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. . Good morning, everyone, welcome to Mountain Baptist Church, take your song books and turn to song number 46. Song number 46 will sing My Savior, first of all. And if you would stand, we'll sing song number 46. When my life work is ended and I cross the swelling tide, when the bright and glorious morning I shall see, I shall know my Redeemer when I reach the other side, and his smile will be the first to welcome me. I shall know him, I shall know him, and redeemed by his side I shall stand. I shall know him, I shall know him, by the print of the nails in his hands. Oh, the soul-thrilling rapture when I view his bested face, and the luster of his kindly beaming eye, how my full heart will praise him for the mercy, love, and grace that prepare for me a mansion in the sky. I shall know him, I shall know him, and redeemed by his side I shall stand. I shall know him, I shall know him, by the print of the nails in his hands. Oh, the dear ones in glory, how they beckon me to come, and are parting at the river I recall. To the sweet boughs of Eden they will sing my welcome home, but I long to meet my Savior first of all. I shall know him, I shall know him, and redeemed by his side I shall stand. I shall know him, I shall know him, by the print of the nails in his hands. Through the gates to that city and the robe of spotless white, he will lead me where no tears will ever fall. In the glad song of ages I shall mingle with delight, but I long to meet my Savior first of all. I shall know him, I shall know him, and redeemed by his side I shall stand. I shall know him, I shall know him, by the print of the nails in his hands. And let's pray, Heavenly Father, Lord, we just want to thank you, God, for this day you've given us to meet in your house and to hear your word preached. I pray, Lord, now that you would just be with our pastor, fill him with your power and spirit for it's in Jesus' name I ask all, amen. All right, you may be seated and take your song books and turn to song 144. Song 144 in your song books, we'll sing A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, song 144. A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing, our helper he amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe, see us seek to work his mow. His craft and power are great and armed with cruel hate. On earth is not his equal, did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing. We're not the right man on our side, the man of God's own choosing, does ask who that man may be, Christ Jesus it is he, Lord, say his name from age to age the same and he must win the battle and through this world with devils failed should threaten to undo us. We will not fear for God hath willed his truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim we tremble not for him, his rage we for lo his doom is sure, one little word shall fail him, that word above all earthly powers no thanks to them abideth. The spirit and the gifts are ours through him who with us sideth, let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also the body they may kill, God's truth abideth still, his kingdom is forever. Amen. Welcome out to Baptist Church on this Sunday morning. And just some announcements here. Actually, can somebody hand me a bulletin? I think brother Anthony handed me one back there and then I didn't bring it with me. But as far as service times, everything is normal today. We have our Sunday morning service obviously right now. We have our sowing time afterwards at 1 p.m., but we have our Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m. And then we have our Wednesday evening service where we're Lord willing continuing through the book of Exodus. And as far as the regional sowing times, brother Charles and brother Richie lead those up respectively there, Monday and Wednesday. I know brother Richie is still trying to find a vehicle. So bear with him on that one. So we'll give him a little bit of grace there on that. But hopefully, pray for brother Richie obviously that that all gets resolved and they get their vehicle fixed and all that. So that's not fun. That's definitely a headache. And then on Bible memory, we have Psalm 16. And so for the month of June here, we're memorizing Psalm 16. Some good verses in there. Obviously, the Lord is at my right. I've set the Lord before me because he is at my right hand. I shall not be moved. But then there's the verses about the resurrection, which is thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt I suffer thine holy one to see corruption. And so it's not a it's not a super long psalm. So actually those I mean, that's that's a big part of it there. And then Matthew 7, verse 6. I want to make sure I'm not misquoting this. This is our memory verse for the week. Most of you probably have heard this verse, but I just want to make sure I'm not quoting it wrong or missing something at the very beginning of the verse there. Sometimes and brother Anthony, if the verse is shorter, we could try to fit it on there. You know, if the verse is shorter, maybe we can try to do that. Sometimes the verses are really long, so it's going to be hard to fit it on there. That way, if you know, you can kind of have your bulletin with you and you can just use that as a reminder to memorize it. But Matthew 7, verse 6, it says, Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you. So happy Sunday. And that is our memory verse for the week. But that's obviously going to be pertinent for my sermon this morning. Actually, this whole day, so when it comes to the sermons today. But we're in June and you probably know what's coming. But that being said, that's a good verse to have memorized. I mean, that's Sermon on the Mount. I mean, that's the Sermon on the Mount where he said that, so it's a good verse to have memorized. And then we have our Soloning Marathon coming up here on June 18th in Charleston, West Virginia. So that'll be coming up this coming Saturday. So, you know, if you can make it out there, that'd be great. If you need a ride or you need help getting out there, let me know. And we're going to be meeting at the Panera. We'll probably put on the WhatsApp the address to the Panera as far as like where we're going to be meeting up around 930. And we'll have to check the weather too. One thing that we did one time in Wheeling, and so we'll be checking the weather is that if it's going to like rain in the afternoon, then we kind of just do this big push and then we just kind of eat. Like instead of kind of having an extended time and then we'll kind of eat a late lunch slash dinner type thing. So we'll just be checking the weather. So just be on the WhatsApp there to kind of see the schedule as far as how we're doing the Soloning Marathon there. We do have scheduled on here July 2nd fireworks. So for the past few years we've been doing like kind of a firework display for the church. And so that'll be at Robinson Ridge. And so we'll give you an address to get out there. Most of you have been out there though. But you probably still want an address because just in case you don't remember how to get out there. But that'll be coming up here soon. And birthdays. What is today? We got Emma's obviously. I think that would be it, right? We got Elizabeth's, right? Did we sing happy birthday for? Okay. Then we'll sing happy birthday to Elizabeth McShea. I know you got Brooklyn last week. And then we'll do Emma as well. So Emma's going to be on Saturday. So don't worry, we are celebrating her birthday. Even though we're doing the Soloning Marathon, we're just going to celebrate a day early. But anniversaries. We got the Heil's anniversary. And then be in prayer for the ladies that are still on the pregnancy list here. For Ms. Catherine and Ms. Rachel. And be in prayer for them as we are in the month of June on their due date. And be in prayer for all those that just had little ones that are recovering. And that whole process there. And just the transition of another child in the home there. But a blessing for sure to have more children in the church. Offering boxes in the back, mother baby rooms for the mother babies only. Brother Dave's going to come sing one more song. Who's reading this morning? Brother Anthony is going to be reading, what did I have you read? Yeah, 2 Timothy chapter 3. So I have a lot of passages I'm going to, okay? Sometimes I just pick one. I'm just like that one. We haven't read that chapter in a while. So Brother Anthony will read that after Brother Dave sings one more song here. All right, take your song books and turn to song 153. Song 153 will sing How Firm a Foundation. But before we do that, we need to sing Happy Birthday to the two birthday girls. We have Elizabeth and Emma. And how old is Elizabeth? Three. And Emma. How old are you, Emma? Show me. How old are you? She can do it. Just show me. Are you three? Both three? All right. Awesome. Awesome. We'll sing Happy Birthday to Elizabeth. Do you want to stand up? All right. All right. We'll sing Happy Birthday. Ready? Here we go. She's like, I'm going to sit down now. I'm done with this. All right. Here we go. Ready? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. God bless you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you both. And we'll sing song 153. How firm a foundation, Ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith In His excellent Word. What more can He say Than to you He hath said To you who for refuge to Jesus hath fled In ev'ry condition, In sickness and health, In poverty's veil, Or in bounding and wealth, At home and abroad, On the land, on the sea, As your days may demand, Shall your strength ever be When through fiery trials Thy pathway shall lie, My grace, all sufficient, Shall be thy supply. Claim shall not hurt, The eye only design, Thy draw'st to consume, And thy gold to refine, In down to old age, All my people shall prove, My sovereign, eternal, Unchangeable love. And when hoary hare Shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still In my bosom be born, The soul that on Jesus Hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not, Decerti expose, That soul, though all hell Should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, No never forsake. All right, take your Bibles and turn to 2 Timothy 3. 2 Timothy 3. We'll have Brother Anthony read that for us. 2 Timothy 3. Baba reads this note also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truth breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive, silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Janus and Jamborees withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifested unto all men, as theirs also was. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for this morning where we can gather and hear your word preach and thank you for Mountain Baptist Church for just standing for your truth in the word. I pray God you be with our pastor, fill him with your Holy Spirit, and help us all to learn. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. So you're there in 2 Timothy chapter 3 and the name of the sermon is From Such Turn Away. From Such Turn Away. This sermon kind of stems obviously we're in pride month for that, but we're in June and obviously there's a lot of wicked reprobates that are just going around trying to propagate their agenda. But this idea that mainstream Christianity, people that are even Christians think that we should be fellowshipping with people that are past hope of salvation, with reprobates, with people that can't even be saved. And this idea that shouldn't you be around them? Don't you want to try to win them? And this principle is throughout the Bible that there are people that we should just separate from. And what I'm going to show you as well is that there's Christians you should separate from and that you should not be around and company with. So even on the surface you say, well, you hate them. Well, I do hate the reprobate, but I don't hate the Christian that I'm not supposed to company with, but there are certain people that you're supposed to turn away from. Look what it says here in Timothy chapter three and verse one. Second Timothy chapter three and verse one, it says, this know also that in the last days perilous time shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud. Proud. Okay. If you've noticed every single day of this month if you're friends with me on Facebook, I've been posting a verse about dealing with this pride month and this debauchery month. This shameful month is what it is. And there's nothing, the Bible is not telling us to be proud of anything. Okay. Actually, you know, the Bible uses the term well pleasing. You know, that this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Okay. The term pride and proud in the Bible is always used in a negative light. It's not something that we should be attaching ourselves to. And you know, woe unto any Christian that attaches themselves to this pride month. And these people are proud. Notice this, keep reading there, blasphemers, the parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fears, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Notice this, from such, turn away. Does it say that I should just hang out with these people? Does it say that I need to be keeping company with these people? And by the way, when it comes to this, I'm tired of seeing all these stupid pictures that Jesus is somehow ministering to sodomites. Like, well, wouldn't Jesus? Show me chapter and verse on that. Chapter and verse where Jesus ministered to some sodomite. Stop adding to the word of God. Stop putting pictures of so-called Jesus ministering to sodomites. Also, stop saying that Jesus would have been at the bars. Well, he was a friend of publicans and sinners. There's a difference between being a friend of publicans and sinners and trying to get them saved and give them the gospel and going into a bar, and going into a place of debauchery. It's like, well, he'd be at the strip clubs. He'd be at the gay bar. No, he wouldn't. Stop adding to the word of God. Stop saying stuff that Jesus didn't say. By the way, if you ever say, well, you put a phrase there that says, God said, it better be a chapter and verse in the Bible, or you're adding to the word of God. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar. And so I'm tired of seeing these pictures of where, like, Jesus is bending down, like, washing the feet of some sodomite, okay? Because that is not biblical. The Bible actually says these type of people we're supposed to turn away from. Notice what it says. Keep reading here. For of this sort, so we're talking about the same group of people? For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. Notice this. Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith. So these people that we're talking about here, if it says from such turn away, can they be saved? Unless you're going to say the Bible's wrong here when it says they're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now were they able at some point in time in their life? Of course. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but everlasting life. But there comes a point where it says, there I hated them and will love them no more. There's a point in time where He decides I will not love them anymore. But every child that's born into this world, God loves, wants them to get saved, but there can come a point just like Pharaoh where He hardens their heart. And these are those people, and the Bible says with these type of people that we're supposed to turn away from them. Okay? We're not supposed to, you know, commune with them. And I'll say this, no sodomite, no queer, no homosexual will ever be allowed in this church. No pedophile, no child abuser will ever be allowed in this church. And if people don't like that, then good, don't be here. We have a lot of children. We have more children in this church than we have adults. And we will not tolerate that. And you know what the Bible says is that in the Old Testament, they tore down the houses of the sodomites that were near the house of God. Now, I'm not saying to like look around and see if there's sodomites that live around the house of God and tear down their houses. Okay, I'm not, you know, no one is saying go be a vigilante and try to do any type of violence. The government should be doing that. The government should be taking care of these issues. But I'm going to preach the truth. I'm going to preach what the Bible says on this. And this isn't popular in today's day and age. But you know what? So be it. There's a time to preach the word in season, there's a time to preach the word out of season. And this is out of season, but so be it. And by the way, Christian, you better get what the Bible actually says on this issue and not just what Fox News tells you, not what, what's his name, Ben Shapiro tells you, not what Steven Crowder tells you about this issue because they're all going to say that we should love them and that we should commune with them and we should try to win them over. Okay? They do not stand with the Bible on this issue. You know, they'll kind of say well, we shouldn't hate. Is that what the Bible says? The Bible says, do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. The Bible says that if you love them and hate the Lord, the wrath of God is upon you. That's what the Bible teaches. It doesn't say anything about them getting married. And so this is going to be a hard sermon for a Sunday morning. But you know what? I feel like I always preach the hard sermons on a Sunday morning. You know what? That's when most people are here. So that's when we're going to do it. So if you want the hard sermons to be on Sunday evening, then everybody better start showing up on Sunday evening. Okay? But as long as everybody's coming up on Sunday morning, that's when it's going to happen. So it's a nice sunny day outside, so be cheerful. But here's the thing. We need to know what the truth is here. Now, like I said, you know, with these, there's many passages I could have chose from such withdrawal by self. You know, reject. You know, like there's a ton, there's a lot of terms that I'm going to show you here that are basically saying the same thing. Avoid them. Turn away from them. Withdraw thyself from them. Let them alone. Right? There's a lot of terms that the Bible uses when it comes to this. I just picked this passage. So, you know, it just feels like this is a fitting passage from such turn away. And there's a lot of things in that list, but the one thing that, when I think about, obviously the sin of sodomy when you think about the sodomites, but reprobates in general, their nature is to lie. And when Jesus talks about how you're your father to the devil and he tells that to people, he says the devil's a liar and the father of it. And when he's speaking to lie, he's speaking to himself. It's the nature of sodomites. It's the nature of reprobates to lie. Okay? And it's funny, you know, we got an email June 1st, you know, like basically trying to attack me personally. It's funny. They're like all Nimrod, you know, on Timrod. You know, Nimrod that lives on Timrod. I'm like, you know, we're in West Virginia, and by the way, Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord, so thank you for the compliment. Morons. They don't know what they're talking about. They don't even know what the Bible says. But I just got a message on Facebook this morning. I got to tell you this because it's so stupid. Okay? This person messages on Facebook and he says, you know, you guys allow sinners like Jason Robinson to be in church? He's like, don't you know that he's a well-known closeted homosexual? I'm like, well-known closeted homosexual. Morons. You know, the Bible calls them brute beasts. You know what that means? A big dumb animal. Maybe not big, depending on the size of the person, right? Brute means dumb. Beast means animal. They're dumb animals, folks. They lack all reason. They're unreasonable. They have no conscience. And you know what? They can't even like put a sentence together without it contradicting itself. Obviously that's a false accusation, but at the same time it's just stupidity. It's like, am I closeted or am I not? You know? It's well-known. It's well reported of, but it's closeted. Morons. Okay? That's what you're dealing with here. Now, you say, well, I can't believe you'd just be so, listen, there's nothing, listen to me now. There is nothing that you could say about a sodomite or a reprobate will ever offend me. Okay? Now, obviously when there's kids around, you don't, I don't want you to be crude, okay? I don't want you to be talking about things that we shouldn't be talking about. Okay? You know, we need to, what they do in secret, it's a shame to even speak of. Okay? The Bible says. But whatever derogatory term you can come up for a sodomite or for a reprobate, doesn't hurt my feelings. At all. Okay? And if it hurts your feelings, you know, it's like, if a pedophile came in here and someone was just like calling him every name in the book, would you be like, man, you need to be, you need to take it easy on him. Or you'd be like, you're, keep going. Okay? Now, go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3, 2 Thessalonians chapter 3. This may get banned on YouTube. We'll probably lose our account. Who knows? At this point, who cares? You know, like YouTube is just, you know, I've ceased to care what social media does to us, you know, and all that. I mean, we're gonna, God's word will prevail. His truth will prevail. And, you know, if social media bans us all, then, you know, so be it. But in 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 14, know what it says. And if any man obey not our epistle by this, I'm sorry, obey our, and if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, then he may be ashamed. Yet, count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. So he's basically, what it's stating here is that, do you know that there's Christians, there's brothers and sisters in Christ that we're not supposed to keep company with? Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. I'll give you some like, you know, basically hone in, like what would they have to do in order for you to, you know, not company with them. Obviously, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. I mean, we all have sin. Okay, we all sin everyday. The thought of foolishness is sin. To him to do it, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth not, to him unto sin. So you know this, is that we're all, we're all guilty of sin. But there are levels of sin. And not all sin is equal. That's another lie that the world tries to tell you. The Bible says there's the greater sin, there's a greater damnation. And as we're going through Exodus, you know that there's different levels of punishment based off the sin. So that shows you there's a different level of sin. Okay. But in 1 Corinthians 5, verse 9, this deals with church discipline. In verse 9, it says, I wrote unto you in an epistle not the company with fornicators, yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous or extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must you needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you, not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such in one know not to eat. For what have I to judge them also that are without? Do not judge them that are within, but them that are without, God judge it, therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. So here's a case where you're putting away somebody from yourselves, and you're not keeping company with that brother. But the ultimate goal here with a brother is that they get reconciled. Right? You're not accounting them as an enemy. You're trying to admonish them as a brother. You're trying to get them to realize, okay, I need to fix this. Okay? So that they come back into the fold. Ultimately you want them to come back into the company of believers, but this idea that while we, you know, if someone's a drunkard, we should just have them in the church. It's not what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that they are to be put out until they get that right, and then they can come back in. Okay? And it's not to say that we don't try to help them get rid of that vice or whatever, but at the same time, we're not going to be hanging out with them and we're not going to be buddy-buddy with them until they get that fixed. You say, well, why? Well, you know, the Bible talks about that you're supposed to help those that are overtaken in a fault, but it says, consider thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Okay? You know, a little 11 to the whole lump that it says in this passage, and the reason that we're putting them out is so that we don't get corrupted with it. Okay? And that we don't fall into those same type of sins and all that. Okay? Now go to Matthew chapter 15. Matthew chapter 15. And, you know, I had some friends that are not saved say this to me because, you know, I kind of was like, they kind of know where I stand, but at the same time, like, I think they forget where I stand on these issues, but when it comes to this, I said, you know, just so you know, if there's a sodomite in our group that we're doing, you know, whatever we're doing here, I said I wouldn't be here, just so you know. Okay? And they're just like, what? You know, don't you want them to be around? Don't you want to be a good influence on them? I'm like, no. I don't. They're like, well, what about so-and-so? He's an atheist. I'm like, I love him. He has hope. You know? But no, not the sodomites. And so this kind of came up, and it was kind of this idea that we should be ministering to every single person. It's not what the Bible teaches. What did Jesus say about the Pharisees? Okay? And Matthew chapter 15 and verse 12. Matthew chapter 15 and verse 12. It says in verse 12, Then came his disciples and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying? I love reading this because I'm just like, who cares? You know, like, oh, wow, they were offended. What else is new? But obviously we're reading it in hindsight's 20-20. You know, we're looking at this like, of course the Pharisees were offended. But notice what Jesus says here, verse 13. But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. Let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. So when it comes to the sodomites, the reprobates of the world, you know what I believe our Savior's saying? Just let them alone. Okay? The government should be taking care of it, but what's our job? Let them alone. From such turn away. The idea here is that we're not protesting. I'm not going to some pride parade and protesting that parade. And like holding up signs that says God hates you. Now that's true, but what's the profit in that? Right? They're like, oh, you're a Westboro Baptist? Listen, the Westboro Baptists believe they can get saved. We don't! Okay? We actually believe what the Bible says about this, that the reason that they're in that state is because God has given them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. Okay? There's no hope for them. So I'm not going to waste my time with them. I'm going to let them alone. You know what the Bible says? They're all going to fall into a ditch. Okay? So here's my advice when it comes to the queers in the world. Just leave them alone. I mean, if you can't do anything about it anyway, right? I mean, we're not the government. We can't execute judgment on evildoers. So leave them alone. Let them alone from such turn away, right? We're not going to be around them, okay? And we're just going to leave them alone. And I'm going to take Jesus' advice on this. Now, he's talking about the Pharisees, but it's interesting because he brings up something that says, every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. That's a very interesting language, isn't it? Do you remember the parable of the sower and the wheat and the tares? Who planted the plants that were not planted by the Father, right, is the devil, right? The wicked one came in and planted tares among the wheat. Okay, so we're not just talking about like everybody's plant here in the world. No, we're talking about some were planted by God and some were planted by the devil. We're talking about saved people compared to children of the devil, children of God, children of the devil. And he's saying every one of those plants that was planted by someone else that wasn't planted by God is going to be rooted up. So you can take solace in this meaning. This is that we can look at the world and be like, man, there's all this wickedness going on. There's all this, you know, like this stuffing shoved down everybody's throats. Well, know this, is that the more they shove it down everybody's throats, the more people are going to be sick of it. You know what's going to be more? They're going to be more sick of it now that they're paying $5 a gallon or $8 a gallon or whatever it's getting up to now and everything's hitting their pocketbook and now you're trying to shove this pride crap down my throat. Now there are these school shootings that are going on and they're like we're not going to arm ourselves and by the way we're going to shove pride down your throat all this month. I always look at the silver lining here. Mon County had an article saying they lost $2 million in public schools because 350 students were taken out to put into charter schools. That made me happy, okay. And you know what that doesn't include? All of us at home school. They didn't include who doesn't go into the school. They're talking about people that are being pulled out of school, okay. So think about like what's not going in on top of what's being taken away from them, okay. And you know what, it's a silver lining. Obviously, you know, it's tragic that those kids were killed and it's just horrifying to think about. And those type of people should be taken out and hung publicly before it ever happens, okay. But what they should have had is someone that was armed in the school take that person out before they ever got into the classroom. And if they refuse to acknowledge that that's what needs to happen, you blame all these parents for saying, nope, I'm not going to let them into the school. You refuse to arm yourself, you refuse to make it safe for them to be there, then you know what, not going to put them in there, okay. You keep pushing this wicked debauchery, abominable filth down my children's throats at school, not going to send them in there. And that's what we're dealing with from such turn away. And in a lot of cases, the sodomites are teaching your children. And go to John chapter 8, John chapter 8. What I want to show you here is that he talks about the Pharisees who were offended. And what was his reply to that? Let them alone. Now, letting them alone doesn't mean that he's not going to warn you about them. Does that make sense? When I say let them alone, that doesn't mean that we're not going to talk about how wicked they are. We're not going to talk about what the Bible teaches about them, okay. Where you're dealing with false prophets, you're dealing with sodomites, because didn't even warn them, it says beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is what, doctrine and hypocrisy. So beware of it. Not to mention there's a whole chapter in Matthew chapter 23 where he rips their face off. Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites. You know, he calls them serpents, vipers. Who did he do that for? Did he do it for them? Did he do it for those that heard that message? Or did he do it for everybody that's reading that? It's one of my favorite passages in the Bible, because Jesus is just standing up, just proclaiming the word of God boldly against these false teachers, okay. And John chapter 8 in verse 13, it says, I just want you to see who he's talking to in verse 13. It says, the Pharisees therefore said unto him, thou barest record of thyself, thy record is not true. Who are you dealing with here? Dealing with Pharisees that obviously are saying he's lying, okay. Verse 42, Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God, and neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word. You know what it says in John chapter 12? It says they could not believe. That's what, you know, the Bible's stating. They could not believe. Jesus is saying, because you cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lust of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks of the lie, he speaks of himself, for he's a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not. Which of you convinces me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words, ye therefore hear them not, because you are not of God. So when he's talking to the Pharisees, who's he dealing with? People that literally cannot hear the word of God. What does that mean? They can't understand it, right? They can hear what he's saying, right? But they can't understand it. Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Reprobate concerning the faith, okay? Go to Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. Or go to Matthew chapter 3. So it talks about, you know, the plant that's planted to be rooted up. You go to Matthew chapter 7. I'm going to read Matthew chapter 3 for us here. He's talking to the Pharisees and Sadducees. And he calls them a generation of vipers, but it says, And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Now Matthew 7 is going to clarify this, that when he's talking about not bringing forth good fruit, that means they're bringing forth corrupt fruit. Okay? And what are we dealing with here? False prophets. Okay, when you're dealing with reprobates, a lot of times the Bible will be dealing with false prophets being reprobate, or dealing with people that are degenerate when it comes to sin, as far as sodomites and pedophilia and just different things like that. But in Matthew chapter 7, verse 15, it says, Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Sound familiar? They have a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny, and being abominable and disobedient unto every good work, reprobate. That means that they can't do one good work. Every work that they do, there's some kind of deceiving, wickedness that's behind why they're doing it. You know, you've probably heard of psychopaths, but everything they do is calculated. And it may appear like, oh, they're doing this to be nice. No, they're doing that to get on your good side. No, they're doing that to get you to trust them so that they can do something wicked later on. Because you can find these people maybe doing some good deed here. But again, why are they doing it? They have a motive. Notice what it says in verse 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and every corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is shewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them. So when it says that every, that an axe is laid to the tree, when it says they don't bring forth good fruit, what are we talking about? Them bringing forth evil fruit, corrupt fruit. We're talking about an evil tree, a corrupt tree that's being cast into the fire. Okay, go to Jude. Jude in verse 7. Jude in verse 7. So when he says, let them alone, who's he dealing with here? Is he dealing with the grandma down the street that rejects the gospel? And she's like, I don't have time. Is that how he's saying let alone? Or is he saying, no, we're talking about people that are past hope of salvation. We're dealing with people that are false prophets, that are corrupt trees, and you're not going to change a corrupt tree into a good tree. And in Jude in verse 7 here, Jude in verse 7. And just so you know, I don't like preaching on this subject. I love everything about the word of God, but listen, sodomy is disgusting. Reprobates are disgusting. I'd rather preach on many other things, but this has to be preached. It needs to be preached. Someone's got to do it, and there's a bunch of Baptist churches in West Virginia right now that are refusing to say anything about it. And that's why we're in the state that we're in, because they're too afraid of what the alphabet community, the LGBTQAARP plus two, minus one community will do to you if you preach the truth on this. Oh, they'll take away my job. They'll give me death threats. What else is new? You know what? When it comes to that, they're just proving themselves to be what they are. And we need to stand with Christians, with churches that are standing up for the truth on this issue. And this is an issue, my friends, where there may be pastors of churches that I'm not friends with necessarily, or I wouldn't consider close friends, but on this issue, we're close. We're going to be close on this issue. And this brings all those things that don't matter unless they all fall apart to where we say, you know what, we need to be united on this issue, because there's very few people that are saying anything about it. So you know what? I'm for everybody that's saying something about it. I'm for all those preachers out there, whether they like me, whether I like them, that you know what, they're preaching against the sodomites. I like them. That's where I stand. And you can say, well, you know, but what about this? What about that? I don't care. This stuff right here, this is what is killing America right now. Obviously, you have the abortions that are killing America right now, literally killing Americans. But this issue right now is you want our country to be blessed. You want God to be blessed in this country. You've got to get this issue ingrained into Americans' heads. This is an issue that needs to be set right, where we realize, hey, this is an abomination. We don't celebrate this garbage. We need to turn away from this garbage. We need to just get this stuff out of our country, get this propaganda off every screen that we ever see. This stuff needs to stop. And you know what? Government officials need to hear what Christians have to say on this. They need to start listening to Americans. And listen, most Americans would agree with us on this issue that it's disgusting, it's filthy, we don't want anything to do with it. They're just too afraid to say anything about it. But sometimes you just need a couple people to stand up and be like, you know what? I agree with that guy. You know what? I think the one thing that's going to get people to wake up about this is that they're coming for our kids. We already knew that was happening. We already said that from a long time ago. We're like, they're pedophiles. We're like, I can't believe you'd say that. Then you have the San Francisco men's choir, gay, queer, fag, men's choir, singing about how they're coming for our children. And now they're saying pedophilia is just, you know, love has no age. Listen, that's coming. And that's what they're trying to push down. That's already in Europe. They're trying to bring it here. They're already trying to push it. And I think this is where Americans are going to say, you know what? Nuts to you and your whole agenda. And hopefully that's the case, but we do need men to stand up and stand in the gap. Make up the hedge, stand in the gap before me for the land that doesn't destroy it. And our country is going to be destroyed one day, but let it not be destroyed in our day. Let us be someone that's going to stand in the gap on this issue come what may when it comes to all the consequences. Because, you know what? Free speech has consequences because, you know what? Any one of us could lose our jobs over what we say, but so be it. The truth needs to be proclaimed. And you know what? Let me ask you a question. Who do you think God's going to take care of more? The preacher who stands up for the truth and says, this thus saith the Lord? Or the preacher that's too afraid to say it and doesn't say anything about it? Do you know what happened to Jeremiah and what happened to the other prophet who I can't even remember his name because he fled? You're like, why don't you remember his name? Well, maybe because he was a coward and he ran away. He ran away. What happened when he ran away? They brought him back and killed him with a sword. You know what happened to Jeremiah? He lived and he had the choice whether he wanted to stay in the country or go to Babylon and just prosper in Babylon. And he also became a landowner. Like he bought a whole bunch of property before it was taken over. So, in the end, when it comes to this issue, we need to trust in the Lord. But go to Jude in verse 7 there. It says, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them and like man are giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Strange flesh. What's another word for strange? Queer. Which they actually put on their moniker. I mean, that's the LGBTQ. That's what the Q stands for. You're like, oh, you're using a derogatory term? So what? Good. But second of all, they use it. Oh, you're not one of them, so you can't use it. I could use whatever word I want. You know, I'm a true-born son of liberty in America right now. And you know what? As of right now, we still have free speech, and I can say what I want to say. And you know what? Even if I couldn't say what I wanted to say, I'd still say it anyway. So we need some preachers that have some hair on their legs. Now, if you happen to have alopecia or whatever that is, or you just happen to not have, you know, like you have some kind of like problem, I'm not talking to you, okay? But notice what it says in verse 8. So obviously, Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for sodomy. That's where we get that term sodomy that's in the Bible. Sodomites, sodomy, you know, like that's where that comes from. Everybody in the world knows what it means when you're saying sodomite or sodomy, okay? Unless they're like a child that doesn't understand those terminologies, okay? But let me put it down on the level here. We're talking about queers. We're talking about fags. We're talking about homos. You're like, why don't you call them gay? Gay means happy. And you know what? We live in a day where they call the proud happy. And what does it say in verse 8 here? It says, likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said the Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally as brute beasts, and those things they corrupt themselves. What do brute beasts mean? Dumb animal, okay? Stupid animal, okay? And it says in verse 11, Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error, bailing for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Corey. These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, clouds they are without water, carried about of winds. Notice this. Trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wondering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. What are we talking about? Those that are plucked up by the roots. What did Jesus say? Let them alone. Because what's going to happen to them? They're all going to be plucked up. They're going to be rooted up. And so let them alone. We need to from such turn away, okay? So Christian out there that thinks that, no, we should be loving to them, we should be around them. What does the Bible say on this issue? It says from such turn away. Because this sort is ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. So what are you doing? You say, well, you know, I don't want to give up on them. God gave up on them. In Romans chapter one, it says two times, it says he gave up, gave up, and then it says he gave them over. So if God gives up on them, why would I have hope for them? If they're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, why would I try to teach them? By the way, you don't want to hear it anyway. That's always that false argument. Like, well, you're telling me that when you go out soul winning, you wouldn't give the gospel to someone else, a queer? Listen, I give people the benefit of the doubt most of the time. And what it really comes down to is that queers just don't want to hear it. So I don't have to make that choice. Now, if someone comes out straight up in drag, I'm going to be like, bye. And you can judge me on that or not, but I'll say this, those people that say that and are trying to like say, well, you know, you're not loving because you're not giving them the gospel or whatever, listen, I've given the gospel by accident to more fags than they've done in their lifetime. Because these are the same people that go out soul winning at all. I've accidentally done it more times than they've ever tried to do it. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. But the Bible does say that we should beware of them. So the idea here is that, remember Jesus said let them alone, but he says beware of the, you know, the 11 of the Pharisees, right? Notice what it says in Philippians chapter three, Philippians chapter three. It's going to lead into another verse. So what's the point of this sermon? Stay away from them. That's the point. Very simple, stay away from them. The Bible teaches to stay away from them. It's not like we're like, well, I want to stay away. Jesus is saying stay away from them. Paul is saying stay away from them. The Bible is saying stay away from them. So I'm going to stay away from them. I'm not going down to their events and protesting that. I'm going to stay away from them. You're like, well, don't you want to protest that? Do you think I want to defile my eyes with that garbage? And Philippians chapter three, verse one, it says, Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you. To me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. What are dogs? We're not talking about Fido here. Old spot. We're talking about sodomites. The Bible talks about, uses this lynxist in Deuteronomy with a sodomite and a dog. And people are just like, you know, oh, you're saying that homosexuality is not natural. You know, dogs do it. Yeah, exactly. You just made my point. You just proved the Bible right. I wonder why the Bible uses the term dog when it's talking about this. Because they do that. Because they're beasts. Brute beasts. Dogs are dumb. Okay. I had this discussion with my daughter about how dumb dogs are. Okay. And she loves them. You know, obviously we have a couple wiener dogs. She's like, no, they're not dumb. You know, like they're pretty stupid. Okay. And I'm a dog person over a cat person, but I'm starting to just not like animals at all. Like I'm really, maybe it's because I have a bunch of kids and, you know, like I have so much, you know, before I had kids, it's kind of like, you know, you're like the dog that greets you and it's like happy to see you and all that. But I have four kids that are greeting me at the door. I'm just not caring about animals that much anymore unless they do something for me. Like I'm going to get chickens and they're going to give me eggs. Okay. You know, are they being productive? Okay. Side note. But Philippians chapter 3 kind of starts off with beware of dogs. Then it gets into like the idea of salvation and how it's not by works, it's by faith. But then down in verse 17, he's kind of picking up where it left off with why he's kind of warning them about these people. Notice what it says in verse 17. Brethren, be followers together of me and mark them, which walk so as ye have us for an example. It says mark them because you have us for an example as far as like basically what the difference is between the dogs, the concision, the evil workers, right? And it says for many walk of whom I have told you often and I'll tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. I mean, this should be the moniker of the Pride Month. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, they glory in their shame, who mind earthly things. You know, this is what they do. It's all about sensual stuff. It's all about instant gratification. It's all about debauchery and wickedness. And, you know, the Bible says we need to be warned about that and we need to mark these people, okay? Romans chapter 16. Go to Romans chapter 16. It's going to go in another term where we avoid them, okay? So what are we supposed to do? We're supposed to from such turn away, let them alone, and I'm going to show you here where it says avoid them. Avoid them, okay? Now this isn't all just talking about sodomites. Obviously in June, that's what we're dealing with, right? I'm talking about reprobates in general, okay? And this is a very small portion of the population, okay? So don't let the media make you think that 50% of the population is a bunch of reprobates, okay? We're talking like 2% of the population. It's not nothing, but at the same time, like that's a minority, okay? But they're so loud and it's on every channel, you would think like literally half the country is this. And it's just not the case. But in Romans chapter 16 and verse 17, that's what it says. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. They're coming after the hearts of the simple. They beguile unstable souls, the Bible says. It talks about reprobates, how they beguile unstable souls, that their hearts are full of adultery and they cannot cease from sin. They're cursed children, okay? That's what we're dealing with when you're dealing with reprobates, when you're dealing with sodomites, okay? And the Bible's saying is avoid them. Avoid them like a plague. They're like a leper to me, okay? I don't want anything new with them and they're unclean. They're literally like a leper. I mean they're filled with so much diseases. And you say, well, you know, I can't believe you'd say that. That's the CDC saying that. Look up the statistics on the CDC and there's reasons why. I mean I'm not going to get into details on why they're filled with diseases. But part of that is that, you know, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient and they received them themselves. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, but it says that they might receive in themselves that recompense of their error, which was me. And you can fill in the blank, STDs, AIDS, HIV, monkey pox. Isn't that the new one, right? The media doesn't want you to know that that's the population. That's where it came from. It came from some like queer orgy out in Europe somewhere, okay. So am I afraid for monkey pox? No, just as much as I'm not afraid about AIDS, you know. Just not worried about that. Obviously people can get it from like blood transfusions. They can get it from like needles and stuff like that. So just because someone has that doesn't mean that they're a reprobate. So let me put that disclaimer in there, okay. But in the end, you know, this is where it stems from, okay. Go to Matthew chapter 7, our memory verse, Matthew chapter 7. I remember when I first got saved, I remember talking to my dad and my dad hated our neighbor, our one neighbor anyway. And I won't say the stuff that he said about him, but later on. But this neighbor, you know, looking back, I'm like this guy was evil, okay. And my dad was right, okay. And we were learning how to ride bikes. We were learning how to like ride without training wheels, all that stuff. And it turned out that like part of our yard was a part of the ride away for the driveway that went down to our neighbor behind us. But the neighbor beside us, he thought he owned it, okay. So he put like these metal like rusty stakes through our yard, like basically along the road. And my dad, you know, asked him, you know, like can you take those out, you know, like I got kids that are riding bikes, you know, that's not safe, you know, they can get hurt on that. And he refused to do it. It turns out our neighbor behind us ended up owning it and then our neighbor behind us took a sledge hammer and knocked those things out and threw them in that guy's yard, okay. But I remember when I first got saved, I was naive. I didn't always believe this doctrine. I thought everybody had hope of salvation. I thought we should love everybody, okay. But I just didn't know the Bible, okay. And I just remember thinking, I'm like, dad, we should love him, you know, we should try to give him the gospel, you know, we should do this. And, you know, I want to say what my dad said about him but I'm just not going to do it, okay. My brother knows. But like looking back on that, you know, there are people out there that can't sleep unless they do evil, unless they cause some to fall. That's what Proverbs 4 says. And there are people that we should just stay away from. My dad always told me, you know, just stay away from them and, you know, and as a kid you're naive, right, you're just kind of like, you know, why? You know, you don't think that there are people that are just inherently evil, okay. You don't think that there's just psychopaths out there. But my dad was an adult who knew about Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy and knew about people that were wicked like that and that were just pure evil, okay. And that was a lesson. I remember when I learned his document, like, my dad was probably right about that guy, you know. And I didn't have a chance to really even know whether this guy was reprobate or not. But at the same time, like, that's a pretty evil thing to do when you got kids that you know are just riding their bikes around and you're just going to put these rusty stakes, you know, like rebar stakes in the ground and refuse to do anything to make it safe. Just, you know, that's pretty messed up, you know. And obviously my dad saw that and, you know. Anyway, that being said is that don't be naïve on this subject, okay. I understand that people when they get saved, they don't know this subject. They think that, you know, there's not people like that out in the world but the Bible teaches there are people like that out in the world and we need to be warned about it. But notice what it says here. And my dad would use this verse actually. Matthew 7 verse 6 says, Not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you. And, you know, my dad would use this a lot of times because there would be certain people that maybe he worked with and he's just like wasting your breath, even like try to talk to them about it. And I don't know those, I don't know, I've never tried to talk to those people, you know. But at the same time, that's true, meaning there are people that you're just wasting your time trying to cast your pearls before swine. Give that which is holy unto the dogs and not casting your, you know, don't give that which is holy unto the dogs and don't cast your pearls before swine. Go to 2 Peter chapter 2, 2 Peter chapter 2. At the end of 2 Peter chapter 2, 2 Peter chapter 2 is all about like a false prophet, reprobate, I mean you're dealing with Sodom, you're dealing with the angels that fell, the fallen angels, you're dealing with all these different things. You're dealing with the flood and just how God's like basically putting out his punishment. And at the end of the chapter, it says in verse 22, But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomiting again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Now what's a sow? But it's a female pig, right? It's interesting because the Bible talks about a woman without discretion is like a jewel of gold in the swine's snout, right? And the Bible used dogs, generally speaking, to talk about men that are into this debauchery of, you know, men with men. But then swine is what's used for women, okay? And that's what the Bible teaches on this when it comes to, you know, that terminology. And they're brute beasts, so is it a big surprise that they're calling them an animal? And think about this, when you say, well, who was Jesus talking to that were reprobate? Who did he call like wicked animals, like vipers, adders, you know, serpents, fox? Didn't he call Herod a fox? You know what's interesting about that story? If you're like, well, you know, you should be always trying to win somebody or whatever. Did Jesus try to win Herod? He didn't say a word to Herod. Remember, Herod wanted to see him and he even wanted to see a sign and he desired to see him. He was done. I believe after he killed John the Baptist, it was lights out for him. He was a dead man walking. I think he had hope before that because he liked to hear John the Baptist preach, but when he ultimately, when he killed John the Baptist, I believe it was lights out for him. And Jesus, he called him a fox, and then when he was in his presence, he wouldn't answer him a word, okay? So, you know, in your reading, you look at 2 Peter 2 where it talks about how with these people, it says, whose judgment now have a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not. The idea is that whose end is destruction, whose end is to be burned. You know, there's so many scriptures in there like this. But go to 1 Timothy 6, 1 Timothy 6. So, again, what did we learn? Again, what did we learn? From such turn away, let them alone, avoid them, right? We're not supposed to be casting our pearls before swine or giving that which is holy unto the dogs, okay? Interpretation to that, you know, like one interpretation is just don't waste your time. What are you wasting your time with those people for, okay? So, but I don't preach this sermon for them, okay? This is not for the sodomite. This is for you. This is for Christians. And this is for all those out there that need to get saved and need to know the truth. And you know what? People are, you know, the common thread that people say is like, you know, you get on the news or, you know, people are like after you and they hate you and they're protesting you. You know, this is going to be, you know, a deterrent for the gospel. You know, you're destroying the kingdom of God. I don't have fingers left for how many people have won the Christ that wouldn't have gotten won if I didn't explain the reprobate doctrine to them. I don't have any fingers left. I'm going to have to go to the toes, okay? Because it happens so often now where someone says, I just can't believe that a pedophile would go to heaven. And I have to say, well, that person is a pedophile? They have no hope of salvation. Because to become a pedophile, you have to be rejected by God for even to go down into that debauchery. And I've had people that wouldn't listen and then as soon as I explained that to them and showed them, you know, hey, there's people that can't get saved. There's people that are reprobate and they're just like, all right, show me. And they get saved. Because we believe once you're saved, you're always saved. We believe salvation is by faith alone. But what the Bible teaches is they won't believe. It's not the sin. It's not this unforgivable, oh, you're saying sodomy is the unforgivable sin? No. I'm saying they won't believe. The Bible says they will not believe. They cannot believe. They're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. And that's the reason, you know, the same reason that anybody else is going to go to hell is because they didn't believe. But those sins, those unnatural sins, the without natural affection, those type of unnatural things that they do, that's not what a normal person does. A normal person does not lust after a child. A normal person does not lust after the same gender, right? It's just not something that you struggle with. If you struggle with that, get out of my church right now. I can't believe you call it your church. Well, I'm not the head, but I am a member, okay? It's my church as much as it's your church. And you know what? If someone has sympathy for a pedophile, I want them nowhere near my children or your children, okay? Now, in 1 Timothy 6 and verse 3 here, it says, If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness. So when people are just like, I can't believe you used that language. I can't believe you called them reprobate. I can't believe you're saying it's abomination or that's a sin. You know, I can't believe you called them a queer. Well, let me call them a brute beast then. Let me call them a filthy dreamer. Let me call them vile. Let me call them a dog, swine, viper. I'm going to keep going because the Bible has a lot of terms for them. And, but it says here in verse 4, it says, He is proud. Again, pride month. Who's proud? Someone that does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. They're proud. Knowing nothing, but doting about questions and stripes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings. Notice this, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Notice this, from such withdraw thyself. So am I supposed to be drawing these people in or withdrawing myself from these people? These people have corrupt minds. Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled in unbeliefing is nothing pure. But even their mind and conscience is defiled. Their conscience is seared with a hot iron. They reprobate. They can't be saved. They're beyond the hope of salvation. Reprobate silver, shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them, and I am not going to have anything to do with them. They're not going to have anything to do with us here at this church. And they could protest us. They could say that we're evil. They could say that we're hateful. You know what? We have God on our side. If God before us who can be against us, then we're going to proclaim the truth. Remember this, that the righteous are bold as a lion, but the wicked flee when no man pursue it. We have no reason to be ashamed for what we believe. Well, people are like, I can't believe you say that. I can't believe that you would just allow this debauchery to go on in America right now. I can't believe that you would allow third graders, fourth graders, fifth graders to hear this garbage in our schools today. I can't believe it. Instead of them putting at us and saying, you should be ashamed for what you say. You should be ashamed that you stand up for it. And we need to know that, hey, we're on the right side. The righteous have no reason, listen, we have no reason to be ashamed on this issue because it's God that said it. We're the messengers. They should be ashamed. But you know what? We're living in a generation that can't blush. The Bible says that they can't blush. They're not ashamed and they're not able to blush. It's time that America blushes. Now, I have other things I want to hit on but I don't know if I want to get to it. Go to Psalm 1. Psalm 1. Here's a simple one. Most of you probably have Psalm 1 memorized or at least have heard it many times. I was going to go to Leviticus and kind of give you a spiritual sandwich of Leviticus 18, 19 and 20. I don't know if I have the time for that. I have to bridge that one. But what I'm trying to get to here is that we're supposed to what? From such turn away, avoid them and withdraw thyself from them. Let them alone. Right? Just saying over and over again, stay away from these people. Withdraw yourself from those people. Turn away from these people. Avoid these people. Okay? Psalm 1 and verse 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Don't stand with them. Don't walk with them and don't sit with them. Psalm 26 and verse 4 says, I have not sat with vain persons. Neither will I go with dissemblers. I have hated the congregation of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked. I challenge you to read through the book of Psalms and then after you read the book of Psalms, tell me that we should never hate anybody. We should never hate anything. I challenge you. You're not going to get very far. You won't get into the double digits on the Psalms before you see it. Okay? This is called being a Bible-believing Christian. And the last thing I want to mention here is the Bible calls us to be holy. It says in 2 Corinthians 6, it says, Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. We're supposed to be holy and clean and sanctified and we're supposed to separate ourselves from any unclean thing. Okay? And in 1 Peter 1, it says in verse 15, I want you to go to Leviticus. Okay? Leviticus 18. 1 Peter 1 and verse 15 says, But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. You know where this is written? Be ye holy, for I am holy? That dreaded Leviticus. And Leviticus 18, actually, in your homework you can read Leviticus chapter 18. Okay? But for sake of time, I'm going to start in Leviticus 19. Leviticus 18 kind of gives you, like, here's what you shouldn't do. Here's the commandments that you shouldn't do or certain, you know, crimes that you shouldn't commit. 20 is the penalty. It's like the crime and the penalty for it. So Leviticus 18 and 20 are very similar, but Leviticus 18 usually doesn't give you the, like, penalty for it. The end of the Leviticus 18, it talks about if these things happen in your land, it's going to vomit them, vomit the inhabitants out. And I kind of want you to see that, but it does say it at the end of Leviticus 20, so I'll just end with that. Okay? But in Leviticus 19, verse 1 here, remember it says it is written, okay, be ye holy, for I am holy. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Okay? Now, I want to give you a spiritual sandwich here. You know, Leviticus 18 obviously gives you commandments against sodomy and against other things that a lot of these capital punishment for them. But chapter 19, I want you to read some verses here. In verse 15, verse 15, it says, Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. That flies in the face of what the world thinks, judge not, be not judged. Well, you know what, I'm not a fag, so I'm going to judge them all day long. I'm never going to be a fag, so that means I can continue to judge them till the day I die. That's what Matthew chapter 7 is talking about. But, that being said, is that in righteousness judge thy neighbor. Verse 16, thou shalt not go up and down as a tail bearer among thy people, neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor, I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. Well, see there, it says you shouldn't hate your brother. Well, they're not my brother. They're a brute beast. They're an animal. I mean, there's no animal in the world that I would call my brother. So, therefore, they're not my neighbor, not my brother, and I hate them because they hate the Lord. Because they're an animal. Not only that, they're a dumb animal. Verse 18, thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, I am the Lord. So, people that want to be like, oh, Leviticus, you know, that's outdated, you know, we should just cut that out. Do you know that that's the only place that's mentioned, you know, that's obviously brought up in the New Testament a lot, but the only place in the Old Testament where it says thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself is Leviticus 19. So, notice how they want that verse. That's the one they always quote, right? Aren't we supposed to love our neighbor as thyself? Yeah, well, why don't you read the next chapter, right? Chapter 20 and verse 7, it says, sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be ye holy, for I am the Lord your God. Remember, the Bible says it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy. It's pointing you back here, isn't it? Leviticus 20, 13, that dreaded Leviticus 20, 13. Okay. And listen, there's other things in this list that are worthy of death, bestiality, adultery, you know, just different things that the Bible mentions in this passage. So, you know, I agree with all those. I think they're all valid and they should all be a part of our form of government as far as capital punishment or just crimes that would be committed. But notice what it says in verse 13, if a man also lied 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. Now, this is what I have to say to all the conservative commentators out there, when are you going to actually say this verse? You say that you're against this LGBTQ AARP agenda. You say that you're for Christian values, but when are you going to use the Bible? When are you going to actually use Bible language? And stop saying that we should never hate and stop saying that we should love these people. And you know what, next time you bring up something about the sodomites, give me a chapter and verse on it. Because you know what, the world, you know, your words are not powerful. The words of Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, and, you know, all these other, and I'm using them as an example because, you know, I'm looking at them like, hey, at least they got some truth that's coming out there. They're at least trying to say something right and they're trying to fight for something that's good. But you know what, those people are not going to come out and say Leviticus 2013 is Bible and that's right. You know what they do? They'll compare and be like, well, we're not like these countries that put them to death, like Saudi Arabia. Are you against the Bible? Okay, you know, and that's the famous sermon that I got on the news for was because I was talking about capital punishment. And, you know, which group came after me? Was it the adulterers? Was it, you know, like the murderers? The murderers came after me. They're like, you know what, how dare you say I should be put to death, you know? I didn't say it, first of all. I mean, I did say it, but I'm repeating what the Bible says, okay? Lest anybody say, well, you're just hiding behind the Bible. Let me be clear. I believe what the Bible says on this issue. But Leviticus 20 verse 22, okay, last thing I'm going to say here, because this does have consequences to our country. If our country wants to be blessed, hey, listen country, if you want our gas prices to go down, if you want inflation to not go through the roof, if you want God to bless our country, then we have to get the wickedness out of our country. Getting Trump back into office isn't going to fix anything unless righteousness comes back in, okay? Unless we have a remnant that stands up for the word of truth and that actually will change laws. And listen, Roe v. Wade being overturned and, you know, Lord willing that gets overturned and states ban abortions, we're on the right track. That needs to happen. But there's other things that need to happen as well. You know, these leftist liberal libtards are out there saying this is a gateway drug, now they're going to come after LGBTQ stuff. You read my mind. You know, yeah, no, actually, yeah, we should be canceling all this LGBTQ garbage. Since when was indecent exposure allowed in the streets? So in Leviticus 20 verse 22 it says, Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments and do them, and the land whither I bring you to dwell therein spew you not out. Now read Leviticus 18 at the end there. You know, talk about vomiting out there in heaven, spewing them out, defiling the land. And notice in verse 23 here it says, 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. I don't know about you, but that's a strong word for hate. So what does the Bible teach on this issue? There are people that we're supposed to withdraw from. Even Christians, there are Christians that we should withdraw from. We're not supposed to count them as an enemy. We're supposed to admonish them as a brother. We're trying to get them back into the fold. But when it comes to unsaved people, listen, if someone's just a fornicator, if someone's just, and I say just lightly, you know what I'm saying here, but basically they're in sins and they're in the world. Listen, we're supposed to try to get them saved. Yes, we are supposed to go to them. Yes, we are trying to reach them. We go out every week to try to reach those people and reach anybody that will hear the Gospel. But there are people, the Bible says, to withdraw thyself from. There are people that says, from such turn away. There are people that Jesus says, let them alone. There are people that the Bible says, avoid them. And we need to know this. And Christians and children, you need to know this to be true, that there are people out there that are just evil people. And listen, I'm not saying to be scared. Go home and be like, man, they're going to get me. Okay, listen, like I said, the wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion. And know this is that we have God on our side. You live for God. You come to church. You do what you should be doing. And God is going to be that buckler and shield. He's going to be that stronghold in the time of trouble. Put your trust in Him. And listen, those people won't touch you. And my prayer all the time when we go out soul winning or just in general in life is that God would deliver us from unreasonable and wicked men. But I want nothing to do with them. That's the six foot, you know, like the social distancing. I wouldn't touch them with a ten and a half foot pole. You know where that comes from? Tell me after the service, okay? So let's end with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for today and thank you for your word. And just pray that you'd help us to know these truths and to beware, obviously, of the wicked people that are in the world and the agendas that are being pushed. But Lord, just to help us to just stay away from them, to avoid them, but to warn about them. Lord, that your truth would be proclaimed, that people would know what the truth about them is, but that we're not trying to bring them into the fold. We're not trying to go out and even protest any of their events. We're just trying to do what we're trying to do and just leave them alone, essentially. And Lord, we pray that you'd be with us throughout today. We pray that you'd be able to go out soloing. And Lord, we just thank you for your word and we pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. So Brother Dave, we'll come and sing one more song, and then we'll be dismissed. All right, take your song books and turn to song 150. Song 150, if you would stand, we'll sing My Faith Has Found a Resting Place, song 150. My faith has found a resting place Not in device nor creed I trust the ever-living one His wounds for me shall plead I need no other argument I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died and that he died