WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:24.520 umental Country便 00:24.520 --> 00:24.520 00:24.520 --> 00:26.520 mass of Charmian land 00:26.520 --> 00:28.520 that might we sing 00:28.520 --> 00:30.520 Givin' forth the 00:30.520 --> 00:32.520 anthem of the free 00:32.520 --> 00:34.520 Ring the bells of heaven 00:34.520 --> 00:36.520 there is joy today 00:36.520 --> 00:38.520 For the one 00:38.520 --> 00:40.520 from hell is reconciled 00:40.520 --> 00:42.520 Yes, his soul 00:42.520 --> 00:44.520 is rested and proud 00:44.520 --> 00:46.520 is in obey 00:46.520 --> 00:48.520 And is born anew 00:48.520 --> 00:50.520 the mass of child 00:50.520 --> 00:52.520 Glory, glory 00:52.520 --> 00:54.520 how the angels sing 00:54.520 --> 00:56.520 Glory, glory 00:56.520 --> 00:58.520 how the loud hearts ring 00:58.520 --> 01:00.520 Tis the ransom 01:00.520 --> 01:02.520 for me like a mighty 01:02.520 --> 01:04.520 sea Givin' forth 01:04.520 --> 01:06.520 the anthem of the free 01:06.520 --> 01:08.520 Ring the bells 01:08.520 --> 01:10.520 of heaven, swell 01:10.520 --> 01:12.520 the feast today 01:12.520 --> 01:14.520 Angels swell the brides 01:14.520 --> 01:16.520 round this day 01:16.520 --> 01:18.520 Tell the gentle tidings 01:18.520 --> 01:20.520 there and far away 01:20.520 --> 01:22.520 For a precious soul 01:22.520 --> 01:24.520 is born again 01:24.520 --> 01:26.520 Glory, glory 01:26.520 --> 01:28.520 how the angels sing 01:28.520 --> 01:30.520 Glory, glory 01:30.520 --> 01:32.520 how the loud hearts ring 01:32.520 --> 01:34.520 Tis the ransom 01:34.520 --> 01:36.520 for me like a mighty 01:36.520 --> 01:38.520 sea Givin' forth 01:38.520 --> 01:40.520 the anthem of the free 01:42.520 --> 01:44.520 All that ungodly 01:44.520 --> 01:46.520 is greater 01:46.520 --> 01:48.520 far than 01:48.520 --> 01:50.520 the north wind 01:50.520 --> 01:52.520 and embers held 01:52.520 --> 01:54.520 It goes beyond 01:54.520 --> 01:56.520 the highest star 01:56.520 --> 01:58.520 and reaches to 01:58.520 --> 02:00.520 the lowest hill 02:00.520 --> 02:02.520 The guilty prayer 02:02.520 --> 02:04.520 now go with prayer 02:04.520 --> 02:06.520 Now give his son 02:06.520 --> 02:08.520 to me 02:08.520 --> 02:10.520 His erring child 02:10.520 --> 02:12.520 he reconciled 02:12.520 --> 02:14.520 and parted from 02:14.520 --> 02:16.520 his sin 02:16.520 --> 02:18.520 Oh, love of God 02:18.520 --> 02:20.520 how rich and pure 02:20.520 --> 02:22.520 how measureless 02:22.520 --> 02:24.520 and strong 02:24.520 --> 02:26.520 It shall forever 02:26.520 --> 02:28.520 more endure 02:28.520 --> 02:30.520 the saints and 02:30.520 --> 02:32.520 angels' soul 02:32.520 --> 02:34.520 When nears the time 02:34.520 --> 02:36.520 shall pass away 02:36.520 --> 02:38.520 and earthly 02:38.520 --> 02:40.520 goods and kingdoms 02:40.520 --> 02:42.520 full When men 02:42.520 --> 02:44.520 who hear the 02:44.520 --> 02:46.520 When men who hear 02:46.520 --> 02:48.520 re-kiss and pray 02:48.520 --> 02:50.520 How rocks and glades 02:50.520 --> 02:52.520 and mountains roll 02:52.520 --> 02:54.520 God's blood so sure 02:54.520 --> 02:56.520 shall still endure 02:56.520 --> 02:58.520 How measureless 02:58.520 --> 03:00.520 and strong 03:00.520 --> 03:02.520 Redeeming praise 03:02.520 --> 03:04.520 to Adam's race 03:04.520 --> 03:06.520 The saints and 03:06.520 --> 03:08.520 angels' song 03:08.520 --> 03:10.520 Oh, love of God 03:10.520 --> 03:12.520 how rich and 03:12.520 --> 03:14.520 pure 03:14.520 --> 03:16.520 how measureless 03:16.520 --> 03:18.520 and strong 03:18.520 --> 03:20.520 It shall forever 03:20.520 --> 03:22.520 more endure 03:22.520 --> 03:24.520 the saints and 03:24.520 --> 03:26.520 angels' song 03:26.520 --> 03:28.520 Could we within 03:28.520 --> 03:30.520 the ocean fill 03:30.520 --> 03:32.520 and bird-ly skies 03:32.520 --> 03:34.520 of hearts with 03:34.520 --> 03:36.520 faith 03:36.520 --> 03:38.520 Could we within 03:38.520 --> 03:40.520 the ocean fill 03:40.520 --> 03:42.520 and every man 03:42.520 --> 03:44.520 astride by train 03:44.520 --> 03:46.520 to ride the love 03:46.520 --> 03:48.520 of God above 03:48.520 --> 03:50.520 which made the 03:50.520 --> 03:52.520 ocean dry 03:52.520 --> 03:54.520 Mark with us 03:54.520 --> 03:56.520 road and take the 03:56.520 --> 03:58.520 home the saints from 03:58.520 --> 04:00.520 sky to new 04:00.520 --> 04:02.520 sky 04:02.520 --> 04:04.520 Oh, love of God 04:04.520 --> 04:06.520 how rich and pure 04:06.520 --> 04:08.520 how measureless 04:08.520 --> 04:10.520 and strong 04:10.520 --> 04:12.520 It shall forever 04:12.520 --> 04:14.520 more endure 04:14.520 --> 04:16.520 the saints and 04:16.520 --> 04:18.520 angels' song 04:18.520 --> 04:20.520 Sing that chorus acapella with me 04:20.520 --> 04:22.520 Oh, love of God 04:22.520 --> 04:24.520 how rich and pure 04:24.520 --> 04:26.520 how measureless 04:26.520 --> 04:28.520 and strong 04:28.520 --> 04:30.520 It shall forever 04:30.520 --> 04:32.520 more endure 04:32.520 --> 04:34.520 the saints and angels' song 04:34.520 --> 04:36.520 Sing that chorus acapella with me 04:36.520 --> 04:38.520 It shall forever 04:38.520 --> 04:40.520 more endure 04:40.520 --> 04:42.520 the saints and angels' song 05:06.520 --> 05:08.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:08.520 --> 05:10.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:10.520 --> 05:12.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:12.520 --> 05:14.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:14.520 --> 05:16.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:16.520 --> 05:18.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:18.520 --> 05:20.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:20.520 --> 05:22.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:22.520 --> 05:24.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:24.520 --> 05:26.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:26.520 --> 05:28.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:28.520 --> 05:30.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:30.520 --> 05:32.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:32.520 --> 05:34.520 We shall sing all that live in the shore 05:34.600 --> 05:36.120 Casey tangled 05:37.160 --> 05:45.960 Olive談 05:45.960 --> 06:07.960 In the sea, high and high, we shall be a family in the storm. 06:07.960 --> 06:16.960 To our mountain, O Father, above, we will honor our daily praise. 06:16.960 --> 06:26.960 For the glorious gift of His love and the blessings that our Lord has given us. 06:26.960 --> 06:47.960 In the sea, high and high, we shall be a beautiful shore. 06:47.960 --> 07:02.960 Hear the story from God's word that kings and priests and prophets heard. 07:02.960 --> 07:16.960 There would be a sacrifice when God would come to native skies. 07:16.960 --> 07:29.960 Precious land of glory, God knows God's rest glory. 07:29.960 --> 07:43.960 Heart of God, redemption of man, worst in the bear of glory. 07:43.960 --> 07:57.960 On the cross, God loved the world, while all the past the present were hurled. 07:57.960 --> 08:11.960 No one cared what others did, the Lord they saw was Christ the Lamb. 08:11.960 --> 08:25.960 Precious land of glory, God knows God's rest glory. 08:25.960 --> 08:40.960 Heart of God, redemption of man, worst in the bear of glory. 08:41.960 --> 08:49.960 I'm in the way, the bright and shining way, I'm in the glory land way. 08:49.960 --> 08:58.960 Telling the world that Jesus saves today, yes, I'm in the glory land way. 08:58.960 --> 09:06.960 I'm in the glory land way, I'm in the glory land way. 09:06.960 --> 09:15.960 Heaven is nearer and away growing clearer, for I'm in the glory land way. 09:15.960 --> 09:23.960 Lest to the call of the gospel come to me, in the glory land way. 09:23.960 --> 09:31.960 On the rest of all, all things to obey, and in the glory land way. 09:31.960 --> 09:40.960 I'm in the glory land way, I'm in the glory land way. 09:40.960 --> 09:49.960 Heaven is nearer and away growing clearer, for I'm in the glory land way. 09:49.960 --> 09:57.960 Onward I go rejoicing in his love, I'm in the glory land way. 09:57.960 --> 10:06.960 To rise trust me, give me that from above, I'm in the glory land way. 10:06.960 --> 10:14.960 I'm in the glory land way, I'm in the glory land way. 10:14.960 --> 10:24.960 Heaven is nearer and away growing clearer, for I'm in the glory land way. 10:24.960 --> 10:34.960 Jesus is power to me, my life, my joy, my all. 10:34.960 --> 10:44.960 He is my strength from day to day, without him I would fall. 10:44.960 --> 10:54.960 When I am sad to him I go, no other God can cheer me so. 10:54.960 --> 11:04.960 When I am sad he makes me cry, he's my friend. 11:04.960 --> 11:13.960 Jesus is all the world to me, my friend and trial's sore. 11:13.960 --> 11:23.960 I go to him for blessings and he gives them more and more. 11:23.960 --> 11:33.960 He sends the sunshine and the rain, he sends the harvest golden grain. 11:33.960 --> 11:43.960 Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain, he's my friend. 11:43.960 --> 11:52.960 Jesus is all the world to me, and true to him I'll be. 11:52.960 --> 12:02.960 O God, could I this friend be nigh, when he's so true to me. 12:02.960 --> 12:12.960 Although with him I know I'm right, he watches over me day and night. 12:12.960 --> 12:22.960 Although with him I day and night, he's my friend. 12:22.960 --> 12:31.960 Jesus is all the world to me, my once no better friend. 12:31.960 --> 12:41.960 I trust him now, I'll trust him when life's freezing, days shall end. 12:41.960 --> 12:51.960 Beautiful life with such a friend, beautiful life that has no end. 13:11.960 --> 13:21.960 Jesus is all the world to me, my friend and trial's sore. 13:21.960 --> 13:31.960 I go to him for blessings and he gives them more and more. 13:31.960 --> 13:41.960 Jesus is all the world to me, my friend and trial's sore. 13:41.960 --> 13:51.960 Although with him I know I'm right, he watches over me day and night. 13:51.960 --> 14:01.960 Jesus is all the world to me, my friend and trial's sore. 14:21.960 --> 14:44.960 Hello everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 14:44.960 --> 14:46.960 Thank you for coming this evening to our service. 14:46.960 --> 14:50.960 Let's take our seats and open our hymn books to page 130. 14:50.960 --> 14:53.960 We're going to start it off with Yesterday, Today and Forever. 14:53.960 --> 14:57.960 Page 130 in your song books. 14:57.960 --> 15:07.960 Yesterday, Today, Forever. 15:07.960 --> 15:09.960 Page 130. 15:09.960 --> 15:10.960 Yesterday, Today. 15:10.960 --> 15:11.960 Today, Forever. 15:11.960 --> 15:13.960 Sing it out with us on the first. 15:13.960 --> 15:21.960 All house be, for the Lord has blessed his simple day. 15:21.960 --> 15:29.960 Yes, for a day, for a day, for ever he has made the same. 15:29.960 --> 15:37.960 Till he was his day, for a simple day, for a simple day. 15:37.960 --> 15:45.960 Dear the Lord, until the day of his glory to his name. 15:45.960 --> 15:53.960 Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. 15:53.960 --> 16:01.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 16:01.960 --> 16:05.960 Glory to his name. 16:05.960 --> 16:09.960 Glory to his name. 16:09.960 --> 16:19.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 16:19.960 --> 16:26.960 He who art in air and near, never leaves not fear. 16:26.960 --> 16:34.960 He that came to bring the Sabbath's call might now appear. 16:34.960 --> 16:42.960 He who read the love his faithful God has taught a friend. 16:42.960 --> 16:50.960 This he still would love as ever we know of his breath. 16:50.960 --> 16:58.960 Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. 16:58.960 --> 17:06.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 17:06.960 --> 17:10.960 Glory to his name. 17:10.960 --> 17:14.960 Glory to his name. 17:14.960 --> 17:23.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 17:23.960 --> 17:31.960 Even in the raging billows, forth upon the sea, 17:31.960 --> 17:39.960 Still can watch the wildest air, fill that on Galilee. 17:39.960 --> 17:47.960 He who wept in prayer, in anguish, in desolation, 17:47.960 --> 17:55.960 Drink with us each cup of trembling in our agony. 17:55.960 --> 18:03.960 Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. 18:03.960 --> 18:11.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 18:11.960 --> 18:15.960 Glory to his name. 18:15.960 --> 18:19.960 Glory to his name. 18:19.960 --> 18:29.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 18:29.960 --> 18:37.960 As the Holy One who made his way unto a light, 18:37.960 --> 18:45.960 So through all life's great he walked with ever near our side. 18:45.960 --> 18:53.960 Soon again shall we behold him, raised and born again. 18:53.960 --> 19:01.960 God will still be with us and lead us as he leads the way. 19:01.960 --> 19:09.960 Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. 19:09.960 --> 19:17.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 19:17.960 --> 19:21.960 Glory to his name. 19:21.960 --> 19:25.960 Glory to his name. 19:25.960 --> 19:35.960 All may change, but he must never, glory to his name. 19:51.960 --> 19:53.960 Amen. 19:53.960 --> 19:55.960 Amen. 19:55.960 --> 19:57.960 Amen. 19:57.960 --> 19:59.960 Amen. 19:59.960 --> 20:01.960 Amen. 20:01.960 --> 20:03.960 Amen. 20:03.960 --> 20:05.960 Amen. 20:05.960 --> 20:07.960 Amen. 20:07.960 --> 20:09.960 Amen. 20:09.960 --> 20:11.960 Amen. 20:11.960 --> 20:13.960 Amen. 20:13.960 --> 20:15.960 Amen. 20:15.960 --> 20:17.960 Amen. 20:17.960 --> 20:19.960 Amen. 20:19.960 --> 20:26.960 Jesus whispers to you, come, sinner, come. 20:26.960 --> 20:35.960 While we are praying for you, come, sinner, come. 20:35.960 --> 20:43.960 Now is the time to hold him, come, sinner, come. 20:43.960 --> 20:52.960 Now is the time to hold him, come, sinner, come. 20:52.960 --> 21:00.960 Are you too heavy-aded, come, sinner, come. 21:00.960 --> 21:09.960 Jesus will bear your burden, come, sinner, come. 21:09.960 --> 21:18.960 Jesus will not deceive you, come, sinner, come. 21:18.960 --> 21:26.960 Jesus will now redeem you, come, sinner, come. 21:26.960 --> 21:35.960 Oh, dear, it's better bleeding, come, sinner, come. 21:35.960 --> 21:43.960 Come, every sin of last, come, sinner, come. 21:43.960 --> 21:52.960 While Jesus whispers to you, come, sinner, come. 21:52.960 --> 22:01.960 While we are praying for you, come, sinner, come. 22:01.960 --> 22:03.960 Amen. 22:31.960 --> 22:33.960 Amen. 23:01.960 --> 23:03.960 Amen. 23:31.960 --> 23:33.960 Amen. 24:01.960 --> 24:03.960 Amen. 24:31.960 --> 24:33.960 Amen. 25:01.960 --> 25:03.960 Amen. 25:03.960 --> 25:05.960 Amen. 25:05.960 --> 25:07.960 Amen. 25:07.960 --> 25:09.960 Amen. 25:09.960 --> 25:11.960 Amen. 25:11.960 --> 25:13.960 Amen. 25:13.960 --> 25:15.960 Amen. 25:15.960 --> 25:17.960 Amen. 25:17.960 --> 25:19.960 Amen. 25:19.960 --> 25:21.960 Amen. 25:21.960 --> 25:23.960 Amen. 25:23.960 --> 25:25.960 Amen. 25:25.960 --> 25:27.960 Amen. 25:27.960 --> 25:29.960 Are you ready to sing this in loud? 25:29.960 --> 25:35.960 Psalm 146. 25:35.960 --> 25:37.960 Psalm 146. 25:37.960 --> 25:39.960 Sing it out loud with us. 25:39.960 --> 25:44.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 25:44.960 --> 25:49.960 I have been born to you, and I will be your servant. 25:49.960 --> 25:54.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 25:55.960 --> 26:00.960 I have been born to you, and I will be your servant. 26:00.960 --> 26:08.960 I will sing, which is unto my God, while I have any fear. 26:08.960 --> 26:16.960 Lord God, your trusted princess, you're in the sight of men. 26:16.960 --> 26:23.960 In you there is no hell, in you there is no hell. 26:23.960 --> 26:30.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 26:30.960 --> 26:38.960 And when the Lord will come for me, please bring into this virgin land 26:38.960 --> 26:46.960 Mary's name is what's there is, and here's he that hath come. 26:47.960 --> 26:58.960 God, I'm thankful for this hell, whose hope is in the Lord, the Lord is God. 26:58.960 --> 27:05.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 27:05.960 --> 27:13.960 This day, every day, where Christ weep, and all that day is late, 27:13.960 --> 27:21.960 keep the truth forever, with thanks and due it's our sin. 27:21.960 --> 27:32.960 For me, O Christ, is given, due to the heart, we the Lord, lose in the christer. 27:32.960 --> 27:39.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 27:39.960 --> 27:47.960 The Lord will live in the eyes of the blind, the Lord raises them back, 27:47.960 --> 27:55.960 far out down the Lord's oven, the righteous the Lord. 27:55.960 --> 28:06.960 We permit the strangers, hearing and the father, then stand with us. 28:06.960 --> 28:13.960 Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. 28:13.960 --> 28:21.960 But the way of love we give is where it comes from now, 28:21.960 --> 28:29.960 from those growing forever, healing like our own triumph, 28:29.960 --> 28:33.960 and we come to our gender-based land. 28:33.960 --> 28:40.960 Praise be the Lord, praise be the Lord. 28:40.960 --> 28:42.960 Amen, great singing this evening. 28:42.960 --> 28:47.960 As the offering plates are being passed around, you can turn your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 22. 28:47.960 --> 28:50.960 That's Deuteronomy chapter 22. 28:59.960 --> 29:01.960 Thank you. 29:29.960 --> 29:34.960 Deuteronomy chapter 22, the Bible reads, 29:34.960 --> 29:39.960 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them, 29:39.960 --> 29:42.960 thou shalt in any case bring them again into thy brother. 29:42.960 --> 29:45.960 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, 29:45.960 --> 29:48.960 then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee, 29:48.960 --> 29:52.960 until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. 29:52.960 --> 29:58.960 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shall thy brother be with thee. 29:58.960 --> 30:05.960 And with all lost thing of thy brother which he hath lost, and thou hast found, 30:05.960 --> 30:08.960 shalt thou do likewise, thou mayest not hide thyself. 30:08.960 --> 30:13.960 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide thyself from them, 30:13.960 --> 30:16.960 thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 30:16.960 --> 30:21.960 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, 30:21.960 --> 30:24.960 for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. 30:24.960 --> 30:29.960 If a bird's nest chants to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, 30:29.960 --> 30:33.960 whether they be young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, 30:33.960 --> 30:35.960 thou shalt not take the dam with the young. 30:35.960 --> 30:39.960 But thou shalt in any way let the dam go, and take the young to thee, 30:39.960 --> 30:43.960 that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 30:43.960 --> 30:47.960 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, 30:47.960 --> 30:51.960 that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence. 30:51.960 --> 30:56.960 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, 30:56.960 --> 30:58.960 and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled. 30:58.960 --> 31:02.960 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 31:02.960 --> 31:08.960 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers' sorts as of woolen and linen together. 31:08.960 --> 31:14.960 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 31:14.960 --> 31:18.960 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, and give occasions of speech against her, 31:19.960 --> 31:24.960 and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found her not a maid. 31:24.960 --> 31:34.960 Then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city and the gates. 31:34.960 --> 31:40.960 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her. 31:40.960 --> 31:44.960 And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. 31:44.960 --> 31:47.960 And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. 31:47.960 --> 31:53.960 And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city, and the elders of the city shall take that man and chastise him. 31:53.960 --> 32:02.960 And they shall immerse him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. 32:02.960 --> 32:06.960 And she shall be his wife, he may not put her away all his days. 32:07.960 --> 32:14.960 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel, then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house. 32:14.960 --> 32:23.960 And the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore in her father's house. 32:23.960 --> 32:26.960 So shalt thou put evil away from among you. 32:26.960 --> 32:36.960 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, and they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman, so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 32:36.960 --> 32:47.960 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lie with her, then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die. 32:47.960 --> 32:55.960 The damsel, because she cried not, being in the city, and the man because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife, so shalt thou put away evil from among you. 32:55.960 --> 33:03.960 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her and lie with her, then the man only that lie with her shall die. 33:03.960 --> 33:12.960 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing. There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death, for as when a man riseth against his neighbor and slayeth him, even so is this matter. 33:12.960 --> 33:17.960 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. 33:17.960 --> 33:31.960 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her and lie with her, and they be found, then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her. 33:31.960 --> 33:37.960 He may not put her away all his days. A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. 33:37.960 --> 33:43.960 Let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for the day of life. Thank you for allowing us to be in church. Thank you for all the souls that are getting saved. 33:43.960 --> 33:51.960 I just pray that you bless Pastor Shelley with the Holy Spirit, help us to help him to preach unto us, and help us to receive it, and make changes to our lives. Praise in Jesus' name, amen. 33:51.960 --> 34:12.960 Amen. As we're going through this Bible study, there's different themes you can kind of notice in the chapter, and it seems like in Deuteronomy 22, God is kind of focusing in on the idea of societal rules and how it's important to have them for a perspective of like perpetuity, in the sense of something lasting forever, or sustainability. 34:12.960 --> 34:24.960 And if you don't have certain precepts and certain laws that are enforced, then essentially your society can collapse, where you're not basically passing it down from generation to generation. 34:24.960 --> 34:32.960 And you really want society to be able to sustain itself and keep going, like the Energizer Bunny, just keep going and going and going. 34:32.960 --> 34:41.960 You don't want society to basically hand down to the next generation a train wreck, or just something that can't continue going on. 34:41.960 --> 34:46.960 And so there's certain aspects for society to be healthy, for society to keep going. 34:46.960 --> 34:56.960 And I think that's kind of the theme, because really when you look at this chapter individually, a lot of these things don't necessarily seem correlated or directly related. 34:56.960 --> 35:03.960 But I think when you kind of have that theme of just understanding this is necessary for society to keep going, it kind of fits together. 35:03.960 --> 35:04.960 Now in verse one it says, 35:34.960 --> 35:53.960 So a couple things here that he's bringing up in society that if you were to happen to notice a possession of your brother's, and specifically here it's saying your brother's ox or sheep, and it's lost, he doesn't have it, you kind of notice it, you figure this out. 35:53.960 --> 36:00.960 Then what is the Bible saying? That you should go and procure that animal, make sure it's secure, and then go and deliver it on him. 36:00.960 --> 36:03.960 Now if you think about this from a practical perspective, this would be inconvenient. 36:03.960 --> 36:15.960 It's inconvenient that you weren't necessarily planning your day around going and procuring someone else's animal, and then going and finding your neighbor and delivering it unto him. 36:15.960 --> 36:20.960 It's going to be an inconvenience to you that you're going to have to go and grab your animal and take him. 36:20.960 --> 36:36.960 But if you think about this, if we all kind of have that same mentality, if we all kind of have this idea that while it may be inconvenient for you that day, there might be a day where you lose something and someone essentially goes and finds your ox or your ass and brings him unto you. 36:36.960 --> 36:39.960 And so it just kind of works out that it's just basically saying, 36:39.960 --> 36:51.960 Hey, we shouldn't be this kind of society where you always have to take care of your own situation, your own issues always, but rather there's going to be times where you're willing to inconvenience yourself for your neighbor, for your brother. 36:51.960 --> 36:54.960 And again, this is not like just family members. 36:54.960 --> 37:02.960 This is simply just your fellow citizen, your fellow neighbor in your country, in your land, that hey, something bad happened. 37:02.960 --> 37:04.960 You go out of your way to basically help them. 37:04.960 --> 37:08.960 And our modern today, typically we don't have this exact scenario. 37:08.960 --> 37:11.960 But if you notice the verse three says this should apply to all possessions. 37:11.960 --> 37:18.960 So if someone loses their wallet, someone loses their jacket, you know, we have a lost and found because sometimes we don't even know. 37:18.960 --> 37:21.960 If we know it's like, hey, this is so and so's phone, we track it down. 37:21.960 --> 37:26.960 We try to find that person say, hey, here's your phone or can I drop it off or hey, I'll give it back to you. 37:26.960 --> 37:31.960 But if it's just like some random jacket or some random possession, we're just kind of like, I don't know, man. 37:31.960 --> 37:33.960 And then we just kind of store it off. 37:33.960 --> 37:40.960 But but we're not just like sweet new jacket, sweet new phone or, you know, you could just simply be like, not my problem. 37:40.960 --> 37:44.960 And that doesn't really help a society that makes society worse. 37:44.960 --> 37:48.960 What's a good society is where you care about other people's possessions. 37:48.960 --> 37:49.960 You want to restore it under them. 37:49.960 --> 37:51.960 You're thinking about other people. 37:51.960 --> 37:59.960 If you find this particular possession and you can't figure out whose it is, the Bible says just you can take it on your own. 37:59.960 --> 38:08.960 And obviously, if we think about the example of an ox or a sheep, they may not necessarily have forever for you to hold on to it. 38:08.960 --> 38:11.960 Right. So let's say you grab this this sheep. 38:11.960 --> 38:13.960 Well, what if it's been a year or two? 38:13.960 --> 38:18.960 You might need to just slaughter the sheep because that's just what you do with that particular sheep. 38:18.960 --> 38:23.960 So if your neighbor came and found you, then you restore him to a similar sheep or a stir under him. 38:24.960 --> 38:30.960 Basically, whatever it is that he lost that's equivalent in value because there's nothing wrong with using your brother's possession. 38:30.960 --> 38:38.960 It's just that if he came looking for it, you'd want to restore that on them if he could or give it unto him in equal manner, in a sense. 38:38.960 --> 38:44.960 But if he never comes, well, then God just added under your flock, add it under your sheep or whatever. 38:44.960 --> 38:51.960 But you would potentially if you ever took some possession that was not yours and you've used it. 38:51.960 --> 38:56.960 If the owner comes back, you need to restore it back and give it unto him, pay it back. 38:56.960 --> 39:02.960 And it should apply to everything, anything and everything that someone lost, forgot. 39:02.960 --> 39:04.960 It just is taken from them. 39:04.960 --> 39:06.960 We want to restore these things. 39:06.960 --> 39:08.960 And again, what would be the opposite? 39:08.960 --> 39:12.960 The opposite of society is where everyone just steals your brother's possession. 39:12.960 --> 39:15.960 Oh, he's probably he probably didn't notice he dropped his wallet. 39:15.960 --> 39:17.960 I'm just going to go and just take it right. 39:17.960 --> 39:19.960 You just take someone's possession. 39:19.960 --> 39:20.960 You take their ox. 39:20.960 --> 39:21.960 You take their ass. 39:21.960 --> 39:22.960 You take their goods. 39:22.960 --> 39:24.960 That's going to be harmful to society. 39:24.960 --> 39:33.960 If you're in a society where as soon as you're not looking, your possessions gone, as soon as you lose something temporarily, people just snatch it. 39:33.960 --> 39:39.960 I mean, your bike's just gone, you know, then then pretty soon people just start not wanting to be around that situation. 39:39.960 --> 39:41.960 People have to lock everything down. 39:41.960 --> 39:46.960 You go into the store and there's this glass everywhere and all the things are hidden behind the glass. 39:46.960 --> 39:49.960 And it becomes what we consider a low trust society. 39:49.960 --> 39:53.960 And then people are less likely to want to even be in that society. 39:53.960 --> 40:00.960 Society starts to break down and you start having to spend all this money on things that are unnecessary. 40:00.960 --> 40:10.960 You shouldn't have to just necessarily lock everything down and have to pay for all the extra chains and the locks and all the extra glass and all the extra theft. 40:10.960 --> 40:19.960 And then if everybody's insurance premiums go up because there's so much theft and misappropriation of goods and just harmful to society and we all pay for it. 40:19.960 --> 40:24.960 Whereas a society is basically just saying, hey, you lose something, we're going to get back to you. 40:24.960 --> 40:26.960 We're going to take care of you. 40:26.960 --> 40:30.960 Not really worried about your ox or sheep going astray. 40:30.960 --> 40:31.960 Then it's a lot better. 40:31.960 --> 40:39.960 You know, in places like California, I've heard people have to just roll down their windows because they're afraid people just smash their windows, just looking for something they can steal, just looking for something they can steal. 40:39.960 --> 40:41.960 Just looking for something they can take. 40:41.960 --> 40:42.960 That's really harmful. 40:42.960 --> 40:46.960 And you've noticed a lot of people are leaving California. 40:46.960 --> 40:47.960 Why? 40:47.960 --> 40:52.960 Because when you when you have these kind of principles in place and people are abiding by them, people want to live there. 40:52.960 --> 40:56.960 When you don't have these principles, we want to leave it to break down society. 40:56.960 --> 40:59.960 It increases taxes and increases insurance. 40:59.960 --> 41:01.960 It caused people to not want to be around there. 41:01.960 --> 41:03.960 More theft, more problems. 41:03.960 --> 41:06.960 And of course, someone steals something of yours or take something. 41:06.960 --> 41:08.960 Then it can escalate. 41:08.960 --> 41:09.960 It could escalate to violence. 41:09.960 --> 41:16.960 It can escalate to some kind of even a worse situation where someone's mad that you took their possession or they fight you. 41:16.960 --> 41:19.960 And again, this just causes just so many more problems. 41:19.960 --> 41:27.960 A healthy society is one where you're essentially finding your loss of lost possession of your brother and you're restoring it unto him. 41:27.960 --> 41:29.960 Verse number four says this. 41:29.960 --> 41:34.960 It says, Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide thyself from them. 41:34.960 --> 41:37.960 Thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 41:37.960 --> 41:46.960 So again, this is a little bit different where it's not necessarily that the guys lost his possession, but he's just having a hard time with his possession. 41:46.960 --> 41:53.960 And so you're coming alongside and you're able to help him with his ox or ass that fell in the ditch. 41:53.960 --> 41:56.960 You're basically, again, going to help people. 41:56.960 --> 41:58.960 And it's inconvenient to you. 41:58.960 --> 42:02.960 It may take away from your time, your effort, your energy, whatever. 42:02.960 --> 42:11.960 And so again, isn't it nice when you break down maybe on the side of the road, someone comes and helps you or someone offers you water or someone does something good unto you. 42:11.960 --> 42:13.960 And again, not everybody can do this all the time. 42:13.960 --> 42:21.960 But if you just live in a society where virtually everyone's willing to help, then just someone's pretty much always, you know, it's not as inconvenient for them. 42:21.960 --> 42:23.960 They can stop. They can help you. 42:23.960 --> 42:25.960 When you get an opportunity, you can help people. 42:25.960 --> 42:29.960 And as a society, you just want to be a society where someone's going to help. 42:29.960 --> 42:30.960 Someone's going to call the police. 42:30.960 --> 42:33.960 Someone's going to step in and doesn't have to be everyone. 42:33.960 --> 42:35.960 It's just someone is willing to do this. 42:35.960 --> 42:41.960 And of course, you should be willing to participate in this where you go in every once in a while. 42:41.960 --> 42:43.960 You help people. You do good. 42:43.960 --> 42:52.960 You're willing to help them roll their car out of the way or call the call police or call an ambulance or help assist in some way. 42:52.960 --> 42:53.960 This is good for society. 42:53.960 --> 42:54.960 It's not good in society. 42:54.960 --> 42:58.960 If you live somewhere where no one will ever help you, you break down. 42:58.960 --> 42:59.960 No one gives a rip. 42:59.960 --> 43:01.960 You need, hey, I need directions. 43:01.960 --> 43:03.960 No one's going to tell you where to go. 43:03.960 --> 43:05.960 No one's going to give you any kind of assistance. 43:05.960 --> 43:07.960 No one wants to be your friend. 43:07.960 --> 43:09.960 No one's being polite. 43:09.960 --> 43:13.960 You know, it's kind of nice to be in the South sometimes that obviously there's a lot of fake people. 43:13.960 --> 43:14.960 I get it. 43:14.960 --> 43:19.960 But at the end of the day, everybody's kind of like kind of nice as a default, right? 43:19.960 --> 43:24.960 It's like it's kind of like you say hi, you wave and you're kind of friendly. 43:24.960 --> 43:26.960 And then people are like, hey, you need some help. 43:26.960 --> 43:31.960 You can go to some countries and some places where they just look down on you for just even existing. 43:31.960 --> 43:33.960 You know, they're just kind of mad that you even exist. 43:33.960 --> 43:36.960 And, you know, you go to New York, it's like get out of the way. 43:36.960 --> 43:38.960 You know, you're causing them to be late. 43:38.960 --> 43:45.960 I remember going to Chipotle in New York City, and it's a very different experience. 43:45.960 --> 43:51.960 So I remember I went to this Chipotle and it was a very thin restaurant as far as it wasn't very wide. 43:51.960 --> 43:53.960 It was very deep. 43:53.960 --> 43:58.960 You know, a lot of the places there are just very deep, the buildings, but they have just like really small widths. 43:58.960 --> 44:05.960 And so you're walking into Chipotle and you can hardly even get in the door because the line is just so long. 44:05.960 --> 44:07.960 And again, the line is literally almost out the door. 44:07.960 --> 44:09.960 But we're talking like super long. 44:09.960 --> 44:11.960 I mean, like a hundred feet. 44:11.960 --> 44:13.960 I mean, just super, super long. 44:13.960 --> 44:16.960 So you probably got like 40, 50 people in line at this point. 44:16.960 --> 44:19.960 I'm thinking like, oh, man, this is going to take forever. 44:19.960 --> 44:21.960 But I didn't want to have to go anywhere else. 44:21.960 --> 44:23.960 So I was like, all right, we'll just stay in line. 44:23.960 --> 44:25.960 I kid you it was like maybe four or five minutes. 44:25.960 --> 44:29.960 I'm already up to order because they are just like, bam, bam. 44:29.960 --> 44:30.960 You know, what do you want? 44:30.960 --> 44:30.960 44:30.960 --> 44:31.960 What do you want? 44:31.960 --> 44:34.960 And when you get up there, if you hesitate, everybody's like, come on, order, go. 44:34.960 --> 44:35.960 Haven't you seen? 44:35.960 --> 44:36.960 Let's go. 44:36.960 --> 44:37.960 Come on. 44:37.960 --> 44:38.960 What do you want? 44:38.960 --> 44:39.960 Beans, chicken, right? 44:39.960 --> 44:40.960 I mean, just like bam, bam, bam. 44:40.960 --> 44:41.960 It's just so fast. 44:41.960 --> 44:43.960 You go places around Texas. 44:43.960 --> 44:45.960 I mean, it's like, can I help you? 44:45.960 --> 44:47.960 And what would you like? 44:47.960 --> 44:49.960 And no problem. 44:49.960 --> 44:51.960 You know, it's just a slower pace. 44:51.960 --> 44:52.960 OK. 44:52.960 --> 44:55.960 Now, again, there's pros and cons here. 44:55.960 --> 45:03.960 But at the end of the day, it is kind of nice when someone's willing to help, someone's being kind of nice, you know, as opposed to just like, let's go, get out of the way. 45:03.960 --> 45:04.960 Come on. 45:04.960 --> 45:06.960 You know, it's just like kind of a rude environment. 45:06.960 --> 45:09.960 It's almost too quick, too fast paced. 45:09.960 --> 45:13.960 And, you know, again, if no one's willing to help you, it's kind of a dangerous society. 45:14.960 --> 45:26.960 And I guarantee walking up and down the streets of New York City, it's a lot more dangerous than walking up and down the streets in somewhere like Texas or a southern state where probably people are a lot more helpful or willing to talk to you. 45:26.960 --> 45:30.960 And again, people are just leaving in droves New York again. 45:30.960 --> 45:31.960 Why? 45:30.960 --> 45:33.960 Because it's dangerous, because society there is collapsing. 45:33.960 --> 45:36.960 Why is it that liberal cities, everybody wants to leave? 45:36.960 --> 45:37.960 Because they're not doing these kind of things. 45:37.960 --> 45:39.960 They're not actually helpful. 45:39.960 --> 45:41.960 Everything's about themselves. 45:41.960 --> 45:43.960 Everything's about who's going to help me. 45:43.960 --> 45:44.960 What about my needs? 45:44.960 --> 45:45.960 What about my truth? 45:45.960 --> 45:55.960 As opposed to like helping other people being willing to bear someone else's burden, actually get in the ditch and help them get their animal out of the ditch. 45:55.960 --> 46:04.960 Notice in verse five, the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so or abomination, Lord, thy God. 46:04.960 --> 46:12.960 Now, again, this is like a really abrupt transition because it's just like talking about helping your neighbor's ass and his ox. 46:12.960 --> 46:16.960 And then just verse five is just like, bam, don't cross dress. 46:16.960 --> 46:23.960 OK, but again, if you kind of think about this from a societal perspective, you know, these things are just helpful in society, right? 46:23.960 --> 46:25.960 People are willing to restore stuff. 46:25.960 --> 46:26.960 They're not stealing. 46:26.960 --> 46:29.960 People are helping you as opposed to just ignoring you. 46:29.960 --> 46:31.960 Here's another one. 46:31.960 --> 46:33.960 You can actually tell what a man is and what a woman is. 46:33.960 --> 46:35.960 That's really helpful in society. 46:35.960 --> 46:40.960 I mean, think about just from a dating perspective alone, you know, just like, hey, I'd like to know. 46:40.960 --> 46:45.960 Think about how confusing it is when you go to a drive through and look, you cannot disguise your voice. 46:45.960 --> 46:46.960 I'm sorry. 46:46.960 --> 46:49.960 We can tell from the intercom if you're male or female. 46:49.960 --> 46:50.960 And it's like, thank you, ma'am. 46:50.960 --> 46:52.960 It's like, sir. 46:52.960 --> 46:55.960 You know, it's like, no, it's a man, you know, or it's like, thank you, sir. 46:55.960 --> 46:56.960 It's like, ma'am. 46:56.960 --> 46:58.960 It's like, whoa, you know. 46:58.960 --> 47:02.960 And again, obviously, you can just kind of tell these things. 47:02.960 --> 47:07.960 We don't want to live in a society where it's so blurred and it's so confusing. 47:07.960 --> 47:09.960 You don't even know how to be polite. 47:09.960 --> 47:11.960 You're like, ma'am. 47:11.960 --> 47:13.960 You know, it's like, what is this? 47:13.960 --> 47:14.960 I don't even know. 47:14.960 --> 47:19.960 And at the end of the day, it's like this is a statute where God has put in place. 47:19.960 --> 47:27.960 He wants men and women even dress different, not to observe their God given gender, their God given role in life. 47:27.960 --> 47:30.960 And notice that there's not 15 options or 50 options here. 47:30.960 --> 47:31.960 There's two. 47:31.960 --> 47:34.960 OK, men don't wear women's clothes and women don't wear men's clothes. 47:34.960 --> 47:36.960 You say, what about all the stuff in between? 47:36.960 --> 47:37.960 There is no in between. 47:37.960 --> 47:39.960 OK, it's just crazy. 47:39.960 --> 47:41.960 Anything in between is crazy. 47:41.960 --> 47:44.960 Either you have a Y chromosome or you don't. 47:44.960 --> 47:45.960 OK, it's that simple. 47:45.960 --> 47:55.960 Now, in this particular passage, I think our society is a really good example of why in verse number five, it notices it points the woman out first. 47:55.960 --> 47:56.960 Did you notice that? 47:57.960 --> 48:01.960 I mean, almost everything in the Bible is male first or just male only. 48:01.960 --> 48:08.960 I mean, if you just read the commandments, it's almost as gender specific to men or just men's, you know, as the first thing. 48:08.960 --> 48:14.960 Why would it bring up in this particular statute, the woman shall not wear that which pertain to the man as the first part? 48:14.960 --> 48:21.960 Because, again, if you read the Bible, it's pretty much talking about men first or bringing up the man first or whatever. 48:21.960 --> 48:25.960 It's probably because this particular statute affects women more than it affects men, isn't it? 48:25.960 --> 48:35.960 And in our society, women are more likely to dress and wear a man's garment than men are to wear a woman's garment. 48:35.960 --> 48:42.960 Now, again, some people get really upset about this particular verse in the Bible, and it really just causes them a lot of problems. 48:42.960 --> 48:49.960 But, you know, I think if you just were honest with the text and honest with history and society, it's real simple what we're talking about. 48:49.960 --> 48:55.960 And isn't it interesting that reprobates and like sodomites know exactly what this is? 48:55.960 --> 48:59.960 Because any time you have one of these faggots trying to be a woman, what does he do? 48:59.960 --> 49:03.960 He puts on a dress and you pretty much take any lesbian to the bank. 49:03.960 --> 49:05.960 She's going to wear the pantsuit. 49:05.960 --> 49:16.960 And if you look historically in America, whether you talk about Texas itself, many cities, including Houston, had city ordinances forbidding cross dressing. 49:16.960 --> 49:23.960 It was a forbidden. It was illegal for women to wear pants in Houston in the 20th century. 49:23.960 --> 49:25.960 Sorry you don't like this. 49:25.960 --> 49:31.960 And it took a literal transvestite, a male transvestite, which called himself Phyllis. 49:31.960 --> 49:34.960 OK, should have been syphilis, really. 49:34.960 --> 49:47.960 And it took a male transvestite weaseling its way onto some kind of a city board and he waited until like everybody didn't show up someday. 49:47.960 --> 49:55.960 And then a bunch of guys like went to the bathroom and then he like he like quickly was like, all right, let's vote on the overthrowing this cross dressing statute. 49:55.960 --> 49:57.960 And then they got to overthrow. 49:57.960 --> 50:18.960 So like the reason why women could wear pants in Houston specifically is because some transvestite weasel his way onto the city council, wait until everybody's on vacation, wait until people you went to the bathroom to just sneak in this like little, well, let's just overturn the cross dressing statute so he could wear dresses. 50:18.960 --> 50:22.960 That's the history, let alone what the Bible is clearly saying here. 50:22.960 --> 50:27.960 And again, you go to any bathroom and just see right on the door. 50:27.960 --> 50:37.960 You don't even see typically even just verbiage you just see pictures, a guy with pants on and a one with skirt. And it's like we know which one is the female and which one's the male. 50:37.960 --> 50:42.960 It's just like so obvious. It's not even a language issue. It's a picture. 50:42.960 --> 50:48.960 I mean you could not even speak English and be like oh there's the female. There's the male. It's just an observable fact. 50:48.960 --> 50:53.960 Not only that, it's always the wedding dress. It's not the wedding pantsuit. 50:53.960 --> 51:16.960 So again, most of society will just immediately understand this, but then they don't like it. Why? Because if you go to the department store today, if you go to the mall, if you go anywhere else, many women's clothing stores have women's pants and they have all this, you know, clothing that is designed for women in theory, but it's still kind of a male's garment. 51:16.960 --> 51:21.960 And again, what is a male's garment? It's pants. And what's a female garment? It's a skirt. 51:21.960 --> 51:24.960 Now you say, well, how dare you say that? You're just making things up. 51:24.960 --> 51:27.960 Well, let's look at the last verse in this particular chapter. 51:27.960 --> 51:28.960 Look at verse 30. 51:28.960 --> 51:34.960 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. 51:34.960 --> 51:40.960 So when the Bible is calling a woman by a euphemistic term, what is the term that the Bible uses? 51:40.960 --> 51:42.960 The Bible calls women skirts. 51:42.960 --> 51:48.960 And it even used to be historically, people would just literally call women skirts. 51:48.960 --> 51:51.960 It was just how you would use this particular terminology. 51:51.960 --> 51:56.960 You have the gangsters in the 1920s and 30s and be like, hey, a couple skirts came in. Yeah. 51:56.960 --> 51:59.960 It's like, what are they saying? They're saying a couple broads. 51:59.960 --> 52:01.960 You know, they're saying a couple ladies. 52:01.960 --> 52:06.960 Okay. Why? Because it's just a euphemistic term for a female. 52:06.960 --> 52:11.960 Okay. Well, I only wear women's pants. 52:11.960 --> 52:13.960 This is what a lot of ladies will tell you. 52:13.960 --> 52:16.960 I only wear the pants designed for women. 52:16.960 --> 52:19.960 Okay. But what if I said the flip? 52:19.960 --> 52:25.960 Like, all the guys in here, we can only wear dresses designed for men. 52:25.960 --> 52:27.960 You would be horrified. 52:27.960 --> 52:33.960 You would be horrified if your husband came home tomorrow in a dress. 52:33.960 --> 52:35.960 In a miniskirt. 52:35.960 --> 52:39.960 Like, you would just be like, ah! 52:39.960 --> 52:44.960 But see, that's kind of how it was in America in the 60s and 70s. 52:44.960 --> 52:47.960 Women would wear pants and everybody was kind of horrified. 52:47.960 --> 52:51.960 But then just eventually, just enough people started doing it 52:51.960 --> 52:54.960 and enough people just kind of went along with it 52:54.960 --> 52:58.960 to then all of a sudden it wasn't shocking and it wasn't horrifying anymore. 52:58.960 --> 53:03.960 And for some weird reason, the same thing could apply even in our society 53:03.960 --> 53:06.960 if men just started wearing skirts and stuff. 53:06.960 --> 53:10.960 You know, think about some places in Europe where they wear kilts. 53:10.960 --> 53:16.960 I mean, it's basically socially acceptable in some parts of the world for men to wear kilts. 53:16.960 --> 53:21.960 There are some Middle Eastern countries where men wear saris. 53:21.960 --> 53:22.960 Sorry to wear that. 53:22.960 --> 53:26.960 And it's basically some kind of a dress-like type garment as well. 53:26.960 --> 53:30.960 So again, it's not that men and women in some certain circumstances 53:30.960 --> 53:36.960 don't have this kind of cross-dressing aspect as a part of their society. 53:36.960 --> 53:38.960 And this is what I think personally. 53:38.960 --> 53:40.960 This is my personal opinion. 53:40.960 --> 53:43.960 But I think that you kind of have two categories of cross-dressing. 53:43.960 --> 53:47.960 You have like an aggravated cross-dressing and then you have like an accepted cross-dressing. 53:47.960 --> 53:51.960 And it's like in our society, there's kind of this acceptable cross-dressing 53:51.960 --> 53:53.960 where you kind of have women's pants. 53:53.960 --> 53:54.960 Okay. 53:54.960 --> 53:59.960 And for most people, like a lot of the even just evangelicals, 53:59.960 --> 54:02.960 they at least agree with us that aggravated cross-dressing is wrong, right? 54:02.960 --> 54:05.960 Where you're just wearing like obvious male clothing 54:05.960 --> 54:09.960 or men are wearing like just obvious female clothing, 54:09.960 --> 54:11.960 which you typically see of a transvestite, 54:11.960 --> 54:16.960 and we're all just kind of horrified and we all just kind of hate it or whatever. 54:16.960 --> 54:20.960 But even if you were to really just try to figure out what is the difference here? 54:20.960 --> 54:26.960 What is the really big difference between women's pants and pants that are designed for men? 54:26.960 --> 54:30.960 Because this is where I just you lose everybody in the argument 54:30.960 --> 54:32.960 because they don't want to talk about it anymore. 54:32.960 --> 54:34.960 They're like, no, no, I wear pants designed for women. 54:34.960 --> 54:36.960 Like, okay. What's the difference? 54:36.960 --> 54:38.960 Like, well, one has the zipper on the other side. 54:38.960 --> 54:39.960 This is kind of true. 54:39.960 --> 54:41.960 Sometimes it's like they have the zipper on the other side or whatever. 54:41.960 --> 54:43.960 I don't know. Does that even matter? 54:43.960 --> 54:44.960 Does anybody even know? 54:44.960 --> 54:47.960 I would have to even I would have to think about it to figure out which side is what. 54:47.960 --> 54:48.960 Okay. 54:48.960 --> 54:50.960 It's not the side of the zipper, folks. 54:50.960 --> 54:52.960 That's the difference because you can't even really see. 54:52.960 --> 54:55.960 You can't even tell what is the major difference between men's. 54:55.960 --> 54:59.960 I mean, if you were going to look at a woman say, like, I think she's wearing men's pants versus women's pants. 54:59.960 --> 55:01.960 What's the difference? Women's pants are way tighter. 55:01.960 --> 55:03.960 It's just more form fitting. 55:03.960 --> 55:05.960 So think about your logic. 55:05.960 --> 55:10.960 If you think it's okay for women to wear pants, as long as they're women's pants, basically you're saying 55:10.960 --> 55:13.960 God doesn't want women to wear baggy pants. 55:13.960 --> 55:16.960 He wants form fitting pants. 55:16.960 --> 55:18.960 How does that more godly? 55:18.960 --> 55:20.960 How does that even make sense? 55:20.960 --> 55:22.960 How is that even logical? 55:22.960 --> 55:24.960 And again, why? Why? 55:24.960 --> 55:28.960 Because, you know, obviously women and men are designed differently. 55:28.960 --> 55:32.960 And to have something really form fitting is more feminine in nature. 55:32.960 --> 55:34.960 It's more just in general. 55:34.960 --> 55:39.960 So, okay, the more that they're wearing something form fitting, the more that it's just feminine. 55:39.960 --> 55:44.960 If a man is just wearing like something really form fitting, we're all going to be kind of like, that's weird. 55:45.960 --> 55:49.960 You know, we're kind of like, it needs to be baggier, okay? 55:49.960 --> 55:51.960 Less is more here, all right? 55:51.960 --> 55:57.960 And at the end of the day, obviously, you know, women today, they take something that is feminine, 55:57.960 --> 56:02.960 like when we think of like a pantyhose, and they turn it into leggings. 56:02.960 --> 56:04.960 Is there anything wrong with leggings? No. 56:04.960 --> 56:08.960 But again, why not put a dress or a skirt over it? 56:08.960 --> 56:14.960 Just in the same way that if I'm wearing long socks, I still need to have pants or shorts over it, okay? 56:14.960 --> 56:21.960 I mean, if I had long stockings on or whatever, if I had men's underwear on, you know, the long johns, 56:21.960 --> 56:22.960 who knows what I'm talking about? 56:22.960 --> 56:23.960 We live in a hot climate, okay? 56:23.960 --> 56:26.960 If you live up north, you need some long johns, okay, occasionally. 56:26.960 --> 56:27.960 You have the long johns. 56:27.960 --> 56:31.960 You would be like, hey, put some pants on over the long johns, Pastor Shelley. 56:31.960 --> 56:34.960 Nobody wants to see that, okay? 56:34.960 --> 56:37.960 And again, is there anything wrong with women wearing leggings or whatever? 56:37.960 --> 56:38.960 No, there's nothing wrong with it. 56:38.960 --> 56:41.960 But why wouldn't you put a dress or a skirt over the top of that? 56:41.960 --> 56:44.960 And again, that's to make the gender distinction, okay? 56:44.960 --> 56:50.960 It's just weird how women are just going out there, basically just flaunting off their bodies 56:50.960 --> 56:54.960 and being very immodest by their clothing, okay? 56:54.960 --> 56:57.960 Now again, there's a couple of things here. 56:57.960 --> 57:03.960 If a woman is wearing leggings only, which is most of our society, she's wearing leggings only 57:03.960 --> 57:08.960 and some halter top shirt or whatever, she is not cross-dressing, 57:08.960 --> 57:11.960 but she'd be extremely immodest. 57:11.960 --> 57:17.960 But you know, if she's putting on like actual pants that are like a man's pants or anything close to, 57:17.960 --> 57:21.960 that would be, in my opinion, an accepted form of cross-dressing 57:21.960 --> 57:24.960 and is accepted by society, not by God. 57:24.960 --> 57:26.960 And why would you want to do that? 57:26.960 --> 57:28.960 Well, what does the Bible say? 57:28.960 --> 57:30.960 If you do this, you're an abomination, Lord thy God. 57:31.960 --> 57:33.960 That's how God views this. 57:33.960 --> 57:36.960 And God wants there to be gender distinction. 57:36.960 --> 57:38.960 He wants men to look a certain way. 57:38.960 --> 57:40.960 He wants women to look a certain way. 57:40.960 --> 57:42.960 And for some reason, we all still get it on the men's side. 57:42.960 --> 57:44.960 Let us not change it. 57:44.960 --> 57:48.960 And is it any coincidence that many of the celebrities and weirdos and freaks, 57:48.960 --> 57:55.960 they try to get their boys and their men to wear these creepy weird skirts and dresses 57:55.960 --> 57:59.960 and just gross reprobate garb? 57:59.960 --> 58:02.960 And we should still call it out as gross and weird and reprobate. 58:02.960 --> 58:07.960 I remember, you know, another pastor one time, I was talking to him, a minister, 58:07.960 --> 58:11.960 and he was just like, well, you know, if you believe like what the Bible literally says, 58:11.960 --> 58:15.960 then you think that in Deuteronomy 22.5, women shouldn't wear pants. 58:15.960 --> 58:21.960 And I'm like, what's the other option? 58:21.960 --> 58:23.960 And again, they won't tell you what the garment is. 58:23.960 --> 58:25.960 Oh, I just think men and women's clothes. 58:25.960 --> 58:31.960 Okay, I get it that obviously there's a more extreme version of cross-dressing. 58:31.960 --> 58:33.960 There's a more aggravated version of cross-dressing. 58:33.960 --> 58:36.960 But I just don't think you should cross the line at all. 58:36.960 --> 58:39.960 We should just have clear distinctions, clear separation. 58:39.960 --> 58:45.960 And of course, this is going to be helpful for society when you can tell the difference between men and women. 58:45.960 --> 58:46.960 And think about it this way. 58:46.960 --> 58:52.960 If we all have that clear distinction, then trainees are going to stick out like a sore thumb, aren't they? 58:52.960 --> 58:54.960 Whereas if everything's confused, I mean, 58:54.960 --> 58:59.960 right now it's still pretty easy to catch the male tranny out there. 58:59.960 --> 59:00.960 But wait a minute. 59:00.960 --> 59:04.960 It's kind of hard sometimes to figure out what's a lesbian or not today, 59:04.960 --> 59:11.960 especially the older ones, because so many boomers are just dressing like literal lesbians today 59:11.960 --> 59:16.960 that it would actually be kind of hard to tell what's the lesbian in the crowd. 59:16.960 --> 59:21.960 Whereas if, look, if the older women were just allowing their hair to still stay long 59:21.960 --> 59:27.960 and had conservative dresses and skirts, then we'd be able to pick out that butch dyke out of the crowd, wouldn't we? 59:27.960 --> 59:34.960 And we wouldn't allow butch dykes to come into our congregation and to infiltrate and to cause harm and to cause issues. 59:34.960 --> 59:41.960 And look, there's plenty of lesbians that would love to infiltrate churches and attack people. 59:41.960 --> 59:44.960 You know, we should stay far, far away from that. 59:44.960 --> 59:50.960 And it's gross. It's disgusting. God doesn't like it. I don't like it. 59:50.960 --> 59:54.960 Oh, how dare you say these things? Well, you came for what the Bible says. 59:54.960 --> 59:59.960 And this is what the Bible says. This is what I never hear. 59:59.960 --> 01:00:01.960 This is your wrong passage. This is how you interpret it. 01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:06.960 June 1st, 25. They just ignore it. They ignore it or don't bring it up. 01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:08.960 Or they say, oh, well, she just wears women pants. 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:13.960 And then I'm like, women pants are just more form fitting. Why would that be better? 01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:19.960 Explain to me that logic. Explain to me why God is up in heaven saying, man, you would have been good today 01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:22.960 if those pants had been a little tighter. Right. 01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:26.960 But it's just such an abomination that they're loose fitting. No, no, no. 01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:30.960 What he doesn't like is he doesn't like people just confusing gender. 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:33.960 Just like again, think about it in New Testament. 01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:36.960 Specifically, it says men should have short hair and women should have long hair. 01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.960 There's nothing inherently sinful with short hair or long hair. 01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:42.960 It's just God wants there to be a gender distinction. 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:46.960 Just like there's nothing inherently wrong with a dress or a skirt or pants or whatever. 01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:49.960 It's just that God wants there to be gender distinction and we should observe that. 01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:54.960 We should keep that. And look, this is something that nature itself teaches you. 01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:57.960 For some reason, we just all get this inherently. 01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:02.960 It's you kind of have to suppress your natural instincts to believe something weird and perverted 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:05.960 because feminism has taught you, no, this is real. 01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:08.960 And there's some woman in pants there that's going to give you an earful. 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:11.960 And that's the reason why you don't want to say this out loud. 01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:14.960 You say this out loud, you tell people this, and some woman's going to get mad at you. 01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:19.960 Some feminist man is going to get mad at you because you know why he gets mad at you? 01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:22.960 Because some woman's going to get mad at him if he doesn't say something. 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:24.960 He doesn't actually care. 01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:28.960 If there wasn't any woman that was going to bother him about it, he wouldn't care. 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:29.960 He wouldn't give a rip. 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:33.960 He's just kind of mad that he's going to get in trouble for not standing against you. 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:36.960 So that's what a feminist man is. He's controlled by a woman. 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:39.960 There's going to be some woman there telling him what to say and what to do. 01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:42.960 And he gets really upset when he gets bothered by her. 01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:44.960 So then he's going to get on to you. 01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:46.960 Look at verse number six now. 01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:47.960 The Bible says, 01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:10.960 So again, it's kind of weird. 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:19.960 It's like you got lost possessions, aggravated cross-dressing, and then a dam and her eggs being eaten. 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:26.960 Again, these are just like such random things in a sense, but they're not random in the sense that this is just good for society. 01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:29.960 You're going to have a healthy society, and you're going to be able to sustain yourself. 01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:34.960 If all the men are dressing like women and all the women are dressing like men, society is going to destroy itself. 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:39.960 Plus, the normal people won't want to live in that city, San Francisco. 01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:45.960 Normal people are going to run away screaming if they're just around a bunch of dudes in dresses. 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:53.960 In the same way, if no one's helping you and everyone's stealing from you and no one's going to assist you, you're going to want to get away from that society. 01:02:53.960 --> 01:03:06.960 In the same way also that if you're basically just taking all of the food supply and you're just killing all of it, well, then how is that going to sustain to the next generation, to the next cycle? 01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:14.960 So it's basically saying you can't take the mom and the young because then you're just going to cause an extinction of the food supply. 01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:17.960 You have to basically think about, OK, well, we can have one or the other, right? 01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:26.960 We can take the mother and allow the young to create more mothers or, hey, we could take the egg and let the mother lay some more eggs. 01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:32.960 We can't take both. We can't have our cake and eat it too because then essentially we're not going to have any more eggs anymore. 01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.960 We're not going to have any more hens anymore. We're not going to have any dams anymore. 01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:38.960 We're not going to have any mothers. We're going to have nothing to eat. 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:43.960 So in order for society to function, you basically have to think about the perpetuity. 01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:48.960 And notice why he says this in verse seven, that thou mayest prolong thy days. 01:03:48.960 --> 01:04:00.960 If you just eat all the food supply and you don't allow yourself to basically have the next generation of food supply, well, then you're going to basically ruin your society, ruin food for yourself. 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.960 We have to have something that's constantly sustaining itself. 01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:07.960 We want to have, hey, OK, we're constantly getting eggs and we have this cycle. 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:10.960 We have a food cycle. God wants there to be these cycles. 01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:15.960 And look, anything that gets out of rhythm is going to cause major, major problems. 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:17.960 So we don't want the food supply to dry up. 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:22.960 We want to keep having these animals so that we can keep eating. 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:31.960 Now it says here in verse number eight, when thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house. 01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:35.960 If any man fall from fence, thou, if any man fall from fence, sorry. 01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:38.960 So it's kind of a self-contained verse. 01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:40.960 What is a battlement? 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:47.960 It's essentially if you think about the top of a roof, you have just kind of a raised edge all around the edge so that you don't fall off. 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:49.960 Now, this could be a mid-wall. 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:50.960 It could be super high. 01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:53.960 It just kind of probably depends on the circumstances and everything. 01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:56.960 It's just basically saying, hey, obviously, this is a dangerous thing. 01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:04.960 You don't want people just following off your roof and just dying from an accident or dying from just a safety hazard. 01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:06.960 And again, you know, think about Jerusalem. 01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:09.960 You think about a lot of the cities in the Middle East. 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:10.960 They're on mountains. 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:13.960 They're on a very unlevel landscape. 01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.960 So a lot of times they don't have necessarily as much real estate left to right. 01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.960 It's not Texas where it's the Great Plains. 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:21.960 So a lot of times they're building up. 01:05:21.960 --> 01:05:23.960 So a lot of times they're stacking and building up. 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:24.960 So you're going to have roofs. 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:26.960 You're going to have high places. 01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.960 So you want to make sure you have these battlements to basically have safety. 01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:40.960 And I think this is a good verse to point to building code as being biblical, that essentially you're thinking about the safety of your construction in general. 01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:49.960 And if you go to places that don't have building code or have a very lax building code, you'll notice they're very they're very dangerous structures. 01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:52.960 And you're really kind of like, whoa, what's going on here? 01:05:52.960 --> 01:06:02.960 Especially even if you just go just north or south of America, you go to Canada or you go to Mexico, you'll notice a difference in construction, especially in residential areas. 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:04.960 I remember even going in Canada. 01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:10.960 It was like they had no building code and people were just doing whatever they wanted, you know, just building like forts and stuff. 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:16.960 You know, you're just kind of it's like, you know, your kids take all the blankets and chairs and whatever and just build a fort in your living room. 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:17.960 That's some of the houses. 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:21.960 And you were just sitting here thinking like, man, this is kind of like sketch. 01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:30.960 I remember when I was into real estate a lot back home, there was this really nice part of town and it was just like really expensive. 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:35.960 And there was this one house for sale and it was like a glorified tree fort or something like that. 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:40.960 And I remember even just being in it, you kind of were like kind of nervous, like, is this going to fall over? 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:41.960 Is this going to break? 01:06:41.960 --> 01:06:46.960 And everybody kind of every real estate person kind of went and looked every once in a while just kick the tires. 01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:47.960 And then we all just walked away. 01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:54.960 There's like this thing's just condemned like this thing needs to be knocked down and rebuilt like this doesn't meet safety requirements. 01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:58.960 This isn't something you'd want, but it was too expensive to buy it. 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:02.960 You know, as they were trying to sell it like as is like people would actually live in this particular structure. 01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:04.960 And you're just thinking like this is like a fun house. 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:06.960 You know, it was actually like circular. 01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:07.960 It was weird. 01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:10.960 It was like kind of a 70s style with this weird staircase. 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:12.960 And then you go upstairs and you kind of feel like you're going to die. 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:17.960 But it was just like, hey, you know, building code is there for a reason. 01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:26.960 And as much as it might be annoying and irritating sometimes, it's also nice to live in a society that has good safety considerations. 01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:32.960 You go to some places and it's just like you can build whatever and do whatever and it gets really dangerous. 01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.960 It's really haphazard. 01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:35.960 And again, that's going to harm society. 01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:36.960 I mean, think about it. 01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:41.960 If you're going into town and it's like every building is dangerous, every building could collapse. 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:43.960 There's all kinds of just crazy weird stuff. 01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:46.960 You might touch a light switch and you just get electrocuted. 01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:49.960 I mean, no one's going to want to go into that society. 01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:51.960 No one's going to go into those buildings. 01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:53.960 No one's going to want to rent from that apartment manager. 01:07:53.960 --> 01:08:01.960 If again, think about how much of a Jew some apartment managers are, especially if they didn't have building code. 01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:03.960 I mean, they didn't have building code. 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:04.960 They wouldn't care at all. 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:05.960 They would just get the insurance. 01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:06.960 That thing collapsed on itself. 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:08.960 They're just like, hey, it's just another building seven. 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:09.960 You know what I mean? 01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:11.960 And so that was a delayed joke for you. 01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:12.960 Maybe you'll get it later. 01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:14.960 It's like they don't even care. 01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:19.960 They're going to just collect the 4.2 billion insurance policy and they don't give a rip. 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:23.960 So it's like, hey, that building inspector is there to actually preserve your life. 01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:27.960 And we don't want to live in a society where every building is collapsing. 01:08:27.960 --> 01:08:29.960 Every building is haphazardly constructed. 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:30.960 This would be bad. 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.960 And again, let's take that and apply it to every area of life. 01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:37.960 We have safety requirements in all kinds of construction. 01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:42.960 And vehicles, road safety, all kinds of different measures to try and prevent people from 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:47.960 harming themselves accidentally from there just being just accidental loss of life. 01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:50.960 God does not want people to just die haphazardly. 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:53.960 God doesn't want people to die preventable death. 01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:57.960 You don't want people just constantly dying from preventable deaths, from all these 01:08:57.960 --> 01:09:00.960 accidents, from all this negligence. 01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:05.960 We should take life very seriously and we should try to avoid the risk of death. 01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:10.960 We should take life seriously and we should try to avoid unnecessary death. 01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:11.960 Okay. 01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:14.960 And so that's a really important principle that's being laid out here in the Bible. 01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:16.960 And it's going to be helpful to society. 01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:18.960 Verse 9. 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:22.960 Thou so not sow thy vineyard with thy verse seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed which thou 01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:25.960 have sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled. 01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:31.960 Here's another one where it's saying, hey, you don't want to basically plant apple seeds 01:09:31.960 --> 01:09:33.960 and potatoes and tomatoes. 01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:35.960 You don't want to put them all together in the same ground. 01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:37.960 Like that's going to cause a disaster. 01:09:37.960 --> 01:09:40.960 And probably just the point where nothing's going to really grow. 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:42.960 So you basically go somewhere. 01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:43.960 It's like, hey, here's our orchard. 01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:45.960 You know, you got all these apples. 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:47.960 Over here you got, hey, here's the tomato plants. 01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:50.960 Over here, here's, you know, this different crop. 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:52.960 You don't want to necessarily sow everything together. 01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:54.960 That's going to cause problems. 01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:57.960 And certain crops need different things. 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:01.960 Some crops need more sunlight, less sunlight. 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:02.960 Some need more water. 01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:03.960 Some need less water. 01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:07.960 Some need the soil to have like less salinity. 01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:10.960 So basically the salt content of the soil. 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:14.960 And there's different seasons in which you want to plant certain crops because of just 01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:16.960 the nitrogen that's released. 01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:19.960 I mean, some crops release certain nutrients in the ground. 01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.960 So then the next cycle will actually be beneficial. 01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:24.960 God knows what he's doing here. 01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:28.960 And if you're just trying to plant everything all in the same little spot, like it's going 01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:30.960 to cause major problems, major issues. 01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:32.960 You don't want to be mixing your seeds. 01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:34.960 And this is just, again, from a practical perspective. 01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:39.960 Verse 10 says, Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:42.960 So again, God's just giving all these like practical tips, practical advices. 01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:44.960 Go to Leviticus chapter 11. 01:10:44.960 --> 01:10:46.960 Go to Leviticus chapter 11. 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:51.960 An ox, often in the New Testament, represents a pastor or a preacher. 01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:54.960 And he's doing a lot of work. 01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:59.960 When the Bible says in the New Testament, does God care for oxen, it's kind of like a 01:10:59.960 --> 01:11:00.960 rhetorical question. 01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:04.960 Like, does God really just care so much about cows? 01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:08.960 That meaning there's a spiritual layer here to these particular animals. 01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:12.960 And again, just from a practical perspective, it makes sense that you wouldn't want to have 01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:20.960 this really big, strong animal, the ox, tied to this weaker, smaller ass animal because 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:22.960 they're just not going to be able to plow together correctly. 01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:24.960 They're going to be off. 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:27.960 They're not going to be able to basically match each other's strength. 01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:29.960 And it's just going to cause a lot of awkward issues. 01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:32.960 You're not going to get as much out of the ox. 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:36.960 And that ox could drag that ass to its own death or something, basically just overworking 01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:39.960 it or causing it so many problems. 01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:45.960 But another spiritual application we could take is if the ox is picturing a pastor or 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:51.960 basically the preacher, the ass in the Bible is actually an unclean beast. 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:55.960 Leviticus chapter number 11, verse number three is telling you like what you can eat 01:11:55.960 --> 01:12:00.960 says, What's ever part of the hoof and is cloven footed and cheweth the cud among the 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:02.960 beasts, that shall you eat. 01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:07.960 Now here's the thing, the ass or the donkey does not do either of those. 01:12:07.960 --> 01:12:11.960 It doesn't divide the hoof completely and it doesn't chew the cud. 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:15.960 So in some ways, it kind of pictures an unsaved animal. 01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.960 It kind of pictures like just a completely unsaved animal whatsoever. 01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:25.960 And when we talk about plowing, typically we're thinking about sowing seed or going 01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:28.960 out there and doing the work for the fruit. 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:31.960 This is kind of like preaching the gospel in the sense that from a spiritual perspective, 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:37.960 we don't want to yoke up a saved pastor with an unsaved guy in the efforts of the gospel. 01:12:37.960 --> 01:12:38.960 Like this doesn't make sense. 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:44.960 Second Corinthians chapter number six clearly tells us to not be unequally yoked together 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:45.960 with unbelievers. 01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:48.960 Now that's exactly what this principle is bringing up, that we're not going to just 01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.960 try and find some unsaved person and yoke up with them and bring them in and have them 01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:59.960 help us in delivering the gospel, delivering salvation by faith. 01:12:59.960 --> 01:13:02.960 Go view it back to Deuteronomy 22. 01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:08.960 You know, there was a lady that came into our church and I was like having lunch. 01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:12.960 I walk in and there were some of our members and they were just like, Here's the pastor. 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:18.960 You know, it's just like, and I'm like, Oh, hey, and this lady is just like, M.A.D. angry. 01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:19.960 All right. 01:13:19.960 --> 01:13:20.960 Mad. 01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:22.960 She is just hella pissed. 01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:26.960 And I'm just kind of like, Hey, it's like time to like do soul winning or whatever. 01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:30.960 And I'm just kind of like, you know, not trying to be super rude, but I kind of just want 01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.960 to get out of there, you know, I can't even get a word in edgewise with this lady. 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:39.960 And she's just kind of like sitting here just like these guys came to my door and they were 01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:40.960 really rude. 01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:42.960 I've been listening to your preaching. 01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:46.960 You know, I know you're not like that, but you know, these guys are just so rude and 01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:48.960 they're just so mean or whatever. 01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:54.960 And and I'm just thinking like she's probably lying and whatever, but just on the off chance, 01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:57.960 I just have to kind of give her the benefit out here for a second or whatever. 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:01.960 And she's probably flattering me, but I'm just kind of like talking to her and she's and then 01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:03.960 all of a sudden she kind of knows it's that guy back there. 01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:05.960 Like that guy was really rude. 01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:09.960 She just points at Brother Malta or whatever, you know, and I'm just thinking like, Oh, 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:10.960 man, what happened? 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:12.960 And I'm just trying to play catch up. 01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:14.960 Like I don't even know what's going on. 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:16.960 And I'm like, did this happen a few weeks ago? 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:18.960 She's like, it happened today. 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:21.960 And she's like, and she's like, come back, you know, and she's like mad. 01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:26.960 And then Brother Thomas comes over here and he's just kind of like walking up and then she's 01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:28.960 just like, did you see how the guy's walking? 01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:34.960 And I'm just like, yeah, she's just like, oh, he's just such a jerk, you know, just the way 01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:38.960 he was walking, you know, and then and then and then and then and then and then and then 01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:40.960 and then and then I can't remember. 01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:44.960 She said something to him or whatever, but she was just like, Oh, do you see how he looked at me? 01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.960 I'm just like, I don't I don't I don't want to get in this kind of drama. 01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:48.960 You know what I mean? 01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:50.960 And he's just always just trying to see if it was y'all. 01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:52.960 And she was like, what does that mean? 01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:55.960 And it's like, I was just looking, just trying to see if it was y'all or whatever. 01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:56.960 And then he just kind of walks away. 01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.960 And she's like, do you see how how he is? 01:14:59.960 --> 01:15:04.960 And I'm just like, I'm so I'm like, look, did they ask you about like salvation or whatever? 01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:05.960 And she's like, yeah. 01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:07.960 And I said, OK, well, what do you think it takes to be safe? 01:15:07.960 --> 01:15:09.960 And I'm just trying to like figure out where she's at. 01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:12.960 And she's like, well, we don't we don't want to talk about that. 01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:14.960 You know, we just need to come together as community. 01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:19.960 And I just said, well, look, if someone doesn't believe like me on the gospel, I want nothing to do with them. 01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:20.960 They're not welcome here. 01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:25.960 And then she was just like, and she just got so offended and then she just left. 01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:28.960 And I'm like, uh, duh. 01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:32.960 Why would I want to sit here and yoke up with someone that doesn't even believe in salvation by faith? 01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:34.960 It's like you can hit the road, Jack. 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:37.960 And look, you say, how do you get someone out of your church fast? 01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:42.960 Just say, hey, we believe salvation by faith and we don't want anything else. 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:43.960 Bye. 01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:45.960 Yeah, I was I honestly was not rude. 01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:46.960 I was very kind. 01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:48.960 I was trying to be patient with this lady. 01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:50.960 I let her talk an earful at me. 01:15:50.960 --> 01:16:01.960 And she's saying all kinds of just like disparaging things like you probably don't even want me here because how I look, you know, I'm like, Brother Thomas is black, too. 01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:04.960 And again, she was hating on him. 01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:06.960 She's probably you know, it's funny. 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:10.960 It's like black people are more racist against black people than I am, you know, and I'm not racist. 01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:18.960 OK, but I'm just saying like it's like, hey, this lady is just like hating on black people just as much as you know, the next guy or whatever. 01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:21.960 And I'm sitting here like, hey, we welcome all colors. 01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:22.960 I don't care about color. 01:16:22.960 --> 01:16:24.960 You know, I care about gospel. 01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:27.960 You know, the problem with the ox in the ass wasn't the color of the animals. 01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:32.960 It was that one wasn't saved and one was, you know, at the end of the day. 01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:36.960 And, you know, with this kind of a mixing, you're going to have major, major problems. 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:44.960 The unsaved person is going to have a different mindset, a different attitude, a different focus than the than the guy that's saved. 01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:50.960 Not only that, though, you know, while that's the primary interpretation, that's exactly what is explicitly being said here. 01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:56.960 I think you could just say you don't want things to be unequally yoked in general, even if you're not a black person. 01:16:56.960 --> 01:17:00.960 You don't want things to be yoked in general, even if it was to save people. 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:06.960 OK, if you have a spirit filled pastor, you want him to lead the church. 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:16.960 You don't want him to be yoked up with some carnal backslidden lawyer as the second beast in there making decisions for the church. 01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:17.960 And let me tell you something. 01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:23.960 Lawyers are not going to be spirit filled men of God leading the charge for the gospel. 01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:26.960 Lawyers are conservative. 01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:29.960 They're worried about all kinds of different things. 01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:32.960 Their reputation is at risk. 01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:36.960 Lawyers are not going to be the person that you want leading your church. 01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:42.960 Otherwise, every church would just have lawyers running the church and they would be a great example. 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:47.960 I mean, look, God wants the simple to be leading the church rich in faith. 01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:54.960 These highly educated, so super sophisticated, super rich guys who basically lie for a living. 01:17:54.960 --> 01:17:58.960 And I'm sorry, the lawyer profession is so crooked and so corrupt. 01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:01.960 You basically have to be a scumbag to be a lawyer. 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:08.960 And I'm not saying all lawyers are bad, but the profession is so bad that it just compromises every single person to some degree. 01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:14.960 I do not believe someone could be in that profession and not have some level of compromise in their life, whether you like that or not. 01:18:14.960 --> 01:18:20.960 And look, I know people that are lawyers that I really respect and I really like, but I've just I've been there. 01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:22.960 I've seen it. I've experienced it. 01:18:22.960 --> 01:18:24.960 And boy, it puts so much pressure. 01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:27.960 If you're going to be a righteous person to be a lawyer, it's going to be very difficult. 01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:29.960 I'm not saying we don't. 01:18:29.960 --> 01:18:31.960 I'm not. If you want to be a lawyer, be a lawyer. 01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:34.960 But I'm just telling you, there's a certain level of compromise and being a lawyer. 01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:38.960 And most of them are really, really bad. 01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:41.960 Why is the Bible say woe on you lawyers? 01:18:41.960 --> 01:18:43.960 Oh, it's just it's just just joking. 01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:45.960 They're great. They should be leading the church. 01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:48.960 Right. That doesn't make any kind of sense. 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:50.960 But you don't want to have these unequal. 01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:58.960 You know, you don't even want a pastor that's in a position where he can't just preach what the Bible says that he's going to be compromised, that he's worried about money. 01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:00.960 He's worried about his reputation. 01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:01.960 He's worried about jobs. 01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:04.960 He's worried about lawsuits or whatever. 01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:12.960 It's like, hey, we need some pastors that say, hey, I'd rather preach what the Bible says and get sued than sit here and not get sued. 01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:17.960 Woe unto the people that are unwilling to get sued to do the right thing. 01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:21.960 Oh, man. You know, you just you're just begging for lawsuits. 01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:23.960 I don't want to lose lawsuit ever. 01:19:23.960 --> 01:19:25.960 They're horrific. They're awful. 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:27.960 They're they're like one of the worst things. 01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:29.960 You know, it's even worse getting crucified. 01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:32.960 I'd rather get a lawsuit than crucified. 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:38.960 And look, if you're not willing to take on a lawsuit, how much more would you be willing to die for Christ? 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:44.960 And at the end of the day, yeah, I seek legal professional help when I have to. 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:48.960 But I don't even necessarily sit here and just like, oh, that's what we need to do. 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:51.960 I'm just like, what does the Bible say? That's what we're going to do. 01:19:51.960 --> 01:19:53.960 I don't care if every lawyer says, well, that's a bad move. 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:55.960 I'm going to do what the Bible says. 01:19:55.960 --> 01:19:57.960 This is where our authority is. 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:01.960 It's not going to rest on some kind of an ass to tell me what to do. 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:05.960 I'm not going to go and seek an ass to go lead me by the nose and tell me what to do. 01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:09.960 And I don't want to be unequally yoked together and tied to some lawyer or something like that. 01:20:09.960 --> 01:20:11.960 Lawyers will drop you like a bad habit. 01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:14.960 I know. Been there and done that. 01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:18.960 And of course, you know, I wish that our society was more just. 01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:27.960 If our society was just, if we had good judges and if we actually follow the laws of the land, then lawyers wouldn't have to be bad. 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:32.960 But the problem is that the justice system is just so awful and so corrupt and so evil 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:37.960 that there's only like probably a handful of lawyers out there even trying to do the right thing. 01:20:37.960 --> 01:20:41.960 And then even of them, it's very rough. It's very difficult. 01:20:41.960 --> 01:20:43.960 It's hard to win in a system like that. 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:46.960 It makes me it reminds me of being in the banking industry. 01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:51.960 I worked for Wells Fargo and just in order to survive in that industry, you have to compromise yourself. 01:20:51.960 --> 01:21:01.960 And you basically just have to be willing to rob from poor people and take advantage of people and lie to people and just just harm and hurt society in order to thrive in that kind of an environment. 01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:06.960 You know, the used car salesman isn't going to sell a lot of cars being honest with people. 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:09.960 Hey, yeah, this car sucks. And we rolled back the miles. 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.960 And, yeah, we kind of just painted over this spot. 01:21:12.960 --> 01:21:14.960 It's probably going to chip in two weeks. 01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:16.960 And whatever price we're going to give you is going to be rip off. 01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:19.960 Would you like to get it? 01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:21.960 I'm not going to sell a lot of cars. 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:26.960 And so there's just not a lot of honesty in certain professions in certain areas in this world. 01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:27.960 And let me tell you something. 01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:31.960 Our church is not going to be led by a lawyer. 01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:34.960 It's not going to be led by some legal department out there somewhere. 01:21:34.960 --> 01:21:37.960 We will seek their advice when we have to. 01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:40.960 And we will use them when we absolutely have to. 01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:41.960 But that is it. 01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:43.960 I don't want to go down that road. 01:21:43.960 --> 01:21:45.960 And praise God, we have no lawsuits right now. 01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:47.960 Go to verse number 11. 01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:51.960 No lawsuits, no lawyers on retainer. 01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:55.960 And we gave stupid amounts of money to them. 01:21:55.960 --> 01:21:59.960 Now, praise God, we're just using all that extra cash flow for Philippines missions. 01:21:59.960 --> 01:22:01.960 And, you know, I'm really excited about that, you know. 01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:03.960 That's where I want to put my money. 01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:07.960 I don't want to put my money into a lawyer's pocket. 01:22:07.960 --> 01:22:12.960 Like, any lawsuit, the only people that win are lawyers. 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:13.960 And think about it. 01:22:13.960 --> 01:22:17.960 A lawyer can lose a case and do everything wrong, and he still gets paid. 01:22:17.960 --> 01:22:22.960 It's just like, man, what a rotten profession that is, okay. 01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:24.960 Look at verse 11. 01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:28.960 Thou shalt not wear a garment of diverse sorts as of woolen and linen together. 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:32.960 Now, again, modern versions will twist these things and say like mixed fabrics and stuff. 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:35.960 And people will be like, oh, do you have like a polyester blend? 01:22:35.960 --> 01:22:37.960 Oh, you're breaking God's commands. 01:22:37.960 --> 01:22:43.960 Look, no one in here is wearing these like woolen and cotton garments mixed together, okay. 01:22:43.960 --> 01:22:45.960 Or linen and woolen together. 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:50.960 Again, you could have obviously animal all together and you could have plant-based all together. 01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:52.960 Cotton and woolen could be the same. 01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:57.960 I'm sorry, I misspoke, but I'm just saying like linen is more plant-based, woolen is animal-based. 01:22:57.960 --> 01:22:58.960 You don't want to mix these. 01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:03.960 These picture, another spiritual example, you don't mix works and faith. 01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:08.960 We have the plant-based being like your works, the animal fabric being like your faith, 01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:09.960 and we just don't mix these things. 01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:11.960 These don't mix well together. 01:23:11.960 --> 01:23:14.960 Nothing wrong with them being separate as long as they're separate. 01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:16.960 They're great separate. 01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:18.960 They're horrific putting together, okay. 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:22.960 And so in the same way, and again, most clothing today wouldn't even, I mean, there's probably, 01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:25.960 it'd be hard to find garments that are really a violation of this. 01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:29.960 So don't let liberals lie to you or atheists lie to you and say like, oh, you're breaking God's 01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:33.960 commandments by having a spandex or polyester blend or something like that. 01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:38.960 You're not taking some sheep's clothing and mixing it together with some plant-based fabric, okay. 01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:42.960 But again, these are just practical tips that God's giving into society. 01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:44.960 What would this be? 01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:47.960 God doesn't want you to have cheap clothing. 01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:52.960 Clothing that's just going to rip and tear and break down, and you're going to constantly have to buy 01:23:52.960 --> 01:23:53.960 clothing all over. 01:23:53.960 --> 01:23:56.960 And again, you hear these things, you're thinking like, man, America does a lot of these. 01:23:56.960 --> 01:23:58.960 Right. 01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:00.960 You know, it used to be you'd actually make things last. 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:04.960 You'd make things to be durable, and you could have them for a long period of time. 01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:10.960 Now, today, everything's so cheaply made and quickly manufactured and breaks down so quickly, 01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:11.960 and it's frustrating. 01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:15.960 It's frustrating not to have durable goods and have cheap clothing. 01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:22.960 Verse 12, thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou covers thyself. 01:24:22.960 --> 01:24:24.960 This was kind of a hard one for me, but I looked it up. 01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:28.960 Apparently, having fringes on your garment can help with just basically reducing water retention. 01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:32.960 So, it causes a wicking effect on clothing. 01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:39.960 So, a lot of times, cowboys or Native Americans had a lot of fringes on their clothing just from a practical perspective. 01:24:39.960 --> 01:24:42.960 But again, there's going to be spiritual elements on these. 01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:44.960 I'm not going to forsake a time, go through all of these. 01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:49.960 But for water repellents, harsh weather, extra warmth and mobility, these things existed. 01:24:49.960 --> 01:24:56.960 And, you know, sometimes we, he's putting these fringes on here in other places to help remind them of the Bible and the Word of God. 01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:02.960 It says in verse 13, if any man take a wife and go in unto her and hate her and give occasions of speech against her 01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:07.960 and bring up an evil name upon her and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid, 01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:13.960 then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city and the gate. 01:25:13.960 --> 01:25:18.960 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man a wife and he hated her. 01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:22.960 And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:27.960 And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity, and they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:34.960 So a woman, whenever she would get married, they would have their consummation and bring out the cloth unto the father. 01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:37.960 And that was just basically a token of her virginity. 01:25:37.960 --> 01:25:46.960 According to the Bible, this is to protect her reputation in the sense and protect the family's reputation if for some reason the guy lied about her later. 01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:56.960 So if the guy lies about her later, then essentially you could come to the court and you could protect your family and protect your arm. 01:25:56.960 --> 01:26:04.960 Now, you kind of think about this. It's not explicit, but like with Jacob, he ends up marrying Leah by accident. 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:09.960 But the father tells her to fulfill her week. 01:26:09.960 --> 01:26:16.960 And if you kind of get the picture of how the Bible basically illustrates these facts, is when a man or woman got married, 01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:22.960 there's kind of like this week or this little period of time where they're discovering each other. 01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:29.960 And in this discovery period, if he finds out she's not a maid or he discovers some uncleanness in her, 01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:37.960 there was a technical exception of what we would call annulment today, which the Bible describes as putting away or a divorce, a bill of divorcement. 01:26:37.960 --> 01:26:41.960 But this is limited to this discovery period of time. 01:26:41.960 --> 01:26:49.960 And if you kind of pay attention to what's being said here, if they are able to prove that this is false, 01:26:49.960 --> 01:26:55.960 then it says here in verse 18, And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him. 01:26:55.960 --> 01:27:04.960 So that means they're going to punish him and they shall immerse him in a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the damsel because he had brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. 01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:09.960 And she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. 01:27:09.960 --> 01:27:22.960 Notice that if she was a virgin, he can never divorce her for any reason, because the only exception for divorce is if she was not a virgin or he discovers some uncleanness in her. 01:27:22.960 --> 01:27:28.960 And in this basically discovery period, he ends up recognizing it and they put her away. 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:41.960 But since it's fact she is a virgin because the tokens of virginity have been presented, notice that the Bible says he can never divorce her because divorce is just not an option in God's system. 01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:47.960 In this particular context, we have to understand that the divorce in the Bible is really like an annulment in our mind. 01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:54.960 So sometimes you hear the word divorce and you're thinking about California's no fault divorce laws, but that is not a biblical concept. 01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:59.960 It is really harmful to society. What's really harmful to society is no fault divorce. 01:27:59.960 --> 01:28:02.960 What's really harmful to society is saying she can leave. 01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:06.960 What's really harmful to society is people being divided and separated and all this kind of stuff. 01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:12.960 You know, even the colonies in America would punish you and fine you if you were living apart from your spouse. 01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:20.960 Like if you just live apart from your spouse for too long, they're like, we're going to start punishing you by making you pay a fine for just even living away from your spouse. 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:30.960 Because, you know, that's just harmful to society to allow people to just leave their spouse and divorce for any reason and just all these just major, major society issues. 01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:37.960 And we have them. Think about how many kids are being raised in a single family home or being passed around like a bargaining chip. 01:28:37.960 --> 01:28:42.960 And I mean, this is this causes so many problems, so many issues just that are unnecessary. 01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:49.960 And it's so much expense. You know, loves divorce divorce lawyers. 01:28:49.960 --> 01:28:54.960 Let me go back to that point for a second. Divorce lawyers are scummy as hell. 01:28:54.960 --> 01:29:05.960 And you know what? Profiting off of people's misfortune and profiting off of people's misery and oftentimes incentivizing people to attack their spouse and to break their vows and to go against God and put their lives at risk. 01:29:07.960 --> 01:29:12.960 Profiting money off of people lying and being deceitful. You know, it's wicked. It's wicked as hell. 01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:18.960 It's a bad. It's a bad profession. Is it any shock that you go to Arlington Mall, go anywhere? 01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:23.960 You'll see this like butch dyke looking divorce lawyer woman out there advertising. 01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:31.960 Hey, get a divorce. Double your closet size. It's like jokes on you because you only got I only got like 10 percent. 01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:38.960 Okay, she can't double her closet size. You know, that's that's that's the lie is they tell you double your closet size. 01:29:38.960 --> 01:29:41.960 You know what you're doing? You're not even you're not even doubling it. 01:29:41.960 --> 01:29:47.960 You're going to half it. You're going to have it because you have a certain amount of possessions when you're married. 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:51.960 You have all of it. You own all of it. It's all yours. Yours is mine. Mine is yours. 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:56.960 Whenever you get divorced, you're going to split it in half. But you know what? You're not really going to split it half. 01:29:56.960 --> 01:30:01.960 You're going to just give tons to the lawyer. All you're going to do is you're going to just basically drain your bank account. 01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:05.960 You're going to get decimated. They're going to literally take 10, 20, 30 percent of your of your goods. 01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:12.960 Then it's going to be divided and you're just going to have less and you're going to be double paying all kinds of stuff because often they won't live together. 01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:17.960 Of course, after divorce. So now you're paying a double water bill, a double electric bill. 01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:22.960 Hey, you don't get the joint combined discounts when it comes to, you know, your cell phone. 01:30:22.960 --> 01:30:26.960 You have to pay separately for the cell phones and you got to pay separately for all this. 01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:32.960 It just costs so much extra expense and all this extra money. And it's just going to what Fortune 500 companies. 01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:37.960 It's going to divorce lawyers and just ruining society. It's running children. 01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:42.960 Oh, now we need child care because mom and dad don't live together, don't live in the same town. 01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:51.960 So now we have to figure out ways after school programs where they're going to get molested and we have to come up with all kinds of daycare situations where they're going to get molested and babysitters because they're going to get molested. 01:30:51.960 --> 01:30:54.960 And hanging out with Uncle so and so because they get molested. 01:30:54.960 --> 01:30:59.960 And then you have all strange men coming in with this woman and they're going to possibly get molested. 01:30:59.960 --> 01:31:04.960 It's just a train wreck. It's disgusting. It's evil. It's wicked. 01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:08.960 Yeah. Was there a provision here to put her away if she wasn't a virgin? 01:31:08.960 --> 01:31:13.960 Yes. But that's actually helpful to society because you know what it would cause? 01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:17.960 It would cause women to actually be a virgin on the wedding night. 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:23.960 And it puts a price and a premium on fathers actually keeping their daughters pure because then they get a dowry. 01:31:23.960 --> 01:31:27.960 They actually get paid for keeping their daughter pure. 01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:33.960 Whereas the day society, they're just shipping them off to college and just allowing them to just be unpure. 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:37.960 They're not going to get any kind of dowry. And it's just it's just really, really harmful to society. 01:31:37.960 --> 01:31:42.960 Why is nobody getting married anymore? You're not going to have the same kid number of grandchildren. 01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:46.960 Look, divorce is wicked. It's evil. It's wrong. 01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:49.960 This is not what the Bible said. The Bible is not teaching divorce. 01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:54.960 It's not incentivizing divorce. It's giving this one provision that's kind of like an annulment. 01:31:54.960 --> 01:32:03.960 And it makes sense if a guy is courting a woman for six months, a year, he gives her a nice engagement ring. 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:07.960 He's paying all this money. He goes through all this process to get her married. 01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:12.960 And she's just totally lied and said that she was a virgin. He's been defrauded. 01:32:12.960 --> 01:32:15.960 He's been lied to. And what does the Bible say? 01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.960 It says in verse 20, but if this thing be true and the tokens of virginity not found for the damsel, 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:25.960 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die 01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:28.960 because she had to rot folly in Israel to play the whore in her father's house. 01:32:28.960 --> 01:32:31.960 So she'll put evil away from Mungu. 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:33.960 Now, again, now society can just move on. 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:38.960 This guy obviously is going to have a financial loss either way. 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:42.960 You know, he's going to have lost money because he paid the dowry and he went on this way. 01:32:42.960 --> 01:32:47.960 But you know what? She's going to be gone and he can just get remarried and we can move on with society. 01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.960 And then the women are not going to want to lie about being a virgin anymore. 01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:56.960 They're going to be like, dang, you know, we can't get away with being a whore. 01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.960 Only fans is going to go up and smoke. No one's going to want that anymore. 01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:03.960 And again, that would be really helpful to society. 01:33:03.960 --> 01:33:07.960 It's like what is divorce and and all this whoredom brought us. 01:33:07.960 --> 01:33:12.960 It's brought us just all kinds of prostitution and just STDs. 01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:16.960 Think about just the health care costs that are on our society because all the STDs. 01:33:16.960 --> 01:33:21.960 We could have no STDs. And not only that, if we were actually getting married and having kids, we'd have more people. 01:33:21.960 --> 01:33:24.960 And you know what more people do? They produce more money. 01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:29.960 So then your society has more tax income and they don't have to have as high taxes. 01:33:29.960 --> 01:33:34.960 The taxes actually can be lower because you have so many more people contributing to society. 01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:41.960 And we don't have to sit here and offset a bunch of liberal freaks and weirdos in our society and pay for all their bills, 01:33:41.960 --> 01:33:48.960 pay for all their cats and pay for all of their degeneracy in our society and pay for all their whoredom and pay for all their drugs 01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:52.960 and pay for all their government assistance and allow them to keep voting in our society. 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:59.960 It's just look, when you don't do these things, your society just erodes and destroys itself. 01:33:59.960 --> 01:34:02.960 It's gross. It's gross when you live in a society like this. 01:34:02.960 --> 01:34:07.960 Now, I don't believe this is saying that a woman that's not a virgin would just be killed. 01:34:07.960 --> 01:34:11.960 OK, that's not what it's saying. It's more about the fact that she's lying about it. 01:34:11.960 --> 01:34:17.960 If she was not a virgin and she discloses that, then the man's not obligated to pay a dowry, still marry her. 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:20.960 But at the end of the day, it's about the lying. It's about being defrauded. 01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:24.960 It's about him paying the dowry and thinking he's getting a virgin and he's not. 01:34:24.960 --> 01:34:28.960 And then she would be executed if she had lied about it. 01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:34.960 Verse 22, if a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, 01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:38.960 both the man that lay with the woman and the woman, so shall they put away evil from Israel. 01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:43.960 So someone that commits adultery with another man's wife, the Bible says death penalty, 01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:48.960 says in verse 23, if a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband and a man find her in the city and lie with her, 01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:53.960 then he shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city and he shall stone them with stones that they die. 01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:57.960 The damsel because she cried not being in the city and the man because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife, 01:34:57.960 --> 01:34:59.960 so shall they put away evil from among you. 01:34:59.960 --> 01:35:03.960 So if they're married, if you lie with a woman that's married, death penalty. 01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:08.960 You lie with a woman that's engaged, death penalty. That's how society is. 01:35:08.960 --> 01:35:13.960 Says in verse 25, but if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and the man force her and lie with her, 01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:17.960 then the man only that lay with her shall die. 01:35:17.960 --> 01:35:21.960 But in the damsel thou shalt do nothing. There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death, 01:35:21.960 --> 01:35:26.960 for as when a man rises against his neighbor and slayeth him, even so is this matter. 01:35:26.960 --> 01:35:31.960 So it says, for he found her in the field and the brother of the damsel, Chai, and there was none to save her. 01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:39.960 So the Bible describes forcing as a woman being, you know, screaming, yelling, asking for help, and no one can rescue her. 01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:45.960 And so that is the biblical understanding of the word rape, where it says force, 01:35:45.960 --> 01:35:48.960 and it's saying the death penalty would apply to the man. 01:35:48.960 --> 01:35:51.960 Now notice it did say a betrothed damsel. 01:35:51.960 --> 01:35:54.960 In the next few sections, it brings up a different scenario. 01:35:54.960 --> 01:36:02.960 It says if a man find a damsel that is virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found, 01:36:02.960 --> 01:36:08.960 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, 01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:12.960 because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 01:36:12.960 --> 01:36:15.960 And then last one, a man shall not take his father's wife nor discover his father's skirt. 01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:20.960 So you have to understand that the Bible doesn't answer every scenario. 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:26.960 It's basically just giving like boundaries, like clear boundaries and just clear extremes. 01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:33.960 I think the way you would take this then is anything that's not clearly laid out is a discretionary judgment. 01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:37.960 And so God is basically pitting two different scenarios against each other. 01:36:37.960 --> 01:36:42.960 A man forcing a woman that's betrothed and then two people that are consensual. 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:47.960 Because you'll notice in verses 28 and 29 it says that they be found. 01:36:47.960 --> 01:36:51.960 No screaming, no crying, no being in a field, no forcing. 01:36:51.960 --> 01:36:54.960 It just simply says that they be found. 01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:56.960 Now it says, oh well, he laid hold on her. 01:36:56.960 --> 01:37:00.960 Yeah, because in order to commit fornication, you have to touch. 01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:06.960 Good luck committing fornication without touching. 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:08.960 It's kind of like adultery not with another person. 01:37:08.960 --> 01:37:10.960 I don't know how that works. 01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:15.960 But it's like how do you commit fornication without touching? 01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:18.960 So there's got to be the touching element, obviously. 01:37:18.960 --> 01:37:22.960 Modern versions will just change it where it says lay hold on her and just say rape. 01:37:22.960 --> 01:37:26.960 Which is like, this is not what the Bible is saying here. 01:37:26.960 --> 01:37:28.960 So you have two scenarios. 01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:31.960 You have consensual relations of fornication. 01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:34.960 What happens if two people are committing fornication? 01:37:34.960 --> 01:37:36.960 Biblically, they're supposed to get married. 01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:38.960 Biblically, they're supposed to be married. 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:40.960 Now if you go to Exodus 22, and we're not going to go there, 01:37:40.960 --> 01:37:44.960 but if you go there, you'll notice that there's a provision where the father can still refuse the guy. 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:49.960 So if they commit fornication, but then the dad's just like, nah, or maybe it's even her. 01:37:49.960 --> 01:37:52.960 She's kind of like, dad, no, sorry, don't want to marry this guy. 01:37:52.960 --> 01:37:54.960 Then he can refuse. 01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:56.960 But he has to pay the dowry period. 01:37:56.960 --> 01:37:58.960 The dowry has to be paid because she's been defrauded. 01:37:58.960 --> 01:38:00.960 And notice it's about a virgin. 01:38:00.960 --> 01:38:02.960 Notice it doesn't bring up what if she's not a virgin? 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:04.960 It doesn't bring anything up. 01:38:04.960 --> 01:38:06.960 To me, that would mean that it's discretion. 01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:07.960 He's not obligated to marry her. 01:38:07.960 --> 01:38:09.960 He's not obligated to pay anything. 01:38:09.960 --> 01:38:12.960 If there was consensual fornication, this is a criminal element. 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:14.960 We're not talking about if it's right or wrong. 01:38:14.960 --> 01:38:20.960 We're just saying from a criminal aspect, there's no criminal punishment to a man if the woman was not a virgin. 01:38:20.960 --> 01:38:23.960 There's a criminal punishment if she was a virgin because she's been defrauded, 01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:26.960 and she can now no longer get that dowry being paid to her. 01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:30.960 So therefore, he has to pay the dowry and is obligated to marry her 01:38:30.960 --> 01:38:32.960 because it's very unlikely that she's going to get married. 01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:34.960 So this is kind of her best chance. 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:38.960 But the dad can still say, nah. 01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:42.960 Then you have that extreme of the rape scenario to a betrayal. 01:38:42.960 --> 01:38:47.960 Some people say, what happens if someone was forced and she was not betrothed? 01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:49.960 She's just a virgin. 01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:55.960 Well, again, I think you have to basically use discretion to understand what will be the criminal punishment. 01:38:55.960 --> 01:38:57.960 And that's where the judges decide. 01:38:57.960 --> 01:39:02.960 Obviously, if it's described like this scenario, the only difference is that she was not betrothed. 01:39:02.960 --> 01:39:05.960 I think every reasonable guy would say, kill him. 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:07.960 We would all say, hey, death penalty. 01:39:07.960 --> 01:39:13.960 But we have to understand in our society, isn't there just this huge scale of what people are calling rape? 01:39:13.960 --> 01:39:17.960 Isn't there this huge scale of all these random scenarios? 01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:23.960 Was this a pervert hiding in the trees and just running out and snatching someone? 01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:25.960 It's like, yeah, kill that guy. 01:39:25.960 --> 01:39:27.960 Or there's the one, were they dating? 01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:29.960 Were they not dating? 01:39:29.960 --> 01:39:31.960 Were they under the influence of drugs or alcohol? 01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:33.960 Were they not? 01:39:33.960 --> 01:39:35.960 There's just so many different things. 01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:43.960 There's so many different scenarios that I think the Bible is just saying, obviously, the judges or whoever would have discretion in between these two boundaries. 01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:46.960 Obviously, the pervert, we're just, kill that sucker. 01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:48.960 You know what I mean? 01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:54.960 But then it goes all the way to the extreme where maybe it wasn't like she was kind of hesitant, but she didn't scream. 01:39:54.960 --> 01:39:55.960 It was whatever. 01:39:55.960 --> 01:39:58.960 It's like, OK, well, then you probably just need to pay the dowry. 01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:02.960 And if you it's optional, if you would choose to marry the guy or not. 01:40:02.960 --> 01:40:07.960 OK, so again, I think that's how you would interpret these, you know, statues in the Bible. 01:40:07.960 --> 01:40:11.960 God's not going to sit here and spell out every situation because there's infinite situations. 01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:13.960 There's infinite players in the market. 01:40:13.960 --> 01:40:15.960 He just says, hey, here's the line. 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:16.960 Here's the boundary. 01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:19.960 Here's, you know, if it's if she's betrothed, it's just death. 01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:21.960 We're not going to mess around with that. 01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:22.960 We're not going to play with that. 01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:28.960 And then everything underneath, it's discretionary to the judges and whatever they're going to decide, whatever they're going to determine. 01:40:28.960 --> 01:40:33.960 They're going to use these principles to decide what's appropriate. 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:36.960 Verse 30, you know, not being with your father's wife. 01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:38.960 This is just perversion, which we have happened in the Bible. 01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:42.960 Ruben does this to Israel and Absalom does this to David. 01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:49.960 And of course, all these things are going to cause major, major problems in society if you just allow them to go rampant. 01:40:49.960 --> 01:40:54.460 If everyone's stealing, if no one ever helps anybody, if everybody is just cross-dressing, if you can't tell what's a man or woman, if all the food supply has just been totally eradicated and gone extinct, if there's no safety anywhere, no safety concerns for the buildings and construction and cars, if there's a complete crop failure, if you just have completely cheap clothing, if everyone's just divorcing everybody willy nilly, if there's just rampant adultery, if there's just rampant forcing and rape, if you're just going to be a 01:41:20.460 --> 01:41:27.460 If there's just rampant fornication and rampant perversion, who wants to live there? 01:41:27.460 --> 01:41:28.460 You wouldn't want to live there. 01:41:28.460 --> 01:41:30.460 You wouldn't want to be a part of that society. 01:41:30.460 --> 01:41:31.860 That society will crumble. 01:41:31.860 --> 01:41:33.760 It will collapse in on itself. 01:41:33.760 --> 01:41:36.060 It will destroy itself. 01:41:36.060 --> 01:41:38.260 And you'll have complete anarchy. 01:41:38.260 --> 01:41:40.560 Everybody will just want to stay away from society. 01:41:40.560 --> 01:41:45.460 They'll only go in and out when they absolutely have to and just break down society. 01:41:45.460 --> 01:41:46.460 And God doesn't want that. 01:41:46.460 --> 01:41:51.560 God wants there to be, you know, these kind of statutes and rules so people know how to respond. 01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:54.560 And what can we learn from lessons of this? 01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:56.560 I think this is the lesson we need to learn. 01:41:56.560 --> 01:41:59.760 We need other people. 01:41:59.760 --> 01:42:01.460 We need other people. 01:42:01.460 --> 01:42:05.760 We need other people in our society and in our world. 01:42:05.760 --> 01:42:09.460 Why? Because we can't do it all. 01:42:09.460 --> 01:42:10.260 We can't be at all. 01:42:10.260 --> 01:42:15.560 We can't all be the farmer and we can't all be the electrician and we can't all be the 01:42:15.560 --> 01:42:19.160 plumber and we can't all be the construction worker. 01:42:19.160 --> 01:42:23.260 You know, I know that some people take a lot of pride in the knowledge that they have or being, 01:42:23.260 --> 01:42:27.660 you know, a handyman, but there's nobody out there that can do everything. 01:42:27.660 --> 01:42:31.160 There's nobody out there that's just, I got it. 01:42:31.160 --> 01:42:35.060 I can build every car and I can produce every crop. 01:42:35.060 --> 01:42:38.860 I know that farmers take a lot of pride in their work and I'm not down on farmers. 01:42:38.860 --> 01:42:44.160 But look, is the farmer going to be able to do all of the computer stuff and all the electronic 01:42:44.160 --> 01:42:47.460 stuff and everything else in our society and our world? 01:42:47.460 --> 01:42:51.660 Look, you need different people to do different things. 01:42:51.660 --> 01:42:55.760 And not only that, the early colonists in America, they needed each other. 01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:59.860 There's a reason why we live in the United States of America. 01:42:59.860 --> 01:43:02.460 Why do we live in the United States of America? 01:43:02.460 --> 01:43:06.160 Because they cannot defend themselves from Britain by themselves. 01:43:06.160 --> 01:43:12.360 They had to, all the colonies had to form an alliance and they formed a limited federal 01:43:12.360 --> 01:43:16.960 government so that they could protect themselves in a wartime scenario. 01:43:16.960 --> 01:43:20.860 Look, if all of our states are just completely independent countries, 01:43:20.860 --> 01:43:25.960 there's nothing stopping China or something from just invading a random state and just taking it over. 01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:29.860 And think about it, we had an unbiblical principle here where we're not going to help our neighbor. 01:43:29.860 --> 01:43:32.060 We're just like, well, that's Florida. 01:43:32.060 --> 01:43:34.360 Deal with that yourself. 01:43:34.360 --> 01:43:35.660 Oh, that's California. 01:43:35.660 --> 01:43:39.860 I don't really care about California or Seattle or Portland or whatever. 01:43:39.860 --> 01:43:41.260 They just take over Chas. 01:43:41.360 --> 01:43:43.260 You know, it's a chop now. 01:43:43.260 --> 01:43:44.460 Now it's China. 01:43:44.460 --> 01:43:47.060 You know, it's just like, well, it sucks to be y'all. 01:43:47.060 --> 01:43:50.960 You know, we need other people for lots of reasons. 01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:55.560 As a state, as a country, we need to get along. 01:43:55.560 --> 01:43:57.060 And you know what makes America great? 01:43:57.060 --> 01:44:01.360 It was that we had God's law and God's Spirit helping guide us in this unity. 01:44:01.360 --> 01:44:06.160 When you get rid of those things, we have a really big breakdown in society collapse. 01:44:06.160 --> 01:44:09.060 In a church, we have to have the same attitude. 01:44:09.060 --> 01:44:11.760 We want to have these principles applied in church. 01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:16.260 We're looking out for one another, where we help one another, where we do good on doing another. 01:44:16.260 --> 01:44:18.760 We're not dressing like freaks, right? 01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:24.660 We're not just allowing rampant adultery and fornication and divorce and all this kind of stuff to go unchecked. 01:44:24.660 --> 01:44:26.760 That there's no ramifications. 01:44:26.760 --> 01:44:28.260 There's no penalties. 01:44:28.260 --> 01:44:33.060 No, no, no. We want to hold people accountable so that we can have a healthy church, a healthy society. 01:44:33.060 --> 01:44:35.660 We want to have a healthy Christian movement. 01:44:35.660 --> 01:44:38.660 Hey, why be part of the new IFB? 01:44:38.660 --> 01:44:41.160 We need other churches. 01:44:41.160 --> 01:44:47.360 We don't want to... I like being independent and we have an independent authority structure and we're not going to change that. 01:44:47.360 --> 01:44:53.760 But you know, we can't just be completely just, hey, we're going to ignore all other churches and have no friends. 01:44:53.760 --> 01:44:55.760 You know, we should have some unity. 01:44:55.760 --> 01:44:57.660 We need other people. 01:44:57.660 --> 01:44:59.760 We need other churches. 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:03.260 They bring other elements and they think about other things. 01:45:03.260 --> 01:45:08.160 You know, we don't want to get so prideful and arrogant to think that we're so good. 01:45:08.160 --> 01:45:10.460 We don't need anybody else. We don't need anybody's help. 01:45:10.460 --> 01:45:12.060 Like that's a bad attitude. 01:45:12.060 --> 01:45:16.060 We are very dependent carnally and spiritually. 01:45:16.060 --> 01:45:21.260 Of course, in the body of Christ, the Bible talks about how we're different members and we have different body parts. 01:45:21.260 --> 01:45:24.260 And you know what? Those are all important in the house of God. 01:45:24.260 --> 01:45:28.260 Some people do different functions, different gifts. 01:45:28.260 --> 01:45:30.560 I can't play every instrument up here. 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:32.860 I'm a poor man's piano player at best. 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:38.760 That's great that we have different skills and different techniques and people can play different instruments 01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:41.160 and people have different skill sets when it comes to soul winning. 01:45:41.160 --> 01:45:44.160 And you know, there's people that can help run the computer and stuff. 01:45:44.160 --> 01:45:49.260 I mean, if we're all just farmers and we hate technology, who's going to run the live stream? 01:45:49.260 --> 01:45:55.160 Who's going to be dangerous enough to use that tower babble called a mouse? 01:45:55.160 --> 01:45:57.860 You know, it's scary. 01:45:57.860 --> 01:45:58.760 I mean, think about it. 01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:01.660 Oh, well, we're all just dirt poor. 01:46:01.760 --> 01:46:05.960 Who's going to be the rich guy donating tons of money so we can have nice things? 01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:10.460 And if we don't have the poor people, who's going to actually go soul winning and do a lot of the work? 01:46:10.460 --> 01:46:11.860 You know, hey, we need the rich guy. 01:46:11.860 --> 01:46:13.160 We need the poor guy. 01:46:13.160 --> 01:46:14.060 We need the tall guy. 01:46:14.060 --> 01:46:15.460 We need the short guy. 01:46:15.460 --> 01:46:17.160 We need we need everybody. 01:46:17.160 --> 01:46:20.560 Hey, praise God for the Spanish speakers, because there's a lot of people in our area that, 01:46:20.560 --> 01:46:24.360 you know, wouldn't get saved if it wasn't someone be able to speak Spanish to them, 01:46:24.360 --> 01:46:26.660 to preach the gospel of them in Spanish. 01:46:26.660 --> 01:46:29.560 You know, praise God for people that live all over the city. 01:46:29.560 --> 01:46:33.060 I mean, if you look at our soul winning list, it's all over the map. 01:46:33.060 --> 01:46:34.760 Praise God for all that diversity. 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:38.960 You know, diversity can be good when it's unified around the Lord, 01:46:38.960 --> 01:46:41.160 when it's unified around God's Word. 01:46:41.160 --> 01:46:44.960 Diversity is not a strength when it's not spiritual. 01:46:44.960 --> 01:46:50.060 Okay, if you have diversity on spiritual like the ox in the ass, well, that's going to be a disaster. 01:46:50.060 --> 01:46:55.160 We want to basically have unity around God's Word and then have as much diversity around that. 01:46:55.160 --> 01:46:58.360 But diversity on religion, diversity on God's Word, 01:46:58.360 --> 01:46:59.360 that's a disaster. 01:46:59.360 --> 01:47:01.360 No matter how similar you are. 01:47:01.360 --> 01:47:06.860 Oh, look, the Mormons, they all look the same and act the same and talk the same and wear the same clothes. 01:47:06.860 --> 01:47:09.160 They all have the same special underwear. 01:47:09.160 --> 01:47:12.760 But it's a disaster because their religion is a disaster. 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:15.560 Whereas you look at Stavastia Baptist Church, we're very diverse. 01:47:15.560 --> 01:47:18.460 Good luck finding a church more diverse than us. 01:47:18.460 --> 01:47:21.760 I was thinking about just all the countries represented in our church. 01:47:21.760 --> 01:47:25.160 Like if you're talking about just people's origins or from where people are. 01:47:25.160 --> 01:47:27.460 I mean, we got pens all over the map. 01:47:27.460 --> 01:47:33.860 I mean, we got Canada, we got Mexico, we got South America, we got the Middle East, we got Egypt. 01:47:33.860 --> 01:47:36.960 We've got all, I mean, definitely the Philippines, just everywhere in the Philippines. 01:47:36.960 --> 01:47:38.160 You know what I mean? 01:47:38.160 --> 01:47:40.760 We got some massive imports over there, right? 01:47:40.760 --> 01:47:42.460 We got China. 01:47:42.460 --> 01:47:43.760 We got everything almost. 01:47:43.760 --> 01:47:44.460 We got Russia. 01:47:44.460 --> 01:47:45.560 We got all kinds of stuff. 01:47:45.560 --> 01:47:46.660 Eastern Europe. 01:47:46.660 --> 01:47:48.860 We got all kinds of little pens on the map. 01:47:48.860 --> 01:47:51.760 You know what? Praise God for that diversity. 01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:55.660 I'm not saying we need to just import one specific area of the map. 01:47:55.660 --> 01:47:58.060 I want one imported religion. 01:47:58.060 --> 01:47:59.260 Yeah, right. 01:47:59.260 --> 01:48:00.160 I want the same Bible. 01:48:00.160 --> 01:48:01.560 I want the same beliefs. 01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:04.260 And that's where we're going to have sustainability. 01:48:04.260 --> 01:48:08.960 If we're, you know, following God's Word here and we're caring about one another. 01:48:08.960 --> 01:48:12.360 And look, don't come to church just for yourself. 01:48:12.360 --> 01:48:16.260 Come to help other people and to bless other people and do good under the people. 01:48:16.260 --> 01:48:17.460 Then we'll have a great church. 01:48:17.460 --> 01:48:20.860 If everybody's here for themselves, we'll destroy ourselves. 01:48:20.860 --> 01:48:25.260 If we're all here for other people, then we'll keep growing and be sustainable for the next generation. 01:48:25.260 --> 01:48:26.160 Let's close in prayer. 01:48:26.160 --> 01:48:29.060 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for these instructions. 01:48:29.060 --> 01:48:30.960 I pray that people wouldn't be offended by God's Word. 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:33.260 They wouldn't be offended by your laws or your commandments 01:48:33.260 --> 01:48:37.560 because they would recognize that there's wisdom in them, carnally and spiritually. 01:48:37.560 --> 01:48:40.360 I pray that you would help our church to be led by spirit-filled men. 01:48:40.360 --> 01:48:44.160 I pray that you would help us to employ these principles into our church, 01:48:44.160 --> 01:48:47.160 that we'd love one another, that we care for one another's things, 01:48:47.160 --> 01:48:49.460 that we would be a blessing to each other, 01:48:49.460 --> 01:48:52.760 and we'd understand our need and dependence on other people, 01:48:52.760 --> 01:48:54.360 our need and dependence on you, 01:48:54.360 --> 01:48:57.960 and that we wouldn't get lifted up with pride and think that we're better than other people. 01:48:57.960 --> 01:48:59.260 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:49:05.260 --> 01:49:08.860 Amen. Let's open our songbooks to page 146. 01:49:08.860 --> 01:49:12.760 Our last song this evening will be A Shelter in the Time of Storm. 01:49:12.760 --> 01:49:16.760 Page 146, A Shelter in the Time of Storm. 01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:24.760 Page 146, sing it out with us on the 1st. 01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:29.760 The Lord's our rock and if we hide, 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:33.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:49:33.760 --> 01:49:38.760 Swear to God, ever will we die, 01:49:38.760 --> 01:49:42.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:56.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:49:56.760 --> 01:50:00.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:05.760 A shade by day, deep and spire night, 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:09.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:14.760 No fear alarm, no clothes of fright, 01:50:14.760 --> 01:50:18.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:18.760 --> 01:50:32.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:36.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:36.760 --> 01:50:41.760 The raging storms may round us be, 01:50:41.760 --> 01:50:45.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:50.760 We'll never leave our safe free tree, 01:50:50.760 --> 01:50:54.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:50:54.760 --> 01:50:58.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:50:58.760 --> 01:51:03.760 the weary land, the weary land. 01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:07.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:11.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:51:11.760 --> 01:51:16.760 Oh rock divine, oh refuge dear, 01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:20.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:51:20.760 --> 01:51:25.760 We bow our health forever near, 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:29.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:51:29.760 --> 01:51:33.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:51:33.760 --> 01:51:37.760 the weary land, the weary land. 01:51:37.760 --> 01:51:42.760 Oh Jesus is our rock in the weary land, 01:51:42.760 --> 01:51:46.760 the shelter in the time of storm. 01:51:59.760 --> 01:52:04.760 I know whom I have believed, page 139. 01:52:04.760 --> 01:52:12.760 Page 139 of the first. 01:52:12.760 --> 01:52:19.760 I know not why God's wondrous grace to me 01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:22.760 He hath made known. 01:52:22.760 --> 01:52:27.760 Nor why unworthy Christ is love 01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:32.760 redeeming for his own. 01:52:32.760 --> 01:52:36.760 But I know whom I have believed, 01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:41.760 and am persuaded that he is able 01:52:41.760 --> 01:52:46.760 to keep at his hand who did it, 01:52:46.760 --> 01:52:51.760 but to live against that day. 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:56.760 I know not how this day we pray 01:52:56.760 --> 01:53:01.760 to be even far. 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:06.760 Nor how believing in his word 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:10.760 brought peace within my heart. 01:53:10.760 --> 01:53:15.760 But I know whom I have believed, 01:53:15.760 --> 01:53:20.760 and am persuaded that he is able 01:53:20.760 --> 01:53:25.760 to keep at his hand who did it, 01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:30.760 but to live against that day. 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:35.760 I know not how the spirit looks 01:53:35.760 --> 01:53:40.760 convincing them of sin, 01:53:40.760 --> 01:53:45.760 revealing Jesus through the word 01:53:45.760 --> 01:53:49.760 creating faith in him. 01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:54.760 But I know whom I have believed, 01:53:54.760 --> 01:53:59.760 and am persuaded that he is able 01:53:59.760 --> 01:54:03.760 to keep at his hand who did it, 01:54:03.760 --> 01:54:08.760 but to live against that day. 01:54:19.760 --> 01:54:24.760 Let's turn around and take a quick picture. 01:54:24.760 --> 01:54:29.760 We have Brother Joshua coming for baptism. 01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:32.760 Brother Joshua, if you trust that Christ is your Savior, 01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:35.760 then I baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 01:54:35.760 --> 01:54:36.760 Hold your nose. 01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:38.760 Buried in the likeness of his death, 01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:41.760 raised to walk in newness of life. 01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:48.760 Good job. 01:54:48.760 --> 01:54:51.760 Make sure to congratulate both our baptisms. 01:54:51.760 --> 01:54:56.760 You're dismissed. 01:54:56.760 --> 01:55:01.760 Bro. Joshua. 01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:06.760 Bro. Joshua. 01:55:06.760 --> 01:55:12.760 Bro. Joshua. 01:55:12.760 --> 01:55:17.760 Bro. 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