, the only way to obey that is to believe that. See the command of the gospel is believe I'm the lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's an imperative by the way, that's a command.

The sentence believe I'm the lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved is an imperative sentence. It's a command, so are you going to obey that command? How do you obey it? By living a good life? No you obey the command to believe on Jesus Christ, you obey the gospel which is the death burial and resurrection by quitting drinking. By turing over a new leaf, by living a good life. Of course not. No you obey the gospel by believing the gospel. So that's all that's referring to when it says obey the gospel. They don't obey the gospel, they're going to be punished in flaming fire. Notice he doesn't say, "hey people who don't live a good enough life are going to be punished." No, it's people that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. They will be punished and it doesn't matter how good of a person they think they are, or other people think they are, if they know not god, and obey not the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ, they will be punished with flaming fire and with destruction. By the way that destruction is an everlasting destruction.

We saw it in Revelation 14 when it talked about how the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever and they have no rest day or night. Hell is a very scary place. It's a very fearful, scary, terrible place, and that's why people need to be saved, to escape the fires of hell. That's why we go out and try to reach people, and knock every single door in our area over and over again, pleading with people to be saved because we don't want them to go to hell. And God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So the bible says here in verse number 10, "when he shall come to be glorified, in his saints." Now here's another when, and it's the same when as we saw earlier. We're still talking about the same event in all these verses, it's a continuation of the same sentence, in fact.

"When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, because our testimony among you was believed I that day." Now again, those who obey the gospel are equated with who? Those who believed, because he said a minute ago, well the people that are getting punished, they obeyed not the gospel. Next verse he says that he's glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that believe. Watch this, all them that believe. All of them. Not just, well the ones that believed and did other stuff too. The ones that believed and led a good life, and joined the church and got baptized and repented of all their sins, that's not what it says. It says to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day. Because of the fact that when Paul came and preached the gospel, they believed it. They obeyed the gospel, they received the lord Jesus Christ their savior.

That's why they're going to be on the right side of things on that day when Jesus Christ comes in the clouds on the day of the lord. They're going to be on the right side. Those who had not believe are on the wrong side. Those who believed are on the right side. Again it comes back to salvation being 100% by faith, not of works, lest any man should boast. Verse 11 says this, "Wherefore also, we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, that the name of our lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him according to the grace of our God and the lord Jesus Christ."

Now, go if you would to second Timothy, chapter number two, second Timothy, chapter number two. Because they've believed already, he's writing to the saints, he's saying our testimony among you was believed, you're saved, you're going to be on the right side of things. But then he goes on to say that he's praying for them though, that they would walk worthy of that calling. There are a lot of scriptures that say something similar to that in the New Testament. Walk worthy of your calling, and to be worthy, and also he's praying that they would fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power. So it's not that God doesn't want us to work. The bible says, "For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god, lest any man should boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So god has ordained works for us to do, and we should walk in them. What must we do to be saved? Believe, that's it. But what should we do after we're saved? Well we should do works.

So Paul here is saying, "look, you're going to heaven, you're not going to burn in hell, why? Because you believed, but I'm praying for you because I want you to also work, and I want God to work in you, and I want God to fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness in you by the work of faith with power. Why? That the name of our lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and the lord Jesus Christ." So he's saying, not only do I want you to be saved, not only do I want you to got o heaven versus hell, but I want you to glorify God, I want you to bring him glory by fulfilling the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith by power. He's saying I want god to be glorified in you, and then one day God can glorify you, because you'll be rewarded with him.

Now in second Timothy, chapter two, it says in verse number 19, "nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his and let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." So does God want us to part from iniquity? Of course, but here's the thing. We don't have to depart from iniquity to be saved, or else, number one, no one would be saved, because no one has completely departed form iniquity, nobody's perfect. And then secondly, that would be salvation by works, because departing from inquity's a lot of work. It takes a lot of effort to live right and do good things and abstain from sin. That's hard work. So the bible says let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity, but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also avoidant of earth, and some to honor, and some to dishonor. What's he saying? There are children of god, there are vessels of God, vessels of the holy spirit, that bring honor to our lord Jesus Christ, and then there are others that bring dishonor to our lord Jesus Christ.

Think about it, if you're saved and you name the name of Christ and you're a believer, but then you go out and live, according to the course of this world, you go out and live as a heathen, you go out and live just like the ungodly, well then that gives Christianity a bad name, and it gives our lord Jesus and the gospel a band name. You are a bad testimony when you do that, you're a vessel unto dishonor. You're bringing dishonor to the Lord. And he says in a great house there are going to be vessels of honor, and vessels of dishonor, and even amongst God's kingdom and even amongst God's children, there are God's children that make him proud, that honor him and glorify him, and then there are God's children that bring shame and reproach to the name of Jesus Christ.

Now they're both saved. It'd be sort of like if you had children and you had a child who did something right, that would bring honor to you, and then you had a child who disobeyed you, and in fact they embarrassed you publicly, or humiliated you by doing something so stupid. Imagine having a child who went out and got drunk, or a child who went out and got pregnant out of wedlock, or a child who went out and just did some major sin that was as public and visible, that would be dishonoring to you as the parent. Then bible's teaching that we dishonor Christ when we go out and break his commandments and live a life of iniquity, so Paul is praying at the end of second Thessalonians chapter one, that they would be a vessel unto honor, that they would honor and glorify the lord Jesus Christ, and not be a shame and a reproach unto him. That's hwy the bible says there in verse 12 or chapter one of second Thessalonians that the name of our lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and the lord Jesus Christ.

We all have God's grace through faith if we believe in the gospel, but we need to walk in that grace, we need to not only take advantage of God's grace that saves us, but we should also take advantage of the grace of God that actually enables us to serve him, and to obey him. The power of the holy spirit that will help us turn from sin, that will help us do great work for him, not in our own strength, not in our own power, not because of our own merits, but by his grace. He allows us the privilege that we don't deserve, of serving him, and of being a better person, and of following his word and succeeding and being able to say like Paul, "I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me." That's the grace of God that even gives us the ability to do what's right. Like when Paul said, "I thank Christ Jesus our lord who has enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." God enables us to do what's right through the power of the holy spirit, through his word, and through the resources he's given us in the local church, pastors, teachers, the word of God itself.

So we can live a life that pleases the Lord, we can live a life that honors and glorifies him, but listen, not every Christian lives a life that brings honor to our savior, some people are a dishonor. It doesn't mean they're not saved, just like if your child dishonored you, they'd still be your child. Even if they humiliated you, and were a shame unto you, you'd still still say, well yeah that's my son. And you'd still love them, just like the prodigal son, as an example, goes out and humiliates the father by going out and living a life of riotous living, wasting his substance, but yet the father is still his father, still his dad, when he comes home he says "Make me as a hired servant." But no, he's a son, once a son, always a son. That's one of the things that we can learn from this passage in second Thessalonians chapter one.

Now in second Thessalonians chapter two, we get really into some of the heavy bible prophecy of second Thessalonians, it's a very key passage, it starts out in verse one, "Now we beseech you brethren, by the coming of our lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him." So you can see right there, that the chapter is going to deal with the coming of Jesus Christ, and it's going to deal with what we know as the rapture, because it says, "by the coming of our lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him." That's going to be the key in chapter two. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.

Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for this chapter, and for what we can learn from it, please just fill us with your spirit Lord, as we study your word, that we have understanding. Open our eyes lord, that we would see the plain truths or your work, help us not to have preconceived ideas that someone has put in our head about bible prophecy that it's got to be a preacher of rapture, Lord. Help us to be able to see past that, and just read the word for what it says, with the holy spirit as our teacher. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.