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daughter's daughter, even their nakedness, thou shalt not uncover, for theirs is thine own nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister, she is thy father's near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, she is thy mother's near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife, she is thine aunt. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife. Thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife, it is thy brother's nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness, for they are her near kinswomen, it is wickedness. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her lifetime. Also, thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for uncleanness. Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife to defile thyself with her. Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God, I am the Lord. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. Neither shalt any woman stand before a beast to lie down there too, it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all these things 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 vomitteth out her inhabitants. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you. For all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you, and the land is defiled. That the land spew not you out also when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein. I am the Lord your God. Let's pray. Dear God, just thank you for your precious and perfect word. Just ask that you would be with our pastor now as he preaches it. Please just fill in with your Holy Spirit to preach your word boldly to us, and give us ears to hear it, and in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. All right, we're in Leviticus chapter 18. Now, you're gonna have to work extra hard paying attention today, all right? And so pay attention to what's being said. Block out as best as you can, all the noise. We'll be just fine, all right? By the way, I go to sleep with sirens and helicopters, so I'm kinda already used to it, all right? I can't sleep if I don't have those things, actually. No, I'm just kidding. Look at Leviticus 18, verse 22. It says, thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast. That's funny, he puts it right after that. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast that defile thyself therewith. Neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto. It is confusion. 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 vomitteth out her inhabitants. And the title of the sermon this morning is The Worst Sin, or God's Opinion on Sodomites. God's opinion on sodomites. So it's gonna be a good sermon for you to share with people who may not see it your way or the Bible's way, and you have a hard time explaining why it is that we take the position that we take. This will be a good sermon to share with them, all right? And that's what we're gonna talk about this morning. Now look, as I mentioned, I'm gonna preach on God's opinion about the sodomites. And the reason I title it that is because, you know, over the last couple of weeks, one of the main buzz phrases that I keep hearing over and over again is, well, that's your opinion. You know, what does God say? That's what you believe. That's your opinion. What does the Bible actually say? Well, what these people don't seem to understand is that my opinion is molded by God's work. My opinion comes from the Bible. I'm simply stating what God has already said. And in fact, the Bible tells us in Ephesians chapter four that these people who are being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness, but ye have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus. So he's saying, look, don't tolerate uncleanness. Don't tolerate the lasciviousness in the field because that's not what you've learned. If you've actually been taught by Jesus, taught by the word of God, heard what the Bible actually says about it, you're not gonna go along with that. You're not gonna tolerate that. You're not gonna embrace that. And in fact, the Bible says have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. So not only are we supposed to not embrace it or tolerate that, the Bible says we're supposed to expose it, preach against it, and that's exactly what we're gonna do this morning. Amen. Now, how does God view sodomy, sodomites, and homos? Well, we just read Leviticus 18 in context of sodomites. It says in verse number 24, Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you. So what do we see here? We see that God says, hey, don't get yourself involved in this uncleanness and this wickedness, because this is the reason why I've destroyed those nations. Because the nations that I cast out before you were involved in those abominable acts, they're involved in sodomy, they're involved in uncleanness, and therefore I destroyed them. He says in verse 25, And the land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself, look what it says, vomiteth out her inhabitants. Good night. When you're causing the land to actually throw up, think about that folks. Not only is God disgusted by it, not only are normal human beings disgusted by it, but even the land, and the land is not a person. It's so disgusting that God has to give human characteristics and attributes to land to describe how disgusting it is. To say that even the land is throwing up. Show you how defiled and wicked and ungodly it really is. Now, go with me to the next chapter, chapter 19. Whenever I go to the book of Leviticus to prove this point, more often than not, people will often retort and say, well that's Old Testament. I mean I heard it like five different times this morning. Well that's Old Testament. What does Jesus say? It's like what? So they say, that's Old Testament, that's not what Jesus said. And here's the thing, actually a quote that I just heard this morning by that same individual said this, hey the Bible says, Jesus said, love thy neighbor as thyself. And you know what I thought to myself, checkmate. Now here's the thing, is that for them to say, well you know that's Old Testament, that's not relevant, is to say that murder, theft, rape, bestiality, that those things are no longer immoral in the eyes of God. Today in the New Testament. But you know what, we know that they are. You see, murder's still wrong, theft is still wrong, bearing false witness is still wrong in the New Testament because that has not changed whatsoever. They're insinuating that because somehow we're in the New Testament, that that has been repealed, those views have been changed, and somehow those laws against sodomy, God doesn't agree with those today in 2021. They're no longer valid. But you know what Jesus said, I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. He says, I came not to destroy the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. He didn't come to repeal the Old Testament moral laws. The only laws that have been repudiated from the Old Testament are the ceremonial laws that foreshadow Jesus Christ. Such as the animal sacrifices, such as the meats, drinks, and divers washings, and cardinal ordinances. But God's moral law has always been the standard even prior to the inauguration of the Old Testament. Murder was wrong, even prior to the establishment of the Old Testament laws in the old covenant. Now, if the Old Testament laws have been repealed, think about this, if the Old Testament laws are no longer valid, then why is it that in the Bible, in Romans chapter two, the Bible tells us that the law of God is written in our hearts, right? Now is that talking about the Sabbath, that we know instinctively we gotta keep the Sabbath. We know instinctively that we have to do the animal sacrifices. No, it's referring to God's moral law. Because it doesn't matter what human being or where any human being grew up in, in this world, every single individual instinctively knows that murder is wrong, instinctively knows that bearing false witness is wrong, instinctively knows that sodomy is wrong. Everyone knows that. Why? Because the law of God is written in their hearts. They have that moral compass that tells them this is wrong. Certain acts that we instinctively know that are wicked, wrong, and look folks, even criminal. Sodomy is one of them. Now look at Leviticus 19 verse 18, Old Testament. The Bible says, thou shall not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Whoa, the guy out there just said, hold on a second, don't tell me what the Old Testament says, tell me what Jesus said. That's funny, we're in the Old Testament and this is exactly what Jesus said. So how does God view sodomy, sodomites, homos, how does God see them? Well, number one, he views it as a capital crime. Now listen to me, not just a sin, not just an abomination, he sees it as a capital crime that is punishable by death. Go to Leviticus 20 verse 13, says here, is there a Jack in the Box drive-thru outside or something? Are you guys ordering an ultimate cheeseburger or something? Who put a drive-thru outside? Verse 13, if a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. So we see that the act of sodomy is not just sin, because look, Christians will say this, well yeah, it's a sin though, it's just a sin. Well, hold on a second, it's a sin, yes, it's an abomination, yes, but according to God, it's actually a capital crime punishable by death. It's not just a sin, it's a crime. Okay, well, dang it. Well, you shouldn't preach that though. We're in the New Testament, we should preach grace and love and not preach these Old Testament laws, et cetera. Well, go to Romans chapter number one, which is conveniently found in the New Testament. Look at verse 26, so obviously Romans one is a chapter largely dedicated to exposing sodomites. Okay, look what it says in verse 26 of Romans chapter number one. For this cause, God gave them up to vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, 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 meat. Look folks, no one would deny that this is referring to sodomites, right? Now, remember, who's writing this? The apostle Paul, and the apostle Paul is under what? The Roman government, now let me ask you this, did the Roman government have laws against sodomy? Did they say, hey, sodomites should be put to death, you know, if you see a sodomite, turn him in, get him arrested and smite him and kill him stone by stone, no, he was under that Roman law though. Okay, now look at verse 32, cause this is still in the same context of sodomites. It says, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things, look what it says, are worthy of death. Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Oh, hold on a second, Paul, what are you doing? Paul's inciting violence. No, Paul's preaching the word of God. And he obviously understands, he's under the Roman government, he's not under theocracy at all. But he understands it's still wicked, it's still evil, it's still a crime that is punishable by death, therefore, hey, they're worthy of death. That's what he's preaching. And you know what we're supposed to do, preach the same exact thing. That when we talk about sodomites, we say, hey, they are worthy of death, the government should be putting these people to death according to the Bible. And look, don't let these people try to scare you into thinking, oh, you're saying that you're gonna go and commit violence against them, we've never said anything like that. Never. Have we ever said that we're gonna do something to them, that we're gonna kill them, all we have said is this, the government should do its job by putting these people to death according to the Bible. And they wanna claim that we're some sort of cult because we teach sodomies a capital crime punishable by death, but here's the thing, it's not just the biblical law, folks, in the United States of America, sodomy was a crime, even up until the 1960s, it was a crime and early on in the colonial days, it was a crime punishable by death. But even thereafter, it was still considered a crime up until the 1960s, they called it crimes against nature. Culturally, historically, sodomy was seen as unnatural and perverse, well, that's old though, you know, that's old, we shouldn't listen to that, that doesn't, you know, we've evolved. There are more people today that agree with us, so according to their standard, you know, if you have a large amount of people that agree with you, therefore, it's right. Well, why is it that in the United States, the vast majority of people agreed that sodomy was a crime? That means because they were right. According to your standard, the colonial laws against homosexuality called it a felony, said it was a capital felony for any person to commit the detestable, a buggery, okay. Now, why were these laws instituted later on, even in the, prior to the 1960s? Well, they were used to limit the ability of sodomites raising children. So they were used decades ago, laws against sodomy existed to protect the innocent, so that they could limit homos from raising children to justify denying them custody of their own children. They were also been used to justify refusing to let them adopt and refusing them to let them become foster parents. So these laws were instituted to protect innocent people from these rapists, these pedophiles, these wicked individuals, okay. By the way, there's laws that were used to justify firing them from specific businesses, denying them jobs, okay. The idea was explained by the FBI in a case which it won in the late 1980s, in 1986, I'm not gonna go through all that, that meant that the FBI said that it couldn't be illegal to discriminate against homos, because homos are a class denied by conduct which could be made a crime. Now, here's the thing, well, but still, there's more people today that agree with us than with you. There's still more people, there's a vast majority, then really, then why is it the suicide rate for transgender people is 10 times higher? You ever think about that? If you have the whole world in your hands, sodomites, if you think that everyone in the world agrees with you, then why is it that the suicide rate of transgender people is 10 times higher today? And they'll say this, they'll say, well, it's because, you know, there's people out there that don't like us. There you go. So you're contradicting yourself. Folks, in 29 states, LGBTQ people can be denied access to public services because of who they are, even to today. And that's why the LGBTQ community, you know, they're trying to spread their campaign to spread around the world to improve social acceptance of non-traditional gender identities to stop the stigma. Oh, that's interesting. So that means you have a stigma by the vast majority of the population that thinks you're just disgusting? So it seems as though your narrative doesn't fit. Because if you're saying that everyone agrees with you, then why do you have to do all this? Why do you have to campaign? Why do you have to go protest? If everyone already agrees, why do you have to do that? I'll tell you why, because it's a lie, that's why. Because the vast majority of normal human beings, even if they believe they can be saved, even if they believe you can reform them, they still think sodomy is disgusting. How does God view sodomy? He views it as a capital crime. Try to disprove that from the Bible. It's all over the word of God. And look, this guy who's out here, he's like, well, what did Jesus say? I told him, I'll tell you what Jesus said. He said that if any one of these offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better than a millstone were tied about his neck and he would drown in the depths of the sea. That's what he said. You told me to quote Jesus. There you go. He tells me to quote Jesus and I quote the most savage verse against these pedophiles. How does God view sodomy, sodomites, and homos? Number one, he views it as a capital crime. Go to Genesis chapter 19. I need a cup of water. Someone can get me a cup of water. Number two, he views them as rapists and child molesters. He views them, we're talking about God here. Obviously, there's people out there that view the same way and they see it the way we do without the Bible. But we know that according to the Bible, he actually views them as rapists and child molesters. Prove it. Genesis 19 is our text scripture on sodomites. Like if you really want to know what God thinks about sodomites, you go to this chapter. Because this is the only crime in the Bible where God saw fit, other than what we're going to see in the book of Revelation, where God actually rains down fire and brimstone upon an entire city and just wipes them out because of sodomy. Look at verse number one of Genesis 19. And there came two angels. By the way, these two angels are sent by God himself to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. So they tell Abraham, hey, we're going to destroy them, we're going to see if the cry is according to what they say and if it is, it's going to be destroyed. And there came two angels to Sodom at even, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. And he said, behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go on your ways. And they said, nay, but we will abide in the streets all night. And he pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him and entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did break unleavened bread, and they did eat. Look at verse four. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, come past the house round, both old and young, all the people from every corner. Hey, they're just like the father of the devil. They're doing exactly what these people do, right? They're come past in this roundabout. Verse five, and they called unto Lot and said unto him, the Sodomites are doing this, where are the men which came into thee this night? Bring them out unto us, look what it says, that we may know them. What does that mean, know them? Does that mean like, hey, what's your favorite color? You like long walks on the beach. Do you prefer Mediterranean or Italian food? What's your last, how did you grow, you know, what's your upbringing? No, the Bible tries not to pervert the mind. And often when it talks about knowing them, it's knowing them in a physical, sexual way. So what are they doing? He's telling, they're telling Lot, hey, bring those two guys that we saw come in here out to us because we wanna rape them. They're not gonna have a consensual relationship with them. They're trying to rape them. Angels. And Lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door after them and said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. He's like, don't do this, this is gross. Behold now I have two daughters. Now obviously Lot's out of his mind. I have two daughters which have not known men. Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you and do you to them as it is good in your eyes, only unto these men do nothing. For therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said, stand back. And they said again, this one fellow came into sojourn and he will needs be judged. Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. So what is he saying? Oh, since you're coming to judge us, we're actually gonna do worse to you than we were planning to do to these two guys. Wicked. It says, and they pressed sore upon the man even, Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so they wearied themselves to find the door. So look folks, even when these angels strike them with blindness, they're incapable of being able to see, they're still trying to wear themselves to find the door to rape these men. Wicked. So you know what God is saying during this time? He's thinking, okay, they are as wicked as they said they were gonna be. So what does God do? Does he try to reach them? Does he try to reach out to them, preach the gospel to them, get them saved? No, he rains fire and brimstone upon them and just completely decimates the entire city. He saves Lot and his family and he just destroys them. And the Bible tells us in the New Testament, the book of Jude in chapter number seven, even as Sodom and Gomorrah, giving themselves over to fornication and all these things, he says they're set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. New Testament. He said that which took place in Genesis chapter 19 is an example of what I'm gonna do to the rest of them when they come in the future. They're set forth as an example to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. So we see there, by the way, we see here in Genesis 19, both small and great. So the older folks and the younger folks were given over to Sodom. Now look, folks, Sodomites can't procreate. So how do you think they got these young people? By recruiting them? And look, out of their own mouths, they admit that, that they're molested, they're raped, something happened to them and they got bitter at God, they hated him and for that reason, they became a Sodomite themselves. Now here's the thing, if you're ever working on trying to memorize subjects in the Bible, God makes it really easy for you to know this particular subject. Because you have Genesis 19 and in case you were kind of mistaken, if that's just an isolated incident, you have Judges 19 as well. And in Judges 19, you have the same exact story being played out with Sodomites, which the Bible calls sons of the devil, sons of Belial, seeking to go into a man's house to rape his visitor, who's a man, they're trying to rape him, but instead they settle for a woman. Because they say, well, no, he's gay, he only likes men or something. No, Sodomites go both ways, according to the Bible. Because when they couldn't get the man, the visitor, the sojourn there in the book of Judges chapter 19, they settled for the woman instead and they raped her all night. So how does God view them as rapists? How does God view them as child molesters? That's how God views them. Go back to Leviticus 18, Leviticus chapter 18. God views it as a crime, not just any crime, a capital crime, punishable by death. He views it as, he views them as being rapists and child molesters. We see that according to Genesis chapter 19. We see that in Judges chapter 19, that that's what they do. That's how they recruit. Nothing's changed, there's nothing new under the sun. But not only that, he views them as a curse to a nation. And let me say this, the United States of America is cursed. When you have this going on outside, it's cursed. When Sodomites are free to roam and do this stuff, they're cursed. Look at Leviticus 18 verse 22. Thou shall not lie with mankind, we read this in the beginning, as with womankind, it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. By the way, when you look at the laws, when they define for you what sodomy is, they define it as man with man, woman with woman, and beast. So when they talk about people committing bestiality, they refer to it as sodomy. Because it's unnatural, it's unclean, it's something that is associated with sodomites. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. Neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto, it is confusion. 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 vomitteth out her inhabitants. What is this telling us? It's a curse. It is a curse upon the land when sodomites are present. It's fact. And look, you study any of the world empires, and when they came crashing down, one of the prominent things that was taking place in that society was sodomy. Roman Empire, sodomy. The Greeks, sodomy. Hey, in Japan, with the Samurais, sodomy. Spartans, sodomy. United States of America, sodomy. Why? Because it's a curse to any land, to tolerate, embrace it, and propagate it. Anyone in the United States of America is guilty as charged. Through Hollywood, through movies, through the music, through the education system, all of these are instruments that are used to foment and propagate sodomy to the masses, and they know they have to put a considerable effort to do so because they know that normal people don't think that way. So they have to try to brainwash people into seeing it their way. Go back to Romans chapter one. I said it was gonna be an educational sermon, but I'm just, you know, we'll see. It's education, you're gonna learn something, don't worry. What does God think about sodomites, perverts, homos? He sees it as a capital crime punishable by death. He sees them as rapists and pedophiles. He sees it as a curse upon a land. But let me just say this, and listen very closely. He views them as his enemies. God views them as his enemies, period. All of these people who have set themselves against this roundabout, these bunch of sodomites, God's face is against them. You think that God is up in heaven, just kind of has his back turned, not paying attention to what's going on today? They are treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath! You think God is pleased with that? You think God is like, well, you guys are misunderstanding them. No, God says these are his enemies. Look at Romans 1.21. 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. So what do we see here? They know who God is. Whether that's via a soul winner that came to give them the gospel, whether that's because they grew up in a church where they talked about the Bible, they heard about Jesus Christ, they heard about God, they know the concept of God, they knew God, and what happened? They didn't glorify him as God. Neither were they thankful. The Bible says they became vain in their imagination, and what happens? Their foolish heart becomes darkened. Why does it say that? Well, because within the heart of every individual is a little bit of light. And that little bit of light that God gives us, we're to use to receive more light. That's how someone comes to Christ to begin with. They come to Christ because they respond to the light that God gives them. But when someone is given light and they know God, they glorify him not as God, then what happens is God turns off that light. He puts out that lamp in obscurity. Verse 22, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Is there a dog outside or something? Amen. Verse 24, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lion, worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever, amen. For this cause, God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural uses to that which is against nature. 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 was me. Verse 28, 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 it's gonna list some characteristics here of what they're filled with. But I want you to pay attention to a particular one. Because a lot of people will say, well yeah, but we're disobedient to parents sometimes. But there's one that's very special to this group of people. Being filled, verse 29, with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, look what it says, haters of God. Folks, God does not designate that for just any individual. This doesn't say that we hate him. It says that these people hate God. And you know what David said? Well Lord, do not I hate them that hate thee? And that I grieve with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. So yeah, obviously, you know, when it comes to loving your enemy as yourself, that's referring to like your neighbor who doesn't agree with Christianity, who just doesn't really like you or whatever. It's not referring to these reprobates. These reprobates are enemies of God. They're haters of God. And that's what people need to understand here. Okay, is that this is just like some normal individual. The Bible refers to these people as being given over to a reprobate mind. And the reason why they're given over to a reprobate mind is because initially, they began to hate God. They hate him. Go to John chapter 12. By the way, you know, statistically, say the 2% of the population are sodomites, supposedly. But yet, that 2% counts for 40%, close to 50% of all the pedophilia. So what does that tell you? Oh, no, they're not pedophiles. Statistically, they are. What about the other half? They just either haven't gotten caught or haven't had the opportunity to do so. That's just it. Now, here's my last point, okay? And this point is more so for Christians, all right? This is for Christians. This is for people who maybe not see it our way, and they're just kinda like, hey, you guys are a little overboard on this, and you know, just kinda like nervous or whatever. These are for the ones that ask this question. The common question that people will ask Christians is they'll say, are you saying that homos can't be saved? Don't you ever get asked that question? Are you saying that homosexuals can't be saved? But that's actually the wrong question to ask. It's not the right question. I get where they're coming from, but it's the wrong question to ask. The right question is this. Why can't sodomites believe? That's actually the right question to ask. Because in order to be saved, you have to believe, right? That's the step before getting saved is you have to believe on Jesus Christ, plus nothing, minus nothing, and you can be saved. And by the way, before believing, you have to wanna retain God in your knowledge. So a person who doesn't wanna retain God in their knowledge, they're not gonna wanna believe because they don't wanna retain Him in their knowledge. This is not some kind of weird thing where it's just like, I don't wanna retain Him in my knowledge, but I do want salvation, though. That sounds pretty good. No, not retaining God in their knowledge means I don't want nothing to do with God. Well, folks, in order to even believe, you have to retain God in your knowledge. But the Bible tells us that they don't wanna retain God in their knowledge, therefore they can't believe, and because they can't believe, they cannot be saved, okay? Oh, that is just so blasphemous, and I can't believe you said, where in the Bible does it say? Folks, first and foremost, you understand that there are certain people in this world that it's just too late for. I mean, no one's gonna argue that people in hell, it's already too late for them, right? Everyone who's in hell, it's already too late. Well, you know what the Bible says, that if someone blasphemes the Holy Ghost, they have never forgiven us in this life or in the life to come. What does that mean? Too late. And look, one of these sodomites outside, they said this. They're like, explain to me, because you don't even believe that God makes them homos and homosexuals. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. I do believe that God makes them that way. He does. I was like, I don't believe that they're born that way. They're born normal, but because of the rejection of Jesus Christ and their hatred towards God, then God gives them over to a reprobate mind and he removes their ability to believe. And if you don't believe me, look at John chapter 12, verse 38. It says that the saying of Isaiah, the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake. Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore, they could not. What does it say? Believe. Because that as Isaiah said again, he, who's he? God. Uh-oh. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them. So God says here, hey, I'm the one who did it. Guilty as charged. I blinded them. I darkened their heart. I made them so that they don't believe. I removed their ability to place their faith in my son, whom they hate. God did it. And look, this is not the Calvinist guy. Where he's just removing it just at a whim. Right? He's doing it in response to what they said, to what they're doing. Their rejection of God moves God to say, okay, if you hate me, then I'm just gonna go ahead and revoke your ability to believe them. Because you're not gonna use it anyways. Right? They're never gonna believe on them. If they hate him, they don't wanna retain God in their knowledge, then what God says is like, all right, well, let me just take that back then. Let me remove your ability to believe so you can never believe. This is what the Bible refers to as a reprobate mind. And a reprobate is an individual who has been rejected by God. Now let me explain something, okay? Because people say, well, you know, you see a Psalm in the eye and stuff and you're saying they can't be saved. And are you saying that no sodomite can be saved? No, I'm just saying that no sodomite can believe. And I'll explain to you why. When God removes their ability to believe, it's as if their ability to believe is directly connected to their moral compass. So they're connected. And here, let me just use nature to illustrate this, okay? I need a drink of water here. How many of you have ever been stung by a bee? Okay, I've never been stung by a bee. But I do know this, is that when a bee stings an individual, let's say flies on your arm, stings you in the arm, it's gonna die, right? Not because it's injecting poison into your skin, but because once it stings you, that stinger is directly connected to its intestines. So once it pulls out, that stinger yanks all the intestines out and that bee dies. So it's not necessarily what happened on the outside, it's what's happening on the inside of that bee that causes it to die. Well, in like manner, when it comes to these people, these reprobates, their ability to believe is directly connected to their moral compass. So when they reject God, that, when they say, I don't wanna retain God in my knowledge, I reject God, I hate God, that's like a stinger that's being pushed, which ultimately removes their moral compass and they become twice dead, plucked up by the roots. That's why they behave the way they behave. That's why they get involved in all types of uncleanness. That's why they do all those things. Why? Because the fact that they involved in faggotry and pedophilia and rape and all this disgusting, all these disgusting acts and filth is just proof that God has removed their ability to believe. So look, when you see one, it's not like, oh man, they can't be saved. No, it's more like, hey, well, they can't believe and that's why they can't be saved. And when you see a sodomite, all these people who are sodomites out here right now protesting, just know this, God removed their ability to believe long ago, long ago. Go to Jude, I'm sorry, not Jude, go to Deuteronomy 23, Deuteronomy chapter 23. Now let's say you partly agree with me on all this, right? And let's say you don't agree with me on this whole salvation issue for the sodomites, okay? Let's say you're like, well, you know, I still believe they can be saved and I definitely, I'm disgusted by them, I know what the Bible says about that, I'm disgusted, I just, I still believe that they can be saved. Okay, I don't think there's anybody in our church that believes that, but let's say there is, or people just listening to the sermon. Let me just say this is based upon all of the evidence, biblical evidence that we showed, this is why they're not allowed in our church. This is why. So regardless if you believe they can be saved or not, it doesn't matter when it comes to being here. This is why no sodomites are ever allowed in our church. Why? Because they're rapists, they're pedophiles, it's a crime, capital crime according to God. They will defile our church and we have children that we wanna protect. Yeah, but we're in the New Testament though, in the New Testament church, God loves everyone. Well look, the Bible says that we are a local New Testament church, but it also refers to the children of Israel in the Old Testament as the church in the wilderness, to congregation. Look what it says in Deuteronomy 23 verse 17 and we'll finish with this. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a 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 think about that. Well, what are they supposed to do? Well, if they're exercising what God told them, Leviticus 20, 13, they would be executing them. So if God doesn't even want it to be in the house of God in the Old Testament, where has that changed in the New Testament? If that is God's congregation, the church in the wilderness in the Old Testament, and we are the local New Testament church in the New Testament, that hasn't changed. A sodomite of the sons of Elmani are not allowed in our church. That's it. And look folks, it doesn't matter what happens, they can protest here for 365 days. I'm not standing down. Not gonna apologize, not gonna stop preaching. You think I'm gonna issue an apology like Jeff Owens? You think I'm just gonna be like, well, you know, I didn't really mean that. I mean everything I say. And I stand by the word of God because I'd be afraid not to preach the Bible. I'd be afraid to be ashamed of God's word. And a group of sodomites are not gonna stop me from preaching it. You're gonna have to kill me. You're gonna have to destroy my life. And even then, the word of God will go forth and it'll ring even harder after that. Fear not them which can kill the body, but afterwards can do nothing. But I shall tell you whom ye shall fear. Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body and hell. I'm not ashamed of God's word. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. That's what I'm scared of. That's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid of God. What if they come after your family? Then you know what? Then my family and I get the privilege to be martyrs for Christ. We receive that we only have one life to live. Why not use it for the cause of Christ? Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. Lord, thank you for the persecution, the reviling. I pray, God, that you would be with us, Lord. Continue to protect us.