Six Irrational Beliefs: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 In the New Testament the New Testament is going to. Expose. Six. Unreasonable. Illogical. Irrational and extreme beliefs first we’re going to go to acts. 238 Acts 238 says the Sadducees which is a religious group of the Jews back then like the catholic and the protestants are today the Sadducees say there’s no resurrection angel nor spirit now the Sadducees is the group the religious group that the high priest came out of so the leader of the temple in Jerusalem was a sadducee and they didn’t even believe in the resurrection which if you go to the Old Testament scriptures job says I know my redeemer lives and I will stand before him in the last days and I will see him for myself not another and in the Psalms God will not leave my soul in the grave and there’s other scriptures of the resurrection but like extreme people they just get an idea and then they distort things to uh fit their idea their belief no angels angels visited Abraham angels visited.

▶ 1:30 Lot you know angels are all through the Bible both new and Old Testament and yet they say there’s no angels the spirit the Bible says I will pour out my spirit on all flesh in the last days they didn’t believe in that just like a lot of people don’t believe in it today and the spirit of the Lord came upon Samson the spirit of the Lord came upon David spirit of the Lord came up this person that person and so forth. Yet they did not believe in the Spirit but the Pharisees confessed all of these the problem with the Pharisees in Matthew. 23:3 is the Pharisees and scribes say the right stuff they believe in the ten commandments they believe in angels and resurrection and spirit they just don’t do.

▶ 2:24 It they commit adultery they steal they lie and know they dishonor their parents they taught the right doctrine they just never lived it Matthew 5:20 says except your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees you won’t even enter the kingdom of heaven and so righteousness is part of God’s plan to get into the eternities not just believing like the Pharisees did but doing what God said to do in Matthew 15:9 and 16:12 Jesus said beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the scribes and the Sadducees beware of those doctrines so doctrine is important and Jesus said they teach for doctrines the doctrines of men they come up with their own.

▶ 3:18 Concoctions instead of the scriptures he says these Pharisees they give me lip service they profess me with their mouth but they don’t know me. Their heart their mind their emotions are far from me and so we are to exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees and not be fooled by that kind of doctrine unreasonable irrational. Teachings the second one is 2 Timothy 2:17 Hymenaeus and Philetus have strayed from the truth you see now that. That really is a scripture that says once saved always saved is. Bogus you see you don’t stray from something you weren’t.

▶ 4:10 Weren uh with you have to be with it to stray from it and these guys strayed from the truth and this is how they strayed from the truth they said the resurrection is already passed and they weren’t quite about it they didn’t keep it to themselves they went out and [unclear] people and destroyed their faith and the rational thinking is when Jesus died on the cross the graves were open of the patriarchs of old scores of the patriarch’s graves were open the Bible says and when Jesus rose on that Sunday morning these saints of old rose also and they appeared to many in Jerusalem they went and knocked on door they talked to people and so they had a rational reason as well the resurrection’s already passed but the irrational thinking is you’re going to take a few a few scores of patriarchs are going to make it in the rapture and the everybody else is going to stay in the grave it doesn’t make sense does.

▶ 5:18 It that’s irrational there has to be another resurrection Christ didn’t die for just the patriarchs of old he died for the sins of the whole world the people of the whole world and he will resurrect them and so here two people united together to go and teach a doctrine that was extreme and totally irrational but they could use scriptures to prove it they’re thinking but if they balance the scriptures out it doesn’t work it is extreme and it is irrational in Acts 15:1 certain men from Judea taught the brethren except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses you cannot be saved now we know that circumcision is the cutting off of the foreskin of the male.

▶ 6:15 Genital now the problem with if you got to be circumcised to be saved what do women. Do you see they can’t be saved or they’re so pure and us men are so bad that we have to have a little extra thing thrown in to get us. Saved you see see it’s irrational it’s unreasonable it’s. Extreme. And they ignored the Scriptures circumcision was a shadow law of water baptism. Paul made it plain in Colossians 2:11 you have put off the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him and risen with him in water.

▶ 7:17 Baptism you see circumcision was a shadow law pointing to water baptism that would be used of God to cleanse you from your sin am. Amen in Acts 22:16. Paul Ananias came to Paul there after his eyes were blinded now they’re open and Ananias said Paul what are you waiting for rise up get water baptized to wash away your sins and you shall be filled with the Holy Spirit and you call on Jesus in Acts 2 repent every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus. Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the Holy Spirit it’s a package deal repentance Holy Spirit forgiveness.

▶ 8:15 Deliverance but they ignore these scriptures and these teachings in Matthew. 22:9 here’s the Sadducees again they come down to trick Jesus and they said Jesus you know there was this guy now remember they don’t believe in a resurrection so publicly they tried to trick Jesus and they said there’s this guy that he married a woman and he died and his brother married her and he died and the next brother married her and he died and so forth now in the resurrection whose wife is she going to be and they thought they had Jesus because to them. You’re going to be married in heaven and a lot of people believe that malarkey. Today and Jesus says you are you are very mistaken because you don’t understand the scriptures and you don’t understand the power of God in the resurrection they don’t marry they are not given in marriage they are as the angels angels are spirits there’s no marriage in heaven there’s no sex in heaven there’s no virgins in heaven for you men so get over.

▶ 9:43 It and there’s no. Reincarnation it’s appointed a man wants to die and after death the judgment you don’t come back as anything you had your chance here and that’s why we need the scriptures that’s why we need the Bible to keep us solid in knowledge and understanding and on the right. Track then we have in acts. 21 Paul goes down to Jerusalem to keep the feast he’s in there shaved his head and he’s keeping the feast and worshiping. God and uh these Jews began to recognize who he is and he had been talking teaching the Gentiles and telling the Gentiles that they don’t need to be circumcised and you know they don’t need to keep these shadow laws and so forth and so these thousands of Jews which believe what kind of Jews were they believers what did they believe in Jesus Christ the savior they believed in Jesus were they saved yes they were saved folks he said there’s thousands of them and they’re.

▶ 11:02 Believers okay but what is their irrational. Problem they are all zealous of the law zealous of what law civil law no wise laws no spiritual laws no they’re zealous of shadow laws they want to keep their circumcision that Paul was saying we don’t do now they want to keep sacrificing animals which Paul said we don’t do that now Jesus is the sacrifice they don’t keep the diet. Anymore you see the diet was an illustration of righteousness Christ our righteousness he makes us righteous we don’t need to not eat shrimp or catfish or pig we can eat it now we we don’t have to abstain from it because it was a sh.

▶ 12:00 Aot the temple they were zealous of the temple the temple was just a building we are the temple of God Paul taught all these things and so they got mad they they still they wanted to believe in Jesus but they wanted to keep their old cultural rituals and and and and beliefs so they rejected the truths that worked and they wanted to keep they wanted to believe in Jesus but keep. These uh example. Laws and they actually went and seized Paul and they were going to kill him until the roman soldier stepped in and so believers can be. Believers and they can still have some extreme beliefs in their life and believes that they will kill you over.

▶ 12:59 They’re going to kill Paul the last one Mark 152 Jesus was brought before Pilate and Pilate says are you the king of the Jews he was arrested for saying he was the king of the Jews was he the king of the Jews yes was he the king of every nation yeah he was saying the telling the truth but the Jews did not believe that they’ve believed that a king was coming that would set up their natural kingdom again restore their natural kingdom and rule here on earth that’s what they were looking for they were looking for that kind of king and Jesus didn’t come that way but he was still what king of the Jews and so Pilate believed.

▶ 13:51 Jesus Jesus convinced Pilate that he was king of the Jews and Pilate went out to the people and he and he brought Jesus out and said said behold your king and they go well he’s not our king and then Pilate again says this is Jesus king of the Jews this is your king and they go no he’s not our king and he was their king so he says what would you want me to do with the king of the Jews and they said.

▶ 14:26 Crucify and so Pilate knew and Pilate’s wife told him don’t mess with this guy she had some dreams and stuff and she says don’t mess with this guy so Pilate went and gave into the crowd and then washed his hands like some kind of ritual is going to uh save him from a bad decision in Acts 1:6 the apostles are caught up into this thing here’s Jesus he he was resurrected he came back to visit the apostles he’s teaching the apostles he’s there on the last day and before he ascends they say are you going to at this time restore the kingdom to Israel give us our natural land back our our borders back see why cuz they were looking that’s what they were looking for they were looking for a prophet they were looking for a messiah and they were looking for a king because the scripture said they were going to come they had no idea that all three was in Jesus Christ and then they forgot these apostles that in Luke 17:21 Jesus said the kingdom of God is within you what he saying I come to rule and reign in your life over.

▶ 15:44 You okay they forgot about. That in John. 6:14 Jesus had just fed the multitudes with a few loaves and a few fishes. And the people began to say this is that prophet that should come into the world I told you the Jews then were looking for the prophet that was promised like Moses the messiah that was promised to save the world and the king that was promised to come they were looking for them and here they realized that Jesus is the prophet and Jesus is the king and Jesus perceived that they would take him by force to make him a king and so he departed from him so they could not do that you see they were so stuck on their interpretation of the Scriptures.

▶ 16:42 To a natural kingdom being restored and a natural king over them they could not see Jesus for their own interpretation of scriptures and I submit to you isn’t that true today. Let’s look at six questionable doctrines today all. Right if believers could be. Fooled and could be extreme in the new. Testament and they could be. Irrational in the New Testament during Christ time the apostles time is possible we can be extreme and unreasonable.

▶ 17:35 Today yes and how many don’t want to do that I I don’t want to do that God help me deliver me from extremism and and deliver me from un being an unreasonable person that won’t accept the truth because I got some cocky ideal in my head of what’s. Right and that’s what Paul said said deliver us from unreasonable people and that could be. Me you looking in the mirror deliver me from my unreasonable. Self so let’s look at the imminent return of Jesus number one the Bible says he will come at the appointed time how many you know if there’s an appointed time it’s not just any time.

▶ 18:30 Ain’t that right if you’re waiting for the airport the plane at the airport how many you know there’s an appointed time it’s going to depart it’s going to arrive. Yes all right now Paul said we could hasten the coming of the Lord did you know that how do we hasten it by. Righteousness and what does that tell us that tells us there is a move of God coming folks. God’s not done visiting this earth there is a move of God coming where the church is going to live up to being a light to the world that people see our good works. Hallelujah that’s not the only problem with the imminent return and this is a very popular teaching out.

▶ 19:24 There the Bible says that all the prophecies will be fulfilled before before Jesus comes well there’s some prophecies that haven’t been. Fulfilled let’s take the olive. Tree the olive tree the natural branches were cut off in Romans and the wild olive the Gentiles me and you were grafted in to Jesus the olive tree and he said if you can be grafted in then the natural branches that were cut off could also be grafted back. In a’t that what it said and then he makes this statement so that all Israel shall be.

▶ 20:17 Saved now folks Israel has their nation back their natural land back but like 60 70% of those in Israel are atheists they don’t believe in God but here we see that God’s going to visit natural Israel and what bring them to the savior Jesus Christ and graft them back in so again there is a visitation of God coming on the earth that’s going to draw in the Jews the Bible says that the gospel will be preached to all nations the gospel shall be preached to all nations as a witness.

▶ 21:01 All right in Hebrews it says that God bore witness with the apostles through signs and wonders and different miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost and we see the apostles going out and you know they’re raising the dead and and and they’re being stoned and coming back to life and all kinds of miracles all kinds of signs and wonders are happening back in the early church but the Bible says there’s going to be a witness of the gospel before Jesus comes we’re talking about a river that’s going to flood this earth with signs and wonders bringing witness that the gospel of Jesus Christ his death his burial his resurrection he born of a virgin he is the savior he is the healer he is the miracle worker that the world is going to come like they did at the early church time church raptured before the great tribulation this is the problem you got Jesus said in the world you will have what tribulation.

▶ 22:09 H Jesus said through much tribulation you enter what the kingdom. H and when Jesus talked about his second coming he plainly. Said after the great tribulation of those days you shall see the sign of the son of man coming in heaven civil government is Satan’s to give they take this out of Jesus when he was in the desert and Satan came to t tempt him in the last one was if you worship me I’ll give you the kingdoms of the world for they are mine to give and so as a big do especially in the fundamental circles big doctrine to stay out of politics. They’re of the Devil but when you go to the Bible it says when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice oh the righteous.

▶ 23:11 Wouldn’t it be wise to have righteous leaders rather than corrupt leaders. Amen he that ruleth over men the Bible says must be just ruling in the fear of God the fear of God is to depart from evil and yet they don’t want us to be involved in government they want to turn it over to the children of Satan and this is a this is a very destructive teaching and it’s still rampant in America and we’ve exported it to our third world nations we export a lot of our junk through missionaries to third world nations all religions lead to the same God. Oprah Winfrey, Joel

▶ 24:04 Osteen, these people they say this even homosexuals are making it into the kingdom adulterers can get into the kingdom anybody can get into the kingdom when the Bible says the Lord thy God is one Lord there is none other beside thee thou alone art. Thou alone are God there is only one God there’s only one way there’s only one truth there’s only one life and that is the God of the Bible the Jesus of the Bible the way of the Bible and the truth of the Bible there is only one God there’s one way one truth one life Jesus said no man comes into God but by me either he lied.

▶ 25:00 And we are following a lie or he’s truth and he bears witness of the truth by his spirit in us the united states of America is in Bible. Prophecy the brethren have a real hard time with me when they bring up the united states in Bible. Prophecy it is not in the Bible I have looked thoroughly for it they use scriptures and Revelation and the Ezekiel and Daniel. To symbolize and all this America because we’re a are a great nation we’re a great industrial nation no nation has accomplished what America has accomplished in the short time that it’s been a nation that is true but that doesn’t mean it is prophesied in the Bible but none of them are more questionable than saved by faith alone.

▶ 25:58 It does not say that in the Bible number one in. Fact in James 2:24 it. Says you see then that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone not by faith alone. When you go to Ephesians chapter 2:8 for by grace are we saved through faith and that not of itself that is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast they stop. There now folks there is no work that you can do to qualify to be saved from your sin saved from the day of wrath and save from the lake of fire that’s the three things that Jesus saved us from there’s no work that you can do but but when you go on to the next verse it says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

▶ 27:06 unto good works we are his workmanship he is fashioning us to be people that do what good works which God had ordained that we should walk in them what is them good works you see it’s good works that keeps your family together and makes your family healthy it’s good works that makes a community healthy and strong it’s good works that makes a nation healthy and strong yes we can’t buy our way into being saved from sin and having eternal life and escaping the day of wrath and escaping the lake of fire but folks he saved us to be people that are light to the world that they may see your what good works and bring honor to who your father in heaven not you Isaiah 63:9 in his what.

▶ 28:13 What love not faith not grace in his love and in his pity. Compassion. He redeemed them he purchased them he saved. Them what did motivate what motivated him to deliver them their faith grace grace the divine. Enablement it’s his love but you never hear this scripture quoted when it comes to. Salvation does the Bible say that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life John 3:16 the scripture heard around the world yes for God so faith the world no did God ask the world if you got faith I’ll.

▶ 29:14 Come you see these faith people have us so distorted that we think we have something special in this if I can just work up in the faith ah nothing is impossible for. Me it’s his love folks it’s his love his death on the cross was an act of love him coming and living in the flesh was an act of love his miracles and his teaching was an act of love it was love 2 Thessalonians 2:10 talking about the wicked one all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. Okay. Unrighteousness leads to. Destruction because why why are these being destroyed because they receive not the faith of the truth.

▶ 30:15 No the grace of the truth the belief of the truth no they received not what the love of the truth that they might will be what saved how were they saved with. Love and we’re missing this our focus is so much on grace and faith and and all this nonsense that we lose sight that we are saved by love Romans 11:18 you do not support the root the root supports you remember he says I am the vine and you are the branches without me you can do nothing without me who does it start with my faith or his love his love he’s the root in the offspring of David he is the tree I’m grafted into he is the root of it and when I’m plugged into him hallelujah things work in John 15:16 the same chapter you’ve not chosen me but I’ve chosen you and ordained you that you would bear for bring forth fruit and your fruit remain 1 John.

▶ 31:30 4:10 herein is love and we used this scripture last week not that we loved. God but that he loved us while we were still in trespasses and sin he loved us and died for us 1 Peter 4:8 love covers a multitude of sin hallelujah thank God 2 Corinthians 5:14 the love of Christ compels us moves us forces us his love is so powerful. Folks so. Powerful that he’ll forgive you 70 some 70 you give up on him the Bible says he does not give up on you because he remains. Faithful and he will work trying to win you to himself to the day you die.