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Thank you. This is What's Right, What's Left with Pastor Ernie Sanders. Good evening and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left, the voice of the Christian Resistance on this 8th day of September 2024. And tonight my producer is called Kindred Kinney. Hey Kinney.
How are you doing Pastor? Good. Do you know what that word kindred means, don't you? It's like kinship, like family, right? Well, no actually it means being of the same mindset. Being of the same mindset.
I know it's something like that. So, does that being of the same mindset with me, does that make you feel good, afraid? How does that make you feel?
It's an overflowing rush of every single emotion. All right. That's what we needed to hear.
All right, very good. Hey listen, I've got a really very interesting message this week, okay? I thought I'd preached on everything, you know, all these years preaching. But one thing I never preached on was the un, the un. The un.
Yeah. Do you know what that word un means? The un, the before word, like unawares, unbelievers, unclean, unfaithful, ungodly, unholy. It means like the opposite of the rest of the word. Yeah, it means without.
It means to be without. And so the title of the message is Having Knowledge of the Un. And we have the bad un's and we have the good un's.
And we're going to be taking a look at the bad un's and the good un's because we have knowledge of the un's. That's right. We're smarter than people think, right? I mean... I would assume.
Yeah. I mean if you go up to somebody on the street and say, what do you know about the un's? What do you think they'd say?
I'm going to say, what are you talking about? Yeah, I know. See, you and I would know though. We would know, yes. See, we're smarter.
Yes. So we're going to start in Galatians chapter 2 and read verse 4. And that because of the false brethren, unawares, brought in, who came in privately to spy out our liberty with which we have Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. Now this is the Apostle Paul. And he's talking about those that have snuck in, you know, pretending to be a part of the congregation, pretending to be of the kindred spirit. But they're not.
Now, any pastor that's been a pastor for a while has had to put up with this. I bet you could spot them a mile away too. Well, yeah. Nowadays, I think I pretty much can too.
And I've had to deal with a lot of them over the years where they sneak in unawares. And that's what he's talking about. And that because of false brethren, unawares. Now, here he also goes over to, and I want to go back to verse 1, 14, and 15. Well, actually 13 and 14 were Paul says, For you have heard of my conversation in times past, in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it, and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my father. So Paul was saying he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. And so he knows more than about anybody else about the Jews' religion. He was zealous in the Jews' religion. Of course, then he had a meeting on the road to Damascus where he saw the light. And he had a big change of heart.
So here, he's dealing with two, Paul had to deal with two things. The Judaizers, and you know, we have Judaizers today, legalists, who want to put us under the laws of Moses. In fact, when I was in Israel, I talked to a number of them, and they, you'll find that they really don't want to get into an intellectual discussion. They know what they believe, and that's period. And they do acknowledge, Isaiah 53, that Jesus Christ is Messiah.
He is Messiah. They acknowledge that. But they believe that, one, you have to have faith in Jesus, but also Father Abraham, and also you have to keep the laws of Moses.
And there's a problem there, isn't it? Because we're not under the letter of the law, we're the church. And the letter of the law wasn't given to us, so the letter of the law is still in effect today. To those that aren't saved, they'll be judged by the letter of the law.
But the saved won't be judged by the letter, but the spirit of the law. But he also had to deal with the Gnostics. And there were two diverse sects of Gnostics. One of them, you know, taught that since we're spiritual beings, that you can have as little as possible contact with anything material. Now they believed that there was like a stairway into heaven, and that you would ascend this stairway through the process of an absence of material things and physical things. In other words, they would eat as little as possible, drink as little as possible, wear as few clothing as possible, and have contact with material things as little as possible, even breathe as little as possible. Some lived in caves to stay away from people.
Others actually spent their days up in trees. And they believed, too, that if you had touched a woman, whatever fingers you touched that woman with, you had to burn those fingers. The other diverse sect of Gnostics believed that since they were spiritual beings, nothing material could have any effect on them. So they could eat all they want, they could drink all they want, have all the illicit sex that they want, and none of these things could have any effect on them because they were spiritual and not physical. So like the complete opposite of the other.
Yeah. But they were both wrong. They were both very, very far off course. That's the one thing they had in common.
That they were both equally wrong. And so, so now we want to take a look over to the book of Jude, because in the book of Jude, we're still with the unawares. And in the book of Jude, verses one through four, we read this, Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God, the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. Now, these two, Jude and James, were brothers, but they had another brother.
Do you know who that was? No. Well, actually they had three other brothers, and the oldest of the three was the Lord Jesus himself. They were his half-brothers. Now, they remember when the Lord Jesus, when it was the day to go in the day of Passover to Jerusalem, his brother said, you know, well, if you're who you say you are, why don't you just go on in there and show everyone what you can do?
No. They knew Jesus was not a normal person. They grew up, how would you like to grow up in the shadow of someone that never made a mistake?
Oh, that'd be rough. Yeah. And so, anyhow, so they grew up in his shadow, and they didn't believe in him, even though they saw what he could do. And so they're saying, go on in there and show everybody. You don't suppose maybe they took a little razzing from people saying, so your brother's the Messiah, is he? Ha ha ha.
You know? And so, until he raised himself from the dead, they saw him crucified and they saw him resurrected. Then they believed.
And now, they no longer refer to themselves as his brother, but they refer to him as his servants. Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. Peter talks about that in 1 Peter 2. Beloved, when I gave all diligence and wrote to write unto you of the common salvation, it was nable for me to write unto you and exhort that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. So, what do you think he means by the common salvation?
Maybe that all of us are saved through Jesus? The same way. We're all saved the same way. With him dying on the cross. Yeah. And resurrecting.
Yeah, absolutely. And then, what about the faith that was once delivered? That's probably talking about for anyone who believed, you know, because you believed, you know, that your belief was, I don't know if you want to say rewarded or validated, maybe? Yeah, he was talking about the virtually, he's pointing towards the completed canon here of scripture. That was about, you know, this is the faith that was once delivered to us. What the Lord Jesus preached in the prophets. Now, here, he goes on to say, for there are certain men kept in unawares, aha, there we go, there's that word, unawares, who were before old, ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into the lasciviousness and denying only the Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you know what he was saying here? He was saying this, that certain men kept in unawares who were before of old. He's talking about before the flood. Before the flood, okay, there was, these men had crept in, but we're going to take a look at the oldest prophecy in scripture, and we go to verses 14 through 16 here. And Enoch, also, this is the oldest prophecy in scripture, and Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and having their mouths speaking great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. In other words, he prophesied this all the way back before the flood. Before the flood, he prophesied, and these men are here today.
They're here today. We call them the deep state. We call them the apostate church. They're out there today, trying to cause destruction, division within the church, bringing in all kinds of false prophecy and heresy.
These, what they call their hard speeches, ungodly sinners have spoken against him. And so, we see that today, this huge anti-Christian, anti-Israel movement that's taking place here. College campuses erupting all across the country, and some of those people will care placards that Jesus was a Jew, you know. Remember when you had the Wall Street protests? Yeah, Occupy Wall Street. Yeah.
They were carrying placards that when Christ returns, will kill him again. Boy, are they in for a very rude awakening, huh? You think?
Yeah. And so, now I want to go, we just took a look at unawares. Now we're taking a look at unbelievers. And we're going to go over to the book of Luke. And in Luke, chapter 12, and verse 46, we read this, The Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. There, you know, this is a warning for the Lord Jesus. Jesus is making a warning here, as there's urgency here. And you won't know when.
Right. You don't want to meet your Maker unprepared. This is why the single most important issue of your life is to make your salvation sure. Because all of these unbelievers are in for a horrible, horrible, terrifying existence.
You know what? There's this new, well it's not new, it's an old heresy. And the old heresy is that there is no hell. Everybody gets saved. Everybody gets saved. And so I think what I'm going to do is preach again on hell.
I haven't done this in quite a while. Because these people are spreading, okay, this heresy out there, and we need to really deal with it. And so, and they can't stop listening to me. They can't stop listening to me on the radio. They're absolutely bent on trying to convert me into believing that there is no hell. That everybody gets saved. Do you think that they may be delusional?
Maybe slightly. I don't know. If what they said even had a sliver of truth to it, then the Bible you're holding in your hand would be meaningless.
Right. Why would this even be there then? Why would there be any laws at all?
Because there would be no consequences for our actions. Well, it's the perverting of the Word of God is what they do. They twist, they spin, they pervert the Word of God to make it same. Remember Rick Warren, when he said he had to use like fourteen different versions, what he meant was perversions of the Bible to say what he wanted to say. Okay, so there's a few things wrong with that. One, if Rick Warren was an actual man of God, an actual pastor, he was supposed to be saying what God has said, not what Rick Warren wanted to say, but what God has said.
And why would you go? Well, because you see, instead of going to the Word of God and holding to it, you go out there and these people are writing their perverting scriptures saying what they want, what they feel, what they believe things should be like instead of the reality. In other words, the idea is if you're not hearing what it is you want to hear, you know, print your own perversion of the Bible and so you can read what you want to read instead of the reality of what you need to read, right? And so, here I want to go over to, we're going to look at the unclean, unclean, okay. How are you to deal with unclean people?
What do you think? He tells you in Romans 1. Okay, I'll give you a hint. How did David instruct his mighty men to deal with the LGBTQ of that day? I'm not sure. Well, he told them not to touch them with their hands, but they had a shield to take a shield and in that shield you would have an opening where they would ram their spear through the shield into the sodomite, but they were not to touch them with their hands and then wherever they dropped and died, they were to be burnt there. He tells them to burn them where they've dropped and died, okay, burn their bodies. And so, that's because they were unclean, unclean, were not to touch the unclean thing. He tells you in 2 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 14, not to touch the unclean thing. So here now in Romans 1, starting in verse 24, Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie.
That's exactly what they do today. And worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator. Do you know what the creature is? Well, that would be Satan, wouldn't it? No, the creature is man. But you would be right, it would be today that the creature would be Satan.
A creature is simply something that was created, who is blessed forever, amen. And so then he goes on to say, For this cause God gave them up to vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. Do you notice something today? You have in these apostate churches, United Methodists, the Episcopal, more and more female pastors. And you know what? The vast majority of them are lesbians married to other lesbians. It's just like what they've done is they've gone through the Bible and whatever God condemned, they embraced. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet. That's the LGBTQ of today.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to reprobate mind to do the things which were not convenient. And so here he's referring to a number of things. Some of these sexual perversions that are celebrated today by the Democrats are, you know, wife swapping has won, orgies, they have what they call orgy clubs now, lesbian sex, sodomized sex. Almost any kind of perversion you can think of they're doing.
Well, the ACLU is pushing hard. They've been trying to get two things passed. One, they want to legalize pedophilia. They want to make it an informed sexual practice, an accepted sexual practice, and give it a change to the name, to a sexual preference. And then they want to legalize bestiality. And they're promoting today more and more open marriages. I don't understand how anyone could be on board with any of that.
It's what we just read, that they were given over to a reprobate mind. And something that I just learned a few years ago, I had never even heard a term, cuckolding. Do you know what cuckolding is?
Yes, I do. I didn't even hear it about that. That was something a few years ago.
I don't know. But it's unbelievable the type of things that these people come up with. And it's just as anything, like you said, they probably go through the Bible and, oh, God doesn't want us to do that.
Let's do that. Yeah. It's just the satanic nature. Of course, the fastest growing church in America is the Church of Satan.
Where many, many Democrats now are switching over to Satanism as their religion. And so here, next we're going to turn to the unfaithful. First I've got to take a swig of my, I have pineapple juice tonight.
Oh, nice. And it's nice and cold. I just got black coffee. My apple juice sounds really good, though.
Yeah, it is good. Okay. Okay, so now we're going to take a look at the unfaithful over in Proverbs 25. And in Proverbs chapter 25, we read in verse 19. This is a good one.
It really is. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. And did you ever have a broken tooth, especially like one right in the front?
No, not up front. I had one in the back, though. Well, when they break off, they usually leave a jagged edge. And, you know, that jagged edge always seems to get caught on your tongue. In my lifetime, I've had several broken teeth, and it's really irritable. And, of course, a foot out of joint. I don't know if I've ever had a foot out of joint.
I've had things that have been dropped on my foot and have not been... Yeah, I've sprained my ankle before pretty bad, but nothing ever broke or dislocated. But until it's healed, it's a constant aggravation, isn't it? Yes. And so, here, confidence in an unfaithful man. Every two years, we go to vote hoping to have people of faith and integrity on the ballot. But there they are, the rhinos, like an unfaithful spouse every year. And sometimes they'll say, well, you know, OK, you might not agree with me on everything, but you've got to admit, I'm better than the Democrat, right?
Yeah, but not really. Well, the idea is, look, you need to choose the least of two evils, and I'm better than the worst. That's what they'll say.
You've got no other... You either vote for me, and if you don't vote for me, then you're really voting for my opposition, and they're worse than me. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just say, why can't you just have some integrity? Yeah, no kidding.
Sometimes, well, I'm not really good, but I'm better than nothing for sure, yeah. Well, maybe, maybe not. You don't remember, this is a true story, it was in Nazi Germany during the war. It was in one of those Lutheran churches where you had these Nazi soldiers come in, and they said, they told the people in there, they locked the doors, said, we want you to, if you want to live, those of you here that want to live, deny Christ, deny Christ, and exalt Hitler.
In other words, put your allegiance towards Hitler, and not Christ, if you want to live. So, whichever you want to live, and a number of them raised their hand, and they said, all right, take them out. So they took them out, and then the ones that were left, the Nazis, weren't really Nazis. They were the resistance in Nazi uniform, and pretty soon you heard machine gun fire, and they were killing those out there that had denied Christ.
But the ones in the church, they said, we did that because we really wanted to know who it was we could trust. And so, for the underground, and those people that would rather die than deny Christ were the people they were looking for. But there was another time, way earlier than that, in the Roman army, back in Caesar's army, where an entire battalion of Roman soldiers had converted to Jesus Christ. And they were told the same thing, each one of them had another soldier stand before them with their swords, deny Christ, and refer to Caesar as God, or die.
And the whole battalion refused to deny Christ, and they were killed, they were martyred for their faith. And so, that's what it takes, that's what you have to do, right? And so, now we're going to take a look at the ungodly. We're going to take a look at the ungodly now. So let's go over to Titus, in Titus chapter 2.
I'm getting there. And in Titus chapter 2, verses 11 through 14. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Now, in verse 1, what's he saying?
In verse 11, I should say. He's saying that all men, in one way or another, are aware of God's ultimate power. For the grace of God hath bringeth salvation and appeared to all men. Appeared to all men. That the grace of God brought, what is the ultimate gift?
Salvation. And so, the point is that everybody, all men, are aware that there's a God. And what is it that makes all men aware that there's a God?
Well, it's the fact that there's a creation. Now, a lot of them won't admit it. They will not admit.
A lot of them will deny it. Yeah. But what are they doing? They're trying to deny that there is a Creator, even though all of creation cries out and tells them.
You cannot possibly, it's impossible to have a creation without a Creator, is it not? Yeah. I mean, that's just common sense, but... Well, you know, Democrats don't have common sense. I like to call it uncommon sense.
Yeah. Democrats are really opposed to common sense. I mean, look, if they think men can have babies...
I know. And if they think boys can have menstrual periods... And they can't define what a woman is? Right. They have a real problem with common sense, don't they?
Yes, they do. And so, here he goes to say in verse 12, Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldliness we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. What are some of those things that we are to avoid, okay? How about the woke crowd? You know, everything is woke. What about the old saying, bars, booze and broads?
It sounds like a t-shirt. Yeah. I bet it is. The last place in the world that you want to go to try to find a woman to date, because you have a lot of these young guys that want to find a woman, you know, is a bar, right? And the same thing for these women. Why in the world would they want to go and find a man that hangs out around bars, right?
Not a good place to hang around, is it? No, no. And a lot of them will be like, oh, well, I'll change them.
Well, yeah, you won't. Boy, you won't know how much marriage counseling I've done over the years. And, you know, it's always the same thing that the woman always says he doesn't love me, and the man always says she doesn't respect me, okay? And here, men, you know, the Bible demands that the wife obey the husband, and it demands that the husband love the wife, right? And so, but here, you're right, the first thing, you know, I've had him tell me, well, yeah, you know, he's got some rough edges, he's got some rough edges, but I'll smooth those out, you know, once we're married. And, you know, the man, okay, men have a tendency to kind of look at their wives as, like when you get a new car, you know, when it's new, you polish it, you keep it nice and clean, but once it's got a few miles on it, you don't take such good care of it anymore, you know?
Yeah, once it's already dirty, you don't wash it as often as you should. And that's kind of a tendency, but that's the major complaint in marriage counseling is, that I get is from the husband, she doesn't respect me, she doesn't obey me, and from the wives, he doesn't love me, okay? And so, but the Bible commands the husbands to love the wives as Christ loved the church, also commands the older women to teach the younger women to love and obey their husbands. And so here he goes on to say in verse 13, looking for that blessed hope and a glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. So he's talking about a specific event, what do you think that specific event is? Judgment? No, it's the rapture of the church.
Okay. Looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, as he appears when he comes back to rapture the church. And then, here's a verse that people have a tendency to read but not really read, okay? Now listen, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify into himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. So, if you ask most people, say, what does Christ's death at Calvary, that substitutionary death, what does that mean to you, most people will say, automatically say, that means that by his substitutionary death I can have eternal life and that someday, someday that I will actually be, someday I will actually become, I'm looking for the word, I know it, I'm kind of tired tonight, this is the third time I'm preaching this message, but anyhow, the word I'm looking for is to become immortal, immortal, that's the word I was looking for. And so, here, when you ask most people, what does that mean, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify into himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. And so, most people say, well, that means, again, that what he did at Calvary will make me immortal, but this verse is not talking about what he did for us as much as it's speaking of what he did for himself. You see, he says, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works, these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority, let no man despise thee.
So it's about what the Lord Jesus did for himself at Calvary, he purified into himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. That's us. Have you ever felt peculiar? Very much so, yes. Yeah, okay.
I knew when I first met you. Alrighty, very good. So, yes, where am I anyhow? Okay, I'm over here in Titus 2. Okay, so now we're going to look for the unholy, and we're going to go to 1 Timothy chapter 1. And in 1 Timothy chapter 1. In 1 Timothy chapter 1, verses 9 through 11. Knowing this, that the law is not made for righteous men, but for lawless and for disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for unholy, profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and manslayers. And so here now, he goes on to say, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for man-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.
So now, he's saying in verse 9, he's talking about kind of antinomianism, isn't he? That the law was made not for righteous men, but for the lawless. And so now, but here now, under the letter of the law, there was only one man that was ever able to keep the law.
Just one. So, does that mean that when it came to righteousness, apart from Christ, the point was made that all righteousness apart from Christ was like filthy rags, huh? Yeah, there was none. And so here now, but the law was made for murderers, for mothers, for fathers. And so you had, today, the persecution of the church is worse than it's ever been. People don't realize it.
In Nicaragua, in a four-year period, 16,000 Christians were killed. Did you hear one word about that? No. No.
It's only on radio programs like this, Jay Sekulos and others, that they're even talking about it. And here, he goes on to say, for murderers, and then he goes on to say, for whoremongers. All right, do you know what that meant, what a whoremonger is, that word there? He's referring to a pimp.
Okay. He's referring to a pimp, what we call pimps today. There's another name for a pimp, and I'm trying to remember what it was. But anyhow, so he's referring to a pimp, a pimp, pimps sells to whores, okay? For them that defile themselves with mankind. Do you know who they are that defile themselves with mankind? That would be the whores, wouldn't it? Well, no, that's actually referring to LGBTQ sodomites, okay? For men stealers, for men stealers, you know what a man stealer is today, right? Yeah, wouldn't that be someone like a homewrecker? No, it's a human trafficker, a human trafficker.
These are men stealers, human traffickers. Now, this is when it really covers a lot of territory for liars, for liars. Boy, I'm going to tell you, would you say we start with NBC, ABC, CBS?
You could go right down the line. Right down the PMS, NBC, then you got to go to, well, how many times have you watched Merrick Garland and Chris Wray under oath, under oath lied to Congress, under oath. And they said we can do it because we're not going to prosecute ourselves, right? And then perjured persons, well, there you go, they've perjured themselves upon the witness stand time and time again. And if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, boy, there's a lot out there that's contrary to sound doctrine today, believe me. And they have no shame?
No, no. According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust, in other words, Paul makes it very clear he was called to preach the gospel. Unlike any of the other apostles, and it's a very different way. So those were all of the bad-uns, the bad-uns, okay?
Now we're going to look at the good-uns. And one of the good-uns here is, Kenny, is unfeened, and if we go over to 2 Corinthians, and I'll get there in a minute, 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 5 through 10. We read this, in stripes, in imprisonment, in tumults, in labors, in watchings and fastings, by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeened. And do you know what that word, unfeened, means?
Would it be genuine, like to not fake? No, it means without any hypocrisy. Okay, that's close. Yeah, without hypocrisy, yeah, you're right. And he goes, by the word of truth, by the power of God, in the amount, by the armor of righteousness, on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil and report and good report, as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened and not killed, as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich. As having nothing and yet processing all things.
So you say, what in the world is all that about? Okay, he's talking about in all of these things that we as Christians give, we don't give any offense in all of these things that he's referring to. And so, whether it be honor or dishonor, and so, here, Paul enumerates the verses and characteristics of all true ministers of Christ. They comprise of three nine-fold descriptions here, Kenny. And so, they list nine negative experiences which the servant must be willing to endure graciously, and then they list nine positive attributes which he should exhibit.
And finally, there are nine paradoxes that characterize such a minister, well, displaying simultaneously, if you will, like the joys of life in Christ and the hardships of the living in the world as servants. The one thing that God demands more than anything else from Genesis to Revelation is obedience. That's the one thing he demands more than anything else is obedience. And so, here, when you get to verse two, when he's referring to, let me go back. You know what, I should have actually started in verse one, because in verse two, if I read verse two, he says, For he that saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I suckered thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
So here you have, he's referring to an urgency. When you hear the gospel preach, there's an urgency that you answer that call, and you receive the offer that was offered. And so, when the preacher is preaching the salvation message, he's just the messenger. So God is calling you.
He's the messenger God's using. So, there's a limit to the amount of times where you can reject God. Like that song says, we ran out of tomorrows tonight. And I remember having, one day I was street preaching out there in front of the abortion mill, and I was witnessing to a group of these young boys that come down the sidewalk. And the one boy, a black boy said to me, we'll preach. When I get old like you, I'll get religion. But until then, I'm going to party hardy preach. And I told him, I says, you know, I didn't get this old by being stupid.
You know, I says, with your mindset, you're never going to make it to my age. Okay. And so, anyhow, now we're going to take a look at unmovable, unmovable. And we go to first Corinthians.
Well, no, let's, you know what, I'm going to change up. I'm going to go to unspeakable first, the unspeakable gift. I'm going to go to second Corinthians nine, second Corinthians nine, verses eight through 15.
And God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Does God prepare us before he sends us out? Yeah, I would think so. Yeah. Yeah, he does.
He always prepares us before he sends us out. We might not actually know it, but yeah. Right.
And sometimes we have to learn this on the job training, huh? Yes. And so here, he goes on to say, as it is written, he hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth forever. And then he says, now he that ministered seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed as sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, being enriched in everything to all bodyfulness, which causes, which causes through us, thanksgiving to God. What is he saying there? He's making a point where you are to give thanks in everything.
The importance of being thankful is pointed out by the fact that such words as praise, by the way, did you know that praise and thanksgiving here occur more than 500 times here in the Bible? Wow. That's a lot, isn't it? Yeah. You think he's trying to get a message across? Yeah, it sounds like that's certainly important. Something to make note of.
Yeah. Got my attention. For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also in many thanksgivings unto God, whilst by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the Gospel of Christ. And for your liberal distribution unto them and to all men, and my prayer for you, which long after you, for the exceeding grace of God in you, thanks be unto God for this unspeakable gift. Now that great gift of God to man is beyond all human language in the sacrificial, redemptive death of his Son, for our sins providing us forgiveness and everlasting life.
We cannot merit such a gift. We can only thank Him for it, and like the Philippians, give ourselves to the Lord and live unto Him. His gift to us must define all of our gifts for Him.
In other words, there is really no words in the English language or any other that can rightly describe the greatness of that gift. And then I want to finish over in 1 Corinthians 15. In 1 Corinthians 15, very quickly, I want to go to, Behold, I show you, verse 51, a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. Do you know what that mystery is? The mystery is the glorification of the bodies of those that are long dead and of those that are still alive. In other words, their bodies and their bones have been in the earth for a couple thousand years, yet God is going to raise them up. God is going to revitalize all of our atoms, and how can this be done? He's going to give us a glorified body. And then He says, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed. Well, you know, how many times do people say there is no rapture?
Unbelievable. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and the mortal must put on immortality, and when the corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and the mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass, saying that as written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting, O grave, where is thy victory? Can you imagine, with our glorified bodies, we will never taste death again. We will never taste sickness or illness again. They'll be perfect. The way it was supposed to be.
Yeah. Not only that, but none of us will be ugly anymore. I'm looking forward to that, brother. You're looking at the eye of the beholder, Pastor. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is in the law. Well, the law could only condemn us because it was perfect and we're not. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, my beloved brother, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Now, that is the key verse in this passage here, and that is that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. You know, if people really, really, truly believe that, do you think there would be a change in most people, most Christians, as far as their activity goes?
Without a doubt. Yeah. Sometimes you wish you could. There's ways.
This is why the Bible says, Be you a doer of the word, not a hearer deceiving your own self. And that's what he's talking about, folks. God's given us but a... He says our lifetime is but like a vapor, a vapor that appears before an instant, and then it's gone.
That's how much time that we have on this ball of dirt called Earth to place up crowns in heaven, and this is a reality that will last throughout all eternity. You see? So you're going to go in, you're going to go in, and you don't want to go in as a private E-1, do you? No. No. You want to go in as a four star, right? Okay. And maybe even a five star.
At least some kind of officer. Yeah. And so, because, again, you know, God's word does not return void. It means exactly what it says. And boy, I just wish you could get more people to believe it, don't you?
Yeah. It would be a completely different world. What a difference it would be. I mean, even if you could just get the majority of the pastors to believe it, you know, if you could just get them to believe it. I want to say yesterday, there in Painsville, when they had the Judeo-Christian Patriot rally, it was dynamite. You had some really, really good speakers out there.
And so I was just proud to be, well, I was blessed to be one of those to be asked to come and speak. Well, we're out of time for tonight, Kenny. So what do we always say?
How much time do I have? About 20 seconds now. Okay. So we always get to this point. We know what we do, right? We say, thanks for listening. We want to say good night. Good night. God bless. God bless. Always, always, always keep fighting the fight. of what's right, what's left. The preceding program is sponsored by What's Right, What's Left Ministries and is responsible for its content.
