Alright, so we're going to be in the book of Titus again. We are working our way through this book. I was working on this lesson this week and then my message for tonight in the book of John. Now, we've been going through the gospel of John chapter 6 for the past several weeks. We're going to finish it up today, or tonight, and we're going to finish Titus 1 today. And it just so happened that today's lesson in Titus is going to be the profile of false teachers and then tonight is going to be the profile of false disciples. I did not plan that. I just got to study in both the texts and I said, oh, this is what this is teaching. This is what this is teaching. So it's interesting that that so we're going to look at the profile of false teachers this morning from Titus and then tonight we're going to look at the profile of false disciples from John 6. So Let's read through what we've covered thus far and in the process we'll do some review. Titus chapter 1, Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. So we know that Paul wrote this letter. He says a servant of God. I always want to remind you that this word is slave, so he recognizes his identity in Christ, is a slave to Christ. according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness, and hope of eternal life which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began." So his mission, his goal, his priority is to reach God's elect with the gospel. Verse 3, But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior. So this is the preferred method. Not just the preferred method, this is the ordained method that God has determined to use to get His gospel to His people, and that is through the method of preaching. And we mentioned that. Verse 4, to Titus. So this is who the letter is being written to. So then we came, spent two weeks on these next few verses, which is basically what he tells him the first order of operation he needs to do in the churches there in Crete. And this is ordain elders. He says, verse 5, for this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly, For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate. Now, verse 9, we covered verse 9, but verse 9 basically runs in with verse 10, and so I want to address verse 9 again, and then we'll hit verses 10 through 16, because here we get into the responsibilities of an elder. So, we looked at the...the first thing he mentions is the qualifications. He says, you've got to be blameless. You need to be blameless in the home and you need to be blameless in the church. Then he gives him a list of five things not to do. And then he gives him a list of six things to be. So he gives a negative list and a positive list. And then in verse nine, he comes to here's what you need to be doing. So he says, hold fast the faithful word as he has been taught. So right off the bat, we see one important thing about elders. Two things, actually. They need to hold to the truth of God's Word. They need to protect and defend the truth of God's Word. But not only that, they must be taught in the truth of God's Word. In 1 Timothy, when we see the qualifications for a bishop and an elder, we see that he's not supposed to be a novice. That means that he needs to be taught. He needs to be trained. Now, me and Brother Steve both graduated from Bible college. Now, Brother Steve, you did not graduate from Bible college with a preaching or pastor's degree, right? I went to a Bible college. And I've mentioned this a couple of times. I've relearned just about everything I was taught in the Bible college that I went to. So you could say, I'm not going to sit here and say I'm qualified to be an elder because I graduated from a Bible college, or I'm saying Brother Steve is qualified to be our senior pastor because he graduated from PCC. No, that's not what I'm saying at all. Now, is college or seminary helpful? Absolutely. Absolutely. And if I was training someone who said they were called to preach a young man, I would most likely encourage them to go to a seminary. But there are other ways to be trained and taught. Probably the best way is by a one-on-one mentorship. which I think Brother Steve has really helped me with through these past six years. Some people are motivated to have self-learning. They're motivated. Sometimes they don't need the classroom, but they have that motivation to just jump into the books, jump into the study, do it, get it done. And that is a method of learning, but not everybody is like that. I mean, even if... There's some people that need the structure of a seminary, need the pressure of, you've got this due at this certain time, and then on top of that, need a kick in the seat to get it going. I knew guys... I never understood this. Never understood this. I had friends in Bible college that I went to paying a lot of money for the credits that they're sitting in that seat. lived in the dormitory, which was probably a two-minute, not even a minute walk from their room to the classroom, and still skipped class because they couldn't get up out of bed. I just never understood. I was like, you're paying for this. You want to be a pastor someday. Why can't you get to class? You're wasting your money. Because, seriously, I had one friend who bombed a class, not because he failed tests, but because he missed too many classes. So he lost that whole semester. But he paid for it. Sometimes that structure is needed, but they must be well taught. That he may be able by sound doctrine. So what's the next thing we know about a qualified elder as far as his responsibility goes? Before he gets in the eldership, he must have his doctrine sound. Because how can he defend the Word of God, or train up the flock of God, the church, the sheep, if his doctrine is not sound? So his doctrine must be sound. Both to exhort and convince the gainsayers, or the opposition. to where we are at today. So verses 10-16, let's read these and then we'll start to break them down like is our custom. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers. especially they of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. Even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him. being abominable and disobedient and, unto every good work, reprobate." So I've titled this lesson, The Profile of False Teachers. The Profile of False Teachers. A couple of years ago, in Sunday school, we went through about an eight or nine week series where we talked about the seeker-friendly and charismatic movement. We covered a lot of teaching, and basically it was sort of a dive into knowing what the Bible actually teaches, as opposed from their era. But we didn't really hit by name and talk about who they are, who the false teachers are, and why. We did mention some, but why there are false teachers. But I want to, from this text in Titus, what the profile of a false teacher looks like, because this is what Paul says. Now, we're still talking in the context of an elder. So, what is one of the jobs of the elder He's supposed to be settled in sound doctrine to teach the people, but then he spends all of these verses explaining why the other responsibility of the elder is to protect. Well, how do you protect? Well, a shepherd, Brother Steve's been going through Psalm 23 on Wednesday nights, a shepherd protects his sheep. He has a rod and he has a staff. You've heard the stories of the sheep door. and the shepherd would create a barrier around the sheep and sit there and he would be the door so no wolves could get in. So part of the shepherd is to feed the sheep as he leads the sheep along. He keeps the sheep, but he's got to protect his sheep. Well, in that analogy with Scripture in the church, the shepherds being the pastor elders, the sheep being the congregation, That responsibility of protecting the sheep is there and it is very important. So how does it manifest itself? It manifests itself in protecting from false teachers. So we see first of all in verses 10 through 13, first part of 13, the description of false teachers. Starting off in verse 10, their proliferation, Look at the very first words, for there are many. There's a lot of false teachers out there. I thought about making a list just so you know who not to listen to or who not to watch, but it's an exhaustive... There's tons of them. There are so many false teachers and there's such a wide range. This is a false teacher over here because he teaches this, but this is a false teacher over here because he's way on the other side. There are many false teachers out there. Let me just say this, you will be safe never watching TBN again, okay? Just don't turn the station on. I mean, there are tons of false teachers out there. And this is a promise that was made to us in Scripture that Paul was teaching his young men, Timothy and Titus. He says, there are many. Lincoln Duncan said this, the elders are there to make sure that the teaching that goes on in these local congregations is sound, that it's according to God's Word, that it is in accordance with the preaching of Paul and the other apostles. You've heard this illustration a hundred times, but I want to bring it to your remembrance to understand why we teach so much in the way that we teach it. Why we preach the Bible the way we do it. Verse by verse. Phrase by phrase. Word by word. Because whenever they're training somebody to be able to spot counterfeit money, what do they do to them? They have them become an expert on the real thing. And so the best way to keep and protect you from knowing false teaching is to teach you the truth. And to have you so saturated with the truth that when you see something that's not true, red flags go up automatically. Brother Steve did do a study. And you know, I was thinking about this. I thought about this a lot this weekend. And maybe sometime, maybe not now, but maybe something you, Brother Steve, you consider doing again in the near future. But a couple of years ago, he did an excellent study on the religion of cults, where he highlighted and he reviewed false religions and false cults. I think that may be something that would be beneficial to review every now and again. But we don't spend Every Sunday, talking about Scientology, or the Jehovah's Witnesses, or the Mormons. Why? Because we want to get you saturated with the truth, not false teaching. Next, you see their behavior. First of all, they're rebellious. They're rebellious. For there are many unruly. Unruly, another translation in the New American Standard says rebellious men. The Greek word here gives the idea of disobedient, that's not put under, unruly, unsubdued. Warren Weersbe said this, beware of teachers who will not put themselves under authority. Beware of teachers who will not put themselves under authority. Watch out for people who have to be it and will not be governed by anybody else. We have a body of leadership at this church that checks and balances each other. I am not the head of state in this church. Steve Adams is not the head of state in this church. So watch out for that. That should be a red flag. There is one false teacher that I did a lot of research on. I don't have the technology. I wanted to play some clips of him this morning, but I don't have the technology to be able to do that. But we're going to talk about him. He's going to be sort of our profile guy that I'm going to do some work exposing, because I think that he is new on the scene, and he is leading a lot of Christians to just think that everything that he says is... I think that what Paul is saying to Titus here describes him to a T. and that is a guy by the name of Stephen Furtick. Let me say this, how many of you have ever heard of the name Stephen Furtick? Now, if you are on social media a lot, you'll probably see Stephen Furtick a lot, because that's where he's gotten insanely popular outside of his own state. Because there are videos that go around social media, little clips of Stephen Furtick preaching like crazy. Now, let me give you a sort of background real quick, and then I'll explain why I want to hit him on this point of rebellious or unruly, not putting under authority. Stephen Furtick took over a church in Charlotte, North Carolina several years ago, which was a dying Southern Baptist church. Changed the name of it to Elevation. Elevation quickly became one of the largest growing churches in America. When I was graduating college or in college, I can't remember which one, my dad actually, he worked for a company that built churches and church-related buildings. The college that I went to, he built the dormitory there for his company. and they sent him to Charlotte because Elevation had hired my dad's company to renovate an old Kmart building that went out of business so they could hold church services there. So the first time I was exposed to this guy was when my dad was working for that church and his company to build their building. Stephen Furtick really grew big. He started writing a couple of books, but he quickly, they were not really in the Southern Baptist camp anymore, and they quickly moved to more of a word of faith type of thing. His favorite preacher, he said one of his mentors was T.D. Jakes. And Stephen Furtick has really gotten insanely popular over the past few years. One of the things about Stephen Furtick is NBC did a profile on him and his church a couple of years back. And I watched this on YouTube and they exposed some of the things they want because word got out that he was building him a one, him and his wife were building a $1.7 million house on several acres out in the outskirts of Charlotte. And it was a 16,000 square foot home. And so the news team was like, okay, why does a pastor need that big of a home? So they started trying to investigate. First of all, his income is kept completely secret by the church. They will not release, not just to the news or the public, but the church members that go to Elevation do not know what the pastor makes. They keep it a secret. a lot of the church financials, which he said that he was building the house on the income that he got from his books. What is that? He still won't release that. That's kept secret. One of the problems here, though, is that we just went through talking about the church structure of elders. Paul tells Titus to appoint elders, group of men, plural. There are no deacon boards or elder boards. Well, let me back up. I don't want to say that definitively. But they do not have an elder board that watches over their church or decides what the pastor's salary is at Elevation Church. In fact, the group of men which is considered the board of directors for Elevation Church that decides Stephen Furtick's salary, not a single one of them go to Elevation or are a member of Elevation. They actually are all other pastors and megachurches around the nation. And get this, they all invite each other to speak at their respective conferences and pay each other quite a bit of a stipend to come do that. Now, does that seem like a little tricky? I mean, if you were going to Calvary Baptist Church, let's say we were a megachurch, you were a member of this church, but not one person that had to do with this church decided what this church paid the pastor? Does it sound right? Not only that, they won't let you know what he makes. And I think this qualifies, or this goes under what Paul is talking about Titus. He's not putting himself under any authority. He's creating his own authority. Next, empty talkers. He says, verse 10, they're unruly, vain talkers. This is empty talkers. This is, Warren Roosevelt said, they excelled in talking, not in doing. They could tell others what to do, but would not do it themselves. James 1.26 says, if any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is in vain. Swindoll said this, I like this quote, you can always spot those who don't teach truth by the way they say absolutely nothing beautifully. You can always spot someone who does not teach truth by the way they say absolutely nothing beautifully. speak with smooth, captivating, even persuasive assuredness, but have little or nothing on which to base their teaching." And if I could categorize Stephen Furtick, that is exactly who he is. I see so many of friends that I've either went to college with, been in church with, will share video clips of him on Facebook all of the time, and he sounds like he's really a great preacher. He looks like a bodybuilder. I guess it's the new thing. You know, get big muscles so you can wear a short shirt to show off your muscles. That's why you hold a microphone and you preach. But he gets up there and he has these little clips about all that you can do and this thing. One of the videos I was watching where a guy was talking about him has categorized him with this term. He's a narcissist. He practices narcissus. Now let me explain that term to you. Exegesis is the term where it talks about how we study the Bible, we exegete the Bible, the scripture, we take what's there, we pull everything that's there out. We study the language, we study the grammar, we study the history, and we exegete it to see what it means. What they mean by calling him a Narcissus is he takes the scriptures and he reads himself into the scriptures in every story. For instance, the story of Joseph. Joseph has a dream. So his entire message is about, what's your dream? You're Joseph. You have a dream. Now, did God give every Bible character in the Bible dreams like He gave Joseph? No. No. That was not a normative situation. But then he goes on and he teaches his old church about, what's your dream? Sometimes your dream can get you in trouble. And he does all these things and people are like, oh, it motivates him. But here's what he's doing. He's not saying anything. This is all beautiful, captivating words that are nothing. It's like cotton candy. I hate cotton candy. I got it as a kid. All my friends loved cotton candy. Oh, cotton candy. I was like, you like this stuff? I'm always waiting for something to go down my throat. And it's not there. I stick it in my mouth and I'm like, mm, this is good. Where does it go? It's gone. It's disappeared. I hated that stuff. And that's what it is. It looks like it's something awesome. Look at this truth, this guy. But it's nothing. You are not the center of the story of the Bible. It's not about you. It's about God. And that's what it's all about. It's about puffing you up and making everything about you. That's why he has 26,000 people that are considered members of his church. Because people like to know about themselves. This is the whole story of the culture. It's but the lie that it's all about me. This is a dangerous teaching. Let me tell you something. This is a very, very dangerous teaching. I heard a story, Mary and I were watching Good Morning America one morning, sometimes it's the only station that comes in, we just get three stations, and we were watching this story, they were doing this news story about some celebrity, and the story was over, and the reporter was sitting there talking to the people at the desk, you know how they do before they move on to the next story, she's like, yeah, I was just so happy with this celebrity, because she's really focusing on a message of self-love right now. They're like, yeah, that's great, and I'm like, That, oh my goodness, that's the most ridiculous thing, because that's what it's all about. It's about loving yourself. Let me tell you something, that is a horrible message to be sending for your life. Mothers get defeated with that message every day. Because if it's all about you, that baby just like really throws a monkey wrench into that, right Emily? The most unselfish thing that, I mean, the most biggest thing that just, a brick wall that runs into the self-love movement, I think, is becoming a mother or a parent. Because you can't be all about yourself anymore because it's about this living being that you're supposed to be taken care of. But you watch the news. The more and more this message is propagated, the more and more child neglect, child abuse, and murder you'll see of children going on in our culture. It's gonna happen. You'll see stories, you'll shake your head, you'll say, how depraved, but it's all from the stem of this message of self-love, and this has infected the church. And these preachers that get up there like Stephen Furtick and just rail on message that it's about you and you can kill this and you can do this and you can do this because it's all about you. What about some actual heresy that he's taught? He made some ripples a couple years ago where he preached a message and he talked about how he gave this illustration. And this is what I'm talking about. Sounds real good. but there's a little dose of heresy in it. You can have the best tasting drink you've ever had in your life, but if you put a smidge of cyanide in it, what's it gonna do? Yeah. Okay, so he gives this illustration. He said, God broke the law for you. He gives this illustration, he said, if your kid is in some kind of major accident, falls at the playground, it busts his head, his head's bleeding, you throw the kid in the car, are you paying attention to speed limit signs? People are like, no. He said, of course you're not paying attention to speed limit signs. Because in that tough moment, and he's very charismatic, like he's very good speaker. He's like, in that moment, love for that child is more important than the law. And he says, your love will overpower the law every time. He says, that's what God did with Jesus. He broke the law for love. People were clapping, standing up. And they miss it. Why? Because that's heresy. God did not break the law for love. This is what he's saying. God broke the law and he says that he makes this statement. He said, because God sent Jesus in the likeness of sinful man. God sent Jesus in the likeness of sinful man. Jesus is a sinner now? Jesus did not come to break the law. Whose law is it anyways? It's God's law. He did not break His own law. Jesus said Himself in the Gospel of Matthew, I did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. And when you actually study the New Testament and what Paul teaches, you'll find that that harmonizes exactly. He did not break the law, He did not destroy the law, but He fulfills the law and that is where grace comes in. And grace sometimes is harder than the law. Because what does grace say? What does the age of love say? The law said, this is what Jesus taught, the law said that if you committed adultery you were guilty of that sin, but you could lust after anybody you wanted and you were not breaking the law. Love and grace says if you lust You committed adultery in your heart. If you hate, you've murdered in your heart. That's a whole lot harder than law. That's just one of his false teachings. I need to move on. Next, they're deceivers. He says in verse 10, vain talkers and deceivers. A false prophet will always come up with some extra biblical thing to tell you that is necessary to live the Christian life and encourage that as the key to the Christian life. Watch out for this. If somebody takes something that's not in the Bible and says that you must do this, That's an area of false teaching. And can I say this, the Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement, this is not a popular thing to say, this is not a politically correct thing to say, but the Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement was guilty of this heresy quite a bit. I listened to a, I saw a clip yesterday on YouTube of a preacher that came and preached at my Bible college every year to make this statement. If you don't use the King James Bible, you're a heretic. There's no Bible for that. What has he just done? He just took an extra biblical thing and made it a necessity for the Christian life. He's just deceived people, which makes him a heretic. All right, we've got to move forward. Verse 11, whose mouths must be stopped, their effect. Now, this is not politically correct. This is not freedom of speech. Paul did not encourage freedom of speech in the church. He said, these guys, if they're in the church, if they're doing this, you need to shut them up. They cannot be allowed to speak. That's why we need to get so much of our American politics out of Christianity. The American dream has affected Christianity so badly, and biblical theology, that we think that we should run the church like the country. And look how well that's going. 1 Timothy 6, 5, "...perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, from such withdraw thyself." Timothy says to stay away from them. Their motive, he says, "...who mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not." for filthy lucre's sake." Daniel Aiken said, "...a careful study of any teacher will bring to light his true colors. We simply have to take the time, listen carefully, and weigh what we hear on the scales of God's perfect Word." Filthy lucre here speaks primarily to ill-gotten financial profit. Throughout the history of the church, false preachers and teachers have used their positions and slanted their messages to promote their own financial gain. We've talked about that several times. Should a pastor or elder have enough income to live a life that's comfortable? I think so. I don't think that's improper. Should a pastor elder have more income to where they're considered in the top 1% of the country? I think that probably would be a little bit of a violation here. Now you may disagree, you may disagree, but I do not think that a pastor needs a 16,000 square foot home. Unless he's got ten children, he may be like Job and build their own houses and tell them to just go to their own houses, get them out of the house. But, well, let's move on. Their character, verse 12. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretans, or Cretans, are always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies. This is an interesting thing because Paul does a, sort of funny, Paul quotes a Cretan to describe the Cretans and then says, yeah, that's true. I mean, it's basically like Paul said, there's a guy from Tennessee that said that Tennesseans are a bunch of rednecks and don't have much intelligence at all. And then Paul says, and that's true. Now, I'm not saying that's true about Tennesseans. I'm a Tennessean, technically from North Carolina, but I'm a Tennessean. But that's what Paul's saying about these people from Crete. He said, there's a Cretan who has said that you guys are evil beasts, slow bellies of your lazy gluttons, and all this stuff. And he said, yeah, that's true. What was he talking about? He was actually referring to a 6th century BC Cretan so-called prophet by the name of Epimenides. Now, Epimenides has an interesting story. Epimenides... What is the fable of Epimenides? It's that he went into a cave looking for a lost sheep and he fell asleep in the cave, get this, for 57 years. When he woke up, he had all intelligence of medicine and different things of life and was able to visit different parts of the world, leaving his own body where it's at. He could have out-of-body experiences and go to other places in the world and do all these things and he had all of this and this awesomeness to his character. So, Epimenides was then, let's see, where's the line I wanted to write? For centuries, mathematicians and logicians have mused over the paradox created when Epimenides, a Cretan, declared all Cretans to be liars. Was he telling the truth or was he lying? So here's what Epimenides tells people. I was asleep in a cave for 57 years. I have the ability to do this, this, and this, and this. And then Epimenides writes down, and we have this in historic manuscripts, he says that in some poem that he wrote, Cretans are all liars. Well, Epimenides was a Cretan. So what was he saying? Don't believe a word I say, because all Cretans are liars. Okay? Was he true in that statement? And that's what the paradox is there. Cretans were also stereotyped as liars because they claimed the tomb of Zeus, the Greek god who could not die, was located on Crete. This was an unfounded claim that everyone recognized as a deception. And so Paul uses Epimenides' quote to say, the people that are in your churches that you're trying to reach, they're all liars, they're evil beasts, and they're slow bellies. Now, evil beast is an interesting statement. The phrase evil beast refers to people who live on the sensual plane, controlled by their appetites and passions, their lusts and desires. As evil beasts, they tear apart and rip to shreds without thought, reason, or concern of the welfare of others. Slow bellies, or it could be translated lazy gluttons, is basically they just lived for the moment. They were hedonists. Whatever they want could satisfy them. How we see the parallels in our state today, in the culture that we are in, as was with what Titus was doing. Verse 13, he says, this witness is true. Next, the reaction of false teachers, verse 13 and 14. Oh my goodness. I'm out of time. All right, let me see if I can really rapid-fire this real quick. Verse 14, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth. He says, rebuke them first and then repudiate them. Next, we see verse 15 and 16, dealing with hostile... I did not change that. So what does that say? Evaluation of false teachers. Evaluation of false teachers. Unto the pure, all things are pure, their defilement, we're talking about. But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure." These people, in their wickedness, can take what's pure and defile it. So we're talking about in the context of false teachers. So even somebody who's defiled in their heart and in their life can take what's pure, the Bible, and defile it. That's the idea that he's getting across there. Their deception, verse 16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate. The mind and conscience are connected to vital organ in the body, the tongue. How we think will give way to how we speak. 1 John 2 verse 4 says, He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. So they're good works This is the idea that he's getting across. You'll know them by their deeds. You'll know them by their deeds. So here's the idea. Here's a character trait to look for in false teachers. Watch how they behave when they're not in the pulpit. Watch how they live and behave when they're not in the pulpit. When they're not at the church, what does their deeds look like? Because that's what's going to show forth. Because what's in here will show up out here. You say, well, maybe they can deceive with their actions. They can, but before long, it will come to light. Haven't we seen that with false teachers through the years? I mean, you should know this more than I do, the whole Jimmy Swaggart debacle. I mean, he was somebody that was supposed to be this good guy. He was a good guy. He was teaching false doctrine and then gets caught with a prostitute. Repents, goes back to the pulpit two years, a couple years later. Gets caught with a prostitute again in a hotel room. Oh, pray for me, pray for me. False teacher. What is in here will come out in their actions. Okay? So that's where we're going to stop right there. That's chapter 1 in Titus. And we're going to talk tonight in John 6 on the profile of false disciples. So that was false teachers. We're going to look tonight at false disciples. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for all that you've done for us. You are a great God, and we pray that as long as you tarry and we remain here, that this church will be known for integrity and the eldership and solid biblical teaching in the pulpit. We pray that you'll give us wisdom and discernment. False teaching should try to make its way in this church. We love you. We ask that everything that is done in the morning service will glorify your name. In Jesus' name, amen.