################################################################################ START OF FILE: 2025-05-12 - Encouragement vs Correction Episode 0141 - .txt ################################################################################ SERMON DETAILS ======================================== Date: 2025-05-12 Title: Encouragement vs Correction Episode #0141 Speaker: Church: What Do You Mean By Type: Short Clip Duration: 57m Language: English URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkFT5l5dJ8 ======================================== TRANSCRIPT ======================================== Everyone, God bless you. Welcome to what do you mean by episode number 141 where we go through encouragement versus correction or are they the same thing? You can call the number on the screen to join any time and ask questions if you'd like. It's whatever you'd like to do. Call to 423368814 to ask questions and join live. What's up Solomon Lavvel? How's it going man? God bless you. Instagram told me I could get verified and get money to be verified or rather that they'd give verification to me for free for a year. So that's why I'm verified. I don't even know if I'll pay for it after a year. Who knows? Maybe I'll be married with a kid. I have no idea. We'll see what the Lord does. But how's everybody doing? Hope everybody's doing very good. I'm doing great by God's grace. So today we're looking at a fun one. Encouragement. What's up, Isaac? How's it going? Let's see here. The view. I want to view this in I wonder if I could view this as like a You know what? I guess this is fine. Uh Isaac, no, you can't be on the live this time. Sorry, not this time. All right, I got to make sure my comments are available. So why would Let me turn my volume down. How's everybody doing? What do you guys think here? Send me uh what do you guys think of correction? Do you think correction should be done or should it just be encouragement? Do they work together? Do they work apart? How do encouragement and correction work together? Or are they opposites? Does the Bible talk about them? Does it not talk about them? Like what's the how do they work together? I don't think they're opposites. I don't think you're a bad person if you correct somebody. What's up? Uh Megan Gibbons or Megan whatever your last name is now. God bless you, Sister Me or Sorry, that's not Megan Gibbons. It's Jenna Walle. Hello. Welcome to the live. What's up, darling? How's it going? So, correction versus encouragement, guys. Or are they the same thing? And of course, they are the same thing, but I'm going to go into why today. God bless you. Thank you for being here. I just got to make sure all my comments are ready. And you guys can call 4238365461 to join live and ask questions. There we go. How's everybody doing? You guys having a fun time? I'm having a fun time. Having a great time. Uh, you can't join tonight, Isaac. I don't want This could be a tough one. So, it's just me tonight, but you can join. You can join live another night. All right. So, this is rotten. Kill me now. Get another drink. some watermelon strawberry hydration drink. It tastes like it's rotten. It's not perfect. So, let's pray, then we'll get right into it. Gracious heavenly father, Lord, we thank you for another time to worship you and talk about something that matters. Lord, you put this on my heart, encouragement versus correction, or are they the same thing? Lord, please lead me in the way you want me to go. Help me to approach this just the way you would have me approach it. Have your perfect will in all of it. I ask it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So, I got some scriptures. I got some quotes. Hold on one moment. Let's see here. Um Oh, yeah. So, I got some quotes on Facebook that I need to add or that I copied and pasted. I will just Let's see. How will I do that? All right, guys. Grounded you. I didn't ground you. I just I don't want it to be done. Don't make me post our bowling scores. What's up, Arwin? How's it going? Um, what's up, Sister Abigail Butsk? Or not But anymore, it's uh something new. Smith. Sister Abigail Smith. Well, that's quite the upgrade in last name. So, uh, we prayed and we get into the content. And I've got some quotes of Brother Brandham, too. uh that I'll have in one of these windows at the ready. Come in. Come in. I'm live. Oh, thank you. Can you throw this away, please? Thank you. All right. Praise the Lord. We got an actual drink now. Why do I feel so nervous? Holy moly, man. I usually don't feel this nervous on my own podcast. But hey, that's all right. We have a God. It's more powerful than all nervousness. So, let's pray. Let me get into all this. I've got my structure in one window, brother Brandham quotes in the other. We'll do our best for you guys. All right. Gracious Lord, you know my heart. You know what brought me here. You know why I'm doing this. And you know my spirit. I believe you put these thoughts in my heart. Lead me in the way you want me to go. Have me say things just the way you would have me say them. I ask the name in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. You guys can call the number or we can go from there. Um I have my MacBook screen, my tablet screen, and my monitor screen. So, here we go. So, correction versus encouragement. Now, to start this, we're going to go into the uh into the trailer that I did and break it apart just to start out because this is something God's led me to talk about. If encouragement never includes correction, it's not encouragement. It's just hype that feels good, but you don't learn anything and you stay convinced you're fine where you are. And there's a mindset out there where encouragement sounds like you're already fine. You already have it all. There's nothing else you need to do. You could be no more lost than God himself is lost. Satan couldn't stop you if he tried. You're in the message of the hour. You have the spirit of God. But if that's all it ever is, that's not truth. Um, it's popularity encouragement. Encouragement. It's popularity preaching, not godly encouragement. It's it keeps people clapping. It keeps you popular, but it doesn't help people grow. It makes them feel like they're good where they are just because they're in a message church, just because they go to church. Any denomination really. On the other side, there's a kind of correction that's just as incomplete. Calling out what's wrong, but with no path forward. No way, no love and no way home. It's like there's a lot of people, you'll see it on Facebook, usually older people just depending um where their their entire livelihood is just hammering on people all the time. And so the question is tonight, what if correction is encouragement? And what if encouragement without correction is deception? So I want to go in to what these words actually mean in the Hebrew and the Greek and Webster's definition of the word. So the definition of correction in Hebrew moose uh the word is mousar I guess it means discipline instruction chastening. In the Greek I won't try to pronounce the big words. It means straightening up again or restoration to uprightness. And the Websters is the act of correcting or bringing back to a just standard. And encouragement is in Hebrew to strengthen, make firm. Greek is to call near, invite, comfort, urge. Webster is incitement to action or confidence, giving courage. So my question is, are these opposites? Is the pastor the only one that should do any correction? An evangelist should just tell you guys, you're all holy, you're all righteous, and you're good. or because in my view encouragement and correction. What is encouragement? Encouraging. You're encouraging someone. You're giving them courage. Why would you need to give them courage? It almost infers that I'm I'm suggesting that you're not good where you are. You need to get better because you need encouragement. If you need encouragement, that's correction. And if I'm correcting you, I'm telling you the path that you're now on, the way that you're approaching it is not correct. Then why would I care though? But there's I believe that there's there's perversions of both sides of both things. There's a perversion of correction to where you just hammer on people and you go on and on. This is meant to be uh back and forth or kind of like a you know you guys engaging with it. So if you have any thoughts, please write them down. Put them in the uh in the comments or whatever or you can call the number on the screen. But there's a mode of correction where it's just like you're doing this wrong and you're doing that wrong. And it has a place, but for some people, especially on Facebook, it's all they ever do. A tape only can't stop talking about why tapes are good only or a a uh a um a an atheist can't stop going on and on and on about how Christians are bad or whatever. Or we can't go on or a Christian can't stop going on and on about how atheists are so hypocritical. And then other people, it's encouragement where all they ever post about is you're in the hands of God and you're good and no growth needed because you're just in God's hands. And I believe both in and of themselves without the other are worthless. If I tell you you're good. If let's say uh you got 20% of your free throws and you need to get better at shooting free throws. Am I going to say you're already shooting, you're fine? Like no. I'm going to say, "Hey, your free throw percentage is terrible. And that statement in and of itself does not encourage you or correct you unless I say you can get better. You have the capacity to if you change this and this and that you can get better because encouragement encouragement without correction is deception. And correction without a way forward which is encouraging is also deception. So have we reduced encouragement to just emotional comfort? We live in a comfort age. is very easy. And could real encouragement sometimes sound like correction? But so what is the you could ask where is this in scripture? Glad you asked. What's the role of scripture in this? 2 Timothy 3:16. And I like to use the KJV and the ESV. I think they're both pretty cool. They both say it in things in ways that are interesting. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. In the ESV, it says, "All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." So why is correction listed as one of scriptures central purposes? Why? And can you be f furnished into good works without it? Can you really grow in God without correction? Can you really hear in the gospel if you never feel convicted? If I'm in a if I'm in a service and I if I'm going to church and I never feel convicted, I'm not feeling the gospel because the gospel is to convict us. It's to rebuke and to chasen us. And where I get that from is brother Brandham said. Let me find the quote here. Brother Bram said that the house of God, judgment begins at the house of God. That's what we're here for. And so, let me see here. Can now can correction go too far? Of course it can. 2 Timothy 4:25 says, "Preach the word. Be instant in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." We go to the be the continuation of that verse. So that's 2 Timothy 4:25. So, 2 Timothy 4 and 25 or 2 Timothy. I have that wrong. Hold on. Oh, it's 2 Timothy 4:2. Sorry. Preach the word. Be instant in in season, out of season. reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. The ESV says, "Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching." So, what does what does uh you guys if you guys have thoughts, please add them. I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Put them in the comments. Um what does reprove mean? Reprove meaning. Reprove means reprimand or censor. So it means to dispute, judge, chasen, argue, correct or prove. It means the act of reproving, expressing disapproval or criticism or reprove. Criticism, you're not supposed to criticize ever, right? I don't think that's what it means. What about re rebuke biblical definition? Rebuke means to a a stern reprimand or reproof often used in the context of spiritual guidance or correction. a strong expression of disapproval, reproof, or correction. It often implies a stern or sharp criticism intended to correct someone's behavior. So Paul is saying here, preach the word to Timothy. Timothy as an evangelist, because Timothy Timothy as a preacher, this is what I want you to do. Preach the word. Convey a strong expression of disapproval or reproof or correction towards sin. Not towards people, but towards sin. See, a pastor knows the problems of the people and to correct them surgically. An evangelist doesn't know the people, but he knows sin. Evangelist preaches against sin, but both of them cause us to change our behavior and to learn and to grow. So reprove in the Greek means to expose or convict, to blame or censor to one's face, to sharply command or reprimand. To rep and rebuke mean um rebuke means to sharply command or reprimand to reprove sharply or restrain by disapproval. The Greek word of exhort means to urge, appeal or console. Webers is to incite or animate by advice or encouragement. So is this just to one office or is this to all of them? And so what happens when churches only rebuke but only but never exhort? Then you get a bunch of people who their entire worldview and their entire culture of preaching is a uh is just hammering on everybody all the time. And and hammering on something is correct in the way to point out the wrong. But you point it out, but then you offer a way out and you offer a way to get out. But if it's just telling someone how they're wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong, that's not correction. That's condemnation and that's not let of God to do just by itself without also the encouragement of change. Encouragement leads you to change and so does correction. That's what I'm saying tonight is this is no encouragement or correction. No, you shouldn't have correction. You should only encourage. Oh, you should only correct. No encouragement. No, they're both the same thing. They're both different words of saying, "I'm saying something to you because I want you to change." And if you don't feel a need to change in church, you're not hearing the gospel. That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. There's denomin There's a Pentecostal denomination where in order to feel God, you have to raise your hands high and you have to speak in tongues and that means you got it. There's a Baptist There's a Baptist or a Presbyterian or a Catholic relig. There you go. a Catholic religion where in order to be spiritual, what you must do is say, "Hail Mary, mother of God and" and all that. And that's spirituality. What's up, Michael Collins? How's it going? There's a denominational idea that if you speak in tongues, you got it. You're good. Just raise your hands, yell out loud, and you're good. It literally spiritualizes extroversion and demonizes an introvert. Because whether you're getting everyone standing and clapping and shouting and dancing or everyone is silent and one person's at the altar, which one has more change? Which one's better the closer to what Jesus wants? They're the same thing. We can't reward a uh a loud thing. That's not spirituality. It's hype. If you're just standing up because everyone else is, guess what? You're not being trained to consider what the You're not being trained to say, "Yes, amen. I agree with the word." You're being a trained to say, "I'm standing because I want to be socially accepted." Paul is literally saying here, "Was Timothy an evangelist or a pastor?" Timothy was primarily known as an evangelist, not a pastor. So Paul is speaking to Timothy saying, "This is what I want you to do as an evangelist. Expose or convict, blame or censure to one's face. Sharply, command or reprimand, reprove sharply or restrain by disapproval, urge, appeal, console, incite or animate by advice or encouragement. All of those things. And if I I'm an evangelist. If I don't do all of those things, I can't I don't believe I can call myself an evangelist. If I go to a Tony Robbins concert, they're not just just going to tell me, "I'm holy. I'm holy. I'm holy." They're going to say, "Hey, you're stuck where you are, but there's a way out. There's a way that's better. You can improve. You can grow. You can learn. You can change your frame of mind and your approach to be a better person." But they offer transformation without Jesus Christ, which is why I don't like it. Jesus is transformation. But if you never feel the need to repent, you're not hearing the gospel. You're hearing a hype. If spirituality is measured in loudness, then decibb equal spirituality, not conviction. Right? Hold on. I need to uh shut the sliding door so I don't hear it dead. And then All right, I'm here. Don't worry, guys. I didn't go anywhere. Like, uh, Isaac Prader says in the comments, he says, "Brother Brandham said, he never ordained denominations. He never ordained groups of men. He ordained men to preach the gospel, not machinery, mechanical devices, or any angelic being. It was men." Yeah, that's right. No worries. But this is what Paul is telling an evangelist. And I don't think that was just a Timothy. That's to me as evangelist, too. This is what you need to do, David. Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching because there will come a time when people will not endure sound doctrine. Let's let's see what the ESV says about this. Actually, I'm curious. Very curious. ES. There we go. So, it is too many screens, guys. Too many screens. It is 2 Timothy 4:25. So 2 Timothy 4. Uh Isaac says, "Don't forget though, wherever Jesus is, there will be noise, but it will be out of moderation, not emotion." Yes, wherever Jesus is, there will be noise. But that's just not that's not just noise in what we can hear with our natural ears. That's also noise in heaven. There's a verse where um Jesus says, now the it's the prodical son verse. So, let me pull that up here. Prodal son KJV story. That is Luke Luke 11:32. So, let's just go to Lukeap 11. So, verse 10 says, "And the um no, no, it's Luke 11, not one. Luke 11." 11 and verse 10. But every for everyone um No, it's Luke. Hold on. Let me find it here. Luke 15. That's what it is. Sorry. Luke chapter 15 and verse. There we go. Likewise, I say unto you that there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Loudness does not equal spirituality. Change does. That's why I said in in the in the trailer, does your correction get more? Does your encouragement get people get people standing and clapping and hyped up or does it get people at an altar? Because standing and clapping is not change. It's performance. It It has its place. It It is a good thing, but it isn't a victory in and of itself. Whether it's everyone standing and clapping or complete utter silence, both of them can be overused. And but both of them can also preach change. Paul's telling Timothy here, as far as I can tell, and correct me if I'm wrong here. He's telling them, Timothy, you're an evangelist. This is your job. And this is the job of an evangelist. Expose and convict false doctrine. Sharply, command or reprimand. Reprove, read, prove the right thing sharply, and restrain by disapproval. And exhort also the encouraging part to urge, appeal, or console. to insight or animate by advice or encouragement. The question is, what happens when uh do we sometimes correct without patience? Of course, it's easy to. You're doing it wrong. Why would you why would you do it differently than me? There's a saying in sales where we say you're selling out of your own pocket, which means you go up to someone and maybe you're rich or maybe you're poor. And when you're figuring out whether or not you should recommend a product to them, you you will uh recommend the product based off of what you can afford, not off of asking them questions. Because some people like spending a lot of money, other people don't want to spend any money. So when you correct, it should be about understanding. And correction is not telling someone they're doing something wrong. Correction is what we want to do where we're correcting the path where if someone is driving towards the ditch, I'm not going to say you're not you're driving towards the ditch. you're driving towards the ditch and act like that's the end of it. If they I my goal is to get them to turn back into the middle of the road and say, "Hey, you're driving into the ditch. If you continue that way, you'll die, but if you go back in the middle of the road, you'll do better." And they'll say, "Of course." And they'll correct themselves. That's correction. Encouragement is when someone's feeling depressed and they're feeling like, "Oh, I've been driving so hard for so long. I've been doing my best." And you say, "Yes, and you need to continue doing your best and dying daily and repenting." So, keep going. You've got this and keep growing. Not, "Oh, you're good where you are. You don't need to grow. You don't need to learn. You You don't need to grow." Isaac Prader says, "Preachers now won't preach correction because people won't rejoice at their own convictions. That's why they only preach off emotions." Well, yeah. I would say that you don't get people rejoicing when you're telling them what they're doing wrong. Praise the Lord. I need to repent. Praise the Lord. I need to go tell someone I was wrong. That doesn't get people excited usually, but it's correct. Is our goal transformational? Is our goal just confrontation? Because confrontation can feel really good. Oh, you just you only eat pancakes, but I eat waffles cuz I have the revelation that butter and syrup in these little squares is the way. What? Brother Brandham said, "Judgment begins at the house of God." So, let me just do this this way. Electronics are fun. If you guys have any quot any thoughts, please add them. Please say them. Say whatever you think about all this because preaching in my view an a a an evangelist preaching that does not convict you is not preaching. If you don't feel like you need to go to an altar when hearing preaching or you don't feel like you need to change your behavior from the same from the same preacher, let's say, and you've heard 50, 100 of their sermons, they're not a preacher. They're a motivational speaker. Brother Brandham said in the seven church ages, judgment begins at the house of God by the word of God. Amen. Not a textbook, but the Bible, not what some churches church teaches in their theology, but what God says. Then you'll have a revival where great powers and wonders and signs and miracles and everything else. And now we're at the house of correction at the house of God where we are where we're to stand for correction. And may the Holy Spirit correct me and close my mouth as used at the lion's mouth with Daniel. And thou knowest my heart if one word I should speak contrary within myself. May the Holy Spirit uncctionize every word. Just stand as an empty vessel and may he speak the word of God tonight for our hungry hearts are longing to hear from him. And may he he who wrote the Bible come and interpret it for your humble servants here. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Let me make sure do not disturb is not turned on on this phone so that I will receive calls from you guys. Anyone can call if they would like to. Very good. So, what does courageous correction look like? Did Noah correct his age? Did Moses, Elijah, John? I mean, I um Sister Hope says there's a heavy rebound. It's like a heavy echo. Really? Hold on. Let me let me fine-tune this. Hold on, sister. Um um Sister Hope says heavy Oh, I know what it is. Hold on. Let me fix that for you guys. Hold on. We've got There we go. It should be fixed now. Why is there so much white noise, too? Oh, I know. I know. It's fine on Instagram because of the thing. What's up, Elijah Nicholson? It's repeating you. Okay. I know it's fine because Huh. Okay, that's so weird. Hold on. Let me uh let me let me remove this from here. Mic. And remove this from here. And then we're going to add a audio input capture. Okay. And it's going to be the new mic with delay. Okay, very good. Now, let's see if it's any good. Hold on. Let's see here. I want to make it right for people. Hold on. Okay. All right. She says that it's good now. That's good. Praise the Lord. Let me know, sister. Hope, if it still continues that way. Very good. All right. Praise the Lord. That's good. That's good. All right, it's doing it again. Hold on. I'm sorry about this, guys. Let me uh make sure this is working. Audio input capture. Why don't we just remove this? Yes. Okay. And see if it works now. I know this is annoying, but I got to get this right for you guys. Hold on. Let me just Yes. Okay. There we go. Why is there so much static? Let me This is annoying, but I got to get this right for you guys. Let me try this. I'm going to change this to the Agato Wave XLR and see if it changes it at all. Yes, there we go. Why is there so much static? Let me try this. I'm going to change this to the wave. There we go. We got it. Praise the Lord. Try this. There we go. We got it. Praise the Lord. Wow, that sounds great. Praise the Lord. There we go. What's up, guys? We're back. So, my view is that correction is necessary. Why? Because it changes who you are and it needs it needs to be there. There is a thought. There is a movement where there's a movement where you already have everything you need and Satan can't stop you if he tried and the Lord has you in his hands. But what it does is it takes all accountability for change off of you and puts it under God. You know why people like denominational churches? because it makes them feel like they don't need to change after the initial change, which is I repented. I got baptized, I go to church, and I'm good. I can live my own life now. I don't have to worry about going to hell. But the life of God is is a continual thing. Brother Brandham said in a man running from the presence of the Lord, things that were very controversial. And I would say if you never hear anything controversial about the people in the church that is that are being preached to, that's not preaching. There was a man that was upset at brother Brandham and he said, "Brother Brandom, you'd be more popular and you'd do better if you just stopped hammering on women wearing shorts and stuff like that." And he said, "Brother, no." He said, 'If you're not if it's not clos line preaching, that's not preaching. Why? Because Paul said, "Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine to to an evangelist." He's telling evangelists, "Guys, here's what you need to do. Reprove sharply. Expose and convict." Convict what? If your correction makes you feel good, it's not correction. You need to feel terrible about it. Sorrowful. The Bible says the He's near to those who are a contrite spirit, a broken spirit. Lord, help me. I need to change. I need to grow. But if I'm like, "Yes, praise the Lord. I'm in the greatest thing ever. Satan can't stop me." That's good. I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm saying if that's all you ever hear, that's not truth. It's spiritual junk food when it's the only thing you ever eat. It has its place. I mean, there is quotes of brother Brandham where brother Brandham says, "Satan couldn't stop you if you tried. You can be normal lost and God himself is lost." There's also quotes of brother Brandham where he says, "Look at you Methodist how you used to be. You were called holy rollers. I guess you knew that. And they get under the spirit and jerk back and forth. And they said they had the jerks that no that ain't Pentecostals. That was Methodists long years ago. And they jerked and shook and fell into the power of God and they threw water on their faces and fanned them with fans. Thought they passed out. And now you were considered a bunch of holy rollers. But you had your mothers and fathers had to either accept it, face up to the facts, truth and facts or turnity down. But what about you Pentecostals that received the restoration of the gifts? When the baptism of the Holy Ghost come out with speaking in tongues and the gifts of the spirit coming back in the church, why the Methodists wanted to kick you out and they did it, but you had to face up to it. It's something you had to do. What about the issue when it come out about the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ and you saw it was the truth. What's up, Titus Franklin? God bless you. You have to face up to it or do something about it. You have a responsibility. Everybody has and you must face up to these things. All right? And when these questions confront us about the Bible truths, there's got to be the right answer somewhere. That's good. It's got to be there. And when we say something present, see something presented, I think instead of just run away. Ah, nonsense. I couldn't believe a thing like that. I couldn't believe that. Why don't you take the Bible and sit down and face up to it, study it. You're in the meeting now. Just look it over. Check it out yourself with the word. Check the word by the word. That's the only way to tell to make it tell the truth. And it must tell the truth from Genesis to Revelation. So did Noah correct his age? Did Moses, Elijah, John? Why was it always unpopular? Why is popularity and the most people going somewhere the measure of spiritual success? 10,000 people go to Joel Olstein's church or more. Does that make automatically more true than others? You know why people love Joel Olstein? Because he can make you feel like you got it when you don't. Now, is encouragement passive or powerful? Hebrews 10:24. Let us consider one another to provoke and to love and to good works. What's up, Esther Gabriel? Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. Now, are we provoking each other to action, to a or to apathy, to change, or to just not care? That's one of the main things for us kids, for us uh youth in the message, is we can get to where we just don't care enough about the things that are true. We're happy to stand and clap. We're happy to be socially accepted, but when it comes to changing, when it comes to actually living for God, no way. I don't want that. Can you truly encourage Here's a question I have for you. Can you really encourage someone without calling them to change? Because if you can't, then what are you changing? And why would they need to change? So, I mean, you guys can tell me what you think here, but correction isn't wrong. It isn't something that went away because we're in the message. It's something we need every single day. It's very clear. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. I mean, that's pretty stern, right? Unless I'm wrong here. May correct. Anybody that's watching, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but we're supposed to have correction, right? Or is it just go away? And correct me if I'm wrong. I'm happy to be wrong. Right. That's what we're supposed to do. Let me try this. What about Proverbs 12:1? Who so loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. Or uh the ESV says, "Who whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid." What? You're stupid if you hate reproof. Definitions train. Uh Webster's definition is training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties of moral character. Discipline, chasen, and correction. So uh Proverbs 13 and 18, poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction, but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored. So what am I saying? I'm saying if you only ever hear preaching or teaching that never makes you feel like you need to repent and makes you Okay, here's the key word. If you never hear anything from a preacher that makes you feel ashamed, it's not preaching. It's motivational speaking. It's not. God's word was not called to make us feel good. It was to called to make us change. I'm not saying a sermon that makes you feel good is wrong. I'm saying if that's all that's ever heard, that's not correct. It's just popularity. It gets you popular, but it does it's not uh it's not truth. I can't see how it is. And so, uh, Hebrews 12:11 says, "Now, no chastening for the present seemth to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." ESV says, "For the moment, all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. The definition of chastening/discipline in the Websters is training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties of moral character. In Greek, it means the whole training and education of children instruction that aims at increasing virtue. And then there's the other side, of course. Joshua 10:9, "Have not I commanded thee, be strong and of a good courage? Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whethersoever thou goest." Have I not commanded you, be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened. Do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. And the definition of courage is mental or moral strength to venture, preserve, or with and withstand danger, fear, difficulty. to be strong, alert, courageous, brave. I can do all things through Christ which strengthenth me. And strengthen it means to make stronger, to give strength to, to empower, to enable, to make strong. I think Satan's Satan's goal is to make us feel like we're good where we are and we don't need to grow. We don't need to learn. We're good. No growth, no change, no repentance. You're good. If the gospel is only good news, why did Jesus say repent as his as his first sermon? Luke 24:47 says, "Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations." Why is repentance listed before forgiveness for whom the Lord loveth, he chastneth? If God corrects those that he loves, shouldn't his preachers do the same? I mean, I believe these are key questions. I don't think these are wrong questions, right? But it's correction versus encouragement or encouragement or are they the same thing? I believe they're the same thing because they both tell you to change. Oh, but correction can be that you're too you're you're depressed and you need to get better. Yes, I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm saying that as preachers, our job is to convict the carn to convict people of wrongdoing and get them to learn and change. Whether that's you're too depressed, you're too sinful, um you need to repent. It takes accountability away from us and puts it all towards God. It shifts responsibility from the hearer to God. phrases like, "Oh, God will finish what he started. You already have everything you need in Christ. You're already enough." These may be true in part, but when emphasized without the balance of obedience, surrender, and growth, that they imply that no response is needed. You stop asking, "What must I do?" and start assuming it's already done. So, I mean, it's uh let me go back to the trailer here. Correction without encouragement is false. Encouragement without correction is also false. If I'm correcting you but you don't feel bad or if I'm encouraging you but you don't feel like you need to change, it's not encouragement. It's only hurting you. If in order to if uh you know because the denominational world says you've only got it if you're screaming and yelling or if you've only got it if you're clapping, you've only got it if you go to church. But God says you've only got it if Jesus Christ is in the throne of your soul. I believe encouragement is correction and correction is encouragement. If you want to encourage someone and you're not correcting them, that's not encouragement. If you want to correct someone, you're not encouraging them, that's not correction to maybe it may be a simple thought tonight that but I believe they're the same thing. But if all you ever hear is something that avoids controversy and correction, that's not preaching. That's popularity gospel. That's something that'll get you invited all over the place to preach because it gets people excited, but it doesn't actually bring change. It only brings applause. Every preacher that ever preached was controversial in the Bible. Every single one of them. And uh it's important that we be learning and growing all the time. There we go. Can a gospel that never offends people, that never offends the flesh, still crucify it? We're supposed to learn and grow. But if also people can get to a spot where they just correct people all the time and that's also not correct either. Oh, this is wrong and that's wrong and that's wrong. I'm like, "Yeah, sure it's wrong, but what's the path forward? What do we do now?" Same thing with encouragement only. Okay, cool. Great. You told me that I'm God's chosen people. What now? You die daily. There's daily growth. And this thought that uh if there's a thought that you can actually preach the word of God without being controversial and without stepping on toes, that's not the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's the gospel of Satan. If you're not stepping on toes, you're not preaching. You're not living. So when I preach, I give it all of God. Who are you talking about? I'm talking about No, I'm talking about demon spirits. Satan wants to could pervert this message into something that everyone likes, that everyone's comfortable with. Standing and clapping means that you're excited. It doesn't mean that you're changing. And I and I worry because I've been to places where I wasn't standing and clapping with everyone else every time they did because I was writing down notes for my future sermons. And I was ostracized and told, "You're sitting down on the preacher. You're not reacting. You sit there cold." That doesn't mean anything. What's up, Jeremiah? We don't we don't frame whether or not we're listening to the gospel based on how loud we get when it's being said. We frame it on how much change is happening, on how much correction is there. The there is nowhere in the Bible that instructs us that once we're believing the right thing, there's no more repentance needed. We're supposed to die daily. We're supposed to give surrender our flesh to God every single day, not just when it's convenient. Standing and clapping is good, but you know, like a denominational church would say, you're saved, you're good, no more growth needed. And if you go to a meeting and you don't feel conviction to change and shame, you're not hearing preaching. You know why they hated brother Brandham so much or Paul? It's because they corrected him. When God speaks through correction, how do you respond? How do I respond? Are are you moved to reconsecrate or to rationalize where where you're at? What if judgment really does begin with us? Brother Brandham said, and you say, "Where is that in the message?" Brother Brandham said, "Jonah didn't want to face up the thing of it going to the Gentiles. He didn't want to take that cru that cruel message over there. Within 40 days, you'll perish if you don't repent." Where's that in the message meetings? He hated to do that. And he thought them Gentiles, it's hard to tell what they'll do to me. But he had to face up to it. See? But he took an easy ship and went down to Tarsus. Went down in the hole of the ship and went to sleep. Took the easy route. It's a easy way. It's a popular way with the people. It's the easy to take the way where everybody can pat you on the back and say you're a good fellow and this is so and so and certain and the world will look upon you. It's easy to go the popular way. But when you have to do something different, when you have to stand to your conviction of what you know to be the truth, there's where the hard part. That's the rub comes right there. And we in verse uh paragraph 75. And so we find out that we have many easy ways to go. Ships down going down to Tarsus for it's easy. The unresponsibilities it just flows in. You have everything coming. Everybody likes you. And uh nobody disagrees with you. You disagree with somebody. Now if that ain't a dish rag. That's right. PS push over flop over. Why anybody I don't care who you are. If what and what you're standing for actually decent thinking people will think more of you if you'll stand for your conviction of of what's right. This thought that controversy is wrong is so unbelievably incorrect. You know why they killed Jesus? He was controversial. You know why they hated brother Brham? He was controversial. Um, repentance is needed. And I know I keep hammering that, but it's so true. How wishy-washy. That's what too many Christians today are so so soft so soaked in everything until they think all they do is join a church, go in somewhere, put their name in a book or do a little something, jump up and down, shout or something like that and call it Christianity. Christianity is an everyday rugged life living for God in the this present world presence world. It's a constant burning of the fire and love of God in the heart that sets you a fire and puts you out yonder with the people and making converts to Christ responsibilities. But it's easy to go the way the world does. It's easy to flop down the stream. Go out there and sit down to the river with your boat. You get your ores and start pulling up against the current. You don't make much time and it goes hard. But you let you just let once let loose, let the oars and watch how fast you pass the trees going down. But look where you're going. When things are floating easy, remember you're going towards a a great cataract down there of some sort. You're going towards the the falls and it won't be long you'll be going over that falls. Just floating with the world. Easy. The way it goes. You don't want that. No sir. But you must accept your responsibility. Now you believe it and you think it's the truth and the responsibility that God has given us in this day to bring the message and as I get older and I know my days are shortening up. I feel the responsibility greater than I ever felt pressing on. We must do it. We must get down to it everywhere we go and tell the message and and tell the people that Jesus Christ is coming and that he's God and he's coming soon. There's not a not a hope left in the world but the coming of the Lord. Uh then faith without works is dead. If you say I believe it and don't make no act, what good does it do? See, Noah went to work with his hammer and built an ark to confirm what he was talking about. That's what we have to do. We have to go to work to prove our faith by our works. Our works proves our faith. Encouragement versus correction. If I'm encouraging you, I'm telling you you need to change. If I'm correcting you the right way, I'm telling you you need to change. This belief that uh Daily Hipster says, "Blaze video of Benny Hinn slapping people over with the suit jacket because he said it has the Holy Spirit on it." Oh, great. So, here's a tears a strong here's a uh a thing a claim. Well, David, correction is still correction even if it only addresses non-controversial things like depression and discouragement. This is often used to defend affirm affirmationonly approaches who may tell people not to be sad, not to feel defeated, or to believe they're already loved, but avoid any correction on sin, behavior, doctrine, or spiritual laziness. But the biblical correction says, "All scripture is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness." And the meaning of correction is a restoration to an upright or right state, the improvement of life and character. It doesn't just tell you feel better. It restores your behavior, doctrine, or character to alignment with God's standard. Now, if a preacher only says, "Don't stay discouraged. You're not a failure. God's already provided it. Lift up your head and believe." This is exhortation, comfort, hope, and motivation. But it is not correction unless it includes exposure of the wrong posture or belief. A call to change in a standard you must come back to. And this is seen. Jesus said, "Go and sin no more." Paul said, "Oh foolish Galatians, whoath bewitched you?" John the Baptist said, "It is not lawful for you to have her." If you're not calling out the wrong behavior of the people that you're preaching to, you're not preaching. It's not. It couldn't be, could it? So there's an approach in the world, in the denominational realm, in some preachers, the message of course, everywhere, where it preaches uplifting without confrontation. It avoids any rebuke of social issues that people actually like that sound better. gossip, legalism, lukewarmness, false identity, denominational spirit, spiritual passivity. And it never says repent. It never says stop doing this. Instead, it says God's already provided. You already have it. Just believe. But I believe the correct approach is to pre preach correction with clarity. Call for repentance, not just reception. Expose religious spirits, not just low emotions. To preach both lift your head and examine yourself. Like lift your head. Hey, stop being depressed. You know, lift your head. you're a son of God and examine yourself. Well, I already got saved. I already have the seal of the Holy Ghost. Good. Keep going in truth. Isaac Prader says, "Smaller churches are most likely to preach conviction because they have no desire to make a name for themselves." Oh, boy. Say things like, "This has to change. This is sin. This isn't optional." Bottom line, saying, "Don't be discouraged is not correction. It's encouragement." Correction requires confronting behaviors, beliefs, or postures that are misaligned with the word. And one without the other is wrong. So when someone says, "Oh, they're so they're correcting people because you're telling someone to not be sad," you're misunderstanding what bibl biblical correction really is. Now, here's a key question to ask. If Jesus only told people, "Be encouraged," and never said, "Repent," would he be fulfilling the role of a preacher? No. No, of course not. So, it's good news. It's not bad news. It shouldn't make you feel bad to hear all this, you know. I don't think it should. So, encouragement by itself is wrong. If it's just encouraging, if it's just correction, they're both wrong. Oh, just keep going. You're good. You're good. No, it's false. So, it's false comfort. Encouragement without correction is false comfort. Correction without encouragement is crushing condemnation. The truth and love is God's model. Now, Jeremiah 6:14 talks about encouragement by itself. It says they have healed also the herd of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace. These were affirmationonly prophets. They gave comfort without repentance. What's up CB? God bless you. God rebuked them harshly for encouraging people without correcting sin. 2 Timothy 4:3-4. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and shall be turned unto fables. And this is the end of of encouragement only preaching which is fictional Christianity. Correction by itself is also wrong because Colossians 3:21 says, "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged. Correction with without love leads to resentment and helplessness." Ephesians 6:4 says, "Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Nurture is encouragement and affection. Admonition is correction. You know, guys, I don't feel very good. I don't know what it is. It's on my heart that's making me feel this way. Maybe it's because I I haven't eaten yet today. That's probably why, honestly. But, um, I'm going to, uh, wrap it up for tonight and continue it tomorrow because I'm I feel weirdly exhausted to not be sad. Um, I'm going to regroup all of this, restructure it, and say it again tomorrow in a different way, in a more structured way. I don't feel like I structured structured it very well or that I'm very up to the task because I'm literally starved. I forgot to eat today. So, I will see you guys tomorrow night. I'll do a live probably around 9:00 p.m. or so. And I'll talk about these things again because I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again without uh clarity. So, I'm going to do that again tomorrow. I would just do, you know, 141 part two or something like that probably because this is rough draft, but I don't feel like I've really hit it correctly. I feel like I've filled you guys not not done it well. So, I'm going to uh pray, regroup, and do it again tomorrow. So, dear Lord Jesus, thank you for this day and all that you've given me. Lord, please lead me in the way you want me to go. I feel like to stop this live now just to continue tomorrow and to do it more structured. Maybe it's because because I haven't eaten today. I don't know. But I give it all to you in the name of the Lord Jesus. Have your perfect will. Amen. All right. I love you guys and I'll see you tomorrow night instead. Bye.