WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.080 Look at others with their land and gold. 00:04.080 --> 00:09.040 Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold. 00:09.040 --> 00:13.920 Count your many blessings money cannot buy. 00:13.920 --> 00:18.880 Your reward in heaven or your home on high. 00:18.880 --> 00:23.600 Count your blessings name them one by one. 00:23.800 --> 00:28.680 Count your blessings, see what God hath done. 00:28.680 --> 00:34.080 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 00:34.080 --> 00:39.480 Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. 00:39.480 --> 00:44.320 So amid the conflict, whether great or small, 00:44.320 --> 00:49.120 Do not be discouraged, God is over all. 00:49.120 --> 00:51.600 Count your many blessings, angels, 00:51.800 --> 00:58.800 Help and comfort give you to your journeys and 00:58.800 --> 01:07.800 Count your blessings, name them one by one Count your blessings, see what God hath done 01:07.800 --> 01:18.800 Count your blessings, name them one by one Count your many blessings, see what God hath done 01:19.400 --> 01:20.660 And good scene. 01:20.660 --> 01:22.280 Brother Ryan, would you have a word of prayer? 01:22.280 --> 01:22.800 Dear heavenly father. 01:25.300 --> 01:33.300 great fellowship we had this afternoon. I pray God that you'll bless the singing unto you, Lord, and Jesus. Amen. 01:33.300 --> 01:36.900 Amen. Our second song is song number 207, Only a Sinner. 01:44.000 --> 01:46.600 Song number 207, Only a Center. 01:54.600 --> 01:59.440 Song 207207, Only a Center. 01:59.440 --> 02:02.080 We'll sing it together on the first. 02:02.400 --> 02:06.800 Not have I gotten but what I received 02:07.560 --> 02:12.000 Grace hath bestowed it since I have believed 02:13.440 --> 02:17.120 Boasting excluded pride I abase 02:17.560 --> 02:19.820 I'm only a sinner 02:20.520 --> 02:22.520 saved by grace 02:23.760 --> 02:27.560 Only a sinner saved by grace 02:28.960 --> 02:30.400 Only a sinner 02:30.400 --> 02:44.480 say by grace this is my story to God be the glory I'm only a sinner say by grace 02:44.480 --> 02:54.000 once I was foolish and sin ruled my heart causing my footsteps from God to 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Jesus has found me. 02:58.400 --> 03:06.400 Happy my case and now I'm a sinner, saved by grace. 03:06.400 --> 03:16.960 Only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. 03:16.960 --> 03:25.200 This is my story to God be the glory. I'm only a sinner 03:25.200 --> 03:26.320 Say bye! 03:26.400 --> 03:27.840 Bye Grace! 03:28.100 --> 03:33.300 Tears unavailing, no merit had I. 03:33.300 --> 03:38.700 Mercy had saved me or else I must die. 03:38.700 --> 03:43.900 Sin had alarmed me, fearing God's face. 03:43.900 --> 03:49.500 But now I'm a sinner, saved by grace. 03:49.500 --> 03:54.700 Only a sinner saved by grace. 03:54.700 --> 03:56.100 Only 03:56.100 --> 04:07.860 a sinner saved by grace. This is my story to God be the glory. I'm only a sinner 04:07.860 --> 04:18.820 saved by grace. On the last suffer a sinner whose heart overflows loving a 04:18.820 --> 04:24.100 Savior to tell what he knows. Once more 04:24.100 --> 04:28.100 to tell it what I embrace. 04:28.100 --> 04:33.660 I'm only a sinner saved by grace. 04:33.660 --> 04:38.940 Only a sinner saved by grace. 04:38.940 --> 04:44.340 Only a sinner saved by grace. 04:44.340 --> 04:44.800 This is my prayer. 04:45.500 --> 04:55.940 my story to God be the glory I'm only a sinner say by grace amen good see you 04:55.940 --> 04:57.600 this time we'll have our announcements 05:04.000 --> 05:11.580 Alright, Happy Father's Day again everyone. Verse of the week is 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18, 2 Corinthians 6 verse 18 05:11.580 --> 05:17.820 And we'll be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 05:19.600 --> 05:26.000 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 18. Service times are 10.30 this morning 3.30 in the afternoon 05:26.600 --> 05:32.520 and 6.30 on Wednesday for the Bible study. So many times were yesterday at 12.30 and 1 p.m. today. 05:32.520 --> 05:39.080 I believe there were only soul warning today, but we've had nine for June, 15 for May, 05:39.080 --> 05:41.880 for a total of 95 for the year so far. 05:44.440 --> 05:50.120 Tins down below, let's give thanks to all the ladies that made a wonderful potluck for the 05:50.120 --> 05:53.800 the fall is today. There was quite wonderful. A lot of good treats in there. So really appreciate 05:53.800 --> 05:54.120 that. 05:54.500 --> 05:57.180 It's good to see our visitors that came out this morning. 05:57.180 --> 05:59.700 I'm just glad to see them as well. 05:59.700 --> 06:03.060 July 28 will be the next homeschool day. 06:03.060 --> 06:06.220 It'll be here at 11 AM, just RSV with Miss Kylie. 06:06.220 --> 06:10.180 And keep in mind, just a little over a week from now, 06:10.180 --> 06:12.300 we're going to start a two month challenge. 06:12.300 --> 06:15.580 Two month challenge, July and August. 06:15.580 --> 06:20.700 The challenge is summer soul wearing awareness. 06:20.700 --> 06:21.180 All right? 06:21.500 --> 06:30.500 The purpose of this challenge is, look, we have multiple soul winning chances throughout the week, throughout the month. 06:30.500 --> 06:35.500 However, soul winning time is the time we make it, so you just focus on that. 06:35.500 --> 06:39.500 But here's the thing is, you run into lost people every day, everywhere. 06:39.500 --> 06:48.500 So the challenge for July and August is that every member takes time to invite 25 people to church. 06:49.100 --> 06:54.100 Now what I mean is you don't find that one person to annoy them every other day. 06:54.100 --> 06:57.100 It's 25 flowers to different people, alright? 06:57.100 --> 07:00.100 Now if you want to keep annoying that person, great, but that counts as one. 07:00.600 --> 07:06.600 But the idea is this, is that you invite people and try to get the gospel. 07:06.600 --> 07:09.600 There's certain stories going around just motivating people. 07:09.600 --> 07:17.600 And I was just told also this, is the reason this church is here is because someone took the time at a Chinese restaurant 07:17.600 --> 07:21.600 to look at Pastor Thompson long before he was a pastor, 07:21.600 --> 07:24.600 long before anyone probably looked at him and think, 07:24.600 --> 07:28.600 here's a man that's going to run soul winning churches throughout the world. 07:29.000 --> 07:32.520 and said, you sir need the gospel in their mind. 07:32.520 --> 07:35.000 I don't know the exact words, I don't know exactly what the 07:35.000 --> 07:38.840 Master Topps said, he has attempted to even find this man because 07:38.840 --> 07:42.920 here's the thing is, he probably has absolutely no idea what happened to this 07:42.920 --> 07:46.600 young man that he went to, gave the gospel to, and 07:46.600 --> 07:51.080 years later he is moving soul-winning missions around the 07:51.080 --> 07:55.080 world, starting churches in different countries, going soul-winning around 07:55.080 --> 07:57.000 in different continents. 07:57.400 --> 07:58.600 It was amazing! 07:59.500 --> 08:03.900 It was because someone took time in the middle of a Chinese restaurant that was just waiting to get food. 08:03.900 --> 08:07.900 He said, you know what? I'm going to open up the Word of God and I'm going to give it to you. 08:07.900 --> 08:13.900 This church, like many others, and let's face it, many other churches has this man started, 08:13.900 --> 08:17.900 because someone many years ago just happenstance in a restaurant said, 08:17.900 --> 08:20.300 I've got five minutes to care about another person. 08:20.300 --> 08:27.500 So with that, the Thompsons have decided that this is a good challenge because not only have we heard good 08:27.500 --> 08:33.980 stories elsewhere, this church wouldn't happen had someone not had done this that long time 08:33.980 --> 08:34.980 ago. 08:34.980 --> 08:38.980 So, once again, the challenge is this. 08:38.980 --> 08:43.340 I'll probably take time and I'm going to put movie tickets together and whatnot. 08:43.340 --> 08:45.700 I'm going to hand it out to everyone. 08:45.700 --> 08:49.380 So you have 25 things to try to hand out in two months. 08:49.380 --> 08:51.020 Some of you will be done in a week. 08:51.020 --> 08:52.460 But the challenge is... 08:53.500 --> 08:59.180 two months and I think we can all do that. So now that's a great challenge. 08:59.180 --> 09:06.700 Kids your memory verse right now is Matthew 19 verse 14. Matthew 19 verse 14. But Jesus said, 09:06.700 --> 09:13.260 suffer the little children, forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. 09:14.220 --> 09:19.820 If you can memorize that, you'll receive a piece of candy if you let Miss Kylie hear you recite that. 09:20.600 --> 09:23.960 All right, we sung Happy Birthday this morning. 09:23.960 --> 09:29.520 The 25th will actually be Karina's, which is coming up Friday, or I'm sorry, Wednesday? 09:29.520 --> 09:30.520 Thursday. 09:30.520 --> 09:32.320 So, probably Wednesday. 09:32.320 --> 09:34.080 I will sing for that. 09:34.080 --> 09:36.960 If you have any other prayer requests, please let the Thompson's know and they will get 09:36.960 --> 09:37.960 it into the bulletin. 09:37.960 --> 09:40.960 But with that, let's turn to the Lord in prayer. 09:40.960 --> 09:41.800 Have a fun. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 Our next song is song number 254. 11:46.600 --> 11:50.200 Song number 254, Whosoever Will. 11:50.200 --> 11:53.540 Yeah, I really like that idea that I came up with 11:53.540 --> 11:56.300 because Kylie and I are one flesh, right? 11:56.300 --> 11:58.100 So it's my idea. 11:58.100 --> 11:59.500 No, Kylie had that idea though. 11:59.500 --> 12:01.140 She had it on her heart recently 12:01.140 --> 12:02.140 and I thought it was a really good idea. 12:02.140 --> 12:04.940 So hopefully we all participate in that challenge. 12:04.940 --> 12:06.440 I think that'd be good. 12:06.440 --> 12:08.080 It's just good to get in the habit of anyways, 12:08.080 --> 12:10.740 just being aware of people that might hear the gospel 12:10.740 --> 12:13.040 outside of someone in times, but then also. 12:13.400 --> 12:17.400 It just helps you build confidence as well, even to talk to people at the door. 12:17.400 --> 12:23.700 So I've seen that quite a few times in my life and it seems more receptive than usual 12:23.700 --> 12:26.400 because it's kind of like that thing with the Cold Soldier as well. 12:26.400 --> 12:30.400 When you catch someone when they're not at their house, when they can just slam the door into your face, 12:30.400 --> 12:31.700 they're stuck with you, they're trapped with you. 12:31.700 --> 12:33.400 So it's the social pressure. 12:33.400 --> 12:36.200 So you got to take advantage of that. 12:36.200 --> 12:39.200 Song number 254 is what we're going to sing, 12:39.200 --> 12:40.800 whosoever will. 12:41.600 --> 12:45.600 Song 254, let's sing it together on the first. 12:45.900 --> 12:50.900 Whosoever hear it, shout, shout the sound. 12:50.900 --> 12:55.900 Spread the blessed tidings all the world around. 12:55.900 --> 13:00.900 Tell the joyful news wherever man is found. 13:00.900 --> 13:06.900 Whosoever will may come. 13:06.900 --> 13:11.900 Whosoever will, whosoever will 13:11.900 --> 13:13.900 Send the proclamation! 13:13.900 --> 13:16.900 over vale and hill, 13:16.900 --> 13:21.900 Tis a loving father calls the wanderer home, 13:21.900 --> 13:25.900 Whosoever will may come. 13:27.300 --> 13:32.500 Whosoever cometh need not delay. 13:32.500 --> 13:37.860 Now the door is open, enter while you may. 13:37.860 --> 13:43.220 Jesus is the true, the only living way. 13:43.220 --> 13:48.420 Whosoever will may come. 13:49.500 --> 14:00.060 Whosoever will, whosoever will, Send the proclamation over vale and hill. 14:00.060 --> 14:10.540 Tis a loving father, calls the wanderer home, Whosoever will may come on the last. 14:10.700 --> 14:16.100 Whosoever will, the promise is secure. 14:16.100 --> 14:21.500 Whosoever will, forever must endure. 14:21.500 --> 14:26.900 Whosoever will, this life forevermore. 14:26.900 --> 14:33.100 Whosoever will, may come. 14:33.300 --> 14:44.220 Whosoever will, whosoever will, Send the proclamation over vale and hill. 14:44.220 --> 14:54.220 Tis the loving Father, calls the wanderer home, Whosoever will may come. 14:54.220 --> 14:57.220 Amen. Good seeing you, Brother Paul. Could you please lift the offering for us? 14:58.200 --> 15:00.200 with our pictures and all that we have. 15:00.200 --> 15:02.700 The Lord, there's always a word of use of time. 15:02.700 --> 15:05.200 The Lord, heal the things we've shown with time. 15:05.200 --> 15:07.200 Sincerity, always get the Lord first. 15:07.200 --> 15:09.200 And don't ever worry, because one blessing 15:09.200 --> 15:11.700 will keep you from having a bad prayer. 15:11.700 --> 15:13.700 Jesus, I am under your command. 15:58.000 --> 16:03.880 Welcome back everybody. Welcome to Shur Foundation Baptist Church. If you could take your Bibles, 16:03.880 --> 16:10.420 turn to Mark chapter number five. Mark five is our text this afternoon. And as always 16:10.420 --> 16:17.800 here at our church, we read the entire chapter before the preaching. Mark chapter five, the 16:17.800 --> 16:18.800 Bible reads. 16:20.300 --> 16:25.580 and they came over onto the other side of the sea into the country of the gaterines 16:25.580 --> 16:31.020 and when he was come out of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an 16:31.020 --> 16:38.220 unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no not with chains 16:38.220 --> 16:44.060 because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains and the chains have been 16:44.060 --> 16:48.220 plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces. 16:48.300 --> 16:58.300 Neither could any man tame him, and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones. 16:58.700 --> 17:07.260 But when Jesus saw but when he saw Jesus a far off he ran and worshiped him and cried with a loud voice and said 17:07.820 --> 17:12.540 What have I to do with thee Jesus thou son of the most high god 17:12.940 --> 17:16.460 I adjure thee by god that thou torment me not 17:17.100 --> 17:21.200 For he said unto him come out of the man thou unclean spirit 17:21.700 --> 17:24.500 And he asked him, what is thy name? 17:24.500 --> 17:29.700 And he answered saying, my name is Legion for we are many. 17:29.700 --> 17:34.980 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 17:34.980 --> 17:37.220 Now there were was nigh there. 17:38.800 --> 17:45.360 And now there was their nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding, 17:45.360 --> 17:51.040 and all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 17:51.500 --> 17:54.500 and forthwith Jesus gave them leave. 17:54.500 --> 17:59.000 And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine, 17:59.000 --> 18:03.500 and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea. 18:03.500 --> 18:08.500 There were about two thousand, and were choked in the sea. 18:08.500 --> 18:14.500 And they that fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country, 18:14.500 --> 18:17.500 and they went out to see what it was that was done. 18:17.800 --> 18:26.800 And they come to Jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion sitting and clothed in his right mind. 18:26.800 --> 18:28.800 And they were afraid. 18:28.800 --> 18:36.800 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil and also concerning the swine. 18:37.500 --> 18:41.000 and they began to pray him to depart out of their coast. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 And when he was come into the ship, 18:43.000 --> 18:47.500 he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. 18:47.500 --> 18:51.000 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, 18:51.000 --> 18:53.500 Go home to thy friends, and tell them 18:53.500 --> 18:59.000 how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 18:59.300 --> 19:07.220 and he departed and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him. 19:07.220 --> 19:13.860 And all men did marvel. And when Jesus was passed over again by ship onto the other side, 19:13.860 --> 19:19.780 much people gathered unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. And behold, there cometh one of 19:19.780 --> 19:27.140 the rulers of the synagogue, Jarius by name. And when he saw him, he fell at his feet and besought him. 19:27.300 --> 19:32.620 greatly saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death. 19:32.620 --> 19:38.340 I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall live. 19:38.900 --> 19:43.860 And Jesus went with him, and much people followed him and thronged him. 19:43.860 --> 19:50.420 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many 19:50.420 --> 19:57.540 physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 19:57.540 --> 20:02.740 when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 20:03.700 --> 20:09.220 For she said, If I may but touch his clothes, I shall be whole. 20:09.820 --> 20:17.260 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 20:17.740 --> 20:26.780 And Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? 20:27.500 --> 20:34.660 His disciples said unto him thou seest the multitude thronging thee and that and sayest thou who touched me and 20:34.860 --> 20:38.260 He looked round about to see her that had done this thing 20:38.700 --> 20:45.460 But the woman fearing and trembling knowing what was done in her came and fell down before him and 20:45.660 --> 20:52.340 Told him all the truth and he said unto her daughter thy faith hath made thee whole 20:52.900 --> 20:55.700 Go in peace and behold of thy plague. 20:56.340 --> 21:00.820 While he yet spake there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house 21:01.700 --> 21:04.580 certain which said, thy daughter is dead. 21:04.580 --> 21:07.140 Why troublest thou the master any further? 21:07.780 --> 21:12.900 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, 21:13.460 --> 21:15.460 Be not afraid, only believe. 21:16.200 --> 21:22.200 and he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John, the brother of James. 21:23.080 --> 21:27.960 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the two mulks, 21:27.960 --> 21:33.080 and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he saith unto them, 21:33.080 --> 21:39.400 Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. 21:39.500 --> 21:45.820 and they laughed him to scorn but when he had put them all out he take it the father and the mother 21:45.820 --> 21:53.180 of the damsel and then that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying and he took 21:53.180 --> 22:01.740 the damsel by the hand and said unto her talithia kumai which is being interpreted damsel i say unto 22:01.740 --> 22:07.020 thee arise and straightway the damsel arose and walked for she was 22:07.600 --> 22:13.480 the age of 12 years and they were astonished with great astonishment 22:14.100 --> 22:21.380 He charged them straightly that no man should know it and commanded that something should be giving her to eat 22:21.720 --> 22:24.380 Brother Remy, could you please pray for the preaching? 22:39.000 --> 22:41.900 Hey man, all right, so we're in Mark chapter number five 22:42.100 --> 22:44.540 But go ahead and go to Genesis chapter number one. 22:44.540 --> 22:46.300 We're going to come back to Mark chapter number five 22:46.300 --> 22:48.500 a little bit later in the sermon. 22:48.500 --> 22:50.100 But in Genesis chapter number one. 22:51.500 --> 22:53.500 Hopefully you can get there pretty fast. 22:54.080 --> 22:56.080 Normally it's at the beginning of your Bible. 22:56.580 --> 23:02.780 If not, you know, check your Bible. But so Genesis chapter 1, look at verse number 26. 23:02.780 --> 23:06.280 It says, and God said let us make man in our image 23:07.040 --> 23:13.200 after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and 23:13.400 --> 23:19.200 over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 23:19.500 --> 23:22.780 So God created man in his own image. 23:22.780 --> 23:25.420 In the image of God created he him, 23:25.420 --> 23:27.420 male and female created he them. 23:27.420 --> 23:30.620 And God blessed them and God said unto them, 23:30.620 --> 23:35.420 be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it. 23:35.800 --> 23:39.000 And notice it says, have dominion over the fish of the sea, 23:39.000 --> 23:43.400 and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 23:43.400 --> 23:48.000 So God has commanded us here that we are to subdue the earth 23:48.000 --> 23:54.100 and have dominion specifically over the living creatures of the earth. 23:54.100 --> 23:59.000 And that means that mankind is supposed to be in charge of all the animals. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Right? 24:00.200 --> 24:05.800 And so we're having dominion, we're lording over all the creatures of the earth. 24:05.800 --> 24:09.800 And the title of my sermon tonight is The Peace Act Exposed. 24:09.800 --> 24:13.400 The Peace Act Exposed in an alternate title. 24:13.900 --> 24:17.660 for my sermon would be animal rights exposed. 24:17.660 --> 24:19.860 Animal rights exposed. 24:19.860 --> 24:22.340 And the reason why I'm preaching this is because I heard 24:22.340 --> 24:25.240 recently about a law that's been proposed in Oregon. 24:25.240 --> 24:29.020 So basically, you'll have like a ballot initiative 24:29.020 --> 24:32.140 in a lot of states and Oregon's one of those states. 24:32.140 --> 24:34.960 And you say, well, Jason, this isn't Oregon, 24:34.960 --> 24:35.800 this is Washington. 24:35.800 --> 24:38.220 And I would say that you're actually wrong about that. 24:38.220 --> 24:40.380 I do not recognize the state of Oregon, 24:40.380 --> 24:41.900 nor do I recognize the state of Idaho. 24:41.900 --> 24:46.360 I said this I don't recognize the state of Washington. I recognize the state of 24:46.360 --> 24:51.800 Oregon as it was known as the the Oregon territory okay that includes British 24:51.800 --> 24:57.080 Columbia like 90% of it but anyway that you know my personal politics on that 24:57.080 --> 25:03.160 aside I was born in Oregon I love Oregon I think Oregon is a great place my 25:03.160 --> 25:06.800 parents live in Oregon I've got lots of relatives that live in Oregon 25:07.700 --> 25:10.000 You know, and I'm kind of, I'm an Oregonian at heart. 25:10.000 --> 25:12.700 You may be able to tell that by my previous comments. 25:12.700 --> 25:13.500 I don't know. 25:13.500 --> 25:15.000 I love the state of Oregon. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.700 But the state of Oregon has a problem, though. 25:17.700 --> 25:19.380 Well, it has a lot of problems, OK? 25:19.380 --> 25:20.100 But. 25:20.300 --> 25:24.100 This is a major problem that's come to my attention recently. 25:24.100 --> 25:27.100 So basically, the state of Oregon, they have a ballot initiative. 25:27.100 --> 25:30.980 And what that is, is if you get enough signatures from people that say, hey, 25:30.980 --> 25:37.340 we want this to be on the ballot, the law will go up for general election, basically. 25:37.340 --> 25:40.380 The whole state will vote yay or nay on the bill. 25:40.600 --> 25:44.440 Okay, so it's not part of like the legislature, you know, it doesn't have to go through the, 25:44.440 --> 25:47.800 you know, the state senate and the state, you know, congress and everything like that. 25:47.800 --> 25:52.440 It just, everyone votes on it and if ever, you know, if enough people vote yes, 25:52.440 --> 26:00.360 then it goes into law, right? Okay, so this law, they got like 130,000 signatures for this thing. 26:01.320 --> 26:07.960 And let me, let me go and pull up here and let me just read for you a little bit about the law. 26:08.700 --> 26:15.700 It says the most prominent animal cruelty legislation in Oregon is initiative petition 26:15.700 --> 26:18.700 28, also known as the Peace Act. 26:19.500 --> 26:24.140 This is AI, just kind of tells you what it is. It says, what it does, it would 26:24.140 --> 26:28.480 eliminate legal exemptions that currently protect hunting, fishing, 26:28.480 --> 26:35.080 trapping, livestock farming from Oregon's animal abuse statute. This would make the 26:35.080 --> 26:37.100 killing of 26:39.400 --> 26:40.400 Oh, excuse me. 26:40.400 --> 26:46.560 It would make the killing or intentional injury of nearly all animals illegal, effectively 26:46.560 --> 26:52.480 classifying these practices as animal cruelty. 26:52.480 --> 26:56.520 And let me just, this is from the, what is this from? 26:56.520 --> 27:01.920 This is from, I believe the Oregon Hunters Association here. 27:01.920 --> 27:03.600 It tells you a little bit more about the law. 27:04.000 --> 27:07.320 Oregon initiative petition 28 officially titled the Peace Act 27:08.500 --> 27:18.080 People for elimination of animal cruelty exemptions would eliminate the legal exemptions that currently protect hunting fishing trapping farming 27:19.140 --> 27:21.640 from Oregon's animal abuse statutes 27:23.180 --> 27:29.700 Under current law Oregon laws these activities are exempt explicitly exempted from criminal 27:30.400 --> 27:36.080 animal abuse charges would remove those exemptions entirely making all of the following 27:36.640 --> 27:38.800 Criminal acts and you say so what's the big deal? 27:39.960 --> 27:42.840 You know, are you are you want animal cruelty? 27:43.680 --> 27:45.680 Well, here's the thing about that 27:45.960 --> 27:50.160 This is all the things that make this would make all of these following things 27:50.640 --> 27:54.600 Illegal meaning you can't do them anymore. Otherwise the state of Oregon is going to charge you criminally 27:55.000 --> 28:02.140 Okay, the first one is hunting all licensed hunting would be classified as animal abuse under Oregon law fishing 28:03.040 --> 28:07.600 Is anybody like fishing has anybody gone fishing for sports and commercial fishing? 28:08.260 --> 28:10.060 Would be criminalized 28:10.060 --> 28:14.640 statewide trapping legal trapping includes pests and 28:15.280 --> 28:18.220 Wildlife management have you ever set a trap for a mole or a mouse? 28:18.900 --> 28:21.900 You're a criminal! 28:21.900 --> 28:22.900 Okay? 28:22.900 --> 28:25.900 Wildlife management would become illegal. 28:25.900 --> 28:27.900 How about this one? 28:27.900 --> 28:30.700 Farming and ranching. 28:32.800 --> 28:44.000 Raising animals for food, notice this, dairy, eggs, and fiber would constitute animal abuse. 28:44.000 --> 28:48.400 How many of you are wearing clothes that have wool? 28:51.200 --> 28:53.200 How many of you drank milk this last week? 28:53.200 --> 28:57.200 How many of you ate an egg this last week? 28:57.200 --> 29:01.200 You know, Pastor Hiles, before he was 14, he wouldn't be able to raise his hand. 29:01.200 --> 29:03.200 I don't know, a little fact for you there. 29:03.200 --> 29:13.200 But anyways, scientific research, Animal Use in Education, Research, Wildlife Management Program would be banned. 29:13.200 --> 29:16.200 So, you know, this law is insane. 29:17.500 --> 29:19.500 This is complete insanity. 29:19.500 --> 29:20.500 Okay. 29:20.500 --> 29:31.500 And, you know, these animal rights activists, you know, what they claim is that they're all about protecting animals from abuse. 29:31.500 --> 29:34.500 And let me tell you, I do not believe it. 29:34.500 --> 29:36.500 I don't believe them for one second. 29:36.500 --> 29:39.500 I don't think that they care about animals at all. 29:39.500 --> 29:43.500 And I believe that what they actually care about is they just hate human beings. 29:43.500 --> 29:45.500 They hate humanity. 29:45.500 --> 29:47.840 They hate other human beings, and so what do they want to do? 29:47.840 --> 29:51.860 They want to find ways to try to destroy humanity. 29:51.860 --> 29:52.860 Because what would this do? 29:52.860 --> 29:56.180 Okay, well, in the state of Oregon, what it would do if this passed, basically it would 29:56.180 --> 30:02.420 just jack up all the prices of basically all food items, because you can't grow your own 30:02.420 --> 30:05.580 milk nearby, so it's going to be very expensive. 30:05.580 --> 30:09.660 People don't know this, but milk is a very localized thing. 30:09.660 --> 30:10.660 Why? 30:10.660 --> 30:12.520 Because milk spoils pretty fast. 30:12.520 --> 30:13.500 It doesn't last very long. 30:13.500 --> 30:18.780 So you have to grow it pretty close by so that they can get it they can chill it down and they can you know 30:18.780 --> 30:21.020 Bottle it up and ship to a store. That's near you 30:21.200 --> 30:23.460 Otherwise I have to ship it from somewhere far away 30:23.860 --> 30:27.380 Right and it's gonna cost a lot more because it only has a certain amount of time 30:27.380 --> 30:30.860 It only has a certain shelf life and so it has to be you know 30:30.860 --> 30:34.500 It's always typically raised near where it's gonna be sold from okay 30:35.020 --> 30:40.660 But so it's gonna jack up the prices of all these different products anything that comes from dairy is gonna go way up 30:41.400 --> 30:49.040 Eggs, you know, how many of us like to eat steak? I love steak. It's all the prices for Oregonians are gonna go way up 30:49.880 --> 30:51.880 Okay, but here's the thing about this 30:52.360 --> 30:58.040 Think about the mindset of these people because if it hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Amen 30:58.760 --> 31:03.260 You know reducto absurdum. Why don't we just take their legislation and take it planet-wide? 31:04.240 --> 31:06.240 What's gonna happen then? 31:06.360 --> 31:07.700 billion star 31:08.100 --> 31:09.500 That's what happens. 31:09.500 --> 31:12.900 And by the way, think of the stupidity of what they're saying. 31:12.900 --> 31:16.100 Is that they want to make ranching illegal. 31:16.100 --> 31:19.300 Why? Because they care about the cows. 31:19.300 --> 31:20.700 Now think about this. 31:20.700 --> 31:25.000 How many of you have ever just seen a cow in a nature documentary? 31:25.000 --> 31:27.300 Just out in the wild. 31:27.300 --> 31:28.900 Has anybody ever seen that? 31:28.900 --> 31:30.800 Do cows exist in the wild? 31:31.200 --> 31:36.200 What are they going to do? Let them free! Cut the wires! Let them just roam out wherever they want! 31:36.200 --> 31:38.200 What's going to happen to the cows? 31:38.200 --> 31:40.200 They're all going to die! 31:40.200 --> 31:45.200 So do they care about animals? No they don't. 31:45.200 --> 31:49.200 They hate animals, but mostly they hate human beings. 31:50.000 --> 31:54.700 By the way, these are the same people that voted to release wolves into Colorado. 31:54.700 --> 31:59.200 These are the same people that voted to protect wolves in Yellowstone National Park. 31:59.200 --> 32:04.700 Why? Is it because they care about the wolves, and they care about the nature, and they care about the elk, and they care about the deal, 32:04.700 --> 32:07.500 and they really care about those willow trees by the river. 32:07.500 --> 32:10.700 Do they really care about those things, or do they just hate humanity? 32:10.700 --> 32:13.500 They hate human activity. 32:14.500 --> 32:18.900 And this is a wicked mentality that needs to be preached against. 32:18.900 --> 32:25.700 And, you know, anyway, so go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter number 12. 32:25.700 --> 32:26.700 Matthew chapter number 12. 32:26.700 --> 32:32.100 So we saw here in Genesis chapter number 1 that the Bible commands man to have dominion over the earth. 32:32.100 --> 32:41.300 And if we are barred from having farms, is that having dominion over the earth? 32:41.300 --> 32:41.900 No. 32:42.300 --> 32:47.300 And here's kind of the main thrust of what my sermon is going to be. 32:47.300 --> 32:54.300 It's going to show the fact that human life has immense value, 32:54.300 --> 33:00.300 and animal life in comparison has almost no value at all. 33:00.300 --> 33:03.300 Not part of the equation. 33:03.300 --> 33:06.300 It's like the dust of the balance in my opinion. 33:06.300 --> 33:07.900 The small dust of the balance. 33:09.800 --> 33:19.800 Because according to the Bible, humanity, being a human being, you know, being created in the image of God like Genesis 1 said, 33:20.000 --> 33:27.480 You know God has given us value. Yeah, okay, and you know there's a certain amount of value with animals 33:27.840 --> 33:34.480 But where the animals in our world derive their value from is from the fact that they benefit us 33:34.800 --> 33:37.860 Yeah, that is where their value comes from yeah 33:38.600 --> 33:45.520 And if those animals are not benefiting us then that means they have no value, okay? 33:46.240 --> 33:47.500 and so 33:48.300 --> 33:56.300 But what people want to do is they want to take man down and they want to lift the animals up. 33:56.300 --> 34:01.300 And these extreme people, like all the people that probably signed on to this bill, 34:01.300 --> 34:04.300 you know, they don't want to put animals above man. 34:04.300 --> 34:07.800 They view man as a scourge upon the earth. 34:07.900 --> 34:15.040 as a problem upon the earth and mankind is just scarring nature and causing all these problems for nature. 34:15.040 --> 34:24.740 You know, and the planet would just... You know, you ever see these stupid things on Facebook or wherever that's like, 34:24.740 --> 34:29.300 hey, you know, this is what the planet would look like if all the humans were killed, 34:29.300 --> 34:32.740 and this is what the planet would look like if all the bees were killed. 34:33.000 --> 34:38.000 You know, this retarded mentality that wants to devalue the value of men 34:38.000 --> 34:44.000 and lift up the value of literally everything else, including insects. 34:44.000 --> 34:49.000 And, you know, by the way, I heard that they had to put out like a clarif... 34:49.000 --> 34:52.000 a clarifatory, you know, bulletin, like, 34:52.000 --> 34:57.700 hey, by the way, we just want to clarify, don't worry, you can still kill mosquitoes. 34:58.200 --> 35:01.900 It's like how bad does your bill have to be where you have to clarify, 35:01.900 --> 35:06.700 by the way, don't worry guys, you can still kill mosquitoes. 35:06.700 --> 35:08.200 Animal cruelty. 35:08.200 --> 35:13.700 Yeah. For now, soon they'll make an elit- soon everyone will have to be- 35:13.700 --> 35:19.500 What are- isn't it like the Buddhists where they'll like sweep away a spot where they're about to sit 35:19.500 --> 35:23.200 so they don't kill microbial life when they sit down or something insane like that? 35:23.200 --> 35:25.000 Isn't that like the Buddhists or something? 35:25.300 --> 35:28.320 You know they basically want to force everybody to be a Buddhist 35:29.060 --> 35:34.920 And then have a start of Vietnam War where everyone can you know all the buddhist are lighting themselves on fire and protest whatever 35:34.960 --> 35:41.160 You know that's what they want right so so we're Matthew chapter number 12 have I read this yet. I don't think so 35:42.140 --> 35:44.100 Okay, Matthew chapter number 12 35:45.600 --> 35:49.600 So let's see, what's the Bible's mentality towards animals? 35:49.600 --> 35:54.600 We need to get a biblical view of animals in our world today, because our world has gone insane. 35:54.600 --> 36:00.600 The way people view animals, by and large, has gone insane. 36:00.600 --> 36:06.600 And largely the reason why is because we've become insulated from the real world. 36:07.600 --> 36:12.040 Okay, you know this world we're living in where we have AC, right? 36:12.040 --> 36:16.800 And you can just go down to the store and you just have chopped meat wrapped up in plastic 36:16.800 --> 36:18.880 and you have sausages just wrapped up. 36:18.880 --> 36:20.960 That's not the real world, my friend. 36:20.960 --> 36:30.400 I mean, we're insulated from what actually has to go on and happen in order to make all the meat just appear, right? 36:30.400 --> 36:31.400 And so, you know... 36:32.400 --> 36:35.320 A lot of these animal rights activists will be like, 36:35.320 --> 36:37.320 well, why do you have to go hunting when you can just 36:37.320 --> 36:38.400 buy meat from the store? 36:38.400 --> 36:39.240 저ельت.... 36:40.900 --> 36:42.500 It's like, where do you think that came from? 36:42.500 --> 36:44.340 You think it came out of a factory? 36:44.340 --> 36:46.780 You think they just pumped it up out of the ground as a goo? 36:46.780 --> 36:50.700 And then like that SpongeBob, it's the gray goo, 36:50.700 --> 36:51.860 and it goes into the thing. 36:51.860 --> 36:54.340 They spray paint the burger or whatever. 36:54.340 --> 36:57.940 It's like that's, I mean, some of these animal rights activists 36:57.940 --> 37:00.620 thought that that was part of a documentary. 37:00.620 --> 37:01.820 Thought where food came from. 37:01.820 --> 37:03.700 It's insane. 37:04.600 --> 37:06.440 But what does the Bible say about these things? 37:06.440 --> 37:08.800 It says in Matthew 12 verse number 11, it says, 37:08.800 --> 37:12.720 And he saith unto them, What man shall there be among you 37:12.720 --> 37:14.360 that shall have one sheep? 37:14.360 --> 37:16.200 And if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, 37:16.200 --> 37:19.840 will he not lay hold on it and lift it out? 37:19.840 --> 37:24.700 How much then is a man better than a sheep? 37:24.700 --> 37:27.700 Wherefore is it lawful to do well on the Sabbath day? 37:27.700 --> 37:29.700 You know, so what is this verse talking about? 37:29.700 --> 37:34.700 Well, you know, obviously the primary application is Jesus is confronting them about just healing a dude 37:34.700 --> 37:37.700 and they're like, can't do your work on the Sabbath day. 37:37.700 --> 37:39.700 You know, and he's like, hey, guess what? 37:39.700 --> 37:42.700 You would pull out a sheep out of a pit if it fell into a pit. 37:42.700 --> 37:45.700 You'd pull it out of the pit on the Sabbath day, wouldn't you? 37:45.700 --> 37:48.700 And I was like, well, now, I guess we would. 37:48.700 --> 37:49.700 And he says, hey. 37:51.100 --> 37:54.140 How much better is a human being than a sheep? 37:54.140 --> 37:56.900 How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep? 37:56.900 --> 37:57.900 Right. 37:57.900 --> 37:59.900 Infinitely more valuable. 37:59.900 --> 38:03.700 And so there's nothing wrong with helping somebody on the Sabbath day. 38:03.700 --> 38:05.900 Whether it's pulling them out of a pit, 38:05.900 --> 38:09.700 or miraculously healing them like Jesus did in this situation. 38:09.700 --> 38:12.100 Right? So according to the Bible, 38:12.100 --> 38:15.700 human beings are more valuable than animals. 38:16.400 --> 38:25.060 Okay, and throughout the Bible God shows a complete disregard for animals for the life of animals 38:25.200 --> 38:31.080 Okay, God's not worried about the life of all these animals. He's actually worried about the life of human beings 38:31.160 --> 38:36.380 Okay, go ahead and turn to mark chapter number five mark chapter number five, and if I could get a glass of water 38:37.200 --> 38:39.200 That would be fantastic 38:43.400 --> 38:51.900 Mark chapter number five is a great story in the Bible and it's a great example of how God values the lives of humans over the lives of animals. 38:51.900 --> 38:52.700 Okay. 38:52.700 --> 38:55.700 It says in Mark chapter number five verse, we'll look at verse number six, it says, 38:55.700 --> 39:02.000 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshiped him and cried with a loud voice and said, 39:02.000 --> 39:06.600 What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of the most high God? 39:06.600 --> 39:10.300 I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not. 39:10.600 --> 39:15.600 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 39:15.600 --> 39:17.600 And he asked him, What is thy name? 39:17.600 --> 39:20.600 And he answered, saying, My name is Legion, for we are many. 39:20.600 --> 39:25.600 And he besought him much, that he would not send him away out of the country. 39:25.600 --> 39:30.600 Now there was nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. 39:30.800 --> 39:37.300 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 39:37.300 --> 39:44.300 And forthwith, and that forthwith that means immediately, like right away, it says Jesus gave them leave, 39:44.300 --> 39:52.800 and the unclean spirit went out and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea. 39:52.800 --> 39:57.300 They are about 2,000 and were choked in. 39:57.500 --> 40:03.260 the seed. So this demon possessed guy, you know, the demons are like, hey, can we go 40:03.260 --> 40:07.260 in the swine? You know, and honestly, I've always kind of wondered like... 40:07.800 --> 40:11.320 Why why why did they want to go on the swine like what you know? 40:11.320 --> 40:14.560 What was going you know what's going on with this story like why do they want to go on the swine? 40:14.560 --> 40:17.280 And then why do the swine just go into the sea and choke themselves? 40:17.280 --> 40:24.800 I've never really understood why like like did did the swine did like Jesus make the swine go and choke themselves to like 40:25.240 --> 40:30.720 Spite the demons or did the demons do it or you know I don't know I've kind of wondered those things but nonetheless 40:31.960 --> 40:35.640 Jesus knew the 2000 swine were about to die and he's like oh 40:35.800 --> 40:42.800 going to save this guy from being demon possessed at the cost of 2,000 swine? Bam! Right away! 40:42.800 --> 40:48.920 Sold! Saving the guy and getting rid of the swine. Right now. And so Jesus, He displays 40:48.920 --> 40:55.920 a complete and total disregard for the lives of these precious little swine that just wanted 40:55.920 --> 41:00.900 to... They were like, what's that? Charlotte's Web? What's the pig's name? 41:01.000 --> 41:05.560 Wilber. Poor 2000 poor little Wilbers. 41:05.560 --> 41:09.400 I mean, what if they weren't even fully grown? 41:09.400 --> 41:13.480 What if they're poor little baby piggies? 41:13.480 --> 41:18.800 Jesus didn't care. He didn't care about that stupid being, his stupid little, 41:18.800 --> 41:22.120 or the stupid spider, right, that made the web. 41:22.120 --> 41:27.100 Jesus saw the web, you know. What did the web say? 41:28.700 --> 41:32.700 It said like, magnificent or something. 41:32.700 --> 41:34.700 They're like, we can't kill the pig now. 41:34.700 --> 41:37.700 I'd be like, give me the knife, we're killing the pig. 41:37.700 --> 41:38.700 I'm hungry. 41:38.700 --> 41:40.700 Breakfast is waiting. 41:40.700 --> 41:45.700 I don't care about what that stupid spider put on the web, okay? 41:45.700 --> 41:51.700 No demon possessed spider is going to prevent me from having my sausage for breakfast. 41:53.000 --> 41:57.000 So, you know, Jesus didn't care about Wilbur. 41:57.000 --> 42:02.800 He sent Wilbur off a cliff into the sea to save a human being. 42:02.800 --> 42:07.000 So that means that human beings are way more valuable than pigs. 42:07.000 --> 42:11.000 Okay, and that goes for any animal. Any animal. 42:11.000 --> 42:13.400 You know, there was that sign. 42:13.600 --> 42:16.480 Well, somebody turned it into a meme, right? 42:16.480 --> 42:19.800 It was like, you know, it was like a PETA sign. 42:19.800 --> 42:23.000 It's like, you know, it had a bunch of farm animals on it. 42:23.000 --> 42:25.120 And it's like, where do you draw the line? 42:25.120 --> 42:28.280 You know, because it goes from like cats, dogs, 42:28.280 --> 42:31.480 and then pigs, chickens, horses, and you know, 42:31.480 --> 42:34.600 and somebody just drew a line at like the cats and dogs. 42:34.600 --> 42:36.520 And they're like, okay, you can, you know, 42:36.520 --> 42:38.680 because on one side it was like horses, cats and dogs, 42:38.680 --> 42:40.080 and the other side it was all the other animals 42:40.080 --> 42:41.600 that we eat all the time, and they're just like, right. 42:41.600 --> 42:48.240 But here's the thing, just get rid of the line, and there's no line. 42:48.240 --> 42:53.360 You know, if you go to a Chinese restaurant that's a little sketchy, hey, that's just... 42:53.360 --> 42:56.920 God has given us all the creeping things of the earth to eat. 42:56.920 --> 43:02.640 You know, the only real thing that was like, hey, don't eat this, is it poisonous? 43:02.640 --> 43:03.640 Right? 43:03.640 --> 43:07.120 We're in the New Testament of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 43:08.100 --> 43:13.940 And you know, if you want to go down to Thailand or wherever and have some dog, 43:13.940 --> 43:16.280 is there anything against that in the Bible? 43:16.280 --> 43:20.340 No. You know, we just don't like to do that here in America because it's icky or something. 43:20.340 --> 43:22.400 Well, have you tried dog? 43:22.400 --> 43:24.240 You probably have. 43:24.240 --> 43:26.500 You know? 43:26.500 --> 43:29.540 You don't know? 43:29.540 --> 43:31.940 Did you take it down and test it at the lab? 43:32.400 --> 43:35.600 That's, didn't think so. 43:35.600 --> 43:39.600 So where was I going with that? 43:39.600 --> 43:41.960 People are more valuable than dogs. 43:41.960 --> 43:44.520 People are more valuable than pigs. 43:44.520 --> 43:47.160 And Jesus showed a complete disregard of the pigs. 43:47.160 --> 43:51.400 And then later in the story, the people come out, they're like, oh, pigs are dead. 43:51.400 --> 43:53.440 And they're like, we want Jesus to leave. 43:53.440 --> 43:54.440 Right? 43:54.440 --> 43:57.640 And it's like, all right, well, here's, you know, there's the first PETA activist right 43:57.640 --> 43:58.640 there. 43:58.640 --> 43:58.900 Thank you. 43:59.300 --> 44:04.460 You know, and we had a sign, there's a billboard across the street here that for a while it was like, 44:04.460 --> 44:17.540 hey, did you know, 78% of Americans don't know that when sheep's wool production goes down, they get slaughtered. 44:17.540 --> 44:22.020 And then it had like a choose vegan or like a choose, you know, something or whatever. 44:22.020 --> 44:23.540 I don't know. I don't care. 44:23.600 --> 44:26.640 And I'm like, well, did you know that 78% of Americans 44:26.640 --> 44:31.160 don't give a flying butt about what happens to the sheep? 44:31.160 --> 44:33.600 You know, do you know that 78% of Americans 44:33.600 --> 44:35.760 would probably love to eat that sheep right 44:35.760 --> 44:37.200 after it gets slaughtered? 44:37.400 --> 44:42.400 If you've ever had button, it can be really good. 44:42.680 --> 44:46.160 It's also, it can be gamey and very filling. 44:46.160 --> 44:47.440 You have a couple bites of it and you're like, 44:47.440 --> 44:51.020 oh man, I don't know if I wanna have any more, 44:51.020 --> 44:53.320 but it depends on how it's cooked and whatnot. 44:53.320 --> 44:56.560 But in America, we're very blessed with cattle. 44:57.600 --> 44:59.700 Cows are the thing to eat. 44:59.700 --> 45:00.800 That's like the... 45:00.900 --> 45:06.900 the crème de la crème of the meats in my totally humble and unbiased and completely correct opinion. 45:07.900 --> 45:12.900 So, but anyway, go ahead and turn to Genesis chapter, Genesis chapter number six. 45:15.400 --> 45:20.900 Genesis chapter number six and verse number 17 says, 45:20.900 --> 45:26.500 and behold even I do bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh, 45:26.500 --> 45:34.300 wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and everything that is in the earth shall die. 45:34.300 --> 45:38.800 And so here, you know, obviously this is talking about Noah's flood. 45:38.800 --> 45:42.000 Noah or God is going to flood the entire earth. 45:42.300 --> 45:47.420 And he's going to kill all the, you know, the purpose of the flood is to drown everybody 45:47.420 --> 45:50.380 because there's so much violence in the earth, right? 45:50.380 --> 45:53.100 And he's going to save Noah and his family. 45:53.100 --> 45:56.620 But as a side effect of that, all the animals are going to also die, 45:56.620 --> 46:01.260 except for obviously the two pairs of each kind of animal they get on the ark. 46:01.260 --> 46:06.140 But, you know, there's just all of these animals that are just going to drown in the flood. 46:07.700 --> 46:10.940 And what is it that the animals did wrong? 46:10.940 --> 46:15.440 Did the animals do anything wrong to deserve being drowned horribly? 46:15.440 --> 46:17.040 No, not necessarily. 46:17.040 --> 46:21.380 But here's the thing, is it a factor in God's decision making? 46:21.380 --> 46:23.220 Like, well, you know, I was going to flood the earth, 46:23.220 --> 46:26.580 but then I remembered there's all these innocent animals. 46:27.000 --> 46:31.440 And you know, Harambe, you know, is like, I don't know, man. 46:31.440 --> 46:33.440 I don't know if I'm going to flood the earth now. 46:33.440 --> 46:33.940 No. 46:33.940 --> 46:37.280 He's like, all right, we're turning on the faucet. 46:37.280 --> 46:39.760 All the animals are going to drown. 46:39.760 --> 46:41.120 Do I care about Harambe? 46:41.120 --> 46:42.000 No. 46:42.000 --> 46:43.160 Don't care about him at all. 46:43.160 --> 46:45.040 He's going to drown with the rest of them, 46:45.040 --> 46:47.800 right, to punish the human beings. 46:47.800 --> 46:48.880 So guess what? 46:48.880 --> 46:50.640 The animals are no factor. 46:51.700 --> 46:54.200 No factor. Irrelevant. 46:54.200 --> 46:55.200 Okay. 46:55.200 --> 47:01.200 So, if, you know, when it comes to the lives of animals versus the lives of human beings, 47:01.200 --> 47:05.700 or just the lives of animals versus the comfort of human beings, 47:05.700 --> 47:08.700 we're going with the comfort of human beings. 47:08.700 --> 47:16.700 You know, that, you know, that cow has sacrificed his life for me so I can just, so I can enjoy its meat. 47:17.000 --> 47:25.000 You know, I might not, you know, it's not a guarantee, but I might not die if I never have beef again. 47:25.000 --> 47:32.000 Maybe not, I don't know. You never know. There could be something that happens to me if I don't have enough beef, right? 47:32.000 --> 47:40.000 But you know what? So by me abstaining from beef, I could like, you know, save a bunch of cows, right? 47:40.000 --> 47:44.500 But here's the thing. Not worth it. Not gonna happen. 47:44.800 --> 47:47.300 That cow's life is worth my pleasure. 47:47.300 --> 47:48.300 Okay? 47:48.300 --> 47:50.300 I mean, I'm not even saving my life. 47:50.300 --> 47:53.300 I'm just deriving pleasure from eating the cow. 47:53.300 --> 47:56.800 And by the way, that's the cow's job. 47:56.800 --> 47:59.800 That's why God created cows and cattle on the earth. 47:59.800 --> 48:02.800 You know, and you'll find like, even in, 48:02.800 --> 48:05.300 even when we read in Genesis chapter 1, 48:05.300 --> 48:08.300 you know, he's like, there's like fish, 48:08.300 --> 48:10.800 there's birds, and there's cattle. 48:11.300 --> 48:14.300 That's how important cows are to the human being. 48:14.300 --> 48:15.300 Okay? 48:15.300 --> 48:17.500 Very important. 48:17.500 --> 48:18.860 Steak is very important to God. 48:18.860 --> 48:20.740 It's very important to me too. 48:20.740 --> 48:25.660 And so that's why he created cows, is so that we could have ribeye steak. 48:25.660 --> 48:26.660 Okay? 48:26.660 --> 48:31.780 And then the Hindus are over there worshipping the cow and not eating the ribeye steak. 48:31.780 --> 48:36.700 And I'm pretty sure God is mad at Hinduism for teaching that, by the way. 48:36.700 --> 48:37.700 Anyways. 48:37.700 --> 48:38.540 Um. 48:39.400 --> 48:42.200 Yeah, it is. It's definitely the doctrine of devils. 48:42.200 --> 48:50.600 I mean, you got, you know, they're always making an image of a cow in the Old Testament and then they're worshipping it. 48:50.600 --> 48:57.000 And then the Hindus are like, hold my beer, watch this. We're going to worship the real cow. 48:57.000 --> 49:02.000 Anyway, this is, you know, that's another sermon for another day. 49:02.000 --> 49:06.200 Okay. All right. So we read about the flood. Go ahead and turn to Exodus, chapter number nine. 49:06.200 --> 49:07.200 Oh, water. 49:07.700 --> 49:09.700 This is fantastic. 49:09.700 --> 49:13.700 I think I asked for that like 10 minutes ago, didn't I? 49:19.600 --> 49:20.440 Ugh. 49:23.400 --> 49:31.640 You gotta stop putting chlorine in the water because you're abusing the rights of the bacteria in the water. 49:31.640 --> 49:35.200 I mean, they're willing to do that for all these other things. 49:35.200 --> 49:41.160 I mean, how long is it before they say you can't kill microscopic organisms with chlorine? 49:41.160 --> 49:49.080 You know, your whole battle against COVID was wrong because viruses have rights. 49:49.080 --> 49:49.580 Swag. 49:51.400 --> 49:55.240 It's like at that point, you know, it's like, okay, you know, the empire was right, you know, 49:56.360 --> 49:59.640 they should have blown up all the wrong. It's like these people are insane. 50:00.520 --> 50:07.480 You know, I just, I don't know. All right, let's move on to the next subject. 50:07.900 --> 50:10.780 It's still the same subject actually, we're just moving to another verse. 50:10.780 --> 50:13.420 Exodus chapter number nine, look at verse number one, it says, 50:13.420 --> 50:20.060 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, 50:20.060 --> 50:28.860 Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if thou refuse to let them go, and will hold them still, 50:28.860 --> 50:32.920 So behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle, 50:32.920 --> 50:33.920 which is in the field." 50:34.200 --> 50:38.440 upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, 50:38.440 --> 50:44.640 and upon the sheep, there shall be a very grievous moron, 50:44.640 --> 50:52.000 and the Lord shall serve between the cattle of the Israel and the cattle of Egypt. 50:52.000 --> 50:56.640 And there shall nothing die of all that is the children of Israel. 50:56.640 --> 50:58.240 and the Lord appointed. 50:58.600 --> 51:04.280 a set time saying, tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. 51:04.280 --> 51:08.440 And the Lord did that thing on the morrow. And all the cattle of Egypt died, 51:09.080 --> 51:15.480 but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one." And so here God, he's using this 51:15.480 --> 51:20.520 disease, you know, this grievous moran. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right, 51:20.520 --> 51:24.520 but basically it's going to be like a disease that 51:25.300 --> 51:30.560 He inflicts the cows with that kills them all these different animals that the Egyptians are using 51:30.560 --> 51:34.240 He inflicts them with afflicts them with this disease and they'll die, right? 51:34.940 --> 51:42.000 And so basically God is killing all these animals as a punishment to the Egyptians 51:42.540 --> 51:46.240 Right and so again where the animal rights in the Bible 51:48.120 --> 51:49.400 Doesn't exist 51:49.500 --> 51:53.340 Animal rights don't exist animals don't have rights my friend 51:54.500 --> 51:56.500 They're not like us 51:56.500 --> 52:01.220 You know they want to they want to bring us down to the level of animals and they want to say that we came from 52:01.220 --> 52:03.220 Animals well, I'm sorry my friend, but we're not 52:04.460 --> 52:08.980 Animals are lower than us we reign above the animals and they do not have 52:09.580 --> 52:12.580 Rights okay, they're not you know people there you know 52:13.620 --> 52:16.340 People are calling their pets their fur babies or whatever 52:17.300 --> 52:20.300 But it's, you know, I don't like it when people do that. 52:20.300 --> 52:31.300 You know, don't, you know, they'll be like, oh, you know, this, you know, somebody will have a dog or whatever and they'll have kids and then they'll call the dog the kid's brother or sister. 52:31.300 --> 52:36.300 It's like, really? So you gave birth to that. 52:36.300 --> 52:41.100 Tell me about what it was like when the claws were, you know, like what are you talking about? 52:41.700 --> 52:44.040 You know, it's just, it's insane, you know. 52:44.040 --> 52:46.580 And it's a weird mentality. 52:46.580 --> 52:51.520 You know, and I don't think it used to be this way. 52:51.520 --> 52:54.380 Back when 70% of Americans were farmers, 52:54.380 --> 52:59.480 I'm pretty sure that nobody was calling their dog their fur baby 52:59.480 --> 53:02.100 or their other children's brother and sister. 53:02.100 --> 53:03.460 It just wasn't happening. 53:03.460 --> 53:08.460 This is a modern phenomenon where people are elevating... 53:08.500 --> 53:11.500 animals to the level of human beings. 53:11.500 --> 53:15.500 You know, and a lot of those people, they're kind of joking around with it, 53:15.500 --> 53:17.500 you know, they're not really that serious about it, 53:17.500 --> 53:24.500 but here's the thing about it, is that most people that are going to call their dog their fur baby or whatever, 53:24.500 --> 53:28.500 yeah, maybe they're not completely insane, 53:28.500 --> 53:33.200 but that mentality, it's a symptom of other people's... 53:33.300 --> 53:36.000 becoming even way more insane. 53:36.000 --> 53:40.860 For every 10 people you have that call their dog 53:40.860 --> 53:43.320 their fur baby, you're gonna have one person 53:43.320 --> 53:47.440 that's like actually completely 100% believes it, 53:47.440 --> 53:49.720 and they think that anybody that does anything wrong 53:49.720 --> 53:51.880 to any animal at any point should get 53:51.880 --> 53:54.280 like the death penalty or something. 53:54.280 --> 53:56.880 I mean, they wanna outlaw trapping, 53:56.880 --> 53:59.580 meaning you can't have a mousetrap in your house. 54:00.200 --> 54:04.800 I mean, this type of person is insane, is crazy. 54:04.800 --> 54:05.800 Okay? 54:05.800 --> 54:11.100 And so, you know, that type of person, what used to be, 54:11.100 --> 54:13.100 they would have been ostracized from society 54:13.100 --> 54:15.300 if they started talking like that, 54:15.300 --> 54:18.000 and saying crazy and insane things like that. 54:18.000 --> 54:19.700 You know, they would have been insane. 54:19.700 --> 54:25.300 But nowadays, we allow them to put ballot initiatives together. 54:28.200 --> 54:31.200 Anyway, where were we in the Bible here? 54:31.200 --> 54:33.200 Exodus chapter number 9. 54:33.200 --> 54:37.200 Go ahead and turn to Exodus chapter number 13. 54:37.200 --> 54:45.200 So God, again, you know, the main thrust of the sermon here is to show that 54:45.200 --> 54:51.200 God values human beings and basically doesn't value animals. 54:51.200 --> 54:55.200 And the only reason why animals are here are to benefit us. 54:57.100 --> 55:04.900 And so, you know, in my opinion, there should be no animal abuse laws whatsoever. 55:04.900 --> 55:09.820 You know, and we'll get, we'll talk about this a little bit more later in the sermon, 55:09.820 --> 55:14.540 but I don't think there should be any legal repercussions whatsoever for what somebody 55:14.540 --> 55:16.380 does with their own property. 55:16.380 --> 55:20.940 Okay, and that's what, if you own an animal, that is your property. 55:20.940 --> 55:24.100 It's not a family member, it's property. 55:24.600 --> 55:26.360 and it's your property. 55:26.360 --> 55:29.280 And you can do what you want with your property. 55:29.280 --> 55:32.000 Amen. I own a truck. 55:32.000 --> 55:36.040 And if I want to go ahead and just ram my truck into my garage, 55:36.040 --> 55:39.520 I have the right to do that. Right? 55:39.520 --> 55:46.480 Because it's mine. And so if I want to do whatever I want with my dog, 55:46.480 --> 55:48.600 I have the right to do that. 55:49.300 --> 55:54.300 You know, if I owned a dog and I'm not planning on owning a dog anytime soon, 55:54.300 --> 55:58.060 or probably for the rest of my life, but you know, not, you know, I, 55:58.060 --> 56:02.300 the more I go soul winning, the less I like dogs, but when I was a kid I loved dogs. 56:02.300 --> 56:05.940 Okay, and I'm not saying I hate dogs or anything like that. 56:05.940 --> 56:11.620 You know, and there are certain dogs I like, but you know, the more you go soul winning, it's like, 56:11.620 --> 56:15.460 you stupid dogs, you know, they just ruin everything, right? 56:15.460 --> 56:17.060 But, I'm more of like going with that. 56:17.200 --> 56:27.200 But if I had a dog, and I was like, you know, this dog is causing me problems, this dog is doing whatever, and I need to get rid of it, and I shoot my own dog, that's my right. 56:27.200 --> 56:34.200 I can do whatever I want with my dog. Why? Because it's my property. That dog does not have any rights. 56:34.200 --> 56:39.200 Because why? Because you know what? Rights are given out by God. 56:39.200 --> 56:42.200 God is the one who gives out rights to people. 56:42.400 --> 56:45.720 And you know people people are really presumptuous 56:46.560 --> 56:51.400 You know people want to just claim they have all these rights. It's like yeah, but did God give you that right? 56:52.040 --> 56:57.160 Is God giving you that right and by the way I believe that God can take away rights from people. Oh, yeah 56:57.160 --> 56:59.160 I believe he can do that 56:59.800 --> 57:06.360 You know inalienable rights, you know I do believe in rights, but I don't know if I believe in inalienable rights 57:07.800 --> 57:10.960 Why don't you go ask the North Koreans about their inalienable rights? 57:11.580 --> 57:18.680 Do they have inalienable rights or has God removed that from them for being wicked and evil and rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ? 57:20.940 --> 57:23.300 Anyways, this is very getting very 57:23.800 --> 57:29.000 philosophical type sermon this evening. Exodus chapter number 13. Have I read that one yet? 57:29.000 --> 57:33.640 No. No, all right. So we're going to read Exodus chapter number 13. Look at verse number 13. It 57:33.640 --> 57:40.040 says, and every firstlings of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb. 57:40.900 --> 57:45.860 And if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck, 57:45.860 --> 57:51.220 and all the firstborns of men among thy children shalt thou redeem." 57:51.220 --> 57:53.220 So what is it talking about here? 57:53.220 --> 57:58.420 Well, so basically, you know, the firstborn of all, you know, of your different animals, 57:58.420 --> 58:05.700 you're supposed to either, basically, give it to the Levites as an offering. 58:06.700 --> 58:08.700 Or you're supposed to redeem it. 58:08.700 --> 58:13.660 And basically, the redeeming is if you didn't like, let's say you had a lamb, 58:13.660 --> 58:18.380 a lamb was born, it's a first born lamb, and you didn't really want to give it to the Levites, 58:18.380 --> 58:23.980 well there was an option to redeem it, so basically you pay them money instead of giving them the physical lamb. 58:24.200 --> 58:28.240 right? So then you would pay them basically, you know, if the lamb was worth 58:28.240 --> 58:32.760 $100, you'd give them $100 plus 20, because you'd add the fifth part there, too. 58:32.760 --> 58:43.080 Right? But with an ass, though, or a donkey, what did it say here? It says 58:43.080 --> 58:48.920 the first thing of an ass, right? So the Levites, they didn't want to be 58:48.920 --> 58:51.100 given an ass, right? 58:51.200 --> 58:54.960 I was thinking about this and I think you know there's there's always symbolism going on right 58:55.760 --> 58:59.760 and you know if you think about like what is an ass for what does it do 59:02.160 --> 59:08.480 it's a beast of burden right it works for you right and and what is you know and so instead of 59:08.480 --> 59:14.320 offering them the ass you're supposed to offer them a lamb right as a replacement for the ass 59:14.320 --> 59:16.160 what's what's the what's the lamb represent 59:17.000 --> 59:18.500 Jesus Christ, right? 59:18.500 --> 59:21.000 So instead of offering the beast of burden, 59:21.000 --> 59:23.000 the working animal, right? 59:23.000 --> 59:24.500 To the Levites? 59:24.500 --> 59:26.500 You're supposed to know, don't offer them that, 59:26.500 --> 59:27.500 offer a lamb. 59:27.500 --> 59:29.500 So it's kind of a picture of salvation. 59:29.500 --> 59:33.000 I just thought that was kind of interesting. 59:33.000 --> 59:36.000 You know, all the works based salvation people, 59:36.000 --> 59:38.500 you know, put that in your Pope and smoke it or whatever. 59:38.500 --> 59:41.000 Pope and smack it, pipe and smoke it, 59:41.000 --> 59:43.000 whichever one you like better. 59:43.400 --> 59:48.900 But what I wanted to point out about this is that there was an option for the ass. 59:48.900 --> 59:51.700 If you didn't want to give a lamb, you're like, 59:51.700 --> 59:57.000 okay, well I have this ass, either I've got to redeem it or I've got to give a lamb. 59:57.000 --> 01:00:01.000 If you don't want to give a lamb, well you can just go ahead and break its neck. 01:00:02.100 --> 01:00:07.380 So is God really just concerned about the lives of animals and he wants to make sure 01:00:07.380 --> 01:00:12.420 that all these animals that are frolicking around in the wilderness or wherever just are not harmed? 01:00:12.420 --> 01:00:15.380 He wants to keep cares about them and touch them in bed or whatever? 01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:20.420 No, no, he doesn't care about the lives of animals. 01:00:20.420 --> 01:00:23.860 And the reason why the animals are there is to benefit you and me. 01:00:24.660 --> 01:00:25.540 That's what they're there for. 01:00:26.260 --> 01:00:27.940 Okay, that's why we have. 01:00:29.100 --> 01:00:34.100 Animals on the earth. The animals are not here to rule over us. 01:00:34.100 --> 01:00:37.100 Okay, we're here to rule over them. 01:00:37.100 --> 01:00:46.100 But go ahead and turn to Deuteronomy chapter number 22. 01:00:50.600 --> 01:00:53.400 So, I've shown you multiple verses in the Bible, 01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:56.120 multiple stories and sections of Scripture 01:00:56.120 --> 01:00:58.720 where the Bible is really clear, right? 01:00:58.720 --> 01:01:03.020 That God does not regard the lives of animals. 01:01:03.020 --> 01:01:05.180 He's not worried about them. 01:01:05.180 --> 01:01:07.160 Okay, if an animal has to die 01:01:07.160 --> 01:01:09.080 for one reason or another, 01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:11.280 He's not worried about that animal dying. 01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:12.080 Right? 01:01:12.080 --> 01:01:13.680 You know, He floods the whole earth. 01:01:13.680 --> 01:01:15.680 He kills 2,000 swine. 01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:16.180 That it? 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:20.000 It's like not even a concern, right? 01:01:21.640 --> 01:01:24.600 But there are verses in the Bible that, you know, 01:01:24.600 --> 01:01:28.840 sometimes people will use to push back against this idea 01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:33.240 that animals, their lives don't really matter, okay? 01:01:33.240 --> 01:01:34.440 There are certain verses, 01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:36.440 and I just wanted to kind of go through. 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:42.780 some of those verses and I wanted to you know give a little bit of balance to the sermon here 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:46.280 Because you know believe it or not actually I do like animals 01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:53.480 Okay, and we'll talk about that here in just a minute though. It says in Deuteronomy chapter number 22 look at verse number 6 01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:54.840 it says 01:01:54.840 --> 01:02:01.620 If a bird's nest chance to to be before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground 01:02:01.980 --> 01:02:04.360 Whether they be young ones or eggs 01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:09.440 And the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, 01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:12.280 thou shalt not take the dam with the young, 01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:16.720 but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go 01:02:16.720 --> 01:02:18.680 and take the young to thee, 01:02:18.680 --> 01:02:20.600 that it may be well with thee 01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:23.720 and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 01:02:23.720 --> 01:02:27.240 Now, so what this verse is talking about, 01:02:27.240 --> 01:02:30.360 is basically if you come upon a nest, 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:32.720 wherever, if it's in the tree or wherever, 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:35.340 If you want the eggs, the Bible is saying, 01:02:35.340 --> 01:02:37.140 hey, you can go ahead and take the eggs, 01:02:37.140 --> 01:02:38.880 but don't take the mother bird. 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:42.140 And when it says, the dam sitting upon the young, 01:02:42.140 --> 01:02:43.880 that's referring to the mother bird. 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:44.780 Okay. 01:02:44.780 --> 01:02:46.140 So what the Bible is saying here is like, 01:02:46.140 --> 01:02:49.920 hey, don't kill the mother bird. 01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:50.780 Why? 01:02:50.780 --> 01:02:52.360 Well, because that mother bird 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:55.520 is going to produce more eggs. 01:02:55.520 --> 01:02:56.800 Right? 01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.360 And if you just go ahead and kill all the mother birds, 01:02:59.500 --> 01:03:04.560 Well, then you're not going to have any more eggs or birds. 01:03:04.560 --> 01:03:06.860 They're all going to be wiped out, right? 01:03:06.860 --> 01:03:11.000 So the Bible's kind of putting a rule in place here that's going to prevent, you know, the 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:16.540 children of Israel from wiping out an entire population of birds or whatever, right? 01:03:16.540 --> 01:03:19.860 And people will say, well, you see, that's because God really cares about the birds and 01:03:19.860 --> 01:03:23.380 He really cares about those eggs and the young ones and He cares about the mother birds a 01:03:23.380 --> 01:03:24.380 lot. 01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:26.540 But that's not actually what's going on here because if we read carefully... 01:03:26.540 --> 01:03:26.900 Thank you. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.500 At the end it says that it may be well with the birds 01:03:32.100 --> 01:03:34.100 That it may be well with tweety 01:03:36.220 --> 01:03:37.560 No 01:03:37.560 --> 01:03:45.120 What's what's the concern here says that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest prolong thy 01:03:45.560 --> 01:03:50.440 Days right so there's some wisdom to be had with saying hey 01:03:51.300 --> 01:03:55.300 We're not going to kill every living creature we see. 01:03:55.300 --> 01:04:02.300 Why? Because maybe we want a sustainable operation going on where we can continue to have more birds, 01:04:02.300 --> 01:04:04.300 we can continue to have more eggs. 01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:14.000 You know, I think it was a really foolish thing in the 19th century when we nearly wiped out all the buffalo. 01:04:14.300 --> 01:04:22.300 And a lot of people, you know, there's this kind of thing, it's like, well, why we, you know, the white man was wiping out all the buffalo to try to kill all the Indians. 01:04:22.300 --> 01:04:32.300 When in reality, it was just, it was kind of just capitalism at work because there was market hunting going on. 01:04:32.300 --> 01:04:41.300 And, you know, guys would go out there and you could, there's no rules or anything, you could just go out and kill the bison and... 01:04:41.700 --> 01:04:45.300 get the meat and get the hide and everything and sell it and people were making a lot of money doing it. 01:04:46.020 --> 01:04:54.020 And so you know that drive to get money by doing something fun hunting right that drive for money 01:04:54.020 --> 01:04:59.140 is really what nearly wiped out the buffalo you know it's not necessarily you know maybe the the 01:04:59.140 --> 01:05:02.580 whole Indian thing it's largely over overblown. 01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:05.240 It was mostly the market hunting. 01:05:05.240 --> 01:05:08.840 But that was kind of a foolish thing for, you know, 01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:10.600 I mean, what if they did actually succeed 01:05:10.600 --> 01:05:12.440 in wiping them all out? 01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:15.000 I don't think that would have been a positive thing, right? 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:15.560 Why? 01:05:15.560 --> 01:05:18.000 Because then we wouldn't have any buffalo today. 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.040 Now we still have a certain amount of buffalo. 01:05:21.040 --> 01:05:25.040 There used to be 60 million buffalo on the Great Plains, 01:05:25.040 --> 01:05:27.680 but now there's like a few hundred thousand or something 01:05:27.680 --> 01:05:31.240 like that because the market hunters are really successful. 01:05:31.240 --> 01:05:34.320 They do what they were doing. 01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:37.200 And so if we would have wiped them all out, 01:05:37.200 --> 01:05:38.920 that wouldn't have been beneficial to us. 01:05:39.400 --> 01:05:42.400 Right? Like if you, if we just wiped out all the chickens, we're like, 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:44.900 I'm hungry for chicken, I want some fried chicken now! 01:05:44.900 --> 01:05:46.900 And we go out and we just kill all the chickens. 01:05:47.900 --> 01:05:51.400 We don't have any chickens left. We're like, I want beef, I want my steak now! 01:05:51.900 --> 01:05:55.900 And we just kill all the cows, then that's not going to be a good thing. 01:05:55.900 --> 01:05:56.900 For us! 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.400 With the you know the cows themselves 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:07.480 We're not really worried about the individual cow or the individual bison or the individual bird. We're worried about 01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:14.680 Whether or not we can continue eating amen so this is what that verse is about this is about sustainability 01:06:15.600 --> 01:06:21.520 Right making sure you know that you're not wiping. You know an entire species out or something like that 01:06:22.520 --> 01:06:23.600 because look 01:06:23.700 --> 01:06:27.780 You know, mankind, we do have the ability to do these things. 01:06:27.780 --> 01:06:31.860 Like if we wanted to, we could just poison every single creature in the sea. 01:06:34.100 --> 01:06:36.500 You know, we could just, yeah, I don't know. 01:06:38.340 --> 01:06:40.420 We're going to move on from that subject. 01:06:40.420 --> 01:06:42.980 Anyway, so go ahead and turn to Deuteronomy chapter number 25. 01:06:42.980 --> 01:06:45.860 Deuteronomy chapter number 25. 01:06:49.100 --> 01:06:49.800 Thank you. 01:06:59.900 --> 01:07:05.500 Actually, yeah, actually, no, yeah, go to Deuteronomy chapter number 25. 01:07:05.500 --> 01:07:11.000 So Deuteronomy 25, look at verse number 24. 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:17.100 It says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 01:07:17.100 --> 01:07:21.300 And this is a verse that somebody would point to you to say, like, see, animals have rights. 01:07:21.300 --> 01:07:24.300 They have the right to eat. 01:07:24.600 --> 01:07:26.040 while they're treading out the corn. 01:07:26.040 --> 01:07:28.040 Because when it says don't muzzle the ox, 01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:31.640 basically, it would be a muzzle. 01:07:31.640 --> 01:07:33.120 Everyone knows what a muzzle is, right? 01:07:33.120 --> 01:07:37.600 You put it on the dog so it doesn't bite people, right? 01:07:37.600 --> 01:07:42.280 They put the muzzle on so that while he's in the cornfield, 01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:43.360 he's not eating the corn. 01:07:44.500 --> 01:07:48.000 Right? He's preventing the ox from eating the corn. 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.000 And God's saying, hey, don't do that. 01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:51.500 Right? That's not the correct thing to do. 01:07:51.500 --> 01:07:55.300 And now people will take that and say, well, you see, you know, the ox has the right to eat corn. 01:07:55.300 --> 01:07:57.000 You know, don't... 01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:59.500 Because God really cares about the ox. 01:07:59.500 --> 01:08:03.000 He's really concerned about the ox weight loss. 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:08.300 You know, this ox is anemic and needs to gain weight because he's looking too skinny. 01:08:08.300 --> 01:08:10.700 God cares about the ox and wants him to eat, right? 01:08:10.700 --> 01:08:11.600 But 01:08:11.700 --> 01:08:20.700 Go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter number 9 and we're going to see, we're going to view the Old Testament through the lens of the New Testament. 01:08:20.700 --> 01:08:21.700 Okay. 01:08:22.700 --> 01:08:30.700 And I put Deuteronomy chapter number 9, but I'm like 100% sure that it's actually 1 Corinthians chapter number 9. 01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:40.040 1 Corinthians chapter number 9, look at verse number 9, it says, for it is written in the 01:08:40.040 --> 01:08:42.040 law of Moses. 01:08:42.040 --> 01:08:43.920 This is what we just read. 01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:48.160 Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that shredeth out the corn. 01:08:48.160 --> 01:08:49.160 Sounds pretty familiar. 01:08:49.160 --> 01:08:50.160 Sounds like we just read that. 01:08:50.160 --> 01:08:51.400 Now, here's the question. 01:08:51.400 --> 01:08:53.000 Does God take care for oxen? 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:54.920 Is God worried about the oxen? 01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:56.280 Is he worried about the cows? 01:08:56.280 --> 01:09:02.080 Is he worried about the ostriches and the monkeys and the gorillas? 01:09:02.300 --> 01:09:09.300 worried about all those things? Or say it altogether for our sakes? It's for our sakes. 01:09:09.300 --> 01:09:16.380 Why? Well because, you know, God wants you to have a good oxen that's going to work for 01:09:16.380 --> 01:09:19.380 you to be able to make so that you can harvest your food. 01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:22.360 So this is for your benefit. 01:09:22.360 --> 01:09:28.600 For our sakes, no doubt, it is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope, 01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:34.160 and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 01:09:34.160 --> 01:09:39.200 So it's for our benefit and it's for our sakes. 01:09:39.200 --> 01:09:46.600 Now, you know, the context of 1 Corinthians 9 is that, you know, a preacher should be paid 01:09:47.200 --> 01:09:50.800 for his due labor, right? 01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:53.300 But you know, the example he uses 01:09:53.300 --> 01:09:55.300 is the ox treading out the corn. 01:09:55.300 --> 01:09:58.960 Now the reason why God wants you to allow the ox 01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:01.080 to treading out the corn to eat 01:10:01.080 --> 01:10:04.980 is because that oxen is gonna be able to do a better job 01:10:04.980 --> 01:10:08.520 of plowing the field if he's able to eat. 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:13.120 of the work of his own hooves, you know what I mean? 01:10:13.120 --> 01:10:18.000 And so, you know, men should be able to eat of the labor of their own hands. 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:23.840 Right? And so, but you know, God specifically clarifies that, hey, 01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:29.520 it's not because I care about the oxen. Again, you know, God is not concerned 01:10:29.520 --> 01:10:33.440 about the lives of animals. He's concerned about the lives and quality of lives of human beings. 01:10:33.440 --> 01:10:34.440 Okay. 01:10:37.100 --> 01:10:40.000 Go ahead and turn to Luke, chop number 12. 01:10:42.200 --> 01:10:49.200 Oh, I've been preaching for a little while. 01:10:49.200 --> 01:10:54.440 I thought it was like 4.30 or something. 01:10:54.440 --> 01:10:57.560 No, it's not. Okay, well, anyway. 01:10:57.560 --> 01:11:00.000 We don't have too much longer to go. 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:02.300 Luke 12, verse number 6, it says, 01:11:02.300 --> 01:11:05.000 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:07.700 Not one of them is forgotten before God. 01:11:08.200 --> 01:11:11.200 But even the very hairs of your head are numbered. 01:11:11.200 --> 01:11:16.200 Fear not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." 01:11:16.200 --> 01:11:18.200 So, and people take this verse and say, 01:11:18.200 --> 01:11:23.200 hey, don't you see that God has valued sparrows? 01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:27.200 But if you notice, the Bible doesn't really actually say that. 01:11:27.200 --> 01:11:30.200 It doesn't tell you how much he values the sparrows. 01:11:30.500 --> 01:11:36.340 It says, you know, five sparrows are sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten of God. 01:11:36.340 --> 01:11:40.420 So what it's talking about is God's infinite knowledge. 01:11:40.420 --> 01:11:45.380 I believe it's his omniscience. I'm not sure if that's the correct word. 01:11:45.380 --> 01:11:50.580 You know, I didn't go to Latin school, so I don't get my Latin correct all the time. 01:11:50.580 --> 01:11:55.060 But it's talking about the infinite knowledge of God and how he knows everything, right? 01:11:55.060 --> 01:11:58.260 He knows everything that's happening in our lives. He, you know... 01:11:58.500 --> 01:12:04.100 He can keep track of every hair that falls out of our heads. 01:12:04.100 --> 01:12:10.340 And so some of us are keeping really busy with these hairs that are falling out. 01:12:10.340 --> 01:12:14.340 But some of us, he won't be busy anymore though. 01:12:14.340 --> 01:12:15.340 Amen. 01:12:15.340 --> 01:12:22.420 But so it's talking about the infinite knowledge of God, right? 01:12:22.420 --> 01:12:23.420 It says. 01:12:24.300 --> 01:12:29.300 It says, fear not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows. 01:12:29.300 --> 01:12:33.300 So it's like, okay, well, I'm more valuable than many sparrows. 01:12:33.300 --> 01:12:36.300 How many is many? 01:12:36.300 --> 01:12:43.300 Well, you know, there's a verse in the Bible that says that Jesus died for many. 01:12:43.300 --> 01:12:47.300 Now, how many people did Jesus die for? 01:12:47.300 --> 01:12:48.900 All of them. 01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:53.280 So, I would submit to you, when the Bible says, 01:12:53.280 --> 01:12:56.240 hey, you're more valuable than many sparrows, 01:12:56.240 --> 01:13:00.240 many equals all of them. 01:13:00.240 --> 01:13:02.640 I would submit to you today that you, as an individual, 01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:05.440 are more valuable than every sparrow that's ever 01:13:05.440 --> 01:13:07.800 existed on planet Earth. 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:08.300 Why? 01:13:11.040 --> 01:13:13.200 Because you're created in the image of God, 01:13:13.200 --> 01:13:16.000 and that sparrow is not. 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:17.600 God has put value on you. 01:13:18.200 --> 01:13:20.200 over the sparrow. 01:13:20.200 --> 01:13:22.200 God cares a lot more about you 01:13:22.200 --> 01:13:24.200 than he cares about all the sparrows. 01:13:24.200 --> 01:13:26.200 And I would apply that same logic 01:13:26.200 --> 01:13:28.200 to all animals. 01:13:28.200 --> 01:13:31.200 You know, I'm not interested in saving, 01:13:31.200 --> 01:13:33.200 you know, what's it, 01:13:33.200 --> 01:13:35.200 Willy the whale at the expense 01:13:35.200 --> 01:13:37.200 of a human being. 01:13:37.200 --> 01:13:39.200 I don't care if it's the last whale to ever live. 01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:49.300 You know, wasn't there like a Star Trek movie where the aliens come and the aliens are going to like destroy the earth unless it gets a humpback whale? 01:13:49.300 --> 01:13:51.800 Who came up with that script? 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:54.000 What a bizarre story. 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:56.000 I mean, what in the world? 01:13:56.000 --> 01:14:00.000 The aliens are going to destroy planet Earth because we don't have a humpback whale. 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:01.000 It's like, I don't know. 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:05.000 Didn't they have to go back in time to get a whale or something like that? 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:08.000 It's like, I don't know. It's bizarre. 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.000 Star Trek is bizarre, okay? 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:13.000 There's some weird stuff going on there. 01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:15.000 Saving whales from the past. 01:14:15.400 --> 01:14:16.900 I don't know, but guess what? 01:14:16.900 --> 01:14:20.900 You know, I believe that one human being is more valuable than all the whales. 01:14:20.900 --> 01:14:24.800 If all the whales have to die to save one human being, let them die. 01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:26.200 Save the human being, amen? 01:14:26.200 --> 01:14:26.800 Right. 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:30.300 Of course, you know, I don't know, what situation could you think of where that would be? 01:14:30.300 --> 01:14:34.500 Sure, I don't know, but that's where I stand, okay? 01:14:34.500 --> 01:14:37.500 One person is more valuable than all the whales. 01:14:38.100 --> 01:14:42.100 Okay, and again, you know, we're more valuable than all the sparrows. 01:14:42.100 --> 01:14:46.100 We're more valuable than all the dogs, all the camels, all the cows. 01:14:46.100 --> 01:14:49.600 So, you know, there's no comparison. 01:14:51.900 --> 01:14:56.500 Proverbs chapter number 12 verse number 10. I'm just gonna read this for you. It says, 01:14:56.500 --> 01:15:02.340 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 01:15:02.340 --> 01:15:10.540 And people will take this verse to say, hey you see, righteous people are just really worried about the quality of life of their animals. 01:15:10.540 --> 01:15:14.940 But here's the thing, the Bible isn't really saying that per se. 01:15:14.940 --> 01:15:18.940 It's basically, it's contrasting. 01:15:20.100 --> 01:15:25.740 Wicked people with righteous people like that's the point of this verse right is to contrast 01:15:26.440 --> 01:15:28.440 wicked with the righteous and 01:15:28.660 --> 01:15:29.980 a righteous man 01:15:29.980 --> 01:15:36.700 It says a righteous man regarded the life of his beast and so what what the verse is trying to accomplish by saying that it's 01:15:36.700 --> 01:15:37.820 like hey 01:15:37.820 --> 01:15:39.820 you know a 01:15:40.020 --> 01:15:42.020 Beast is 01:15:42.060 --> 01:15:45.660 Kind of like the lowest would be the lowest of our concerns 01:15:46.500 --> 01:15:48.100 right like 01:15:48.300 --> 01:15:53.300 If your dog or your cat or your animal has an issue, 01:15:56.380 --> 01:15:58.800 like is sick or is like missing a tooth 01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:01.660 or something's wrong with it, right? 01:16:01.660 --> 01:16:05.340 That's not like a very big deal, right? 01:16:05.340 --> 01:16:09.840 But if your child has an issue, right? 01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:11.300 Like they're sick. 01:16:11.400 --> 01:16:15.960 or they're missing a tooth, you know, that's a bigger deal. 01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.440 Or maybe they have a broken nose. 01:16:18.440 --> 01:16:22.520 You're like, alright, what do we gotta do to fix this situation? 01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:23.480 This is a big deal. 01:16:23.480 --> 01:16:25.480 You know, there's blood coming out of his nose. 01:16:25.480 --> 01:16:27.160 Alright, we're going to the ER. 01:16:27.400 --> 01:16:31.480 And when we get to the ER, we're going to make sure there's lots of people. 01:16:31.480 --> 01:16:33.360 Don't clean up any of the blood before you get to the ER. 01:16:33.360 --> 01:16:36.040 Make sure there's blood everywhere. 01:16:36.040 --> 01:16:40.900 And then they'll help you in a reasonable amount of time. 01:16:40.900 --> 01:16:43.120 Don't clean up the blood before you go to the ER. 01:16:43.120 --> 01:16:50.120 But if your dog has a bloody nose or whatever, you're like, well, he'll get over it. 01:16:50.600 --> 01:17:00.600 And so what the Bible is doing here, it's like, hey, the righteous man, he regards the life even of his beast. 01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:05.600 Meaning he's regarding everything else more, but he's even regarding the life of his beast. 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:09.600 He even cares about the life of his animal. Right? 01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:16.600 Like he's not somebody that has just no care for it. He's taking care of his animal. Right? 01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:17.500 Whereas... 01:17:17.700 --> 01:17:28.140 It's contrasting that with a wicked person where even like the thing that the wicked person cares about the most, 01:17:28.140 --> 01:17:34.540 even his tender mercies, like the person he cares about the most, it's cruel. 01:17:35.400 --> 01:17:38.600 So there's a huge contrast, right? 01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:43.400 Like the person that the wicked person cares about the most, 01:17:43.400 --> 01:17:47.700 he's cruel towards them, but the righteous person, even his beast, 01:17:47.700 --> 01:17:51.900 he's like, okay, well, I'm going to take care of the beast to make sure he's okay. 01:17:51.900 --> 01:17:55.600 It's like that's a wide contrast, right? 01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:57.700 So that's the point of this verse. 01:17:57.700 --> 01:18:00.200 But also I do want to mention, 01:18:00.300 --> 01:18:05.300 You know, like I'm not like just for just being cruel to your animals or whatever. 01:18:05.300 --> 01:18:15.300 Like, you know, it's, um, when, when people are just cruel to animals for no reason, that is weird. 01:18:15.300 --> 01:18:21.300 That is actually, it is a symptom of a deeper problem that that person has because they lack empathy. 01:18:21.300 --> 01:18:25.300 Right? Somebody that lacks empathy is probably going to be a wicked person. 01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:31.800 Right? Well, I should say that they are a wicked person if they're just completely lacking any and all empathy. Right? 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:35.600 And, you know, I don't like to see animals suffer. 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:40.800 It doesn't make me happy. It doesn't give me a good feeling. It gives me a bad feeling. Right? 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:48.000 You know, it's not something that I just enjoy, just seeing animals suffer. 01:18:48.200 --> 01:18:52.800 You know, whenever you catch a fish or whatever, it's got the hook, you know, catching fish is awesome. 01:18:52.800 --> 01:18:58.200 But, you know, when you catch a fish, you know, you're not like excited when the fish has swallowed the hook 01:18:58.200 --> 01:18:59.600 and it's like deep down in the end. 01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:00.100 Right. 01:19:00.100 --> 01:19:03.900 You know, I'm not excited for that part, right? 01:19:04.300 --> 01:19:07.420 I'm excited when I'm getting into the boat. 01:19:07.420 --> 01:19:08.860 That part's awesome, right? 01:19:08.860 --> 01:19:11.060 But there are certain parts you don't enjoy. 01:19:11.060 --> 01:19:16.020 And so I've killed various animals before. 01:19:16.020 --> 01:19:18.860 I've slaughtered various animals before. 01:19:18.860 --> 01:19:24.300 And hunting, that is actually very enjoyable. 01:19:24.300 --> 01:19:25.900 That was a lot of fun. 01:19:25.900 --> 01:19:29.420 And I've slaughtered probably like a dozen alpacas before, 01:19:29.420 --> 01:19:29.920 whatever. 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:37.520 And, you know, getting it out is not the most fun part, but, you know, shooting it, you know, 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:41.120 I'm not going to comment on that, alright? That's not, it's not going to make me look good. 01:19:41.120 --> 01:19:47.280 But like, you know, like I've caught mics before or whatever, and when I was a kid, 01:19:47.280 --> 01:19:52.560 we had a dog that like got a mouse in its mouth, but she didn't like catch him. 01:19:52.560 --> 01:19:57.520 She, you know, the mouse still got away, but it was injured and, you know, tore its stomach open and... 01:19:58.100 --> 01:20:01.300 you know, there was some stuff coming out and the mouse is like running. 01:20:01.300 --> 01:20:08.420 Like you kind of feel for the mouse. You're like, oh man, poor guy, right? And so when somebody 01:20:08.420 --> 01:20:16.020 lacks that though, that's not a good sign, right? When somebody lacks empathy for animals, okay? 01:20:16.900 --> 01:20:20.500 Because, you know, you kind of like when something bad happens to an animal, 01:20:20.500 --> 01:20:22.500 you kind of think of yourself in that same position. 01:20:23.400 --> 01:20:26.400 Like, well, you know, that's just kind of a natural thing, right? 01:20:26.400 --> 01:20:30.900 And so, like, I'm not for animal cruelty, okay? 01:20:30.900 --> 01:20:32.900 But here's the thing though. 01:20:32.900 --> 01:20:40.400 Politically, I don't think anybody should ever be prosecuted for harming their own animals. 01:20:40.400 --> 01:20:42.900 If it's their animal, that's their property. 01:20:42.900 --> 01:20:45.900 Okay? That animal doesn't have any rights. 01:20:46.700 --> 01:20:51.400 to where, oh, violation of animal rights, call animal protection or whatever. 01:20:51.400 --> 01:20:57.500 No. That animal is their property and they can do with their property what they want. 01:20:57.500 --> 01:20:59.500 That's what I believe. 01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:04.000 Maybe they do something that I wouldn't do. 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:06.700 Maybe they'll do something that I don't enjoy. 01:21:06.700 --> 01:21:12.300 But at the end of the day, politically, that's not my business. 01:21:12.300 --> 01:21:14.400 It's their property. 01:21:14.400 --> 01:21:19.000 And you know what? These animal rights activists, 01:21:19.000 --> 01:21:23.700 you know, what's happening on the farm is not your business. 01:21:23.700 --> 01:21:27.900 And what's happening in my house with my property is not their business. 01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:33.800 And what goes on in other parts of the country is not their business. 01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:38.300 But they want to literally come in and control 01:21:38.300 --> 01:21:43.100 everything that happens between humans and animals. 01:21:43.100 --> 01:21:47.800 Which again, this is an extremely wicked mentality. 01:21:47.800 --> 01:21:52.000 And again, I don't believe that they care about the well-being of animals 01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:54.900 at all because of the fact that, I mean... 01:21:55.100 --> 01:21:57.300 What this bill will actually do is 01:21:59.180 --> 01:22:05.100 Basically all the you know all the animal populations are just going to explode temporarily 01:22:05.660 --> 01:22:09.700 And then it's going to crash at some point because you know that that's that's 01:22:10.540 --> 01:22:16.820 What will happen a lot of times if if populations aren't managed. There'll be a population explosion and then a crash 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:23.000 Because all the deer and the elk and everything, they'll multiply. 01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:26.400 And then they'll eat all the food, and then there's no more food, 01:22:26.400 --> 01:22:29.900 and then all these animals are just starving to death. 01:22:29.900 --> 01:22:32.800 And starving to death is not fun. 01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:39.800 Being hungry until you die is a very painful, horrible experience. 01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:45.300 And so that's the fate of millions of animals. 01:22:46.100 --> 01:22:50.100 that will happen if this thing comes to pass. 01:22:50.100 --> 01:22:54.100 And so that tells me either they're too stupid 01:22:54.100 --> 01:22:59.100 to be given the right to vote, or they're evil. 01:22:59.100 --> 01:23:04.100 And again, I think a lot of them are just plain evil. 01:23:04.100 --> 01:23:06.100 And they actually don't care about animals, 01:23:06.100 --> 01:23:09.100 but they just care about hating God. 01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:12.120 And go ahead and turn to Romans chapter number one. 01:23:12.120 --> 01:23:16.640 It is June, so this had to be included in my sermon 01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:18.080 because it is June. 01:23:18.080 --> 01:23:18.760 But you know what? 01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:21.500 It ties in well with this subject. 01:23:23.200 --> 01:23:26.700 Romans chapter number one, look at verse number 21, it says, 01:23:26.700 --> 01:23:31.380 because when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were 01:23:31.380 --> 01:23:34.380 thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was 01:23:34.380 --> 01:23:38.340 darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the 01:23:38.340 --> 01:23:44.340 glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made alike to corruptible 01:23:44.340 --> 01:23:49.420 man, into birds, into four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God 01:23:49.420 --> 01:23:51.200 also gave them up unto... 01:23:51.200 --> 01:23:55.780 uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies 01:23:55.780 --> 01:24:01.400 between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and 01:24:01.400 --> 01:24:05.780 served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever amen for 01:24:05.780 --> 01:24:11.980 this cause God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did 01:24:11.980 --> 01:24:17.940 change the natural use into that which is against nature so notice people that 01:24:17.940 --> 01:24:19.100 hate God 01:24:19.300 --> 01:24:21.800 They don't even want to retain God in their knowledge. 01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:24.460 It says, who changed the truth of God into a lie, 01:24:24.460 --> 01:24:31.740 and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator. 01:24:31.740 --> 01:24:36.180 And so when you have somebody that they claim that they just love animals, 01:24:36.180 --> 01:24:40.620 you know, they love animals so much to the point where they're just worshipping animals. 01:24:40.620 --> 01:24:42.740 Right? And when you... 01:24:42.740 --> 01:24:44.820 All of us have probably heard somebody say like, 01:24:44.820 --> 01:24:46.500 I love animals more than people. 01:24:47.200 --> 01:24:51.360 That is a wicked mentality. That is an evil, wicked mentality. 01:24:51.360 --> 01:24:52.360 Amen. 01:24:52.360 --> 01:24:57.960 But it shows you that they're kind of, they're on this path of they want to reject God, they 01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:01.920 don't want anything to do with God, to the point where they want to raise, you know, 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:06.320 not only do they want to put animals on the same level as people, they want to put animals 01:25:06.320 --> 01:25:08.880 above people, and they want to put animals above God. 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:12.000 It's like how insane is that? 01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:15.000 I mean God created the entire universe. 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:18.000 He created every living being upon planet earth. 01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:22.000 He created us. He created all the birds and all the cattle and everything. 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:27.000 And they want to put the created cow above God. 01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:29.000 Insanity. 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:31.000 Complete insanity. 01:25:31.000 --> 01:25:37.700 But, you know, there's a huge overlap between, you know, the LGBT... 01:25:37.800 --> 01:25:44.680 you know, let God burn them quickly, crowd, and the animal rights activists. 01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:51.480 Major overlap. Also major overlap with the people that want to support abortion. 01:25:51.480 --> 01:25:54.520 It's like, you know, kind of like brother Paul was preaching the other day, you know, there's this 01:25:54.520 --> 01:26:01.800 major overlap. It's the LGBTQ or what was it, the Reprobate Coalition. You know, and I do believe 01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:08.000 These people that are animal rights activists because I mean it's one thing for you to for if 01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:15.460 If somebody came back by with a survey and it says hey, are you for cruelty of animals? Do you support animal abuse? 01:26:16.120 --> 01:26:20.280 You're probably just be like no. I don't support animal abuse right? 01:26:20.840 --> 01:26:25.560 All right, you know, they'll have these survey questions like that or if they're like, you know 01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:27.720 If somebody just came by and said hey, do you support? 01:26:28.500 --> 01:26:36.100 or like just ask you, hey, do you support being against animal abuse or something like that? 01:26:36.100 --> 01:26:40.580 You know, it'd be like, oh yeah. But there's a difference between somebody who's just like 01:26:40.580 --> 01:26:44.660 asked a survey question and they're like, yeah, I'm against animal abuse or whatever. 01:26:47.500 --> 01:26:51.500 And somebody being an actual animal rights activist. 01:26:51.500 --> 01:26:55.500 Meaning they make it their life's goal to go out 01:26:55.500 --> 01:27:00.500 and basically try to change laws and go after people 01:27:00.500 --> 01:27:05.500 because of perceived animal rights abuses or whatever. 01:27:05.500 --> 01:27:09.500 That type of person is an extremely evil and wicked person. 01:27:09.500 --> 01:27:12.500 Why? Because, you know, like I was saying earlier, 01:27:12.900 --> 01:27:18.900 If we take their logic and apply it everywhere, if we take their law that they're proposing and apply it everywhere, 01:27:18.900 --> 01:27:21.900 it's the end of civilization. 01:27:21.900 --> 01:27:28.900 Civilization will end if we go with their mentality. Why? Because there's no more farming. 01:27:28.900 --> 01:27:32.900 No more eggs, no more chickens, no more beef. 01:27:32.900 --> 01:27:36.900 And pretty soon they'll be like, hey, wheat plants have rights too. 01:27:36.900 --> 01:27:38.500 You can't harvest those. 01:27:39.200 --> 01:27:41.200 I mean, what's stopping them, right? 01:27:41.200 --> 01:27:43.200 Where's the logical end? 01:27:43.200 --> 01:27:47.200 And so, you know, these are extremely wicked, evil people 01:27:47.200 --> 01:27:51.200 and they're largely going to be part, you know, if you find an animal rights activist, 01:27:51.200 --> 01:27:55.200 you know, you've also found a queer ally. 01:27:55.200 --> 01:27:57.200 I pretty much almost guarantee it, right? 01:27:57.200 --> 01:28:02.200 I mean, those two groups, you know, it's like a fly on crap. 01:28:02.200 --> 01:28:04.200 You know, they just go together. 01:28:04.900 --> 01:28:07.820 But anyway, let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer. 01:28:07.820 --> 01:28:09.320 Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord. 01:28:09.320 --> 01:28:10.740 I thank you for everything you've done for us, Lord. 01:28:10.740 --> 01:28:15.140 I pray that you'd please help us to put animals in the correct perspective. 01:28:15.140 --> 01:28:20.020 And Lord, we pray that this bill will not pass in the state of Oregon 01:28:20.020 --> 01:28:23.700 because if it passes there, it might even spread here, Lord. 01:28:23.700 --> 01:28:25.380 And Lord, we just pray that you'd please bless us. 01:28:25.380 --> 01:28:29.060 And we thank you for all the animals that we have that are for our benefit, Lord. 01:28:29.060 --> 01:28:30.300 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:28:30.300 --> 01:28:30.800 Amen. 01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:35.900 Ahem. 01:28:38.500 --> 01:28:41.460 Amen good sir Jason our last one was on number 206 01:28:49.900 --> 01:28:52.500 Song number 206, Oh Say What I'm Glad. 01:28:55.400 --> 01:29:00.360 Song 2, 06. 01:29:00.360 --> 01:29:04.640 Let's sing it out together on the first. 01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:13.080 There is a song in my heart today, something I've never had. 01:29:13.080 --> 01:29:17.360 Jesus has taken my sins away. 01:29:17.360 --> 01:29:19.800 Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:29:21.200 --> 01:29:25.600 Oh, say, but I'm glad, I'm glad. 01:29:25.600 --> 01:29:29.800 Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:34.200 Jesus has come and my cup's overrun. 01:29:34.200 --> 01:29:38.200 Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:29:38.300 --> 01:29:43.100 Wonderful, marvelous love he brings 01:29:43.100 --> 01:29:47.500 Into a heart that's sad 01:29:47.500 --> 01:29:52.200 Through darkest tunnels the soldier sings 01:29:52.200 --> 01:29:55.800 Oh, say, but I'm glad 01:29:56.200 --> 01:30:00.820 Oh, say, but I'm glad, I'm glad. 01:30:00.820 --> 01:30:05.140 Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:30:05.140 --> 01:30:09.620 Jesus has come and my cup's overrun. 01:30:09.620 --> 01:30:13.900 Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:30:13.900 --> 01:30:18.200 We have a fellowship rich and sweet. 01:30:19.200 --> 01:30:34.200 Canary lay, abiding in him the soul's retreat. Oh, say but I'm glad. Oh, say but I'm glad. 01:30:34.200 --> 01:30:40.400 I'm glad. Oh, say but I'm glad. 01:30:40.500 --> 01:30:48.800 Jesus has come and my cup's overrun. Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:58.500 Won't you come to Him with all your care, weary and worn and sad? 01:30:58.500 --> 01:31:07.200 You too will sing as His love you share. Oh, say, but I'm glad. 01:31:07.400 --> 01:31:20.920 O say but I'm glad, I'm glad. O say but I'm glad. Jesus has come and my cup's overrun. 01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:27.320 O say but I'm glad. Amen. Good to see you brother Ryan. Could you close the water prayer? 01:31:27.320 --> 01:31:29.820 Father, thank you God for this church. 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:35.080 The sermon we heard tonight, Lord, thank you God for everything you did to us. 01:31:35.080 --> 01:31:37.480 Lord, I just pray that you will bless us as we go. 01:31:37.480 --> 01:31:38.760 Jesus, amen.