Thank you.
All right. Good evening.
It's good to see everybody this evening.
Welcome to Pure Words Baptist Church.
We'll go ahead and get started.
Go ahead and find your seats and get situated
and pull out your hymnals.
We'll open to our first song for the evening.
It'll be song number 56.
It'll be song number 56,
When We All Get to Heaven.
It'll be song number 56,
When We All Get to Heaven.
It'll be song number 56,
When We All Get to Heaven.
Song number 56.
Find your place there.
Song number 56.
Start there on the first.
Sing the wondrous love of Jesus.
Sing his mercy and his grace.
In the mansions bright and blessed,
He'll prepare for us a place.
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be.
When we all see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory.
While we walk the pilgrim pathway,
Clouds will overspread the sky.
But when traveling days are over,
Not a shadow, not a sigh.
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be.
When we all see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory.
Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving every day.
Just one glimpse of him in glory,
Will the toils of life repay.
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be.
When we all see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory.
The last onward to the prize before us,
Soon his beauty will behold.
Soon the pearly gates will open,
We shall tread the streets of gold.
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be.
When we all see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory.
Amen.
Brother Jeff, you want to pray for us this evening?
Amen.
Go ahead and flip in your hymnals to song number 364.
Song number 364, Standing on the Promises.
We're going to sing this one acapella, nice and loud.
Standing on the Promises.
We'll start there on the first.
Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let his praises ring,
Glory in the highest I will shout and sing.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt of fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to him eternal holy love strong cord,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit's sword.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
Listening every moment to the Spirit's call,
Resting in my Savior as my all in all.
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior.
Standing, standing,
I'm standing on the promises of God.
Amen. Good singing.
So at this time, we'll go ahead and go over the announcements for the evening.
So go ahead and pull out your bulletins.
If you didn't have a bulletin, raise your hand.
We'll have Brother Jeff bring one around to you.
And on the front page, we do have our Bible memory verse and chapter.
We are in Romans chapter number 8.
We're cruising right along, one verse per week.
We are in verse number 27.
So we're kind of getting to that latter,
that we are in that latter half of the chapter,
so definitely keep working on that.
If you quote the entire chapter word perfect to a non-family member,
you will receive a prize.
If you open up the bulletin on the top left,
we have our service times,
Sunday morning at 1030 a.m.,
Sunday evening at 530 p.m.,
and our midweek Bible study on Thursday evening at 7 p.m.
We have our soul winning times listed underneath that with our respective leaders.
And we have our stats listed.
We have 468 salvations to date.
We had three to add this morning,
and we went out today and we could also add another three, four, five, six more.
So we are in a very receptive apartment complex this afternoon.
There's a blessing.
A lot of people got saved, so good job soul winning.
There on the next page, we do have an expecting lady in the church.
We have Miss Sarah Gomez.
So just be in prayer for her and the little baby, that everything goes well.
Some upcoming guest preachers.
Today we have Brother Chris Segura from Faithful Word Baptist Church back with us.
So he's going to be leaving here pretty quick right after he's done preaching.
So if you haven't said thank you, definitely say thank you to him for coming out.
It's a blessing having him come preach for us.
September 26, we have Pastor Jonathan Shelley preaching for us.
October 3, we have Pastor Aaron Thompson from Sure Foundations Baptist Church.
So definitely a blessing having him come out as well.
Some upcoming events.
Right around the corner, we do have our anniversary, Pure Words Baptist Church anniversary.
That's September 25, which is a Saturday.
We're going to be having a soul winning marathon.
We're going to be meeting here at the church at 9 a.m. Breakfast will be provided.
We'll be going out for a round of soul winning, meeting back here for lunch.
And then we're going to be going out for another round of soul winning.
After that second round of soul winning, we're going to be meeting back here.
We're going to have our annual false Bible burning.
So definitely that'll be a good time burning all those false Bibles.
Plus we're going to have a separate fire for hot dogs and s'mores.
So definitely a good time there.
October 6 through the 10 is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship, Steadfast Baptist Church.
Sunday, October 31, which is Halloween.
We're going to be doing the chili cook off.
That's going to be after that evening service.
We're going to be entering all the Texas style beans free chili for the contest.
So it should be a good time there.
Tuesday, November 23, which is the Thanksgiving service.
That's going to be the midweek service is on Tuesday.
So we're going to be switching it from Thursday to Tuesday.
That'll be the Thanksgiving service.
And Thursday, the midweek service in December will be on the 23rd.
That'll be the Christmas candlelight service.
So we got a lot of upcoming events.
Just note those down.
Lastly, you know, Pure Words Baptist Church is a family integrated church.
So we believe that the kids should always stay with their family, with the parents.
We believe that's where they're going to be the safest.
So with that being said, the parents need to be watching their kids.
If the kids make a mess or they eat something and cause a big mess,
parents, you should be with your kids and noticing that and picking up after them.
So we are a family integrated church.
We have a mother baby room in the back.
If you notice your kids making a big mess, just pick up after them.
That's what we do.
So with that, lastly, if you have any prayer requests,
just email those into the church at purewordsbaptist.gmail.com
and we could be in prayer for anything that you might have going on.
I do want to throw out there, be in prayer for brother Cameron Hall.
He's not here with us this evening.
He's having some issues with his leg.
So just be in prayer for him.
But with that, go ahead and pull your hymnals back out.
And with that, we'll have brother Mo come lead us in our third song.
All right, turn in your hymnals to song number 82.
Song number 82, When He Cometh.
We'll start out there on the first.
When He cometh, when He cometh, to make of His jewels,
all His jewels, precious jewels, His love and His own.
Like the stars of the morning, His bright crown adorning,
they shall shine in their beauty, bright gems for His crown.
He will gather, He will gather, the gems for His kingdom,
all the pure ones, all the bright ones, His love and His own.
Like the stars of the morning, His bright crown adorning,
they shall shine in their beauty, bright gems for His crown.
Little children, little children, who love their Redeemer,
are the jewels, precious jewels, His love and His own.
Like the stars of the morning, His bright crown adorning,
they shall shine in their beauty, bright gems for His crown.
All right, now if you would turn your Bibles to what chapter is it?
All right, 1 Corinthians chapter 5, we'll have Brother Brandon read for us.
All right, we're there in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and the Bible reads,
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife, and ye are puffed up,
and have not rather mourn that he that hath done this deed
might have taken away from among you.
For I barely, as absent in body, but present in spirit,
have judged already, as though I were present concerning him,
that hath so done this deed.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together in my spirit
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you an epistle not to company with fornicators,
yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world,
or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters,
for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner,
with such and one not to eat.
For what have I do to you? Judge them also that are without.
Do not eat, judge them that are within.
Put them that are without God, judges.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Let's have a quick word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, we just thank you for everyone here.
Lord, we just pray that you bless with everyone here.
Lord, we just pray that you would once again
expect to feel better if you could hear with the Holy Spirit.
We just pray that you bless with service.
Help us to minimize distractions.
Bless your time.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
You have your Bibles right there in 1 Corinthians chapter number 5.
I ended up forgetting my Bible.
I locked it in my suitcase, but all things work together for good
because this is a really good Bible you guys are giving away.
This is awesome.
It's like, man, look at all those titles right there.
You can make sermons forever and ever and ever.
So I'm like, okay, well now I don't want to mess it up,
but I'm taking it with me. Amen.
I love this thing.
But 1 Corinthians chapter number 5, it starts out by saying,
it's reported commonly that there is fornication among you.
Fornication, that's going to bed with someone when you're not married. Amen.
And such fornication as is not much as named among the Gentiles
but once you have his father's wife and you are puffed up.
But it's puffed up, full of pride,
thinking you're better than you really are.
And have not rather mourned.
He's saying, look, you guys are seeing this sin.
This is Paul talking about fornication in the Church of Corinth.
It's that you guys have big sin.
Big sin, but why are they puffed up?
And why are they not mourning?
We'll get to that.
And it says, have not rather mourned,
that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Well, one of the reasons why they're not mourning when they see this sin
and they're super puffed up, you don't have to go there.
You stay right there, 1 Corinthians 5.
You know, I'm going to read from Hebrews that says this,
Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith today,
if you will hear his voice, hearted not your hearts,
as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness
when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Wherefore, I was grieved with that generation and said,
They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my way.
So I swear in my wrath, they should not enter into my rest.
Take heed, brethren. This is the problem with the Corinthians.
It says, Take heed, brethren, lest there be any of you,
lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief
and departing from the living God,
but extort one another daily while it is called today,
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
And that's their problem. Why don't they mourn?
Because their heart is hardened through the deceitfulness of fornication
and the other sins that they're committing.
But you would talk to the average person today and they're like,
Fornication? Really? What's the big deal?
It's like, hey, if they love one another, what's the big deal?
It's like, hey, leave them alone. They're not hurting no one.
It's funny how they make laws and Biden goes crazy over guns.
He wants to ban all these AR-15 type rifles
and even wants to ban weapons that he considers to be dangerous
that we shouldn't have in our possession or whatever,
and they're going nuts and fighting over it.
But they have full access. They get full access and they are upset.
They're like, 21 years old. No, we don't want to lower the age.
Some states you can buy a gun at 18. Others are 21 and over.
California, barely, don't even try it in California.
It's very hard to get a gun in California.
But these Democrats, they're making a big stink about how we can't let kids
have access to weapons.
Look what happened in Columbine.
Who knows what I'm talking about when it comes to Columbine?
You know, those teenagers, 17 or 18-year-olds, shot up the place,
had I think they were like Tech 9 weapons or whatever they had,
but they go crazy over guns and they're like, we need to be strict.
We need better laws and this and that and whatever,
even though they have the strictest laws in Chicago
and they're telling people record numbers.
And they're like, no, we got to make sure that kids don't get their hands on guns.
But they get 14-year-olds, 15-year-olds, 16-year-olds full access to abortion clinics.
Full access to abortion clinics, where supposedly, according to their numbers,
the government numbers, over 3,000 abortions every single day.
Well, let me ask you this.
What if 96,000 Americans were killed by guns last year?
Wouldn't it be a big deal?
What if it was just Chicago, 95,000 murdered by guns?
Wouldn't it be like, whoa, we need to ban weapons?
People would be all crazy about it.
Well, guess what? 3,000.
3,000 a day is 1,095,000 aborted every single year.
And I don't think the married majority are the ones doing it.
Maybe there are married couples out there that just don't want to have a kid
and a wife goes to the abortion clinic.
But let's just be honest.
The majority of the people that are committing this sin of abortion are fornicators.
That's just a fact, a fornicator.
They have all the protection they need, but it only protects you for so long.
People will say, well, what's the big deal?
Hey, bastard children, they'll tell you it's a big deal.
They don't like it when they're just all by themselves with no dad.
I mean, my parents got divorced, and I hated it.
I hated seeing my dad with somebody else.
I hated seeing my mom with somebody else.
It just disgusted me.
But it was what it was.
More than likely, when people are saying, hey, fornication was the big deal,
they're not really stopping to think about it.
Yes, the abortion, but think about all the children that are being born
and their fathers are not around,
and they end up being basically ate up by the devil.
I'm sure some of you guys have heard of NWA, right?
Their front guy, EZE, the guy that died of AIDS,
and whatever the case, people have different conspiracies about that.
But he had a bunch of children, bastard children,
with a bunch of different females.
I wonder how their kids are doing today.
I wonder if they're doing good
or if they're just falling into the same sins as their fathers
and just causing the world to become a worse and worse place.
Hey, it is what it is.
Righteousness exalts the nation.
That's what we preach against these things.
But fornication is not a big deal to people.
And look, I was brainwashed about this subject.
I didn't think it was a big one.
I thought it was just a little sin.
I didn't realize that it was a big sin.
That's the title of my sermon, Little Big Sins.
Little Big Sins.
So we know that there are some things that, yeah,
they start out little, but they can blow up really fast.
You're still right there in 1 Corinthians 5?
I mean, this is the punishment that Paul is saying
they should give to this guy who's fornicating the church of Corinth.
He says in verse 5,
to deliver such a wanton to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.
Well, that's not very nice.
They say, come on, that's pretty mean.
You know, why don't we just keep him in the church and work with the guy
and try to show him some scriptures?
It's like, no, he needs to go.
Why?
Well, if you keep reading, we'll find out why.
But the main thing that Paul is saying is like, hey, he needs to go.
We need to deliver him unto Satan.
He asks for the destruction of the flesh,
that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
He says, look, this guy, he needs to get right with God.
If it takes him getting destroyed, that's what Jesus taught.
If that hand offend, he cut it off.
If that eye offend, he pluck it out.
If that foot offend, he cut it off.
It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye
than having two eyes that be cast into hell fire.
Did he not say that?
And Paul is just teaching the same thing.
He's like, some people, hey, even if they claim, you know,
I believe in the Lord, if you're committing this quote, unquote, little sin,
you got to go because it's going to spread.
We let you in, it's going to spread.
Why do we preach against it?
Because we don't want it to even spread, even begin.
And I remember my old church, I barely heard our pastors, you know,
preach against fornication.
Barely at my old church in California.
Well, there are a lot of people committing fornication.
Open fornication.
We knew that couple's not married.
They're living together.
And you would think, is it just our church?
Come to find out, talking to other people.
It happens in a lot of old IFB churches.
They literally have couples that are not married.
Everybody knows about it.
They're having parties at their house.
They're having get togethers at their house,
and everybody knows they've been together for years
coming to the church for eight years
and they're still not married committing fornication.
And then other people are committing fornication.
You're about such and such getting pregnant,
committing fornication.
Doesn't want to get married for whatever reason.
But in our church, if it's happening,
we don't know anything about it.
But in my old church, we knew about it.
Because to them, it's like, well, you know, it's a little sin.
They love each other, whatever the case may be.
No, it's a little sin, they become very big,
and it can cost someone to not understand what the scriptures say
because the pastor's not preaching against it hard,
and they could be the ones that end up going to the abortion clinic
and being one of many that are costing 3,000 unborn children
to lose their lives every single day.
Over a million.
But let's just keep reading.
It says in verse number six,
You're glorying, saying, hey, you guys are arrogant.
It's not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven, and that's where I get the title.
Know ye not that a little leaven,
obviously he's referring to sin, leaveneth the whole lump,
and that's how it all starts.
Something little can just blow up.
Because that's what leaven is.
It's what they use to make bread just blow up.
Be all puffy and blown up.
So it says a little bit can cause it to just blow up.
Next thing you know, you've got a big problem.
And God forbid, because the preachers aren't doing their job,
that one of these children, they get into fornication
and do go to the clinic.
We're trying to prevent that.
But the world is like, oh, nope, they're just hateful.
You know, they don't love people.
Why?
Because of what we read in Hebrews.
Because of the deceitfulness of sin,
their heart is hardened to this type of preaching.
They get sick of hearing it.
They don't want to hear it anymore.
I'm like, man, this church,
all you guys talk about is this and that and whatever.
It's like, look, because we're trying to make sure it doesn't spread.
And I'm not saying there's a problem,
but you just never know.
You just never know.
And it's not just fornication I'm going to talk about.
I'm going to talk about other things that people say are little,
but when you really stop and look at the scriptures,
they're like, hey, it starts out little,
but it blows up big.
It blows up big and it will destroy lives.
So right there we see that it says a little leaven, leaven at the whole lump.
And what is their problem?
Verse number eight, keep the feast, not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice.
What is malice?
That's just ill will, meaning you want to commit sin.
Wickedness is evil.
It's sin.
I get that.
But malice is a little bit worse because that's your ill intent.
You want to go out there and commit sin.
And it's saying, look, you guys are committing malice.
You guys have wickedness in your church.
But with the leaven of bread and sincerity and truth,
it's like, hey, this is how you're going to purge this leaven out.
By being sincere, by preaching the truth, by being the real deal.
Because when people hear you preaching the truth but you're not the real deal,
that's not going to help them.
They're going to say to themselves, hey, that guy, he's a joke.
He can preach it all day long, but we know this dude, he ain't sincere.
That preacher, that soul winner, that whoever,
people always wonder, why don't my kids listen to me?
Because they know you're not sincere.
That's just the fact.
When they see you grow, then they'll start growing themselves.
It's like Pastor Emerson gave an example one time.
He would tell his kids, hey, play the piano.
Get on that piano.
Okay, okay.
And they wouldn't really do it.
They wouldn't really listen to him.
He's out working, comes back.
You've been practicing your piano, kids.
And then he started getting on the piano.
He started practicing an hour a day.
He started getting better at it.
Well, without having to say anything, guess what his kids were doing?
Dad, you almost done?
I want piano time.
And so sure enough, that's what ended up happening.
They started practicing their piano because their dad got serious about it.
They saw, that is serious?
That made them want to get serious.
That motivated them.
Amen?
But the other sins you see in Corinthians, covetousness, wanting things that are not for you.
I could say wanting things that don't belong to you.
But in reality, I don't know if that definition is the best definition,
wanting things that don't belong to you.
Because in reality, there are some things that are maybe not for you yet.
But if you pray for them, I don't think it's covetousness.
Like for example, wanting a wife.
You know, you could pray like, Lord, I really want a wife.
Are you really being covetous?
Probably not.
I'm thinking you're probably just trying to increase your chances of making it happen
because you're involving the Lord.
But when I say things that are not for you, meaning it's not God's will for you,
i.e. to be a multi-millionaire preacher, that's when you know you're covetous.
When you're being covetous.
When you want what Benny Hinn had.
You know, that private jet.
You know, those white, you know, alligator shoes.
It's like, bro, quit coveting this man.
You know, it's like when you desire things.
Because coveting, now don't get me wrong, I don't think it's always sinful.
Why? Because Paul says, covet the best gifts.
You know, he says, hey, covet the best gifts.
You know, he says, I covet your prayer.
You know, it's like, covet the best gifts.
And one of the best gifts, you know, love.
He says, hey, out of all these, prophesying the best one is love.
You know, because even if you gave your body to be burned,
if you don't have love, hey, it says that you labor or you do it in vain.
You know, it doesn't help anything.
You know, but we see that we have people here that are covetous.
He's warning them against extortioners.
Man, I've never heard of any extortioner, but these are pretty bad people.
These are people that are trying to get something out of you, usually money.
They want to get something out of you because they know something about you.
And how wicked is that to say, hey, I know about you.
And if you don't give me money, I mean, how?
Just the thought of that makes me say, whoa, these people are just evil.
To say, hey, I'm going to reveal what I know about you
if you don't give me X, Y, and Z usually is money.
That's crazy to think that would ever happen in church.
But it wouldn't be here if it wasn't possible.
Bible God put it in there if it will never happen.
No, I'm pretty sure it does happen.
It has happened, and it will happen.
But it's talking about extortioners, idolaters, you know, people that worship idols.
Obviously, fornication is there again.
Covetous, idolaters, you know, I'm in verse 11.
And when you see verse 13, it says,
Therefore put away from among yourselves.
Hey, Paul calls it like it is, that wicked person.
What's a fornicator? A wicked person.
What's an extortioner? A wicked person.
You know, somebody who's covetous is a wicked person.
You know, he makes no bones about it. They're wicked.
Now, if you have your Bible, go to Proverbs 31.1.
But people will say, covetous? Come on, man.
It's really that bad, you know, wanting a better life.
Because that's what they try to make it seem like.
Oh, I just want a better life, you know.
I want a better life, too.
But what you're looking at, you're looking at a $10 million mansion.
And I'm looking at a $250,000 house, bro.
Because that's what TV will do, you know, TV, whatever, movies.
I saw this one show one time way back in the day, but it stuck in my mind.
And I always think about them when I see this verse on covetousness.
Because it was a show about people that swapped their wives.
Just ever heard of that show, Wife Swap or something like that?
Well, what happened, it was a guy, he swapped his wife with some other dude.
You know, but the family, you know, the guy who swapped his wife or whatever,
you know, they were very covetous.
You know, they had big dreams.
And what they did, they went and they got recorded.
Like I said, this is why we need this preaching.
Because I'm sure if you were to ask them, hey, what's your religion?
I'm sure they would say Christianity, but here's what would happen.
They had no problem, no problem, cameras like basically just recorded them.
And they were middle class, they didn't have a lot of stuff.
But their goal was to have a ton of stuff.
And they would literally go once a week to these rich neighborhoods.
And they would take pictures in front of these houses to motivate them,
motivate them, you know, to work hard and make a ton of money so they can have that one day.
That's covetousness right there.
That is evil right there.
And they're not the only ones.
I heard about a guy, I don't know if you guys ever heard of this guy, he's on YouTube.
He's an old man, he's not as rich as he thinks he is.
He calls himself a 50 billion dollar man.
His name is Dan Pena.
I don't know if you've ever heard of him.
You'll probably come across him.
If you're just on YouTube or whatever, he'll pop up, he'll pop up,
and he's basically this guru on business.
He's not a guru, he's a fraud.
He's a total straight up fraud.
But you know what he's telling his students?
He charges students $20,000 to show them how to start their businesses.
But his taxes are old school.
They don't even work.
And this guy claims to be a 50 billion dollar man and he does have a castle in Scotland.
He has a castle in Scotland, but he's so rich, he rents it out for a wedding.
Come on, what's up with that?
Who rents their house?
That's his home.
Who rents their house for weddings?
He's not as rich.
And who charges $20,000 because now he's retired, now he's a multi-millionaire,
now all he gets is joy from helping other people make it financially.
You know, make it super rich.
And this is what he teaches his students.
You need to practice what you want to be.
You want to be rich?
You need to practice that.
You know what I used to do?
I used to go to the Bentley, the Bentley dealership,
way before I even could afford a Bentley.
And I would just get into Bentleys and pretend I'm driving them and whatever
and I would buy $1,000 suits that I couldn't even afford.
I would buy them and wear them because I was practicing what I wanted to be.
Well, keep on practicing, buddy, because you're a fraud.
You don't have that much money.
But that man is covetous, trying to get you to be covetous,
but they don't think anything of it because they have cameras,
they record themselves teaching this stuff.
Go practice being rich.
You don't have a Bentley, go drive a Bentley and take pictures with it
and post it on your walls and think about it every single day.
But that's not what the Bible tells you to do.
You know, if you're right there in Proverbs 31, 1,
I'm just going to be from Proverbs 21 that says this,
Wine is a mocker, a strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Leviticus 10, 8, you guys just listen up.
The Bible says, And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,
Do not drink wine, nor strong drink,
thou, nor thy sons with thee.
When you go into the tabernacle of the congregation,
lest ye die, there shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,
in that ye may put difference between holy and unholy,
and between unclean and clean.
So what do we see here?
We see a verse that's saying,
Hey, don't drink, don't drink wine, don't drink strong drink,
lest ye, you know, or for you to put a difference between holy and unholy.
Deuteronomy 21, 19 says this,
And it came to pass, when he heareth the works of this curse,
that he blessed himself in his heart, saying,
I shall have peace, though a walk in imagination on my heart,
to add drunkenness to thirst.
So another little sin that can be a big sin,
or in my eyes, a little big sin,
is that of alcohol.
Now I'm not going to talk about how many billions of dollars
we spent cleaning up that mess on the freeways,
and how much damage it's caused financially to our economy,
you know, dealing with alcohol abuse,
whatever the case may be, domestic violence, you name it.
I'm not going to get into those stats.
I'm just going to let the word of God do its job.
We're going to look at it, and then we can kind of get the reality
when it comes to alcohol, because unfortunately,
there are Christians that go sowing in, they go to church,
and they think it's no big deal to get into this.
They're like, hey, this ain't a big thing.
Well, I don't like seeing Christians drink.
Do you guys like seeing Christians drink? I don't.
I think it's bad when I see a bottle in a Christian's hand.
I think it's horrific.
And I think it's dangerous more than anything.
It's like, I'm not a drunk. Yeah, but it's still dangerous.
You're still gambling.
I mean, do you want your kids to drink?
Oh, no.
Do you drink in front of your grandchildren?
No, I don't.
They don't.
So they know there's something wrong with it,
and I'm thinking, why don't you just give it up?
You know, at least start out by saying,
hey, I got a problem. I'm an addict.
Well, let's just read a few scriptures.
I just read a few.
One is a mockroach, don't speak Eurasian.
But you're right there in Proverbs 31, 1.
The Bible says this.
The words of King Lemieux, the prophecy that his mother taught him,
what my son, and what the son of my womb, and what the son of my vows.
Here's a mom talking to his son, saying,
hey, what's going on?
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways,
to that which destroyeth, key word, destroyeth kings.
And what is that?
It is not for kings, O Lemieux.
It is not for kings to drink wine.
Crystal clear.
Alcohol can destroy.
It can.
But Christians these days, I'm like, but that ain't me.
It's like, man, you must have the mercies of David there,
if God has not come down on you.
But every single person that I've seen that condones it,
they're not doing so well.
In my personal opinion, physically, they don't look so good.
They look older than they really should be,
and they try to look younger by coloring their hair,
coloring their beard.
I'm like, yo, what's up, man?
You like the way you look?
Yeah, you look older than, yeah,
because you've been drinking this whole time, bro.
Been drinking for years, man.
When you going to give that up?
No, instead they'd rather get the little black coloring mix,
put it on their beard, put it on their hair,
because it's messing you up.
But it says, hey, be careful to commit these sins
that destroy kings.
And it says right there, strong drink,
lest they drink and forget the law.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Verse 4, it is not for kings only meal,
it is not for kings to drink wine,
nor for the princes strong drink,
lest they drink and forget the law
and pervert the judgment of any.
I'm just going to read from Genesis 9.
The Bible talks about Noah.
It says Noah was a righteous man,
and because of his righteousness,
he saved his wife and his children
and his children's wives.
The rest of the world got destroyed.
So Noah, hey, living what he was living,
in God's eyes he found favor
because he looked down on Noah,
and God was going to destroy all of mankind.
He was going to just wipe them all off.
And then he sees Noah, and Noah found grace,
grace in his eyes, and he spared Noah,
his children and his children's wives.
And what happens to Noah?
He perverts his way.
I'm just going to read Genesis 9.20.
If you guys have your Bible,
go to 1 Samuel, chapter number 2.
So we saw the fornication.
It's a little leaven that can leaven the whole lump.
We saw the covetousness.
It's not something that God wants churches,
you know, to be known for.
We saw that they were hard-hearted.
They were puffed up.
They were prideful.
And that's the thing that God just does not like.
He doesn't like prideful people.
He doesn't like arrogant people.
But these are little sins that people say,
yeah, I understand this dude's full of pride,
but it's just a little sin,
but it can become a bigger sin.
It can become a bigger sin.
And these honorable mentions
that I'm having right here
is stuff that a lot of churches don't talk about.
That's why I am talking about alcohol.
It's not in Corinthians,
but I'm going to talk about it
because the Bible talks about it a lot.
You know, but just listen to these verses.
Let them sink in.
Let your heart receive them.
Deuteronomy 21, 20 says this,
And they shall say unto the elders of this city,
This our son is a stubborn and rebellious.
He will not obey your voice.
He is a glutton and a drunkard.
I wonder how he started down that path.
I wonder what it was.
A six-pack?
You know, a 40-ounce?
I wonder how this guy got down that path
of not being a drunkard.
Maybe one beer.
I don't think everybody who starts out drinking
starts out with a six-pack, do you?
A case of Bud Light at 24?
Like you see them, you know,
when I go to the gas station,
I feel bad for these people
that walk out with these cases.
It's like 4 or 5 p.m.
and they just got off work
because they get up early
and they got these cases,
24 can cases of Bud Light
just ready to take off.
And they're very unhealthy looking.
It's just like something that like,
man, I feel bad for them, so bad.
You know, but when they call themselves Christians,
it's like, man, what in the world?
But hey, look what it says right here.
In Deuteronomy, it says,
look, if you have a son, he's stubborn.
You know, it says he's a glutton and a drunkard.
And it says, and all the men of his city
shall stone him with stones that he die.
I wonder if alcohol is that big of a deal to God.
He's saying, hey, if you got a son,
he don't listen to you.
You know, he's a glutton and a drunkard.
Think about this.
He's literally saying put that guy to death.
And what do we see these days?
We see a bunch of young people at the corner.
They're young, stubborn, right?
You know, these people are drunkards.
In the Old Testament,
they put those people to death.
What people are we talking about?
Seems like they're talking about lazy bums here.
Think about it.
It says right here,
hey, my son, stubborn, rebellious,
will not obey a glutton and a drunkard.
Hey, take him to the men of the city
and stone him with stones that he die.
Why?
Thou should put away evil from among you.
I don't think they had a homeless problem
in Israel back in the day.
I think if they're like, hey, son,
get your butt to the vineyard,
quit that drinking, and they didn't do it,
this is what their punishment would be.
You know, stone.
That's me.
Well, the Bible says it's evil.
Put it away from among you.
And the Bible says in 1 Thessalonians to be sober.
It says simply,
for they that sleep in the night
and they to be drunken are drunken in the night.
Let us who are of the day be sober.
What's it mean to be sober?
It means to be sane, rational.
You're not rational when you're drunk.
You're irrational.
Also, non-intoxicated.
You know, but in this verse, it talks about drunken.
Drunken in the night.
He says, hey, I don't want that.
And people can say, oh, it's just one beer.
You know you don't drink just one beer, bro.
Quit lying to yourself.
You know, you're drinking two, three.
I mean, how many does it take to get you drunk?
Just one, according to scientists.
Just one bottle of Bud Light is enough
to start affecting your rationale, your sanity.
But you guys are right there, 1 Samuel.
You know, so the little sins that are big sins
are big sins in my eyes.
One is alcohol.
Another one is arrogance.
Arrogance.
Look what it says right here.
This is Hannah speaking, though.
Hannah, if you go to the book of 1 Samuel,
she wanted a baby, couldn't have a baby.
She was married to a man that was committing polygamy.
He was married to another woman,
and she made her basically fret.
She was upset.
She prayed unto the Lord to give her a man child,
and she will give him back to the Lord.
And then the Lord did answer her prayer,
and then she goes back and starts praising the Lord.
But this is something interesting that she says.
It says there in chapter number 2, 1 Samuel,
it says that Hannah prayed and said,
My heart rejoices in the Lord.
My horn is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies
because I rejoice in thy salvation.
There is none holy as the Lord,
for there is none beside thee,
neither is there any rock like our rock.
Talk no more so exceedingly proudly.
Exceedingly proudly.
Let not arrogance come out of your mouth.
Arrogance, is that really that big of a deal to God?
I mean, listen to this verse.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, and arrogance.
And I think that the biggest people guilty of this
are like professional fighters.
I'm going to knock you out.
You know, I got a guy who I witnessed to a long time ago.
His name is Tito Ortiz.
You ever heard of Tito Ortiz?
You know, he got knocked out yesterday.
Pretty bad.
You know, when I moved to Phoenix,
he was doing a blood drive,
so I gave him the gospel twice.
You know?
And so I was interested to see how he's doing.
Not doing so well.
He was very arrogant.
He was very arrogant before he fought.
He was talking about how like,
what, what, we thought fight this guy.
You know, he's scared of me.
You know, he's scared of my power.
You know, this guy wants me to come down.
He was like 240 pounds.
He wants me to come down to 195
because he knows it's going to make me weak.
So he did it.
He got down to 200 pounds.
And I didn't watch the fight.
I just watched the highlights.
He got knocked out with one punch, right?
One punch.
But you should have seen how he was speaking so arrogantly.
And I'm sure he's wondering,
why can't I have success anymore?
You know, maybe because bro's a girl witness to you.
Who knows?
Maybe he's saved and now he can't get away with that.
But before that's how he got big.
He got big by having a big mouth.
If you know a little bit of Tito Ortiz,
he got very popular.
He had millions of pay-per-views
when he fought at the height of his fame.
But his big thing is he had a big mouth.
So people will watch him to get either knocked out
or knocked out of the people
because he was pretty good at fighting.
You know, but hey, now to him,
that's a really bad sin he can't get rid of.
Instead of going in humble like,
man, I'm very glad that they gave me an opportunity
to fight one more time for $200,000 or whatever.
I'm going to do my best.
I think I can beat this guy.
He's a tough guy.
He's a great champion.
Instead it's like, no, goodness of all time,
he's afraid of my power.
He's so good, he's afraid of me.
Fair enough, they fight.
One punch, he's out.
First round, less than a minute and a half.
So don't be like that, children.
Don't talk so arrogantly because the Lord hates it
and it's just going to get you in a lot of trouble.
I got to wrap it up.
So alcohol, kids, it's a little sin to some people,
but it can blow up really big.
I'm sure if Noah was preaching to you,
he'd be telling you what I'm telling you and say,
hey, look what happened to me.
Now I'm in the Bible for something that's embarrassing.
And people can debate what happened afterwards,
but it seems like, from what you can see,
that something physically horrible happened to Noah
after he got drunk because he was very upset
when he came out of his drunkenness.
But alcohol is something that people say,
hey, that's not a big thing, you know.
Hey, it's all right to drink as long as you don't get drunk.
That's what you say now.
Arrogancy, those are the same people that say,
it's not a big deal to drink.
You're arrogant.
It's never you, never you.
I'm okay.
It's like, man, you're almost like doubling up your sin
by number one, drinking, even though you see all these verses
and it's not one, two, or three, all these verses against alcohol.
God's like, this is stupid.
Don't do it.
It's not wise.
If you do it, you're deceived.
You're not wise.
But people do it, and they want to justify it
because they're arrogant.
That's why I say, you know what, from alcohol,
we're going to arrogant.
A little sin, but look what it can do to you.
God says, these things do I hate,
and they're all an abomination unto him.
I'm up to just point one, how proud I look.
Why would you be proud?
Because you're arrogant.
And we'll wrap it up with this one, evil speaking.
Whatever it's going to be, whether it's boasting, bragging,
whether it's backbiting, saying mean things about other people,
or whether you're just being a busybody.
Let's be careful not to be guilty of evil speaking.
What is evil speaking?
Saying bad things.
Let me just go over a few verses, and we'll wrap it up.
Listen to this.
Leviticus, 1916.
Who so privately slandereth his neighbor?
Him I will cut off.
This is God saying, you slander, I'm going to cut you off.
But I didn't say something that bad.
Did you slander his name?
Yeah.
God says, you know, I'm going to cut you off.
I'm going to cut you off.
Psalms 101.5.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
What is guile?
It's deception.
God says, don't slander and don't deceive.
Don't be a liar.
Don't try to trick people, you know.
Even if you're on a jury and you can tell the guy is evil
and he deserves to be locked up or whatever.
You know what?
It is what it is.
If you're a witness against someone, don't ask stuff to it
just because you have this personal issue.
Hey, don't speak guile.
Don't be deceitful.
Just tell the truth and that should be enough to convict
somebody who deserves to be put away or even put to death.
Psalms 34.13 says this, a fall witness that speaketh lies,
he that sordid discord among brethren.
So be careful causing issues among ourselves.
God says, I hate that.
God says, hey, don't go around causing discord.
Don't go around, you know, speaking guile.
Don't go around, you know, being a tale bearer
because if you do, that just shows that you just don't care.
You just don't care because the Bible says that, hey,
somebody who loves is going to conceal a matter, you know.
So evil speaking is something that we need to be careful
and I guess I'll throw another one in there
because I got about a minute or so.
Greed, his greed is a horrific sin that people may not think
is a big deal, but greed can get you killed.
Don't believe me?
Google Achan, A-C-H-A-N.
I don't have time to speak of him, but his greed,
his covetousness, has his family himself
to be put to death in a horrific way.
But Satan was somebody that was greedy.
He wanted to be like the most high.
He wanted to take over his throne.
Hey, how do I know if I'm being greedy?
If you love money.
There I said it.
Somebody just recently told us, pastor, pastor, I don't know,
I just love money.
You're a wicked person.
You're a greedy person.
The Bible tells us very clearly the love of money
is the root of all evil.
The Bible says in Proverbs 23, 4,
labor not to be rich.
Damn, Pena.
If you ain't trying to be rich, something's wrong with you.
That's what he tells people.
Well, the Bible says if I'm trying to be rich,
something's wrong with me.
Something's wrong with you, damn, Pena.
So besides alcohol, besides arrogance,
you know, besides evil speaking, be careful, kids.
Being greedy is not something small.
Being greedy is something big in God's eyes.
We shouldn't labor to be rich, and the Bible says
he that loveth silver should not be satisfied with silver.
You know what?
Doing God's will is what's going to satisfy you,
bring the most joyfulness to you.
People that think it's the money.
That's why I'm not happy.
If I just had money, all my bills would be paid for,
and I would just have this life that I could be proud of,
and I would even help other people if I had so much money.
But you know what?
I don't know.
I need to get some money.
And then you start looking at ways to get it,
and it'll take you down the wrong path.
Something so small, like Aiken,
like just wanting a little bit more money,
because he took a Babylonian garment,
and he took some money, just wanted a little bit more money,
for whatever reason, I'm sure he justified it in his eyes,
it cost him his life, and the life of his wife,
and the life of his children.
And it cost also the nation to suffer as well.
Overgreed. Overgreed.
So these little sins are big sins.
We need to be careful not to be taking these lightly,
and take heed lest we fall.
Let's pray.
Dear God, we thank you so much for all that you've done.
We just ask you to bless everyone here.
Lord, you're such a great God to us.
We have a lot.
Father, help us to just be humble people, content people,
and with all that, Father,
we just ask you to bless everyone here tonight,
keep them safe, and also give us safe travels,
and we go back to Phoenix,
and help us to win souls tomorrow in Mexico,
and we ask the Lord to do all this,
for all the glory in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Turn in your hymnals to song number 114.
Song number 114.
The Great Physician.
Let's give everyone a second to get there.
Song 114.
We'll sing it out there on the first.
The Great Physician now is near
The sympathizing Jesus
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer
Oh hear the voice of Jesus
Sweetest note and seraph song
Sweetest name on mortal tongue
Sweetest carol ever sung
Jesus, blessed Jesus
Your many sins are all forgiven
Oh hear the voice of Jesus
Go on your way in peace to heaven
And wear a crown with Jesus
Sweetest note and seraph song
Sweetest name on mortal tongue
Sweetest carol ever sung
Jesus, blessed Jesus
All glory to the dying Lamb
I now believe in Jesus
I love the blessed Savior's name
I love the name of Jesus
Sweetest note and seraph song
Sweetest name on mortal tongue
Sweetest carol ever sung
Jesus, blessed Jesus
And when to that bright world above
We rise to be with Jesus
We'll sing around the throne of love
His name, the name of Jesus
Sweetest note and seraph song
Sweetest name on mortal tongue
Sweetest carol ever sung
Jesus, blessed Jesus
All right, good singing. You're all dismissed.