The kids will be upstairs The kids got to learn to sing hymns. They got to learn to pray and So if you can come early and bring them that would be great And let them sing some hymns kneel down next to you there learn how to pray watch mom and dad pray grandma grandma grandpa whoever and other church members And they'll see that God's house is a house of prayer like it's supposed to be. So that's some things on Wednesday night. All right, we got a couple questions tonight then that we're gonna look at. So we can all take our Bibles and turn to Genesis chapter five and verse two to begin with. Genesis five and verse two. It looks like I got quite a few sword drills tonight. Quite a few, so make sure you got your Bibles ready and we'll have a bunch of sword drills. Genesis chapter 5 and verse number 2, notice the interesting wording in this verse here. It says, male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day when they were created. He called their, T-H-E-I-R, that's plural. Who's he talking about? Adam and Eve. He called their name Adam. This is actually the scriptural basis for why even to this day in 2019, in most cases, a woman takes the man's name when she gets married. It goes all the way back to this custom when God called their name Adam and so to this day like my wife married me almost 40 years ago. She's taken the name Leslie Cole And that has a biblical basis. There's a lot of biblical base think things based in the scriptures About weddings these days. It's pretty much a sham now, but But we still have a lot of traditions. But anyway, that's not the subject tonight question number 33 tonight is what is the Christian response to racism and Boy, there's a lot of that going around, isn't it? You hear it every day. Oh, he's a racist. He's a racist. He's a racist. They're all racists. And what is the Christian response to racism if anyone brings that up to you or if you're ever called a racist? Our answer is pretty easy. We don't believe in racism. We don't. There is only one race, and that's Adam's race. The human race we all belong to. There's only one race. It's not possible scripturally to be racist. There's only one race. Everybody belongs to the same race and that is the human race. Let's look at some other verses now that teach about the same thing. Draw swords. We're going to have our first sword drill here. It's 1 Corinthians 15.22. Go. 1 Corinthians 15.22. All right, Becky for as an atom all die All right, he was the first human being and everybody on earth doesn't matter what Color their skin is or whatever red and yellow black and white. They're all gonna die Why because they all go back to Adam? There's one race draw swords first Timothy 213 Go 1st Timothy 2 13 All right for Adam was first formed Then say evolved and says Adam was first formed God made Adam and then he made Eve and that's where the Human race comes from every one of us goes back to those two. We're all related to each other We're all brothers and sisters in the human race sense, so there are no races. Now, notice the explanation. It's really weird. The word racism and races are words that grew out of the evolutionary philosophy. There never was the word racism or races were never spoken of in human history until the theory of evolution began to take hold in the late 1800s and then through the 1900s and since then we've heard the word so many times that so often like with so many other lies you hear it so many times thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of times you begin to accept it as true that there's different races And actually, it's confusing. I tried to listen to the evolutionists. It's confusing to hear it explained, but apparently, some evolutionists, not all, some evolutionists believe in a common ancestor, but some do not. They do not believe we all have a common ancestor. Of course, we do believe it. We just read verses, three of them, and that's Adam, but there's some actually believe that these people evolved over here and these people evolved over here and there's never been a connection. Isn't that bizarre? But that's where the word racism and races came from. Now Dr. Ken Ham notes that human beings are over 99.9% the same except for a pigment in their skin called melanin. Many organ and blood types can be used interchangeably among the peoples of the world regardless of skin color if it's a match, all right? If you get a matching kidney, I don't care what color the person was, it's going to help you or blood type, blood transfusion or whatever. In fact, I read that book one time by Dr. Ken Ham. It's called One Race, One Blood, The Biblical Answer to Racism. And then I got this mailing the other day, and here it is for sale for $9.99. I read it once. And it says revised and updated. I'm thinking about getting that because I sure didn't understand the first one. These scientists are way over my head. But man, they were bringing up all these things about genetics and everything. I tried reading that thing and I couldn't understand that at all. Maybe I can get this one. One race, one blood, the biblical answer to racism by Dr. Ken Ham. And some of you are familiar with Dr. Ken Ham. He's the guy with the big boat down there in Kentucky. the big Noah's Ark that he made. And I did read through that book though and I said, man, but that's the one thing I got out of the book is that every human being is about 99.9% exactly the same. And the only difference in many cases, the melanin pigment in their skin that gives them different colors, that's all. And in that book, though, he just shows in an indisputable way how we all have one common ancestor. There's one race, and that is Adam's race. That's our answer. We need to get that out there because, man, our country is just getting split in pieces over this racism question. And most people need to be taught, no, there's just one race. However, what words does the Bible use in making divisions in the human race? Or distinctions might be a better word. Well, let's do one sword drill. Let's do Revelation. Draw swords. Revelation 7-9. Go. Revelation 7-9. What are the distinctions in the human race? Not races, but All right, Tracy, you can't do anymore. No, just tonight. You've done your share. If you couldn't hear her, it says this, and I beheld a great multitude. Now, this is in heaven, which no man can number. Now, here's the distinctions. Of all nations and kindreds, people and tongues. Now, those four distinctions are also mentioned in these other verses on your sheet, Revelation 5, 9 and Revelation 14, 6. There's always those four distinctions of people or the human race. There's different kindreds, tongues, nations and people. Now what do those words mean? Kindred is talking about your family. You belong to a different family than I do. I belong to the Cole family. Tongue refers to your language. And that was going way back to the Tower of Babel when God, just like that, just like that, that fast rewired men's brains and women's brains so they couldn't even talk to each other. Isn't that a miracle? They were all one language there making the Tower of Babel. And God said, let's go down, let us, amen, the Trinity, let's go down and see what's going on down there. And he said, you know, the man's become like one of us. And then the Lord said, you know, let's scramble up their brain. God did that this fast. And all of a sudden, this person was speaking Chinese and this person was speaking English. And they were like couldn't communicate. And so they started to go away from each other. And all the Chinese people, speaking people congregated over here or whatever the languages were. And all the English people and the Japanese people and the Spanish people, they started finding people they could communicate with and they migrated away from each other. God, bang, that fast, rewired their brains so they couldn't communicate with each other. That's amazing, isn't it? And by the way, that ought to give us hope tonight if we're having problems with our thought lives. God can help the mind of a man or a woman and change it like that. God can do miraculous things for us in our thought lives, in our hearts, in our motives, and so on. I mean, just that fast. But that's what the word tongue means in these four divisions or four distinctions of the human race. Number three is a nation. We believe in nationalism because God believes in nations. Praise the Lord for the nations. The Bible says, and the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of the new Jerusalem someday. There's going to be nations throughout all of eternity. There's nothing wrong with being patriotic and loving your nation and wanting the best for your nation and praying for your nation. The Apostle Paul prayed one time, he said, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. He loved his country. He loved Israel. He prayed for his country to be saved. And we ought to love America. And America is in need desperately of your prayers, your seasons of fasting. I mean, this thing is falling apart. It is unraveling in front of our eyes, and we need to love our country, and we might just be getting what we deserve. I don't know. That's God's domain. Judgment is God's domain. I don't know, but I'm telling you what, it's not good. Pray for your nation, and love your nation, and try to save your nation. If I was in Russia tonight, I'd say the same thing. I'd say we need to love Russia. We need to pray for our country and our leaders and our churches and the believers and so on. I'd say the same thing. In Luke 7 and verse 5 it says, For he loveth our nation, and hath built us a synagogue. Now here was a fellow that loved his nation and he did what he could do for his nation. He built a synagogue. And we should do the same thing. We should say we love our nation. Let's plant some churches. Let's save some souls. Let's be some salt and some light where God has planted us. Let's be a little, tiny, small remnant of righteous people that might keep God from judging our country. Then the word people refers to tribes. People type would be tribes. There are still some tribes, especially you see that among Native Americans. They still have Kept autonomous in many cases and they're still Seneca's and Iroquois and and so on and so forth They've done a good job at at Keeping their tribes kind of a pure line Israel's done the same thing over all these years of dispersion How'd they pull that off? That's a miracle There's still some just pure Jews at just 2,500 years ago. They just kept marrying each other So those are the four distinctions, not races, but biblically there's four distinctions, kindred, tongues, nations and people. And like C.H. Wollstone famously wrote, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. There's going to be people in heaven out of every kindred, tongue, nation and people. Now, so there's no such thing as racism. And to accept the premise of racism, you must accept evolution. So if somebody ever says, well, you're a racist, just say, I don't believe in racism. There's only one race, the human race. However, there are prejudices though, right? Against kindreds and tongues and nations and people. Kindreds, remember that? The Hatfields and McCoys. And there's some that don't like people who speak this language, you know, or they don't like this nation over here or particular tribes or whatever. So, that's the response to racism. There is none. There's only one race and we all belong to it. We ought to behave and love one another as our brothers and sisters. Malachi says, have we not all one creator? That's what Malachi said. Amen. All right, let's go to the next question here. What's the difference between an evangelical and fundamental Christian? What is the difference between... Sometimes you hear that in the body of Christ. The body of Christ basically, that is truly born again believers in Christ, are basically in two categories today. There's your Evangelicals and your Fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are very small. You might also say there might be some Charismatics, Pentecostals, people like that, but basically there's Evangelicals, which are the huge majority of saved people, and then there's your Fundamentalists, who are very, very small. For example, Fundamental Baptists make up a little less than 1% of America. We're about the size of the Jehovah's Witnesses. We're a very, very small minority even in the body of Christ. There's not many fundamentalists. And, but the majority, there's in the Sword of the Lord that just came out, it talks about the 54,000 Southern Baptist churches. Those would be your evangelicals. 54,000 Southern Baptist churches in America. There's about 14,000 independent Baptist churches, so for every one of ours, there's five of theirs. and they're usually larger. And then there's other evangelical groups of truly born-again Christian, wonderful people, Wesleyans, some Presbyterians, some Free Methodists, some non-denominationalists. But the vast majority of believers today would be described as evangelicals, not fundamentalists. What's the difference between an evangelical and a Fundamental Christian, now this is today's definition, not yesteryear. In yesteryear, all believers were fundamentalists. They were all fundamentalists. Man, you can read stuff by Episcopalian preachers in the 1800s that we probably couldn't even handle today. It was too hard. on Methodists and Presbyterians, and Moody was a Congregationalist, Finney was a Presbyterian, and Billy Sunday was a Presbyterian. These guys wouldn't be allowed in churches today. They'd be too hard. Churches are too wimpy and too soft to handle. They're preaching. Man, you read some of the stuff they wrote. Wow! They were something else. They were all fundamentalists at one time. Your Nazarenes and holiness people, they were all fundamentalists. But not now. There's very few left. Now, our answer is this, in very, very general terms, because you'd have to take this on a case-by-case basis. I mean, there are some wonderful evangelical Christians, even to this day, But in very, very general terms, evangelical Christians get their beliefs from the Bible, while fundamentals, I should say fundamentalists, get their beliefs and behavior from the Bible. Big difference between getting your beliefs from the Bible and your beliefs and behavior from the Bible. You and I should allow the Bible to guide us regarding our beliefs and our behavior. But that is disappearing in this day and age. Now, the great majority of born-again Christians today are evangelicals. Fundamentalists are few and far between and getting smaller all the time. You know, there's only 400 fundamental churches in Canada. In the whole country, only 400. And they're getting very few and far between. Now the word fundamentalist, don't let that scare you. Don't think Islam or some nonsense like that. Fundamentalist simply means by the book. And did you know the first meeting ever of fundamentalists where they coined the word fundamentalist was 99 years ago up here in Buffalo, New York at the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church. when some of the great old fundamentals like T.T. Shields and others met. And they said, and they began to discuss the fundamentals of the faith because churches were changing so much. And they had a big conference up there at Delaware Avenue Baptist, it got so big they ended up renting out the music hall, Kleinhans, which was built over a hundred years ago. Because so many of them were a hundred years ago were concerned that the colleges, so-called Christian colleges and mainline denominations were leaving the fundamentals of the faith. And so they got together to decide what are the fundamentals of the faith. And they began to define what the fundamentals of the faith are. And as a result, they coined the word just about a hundred years ago, fundamentalist. Fundamentals, as we believe in the fundamentals of the faith, We believe that the Bible should dictate to us what we believe and how we behave, and how we behave. And so the word fundamentalist is not very old, and it simply means by the book. What book? The Bible. The Bible. We believe that we should consult the Bible regarding all of our beliefs and we should find something in here, a dictate, a commandment, or some principle that guides our behavior. and that seems to be lacking today in evangelicals as They seem to be going farther and farther and farther off in the world and again. That's a generality Some are very wonderful people still to this day Everything fundamentals believe do or say is attached to the Bible even behavior They believe that both inwardly and outwardly they need to be a testimony for the Lord That's what the Bible is for 2nd Timothy 3, I'm reading the notes here, 16 and 17, all scripture, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. The man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto all good works. Somebody has given this outline of these four words. The Bible is for doctrine, that tells us what is right. Reproof tells us what is wrong. Correction, how to get it right. how to keep it right. Now doctrine means truth that is taught and it is a very broad word which means more than just beliefs. Notice how it refers to a person's behavior. Brother Kelly is going to read a long passage here, Titus 2 verses 1 through 10 that has nothing to do with beliefs but has everything to do with behavior and it tells us that this is doctrine. Go ahead. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine, that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women, likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Young men, likewise, exhort to be sober-minded in all things, showing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering again, not purloining, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Okay, so it starts with the word doctrine in verse 1, it ends with the word doctrine in verse 10, and then sandwiched between it, it tells us how the aged men should behave, aged women should behave, young women should behave, young men should behave, and those who work for their employees, servants, how they should behave. And there's not anything about beliefs in the whole text. And that's called doctrine. Doctrine is behavior not just beliefs and So we see it there. He's going to read another passage now first Timothy 6 1 through 2 Let as many Servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed and they that have believing masters let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit these things teach and exhort." Alright, now this is talking about employees and employers and how they should behave. And what is it called? Doctrine in verse 1. And it says here that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed and in the earlier passage that the word of God be not blasphemed. Man, blasphemy is a horrible thing, isn't it? And it says it's possible for a believer to blaspheme the name of God and the word of God by their behavior. What does the word blaspheme mean? Anyone know a synonym for the word blaspheme? Injure. The word of God is injured and the name of God is injured if our behavior does not line up with the scriptures and behavior is called doctrine. So that's why we call ourselves fundamentalists. We believe Both of our beliefs and our behavior should come from the Bible. It talked about young women. There are eight different requirements for a young woman's behavior, young men's behavior, servants' behavior, employers' behavior, aged men, aged women, and how they should behave And if they don't behave that way, they run the risk of blaspheming or injuring the Word of God and the name of God. Now, who wants to do that? Man, I don't want to do that. So I want to study the behavior of the Bible and submit myself to it and try to be a good testimony. All right, if our behavior is contrary to the teaching of the Bible, these verses say the Word of God, I just went through that. A fundamental by the book Christian scours the Bible to find out what God has to say even in small matters. Okay, Matthew 5.19, Jesus said, whoever breaks one of these least commandments and shall teach men so shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. And what we believe this shows love. If you love me, keep my commandments, John 14.50. Now, let's just go through in the last few minutes a couple of sword drills. And we're gonna read a verse, and then after we read the verse, I'm gonna ask you this question. How would a fundamentalist interpret that verse or live it out in their life, okay? So let's draw swords. Leviticus 19.28. Go, Leviticus 19.28. Come on, guys. All right, so you're reading through the law, and although we're not under the law, the Bible says in Romans 6, in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit works in us to fulfill the righteousness of the law. So you're reading through the scriptures as a fundamentalist, and you come to Leviticus 19.28 that Sean just read. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the Lord. So how would a fundamentalist interpret that and apply it to their life? Okay, no tattoos and maybe what else? No piercings. Alright? That's what we would do. We would say, well, you know, God says something here that in the righteousness of the law, it shows us that our bodies are sacred and we should not do what? Get any tattoos or any piercings. All right? Now, of course, some of you already have tattoos, but of course, from now on, no more. That's all there is to it. Our bodies belong to God. And so we have a principle there of what it means when it says our bodies belong to God. What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? And you have a God and you are not your own? Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. Would that glorify God if I got plastered with graffiti all over my body? No, it wouldn't. And so that's how a fundamentalist looks at the Bible. They say, well, God's trying to say something here. There's a message here that's pertinent, that's relevant to the day and age in which we live. And He's saying, don't print any marks upon you. So that's what a fundamentalist does. Draw swords. 1 Timothy 2.9. Go. All right now this verse says in like manner that women adorned themselves in modest apparel with shame faceless and sobriety Etc now this is not talking about beliefs here. This is talking about behavior women adorned themselves in modest apparel Now, if you're a fundamentalist and you believe the Bible should not only influence my beliefs but also my behavior, how might a fundamentalist interpret this to be? To mean what, for example? Give some examples. Anybody? Huh? No real short skirts. That's definitely immodest. Don't dress near the line. All right. That's a good way to look at it. Yep. This is very personal. Very personal with women, how they dress. They want to fit in so badly. It's always been a weakness of women. They just want to fit in like everybody else in the world. But God is calling on them to dress modestly, with modest apparel. Sometimes, if you really study out words deeply, that phrase, modest apparel, would be literally translated in the English, long flowing garments. Long, flowing garments. And boy, what a day and age we've come to. In this day, it seems where Satan dresses almost every woman on earth totally the opposite of that. Not long, flowing garments, but as tight as possible. But a fundamentalist says, you know, I want the Bible to influence my beliefs. I want my beliefs to be as straight as an arrow, but also my behavior, also my behavior. Let me give you one more. Draw swords. 1 Corinthians 11.14 Go! All right, doth not even nature teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. The next verse, but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. So how would a fundamentalist look at those verses? What would they do with those verses? It's kind of simple, but huh? Boys get haircuts, girls have long hair. Yeah, it's not And you know, this is where evangelicals often clash with us and they say, what's the big issue? What's the big issue? You know what a verse that really affects me? Matthew 5, 19, where Jesus said, whosoever shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Okay, who are we to say, Lord, we know you said this in the Bible, but that doesn't matter. Jesus said, okay, you'll pay for that forever. If that's the least commandment, I mean, you get all the commandments of God and at the bottom it says, men, keep your hair short, ladies, keep your hair long. If that's the least one, the least important of all the commandments, Jesus said, if anyone breaks that and teaches others that it's okay. They're going to be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be in that group. I don't want to be in that group when Jesus looks at us with those eyes of fire and says, how dare you? How dare you tell people what I said wasn't important? I don't want to do that. So I've chosen to be a fundamentalist. Try to scour the pages of the Bible to find out what it says about my beliefs and about my behavior. We want to line that up with the scriptures. And it's hard, especially in this day and age when the world is so far away from God. So far away from God. in this, and there's many other examples, but the kids are coming up, I think. But that's the difference, basically. Evangelicals will really, really, in general, many of them will really contend with us and say, that's not important, that's not important, that's not important. Plus another couple things about evangelicals that I've noticed just in general, is they tend to embrace almost any type of Bible translation in the English language, whereas the fundamentalists will, in the English language, almost always hold to the King James version of the Bible. And the same is true about music. I find that evangelicals today are embracing more and more and more and more types of any kind of music, like Nebuchadnezzar did. Amen? The only time all kinds of music is found in the Bible, that phrase, it refers to Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. But when we read the Bible, we come across this verse, Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. And the fundamentalist scours the Bible and says, well, if God says, Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, I think that's what we'll stick to. And not to all kinds of music, like Nebuchadnezzar did in his Babylonian worship when he made an idol and made everybody bow down to it. All right, Fred.