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song 23 to he make it me to lie down and green pastors
You lead with me pastures, sorry,
you lead with me besides the still waters.
If your kids can quote it,
the two adults that are not family members,
will they get a special prize?
If the adults can quote it,
they also get a different reward.
I mean, unless you want the kids reward,
which might be ice cream, so that's your call.
June happenings today,
just keep the Garcia family in your prayers.
They have now,
had their baby daughter for one day.
So she was born at 12.32 p.m. yesterday.
She was seven pounds, nine ounces.
And then just say congratulations to the cops
on their 48th anniversary at Spring Crest Baptist.
And then we did go out soloing and we got one soul.
So we're at 145 for the year.
And we went out with...
The Rogers family and they took the whole family. So all the babies were troopers, and so that was great to see
and then
If nothing else, let's turn our hymnos over to page 116 116
Crown him with many crown
in Judges 19, Judges 19, 416,
and we're gonna be in Judges 19
for the reading of the word today.
He's the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star, he's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.
He, all my grief has taken and all my sorrow's borne in temptations, he's my star.
Nineteen, Judges Nineteen.
All right, we're there in Judges Nineteen,
where the Bible reads,
and the second lot came forth to Simeon,
even for the tribe of the children of Simeon,
according to their families,
and their inheritance was within
the inheritance of the children of Judah.
And they had in there in there and since beer sheba or sheba and
Mola da and
Hazar Shual and Bala and asem and
El-Tolad and Bethel and Horma. Oh
This is Joshua 19. I'm sorry about that
I thought you turned to judges 19
They are next to each other.
Yeah, and they both start with J.
All right.
Now we're actually in Judges 19, where the Bible reads,
and it came to pass in those days
when there was no king in Israel,
and there was a certain Levite,
so joining on the side of Mount Ephraim.
who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem, Judah,
and his concubine played the whore against him
and went away from him
unto her father's house to Bethlehem, Judah,
and was there for a whole months.
And her husband arose and went after her
to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again,
having his servant with him and a couple of asses.
And she brought him unto her father's house.
And when the father of the damsel saw him,
he rejoiced to meet him.
And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him, and he abode with them three days, so they did eat and drink and lodge there.
And they came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart, and the damsel's father said unto his son, in law,
Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
And they sat down and did eat and drink, both of them together, for the damsel's father had said unto the man,
Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
And when the man rose up to depart, his father-in-law urged him, therefore he lodged there again.
And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, and the damsel's father
said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee, and they tarried until afternoon, and they did
both eat, and they did eat both of them.
And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draw toward the evening. I pray you, tarry all night. Behold, the day groweth to an end.
Lodge here, that thine heart may be merry, and tomorrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
But the man will not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed.
and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem, and there were with him two asses saddled, his
concubine also was with him. And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant
said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into the city of the Jebusites,
and lodge in it. And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of
a stranger that is not of the children of Israel. We will pass over to give you.
And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, and give you, or in Ramah.
And they passed on, and went on their way, and the sun went down upon them, when they were by Givia, which belonged to Benjamin.
And they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge in Givia.
And when he went in, he sat him down in the street of the city.
And there was no man that took them into his house to lodge in.
And behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at Even,
which was also of Mount Ephraim.
And he is so adjourned in Givia, but the men of the place were Benjaminites.
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city,
and the old man said, Whither goest thou, and whence comest thou?
And he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem, Judah, toward the side of the Mount Ephraim.
From thence am I, and I went to Bethlehem, Judah, but I am now going to the house of
the Lord.
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses,
And there is bread and wine also for me,
And for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants,
There is no want of anything.
And the old man said, Peace be with thee,
House will ever let all thy wants lie upon me,
Only lodged not in the street.
So he brought him into his house and gave Provindor unto the asses and they washed their feet and did eat and drink
Now as they were making their hearts merry behold the men of the city certain sons of Belial
that set the house round about it beat at the door and spake in the master of the house of the old man saying
Green forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him
and the man at the master of the house went out unto them and said unto them,
Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly, seeing that this man has come into
my house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine.
Them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you.
But the men would not harken to him so the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them
And they knew her and abused her all the night long until the morning and when the day began to spring they let
They let her go
Then came the woman and the dawning of the day fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was till it was lit
And her Lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman
His concubine was falling down at the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold
And he said unto her up and let us be going but none answered
Then the man took her upon took her up upon an ass and the man rose up and get him into his place
And when he was coming to his house, he took a knife and laid a hole on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into 12 pieces and sent her to all the coasts of Israel.
And it was so that all saw it and said,
there is no such deed done nor seen
from the day that the children of Israel came up
out of the land of Egypt under this day.
Consider of it, take it by speak your minds.
Let's have a quick word of prayer.
Your Father God, thank you for this day.
Thank you for all the things that you blessed us with.
Thank you for the soul that will save Lord.
I pray that you lead them, guide them,
help them to serve you, get them on the right path, Lord.
And pray that you feel pastor Enrique with your spirit helping to bridge a bold and accurate sermon Lord
And I pray that you be with us all your night help us to receive the sermon feel our hearts with understanding Lord
And I pray that we all get home safe tonight in Jesus name. I pray amen
Amen
All right, you're there and judges 19 let me just plug this thing in here
Not josh 119 judges 19
I can see, though, how we we could have made that error.
All right, we're there in judges 19.
And, you know, one of the things that I try to stay on,
this is just the thing that we do here,
that I do here at Spring Crest is I've had this tradition now
for several years, where during Pride Month.
You know the filth of this world wants to celebrate something then we're just gonna remind them what they need to not celebrate
And so judges 19 is one of those those chapters that is
Kind of hard to swallow in the Bible
Remember Psalm 119 says that David says I lead light in the law of thy Lord, you know in his book, right?
And so the Bible tells us also in James turn over to James really quick. I didn't have this as part of my sermon
But this just came to me as we were getting ready to go through this and the book of James
James 4
Verse seven verse seven the Bible says submit yourselves therefore to God
Resist the devil and he will flee from you draw a night of God and he will draw a night of you
cleanse your hands he sinners and
Purify your hearts ye double-minded. You notice he's speaking to the Christian
That as a double-minded right and so one of the things that we need to do is
Even though this year it's probably not as blatant
You know, they're not making money.
They're, you know, the advertisers are pulling back
from the LGBTQ agenda.
It's still our job to what? Resist the devil
and make him not only flee, but stay away.
That's really the goal of this preaching, right?
It might not be necessarily in season,
but the Bible gives us great instruction
that we preach in season and out of season.
So it doesn't really matter.
And I've heard it say, I heard from a clip of another pastor, I guess he was preaching
somewhere and he says, hey, I don't want to preach to you from Judges 19, because I don't
want to ruin, you know, the good times or the environment.
And I would say that we would just preach whatever the Bible tells us to preach.
And it's not going to ruin any good time.
If anything, it should increase and make the good times better knowing what God doesn't
want us to put in our mind.
what God doesn't want us to engage in, what God wants us to fight against.
And so just as a way of introduction...
We're there. Let's look at verse 22, but let me give you the title of the sermon this afternoon
And it's once a reprobate always a reprobate. We have a famous
really famous
Series of sermons. I've preached it once saved always saved
But I kept thinking about it. It's like this is I think a good topic
Once a reprobate always a reprobate in the sense that one of the things that I think Christianity does really bad
And I'm talking in general. I'm not talking about us
is that they don't balance the Word of God.
In other words, we're either all really happy Jesus, Joel sees all about positive motivation,
we're teaching you health and wealth, we're teaching you the prosperity gospel, but we're
not teaching you the other stuff from the Bible, which is God will damn people to hell.
There is a hell.
People are going to suffer an eternity for hell.
There are people that have rejected God so much that God's given them up to a reprobate
They lost that opportunity a long time ago and the reason that I think it's important to have a
balance is number one, we only have a limited amount of time on this earth. On top of that,
in the limited amount of time, there's only a limited amount of time to go out even in doing
the work of the Lord because as humans, we have to what? We have to sleep. I don't care if you
sleep four hours or eight hours. A big portion of our life, the way God made it and intended it is
And I've read all those weird statistics like you spent so many days of your life in the bathroom
And you spent so many days of your life brushing your teeth
I mean there's a big portion of our life that's just spent doing just things right waking up
Preparing a cup of coffee
Drinking a nice cold coke. I'm thinking of coke is man. It was hot out there today
You know so when he and by the way, you you know the Rogers kids just did great because it was it was rough
I'm just gonna be honest with you
Houston Houston's unlike any other place
You know when you go out to the desert and so when you're gonna get that heat and it I'm not knocking that heat
But it's dry heat
But when you get out here, and it's a hundred degrees and it's 80% humidity man, that'll drain you quick
It's like just it's like a leak in your in your in your fuel tank
But the other thing is, we only have a limited amount of time, and people always want to draw attention to themselves when they're not in the Word of God.
And what they want to do is just be like these bleeding hearts or these oversympathizers, and they always go to the wrong groups.
You know, we have Christians for Israel or Zionism and then we have Christian groups that are like,
hey, we'll welcome everybody. They'll even put up the LGBTQ flag and they'll do all this stuff.
And there's a whole lost world out there that's just waiting for us to go and reach them.
But the challenge is they're not reading their Bibles, so they don't realize that there's groups of people
that are not only going to deceive you and draw you in to distract you from the work of God,
but also they're there to
cause all kinds of evil and wickedness and perverseness and vileness in your life.
You know, if we go there to Judges 19, let's just look, and then the other thing about Judges 19 is, Judges 19
is hard to swallow, but it's a great chapter in the Bible, number one, because it's God's Word.
If God didn't want us to know about it, he wouldn't have put it in there.
Number two, it's just we need to toughen society up a little bit, right?
I mean, you see there in verse number two says, and it's occupied, played the whore.
You know, today, if you call someone a whore, they get offended.
But God says, hey, if someone's playing the whore, call them a whore.
I'm not even being sensational. This is from the Word of God. I'm not even the one that's like trying to just call attention
This is not a shock and awe sermon. This is just the Word of God
We go there to verse 3
It says in her husband arose and went after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her
Again having a servant with him and a couple of asses
If people get all mad, if a Christian goes around saying something like dumb ass or a bunch of asses when it's a biblical word like, I mean, I guess you could fight and make a fight about the context of it.
But even then it's still a biblical word. People get all up in arms about these things, right?
And then the only other thing that really stands out is that as we're going through this story, because I don't want to spend too much time.
The story is really towards the end, but there's a couple of things that really stand out here.
He has a concubine, which is basically like a side piece. He is married to her, but she's not like his wife
In other words, she's she's just providing the things that he wants
There's not a deeper connection there and that's a whole other summer for another day
But the other thing is when he definitely gets there
You know what?
He gets kind of lulled into a false sense of security by the father-in-law, right?
Instead of just going in there, taking his wife and going home, he ends up being there
four days, and then five days, and then six.
So what does he end up doing?
He starts making bad decisions, and these decisions carry some pretty serious consequences.
Because of this guy's inability to just be firm in the way in the things that he was doing, right?
And it doesn't give us his name, so you know that he was enough. He was up to no good
But go there to verse 22 the Bible says now as they were making their hearts Mary and
then again, he's already partied enough
with his father-in-law and now he gets to this this place in Gibeah and
This old man's like hey, you shouldn't be out in the streets kind of like judges night
I mean Genesis 19 right lots like hey come here angels don't be out in the streets
It's kind of it's a dangerous place to be because they knew what was up
And but he's like well, let's party at my house
He's like now as they were making their hearts marry
Behold the men of the city and the point I want to focus on right there is certain sons of Belial
So the Bible tells us as many as receive them to them gave you power to become what the sons of God?
Not everybody that lives in this world is a child of God
Let's let's just dispel some some false narratives that are out there
You know, you get a lot of preachers you get even you know, politicians will say aren't we all God's children?
No, we're not all God's children. The Bible tells us as many as receive them
To them gave me power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name
You know who's the son or daughter of God those that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?
You know we went door knocking today and the majority of the people rejected us
It wasn't till the last door that we got that salvation
You know how many of those people are children of God today only that one lady
Everybody else said no
All right, but what's interesting is also where's the balance?
There's also people that are what the sons of Belial and like I said, that's also another sermon going deep into it
But basically Belial is the sons of what of the devil
They're the sons of Satan they worship Satan, but they've they're so far gone
They've literally now been given up to be the child of the devil
Like literally these people are referred to as the children or the sons of Belial
Says beset the house round about and beat the door and spake to the master of the house
The old man saying bring forth the man that came into the house that we may know him and again
They want to basically abuse this man
Man to man they want to leave the natural use right and the man the master of the house went out unto them and
Said unto them name my brother and they I pray you do not so wickedly
Seeing that this man is coming to my house. Do not that this folly. Behold
Here's my daughter or maiden and his concubine them
Well, I I will bring out and humble you them and do with them what seemeth good unto you
But unto this man do not so while a thing now
The most correct thing to do would just be to stand up against them
But these guys were like we can't even let you do this unnatural thing
So we're gonna give you our women now the only woman that came out was the concubine
This that does not make it right and I think this is where a lot of people also get it wrong right
They're like they'll go to these stories and they're like oh, this is the God you worship. Yeah, you know
We need stories like that to remind men to be men
Because the Bible never said that what they did was good. It's just retelling us this historical account
It's just telling us what these guys did, right? It said
And in verse 25 says but the men would not hearken to him
So the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and that's the other thing, right?
reprobate
sodomites
They left the natural use of the man or the woman
For that which is unseemly, but that doesn't mean once they're they're vile like that
Then just go back and forth. They're basically almost like animalistic in their ways
And they said the man would not harken so the man took his concubine and brought her
Forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all night
into the morning when the day began to spring they let her go then came the woman
Into the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the man's house
Where her Lord was till it was light and her Lord rose up in the morning and opened the door's house and went out to go
His way and behold the woman is concubine was fallen at the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold
And he said unto her up and let us be going but none answered then the man took her up
upon an ass
and the man rose up and got him unto his place.
And when he was coming to his house, he took a knife
and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones
into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
And it was so that all that saw it said,
there's no such deed done nor seen from this day that the children of Israel
came up out of the land of Egypt until this day.
Take advice and speak your minds.
I mean, it was so bad that she died.
Like, they abused her so bad and beat her so bad that she died in the morning.
And he was so dejected that he sent it to all the tribes.
And you say, man, that's a gruesome story. It is.
We need gruesome stories to remind Christians that we are lambs, you know, as ready for the slaughter
You know, the Bible says that we're dumb as sheep
And so that's why God gave us his word to remind us of his wisdom because we can get lulled in by the the devil
Or by saints people to think that they're okay, you know today's society. I mean, I remember in the 90s
The biggest
Sodomite show on TV was Will and Grace
That was the most prominent queer like television show and you know as a young kid
I wasn't saved we watched it my brother and I and
It just seemed harmless because all it was was just jokes and and funny scenarios
They never discussed any of the wicked vile things that went on
But you know as time has gone on
It's now blatant, and it's in everybody's face what they do.
I mean, every program, every TV, movie, every show,
every talk show has to have one of these animals, right?
And they're giving you clear indication they don't even care anymore.
There's no more shame in society because people stop standing up.
I mean, I'm pretty sure if somebody surrounds the house, the neighbors and everybody took notice, right?
And nobody stood up, not only for this man, but for the young lady, right?
We don't want to get to the point of society where we, as men or women of God, will not stand up for what's right regardless of the consequences, right?
Because the minute we shut up is the minute society is going to get out of hand.
Alright, so as a way of introduction, I mean judges 19 is just a really good snapshot of what happened when people forget God
And if you were to look we're gonna go there go back to Jude 2 while we're doing that
It's one of the darkest chapters in all of scripture
But the reality is that there's always light in all of God's scripture, right?
It's dark, the story, but the light is what?
The fact that we are given a clear example of what to stay away from,
what to steer not only ourselves, but our kids and our families away from, right?
We don't want our kids around moral depravity,
And judges to how do we how do they get her though and judges to remember this is shortly after Joshua dies and the elders of
That were with Joshua
Died right and they all knew God and then when you get to Joshua 2 says it now also in verse number 10
All that generation were gathered unto their fathers
So there's everybody that came into the Promised Land that conquered and fought and won it says and there arose another generation after them
which knew
Not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel, and the children of Israel
did evil in the sight of the Lord and served Balaam." And notice it was not, remember the guy said,
hey, I'm not going to stay somewhere that is not of the house of God. So he went to the tribe of
You know you shouldn't have to the safe place
You know people talk about having safe spaces and safe places. We should have a safe space, which is church
You shouldn't come here expecting to see all kinds of vile and wicked things. You should come here expecting to see truth
You know, brother Kevin was with me, we were out so when he said,
hey, you know, when I go to a church or when I think about a church,
he's like, I want to make sure that they're teaching stuff that's doctrinal to the church.
And he's like, even you, you know, I'm listening to you, what you're saying, you know, I'm like,
I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what you should be doing.
You should be listening to me and anybody else in the church.
And if they're preaching something wrong, you better run the other way.
Right, I'm nobody special and neither are you like we just need to preach the word of God
If you don't like this part of the word of God people get a little uncomfortable. I don't understand why it's God's word
Right, I mean the sense of Belial are basically reprobates
Right, this isn't just history. Look, we're living it now
The sensibilios still walk among us, right?
They're given up, they're done, there's no turning back.
And not only will the sermon improve it,
but I'm gonna prove it from scripture,
but it's also just a stark reminder.
Until the day that I die,
and they keep pushing this agenda,
I'm just gonna find more ways
to preach the same message over and over again.
Because it's not a new message,
it's not a deep message,
but it's an important message, right?
They're not going away.
They're not disappearing they're not they might just be taking a retreat
But they're gonna regroup and think of another attack. They're gonna outflank the enemy, which is us unless we stand up for what's right
Right, just cuz they're not in target anymore
Or they're not on Google Chrome with their queer flag or on Facebook doesn't mean they're gone
They've been there since the beginning
They've been there since I was one year old. They've been there since I was five years old
They've been there since I was 25 years old. They've been there since since now. I
remember
My two uncles sitting us down when I was 14
1994 it was the strangest thing it was kind of it's a real thing that I didn't even know what was going on because I didn't
Even know what a sodomite was, you know, you think about our generation. We didn't grow up with it
We kind of had an idea we would make fun of other kids that were a little feminine
And so we would we would call them queer and stuff like that
But we didn't really know what it was right like it wasn't something we knew we had intricate details about
So all of a sudden our uncle sit us all down with my my my aunts and uncles and my and they're telling us
They're coming out of the closet. I'm like, I don't even know what that means. Like it just it was a weird conversation
I mean, this was a big deal
But I don't know I don't know what they expected like I guess they wanted a trophy or something
But you know, it's just I remember leaving that conversation thinking that I don't know
I didn't what was the purpose of that
But but the point I'm trying to make with that conversation is the fact that they've been there since then
You know, this is like 30 years later and then they're still there well one of them is dead and in hell
So that's great, you know, so but the first point I have for you
Let's just go through this really quick as I can said this is not a really deep sermon
But it's just a necessary sermon right the first thing we see is the wickedness of the sons of Belial in verse 22 of judges 19
The Bible says now as they were making their hearts married behold the men of the city certain men
Certain sons of Belio beset the house round about they didn't just randomly come
They had a plan right and beat the door and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house
The old man saying bring forth the man that came into the nine house that we may know him, you know, they're they're not just sinners
They're militant perverts
Right, and they are militant about what they do
They they represent the marks of a reprobate mind
You know, these people aren't interested in salvation.
I was watching, I guess this thing, you know, the algorithms, not only know what you want
to watch, but on occasion, I don't know if you've noticed this, they've changed social
media a little bit.
If you get on a social media platform every once in a while, and they'll, they'll try
new things in your algorithm, who's, who's witnessed, who's experienced that?
Where all of a sudden you're like, wait a minute, this is not what I normally watch.
Or it would be randomly for like a few hours, like if you go back and check and then it just disappears
And I started getting this, uh, I don't even know the guy's name. He's like a 19 year old guy
Who's getting famous because he says that
He was at Waffle House one day and he was going to commit suicide and Jesus spoke to him and that's why he didn't commit suicide
And and he's famous because he goes around in these tiny little
underwear shorts and he goes to gay parades or queer parades right I'm just
that way you know what I'm talking about because most people don't like queer or
return themselves off the gay parades you know the pride parades and and he's
like he'll talk to these people and he's like I sense that God's talking to you
da-da-da-da you know God loves you and God thinks about you all the time and you
know I just da-da-da-da is and this and that is it alright if I pray for you
And he prays the same prayer.
He's like, dear, dear Lord, you know, pray for,
you'll get the guy's name, pray for Jojo over here
and just talk to him in your dreams and your visions
and let him know that you care about it.
Yeah, that guy's a moron.
The reason that that's why people hate Christianity is because you know real men know
How do you justify it saying hey? Oh, so you're saying that once you're saved you can sin anyways, right?
That's what people argue with us right there once saved always saved
The argument is that oh, it's you're saying that I can commit any sin and I'm still going to go to heaven
Yeah, because you're saved, but you know what you're not going to commit is unnatural sin
Unnatural sin is given up to those who are already reprobate because once reprobate always reprobate
There's a big difference
And when you explain that to someone who's kind of struggling with that all of a sudden they're like, oh, okay
Well, that makes sense God's gonna punish me, but God's gonna destroy them. I
Like that God
See, because nobody likes the God that just accepts everybody, because, you know, think
about it, if you're trying to preach to someone who was abused by one of these animals, and
then you tell them, well, it doesn't matter because God accepts everybody.
They're like, well, that doesn't make any sense.
I thought God was a loving God.
How does he love me when he let this animal just go around rampant destroying people's
lives?
How does God love me?
And I'm just using this example, right?
I would agree with that.
Like, how would God love me if he's not
going to destroy the Catholic church, right?
And the hundreds, probably millions of people
that they've abused in the church history.
I'm grateful that there's a vengeful God who's
going to come through and destroy all these reprobates
for abusing people and that he's going to spare us
There's a ton of people that they've gone through so much
This is why this is an important sermon because you have to balance this thing out. God is not a God of extremes
He's got a balance
Now it may seem extreme because in our minds, we don't understand the things of God
Go over to Genesis 19 go over to Genesis 19. I mean we know the stories, right?
Genesis 19 is the famous story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but we just see the same mindset
I'm not gonna spend too much time on it
Well, we see this wickedness of the sons of Belial it says in verse number four of Genesis 19
It says but before they lay down the men of the city even the men of Sodom
Compass the house round both old and what and young
That's why we know they're pedophiles, right?
All the people from every quarter, and they called unto Lot, and said unto him,
Where are the men which came into thee this night?
Bring them out unto us that we may know them.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, and said,
I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Behold, now I have two daughters which have not known man.
Let me I pray you, bring them out unto you,
and do ye to them as is good in your eyes, only unto these men do nothing,
for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
And they said, stand back.
And they said, again, this one fellow came into sojourn,
and he will needs be a judge.
Now we will deal worse with thee than with them.
And they pressed soar upon to the man, even lot,
and came near to break the door.
But the men put forth their hand and pulled lot into the house to them and shut the door
They shut to the door and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great
So that they wearied themselves to find the door always find that that verse just so interesting and shocking
Like I know I've said it before probably said to the day I die like if I just was blinded right now. I
Would the last thing I want to do is
Like abuse on what?
Like let's say I was in the middle of a fight and I just was blinded like I just be like I'm blind
Like the last thing on my mind would be what's going on. You know, I remember Pastor Cobb
He has eye vision problems and sometimes I know this to be true now because as I'm getting older
There's times where my eyes are really great and then there's times where I think I'm going blind ask my wife
I tell her all the time, but Pastor Cobb his his vision is a little bit more
Advanced in the sense that he has a little bit more problems, but
Sometimes he struggles with like sunlight and I remember one time he's like oh man
I had to sit down at home
Because I got into the after being out in the sun and I was blind
He said I couldn't see anything
You notice Pastor Cove didn't say I was blind, but then I wanted to go and do whatever I was doing
No, he was like in the moment of shock right like he's like what am I gonna do right?
These guys are like blind and they're like can we find this door to abuse these men?
They're not gonna stop. I know I keep saying this, but I think it's important to just remind people they're not gonna stop number two
Let's define the reprobate mind. You we've preached the whole sermon on the reprobate
So this is a very short section if you want to know more about it go to the listen that sermon
But what is a reprobate? You know the Bible?
Describes a reprobate someone who's been given up right there rejected
They'll never ever have an opportunity to salvation and when you preach this to
Like light Christians, you know, like Diet Coke Christians, they get mad, right?
And they're like, no way. God can still spare people. God can save anybody, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Except that it's interesting, even the world understands that the reprobate is someone who reject it.
If you go to dictionary.com, which is literally a liberal dictionary, it's not even your 1828 Webster's dictionary,
which like a lot of Baptists love to use. This is just like a mainstream, like...
very famous liberal dictionary that has like slang words and modern language and all that stuff
you go there this i got this quote yesterday i copied it last night it's a noun it says
depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person synonyms are like rascal, wretch, miscreant,
Tramp rogue, but what I like in the definition number two a person
rejected by God and beyond hope of
Salvation even the world gets it that there's a group of people that are with beyond hope of salvation
But no Christians know better than God
And you still hear today a group of Christians going around saying God can save anybody it
What if they get saved in the last minute?
No, there's a group of people that are never gonna get saved
Jeffrey Dahmer was not saved. I don't care what that interview shows you. He was not saved
Anybody who does that kind of unnatural sin is not saved
You don't eat human beings
After you abuse them and then think that God's gonna just like come on in let's all hang out together. That's just
You know, and I'm glad that the Bible clears things up for us because I remember when I when I saw that like it really threw
Me for a loop when I hadn't read my Bible completely and studied this out because I'm like that just doesn't even add up
Right, I mean adjective morally depraved unprincipled bad. They're corrupt
Right again rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation verb to disapprove condemn their censure
I've got to reject a person as for sin excluded from the number of the elect or from salvage
This is not the Bible. I'm reading to you. This is dictionary calm
This is it's not that difficult guys go to judges 19 and and we're there in verse 25
We continue this this reprobate mindset
What happens what do we see he says but the men would not harken to him verse 25
So the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all night until the morning
And when they began the day and when the day began to spring
They let her go then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the man's house with her Lord
Was till it was light. It's interesting
They went in for the man
And if that was their goal, when they were delivered the concubine, they should have just walked away, right?
I mean, that should have been the end of that.
Instead, they're like, well, we're here to just do some damage.
So we're just going to do some damage.
But the interesting part, go to Isaiah 5 really quick, go to Isaiah 5.
The interesting part is that no one stood up against the mob.
you know right now this has no correlation with the sermon but right now there's riots all over
the country for these ice deportations and by the way i've already preached that sermon i'm not
gonna you go listen to it you know immigration status in light of the bible i prove with receipts
that i'm as mexican as they come i showed you my birth certificate so i feel comfortable speaking
about it there's a difference between coming to this country and attacking the laws of any country
I mean, that's lawlessness.
I don't care if you're Mexican, I don't care if you're red, yellow, black, and white.
If you break the law, if you break the law, you deserve the consequences.
Period in the story. I mean, these guys are throwing rocks and breaking the windows. They're attacking law enforcement
Even if law enforcement is wrong, there's still law enforcement. There's other ways to deal with it
You know, God's gonna avenge his people at some point, but you've got it. You know, you can't just be lawless
We're not vigilantes and I know and I know that's why the reprobates hate
Independent fundamental hard Baptist new independent fundamental hard Baptist because we preach God's truth, but we always remind you. Hey, we're not
What was that church many years ago that hated the queers out in in Kansas?
What is it in like in the Midwest and Kentucky or whatever with that guy?
And they were always going to like the funerals of these people and making it worse. We're not that church
I forget the name of the church. It'll come to me as we go if you guys remember you can shout it out man
but
Huh?
Yeah, the one in Kansas, you know that old guy they were wrong. They're Westboro
We're not Westboro Baptist Church
We have no affiliation of Baptist church like that because we're not preaching vigilantism, right?
We're not preaching to go out and take this into your own hands. We're just saying listen to God's word
There is a battle. I am telling you to fight, but it's a spiritual battle
Right, we're not gonna get in a physical fight and I agree like you know
I'm saying the thing that happens when you're so when you get you get to talk a lot with the people that you you're
Going with so when it's a brother Kevin and I we got to talk a lot
And he was like oh when we had all those queer protesters when we were previously over at Pure Words
He's like some of them were talking bad to my wife and I wanted to punch their face. That's the flesh
I I I would agree with him somebody talks bad to my wife. I might want to punch him in the face
But we just hold back
And they're lucky we hold back because it's not about the flesh, it's about the spirit.
We're in a spiritual warfare, right?
I mean, the thing that we see go to Isaiah 5, just real quick, is that
Because the reprobates had taken over so much, there was silence in the town, right?
They didn't stand up against the mob.
And you've heard this saying, I mean, it's a famous saying, but all that is needed for
evil to triumph is for good men to do what?
All that's needed for evil to triumph is for us to stop preaching this sermon.
Every June 2026, 2027, 2028, and the minute we stop, they'll triumph.
Now, they're only trying short-term because, obviously, eternally, God's already won the victory,
but we still don't want to give them any victory.
And this is a picture of modern America.
Right, I mean literally we have oh brother Moe and I were like I'm trying to get them to look at the email
Right, and I'm like hey, you know, but this is the email
I need you to help me clean it out if you see anything important. Let me know
You're I'm gonna hand off this administrative task to you. Here's the type of emails
We get if you see this email address it, you know
If it's admin or money call me and then and then if it's like
if it's missionaries, read it, and if it's trash, trash it out. I'll give you an example.
I didn't even know what the email said, but I get an email about once a week to the church email
from these missionaries who are on...
reputation right and they're trying to raise money so they can go out of the mission field and I'm not kidding
This guy was like my name is Moses. So and so I forgot what his name was
It's like his name and he's like we have been called
You know, they're always like the Lord always called them, you know like to you know where they're called to
San Francisco, California. I'm like this is gotta be a joke like come on, bro
I told him oh, I was like, this is the kind of crap you keep away from me like come on
I don't even want and in the worst part is you go to their website like the sending church and they're right on salvation
It's eternal security. It's what this there's no repenting your sins. It's actually one of the best
Statements of faith that I've seen on a website in a long time. It's actually super accurate
But they I guess he forgot to read judges 19. They're like, let's just go to San Francisco
Walk over poop and hopefully we'll lead some of these guys to Christ
They hate Christ in San Francisco like before you go to San Francisco. I mean just go down and like the ghettos in LA
Once you're done there if you think that you still need to do some more work go to San Francisco, but
like I
Wish I had this guy in front of me. I'd be like seriously, bro. Like seriously
Seriously man, like seriously come on man, you know, it's just like what is going on
But let's look at this reprobate mindset right there in Isaiah 5 verse 20
The Bible says woe unto them to draw in equity with cords of vanity and sin as it were
Where the cart wrote
They say let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see it and let the council of the Holy One of Israel draw
And I and come that we may know it wall one to them that call evil good and good evil
that put darkness for light and light for darkness,
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes
and prudent in their own side.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine
and men of strength and mingle strong drink,
which justify the wicked for reward
and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.
Therefore, as the fire devoured the stubble, and the flame consumed the chaff, so their
root shall be as rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust, because they have cast
away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despise the word of the Holy One of Israel."
Look, I went to the other verses that weren't Romans 1.
If your root is a root of rottenness that means that you can't have a good root right because Jesus is divine
And he's not going to be a bad root. He's only going to bring forth. What good fruit
You can't bring
incorruptible from corruption
Boderberg proper was one but in Jeremiah 6 the Bible says reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord what hath rejected them
Now I do want to make one
When caveat or site statement because it's so confusing in society today
Just the act of itself of
Sodomy doesn't make you a reprobate because unfortunately people get abused
And they get taken advantage of and they confuse this people and even now like people are going to public school
And they're shoving this down your throat and you come up questioning yourself. Am I am I this am I attracted to that?
You know, and I'm not going deep into it. I don't want to you know defile any mind
The the reprobate is someone who takes pleasure and enjoys and wants to live this lifestyle in
direct opposition to the Lord Jesus Christ like literally they know they're worthy of that the Bible says and they take pleasure in it
Right, there's a huge difference. There's no way on God's green earth that I will ever take pleasure in
The sin that I commit and not expect like the one thing I'm always doing almost like tippy towing
Trying not to get struck by lightning
Proverbially from the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't take pleasure in my it's not like I get up from my sin and be like
Well, that's all right, you know the Lord's got my back. No, I'm like I'm like Lord, please
If it's your will don't remove me. I still got work to do if it's all right with you like I am so like I just feel deep
You should you should be scared of the Lord Jesus Christ by the way look at Romans 1 verse 24
The Bible says because I have called you and you refuse
I've stretched out my hand and no man regarded but you have said at not all my counsel and with none of my reproof
In other words, you didn't listen
And what does God do? Here's another one of those sections people don't like this is this is God Almighty
This is the God we serve the God. I love and you love. He says I will all I will I also will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh
When your fear cometh this desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you
Then you shall call upon me upon me, but I will not answer
They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me for that they hated knowledge and did not choose
There's that operative word choose to fear the Lord. Hey
We choose the Lord Jesus Christ
Third point I got for you today go back to judges 19 is
That the cost of compromise is a line that we don't cross
right the sons of Belial
We'll try to get you to compromise
Technically, that's what happened right there was a compromise
It was not the man. It was the concubine. That was the negotiation. It was not a
Friendly negotiation, but it was a negotiation nonetheless
judges 19 verse 29 says and and when he was coming to the house
He took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into 12 pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel
The consequence was deep
The Levi here he tarried
And Pastor Copres is somewhere about just 19. I think you called him Albert right Albert wasn't it?
Albert Albert is not coming out is what the title of his term is but which by the way
I would recommend you listen to it because the guys that we don't we don't have a name so got so pastor
Cove gave his name so we could relate but that's what I was thinking about but the Levi tarried
You know on his way he tarried when he got her and then he tarried even more
He basically chose what convenience
The Bible talks about David ran, he hasted to battle right with Goliath, it says that he hasted when we're doing the work of the Lord, we got to go quick.
But this guy was kind of enjoying the thing, even though his wife was rebellious and he went to go get her or a concubine, he wasn't in any hurry.
And what happened is he had to compromise and what it did led to destruction.
You can't win them to Christ and you most definitely can negotiate with them in 2003. They were like hey all we want is
the same-sex marriage
And we're done
Fast-forward what 20 years?
22 years as it just that or is it worse?
It's worse, right? I mean literally they're in sports now. There's tranny movements now. Everybody's like there's
mutilation and
Destruction and confusion it didn't stop there. It just got worse. It's everywhere. It's disgusting
Go over to Jude 10 go over to Jude 10
The Bible says, but these in verse 10 of Jude, I mean, go over to Jude, verse 10, I'm sorry.
There's only one chapter in Jude, and I want you to go to the 10th verse.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they what?
Know naturally as brute beasts. In those things, they corrupt themselves.
And ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsane of Korah
These are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear
Clouds look when they feast with you meaning if you let them in they're gonna feed and they're not afraid of you
Clouds they are without water meaning they they're they're fruitless. They're pointless
Carried about of winds trees whose fruit wither it without fruit
Twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame,
Wondrous stars to whom is reserved,
the blackness of darkness, whatever.
These people are alive and the Bible says they're twice dead.
So don't tell me there's a there's not a group of people that can be there's a group of people in the world
Don't tell me there's a group of people that can't be
Let me see if I can say this correctly
Don't come and tell me that there's a group of people the Bible says they can't be saved and you're telling me they can't be saved
That's what I wanted to say because there's a group of there's literally Christians
I've had more and more conversations in my life where people be like, oh, well, you know
What if they just pray at the last minute it doesn't matter they pray all they want they're going to hell
Go to second Korean well
Go over to 2nd Timothy go over to 2nd Timothy
I'll read real quick 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 17 says wherefore come out from among them and be separate
That's the command for us right say if the Lord and touch not the unclean thing
And I will receive you and will be a father unto you and you shall be my sons and daughters Seth Lord almighty
Look right now, there's a huge movement of like this new contemporary, you know
The contemporary movement had died out in like the music and the churches and they're trying to resurge it with the like these
these young guys and these
Which we call it these
Apologetics and apologist and all these people doing podcasts and talking to it's it's horrible
It's wicked
There's a guy who's like famous
Brandon Lake is his name I keep the reason I remember his name is cuz I can think in Brandon Lake the lake of fire
And he's a contemporary artist
In in the Christian movement, and he has his song and the chorus goes something like I you know
Sometimes I can't pray and then he's like I bring you my heart fought
Been through hell
Alleluia or something like that. I was just like that is the most doctrinally incorrect
worship music of all time.
If you're saved, you're never been through hell.
You're never going to be in hell.
You're never going to go through hell.
There is no life in hell.
All my life is a living hell.
Nothing like that.
You just can't live it because it's not even possible.
You say, oh, you're exaggerating.
No, I'm not.
There's no reason why you should be talking
or preaching or singing like that
if you're saved by grace through Jesus Christ.
Right the next point I have for you point number four
You're there second Timothy is the point is the title of the sermon, you know, once a reprobate always a reprobate
I think we need to remember that so we say wait, it's interesting when I'm out soul winning even today
I did it. It's just that brother Kevin. You didn't know because I was talking to Spanish, but I always ask this question
I'm always like hey, so the Bible says here that even all liars shall have their part in the lake which part of the fire and
Brimstone, which is the second death. Let me ask you a question if you go to hell
Can you ever get out? And they're like, no. They get it, right? But then if I ask them,
hey, if Jesus gave you eternal life, can you ever take it away? And they say, yes.
I'm like, that doesn't, so you can be in hell for all eternity, but you can't be in heaven for
all eternity. Of course, you know, we overcome it a lot of the time. But if God gives you eternal life,
He can also give you eternal damnation.
Right once he's rejected you. That's it. You're done. There is no coming back. It's not the prodigal son
There's no coming back and you're gonna get the coat and they're gonna the fatted calf. It's done. It's over
right
Robert's 29 verse 1 you're there in 2 Timothy 3 2 Timothy 3
The Bible says he that being often reproved hardened in his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy
Now no problem is this book where we can apply it, you know as a Christian if we harden our neck
We can be destroyed but still go to heaven
But there's also people who are just gonna harden their their neck and then God's gonna harden their heart like Pharaoh
And then they're gonna go to hell
By the way, I don't know if you noticed but this afternoon we took a break from the overview of the Bible like as we're going through the different chapters
But this is still a good overview of the Bible, right?
It's staying on tech and Titus 1 verse 15 the Bible says unto the pure all things are pure
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
But even their mind and conscious is what defiled
They profess that they know God, but in their works, they deny Him being abominable and disobedient.
And unto every, and I want you to pay attention here, unto every good work reprobate.
There is no good work, because all the work, even what would be perceived as good work in
the world is rejected by God. There's no such thing as good work. Oh, but they're so nice.
They go to the food bank and they give, they're not.
They're not nice. It's reprobate
Even if they stay in the closet all their life and you never found out about their lifestyle
Which is would be the preferred style if we're not gonna have the death penalty for them in this country
It's still an abomination in the eyes of God period and of story
Like I don't know how else to say it in 2 Timothy 3. Actually, I do know we just keep going through Bible verses, right?
2 Timothy 3 the Bible says
This know that in the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covenges boasters
Proud blasphemers disobedient and parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fears
despisers of those that are good
Traders heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a form of godliness
But denying the power thereof from such turn away
For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive, silly women lain with sins,
led away with diverse lust, ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth,
men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further,
for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men, as theirs also was."
Let me just kind of, we've got about 10 minutes here, so let me start wrapping this thing up,
but in verse, I mean, point number five, go back to judges 20.
By the way, go actually go back to judges 19, go over to judges 20.
God's people, the point number five is God's people must make spiritual war ambilio. Look, there's a time
We're and for the most part we're always on the defense because we know God's got our back in other words
What I mean by that is we're not gonna attack them physically
We're not gonna fight them
But there is an offense when it comes to the word of God and what I mean by that there's those two things if it's spiritual or
A personal battle we just wait and then defend we defend with the word of God, right?
God says hey, they're gonna take you up to
magistrates and governors and all these people.
He's like, don't even take thought,
don't even build an offense,
because I've already got your back.
So that's kind of a defense, right?
It's a defensive move.
If I'm not planning how to fight back,
because God told me not to,
then he's already got the offense.
But then there is the offensive when you're shutting up the false prophets false reprobates that are out there because there are
groups of leaders in the Sons of Belial and these guys these leaders
They're on the offensive and there would needs to be a counter offensive not a counter defense
But an account or offensive to say no, we're not going to just take this line down
We're gonna fight it. We're gonna fight and we're gonna tell you to shut up
Right like
Right here in judges 20 what happens Israel demands justice
Right, but what is the what are the benjamites do?
They protect the reprobates
We live in a society defense the indefensible right as the church we must stand firm and draw the line
That's why we preach hard against abortion
Right because that's a debt reprobate agenda. That's why we preach hard against
Abusive children. That's why we preach hard against all these things because we it's not we're not gonna wait around
We're gonna tell you don't do it. We're gonna prevent it if we can
Judges 20 verse 12 says and the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribe of Benjamin saying
What wickedness is this that is done among you now therefore deliver us the men the children of Belial
Which are in Giba that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel
But the children of Benjamin would not harken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities of Giba to go out to battle against the children of Israel
What's the Southern Baptist Convention known for covering up, right? What's the Catholic Church known for covering up?
You know here comes the world here comes some strong Christians
They're like hey show us these perverts so we can turn them into the authorities in 2025 America
Obviously, we're not gonna put them to death, but hey, let me turn them into the authorities and they're like they're not here anymore
I don't know what happened
But if you were looking their records, we recommended them to another church. We moved them. We played them over here. They're not you know
That's that's horrible
Second Corinthians go over to Deuteronomy. That's where we're gonna close out Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 13. I love Deuteronomy 13. You're gonna see something real special here, but second Corinthians 6
The Bible says be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness, and what concord hath Christ with beelio, or what part hath he believeth with an infidel.
Psalm 101 we know it's a famous verse. I will set no wicked thing before my eyes
I hate the work of them to turn aside. It shall not cleave to me a forward heart shall depart for me
I will not know a wicked person. I don't want to know a wicked person
Right, I mean we don't want to associate with these people in any way shape or form
I'm not looking to go to some powwow with other churches in Houston area to see if we could come up to some kind of form of
Compromise it's actually good that I wouldn't show up because I'd be like what about judges 19
And they'd be like well we we don't know about that one
You know the Greek and the Hebrew didn't really mean what it means
And the final point I have for you is this the final warning a nation protecting the sons of Belial will be destroyed
There's a judgment coming to America. It has nothing to do with our money
It has nothing to do with our prowess is everything to do with our wickedness
It has everything to do with the rejection of Lord Jesus Christ is everything to do with the rejection of God's law
In Galatians 6, the Bible says,
Be not deceived, God is not mocked
for what's over man's soeth.
So shall he also reap.
We know these verses, right?
But it also says, for he that soweth to his flesh
shall have the flesh reap corruption,
but he that soweth to the spiritual,
the spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary and well-doing
for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
That's why we love these verses,
because they remind us, hey, we cannot faint,
we cannot acquiesce, we cannot back down from the enemy.
And today in America, you got preachers that won't do it.
They'll preach anything they want to, except this.
They'll go places they'll be like,
I don't want to even, this camp is too nice for judges 19.
I mean I've literally been in services where they're like hey we're gonna preach on Genesis 19
It's probably a good time for you to get your children and those that are sensitive out of the service
So you don't have to listen to this
Well, so you know better than God
I mean literally God said all were all the words of it of the book are good for us and some and didn't didn't like the book
The first five books say hey, you shall talk about it at lunch and at dinner
And you should put it on your wall post and you should teach it to your children and your children's children
But but it's too hard we don't know better than God
Judges 2046 what was the end? What did what happened?
There's a civil war right and verse 46 it says so that all which fell that day of Benjamin were 20 and 5,000 men
That drew the sword all these were men of valor didn't matter how valiant they were they went against God
25,000 died
Jews 7 says even as Sodom and Gomorrah in the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after
Strange flesh or set forth for an example
Suffering the vengeance of what eternal fire go to Deuteronomy 13 the last place. I'll have you turn
Deuteronomy 13 is the first mention of the children of Belial and literally it's a short chapter in the Bible
I wish I was I had time to go through it all but it's talking about what hey, don't let people lead you into the falls
doctrines, false idols, anything, as a matter of fact, before the verses I'm about to read,
one of them, one section says, hey, if a family member or a friend or someone close to you
comes and tries to get you off the beaten path to go worship false idols, false gods,
you shouldn't wait, you should be the first one to attack them and then bring them before
the congregation and have them stone.
I'm just paraphrasing, obviously, in this day and age, what do we do?
You get there in verse 13 and verse 12 it says,
if thou shalt hear, say in one of thy cities,
which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there,
saying, certain men, the children of Belial,
are gone out from among you,
and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city,
saying, let us go and serve other gods,
which ye have not known, then thou shalt thou inquire.
The Bible even says, hey, make sure you do diligence,
and make search and ask diligently,
and behold, if it be truth,
And the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you. Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of the city with the edge of the sword.
Pay attention here. Destroying utterly all that is therein and the cattle thereof with the edge of the sword.
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof.
Now, the spoil is the good part, right? That's why it's called the spoil, because you would win and you'd keep all that.
But what does the Bible say here? It says, hey, you gather all the spoil into the street thereof.
And shall burn it with fire, with fire, the city, and all the spoiler of wit, for the
Lord thy God, and it shall be in heap forever, it shall be not built again."
He says, hey, leave that mountain of ashes so people will remember how wicked this thing
is of the children of Belial.
They're so reprobate, you don't even want to keep the stuff that they had is so disgusting.
That's what it's basically saying right verse 17 says and there shall cleave
Not of the cursed thing to thy hand meaning hey if this was a book of the sodomites
You don't want in your hand if this was a book of the children of Belial of a reprobate
You know you want to throw it in the fire the Bible says
says that the Lord may turn the fierceness of his anger and show the mercy and have compassion
upon thee and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, when thou shalt hearken
to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments, which I command thee
this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord."
Hey, we need to do what's right in the eyes of the Lord.
I don't care if we're the greatest nation in the world,
and we have some of the best materialistic things in the world.
If it's touched by the children of Belial, God says, you don't want it.
Maybe that's why I'll never buy a Tesla. I don't know.
Apparently they burn up, so, you know, just stand aside.
But what I'm trying to say is, we need to have a balance.
Once saved, always saved.
Once the reprobate always a reprobate what's that important because as a safe person if you know you're once saved always save
You would have focused on that middle that middle group. Who's the middle group that lost?
The majority of the people aren't children of Belial the mature majority of people aren't reprobate the majority of people don't hate God
They just don't know of God
They don't know that there's a plan and the gods and his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him
Should not perish but have everlasting life
They don't know that once you learn that and you open up the books and read the page of the Bible
God also says hey, there's a group of people that rejected me, and they didn't believe on me
And so they're not gonna have her have a part
with us in heaven
There are twice what dead the Bible says plucked up by the roots twice dead
Let's close in the word of prayer heavenly fall Lord. Thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings Lord
Thank you for the reminder that we're once saved, always saved, but that there's also a group that's once a reprobate, always a reprobate.
And Lord, help us to discern and search out and diligently know if this is the truth, and if it is, then we just need to stay away from it, Lord.
And just do what's right in the eyes of the Lord.
Lord help us to have the faith that pleases you Lord. Thank you for all the things that you do.
Thank you for the soul winners today. Thank you for everybody in attendance here and Lord just bless
the time we're gonna have and bless the food. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Did you stop it?