Proverbs 19.27 says, Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. Being a pastor since the advent of the internet has become an almost impossible task if you define the word pastor as to shepherd. The pastor's role leading a local church family is not really any different than any other born-again Christian. Each of us are to live as an example to others and point the loss to the cross and empty tomb, the gospel, while pointing fellow believers to the inspired book for instructions on living and dying. We're all sheep who are given the privilege to shepherd others to the Great Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Even as we shepherd, we are serving the Great Shepherd and bringing in newborn sheep or herding in lost sheep back into the fold to follow his lead. The difference between a pastor and the rest of the flock is simply in the fact that the pastor is leading the flock of other sheep who are shepherding as they meet together to function as a local church. At that point, the metaphor changes from a flock to a body, as in Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4, Colossians 1, and so forth. The local body of believers is to function like a human body. Christ is the head of the church made up of all Christians everywhere who then meet in local churches located by the hundreds of thousands all over the planet. And each of these local churches have an under-shepherd who leads the body of local believers as a sort of mouthpiece, and the head, lowercase h, only of that local body, and only in as much as that pastor accurately and faithfully represents the will of the head, capital H, who is Jesus. But local churches are being crippled and even killed off because so many continue to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. Our local church has lost people from our congregation or our church family, if you put it, I think, better, who would, they followed instructions that caused them to err, caused them to deny the position of pastor so that they form their little groups, and they meet without any real purpose, any real direction or outreach. And every single one of those little groups have died out that I know of, and the people just scatter. Some deny the reality of local churches altogether, even though Paul's first seven epistles are written to local churches, and Revelation 2 and 3 are written to seven local churches. Those people do not attend our local church as a result of the fact that they hear the instruction that causes it to err from the words of knowledge. And most of these people sit at home or on their phones listening to every half-cocked boob that uploads videos to YouTube and Facebook, which are places they shouldn't even be using in the first place, communist hellholes that block true preachers who refuse to compromise to their sodomite leftist censorship. But there's nothing a pastor can do about people if they will not cease, my son, to hear the instruction that caused it to err from the words of knowledge. So we teach the remnant knowing that even some of them are teetering on the edge of error by feeding at the trough of truth on Sundays and Wednesdays, but at the trough of swine throughout the week. In the meantime, what can you do? You can only control the one you see in the mirror. You can control what instruction that you choose to hear. Choose wisely. If you think that you can feed on pig slop and be fine, you know, God's word says otherwise. As Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 12, wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth. take heed lest he fall." So many people are so just arrogant in their willful disobedience of God's Word and listening to false teachers, listening to aberrant teachers. And we're told right here in our proverb, plainly, cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. Those are the words of the authorized King James Bible.