TRANSCRIPT: "Healing for the Inner Hurts" --
by Dr. Jack Schaap.
From a sermon preached Sunday night,
The Pope's passing on to his eternal destiny is not a cause for any other
religion to stand up and say, 'Good or bad.' The man did his
best. I think he was a sincere man. I read his articles, and I read
many of his sermons, and I tried to get a feel for the man. Let me say
this, until you are a leader of a pretty sized, good-sized congregation, let
alone a leader, of several hundreds of millions of people, be careful how you
stand in judgment of anybody. It not necessarily a power-hungry thing.
The man has enormous pressures on him, and his positions and stand
you say,
'Brother Schaap, you're not Catholic? No, I'm a, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool
Baptist. But, I hurt for a lot of Catholic people I love very much.
And, I grieve for them because someone they look to
by the way, a lot of
Catholic friends grieved with you when Brother Hyles died. A lot of
Catholic press wrote some nice things about our Baptist leader. Be gentle
and kind with people, no matter how much you disagree with them. And, no
matter where you stand, I mean, there are precious Catholic people I love with
all my heart. My neighbor's Catholic, and I think he is one of the best
guys God put in this earth.
Watch out for labels
building walls,
that shouldn't be built. Be careful about some denominational tag.
Don't get, don't get worried folks, don't get worried. You got a Baptist
preacher
next
come back next week and I'll reign down fire and
brimstone. My point is, there's got to be a place that says, 'Look-it, we
believe we're as narrow minded as the cover of that book right there.'
But you know what? Between the cover of that book is room for every human
being, including me and you. If there's not room for everybody between
the pages of that book right there, then
then, I want to get a different
religion, then, OK? If my God is the kind that excludes people because
of tags, or labels, or sins, then I don't have the right God! I need
a God that says, 'Whosoever will, may freely take the water of life.'
Hey, I need a God who says, 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son.' Hey! That's me and you, brother! Nobody's
gonna be shut out by these doors as long as this preacher's behind this
pulpit. Nobody's gonna be shut out by tag, or label, or name, or
sin. That's why we are in business! We are in business for the
people that don't fit in any place else!
That's why I weep with the Catholics
tonight, yes I do. I grieve with them. I hurt because somebody they
had a lot of confidence in
somebody they found a lot of security in.
There are thousands, and tens of thousands of teenagers tonight, in
Don't write people off, folks. Don't
write people off. Take your stand. Know what you believe.
But, don't write people off. And so, I wanna say that those who often
hurt us the most
an abusive father
a dad who has anger management problems,
to use a politically correct term
a hotheaded, redheaded Irishman, who's got,
you got for a father, or whatever blame you wanna put on why he's got a hot
head. He's got a swift fist, he's got a filthy mouth, and he might be a
deacon in our church, or, he might be a Sunday School teacher here, or a bus
captain
or, he might be one of my best friends. My point is, just because
he goes to this church does not mean necessarily he's dealt with anger that
comes, but I promise you this
every man I ever mell, met, that either hits
his wife, or abuses children, is a man, yuh [you] back him up to his childhood,
and he's a man who hurts. And, I know that when you became a man, you're
supposed tuh [to] deal with those issues
But, le'me, le'me just say one right here
I have yet to find a pedophile, who was not a boy
who's life was
interrupted by a severe injury
on his journey to manhood. The injury
never healed. And now, his unhealed hurt
is hurting other boys.
And, it's so easy to stand up, and our, and get a little soap box, and point a
finger to pedophile
don't, don't get me wrong. Pedophile and a prison
even hardened, criminal prisoners, even murderers, and
and, and, and hardened
people
they'll, they'll, they'll beat a pedophile. But so easy for them
to say, 'We don't like your kind,' but, that kind is that kind because when he
was a little boy nobody stepped in and helped the guy, and now he got that hurt
And, you could say, 'Well, he's a big boy now, he ought to get over it!'
[incoherent words]. Why don't you get over your problems then,
too?! You don't have a problem shootn' your mouth off! You're a
problem justifying your cigarettes! You're a problem justifying your
liquor you got in the refrigerator! You're a problem justifying your
fornication, or living with your girlfriend, or sleeping with every hound-dog
in the area, here. S'mazing [It's amazing] how we can justify our own
damnable, abominable, heretical, sin while you're pointing a crooked finger at
somebody, and say, 'We don't want you kind here
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Transcribed
by Lisa S.
As requested by Pastor Steven L. Anderson