man Proverbs chapter 6 really the last couple chapters has been a long dissertation of a
father giving advice to his son and Proverbs chapter 6 is a continuation of that and he
starts it with some financial advice for his son in verse number one the Bible says my
son if thou be surety for thy friend if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger thou
art snared with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth now
to understand what this passage is talking about we have to kind of understand this word
surety surety is not really something that we use very often in our modern times but
surety is a security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation the
payment of a debt etc and so what I think about when I read this word surety is I think
about how we have co-signers where we go get an apartment or a house or we take out a
loan for something oftentimes the financial institution wants to see a co-signer to basically
be a security for that debt in case you fail financially then that other person can kind
of be on the hook and the Bible here is warning about that saying like look if you are surety
for someone for your brother or for a stranger you are snared with the words of your mouth
and so we ought to be careful about the different binding contracts and agreements that we get
ourselves into and especially financial when it comes to financial dealings you ought to
be very careful when you go into business or some sort of financial dealing with a brother
in Christ because these things sometimes get ugly and to me my mentality is that my relationship
with my brothers and sisters in Christ is way more important than money but sometimes
if you're in the situation where you're surety for your friend or he's surety for you and
things go bad it could cause your relationship to go bad and so the wise thing I think to
do would be to foresee that possible evil and just avoid it altogether and you know
I've even had this offered to me before where a friend asked me to do this for him and I
said no and it's not because I didn't love that friend it's because I did love that friend
and I just thought like what if this went bad what if things went sideways I wouldn't
want all of a sudden our relationship to be strained over something as stupid as money
right so we have to be careful as brothers and sisters in Christ where sometimes going
into business with brothers can be fun but there's a lot of dangers there's a lot of
dangers and you know it's something you should take very seriously but look at verse number
three it says do this now my son and deliver thyself when thou art come into the hand
of thy friend go humble thyself and make sure thy friend so hey if you have decided
to be surety if you already have made the decision to do that the bible's saying well
then you better make sure that you do it you better make sure that you follow through with
your financial commitments and really we could just apply this to every area of life god
wants us to be a people that follows through with our word he wants us when we say we're
going to do something when we look our brother in the eye and say hey i've got you i will
do this to actually do it go to psalm chapter 15 psalm chapter 15 this is a great psalm
that we sing at this church and you know it asks a really important question at the beginning
of the psalm notice what it says in verse one lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle
who shall dwell in thy holy hill now i don't know about you i want to be someone that abides
in the house of god that stays in the house of god that continues serving god my whole
life and the rest of this chapter kind of goes on and explains to us some characteristics
that we need to have if we want that to be us look at verse number four it says in whose
eyes a vile person is condemned but he honoreth them that fear the lord he that sweareth to
his own hurt and changeth not that is a pretty intense verse because it's saying like you've
made some sort of agreement or oath or promise and now you've found out that it's gonna be
to your own hurt this would definitely be the case if you signed as a surety for a debt
for your friend and then it came to pass that you actually had to pay up on that because
most people when they want to sign as a co-signer they're not thinking that they're actually
gonna have to do it but you might you might actually have to do it that's why you should
be very careful about making those agreements but if you did do that if you're in that agreement
and you were told you've got to pay the Bible says he that sweareth to his own hurt and
change it not meaning you realize okay this is gonna hurt me financially but what is better
breaking your oath with a brother and sister in Christ or taking damage financially taking
damage financially would be the right thing to do it would be the better decision to make
go back to Proverbs chapter 6 but of course I think it's wise to just avoid yourself ever
having to be in that situation by not being surety for debts by not doing this for people
verse four says this give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eyelids deliver
thyself as a row from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler
so if you are in a situation where you owe some debt you're on the hook for some sort
of surety the bible is saying like hey don't even give sleep to your eyes and of course
it's being kind of exagerative here but what's it teaching it's saying you need to work hard
and do everything you can to pay off that debt as soon as possible because being in
debt is not a good thing being in debt is something we should avoid now of course in
our fiat currency fake money society it is almost impossible to avoid debt 100% you know
you've got to live somewhere and you're either given a huge chunk of money every month to
someone else's mortgage or to your mortgage pretty much no one just owns their house outright
especially if you're young but to the best of our ability we should avoid debt we should
try to avoid it why because the bible likens to being in debt it says deliver thyself as
a roe from the hand of the hunter you know the debt collector is like a hunter he's coming
for you and it says and as a bird from the hand of the fowler you know these are people
that would kill animals or birds and it's like being in debt and having these people
come after you it's like you're being hunted you know it's stressful people go through
all sorts of major major stresses in their life when this stuff happens to them people
declare bankruptcy you know financial stress is usually a big motivator in people's divorces
like you should try to eliminate the sources that cause these things i also want to notice
how it says the hand of the fowler and as a bird from the hand of the fowler you know
some people would mock the king james bible and say man the language is too hard these
words are just too hard to understand you know who would ever know what a fowler is
but what's funny is like i would know that because i spent a great time in idaho a great
time in my life in idaho and i was really big into hunting and when you go and get your
hunting license you have all these different options you've got like a like a fowler's
license you've got a hunting license you've got an angler's license which is the bible
uses that word too and it's a fishing license so fowl you can even find out from the context
what this word means because it says and as a bird from the hand of the fowler i wonder
what the fowler does it's like the hunter the hunter there goes after the roe i wonder
who the fowler goes after maybe the bird right so a lot of times people want to criticize
the king james bible and if they just actually slow down for a minute and looked at the context
of the verse even if you didn't grow up in idaho you should be able to figure out what
a fowler does it's one that catches or kills birds all right so it's not really that hard
to figure out look at verse number six he's going to kind of talk here about the danger
of laziness because remember he's telling them to work hard verse six says go to the
ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no guide overseer or ruler
provided her meat in the summer and gather if her food in the harvest so Solomon here's
telling to his son he's giving him a example a carnal truth of an animal that's supposed
to illustrate a characteristic that his son should have and that is that the ant is a
very hard working creature and I've never just seen an ant just chillin out like you
know you don't see ants and they're just like sunbathing every time you see an ant they
are moving you find them in the middle of the night they're moving middle of the day
moving outside is it does not matter when you see them they're always moving they're
a hard working animal and notice it says that these beasts do not have a guide overseer
or ruler so you know there's not like some ant boss that is constantly checking up on
all the ants being like okay are you moving around are you getting food are you digging
tunnels through people's houses like you're supposed to be doing you know are you working
hard or what like it doesn't need a boss to tell it to do that it's just it's a self starter
it's got initiative it's got a good work ethic this animal does and really that's how we
should be as God's people and how everyone should be is that we should not constantly
need our bosses breathing down our necks to get us to do our jobs human beings are by
nature lazy see the ant is by nature hard working you know the ant isn't a human being
it's not making all these rational thoughts like shall I work hard today shall I not
shall I walk in the flesh shall I walk in the spirit it's just by nature the ants is
hard working but we by nature are lazy I by nature and lazy you by nature are lazy you
know that means we got to sometimes look to God's creation and say like hey here's an
example of what God wants us to be like people that are driven to work hard without an overseer
without a ruler and I think you could even think about this spiritually how God doesn't
just want us keeping his commandments and doing what's right only when there's someone
watching only when there's someone breathing down your neck. You know, of course, it's
easy to do what's right when someone is watching you. I mean, while you're in church during
a sermon, there's probably not a whole lot of sin going on. You know, you're probably
not sneaking things you shouldn't or doing things that you shouldn't or going places
you shouldn't go. You're here in church. But you know, God wants us to be diligent to keep
His commandments, to do that which is right, when there's not a ruler or an overseer or
other people around. We want to be like the ants, both in our physical life, in our secular
jobs, working hard, being self starters. But more importantly, spiritually, we should be
people that just want to keep God's commandments and do right regardless of who's watching.
And we want to build something for God. We want to do work for God. And we don't need
to constantly have someone breathing down our necks. Hey, did you go soul winning this
week? Hey, did you go soul winning this week? Like hopefully you start to get mature as
a Christian and just realize this is what I need to do. You just do it by nature. Maybe
at first you kind of have to have someone breathing down your neck and taking you along
and dragging you along. But hopefully you get some maturity and it becomes part of who
you are and you just do it like the ant just works. Ant's not really thinking too hard
about it. It's just working. And you know, if you build good godly habits over time,
you can kind of get to be like the ant in certain areas where I'm not waking up Sunday
morning thinking, am I going to go to church? I'm not waking up on Saturday and saying
like, am I going to go soul hunting? Like these are just, this is just who I am. Am
I going to read the Bible? This is just who I am. I'm just, I'm just the ant. And but
here's the thing. It's not like everyone's just the ant as soon as they get saved. You
start getting these good habits. You start getting these good tendencies after you've
done it for a while. Then it can become part of your nature. It says in verse eight, uh,
it's her meat in the summer and gather it her food in the harvest. So there's a certain
element of looking ahead to the future and planning. And of course we know that the ant
isn't literally thinking these things, but it's actions are kind of just following this
path. And you know, we know that in Matthew six, we're not supposed to take thought for
tomorrow. We're not supposed to be stressed out and careful about the future, but it is
wise to plan for the future a little bit. There's nothing wrong with that. There's
nothing wrong with thinking like, Hey, I'm a single guy and I want to get married
someday. You know, there's going to have to be some preparation that's done to
make sure you could provide for her, provide for children. That's not being
stressful and full of care. That's just being wise like the ant. So there is a
certain level of planning. That's totally fine. No worries. Verse number
nine. Notice what it says. How long wilt thou sleep? Oh, sluggard, when
wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a
little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Man, talk about a good habit to
teach your children and something that you want them to learn from a very
young age is to not oversleep and is not just to lay around and sleep all
day. Why? Because people that sleep too much have major issues in life. And
you know this is proven by every time you see a homeless camp because I'm not
kidding I go to work I walk into my job what time am I walking in I'm walking in
like 630 a.m. and I'm usually walking out around 345 p.m. and as I walk into work
there is a homeless guy tucked into a corner of a building covered in a
blanket asleep and if I do service calls throughout the day there he is when I
leave for work there he is and he's not dead folks he's not just been dead there
for weeks and no one's moved him he just sleeps all day but guess what there's
gonna be consequences for living like that look what it said it said that thy
poverty come as one that travel it and they want as an armed man what is the
result of being someone that just sleeps too much poverty why because to make
money you actually have to work and so if we want our kids to grow up and not
be poor and not want even though they don't have a job to clock into as
children it's good to teach them these habits to not oversleep to not lay
around and sleep all day to wake up early and do something because when they
do get out of the house when they do get a job they're gonna have a boss that
says you got to be here at 6 a.m. or you got to be here at 7 or you got to be
here at 8 or whatever your time is you're not gonna just likely have some
job where there's just no rules no time constraints whatsoever it's a good
habit to learn that poverty comes one that travel it and I want as an armed
man go to Psalm chapter number five Psalm chapter number five this isn't to
say don't hear me wrong this isn't to say that sleep in itself is bad okay
cuz sleep is not bad sleep is a blessing you need sleep you should get adequate
sleep it's good for your body health it's good for your mental health I am an
advocate of you getting the sleep that you need I'm not sitting here saying
never sleep or anything like that but look at Psalm chapter 5 verse 3 my
voice shalt thou hear in the morning oh lord in the morning will I direct my
prayer unto thee and will look up you know here we see that the psalmist early
in the morning he's getting up in the morning and what is he doing he's
communing with God and you know most people probably do all their activities
throughout the day I know that there's some people who work a night job and
that might be a different feasibility for you but for most of us we do our
activities during the day work during the day ladies you're doing all your
housekeeping and raising of the children and educating of the kids all during the
day and one good thing to do is to start your day by doing something spiritual to
get yourself on the right track to renew your mind you know the Bible here is
talking about what specifically my voice shouts out here in the morning you know
it's a good thing to pray to the Lord first thing in the morning and you know
if you're a guy and you have a commute to work that could be a very good time
and a very easy time to pray to God because you've got nothing else to do
you know or maybe use that time to read your Bible maybe you pray you know as
you're getting ready for the day but these are great things to do early in
the morning because it's just setting you up for a successful day you're
getting filled with the spirit you're getting you know you're crucifying the
flesh you're putting off the old man you're renewing things it's a good way
to start your day and set yourself up for success go to Psalm 59 Psalm chapter
59 now this one you might want to take into account your family members input
first but here in Psalm 59 verse 16 the Bible says but I will sing of thy power
yeah I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning I mean this guy is literally
just waking up just praise the Lord praise the Lord like I said you might
want to ask your wife and kids you know before you just start doing that but hey
that's a great way to start your day just wake up singing praises to God
that's gonna put you in the right spirit that's gonna put you in the right
mindset praising the Lord in the morning says for thou hast been my defense and
refuge in the day of my trouble you know by singing to God in the morning
it's reminding him of all the good things that God has done for him that
God has been his defense and refuge in the day of trouble you know that builds
closeness and love for God when you're remembering all the great things that he
has done for you you know today I was singing to him who is on the Lord's side
and I was just reminding myself of how much I want to be on God's side and
that I'm not really interested in what other people think about me I'm not
interested in all the politics I am interested on being on the Lord's side
and singing that hymn just fired me up and it just reminded me of that like God
wants me to align with his work God wants me to align with the things that
he thinks that he teaches that the Bible says not worrying about anything else
you know singing that song reminded me of that notice he says in verse 17 unto
thee oh my strength will I sing for God is my defense and the God of my mercy go
to Ecclesiastes chapter number five Ecclesiastes chapter number five now if
you want to build this habit of waking up early not oversleeping not laying in
bed all day you know there's some practical tips that could help you to
accomplish this and one of them is to work hard the day before look what
Ecclesiastes 512 says the sleep of a laboring man is sweet whether he eat
little or much but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep so
notice when you are laboring when you're doing good honest work it helps you to
sleep at night it helps you have a good night's rest knowing hey I'm working an
honest job I'm doing that which is right and even if you haven't eaten a lot of
food which this is crazy for us Americans to fathom because we're never
hungry for a single second in this country but it's like even if you're not
eating a bunch of food even if you're hungry if you've worked hard you're able
to sleep you able to have a good night's sleep but notice but the abundance of
the rich will not suffer him to sleep oftentimes the rich you know we think
and there's kind of this idea that all rich people are lazy and they just sit
around all day and do nothing but sometimes they're actually managing a
lot of stuff that really stresses them out from a mental perspective and that
could cause them to lose sleep look at yeah go back to Proverbs chapter 6 while
you're turning there I want to read first Thessalonians 5 5 the Bible says
year all the children of light and children of the day we are not of the
night nor of darkness here's another tip go to bed at a reasonable hour right
the Bible says that we are children of the day which I know that's primarily
primarily symbolizing just being people that love God's Word and that which is
right but you know there's also kind of a carnal truth to that too that people
who are living pretty godly lives and following God's commandments they're
people that are doing stuff during the day who are the people that are up all
night well it's that homeless dude shooting drugs all night and that's why
he's asleep all day long is because he's been up all night shooting drugs
drinking alcohol doing who knows what and that's why he's asleep all day what
are they called night clubs they're not called day clubs they're called night
clubs why because a lot of wickedness and a lot of sin is done at night and
God's people honest working people you know they do they wake up early in the
morning and they go to bed at a reasonable hour hard-working blue-collar
dads in your suburban neighborhood are not up at 3 a.m. it's just not you know
kids in here and your dad's up at 3 a.m. no because they worked right that's just
crazy but a lot of times you know the people that are up super late they're
doing wickedly you know here's another just bonus point is have a healthy night
routine now the Bible doesn't say anything about this but it is important
to have a good night routine there's lots of scientific studies showing that
too much exposure to blue light could really mess up the melatonin production
in your brain and so if you want to have a good night's sleep oftentimes even if
you did work hard during the day if you're just laying in bed every night
and just doom-scrolling you might have some problems falling to sleep you know
because then you're getting all excited about what you're watching and you got
the blue light coming in here's something you should try reading it's
super cool it's fun you should try this reading the Bible or reading a book and
me personally I even like I have a little headlamp with a red light and it
doesn't bother you know my eyes whatsoever I like that red light it
feels like it's dark it feels like it's nighttime and I'm reading and that
helps me to go to sleep but if you're just scrolling tik-tok and scrolling
Instagram and you know watching all the war footage in Ukraine and Russia you
know you might not be able to sleep very well so that's just a free one look at
Proverbs 6 verse 12 he starts talking about the characteristics of the wicked
here verse 12 says a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth
you know the Bible here is giving us a way to identify when people are
wicked and there's a phrase out there that actions speak louder than words and
certainly there are there's some truth to that there are some instances where
you should look at a person's actions and consider those things but when it
comes to deciding who is a wicked person who is a naughty person what does the
Bible tell us to look at is that they walk with a froward mouth we ought to
pay attention to the words that people say you're justified by your words the
Bible says you're condemned by your words the Bible talks about the fruit
of the lips Matthew 7 says you'll know false prophets by their fruit we need
to pay attention to the words that people say and think about it when you
go out soul winning how do you determine if someone is saved or unsaved do you
ask them how they live their life you ask them to show some actions or do you
want to hear some words come out of their mouth hey are you 100% sure you're
going to heaven okay you are great what do you think that it takes to get to
heaven oh just be a good person follow the commandments live a good life it's
like okay the words that that person is saying has now identified something to me
this person's unsaved right or if I go to someone they say hey salvation's a
free gift by trusting in Jesus Christ once you're saved you're always saved
I'm like hey this person is saved this person's going to heaven and when we
look at false prophets when we determine how is someone a false prophet is our
primary view when we're thinking about how their false prophets is our primary
view like how does this person live their life what are the things that
they're doing or is it the damnable heresy that's coming out of their mouth
it's what comes out of their mouth now I believe a hundred percent that you know
for example chapters like Matthew 7 you shall know them by their fruits I
believe that it's also true that looking at someone's converts would be a
reflection of whether or not they're saved because if someone's not saying
the right things if someone's not preaching the right gospel they're not
getting anyone saved so you could say okay this is a bad tree because they
have bad fruit but how does that even known it's by what they say right or if
someone is preaching the right things saying the true gospel preaching the
right gospel what's gonna be a result of that good fruit so like these things are
intertwined in my mind that words and converts these things are connected go
to Titus chapter number one Titus chapter number one a naughty person a
wicked man walketh with a foward mouth right so we got to pay attention to the
things that people say Titus chapter number one look at verse number 10 it
says for there are many unruly and vain what talkers and deceivers especially
they have the circumcision that's the Jews whose mouth must be stopped who
subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy Lukers
sake so how am I supposed to identify someone who is a deceiver who's an
unruly and vain talker someone whose mouth needs to be stopped someone that's
subverting whole houses it's those who are teaching bad doctrine it's those who
are teaching things which they ought not for filthy Lukers sake and how is it
that preachers subvert whole houses how is it that preachers turn people
twofold more the child of hell it's with their mouth it's with the false doctrine
that they teach and look even save people can preach heresy heresy is a
work of the flesh and that needs to be called out constantly why because
heresy and the false doctrine coming out of their mouth will hurt other people
and you know it may not subvert the whole house like a false prophet would
like send them to hell but you know what any heresy of any severity will harm
people because the Bible is the truth God's Word is the truth it is our job as
preachers and pastors to make sure we're in lockstep with what it says
because when we get out of bounds people get hurt and man it just seems like a
lot of pastors have no fear of God with the terrible advice that they give to
other people and it's like well maybe just they give this advice because no
one's listening to them that could even be affected by their preaching maybe
that's what it is but I'll tell you what it pisses me off when I hear false
doctrine go back to Proverbs chapter number six Proverbs chapter number six
but of course you know this would apply to everyone not just preachers this
applies to you at work or at school you know you can identify someone who's
wicked by what they say and be aware of the person with the froward mouth the
person who's always contrary to that which is right they all there just seems
like they're allergic to the truth these are bad people bad people are those who
are given the truth and will not be corrected by it that's a bad person you
have to watch out you know young ladies watch out for the what the boys are
saying out there don't go after the boy to be your future husband who's got a
vulgar contentious froward mouth why because it's a reflection of a bad heart
you know the Bible says in Titus 2 that young men should have sound speech right
so we need to make sure that we're speaking the truth saying that which is
right in continuation of talking about the wicked look at verse 13 it says he
winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his fingers so
this person is just very subtle very duplicitous and this person is not only
exuding his wickedness and showing himself to be a bad person by only his
words but even through this person's body language this person is even using
body language to convey the fact that he is a wicked person and think about some
of these attributes winking when someone winks that's kind of like a subtle you
know secretive manipulative gesture that you would make you know we don't just go
around winking at each other that would be super weird right when someone does
that when someone winks at you it's kind of like they've got some sort of
inside knowledge or we've got a little conspiracy or we've got a little plan
going together or it could be in some sort of like sensual manner right and so
people who are wicked will oftentimes use their body language to test you out
to see how you respond to things to see if they can do wickedness with you and
so even you know of course pay attention to people's words but sometimes you even
need to pay attention to what people are doing with their bodies you know if some
some man is winking at you ladies that's not good that should be a red flag you
know like you're married and some dude is just winking at you that's not a good
person that's someone that's trying to take advantage of you or vice versa a
woman doing that to a married man like that is a that's a red flag that her
body language is being used in that way speaketh with his feet teaching with
his fingers again again this is just kind of this person's using their whole
body to express their subtlety and their wickedness look at verse number 14 it
says frowardness is in his heart he diviseth mischief continually he
soweth discord now mischief we kind of use it as like oh it's not that bad
Johnny's just like getting into mischief mischief is extreme wickedness in the
Bible and this person the wicked person frowardness is in their heart so they
don't want to conform to that which is right they're not interested in the
truth they don't want to change or be corrected they just want to be contrary
and it says that he diviseth mischief continually this is crazy to think
about that there are people that are sitting around that are living their
lives dreaming up wicked things to do dreaming up ways to harm other people
dreaming up ways to hurt the work of God to hurt good churches to hurt good
pastors and notice even what example it gives says he soweth discord it's a
wicked person that sows discord now of course there is a godly division that
God wants us to have God wants us to be separate from the world there's no
communion between God and idols right and there's a certain division that
happens as a result of us taking a stand for Jesus Christ and being on his side
the Bible talks about how Jesus came to bring a sword you're gonna have mother
in law against daughter-in-law you're gonna have you know father against son
all these different divisions can happen in life but those divisions are okay
because those divisions are coming from you standing with Jesus you preaching
the truth you doing that which is right but wicked people want to go beyond that
and cause extra division and extra strife and extra sowing of discord which
didn't come from anything godly didn't come from preaching the Bible didn't
come from standing on good doctrine notice what it says in verse 15 therefore
shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy
notice God does not like these people God is going to destroy this type of a
person and you need to be as far away from foward people as possible like when
I notice that it just seems like this person just seems to be allergic to the
truth this person just wants to be on the opposite side no matter what because
of some just personal vendetta they have I'm just like I'm staying far away from
you because you are a foward person and you know what a foward person gets
destroyed then it's gonna go into verse 16 it's gonna give us the famous phrase
the famous passage of six things that God hates verse 16 these six things doth
the Lord hate ye seven are an abomination unto him you know before we
get into what these actually are I want to just point out for you that there's
some things that God hates and that seems to be like a bad word today in our
country if you want to talk about hate speech hate crimes hate laws well guess
what there's some things that God hates there's some things that make God sick
things that are an abomination unto him what's an abomination it's just
something that's so gross and repulsive and disgusting it just you're reviled by
it you want to turn away from it it's sick it's gross this is how God feels
about certain things number one in verse 17 says a proud look and here's the thing
we ought to conform our minds to what the Bible says because God's ways are
higher than our ways we ought not to think like well I wouldn't think that
that's necessarily a big deal we should care what God thinks is a big deal and
you know we live in a very prideful country we live in a country where
people love to have the proud look on their face and if I had to guess I would
assume that a lot of people don't think it's really a big deal to have a proud
look on your face but you know it's an abomination to God when I think of the
proud look just think of the Hollywood red carpet shows you know the the music
awards or the Emmy Awards or professional athletes just whoever you
could think of that's the proud look because they're always walking around
with their high nose thinking they're so great but you know what that's an
abomination to God why well maybe because God is an almighty all-powerful
all-knowing all everywhere omnipresent being who created everyone including the
stupid Hollywood actress that thinks she's so great or he who even knows
nowadays right boy girl what's the difference in Hollywood it seems you
know and they think they're so wise pushing their communist propaganda they
think they're so great and wonderful pushing their LGBT agenda on kids like
Disney constantly does right and they think they're so proud of it they're
walking around with a proud look at how they're injecting anti-christian content
in the movies and you know what that pisses God off because God created them
God gave them the commandments too and God has their breath in his hand at any
time you know it's just so foolish to be prideful about anything because
anything good about you was given to you by God you know God even gives us the
power to get wealth you say oh man I I worked super hard and I was super smart
and I went to the best school because I was so wise and I started this great
business and I worked so hard okay great but God gave you the ability to do all
of that God gave you the health the stamina the energy the intellect God
gave you all those things and so there's never a good reason to be prideful
there's never a good reason to look at yourself and think man I really am
awesome oh I really am so great and walk around with a proud look you know women
what are they proud about their looks if a lady is really beautiful for some
reason she takes pride in that which is weird because she didn't create herself
God created her if a woman's beautiful she should just be like praising God for
it but it seems like so many women who are real beautiful real attractive they
just are it really into themselves I think like they did that somehow but it's
like you didn't make yourself honey you should be thanking God for that then it
says after this in verse 17 it says a lying tongue and again this is a sin
that I would imagine most Americans would think not really a big deal oh you
know what's some white lies well what's some white lies until you read
Revelation 21 8 and you find out that all liars shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death yeah
seems like lying is a big deal to God and you know what lying hurts other
people lying harms other people and you know I know this phrase has been repeated
so many times and I know that what a lot of people mean by this phrase I
understand the spirit behind it but you know sticks and stones may break my bones
but words can never hurt me no it's not true it's not true because you know you
got a bunch of liars like these freaks that constantly call CPS against Pastor
Anderson the poor guy and his family's been investigated by CPS like 30 times
40 times yet sounds like lying hurts people because you want to know why
Pastor Anderson constantly has to go through all this crap from these wicked
reprobates calling CPS against his family is because people are lying I
mean hasn't he also been swatted like two or three times you know if you don't
know what swatting is here's what swatting is someone calls 911 gives the
person your address and says hey go to this address there's a mass shooting
someone's shooting kids in there a bunch of people are dying and you know what
the police do they respond with the SWAT team they respond with the
helicopter with the armored vehicle with all the guns all the drones all the
flash grenades everything and they show up to your house where your wife and
children are living and you know what that's very dangerous situation because
these cops are extremely you know pent up they've got adrenaline going they
think they're responding to a mass casualty event where they're gonna have
to use violence to end this situation and a lot of times that that adrenaline
can cause them to see things that weren't there you know some kid walks out
and they think they see a gun they think the kid reached for something and people
die from it oh you know your words can never hurt someone that's not true
here's another example the words of a tail bearer are as wounds the Bible
says how is it as wounds well wounds hurt wounds hurts you so the words of a
tail bearer are as wounds in the sense of it hurts you and you know anyone
that would bring false accusations to CPS in an attempt to get someone's
children taken away from their rightful parents is a reprobate you hear what I
just said any person that would do something that sick has no conscience
whatsoever and people know for a fact I mean all these people that have been
accusing pastor Anderson of this garbage let me tell you it's a bunch of lies
and you're an idiot if you believe them you know why because think about this
pastor Anderson's around hundreds of people three times a week for 10 15
years 10 teen years hundreds of people observing him and his family week in
week out soul winning trips missions trips conferences and the whole time he
was abusing his wife and his kid under everybody's noses you're a moron this
is probably why you think the earth is flat too this is probably why you don't
understand the moon landing this is probably why you're just such an idiot
If you could actually believe such a stupid conspiracy, it's insanity
You know what? Liars are wicked as hell people who believe liars are wicked as hell
Preachers that preach lies are wicked as hell stay away from liars because God hates liars
The Bible says oh God doesn't hate anyone really he hates the look he hates the tongue. He hates the hands
He hates the person. What does it say the heart that devises wicked imagination? He hates the feet
He hates the liar. He hates the person that sows discord
Yeah, there's people that God hates and you know what?
I don't want to be any I don't have any of the characteristics of someone that God hates
I want to be as far away from it as humanly possible
And I want to be as far away from these people as humanly possible look back at verse 17
Says and hands that shed innocent blood now
This one is pretty obvious even to the modern American culture that God would hate the innocent shedding of blood
You know, the Bible says that the person who loves violence God's soul hated
So it's not even just the act of shedding of innocent blood that God hates God hates the violent person
That's how much he hates the shedding of innocent blood
And of course to me the most just obvious in your face in our day and age example of this is abortion
You know abortion is extremely wicked and we as Christians ought not to pull any punches about that
Abortion is stone-cold murder is what it is and it's so unbelievably stupid to me
How far Christians have gotten from the Bible where it's like we're gonna have a conversation of well
You know, is it okay to murder children if the mom was raped like are you demented or something? What is wrong with you?
Okay, so a woman was a victim of a heinous crime
Therefore kill a baby you're sick. And you know what?
I just I'll never ever listen to these stupid god-hating liberals
Lecture me about Christianity and lecture me about your god is so mean your god has done all these horrible things
While they sit here and defend murdering babies while they sit here and don't want to punish the rapist
Oh, no, no, no, let's kill the child. It's sick
And you know what you just have to realize that this whole idea of like well
We just need to find common ground with everyone is not possible
There's some people that we cannot find common ground with there's some people that I have no
Interest in having any common ground with here's one
If you think it's ever okay to murder a baby
Then we are too we're on too far of different levels for us to engage in anything else
Not as it's just like these these conservatives. Oh, let's go debate college students that want to murder their babies
It's so dumb who's ever seen one of these child murdering whores in college change their mind at Charlie Cooks
Kirk's logic it doesn't happen. Why because let me explain something to you in
2025 with the advances in technology and science that we have with the undeniable proof of what happens in the womb with the 4d
5d pictures of the baby in the womb you see the lips and the nose and the eyes and everything
Someone that chooses to believe that that is not a life. They're not coming from that from a scientific perspective or a logic perspective
They are just wicked people. That's what it is. And that's why there's no communion to be had
It's not that you you're just you know, you're mistaken on some knowledge. You need some more information
No, it's just you're evil. You're a piece of garbage
And so I have no interest in fellowship with those type of people verse 18 says this and heart that diviseth
wicked
Imaginations go to Romans chapter number one Romans chapter number one, of course, you know, this is the famous reprobate chapter
But Romans chapter number one when it when the Bible explains in Romans one
The characteristics of a reprobate and the things that they are being filled with
Notice what it says in verse 29 being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness
full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whispers
backbiters haters of God
despiteful proud boasters notice the next one
inventors of evil things
disobedient to parents
I mean, could you imagine just sitting down and trying to invent something evil trying to come up with something wicked?
There are people on this earth that their heart is just devising wicked imaginations. They're inventors of evil
Things these are reprobates. These are people with a seared conscience
That have been given over to a reprobate mind and there is no reforming someone like this
Someone that just takes pleasure in coming up with all sorts of wicked ways to harm people
This is a reprobate that cannot be fixed go back to
Proverbs 6 Proverbs chapter number 6 verse number 18 notice what it says feet that be swift in
Running to mischief and again mischief is not like Oh Johnny stole cookies out of the cookie jar
Mr. Mischief is extreme wickedness and there's some people that their feet is just swift in running to mischief
They're like, oh sin is happening. How can I get there as fast as possible? Oh something wicked is going on
I want to be the first person there. Oh, you're planning on doing a crime, you know, you're planning on hurting someone sign me up
That's people whose feet are swift and run in running to mischief
extremely wicked people verse number
19 notice what it says a false witness that speaketh lies and
He that soweth discord among brethren
you know
We already kind of touched on a false witness how that could harm people and even in the Bible if you
Accused someone falsely of a capital crime
Punishment crime and it was found out that you were lying that you were being a false witness
Then you would have received the punishment that that person would have received if they were guilty
You know, that's a great deterrent for lying if you lied about someone and there was actually a consequence, you know
If someone swats another person, I believe that that is attempted manslaughter at the minimum and there should be a serious
Punishment for people that do that because they're putting families at risk and people have died who have done those things
And then it says this and he that soweth discord
among
Brethren God hates when people sow
Discord among brethren. Now. Here's what people love to do when they love to attack the new IFB is they'll say
Oh, you guys are so divisive because if you're preaching you guys are so mean you guys are turning people away from Christ
You guys are sowing division, but here's the thing if what we're saying is true, then that's not the case
You want to know how I know that?
I'm not sowing division and turning away people from Christ is because I'm preaching the truth because I'm preaching the right
Doctrine, but listen, I don't care how syrupy sweet you are
I don't care how loving you pretend you are you want to know who's really causing discord between brethren
It's those who preach lies
It's those who preach false
Doctrine that's what causes division why because there's gonna be some people who actually fear God that say I'm not moving
I'm staying with what the Bible says
I'm sticking with what the King James Bible says what sound doctrine is and you have someone else trying to get you to change
You're gonna have some people go with that change
You're gonna have some people stay with the right doctrine that is division folks
But that division is not the godly division. We're talking about where hey, we stand up for the truth
You know, Jesus said something we believe it
We go out and preach the gospel to this world to the community here
and you know what some people get mad at us for doing that and even there's
Christians that are just misguided in their mind and there's Christians that would look down on us and attack us for going soul-winning
Look, we're not responsible for that type of division
You know who's responsible for that division?
Jesus is when we are standing on the rock when we are standing on the Word of God and someone separates from us
Someone speaks evil against us. Someone gets mad at us. Look that division that was brought on by the Lord Jesus Christ
That's good division
But you know the bad division is when even a saved person gets up and starts preaching lies
starts preaching heresy starts preaching bunch of stupid garbage that's gonna cause division amongst God's people and you know
Whose fault that is it's the person who's preaching lies
That's whose fault it is and I'm so sick and tired of it's like people will get up and preach the stupidest crap ever
people will preach a bunch of false doctrine a bunch of lies and
Then myself or pastor Anderson or other pastors will get up and correct it and preach against it
And it's like we're the ones causing division know if the crap wasn't being preached. We wouldn't have to do that
you know recently pastor Jones and his absolute insane doctrine that he's been preaching and
Doubling and tripling down on it. It's like you guys are so mean you guys are so divisive. Okay, really so me
Pastor Aaron Thompson pastor Stuckey pastor Shelley pastor Anderson pastor Jimenez
All of us preach sermons against this stupid crap and we're all crazy. We're all wrong. We're all divisive
No, that's not the case my friend and you know what? It's not just with pastor Joe Jones
It's with anyone who preaches lies anyone who preaches false doctrine. You know, what's gonna happen when you preach lies
I'm gonna call it out and other pastors are gonna call it out and that's not them causing division
That's the idiot who preached the lies who's causing division. And you know what someone who actually feared God and loved God and believed
The truth what they would do is that they would correct themselves
Because anyone who's normal anyone who loves God wants to stand on the side of the truth
And when it comes out that you preach something wrong, it's just like well, let's change that as soon as possible
let's immediately go to the truth right away, but people because of their pride and
Because of the wickedness in their heart. What do they want to do?
They want to cause division between brethren
Let me tell you why it's not a coincidence that all these pastors that just believed all
The crap that was preached against pastor Anderson. It is not a coincidence that they're all preaching crazy things now
It's not a coincidence
Here's what it is is that they have hatred for their brother in their heart pastor Anderson
They are envious of him. And so they will even preach stupid crap to distance themselves from him
They're okay with even preaching lies and false doctrine
So long as it's against what pastor Anderson says and then you got a bunch of their stupid lemmings
That can't think for themselves that aren't reading the Bible and you know what they're doing
They're like, oh was this stance against pastor Anderson? I then I stand with that. Let me tell you something
You're the person that's causing division because we're supposed to be rallied around the truth
We're supposed to be rallied around what the Bible says not what any man says not any personality
What we're rallying around is the truth and you know what it doesn't matter who preaches the truth
We should still side with the truth some pastor who you don't like preaches the truth. You should still believe that truth
I mean, how stupid would it be? It's like well, you know, I heard Catholics say that Jesus was the Son of God
Therefore we've got to preach that Jesus isn't the Son of God what but it's like that's what a lot of these Baptists are
Doing even saved pastors is like, oh well pastor Anderson said this or the the new IFB pastors that still are friends with him
We're saying all this so we're just gonna distance ourselves from it
We're start preaching a bunch of garbage and you know
That's why I said on Sunday that there is an attempt right now to change the culture in the new IFB and pretty soon
I'm gonna preach a whole sermon about this culture. There is a push right now in the new IFB
There is a split that is happening over the biblical authority over husbands having authority over their wives
Over pastors having authority in the house of God over bosses actually having real authority at work
There's a divide happening over authority right now. There's a divide happening over hard preaching right now
There's a lot of people here. Here's the truth folks
Most people don't like hard preaching. Most people do not like hard preaching. They pretend like they like like hard preaching
They love it when we preach hard against the sodomites, but then you get corrected
But then a sermon steps on your toes, but then it comes down your road and all of a sudden then it's mean then it's hateful
No folks. It's just a lot of people don't like hard preaching and you know that divide is happening right now
But let me tell you who's causing the division. It's not those who are preaching the truth those who are preaching lies
You are the one causing division and God hates that it's an abomination to him
Look at verse number 20 the Bible says my son keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy
Mother bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck when thou goest it shall lead thee
When thou sleepest it shall keep thee when thou awakest it shall talk with thee
so notice by by having wisdom by keeping the commandments of your mother and your father and
Of course the Word of God. What is that gonna lead to? It's gonna late lead to safety
It's gonna lead to peace because that's why it says when thou sleepest it shall keep you know
The Word of God is always going to be keeping you safe
All the commandments have been given to us for our own
Benefit God is not trying to ruin our fun and just come down on us for no reason
Everything that the Bible says is there to keep us safe and a wise person would take heed to that
This is why it's important to constantly be reminding yourself of what's right
This is why it's so important to you know
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as Colossians says to memorize the Word of God to read the Word of God
To be in church every time you can you know to listen to good preaching by letting the Word of God sink deep into your heart
That's what's gonna keep you safe in the future
That's when you're gonna have a situation come up and you've got a bunch of the Word of God in your heart
then the Holy Ghost could bring that to remembrance and help you in that situation verse 23 says for the commandment is a
lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction or the way of
Life so notice the Word of God the commandments
It's likened unto a lamp or a light and of course you use that to show you the way in front of you
If you're walking around at night, you know when I go out and I put the chickens to bed at night
You know what? I've got I got a headlamp on to show me. Okay. Well, let's not step on all the droppings
You know watch out for all the stuff it illuminates my way and shows me the right way to go and that's the Word of God
You know without the Word of God we would be in darkness in this world
You know our hearts are not gonna be shining bright the right way to go forth
our hearts are constantly gonna be leading us the wrong direction and so that's why we kind of we have to always get the
Flashlight here and let it shine brightly in our path and show us the way that we ought to go look at verse 24 now
I hope you haven't gotten tired of hearing about the Horus woman because the author of Proverbs sure hasn't the author Proverbs
Apparently wants us to keep hearing about this because the rest of the chapter
Proverbs gonna talk about the Horus woman and guess what sneak peek for chapter 7. It's all about the Horus woman
So, you know, sometimes God gives us these things and a repetitive but hey, it's my job to preach it
He wants us to hear it
Let's look at it verse 24 to keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the tongue of the strange
Woman so he just got done talking about how God's commandments are gonna keep you safe and how the Word of God is gonna
Be like a light shining your path
Showing you the direction that you should go giving you wisdom that you wouldn't have otherwise had without the Word of God
And here's an example of this is that if you've read the Bible if you know what the Bible says
You are not going to be deceived by flattery because by reading the Bible
You know that someone who flatters you is wicked someone who flatters you hates you
This is not a sincere person someone just giving these over-the-top
Insincere compliments they don't love you. They're trying to manipulate you they are trying to harm you
And so this is a perfect example of why you need the Word of God in your heart
Why you need it shining your path in life because without it man is so stupid and here's the strange woman saying
Oh, you're so great. You're so wonderful. You're so handsome. You're so manly and we're just like, yeah
Absolutely, of course, right? But then if you actually have the flashlight, it's like, oh, no, this is flattery. Watch out
This is actually harmful and you're an idiot in your flesh. You need the Bible to tell you no
You're actually not that great notice verse 25 lust not after her beauty in nine heart
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids, you know
This is really one of the most important
Tools on our belt as men to defend ourselves from the strange woman is by controlling our eyes
By not lusting after her beauty in our heart because once you've done that she's got you, you know
She comes at you. She's hunting she wants to flatter you. She wants to defile you
Well, here's a great way to not get yourself feeling those emotions and that attraction is to not lust after her in your heart
Kind of hard to fall for the whore if you're not sitting there lusting after her
Why do people fall for the whore for the strange woman is not only flattery?
They soak in the flattery and then they soak in her beauty and just lust after her and then their heart is taken and they're just
Like a dumb animal that's about to be slaughtered
You know a lot of put a lot of times once you go past that point
Just even just the biology of your body is messing with your mind and you're in a dangerous dangerous situation
How do you avoid that don't even go down the road of lusting after her in your heart now look of course
We are sinners. There is no hair legged band that is gonna make it through life never messing up in this area
But you know what you ought to look at this is a very serious thing and realize that it's not fun in games and realize
That oh, you know, it's not a big deal just to take a look, you know
I just can't touch right but I could look that is not the mentality you should have you should realize that
Adultery and fornication are extreme dangers that they are extremely wicked sins in the eyes of God that it will destroy
Your family and so you ought not to even go down the road that starts your path to adultery
By lusting after her because it's like how do you end up getting that point?
It's like you're committing adultery with someone you're fornicating with someone there were some steps that had to have taken place before that
You don't just slip and fall folks
It's like what was happening before that you were probably flirting with that person and they're probably flirting with you
And what happened before that well you were even in the physical company of that person when you maybe shouldn't have and then what?
Happened before that there was the lust that happened before that and so at any point in that process that you can cut that off
Praise God cut that off, but the best place to cut that off is at the very beginning lust
I'll read for you James 1 14 the Bible says but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed
Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death
Notice there is a process that happens
Death sin before that was lust
So when you can cut that off when you can work on that sin in your life
You're gonna be a lot less likely to fall down all the way to adultery or fornication something that we definitely need to take
Seriously verse 26 says for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread
So notice it's just kind of like a metaphor saying like she's just gonna ruin your life her lips drop like honey
Her mouth is sweeter than oil. It seems like it'll be something that's good for you
But the end it's good. It's just gonna bring you to a piece of bread. It's not worth it whatsoever
It will completely destroy your life
And you know when I was a kid I only went to church as a kid like a handful of times
But I do remember as a young boy hearing a pastor talk about this subject
Talking about the subject of lust and he says that when this sin creeps up in men one of the things that he recommends
That we remind ourselves of first of all is verses in the Word of God. That's really important
But he also liked to say to himself. Hey, I am NOT going to destroy my faith. I am NOT going to destroy my family
I am NOT going to destroy my future because you know what if you're committing adultery and fornication
You're not gonna have a good relationship with God. God is gonna be raining down on you
He is gonna be punishing you you are gonna be far from the Lord
And so you got to think like hey, this isn't worth my faith. This isn't worth my relationship with God
This isn't worth, you know removing God's hand of blessing from my life just to be some whore. It's not worth it
I'm not gonna let it take my faith
I'm not gonna let it take my family boy. You want to see someone blow up their family really fast
Adultery will do that now, of course
The Bible teaches that divorce is always wrong and let me tell you something if your spouse commits adultery
You should not divorce them that would be wicked to do so
But many families have though had their lives blown up because of this sin because of adultery
And then what was the other thing you said? I won't let you take my future, right? What's the future?
Well, the horsewoman is gonna bring you to a piece of bread
That's your future that you have to look forward to if you decide to give in to the strange woman
Whereas the future you could look forward to if you stay faithful to your wife
ladies if you stay faithful to your husband is to grow old with the wife of your youth or with the husband of your youth and
To experience the blessing of love growing greater with time here. How about this?
How about old age boy would old age suck without your spouse and it's like look at the nursing home
It's rough, right? But you want to where it's like, hey, we're old, you know
I'm in my 70s my health starting to fade you got me guys you hooked me up and vice versa, right?
You don't want to be alone in that situation. But like you got to think about your future. It's not
Worth it ever do not get taken away by the whore
And this is this in the adulterous verse 26 and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life
Don't think that ladies cannot be predators just open the news and it seems like all the time
Female teachers are going to jail for seducing their boy children students
It's disgusting so wicked but hey the Bible says that the adulterous hunts for the precious life
how disgusting is that and you know what we ought as men to be on guard and to be
Taking these things seriously and realize that these women exist and even if there's not one in your life right now
Thank God for that
But there may someday be a woman that would love to ruin your faith
That would love to ruin your family that would love to ruin your future
They would love to hunt for that precious life and you've got to right now learn these things
To avoid it if at all possible
Notice verse 27 says can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned
Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned
you know thinking that you can play around with the strange woman and get involved with her and not actually suffer any
Consequences is just as stupid as taking fire in your bosom and walk around with it or walking on hot coals and
Thinking that you're not gonna get burned. No, you are not gonna be the exception my friend
You are gonna be the rule that is gonna be brought to a piece of bread whose life is going to be destroyed by her
Don't play around with fire. Do not do it verse number 29
So he that goeth into his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent
Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
But if he be found he shall restore sevenfold
He shall give all the substance of his house. So stealing is wicked stealing is a sin
And there is a punishment for stealing the Bible saying hey, if you this person is has stolen they're supposed to restore
Sevenfold so seven times the value of whatever they stole they should pay back
But the Bible saying that men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
I mean if you found out that you went to work and someone stole your lunchbox
But you found out that they were literally starving you might be a little tick but probably not that much
You probably you probably been like hey, man, you didn't have to do that
Like I would have just bought you lunch. You should have just talked to me
You didn't need to steal but you're not gonna just despise that person. You're gonna be like kill him. He stole my sandwich
You know, you're not gonna be that angry over it, right?
But you know what? It's not that way with adultery verse 31 32 says this but whoso committed adultery with a woman
Lacketh understanding he that do with it destroyeth his own soul
Oftentimes in the Bible that word soul just means your life
And if you go and commit adultery with another man's wife, you are putting your life at risk
Literally, you'll probably get a wound. You might even get death now. I didn't print off these articles. Dang it
I have in my note, but I'll just read the headline. Okay, this is crazy
Jealous husband killed man and made wife decapitate dead body
Sounds like committing adultery with someone's wife can make them do some pretty crazy things
Now here's the thing if he had a sandwich stolen from him. I don't think his reaction would have been the same
I don't think he would have killed the guy and made his wife decapitate the body
But you know if someone sleeps with your wife your everything's on the table
I mean if you had a nuclear button, you might just press it
Just like end the world and like this man his wife committed adultery. He caught the guy
He killed the guy and made his wife decapitate the guy
That's how mad you might make someone if you commit adultery with their wife. Don't ever do it. Of course, that's not right
I'm just telling you what people will do go to Leviticus chapter 20 Leviticus chapter number 20
But you have to think before you do something so stupid you think you'll get away with it. Oh you think no problem
Yeah, until your head's cut off the end think about that now before you're in that situation
Good night Leviticus chapter number 20 Leviticus 20 look at verse number 10
Bible says in the man that committed adultery with another man's wife
Even he that committed adultery with his neighbor's wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death
And of course if a man is a victim of this where his wife has cheated on him with some other man
Of course, he's gonna be so incredibly angry and may even do these acts where he's killing them or hurting them in some sort of way
That anger is totally understandable and that anger is righteous. You're supposed to be jealous of your spouse
but you know the reason it's sad that some men even have to go to this extreme and
Feel like they have to carry out these judgments and put things into their own hands
Because really the Bible should or I'm sorry the government should be taking care of that issue for them
Adultery is a capital crime and you know
a lot of problems would be solved in our country if the government passed a law that if you were found guilty of
Adultery that you would be convicted and put to death. That is God's standard
That is God's judgment and I agree with God a hundred percent. We should get back to that as a country
You know
It's sad that these men they feel so hopeless because then they're gonna get taken to court and oftentimes they're gonna lose all their money
They're gonna lose their property. They're gonna lose their kid and some other dude is with their wife
I mean talk about a situation that might make you want to kill yourself
I mean, these guys are in absolutely terrible situations
But you know what should have happened is that if she was guilty of adultery, she should have been killed by the government
She should have been executed and then he would be free to marry another woman and move on or vice-versa
The lady is a guilty there is a victim of that terrible crime and her husband is some scumbag that goes out and you know
Cheats on her is with other ladies and she experienced all that pain and rage
I mean could you imagine how much that would hurt right?
But what's her recourse now nothing deal with it stay stay with her spouse or violate God's commandments and get divorced
It's just a terrible situation either way, you know
I feel terrible for people that are in that situation
But what would be nice is if her sleazeball husband that was committing adultery would get put to death and then she can go find
A decent man. That's how it should be. But now unfortunately people are found in these really awkward unnatural situations
That they have to carry as a cross for the rest of their life
Whereas if we just followed what the Bible says it'd be better for everyone and you know what would happen
There would be a lot less adultery
It'd be a lot less adultery if you knew that you'd oh the punishment is that she might find out or the punishment is that the
Guy might catch me. No, the punishment is that the government will convict you and execute you
That's a little bit more serious of a punishment that might make people think twice and maybe actually
Follow what the Bible says and work on their marriage a little bit instead of just going out and cheating on their spouse
You know just closing on this God gives us these commandments. God gives us all this wisdom
He does it to keep us safe. We ought to take these things very seriously
we ought to think about the potential consequences of our sins in the future and
Think about even people who would get mad at us or people who might hurt us, but you know most importantly
We should care about what God thinks and you know, that's kind of the theme of the sermon tonight
Is that we need to be on God's side?
We need to not be guilty of sins that God hates
We need to be not spreading division and causing division amongst brethren by preaching things contrary to what God has said
And of course we need to avoid the strange woman because it makes God angry too, right?
The marriage bed is undefiled but adulterers and whoremongers God will judge. Let's have a word of prayer Lord
Thank you for the warnings in your word. Thank you for Proverbs chapter number six
I pray that you would continue to bless the study as we go through week by week
That you bless all the people here and bring us home safely this evening in Jesus name. We pray