following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church chapter five more verses because how we know when you do a bible study you should study in context and get the bigger picture than one verse get the bigger picture and up she interprets the bible more accurately and you can learn some things in the midst of it  we had mentioned last week that there are those who don't like the concept of appearance of evil because there are those who are very legal listed as go to your paper and find fish says a lot in chapter five verses fourteen to twenty three and what we're going to do is we're going to go encourage the faint hearted help the weak be patient everyone so should we if somebody should we had modish them should we bring correction if somebody is unruly if we know somebody that's doing something that's wrong that's not biblical that's not on the bible so we bring correction even as a christian as a pastor i think as leaders leaders of leaders that don't bring correction when people are doing things their own biblical and leader doesn't bring correction god and judge that leader but this says we urge you brethren does it say leaders urge you christians brothers and sisters to demolish generally if you're a christian and you see somebody that is doing something that leans toward sexual harassment should you say something the bible is saying yes so if you read a jobsite and you have a now this is chris is with christians so is christian a christian not christian a non christian i have no say so as a christian in a non christians life even as a pastor by what does it sound to correct a non christian ok but if you have a brother in the lord a sister lord and you see them doing some of that work that it is obvious that it is sexual or harassing it saying that you are to say something to them i would tell you that most christians and say a word and this let it happen hearted absolutely help the weak someone that's weak maybe somebody has that they have an issue in their life and they're weak and so they fought stumble and fall does a say you to judge them and condemn them no it says help the weak if you see we was with somebody yesterday they got my car they fell down they got the car they went on the ground and i turned around and said well that's your problem is that what you do was the weak his legs gave out he was weak so i sat there now is this what an idiot he can't even get open the door and get in is that what you do if somebody is weak you help them up if somebody is weak in their faith you help them up you encourage them be patient with who was a say be patient with who everyone now everyone means non because everyone is everyone so we're to help those that are of the brothers a sister laura but not only to help the brother sister laura or to help everyone ok and so you're to be patient with others ok if there's a principle right there if you fall that how many know if we just follow that one principle there probably be at least some correction when their sexual harassing going on if somebody is making sexual into window jokes with or not be something to deal with that just on that verse alone ok now remember we're looking at context leading up to the verse that we talk about appearance in the evil so then if you go to verse fifteen is says see that no one repays another with evil for evil but always seeks after that which is good for one another and for all people now i got a question for you if you seek that which is good will you be one who sexually harass us or you want to sexually abuse will you be one walking in the parents of evil you won't be walking appearance of evil if you're seeking what is good for the sake of others is what is good for one another and for who all people because he's writing to christians so when he says seek the after which is good for one another is talk about know that because he separates two groups of people he says seek which is good for another and for all people should you want what is good for every person so if you are seeking good for others if you see somebody sexually if you see a boss that's making sexual mark remarks to an employee in a you're a christian and you want to follow this verse what would you do you know what most people would do nothing because they're more concerned about their job than do what the bible says the bible does this is seek that which is good for all people it doesn't say seek what will keep your job is that what it says and so out of it what if we follow that principle that we want to  good for others now we talk about what somebody else is doing what about you if you seek the good for your brothers a sister lord you seek the good for all are you going to be a sexual abuser as a christian are you going to sexual harass christian so to tell me something i use the example i can do my wife is here so i can do this with my wife ok so i she's my wife everybody knows me and that is my wife ok but this pretend she's not my wife and my wife is gorgeous she's the most gorgeous woman in this church and in the world i mean it's amazing that god can make one person so gorgeous ok but this pretend that gorgeous ok so i walk up to her and i say you're the sexiest woman i've ever seen i got all these weird looks of people's faces all of a sudden i wish the cameras and all of you i saw some of your ready i saw one with a  to take me out ok so obviously that's wrong is that seeking good so if i follow that principle will i be a person that makes those kind of comments the bible gives us principle because god knew who we were because of the christian that you accept jesus as a christian man you become holy and righteous to god at what he had to give us most of the bible now for christians to be no reason for the bible for the christians because when you accept jesus you become holy become righteous and you're just pure  thoughts and everything else so you never have to say christians no appearance of evil because you don't ever do evil when you're a christian what do you thing we do do we as a christian we do even make choices t jesus and then turn around a second later is a trick question can you praise jesus as a second later sin yes but if you're truly praising jesus will you want to sin no you cannot you of evil now assess rejoice always and pray without ceasing so just take praise and and prayer there's not going to be much appearance of evil now here's what happens because i'm dealing with the situation now with somebody is that this is rejoice supreme of the season i have somebody that prays all the time praises jesus all the time and you know they're one of those i called the christian these kind of people you know when you meet  them nothing wrong with that but if you're doing that and you're acting that way and you've got the christian knees and you're turning around have the parents of evil that anybody that looks at you says and exactly why are you going to that woman's house every night and stay in the night there every night and you're not married is that appearance of evil or you're judging me you know you're judging me yeah i am i'm judging your behavior i don't know about you because i don't know your heart but i am judging your behavior that just seems weird and so it's obvious if you're praying without season your rejoicing in your heart is right there's going to be less appearance of evil so a pastor i struggle with with but you know pastor in the old days i was a sexual harasser but i didn't know it but now because of all the society's talk about wow that's me when i hear about that person that person that's what i've done pastor help me was  not applying the president teaching you i exhort you now i challenge you ok verse eighteen and everything give thanks for this is god's will for you in christ jesus and how many things every day and everything for this is god's will for you in christ jesus it's god's will for you to give the x and everything in other words god wants to give things and everything so if you're giving things this think about this this thing about the concept of appearance of evil and then look at the context if i'm giving thanks and all the things that goes in my life and that doesn't mean how loyal i got in a car accident praise god that would be stupid ok but you say hallelujah jesus in the midst of this car accident you're going to work it out that's the thing is talking about giving thanks i thank you god i don't know how you're going to do this but you going to work this out is going to be a good thing that comes out of this and that thank you for what happened i'm dank you god that you're going to do something in the midst of what's happening if i have that kind of heart and  means i'm of thankful person if i'm a person that has things and that means that thankful when i'm single that means i'm thankful moment where it is a going right that means i'm thankful no matter what then when i encounter in life situations and i am discouraged but i still give god thanks and my less likely to sin and i less likely have the parents of evil so let me give you a perfect example if my marriage is having some struggles now if you're a christian your marriage never has struggles yeah yeah i don't know if you knew that or not but just ask my wife and i've never had a struggle in thirteen and a half years ago in almost fourteen years or so we have struggles we have challenges but if i'm giving thanks god you're building character in the midst of this and all that guess what i'm not tempted to sexually harass of course that's not sexual harassment harassing that woman when i make an offer for her to sleep with me i'm not harassing her i'm being very nice to her when i say it i bring her i bring her cake an ice cream and and a wedding ring as i am trying to have sex with her i'm not really harassing her you see where the problem gets to be where we try to justify an excuse and use words but i want to go back at her joyce annoys pray without ceasing in everything give ok and i would argue be careful don't be a judge because somebody walks the bar you say it's appearance of evil you have no idea why they walk in that bar if my wife's an alcoholic and i'm poor out of the bar i have a reason so you can't judge me and say all that looks like appearance of evil because you're you're going into a bar you don't know why i'm going in the bar so this get this clear right but if i'm an alcoholic and i'm going to in a bar is that appearance of evil absolutely so if i take this concept i would understand that there are certain behavior that is going to cause people to lean a certain way of belief ok and then the verse nineteen i love a look at the context we're building up to the verse verse nineteen do not quench the spirit if walking and listen all those things it says if you don't do any of those things you quit in the spirit if you're not helping somebody that's that's weak you're quenching the spirit if you're not caring for the sake of others you're quenching the spirit if you're not praising god you're question the spirit if you're not praying your question the spirit says don't which the spirit because if i quit the spirit all the other stuff doesn't happen because if i quits the spirit i will be praising god but which the spirit i won't be i won't be pray how we know that because how many people that walk in the parents of the one a regular basis walking the parents of the will because i would argue it is evil of persons walking the parents of evil guess what they have less of the holy spirit working in their life and they're christian they don't have less of the holy spirit as we all have the holy ball but they willfully walk in appearance of evil and then when you try to bring correction they can't hear because they've quenched the spirit because he's the one that takes the words you speak and translates a form you know i mean by that as a pastor i bring correction your life that's the holy spirit that takes the correction i bring the holy spirit takes what i say to bring correction and he brings conviction and when a conviction happens you change because in the conviction you don't change verse twenty do not despise prophetic audits says why is that come in there  it's really not my business but you know your brother in the lord and and i know you love jesus but you're doing is just not right it's just not right you're not respecting women i see it all the time and and you know i have to speak to you about that i just have to guys tell i would consider that a prophetic utterance that you're speaking of prophetically into that person's life you know i'm going to tell you that if you keep doing that you're going to get fired and you keep doing you know fact you know what you keep doing that you mean of cheating on your wife because you keep flirting with those women and you're married man and if that's a prophetic utterance in the sense of you're speaking to somebody this is what will happen if you do this then what can happen is that the person ignores you know what they just did they discourage the spirit and then they will argue with you and debate with you in the next you know you know what'll happen to do the very thing that you said to go to verse twenty one but examine and carefully but examine everything carefully hold fast to that which is good examine how many things everything i do with the b n appearance of evil if i examine if i look at everything i do so before i say something do something i would examine is this of god or not is this right or not would there be the parents of evil where there be evil taking place all e all the if you hold fast that which is good because you can examine carefully and choose to do something different god is this right or wrong he says is wrong ok thank you god that you tell me is wrong i would do it anyways prophetic utters that comes your life then you hold fast to what is good you say thank you brother for sharing that with me if i do that i won't have the parents of you so now this finished with the last two verses which are there are key vers away from not participate in is says in every form of evil it doesn't say every form of the works of the evil you like doesn't say that this is every day the say every evil does say abstain from every bill no every form of vote or any appearance of the bill so the bible teaches us that we should do things that even have the appearance of evil and we know all the reasons why a bomb so if i live a listen if i did vers thirteen and twenty if i lived that i would not be offended by that versus as abstain from all forms of evil why would that offend me i'm doing everything that causes that i don't have that you know what people get is funded by that verse because i'm not doing the other stuff otherwise there's no reason to be as a christian why would you be bothered by that verse that's protecting me guess what if you have a temptation of doing some kind of sin whatever it may be and you don't want any of it and you and you want to abstain from any form of evil that's a good verse to have because that gives you strength to not do that sin right but if if you are doing something that not only appears to be the form of evil is evil and somebody correct you and you argue and debate with them then you know what you're headed for disaster because your form of evil will become evil if you're dating a married man and you think that's ok and you think that's a form of evil you know what will happen you will end up doing with that married man now you may not do it because you have a standard but if somebody brings correction to you and says this is not a good idea to do this it can be a very strong stumbling block it is not good for your ministry to do that and you ignore that counsel do you think the enemy just sits back and says oh well i'll just leave them alone you know the devil's going to do he's going to jump on it because he knows something about you you're in rebellion you rebuild against the bible and you rebuild against godly leadership and if you're going to be billion who's the author of rebuilding in who is the captain satan you don't think satan likes to participate in may you be different than the role may you act different in the role guess what if you're going to act different a role you're not going to accuse of being as a sexual harasser and if you are no everybody will laugh what pastor rich had a single woman that he t portland what a joke he don't even let women in his car unless there is wife how can that be so this vicious i mean your spirit is so embodied preserved and complete guess what if you follow all those verses guess what your spirit soul and body will be preserved if we protect it from evil it we're protected from accusations of be protected from being a victim we didn't say it but if you follow this principle you're less likely to be likely to be a victim of sexual harassment abuse because you don't hang with people the coming of jesus christ well i can't be blameless i don't believe that i believe if you follow these principles you can't be blameless so it is that you can't become blameless it's just that we're probably going to make choices in the cities that make us not blameless did you catch that this is so that you could be without blame at the coming or jesus christ god doesn't lie he says if you follow all these principles you will be without blame so can we be without blame yes can we out so if we do sin we confess our sin so there's a way out if we do sin but we should never never as christians say i am always been have the appearance of evil because you know what i'm in a fallen world and we are broken people and so there's always going to be some with a q s me of appearance of evil so i can't help it so you know what is not my problem that's a cop out of there was a cop out i still live in such a way that people have a hard time trying to find something to blame me on i should be living in such a way that they say i can't really find the wrong with you but i let me dig deep enough and i will find something and they will personal sexual sin issues it comes out it's going to come out i don't care what it is is going to come out until you get it taken care of by jesus but this is best to rich do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said be stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in rubberstamp thirteen says we have a call upon the name of the lord will be saved john one seven says you must be born again to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v died or that there is hope t v die or and we have information on frequently asked 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