James 3 -- False Teachers

Opening prayer. I'd really father. We thank you for this season, as we have quickly towards winter than days are getting shorter. The nights are getting longer, seems like we're on a downhill Sprint. Everything seems to be moving quicker and yet you have provided for us, the means and the opportunity to gather together. We might be able to study your word, find ourselves turning and focusing upon you upon your thinking about your light and your life that you provided for us. We thank you for all of this. And we all see my guide is today, as we study your word, Lord, that you might Quicken are thinking that you might enable our souls are Hearts. The core of thinking to understand what it is. We're reviewing and going through today. And that your word would be teaching us. We asked that we might be transferred. For Your Glory, that you would be proclaimed and exalted through all eternity because of the Magnificent work that you do in our midst, in our hearts and all the things we bring to you and we pray in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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two weeks ago, we return to the text of James chapter 3. And we begin looking at the context. Rather than jump straight in and begin to ice sujeet, the text. Whoops. Did anyone else catch that? I hear D chuckling back there. As it turns out.

Notice I didn't say exegete the text which is to take out from, what is there. But I said I suggest

And I suggest she is to be is to read into the text. What isn't there? Put into at what we want to see expect to see or are misinformed of that. We will see Rugs exegete. Name the, we pull from the text. That which is there. So exegesis. I have up on the screen is the interpretation of a word or passage particularly scripture by forming ideas based on what is in the text. And only what is in the text. So we want to find what is there and draw it out? I sujeet for eisegesis is the interpretation of a word or passage by reading into. It one's own idea to place or Force an idea on to the text.

now, if we are not aware of the contact, For the presuppositions that we bring to the text. That is exactly what we will do. Read into it. We will ice Ajit less. Biblically aware. You are the more unfamiliar you are with the Bible with scripture. The greater the presuppositions are that you bring to your reading or your study that aren't valid. The more you will ice, Angie For example. There are those who believe they think in their soul that there is no God. And so when they come to the bible to read through it, that is their perspective. What are these then? What what are these words? One of these books, what is it? They see in the text. They see the Museum of Man, pretending to be something. He is not talking about a guy that does not exist, pretty enough for creating a reason to be able to drive and Marshall people to move in the direction. They want them to move. They come up with all kinds of interesting Back stories, they decide that there was not one person who wrote Isaiah, three people who wrote that the books of Matthew and Luke and John we're not the original text Mark may have been closer to it, but they say there was a another writing out there somewhere that when everything else was copied from and based upon They come up with these ideas because they do not believe in God and they come up with these ideas because they do not believe in the Supernatural. It is not possible for there to be a supernatural. They say they're for the Miracles are not really Miracles. They are just illustrations, they are teachings throughout scripture.

Well, we come with the free supposition. That God is real that God is above all creation, he created it. Therefore there is a supernatural that which is above and beyond all of creation. And the spiritual life is a supernatural life because it comes from God exists. In God, was made available by God and cannot exist without God, that makes it Supernatural. The spiritual life, though. It be by Grace. Let's not fool ourselves. It is a supernatural event going on in our lives and our souls. So what we bring as a priest opposition will determine what we see in the text.

The best way to quickly. I Sergey to text and it's to the context neglect, the context of who wrote it, why it was written. What? The internal messages in Maddie pistol or book or gospel. Half the same eclectus, things just start reading it, right? And make it mean something, without first respecting The contacts. I want to mention that word respect for a moment, that is what our goal is. That is my goal as the pastor teacher, is to respect the Ducks. It doesn't matter what my opinion is. What matters is what the opinion of the text is, doesn't care. It doesn't matter what I think. On the matter, all you should care about is why God's word thinks about the matter. There's a conflict between me and my thoughts and my way of thinking and God's word. Then obviously there is only one true Way, only one, right thing? You should pay attention to.

So we don't ever want to I sajitha text. We always want to exegete and that is why we review what came before, what follows study Concepts in the passage examine language and grammar, make sure we are aware of culture or geography so that our ideas don't end up seeing what we see because our goal is to us, is to accurately, understand only, what is there in the text and the teach that

so, in terms of Jane, Chapter one.

Refugee James chapter 3. I skipped over it.

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My flight says, John 3. My computer here says James 3, I'm not sure how the one isn't talking to the other. But okay, so we're going to go over a summary of what we have learned so far in the book of James. So two weeks ago, we read through chapter 3, to expose ourselves in general, to what the following context is from verse one, all the way through the end of the chapter, which is in general, the role of the word or words that come from our mouths. What we say matters, we reviewed the thesis statement of the book that James wrote to the very young Church to teach what to do as Believers were tested and tested in their Doctrine. So we came up with a theme Is divine, Viewpoint is tested Your Divine Viewpoint or your functioning in Bible. Doctrine is going to be tested James wrote to the very

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Who James wrote the first book of the New Testament to be written. She looks very young Church to teach it what to do to deal with the test of Doctrine, and when Divine, Viewpoint is challenge. What then? And this game is set up for us, in verse verses 22, for the first chapter of James. So, we went through that Brethren count, it all joy. When you fall into various trials, knowing that the tasty, the testing of your faith which is I put in bracketeer, Bible Doctrine functioning in your soul, that is Faith produces patient, which is our Greek word, Hoople Monet. First four, but let patience have its perfect work, but you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. So that's the introduction. That's the theme that set up before us, we're going to have difficulties. We have trials, our divine Viewpoint perspective is going to be challenged and what do we do when it's Challenge? And that's what chapter one begins to set forth for us. Now, in terms of the organization of the Book of James, we were an organization

Is based on three ways of responding to the testing of divine Viewpoint. So the theme is what you do when Divine Viewpoint is tested in the organization. Is a response to that. So James is instructing the believer and how to respond to test in life. And there are three basic points of testing that are covered by James, the Apostle, and he will establish this for us or I should say, he does establish for this and verse 19. So here we are burst 19 of chapter one sold my beloved Brethren. Let every man be swift to hear slow to speak, slow to wrath. This is the organization, the book, three sections, the Swift to hear section the slow to speak section for the rest of it. We down here for you. This is our three-point outline for James, which he provided to us for the epistle. Be swift to hear.

Be slow to speak. I'm being slow to Wrath.

Switch to hear my pipe needed it together. Swift to hear what are the Swift to hear results. So the first thing we're to do in response to the challenge of Doctrine is be swift to hear. Interesting me. God created two ears and one mouth that lets us know immediately by the by the Let's call it the geometry of biology. You should listen twice as much as you talk. Now, I know many for whom that is not even close to the case, you would think they have 35 miles and half of an ear.

It happens. So in the context of being Swift to hear, we see the foaling who Swift to hear man or the one who is properly enduring Temptation. That is what the Swift to hear man is that's what we covered in the first two chapters. Here is some things about that. Swift to hear man, the person who is applying Doctor, Who one, who is listening to God, and let him a listening to God Drive, what he does in his in his life. First, the man who endures Temptation will be blessed happy Blessed. Happy. It's the same term that we see used in Psalm 1 blessed. Happy is the man who

So the man who is following the man who's walking in Divine Viewpoint, will be less than happy when we saw that. The man who endures temptation. Same spot. Same idea will receive the crown of life so Play listening, and applying Divine, and view point, you will be blessed happy. You will receive the crown of life that is when we get to Heaven, There is a special crown made available to those who listen to those who are Swift to hear the Swift to hear, Bunch or gang or crowd. Whatever you want to call, it will receive the Crown of Life. And then we see that the man who and doors which is the same as overcoming is a do word of the word and not a hero me that is when the word of God is. Heard they don't just hear it but they listen to it. We don't just listen to it but they do it. So, Swift to hear then means to be a doer of the word. Now, there's some theologians we need to go back over some of which we've learned via our Baraka relationship that we need to go and update along the way. One of those points that we need to update is the idea that the role of the Christian is to sit in the church church pew. And listen and be positive and volition. Yeah, I believe that. I believe that. Yeah, I believe that, you know, I'm not going to go with that but I believe that

I'm part of the idea, I actually gets linked into this concept of a right pasture teacher, which I'll tell you upfront, scripture doesn't teach that Concept in that way, anywhere. It's kind of a

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Bouncy toy of Life, I'll put it that way to get a little air. So it's actually created as fabricated completely out of the air. But is not something that is taught in scripture. This concept of a right pasture, the concept of foster is taught throughout scripture, the idea of a right pasture. That is you only have one Pastor or you know who your pastor is. And it's Are we feeding at Baraka? Which is what many people were taught. And many people believe that I talked recently to some people online who are in that very, same camp, I was chatting with them. What do you do in this day and age? With the issue of the right, Pastor? Oh, we absolutely defend it and believe it. And then this person told me, who the right Pastor was some person who lives way out in the Midwest and they live somewhere around here. I'm thinking well how does that fit in with the doctrine of queasy ology which means that you are involved with a church and the pastor that church is your pastor

To see people have been slicing and dicing scripture using it incorrectly for a while. And so we need to be careful when we need to go back and I don't want to assault your thinking and say you've been believing something that's wrong and let me kick the stool out from under yet. Let's just say I have questions about it and I'm I'm stating that publicly and then we're going to come back and we're going to study it. So you two can look at scripture with me and see if we're on the same page. That's fine. But my goal here is to teach what scripture says, not what someone says scripture says. Get the difference. Yeah, I'm supposed to teach what scripture says, there's a lot of people out there who have ideas about what's good for me is what it says. But I don't want to teach what other people say. It means it says, I want to teach what it actually does say. That is what is important? So the man who endures overcomes is a doer of the word, not here or only, that is a person who has functioning Bible Doctrine in their soul. What they have heard is Manifest in their life and their relationships and how they live their life. It is an out working, which is what worked hard and Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2 do not be conformed. Outwardly change by this world but instead be transformed. In your inner man. In that word, transform means to be changed in the very center core in such a way that it leaks out. You are to be leaky citizens of God's righteousness, of God's you pointed God's thinking and it should be leaking into every area and aspect of your life. You should be leaking everywhere.

What verse is, what?

Oh wow. Romans chapter 12. Verses 1 and 2.

so, the Overcomer or next point is the man who or the man who enjoyed yours is a person with functioning Bible Doctrine in their soul, Not just, they have agreed that the doctrine is true, but the Bible Doctrine is functioning in their life because the difference is the difference between a hearer as someone who hears, the word only versus a door. So we are employed by the Book of James do not be heroes, but to be doers Okay. So next

We're going to review are slow to speak. Reasons, getting back to chapter 3. Now, I'm James 3, we moved to this idea of the slow to speak section. So first, we had the Swift to hear and now we have the slow to speak. This is the second section of James in the, prior section of James, which is in chapters, 1 & 2. We concentrate on listening and learning and following the vine Viewpoint, the slow to speak section is based on the vine Viewpoint as well. Do you keep up with me as I'm saying Swift to hear?

I'm slow to speak. Make sure you're getting the right one. So the slow to speak selection which is the second section is based on Divine Viewpoint as well. The first section the Swift to hear section is all Divine Viewpoint, which we are to implement. The second section has Divine Viewpoint. We are to implement, but the in phosphorus does change. Go by way of contrast in the Swift to hear section of James. The emphasis is on listening and learning and showing the truth listening and learning results in doing. So if you're actually listening and learning, you will be doing Right. Listening and learning results in doing according to James. So, I'm not saying this James said this, I'm just summarizing what he has said. Now, there is no biblical admonition. Anywhere in scripture to listen and learn but do not do that doesn't exist. Nowhere in scripture, does it say, listen and learn but don't do. It says listen and learn for the purpose of doing always throughout scripture. It's always that way listen for the purpose of doing. So our second section by contrast, the first section of James Is.

You must slow to speak section. It is given to us.

In the same way as it was in the listen and learn section that is here is truth. Here is divine Viewpoint. Yes, hear this and learning, but the in phosphorus is on the doing the first section, the in Fosters was on listening and learning for the purpose of doing. Now, we're in a section where it's all about doing but there is listening and learning this happy in as well. We're told what to do, what to think, how things are what this is like. So we're told we were given truth. with the emphasis here is on what to do, how to do or emphasis has changed between Section 1 and section due to No, no.

The Dynamics of the spiritual life are no difference between Section 1 and section 2. They're not changing with the change of them forces from quick to hear to slow to speak spiritual Dynamics are still the same. The need for the filling by means of the spirit is the same. The filling with the word of God is the same, the living of the spiritual life, by Grace is the same. The subject matter has switched from functioning Bible Doctrine in the school. To Bible Doctrine live functions in the soul.

It's only a change in emphasis not a meeting. Let me read that to you again. I'm not trying to run something quickly by you that you're not going to grass. It's just a slight change in the wording. So the subject matter has switched from functioning Bible Doctrine in the soul. In chapters 1 & 2 to Bible Doctrine, the functions in the soul. In Chapter 3, The emphasis is change. Really is only thing that has changed is still about Bible. Doctrine is still about functioning, but in the first two chapters, the emphasis was on Bible Doctrine. MB third chapter, the emphasis is on the functioning of that Bible Doctrine, the viability of the spiritual life and James was going to, he's going to instruct us, there is no better way to see how viable your spiritual life is than to examine the fruit of your tongue. There's no better way. North, you don't talk much. Well.

Probably when your tongue is singing in your head would be what are you saying to yourself? So no, let's look at the history.

History of James. And the epistle. Cuz we returned to the text of John three, because we've been in Hebrews 11 for quite a while. Last week, it seemed helpful to go through the New Testament, history surrounding James himself and the timing of the writing of the Book of James. So, we did that last week in an immersive sense, reading through the actual history of James, ask them throughout the New Testament straight out of the Bible. And we looked in the gospels. We looked in the Acts of the Apostles and we looked at multiple Pauline Epistles, for history and references. There's quite a bit there. If you didn't know off the top of your head, you think so, too bad? We'll never know anything about James will wrong. We know quite a bit.

we also looked at the Contextual New Testament?

Examples that were given to us showing the presence of improperly motivated and Ungifted teaching that exist in the church for James chapter 3 verse 1 starts with an admonition in the reason for the admonition is it is given to us by James starting. Now in 3:1 my brethren, let not many of you become teachers.

But we shall receive a stricter judgement. Please give me a motivation for those people who are teaching, who shouldn't be teaching and how do you convince someone who's teaching? Who doesn't know enough to know that they shouldn't be teaching that they shouldn't be teaching? You let him know that there's a big judgment on teachers when they teach wrong.

That makes you want to step back from the both of the little bit that makes you want to throw a hand over your mouth rather than let the word slip out does that mean that words have judgments? Absolutely. And James is going to drive this point home. Now, from our historic studies in the Bible, last week, we saw that the gifting of teachers to the church was a high calling. There was equated to the apostles, the prophets, and the Evangelist, it's in the same wrist. Well the other guests moved around geographically, the pastor teacher was a permanent gift given to a congregation to grow them into all truth. So where there is an established congregation Our Lord would establish a pastor, a teacher. To grow those people in the congregation.

Teachings were wrong. We noticed and Acts chapter 15. That's Paul was called to invoke the Jerusalem Council among the apostles, the leaders of the Christian church in Jerusalem to see, people didn't know much about Paul. They knew he was out there though. There's some guy named Paul out in the wilderness, ministering to the disciples, I mean, ministering to the Gentiles and Paul had come here and then he had met with Peter Here, I Am. Lord. And the 12 disciple, the Lord taught me personally face-to-face in the wilderness and taught me these things. And Peter being the one to whom the Lord had revealed, but the Gentiles to were included in the blessings and provision of the church. And the church age was the one Apostle who would be most receptive and he received him he gave The right arm of Fellowship. That means he fully received him. He was extended the greatest brace in the acceptance of his position and is in his mission. But as Paul was out, again, teaching certain individuals from out, and about decided to come down and inject their thinking into his ministry, where he had been teaching they came in and says, oh, Paul got it wrong.

What are we having an ax 15:1 certain man came down from Judea and taught the Brethren unless you are circumcised. According to the custom of Moses, you cannot be safe. You guys are a bunch of running around here. You have been brought in to Judaism, you have to come to Judaism first and They were saying.

We also see down and first five of Acts chapter 15, but some of the sect of the Pharisees who believe rose up saying is necessary to circumcise, their command them to keep the law of Moses. So, Paul the end of these first group that we're coming in and trying to change his teachings, trying to assert a wrong teaching, over his correctly laid out, gospel message and

You see, the New Testament thing is this, you have to become a Jew for she have to proselytise and then you can be safe. So he goes up to Jerusalem on the way to Jerusalem. This was why we run into you. Some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up as he was moving up going from town to town stopping along the way, fellowshipping with Christians and some of those Christians are you guys are in the wrong. Necessary to circumcise and you don't know what you're talkin about Paul and the command them to keep the law of Moses.

Will you see as we made our way all the way through Acts chapter 15 last week we saw. But when I got to Jerusalem and they have the great Jerusalem Council, we're all the apostles and all the leaders came together. He gave his teaching and he worked it through and explain to everyone what it was that he was teaching

and everyone was silent and James, the leader of the assembly, the leader of the church in Jerusalem spoke up and he said, This is right? This is true. Go back and continue your ministry. Don't let anyone stop you. Just go ahead and do these things. Any listed for things so that they would not alienate the Jews along the way. So that they would be able to evangelize to Jews and evangelize with integrity and Paul was fine with that. He was a Jew after all he went to the Jew. First everywhere he went, he did not have a problem with the admonition in the, in the four commands. So we're going to see that the Paul calls out a similar scenario to Timothy and he charges him to handle the situation. Paul, lays out for us. Proper teaching versus wrong teaching Dimensions, right doctrine. That is Faith or the body of teaching, which becomes Bible Doctrine in the soul.

He mentioned that there are those who have strayed who have turned aside to idle talk and he says this and excruciatingly slow as if Paul is referencing the teaching of James which by this time, in the book, in the book of Acts in the history of the early church, James has sent out his epistle. In fact, you sent out as a pistol as we learned, right? Before the Jerusalem Council, because there's no mention of Jen in there at all. Gentiles are not accepted and included in the church mission until the Jerusalem Council. But at that point, from then, on throughout the Book of Acts, the Gentiles are included. So we see here that it seems anyways, Paul is either teaching that which was taught by the very same leader of the Lord, Jesus Christ, or you read some of the writings of James or probably both.

So the Strait of turned aside to idle talk and Paul references, the teaching of James in 1st, Timothy. And those desirous of being teachers, who have no understanding of the gifting of teaching We don't have understanding and they don't have gifting. So we see this in 1st Timothy, Chapter 1, Verse 232, so then we looked at vs57 last week so we'll dip into verse 3 this week.

The contacts in the details are relevant to what we are reviewing today, so, sorry, didn't burst three of 1st, Timothy Chapter 1. You when I went in to Macedonia remarrying, in Ephesus that you made charge some that they teach no other Doctrine.

So you noticed here that I have this outline, what's important here is that no other Doctrine in Timothy has been left behind for this purpose but he made sure she is to have an exercise authority to those people who would say that they are teachers are not teachers.

And you're trying to teach other Doctrine, which is why Paul had him stay behind because there were people teaching that which is wrong numbers for continues. On Nord fables and endless genealogies, which caused So the Greek sub all their fables and many of those, and some of the Jewish word with all kinds of endless genealogies and tracing back to who, and such and so, and trying to turn it into a mystical reality for your life, let's just call it the astrology of your ancestors. Okay. That's kind of what we're talkin about here. So and he says they're doing that rather than Godly edification. Which is in play. I want you to notice that in faith here. That's important because again, this is the same in faith that we have throughout. James chapter 2 and Hebrews chapter 11. Faith can be one of several things, the meetings to believe. And when something is in faith and you're doing it in accordance with the beliefs or you're doing it accordance with that, which is believed Which is the teachings. So you see, we don't just have faith in nothing. We have faith in the teachings, we have faith in Bible Doctrine, we have faith in the revealed word of God. We Trust in what God says, that is what faith is about. So, in this context, then he's talking about edification, which is in the thing doctrines, the teachings that he has left behind, which these people have departed from. You see, they've departed and gone after fables and endless genealogies. First Love from a pure heart, from a good conscience. And from again, that same phrase here, Sincere. Say that mean you have a sincere belief?

Words that mean you are sincere in believing the doctrine.

32 letter, b letter. Yes, we're believing something that is good but you have to know in this day and age. It's not about belief thought about faith. That's what you see on TV. That's what you see in the movies, it is, the great Trojan, Horse of our era in terms of Christianity, being kicked off the cliff and anything you want to Pagan or other cultural on anything from a different religion can be substituted because they told us over and over again. Even in the conservative news channels, they talk about their but they don't tell you, it's their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I saw the lighting of the Christmas tree on Fox news last week and they let it and they asked if people would have meant and several individual step forward and they say this to is speaking of that, which Christmas is all about my faith in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and coming to Die, For All Mankind and provide for their sins. And they said it. And it was wonderful because they actually said The Gospel Four than everyone else. A o and it is, it's a lost relative of our faith, like my faith as a Muslim, my faith, as a Christian Scientist. My faith has a Mormon or as a J Wall jdubs aren't going to be there around the Christmas tree bit. Fill in the blank. Play. It's not the issue. It's what you believe in that the issue. So whenever you're looking at faith in the New Testament, don't get stuck in the Trap of thinking. It's about believing. And having enough belief, I've got more belief in and he does, or she does lepers. It sure doesn't show very much for that person really believes what they say. It's not the issue, the issue is. What do you believe in? Cuz if you believe in the right thing, if you believe in the gospel, Jesus himself told us how much Faith does it take to be saved? Just a little bit more than nothing stays the size of a mustard seed, the smallest grain who is stored in the Jewish household me. When harvest, the grain they have, the mustard seeds were to the little teeny tiny, and you want to keep them away because they keep they have oils. And they have aromatic. They have certain benefits, which are there as long as you keep it in brain form. And then you pull out as much as you need, and when you squish it, And when you squish it, when you grind it, and all that oil gets ground together, with all the coloring that's there and you have those turmeric like qualities for anti-inflammatory, you do activity in your body and stuff like that, not to speak of the flavor of mustard. You get that all all but you got to store it as a see you today. Everyone have this in their household and he says, how much Faith does it? Take just a little bit more than the things. I M near me.

To Faith isn't about how much. What about the fervency of your face? It's about what your faith is in. What are you trusting in? In this case, the faith is in Bible Doctrine. Faith is in the teacher to the word for 6, from which some have strayed having turned aside idle talk. So they turned away from the Bible Doctrine. Turn to the idle talk, 47 Desiring to be teachers of the law.

We just saw it as a, of those people who desire to be, teachers of the law who were teaching that which is apostasy That which has nothing to do with God's word. He says these understand neither what they say, nor the things which they affirmed, they don't understand how were they qualified to be teachers when they don't even understand what they're saying. That is wrong.

So we have learned.

We should know the teachers were necessary and needed and more than we're gifted in teaching. Word. Gravitating to the office taken upon themselves, a burden of Destruction. Just tell Aaron to any who listened? To those who are without the gifting, or who were uneducated. Before the writing of the New Testament and while there were many who were saved, but we're not disappointed, we're not disciples. Sorry. There were reasons that men may have stepped up to teach. So we have evangelist traveling around, we have the apostles traveling around, we have prophets or travel around or a glorified teachers. When we have those who God plans to teach him to the assembly and there were a whole bunch of people who are many, it seems from what James tells us, you were wanting to be aspiring to be in an acting as if they were teachers. Why would people want to be teachers? Let me give you a few reasons, soft. Top of my head. Nothing scientific here. I didn't draw it all from scripture. I gave you a couple suggestions here. They

Besides idle talk, we learn that from 1st Timothy, these people turned aside to idle talk. What is Idle talk teaching? But is not relevant to scripture ideas and Concepts their Idol because they're empty. It's the same concept that we have in Ecclesiastes these soap, bubble moments ever had those conversations. Were you sitting to chat with someone for a while and you walked away and you think I got absolutely nothing cuz of that. Would like the Superbowl.

How's the Versailles used?

For soap, bubbles, Riedel, Taco. That's our that's her text and 1st Timothy 1:3.

Yep.

So secondly, I noticed that it's a ego hates a vacuum. It can so easily insert itself. That's what ego wants to do. If there's a vacuum, it will fill it, it will gravitate to it. It doesn't matter how big the vacuum is, every Eagle is willing to take a, try to give a shot at it. So where there are teachers, there are plenty of individuals with a pride orientation in their sinful Soul willing to jump in the mix, jump into the teaching vacuum that they saw. Another interesting point is that courage and leading is based on knowledge of God and knowledge of God's word. Teaching is either based on Courage. That is setting for God's word or it is based on foolishness.

One, or the other. Either got something behind it or you don't. In which case you're engaged and foolishness in the vacuum, it seems many will listen. Some people don't really need. They don't have that much to say they just want a lot of people to hear it.

And we see that the spiritually need a newborn. And the immature Believers need milk like a baby. They are hungry. Talk about a vacuum, those little kids, they latch on and they create a force to be reckoned with. They want milk and milk cuz all they want, and there's nothing else they want the milk. And until you give it to him, the world is not right for them or for you. And when finally they get their milk, then everyone can rest. So there is a great need for those who are brand new Christians are on for those who haven't had a chance to be taught but they're hungry. And so there is a built-in listening audience. Those people need to be taught they want milk. Another idea here are not all who teach or who have listeners or followers or gifted to teach. You see that's part of the issue that we're having is it. There are many who were stepping up but not all of them had that gift in his we read last week. The gifting of the teacher is to the body of Christ by God. The father he has chosen out individuals with the gift of teaching that they might teach that they might equip the Saints for Ministry. Yes.

these are the common viewpoints that I hear from those who are in leadership about the majority of those who are rising up is

Yeah, it's really it's there's a dearth of preparation there. Many many individuals who think that they are called, but they have not prepared. We have an entire movement. I mentioned last week of 3500, + churches out there who their number one thing they say. In fact, almost all the mega churches in there spin-offs that you see within our culture. Number one thing they want. It's for none of their people to go to Seminary. None of their people to be trained. They have their own. They call them schools of ministry in which they, teach their own ideas of how to interpret scripture, but none of them learned, Greek. None of them learn Hebrew. None of them learn grammar. None of them have been taught. Systematic theology. And in most cases, they have not even been taught free Grace or dispensationalism.

So we have a dearth of teaching, we have many thousands of people that pulled his right now and I would say in some ways it's no different than the modernist Movement we had before they came through and raised up the Methodist. We have all these thousands of pastors out there who are congregation is insanely not teaching salvation, their teaching, a social gospel and what happens? When the Social Gospel is taught a great example, for us, is to look at China, which was under the English Empire. Or sometime to the 1800's up through the 1920s into the 1940s. And then they had the great revolt.

The great Revolt in many of those pastors from that era, including Donald grey, barnhouse one of my favorites to read from that era and they say this that the English system came in and they taught Christianity to all these Chinese individuals across the entire nation. They were taught the precepts of Christianity but they were not taught the gospel or thought to be saved. So you're trying to Kim Cole, Kate Christian thinking and all these people's minds and the result is an uprising Because they aren't born again. The yard save, these are not true. Things. They're trying to be put into a mold of Christianity, which Christianity is not a mold. Well, they can be kind of moldy people need to be saved and then they learn to study and then they are filled with Bible Doctrine with the Holy Spirit and they learn than to appreciate the teachings and then they have a reason to live in that way.

My bad.

Yeah, yeah. The same is true then of Our Generation. We have many people who are being taught to conform and so that's a lot of what this liberal wokeism is Racine. It's a response to this. Why should I conform to that? And there is no reason for them to conform to this thinking because they have not been born again. They don't understand it from the inside there. Also rejecting Divine institution Authority for the nation. So in that they will be judged and they are apostate as an unbeliever from the Divine institution, teaching the should be there, but that's a, that's another story. So then we we see the rabbis were engendered enormous respect in the Jewish Community, still are today. And these rabbis,

Corresponds in the New Testament Church to teachers teachers were the Christian version of rabbis to the Jewish Christian to a teacher or someone with enormous respect us, what Rabbi means, it means great one. Who's the greatest person in their society, know, for a society that wants to have a high level of Education? That is a great thing, as a great aspiration rightly done. But as we know, they weren't doing it rightly. So now your admonition and James 3:1 my brother and let not many of you become teachers know and that we shall receive a stricter judgment for the better translation that I showed you from James chapter 3, verse 1 in the net translation, not many of you should become teachers my brothers and sisters. Okay, strike the ancestors portion of it. There a little bit too excited here to get that in because, you know, so that we will be judged more strictly. Who's not talking about brothers and sisters because sisters did not teach and couldn't I teach. So that's a little bit Erin to put it in here in general. We know, the one is calling out or talking about a man when the man does this for, for every man, that is talking about all believers men and women. We generally know that. So this is unnecessary here but without that it's one of the best translation out there. So let me read it this way. Not many of you should become teachers my brothers because you know, that we will be judged more strictly.

it simply makes sense but because the misuse of the tongue by teachers, Can leave many others astray, they will be judged, more strictly, there is a close relationship in Jewish thought between the heart or mind in the tongue. We see that in Psalm 15 and Matthew 12. I'm barely even in the Apocrypha. Let me show you these places. So Psalm 15 verses 2 through 3.

He Who Walks uprightly? Groundworks righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

verse 3, he who does not

Backbite with his tongue nor does evil to his neighbor. Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend?

Now that everyone's warm, I'm going to keep it from sucking the oxygen out of the air so y'all feel like you have to pass out. So

So here in Psalm 15, we have that connection between the upright individual who works righteousness and the speaking of Truth. So in Jewish thinking this idea of speaking truth has to do with being right with God, and having a right view of things, we would call it Divine Viewpoint, the Old Testament, Divine Viewpoint will be reflected in the time and then he who does not back by the time nor does evil to his neighbor. Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend? Is the same. So the person who's not engaging in all of these sins of the tongue. We're being pulled is thinking rightly is processing Devine View. Matthew chapter 12. Verse 34 we have Christ speaking Bruno vipers. How can you be evil speak, good things for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks The Lord himself makes this connection and it starts to us this very fact, the whatever is in the core of your being. That is the central place of thinking of processing. It's going to come out of the mouth. so Jesus asserts that as fact, we can take it as such, I found interesting Lee in Ciroc, which is one of the Jewish books written Before the New Testament after the Old Testament before the New Testament, but it is not scripture. Just listen to what the Jews. Think in general, this is their cultural perspective when the refuse appears So a sieve is used to yeah basically to sift out everything, if your grind, your weeds are going to have fuss. So you won't, you don't want someone to get us through the back of the throat. So you still get out your poor, it through your work, it all out. So you have to find a material and you take and you dunk what's left over. That's this is talking about the refuse. What's rejected appears? So do a person's fault when he speaks So we see what is to be rejected. When you dump the Sith. Look for a person that happens when they speak verse five. The kilm test The Potter's vessels where you go to bake your clay and turn it into a ceramic stove. A test of a person is in his conversation.