And, you know, we're surrounded in Phoenix and Tempe with homeless people who are completely
able-bodied, young, healthy people that could be going to work, but yet they're out there
asking for a handout and people are just giving them free money without even asking them what
their situation is, without even getting to know them or getting anybody to vouch for
them or figuring out what's really going on.
They just keep handing these people money and how many times has someone just handed
these people money and then they just go buy drugs with it?
And then they just go buy more booze, more liquor, more drugs.
They just have no motive to fix their lives because there's no accountability.
Now look, our church is willing to help people out, but, you know, when people come to us
for help, we say, okay, and we help them get a job.
We help, we take them down to places that we know will hire anyone with a pulse.
And so we take them down to a job and we help them get cleaned up.
We've bought hotel rooms for people.
We bought clothes for people.
We've taken people places.
But, you know what, people who come here and they don't want to work will get zero help
from us.
They will get nothing from us because they need to hit rock bottom.
If someone is so sinful and lazy and wicked that they refuse to get a job and integrate
into society, then they should starve.
The Bible says if any man will not work, neither should he eat.
Let me say that again, you bleeding heart liberal, woke, whatever you are.
If any man will not work, neither should he eat.
Thus saith the Lord.
That's God's word.
Anybody who's mad at me about saying that, you know what, you're mad at God.
God said, well, that must be the Old Testament.
No, that's 2 Thessalonians, that's the New Testament.
Any man will not work, neither should he eat.
That's what the Bible teaches.
People who refuse to work, hungry, hungry, God bless.
You ought to be hungry because, you know what, when you get hungry enough, you know what,
then you'll come home.
When you get hungry enough, maybe you'll get right with your parents.
When you get hungry enough, maybe you'll get right with your church.
Maybe you'll get right with your brothers and sisters.
Maybe you'll get right with all the people that you've burned in your life and all the
people that you have treated badly in your life, all the people that you didn't care
about in your life when you cared about yourself and your drugs and your liquor and your fornication
and everything else.
Hey, you need to hit rock bottom so that you can come to yourself and get right with God.
You know, people have accused me of hating homeless people.
I don't hate homeless people.
But you know what, I despise what they're doing.
I despise their sin.
I don't hate them.
And you know what, if any of them actually wants to get right, I would love to help them
get right.
I would love to help them get right.
But you know what, I'm not just going to help someone be a drug addict, help someone be
lazy, help someone be worthless.
No.
If they want to make something out of their life and get right with God, hey, amen, let's
help them out.
I'm willing to help the poor, but I'm not willing to help the lazy.
It isn't right for people in their, I mean, these people are in their 20s.
It's insane.
It's an epidemic.
Somebody needs to say something about it.
You drive around, they're in their 20s, they're in their 30s, they're healthy, they're able-bodied.
You see them running across the street.
And then at night, they're cutting out people's catalytic converters probably.
That's a whole other sermon.
We've had like three catalytic converters cut out in our parking lot.
It's unbelievable.
Don't park your car here at night unless someone's guarding it is the moral of the story.
That's why when we do our soul-winning trips, we hire a security guard to watch the vehicles
because it's just, that's what our society is becoming, you know.
It's just a bunch of derelicts, a bunch of thieves, a bunch of lazy people that don't
want to go to work.
It's incredible.
They scrap the catalytic converter for 50 bucks and it costs us $1500 to fix it, you
know.
But, man, I'm way off track in this sermon.
You can always come back, all right?