what's being taught in scripture and you know a perfect example of this and I'm
just gonna call it out by name because it's a common report and because he's
rubbing our nose in it this Kent Hovind garbage and let me tell you this
guy look and I defended Kent Hovind when his wife is divorcing him but
you know what I'm gonna call him out right now and you say well it's
no your business well you know what he goes on YouTube and puts out a
video telling everybody if you don't agree with me committing adultery then
you're a hypocrite and a Pharisee well you know what I'm a Pharisee then I'm a
Pharisee yet you know what actually Kent Hovind in Matthew 19 it was the
Pharisees that justified divorce and remarriage read the Bible folks Matthew
chapter 19 the Pharisees came to Jesus and said you can divorce your wife for
any reason you want that's what the Pharisees believe that's what
rabbinical Judaism teaches that's what they taught no it was Jesus who
rebuked the Pharisees and said no you when you get married it's till death
and what God is showing together let not man put asunder look if Kent
Hovind wants to marry a divorced woman you know whatever that's his
business but for him to get up and tell everybody oh I prayed about it I
fasted and I sought godly counsel and I told God I'm willing to do whatever you
want God and this is what God led me to do to marry a divorced woman that's a
lie out of the pit of hell God would never lead you to disobey the
Bible and look if he would have just said well you know what I'm gonna marry
a divorced woman because I'm I'm weak I've been in prison for years and you
know I I'm throwing up my hands on my marriage I give up I'm just getting you
know what whatever I wouldn't even make a big deal out of it because you know
that's his business he's the one who's gonna deal with the consequences for
that I'm not that and but you know what when he's just gonna publicly
announce and he even said I want this to be an example to other divorced
people that's what he said who heard him say it yes am I making this up he
flat-out said I want other people are divorced to see this example well you
mean you mean where you're already you're already scheming on a divorced
woman before your wife has even divorced you were defending you in
April and you've been scheming on this other woman since February and you
know what people try to say oh Ken Hovind there's nothing he could do
about his wife leaving how do you know and even if that's true
ok is he marrying a single is he marrying a widow
no he's marrying a divorced woman go to Luke 16 and look if you're divorced and
you're remarried I'm not attacking you I'm not mad at you look I have lots
of good friends that are divorced remarried my parents are divorced and
remarried people make mistakes but you know what if you're going to go
around and start telling everybody that God told you to do that and that God
wants other people to do that you're destroying people's marriages you're
destroying their lives
hey I don't want anybody in my church to listen to that liar Ken Hovind say oh
you know it's great to divorce and get married to somebody else
you're a liar Ken Hovind and here we defended you we helped you we stood up
for you and then you call us Pharisees for pointing out what Jesus
taught I don't want the marriages in this church to be destroyed I want
every single person in this church to stay married to the person that they're
married to right now I want every single person and I don't want anybody
watching that Ken Hovind video and saying well my wife treats me like
crap maybe there's a way out for me and I can go trade up for something
different well my husband treats me like crap maybe I can go trade no it's
till death and you know what I know how this game works when people want to
marry somebody else you know what they do they push the other person away
and then until they do they provoke them to divorce you so that they can
blame oh yeah they divorce me they divorce me I've seen it don't you tell
me it's not out there when people want to trade up their spouse they start
treating them like dirt and they keep provoking them until finally they
divorce them and they're like oh he divorced me oh there's nothing I could
do oh she divorced me there's nothing I could do hey look there's no
excuse for it and you know it's kind of funny when the ink isn't even dry on
the divorce papers and you're already getting married and now that you're
committing a double sin by marrying a divorced woman not only are you
divorced she's divorced and you can you know and you say I'm gonna leave the
church because I'm divorced remarried then get out get out if you're gonna
justify that sin to me now look if you've been divorced and remarried and
you're willing to admit that it was wrong great or if you think I'm
wrong about this and you're willing to keep your mouth shut about it great
but you know what I don't want anybody to get up and teach publicly
that divorce and remarriage is fine because it destroys people's lives
because it's that kind of teaching that gives people a way out and you know
what we need to have a do-or-die attitude toward marriage and you know
what it's amazing when people believe the doctrine that Jesus taught that
that it's a one time you get married it's still death do us part and
there's no way out except the grave isn't it amazing how people find a way to
make it work they find a way to make it work but when people have this other
option see let me let me put it to you this way well let's look at the
scripture first Luke chapter 16 verse 18 whosoever putteth away his wife and
marryeth another committeth adultery now what is there something that
anybody doesn't understand about that whosoever putteth away his wife and
marryeth another commit adultery you say oh he didn't put away his wife she
put him away okay how about this one and whosoever marryeth her that is put
away from her husband commiteth adultery commiteth adultery you marry a
woman that's put away from her husband divorced from her husband you're
committing adultery and if you put away your wife you're causing her to
commit adultery and if a wife puts away her husband and marry somebody else
I believe it says it that way what in Mark chapter 12 off the top of my head
somebody help me out as a mark 12 some of you guys in the preaching class
we've been going through where to find things in different chapters I want
to say mark 12 is that right is it mark 10 12 in there somewhere yeah how
about this one 10 11 and he saith unto them whosoever shall put away his wife
and marry another commiteth adultery against her and if a woman shall put
away her husband and be married to another she commiteth adultery okay so he
says it all different ways in Matthew Mark Luke but in Luke it said if you
marry her that is put away you're committing adultery oh but I prayed
about it I fast about it he said I sought godly counsel I talked to 15
pastors and 14 of them told me adultery is fine 14 of them told me
that it's okay to marry a divorced woman and and it's okay for me to just now
that my wife has divorced me just marry somebody else 14 compromising
phonies give us their names and I'll call them out from the pulpit tube
because they're destroying people's lives and look I've been in these
Baptist churches that teach this doctrine of all these loopholes where
you can oh well you can it's like pick an excuse and you can pretty much
get divorced remarried for any reason and you know what it's like a wife
swap every year look I can think of a particular independent Baptist
church I went to I was there for five years and I can think of like
11 people who swapped wives while I was there think of 11
people who got divorced you know you don't do you see that going on in
our church where families are constantly divorcing and all these
different things no because I'll bet you that if somebody was in our
church a married couple look at all the married couples around our
church look around I guarantee if there is a married couple in this
church and they wanted to get a divorce they'd they'd probably
quit the church before they got a divorce because they'd be so
ashamed to show their face here in the process of divorcing
their spouse because it's so preached against it's shameful well you
know what it used to be shameful in this whole nation before
Christians started to just accept it oh congratulations isn't it
wonderful it's not wonderful at all and this you know this thing
of oh and our first kiss is going to be on our wedding day oh
you saint I'm so glad you're waiting to do you're doing
adultery right you're doing it right you say well I thought
you're Ken Hovind's friend I'm a friend of God I'm not a
friend of the world and I'm not going to I'm not going to be
friends with somebody who gets up and teaches this because
I love the sanctity of marriage too much and this is
crystal clear in the Bible and and they they come up with
all the people are coming at me with like well if the
unbelieving depart all this junk mistwisting 1st
Corinthians 7 okay is his wife an unbeliever hello is Ken
Owen's wife not saved she's saved what is it but they're
just like just throw it at the wall and see what sticks
because we're going to do what we want and then this woman
that he's marrying I looked on her Facebook wall three
months ago she's talking about people hundreds of
thousands of years ago living in some valley what in the
world you're a creation scientist and you're marrying
this woman that's posting a Facebook oh a hundred thousand
years ago but it's like whoa you didn't watch the
seminars somebody didn't see the seminar you say mind your
own business yeah I would if he kept it his own business
but when he brings it to a public forum said hey let me
teach everybody who's divorced let me encourage you
all to say it let me encourage you to disregard the
commandments of God and then they'll say oh well
we're all guilty we're all okay well then why don't we
just all swap wives then and then nobody can judge
because we're all we've all lusted once so let's all just
swap wives kind of stupidity is that who believes in this junk
the Bible says you stay married you stay married until
you die and if the wife departs from her husband
she's to remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband
that's what the Bible says the Bible says you marry a
divorced woman you're committing adultery the Bible
says you divorce your spouse and marry someone else you're
committing adultery the Bible says you divorce your
spouse and they marry someone else that you cause them to
commit adultery you cause them to commit adultery by
divorcing them so oh well his wife divorced him well
then she's causing him to commit adultery and then he's
committing double adultery by marrying a divorced woman and
you know what he hasn't done it yet so maybe his true
friend is the one who's telling him the truth so he
could repent and get it right. I am never going to
compromise on this issue. It's crystal clear in the Bible,
but you know I'll tell you one reason why people
compromise on this because half the people in America are
divorced so therefore they don't want to step on any
toes. Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes tonight, but you
know what I'm not preaching against the people who've
already made the mistake. I'm preaching to the people that
are still married and you know what if you're divorced
and remarried, you need this sermon too so that you don't
move on to the third wife. You need to stay married to
who you're married to right now so that you don't become
Elizabeth Taylor so that you don't become Jerry Lee Lewis.
What do you have eight wives? I mean so that you
don't go down that road my friend and by the way your
spouse is probably you say oh man I'd have such a great
marriage if I could just switch spouses. No you you're
the problem and you're going to bring that problem with
you. You're going to bring that problem with you.
You're the one look you pick that person. Something's
wrong with you. You're probably going to pick
another. You're probably going to pick another. You're
probably going to make another bad choice. So the
point is look and you know what at the end of the day
you can huff and puff and get mad at Pastor Anderson,
but Jesus said it in Matthew five Matthew 19
Mark 10 and Luke 16. Four times it's laid out crystal clear
and I'm not just going to sit here and and just
you know let somebody just publicly somebody who we've
you know stood for when when he was a victim
and then he just stands up and just says not only am I going to commit
sin which you know if people commit sin right we're supposed
to forgive them if they commit sin right forgive them.
Okay but here's the thing though there's a difference
between forgiving somebody and that person saying no no I'm
not committing sin I'm doing God's will and let me teach
other people to do it. I mean he he tried to compare
first he said first he said what he's doing is not a sin
then he's compared it to the woman taken in adultery.
It's like well is it a sin or not and he said oh it's like the woman
taking adultery except I don't remember the part where the
woman taken in adultery made a big speech about how she prayed
fasted and sought godly counsel and committed adultery.
Do you really think that Jesus would have treated her nicely if she would
have got up and said that no he treated her that way she was
repentant. Okay he told her go and sin no more
and she didn't argue with him what are you talking about Jesus
how can I sin no more when I didn't even sin the first time.
Is that what she said no when he said go sin no more I'm sure she probably
said yes sir.
When did the woman taken adultery put a video on youtube
saying I want to be