Afternoon everybody and welcome to St. Fast Baptist Church.
Great to see everybody here tonight.
We can go ahead and find our seats, get started with tonight's service.
You found a seat.
Let's grab a hymnal and we'll go to song number 192 together, to song number 1.
Let's all sing that singing everybody.
Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.
We thank you once again for this great church.
We thank you for all the people here.
And Lord, we just ask now that you bless the service, fill us all with your spirit as we
sing out unto you tonight.
And it's in Jesus name we pray, amen.
Alright, for our next song, let's go to song number 394, Dill Newell, we had some practice
this week.
Ninety-four, if you're here Sunday, you'll notice we sung it twice, this will be a third
time.
So I think we'll do it good this time.
394, to the work.
Let's all sing it out with all we got.
We're coming to Steadfast Baptist Church, if you did not get a bulletin already and
you'd like one, just lift up your hand nice and high, one of our ushers can come by and
get you guys a bulletin.
On the front we have our Bible memory passage, Romans 10 verse 9, any child 18 and under
that can quote the verse of the week, they can get a special ice cream after the service.
Also on the inside is our service and soul winning times, our church stats.
We did do a New Testament challenge that Sunday, I should have prizes for that.
If you not complete the New Testament challenge in time, I am giving you a grace week.
So if you can get it done by Sunday, you still get that prize and so that's definitely something
out there for those of you that are still wanting to finish strong.
And then on the inside we have our listing of expecting ladies, please be in prayer for
them.
Down below is an update about our Philippines missions trip and man, I'm not even going
to go over all these details because I'm going to have Evangelist Fer come up here and talk
about that.
But on the inside of our bulletin, if you had an older one, you may not have this, but
on the inside we do have our missionary update letter from Evangelist Urbanic and it's got
our Philippines update.
I'll probably go over that on Sunday, but then we also have another announcement on
the birth of Colton David Uekim and congratulations to the Uekims.
He was born on the 2nd, 830 AM, weighing eight and a quarter pounds and 21 inches.
So congratulations to them.
Also I'm going to go over our prayer list.
We've continued to pray for the Carlson's health.
Also we pray for Brother Jared and his work.
Please pray for the Scott's health as well as Mrs. Grace.
And then if you'd pray for the Tony's health, we're continuing to pray for the Foley's dad
who has kidney disease.
Continue to pray for the Weathers.
Praying for the Goodwin's sister-in-law, Ms. Genzie, husband passed away.
Please be in prayer for the Rose.
Also if you'd pray for the Burns brother, Joe, continue to pray for the Warners and
their work.
If you'd pray for brother Jameson's father's health, brother Suhail, we've been praying
for his mother.
Also, if you'd be in prayer for brother Billy, he has a few prayer requests here for his
mother.
And then also he has a couple issues with a cousin that you could be in prayer for and
his son if you'd pray for him.
And then we're praying for brother Spurgeon for his work.
We've been praying for brother Urbanic's family because of their grandmother who's had to
move in with them.
And then also if you'd be in prayer for Miss Ginger, her niece.
We've been praying for brother Evan's health.
And then also for the Canaries if you pray for his brother Elliot.
And then also if you pray for brother Christian, his work.
So we'll just say a quick word of prayer as a church family.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for our church.
Thank you for all these expecting ladies.
Thank you for newly delivered children.
I pray that you would just please bless them and their families.
Please bless these ladies' recovery.
Please give a timely birth to those who are expecting.
I pray that you would also please be with our church family that is having these various
health issues and these struggles.
Also our family and friends that we've been praying for and these chronic issues, I pray
if you could give them health.
Please give them patience and give them comfort during this time of difficulty.
Those that need a blessing with work or with their job or with a vehicle, I pray that you
would just please bless them.
Please give them favor.
I pray that you would continue to just bless the work that's being done in the Philippines
and those that are still traveling.
I pray that you would keep them safe and we just thank you for all that you've given us
in Jesus name we pray, amen.
So I'm hoping to get some testimonials on Sunday as well and to share with our church
about what's happened in the Philippines.
But I do want to just have at least one testimonial tonight.
I know a lot of our missionaries had come back and so I'm going to ask Evangelist Fur
Fur to come up here and just kind of give us a full rundown of what went on in the
Philippines and just kind of testimonial of what he thinks.
And then he's going to pass it off to our song leader.
So go ahead and pay attention to Evangelist Urbanic.
Well first I do want to just thank Pastor Shelley just for the opportunity to go.
And then of course Evangelist Urbanic, Brother James, Brother Kenton, Verity Baptist Church,
Brother, there was so much work that went into that mission strip to prepare for us
to go there.
And I know what that's like.
So I was really, you know, this is maybe my favorite mission strip to have been on,
just for the sheer fact that I got to enjoy the entire time, right?
I didn't really have to plan anything out.
I didn't have to put anything together.
So I got to actually experience what a lot of you guys get to experience when you go
on these mission trips.
So for me personally, it was a great time.
If I feel maybe I'm not as enthusiastic, it's because I've been traveling for the last 20
hours and I've had about two hours of sleep.
So I'll try to do it justice because it was really a once in a lifetime trip.
It was a great experience for myself.
We were able to accomplish so much.
If it wasn't for Brother Franklin from Verity Baptist Church, we probably wouldn't have
got into as many of the schools as we were able to get into.
I mean, that's where the majority of these numbers are coming from.
If you look at the bulletin, Thursday we had over 1,000, Friday we have over 1,000.
On Monday we had a little over 500.
And that was because we did only one hour, one hour at a school and we had multiple classrooms
but we were able to get over 500 people saved in that one hour.
And so kudos to Brother Franklin there at Verity Baptist Church in Manila in helping
us organize a lot of that.
Evangelist Urbanic was such a great host and was very hospitable and it was great to be
an encouragement to him and his church.
You know the church that he's got going on there is in Resolve and he's actually got
a really nice location.
I mean the building, the amenity, everything is really nice.
You know comparatively to that location, to that town, but it's kind of a smaller town
and he would like to be in a town called Tene, which is a lot bigger.
And so you know as you're praying for that church, you're praying for Evangelist or
Bannack, that's one thing you should really be praying for is that God would open a door
for them to have a location there in Tene.
It's a little bit expensive right now from what he could find and so that's why they're
in Resolve.
And so if you can think about that, to pray for them in that regard.
But as far as the mission trip goes, I haven't talked to Pastor Shelley about this, but what
I want to present to him and what I would like to do is to make this a more regular
event where we go once a year and do a mission trip with whoever would like to go.
And it's very feasible, it's very cost efficient, it's not that expensive.
We are able, most of us, to get a round trip ticket for about 850 bucks.
The way I've understood it is that that's pretty cheap for most flights.
I think typically it's about 1,000 to 1,200.
But we really lucked out this year and were able to get some really cheap flights.
And if you go, you've got to be prepared to work.
It was not a vacation at all.
I preached more in seven days than I've ever preached in my life.
But it was rewarding.
It was great.
Also, if you feel like going sewing here in Dallas, you're just like, "Man, nobody wants
to hear.
Hey, go to the Philippines because you're going to turn into a rock star."
We felt like we were the Beatles at these schools because the kids were just going nuts.
A couple kids, one classroom, they're like, "That's Mr. Beast!"
And they're talking about me.
I'm just like, "I don't get the resemblance.
He has a little bit more hair than I have."
You get this rock star status when you go there.
People are just so thankful.
One thing that really stands out to me is just the attitude of the Filipinos.
They always have a great attitude, it seems like.
If you go to their country, obviously their country is not like America.
They don't get to enjoy a lot of the amenities, a lot of the luxuries that we get to enjoy.
You know what?
Their attitude far surpasses American's attitude when it comes to life, just in general.
These people enjoy life, they're fun to be around, they're just great people, and it
helps that they're also receptive to the gospel.
I feel like if I learned Tagalog or some of the languages that they spoke, it would be
like shooting fish in a barrel.
That's how easy it is to go soul-witting there.
Of course, I don't speak Tagalog, so English is still sufficient.
We got 3,000 plus people saved in English.
It's not that they can't understand English.
There were certain tweaks that I had to do to my presentation just to kind of avoid these
puzzling looks that you would get on their faces based on what you're bringing up.
We wanted to keep it tailored to kind of what they understand when it comes to eternal security
because that's their biggest hang-up, and then just speak slow, but outside of that,
they were super receptive, just as receptive, if not more receptive than the Bahamians.
And so I really encourage you, if we have an opportunity in the future to do this again,
to save up money, we'll try to plan for it.
If we do set a date, we'll try to plan ahead of time so that way you could start saving
money to go and do it.
And I highly recommend, you have to at least go once.
It changed, it helped me put things back into perspective in a lot of areas of my life.
Just being more thankful, you know, and not just because, oh, we have so much, honestly,
I was convicted by just how thankful and appreciative those people were.
I mean, they had such great attitudes with so little.
And yet we complain when we have so much.
And so it was a great experience.
Again, thank you to Pastor Shelley.
And yeah, if you if we plan another time, you have to go set out some time, at least
go once and try it.
And I think you're really going to like it.
All right.
Song leader, let's go to Psalm numbers 58.
Your special binder or in your King James Bible, Psalm 58, Psalm chapter 58.
Let's all sing that out together.
Everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around, go ahead and open your Bibles
to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17.
That's the book of Deuteronomy chapter number 17.
The Bible reads, "Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock or sheep
wherein is blemish, or any evil-favoredness, for that is an abomination to the Lord thy
God.
If there be found among you within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee
man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God in transgressing
his covenant, and hath gone and served other gods, and served them either the sun or moon,
or any of the hosts of heaven, which I have not commanded. And it be told thee, and thou
hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and that the thing
certain that such abomination is wrought in Israel. Then shalt thou bring forth that
man or that woman which have committed that wicked thing into thy gates, even that man
or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones till they die. At the mouth of two witnesses,
or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death. But at the mouth
of one witness, he shall not be put to death. The hands of the witnesses shall be first
upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt
put the evil away from among you. If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment,
between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise and get thee up into the
place which the Lord thy God shall choose. And thou shalt come unto the priests the
Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire, and they shall show
thee the sentence of judgment. And thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of
that place which the Lord shall choose, shall show thee. And thou shalt observe to do according
to all that they inform thee, according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou
shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand nor
to the left hand. And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto
the priest that standeth to minister there, before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge,
even that man shall die, and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. And all the people
shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. When thou art come unto the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say,
I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me, thou shalt in any
wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose, one from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee.
Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to
the end, that he should multiply horses, for as much as the Lord hath said unto you, he
shall henceforth return no more that way.
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall
he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold; and it shall be, when he sitteth upon
the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law, and a book out of
that which is before the priests, the Levites; and it shall be with him, and he shall read
therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep
all the words of this law, and these statutes to do them; that his heart be not lifted up
above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand, or
to the left, to the end; that he may prolong his days in the kingdom, he and his children
in the midst of Israel.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this chapter of the Bible.
Thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church and all the soul winning.
Thank you for all the soul winning that was done in the Philippines and the great success
there.
I pray that you bless Pastor Shelley, full of the Holy Spirit, to preach unto us, help
us to make any applicable changes to our life to become better Christians.
Pray us in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Here in Deuteronomy chapter 17, we kind of deal with what I would describe as presumptuous
sins, and that's mentioned in the text, and that's kind of a theme that we see here in
this particular chapter.
As we start here in verse number one, the Bible says, "Thou shalt not sacrifice on the
Lord thy God any bullock or sheep, wherein is blemish or any evil favoredness, for that
is an abomination unto the Lord thy God."
Now here in this first particular verse, God is forbidding certain sacrifices to be offered
unto him, and that should just indicate to us that God is not pleased with every sacrifice.
God does not like every kind of sacrifice.
God likes sacrifices according to his will.
And of course, there's a couple of elements to this particular statute that he's giving
us here.
Number one would be the fact that God is showing us that when you give him some type of a sacrifice
that has a blemish or evil favoredness, that you're not really prioritizing God, that you're
showing contempt for the things of the Lord, that you're showing to God he's not a priority.
If you're not going to offer God a good sacrifice or a pleasant sacrifice, you're showing that
God's not really a priority to you, that God's not important to you, or that God is not worthy
of a good sacrifice.
And so this is one aspect of this particular statute is that God is a good God, God is
a holy God, God is a God worthy of good sacrifice, of holy sacrifice, of special sacrifice.
And so we should not offer God our worst, but we should offer God our best.
And something that is evil favoredness, something that has a blemish would be potentially discarded,
not really used.
And so in offering this unto God, it's not really offering much unto the Lord.
And yet God does not want this type of sacrifice.
In fact, not only would you think about it, he's not saying like just giving him a bad
sacrifice is just not the best.
Notice what he says, "For it is an abomination to the Lord thy God."
It's almost like it's worse offering God a bad sacrifice than just not offering him a
sacrifice.
He's saying by offering a bad sacrifice or offering this kind of sacrifice, it's like
you're spitting in my face, you're cursing me, you're treating me poorly.
This is a negative thing.
And so God is saying, this is an abomination, it makes me upset when you give me a bad sacrifice.
And so there's ways in which people could be sacrificing the Lord, and it's almost worse
than not sacrificing.
You know, one particular example I would think of is just going to a bad church.
You could go to a bad church and be "sacrificing the Lord" or giving money to that church,
and I always think God would be more upset with that person than the person that's not
attending.
You know, a church that's preaching a false gospel, a church that's involved in, like,
wicked sin or not even using the King James Bible, you know, I don't think that God is
just like, "Well, at least they're just going to an institution called church."
No, it could be a blemish-type sacrifice.
It could be a sacrifice that's evil-favoredness and it's an abomination unto the Lord.
God looks at this as an abomination that you're involving yourself in this group of evil people,
wicked people.
You know, if a Christian, God forbid, ever went to the Roman Catholic Church or went
to the United Methodist Church or went to some, you know, church where they don't even
have the right gospel, I do not believe God is blessing that whatsoever.
I don't think God thinks that that is some kind of a sacrifice for him.
God is thinking that is an abomination for you to participate in that particular activity.
I don't care if they have, you know, a Bible in there.
It's probably not even the right Bible.
It's the NIV, it's the ESV, it's whatever.
You know, we should have at least some standard when it comes to our service to the Lord.
And you know, for me, if a church doesn't have the right gospel, I will not participate
in their church or their activities whatsoever.
Additionally, you know, I think they need to have the right Bible.
For a church for me to attend and be, you know, functioning in and participating in,
they have to have, you know, the right Bible for me to want to be there.
Now look, would I potentially go to a building and preach?
I think that's different.
I think it's different.
If a guy goes to a church that has the wrong gospel, the wrong Bible, and is rebuking
them or preaching the right things to them, so be it.
But I don't want to participate in the service, I don't want to sit down as a participant
or listen to someone teaching me out of the wrong Bible or that it's the wrong gospel.
You know, the apostle Paul said in the book of Galatians that he didn't tolerate a false
gospel for even an hour.
And so, to me, we should just not participate or yoke up with or have anything to do with
those individuals, let alone if we were giving money to those institutions, giving tithes
and offerings unto a church that has the wrong gospel, the wrong Bible, or really just isn't
even using the money for soul winning or for evangelism or preaching the gospel.
To me, that would be, in my mind, equivalent to what we see here in this particular text
of offering this wrong sacrifice, this blemish type sacrifice or evil favored sacrifice and
God would be very displeased with it.
So number one, that's the way I would look at this particular statute, but a second application
would be how this is kind of a picture of salvation itself and how, of course, the Lord
Jesus Christ being our sacrifice had no evil favoredness, had no blemish.
When he died on the cross, he bear our sins in his own body.
He did not bear his sin.
He had no blemish.
He had no evil favoredness.
And that's what actually gives us the forgiveness of sins is the perfect sacrifice offered unto
the Lord.
Now, what would be the opposite or what would be an encounter point, what would be this
sacrifice that's with blemish or with evil favoredness?
Well, this is what I would call a repent of your sins form of salvation.
This would be you offering your works or your good efforts or something that has to do with
you because here's the problem.
You do have blemish and you do have evil favoredness and so by offering your works under God as
your means of salvation is going to be an abomination of the Lord.
He will reject it.
He will not have respect under your offering, Cain, and you would die and go to hell if
that's what you're trusting in to get you to heaven.
You know, some people would think like, how can I not believe in faith and works in order
to get to heaven?
Because by believing in faith and works, that means your sacrifice has blemish.
That means that your sacrifice has evil favoredness with it, and you know what?
God does not accept that type of sacrifice.
You need to have a perfect, spotless, holy sacrifice, which is only the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's why faith alone is the only thing that will save you.
And let me tell you something, it is a disgrace to the gospel to add works to salvation because
you're offering a blemish and an evil-favored sacrifice unto the Lord in that place.
Oh, it's just my works.
Well, your works is coming from something that has a blemish because you have a blemish
and God will not accept it and God wants nothing to do with it and it's an abomination of the
Lord.
You know what it does?
It takes away from the actual sacrifice that gets you saved.
You have to have a perfect, spotless sacrifice to get saved or you will not be saved.
When you offer your works or your righteousness or your life, you are replacing a perfect
sacrifice with a blemish and you know what?
God does not have respect under that and you will not be saved.
You must have a perfect, spotless lamb in order to be saved and that's why we put all
of our faith in what Jesus did to save us knowing that our sacrifice can't get us there.
Our sacrifice can't give us the forgiveness of sins.
Our sacrifice would not be accepted of the Lord whatsoever.
It would be an abomination to offer ourselves unto the Lord that way or to think that our
works is somehow going to get us into heaven.
The Bible describes our works as filthy rags.
We do not have righteousness in order to offer unto the Lord.
The Bible says by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men under justification
of life.
It is the righteousness of Jesus that saves you or you're not saved.
You either have to offer that perfect spotless lamb or it is an abomination.
And there is no man, there is no man is justified by his works.
No person will ever be able to say, "Well I also went to church, well I also surrendered
my life, well I also did..."
No, that person is not saved and Jesus Christ will say, "I never knew you.
Depart from me you that work iniquity."
Because you have blemish, because you have evil favoredness, it is either faith alone
in Jesus or you're not saved.
That is consistent from Genesis to Revelation.
Any of these hyper dispensationalists that think that salvation was by works in the Old
Testament is a false prophet, is a false teacher, and you should have nothing to do with them.
You need the perfect spotless lamb from Genesis to Revelation because he's the alpha and the
omega.
It's the only salvation that's ever been offered.
The gospel was preached unto Abraham before the law.
And look, even in the law, it's pointing to Jesus Christ.
It is not pointing to works whatsoever.
It is saying, hey, you need a perfect, spotless, no blemish, no evil favoredness type of sacrifice.
And of course, that to me also illustrates, you know, even carnal truths about the Lord
Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ would have obviously been a man without blemish, without evil favoredness.
The Lord Jesus Christ was, of course, not someone that was unattractive.
I heard some people twist Isaiah 53.
Sometimes it's like Jesus was not attractive or not a good looking man or something like
this because the Bible says that we found no beauty in him.
But again, that's misunderstanding that Isaiah 53 is talking about when he's on the cross
and he's got blood pouring all over his face from the crown of thorns shoved down on his
head and he's been whipped and beaten.
And you can tell all of his bones and his body from just all the dehydration and just
all the pain and the suffering and the woe, that you don't look at the picture of the
cross in the flesh and think that's a really nice looking picture.
You'd be horrified.
You would be just so grieved and just feel just so much anxiety and woe and sorrow and
distress and just ah!
To see your Lord and Savior just being beaten and bloodied and bruised and just put upon
the cross.
You wouldn't find beauty in that particular, you know, essence of time.
But he was a good looking man.
Have you noticed all of his descendants are good looking?
Did you notice it's like David, oh yeah, really good looking guy.
Solomon, really good looking guy.
Yeah, because that's the genes of the Lord Jesus Christ, okay.
He did not have blemish, he did not have evil favoredness, and in fact people that had physical
blemish weren't even allowed to enter into the temple, weren't even allowed to enter
into these certain places according to the scripture.
So the Lord Jesus Christ would have been carnally without blemish, carnally without evil favoredness,
but more importantly spiritually without blemish, without any kind of evil favoredness.
He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.
He knew no sin, became sin for us, that we might be made the righteous of God in him.
So according to the Bible, Jesus Christ was that perfect spotless lamb that had to take
upon our blemishes and take upon our evil favoredness and to bear all of our burdens
and sins and transgressions so that we could be saved.
And look, this is just how everything in our carnal world works.
When you have a mess, when you have something that's gross, when you have something that's
dirty, in order to clean it up, you typically have to take another object, whether that
be a rag, and you have to use that to clean up that particular mess.
And the rag becomes dirty, but then whatever you're cleaning becomes clean.
It takes the dirtiness from it.
And here's the problem.
We are dirty rags, okay?
So we're not going to work.
You take a clean rag and it takes the dirtiness away.
But the clean rag then becomes dirty in the process, a transfer of dirtiness.
In the same way the Lord Jesus Christ is this clean rag coming to our dirtiness and He's
cleansing us up, but in the process He took upon Himself our sins and He's going to wash
us in His blood.
So these are all the pictures and the spiritual symbolism that we have here in verse number
one.
So this would be a presumptuous sin to offer unto the Lord a bad sacrifice.
Like what kind of, what kind of evil-hearted person is going to offer God just the worst
of His flock, the worst of His sheep, the worst of His oxen, something that has some
just kind of obvious defect, something that has some kind of an issue.
You know, everybody's going to kind of look at you like that's your sacrifice?
Like that's really what you're bringing to the Lord?
This is what you're bringing to God?
Like that's a pretty presumptuous person to bring this kind of an attitude or bring this
kind of a sacrifice unto the God of the Bible and he's saying this is an abomination.
Verse number two, "If there be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord
thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord
thy God in transgressing his covenant, and hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped
them either the sun or moon or any other host of heaven, which I have not commanded, and
to be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be
true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel, then thou shalt bring
forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing under thy gates, even that
man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones till they die.
At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to
death, but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward
the hands of all the people.
So thou shalt put the evil away from among you."
So God is wanting to establish this principle, and again, this is brought up in multiple
places in the law and in the Bible, when someone go and worship false gods or false religion,
that whoever they are, it wouldn't matter if it was your wife, it wouldn't matter if
it was your son, it doesn't matter if it's your brother, it doesn't matter how close
of kin it is to you, you were to deliver them unto the people, unto the judges and
after proven, after guilty conviction, they were to be stoned to death, they were to be
put to death legally.
Now it has a lot of things that are established in here.
Number one, that false religion is clearly not tolerated in this society whatsoever.
You know, we talk about false gods, notice this isn't even really bringing up like gods,
it's saying like even just the sun, moon or anything in the sky.
So it could be false gods, it could just be that they're just worshiping the sun or they're
just worshiping the moon, they're just into just some form of false religion, whatever
it is, because he says any of those of heaven, which I have not commanded, so anybody just
worshiping any of this stuff, they are going to be put to death.
It is not tolerated, it's wickedness.
And then mostly what's being emphasized here is I would say the process by which someone
is convicted.
And so it brings up that in verse number six, "At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses
shall he that is worthy of death be put to death."
So, you know, why does it say two and then three?
I think it's just, again, this is going to be discretionary, that it could be even with
two witnesses, it's kind of sketchy.
And it's like you almost even need a third sometimes to really make sure.
Because if you really think about what the text is emphasizing and stressing is that
God doesn't want people to be innocently put to death.
He doesn't want this to be something that could be used as a vehicle to attack people
or to trip people up or to take advantage of.
He wants to make it certain.
I mean, did you notice the process?
It says if any be found among you in verse number two, okay, so you somehow it's been
found out.
But then in verse four, it says you heard it, then you inquire diligently, and then
it's true.
And the thing is certain.
So did you notice how did you notice how it's worded?
You know, sometimes you just hear things and you just believe it's true.
This is what the Bible says the simple do, the simple believe in every word.
So some people, they just watch a YouTube video.
It's just true.
Just everything the person said, or your friend whisper something in your ear, someone bring
something up.
And you know, this isn't this is just a bad policy in general is just hear something and
then just believe it.
Now, even people that are not being misleading, even people that are not lying, often even
when they're recounting stuff, bringing things up, they will use words that aren't entirely
accurate.
And so that's why you should always fact check everything.
You don't want to just believe people.
You know, sometimes I'm talking to somebody and I'm like, hey, this happened or whatever.
And they're like, is that exactly what they said?
And I'm thinking like, I don't even know if that's exactly what they said.
And sometimes I'll even go and check.
And it's like, sometimes you fill in the blank.
Sometimes they use a pronoun, you filled in the blank for that pronoun, or vice versa,
or you kind of, in your mind you thought it was a certain way, it's a little bit different.
You have to be careful, because sometimes those little details matter.
Sometimes those things are important.
And so the Bible is saying, hey, we need to make sure that even though we hear something,
we inquire diligently, that we really make sure things are true.
Then once they're true, we make sure they're certain.
You know, having multiple witnesses, multiple pieces of evidence that they've been examined,
they've been tested, they've been proved, and we know that this is right.
You know, you should live your life where you're not making important decisions until
you know it's true and you know it's certain.
Sometimes people just make crazy decisions in their life, quick decisions in their life,
based on something that they don't even know is true.
They don't even know it's certain.
They just kind of heard about it or they're just, they're thinking about it.
You know, this is a bad way to live your life.
You need to make sure, hey, I know this is true, I know this is certain.
And once it is, well, then we're going to deal with it, right?
Then we're going to stone them with stones until they die.
I like the fact that God's making it clear.
Don't just stone them with stones till they die.
So he's like, hey, we want to make sure this is done, right?
And it said in verse number seven that the people that caught this particular individual
would be the first to do it.
So you know, and again, I think liars, you know, scumbags and weirdos that love to just
say things and love to attack people, usually they're too much of a coward to actually throw
the first stone.
So when you force someone to have to go through this whole process, it's going to make it
that much more realistic that it's going to be a guilty verdict.
Because at the end of the day, it's like, hey, I don't want to harm anybody that I know
or that I like.
I have no ill will.
I don't fight people.
I don't ever fight people, you know, to try and harm someone is really repulsive to me.
But it's like, if I found out that anybody close to me was a child molester, was a child
predator, and I had two or three witnesses and I had found it, like, I would have no
problem throwing stones at them until they die.
Like, it wouldn't matter who they were.
Again, I'm saying, like, I love this person, but I wouldn't have a problem.
But again, just if I didn't know, like, I don't really know the person, I'm just making
stuff up.
It's really hard to want to just kill somebody based on just like random accusations or whatever.
And so that's why, you know, you go through this process where it's like, hey, someone,
you know, catches them, we proved it, it's true, and now we're going to do what the Bible
says and we're going to execute this person.
Hey, this person's worshiping false religion, false gods, yep, we're going to execute them.
And then, of course, not just me and the person that caught them, but everyone.
Everyone had to participate.
Do you notice how the Bible basically says, like, everyone's always participating in the
death penalty?
And it's so funny, like, people today act like the death penalty's a bad thing, or you
shouldn't bring this up, or how dare you talk about this in front of children or others.
I mean, the Bible is saying, hey, whenever someone was executed, everybody gets to participate.
Everyone is involved in this because it's an important part of society.
It's a healthy part of society for everybody to fear God.
That's why the death penalty exists.
You know, we used to have public executions in this country.
Public executions used to be a part of most societies and civilizations, and it's a way
to strike fear into people's hearts because when you watch someone being killed in front
of you for committing a grievous crime, it makes it that much more serious to you.
It makes capital punishments and capital crimes become more serious and more grave to you,
and you take life more seriously, you take the fear of God more seriously, and today
it's all hidden, obscured, no one sees it.
It's, you know, people are just playing video games and think this is fun, but I'm telling
you, if you watch someone get stoned to death, it would be a radical experience in your life.
Not only that, if you participated in the stoning of putting, you know, putting someone
to death, that would potentially radicalize you.
I mean, how much more would the kids behave if we took the rebellious one out and stoned
him in front of everybody?
I'm just telling you, like, kids would be like, "All right, yes, ma'am, yes, sir."
You know what I mean?
How much more would society be if we took the adulterer and the adulteress and we drugged
them out and we stoned them in front of everybody?
How much more serious would people take marriage?
How much more serious would people take murder and these serious crimes that are brought
up in society?
You know, today it's like, oh, you know, the Epstein list is like a big deal, but here's
the thing, even if they exposed all of it, would even a single person die?
I mean, I'm not even convinced, even if they just unredacted all of it, even if they showed
all the names and all the pictures and all the gruesome stuff, they could probably prove
tons of people.
Oh, they molested a thousand children.
The only way you die is if you're on their bad list, if you're Epstein, okay?
The only way you die is if you're going to actually reveal the information.
That's the only way you die.
By being revealed, it's like these people have no fear.
And you know, it's a shame in society, you know, we need to change the culture again
and get people on board with this and have society at least be willing to kill pedophiles.
Now, I mean, I didn't even realize this.
I put a post out on Twitter on X, I just said, like, all pedophiles should be executed.
To me, it was just like another day where I'm just, you know, the sky's blue, two plus
two equals four, I'm just like, whatever.
And again, on my X, I'm so heavily suppressed that it's just like, I get like very little
traffic.
And for some reason, this post just like, just got super viral.
I mean, just started exploding.
And I got more attention than I've gotten on most of my posts.
It was like 40 something thousand views and it was just like 5,000 likes and just like
a thousand retweets and all this stuff.
And I'm just thinking like, we need more of this apparently.
People that are willing to just say, can we kill pedophiles?
I mean, I'm just thinking like, this isn't even that hard.
This should be pretty easy.
Next we should just, here's the thing.
We get everybody in America to just agree, kill pedophiles.
Then realize this, all we have to do is help them realize, fags are pedophiles, okay?
That's all we have to do.
This is the first step.
The first step is just like, all right, kill all the pedophiles, okay?
And then it's just like, let's just bridge this really tiny gap in your mind that you
aren't realizing already exists there.
It's the same group.
But it's like, man, you kill pedophiles.
It's like you wouldn't have Hollywood anymore.
You wouldn't have Congress.
You wouldn't have fags.
Sounds like an amazing America.
It sounds like making America great again.
You know what I mean?
Well, then you wouldn't have the president.
Well, then I guess the MAGA movement's fake because you know what?
I don't care who it is, I don't care if it was my Siamese twin, kill all pedophiles.
Just like we should kill all false religion.
I mean, most people would be so ashamed of this, can't we at least just start with pedophilia?
Can we just start with those type of people?
You know, it's just crazy how people are just so squeamish about the death penalty.
But at the end of the day, if you say, "Well, I don't want the death penalty."
Okay, so what are you tolerating then?
So you're okay with 35,000 children being raised by sodomites?
So you're okay with 35,000 children being molested and being drugged around and in dresses
and men putting lipstick on little boys and stuff like this and making them act like a
girl.
You're okay with that?
Because you can't have it both ways.
You can't say like, "Oh, I'm going to get the death penalty."
Well, then that's what you want.
That's what you get.
You just get just a child molester that molests 150 children each in our country, in our society.
You have to see all the filth and the nonsense on all of our feeds.
You have to go to all kinds of stores and just see all their filth and their disgusting,
gross, just tranny nonsense.
I mean, just a picture of two men, you know, acting like a husband and wife is enough for
me to just want to end it all.
I'll just tell you what.
And I'm just saying like, you can't have it both ways, folks.
I'm pro death penalty.
And let me tell you something.
Oh, well, I don't like this, you know, your theocracy.
You know, how dare you want to kill false religion?
Okay, but you know what?
False religion is what's bringing this crap into America anyways.
You just keep, you keep forgetting why these things exist.
You really think America is going to be like that with no Catholics and no Jews and no
Hindus?
It's going to be great.
It's going to go back to being great again.
It's not going to have this problem.
Now look, every society, every country is going to have a problem.
We all have sinners and we all need criminal laws.
But you know, when we get rid of these more extreme punishments, these more extreme capital
punishments, you know what, our country gets into worse stuff, worse problems, worse consequences.
You know, God's law is always right.
Not having false religion in a nation is important.
And look, for any nation to be successful, it has to have ideological continuity.
You know, look at, look at countries in the world today.
They all pretty much have this.
People get mad at America.
Oh, like how dare America have like a theocracy or something.
But it's like, okay, have you ever heard of a Muslim country?
Like are Muslim countries just open to all religions or do you have to adhere to their
Islamic law?
You have to adhere to Sharia, folks.
Hey, if you go to China, it's not just an open, you can live, believe whatever you want,
have whatever church you want.
You can't have that in North Korea.
You can't have that in all these other places in the world.
So then why would Christianity be any different?
Why wouldn't we say, hey, well, we're going to be a Christian nation.
You have to follow Christian laws and Christian ideas if you want to be in this country or
visit or have anything to do with us.
I mean, it's just crazy how we just accept this of everywhere else, accept this of all
other nations, of all other countries, of all other areas, but then, oh, well, Christianity
can't be like that.
Why?
Because Christianity is the truth and the devil is trying to erode the truth, folks.
He doesn't care about all those other places because they're hellholes.
That's why he's not putting pressure on them.
That's why he doesn't care as much.
That's why they don't get as much flak.
Because look, Islamic countries are still more hostile to the homosexuals than Christian
nations, yet Christian nations get more pressure and more heat and more attack for their views
on that particular issue than Muslim countries.
Why?
Because the devil doesn't mess with his own as much.
He's messing with the real people, the real Christians.
That's who he's messing with.
And you know what?
In America, if you ever wanted to see a true revival, we have to become a Christian nation
again.
If you want right-wing politics to actually last, you have to have Christian leaders that
actually believe in the Bible.
You can't have these fake online personalities that are just going out there and pimping
Catholicism, pimping Orthodox, pimping themselves, pimping their wives, pimping just whatever's
out there.
You know, it's all fake and it's all gay.
I'll tell you, that's what the conservative movement is.
And you know what?
It needs to be Christian and it needs to be straight and it needs to be manly and it can't
be effeminate.
It should be masculine.
It needs to be strong and it needs to be King James only.
When was the last time you seen one of these non-the-non pastors being like a super alpha
strong guy?
They're weak like the NIV.
They're weak like the ESV.
You know, we need some King James only fundamentalism to take over our country, to wake people
up, to get people excited about the things of God.
If you want to see a real revival in this country, in this nation, and you know what?
It starts with saying, "Hey, false religion should be put to death."
That's what the Bible says.
Now, in verse 8 it says, "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of
controversy within thy gates, then thou shalt arise and get thee up into the place which
the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto
the judge that shall be in those days and inquire, and they shall show thee the sentence
of judgment.
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall
choose shall show thee, and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee,
according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do.
Thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand nor
to the left, and the man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that
standeth the minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man
shall die, and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
And all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously.
So again, the Bible is constantly hammering this word in this particular chapter of doing
things presumptuously.
What is presumptuous?
It's willful sin, it's willful rebellion, it's arrogance, it's boldness to do that which
is wrong.
This is this idea of presumptuous.
And to offer bad sacrifices to the Lord is presumptuous.
To go and worship false gods when you're in the nation of Israel is presumptuous.
To have the judges, to have the priest tell you what to do, to tell you what the law says,
to give you instruction and you just rebel and you won't do it.
This is presumptuous is what the Bible is saying.
And it's saying when someone has this attitude, when someone has this mindset, we need to
put them to death.
And then all the people here, and all the people here, because people should respect
authority.
We have to realize that the authority is God and He's giving us His instruction.
And when people rebel against His instruction, you're rebelling against God, you're rebelling
against authority.
This is what it is to be presumptuous.
This is detrimental to society.
This is going to decay a society.
This is going to crumble a society when no one has respect for authority anymore, when
nobody has respect for the law, you know, all these Hollywood celebrities getting up
and trashing ICE, you know what, they're trash and we should get rid of them.
And frankly speaking, again, we need to obey the powers that be because they were ordained
of God.
You know, I'm not saying that I like every ICE officer.
I'm not saying they're all saved, but you know what, the Bible calls them the ministers
of God.
That's what the Bible says.
They are the ministers of God.
And you know, I saw some stupid Democrat arguing with like 20 Republicans or something.
And this one Republican got up and was like doing this little debate thing, and he's trying
to say like, "Oh, 70% of these illegals are convicted criminals, or they've committed
crimes or whatever."
And this Democrat's like, "No, it's only like 40%," or something, you know.
And then they're like trying to show on the screen like it's actually, you know, 45%.
They're trying to make the Republican look bad.
But you know what?
They're both wrong.
You know what the statistic is?
They're 100% because they're called illegal immigrants.
What do you think that first word even means, you idiot?
Illegal immigrant.
Oh, I wonder if they should be arrested.
It's called illegal for a reason.
They're not supposed to be here.
What would be the alternative?
I mean, do these people just not believe in borders or something like that?
You know, and it's just so frustrating when you just tell people this is what you should
do.
This is how you should behave.
And then they just won't do it.
It's like, hey, you're not allowed to come across our border.
And they just come across our border.
What does the Bible say?
Well, the law should say, hey, you're not supposed to be here.
And if they won't obey, death.
You know, if some sodomite lesbian is trying to run over an ICE officer with her vehicle,
you know what?
She deserves death.
She has forfeited her right to live.
Now, again, she already forfeited by being a lesbian.
She should already have been executed.
But let me say this, hey, when the judge or the officer or the priest tells you what
to do and you're presumptuous, God's law says they should be put to death.
That's what the Bible says.
And you know, these people that, you know, they say like, oh, what if we put them all
across the border and then they come back?
Well, you know what the American policy should be?
Death.
If you're going to be presumptuous with our borders, if you're just going to cross illegally,
I mean, how is that any different than an invading army?
What would be the difference?
You know, you're just not allowed to just invade other countries.
It's like, it wouldn't matter if someone's armed or not, because someone's like, "Oh,
well, they're not armed."
Okay, let's just play this with your house.
Let's say someone came into your house at night unarmed.
What are you going to do?
Maybe if you're the nicest person ever, you might physically throw them out.
If you're not, you probably just blow their head off.
The first time, let alone if you caught this guy, got him out of your house, he came back
in a second time, yeah, you better believe you're going to blow him away.
Why would I, why would I treat our border any differently as a nation, as a country?
That should be the policy.
Now, again, I'm not saying that we can't have foreigners.
I'm not saying that we can't have immigrants.
I'm not saying that we can't allow refugees.
I'm not saying that we can't have immigration.
Don't hear me wrong, but there should be illegal immigration as well.
And you know, it would be great if we actually had a Christian nation and the people that
wanted to be here actually wanted to be Christians.
That would solve our immigration policy pretty quick.
And if you wanted to worship a false God or break God's laws, you're going to be put to
death.
That would solve a lot of our problems again pretty quick.
All these liberals keep threatening.
They're like, "Oh, I'm going to leave if that's what America's going to be like."
Great.
Let's do it.
That would fix our nation.
But let me tell you something.
You go to the judge, you go to the priest, he tells you what to do and you're not going
to do it.
You're not going to follow the law.
Death penalty.
That's God's policy.
That's God's.
You know, did you notice that it's not even saying like it's a big deal necessarily?
Did you notice, but between plea and plea, there was an argument.
One guy had a plea.
The other guy had a different plea.
The judge said, "He's right.
This is what you got to do."
And the guy said, "No, I don't want to do it."
Okay, kill him.
That's the law.
I mean, it's not even saying like it was necessarily a capital offense or a super grievous issue.
What's grievous is someone that's presumptuously breaking the law, presumptuously going against
God's word, which is the same principle that is applied to why the children are put the
death that are presumptuously rebelling against their parents.
The stubborn rebellious son that will not harken unto his parents, look, why would you keep
him around?
Because the saying, if you elevate it to the law, he's going to do the exact same thing
and it's the same consequence.
So we're just saying we might as well just end it now.
Because if you just will not obey authority, if you will not respect authority, if you're
not going to do what the law says, you're not going to do what God said, you know what?
Death for you.
And of course, you know, this is how the laws should operate.
Obviously there's always grace, there's always mercy.
We get these concepts.
There are other principles in the Bible, but we have to understand true justice.
We have to understand the law in order to understand mercy and to understand grace when
they apply.
But generally speaking, hey, if the priest tells you something, you got to do it.
Now this is what I find funny because obviously all of these things I'm saying are just like
hype dream.
They're like, "I wish America was anywhere close to something like this."
Right?
What would be an application we could take today?
Well, how about this?
How about when you have a controversy?
How about when you have an issue?
How about when you want advice?
How about when you go and you ask your pastor a question?
Because this is what I find just crazy.
According to the law here, if you ask the man of God what to do and you didn't do it,
you're put to death.
And then people will come and ask pastors for advice and then they just don't care
what they say, won't do what they said.
Just ignore that type of advice.
And I'm just thinking like, that's crazy, that's just crazy to me.
Like you should be careful who you're asking for advice and what they tell you and then
going against what they said.
Now again, I'm not saying that sometimes people ask pastors and leadership, personal questions
and it's like a gray area, it's like, hey, should I get a red car or a blue car?
And it's like, oh, I like red, you know?
Obviously, I'm not saying that you're going to, God's going to kill you if you get the
blue car, right?
But you know, if someone's asking for advice or wanting to know what something is, you
know, to do, and it's like, well, here's what the Bible is telling you you should do.
And then you just ignore clear biblical advice.
You just ignore what would be the right thing to do.
You're walking on dangerous territory with God.
You know, you should be careful asking for advice, seeking what the Lord's will, wanting
to know what's the right thing to do, and then just rebelling against it, going against
it, not doing it.
You know what?
God could potentially punish you very severely for going against that.
You should take these things very seriously.
If you ask a pastor's advice, it should be because you're willing to take it.
If you, you have to first, before you ask a question of a pastor or a man of God, you
should first ask yourself this question.
If he tells me what I don't want to hear, will I do it?
And if you think I'm not, don't even ask, because there's no point in even asking.
There's no point in even going down that road.
And people love to just ask, you know, for someone to just basically be a yes man.
They ask questions to people that they just know or just going to give them the response
they want.
No.
You know, I kind of try to do the opposite personally.
I have pastor friends that, you know, I kind of know like this person's not going to just
agree with me.
And so sometimes, and it could be on different areas, it could be in different subject matters.
And so I'm like, I'm trying to ask the guy that I think will not necessarily agree with
me because I want to know what his real opinion is.
I want to be challenged on my ideas.
I want to make sure that I'm right.
And so you try to ask people, you know, hey, is this right?
What do you think?
You know, because you want to make sure, hey, you're doing right.
There's nothing wrong with the multitude of counselors.
There is safety, according to the Bible.
But at the end of the day, you know, you better believe that if I ask one of my colleagues,
you know, a serious inquiry, I'm really wanting to give the advice, I take it seriously.
And if they challenge me, if they're saying something, you know, I'm going to be willing
to take that advice or do things differently, hey, even my own father, my father's given
me advice as an adult man and I said, you know what, you know, what he said is not necessarily
something I agree with, I don't really want to do, but there's no reason why I shouldn't,
like there's nothing biblically wrong, but you know, he's my father, I'm just going to
do it.
You know, that should be our default, our default should just be, hey, I'm just going
to go with advice.
Now, there's been times where my parents, you know, people in authority over me have
given me advice, told me what to do, and it was in my mind clearly against what God's
vision was for my life or what I believed I should do that was right, and I went with
God's approach.
I did what God wanted me to do, and you know what, God has blessed me every time I always
made a decision that was a spiritual decision.
But generally speaking, when there's not a clear spiritual boundary, you should obey
authority.
When there's a clear spiritual boundary, you better obey authority, otherwise you're
just begging God to punish you severely.
You know what, I don't want that.
I don't want to be presumptuous.
Look at what it says in Deuteronomy chapter 1, go back to Deuteronomy chapter 1.
I looked up in the dictionary, here's presumptuous, too confident in an assumption that is rude.
It's arrogant.
It's smug.
It's showing little respect for others.
It's doing things that you have no right to do.
It's bold defiance.
This is what it means to be presumptuous.
Deuteronomy 1, look at verse 43, "So I spake unto you, and you would not hear, but rebelled
against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill."
So that gives you kind of a self-contained definition in the Bible.
What is it to be presumptuous?
It's to rebel against the commandment of God.
When God's Word is saying something and you just won't do it, you don't care, you don't
like what it says, and you just do it anyways, it's just a bold defiance against God.
This is a dangerous choice to make when you know it's wrong.
When you know what God's Word is saying and you just decide to do it anyways.
God is saying we should be very careful and we should not want to commit presumptuous
sins against the Lord.
Now go back to verse 14.
I mean on some level, arguably you could argue that every sin has a level of presumptuousness,
right?
In the sense that we're all sinning against God.
But sometimes, you know, people are sinning because they're just ignorant.
Sometimes people are sinning because they just kind of get, you know, headed in a wrong
direction or they're not really thinking clearly.
They're not being sober about their actions or thoughts or whatever.
And sometimes people sin and they're very sober about it.
You know, I would argue that if you think about Adam and Eve, it's like Eve sinned.
You know, the Bible is clear that what she was doing was wrong, but she's kind of tricked
about it.
She's kind of deceived.
She's kind of like doing, you know, what she thinks in her mind is kind of like right
in a sense, she's desiring wisdom.
And when Adam sins, the Bible makes it clear like he knows what he was doing was wrong.
He just, you know, Adam is just, he's really aware, if you think about it, the weight of
sin is laid upon.
It's Adam that's sin.
It's Adam that's bringing in sin into the world.
And in a sense, why?
Because there's like this element of presumptuousness with Adam where he gets this accredited nature
of bringing in that sin.
It's like God takes these presumptuous sins very seriously.
And it's just, "Hey, you know this is wrong.
You know this is the wrong path.
You know God's going to be mad at you and you just do it anyways."
Boy, it's just really, really detrimental and God can severely chastise you for this.
Again, if you do it, you better get on your knees and repent right away.
Beg God that he'll be merciful.
Beg God that he won't punish you as you deserve.
But at the end of the day, we should be careful and not have these presumptuous sins because
when you do presumptuous sin, you're encouraging other people to do presumptuous sin.
If you kind of think about it similar to what we talked about Sunday night, like church
discipline issues.
Someone that's just brazenly committing fornication and it's open in the church, that's just going
to cause other people to want to commit fornication.
Someone that's brazenly getting drunk, that's just going to cause other people to want to
go and get brazenly drunk.
People that are doing these presumptuous type sins, presumptuously railing, just attacking
the church and saying, "What are you going to do about it?
What are you going to say about it?"
You know, I feel like some people it's almost like they're testing leadership to see if they're gonna actually do anything about stuff
It's like i'm just gonna rail and just see if the pastor gets on to me because you know
I'll just i'll just say I was sorry, you know if I get caught but it's like, you know, hey
I will come down on you. That's why I always scream at people when I think like I will handle it
I will deal with the situation. I will find you. I will look at your phone
I will call you out
I will catch you. I will deal with you like don't think that I won't okay
But at the end of the day you even say that and they still do it
You know, some people are just gonna always test the limit. Some people are just always going to you know
Make the uncomfortable situation happen. But you know, I went to faithful word
There was a guy talking all this trash on pastor anderson my sending pastor just mad trash all these text messages
Well, of course they leaked to pastor anderson. He sees them
He confronts the guy in the parking lot and he says hey you've been talking all this trash and then shows him whatever
And and and he's like if you he says if you come in there
I'm throwing you out in front of the entire congregation and he said or you can just you can just leave because the guy wasn't
Repentant the guy wasn't sorry about it. The guy wasn't taking like he wasn't like trying to make amends about it
He's just like yeah, I said that yeah, who cares? Whatever. He just waltzes right in with his whole family
It was a rough announcement. So i'll just tell you that and boy he made him get up and I mean like it was embarrassing though
Because he made like his whole family is like wife and kids are like crying and it's this big scene
And they had to be like kind of escorted out and it was just like this nasty thing
But it's just like dude, why why do you have to be like that?
But there are people that are like that and you know, there's leaders that don't want to go through that ugly announcement
They don't want to go through that drama
So then you know what they do they cower and they just back down they just let people like that walk all over them
And then they have a church full of presumptuous railers and people that just walk all over them
And they just keep walking on all over them until they just are basically a wet noodle, you know
And that's just you don't want to go down that road
So that's why it's important to deal with presumptuous and as a society. That's what happened as a society
We stop wanting to put people to death. We stop wanting to have the witch trials
I'm sorry. You felt squeamish about the witch trials. We should still have witch trials and put witches to death
I'm sorry. You didn't like it. I'm sorry
You feel a little squeamish over just all of these different statutes and laws that used to exist
I'm sorry. You didn't like the stubborn rebellious kid getting stoned
But you know what when as a government you just let these people walk all over you
Well, then you have worse consequences
And you know what? We should not allow people to just presumptuously do whatever they want
You know in this church, that is not how it works. You're going to be presumptuous against this church
Well, you're going to be taken to task
That's just the reality of it. Why so that all the people can hear and fear and do no more presumptuously
You know, sometimes we need that public example that uncomfortable announcements that uncomfortable
Whatever situation so that people can be like dang. I don't want that to happen to me
Dang
I don't want to have to go down that road and maybe they'll just repent the good people repent the bad people
Maybe they'll just stay away because they they're too much of a coward to even go through that process
Now it says in verse 14. It's a little bit of a transition
It says when thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee and shalt possess it and shalt dwell therein
And shalt say I will set a king over me like is all the nations that are about me
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose one
From among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother
but he shall not multiply horses to himself nor cause the people to return to Egypt to the end that he should multiply horses for as
Much as the Lord has said unto you he shall henceforth return no more that way
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turned not away
Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold and it shall be
When he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law and a book out of that which
Is before the priests the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read there in all the days of his life
That he may learn to fear the Lord as God to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turned not aside from the commandment to the right hand
Or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom
he and his children in the midst of Israel now verses 14 through 20 deal with the idea of
Setting up a king in the future. This is actually comes to fruition in first Samuel chapter 8. Keep your finger
Let's go there quickly now the Bible does not expressly state thou shalt not set a king over me
Like or thou shalt not set a king over Israel or do not have a king
There's there's not really an express statement like that
But the principle of the Old Testament law was for them to set up judges
The commandment was to set up judges and officers
So if there was the right government of having a king then God would have said thou shalt set a king
He would have just said this is what you do set a king and let the king rule
But he doesn't have a commandment like that
He has a different kind of command it's like when you end up just doing it. This is what you should do
Okay
Because technically the Bible really wanted their government to be set up with judges and with the priests and with God as their as their king
But this is indirectly understood through first Samuel chapter 8 when they do set up a king
So they're eventually gonna set up a king
It's King Saul and they basically are tired of the judges system
They're tired of Samuel they don't want Samuel sons to reign over them because same as sons are wicked and it's a legit grievance
But they should have still stuck with other judges or found other men
You know as an ideal situation, but and still tried to have God as their king
But as kind of a secondary option they end up setting a king
But they still have to set the king that God wants now at first Samuel chapter 8. I don't think for sake of time
I'll read all this but read a little bit says in verse 5 and said of them behold thou are old
This is the children of the elders of Israel talking to Samuel and thy sons walked not on thy ways now make us a king
To judge us like all the nations so that's what the Bible saying like when you just want to be like to the nations
You're gonna ask for a king says but the things please Samuel when they said give us a king to judge us and Samuel prayed
On the Lord and the Lord said unto Samuel hearken on the voices of the people and all that they say unto thee
For they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them
So what's the implication the implication is and you can go back to our text here in Deuteronomy chapter 17
The implication is that by setting up a king they're replacing
God as their king so God was supposed to be their king and that the judges were just supposed to rule from the law
And so in a sense, you know, that's how their government was supposed to be set up
America is a pretty similar government in the sense that we have a system of judges and a system of you know law
They're supposed to have written laws and the Bible is supposed to be the ultimate authority in a sense to of the land
And so in a lot of ways our government was kind of set up in an idealistic situation
But it's like once things get so corrupted eventually people just beg for a king. That's just kind of an inevitable
Inevitable outcome. It's possible that America may get a king someday and I don't I'm not saying I approve of this
I'm not saying I agree with this
I think our government system is superior to having a king when you have good people
But you know having bad people it's obviously bad and they're like well, but a king could fix it a king would just probably make it worse
Okay, it's probably just escalated and probably that king will be someone called the Antichrist
Okay
Because the Bible does talk about a king ruling over a specific nation that goes and conquers the world and he gets a special crown
Have you ever noticed that that starting point is when he gets crowned?
He almost wonders that like when America does a transition from our particular government into an actual kingship
We actually crown someone the king of America and then they go forth conquering and conquering the world or something
I don't know. Maybe it's a secession if we could have potentially multiple kings
We could have no king and it's just it's just hyperbole or it's just poetic language
I don't know but there's nothing to suggest that America could never have a king
Biblically speaking or prophetically speaking but it would be wrong and it was wrong for them to have this particular king
So I don't want you to read the Old Testament law in the wrong way
You know, the Bible says hey when you commit a trespass offering, here's what you do offer pigeons offer this
That's not saying like commit trespass offerings in the same way the Bible say hey if a guy has a second wife
Here's how he handles the situation. This is like this kind of a statute
It's saying hey when you guys just rebel against me
Reject me as your king and just decide you want to set up a king and be like the heathen be like the Gentiles
Well, then these are the principles that you need to lease abide by okay
So we don't want to get the wrong idea is there an actual commandment saying thou shalt not have a king no
But the implication is in first name of chapter number eight that this is a this is an inferior type of government
This isn't a rejection of God as their king. It's a replacement of God as their king and
So it's not something they should do now within this there's still good principles
If you did have a king you would want them to be one of your brethren
You would not want a foreigner you would you don't want to have
Foreigners in government and look, this is just a good principle
You should not have foreign citizens and your government foreign citizens should not dual citizens should not be in your government
Should not be your leadership should not be your king
It should be someone that actually cares about your land is born in your land is a part of your nation
Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Okay, so I don't believe that you should you know have someone that's a foreigner
Some kind of a stranger. It should be someone that's your brother number 16 through
17 kind of deals with just the ambitions of leadership and again
We should apply this to our government because what is this?
This is talking about personal enrichment of leadership and you know
Many people go into Congress and go into the government poor and then come out very wealthy
Extremely wealthy and look I think that we should pay our government officials very well
I think honestly we probably pay them way too little but let me tell you something, you know
You're not gonna become a multi-millionaire getting paid three hundred thousand dollars a year four hundred thousand dollars a year or whatever
You're not gonna be making the insider trading deals that Nancy Pelosi is doing on insider trading
You're not gonna have all the lobbying efforts. You're not gonna have all this money funneling through these individuals
You're not gonna have like negative forty five thousand dollar net worth and then have a forty million dollar net worth in three years on a
$400,000 salary never gonna happen
And in fact, if you had to play by the rules and pay your own way and you're only getting paid
300,000 bucks or something or 400,000 bucks to be in DC, you know doing all their kind of stuff
You probably would be barely making it paycheck to paycheck. I mean that place is expensive food
There is expensive traveling and doing all this kind of stuff. It would be an expensive lifestyle
So, you know, they should be public servants, you know at the end of the day or if you want to have a lower salary
But then just give them a high, you know budget that they can spend on their travel and whatever
We can figure out a way to make the government actually work
But let me tell you something insider lobbying and trading, you know
These insider trading and lobbying and all these different things. They're corrupting our government extremely
It's wrong. And if you really pay attention what the text is saying here
Did you notice it says in verse 16, but he should not multiply horses to himself. Notice that phrase to himself
Notice what it says in the latter part of this
He says in verse number 17. He shall neither shall he multiply wives to himself
And then it also says in the end of part of verse 17 and he greatly multiply to himself
Silver and gold so there's nothing wrong with the king
Multiplying horses for the nation. There's nothing wrong with the king multiplying wives to the nation
There's nothing wrong with the king multiplying gold and silver to the nation. What's the problem?
Multiplying horses to himself multiplying wives to himself multiplying silver and gold to himself
What is the implication in this universe? We don't want leaders there for selfish ambition
We don't want leaders there to be there to basically take advantage of their position just for personal enrichment
And then this is a principle in America today and nonprofit organizations
They have a statute called personal
Renewment where someone in charge of a nonprofit charity should not be being personally enriched through their activities of the charity
Because that violates the principle of the charity now look you can pay a
Principal director or individual of a charity a high salary, but they cannot basically be personally benefited from large
donations or the extra money or the net profit of the organization because they would be incentivized then to make
Decisions based on money not on what's best for the charity and in the same way the king should not be making decisions
They're gonna help bless him personally, but for the nation horses for the nation or
Wives for the nation or gold and silver for the nation
There's nothing wrong with the nation being prosperous or successful or having good things
But it's wrong for him to be doing these things for himself and look
Who in here even has a horse does anybody even own a horse? Okay, nobody owns horse, but you have a lot of horsepower
Okay, you know and if you think about it back in the day, you know, you probably need a couple horses
I mean, there's nothing wrong with having different horses multiple horses. Sometimes horses can get tired. Sometimes you have to trade horses
There's nothing wrong with having multiple horses just like today. Most of us probably have more than one car, you know
Some people only have one car. That's fine. A lot of us probably have at least one two three cars, you know
If you have a lot of teenagers, you might have even more, you know
If you don't have you know, if it's just you you probably have one if you have a wife and you probably have two
You know, it just it just kind of depends on your family size
But you know what you don't really need 20 cars
Do you if you had 20 cars wouldn't you kind of think like what's the point in that because you're not you know
You're not gonna really drive 20 cars at a time. You can't really ride 20 horses at a time
It's just kind of like an excess. That's like a pride thing at that point. It's not practical. It's not useful
It's not it's not having any real utility
It's just kind of some excess that you don't really need and again
That would be the implication here that the leaders should not be having just 20 cars
You know you look at some of these pastors today. You're like the Kenneth Copeland the TD Jakes
They're sitting here with 20 30 cars. You're thinking like what's wrong with this person? They don't even they ride in the limo
They don't even need one car and yet they have 20 cars. They have 30 cars. They have all these things
You're just thinking like that doesn't really make sense. Is there anything wrong with having a couple cars?
No, but you wouldn't be one you want to be multiplying you'll have dozens of cars. That doesn't make sense, right?
You know, you need one wife. You don't need dozens of wives. Okay, that's just a selfish thing
You know that doesn't really make any sense dozens of women you look at people that are in positions of power today
What do they do? They multiply their cars. They multiply their their mistresses
Their concubines their women they have dozens of women or just multiplying silver and gold to himself
Extreme wealth that he doesn't heat. I mean look having gold and silver is already a lot
I mean just an ounce of gold is like, what was it like?
$5,000 or something. I know it's dropped recently. So forgive me if I'm wrong, but it's it's somewhere around four or five thousand dollars an ounce
I mean just a couple bars of gold you'd be having tons and tons of money
The Bible didn't even say it was wrong for him to have silver and gold. It was wrong for him to be
Multiplying silver and gold to himself. So it's like this guy doesn't just have money. This guy is just just exorbitantly wealthy
Just multiplying tons of money unto himself. Just just egregious amounts of income that just doesn't make sense
You don't want these people to have these just high levels of wealth high levels of riches
You know, it just shows that their hearts not in the things of God again. What keeps their heart grounded. Well reading the Bible
That's what it says. He would make a copy write him a copy in a book. Yes. They had books back then
yes, they could write and
Notice I love this it says out of that which is before the priests the Levites notice that God believes in preservation
Notice that God didn't say write him a copy of the manuscripts found in a trash can and sign Atticus
Write him a trash can version find go dig up some Bible somewhere and make him a copy
No, make him a copy of what the priests have because we believe in the received text and the received text
It was passed down and the priests had in their hand and then you're supposed to read it every single day of his life
What that he may learn to fear the Lord is God
Let me tell you something people that don't fear God don't read their Bible when you start seeing
Pastors and preachers teaching things that are permissive
They don't read the Bible and another aspect is in verse 20 that his heartbeat not lifted up above his brethren prideful people don't read
The Bible now I'll say this I do think some people like these are the really extreme
Versions of your holier-than-thou's they might scan through the text often, but they're not really reading it
They're not really thinking about it. They don't really understand the Bible. They're not like soaking it in
They're just kind of like scanning the page that maybe hit a checklist and act like they read their Bible
Look people that are sincerely reading the text and thinking about what it says and allowing it to convict their heart
Will not be prideful and will fear God and you know, look I love challenges and I do them, too
I love the New Testament challenge, but let me tell you something you'd be better off
Having not read all of it and actually soaked everything in that you read than just having scanned the words on the page
So you could check a list, you know and and look I've been there done that where I'm trying to just get through certain Bible
Reading, you know
Goals or whatever and sometimes I'm reading the text pretty quickly and I'm not against reading the text quickly necessarily
But honestly, it's it's better you actually understand what you're reading. You can pay attention slow down
Think about it meditate upon it really allow it to kind of challenge you because look if you read the Bible all the time
You're reading it regularly you're soaking it in you're thinking about it
You won't be prideful and you'll actually fear God the people that are not fearing God people that get backslidden
People that are prideful I'm telling you it started with them stop reading the Bible or just never reading it at all
But you know
There's just there's just an overlap of the people that read the Bible that are humble and want to serve God and the people not
Reading the Bible. They're just they have no fear of God. They're just railers. They're just wicked
They get backslidden. They have all kinds of issues and you'd be like, how do you know that? I read my Bible
I don't believe you you're already a railer. So why would I believe you anyways, but I'm just telling you and look
There's a reason why someone would drive an hour to come to this church. I'll tell you why because they read their Bible
There's a reason why somebody goes to the non-nom church because they don't read their Bible
There is no one in the non-the-nom church that is reading a King James Bible one hour a day
There is no one there is no way on planet Earth that anybody could read the King James Bible
For one hour a day and then go hear Kenneth Copeland speak for five minutes
Look when you have that much of the voice of the shepherd ringing in your ears and in your heart when you hear that other trash
It's just gonna vex you so hard
It's gonna make you cringe so hard. The only reason people can go to the non-denominational
Fund-centers today is because they have no idea what the Bible says
It's because they don't read it whatsoever
And you say I want to fix America
We must get people to read the King James Bible again
The first step in fixing our nation is getting people reading the King James Bible again
Look, obviously we had to get them saved and I get that but I'm just saying in correlation if they're not reading the Bible
There will be no change. They will not fix anything. They will not grow. They will not fear the Lord
Look, it was so important for the priests and for the pastors and for everybody to give exhortation to give attendance to reading to reading
What does Jesus say to the Pharisees? Have you not read?
Every time they're screwed up every time they're prideful every time they don't fear God
What does Jesus say? Have you not read and look when I see people not fearing God
Just screwed up on doctrine saying stupid stuff. I'm just thinking like she's not read
You know, I listen to certain people preach certain pastors and I'm thinking like has this guy not read
It's like man. The sermon is terrible. And look, you know, I evaluate sermons
What is what is the doctrine of this book compared to their sermon? Not how eloquent it is
Look, there are people that have a good sounding voice have charisma can stand up behind a pulpit can you know fake it?
But let me tell you something what's coming out of their mouth is trash. It's garbage. It's the world its philosophy
It's vain. It's anti scripture and you know what? It's trash
You need to make sure that you're reading this book and let me tell you something if you read this book
You'll like good preaching if you don't read this book, who knows what you like
You could like anything the one thing that will protect you and your family is this book
You need to be a Berean and you need to go home and you need to check and you need to make sure that
Every single thing that I say is what the Bible says because I can be wrong. I can say things that are amiss
Anybody can but let me tell you something churches go really off the deep end when they stop reading the Bible and let me tell you
Some a church that's filled with pride is a church that's filled with non Bible readers. Maybe they're Bible scanners
I don't know that would be the benefit of the doubt
I would give them but they're not Bible readers because if they're Bible readers, they would be humble they would fear God
They would not go down the dark paths that they do and you know what the way that this church will stay healthy is if
We read the Bible way that will be humbled just like the king needed to be humble
And look if the king can be humbled by the word of God
How much more can we be humbled by the word of God? We need to read it on a regular basis
We need to be studying to show ourselves approved unto God
We need to be making sure that our hearts are right with the Lord
We need to fear the Lord even more but you cannot read the Old Testament and walk away not fearing God
I'm telling you what if you aren't then you just aren't reading it and at the end of the day
You know, let Jesus words ring true in that New Testament. Have you not read? Let's close in prayer
Thank you heavenly father so much for your law. Thank you so much for giving us so many good instructions
I pray that we wouldn't be presumptuous that we wouldn't just
Rebell against what you clearly want us to do
That when we understand what the bible says that you would help humble us that you give us a fear of your word
Do you give us a fear of your commandments that you would help us to have a heart and desire to obey you?
I pray that as we grow in our fear towards you that you would also bless us and that you give us joy
That you would allow our our church to do great works for your honor and for your glory that we could offer up
Sacrifices that are pleasing unto you and I pray that you would help us to be a bright and shining light in such a dark
World in jesus name we pray amen
All right for our last song let's go to song number 27
Song number 27 a good cross
Song number 27, let's all sing that out together.
Keep singing everybody, you were all dismissed.