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The title of my sermon this morning is, Too Little, Too Late. Or another title for this sermon could be, A Day Late and A Dollar Short. Now beginning in Proverbs chapter 1 verse 23, the Bible reads, Turn you at my reproof. Behold I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make known my words unto you, because I have called and ye refused. I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded, but ye have said it not all my counsel and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. And of course this is the Lord that is speaking. When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me, for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But who so hearken unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil. And this scripture is a perfect example in the Bible of people who when they get into distress and when their fear comes upon them, they turn to the Lord somewhat, but it's too little, too late. These people are people for whom it was clearly too late because it said in verse number 28, then shall they call upon me. After they've already hated knowledge, after they've already rejected the truth, rejected the Lord, they didn't want any of his counsel, they wanted nothing to do with him. Then they shall call upon me, but I'll not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord. Now let me just make it really clear here what this scripture is not saying. This scripture is not saying that a person could believe on Jesus Christ and he would not save them because anyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. And there are no exceptions that the Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. Not only that, but it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, but we have to get that in the context of what comes right before and right after. It says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they've not believed? And right before that it said that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So when the Bible says here they'll call upon me but I'll refuse them. I won't answer. I will not be found of them. This is not saying that a person could believe on Jesus Christ and not be saved. What this is saying is that people will sometimes cry out to the Lord or cry out to God and it's too late for that person but it doesn't say that that person believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. See, that's the difference. There are a lot of people who are just, oh God save me. And I think a perfect example to kind of differentiate these two things is with Prince. You know, everybody heard about Prince. Who heard about Prince dying a week ago? I was walking through the airport and I saw his effeminate face looking at me from every magazine rack and you know, Prince has died and so forth. But you know the interesting thing about Prince is that if you look at his life, he lived a very wicked and ungodly life. I mean he was a major fornicator, completely godless, completely blasphemous, just living probably one of the most wicked lives that you could live and he was known just for his flamboyancy, his cross-dressing, his wickedness. But at the same time he claimed not to be a homosexual, you know, but I mean, good night. You know, he was everything short of that, you know, if you're going to take his word for that. But here's what's interesting. Prince got to a point in his life where he realized that he had destroyed his life. Where he realized that the wickedness of his lifestyle had caught up with him when he realized that he had HIV. And he realized that all of the fun and the partying and the women, what the world shows you as being so fun and exciting that it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. And even though he had all the millions and millions of dollars and the fame and the women and the fans, he realized the vanity and emptiness of a life that's not spent serving the Lord Jesus Christ. And so therefore in his heart he repented of his wicked lifestyle to an extent and said, You know what? I've been a fool. I've lived my life the wrong way and now I want to seek after the Lord. But the question is, when he sought after the Lord, did he find the Lord? And the answer is no, he did not. I think he's a great example of Proverbs chapter 1 because when he said, wow, I need to seek out the Lord, I need to seek out the Bible, I need to seek out Jesus, he had right there next to him a friend of his in the music industry that was a Jehovah's Witness. And this friend stepped right in and said, oh, you want to seek the Lord, huh? You want to seek the Bible? Here, let me help you. Let me take you under my wing. And Prince was indoctrinated into the cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses. The Watchtower cult. And that is why Prince is in hell today. Prince is not in hell today because he was a feminine and sissy. He's not in hell today just because he's a fornicator. Hey, the real reason that he ended up in hell is because he never put his faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. And now he is being punished for being a fornicator. He is being punished for being a cross dresser and a weirdo and wicked. But the reason they went there is because he did not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior. And even when he sought the Lord, I think the Lord just looked down and said, you know what? You didn't want anything to do with me. You rejected me for so long. You hated me. You just did everything that I was against. And I think it was just a point where God said, you know what? I'm going to allow you this delusion of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion. And you know what? You have to be delusional to be a Jehovah's Witness. I mean, it's really a ridiculous religion. I mean, you know, I thought I had a Greek New Testament in the pulpit here. You know, I would like to just set a Greek New Testament on the pulpit right here and ask somebody to show me the word Jehovah in it. You know, now it's not in the English New Testament either, right? I mean, you can go through the English New Testament and you can look all day long. You're never going to find the word Jehovah. But you say, well, you know, you've translated it wrong. You need to get the New World translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses. But here's the thing. We can get out of Greek New Testament. We can put it up here in the original Greek. And I want somebody to show me the word Jehovah in the New Testament. But they claim, well, that's the only name of God. Well, then why is it never found even once in our New Testament? Why didn't Matthew use it? Why didn't Mark use it? Why didn't Luke use it? Why didn't John use it? You know, you have to be delusional. You have to be deceived. You have to be blinded by the God of this world in order to fall for these type of lives. Look, God in his wisdom, God in his providence could have allowed some evangelical Christian to be at hand in Prince's life when he finally decided to repent of his wickedness. But instead he allowed him to be deluded and to go down this Jehovah's Witness path. And you know what? The change in Prince's life, you know, beside the fact that he never received Jesus Christ as savior and he got inducted into a cult, you know, the change in his life was too little too late because he still looked way too effeminate even after the change. He still looked like a total homo. OK, but anyway, the point being that we need to understand that God gets fed up with people and God gets to a point with people where he says, hey, it's too late. I mean, can you imagine Prince coming to your door and saying that he wants to study the Bible with you? Because, you know, that Prince actually went door knocking as a Jehovah's Witness. You have I mean, to be a Jehovah's Witness, you have to go door knocking. I mean, can you imagine Prince coming to your door and say, hey, I'm a Bible student. I want to have a Bible study with you. No, you know, I know. Thanks, buddy. But anyway, what does the Bible say in Proverbs twenty nine? Flip over to Proverbs twenty nine and then we're going to go to Hebrews twelve. We're going to do a lot of Proverbs this morning, but let's let's do Proverbs at twenty nine while we're there. The Bible reads in verse one, he that be often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. So God gives people multiple chances to be saved. God gives Christians multiple chances after they're saved to come back to him when they're backslidden. God is constantly giving people another chance and reaching out to people. And you know, he sent to Israel prophet after prophet after prophet, giving them another chance, another chance. Last of all, he sent unto them his son to give them another chance. Look, God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. God is long suffering. God is patient and merciful, but God's patience has an end. His long suffering comes to an end. He is not the God of infinite chances. The Bible says then so they call upon me, but I'll not answer. Why? Because they hated knowledge. They hated me. They hated reproof. They despise my word. They'll call upon me and I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. See, well, the Bible says seek and everyone that seek can find it. Yeah, if you seek him, you'll find him, but the Bible says seek the Lord while he may be found. Yeah, exactly. It comes a point where it gets too late and we want to put things, you know, people that are not saved, they want to put it off. You know, well, I'll think about that later. I don't really know what I believe right now. I'm just an agnostic right now. I don't, you know, well, I'm just going to put salvation off, but you know what? You keep putting it off, putting it off, putting it up. Eventually it could become too late for you if you're not saved. And then Christians who are saved, they say, you know, I'm going to live for God someday, but first I want to live a sinful life. First I want to sow my wild oats. You know, God might just decide that he's had enough of your sinful life and he might just cause something bad to happen to you. Something serious, something without remedy. He either being often reproved, reproved means told that they're doing wrong. He either being often reproved, hardened at his neck and just kind of stubbornly resist shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. I don't want my life to be destroyed in such a way where there's no remedy. There's no way to fix it. There's no way to pick up the peace. I would hate to be, and obviously, you know, an unsaved person who dies without Christ, there's no way to fix that. It's too late now. Too little, too late. Not only that, go to Hebrews chapter 12. So first of all, from Proverbs chapter one, we looked at it being too little, too late by unsaved wicked people who all of a sudden realize, oh wow, I'm being destroyed. I'm desolate. I'm a failure. Now I'm going to turn to the Lord. You know, it might just be too late for those people. Now sometimes we're even amazed by God's mercy. Like for example, in the story of Manasseh. I mean, Manasseh was a really wicked guy, but yet he sought the Lord and the Lord was found of him later in life. That's a pretty extreme example in the Bible, but then we see other examples in the Bible where it's too late, like in Proverbs chapter one. So we don't want to push God, and I'm talking to the unsaved this morning. Don't push it with God. You better seek the Lord in your youth. You know, you better get saved now if you're not saved. And you know, I know that 97 percent of the people that are here this morning are saved, but honestly I know that there are also probably unsaved people here this morning, just simply because of the fact that they came along with a friend or they, you know, they were just brought by a spouse or brought by their parents, and they do not in their heart believe on the Lord Jesus Christ their Savior. They do not believe the word of God this morning. And my message to you, if that's you, and I don't do this very often because the vast majority of people are saved, but my message to you this morning is that you need to get saved before it is eternally too late. You could die today, you could die tomorrow, or you could be sent a strong delusion where God eventually just gets sick of you listening to sermon after sermon after sermon and gets sick of you rejecting his word, rejecting his word, rejecting his word, and he might just get to the point where he gives you over to a reprobate mind, where he would darken your eyes and harden your heart, and it would be too late for you. What a shame. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Don't let it be too late if you're unsaved, but secondly, don't let it be too late if you're backslidden. You know, if you're a Christian, if you're saved and you're on your way to heaven, of course nothing can take away your salvation from you, but your life can be a wreck. Your life can be destroyed without remedy. Look at Hebrews chapter 12 verse 16, lest there be any fornicator, and a fornicator is one who goes to bed with someone that they're not married to, lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright, for you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. So here's a guy who realizes that he made a mistake and he cries and he's sorry, but it didn't really change the fact that irreparable damage had been done to his life. You couldn't go back in time and fix it at that point, and God says when you're a fornicator, you do that kind of damage to your life that you can't go back and fix. And so that's a warning to the backslidden, don't let it be too late for you. Now if you would, go to 1 Samuel chapter 2. Not only did we see in Proverbs 1, too little too late by the unsaved, too little too late by those who rejected the word Lord. Number two, we saw too little too late by the backslidden, where they want to turn back to the Lord after they've already irreparably damaged their life. But number three, it's often too little too late by parents of children. By parents of children. Children often get to a point where the parents can't get them under control anymore, and then the parents try to make some last-ditch effort, but it's too little too late. 1 Samuel chapter 2, while you're turning there, I'll read for you Proverbs 13, 24, listen to this. He that spareth his rod, hateth his son, but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes. Now what does betimes mean? A lot of people don't understand that, they think it means, oh, from time to time. But if you study the word betimes in the Bible, and if you look it up in a dictionary, you'll see that betimes just simply means early. It's just an old word for early, that's all it means, betimes, early. So right here, it's saying that if you love your children, you will chasten them early. If you spare your rod, you hate your son, but if you love him, you'll chasten him betimes, or early. And then in Proverbs 19, 18, it says, chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. That implies that there's gonna come a point where there is no hope. You gotta chasten him while there is hope. And let not thy soul spare for his crying. Like, you're gonna say, oh, it just breaks my heart when he's crying. He's gonna break your heart when he grows up and turns away from the Lord and lives a wicked life. You need to fix it now, nip it in the bud now while you can, while there's hope. First Samuel chapter 2 verse 22 says, now Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. I mean, these guys are fornicating with those in the church. And it says in verse 23, he said to them, why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil doings by all those people. Nay, my sons, no, no, nay, my sons, for it is no good report. Oh, it's not a good report that I hear. You make the Lord's people to transgress. If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him, but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearken not unto the voice of their father because the Lord would slay them. Now look, Eli here is doing too little, too late. It's too late. I mean, they're already grown men. They're grown adults. Eli is very old at this point. And then all of a sudden he says, whoa, kids, what are you doing? Nay, my sons. And he doesn't stop them. He's rebuked later by the man of God for restraining them not. It's not enough just to say, nay, my sons. He's supposed to restrain them. Put a stop to it. Do something. Eli is doing too little, too late. And listen to me. I feel like today in 2016, Christians, when they read the Bible, they willfully ignore certain things in the Bible. They don't want to hear them. They block them out. And I wonder if when we just read this, some Christians that the end of verse 25 just went right over their head because they just want to hear no evil, see no evil and want to just think that everything is sunshine and rainbows and unicorns. Listen to me. The Bible is the final authority on everything that we believe. If we want to know who God is, we need to look in the Bible. We want to know how he feels about things. We need to read it in the Bible. The Bible says here that God wanted to kill these two boys. That's what it says. It says notwithstanding, and I want to park it here because I don't want this to just kind of go over anybody's head, just kind of slip by. No, let's just kind of park the car right here for a minute. Let's roll down the windows and let's just kind of get the air, get the scene here. Let's understand the word of God this morning. Let's not just blow through it. Let's just kind of park here for a minute. They hearken not unto the voice of their father because the Lord would slay them. Now would there, don't misunderstand the language of the King James Bible. It means he wanted to. Like where he said in Proverbs 1, they would none of my counsel, meaning they didn't want any of my counsel. The past tense of wanted is would in the Bible because I will means I want. Like God says I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house. Would is the past tense of that will meaning I want to. And it says here they hearken not unto the voice of their father. Why not? Because the Lord would slay them. That means that the Lord stepped in and hardened their hearts like he hardened Pharaoh's heart to make sure that they would not hearken because he wanted them dead. He didn't want them to fix it at this point because it was too little, too late, and he was sick of them and he wanted them dead. Because God gets to a point, yes he's merciful, yes he's loving, yes he's forgiving, yes he's the God of the second chance, but he's not necessarily going to be the God of the tenth chance. And it says in plain English here the Lord would slay them. That's why they didn't hearken unto the voice of their father. Now this isn't some kind of Calvinist junk. Don't try to accuse you of being a Calvinist when you point at what the Bible says here. Look, I don't believe that it was God's will that these boys be killed. He would have rather that they repented, but when they pushed it too far, it got to a point where it's too late for that. It's not that God just foreordained these boys to be doomed and damned. That's what Calvinism teaches. Calvinism teaches that we don't have free will and that God chose these guys to just be doomed and damned and there's nothing they can do about it. These boys had free will and they abused that free will and abused it and abused it and abused it and abused it and abused it. And then God said, okay, now you don't have the choice anymore. Now I'm taking away the choice from you. Now you're just going to die now. Your place of repentance is over. And I don't think that that's too hard to understand. I think that some people who don't understand that might just be that they just don't want to understand that because it's really not that complicated that we all have free will. We all have the chance to be saved, but that people could eventually lose their chance to be saved. It'd be sort of like this. It'd be like if there was a young lady and a man asked her to marry him and she says no, right? That's her choice to say no, right? I mean, she, you know, I believe that women should have the right to marry whomsoever they will only in the Lord. And so he asked her to marry him. She says, no. He asked her again. She says, no. He asked her again. She says, no. What do you think that guy is eventually going to feel? I mean, think about it. Eventually he's got to feel pretty rejected. He's going to get upset and he's going to feel like, you know, wow, this is embarrassing. This is humiliating. And you know what he's eventually going to do? He's going to stop asking and he might even get to the point where he gets angry or upset that he's constantly being rejected to the point where he actually, even if she came back and said, Hey, I changed my mind. Now I want to marry you. He's going to say, no, it's too late now. The door already closed on that. That ship has already sailed. You see what I'm saying? I've already moved on to somebody else now because I got tired of you saying no. So I went and asked this other girl and she said, yes, too late for you now. Now you say, well, yeah, but you know, she, she has every right to make that decision. Right. But when God's asking, you better say yes, since he's the creator, since he's the God of the universe, when he comes to you and invites you to be espoused unto Christ, when he invites you to be his son and when he invites you into his family, you know, you better say yes. He'll ask you a second time cause he's merciful. He'll come to you a third time because he's gracious and long suffering, but eventually he'll get to a point where he'll say, well, no, I'm done with you. You rejected me too many times, Prince or whoever, you know what I mean? You pushed it too far. This is the word of God. My friend, it gets too late chasing thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spare for his crying, uh, and fourthly, this too little, too late by Christians who want to try to bring our nation back to God or let me say this, not even trying to bring our nation back to God. How about this? Trying to bring our nation back to sanity. Just trying to live in a normal nation, just trying to live in a nation where we can raise our families and in some halfway degree of normalcy, Christians are doing too little, too late to fix things in America today. And I think a perfect, and if you would flip over to Isaiah chapter 55, Isaiah chapter 55 is a great scripture on it being too late. And look, what I'm going to say in the next few minutes is going to offend people. I'm telling you right now, but honestly I feel, and I know that I'm 100% justified in what I'm about to say and what I'm about to preach because the Bible is crystal clear on the subject that I'm going to go into and I'm not making any apology for what I'm about to say. And you know what? If it offends you, well, you're probably the person that needs to hear it the most this morning. But the Bible says in Isaiah 55 verse six, seek you the Lord while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man, his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon and I just wanted to read that because it has to do with the sermon in general. But I really want to focus in on verses eight and nine. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, sayeth the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. You see, Christians often have their way of doing things and their way of saying things and their way of preaching things and it's a lot different than God's way of doing things. And you say, well, how do we know what God's thoughts are? How do we know what his ways are? Because the Bible says that if we have the word of God, we have the mind of Christ. If you want to look into the mind of Christ, all you have to do is look within the pages of the word of God. And his way is always right and often Christians, they have their way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Now yesterday, a very famous, well-known preacher, and not only is this guy a famous, well-known preacher, but he has all kinds of pastors all over America following him amongst independent fundamental Baptist. His name is Paul Chappell. He posted a blog post yesterday when Christians do nothing, parentheses, about target. Now the title of this blog post is When Christians Do Nothing About Target. Well, I'm going to write my own little blog post and I'm going to call it When Christians Do Nothing About Paul Chappell. Now you hear me out before you get upset. Just listen, I'm going to read this blog post that is too little, too late. Listen to this. And I'm going to read every word of it. I'm not going to give it to you out of context or anything. Here's his blog post from yesterday. I don't believe the response to every social evil is a boycott, but when a company publicly and forcefully comes out on the wrong side of a moral issue, I don't believe the correct response is to do nothing either, especially in America where we have freedom in our choices, whether they be at the voting polls or where we spend our money, make a difference. By now you've heard of Target's decision to open their gender specific restrooms and fitting rooms to the opposite gender. The stated reason for this is to be inclusive toward transgender individuals, but considering that transgender population makes up 0.03% of the American population, I would submit that their reasoning has more to do with tolerance being in vogue in America today. Regardless of the reason, however, the result is that my granddaughter can be in the restroom at Target and have some guy walk in and that's not okay with me. Now I'm going to continue reading, but let me just stop and analyze this for a moment. First of all, he says, you know, hey, I don't believe in a boycott every time there's a social evil, but man, when a company comes out and just publicly and forcefully comes out on the wrong side of a moral issue, I don't believe the correct response is to do nothing either. Well, let me ask you this, Paul Chappell, what verse in the Bible states that men can't go in the women's restroom and women can't go in the men's restroom? I would like you to show me that in the Bible, Paul Chappell. Show me that verse in the Bible, Paul Chappell, because you're telling me, I mean, this is just so clearly and morally wrong, you know, okay, then show it to me in the Bible. I'll show you in the Bible where homosexuals are supposed to be put to death. That's what the Bible says. He doesn't preach that. Somebody show me where he preaches. Go to Leviticus 2013 where the Bible says they should be executed. Go to Leviticus 2013 and this is reiterated in the New Testament in Romans chapter one when it says that they that do such things are worthy of death. This is reiterated in 2 Peter chapter two when he talks about God sending fire and brimstone to wipe out Sodom and Gomorrah as an ensemble to those that afterwards should live ungodly. So in Leviticus 2013 it says, if a man also lie with mankind as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. So where does that say anything about the bathroom that they use? They're supposed to use the bathroom in hell. That's where the bathroom is that they use. Oh, I don't like this kind of... Get out of here then because I'm preaching the Bible. You want me... You know, if I got up and started just preaching about hell, yeah, we need to fight against Target and Target is ruining America because they're letting that pervert go into the ladies' room, you know, I'd get amens and everybody's happy. But then you start preaching the Bible and everybody gets uncomfortable. There are all kinds of little weakling pastors all across America today doing too little, too late. Well, I'm going to draw the line in the sand. I'm going to take a stand against Target. Well, I'm going to take a stand against Paul Chappell and I'm going to tell you why. Wait. Oh, wait for it. It's coming. It's worse. It's much worse than you think. I'm going to show you where Paul Chappell is doing something way worse than Target ever thought of doing. Now let me analyze this. When a company publicly and forcefully comes out on the wrong side of a moral issue that he can't show us a single verse about in the Bible, I don't believe the correct response is to do nothing either, especially in America where we have freedom and our choices, whether they be at the voting polls or where we spend our money, make a difference. This guy thinks that voting makes a difference. Let me just stop and point out the stupidity there. He thinks that the Republicans are actually against transgender and homos. What in the world? Are you nuts? Where have you been living Paul Chappell? Because George W. Bush hired more sodomites to his staff than any president in the history of our country, including Bill Clinton. All of these Republican candidates say that they'll hire sodomites. Hello. Is anybody home? And the Democrats are the same thing. They're all pro sodomy. They're all pro. Oh, oh, oh, but they're against the bathroom thing. Oh, but they're against the, the, the, the marriage thing. Yeah. But do they, do any of them stand for anything? The Bible actually mentions voting polls where we can really make a difference. Yeah. You know what? This November. Oh yeah. You can really make a difference at the voting polls with the choices that are being offered. It's going to be great. I'll skip it. But it says here, you know, inverse or not verse. Good night. And in the fourth paragraph, and I'm not skipping anything, you know, I read it all to you and I'm going to read it all to you. Regardless of the reason, however, the result is that my granddaughter can be in the restroom at target and have some guy walk in and that's not okay with me. But here's what is okay with, with Paul Chappell. Obviously he's okay with his grandson being in the men's room at target and having some filthy pedophile go in there. Stop and think about this. So he's saying, well, I don't want some filthy pervert walking in on my granddaughter in the bathroom. Well, what about your grandson, Paul Chappell? Because you know, there's more boys that are molested than girls by these freaks anyway. What, hello. Is anybody just thinking about it? See, you can't have these people around because they're perverts, they're pedophiles. That's why the Bible said stone them with stones. That's why the Bible teaches, and I'm not saying we should be vigilantes, I'm saying the scripture teaches that the government should execute these people. Why don't we teach the Bible on this? But no. Well, my granddaughter, but what about your grandson? See how dumb this is? Doesn't even make sense. Let's keep going. I know there are some people who say, fine, then let's use the single stall family restroom, but the point is that there's a men's and a women's restroom for a reason. The single extra stall restroom in stores that have it and not all do is supposed to be for people with an exceptional situation, not the norm, yet Target's new policy is treating normalcy as abnormal, and it's putting people, women and children in particular, in a place of compromised safety. In addition, I'm not only concerned about the safety of those in my family, but I care about decency and protection for women and children in general, especially in public places where they should expect, except male children. And here's the thing, what if some filthy lesbian goes into the women's restroom? Your daughter's still in the presence of a pervert. What if some filthy sodomite goes into the men's room? Now look, obviously I believe that men should use the men's room and women should use the women's room. Did I really need to tell you that, that that's what I believe? But my point is that this is where they're going to draw the line now. They let these people march up and down the street. They let them in their church. They welcome them to the church. They say, oh, we love them, we want to tolerate them, everything's fine. But just don't go in the wrong bathroom, though. It's too late. Too little, too late, buddy. I know that our culture is shifting as it willfully turns its back on God. And as I wrote in a recent book, I know that the big picture response of Christians is to lovingly hold the truth while living a consistent testimony, praying for revival and sharing the gospel. But that doesn't mean we also shouldn't also respond otherwise. That doesn't mean we should just roll over and do nothing when a company, in this case Target, makes a public statement of a policy that flies in the face of Christianity, not to mention common sense. Now listen, I'm going to show you in a moment a company that makes a statement about its policy that flies in the face of Christianity and common sense. That company is called Lancaster Baptist Church. I'm going to get there in a moment because they're, they're allowing even weirder people into the restroom than Target is. I'm going to show it to you in black and white. Hang in there. I don't think we should lash out in anger. Of course you don't, Paul Chappell. Of course you don't think we should lash out in anger because you're so soft and watered down that you would never lash out against sin and anger. You would never call out these filthy perverts. Well, I don't think we should lash out in anger, but we should be decisive and we should be willing to do something. And he emphasizes something like, I mean, we got to do something. No, why don't we do the right thing, which is to not tolerate homosexuality at all, to not allow it in our churches, to not allow it in our family, to have no, if we have an extended family member that's a homo, they should be ostracized. We should have nothing to do with them. Get them away from our children. Our government should be putting them to death. We should have nothing to do with these filthy people. They should be put to death. The Bible says we got to do something. One organization, the American Family Association, has already collected over a million signatures on their pledge to boycott Target. That's why Paul Chappell's ready to take a stand now. When he's got a million people behind him, he has the guts to take a stand on an issue when a million people have gotten on board. He's ready to be a million and one. Why don't you stand alone, Paul Chappell? Why don't you stand alone and say no homos are allowed in my church? Why don't you stand alone and say they shall surely be put to death according to God's word? But no, he'll stand when there's a million people behind him, when he can hide behind a million people. And you say, well, you're being too hard on Paul Chappell. That's because you haven't heard what I'm going to read to you from his website yet. So don't judge a thing before you've heard it. Wait till you hear what his public, it's worse than Target. Target didn't even bring up bestiality, Paul Chappell did. We'll get there. On the same page, they also provide several news articles on how sexual predators exploit policies like Target's. Yeah, they also exploit policies like those of Lancaster Baptist Church, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Personally this is what, listen to this, this is his hardcore stance. Personally I'm not shopping at Target anymore and I encourage others to make that decision as well. Here's the next sentence and I kid you not. Now I can't say that there will never be a day in my life when I go into Target. Okay, now hold on a second. I'm not going to Target. Well, okay, wait a minute. I might go there, but hold on. And he's not even saying, now you might think to yourself, oh, well maybe he's not going to go there if they change their policy. No, no, that's not what he's saying. Let's read. Now I can't say that there will never be a day in my life when I go into a Target. There may be a time in the not too distant future when there's no corporate entity that honors the post-agenda of restrooms and fitting rooms and protects the one inside. But I believe that that day will come sooner if no one pushes back right now. So in the foreseeable future I'm shopping other places than Target. So basically what he's saying is when Wal-Mart does the same thing, then he'll start going to Target again. That's what he just said. He didn't say, well I think Target might back down. No, he said, well I'm not saying I'm never going to go to Target. But I mean we got to do something. We got to at least like talk about not going to Target, right? And I mean we know they're all going to roll all over us anyway eventually, but I mean maybe we can just, it'll take a little longer. Additionally, oh man, he's taking a real bold step. Wait until you hear this next bold step. Additionally, I'm writing a letter to the managers of our nearby Target stores. If you'd like to write a letter as well, feel free to download and edit this one. Right here. Dear Target manager, I'm writing to let you know that I'm deeply offended by the intolerance shown in Target's recent statement. I'm not offended by intolerance. I love intolerance. Hello, is anybody out there? Well, that's just tolerance. You know, back in the 90s my pastor who actually had hair on his legs and preached the Bible, he preached a sermon called tolerance, the devil's doctrine. It was a great sermon by the way. You know, by inclusivity, by allowing people to use their restroom or fitting room of their choice regardless of their biological gender. Although Target has stated this upholds inclusivity, in reality it's incredibly insensitive toward families raising children and even toward women in general. Despite the shifts in culture, I do not want my daughters to put my daughters or those I love in a private place where any man, including a sexual predator, could walk in. So he's saying he doesn't want to put anyone he loves in a place, a restroom, where a predator could walk in. Okay, well why don't we, you know, I'm sorry, I can't hold back anymore. Let's read from his statement of faith on his website. This is from the statement of faith of his company, Lancaster Baptist Church, Pastor Paul Chapel, under human sexuality. Here's his statement of faith where he says that not only homos are allowed in the church, but those who practice bestiality are allowed in his church. And it is not allowed for any member of his staff to be disrespectful to anyone who practices bestiality or homosexuality. Nobody believes me, but it's right here in black and white. Go to the website when you get home, call me a liar, oh how dare you, attack Paul Chapel, oh, oh, he's a man of God. Hello people. You're going to get mad at Target. This is a guy who's claiming to run a church. Target is a store. This is a church. And they're saying, well not only are we bringing in the trannies, we're bringing in those who practice bestiality and homos. Are you still in Leviticus 20? Look down at your Bible, just in case you don't know what bestiality is. Verse 15, and if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto a beast and lie down thereto, thou shalt surely kill the woman and the beast. They shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. Now look, you say, well you shouldn't talk about this, it's the word of God. That's what the Bible says. Now listen, here's Paul Chappell's statement of faith, and yes it says what I just told you, it says listen carefully. And this is written in like a legal document style fashion. This is not just an off the cuff statement. This is written with a lot of thought behind it. Lawyers have thought about this and put this together, and they are expressing exactly what they want to express, and I'm going to read it for you in toto. Number one, sexuality. Number one, they have three points, and then they have four points of how this practically applies to the church. So here are the three philosophical points. Number one, we believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman, amen. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex, amen. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery or appearance, amen. Number two, we believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman, amen. Number three, in keeping with our beliefs regarding human sexuality as expressed in this statement of faith, and in keeping with our purpose as expressed in section 1.02, we have the following practical policies. Now here are the four practical policies in regard to what we just read above. Point one, all people are welcome to attend our regular worship services. So he's basically saying that pedophiles, bestiality practicers, homos, lesbians, they're all welcome in the service. So where are they going to use the bathroom? With your grandson, with your granddaughter, and you're worried about Target. So if you go to Lancaster Baptist Church, you better watch out for that public restroom because they're inviting in the homos. They're inviting in the pedophiles. They're inviting in those who practice even bestiality. Number two, those who attend may not display behavior that is indicative of the sinful behaviors listed in K1 of this section in church services at church functions and on church grounds. So he's saying the homos, the pedophiles, the bestiality, they're all allowed to come, but they just can't wear a shirt that says like, I'm a pedophile, you know, or they can't like talk about, hey, we're pedophiles, hey, you know. You're not supposed to outwardly show that. Talking about it, wearing it, whatever. Listen to number three. This is the one that just blew my mind. Number three, church representatives are not to display overt disrespect for those who are involved in the sinful behaviors listed in K1 of this section. So no representative of Lancaster Baptist Church may be disrespectful to a pedophile, may be disrespectful to someone who says, hey, I practice bestiality. Whoa, that's gross. You're a freak. Whoa, you just violated this policy. You're an abomination. No, you've got to be respectful. Well, you know what, we're glad you're here and the restroom's right over there. As soon as my grandson's done, you can go in there and use it. So hold on a second. Paul Chappell, he said, when Christians do nothing about Target, he said right here, he said that sexual predators will exploit policies like Target's. He said, I don't want some dude walking in when my granddaughter is in the restroom talking. Well, what about your grandkids at your church? Isn't it a policy of welcoming in all filthy sodomites? And look, I just talked to a guy and you think I'm just, you know, well, it's just some statement of faith. No, they thought about that. They put that together. Now listen to this. I just talked to a guy who goes to an independent fundamental Baptist church and a couple of homos started coming to the church every Sunday morning, Sunday school and church, a couple of homos. Okay. One of them was like the female of the relationship, but they were both a couple of open sodomites. Everybody knew they were homos. It was crystal clear they're homos. And this guy went to his pastor and said, these people need to be thrown out of the church. You can't, we can't have homos in our church. No, no, no. Everybody's welcome. It's right here in black and white in our statement of faith. So week after week, this guy's just so mad like, why is our pastor letting these homos come to our church? Open sodomites. Hey, then one of these homo dudes walks into the lady's restroom and the pastor said, that's it. They're out of here. What is the difference? Are you nuts? What is the difference if that pedophile, that freak is in the bathroom with your little boy or a little girl? It's stupid. It's ridiculous. It makes no sense. And this guy is who pastors are looking to today and look just to prove it to you, I just took this whole statement of faith, this section, and I put it in quotation marks. I put it into Google and I found eight other churches that have copied and pasted this exact word for word, let alone the ones who paraphrased it. So this guy, you say, well, why don't you just leave Paul chapel alone and just let him do his own thing. Yeah. And then he goes to a leadership conference where he invites hundreds and hundreds of pastors and says, oh, come follow me. Be like me. I don't want to be like you. And I'm sick of people lifting this guy up as a role model. Hey, when Christians do nothing about Paul chapel, I don't give a, I'd be much more likely to go to target than to go to Paul chapel's church. At least target didn't say, come on in beast of files. I don't even know if that's a word, but I'm sure we'll figure out real soon what the word is when it becomes accepted in America in a couple of years because of these lily livered weak panty waist pulpit preachers, these weaklings, these pink tea and lemonade, sissified girly man that can't get up and preach hard. And you say, I don't like this. I don't want to hear you preach against Paul chapel. He's our fellow brother in Christ. He's an independent fundamental Baptist. Well, you know what? If he's going to call out target, I'm going to call him out for the hypocrite that he is. He's doing the same thing. His bathroom is every bit as hazardous as the target bathroom, every bit as hazardous. It might even be more hazardous because at least at target people have heard, Hey, watch out. Hey, beware. But people haven't heard that warning about Lancaster or about West coast Baptist college. Well, I'm giving you the warning right now. See, I don't like it. Look, go somewhere else. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. I don't need a bunch of homo sympathizers in this church to make me feel like I'm a successful pastor. Oh, look at the big crowd. Ooh, look at the big offering. Good. Take your money and shove it. Take your little queer loving queer bait butt out of here. And you go down to the little week church down the street that loves Paul Chapel and Paul Chapel is like this fundamental Pope where, where all these pastors in Arizona, they're all looking to Paul Chapel as their idol. Paul Chapel needs a swift kick in the pants and he needs to quit inviting pedophiles and bestiality practices and homos into his church. And let me just say it again. See, I don't change with the times. Let me just say what I said a year and a half ago. No homos will ever be allowed in this church as long as I'm the pastor here. And you know what? Come back in five years. It'll be the same thing. I don't care if every bathroom starts having a picture, you know, of a, of someone with pants and a dress on and, and you know, somebody who's both male and female or whatever. Look, I don't care. I mean, I don't care if they put a three legged picture on the door of this is the bathroom for, you know, I don't know. I don't care what happens. The Bible doesn't change and I'm not going to change. You know, the Bible talked about Asa and Joseph and people like that. They broke down the houses of the sodomites that were next to the house of God and now we're supposed to bring them into the house of God. But oh man, I mean just a clear violation of scripture with this bathroom thing. Of course, nobody can show us where that scripture is. I can show you where Leviticus 2013 is. I got to finish reading cause I promised I would read all of it. And then point four, the pastor of the church will preach consistently against all forms of sinful behavior as listed in K one of this section as well as other sinful behaviors. I want to know if he is consistently preached against bestiality. He said that he would consistently preach against everything on the list. I would like somebody to send me the sermon where he, and in fact he would have to send me a regular cause he said all consistently preach against bestiality. Okay, well I would like somebody to send me the link to that sermon. Sermons where he, you know, cause I want to see a pattern. Paul Chapel. He's, I'm going to preach against the behavior, but don't you dare be disrespectful to these filthy perverts. Don't be disrespectful to them as you stone them with stones. What is this? Respect all views. Include everybody. And no, no, it's the devil's doctrine. So that's the whole thing for you. And look, let me just review for you. He listed the worst possible perversions and then he said none of the staff are allowed to be disrespectful to these people and they're all welcome to come to church. Look at it for yourself. I'll put it right here for you. Oh, that, but you know what? The people that are mad right now, they won't even come up here and look at it. The people that are mad, they don't even have the guts to come up here and look at it. They're just going to go run out of this building with their tail between their legs. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. Let me go back to the, the target, the letter that we're supposed to write to target. Cause I got, I said I would read everything, so let me just finish quickly. I'm aware that target has suggested that those who feel this way use the single stall restroom when available. I do not understand why when there's already a single stall for those who for whatever reason are not comfortable using the gender specific restroom, target doesn't simply encourage them to use the single stall restroom. You know, say that 10 times fast. Because of their concerns, because of these concerns, I will no longer be shopping at Target, you know, for, for a little while. I skipped the for, I added the for a little while because remember in his other thing, he's like, well, I'm not saying I'm not going to shop there. I'll no longer be shopping at Target and I'm asking you to consider the millions of customers who are offended and uncomfortable with Target's corporate stance on this issue respectfully. Why do you respect Target, Paul Chappell? We mean respectfully. Why do you respect, you just finished telling us how bad they are. But I respect them because I just respect everybody. I respect Charles Manson. I respect the Pope. I respect pedophile. I respect Jeffrey. I respect everybody because I'm Mr. Politically Correct. Just respect. Hey, I don't even know who you are, man, but I already respect you. Oh, you, you are a mass murderer. I respect you. You're a pedophile. I respect you too. And if anybody on my staff disrespects you, they're in violation of, of Section K. Well, point, 3.5. So let me finish reading his, his fiery blog post. Additionally, I'm writing a letter to the managers of our nearby Target stores. If you'd like to write a letter as well, feel free to download and edit this one. No thanks. Whatever you choose to do, could I encourage you? Don't do nothing. I mean, just do something, but just don't do nothing. Don't assume you can't make a difference. And don't care about convenience more than speaking out. As Edmund Burke famously observed, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So yes, be gracious, live a godly testimony, pray for revival, but consider boycotting and writing letters instead. Can somebody show me the boycotting in the Bible, the writing letters in the Bible? Let's just do something. We know we don't want to do what the Bible says, like preaching Leviticus 2013, preaching Romans 1, that they're reprobates, that they've been given over to vile affections, that they are haters of God, preaching about Sodom and Gomorrah and how God still feels the same way and how they should be executed and how they're evil, how they're rapists, how they're pedophiles. But, but, you know, we could write a letter. All right, little boys and girls, welcome to Lancaster Baptist Kindergarten. We're going to be handing out crayons and we're all going to write a letter to Target today because, you know, we know that none of us are in our big boy pants to actually get up and preach a hellfire and damnation sermon and actually lay it on the line. We don't have the guts to say what Pastor Anderson said because if we said what Pastor Anderson said, that no homos are allowed, we'd be on the evening news. If we said what Pastor Anderson said, we would actually get persecution. We actually wouldn't have the police chief and the mayor come visit us every year by boys and girls and we know that we want to bow down and worship at the feet of the police chief and the mayor and the city council and bring them into our church so we can do the big shots in town, the big church where all the important people go. So let's pass out the crayons and we're going to pass out a piece of paper and you're all going to write a letter to Target. Why don't we all write a letter to Paul Chappell? Maybe I should put, maybe I should put together a letter for Paul Chappell. Here you can download and edit mine about his bathroom policy. I want a whole, I want to, I want to sign on his bathroom door that says no homos allowed in this bathroom. He thinks, I mean he's so scared of having a homo in the bathroom. Look, I don't, I don't want a homo in the bathroom either. There are, you know, these bathrooms are all certified homo free, but see, but down at Target, his granddaughter is unsafe. Well, you know, what about your grandson? He don't matter and that's why so many kids are getting molested in these Baptist churches. They're getting molested in these Christian churches because they don't preach them out the door like I do and you say, yeah, but you're going to preach some nice people out the door. Well, good. At least my kids aren't going to get molested because the freaks and weirdos can't handle this kind of preaching. Get out of here. You don't belong here. And you know who you are. If I'm talking to you, let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for your word, Lord, and thank you so much for the warnings in your word, Lord. Help, help our lives never to be characterized by the slogan too little too late or a day late and a dollar short, Lord. Preachers like Paul Chappell who are, who are leaders that hunt, he represents hundreds of Baptist pastors that are following him. I'm not just preaching against one man, Lord. I'm preaching against hundreds of men who are following this man. Lord, they are a day late and a dollar short and I pray that you would help your people to wake up and put a stop to these things before it's too late. Fight sin before it's too late and Lord, if there's anybody who's here that's not saved, I pray that they would get saved before it's too late and in Jesus' name, we pray these things. Amen.