And amongst the Native Americans, there are some that don't grow a beard.
You might just think they're shaving every day.
But one time, for example, am I right, is this true, the Navajo's nodding her head?
You know, I have been out soul winning one time in an area where there were a lot of
Native Americans.
There was a guy, I kid you not, and he had about seven hairs coming out of his face.
And let me tell you this, this guy was not marring the corner of his beard.
Okay, this guy, they were just untrimmed.
He literally just had a single black hair coming out here, about eight inches long.
He had another one right here, eight inches long.
Another one here, eight inches long.
Another one here.
I'm not kidding.
I could have counted on less than ten fingers how many hairs were coming out of this guy's
face, just distributed, randomly.
And he was like, I'm having a beard, you know.
I don't care what my DNA says, I'm growing a beard.
And it looked horrible.
I mean, it looked horrible.
I mean, just imagine it.
Just boom, boom, boom, boom.
It was like, dude.
I mean, like, I wanted to trim it right then and there.
I mean, it was that bad.
So, you know, that's, no, that's not cool.
You know, I mean, just, this is what I would do with that.
But there are a lot of men who are just, you know, they don't even grow those five.
I mean, they just have a bald face.
I mean, it's just, they just don't have a beard, right?
There are people, I mean, there are millions of people in China that are like that.
There are a bunch of Native Americans that are like that.
Even white people.
Or I've seen people where literally they let their beard grow wild and it comes out a
goatee.
And literally, I had always thought that they had trimmed, you know, it was cool, have a
goatee, you know, make the Van Dyke, as they call it, or the goatee or whatever.
And I just thought that was just the look they were going for.
But it's like, no, this is what grows, a goatee, right?
And I've seen some guys where if they let it grow wild, they'll end up with, like, long
side birds, then there's a gap with nothing, and then they have a goatee.
I mean, that's just how it comes in.
Or sometimes it just comes in real sparse and just real, you know, mix and everything.
And look, there are white guys like this, Hispanic, it's not even just like a certain
race.
It's all nations that have this issue from time to time.
Now there are some people that are like, they have to shave like three times a day if they
want to be clean shaven.
So that's why I just, I don't think it makes any sense to sit there, first of all, there's
no command in the Bible.
And second of all, I don't think it would make sense for God to just demand that you
have a beard, and you're like, I'm trying, you know, I can't.
So now here's the thing, you know where my preference is, because I'm wearing it.
You know, and I was clean shaven for a long time.
But you know, I grew this beard back in July of 2010, and I'm not going back.
You know, this is how I'm going to look till Jesus comes.
I mean, that's the plan.
But here's the thing, if you have no beard, that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And it doesn't mean that you're feminine or anything, because you know, God created us
all different.
Some of us have beards, some don't.
It doesn't make you feminine, it doesn't make you less of a man, despite all those memes
on Facebook to that effect.
You know, it doesn't mean that you're not right with God, or it's not like, well, I've
even heard this stupidity.
In the Old Testament, you had to have a beard.
But in the New Testament, you know, this part of the New Testament is we get shaved now.
I mean, are you insane?
Like you must not understand Jesus dying on the cross, if you think it had anything to
do with your facial hair.
Okay.
So anyway, I don't believe any of that.
So let's go back to 2 Samuel chapter 10.
Just wanted to clear that up.
I believe that this was just a cultural thing, that for these guys it would have been humiliating
to show up with a clean-shaven look, because it just wasn't the style, you know, it wasn't
what they did.
And honestly, I think part of the reason was that, you know, back then it was probably
not as convenient to shave as it is now.
I mean, now it's real convenient to shave.
It's still too inconvenient for me, so I just don't do it, you know.
And I let my beard grow kind of wild.
I don't have one of these really like manicured beards, you know.
So I just let it grow, and let the chips fall where they may.
I mean, I definitely trim it, otherwise by, you know, by now it would have been, you know,
down to here or whatever.
I'm not really into that.
But you say, well, my wife doesn't let me have a beard.
Well, you know, it's time for you to take charge in that home and have the beard, you
know.
But if you don't want to have a beard and you want to be clean-shaven, then be clean-shaven.
I mean, it's just, you know, you can't just always impose your opinions and your views
on other people.
And that's what you're doing when you demand people to be clean-shaven or demand people
to be bearded.
You're basically teaching for doctrines the commandments of men at that point, you know.
You're putting man's rules on people.
I remember there was a missionary friend that I had, and he had a big, thick beard.
And I said, how come on, I said, I was looking through a photo album with him, because I
stayed at his house when I was in Germany, and I was like, why do all the pictures of
you in America, you're clean-shaven, and every picture of you in Germany, you always have
a beard.
And then you go back and you shave it every time you go back.
He's like, well, you know, because I don't want to offend people in the churches, so
I have to shave my beard to, I mean, it's so stupid, like they won't let him on the
platform if he's bearded.
I mean, again, it's madness, my friend.
You know, I guess Elijah's not allowed to preach, you know.
I guess Jesus and John the Baptist and all the apostles, I'm sure they all had beards.
You know, I don't care what Leonardo da Vinci painted.
You know what I mean?
Some guy that has like the tiniest little blond goatee or whatever on the cross, I mean,
that's not probably what Jesus looked like, okay?
But that's irrelevant.
Let's go ahead and move on.
2 Samuel chapter 10.