All right, good morning, everybody. We've got 9.58, so I don't know what that means, but I think we'll start now. I'm excited to be back teaching a little bit in front of you guys. A little nervous, I was telling Pastor Brent this morning. It's been a long time. It's funny how the whole COVID thing changed so much of our lives. Imagine we're on a screen. The people we love. Even worse. I'm kind of nervous about this recording back here behind me too, listening to everything I say and like, you know, now they can quote me like, oh, no, that's not what I really said. Pastor Brent, would you mind opening us up this morning? Thank you, brother. Let's pray. Most gracious Heavenly Father, we praise you and we thank you for this day. Lord, we know that this day is the day that you have made. You have given us in your word to rejoice and be glad in it. And we are thankful this morning as we have time and a place to come together. Lord, we rejoice in your love and your grace and your mercy that you have shown us and that you have gone before us, that you are with us and that you will be with us as we go. And we're thankful for this body of believers that you have put together, that you would continue to bless us to sanctify us in your word and truth. And Lord, we are thankful for that. We know that our faith and our hope and all that we know and believe is in Christ. And today we praise you for that. We pray that you would be with Brother Matt today as he brings this lesson that we would be eager to hear and that our hearts would be changed from your word because it is from you, it is eternal. and that we would take it with us as we go, and that we would be diligent about applying these things in our lives. Thank you for all these things, in Christ's precious name, amen. Amen. Well, thank you all for being here this morning. We're going to continue on in 1 Timothy. Pastor Brent asked me to pick up in verse 18, kind of at the tail end of of the book here, of the chapter, I'm sorry, the chapter one. I think that we kind of have a little bit of a book end here in verse 18 through 20. If I were to outline chapter one, it would look something like, and y'all can, if y'all turn your Bibles to 1 Timothy, it'll kind of help you kind of see the lines that I'm kind of drawing. as far as outline goes, but basically in chapter 1, verses 3 through 7, we have this charge to Timothy to fight against false teachers, okay? We're going to read this all the way also, but I just want to kind of give you this outline. In verse 8 through 11, we see this kind of... demonstration of how we should use the law rightly, that was the false teaching that was using the law incorrectly, that's charging against. Then the whole gospel presentation in 12 through 17. And then what's interesting is in 18 through 20, he kind of restates that charge against false teaching. So we kind of have this opening, the bookend on one side and the bookend on the other side of kind of chapter one of don't teach things wrong as I stand in front of you this morning and try not to teach things wrong, right? So anyway, so we're gonna kind of jump around as we read this morning. So first of all, can I get someone to read verses 18 through 20? I got it, all right. This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight, keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme." Okay, what translation was that, Taylor? N-A-S. That's N-A-S. Okay, can somebody else read from N-A-S verses 3 through... Actually, let's just say verses three and four. I want to point something out here. If anybody's got New American Center, I want to make sure the words are the same. As I urged you upon my departure from Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies which give rise to mere speculation. rather than furthering the administration of God, which is by faith. Okay, one more verse. But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. Okay, so I was gonna look at some of these words here, and that word I was looking at was, in the ESV, it's charge. And you said instruction in yours, and you said, Taylor, you had command in verse 18, is that right? So I think we have the same word here. It's this charge to Timothy. right? And so this original charge to Timothy that Pastor Brent just read is so that you may charge, in the end of verse 3 where I am, remain in emphasis that you may charge certain persons not to teach false doctrine, right? That is the, that is, here's Paul, Timothy, here's why I want you to stay. It's so that you can charge these people. This is your charge, right? This is your instruction. And then finally, when we get to verse 18, we see that same thing, this charge, I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the promises previously made about thee, that by thee you may wage the good warfare. So it's the same instruction against false doctrine, right? It's so pervasive in our world 2,000 years ago, and it's pervasive in our world today, as we have this misuse of the law. It's exactly what's going on with this church in Ephesus, that we have the book to earlier, by the way. You can learn a lot about that there. we get this description of how these people are using the law incorrectly. And we've been through that. We went through that with Pastor Brent about how we have seen that. And I don't know, I'm gonna point out just a couple of things here. Let's look at verse eight. Now we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully. Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine. So, do you guys see any, any sort of, pattern there in that list of those bad things. Y'all see it, y'all see that there is, it becomes really easy to see when you get down to the fifth, I mean, sorry, not the fifth, four, I gave it away. When you get down to the end of verse nine, y'all see, y'all see the pattern that's going on there, what we're seeing? Those are the commandments, and he even lists them in order. Y'all see that, like it's, so what we see, How do we use the law? So we talk about there are divisions in the law, and it's crazy to me how many how little we talk about this, not in this church, but how little our culture talks about this, just evangelicals in general talk about how we use law, because it seems like such an important thing that Paul is pointing out to Timothy. And this first division of the law, I'll say, is God's moral law. And I think that's exactly what we're outlining here. And if we misuse God's moral law that was established in creation, Echoed in the Ten Commandments, and I shouldn't say established in creation, that was made manifest in creation. When do y'all think the moral law was established? Pastor Todd is shaking his head. I think that's the right answer, right? God's moral law is a direct reflection of his character, and that means that it is what? Eternal. Eternal, right? It is forever. These laws that are being broken right here, that we're talking about, these people that break these laws right here, are eternal, right? And those sins against that law are good unto condemnation, then, now, and eternally, right, is what we're saying. So if we take away from that, or if we add to that even, we have a problem. And that's exactly what Paul is pointing out to Timothy. And this is, welcome. So good to see you guys. I just realized I haven't seen you in forever. So anyway, we see this big problem that Timothy was up against here in the church. Any questions about that? As we divide the law, we basically divide into this moral law, the civil law, and the ceremonial law, is how we see the law carried out in the Old Testament. And I'm sure you've heard a lot of this new covenant stuff that is very popular right now. And I actually had a guy from a church just that I was talking to a few weeks ago. And I say, well, I'm not a Sabbatarian. And it just hurts my heart to hear somebody say, well, it's the Fourth Commandment. You know what I mean? It's just a strange thing to say. Maybe you say that, well, I'm not exactly sure what to do on Sunday, or I don't know what's on that list. To me, that's an easier thing to say, because I don't know what's on the list either. There's not a list, in case you were wondering. There's still no list. Our confession gives some really good advice to do with the Sabbath, that goes on with the Sabbath, and talking about that we do all that we can to prepare ourselves for this Lord's Day, knowing that God set it apart for us, and that He gives us some exceptions, Necessity. Necessity. There we go. I couldn't remember the ox stick stuck in the ditch part. But just saying something like that is just, to me, it's just a problem. When we take God's word, it just shows that we don't understand what this moral law really is, the eternality, the fact that this moral law goes on forever and ever, and just to say that not that is kind of a problem. Does that make sense? Now, I'm not sitting here saying what we do and don't have to do on the Lord's Day, but we do have to uphold God's commands, right? Yes, sir? Is there an example that you know around here? We are not in Texas because some of the children are here, and I specifically It's not biblical, because they are beyond teaching. And it has no other doctrines. And I'm really, it's funny because you're not from here, and you're taking this passage very seriously. And I think that's what we should do. When Paul charges Timothy to speak out against this, I think that's kind of where we're going. is that it's very pervasive. And I would say that it's very pervasive in churches, and they may not even recognize it. This person I was talking to, I don't think he would say that, I don't believe the Ten Commandments, you know what I mean? I don't think they would. The problem is, A big part of it, in my opinion, is a confessional problem in that we don't necessarily always write things down. We have these thoughts and beliefs in our heads and we don't put them on paper. I don't think anything this man told me as part of his church was written down that way or anything like that. something that maybe, you know, Pastor Todd and I have all kinds of conversations about things that we were told when we were 12 that are still just pervasive, you know. I remember a pastor telling me when I was a little boy, it still stuck in my head. I don't believe it, but it still stuck in my head of, well, we can't believe everything we see in scripture. You know, I can still remember things being said like that. And honestly, that stuck with me for years and years. It shapes the way we think. That's the problem with this false teaching, is that it is just that, false teaching and untrue condemnation. Yes, sir? I used to have a girlfriend before I was a Christian. I was saved in 19, when I was 14 years old. And I will not tell you how old I am. But this young lady we have been married and she likes men, I like her, the way we mix with people, right? But anyway, she was seventh-day Adventist, and I understand that this place is owned by seventh-day Adventist. That might make my mind go, oh, wow, why are we, in fact, using the place that they teach They want to go to Saturday only, not Sunday. And we are different. And they believe in works. Because we are works services by grace. And then they believe in works. And you cannot be saved if you do not have works. Another one, do not eat pork. And I ate pork. All kinds of words. I had some this morning. That's only the three things that I have remembered, because John 3, 16 was the key verse when I received Christ as Savior. And I was told that I am going to hell if I don't accept Christ as Savior. And I was going forward, anybody who comes to accept Christ as Savior, you come forward. And I was going forward crying. And then I looked this way, there were 11 more, and there were 12 of us receiving Christ during that day. So. Amen. So we are, we obviously use the building because it's convenient. A couple of churches, quite a few churches I know in our association also use Seventh-day Adventist churches because they don't them on Sunday. And it's, you know, these are, I would add that we don't have the money to purchase a facility, but we would be glad to accept any donation. But just like we would rent a facility from some guy that we don't know what he believes or what he might be standing for. We rent here in that same way. And we're very careful to tell people when they call and say, Hey, we are we are leases. Yep. And are we leaseholders? I don't know. we've written. To your word law and how we I think a lot of times people who want to abandon the law, like you're talking about, look at the scripture and they find verses like, we're no longer under the law, and they assume that the word law means the same exact thing everywhere we find it in scripture. And it doesn't. Sometimes it means the rigor and curse of the law. Sometimes it means the attributes of God that are reflected in the moral law. Sometimes it means that ceremonial, it means something different as we see it in different places. Well look at verse eight. Everybody look at verse eight real quick. Now we know that the law is good. We can't put that away. That is the opening sentence to this section that I'm saying, this eight through 11 section. It's the opening sentence. We know that the law is good, and we're not gonna throw it out, and we're not gonna set it aside if we use it lawfully, right? And then look at, man, I should've wrote more things down, but I never do. Yeah, look at verse 11. Now let me just skip, now we know the law is good if one uses it lawfully. Common, we got a big old sentence here. I'm just gonna make it a little more clear to you. Look at verse 11, in accordance with the gospel, right? Do you see that? I think this is how we use the law lawfully. We use it in accordance with the gospel, right? And now does the gospel abandon God's moral law? Absolutely not. We just went through this whole section, right? That was the in between was how that the moral law stands, right? And the moral law stands so that we can see the gospel, so that we can have the gospel, we can receive the gospel through Christ perfectly. acting, doing, carrying out, fulfilling the law in his life perfectly, and then imputing that to us. So chapter two goes into Christ the mediator. And one of the things, and we'll talk about this in the weeks to come, but one of my, I think that is my favorite title in the confession. Like there's, you know, chapter one is of the scriptures, right? Of, I can't remember them all, but of Christ we give him this of mediator and it's just such, it is such drawing all these things together because Christ is the one who mediates. So we'll get to that preview but I'm really excited about Christ the mediator being talked about right here in First Timothy. I was wondering what you thought on this or anyone on verse 9. It says that the law is not laid down for the just. Does it mean it's not laid down for, kind of like how Joseph was called, he was a just man, he's not perfect, but, or does it mean it's not laid down for perfect, sinless people? Right, yeah. Let me, anybody have a thought on that before? It seems like he's, I don't know what the part of speech is, but it seems like he's being kind of like, sarcastic when he says the righteous person Yeah Look we were going to get to this in a second, but man I'm getting chills thinking about verse 15 look at verse 15, right? The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save who? sinners Right what kind of sinners? Okay, what if I am a pastor, and let's say I've got a 14-year-old boy who needs Christ, right? And he's been taught all these things and maybe been in one of these churches with all this false doctrine. And let's just say he's full of it. And I come to him and I say, the saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save. What would you expect him to say? If you're in this false church, if you're in this one who is throwing all these things out, I know what I might have expected him to say when I was 14 if I didn't know this passage. I might have expected him to say, those who try really hard, those who do their best and make good grades in school, or check the box. You were talking about that legalism. Those who don't eat pork, right? I mean, we can fill in the box with what we think should go there in our mind. Those who do good things. That's right, those who do good things. Imagine you're Timothy, and you're reading this church at Ephesus. What do you think they were expecting him to say there? This deserves full acceptance. It's worthy. Christ Jesus came into the world to save. And just imagine the sinners. That's the word that he picked. And there's no adjective on sinners. It's not the worst sinners or the best sinners or the medium ones. It's sinners. Picture my mind, and I mean, I can say I was guilty of it when I was young. So there's this justice and the scales are there, and you put what your good works are on the scale, and then your bad works on the other one, and at the end of your life, if your good works outweighed it, then you're in. That's right. That's the mentality of the world today. Well, I think that's biblical too, right? Lost people would be surprised. But Christians wouldn't. We shouldn't be. We should not. We should be like, yep, that's me. A saved sinner. Guilty is guilty, and yet the punishment is required. I think they are also mixing the constitution, what the government requires. I taught government for 34 years. I was a pastor for about 33. the Constitution of the United States and the Bible. This is final. Amen. Sorry, brother. No, that's fine. Here, here. No, no, you. No, you. No, I'm good. That's what I was trying to explain. Thank you for that. You see what I'm trying to say? I think this verse is exactly It's yes, like Christ came to save sinners. And what you just said about the scales, that's biblical. We see, I don't have it written down of course, but somebody knows what that is, but basically we see that there is a weight that we'll be, as we in judgment, we'll get put on this weight. And I'm here to tell you guys, if you don't realize that Christ Jesus came to save sinners and you try to put yourself on that scale, You will not inherit eternal life. Your works, what you do, and I know I'm talking to what you guys, you guys know this, but it's interesting to see it here in this passage, you know, right here, that it is Christ who came to save sinners, whose righteousness is counted as ours, as imputed to us, okay? Okay, so I'm just kind of, I know I kind of back up through chapter one, but I wanted us to see what these, Hymenaeus and Alexander were up to. And I think we can see what was going on here with this false teaching. So now I'm down in verse 18 again. Discharge I entrust you Timothy, my child in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you. Interesting thing there, I'm gonna flip back again. Let's look at, we can see what this is not is what I'm gonna get to. Where is it? to myths and English genealogies and promote speculations. And now in verse 18, we see that this charge to entrust Timothy was in accordance with the prophecy. So how is this different from myths and genealogies? How is this not mysticism? Because it can't be, right? We're saying this bad verse four, and now are we talking about some mystical prophecy of, you know, and I don't think this was, what I'm talking about right now. We have a big problem in Waco with Word of Faith movement and speaking of things over people and proclaiming this for you and victory for this and healing for this and pow, bang, boom, knock down stuff. And I don't think that's what we're talking about with Timothy. What did you say? I think he's making a line between what man says is the Word of God and what actually is the Word of God. He's directly referring to Scripture. Directly referring to Scripture. And I think there's another piece of it, too, in that Timothy previously, Paul is affirming him personally, right, also. Hey, we affirmed you as a minister of the gospel, anointed him, and set him apart for the ministry of the gospel, and there's something to be said for that. Right, Pastor Todd? That's in 414. That's right. Yes, sir, that's right. Did we go in there? Yeah, that's what I was referring to. That's exactly what I was referring to. Is this... Paul affirming Timothy that he might have confidence to proclaim the gospel as it has been taught to him, and he has proven worthy of, and been anointed to go proclaim as a minister of the gospel, right? So, that's why we have to be careful. That's why I get nervous when I come up here. We have to be careful about... There's, we hear a lot of stories about converts being converted and just, I don't know, how about this, what if I just do it this way? What if I just talk about me as a 19 year old, right? As a person who's been saved for about a month and then trying to go teach. 16-year-olds about what it means to be a Christian. And I can tell you right now, from my own personal experience, that's a bad idea. That's a really bad idea. I was not sent by a church. I was not sent by a group of believers who maybe I just, you know, said, you can go do this, and I don't know. And we just need to be very careful. As missionaries, we talk about this a lot. We are sent by the church, right? We are sent and affirmed by the church. So it's just a word of warning. Be careful of 19 year old youth pastors. Oh man, it hurts. Gotta shake that off for a minute. Just remembering some of the things. Remember, I was still the one who was still influenced by not everything in the Bible you heard is true. I mean, that's still in my head. You know, so we just have to be very careful. And I say that laughing and joking, but it is, it is, it makes me, hurt and sad and feel remorse and a need to repent of sin. But we know that God does that and so I'm thankful for that. All right, so in accordance with the prophecy back in verse 18, jumping around a bunch, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, That by them you may wage the good warfare, and I think that's what Mr. McCaskell's talking about. How do we fight warfare against this wrong teaching? And I think that is worthy. I think that's exactly what Paul is entrusting Timothy to do, and we should also. Holding faith in a good conscience. Okay. heard of scripture. We must remember that this is a time before the closing of the canon, a time where revelatory gifts were still active, so there absolutely seems to have been special prophecies, particularly about Timothy. I didn't think about that for time period's sake. This may be something different than what we'd see today because of the time period. Does that mean we should expect it now? So I've talked a little bit about the Word of Faith stuff, and the scripture is very clear that the canon is closed, that God has spoken. I remember the first time I showed up to this church, I was really struggling with this, and we were in a church where Things were happening miraculously all the time, and this whole word of faith thing, and people were speaking things. Anytime I'd ask questions about it, all I would ever get was, I think God's trying to tell you this. We can easily interpret whatever we want by our feelings. And I remember Pastor Todd had his Bible, and he just thumped it once and said, it's sufficient. Christ's word is finished and sufficient, and it's good for you. And I think that there's, man, Talk about a load off your shoulders, right? I mean, that grants peace, guys. It gives us peace to know that everything we need to know about Christ, about God's revelation is right here in front of us, right? And it's comforting. I'm sorry. When you look at me, I'm going to say something. Our conscience here, where it says this command, I entrust you to me, and then all that, it says keep in good faith and good conscience, where would we be in our conscience apart from the word and Christ? Where would we be? Right. So that's exact, Paul, I mean, Grant's the best, because he just leads right into the next. That's what he says, by rejecting this, what are we rejecting? Exactly what you just said, I believe. It's rejecting your conscience, rejecting this word, rejecting this law. By rejecting this, by rejecting those things that we know to be true and that we've held true forever, they've made a shipwreck of their faith. OK? That's a great word, that shipwreck word. Yeah. ESV has made shipwreck. No, they take out the A. And I was just like, that's kind of clunky, you guys, you goofballs. But I don't know. I think it's right. They have made not a shipwreck, shipwreck. It's just interesting, the verbiage there. So make shipwreck of the faith. Yes, sir. Conscience has to be finalized whether it's biblical or not. If it is, then conscience is not final. But God's word is final, the Bible. Amen. And the one to guide our conscience. Is that what you're saying? The Bible is what guides our conscience. Oh yeah, that's a good point. That's right. If it's not the Word of God guiding our conscience, So what I think maybe by rejecting this, that this, this thing if we reject it will make a shipwreck of us, right? Is our conscience only, I'm trying to put a good word here, that our conscience only as it agrees with scripture. How about that? Does that make sense? As it is informed by scripture. So our conscience, you know, our heart is deceptive above all things. Let me remind you. And it's, that's a terrifying fact. But I think that's where we draw the line in our conscience is where we are informed by scripture, right? That's how we are informed by scripture. Even in your doubt, you better run to the Bible to verify it. And I read a few sermons on this just to talk about this. Because we're fixing to talk real quickly about Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. It's scary, right? I don't think, if you asked, you know, five years before this happened, Hymenaeus and Exalius, hey, y'all gonna, y'all gonna just get tossed out and get handed over to Satan? Are y'all planning on that? You know, I don't think anybody plans on something like that. The Bible, I was thinking about this, we have parables. Weed and chaff, sheep and goats, a parable about soil, a parable about virgins, and talk about fishnets, castnets, that all remind us that we can be these delusioned people. This happens. This happens to professors of the faith. And so how do we reject this? How do we reject this? Yes, ma'am. I just had a question. What do you think he means when he says to him, I have delivered him to safety? Or I have delivered him to safety? Yeah, I'm gonna, yeah, let's go, we'll go there right now, but just as we, Real quick, just before we go there, we have to be on our guard that we're not delusioned, guys. Cruising our clock in the Lord Jesus this weekend, and just, sometimes I read chapter one and I feel like it's me. And I feel like, you know, what is my conscience telling me with regard to scripture? Well, man, it's, I'm a sinner, you know? But then again, I go read verse 15, and Christ Jesus came to save sinners. So, there's a, There's some, I don't know, things to think about there, I'll say. I hope that you'll think about that and pray about that in your own life and just let the Word of God be your guide, let your conscience work on you, let the Holy Spirit work on you as it regards to Scripture. Make sure you're backed up with the Word of God, but we need to be careful that we're not. teaching wrongly, thinking wrongly, sinning and deluding ourselves and telling us that, well, hey, that guy, this guy, you know, our sin is real and it is worthy unto damnation for us. Praise be to God that he came to save sinners, he said. Let me say one more and then I will be quiet. No problem. Like our government now, our new president, that they're coming here and coming here. But before that, President, the former President Trump, he did a final law about that, that you cannot without permission to our country here. Otherwise, you are stepping on our country and not, but no, there is a conflict The president now is allowing them, and then a million, that makes a thousand, thousand are coming to America, and then there are even some people who are taking them in, you know, and then they are doing some things that is not correct, not right, you know, and so there is, there's a confrontational, leadership in our government that is compared to what we are studying here, you know, and then when we compare this. or vice versa. Let me go on to this last verse. We'll get through this last verse. Maybe we'll start chapter two next week. But I'm gonna answer Ms. Walker's question about this. What does this mean about whom I've handed over to Satan? And to get this, so first of all, we can read this, and if you're a little bit of a cynic like me, it sounds like it's kind of an over-exaggeration and just, you know, wow, that sounds bad, but I think there's there's something we can learn from this. So this happens again in 1 Corinthians chapter 5. So I'm going to flip over and look at this and put these two passages together. I think it'll be really helpful for us. So I'm in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 4 and 5. And then we might go a little further too. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus, and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. So same verbiage, right? We're talking about the same, Paul is telling the Corinthians to do the same thing that he's told Timothy to do, to hand this person over to Satan. But listen to the next clause. The next clause is, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. So first of all, I think what we have to say is that Paul is not saying that we are condemning this person to hell. We are not saying that right now. Because right here we see, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. This is not a final condemnation. It feels to me like we're talking about discipline, is what I think we're talking about. It seems pretty clear, too, with the very next phrase being that they learned not to blaspheme. It's not because they're evil, but they deserve to go to hell. It's not a cynical that they learned not to blaspheme when they're in hell. I don't think it's that. What was the blasphemy? I think, if I were to guess, I mean, I don't know, you may already, you look like you've been looking this up. But I would relate it to everything we just read. To everything we just read. So the false teaching, and I think some of the commentary specifically said about the resurrection. Oh, okay. Interesting. Right. I would say that we've got to see with Alexandria and Hymenaeus and with this man in first Corinthians, there is a possibility because we are not God and we don't know that these people are not truly saved. That's right. And they may not be taught. They may not be that the flesh may not be that the spirit may not be set. In other words, there's that possibility. Sure. I think the goal of this discipline is restoration. Absolutely. So they may be taught not to blaspheme. It's not, like I say, some cynical, you know, well he's a Christian now, isn't he? It's not that. that they may be rejoined to the church. So I think this is, this handing over to Satan, catch this, I think this handing over to Satan is to be excommunicated from the church, to be put outside the church. And he calls being put outside the church akin to being handed over to Satan, by the way. So they've already been addressed, they've already been reached. They've already had the conversations, and they're not listening, and at this point they say, you're in sin, Now we're going to hand you over to that sinfulness that you might live with. And if you're a believer, you are going to be, by the discipline of the Lord, brought to repentance. I think there are a lot of people in our day and age that hand themselves over to Satan simply by removing themselves from church. And that's, why would you do that? Anyway, so I think it's one and the same. Last part is very important. Is, was Christ risen? Yes or no? Yes. And then there's some people teaching, he did not rise. There was two teachings about the resurrection, actually. There was one that said that he has not risen, and one that said that the resurrection had already taken place. Yeah, he said the resurrection had already taken place. Both wrong. Both wrong. Corinthians is so good, guys. The next verse, I want to read it to you. Right after that, he says, destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. The very next breath, he says, your boasting is not good. You are this much better, right? A little leaven leavens the whole lump. This false teaching is serious. Don't boast. It is not of your own. It is Christ who is saving you. Christ came to save sinners. It's the center of this gospel. And by the way, just, and I'm sorry, I'm talking too much too. You got a priest next. We get back to what you're talking about the law and abandoning the law. Here in Corinthians, this man is in egregious sin that even the world would condemn and the church is saying we're under grace we're good because we'll accept that sin and it's okay and that's why he says your boasting is not good they're they're blaming this sin on the grace of God oh the grace of God is so good you can be a horrible sinner and and he said no your boasting is not good that's not that's not so should we go on sending so that grace may abound that's what they were saying By no means, may it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never be, right? May it never God, we're thankful for the opportunity now to come under the ordinary means of grace and have your word preached. God, we know that you want to do work on us, that you want to sanctify us, that you want to conform us to your Son. We pray and we know and we have confidence this morning that you are prepared to do that for us now. And we pray that you prepare our hearts, prepare our minds. We pray that you would just bless your people as you Father. Thank you for this chance, and we bless your son. Thank you for coming to save sinners. God, we pray that you remind us that that is us, that we are sinners without adjective, and we require your grace for salvation. Thank you for all these things in Christ's name. Amen.