The Churches way Regulated by Scripture

hey man, thank you for that singing for leading us that Whaley, thank you Robbie, for the opening reading of the scriptures. You know, there are a handful of churches around Arkansas that I've gotten to become familiar with over the years. Lee Creek or brother Harold from is one of those but another one is is right here at Merrill Baptists and I've had the opportunity to preaching this Pulpit a few times now and then I've had the opportunity is is Wade said to preach at a church camp for several years. And so a lot of you I know and you're like family to me and it's all I'm I'm grateful. It's a tremendous honor to be here has tremendous honor. I know that way to allow me to open up tonight so that these other brothers can correct anything that I may. Name a stop on. Listen, I understand let me just start out with this. I will, cuz we got to get, we got to get started. Let me just say this, I understand this is a Friday night crowd. Understand you have a Sunday morning, folks, and then got the Sunday night folks, and you guys like the Friday night, folks. That's what I'm really grateful that you're here, but but I really do think that there's some things that we need to consider. And I think that there's something all of us can repent of tonight. As we think about what I'm going to talk about, let me start like this. It was a Friday night. It's a Friday night in October. Now, was a Friday night in October in the year, are not a Friday night with a Friday in October in the year. 1536, the date was October, 6th 04 hundred eighty-six years ago, yesterday on a Friday, there was a notorious prisoner. In England, he had been imprisoned at this point for 16 months. He climb the platform to be executed in front of a watching crowd in the sentence against him. Was that he had to be strangled to death and then and then his body was to be burned at the stake. This sentence was carried out by the way, but before it was carried out, they let this prisoner have an opportunity to speak. His final words here was his final words is a Freire. Really Lorde. Open the king of England's eyes. This notorious prisoner, of course, is a man by the name of William Tyndale. Maybe you haven't heard of Tyndale before, but this man is more important than you might know. Not only does the English language. Itself, 00, adapt to this man, but one of the very reasons that you own a Bible today in the English language is due to this man's crime by the way, what was his crime? Why did this man. Why was he strangled to death? And then burned at the stake, it was for this translating the Bible into the language of the common person in England in English. And a 1520 S10 tail was a, was a tutor, a family tutor, and a little area Northwest of London and they would have dinners big dinners. They would discuss things over the dinner. There was a huge in that was pushing for reformation a little bit. This is right, and you'll 1517 Begins. The Reformation unofficial date, and then in the 15-20 $10, he's pushing for reformation in, there's the family was Catholic. They didn't like it one night, they're just Catholic scholar at the table. He says this to Tyndale, we were better. Be without God's law than the Pope's and I'll where's Carla says, it'd be better if we can have God's law rather than the post, we need the post and in response, $10 speaks his famous words, he says I defy the pope and all his loss. If God spare, my life are many years. I will cause a boy that drive with the plow. She'll know more of the scripture than that dust. How many ways Tyndale did just that 3 years after his death is, his prayer was answered really the king of England, authorized the Tyndale translation, it ends up being an an enormous success, and an enormous help. Even to the King James translation with his publishing 1611 And so now for the last five centuries thing about this, we have had English-speaking plowboys outsmarting the Pope's. The pope can't tell me what to do. Hate speech, not even in my Bible because I can read my Bible and I can see it at the propane. On the throne. Jesus is Prince of you consider tonight. As we begin what a treasure and wonder and Glory it is that we have a Bible today in any language, let alone that we have a Bible in a language that we can read and understand and obey We have the words of our Almighty, inflict Triune self-existent God, in a language, in Arkansas can understand. This it irreconcilable authoritative necessary. Clear and sufficient book tells us who God is, it shows us who we are. It is a testimony to the glory of Christ. Jesus says that all scripture bear witness about him. Praise God for men, like John Wickliffe for men, like William Tyndale for me, like John Rogers, men throughout history have given great sacrifice to get this holy book of God's into the House of Commons people. Praise God, for plowboys who can read God's book, No, I am responsible to get to the sermon here in a minute but before I do, let me ask you a question.

Again, this is the Friday night crowd, understand, praise God. That you're here tonight. But since this is the very word of our great and glorious, trying God, who testifies to the Glorious Christ, Our Redeemer, who is sing about tonight. This is the books of God in our language. Why are our Bible so dusty?

Charles Spurgeon said, there's just enough on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers. I'm going to call it like it is. It is my conviction today. I'm not far from you but I think it's about well with Conway traffic, it took longer than it should have, but I'm not far. I know this area, you know, my area. Is my conviction today that one of the great Perils of professing Christians in the Bible Belt, the Bible that his we do, not read the Bible. We have time for Netflix or football or social media, but we don't have time to read the good book. People who are not spending time in the book, personally, they don't read it with their families safe. Even in a typical Baptist Sunday school class, people may spend 30 minutes gossiping about prayer requests and then maybe 15 minutes doing a lesson and then it turns out that that lesson is not even really read the scriptures. But just someone else's idea about the Bible and the guy who wrote The Lesson was on a laptop and Starbucks with $8 coffee. And what he was worried about was being politically, correct and culture acceptable at the moment more than he was worried about God's word. The friends, this is the state of the Bible Belt. Because of men like William Tyndale. We live in a day with unprecedented access to the English Bible, unprecedented on your phone in the store copies upon copies upon copies, you can get Bibles in the local Goodwill for a dollar. We have more access to the Bible, in a language, we can read and we have the ability to read and we have the time to read and all of that together, put all of that together and you have to say that from the creation of mankind to today in 2022, Our Generation has more access to the word of God than any other generation in the history of the world.

And yet. We are equally the most biblically ignorant generation in the world. By the way, turn to Jeremiah 6. You start turning the chair. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that. If the plow boy and tyndall's day, who couldn't read God's word in his own language, might not have more knowledge about God's word, then some pastors and deacons in churches today.

Attend that would be rolling over in his grave. If he could, he can't. He was burned at the stake.

the point being that the state of our Bible knowledge today,

Compels us to consider. The sermon that I've been assigned this evening and that is the church's way regulated. The by scripture,

I hope there's not people like this in this room, but if there is praise God, that you're hearing, and you can repent tonight and you can change, but we have people in Baptist circles. They don't even know what the church is. They don't really understand what the church is. There's a social club, understand? They don't understand the leadership of the church. They don't understand the mission of the church. All these things wrapped up in this one true that I've started off with, we don't know our Bibles. So tonight the church's way, regulate about scripture, my Texas, Jeremiah six. It is more of a topical message, but we're going to read Jeremiah 6416 and I'll walk through some exegesis of the text and then and then we'll get into the topic of tonight's sermon, Jeremiah chapter 6. Would you stand with me in the honor of reading? God's word? Will just going to read verse 16? Jeremiah 6, verse 16.

Thus says the Lord.

stand by the roads and look, And ask for the ancient paths. for the good way is and walk in it. And find rest for your souls.

But they said, We will not walk in it. What's Pride, father? Would you help us tonight to understand this text? Would you help us tonight to understand your church Lord, as we begin this conference? I think you 4 Barrel Baptist. I think you for the past year or thank you for the vision of this conference. I think you for the opportunity tonight to preach God. As we walk away tonight, we pray that we would see the beauty and Glory of Christ. And we would see that we don't fully understand his Beauty and glory and in gospel, if we don't understand his love for and is cherishing of the local church,

This will help us understand what it means that the church should be regulated by Your Word tonight in a room. This size, it's inevitable, that there is a lost man or woman or boy, or girl here. I pray that is the hear the gospel that they're convicted. It would repent of their sins and repent of any apocracy perhaps has an older member even they would repent of their hypocrisy and Believe In Christ. For believers here, I pray that we would renew our commitment and love for and defense of the local church. We prayed all in Christ name, amen? You may be seated, Jeremiah is known to some as the weeping prophet and he wrote an entire book called lamentation. So that ought to tell you something about that, he began his ministry under the last good king of Judah, which is Josiah. He was called at a young age. He spent decades preaching both God's blessing for any who would follow him and God's judgment for those who rejected the word of the Lord. He he foretold the New Covenant and Jeremiah 33, he told her those in the New Covenant, have the law of God written on their heart. Since the bagel, no God, in their sins will be forgiven, and all blessings brought To Us by in and through our Lord. Jesus Christ, but Jeremiah preach and preach, and preach, and nobody listen to him. Even after drew them had fallen, but Jeremiah never saw the Revival he help for his warnings were repeatedly. Ignored in fact, one king, jehoiakim actually took Jeremiah's riding and he cut them up and he threw them into the fire. How's that for a rejection of the word of the Lord? But they did not stop. Jeremiah from preaching, the truth including telling telling Judah the right way and if they would follow God's way they would find rest. Says the Lord stand by the roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths with a good way is and walking it and find rest. Find rest for your souls. There's actually five commands there, if you see stand, look, ask find all these commands stand by the roads by the crossroads. And look you come to a Crossroads, you know, there's several ways that you can go. You can go this way over here. You can go straight ahead. You can turn to the rifle stand by the roads and look and then and then ask ask for what the ancient pass. I don't just ask, but I need to pass with a good way, to go to walk in it. If you do those things, you find rest for your souls Judah would suit do this. They would see Mercy. But they would not listen to text as they were stubborn and hard-hearted they refused the Lord's way. Now what is the Lord's way? What are these ancient paths? Will I say to you this evening that we can understand them as they are, this book God's word is God's way for us to follow. These are the ancient past to trot

Stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient past where the good way? Is the Hebrew word here, for way also, for roads, and our text is used all over the place in the Old Testament. For example, Asian someone also it's in the Proverbs where it says you've heard this. There is a way that seems right to a man, but it's in is the way to death. So these Roads that there are roads in our life as it works. Roads or paths are ways that we can choose to follow everyday. But so many of them are the roads that are deceptive or destructive or the way that read leads to death. So Jeremiah says, stand at the roads and look which path is specially, will you tried which way will you go the way of Sinners or the way of the righteous? The way, it seems right to a man or God's way weird to ask for the ancient past, the past that we are able to read right here in our own language, we stopped It look like we teach our children, come to a crossroad. You look both ways. We look, we consider, but the way that we should seek is the ancient past. Now listen, this does not mean that the old is automatically, right? This doesn't mean that change is always bad as some of you perhaps resist change in the church because you idolize Traditions that the Lord never gave you. You, you desire baby, for example, the 1950s. But God is calling the church today. Much further back than the 1950s, the ancient past, go much further back to stop and look, and ask for the ancient past where the good way is been walking. A God is calling his people to the ancient hasn't won anything about the word, the Hebrew word here for ancient? Is that it can mean a long time back. It can also mean a long time in the future, think about that for a second, these ancient pass that we are commanded to walk for also the Everlasting pass. The ancient paths for us are the scriptures, the ancient past or the Eternal pass. The Road God would have us to walk. Is the road of unchanging truth, the word fixed and I haven't even had a of change. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. I don't know if what kind of press conference going to come outside. Don't know what kind of nuclear warning. It's going to be like we live in a day of change after change after change your change and God is calling his people to fix your eyes upon his unchanging truth. Had to go that way to walk in that.

This is the way that God's people have always tried God's true people. Remember what he not did, he walked with God on these past trusting his revealed word, Noah Abraham, Moses, David, the Lord Jesus, please pass. This is where the good way is stand by the roads and look and ask them to pass with a good ways and walking it and find rest for your Souls 1, Taylor knows the path which leads to the enjoyment of Covenant blessings from the Lord. This is the path of blessing. This is the road Believers must walk. The word of God is the way of God's people not just theoretically, but practically God's words instruct us on how his church should be. Now so year of Our Lord 2022, and we are blessed this year with another election year. As we have the added blessing of our day, don't we have campaign promises? I love campaign promises, don't you? Of course not. I'm tired of the lies from the left and the lack of backbone from the Reich. Campaign promises are often empty, but let me remind us tonight of a promise from the Lord. Jesus Jesus says, in Matthew 16:18. What? I promise, I Will. Not Mike, I will build my church. This is a promise more sure than tomorrow, sunrise, Christ will build his church and it doesn't matter what the media might say, the matter, with bologna or Perryville might say, it doesn't matter what any Deacon our pastor might say Christ will build his church. In fact, he is building his church

Mmm, places. I can't name even though call canaima. I can't name.

Christ is building his church all over the world today promised is coming to fruition. And we understand that it is by the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ than all God's. People of all time are saved and we understand that it is by his gospel, that the local church is birth of Christ live for sinners Christ. Died for sinners. Christ, was crucified for sinners Christ, Rose against in Victory. For sinners Christ, is our propitiation for Sinners. All for the ultimate purpose of God's glory. And this victory means that Sinners don't stay centers in their identity. The Holy Spirit applies, the gospel touch our hearts in real time by Sovereign Grace alone. They're born again to newness of life, in an obedient to the Lord. They now seek to follow him and Believers baptism. And you not themselves with the local church wife. Because the Bible tells us entitled to forget, Jesus isn't just saving individuals. He saving a people I'm trying to communicate years at the local church is not just an addendum to the Christian Life. Really $0.01. It is the Christians New Life Church is not just a good idea for Christians. It is how Christians live out New Testament. Christian Believers, walk Gods ancient past it, it means that saying that you hear I know you hear him in Vilonia, human Perryville, quite often. Seems like I don't have to go to church to be a Christian or stop going to church start being the church Emmys. Do Saints are stupid.

You're about as useful as a steering wheel on a mule and a worthless. Any plowboy, with a Bible in hand off to see, right through those cliches. I promise you, if you're staying at the crossroads and you look at the sign that says the local church is optional, that is not the ancient path that the Lord calls you to follow turn and run from that are Dollar Tree. Before it kills your soul, to Jesus promises to build his church. And then pulse is in Ephesians 2:19 and 20, you're no longer strangers and Aliens, but your fellow citizens with the Saints and members of the House of God, built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Christ. Jesus himself being the Cornerstone. That is the way that the church is building is Bobby. The finished work of Christ for our sins. We assemble and we seek to follow our Lord. So that the church's wake is is regulated. Bible scripture about a possum from by the Scriptures. It is really the church is obligation to follow. I think that this is not inappropriate to this text and say, hey tonight, we need to think about Jeremiah 6:16. We need to stand up the road and we need to look. Which direction are we going to go in the, in the year of Our Lord 2022 more about to hit us a new year? Which way are we going to go without? When the world is falling apart and Twins win, America's phone apart and all these things you seem to be changing, like, why do we going to do is to church in the end? That's answering is for us. And I said that we need to stay and we need to look, we need to ask. We need to see the ancient path. We need to see the scriptures and that's the way we need to go. whatever the book says, It's not just Our obligation friend, it's our Delight. We could because of Texas and find rest for your souls. Man, there's a lot of people who profess to be Christians. I'm like, they don't got rest for the There's the light here. When the church becomes you something else that you have to do in your life is so full of all these other things and feels like man I just don't got time for church that tells me man you ain't got rest for your souls brother.

When we seek to construct, the local Church Christ way, it is the most beautiful place on Earth. It is not a country club. It is not a nightclub, is not a community centers, it's much more glorious, and I'll get to that in a minute, but I want to do this evening is again, I want you to consider yourselves at the crossroads, so to speak in your mind, it's fine, put yourself here, stand by the road, stand on the cross road and look and feel what you're doing tonight. You're standing at the road and you're looking and you're considering and what I want you to ask yourself tonight is just question. What is it? What is it that really shakes? You're thinking about the local church. Is it the way that you grew up as a kid? By the way, I'm not dismissing. All of these is the way you grew up as a kid. Is it? Your grandparents, it is, it the fact that some church down the road, it's growing by doing this or that type of thing? Is it your preferences? What is it? What is chafing, you're thinking about the local church, above all else, in my plea, with you tonight, even some of those good thing. My plea with you tonight, is that what shapes you're taking about the local church above all else, come up the tradition above, how you grew up above your grandparents. As beneficial to all those things, might be what you need to have shaping your thinking about the church above all else is the word of God. The scriptures. Stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient paths with a good way is and walk in it and find rest for your soul. The good way of the church is God's word. The church must be regulated by the scriptures for these Christ Church of Christ Church, right? Same way to church. The other passengers Deacon's Christchurch. Guess I won't be there by Cosmic, or just let me know me.

Let me give you $2 stration. I'm going to have five points. You okay. I need some time before tomorrow session will be finished. Lord, willing first illustration suppose. I had $1000000. No, no. We're supposing. Let's go bigger net. Suppose I had millions of dollars had a billion dollars and I gave you a few million dollars and I gave you a blueprint.

And I said, I got to go overseas for you. Here's a blueprint of the home that I want you to build for me. So when I come back I'd like you to have this house ready for me and here are the plans to build that you have more than enough resources. You have all the resources you need and if you don't have any other resources and ask me anything you will and I'll make sure you have the resources. Sound low from there, done it. Okay, so I give you the money. I give you the blueprint. Alif. Now, what would you do with those plants?

Never done it that way before. Is that what you would do? You say? Well, I think it would be more practical to put the kitchen over here. And if it doesn't seem right to have all these windows, let me put more windows over here, instead. I know he wants the house painted red, but I think I'll paint it yellow instead of court. If you had any sent, you wouldn't do any of those things, why? It's not your house. It's mine. And you would build it the way I want it. Friend. It's not our church. It's not our church, it's Christchurch and we have no right to move things around. According to our preferences or worldly standards or cultural. Acceptance Corp political correctness. Not even the government is over the church. This is Christ Church. And we under the great obligation. Are Holy and good God.

To regulate the church. According to Christ blueprints, we're both foolish and wicked if we try to do it, our own way, second illustration Elevate the PG-13, but be careful with my language, suppose, my wife and I were out to eat one night in Conway. We come out of the restaurant. We're holding hands, some guy comes up behind her and smacks her on the backside, puts his arm around her. So, how you doing baby?

Now, what am I going to do? Am I going to smart? Am I going to laugh? Am I going to run away? Am I going to look down? What am I going to do?

why that is my bride and you do not have the right to touch her like that to seek to harm her to treat her rudely / unkindly, or any such thing because she's my wife And this is the way their husbands ought to treat their wives. France.

How much more serious does King Jesus take those who mistreat his bright? No Pastor no Deacon, no Committee Member, no secretary no. Church member, no visitor, no politician, no president. No one has the right to put their hand on Christchurch, speak to harmer abuse. Her lead, her astray or mistreat, her

This is Christchurch.

No one is allowed to tell her what she can and cannot do except for one. Her Lord, Jesus. This is Christchurch. He is supreme and he has given us his book Friends. The Church Must walk in the ancient paths. The church must be regulated by the scriptures. There will literally be hell to pay if we think we can forsake Christ by treating his church like a Harley. Okay, all of this is a long introduction. Praise the Lord. Bring me to my house. I want to give you five ways. The local church must be regulated by the scriptures. Stand by the road. I said this more topical but stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient paths with a good ways and walk in it. And find rest for your souls. That's what the Lord says. Says, the Lord, if I'm going to walk the ancient past that God would have us to walk. Then we must think biblically about the church in these five areas. The scripture, must regulate these ways of the church, number one in the churches, meaning Everyone in the church has meaning. That is what I mean by that you and I don't get to define the church. We don't get to say why I think this is a church with a Church of this is what a church is not on the Bible. Does it says, just means I can only understand the church and its Universal. Since I can't just take the church, is every believer of all time and nothing else. Why? Because, the Bible tells me about the church at Corinth and the church at Phillipi and the church at Ephesus. And it tells me of the one another's, like, carry one another's burdens and confess your sins one to another and there is no way. If you study that and think through that, there's no way that you actually can fulfill these commands in any sort of tangible for Meaningful ways. Unless I'm plugged into a local church meaningfully and coming into it.

I don't get to the final Church. The Bible does the scriptures regulate the church's meaning.

You can't just a woman three of my buddies. Go fishing every Sunday in the Bible says where two or three are gathered, that Jesus is with us. So we are Church. Someone you're not any more Church than Joe. Biden is making executive decision.

Because the Bible. Defines the meaning of the church. And you laugh. But I made a lot of knucklehead. You said that and worst about Christ's bride. Scripture to find the church. This is Christ Church. Secondly, the Bible regulates, the church is meaning. Secondly, the Bible regulates the church's membership.

The Bible teaches us that it is only those who are born again to see the kingdom of God. He's been sitting in it not to take a shot at our paedobaptism. Brothers. Is he answering that we have some of those It would say that they want those outside the kingdom inside the church. That actually doesn't even make biblical or theological sense. It doesn't even make Common Sense. The Bible regulates our membership. And not just in telling us the only those born-again could be members of the church but that these born-again also need to submit to Believers baptism in order to join the local church, but because I don't have the time to preach all on baptism. Let me just suffice it to say that in baptism. We are saying that this man or woman is a brother or sister in Christ and we know that at least to the best of our ability because he or she had submitted their life to Christ and it signifies that through this outward ordinance. The Bible also regulates our membership by showing us what a Christian ought to be. I have few weeks ago now, maybe it's October. So couple months ago. Now, we had a young lady in our church. Praise God, that she called me about this. But she's off in Fort Smith and she went to Sunday school class and she said she just called me concerned. She said, brother Quattro This Sunday school teacher told me that we are to judge other Christians. And that just doesn't feel right. And I saved her amount of me and my wife were sitting there on the phone had on speaker. I don't want you to go to 1st Corinthians 5:12. Did you know the Bible instructs us to judge those who profess to be Christians? Nothing so foreign to you because you've grown up all your life is here and don't judge, don't judge, don't judge, don't judge, but listen to God's word, 1st Corinthians 5:12, for what have I to do with judging Outsiders, Paula Thoma Church of Court during his first discipline issue. Is it not those inside, the church whom you are to judge

In Arkansas can understand it, right? The local church is to be a disciplined Church. Those whose outward actions are not in line with Christ revealed wheels, that is what the Bible says, a Christian looks like. By the way, you don't get to the final Christian either. And neither do I say it's the Bible not in line with Christ revealed will for his people ought to be confronted in Love by the church. They ought to be called to repentance in Love by the church. If they continue an unrepentant, been up to be removed from the church.

You see why? I don't like that.

Okay. Go create your own universe.

And then you can be head of the church.

But until that day, The Sovereign King Of Heaven demands that you follow his design for the church. And not your own. The word of God, regulates our membership, who can be a member, how they are to become a member, what their responsibilities are. As members, which by the way, means that there is no such thing as members to just sit and do not suppose that the church is like a body. I think a lot of people really feel that they have a Divine call to be the appendix in the body. They say, don't do anything until I get upset at the church.

That's not what you're called. To be your cousin, being active viable, functioning member of the local church. The Bible regulate their membership. The Bible regulates the church's meaning and the church's membership. Thirdly, the Bible regulates the church is methodology.

The church is methodology again. Jeremiah thus says the Lord stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient path with a good way as and walking it and find rest for your souls. You know what's beautiful about this? What's beautiful about this is his God doesn't give us a lot of the scriptures in such a way to just like start our journey, you know? And just like man I hope that you make it right now. What would you let you know, we're all just walk in this road and we're all just trying to wall. Just try to end up here with us. No, please give us a very detailed instructions. It's walk the ancient past means I want to do Church, the way the Lord has instructed, there's two points to mention here under methodology. Number one by methodology. I mean, our Sunday worship our Sunday Worship in the context of worship in the Old Testament. God says, to the people Visual and Deuteronomy 12:30 to everything that I command you, you should be careful. How much Lord? How much? Hey, look, I'm from Perryville. You get a c and class. You know what we say c means continue? Is that what you mean? 70%, 70% Lord. Can I just get a c in worship know? He says everything that I command you, you should be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. I'm just going to tell you tonight. God cares, how he's worship.

God cares so much about how he is worship any. So deserving of our worship that he has given us clear instructions in his words about how we are to worship Him. There are so many places even even brothers and sister that I think I would agree with him. A lot of things show me places that have have messed up the worship of God. And the worship is to be centered around the word of God and the gospel King. Jesus, we're to read the word of God. Why did we start this tonight? As interesting? I was think about what brother Robbie did. He came here tonight? He open this up by reading the Bible. Then we just come together and just a boy, that would be a good idea, wouldn't it? You know what, let's read the Bible. That would be a good idea. Know the Bible actually commands us to give heed to the public reading of scripture. Robin read the scriptures in obedience to God's what he's revealed that we ought to read the Bible and read the word of God. We must preach the word of God. We must sing the word of God. We must pray. According to the words, we must give in accordance to the words. We must display the word of God in the ordinance. All of this with Godly, Reverend understanding that our approach to God is through the finished work of Christ Alone.

I worship is regulated by scriptures and facts. This is what we call the regular to principal worship. In the Bible tells us what God desires in our worship and we are careful not to add to that or take away from it. Why? Because we long to honor and glory in our great God, we love him and we want to worship Him. However, it is, we feel your feelings, stink sometimes, write their terrible. Sometimes until we try to go from feeling in order to like how did worship feel for you today. It doesn't matter how it made, you feel better matters with the truth. Now, the truth leads our feelings, all right like like like the truth. Shapes our affections in and week, we do feel but the feeling comes through the truth, trying to dictate our worship, our feelings. Hermes will the judge and I understand that you can you can be a cranky person like this. You better guard your heart. Okay. So there's some ways, maybe you take this too far but let me just say this, we need to think about the songs that we sing. I don't think it was Charles and John Wesley to have the conversation that Charles the one that we've still seen some of his hands. He told his brother, Johnny said you preached to the people and I'll leave them in singing and in ten years they'll still be singing might be all. That's right. They won't remember your sermons. That's true. We ought to think about what we sing.

The Bible must control The Way We Sing About God. His mom is not Reckless. That's old. But how foolish can we be? Jesus is not our poor friend gushing over us like we're his high school Crush we seen a lot of horrible things and purchase today because we don't know the Bible and I'm not just talking about Kayla though. I want a vendetta against Caleb now. I've seen some terrible. Songs in the Heavenly, her ways. Look up, ain't it? A shame. But I ain't it. A shame to lie on Sunday. Ain't it a shame a line, shame even ashamed Lion on Sunday. When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is not a good song.

The point is that the Bible must regulate are singing. We must think biblically about how we think and what we think. Because our song teachers theology, I don't care if it's right or wrong are good or bad, here's the reality. The songs that you sing teach. We also must remember. I love with the screen says right now. So I don't have to go over this point, but right now we're worshipping not just the songs of the worship. We're still worshiping during the preaching. As God's word is being heralded. We're either responding in faith or we're closing our hearts to God. By the Bible, regulates the local churches methodology. In the first way we see that is in Sunday worship the second way we see that is in Soul, winning one, Sunday worship to Soul winning, but I want to stay here is at the church, is obligated to spread the gospel of our Lord and savior, far, and wide in our neighborhoods. And to the nation's, I think they'll be a message about that maybe tomorrow night. So, from Vallonia to Veracruz to venise, we want the gospel of Christ to go to the nation's, But Soul winning our evangelism missions.

Is not anything goes. Our methodology is regulated by the scriptures. A lot of churches are busy with a lot of activity that they want to call Outreach. How do you say something to us? The Lord hasn't called us to do Outreach. He's called us to declare the glory of his name to every creature on the planet. I just Grill. I just grilling hot dogs and burgers out here, just to let people know how much I love them and how much Jesus loves them. But if they come in, they either hot dogs and they never hear the gospel. Can I down on the way home? Cuz they've done to help and you have an awesome.

There's a methodology. Yes, yes, yes, the church out to be kind and loving and, and all the help folks and then I'm not against those things. But biblical evangelism is killing centers. The good news of what Jesus has done and it is calling upon Sinners to turn from their sins and repent, and your trust Christ Alone by faith as their only suitable. And off the fish, you save your friend. If you haven't communicated that message with the response to repent and believe the gospel, you haven't done evangelist After methodology and too many churches, have abandoned the ancient past was so when he long ago and now we're reaping what we sow. I'm almost embarrassed to tell you this. Make fun of our community, but last weekend. We had a goat Festival. I'm not making that up with a goat, people dress, their goats and strange costumes and it's a real thing. It's a weird thing. But there weren't nearly as many goats at that Festival. As there are in so many churches today because of poor methodology and evangelism, let the humor understand The Bible must regulate the church is methodology. This is true of Sunday. Worship is true. So many fourthly the scriptures must regulate the local churches management. a flipping 11 Paul says this that he's riding through all the saints in Christ Jesus or at Phillipi with the overseers and deacons Listen, very carefully here because we see the three offices of the church. Yes, I said three. I know it's badges. We only affirm to but I'm being hyperbolic here, I'm going to add a third to make a point. We see overseer through the pastures and we see deacons thirdly. Don't forget the Saints. that is we believe, every member of a church is responsible in approving, what the Bible reveals By the way, I just make this comment, it's not even anyting. I want to even argue about it. Just make the comment though that in Flippin is 11 just liking and every New Testament Church. We see all three of these are plural pastors. Deacon saint church with only one saying, so we got multiple Saints. But then we also see multiple pastors and Deacon. We should seek to model a plurality of pastors and Deacon in our church is as we have qualified meant to do so. The point is our churches are to be congregational. They are Tubidy conserve their to be Pastor lead and all of this is under the government of King. Jesus, get this out of your mind tonight. The church is not a democracy. The church has never been a democracy in fact, just because I'm a Geordie, my vote one way doesn't make it right. You're tired of the Baptist jokes. I'm tired of the badges jokes. How many babies does it take to change the water before you got to have a committee? And then you got to have a then you got to have a meeting. I mean you're going to argue at the meeting so many going to push it to the next meeting. And your committee is going to meet us at 3 months, to change the lightbulb because we don't understand the management of the church.

congregational deacons or Pastor LED all under the government of King Jesus just because a majority vote one way doesn't make it right because the church is a monarchy it's ruled by King Jesus. He's the head of the church deacons, if they're deacons here tonight, you're not the head of the church pastors. I know their pastors here tonight, you're not the head of the church members. You're not the head of a church crisis, and in Christ has given a specific instructions for how he would have his church to be managed church members, your to love and serve one. Another and help support the mission of the church even financially deacons, your to help serve and help take care of the physical needs of those in the body. And to model exemplarily, be an example of your lives of Holiness pastors, you to care for The Souls of the church is, as those who will give an account to the Lord to preach and teach God's work Faithfully while having supplies that match, what they preach. By the way, why do I even have to save it tonight? But I will go ahead and say it, you have to be a qualified man. A qualified man, there are churches.

I don't want to go down SPC roll, but let me just text, this church is all over my convention better just confused about. That is still playing clear. Why? I said, I will, okay, we'll have a tax return on a senior private. It's clear. It's not all men can be pastors, right? I'm a man. I can be a pastor, no, no. Qualified men are pastors. Any passwords are to be leaders in evangelism, an example of what it means to follow the lord in the home and in the church, and in the world and in, in, in church members and deacons ought to love and honor and follow, and be grateful for Godly pastors.