WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.640 1 Chronicles 3, we continue through these genealogies that take up the first nine chapters 00:07.640 --> 00:10.200 of the book of 1 Chronicles. 00:10.200 --> 00:15.200 This is some pretty heavy reading when you read all nine of these chapters back to back, 00:15.200 --> 00:20.580 but we know that all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, 00:20.580 --> 00:24.920 for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. 00:24.920 --> 00:27.240 These names have significance. 00:27.240 --> 00:33.680 They all represent stories and events in the lives of real people, and some of them really 00:33.680 --> 00:35.520 do have a message. 00:35.520 --> 00:39.240 You just have to pay attention and look at it a little more closely. 00:39.240 --> 00:42.540 Now, what does it say here in the beginning in verse 1? 00:42.540 --> 00:49.280 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron, the firstborn Amnon 00:49.280 --> 00:56.840 of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, the second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess, the third Absalom, 00:56.840 --> 01:01.160 the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, the fourth Adonijah the son 01:01.160 --> 01:07.480 of Hagith, the fifth Shepataiah of Abital, the sixth Ithrium by Igla his wife. 01:07.480 --> 01:12.480 Now what's the first thing that you notice here in these first three verses that should 01:12.480 --> 01:20.400 just jump out at you right away is that King David has six sons with six different women, 01:20.400 --> 01:21.440 right? 01:21.440 --> 01:24.400 Because it's telling you, and it's not for no reason. 01:24.400 --> 01:27.760 He could have just told us, all right, he had this son, then he had this son, then he 01:27.760 --> 01:28.760 had this son. 01:28.760 --> 01:32.760 But he gives us the names of the mothers, and then that lets you know right away, hey, 01:32.760 --> 01:38.260 he's having six kids with six different women in the first three verses. 01:38.260 --> 01:43.880 Now if we know something about David, we know that David was a man after God's own heart. 01:43.880 --> 01:45.480 David was a great man of God. 01:45.480 --> 01:47.600 He was a great prophet of God. 01:47.600 --> 01:52.320 He was chosen by God to be the king of Israel. 01:52.320 --> 01:55.040 He was anointed by Samuel the prophet. 01:55.040 --> 01:59.680 He was given great power by God to go out and fight the Lord's battles. 01:59.680 --> 02:02.000 He was definitely filled with the Holy Spirit. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.600 So it's kind of confusing sometimes when we look at people like this and say, well, you 02:05.600 --> 02:11.160 know, if this guy was such a spiritual guy, if he was so godly, if he was so righteous, 02:11.160 --> 02:14.520 then why did he have so many wives? 02:14.520 --> 02:19.200 Why did he do that when God commands us to only have one wife? 02:19.200 --> 02:23.600 And it's pretty clear that God created man and woman in the beginning. 02:23.600 --> 02:29.440 And for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother in Cleveland to his wife, singular, 02:29.440 --> 02:32.320 and they too shall be one flesh. 02:32.320 --> 02:38.880 And the Bible is consistent in teaching that standard from Genesis all the way to the New 02:38.880 --> 02:40.200 Testament. 02:40.200 --> 02:46.400 The Bible never one time teaches that we should practice polygamy or have more than one wife. 02:46.400 --> 02:50.560 The Bible consistently teaches one man and one woman. 02:50.560 --> 02:55.480 So why is it that some of these great men of God had multiple wives and not only that, 02:55.480 --> 02:57.720 but they seem to have gotten away with it? 02:57.720 --> 03:02.000 You know, God doesn't even seem to bat an eye at it. 03:02.000 --> 03:10.040 Well, first of all, if you would flip over to Genesis chapter four, Genesis chapter four. 03:10.040 --> 03:13.840 First of all, let me just give you a logical argument against polygamy because some people 03:13.840 --> 03:19.120 will twist these stories, even though there's no scripture that tells us to practice polygamy. 03:19.120 --> 03:24.680 And on the contrary, there are scriptures that tell us that marriage is between one 03:24.680 --> 03:26.840 man and one woman. 03:26.840 --> 03:31.220 People will try to twist this to say that God wants us to practice polygamy or that 03:31.220 --> 03:35.440 it's okay to practice polygamy, that it's fine to do that. 03:35.440 --> 03:38.440 But let me first start with just the logical argument. 03:38.440 --> 03:45.000 The problem with polygamy, just from a logical standpoint, is that one half of the people 03:45.000 --> 03:50.200 in this world are men and the other half are women. 03:50.200 --> 03:56.760 And in typical towns and states and countries, this is the case because half of the birds 03:56.760 --> 03:59.460 are a boy and half of the birds are a girl. 03:59.460 --> 04:02.760 You pretty much have 50% men and 50% women. 04:02.760 --> 04:08.200 So what in the world sense would it make, you know, unless you're in surf city or whatever, 04:08.200 --> 04:13.160 what in the world sense would it make to have one man with three wives, four wives? 04:13.160 --> 04:15.480 There wouldn't be enough wives to go around. 04:15.480 --> 04:19.940 And here's the thing about that, that if you look at polygamous religions, you know what 04:19.940 --> 04:22.880 they always end up doing 100% of the time? 04:22.880 --> 04:27.720 They end up having the teenage brides and the child brides. 04:27.720 --> 04:33.400 If you go up to Northern Arizona where the fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, the FLDS, 04:33.400 --> 04:39.000 which is a spinoff of the Mormons, where they operate up there with Warren Jeffs and them, 04:39.000 --> 04:43.860 you know, they just keep marrying younger and younger, the bunch of dirty old men up 04:43.860 --> 04:49.520 there with their 17 wives or whatever, but they keep having to go to the teenagers and 04:49.520 --> 04:50.520 the children. 04:50.520 --> 04:55.020 And you notice that Islam does the same thing where they're constantly marrying teenagers 04:55.020 --> 04:56.020 and marrying children. 04:56.020 --> 04:57.020 Why? 04:57.020 --> 04:59.440 Because there just simply aren't going to be enough women to go around. 04:59.480 --> 05:05.440 Which doesn't make any sense because there are half men and half women, so it just works 05:05.440 --> 05:11.060 out that every man has his own wife, as the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 7, and every woman 05:11.060 --> 05:12.480 has her own husband. 05:12.480 --> 05:15.960 So just from that logical standpoint, it doesn't make sense. 05:15.960 --> 05:18.040 What's the first mention of marriage in the Bible? 05:18.040 --> 05:20.800 I already quoted it to you from Genesis 2. 05:20.800 --> 05:25.400 The man and woman, those two are one. 05:25.400 --> 05:28.240 What's the first mention of polygamy in the Bible? 05:28.240 --> 05:31.320 Well, if you look at Genesis 4, verse 19, it says, 05:31.320 --> 05:36.000 And Lamech took unto him two wives. 05:36.000 --> 05:40.840 The name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other, Zillah. 05:40.840 --> 05:45.000 So the first thing we want to realize about the first polygamist in the Bible, or bigamist 05:45.000 --> 05:50.260 really because he only had two, is that he was of the sons of Cain. 05:50.260 --> 05:56.000 This is not of the godly seed of Seth, but this is of the sons of Cain, which is the 05:56.000 --> 05:57.800 bad side of the family. 05:57.800 --> 05:59.600 But not only that, it says in verse 23, 05:59.600 --> 06:04.400 Lamech said unto his wives, Ada and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken 06:04.400 --> 06:08.900 unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 06:08.900 --> 06:14.200 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech's 70th sevenfold. 06:14.200 --> 06:17.400 So here's a guy who ends up killing someone. 06:17.400 --> 06:24.040 So he's not exactly a poster child for righteousness, because he's following the footsteps of Cain 06:24.040 --> 06:29.440 and saying, well, I was even more justified than Cain to kill this guy. 06:29.440 --> 06:36.560 Now we don't know the story of why he killed this guy, but I'm not necessarily buying the 06:36.560 --> 06:42.600 fact that he was justified since he's invoking Cain, and we don't really know the whole story. 06:42.600 --> 06:45.780 We're just getting it from his mouth, coming home and telling his wives, hey, this is what 06:45.780 --> 06:46.780 I did. 06:46.780 --> 06:53.700 And we know that in the next breath, in Genesis 6, the whole earth's filled with violence. 06:53.700 --> 06:56.360 And people are killing each other in Genesis 6. 06:56.360 --> 07:01.460 So we have Cain commit murder, then we have this son of Cain kill someone, and then when 07:01.460 --> 07:04.020 we get to Genesis 6, the whole world's filled with violence. 07:04.020 --> 07:05.500 That's the progression. 07:05.500 --> 07:12.100 So this guy's not exactly a godly example, and so he's the first one that took two wives. 07:12.100 --> 07:15.700 What does the law of Moses have to say about polygamy? 07:15.700 --> 07:20.340 Go if you would to Deuteronomy chapter 17. 07:20.340 --> 07:25.740 Deuteronomy chapter 17, let's get the teachings of the law of Moses on polygamy. 07:25.740 --> 07:26.740 What did it say? 07:26.740 --> 07:32.660 Well, in Deuteronomy chapter 17, it specifically deals with the subject of having a king, which 07:32.660 --> 07:34.900 David was a king. 07:34.900 --> 07:39.620 And the Bible says in Deuteronomy 17, 15, thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, 07:39.620 --> 07:41.940 whom the Lord thy God shall choose. 07:41.940 --> 07:43.460 That's David, right? 07:43.460 --> 07:46.940 One from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee. 07:46.940 --> 07:51.380 Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 07:51.380 --> 07:56.780 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to 07:56.780 --> 07:58.620 the end that he should multiply horses. 07:58.620 --> 08:03.380 For as much as the Lord hath said unto you, he shall henceforth return no more that way. 08:03.380 --> 08:09.860 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away, neither shall 08:09.860 --> 08:13.100 he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 08:13.140 --> 08:17.900 So you can multiply silver and gold, but just not greatly multiply silver and gold. 08:17.900 --> 08:22.060 But when it comes to the wives, it just says don't multiply wives. 08:22.060 --> 08:24.180 Don't have multiple wives. 08:24.180 --> 08:25.820 But what did David do? 08:25.820 --> 08:27.660 What did Solomon do? 08:27.660 --> 08:29.160 They multiplied wives, right? 08:29.160 --> 08:31.020 They had a bunch of wives. 08:31.020 --> 08:32.900 What did Solomon's son Rehoboam do? 08:32.900 --> 08:34.420 He had many wives. 08:34.420 --> 08:40.340 And even though he already had a ton of wives, what did he say about Rehoboam? 08:40.340 --> 08:41.580 He desired many wives. 08:41.580 --> 08:43.700 He still wanted more. 08:43.700 --> 08:46.420 Now let's stop and think about David himself. 08:46.420 --> 08:51.140 And if you would flip over to Deuteronomy 21, we look to Deuteronomy 17, look at chapter 08:51.140 --> 08:56.100 21, let me ask you this. 08:56.100 --> 09:00.740 When David had all his multiple wives, was he satisfied with that? 09:00.740 --> 09:01.900 Was that enough for him? 09:01.900 --> 09:06.900 No, because even when he had all these wives and concubines, what did he do? 09:06.900 --> 09:08.860 He still committed adultery. 09:08.860 --> 09:10.960 I mean, it's unbelievable, isn't it? 09:10.960 --> 09:15.800 And when Nathan the prophet rebukes him, he compares him to a guy who already had like 09:15.800 --> 09:21.720 a whole flock of sheep and lambs, but yet he goes and steals his neighbor's one sheep. 09:21.720 --> 09:24.600 You know Uriah the Hittite had one wife. 09:24.600 --> 09:30.160 David had multiple wives, multiple concubines, yet he goes and lies with his neighbor's wife. 09:30.160 --> 09:31.160 It's wicked. 09:31.160 --> 09:34.680 And you know what you should learn from that is that having multiple wives is not going 09:34.680 --> 09:37.240 to satisfy you. 09:37.240 --> 09:42.600 Because that's what people would follow this in order to achieve is like, well, one wife 09:42.600 --> 09:43.600 isn't enough. 09:43.600 --> 09:45.180 I'm not satisfied. 09:45.180 --> 09:49.560 I want to have two wives or three or four or five, right? 09:49.560 --> 09:52.680 Well, are they going to be satisfied? 09:52.680 --> 09:54.280 David wasn't satisfied. 09:54.280 --> 09:55.360 Why? 09:55.360 --> 09:58.940 Because if you're not satisfied with one, you're not going to be satisfied with two 09:58.940 --> 10:04.520 either or three or four or five because there's just the type of people who are content with 10:04.520 --> 10:07.800 such things as they have and then there are type of people that always want something 10:07.800 --> 10:10.160 else and they're not happy with what they have. 10:10.160 --> 10:16.000 You know, Paul said, I've learned in whatsoever state I am there with to be content. 10:16.000 --> 10:19.600 So you learn contentment in whatsoever state you're in. 10:19.600 --> 10:23.340 Not like, well, if I just had a little more than I'll be happy, but I just had a little 10:23.340 --> 10:24.340 more money. 10:24.340 --> 10:28.200 If I, you know, I'm not saying I want to have as many wives as King Solomon. 10:28.200 --> 10:29.600 I just want three. 10:29.600 --> 10:30.600 That's it. 10:30.600 --> 10:31.600 You know? 10:31.600 --> 10:32.600 Well, okay. 10:32.680 --> 10:34.680 If you have three, you know what you're going to want? 10:34.680 --> 10:35.680 The fourth. 10:35.680 --> 10:36.680 Why? 10:36.680 --> 10:41.240 Because the Bible teaches that there are people that are content and there are people who 10:41.240 --> 10:42.800 are covetous. 10:42.800 --> 10:49.360 And so there's a polygamy is not the answer to satisfy man's craving for love and affection 10:49.360 --> 10:54.080 or for that physical relationship because of the fact that even a man after God's own 10:54.080 --> 10:57.420 heart, when he practiced polygamy, it didn't end up satisfying him. 10:57.420 --> 11:02.700 He still committed adultery. 11:02.700 --> 11:06.680 Here's another argument against polygamy in the Bible is that every instance of polygamy 11:06.680 --> 11:09.540 in the Bible goes badly. 11:09.540 --> 11:14.340 There's not a single story in the Bible where polygamy goes well. 11:14.340 --> 11:15.780 It's always bad. 11:15.780 --> 11:16.780 Okay. 11:16.780 --> 11:19.660 And we're going to get to that in the life of David in a moment, but think about some 11:19.660 --> 11:21.920 of the stories of polygamy that we can think of. 11:21.920 --> 11:26.580 You know, when Abraham added on Hagar to Sarah, was that blessed? 11:26.580 --> 11:27.580 Was that good? 11:27.580 --> 11:28.580 No. 11:28.580 --> 11:29.580 It went badly. 11:29.580 --> 11:30.580 They hate each other. 11:30.580 --> 11:31.580 They're at each other's throats. 11:31.580 --> 11:32.580 It's fighting their enemies. 11:32.580 --> 11:36.220 When we think of Jacob having multiple wives, they hated each other. 11:36.220 --> 11:37.220 They're fighting. 11:37.220 --> 11:39.020 It's not a happy family. 11:39.020 --> 11:42.140 You'll never find an instance in the Bible where this is a good thing. 11:42.140 --> 11:43.140 It's blessed. 11:43.140 --> 11:44.140 Everybody's happy. 11:44.140 --> 11:45.140 Everything's great. 11:45.140 --> 11:46.140 Okay. 11:46.140 --> 11:48.560 And right now we're just focusing on the Old Testament's teaching here. 11:48.560 --> 11:50.760 So look at Deuteronomy 21. 11:50.760 --> 11:56.460 The Bible says in Deuteronomy 21 15, if a man have two wives. 11:56.460 --> 12:00.020 Now is this God telling you, go out and get two wives? 12:00.020 --> 12:01.020 Marry two wives. 12:01.020 --> 12:02.460 It's okay to marry two wives. 12:02.460 --> 12:03.460 No. 12:03.460 --> 12:06.220 But he knows that people are going to do it. 12:06.220 --> 12:10.140 Even though it's not his will, it's sort of like when he said, my little children, these 12:10.140 --> 12:13.020 things write unto you that you sin not. 12:13.020 --> 12:18.060 But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 12:18.060 --> 12:20.940 He's not telling you to go out and sin, but he knows you're going to. 12:20.940 --> 12:22.780 So he says, hey, if you do. 12:22.780 --> 12:28.540 So because this is a society where they have multiple wives, you have to have laws to govern 12:28.540 --> 12:29.540 that. 12:29.540 --> 12:33.100 And God understands that that's a part of their culture. 12:33.100 --> 12:37.300 Obviously if someone's married to two wives and they've sworn an oath to two wives and 12:37.300 --> 12:39.800 married two wives, then they have two wives. 12:39.800 --> 12:41.540 They can't just get rid of them. 12:41.540 --> 12:43.240 You know, those are their wives now. 12:43.240 --> 12:47.220 So they have to continue in that because you know, that's what they, that's the oath that 12:47.220 --> 12:48.220 they made. 12:48.220 --> 12:49.400 That's the vow that they made. 12:49.400 --> 12:53.180 So God is understanding of that and making allowance for that. 12:53.180 --> 12:58.560 It says in Deuteronomy 21 verse 15, if a man have two wives, one beloved and another hated 12:58.560 --> 13:02.500 and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated. 13:02.500 --> 13:05.600 And if the firstborn son be hers that was hated, then it shall be when he maketh his 13:05.600 --> 13:10.840 sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn 13:10.840 --> 13:14.220 before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn. 13:14.220 --> 13:18.820 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn by giving him a double portion 13:18.840 --> 13:23.740 of all that he hath, for he is the beginning of his strength, the right of the firstborn 13:23.740 --> 13:25.080 is his. 13:25.080 --> 13:28.220 Go to Exodus 21. 13:28.220 --> 13:33.900 Exodus chapter 21. 13:33.900 --> 13:38.780 Exodus chapter 21 and the Bible reads in verse number seven, and if a man sell his daughter 13:38.780 --> 13:43.060 to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the men servants do. 13:43.060 --> 13:48.060 If she please not her master who had betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed 13:48.100 --> 13:52.500 to sell her unto a strange nation, he shall not have no power, seeing he had dealt deceitfully 13:52.500 --> 13:53.500 with her. 13:53.500 --> 13:56.860 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of 13:56.860 --> 13:57.940 daughters. 13:57.940 --> 14:03.340 If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he 14:03.340 --> 14:04.900 not diminish. 14:04.900 --> 14:09.980 And if he do not these three unto her, then she shall go out free without money. 14:09.980 --> 14:16.940 So here, the Bible is again just saying if he takes a second wife, this is the law governing 14:16.940 --> 14:17.940 that. 14:17.940 --> 14:22.780 I'm not telling him, go ahead and do it, it's fine, it's my will, it's of God, and anything 14:22.780 --> 14:24.580 like that. 14:24.580 --> 14:28.740 Let's quickly, if you would, turn to First Timothy, chapter three, and while you're turning 14:28.740 --> 14:29.740 there, we'll go to the New Testament. 14:29.740 --> 14:33.820 While you're turning there, let me just give you some other examples of polygamy in the 14:33.820 --> 14:36.900 Bible, and let's see if these are blessed. 14:36.900 --> 14:43.340 Gideon was one who had a lot of wives, and Gideon had 70 sons. 14:43.340 --> 14:47.060 And you know, part of the reason why these guys would want to have a lot of wives, it 14:47.060 --> 14:51.140 wasn't just to gratify the flesh, but it was also because they wanted to have a lot 14:51.140 --> 14:52.740 of sons. 14:52.740 --> 14:56.220 They wanted to reproduce, they wanted to have children that would carry on the family name 14:56.220 --> 14:59.680 and the lineage, and because having children is a blessing. 14:59.680 --> 15:03.260 But again, we shouldn't go overboard on that. 15:03.260 --> 15:07.620 I'm going as far with that as I can with one wife. 15:07.620 --> 15:12.980 I've got 10 kids so far, and God willing, we'll be able to have a few more, or maybe 15:12.980 --> 15:15.420 even many more, right honey? 15:15.420 --> 15:17.180 Keep it rolling, keep it rolling. 15:17.180 --> 15:21.640 So the thing about that is though, I have 10 children, but it's all with one woman. 15:21.640 --> 15:26.180 That's what God gave me legitimately, what he blessed me with, saying, well I want to 15:26.180 --> 15:31.020 have 20 kids, 30 kids, 40 kids, so I'm going to multiply wives. 15:31.020 --> 15:34.260 Jerubel or Gideon was one who did that. 15:34.260 --> 15:38.460 He had 70 sons, and I'll bet you he was pretty proud of his 70 sons, right? 15:38.460 --> 15:41.060 But you know what happened to those 70 sons? 15:41.060 --> 15:43.340 They got wiped out, they got killed. 15:43.340 --> 15:47.180 They had this one evil brother who ended up slaughtering them all. 15:47.180 --> 15:49.500 He was afraid that they would try to take the lead. 15:49.500 --> 15:51.180 He wanted to become king. 15:51.180 --> 15:54.880 So Abimelech slew his 70 brethren. 15:54.880 --> 15:57.980 So Gideon's probably thinking, oh man, we're really going to carry on the family line here 15:57.980 --> 15:59.220 with these 70 sons. 15:59.220 --> 16:00.220 They all get wiped out. 16:00.220 --> 16:04.500 You know, David, in the scripture that we read in 1 Chronicles 3 where it's listing 16:04.500 --> 16:08.400 the sons with different women, well what were some of those sons that he had that he's so 16:08.400 --> 16:09.760 proud of? 16:09.760 --> 16:10.760 Firstborn Amnon. 16:10.760 --> 16:13.300 How did things work out for Amnon? 16:13.300 --> 16:15.620 If you know the story, he got killed. 16:15.620 --> 16:18.680 Well, but then there was Absalom. 16:18.680 --> 16:20.260 How did things go for him? 16:20.260 --> 16:22.100 He got killed, right? 16:22.100 --> 16:25.340 And of course, the infant son was killed, right? 16:25.340 --> 16:31.220 So I mean, these guys aren't being blessed when they have all these multiple wives and 16:31.220 --> 16:32.220 multiple children. 16:32.220 --> 16:37.820 It's just problems, you know, when they don't do things God's way. 16:37.820 --> 16:44.500 Now a lot of people's attitude toward this is, well, you know, okay, maybe having one 16:44.500 --> 16:48.500 wife is better, but God's okay with polygamy. 16:48.500 --> 16:50.420 God's okay with having multiple wives. 16:50.420 --> 16:51.460 But here's the thing. 16:51.460 --> 16:54.900 Even by that logic, shouldn't we want what's best in our lives? 16:54.900 --> 16:58.380 Shouldn't we want God's perfect will for our lives instead of just trying to figure out, 16:58.380 --> 17:00.900 well, what can we get away with? 17:00.900 --> 17:01.900 You know what I mean? 17:01.900 --> 17:05.260 Like what's the minimum godliness that we can hold to? 17:05.460 --> 17:09.380 Now, you know, we should be seeking what God wants us to do with our lives, not just what 17:09.380 --> 17:15.460 God kind of lets go or is okay with or is kind of lenient about. 17:15.460 --> 17:20.620 We should seek to do that which is God's perfect will and plan for our life. 17:20.620 --> 17:26.220 Now in 1 Timothy 3, there are the qualifications for the pastor of the church, the bishop, 17:26.220 --> 17:29.500 and also the deacon has the same qualifications. 17:29.500 --> 17:37.220 And he says, a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, 17:37.220 --> 17:39.620 of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach. 17:39.620 --> 17:43.180 So the pastor must be the husband of one wife. 17:43.180 --> 17:46.940 So a lot of people will say, well, the pastor can only have one wife, but other people in 17:46.940 --> 17:48.340 the church, but hold on a second. 17:48.340 --> 17:54.180 Why would God have different rules for the pastor as for the layman? 17:54.180 --> 17:56.380 I mean, there's right and wrong. 17:56.380 --> 18:00.380 It's not that God has different rules for the pastor and the deacon. 18:00.380 --> 18:03.940 It's that the pastor and deacon just have to live up to that standard in order to be 18:03.940 --> 18:06.100 qualified for that position. 18:06.100 --> 18:08.180 Now think about how silly this would be. 18:08.180 --> 18:12.460 If laymen were allowed to have two wives, and pastors and deacons are supposed to have 18:12.460 --> 18:17.980 one, how are you going to find pastors and deacons if they've already married two wives, 18:17.980 --> 18:22.620 once they have them, they can't just downgrade, like, see you, honey, you're out of here. 18:22.620 --> 18:25.380 I mean, once they've married two, they have two. 18:25.380 --> 18:29.100 So then it would be like, okay, well then how can this guy ever be a pastor or ever 18:29.100 --> 18:30.100 be a deacon? 18:30.100 --> 18:35.280 You know what God's saying is, monogamy is right. 18:35.280 --> 18:38.060 One man, one woman is what's right. 18:38.060 --> 18:39.300 That's God's plan. 18:39.300 --> 18:40.480 That's God's will. 18:40.480 --> 18:45.420 And people will go outside of that and have two, three, four wives, you know, don't pick 18:45.420 --> 18:47.100 them to be the pastor. 18:47.100 --> 18:49.540 Pick someone who's more godly. 18:49.540 --> 18:51.220 Don't pick them to be the deacon. 18:51.220 --> 18:52.740 Pick someone who's more godly. 18:52.740 --> 18:55.020 See, we should all be godly. 18:55.060 --> 18:57.700 We should all be following the rules that God has laid out. 18:57.700 --> 19:02.340 We should all be seeking God's will for our life, and then among those people that are 19:02.340 --> 19:08.640 living for God, we pick certain people and make them the pastor, make them the deacon. 19:08.640 --> 19:12.340 But we should all be striving to meet these standards. 19:12.340 --> 19:15.820 I mean, are any of these standards only for pastors? 19:15.820 --> 19:22.140 I mean, does that, hey, you know, the pastor's to be sober, but everybody else, drink up. 19:22.180 --> 19:26.820 You know, the pastor's to be given to hospitality, but everybody else, you know, shut and bar 19:26.820 --> 19:30.860 the door because, you know, it's us four no more. 19:30.860 --> 19:35.180 You know, the pastor's supposed to be blameless and have a good reputation, but you should 19:35.180 --> 19:38.100 just go out and just soil your reputation because you're not going to be a pastor anyway. 19:38.100 --> 19:40.080 I mean, isn't that kind of silly? 19:40.080 --> 19:43.860 If we look at the rest of the qualifications, it's pretty obvious that God doesn't want 19:43.860 --> 19:46.060 anybody to be a brawler. 19:46.060 --> 19:53.020 God doesn't want anybody to be soon angry or a striker or greedy or any of these things, 19:53.020 --> 19:58.220 but he's just saying, you know, you pick people that meet this standard to be a pastor, but 19:58.220 --> 20:04.060 everybody should be striving for godliness in their life, and part of that includes having 20:04.060 --> 20:06.700 only one wife because that's God's will. 20:06.700 --> 20:08.420 That's God's plan for us. 20:11.660 --> 20:13.100 Titus says the same thing. 20:13.100 --> 20:17.980 You don't have to turn there, but Titus chapter 1 verse 6 says, if any be blameless, the husband 20:17.980 --> 20:24.500 of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly, again, that's the 20:24.500 --> 20:26.580 qualification for the pastor. 20:26.580 --> 20:32.360 First Corinthians 7, I already quoted it earlier, but the Bible says that to avoid fornication, 20:32.360 --> 20:41.680 let every man have his own wife, singular, and let every woman have her own husband, singular. 20:41.680 --> 20:44.960 So let's go back to First Chronicles chapter 3 now with that in mind. 20:44.960 --> 20:51.800 First Chronicles chapter 3, and while you're turning there, let's go to Second Samuel chapter 20:51.800 --> 20:58.800 12, so keep your finger in First Chronicles 3 and look at Second Samuel chapter 12. 20:58.800 --> 21:03.760 Now Second Samuel is a passage that's parallel with First Chronicles. 21:03.760 --> 21:11.120 They both have to do with the life of David, and as I preach this subject tonight about 21:11.120 --> 21:18.200 having a multiplicity of wives, I want to be honest as I preach the Bible tonight and 21:18.200 --> 21:22.480 show you all the scriptures, because some people, it's like they have a certain agenda, 21:22.480 --> 21:26.400 they have a certain belief, they have a certain doctrine, and that's all they want to show 21:26.400 --> 21:31.360 you is only verses that support their view. 21:31.360 --> 21:35.060 But we should look at all the scripture and get a complete picture of what God teaches 21:35.060 --> 21:36.060 on the subject. 21:36.060 --> 21:39.960 We don't want to be dishonest and say like, here's what the Bible says, period, end of 21:39.960 --> 21:42.440 the story and not show you everything. 21:42.440 --> 21:46.600 Too many preachers are guilty of turning the same scriptures over and over again and then 21:46.600 --> 21:48.660 neglecting other scriptures. 21:48.660 --> 21:53.120 That's why I showed you the verses in the Old Testament where God said, hey, here's 21:53.120 --> 21:55.680 what you do in a situation if a man have two wives. 21:55.680 --> 22:00.760 I'm not trying to hide those verses because we want to comprehend and understand the totality 22:00.760 --> 22:06.520 of the Bible's teaching, not just verses that only support our position that say one man, 22:06.520 --> 22:07.520 one woman. 22:07.720 --> 22:13.440 Let's look at all the evidence, because there are certain verses that people would use that 22:13.440 --> 22:17.360 could indicate that God is for polygamy. 22:17.360 --> 22:19.880 And I showed you some of them in the Mosaic Law. 22:19.880 --> 22:25.280 Here's another verse that comes up on this subject about David himself, so it's very 22:25.280 --> 22:27.840 relevant to the topic tonight. 22:27.840 --> 22:31.400 And again, I'm just trying to show you all the evidence here so that you can understand 22:31.400 --> 22:33.660 the totality of the Bible's teaching here. 22:33.660 --> 22:37.960 Look at 2 Samuel 12, verse 7. 22:37.960 --> 22:42.580 And Nathan said to David, thou art the man, thus saith the Lord God of Israel. 22:42.580 --> 22:46.820 I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. 22:46.820 --> 22:49.420 And this is the part where people get tripped up here. 22:49.420 --> 22:55.380 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee 22:55.380 --> 22:57.300 the house of Israel and of Judah. 22:57.300 --> 23:01.780 And if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 23:01.780 --> 23:06.460 Therefore, as thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight, thou 23:06.460 --> 23:11.700 hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and 23:11.700 --> 23:18.020 hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 23:18.020 --> 23:25.000 So the argument from this verse would be, well, if God is the one who gave these wives 23:25.000 --> 23:31.500 to David, he gave Saul's wives unto David, then that means that that must be something 23:31.500 --> 23:35.220 good, because God would only give someone something good. 23:35.220 --> 23:40.940 This is their logic, if they would take this to say, see, the Bible's for polygamy. 23:40.940 --> 23:42.620 But that's really not what this verse is saying. 23:42.620 --> 23:47.820 What this verse is actually stating is just the fact of what happened. 23:47.820 --> 23:54.740 By God removing Saul from king and putting David in that spot, you know, David basically 23:54.740 --> 23:58.860 inherits everything associated with that position. 23:58.860 --> 24:03.740 And he inherited the wives that Saul had. 24:03.740 --> 24:06.340 He inherited that from Saul. 24:06.340 --> 24:10.320 God didn't just say, hey, David, let me give you a second wife, buddy. 24:10.320 --> 24:12.260 Let me give you a fifth wife. 24:12.260 --> 24:14.180 I don't think 11 wives is enough. 24:14.180 --> 24:16.260 Let me give you a 12th. 24:16.260 --> 24:17.260 That's not what God did here. 24:17.260 --> 24:22.740 What this is actually saying is that God took the kingdom away from Saul and gave it to 24:22.740 --> 24:23.740 David. 24:23.740 --> 24:26.440 And by doing that, there are things that went along with that. 24:26.440 --> 24:32.120 And what God's really trying to drive in here is that, you know, you were given these other 24:32.120 --> 24:37.240 wives and yet you still went after someone else's wife, even though you had all these 24:37.240 --> 24:41.200 wives that you got from Saul. 24:41.200 --> 24:45.880 You know, I gave you the kingdom of Saul, I gave you all these great things, and I gave 24:45.880 --> 24:48.120 into your hands Saul's wives. 24:48.120 --> 24:49.120 And that's not enough for you. 24:49.120 --> 24:50.700 You want something else. 24:50.700 --> 24:53.740 That's actually the context of what's being stated here. 24:53.740 --> 24:59.940 Now you say, but still, Pastor Anderson, you know, it says, I gave thee thy master's 24:59.940 --> 25:02.380 house and thy master's wives and thy bosom. 25:02.380 --> 25:04.060 He gave him the house. 25:04.060 --> 25:07.780 And what goes along with that is the wives and the bosom, because that's kind of like 25:07.780 --> 25:09.820 part of the showcase there. 25:09.820 --> 25:13.580 You know, you get that kingdom, you get everything that goes with it. 25:13.580 --> 25:19.180 But what we do see here from this verse and many other verses that talk about the kings 25:19.180 --> 25:24.920 of Judah and the kings of Israel, I will give you this, that in the Old Testament, 25:24.920 --> 25:33.500 God did overlook or put up with, you know, and you could use the word allow polygamy, 25:33.500 --> 25:38.380 but he didn't allow it in the sense of saying it's right, it's okay. 25:38.380 --> 25:41.140 It's always been a sin. 25:41.140 --> 25:46.840 But what God did do is he basically gave allowance for it, basically just understanding this 25:46.840 --> 25:48.640 is something that happens. 25:48.640 --> 25:50.480 This is something that's going to go on. 25:50.480 --> 25:53.600 And he didn't basically freak out about it. 25:53.600 --> 25:54.800 But he kind of let it go. 25:54.800 --> 25:57.040 He let it slide. 25:57.040 --> 25:58.380 So it would be like this. 25:58.380 --> 26:06.440 Let's say I have a job and at the job they have a rule, tuck in your shirt. 26:06.440 --> 26:09.760 But let's say the rule is not enforced at all. 26:09.760 --> 26:14.400 And I remember a job that I had when I was 18 years old where they had a rule, tuck in 26:14.400 --> 26:17.240 your shirt, nobody tucked in their shirt. 26:17.240 --> 26:18.240 Because it wasn't enforced. 26:18.240 --> 26:20.320 So I mean just nobody's tucked in their shirt. 26:20.320 --> 26:25.360 Well I walked in there and I always had my shirt tucked in because I read the rules and 26:25.360 --> 26:29.320 it was written down in the rules and even though nobody talked about it, it technically 26:29.320 --> 26:34.400 said tuck in your shirt and I wanted to follow the rules. 26:34.400 --> 26:36.240 So I had my shirt tucked in. 26:36.240 --> 26:40.840 And the owner of the company took me aside and he said, hey, you know, I like the fact 26:40.840 --> 26:43.160 that you tuck in your shirt. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.920 And he gave me a raise. 26:46.920 --> 26:48.120 So he liked that. 26:48.120 --> 26:53.240 But that's kind of what was going on in the Old Testament, I believe. 26:53.240 --> 26:57.240 Is that the rule was always to tuck in your shirt. 26:57.240 --> 27:00.040 But it's just God's choosing his battles with people. 27:00.040 --> 27:03.360 He's just trying to get them to at least not commit, just don't commit adultery. 27:03.360 --> 27:05.120 Just at least don't commit murder. 27:05.120 --> 27:07.640 Just at least just worship the one true God. 27:07.640 --> 27:09.880 Just don't bring in false gods. 27:09.880 --> 27:14.000 He had a lower standard in the Old Testament. 27:14.000 --> 27:20.800 I think that's pretty obvious from Genesis to Malachi that God had a lower standard in 27:20.800 --> 27:21.800 the Old Testament. 27:21.800 --> 27:23.280 The rules are the same. 27:23.280 --> 27:24.280 Right has been right. 27:24.280 --> 27:25.280 Wrong has been wrong. 27:25.280 --> 27:26.840 Obviously there are ceremonial rules that change. 27:26.840 --> 27:31.520 But I'm saying in general, the rules of right and wrong, the morality is the same. 27:31.520 --> 27:36.600 It's just in the Old Testament, he wasn't cracking down on it as much as he does in 27:36.600 --> 27:37.600 the New Testament. 27:37.600 --> 27:41.640 In the New Testament, man, he gets specific and gives you stricter rules. 27:41.640 --> 27:47.040 And this is what's so dumb about these neo-evangelicals who think that God softened up in the New 27:47.040 --> 27:48.040 Testament. 27:48.040 --> 27:49.040 It's the opposite. 27:49.040 --> 27:53.200 I mean, I read the Old Testament, I'm thinking, man, he was pretty lenient back then. 27:53.200 --> 27:56.400 You could get away with a lot back then. 27:56.400 --> 27:59.920 Just as long as you just worship the true God and just do a few basic things, it wasn't 27:59.920 --> 28:00.920 a big deal. 28:00.920 --> 28:06.180 You know, in the New Testament, you know, God's really coming down on people. 28:06.180 --> 28:09.260 And you say, yeah, but in the Old Testament, God would just kill somebody. 28:09.260 --> 28:13.300 Well, have you ever read the story of Ananias and Sapphira? 28:13.300 --> 28:14.300 That's the New Testament. 28:14.300 --> 28:16.380 Oh, man, but what about the plagues in the Old Testament? 28:16.380 --> 28:17.380 What about the flood? 28:17.380 --> 28:19.900 Well, you ever read the book of Revelation? 28:19.900 --> 28:24.900 I mean, in Revelation, he's wiping out more people than he ever wiped out in the Old Testament. 28:24.900 --> 28:28.980 You could take all the people God wiped out in the entire Old Testament, he wipes out 28:28.980 --> 28:32.860 way more in Revelation because the population of the earth is so much greater. 28:32.860 --> 28:36.420 He's wiping out billions of people in the end times. 28:36.420 --> 28:42.700 And so it's not that God got soft in the New Testament, it's that God got more strict in 28:42.700 --> 28:44.060 the New Testament. 28:44.060 --> 28:49.780 So I believe that in the Old Testament, he turned a blind eye to a lot of things, including 28:49.780 --> 28:51.220 polygamy. 28:51.220 --> 28:56.180 It's not that he was okay with it, it's just that it wasn't the biggest battle that he 28:56.180 --> 28:57.620 was fighting with people. 28:57.620 --> 29:01.680 So he kind of just let it slide even though it wasn't right. 29:01.680 --> 29:04.360 There were a lot of other things in the Old Testament that he let slide. 29:04.360 --> 29:07.940 He made it clear to them that he didn't want them worshiping in the high places. 29:07.940 --> 29:09.580 He didn't want them worshiping in the groves. 29:09.580 --> 29:11.400 But there were kings who did what? 29:11.400 --> 29:14.600 They worshiped the true God, but they did it in the groves. 29:14.600 --> 29:16.120 They did it in the high places. 29:16.120 --> 29:21.060 And the Bible says, but nevertheless, his heart was perfect with the Lord as God. 29:21.060 --> 29:27.240 Even though he had this one problem where he worshiped God in the wrong location, God's 29:27.240 --> 29:30.200 just happy at least that he's worshiping the true God. 29:30.200 --> 29:31.800 And at least he's a good guy. 29:31.800 --> 29:33.760 At least he's doing a lot of good things. 29:33.760 --> 29:38.960 So God doesn't just throw us in the trash or write us off because we have one thing 29:38.960 --> 29:40.720 wrong in our life. 29:40.720 --> 29:44.640 If we have one thing wrong in our life, we don't just get trashed. 29:44.640 --> 29:50.640 So God would take people that had some things wrong in their life and still use them and 29:50.640 --> 29:52.100 be able to turn a blind eye. 29:52.100 --> 29:56.300 But I want to warn you, he's stricter in the New Testament. 29:56.520 --> 30:00.900 Make the New Testament your primary study on how he wants you to live your life because 30:00.900 --> 30:03.020 he tightens things up more in the New Testament. 30:03.020 --> 30:04.020 Why is that? 30:04.020 --> 30:07.820 Because unto whom much is given, of him shall much be required. 30:07.820 --> 30:09.500 We have the entire Bible. 30:09.500 --> 30:11.400 We have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 30:11.400 --> 30:13.900 He expects more out of us. 30:13.900 --> 30:17.980 It's like you'd expect more from someone who grew up in a Christian home than a worldly 30:17.980 --> 30:21.680 teenager that's at the public school. 30:21.680 --> 30:27.180 You wouldn't expect as much as the one who's been taught the Bible from the time he was 30:27.180 --> 30:29.920 a little child. 30:29.920 --> 30:31.620 So it's the same thing here. 30:31.620 --> 30:37.420 In the New Testament, we have a lot more going for us, positively. 30:37.420 --> 30:41.220 So God expects more from us in the New Testament. 30:41.220 --> 30:44.200 So don't say, well, polygamy is not a big deal. 30:44.200 --> 30:49.640 I'm just going to move to some other country and just get a second wife and whatever. 30:49.760 --> 30:52.840 First of all, you're just asking for a headache. 30:52.840 --> 30:55.340 It's not going to be as cool as you think. 30:55.340 --> 30:59.240 It sounds cool on the surface on certain levels, but it's not cool when you read about it in 30:59.240 --> 31:00.600 the Bible. 31:00.600 --> 31:03.720 So don't lean under your own understanding. 31:03.720 --> 31:07.300 God's plan for you is always going to be the best plan for you. 31:07.300 --> 31:09.280 So don't look for something else. 31:09.280 --> 31:12.260 And don't settle for the second best or the third best. 31:12.260 --> 31:16.820 Live God's perfect will for your life is that you have one wife and that you stay faithful 31:16.820 --> 31:18.680 to that wife until the end. 31:18.680 --> 31:22.080 Now there are some sins where God will throw you in the trash, as it were. 31:22.080 --> 31:25.200 I mean, there were guys in the Old Testament where they committed certain sins where he 31:25.200 --> 31:26.640 does wipe them out. 31:26.640 --> 31:29.480 Or they start worshipping other gods. 31:29.480 --> 31:35.080 And you know, when David committed adultery, that was a major deal breaker for him. 31:35.080 --> 31:39.880 He didn't get completely thrown in the trash because he repented, but he ended up losing 31:39.880 --> 31:41.800 the kingdom for a little while. 31:41.800 --> 31:45.760 And he ended up having it split from his sons. 31:45.760 --> 31:48.540 And he ended up having four of his children die. 31:48.540 --> 31:53.340 So if four of his children die, that's a pretty serious punishment. 31:53.340 --> 31:55.540 So you know, he didn't get away with that. 31:55.540 --> 31:59.700 So God did let a lot of these kings get away with polygamy, but he didn't let them get 31:59.700 --> 32:01.500 away with adultery. 32:01.500 --> 32:03.260 He didn't let them get away with murder. 32:03.260 --> 32:05.700 You know, when they did those things, they suffered. 32:05.700 --> 32:11.500 And I believe that adultery and murder are worse than polygamy for that reason. 32:11.500 --> 32:15.060 You know, polygamy is bad, but it's not the worst thing ever. 32:15.060 --> 32:16.560 There are a lot of other worse things. 32:16.560 --> 32:21.140 And in fact, today in our society, polygamy is illegal. 32:21.140 --> 32:26.320 And people have a really low view of polygamy, which they should, because it is bad. 32:26.320 --> 32:32.300 And even atheists and people that are just agnostic or just worldly people, even though 32:32.300 --> 32:36.960 condemn polygamy and say, hey, this isn't right toward women. 32:36.960 --> 32:41.740 And I agree with them, because it is pretty insensitive or unloving to your wife to take 32:41.740 --> 32:43.520 on a second wife or third wife. 32:43.520 --> 32:45.000 So they're right about that. 32:45.000 --> 32:52.920 But these same people don't bat an eye if you divorce your wife and marry someone else. 32:52.920 --> 32:57.780 Like to them, polygamy, oh, that's just the worst thing ever, having two wives at once. 32:57.780 --> 33:02.440 But to them, it's fine to have three in a row, just so long as they're not at the same 33:02.440 --> 33:03.440 time. 33:03.440 --> 33:05.420 But you know what, though? 33:05.420 --> 33:12.800 I think in many ways, and you know, people might get mad about this, but I believe that 33:12.800 --> 33:18.280 divorcing your wife and marrying someone else is worse than polygamy. 33:18.280 --> 33:22.920 Because at least with polygamy, at least you stayed with your vows that you made to two 33:22.920 --> 33:23.920 people. 33:23.920 --> 33:26.360 Now, you should have never made that vow to two people and still only be made to one. 33:26.360 --> 33:28.880 But at least you kept supporting and taking care of both. 33:28.880 --> 33:32.760 You didn't just forsake one and leave one high and dry, which is what a lot of people 33:32.760 --> 33:35.480 are doing when they divorce their spouse, leave their spouse. 33:35.480 --> 33:37.760 So I mean, in many ways, divorce is worse than polygamy. 33:37.760 --> 33:42.780 See, we have our ideas, don't we, about how bad things are and what's worse and what's 33:42.780 --> 33:44.860 better. 33:44.860 --> 33:46.100 You know, but here's the thing. 33:46.100 --> 33:47.100 God's got a different idea. 33:47.100 --> 33:51.860 You know, the Bible never says that having a second wife is adultery. 33:51.860 --> 33:55.580 But he did say that divorcing someone and marrying someone else is adultery. 33:55.580 --> 33:59.040 He said if you divorce your wife and marry another, you're committing adultery. 33:59.040 --> 34:02.740 But did he say, hey, you take on a second wife, you just committed adultery? 34:02.740 --> 34:03.740 No. 34:03.740 --> 34:05.380 Now, having a second wife is sin. 34:05.380 --> 34:07.440 And I made that crystal clear. 34:07.440 --> 34:11.660 From Genesis to Revelation, it is not right to have a second wife. 34:11.660 --> 34:13.700 It has always been sin. 34:13.700 --> 34:16.500 It has always been wrong. 34:16.500 --> 34:19.380 But there are worse sins in the Bible. 34:19.380 --> 34:23.280 Which is why when you read the Old Testament, it can seem like God's lenient toward this. 34:23.280 --> 34:26.260 It's just because God's lenient on a lot of things in the Old Testament. 34:26.260 --> 34:28.220 He tightens things up more in the New Testament. 34:28.220 --> 34:33.540 But even now, even in 2018, isn't God sometimes lenient with us when we do stupid things? 34:33.540 --> 34:36.780 I mean, do you want God to crack down on every single sin that you commit? 34:36.780 --> 34:41.740 I'm glad that God has grace with us and is lenient with us. 34:41.740 --> 34:44.860 I don't think he's going to be lenient on polygamy. 34:44.860 --> 34:47.740 Especially if you're growing up in the United States in 2018. 34:47.740 --> 34:51.460 I think if you go out and try this, he's going to come down on you like a ton of bricks. 34:51.460 --> 34:54.060 That's what I believe. 34:54.060 --> 34:56.580 But you can't just ignore the Old Testament scripture. 34:56.580 --> 35:01.540 You've got to take it all and grasp it all and learn it all and believe it all. 35:01.540 --> 35:05.140 And so we don't want to shy away from scriptures that make us uncomfortable. 35:05.140 --> 35:08.500 We need to read them, study them, learn them, understand them. 35:08.500 --> 35:10.940 Because God wants to teach us. 35:10.940 --> 35:14.080 And all scripture is profitable for doctrine. 35:14.080 --> 35:15.080 All of it. 35:15.080 --> 35:19.580 Including 2 Samuel 12-8 or any other verse that might make us uncomfortable because it 35:19.580 --> 35:22.540 goes against what the rest of the Bible teaches. 35:22.540 --> 35:25.620 Well, it's just that we're not understanding it properly. 35:25.620 --> 35:30.360 So we've got to bring it all into harmony. 35:30.360 --> 35:32.200 Because the Bible does harmonize. 35:32.200 --> 35:37.160 When there seems to be a contradiction, it's just that we're not understanding things right. 35:37.160 --> 35:41.380 There are so many things that seem to clash in the Bible for me until I get rid of my 35:41.380 --> 35:44.160 wrong idea and then it all comes into focus. 35:44.160 --> 35:46.320 Like, oh, okay, now I see what's saying here. 35:46.320 --> 35:47.400 And then it makes sense. 35:47.400 --> 35:51.180 Let's go back to 1 Chronicles 3 to finish up. 35:51.180 --> 35:57.420 I don't really have a whole lot to say tonight about this chapter because the main thing 35:57.420 --> 36:00.220 that it's about is about the sons of David. 36:00.240 --> 36:05.040 Chapter 1 was all about, you know, all of mankind's lineage and all of the nations, 36:05.040 --> 36:07.880 where they came from, all the way up to Israel. 36:07.880 --> 36:13.100 Chapter 2 was all about the sons of Judah taking us up to King David and his line. 36:13.100 --> 36:15.140 And then now in chapter 3 we're looking at the sons of David. 36:15.140 --> 36:18.920 We saw his six different sons with six different women. 36:18.920 --> 36:22.920 These six, verse 4, were born unto him in Hebron and there he reigned seven years and 36:22.920 --> 36:24.200 six months. 36:24.200 --> 36:26.620 And in Jerusalem he reigned 30 and three years. 36:26.780 --> 36:32.040 These were born unto him in Jerusalem, Shemaiah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four 36:32.040 --> 36:40.000 of Bathsheba, the daughter of Amiel, Ibar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, and Nogah, 36:40.000 --> 36:45.020 and Nephag, and Jephiah, and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 36:45.020 --> 36:49.460 These were all the sons of David, well, besides the sons of the concubines. 36:49.460 --> 36:52.540 So I mean these are just only the sons that he had with his wives. 36:52.540 --> 36:53.540 Who are the concubines? 36:54.300 --> 37:00.500 These are the women that he's procreating with and sleeping with and they are exclusive 37:00.500 --> 37:05.420 to him, so they're not just women that he's just fooling around with, but these are actually 37:05.420 --> 37:11.700 women that belong to him but they're of a lower status, so he's not going to marry them 37:11.700 --> 37:16.540 as his wife because the women that he marries as his wife, they're of a higher status. 37:16.540 --> 37:22.060 So these are like a second-class wife in that sense or just the one that he sleeps with 37:22.220 --> 37:28.980 that's not even his wife, but it's just considered his women, this is part of his harem. 37:28.980 --> 37:36.700 And again, this is completely wrong and it led to nothing but problems for him. 37:36.700 --> 37:40.740 And everyone who did it in the Old Testament, say, why did he do it if he's such a good 37:40.740 --> 37:41.740 guy? 37:41.740 --> 37:42.740 Why did he do these things? 37:42.740 --> 37:45.900 Well, you know, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. 37:45.900 --> 37:51.180 I mean, men have weaknesses and temptations and especially when they're in that position 37:51.180 --> 37:57.820 of power, you know, you don't think this is going on right now in the White House or 37:57.820 --> 37:58.820 whatever? 37:58.820 --> 38:06.780 I mean, I don't think Trump would ever do anything like that, you know. 38:06.780 --> 38:11.700 But how about, you know, a guy whose name starts with a B and ends in ill Clinton, but 38:11.700 --> 38:12.700 you know what? 38:12.700 --> 38:15.820 I guarantee you the Republicans are doing it too. 38:15.820 --> 38:22.180 I mean, you know, think about Trump's background and the stuff that he said and the life that 38:22.180 --> 38:23.180 he's lived. 38:23.180 --> 38:25.140 You think he'd be above this? 38:25.140 --> 38:30.500 I mean, if he could get by with this publicly, he'd be surrounded by wives and concubines 38:30.500 --> 38:31.860 if it were legal. 38:31.860 --> 38:34.900 I'm sure that they do it anyway. 38:34.900 --> 38:39.700 They just don't do it legally, you know, and that probably goes for a lot of these senators, 38:39.700 --> 38:45.500 congressmen, you know, the ones that aren't fags because the fags, they're committing 38:45.500 --> 38:52.140 fag acts with all these little, you know, what do they call them, the little interns 38:52.140 --> 38:55.060 or, I mean, they're a bunch of pedophiles. 38:55.060 --> 39:00.140 They're known pedophiles in Congress and in the Senate that have been called out and exposed 39:00.140 --> 39:03.940 and yet they continue to lead, right? 39:03.940 --> 39:04.940 It's out there. 39:04.940 --> 39:11.220 I mean, do a little research, friend, and they've got these Washington DC madams that 39:11.220 --> 39:17.660 supply Congress and the Senate with prostitutes, right, for those who go that way, they're 39:17.660 --> 39:21.700 straight, so they could be with all their prostitutes and then you got a bunch of child 39:21.700 --> 39:27.660 molesters that are for the sodomites, you know, that's their death style that they follow. 39:27.660 --> 39:32.740 But the bottom line is that people who get into these positions of power, it goes to 39:32.740 --> 39:37.100 their head or people who make millions and billions of dollars, it goes to their head 39:37.100 --> 39:42.900 and they just think that they just have the right to do this, to just have all these women 39:42.900 --> 39:48.620 around them and, you know, it's wicked and all, but, you know, say, well, everybody's 39:48.620 --> 39:49.620 doing it. 39:49.620 --> 39:50.620 No, not everybody does it. 39:50.620 --> 39:54.940 No, they don't because, you know, I guarantee you that there are some men in Congress and 39:54.940 --> 39:58.940 in the Senate that don't participate in this, that are faithful to their wife. 39:58.940 --> 40:04.100 Now, I know that's hard to believe, but out of 635 of them, there's got to be a couple, 40:04.100 --> 40:05.100 right? 40:05.100 --> 40:06.440 I mean, that are actually faithful to their wife. 40:06.440 --> 40:09.920 It's got to be out there, you know. 40:09.920 --> 40:14.320 I mean, I would assume that Ron Paul was probably a guy that was like that because he was one 40:14.320 --> 40:18.880 that would always like return extra money that he didn't use and he wasn't like one 40:18.880 --> 40:22.240 of these trying to make millions and millions because, you know what, these two things go 40:22.240 --> 40:26.240 hand in hand because the love of money is the root of all evil. 40:26.240 --> 40:31.060 So when you see a senator who's just making millions and millions of dollars through insider 40:31.060 --> 40:35.880 trading and other dishonest means and he's just making millions and millions of dollars 40:35.880 --> 40:41.320 at the taxpayer's expense, you know, then that's probably the same kind of guy who's 40:41.320 --> 40:45.440 going to surround himself with a bunch of beautiful babes and just say, well, I'm entitled 40:45.440 --> 40:46.960 to this. 40:46.960 --> 40:51.800 And the guy who doesn't do that and who lives a humble and modest life and does not let 40:51.800 --> 40:58.920 the love of money take over is probably the same guy who's faithful to his wife, right? 40:58.920 --> 41:03.480 Because it's greed versus contentment and whether that has to do with money. 41:03.480 --> 41:07.760 You show me somebody who's content with the money that they have and I'll show you a guy 41:07.760 --> 41:10.280 who's probably faithful to his wife. 41:10.280 --> 41:14.600 You show me the guy who's always lusting after more money and he's got all the Donald Trump 41:14.600 --> 41:20.200 how to get rich books lined up on the shelf and Robert Kiyosaki and he's got all the get 41:20.200 --> 41:22.000 rich books. 41:22.000 --> 41:28.960 That's probably the same guy who is looking to trade up for someone else or have something 41:28.960 --> 41:29.960 on the side. 41:29.960 --> 41:32.360 It's probably the same guy. 41:32.880 --> 41:35.720 You show me the preacher who's a multimillionaire. 41:35.720 --> 41:39.800 He's probably the one who's going to have the sex scandal as well. 41:39.800 --> 41:44.440 He'll be the next one that's called out, the Bill Hybels or whatever that gets caught doing 41:44.440 --> 41:49.380 this stuff because the love of money is the root of all evil and it leads you into these 41:49.380 --> 41:52.100 other diverse temptations and lusts. 41:52.100 --> 41:56.840 So power, money, these things corrupt us. 41:56.840 --> 42:01.660 If God keeps you a little bit lean, you know what, maybe that's just where you belong because 42:01.660 --> 42:07.140 God knows that if you get super wealthy and have the fancy house and the fancy cars and 42:07.140 --> 42:10.880 the big bank account, you might start getting a little too big for your britches and pretty 42:10.880 --> 42:16.540 soon you're a little too good for your wife and a little too good for your husband. 42:16.540 --> 42:22.120 Be humble, be modest and be content with such things as you have is the moral of the story 42:22.120 --> 42:23.300 so you don't end up with these guys. 42:23.300 --> 42:26.620 You say, well I think I can handle it. 42:26.620 --> 42:29.460 The power, the money, I think I can handle it just fine. 42:29.460 --> 42:33.420 The man after God's own heart couldn't seem to handle it, David. 42:33.420 --> 42:38.300 So if he couldn't handle it, chances are we might do the same thing. 42:38.300 --> 42:41.940 So you know what, if somebody gave, what would you do if you had a million dollars? 42:41.940 --> 42:43.620 Get rid of it as fast as I could. 42:43.620 --> 42:45.180 Get rid of it. 42:45.180 --> 42:48.420 Just like a hot potato, just get it out of my hands, just get rid of it. 42:48.420 --> 42:50.940 Just spend it all fast. 42:50.940 --> 42:52.660 I'm not kidding. 42:52.660 --> 42:56.600 Just get rid of it because I don't want to sit on that kind of money, get all high and 42:56.600 --> 42:58.660 mighty and you know what I mean? 42:58.660 --> 43:04.860 I just start making donations to fundamental Baptist churches that I like but I don't want 43:04.860 --> 43:09.620 to give them too much or I'll ruin them. 43:09.620 --> 43:12.620 Then the church will go bad because they got too much money or something. 43:12.620 --> 43:15.940 So I give them a reasonable donation. 43:15.940 --> 43:18.380 Hopefully if that ever happened there would be a lot of churches you could kind of spread 43:18.380 --> 43:24.460 it around, just send everybody like 20,000 bucks or something, just enough to kind of 43:24.460 --> 43:26.740 do something but not go too crazy with it. 43:26.740 --> 43:28.140 You know what I mean? 43:28.140 --> 43:32.620 Give them some money, pass it around, but just get rid of it. 43:32.620 --> 43:36.220 Just get rid of it all and find something to do with it. 43:36.220 --> 43:37.220 It'd be stressful. 43:37.220 --> 43:38.220 It would stress me out. 43:38.220 --> 43:42.980 I'd just be like, what do I do? 43:42.980 --> 43:45.740 I don't want this responsibility. 43:45.740 --> 43:46.740 I'm serious. 43:46.740 --> 43:50.620 Say, oh, don't you want to spend on what? 43:50.620 --> 43:54.280 What do rich people even spend all their money on when they have millions of dollars? 43:54.280 --> 43:55.280 What's the difference? 43:55.280 --> 43:56.380 Here's what I want to know. 43:56.380 --> 44:00.580 What's the difference between having $1 million and $10 million? 44:00.580 --> 44:05.060 What's the difference between having $10 million and $100 million? 44:05.060 --> 44:06.060 How could you even spend it all? 44:06.060 --> 44:07.780 It would be like a full-time job. 44:07.780 --> 44:12.140 You'd have to hire people, just spenders that would just spend money for you. 44:12.140 --> 44:14.140 How would you even spend it all? 44:14.140 --> 44:16.220 Here's the thing. 44:16.220 --> 44:21.860 You can only fit so much food in your mouth and in your stomach. 44:21.860 --> 44:25.900 Even if you ate the three awesome meals a day, how much could that possibly cost? 44:25.940 --> 44:31.340 That's why you get these idiotic meals where they put gold dust on their food. 44:31.340 --> 44:34.740 You know what I'm talking about? 44:34.740 --> 44:43.660 Or they have coffee that an animal drank and then urinated or something. 44:43.660 --> 44:45.380 Fermented coffee? 44:45.380 --> 44:48.060 Is that really a thing? 44:48.060 --> 44:49.060 Can you explain it? 44:49.060 --> 44:51.060 I'm sorry to put you on the spot. 44:51.060 --> 44:52.620 It's just some Japanese type of coffee. 44:52.620 --> 44:54.260 Doesn't it go through an animal? 44:54.260 --> 44:55.260 I don't think so. 44:56.260 --> 44:59.260 So where did I get that crazy story? 44:59.260 --> 45:01.260 It's from Bali. 45:01.260 --> 45:04.260 Tell me about it. 45:04.260 --> 45:07.260 It's like a rodent kind of animal. 45:07.260 --> 45:09.260 They eat it and they poop it out. 45:09.260 --> 45:11.260 Then it breaks the coffee being down. 45:11.260 --> 45:13.260 Then they take that and they're dying down. 45:13.260 --> 45:17.260 I'm glad that we had someone here that could fact check me. 45:17.260 --> 45:18.260 This is what it is. 45:18.260 --> 45:23.260 It's a little rodent, eats the coffee, and then defecates the coffee. 45:23.260 --> 45:27.260 I was thinking, number one, it's number two. 45:27.260 --> 45:29.260 Roast. 45:29.260 --> 45:33.260 Then they take that coffee and it's like, oh, this is a better coffee. 45:33.260 --> 45:36.260 No, I'll just stick with Folgers, thank you very much. 45:36.260 --> 45:41.260 I don't even drink coffee. 45:41.260 --> 45:46.260 But the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup after hearing that story. 45:49.260 --> 45:52.260 That's the kind of crap that people spend their money on. 45:52.260 --> 45:54.260 No pun intended. 45:54.260 --> 45:56.260 That's what they spend their money on. 45:56.260 --> 46:02.260 It's $500 and you get this cup of coffee and it's gone through an animal's bowels. 46:02.260 --> 46:06.260 Or you're eating gold. 46:06.260 --> 46:09.260 Gold's not food. 46:09.260 --> 46:14.260 I get all the metal I need in Fruity Pebbles with the copper and zinc and all that. 46:14.260 --> 46:15.260 No, I'm just kidding. 46:15.260 --> 46:17.260 I don't eat Fruity Pebbles. 46:17.260 --> 46:20.260 Every once in a while I do, but it's very rare. 46:20.260 --> 46:22.260 Just every few years. 46:22.260 --> 46:24.260 You've got to live a little. 46:24.260 --> 46:26.260 The point is, what can you eat? 46:26.260 --> 46:28.260 You have to dream up these crazy meals. 46:28.260 --> 46:35.260 Everybody knows that $30 or $40 gets you a real nice meal pretty much anywhere. 46:35.260 --> 46:39.260 You can get some really fancy meals for $30. 46:39.260 --> 46:43.260 You can get a pretty amazing meal at some places for $10. 46:43.260 --> 46:49.260 I went out to lunch with a friend today and my entree was $6.75. 46:49.260 --> 46:51.260 And it was awesome. 46:51.260 --> 46:53.260 I was real happy with it. 46:53.260 --> 46:57.260 I was at this Sun Asian place on 24th and Baseline. 46:57.260 --> 47:00.260 It's kind of tucked over there by the Ross and the Target. 47:00.260 --> 47:03.260 This message was brought to you in part by Sun Asian. 47:03.260 --> 47:07.260 Now I don't just walk into any old Chinese restaurant and just start eating 47:07.260 --> 47:10.260 because it can be hit or miss. 47:10.260 --> 47:13.260 It can go either way. 47:13.260 --> 47:16.260 Panda Express is kind of safe. 47:16.260 --> 47:19.260 But this place was good. 47:19.260 --> 47:21.260 Sun Asian, I think it was called. 47:21.260 --> 47:23.260 It was like $7. 47:23.260 --> 47:24.260 And you know what? 47:24.260 --> 47:26.260 I was real happy with it. 47:26.260 --> 47:31.260 But even if you just want to have a party in your mouth every single meal, 47:31.260 --> 47:35.260 that's only going to cost $100 a day per person to really go nuts 47:35.260 --> 47:37.260 and flame and yawn and everything. 47:37.260 --> 47:39.260 I mean, how much could it cost? 47:39.260 --> 47:41.260 But it's just stupid, isn't it? 47:41.260 --> 47:47.260 Just buying crazy $20,000 suits and a $15,000 bell. 47:47.260 --> 47:50.260 Vanity of vanity, sayeth the preacher. 47:50.260 --> 47:52.260 All is vanity. 47:52.260 --> 47:53.260 It's stupid. 47:53.260 --> 47:57.260 And everything is like that in life where it's just, oh, 10 wives. 47:57.260 --> 47:59.260 Oh, make it 20. 47:59.260 --> 48:01.260 He didn't love any of them. 48:01.260 --> 48:02.260 You know what? 48:02.260 --> 48:05.260 He's still up on the roof, lonely and bored, 48:05.260 --> 48:09.260 even though there's 20 wives in the house. 48:09.260 --> 48:12.260 It's better to dwell in the corner of the housetop 48:12.260 --> 48:14.260 than with 20 of those wives, apparently, 48:14.260 --> 48:18.260 because that's what he's up there hanging out. 48:18.260 --> 48:19.260 Guess what? 48:19.260 --> 48:21.260 It's not what it's cracked up to be. 48:21.260 --> 48:25.260 That coffee is not what it's cracked up to be, okay? 48:25.260 --> 48:26.260 You know, none of it is. 48:26.260 --> 48:28.260 It's all stupid. 48:28.260 --> 48:31.260 And people spend their whole life seeking after that stuff. 48:31.260 --> 48:32.260 Well, you know what? 48:32.260 --> 48:34.260 You better get that out of your heart, 48:34.260 --> 48:37.260 because that love of money will lead you into all the other sins. 48:37.260 --> 48:38.260 It's the root of all evil. 48:38.260 --> 48:39.260 Get that love of money. 48:39.260 --> 48:42.260 Just quit desiring riches and all that stuff, 48:42.260 --> 48:46.260 and just be happy with what you have, 48:46.260 --> 48:49.260 with who you are, with what you do. 48:49.260 --> 48:53.260 You know, be content with such things as you have. 48:53.260 --> 48:57.260 And then the rest of the chapter here basically just goes through a genealogy, 48:57.260 --> 48:59.260 starting in verse 10. 48:59.260 --> 49:01.260 It runs through the kings. 49:01.260 --> 49:05.260 You know, the kings Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, 49:05.260 --> 49:07.260 Jorah, Maaziah. 49:07.260 --> 49:11.260 Pretty much, pretty close to the list that you'll find in Matthew chapter 1, 49:11.260 --> 49:15.260 where he kind of runs through all those different kings and everything like that. 49:15.260 --> 49:16.260 Let's go ahead and have a word of prayer. 49:16.260 --> 49:19.260 Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord, 49:19.260 --> 49:22.260 and we thank you for the good and bad examples in the Bible, 49:22.260 --> 49:24.260 so we can learn from both, Lord. 49:24.260 --> 49:30.260 Help us to follow your perfect plan for our life by marrying just one woman 49:30.260 --> 49:33.260 and staying faithful to that woman for the rest of our life, Lord. 49:33.260 --> 49:35.260 Help every man in here to be a good husband. 49:35.260 --> 49:40.260 Help every wife to be a virtuous, godly, and helpful wife, Lord. 49:40.260 --> 49:42.260 And help us to follow your plan for our lives 49:42.260 --> 49:47.260 and not to be covetous of money and all the dumb things that the world offers. 49:47.260 --> 49:48.260 In Jesus' name we pray.