This is a message by Pastor Mark Foss of Antioch Community Church in Burlington, North Carolina. For other sermons from Antioch, you can visit the church website at antiochchurch.cc. Now let's turn our hearts to the Word of God. Let's all stand, let's open the word to Second Timothy, chapter two, verses 14 to 19. I'll be reading from the ESV. Read from whatever version you have. Remind them of these things and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands. Bearing this seal, the Lord knows those who are his. And let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. Let's pray. Lord God, we are humbled before you, thankful to know you, thankful that you chose us. Lord, we pray that you would continue in our midst this morning, that you would minister through the word brought by Mark and that you would open our hearts to hear it and make us more like you. In your name we pray. Amen. Praise the Lord, the Lamb of God. Today's text is a problem sandwich with meat in the middle. And so maybe we should call it a solution sandwich, right? Because the sandwich is named by what? What's in the middle, right? We have a tomato sandwich, then the tomatoes where? You guys are great. You study your words so well and you have prepared yourselves from this text today and I'm thankful for that. So, the solution is in the middle. It's not on the outside. What's in the middle of this text is the solution. We're going to talk about that later, but let's eat the bread first and deal with the problem. Then we're going to look at the solution. Before you even get to the problem, though, the first thing you'll notice in this text today is, and I'm hoping that all of you have taken some time this week to at least read it. I encourage you dads to take a morning out during the week, and I don't always do this myself with my family, but take a morning out during the week and say, hey, this is the passage we're studying this week in church, and let's read it together. And kids, ask me any questions you want to about that passage. I dare you. And then you have the responsibility to try to answer those questions. You may not be able to. You may have to go to some commentaries or spend some time online looking up the answers. But spend some time with your family and study the passage ahead of time. But you'll notice that in the beginning of this text today, Paul is telling Timothy to remind the church about something. Now remember last week, he says, remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead. Hey, Timothy, don't forget Jesus. And now he's saying, Timothy, don't let them forget. these things. You have a responsibility as the pastor in Ephesus, one of the elders in Ephesus, to remind them of these things. Well, what are these things? What things, Paul? Well, the things that he has just gotten through speaking to Timothy in his letter. Presumably, Paul is telling Timothy to remind his hearers on Sundays when they gather for church to have the grace that is in Christ Jesus, to be strengthened in that grace. Remember, we looked at that a few weeks ago. And to find obedience, to be obedient like a soldier, to be determined like an athlete, to be diligent like a hard-working farmer. Remind them of these things. It's the reminder that's most often needed, isn't it? We don't need innovation. We need confirmation. We need to be reminded. You know, if you're coming to church on Sundays to hear something new, then you're like the Greeks in Athens who would come and hear whoever was sitting on the top of the hill that day, whatever guru came along and had something new to declare to them. And Paul came and said, no, I want to tell you about something old. I notice you have a statue here for the unknown God. Well, I know Him. Let me tell you about Him. And Paul didn't give them anything new except it was So old it was new to them. They never heard it. And what we need to be reminded of often is the basics. I heard Alistair Begg say a couple of weeks ago at the pastor's conference, Cindy and I got to go to, he said, what's most needed is that we do the basics well most of the time. What's most needed is the basics. We don't have to have a Ph.D. in theology. Probably would ruin you. You know, when I get together with four other men on Tuesday mornings, we're not asking each other how we're doing in learning to parse Greek verbs. None of us are doing that, you know. We're not discussing the difference between the communicable and the incommunicable attributes of God. You know, only Jeremy understands stuff like that. No, we're asking each other the basics. Hey guys, Are you reading your Bible? How's your Bible reading going? How's your personal devotions going? We ask each other every week, hey, how's family devotions going this week? And we give each other goals. Four times this week. That's great. You know, two times this week. Let's step it up. And it's not about legalism. It's not about numbers. It's not about notches on the belt. It's about, hey, are you being faithful in the basic stuff? Are you praying with your wife? Really, why not? And so we need to do the basics well most of the time. And so Paul is saying, hey, remind them here about the basics. Flip over to 2 Peter chapter 1 and you'll see that Peter at the end of his life, or as he's approaching the end of his life and he knows his time is coming, he says basically the same thing in his second letter, chapter 1. Look at that with me. 2 Peter chapter 1 beginning with verse 12. The Apostle Peter says, therefore, I intend always to remind you of these qualities. And he's talked about qualities like virtue and knowledge and self-control and steadfastness and godliness and brotherly affection and love. That you, though you know them and are established in the truth, that you have. I think it right, as long as I'm in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder. since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. And I will make every effort so that after my departure, you may be able at any time to recall these things." It's about reminding the saints about the basics. You know, when Luke calls me three times a week, it's basically so I can ask him, hey Luke, how's it going? How's your walk with the Lord going? You know, he's seven hours away. He's with people that I don't know. I trust them, but I don't know them. And so I'm asking them questions about, hey, how's it going in the Word? How's it going in prayer? How's it going with your Iron Man group? He's got some students that he gets up early with once a week and they sharpen each other as iron sharpens iron. And so questions like that simply to remind us of how things are going. It's the basics. I met a man this week Who taught at page high school in? 1971 it was his first assignment. He had just finished four years in the Navy He said literally I walked off the aircraft carrier and two days later I was in the classroom at page high school in Greensboro and page high school in 1971 had just been desegregated. Racial tension was high, he said, on the campus. And this young sailor knew about it. So the first thing he did, he said, I set up a seating chart. So he said, I had 40 kids in this classroom. He said, when these 40 kids came in, they didn't get to clump up and sit, you know, all the blacks over here and all the whites over here and all the Hispanics or whatever. He said, no, I had a seating chart. It was alphabetical. And I said, Mr. Andrews, you're sitting here. Miss Ball, you're sitting here, et cetera. And they all sat there, and they didn't like it at all, because whites were sitting next to blacks, and blacks were sitting next to whites. And he said, I called them by their last name. He said, these guys were high school students. They were only 16, 17 years old, but I was calling them Mr. Andrews and Ms. Jones. And he said, six weeks into the semester, I said, OK, now, if anybody wants to change seats, have at it. You can sit wherever you want. He said, you know that not one of them And he said they had gotten comfortable there. They had gotten to know the person next to him, him or her. They had realized that, hey, this person is a different color, but they're just like me. And he said there was an attitude of respect. And in the line that he said that captured my attention, he said, you know, I really believe that obedience precedes discipline. It struck me so good I couldn't remember. He said obedience precedes discipline. Right? And so what I took away from that story was that he taught them something basic the first day. What did he teach them? We will respect one another. These kids, most of them didn't know the Lord, I'm sure. But they were thrust in this environment where, know the Lord or not, they were going to have to respect one another in his classroom. He maintained firm discipline. And as a result of that, they practiced that every single day for six weeks, and it stuck. So Paul is saying, hey, Timothy, remind them of these things. Why? Why do they need to be reminded again of the very basics of, hey, be strengthened in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and be obedient like a soldier, and be determined like an athlete, and be diligent like a farmer. Why? Well, because of the problem. And this is where the bread comes in that's around the solution. Make sure you're reminding them about these things. First of all, that there needs to be no arguments over words. Look at that verse 14 again. Remind them of these things and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Now, be careful here. He doesn't say not to argue about the gospel. And you can say, well, he says, not to argue about words, and therefore, I can't argue with anybody about the gospel. No, we need to argue with people about the gospel. Paul confronted Peter, Galatians 2.11, about the gospel. He said, Peter, you're a hypocrite. All of a sudden, you want to eat with the Gentiles? What is up with that? You are undermining the very gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember, He destroyed the dividing wall, hostility. He made the two one through His own blood. Peter, don't you understand your actions undermine the gospel? Now, we need to argue when it comes to the gospel. Not argue in a proud sense, not argue in an arrogant mindset at all, but we have to contend for the faith. Jude, chapter 1. We have to give an answer. In order to do that, we have to know the answer. So we need to argue about words when it comes to the gospel, but Paul's not talking here about the gospel because the church at Ephesus was arguing over lesser things. They were arguing over minutia. They were arguing over periphery rather than centrality. People were being hurt by it. He says that, it only brings ruin to the hearers. I remember, so I was thinking about this. I said, Lord, remind me of some times when we've argued over words. It didn't take him long to remind me. But I thought back to something that happened more than 20 years ago, and I remember the controversy we had at Antioch about who should be able to sing special music on Sunday mornings. The very few of you who are here will remember this very well. In our very limited wisdom, and I stress the word limited, The elders, who were very limited in our wisdom, had decided, put a sign-up sheet on the table. You want to sing a special? Sign up. Here are all the dates for the fall. Just sign your name and have at it. Not our best idea. It was Vance Havner who said, if the devil's in your church, you'll most likely find him in the choir loft. Well, we've never had a choir loft. You understand that many times in 25 years, we've seen his presence. And music stirs up emotions and sometimes gets people into arguments because their ego gets involved in that argument. But the whole controversy was over something peripheral. It was a personal subject for many, especially those who saw themselves as gifted and talented and having that special calling to sing Some people are meant to sing only in the shower. You know what I mean? Wouldn't you know it that the people who signed up the most were the ones who had the least ability? We had two options at this point, and we chose the wrong one. We should have sat down with the people who were singing and who did not have any ability in that area whatsoever. And we should have been honest with them in a loving way. The Bible says it like this, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head. But because we didn't sit down with them and speak the truth in love and work through this individually and try to deal with it in a conference kind of setting, in a roundabout way. Instead of taking responsibility as men, we shirked that responsibility. There was lots of hurt, and we ended up seeing several families leave as a result. There were hearers who were ruined, at least for that particular season in their lives. And we've asked forgiveness for it many times. God, we're so sorry that we did not handle this correctly because some of your servants left. this church, and we don't know where they are spiritually now because they got bitter against the leadership of the church. It was a silly thing, but it was an argument over words in some ways. There were arguments over non-essentials going on at the church in Ephesus, but it was worse than that. Look at the other piece of bread at the bottom of the sandwich, verses 16 through 18. We'll skip over verse 15 for now, but look at this, verse 16. But avoid irreverent babble. For it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some." Here's the danger of this bread. It's moldy and it stinks. And even though sometimes it's just in jest, Irreverent babble, the end result can be deadly. Look at the list of what Paul says about this kind of talk. We've already seen that it ruins the hearers. Secondly, he says it leads into more ungodliness. irreverent babbling. And the word for irreverent can mean profane, it can mean worldly, it can be secular. It's a word that simply means babble about things that are not godly, that are not central to the doctrines of faith, and we can get into all kinds of trouble. Not only that, it is evidence of a heart that has swerved from the truth. I'm not saying they've lost their salvation, but if we engage in irreverent babble on a regular basis, you can honestly say, my heart has swerved from the truth. The evidence of it comes out of my mouth on a daily basis. It's one of the things I ask my kids about, you know, what are you talking about? What's your language like? What's coming out of your mouth? Because I want them to see, I want me to see, I want all of us to see that out of the abundance of the heart, what happens? Jesus said, the mouth speaks, right? And so, Rev. Babel is evidence of a heart that has swerved from the truth, and it upsets the faith of some. This is deadly stuff. Hymenaeus and Philetus were talking about the resurrection has already passed. Now, what were they talking about here? Were they talking about Jesus' resurrection? Well, certainly not. Everybody knew Jesus' resurrection had already passed. What many believe was that they were saying, no, there is no bodily resurrection. There's simply a spiritual resurrection. Those who have died, their spirit has gone to be with the Lord, but their body will never be with Him. They were denying the bodily resurrection of the Lord. I don't know whether that was Nestorianism or some of those other guys back in the first century that were coming up with these Gnostic fallacies that were dealt with by the church fathers. But they were denying the resurrection. And it caused some to leave the faith. The most graphic example Paul uses is that it spreads like gangrene. I toyed with the idea of putting up a picture, and I found some online, but I thought, no, we're having lunch in about an hour. And you don't want to see this picture, but I dare you to go online, just type in gangrene and embrace yourself for the pictures. Maybe you've been to the hospital and you visited someone who had gangrene and you've seen the nastiness of that. It happens when the blood flow is not sufficient for that extremity. It's usually the feet. So the pictures of feet that are infested with gangrene, and that part of the foot dies. It begins to die. And the effulgence from that is nauseating. And Paul is saying, that's what this talk is. It's like that effulgence. You know, you wouldn't scrape it off and put it on your toast. But you continue to engage in it, knowing that it's spreading, knowing that it affects the hearers, knowing that it ruins some, knowing that it destroys the faith of some. He's painting a graphic picture because he wants it to sink in. He wants the listeners to say, hey, this is not something to be toyed with. This is a big deal. How I talk about the church, how I talk about the Word of God, how I talk about worship, how I talk about my brothers and sisters in Christ. It's a big deal. Paul calls names. What happens when somebody has gangrene? Well, most of the time, amputation. Something has to go. And the sad thing is that the enemy loves amputation. It's his favorite surgical procedure. He loves to see members of the body amputated from that body. Again, I'm not talking about losing salvation. I'm talking about being removed from the fellowship because of bitterness, because of rancor, because of unforgiveness. And all of a sudden, they're out there by themselves. They've been amputated. They have amputated themselves. Gangrene has set in. And now they have been rendered ineffective for the gospel of Jesus Christ, at least until they are reconnected, until there's repentance. It's not stuff to be messed around with. Ungodly talk and false teaching. I think it would be wise to hold up any teaching, any message, not just at this church, but anywhere in life that we live between Sundays and ask this question, what does it say about God? And what effect does it have on men and women? What is the teaching that you're hearing in that book you're reading, in that TV show you're watching, in that movie you're watching, in that conversation you're having, what does it say about God? And what effect does it have on men and women? Because Paul here is saying that not only is it false teaching and it impugns God's character, but it is destroying his body. It is doing damage. It is spreading like gangrene. Now, we've talked about the problem. Let's see what Paul suggests is the solution. What is the meat? in this, the meat in the solution sandwich. And it is our Bible verse for today. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved. A worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of truth. Some of you, like Dan and I, are old guys. We remember that verse as study to show... Come on, say it with me, King James. Study to show thyself approved unto God. A workman. who needeth not being ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. That's the way I remember it back when I was 15, 16 years old. And somebody wrote that in the fly leaf of my Bible because I said I want to be a preacher. And they said, well, then you need this verse. This is your verse. Well, here it is. Let's turn that truth around and see what it looks like. If you rightly handle the word of truth, you will be a worker approved by God with no need to be ashamed. So what's the key? Rightly handling the word of truth. Now, more about that in a minute, but thinking about this passage this week brought back a memory from the days when I was first getting started in ministry. I don't remember whether Antioch had started or I was still traveling with Damascus Road doing evangelism, but I was I was with a man, I looked up to a great deal in those days who was many years ahead of me in ministry and maturity. He was talking to a small group that I was a part of. And I don't remember who was in the group. I know it wasn't just a one-on-one with him. But we were having this conversation. He was talking to some other young guys like me who were aspiring young pastors. And he named a pastor in the area. And if I said his name, many of you who have lived in Burlington your whole life would know this name immediately. And he mentioned this guy because he had spent some time, I believe that this young man had come under his ministry for a while and had kind of been discipled, had been a protege in some ways for him. And he had helped him to grow. But he said this, and I'm obviously paraphrasing, this was a long time ago, but he said, when he started in the ministry, he was absolutely committed to teaching and preaching the Word of God. His attitude was, let the chips fall where they may, I am not going to swerve from the truth. But over time, that commitment to the Word of God was squeezed out by a stronger desire. That desire to build a big church. And he said, as he shook his head in shame, he said he got what he wanted. And he lost what he and his people most desperately needed. Because he was no longer a man who would rightly handle the Word of Truth. And I remember then praying silently, Oh God, I don't want to be Him. Help me not to be that man. And it's clear from this passage that there are good workers and there are bad workers. And again, although Paul is writing to a pastor, he's writing to an elder in a church, and so this is particularly important for leaders and future leaders, it applies to every one of us because there are good workers and there are bad workers. And what determines a good worker? Well, it's someone who rightly handles the word Now, I've learned as I study this passage that this is a rare word here that's used in the verb. The verb for rightly handling is a rare verb. It's only used three times in the Greek, in the scriptures. Of course, the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the New Testament, is where it's found twice. It's only found once in the New Testament, which is the passage we're looking at today. Look back, if you will, for a second at Proverbs chapter 3, verses 5 and 6. Some of you don't need to turn there because you've memorized it. Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, but I will read it because you probably didn't memorize it from the ESV. Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. That's the same word, make straight your paths, that is used in rightly handling the word. In fact, look over at Proverbs 11 and verse 5, and you'll find this same idea again. Proverbs 11 and verse 5, God will make straight your paths, and then in chapter 11 verse 5, the righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. So you see the idea here, the word means to cut a straight path. The word means to cut a straight path. If you rightly handle the Word of God, then you are cutting a straight path. What does that mean? It can refer to those, and many believe that Paul was referring to those who make roads, who cut a straight point from one place to another. That's why I put the picture of the road here. There's a straight path that was cut out of that forest. You see trees on the left. You see trees on the right. You see a huge mountain range in the background. a photograph, that's not a painting, and you wonder what's going to happen to that road when it gets to the base of that mountain. Obviously, it becomes a circuitous road at that point. It goes around the mountain. But those who preach, and those who teach, and those who share with their families the Word of God, we must learn to go through the mountain. That we cut a straight path, that we're not daunted by the mountains of unbelief, by the mountains of higher criticism, by the mountains of liberal theologians, by the mountains of skepticism, that we are embroiled in here, we are immersed in in this culture. No, we cut right through that mountain. so that our readers or our listeners can see how to get to the other side. One Greek scholar says it means to cut a road across country that is forested or otherwise difficult to pass through in a straight direction so the traveler may go directly to his destination. I like John Stott's interpretation here. He says that means our goal as teachers of the word is to be accurate on the one hand and plain on the other hand. How many know that sometimes in the goal of being accurate becomes so obfuscated in their explanation that you don't understand what they're saying? Was it, what was his name? Barclay, William Barclay. Don't read his commentary for theological advice. He was a liberal theologian in many ways, but he was an expert at understanding the culture and the history of the culture that's being written about. And he was pastor of a church in Scotland, and one day an old lady approached him in the street and said, Dr. Barclay, and I wish I could do her accent. And she said, Dr. Barclay, you're a fine man, but I cannot understand a thing you're saying. I cannot understand a thing you say." And so, it spoke to his heart, and so he went back and wrote the plain man's understanding of the scripture. And he began to preach and put, as I believe it was, Spurgeon he began to put the cookies on the lower shelf John J. Vernon McGee remember J. Vernon McGee How many ever listen to J. Vernon okay? He would always say that you know what we got he said moff moffer my friends we need to put the cookies on the lower shelf and Spurgeon said that I believe first he said that the cookies are on the lower shelf because then the children and the young people can get them but all the adults will reach down there and get them as well and We must make it plain, and we must make it accurate. Sometimes in our attempt to be entertaining in teaching the Word, and sometimes we feel like we have to entertain our children to teach them the Bible. John Piper said, it's impossible to make much of yourself and much of Christ at the same time. If you're making much of yourself as you're teaching the Word of God, then you're not making much of Christ. Our goal is not to entertain or to keep people coming back. Our goal is to rightly handle the word of truth. Well, there are clearly many in the church today at large who are a hymenus or a philetus who are taking shots at the beliefs of those who hold to the truth of God's word and upsetting the faith of some. We don't want to be that man. We don't want to be that woman. But we're encouraged, as David Bainbridge has already pointed out, we're encouraged this morning as we close by God's promise through Paul the Apostle in verse 19. But, he's just said some very hard truths. But, the good news is God's firm foundation stands bearing this seal. Look at the two wings of the airplane here. The Lord knows those who are His. You know, just a little rabbit trail here. I was talking to my daughter who goes to another university this week, and we were talking in the car as we were driving to see Luke in a play and driving back, and she said, Dad, you wouldn't believe some of the comments that are made in chapel. You know, and one of my professors actually said, you know, God really doesn't know what's going to happen tomorrow, or He doesn't know what you're going to decide to do. This verse right all by itself blows that open theology right out of the window. How many know that God is not bound and locked into time and space like we are? Does everybody know that? Does everybody know that God created everything including the time continuum and He created the eternity? He created future. He created it and He's already there. He was there before He created it. I mean, why would it say in the Scriptures that before the foundations of the earth that we were chosen? Why would it say in the Scriptures that Jesus died? He only crossed before the foundations of the earth. It was God's pre-designed purpose for Jesus to die. Why would he say that if God doesn't know what's going to happen tomorrow? God's up there going, boy, I hope it all works out okay, you know. I see Matt going along here. Matt, look, he's looking pretty good. He's doing a good job at Alamance Regional. But what's going to happen tomorrow? I mean, you know, anything. No, God knows Matt's tomorrow. Psalm 139, our days are numbered. When did He number them? As he's watching them unfold, it's okay. You made it to another day. Let's see if you make it to tomorrow. I don't know if you will. No, he numbered them before any one of them came to be. I said, Hannah, stand up and challenge this garbage. Dad, I don't know. I'm just a first-year student. I know, but you're a Bible scholar. Now, you know the truth. So, pray for Hannah. I'm thankful for my daughter and she knows that the things that she said to me that she would respond are just right on. I said, praise God. Just ask him a question. Sir, can you show me a scripture where the Bible teaches that God doesn't know what you're going to do tomorrow? Can you just help me understand that? You don't have to challenge, you don't have to confront, you don't have to be disrespectful, but you can certainly ask a question. The Lord knows those who are His. And, and by the way, that's the invisible. That's the invisible, the secret. Only the Lord knows those who are His. Can you, can you walk up to somebody and look at their forehead and tell, you know, there's a little tattoo there. Can you tell who belongs to God? Now, all of us have had the experience where we met somebody and in the course of the conversation they say, oh yeah, I believe in Jesus. And you already knew that. I mean, you didn't know that omnisciently, but you knew that experientially because you saw the glory of God in them. Right? We had that experience where you meet somebody and you know this is a brother right here. And then you feel like you've known him your whole life. And you feel like you're going to know him for the rest of eternity because you will. But only the Lord knows the hearts of men. That's the secret. And that's the invisible. But the other wing of the airplane. Oh, this is important. So, let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. There's the open. There's the visible. You belong to Jesus? Good. Depart from iniquity. Flee from it. Put away irreverent babble. Put away these secret habits. Put away these things that you're struggling with. No, run from it. We're going to look at that next week. What's needed in the church today? Purity. There are good vessels, there are pure vessels, there are impure vessels in the same household of faith. And Paul says, hey, God wants the pure vessels. What do we need? Flee youthful lusts. So we can get started on that this week. as we respond to this. The invisible, the Lord knows those who are His. Praise God. Those who belong to Him are known by Him, chosen by Him, born again because of what God has done through His Son Jesus. But put away iniquity. Stop arguing about non-essentials. Let's don't do a war on words on things that aren't important. Let's agree to disagree on things that are peripheral matters. so that we might be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus. My prayer this morning for us, and we're going to, as I said, we're going to have a time for prayer. Maybe there's some gangrene, and you recognize it, and you know that God is calling you to deal with that today. You don't mess around with that stuff. It's nasty, and it destroys life. That part begins to die and has to be cut off. And so, the Lord said, hey, there's gangrene in your speech, there's gangrene in your thought life, there's gangrene in your relationships, there's gangrene in your finances, your marriage, and the way you handle the Word of God. Flipping about it. And He says, hey, today, while it's still called today, let's come to the Lord and ask His forgiveness and begin to do the hard work of doing the basics right most of the time. Thank you for listening to this message by Pastor Mark Foss of Antioch Community Church in Burlington, North Carolina. You can download other messages by Pastor Foss at www.antiochchurch.cc. You can also learn how to order his book entitled Family Integrated Church or his men's devotional, Real Life Moments. Again, that website is www.enteochurch.cc. May God bless you.