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🎵Music🎵 🎵Music🎵 Amen, good evening and welcome to First Works Baptist Church. We're going to get started with song number 43. We're marching to Zion. Song number 43 in your hymnals. Song number 43. And if you are able to, let's all stand together for our first song this evening. Song number 43. Sing it on that first verse. 🎵Come we that love the Lord and let our joys be known. Join in a song with sweet accord. Join in a song with sweet accord. And thus surround the throne. And thus surround the throne. We're marching to Zion. Beautiful, beautiful Zion. We're marching upward to Zion. The beautiful city of God. Let those refused to sing who never knew our God. But children of the heavenly King. But children of the heavenly King. May speak their joys abroad. May speak their joys abroad. We're marching to Zion. Beautiful, beautiful Zion. We're marching upward to Zion. The beautiful city of God. The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets. Before we reach the heavenly fields. Before we reach the heavenly fields. The golden streets. Or walk the golden streets. We're marching to Zion. Beautiful, beautiful Zion. We're marching upward to Zion. The beautiful city of God. Then let our songs abound. And every tear be dry. We're marching through Immanuel's throne. We're marching through Immanuel's throne. To fairer worlds on high. To fairer worlds on high. We're marching to Zion. Beautiful, beautiful Zion. We're marching upward to Zion. The beautiful city of God. Amen. Wonderful singing. Let's have our service with a word of prayer. Dear God and Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord God, for just bringing us back to your house safely, Lord God. We do pray that you please just bless every aspect of the service, Lord God. We bless that you please bless the singing unto you, Lord God. And I pray that you please also just bless the preaching of your word most importantly. I pray that you please just be with our pastor, Lord God. Lead him to the scriptures and guide him, Lord God. Bring to remembrance of the things that he has studied, Lord God. And I pray that you please be with us, Lord God, in the congregation as well. Help us, Lord God, to just be able to learn something from your word as well. And help us to leave here changed, Lord God, because we apply your word to our lives, Lord God. We pray none of these things in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Song number 136, Master of the Tempest is Raging. Song number 136, Master of the Tempest is Raging. See it on that first verse. Master, the tempest is raging. The bellows are tossing high. The sky is o'ershadowed with blackness. Our help is nigh. Carous thou not that we perish? How canst thou lie asleep When each moment so madly is threatening A grave in the angry deep? The winds and the waves shall obey my will. Peace be still. Whether the wrath of the storm toss sea Or demons or men or whatever it be No water can swallow the ship where lies The master of ocean and earth and skies They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace be still. They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace be still. Master, with anguish of spirit I bow in my grief today. The depths of my sad heart are troubled. Awaken and save, I pray. The torrents of sin and of anguish Sweep o'er my sinking soul. And I perish, I perish, dear master O hasten and take control. The winds and the waves shall obey my will. Peace be still. Whether the wrath of the storm toss sea Or demons or men or whatever it be No water can swallow the ship where lies The master of ocean and earth and skies They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace be still. They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace, peace be still. Master, the terror is over. The elements sweetly rest. The sun in the calm lake is mirrored And heaven's within my breast. Linger, O blessed Redeemer Leave me alone no more. And with joy I shall make the blessed harbor And rest on that peaceful shore. The winds and the waves shall obey my will. Peace be still. Whether the wrath of the storm toss sea Or demons or men or whatever it be No water can swallow the ship where lies The master of ocean and earth and skies They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace be still. They all shall sweetly obey my will. Peace, peace be still. Oh say but I'm glad if you want to get that ready in your song books 206 Our Sunday morning service is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5pm And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock You see the soul winning times and teams The list of expecting mothers, please continue to pray for them And the important reminders there at the bottom left hand corner And of course the upcoming church events Today was our New Year's Eve, excuse me our New Year's service And along with the birthdays And so we had donuts in the morning And we're going to have pho in the evening And so looking forward to that, I'm going to give you some instructions on that in just a bit Barstow soul winning resumes tomorrow And we'll meet here at the building at 1130 And we'll head out after that, after we eat lunch We'll head out to Barstow for a couple hours And then we'll have dinner out there as well If you're interested in participating in that you can see brother Ulysses Hernandez for more details And just let us know, we'll be heading out there every other week And so of course if you miss tomorrow it's okay You can make it for the next trip But if you have any questions you can see him Men's prayer night is this Friday January 6th And I hope to see you men here that evening You can bring your sons to come pray with you of course And we'll have some refreshments that evening as well Ladies prayer breakfast is coming up on Saturday February 4th And please announce we're going to be having pho and Jenga after the PM service Parents, please keep your kiddos away from the boiling water Okay, so basically there's boiling water outside But they're going to set up the, I don't know what you call them The cups, I guess the massive cups of pho Right here in the foyer there's going to be a table there But parents if you can make sure you grab it for your children Don't let your kids just go and grab it because the pho is very hot But you'll basically go out this door, you'll make a line Let's do things decently and in order men You just go out there, there'll be a line You grab your cup of pho And then head into the fellowship hall where all the toppings are at Okay, and so pretty simple But just make sure you watch out for your kids That they're not just grabbing the bowls of pho themselves Also to minimize the mess Please do not let your kids walk around with their soup So please make sure you give heed to that We're looking forward to that tonight And then please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching So as to not be a distraction during the service Let's go ahead and take some soul winning numbers from this past week Salvations from Monday up until Thursday Any salvations from Monday to Thursday? Friday and Saturday? Yes One for Riverside, anybody else? And how about this afternoon? Salvations for this afternoon? One for brother Cody's team? Anybody else? Brother Morrie? Two for brother Morrie's team? Is that it? Anybody else? Brother John? Two for brother Hikes' team, right? Okay, great. Anybody else? Did I miss anybody? Once, twice, thrice? Okay Keep up the great work on soul winning Let's go ahead and sing our next song 206, Oh Say But I'm Glad Song number 206 Song number 206, Oh Say But I'm Glad Song number 206 Sing it on that first verse There is a song in my heart today Something I've never had Jesus has taken my sins away Oh, say but I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad, I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad Jesus has come and my cup's overrun Oh, say but I'm glad Wonderful, marvelous love he brings To a heart that's sad Through darkest tunnels the soul just sings Oh, say but I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad, I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad Jesus has come and my cup's overrun Oh, say but I'm glad Worship rich and sweet, tongues he never relayed Abiding in him the souls retreat Oh, say but I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad, I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad Jesus has come and my cup's overrun Oh, say but I'm glad Won't you come to him with all your care Weary and warm and sad You two will sing as his love you share Oh, say but I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad, I'm glad Oh, say but I'm glad Jesus has come and my cup's overrun Oh, say but I'm glad Amen. Wonderful singing. At this time our ushers will be receiving the offering. Please turn your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 20. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Good evening. Tonight we're in Leviticus chapter 20. Leviticus chapter 20 in the Bible reads The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall surely be put to death, the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, and have defiled my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth his seed unto Molech, and kill him not, then will I set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and I'll let go of whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech from among their people. And the soul that turneth after such, as hath familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy, for I am the Lord your God, and ye shall keep my statutes, and do them, I am the Lord which sanctify you. For every one that curseth his father and his mother, shall be surely put to death, and he hath curst his father or his mother, his blood shall be upon him. And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death. And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness, both of them shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death, they have wrought confusion, their blood shall be upon them. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, and their blood shall be upon them. And if a man take a wife, and her mother, and it is wickedness, they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness among you. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death, and he shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast, they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people, he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity. And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness, he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood, and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister, for he hath uncovered his near kin, and they shall bear their iniquity. And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness, they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless. And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness, they shall be childless. Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them, that the land whether I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. Ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you, for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, which hath separated you from other people. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean, and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. Ye shall be holy unto me, for I am the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. A man also, or woman, that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones, their blood shall be upon them. Let's pray. Dear Lord God, we thank you for the Church you've given us, Lord, and for the Bible you've given us, Lord, and we just pray that you bless pastor right now and fill him with the Holy Spirit, Lord, as he preaches the word unto us today, Lord, and that we're edified by the preaching, Lord, and that we're attentive, and we walk away learning more truths from your word, Lord. And so just bless this time. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright, we're in Leviticus chapter 20 this evening, and the title of my sermon is Common Asked, or Commonly Asked Questions About Homosexuals in the Bible. Commonly Asked Questions About Homosexuals in the Bible. And, you know, in the day and age in which we live, and of course our church has a lot of new people, there's a lot of confusion about what the Bible says about sodomy, about sodomites, and sometimes, you know, I get new people that ask me a lot of different questions about that. I get people on social media that are constantly asking me questions about it. And for us as a Bible, we live in church where we talk about this subject, and we know what the Bible says. You know, it's kind of obvious to us. We know what the Bible says. We know what verses to turn to, but that's not the case for everyone. And so we have to revise this and kind of review it on a yearly basis, sometimes even on a monthly basis, just to make sure it stays fresh in our minds unless we forget what the Bible says regarding the specific subject. And the reality is this, is that so many young people that we are able to reach, and so many young people that are involved with the culture, and the culture has, you know, desensitized a lot of the young people, and, you know, basically has caused them to be accepting of sodomy and tolerant of it. But not only just the culture, it's just like the public school systems, you know, Hollywood, and unfortunately just bad preaching, you know. You know, aside from the fact that you have the secular world constantly pushing you, you have the secular world constantly pushing for the sodomite agenda, and they're constantly pushing that down people's throats and trying to recruit young people in this world, you have pastors who are so scared and afraid to talk about the subject because they're afraid their church might get bombed or something. They're afraid that they might get persecuted, that something bad might happen to them, and therefore they water down the preaching. They water down what the Bible says about it for fear of persecution. But the truth is this, is that, you know, who cares what the world thinks? Who cares what kind of threats people give you? You know, we need to believe the Bible and proclaim the Word of God as often as we should in order to tell this world what the Bible says about it. And you'd be surprised how many people who are not saved actually agree with what the Bible says about this. You'd be surprised how many people out there are just normal and how sick and tired they are of, you know, people trying to push the sodomite agenda down their throats and convert them and be tolerant of it. They're sick and tired of it. And so, you know, this is not something that requires a high-level spirituality to believe. It doesn't require you to be necessarily spirit-filled. It just requires for you to use the brain that God gave you. Now obviously a lot of this stuff is spiritual. It is spiritually understood, but much of what the Bible says about this subject is just common sense. And so this evening I'm going to go over just a couple questions that people frequently ask me about homosexuals or what the Bible refers to as sodomites. That's actually the biblical term for those who commit the abominable detestable act of buggery, as the colonial laws would often put it. Now you're in Leviticus chapter 20. First and foremost, what does the Bible just say about sodomy, period? Because sometimes people think, well, you know, the Bible doesn't really highlight that. It doesn't really talk about it, but that's a flat-out lie. The Bible has a lot to say about it. And right off the bat, let me just say this is that sodomy, also known as homosexuality, is not just a sin. Because people want to say it's a sin like every other sin, right? The Bible actually highlights it as an abomination in the eyes of God. And there is a difference between an abomination and that which is sinful. So what's the difference? Well, something that is sinful is obviously something that goes against God's laws, but something that's abominable is something that God actually makes God sick. It's something that God abhors. It's something that God hates. It's like a different level of hatred for sin. So God not only labels sodomy as a sin, but he labels it as an abomination, but wait, there's more. He also labels it as a capital crime punishable by death. You say, what are you talking about? Well, according to the Bible, it's not only a sin, it's not only something that's an abomination from a spiritual perspective, but even by just regular law standards by this man, God essentially views it as a crime. And so if a person in the Bible days when this Levitical law was instituted under Moses, if a person was guilty of the act of sodomy, they would actually be killed for that. They would be put to death. They would be stoned with stones. They were not permitted to live. In fact, they would essentially relinquish their right to live. Which shows you this is what God's view is on sodomy, is the fact that they're not permitted to live according to the Bible. Now obviously, we live in the United States of America. This is 2023. That law is not instituted. People are not for that. But hold on a second. Just because the laws of our land say that sodomy shouldn't be put to death doesn't mean that they shouldn't. Because they should. For example, committing the sinful, wicked act of abortion in some parts is still legal. And you know what? They can legalize that as much as they want. It's still murder. And we're to proclaim that it's still murder. So in like manner, it doesn't matter how much the world tries to paint it in a like picture and get people to accept it and tolerate it. We still have to proclaim the fact that it's a crime punishable by death and they deserve the death penalty. That's what the Bible says. And in fact, look at Leviticus 20 verse 13. 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. This is what God told Moses. If you ever find homos in your camp who are guilty of the act of being a homo then they're supposed to not be permitted to live. They're to be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon them. That's what the Bible teaches. The Bible also says in Genesis 13 go to Leviticus 18 if you would. Genesis 13 13 says the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. And of course he's referring to Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities, those two cities and the cities about them in like manner that God destroyed and essentially rained down fire and brimstone, just rained down hell upon them and essentially just killed off every single sodomite that was in those cities. Look at Leviticus 18 it says here in Leviticus 18 22 thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind it is abomination. Now look at the very next verse. Neither shall thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. Neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto. It is confusion. This is referring to the abomination known as bestiality. And there's no coincidence that this verse comes immediately after talking about sodomites. And in fact when it comes to actual laws bestiality is categorized as sodomy. Pedophilia is categorized as sodomy. So lying with an animal according to even just regular laws of the land is characterized as being sodomy. He says in verse 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you and the land is defiled therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants. So God is using very strong language here to say that sodomy is so disgusting, it's so filthy, it's so perverse that if the land had human qualities it would be throwing up if sodomy was permitted to just go rampant and land. I mean think about that. I preached a sermon about a year ago called Things That Make You Vomit. And truly sodomy is one of those things. At the Red Hot Preaching Conference I was actually reading an article that was actually put out by sodomites believe it or not. And the article basically said that men just normal men find sodomy as disgusting as rotting flesh. And they didn't say hey do you find sodomy as disgusting as rotting flesh. What they did is they looked at their reaction, they put sensors in the brain and all that on the head to kind of see how the brain reacts to certain things and it would show them a picture of sodomy and there's certain salivary glands that come out that are associated with throwing up and basically they reacted the same exact way when they showed them a picture of rotting flesh. So basically sodomy to the normal individual is just as filthy and perverse and disgusting but would make you want to vomit just as if you were to look at rotting flesh. And that shouldn't come as a surprise to us because that's exactly how God made us. And I know I put that thing at 70 degrees but I think we're going to have to lower it just a tad because now it's getting warm in here. And so we see here that just at the base level without even talking about anything spiritual, not even talking about whether they could be saved or not, we're talking about their souls without even talking about any of those things at base level the Bible says that they deserve the death penalty. Now look a lot of what I'm going to talk about tonight, a lot of Christians just don't agree with. And in my opinion they do agree with probably 95% of what we say here but they would rather not verbally agree with it or in public for fear of what would happen to them if they actually did. But I don't think any one of them could deny that the Bible institutes the death penalty for sodomites. You can't because it's so clear in the word of God. Now go to Romans chapter 1 if you would, Romans chapter 1 and then we're going to go to Matthew chapter 15. So go to Romans 1 then Matthew chapter 15. So in the Old Testament under the Mosaic law God basically was the one who was governing his people and he told Moses and the elders, hey if someone commits the crime of murder, the capital crime of kidnapping, the capital crime of adultery, the capital crime of reality, the capital crime of sodomy, you need to make sure that you institute the death penalty for that. Do not permit these people to live. And when he allowed them to go into a specific land known as the promised land, he said this land is guilty of all those things that I'm telling you to make sure to take care of. Which is one of the reasons why God allowed them to be taken over and to be executed because they had perverted themselves so much as a nation that they essentially destroyed themselves. And so God says make sure that doesn't go rampant make sure they're not permitted to live. Now Christians will listen to that and say, yeah but in the New Testament the death penalty has been repealed though. They'll say it's been repealed, it's not a thing anymore, God's not for that Jesus is different, but what people fail to understand is that Jesus was the one who rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. He hasn't changed his view about sodomy. You say well show me in the Bible where he put someone to death. Well obviously when he was here on this earth 2,000 years ago during his three and a half year ministry he's not out putting people to death. He came meek and lowly he came to save men's lives, not to destroy them and he wasn't necessarily flexing on people. He's going to be doing that in Revelation chapter 6. But he came lowly, but here's the thing, it doesn't mean that he wasn't for the death penalty, he was. The reason no one was put to death during Jesus' ministry is because Israel was not the government during that time. They were not deputized to institute any type of death penalty during that time. They lived under the Roman government and the Roman government did not put homosexuals to death. But it didn't mean that it wasn't still true. And to say that Jesus Christ was not for the death penalty in any way is just complete ignorance of the Bible. First of all look at Romans chapter 1 verse 32. This is the quintessential chapter on homosexuals in the New Testament. It says in verse 32 who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death. Not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. So there's your New Testament verse to show that homosexuals deserve the death penalty. So it's not just an Old Testament thing. But not only that, if that doesn't suffice go to Matthew chapter 15. If you would, Matthew chapter 15. Matthew chapter 18, I'm going to read to you from Matthew 18 verse 6. Jesus speaking here says, But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Well that's symbolic of what though? That's allegorical of what though? I mean I can extrapolate some pretty awesome things from like the book of Revelation from the Old Testament. I can't extrapolate anything from this because it's literal. It's not like well the millstone represents, okay you know what I'll give you that. Let's go ahead and just make a symbolic representation of this. You know the millstone is like Jesus. Since he's the rock of our salvation, right? He's the stone which the builders rejected. Well he's going to be, you know the Bible often talks about the law of the Lord being placed around the neck. Right? So yeah, Jesus goes around their neck or whatever and then he drowns them in the depths of the sea. That's all I got for you. Like well that's a stretch. You're stretching the truth there. I don't think Jesus is for the death penalty. When I look at a picture of Jesus that's not what it seems to indicate. Well look at Matthew 15 verse number 1. Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem saying Why did thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they washed not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother and listen to this, and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. That's what's known as the death penalty. That's something taken directly from the book of Leviticus where if a man cursed father or mother he deserved the death penalty during that time. Oh that's child abuse or whatever. They shouldn't have done that in the Old Testament. Look folks, the law of the Lord is perfect. And it says here verse number 5 But ye say. So hold on a second. The Pharisees are not for the death penalty. Jesus is. He's saying this is what I say and he stands with the law because he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it right? He said this is what I say but what you're saying he says but ye say verse number 5 whosoever shall say to his father or his mother it is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me and honor not his father or mother he shall be free. So it's funny how the Pharisees like to find all these loopholes so they wouldn't have to execute biblical laws right? Whereas Jesus is saying well you deserve the death penalty because you're not honoring your father or mother you're cursing your father or mother you should die the death but ye say this. And so we see here this is Matthew chapter 15. This is Jesus speaking here. This is him advocating for the death penalty still quoting Old Testament scriptures. Don't listen to people who say oh Jesus is not for the death penalty. He's different than the God of the Old Testament. He is the God of the Old Testament my friends. Not only that you know what does the Bible say about sodomy aside from the fact that sodomites deserve the death penalty. They deserve to be stoned with stones. What does the Bible say about sodomites? Well when you study just the Bible in general and just look up the word Sodom. Sodom is brought up so many dozens of times throughout the Old Testament to essentially be an example unto other people who afterwards should live ungodly. Because he's constantly bringing them up and he's just like I'm going to overthrow you like I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. I'm going to destroy you like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. I'm going to make you like unto Sodom and like unto Gomorrah. He's constantly using them as an example of what he's going to do to a nation when he judges them for breaking his commandments. And so that's God's view overall regarding sodomites. Go back to Romans chapter 1 if you would. Romans chapter 1. So number 1 just face the facts folks that sodomites deserve the death penalty. That's what the Bible says. There's no way around that. Leviticus 2013 clearly states it. We see it in Romans chapter 1. We see Jesus saying it. And you say well he didn't say that sodomites deserve the death penalty though. But hold on a second. The mere fact that he's for the death penalty is proof that he's for the Old Testament laws that include the death penalty for homosexuals. Does that make sense to everyone? Because you know people bring that argument and say yeah but it says you know he that cursed father or mother let him die the death. It doesn't say he that is a sodomite let him die the death. The fact that he's saying let him die the death is the fact that it's showing us that he's advocating for the death penalty. Which means that he's 100% for Old Testament laws on capital crimes. Which include sodomy. Number 2 here's another question that I frequently get asked and that is can homosexuals be saved? And these aren't people who are trolling. These aren't people who are just like oh you know they seriously want to know. And I'm going to tell you why they constantly ask this because pastors out there don't answer this clearly. They kind of beat around the bush and they don't want to offend anybody but we just need to tell people what the Bible says. Can homosexuals be saved or are all homosexuals reprobate? Now what is a reprobate? A reprobate by biblical definition would be a depraved individual who is beyond the hope of salvation. That's basically what a reprobate is. It's a depraved individual and the reason we say depraved individual is because of the fact that Romans 1 as we're going to look at tells us that the homosexual has a very wicked and filled with iniquity type of a mind. It's a mind that is void of God's moral compass. He basically removes that from them and therefore they're capable of committing these detestable acts. But it's also an indicator that they are beyond the hope of salvation. I'm going to prove that to you. Romans chapter 1 verse 21 says because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. You say what is that referring to? Is it really that hard to understand what this is saying? Don't we live in a day and age where people think they're like dolphins and stuff? They think they identify as a freaking rock or something. They think that it's just like you're a man and they're just like no I'm a little girl stuck in a man's body or something like that. It's like what are you talking about? What is that? That is being vain in their imaginations. Their foolish heart is darkened. Verse 22 professing themselves to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. So let me explain what's going on here. This is referring to an individual and we'll see later on who becomes a sodomite. The Bible says here that they knew God. So it's not like they're ignorant of God. They know who Jesus Christ is. They know who God is and the Bible tells us that they glorified him not as God. They became vain in their imaginations and they began to change the image of God, the image that God the Bible portrays of him and they begin to essentially make a God in their own image. Okay. Verse 24 wherefore, in other words because of these things God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie. You say what does that mean to change the truth of God into a lie? Oh you know God is fine with pedophilia. God loves pedophiles or whatever. That's a lie! Oh God is not mad at me committing these acts with another man if I'm a man. That's a lie! They worshiped and served a creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. So that kind of destroys the whole love is love thing which is a complete stupid statement anyways. What does that mean? Love is love. Okay hate is hate. The Bible calls it vile affections. They can call it an affection as much as they want but the Bible refers to it as being vile, it's disgusting, it's filthy. Vile affections he says for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature referring to dykes, lesbians, what we would know to be dykes and lesbians. And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lusts one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which is me. So you receive that once they go down this path God removes their moral compass which helps them to realize this is disgusting he removes their ability to discern that and then they begin to burn in their lusts for that vile affection. They begin to desire those things. They begin to have zeal for that type of action. Verse 28 and even this is a key verse here and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. Now anytime someone tells me what if a homosexual wants to get saved though? I always point to this verse and show them well here it says that they don't even want to retain him in their knowledge. Because you have to believe on Jesus Christ to be saved. You have to believe in your heart. You have to confess with your mouth. You have to ask him to save you. So how does that work if a person doesn't even want to think about God? Think about that. Wouldn't you say that having a knowledge of God is at least the first step? It's like I want God to save me it just doesn't make no sense. It's like I don't want God but just give me the gift and that's it. But I hate God but I want that gift. They don't even want to retain him in their knowledge. What does that mean? They don't even want to think about God. Because you know sometimes people look at us and say that's mean. How can God do that to them? But what people fail to realize is that they made the first move my friends. You see God will make himself found of anybody who is sincerely looking for him. And anybody who really wants to be saved, he'll save them. He'll send a soul winner to them to preach the gospel unto them so that they can believe on Jesus Christ and have eternal life. Fact. We can prove that two ways from Sunday from the word of God that the Bible teaches us that as long as someone responds to the light that God gives them, God wants to save them because he's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But hold on a second. He's not going to force himself on anybody. He's not like well you know you hate me. That's fine I'm still going to save you anyways. Oh you don't even want to think about me? That's fine I'll still save you. It doesn't work that way. He said so what does he do? When a person doesn't want to retain God in their knowledge, God says okay I'll just give you a mind. I'll assist you in your unbelief and give you a mind that permanently leaves you in that state of unbelief. Where you could just never believe on me. Well that's mean. Why would he do something like that? They already did it. He's just like let me just help you. Let me just help you and give you a reprobate mind. You don't want to get saved anyways. You hate Jesus Christ anyways. You hate God anyways. So I'll just give you a mind so you can just be given over to these vile affections and you become a reprobate. Let me get some guys up here real quick. Come on up here Brother Alex. Let me explain how this works. Here come the charts. Here's an unsaved person Although Brother Alex is saved. Just let everyone know. He's saved. Let me get. Why don't you come up here Jacob. Hold that up there. And then Brother John. Step down Brother Jacob. You're too tall. Go in the middle right there. So this is the desire of God. This is our desire is that someone who's unsaved meaning they're on their way to hell. Someone comes and they give them the gospel. Well this person goes from unsaved. He believes and then he has eternal life. This is pretty basic stuff right here. Now obviously there's people who that when they're unsaved we give them the gospel they don't believe they actually reject the gospel. You ran into people like that this afternoon. They just don't want to believe. And it's not necessarily that they hate God. It's not necessarily that they despise Christians. It could be sometimes. Sometimes it's just like they don't want it. They just don't want that gift. Now this person will go to hell though. So as sincere or as kind as they were. Not John. John's saved. As sincere as kind as they are if they die without Christ they will go to hell. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him. That's what the Bible says. So they're unsaved. Someone gives them the gospel. They choose not to get saved. They reject Jesus Christ and if they die in that state that's where they go to hell. However there are certain individuals that they're unsaved. Someone gives them the gospel or they hear about God in some form or manner. They don't believe they reject Jesus Christ but then they start hating Jesus Christ. That's a big difference there. And they don't want him. Here's the thing. Obviously the paper's not big enough but they become adversarial towards God where they despise the Lord. And often this is not always the case but this happens sometimes is that unsaved person who gets to this point was like molested by some homosexual. They're molested. They were raped. They had some just terrible thing happen to them as a child as a teenager whatever it may be. They were violated by a person and instead of believing the gospel and finding solace in Jesus Christ they blame Jesus Christ for that rape for that molestation for that thing that happened to them. And so what happens is this bitter individual who was molested, they were raped, they were wronged they were violated in some form or manner instead of believing the gospel they said I don't want the gospel and then they're like I hate God I hate Jesus Christ. And here's the thing. A lot of people have trouble believing that. A lot of Christians don't believe that. They don't realize that there's people out there who actually hate God. They despise Him. They hate Him. And what they do is they continue down this path of hating God, being bitter towards God, blaming God and then they become adversarial towards Jesus Christ. And you know what? God is long suffering. God is very patient. He's very long suffering. But then this person gets to a point where God basically says okay well you know if you don't really want me then I'm going to help you not to want me then. And this person becomes what's known as a reprobate. They lose their ability, they lose the opportunity to be saved this side of eternity forevermore. Okay? That's what happens. Now the unsaved person who just doesn't get saved to get the gospel, they reject it, they still go to hell. They're not a reprobate though. But there are certain people who when they reject the gospel and they become adversarial towards Jesus, they become a reprobate this side of eternity. So it's people who reject the gospel, they don't get saved, and then they go to hell, right? But some people actually reach that state sooner. Because you know we would all agree that someone who's in hell, they've completely lost their opportunity to be saved. You can no longer be saved once you're in hell. Once you're in hell, you're done. You know the pope just died yesterday or something. Okay? But let me say this, the pope is a reprobate. The pope is a reprobate and every priest and every pope and deacon at the catholic church is a freaking reprobate who molests children and they violate individuals and they churn out reprobates on a weekly basis my friend. That's what they do. That guy split hell wide open. Unsaved people, they go to hell every single day. It's sad and that's why we go out and preach the gospel and try to get people saved, right? That's why we try to go out with meekness and fear because we want people to be saved. But this person actually kind of reaches that state of being hell bound even prior to that. Because the person who's in hell can be considered reprobate because they're beyond the hope of salvation. However, the homosexual according to the Bible reaches that state even in this life. Where they completely lose their chance to ever be saved. And the Bible refers to it as this, being twice dead plucked up by the roots. You say, man, why would God do that though? Just make them a reprobate and they're still allowed to live? Why are they allowed to live? Well, you've got to understand, our life is but a drop in the bucket. Everyone's life is but a vapor. It's not like, you know, it's going to make a huge difference. But the reason why he allows them to live is to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath. Because when they've reached this state, they've officially become an adversary of the Lord. An enemy of God. What the Bible also refers to as a hater of God. Okay? Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, gospel. Thank you, unsaved. So this person doesn't want to retain God and their knowledge. They become adversarial towards the Lord. And I do believe that there's a fork in the road for that person. There comes a point where the truth gets to them and they have a choice. Let me give you an example of the Apostle Paul. I mean, he had the potential to be one of the biggest reprobates in all history because Jesus Christ himself came to him. And if he would have rejected that, oh man, he would have been right next to Judas in hell. But then he became one of the greatest Christians. But he was a person who was adversarial towards Christianity. He arrested Christians. He brought them in and all those things. But yet when that truth actually came to him, he believed it and he got saved. So in like manner though, there's individuals where they come to a fork in the road where they're adversarial towards the things of God and they have a chance to be saved. It's like that last chance. And if they say, no, I hate God. He's the reason why this happened to me. He's the reason why this and that. Then at that point God says, okay, then let me go ahead and revoke your ability to believe, revoke your privilege to ever be saved this side of eternity and now you are a permanent enemy of God without hope of salvation. And let me just say this, you know, the world is not filled, the majority of the population of this world is not reprobate. It's a very small segment of the population. And go with me to John chapter 12. So I hope that chart kind of helps a little bit just to kind of show you what the, I was going to say progression, but it's actually the regression because they're no longer responding to the light, they're rejecting the light that God gives them. You're like, I don't know, I don't really believe that. I think it's never too late for anybody. I think as long as you're alive, as long as you're breathing, and people say this, they often quote the only verse they know, which is John 3.16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. And to that I say, amen. Amen to that. The gift is available, people can be saved, but what if someone loses their ability to believe? If a person loses their ability to believe, they can no longer be saved even if the gift is still available. Right? If they completely revoke their ability to believe, it doesn't matter, the gift Jesus Christ himself can come to that individual, they will never be saved. You're like, I don't believe it. If Jesus Christ was right there in front, people would get saved. Folks, read the book of Revelation. Well first of all, read the gospels, because Jesus was right there and people still rejected Him. And then He's going to come in the end times doing some pretty gnarly stuff like raining down fire and brimstone, He's going to breach heaven, I mean He's going to do some amazing things and people are still going to reject Him. So that doesn't change anything. If anybody tells you, I got a vision of like a 40 foot Jesus, just translate that as this, this is the interpretation of the matter. They're not saved. Now let me prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that people can lose their ability to believe. Look at verse 38 of John 12. Now who's He? He's referring to God. That they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them. According to the Bible, God is the one who does it. He says He blinds them, He hardens them so they can't see, they can't understand, they can't be converted. And another, the parallel passage to this says that they could be saved. So they can't be saved, excuse me. And so we see here that people can lose their ability to be saved. So what is the end of the matter when it comes to this? Sodomites can't be saved. Go with me if you would to 1 Timothy chapter 3. Or I'm sorry, 2 Timothy chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3. You're like, I don't know, I still think they can. Well here's the thing, did you know that homosexuals existed even during the time of Christ? I mean this is during the Roman Empire. A lot of homos during that time. Right? I mean that place was filled with sodomites. There was homosexuals during the time of Christ. You know what's funny? None of the disciples were sodomites. Or former sodomites. You know we see adulterers getting saved, tax collectors, I mean good night. We see Jews getting saved. Harlots, Pharisees, pagans are getting saved. You know but there's never one example of a homo getting saved in the Bible. I mean think about that for a minute. God went out of His way to really show the various types of people who could be saved in the Bible and He just never mentions sodomites. And in fact, let me prove this point even further. There was two cities that were known for just being like the San Franciscos of their day. Called Sodom and Gomorrah. It's known as the San Francisco and the New York. Right? Of their day. A lot of homos there. Even to the point where they're trying to rape people. I mean it was bad in Sodom and Gomorrah. To the point where God Himself went to go see if it was true what they were doing. But you know one thing He didn't do? He didn't send soul winners. He didn't send evangelists or missionaries there like oh man they're all there like let's get them saved. Right? He's like let's go give them, there's nowhere in Genesis 19 where it says let's go give them the gospel. Let's go get them saved. God loves everyone. I'm going to go get these people saved. He said what did He do? He's just like let's just fire them. Let's just remove them. So there's no evangelistic, there's no sowing marathon. I mean we had a sowing marathon in San Francisco which shows us that Sodom and Gomorrah was obviously worse. Because when we went to San Francisco we actually saw people saved. None of them were Sodomites obviously. These were people who were just normal. Believe it or not there was normal people in San Francisco. And San Francisco, that was a trip. People breaking into the vans in broad daylight stealing stuff and all that. But you know Sodom and Gomorrah didn't even get that. I mean the only thing that God allowed was for Abraham to see if he can find any righteous person in Sodom and Gomorrah. And there's only one which is Lot. And then once he removed Lot he literally took the coals of hell and just threw it on Sodom and Gomorrah and just destroyed them all. To be an example to future generations of what he thinks of Sodomites. No evangelistic service. No missions trip there. There's no missions trip to Sodom. I mean this is just how the Bible characterizes that. And let me just say this. In the Bible anytime a political figure wanted to really flex and show how righteous a person they were, they're always taking sodomites out of the land. So when they would become king they're like break the houses of the sodomites. They would go and just tear down their houses and just like evict every sodomite out of the land. Like all you fags get out of here. This is what happened commonly in the Bible. Anytime a righteous king came into power and the Bible says it they would go and just remove the sodomites out of the land. That was like a flex for them. People were like, you got my vote. 2 Timothy 3 verse 7. What is faith? It's the ability to believe. The Bible says that they are rejected concerning the faith. They can't believe anymore. What if they wanted to though but the reason they're in the state that they're in is because they can't. They don't want to. It's not like oh I changed my mind God. No they've been in that state for so long of unbelief and rejection of Jesus Christ and hatred towards him that God just God is simply the straw that breaks the camel's back. That's all it is. Go to 1 Corinthians 6. Zero examples in the Bible of sodomites getting saved. Now when I say that people always bring this up. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse number 9. Now we're a King James only church. We believe that the King James Bible is the inspired and preserved word of God for the English speaking people. This is not a sermon on King James onlyism but the King James is superior to all English Bibles because of the fact that it's God's word but it's superior in its translation. It's superior in its accuracy. It's superior in the fact that it's completely whole and complete whereas a lot of these modern versions they remove verses from the Bible. They change words. So it's funny when independent fundamental Baptists want to claim to be King James only but when they're defending the subject of sodomites they quote modern versions of the Bible. So what are you talking about? Look at verse 9. Knowing not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals. Doesn't say that now does it? It says nor abusers of themselves with mankind but the modern versions of the Bible will put homosexuals there. In fact they'll remove effeminate, the word nor and abuses themselves with mankind and just put men who have with men. Put homosexuals or men who have with men. But it doesn't say that. Like well abusers of themselves with mankind is a homosexual. Folks let me just let you in on a little secret. Homosexuals do not abuse themselves with mankind, they abuse mankind. They don't abuse themselves with mankind they abuse others. Think about that for a second. Pedophiles don't abuse themselves with mankind they abuse children. They abuse others. You say what is this talking about then? This is referring to a woman who is essentially committing fornication with a ton of guys. She's a harlot. Which is what the context actually teaches in chapter 6. Okay? And here's the thing an effeminate person is not a homosexual. So why would they translate that as homosexual when effeminate just means soft? I mean we all know what an effeminate dude is. We've all seen him in high school or whatever. He's a little light on his toes. He's not a queer. He's not a sodomite. He just kind of hanged around his sister for a little too long. Maybe he's around his mama too long or something like that. And you know he's just a little soft or whatever. That's what effeminate means. But I'm not saying that that's okay because obviously being effeminate is a sin. Because God expects men to be manly, to have masculine characteristics and being effeminate is not that. But here's the thing being effeminate is not being a sodomite though. He says nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God Verse 11 and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God. So they'll use this verse to say see some of the Corinthians were sodomites. They were homosexuals. And I've even had people tell me like there are male prostitutes at the temple or whatever. Like where does it say there are male prostitutes? What are you talking about? And they'll say well the effeminate is like the passive person in a homosexual relationship. What? Effeminate just means soft. That's all it means. And so this is their quintessential verse to go to but folks we have Romans 1 we have Leviticus chapter 20, we have 2 Peter chapter 2 we have 2 Timothy chapter 3. I mean there's so many passages and scriptures you can go to where the Bible clearly teaches about homosexuals and you have this. This is all you got? Not enough my friends. Go with me if you would to, go to Judges 19. And so homosexuals cannot be saved but you know another question that people bring up is are all homosexuals reprobate though? But here's the thing, a more accurate way of asking this question would be does the act of sodomy make you a reprobate? Because this is where a lot of people get confused. They'll say you know oh this person, if this person stops committing sodomy they'll no longer be a reprobate. But here's the thing is that God paid for the sin of sodomy believe it or not. He did. Because guess what? Not everyone who's a homosexual or there's people who are not homosexuals who have partaken in sodomy. Unfortunately. You know there's women and men who have partaken in sodomy because of some perverse boyfriend or girlfriend that they have they have done acts that are likened unto sodomy and buggery but they're not reprobates. And here's the thing we live in a day and age where the high schools are just churning out these types of kids. Where they're trying to normalize being a homo and normalize girls kissing girls and normalize dudes being all homo and being bisexual or whatever I'm not saying that there isn't some sodomite in there, of course there is but I guarantee you the vast majority of them are not. They're just going with the flow. And you know when you put a kid in a public school they're there for eight hours a day they got homo teachers, homo principals homo counselors, homo friends, it just becomes so normal to them that now it becomes like the popular thing to be a homo I'm just like what? It was not popular back in my day. You know what I mean? Like to even mess around like that. That would require, like you would get jumped or something. Like in my day we had something else that was popular with homos and it had nothing to do with being kind to them. They would do something else to them back in my day. But obviously there's an agenda being put forth of the public school system that is trying to sodomize the young people. So sometimes you have a girl or a guy who got involved in a sodomy type of a relationship because it was just like the in thing to do and you know they're not reprobates, they're not beyond the hope of salvation because the act itself doesn't make you a reprobate. Your rejection and hatred of God makes you a reprobate which in turn leads you to commit those acts later on and revel in it. Most people who are involved in sodomy who are not reprobates, they actually detest what they did. They actually hate it. It's disgusting to them. But they did it out of pure pressure or whatever it may be or because it was popular but they're actually disgusted by it because I've spoken to them. I've spoken to a lot of people who are just like I got involved in this and I was disgusted by it. I don't know why I did it. It was just kind of pure pressure. I had a boyfriend or I had a girlfriend that wanted to do these types of acts or whatever and it was filthy to them. They defile their mind by doing it. But let me say this, if that person believes on Jesus Christ, that person can be forgiven of those things. They can be forgiven of whatever acts they committed. They can be forgiven of those things. Now let me just say this is that if it's a pedophile though that doesn't count there. Because pedophilia is like the lowest degree of sodomy when you go after children. So it's not like well I was pure pressured into pedophilia. There's no such thing as that. Although I'm sure that's coming down the pipeline where they're trying to normalize that even more. If an individual ever commits pedophilia automatic reprobate and no pity and those people are wicked as hell and they deserve the death penalty or whooping once they're discovered. That's one thing I do thank God about when it comes to the prison systems in California. I'm not for the prison systems and just locking up people for no reason. But you know what? God bless some of those inmates who take care of those pedophiles once they're locked up. Because they have all kinds of gang stuff in there and they fight amongst themselves and there's racism and all this stuff. But one thing they all agree on is like once the pedophile comes in it's just like he's dead. They have no pity, no mercy for the pedophile. And so the act of sodomy does not make you a reprobate because there's people who have been coaxed into that who didn't want to be a part of that but you know they were forced or they were raped. They were molested, whatever it may be. Okay next question. I'm almost done. Can I have homosexual friends? Are they safe to be around? I know a homosexual. I have a cousin that's a homosexual. They're cool. They would never do anything to me. They would never violate me. We grew up together, whatever. And here's the thing. Do we believe experience or do we believe the Bible? Now look folks when experience matches up with the Bible then obviously we believe our experience not because of our experience but because it's obviously backed up by the Bible. But when your experience and your belief goes against what the Bible says we have to go with what the Bible says. It doesn't matter how convincing your experience may be. Now where did I have you turn? Judges 19? I'm not going to go through Genesis 9 but Genesis 9 is a record of Noah being raped by his son while he was drunk. Okay. I mean this is his own son who committed this wicked act and the Bible even tells us in Habakkuk 2.15, woe unto him that giveth his neighbor to drink referring to alcohol that putteth thy bottle to him and makest him drunken also, why? That thou mayest look on their nakedness. So according to the Bible there's individuals that will make you drunk with the intent of making you black out so they can take advantage of you. Which is exactly what happened to Noah in Genesis chapter 9. Which is exactly what still happens today my friends. Which is another reason why you should stay away from alcohol. Don't drink alcohol. Don't go to parties and get drunk. You know stay away from that stuff because aside from the fact that you're destroying your body you can put yourself in a precarious situation where someone can rape you. Black out. Someone sodomizes you. It's happened to many people. Don't get involved in that scene. Look at Judges 19. Like are they safe to be around? Well look at verse 22. Now as they were making their hearts merry behold the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, Belial is just another way of saying the devil is referring to homosexuals, beset the house round about and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house the old man saying bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him. So this guy is here with his concubine and his concubine's father and they're making merry. You know they're just kind of hanging out. They're fellowshipping. And then these sodomites surround the house and when they open the door they said bring that guy who came in unto you that we may know him. Now it doesn't mean like hey what's his favorite color? Does he like long walks on the beach? We're just taking a census here. What nationality, what tribe is he from? Know him is the Bible's way of saying they want to know him physically. So they basically want to rape this guy. And the man, the master of the house went out unto them and said unto them nay my brethren, nay I pray you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is coming to my house do not this folly. Behold, now this guy's an idiot. Here is my daughter a maiden and his concubine. Them I will bring out now. Humble ye them and do with them what seemeth good unto you. But unto this man do not so vile a thing. So you know we give him credit in the beginning for saying like oh man this is folly, this is disgusting, why would you do that? But then he's like I have a daughter and his concubine you can have them instead. It's like what in the world is wrong with you? You idiot. Verse 25 But the men would not hearken to him, they're not listening to him. So the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning and when the day began to spring they let her go. So basically he brings out the concubine and they rape her all night and they eventually kill her. Which by the way shows us that sodomites go both ways. He's like well I have a gay friend, he's not into you know I have a gay cousin, he's not into girls, he's only into guys because he's gay. Bro all gay people are bisexual. They go both ways. Yeah but he told me, yeah but he lied though. In fact the Bible says in Romans chapter 1 that they're full of deceit. They'll lie to you. Well prove it. Well right here they want the guy but then they settle for the concubine and they rape the concubine all night to the point where they kill her. She was killed by rape my friends. I mean this is wicked. And so you know short answer, no they're not safe to be around. So if you have sodomite aunts and uncles or cousins and friends, stay away from them. Yeah but they've never done anything like that before yet and you don't want to be their first victim. So go ahead and just steer clear of the queer. You know and by the way this is why we don't allow sodomites in our church. There will never be a lot in our church. Pedophiles aren't allowed in our church. Homosexuals aren't allowed in our church. Well why not? I thought you guys loved everyone. You know what though? I'll be honest with you, I love children. I love my children. More than any homosexual and I don't love any homosexual. But you know what? We're not going to risk the safety of the kids in our church for sodomites. Folks this is why we don't have nurseries. This is why we don't do bus ministry. This is why we don't have all these different kids activities or classes where people are separated because you just never know what might happen. You just keep your kids with you. How about that? Because you know sodomites like to infiltrate churches to abuse children and take advantage of the innocent. So they're never allowed here. And you know what? You might disagree with me on this and you might think to yourself why have a dyke for an aunt and she's cool or whatever. Alright you know what? If you want to believe that that's fine but never bring her here though. Never bring her here. Respect the policies that we have. But they're not safe to be around. The majority of pedophilia in this country is done by homosexuals. Pretty much all of it is done by homosexuals. I don't remember the percentage but there's like a high percentage that were done by homosexuals and then it's just like well the other percentage just lied about it. Let me say this. Let me read this. Deuteronomy 23. Go to Deuteronomy 23. We're almost done. Look at Deuteronomy 23 verse 17. There shall no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow, for even both of these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. So according to the Bible whores and sodomites are not allowed into the house of God. Now when I was reading this earlier today I found it very interesting. Because of the fact that our world has everything just backwards. So why is that? Well the worldly term for a whore is a female dog. Right? They'll call a whore a female dog. Not a female dog. They're using another word for that, right? But the Bible uses that term for a sodomite though. So really the whore is not the female dog it's the sodomite that's the female dog according to the Bible. Isn't that interesting? So even though being a whore is bad and it's disgusting and it's wicked in God's eyes, you know the whore can still be saved because whores were saved during Jesus' ministry. The harlots were saved. Prostitutes were saved. God loves the prostitutes. He wants them to be saved. And by the way, many prostitutes are prostitutes because of human sex trafficking. They're kidnapped, placed into that lifestyle, they're enslaved and it's wicked and so yeah they need to be saved. But guess what? The dog, also known as the sodomite according to this verse, you know you're not supposed to bring them into the house of God. Alright. Here's the next question. Well what about homosexuals that have gotten saved though? I get this too like I know someone who's a homosexual who's a former homosexual and they got saved. They were reformed. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3. And what do you say to that? They're lying. It's called lies. Who are you going to go with? The Bible or someone's experience? And in fact the Bible tells us, thy testimonies of the Lord are my delight and my counselors. So I'm supposed to believe the testimonies of the Lord more than anyone's testimony no matter how convincing they can be. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse number 5. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. Did you know there's individuals out there who can have a form of godliness? In other words they can parade themselves as being a saved person as a Christian and they're really not. They're faking it. Did you know there's a lot of fakes out there that will lie about who they are because they have an ulterior motive to take advantage of individuals? Well that's what it is. Verse 6. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts. What is it saying? The people they deceive are silly people. What's silly? Stupid. People who are just ignorant. Well you know it may not be said of God's people that we're ignorant of this. That we're deceived by the individuals who say, well I got saved. He turned away from that lifestyle. First of all you don't turn away from sin to be saved. The way you get saved is by believing on Jesus Christ plus nothing minus nothing. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's all that's required for salvation is your faith in Christ alone. Amen. So you know repenting of your sin doesn't save you so I don't know what you're talking about. All this person stops committing these sodomite acts or whatever and therefore then they turn to Christ. It's a lie. And so you know I don't care if someone says they got this testimony or whatever. You know they're a homo for like 20 years and then all of a sudden they just turn to Christ. Let me just say this. If someone has been a sodomite for like 20 years and then they gave their life to Christ and went into a church they're just picking a new field to pray on. That's what they're doing. They kind of ran out of resources so now they're going to pick the local New Testament church to see who else they can violate in that church. And don't tell me that's not true. That happens all the time. You know all these churches doing cover ups and they always have the bus driver or Sunday school teacher or some deacon molesting children or whatever. That happens all the time. Alright here's my last point. Go to Ephesians 4 and that's it. Ephesians chapter 4. I don't believe it. I don't buy it. I'll stick with God's word on this one. And there's never an example of a homosexual convert in the Bible. You'll never find it. You might find it in the modern versions because they're written by homosexuals. They're edited by sodomites. Oh but don't you know King James was a homosexual? How many of you have ever heard something like that? And you know they're just parroting what other people say. Because I researched this and it's just like he was the most non-homosexual king there was actually. He wrote a book or he wrote a letter to his son basically telling them like hey sodomites should be put to death. Don't you ever be in it. Don't pick up smoking. I mean just teaching them masculine traits. And even then folks let's say let's just pretend for a minute. Let's just pretend that King James was a sodomite. It has no bearing over the Bible. Because he didn't translate the Bible. He authorized it. Which means he sanctioned okay you guys can go and translate the Bible. It has nothing to do with him. Alright here's the last question. What if I struggle with homosexual intrusive thoughts? Now let me say this is that you know since I've been a pastor I've had this question many times from different individuals who you know they experience some sort of trauma in their life. They were violated they were molested and they often struggle with am I a reprobate? Am I a reprobate? Am I beyond the hope of salvation? Let me say this if you're asking that question you're not. Okay and the reason why is because of the fact that a true reprobate rebels in those thoughts and they hate God and they have no interest in God whatsoever. But a person who is struggling with those thoughts and saying am I a reprobate? Obviously you still have feeling within you. You still desire the Lord and you know you desire to do right or whatever you desire the word of God but let me say this is the reason a lot of people have those intrusive thoughts is because that's what molestation sometimes does. It kind of like messes up the mind. You know when that traumatic experience happens to a child that messes with their mind. You know and it manifests itself in different ways when they grow up where they become confused and they struggle with those thoughts because you know they were violated and I don't necessarily know what the connection is what the you know what's going on in the brain with you know all that but obviously it's something that just kind of destroys the morality to the point where when they grow up they get saved you know they want to be just a normal person but they struggle with these intrusive thoughts. And you know any normal Christian who's experienced something like that and has those thoughts they're disgusted by it. That's why they even bring it up right like if they didn't if they didn't bother them they're just going on about their lives thinking that way but they bring it up because they struggle with it because they hate it okay it's not pleasant unto them it's not something that they want for their life they struggle with it and it's sad when it happens okay but you know thank God that they get saved thank God they get saved but let me show you a verse here passage of scripture that shows us this look at verse 17 in Ephesians 4 17 says this, I say therefore in testifying the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind. So he's saying you know don't think and behave like unsaved people because they have a vain mind we don't have a vain mind right he says in verse 18 having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all in cleanness with greiviness. Now this can be defined as the reprobate because a lot of what we see right there is in conjunction with what we see in Romans chapter 1 okay their past feeling they're giving themselves over to lasciviousness they're alienated from the life of God and the apostle Paul is telling them don't walk as other Gentiles walk okay in the vanity of their mind verse 20 but ye have not so learned Christ if so be ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus they put off concern in the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. So what is he saying you need to change the way you think you can't control the trash that people put into your brain growing up whether it's pornographic images that people expose you to sodomite images videos whatever it may be you can't control that if that happened to you but what you can do is control what's being put into your brain thereafter now that you're saved you can control that so you don't have to live with those thoughts and that constant struggle you know you say well how you have to be renewed in the spirit of your mind just as someone inserted those images into your brain well guess what you can insert new information into your brain as well and when you insert enough information enough Bible content enough the things of Christ the less and less you will think about those things. Will there be times when you struggle with those thoughts absolutely but you know what the Bible tells us you know cast down the imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought of the obedience of Christ you know I can't control you can't control the people who have violated you or others in times past but we can't change the past my friends you know thank God that you believed on Jesus Christ thank God that you're a Christian thank God you have the Bible take advantage of that and put more Bible in here fill this mind with biblical content and stay away from people places and images that will trigger other thoughts fill your mind with the word of God amen and you'll find out that the longer you're a Christian the more you read the Bible the more you add godliness to your life that stuff begins to fade and fade and fade to the point where it's just not even there anymore okay but you know obviously we have the flesh and the old man will continue to struggle this side of eternity and I'm not referring to like you're like a fag for like 20 years or something like that you know that's different I'm talking about a person who was molested by a sodomite because that happens all the time okay they're molested and now they're trying to serve God because they're saved they want to live for the Lord they want to do right but then they just have those thoughts and it bothers them you know you need to have your mind renewed you need to wash your mind wash your brain read the word of God and you know what you might have to put in a little more effort than the regular individual to cleanse your thoughts okay but it's worth it and so I hope that helps you know expect another sermon like this in the next couple of months because you know the more new people we get and the more new people that show up to our church the more people have to be taught these things the sodomites are working overtime to try to push their filthy agenda we need to make sure we're teaching what the Bible says about this so that no one is deceived amen let's pray father we thank you so much for your word thank you for salvation for Jesus Christ Lord we're so thankful for the clarity that the Bible has on this subject please help us as a church Lord to shine brightly in this crooked and perverse nation and I pray Lord that you'd help us to continue to renew our minds so we're not influenced by the filth of this world Lord and that we may not be desensitized may it never be normal to us Lord may we constantly fight against it and constantly lead our families in the right direction help us Lord to do so we love you we thank you pray these things in Jesus name amen and sinners punch beneath their blood lose all their guilty stains lose all their guilty stains lose all their guilty stains and sinners punch beneath their blood lose all their guilty stains the dying thief rejoice to see that fountain in his day there may I lovel as he wash all my sins away wash all my sins away wash all my sins away and there may I lovel as he wash all my sins away dear dying lamb my precious blood shall never lose its power till all the ransom church of God be safe to sin no more be safe to sin no more be safe to sin no more till all the ransom church of God be safe to sin no more their sins by faith I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die and shall be till I die and shall be till I die redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die then in a no more sweeter song I'll see thy power to sing when this poor little spring staring tongue lies silent in the grave lies silent in the grave lies silent in the grave when this poor little spring staring tongue lies silent in the grave