So, Deuteronomy chapter number 21, go to verse 18, that's where I want to focus. So, if you look down
in verse number 18, it says, if a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey
the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him,
will not hearken unto them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
out unto the elders of the city, and unto the gate of his place. And they shall say unto the
elders of the city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice,
he is a glutton and a drunkard, and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die.
Now, if you go back to 18, we're going to look at that word stubborn, which simply means
hard-headed. So, here's an individual who's hard-headed. He's stubborn, and he's rebellious.
Rebellious means that he's disobedient. So, he's stubborn. In other words, he doesn't want to
change. He's stuck in his ways. No matter how much you show him that he's wrong, he refuses
to change. He refuses to hearken. And not only that, but it says that he's rebellious, meaning
he disobeys. He doesn't listen. He does what he wants. He doesn't do anything that he's told to do.
And not only that, he's also somebody who doesn't respond to chastisement. He gets punished. And
notice it says, if a man have a stubborn son, rebellious, will not obey the voice of his father
or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, they have punished them,
he still will not hearken on to them. So, sometimes people get upset because we say,
look, at our house we spank. And we're going to spank until they move on and they have their own
home. It doesn't say a child, it says if a man have a son. And think about it, it's a son who's
old enough to consume some pretty good alcohol because now he's a drunkard. I highly doubt that
any parent, any parent is going to allow their five-year-old, their six-year-old, their ten-year-old
to just drink it up in their house. I highly doubt that without getting either a rod or who knows the
shoe. I don't know. I highly doubt that. Maybe a teenager, especially if he's a six foot one,
and I've seen teenagers that are like six foot one, 220 pounds, then maybe, then maybe. But even
then, they're chastising him. But nowadays they're like, oh, teenagers? No, that's too old. I don't
know about chastising my teenager. I don't know about spanking and taking out the rod and handling
business with my teenager. But even then, it's just that son. This could also be a 20-year-old,
you know, 20, 22-year-old, just not mature enough to want to get married, who knows what. He's still
a mom's and dad's house. It says if they have a son, he's still living with them, and yet he's stubborn.
He's rebellious. He doesn't listen. You know, he's a glutton and he's a drunkard. He's like, hey, this
kid drinks. So more than likely, I would say it's probably somebody in their probably late 20s. I
mean, early 20s, probably even late teens or something like that. Hopefully he's not a 30 or 40
year old. That's pretty messed up if you're that old living with mom and dad. I mean, Jacob was 40
years old before he got married, so it can happen. So I can say, okay, this can happen. But this is a bad
child. Bottom line, we can all agree, it's a bad son. But you notice the four things. The four things.
He's stubborn. He's rebellious. He's a glutton. People have different ideas of what that means. Some
people say, oh, that's an overweight guy that eats too much. It could be. It could be. But it could
also be that it's somebody who's known for just eating. Bottom line, he's a glutton. He is eating.
And so what is this guy also doing? He's drinking it up. It's so bad that his parents, you know, have
to punish him for that. Saying, look, he needs to stop. Let's just spank him. Hopefully that makes him
quit, and it doesn't. But just take a minute to think about who kind of makes you kind of
come to mind. Who comes to mind when you think of someone who's stubborn, rebellious, glutton,
and a drunkard? Well, let's just continue what we're commanded in the time of this, when it was
written. I know we don't do this in our country, but at the time this was written, it's like, hey,
this is how you handle if you have a child. And I don't think they had many of these individuals
around, because I think the first person that ended up getting stoned to death for being like
this, I think everybody else got the word, and they feared, and they repented, and they changed.
And they probably didn't have a problem with stubborn, rebellious, gluttonous, drunkards,
you know, as far as children running around. I don't think the nation of Israel had an issue,
because they had these laws, and they were in effect. They were in effect today. You know,
but why? I mean, it sounds kind of harsh. The guy drinks, okay, he doesn't listen to his parents,
he's stubborn, you know, to be put to death? You know, what's going on with that? Well,
I'm not going to hear and tell you that, hey, God is wrong for writing that. He is writing,
and he's always right. You know, but let me go over another verse. It says in Exodus 21 15,
and he that smited his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. God says, hey,
hitting your prayers is so wicked, I want that individual dead. Now, some people will use
Deuteronomy 21 to say, oh, the Bible teaches that if you have a rebellious, disobedient child to
stone him, to kill him, ha ha ha ha ha, they didn't want to finish the verse. He's not just
an individual who's stubborn and rebellious, he's also glunted, and he's a drunkard. This is not
really a child if you kind of use common sense, but they try to make it seem like it is to make
the Bible look crazy. And when it says if a person smites their parents, especially the mom who gave
birth to them, went through pains, and it's dangerous to give birth, he can even die,
and even people in the Bible died giving birth, yet the child after being taken care of, their
diapers got changed, the meals were were cooked for them, they were raised well by their parents
to grow up and actually smite your parents, you have a different degree of evil than the average
person. Let's just face that. That's why God says put this individual to death. I'm going to read
from 1 Samuel 15, you guys just stay there. It says in 1 Samuel 15, and Samuel said, had the
Lord has great delight and burnt offerings to sacrifice, as in obeying the voice of the Lord,
this is Samuel talking to King Saul when he disobeys. It says, behold, to obey is better
than sacrifice than to hearken in the battle ramps. For rebellion, and remember, Deuteronomy
is talking about a rebellious individual. For rebellion, this has the sin of witchcraft,
and what does the Bible say about a witch? Not to suffer a wish to live. The penalty for being
a witch is to be put to death, because that's an individual that's wicked, that's causing people
to go to hell by what? Witchcraft, which is nothing more than just worshiping devils,
power through the power of devils that can convince people to say, hey, my God is more
powerful. Hey, come join me. I'll show you how to have some real power through witchcraft,
and this individual will probably worship the wrong God, and God that's not like that at all.
You know, God commands us not to have any other gods before him, but witchcraft is supposed to be
something that's punishable by death, and it says, look, you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has also rejected thee from being king, and Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned,
for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and that works because I fear the people
and obey their voice. Now, therefore, I pray thee, part of my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the Lord, and say unto Saul, I will not return with thee, for thou has rejected
the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected thee from being king. And once again, we see over
here in Deuteronomy 21 that there's an individual who's stubborn, he's rebellious, and God's eyes,
he's like a witch. He's committing the same level to him that's at the same level as witchcraft,
and already that's enough to say, hey, put this individual to death, and God's eyes says, look,
this individual is rebellious, it has been a witch, being in witchcraft. He said, this is
serious enough that I say, hey, put a wish to death, rebellious is a sin of witchcraft, but he
ends up going even further, where he's not just disobeying his parents, he's just living a life
of just being a drunkard. Saul is known for his being a drunkard, and to me, when I think of
people that are stubborn, and rebellious, and glutton, and drunks, I think of bums.
That's what I think of, bums. That's what I think of, straight up bums. I'm not necessarily talking
about homeless people, and I'll get into that in a minute, but I'm thinking, okay, stubborn,
rebellious, drunks, glutton. I think bums, bottom line. So the title of my sermon is this,
the sin of saving bums, the sin of saving bums, and what exactly am I talking about? I'm just
bottom line going to tell you this, don't help bums out. Now, I'm not talking about homeless
people. I'm not talking about poor people. I'm talking about bums, people that are stubborn,
rebellious, and guess what? All they do is they're known for just eating, and drinking, and that's it,
and bums, all they do is they eat, and they drink, and that's it, and the reason they're in that
condition is, if you really study them out, it's because they're stubborn, they're prideful, and
they're rebellious, and they're rebellious towards God. That's what they're really rebellious towards.
They don't want to hear it. They don't want to go to church. They don't want to serve the Lord
at all. You know, they just refuse to listen to their parents. They refuse to listen to anyone,
and they especially refuse to listen to religious leaders or anything that the Bible has to say,
and so what did they do to these individuals back in Deuteronomy? Did they stone them to teach them
a lesson? No, they stone them that they may die to put these evil people away. Now, I don't think
they really had a problem with bums back in Israel because they had this law, but today,
people don't know what to do with them. Literally, Los Angeles is spending over six hundred million
dollars a year to hop out bums, to hop out individuals that are stubborn, rebellious,
and they're drunkards that just walk around drunk all day, and if they're not drunk, they're high
on heroin. They're high on some kind of drug. That's what they're doing, and yet they're
giving these people free homes. They're building housing for these people. They're giving them
places to live for free. They're giving food vouchers in San Francisco. They even give them
seventy-five dollars cash every single month. They just get in line and, oh, you're a homeless bum?
Hey, you know what? Here you go. Seventy-five dollars. You know, we're a loving city. This
is due to taxpayers' money. Here's seventy-five bucks, full vouchers, money, other places,
San Francisco and other places, even give them needles to shoot themselves up with
to prevent disease, and San Francisco gives out four million needles a year. Four million,
and they can only throw away about two million. That means there's two million needles in the
oceans, in the bushes, all over the streets, and there's places, I think like Oregon,
that they give out two million a year. Two million, and these bums are using these drug
needles to stay drunk, you know, in a drunken state, and they throw them in the bushes,
and they throw them in the oceans, and now they're literally going into the sea and coming right back
to California, and they're finding them on the oceans just all over the place, and they grab
these needles, and they check them out, and these needles have diseases, even HIV, hepatitis this,
hepatitis that, you know, and that's how they're dealing with these individuals, giving them free
stuff, helping them out with money, helping them out with a place to live, basically helping them
to continue and sin, and yet you see right here in Deuteronomy that if you have a rebellious
individual, and he's a drunkard, and he's stubborn, you know what? Hey, stone that individual. I'm not
saying let's go out and kill these people because that's what they deserve. I'm just telling you
this is how they handled it back in the day, but churches are also becoming, you know, kind of part
of the problem as well. People come in, all right, let's have a clothing drive, a food drive for these
people. Let's try to help them out. They take them clothes, food, etc., etc. They really think they're
helping them out because they don't look at what the Bible says about these individuals at all. So
let me just make sure I get clear when I say bum because I don't want you to assume that I just
mean homeless people, all right? When I say bum, I looked up that word bum, and there were a few
definitions that came up. One was just a basic one. I looked up bum on Google, so Google definition is
simply this, a lazy or worthless person, a lazy or worthless person. You ever heard of you ungrateful
bum? Basically saying, hey, you ungrateful lazy individual, you ungrateful worthless person, you
have no value is what it comes out, it's come down to, and I do see that because look what it says,
and they shall say unto the elders, verse 20, this is our stubborn son, you know, this is our stubborn
son and rebellious, he will not obey. He is a glutton, you know, all he does is eat, and a drunkard,
and he spends his time drinking. This is a worthless individual. Let me just say this,
drunkards are worthless individuals. I'm not talking about people who have drunk, maybe they
got drunk once in the past, or whatever the case, I'm talking about people that just wake up, they
want to drink, and they don't want to be in a sober state, they just want to get the bottle, drink, or
they're on drugs, they want to get the needle, and shoot themselves up, and escape reality, that's how
they just want to live, that's what they want to do, they don't want to get right with God, they
don't want to do what's right, these individuals are worthless, they don't help society, they destroy
society, and let me explain. Now you guys probably have heard of MAD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving,
have you guys heard of that before? Well, I didn't look at their website, I just came across
MAD, Fathers Against Drunk Driving. Now let's take a look and see how much drunkards hop out
society here. Here's some national stats, 250,000 people have died in alcohol-related
accidents in the past 10 years, alcohol-related, not an actual accident, but due to alcohol.
Presently, 25,000 people are killed each year in alcohol-related accidents. 500 people are killed
each week in alcohol-related accidents. 71 people are killed each day in alcohol-related accidents.
One American life is lost every 20 minutes in alcohol-related auto crashes. Drunkards are killing
one American every 20 minutes. I've been preaching for 14 minutes, in six minutes somebody's about to
get killed by a drunkard. Now I can kind of see what God says, if they're that selfish, you know
what, put them to death. Because if you don't, they're going to put somebody to death. And maybe
back then they didn't have cars, but you know what, people actually get so drunk that a baby
annoys them so bad to the point where they pick them up and shake them and snap their neck. Who's
ever heard of that? That happens a lot. They don't put that in the news because it's too graphic,
but that does happen. Or they get so drunk, they get annoyed at their spouse and they just about
beat their spouse to death. And then they wake up like, I can't believe what I just did. I had
a co-worker when I used to work security in California, he went to a party, he got drunk,
and he beat up his girlfriend and his girlfriend worked with us as well. He beat her up so bad,
I couldn't allow her to come to work. Her face was so swollen, so messed up, she couldn't see
from one eye. And I didn't think people want to deal with the security officer because I thought
it was just too gross to even look at her. I couldn't even handle it. And even though she
wore glasses, it was still kind of like, you see the blueness around and he woke up in jail. And
he's like, I don't even remember touching her at all. He wasn't a drunkard. He just accidentally
got drunk. He wasn't a guy that was known for drinking. He just drank too much that day. And
he got out of control and he almost killed her. She had to call the cops. And she knew if I call
him, he's going to jail. We can't afford jail. We're making, we're barely making ends meet. I
can't afford this, but he had to, because he didn't know where she was going. She didn't know
what he was going to do to her. You know, if somebody didn't show up to take him and he says,
hey, I don't remember anything. I don't remember the cops showing up, beating me up, handcuffing
me, taking me away. Next thing you know, I wake up the next day, like, where am I? And I'm behind
bars. And I'm like, what in the world am I doing behind bars? I found out that I beat her up and I
couldn't even remember half of it. You think that didn't happen back in the day? You don't think
that happened 2000 years ago, 3000 years ago, 4000 years ago? Absolutely. There's nothing new under
the sun, but every 20 minutes, I'm 16 minutes into the sermon, every 20 minutes, a drunkard kills an
American. Every 20 minutes. If I preach for an hour, there's going to be three people killed,
not by a sober person, but by a drunkard who was stubborn, rebellious. They didn't want to hear it
out. Hey, you shouldn't drink. You should, you should cut that. You know, alcohol is bad for you.
Don't you think they've heard that before? Before they get their license, you can't drink and drive.
DUIs are bad. It'll cost you 10 to $15,000. They were too stubborn to care, got behind the wheel
and killed someone. So we got about three minutes before somebody gets killed. That's how bad this
sin is. Now you can kind of see what God says. They're not going to change. You know what? Put
them to death before they put somebody to death. That's what they were saying back in the day.
But people don't know what to do with these bombs that are always drunk and they're always
high and on drugs. What should we do with them? Well, let's continue to see. It says that 83 per
hour end up getting hurt. That's about 1.3 people per minute that end up getting hurt.
It is estimated that one out of two Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related accident. Well,
let's see if that's true. How many of you guys have been hit by a drunk driver? So have I. Before
I took off to the Netherlands to do the marathon down there, the one that Pastor got banned from,
it was on a Wednesday. Me and Pastor Mejia were working on a documentary. We haven't eaten all
day. Sure enough, it's four o'clock. I'm like, look, I'm hungry. You're hungry. Let's just get
something to eat. No problem. Let me go to the hotel first, drop off my stuff. I'll get something,
et cetera, et cetera. I'm like, no, let me order us a couple of plates of Chinese food. I'll just
quickly grab it and come back. All right, no problem. So he takes us to his hotel. I order
it. They're like, oh, no problem. 15, 20 minutes. That'll be ready. 20 minutes later. I'm like,
all right, no problem. Let me go get it. It was across the street. I get in my vehicle,
go across the street, walk inside a Chinese restaurant, grab my food, get into my vehicle,
and I'm literally just waiting, waiting for traffic to clear so I can get on the street,
make a left turn. Two minutes later, I'm back to faithful work. So I'm literally there,
looking left, looking right. I look left, and I see this truck pulling in, and it's coming straight
towards me, and it's not slowing down. At that point, I panic. I'm like, bam. Guy slams on his
brakes, and he still hits my door. He ends up backing up, and all I hear is metal crunching.
I'm like, whoa. I look over. I'm like, oh, man. So, of course, I got upset. Like, what just
happened? He pulls in. He parks. I couldn't go backwards because I have people waiting.
So I end up going forward, make a big U-turn, park next to him just to make sure he's okay.
I'm like, what is up? Is he on drugs, or what's going on? He gets out. I get out. I'm like, man,
you okay? Oh, I'm all right. What do you think I smelled right away? Alcohol from me to you.
I'm like, whoa. So you are drunk. Have you drunk something today? Just a little. Just a little.
I'm like, a little too much. I'm like, all right. License and registration, man. You hit me. Let's
just get this over with. Oh, I don't have a license. Oh, I wonder why you don't have a license.
What do you got? I got an ID. All right. Give it to me. I'll take what you got. So I took a picture
of his license. I took a picture of his plates, and then he's like, oh, I don't want any trouble,
man. I'm sorry I hit you. You know what? I'll pay for it. I'll give you $500 cash. Follow me
to the ATM. He tries to get back in his vehicle. I'm like, no, you're not going anywhere. You're
not driving anywhere, man. It's like, look, you hit me. It's like I was invisible. Look at all
that traffic. You can't go back in there. You're going to hit somebody. I was like, no way. I don't
think so. He's like, you know what? Call somebody to come get you. Oh, call my son. Well, go ahead
and do it. But you know what? Let me just tell you. Just follow me. He kept trying to get into
the vehicle. I'm like, no, you're not getting into your vehicle. You're not. And I say, you know
what? Forget it. Call your son. I'm like, I don't trust this guy. I had to call the police. And I
knew what was going to happen. I was like, DUI. I feel bad for the guy. But you know what? At the
end of the day, it's like this guy, I don't know. He obviously needs to learn. I didn't want to
teach him that lesson. So I'm like, you know what? I call the PD, and I'm like, look, I don't
normally call. I got hit by some guy. I'm fine. Nobody's hurt. But this guy is drunk, and he wants
to drive off. He keeps trying to drive off. I think he's going to try it, and I'm not going
to fight him either. So I don't know if you guys care about this, but I think you guys need to get
a police officer over here and check this guy out because he's trying to leave the scene, and he's
going to hurt somebody. Like, he hit me like I wasn't even there. So it's up to you what you guys
want to do. Here's where I'm at. Here's the address. Hey, please send somebody because I don't
want to get into a fight with this guy. I'm not going to fight him, but he keeps trying to leave
because he knows he's drunk. All right, no problem. Sure enough, right before he takes off,
police officer shows up. I'm like, he's over there. Police officer goes and talks to him,
comes back to me, and he's like, you know what, let me get your information. Bottom line,
this guy is drunk. He said, we still got to give him the sobriety to prove it, but he's drunk. He's
done. You know what, you don't need to stick around, anything like that. So I end up just
getting the paper with this information from my insurance. Cost me 500 bucks. Lucky enough,
he didn't cost me my leg. Five miles faster, he probably would have hurt my leg, would have gone
right through my door, who knows what. If it would have got to the speed that he was coming at me,
you better believe he would have messed up my leg. All because he just doesn't want to listen
to anyone, doesn't want to quit drinking, because he knows best, he knows better. He's
rebelling against what's common sense telling you that drinking is not a good thing for you,
and he got into his vehicle and almost killed somebody. Now you can see why deuteronomy is
there. Now you can kind of start figuring things out, because it simply says right here
that alcohol-related crashes are leading the cause of death for young Americans between the
ages of 16 and 24. Who's between the ages of 16 and 24? We got one guy. You know who's going to
be your number one chance of killing you? It's not going to be a gang banger, it's going to be
a drunkard. It's not going to be some thief trying to steal your car, it's going to be a drunkard.
That's the individual that's probably going to kill you if you get killed between this age group.
But let's continue. 65% of fatal single car crashes are alcohol-related. Every year,
708,000 persons are injured in alcohol-related crashes. 74,000 of those people
suffer serious injuries. Two million alcohol-impaired driving collisions occur
every year. Between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. on the weekends, 10% of all drivers are legally impaired,
legally impaired or illegally impaired. So that means that after seven o'clock on a Saturday or
a Sunday, as you see these cars coming by you, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten vehicles, one out of those ten is a drunkard. One out of those ten. You guys should
be grateful that you haven't gotten into more accidents with so many people on the road that
are drunkards. Economically, these individuals, it says right here, alcohol-related incidents
cost American taxpayers between 21 to 24 billion dollars per year. According to the National
Geographic, they recently stated that alcohol abuse costs American society 136 billion dollars
a year. Now, Deuteronomy is starting to make sense. Now, it's starting to say, you know what,
I kind of see where they're coming from now. Now, I kind of see the Lord is right again.
Because these are people that are willing to change. We're not talking about those individuals.
These are people that said, I'm good, I don't need help, you know what, I don't care what you
tell me, hey, I'm going to drink, that's what I like to do, nothing's going to change me,
I love it, I enjoy it, that's the life I chose. Well, in those days, guess what they said,
if that's what you've chose, then you know what, out of here. We need to put you away,
we need to put evil away from us. And it says in Proverbs 23, 21, for the drunkard and the glutton
shall come to poverty. Poverty, you wonder why these people in this situation, just bad luck?
Nope, they're stubborn, they're rebellious, and they love to drink. And because of course,
all they do is eat enough to survive. They're just known for eating and drinking. And that's
about it. There's the glutton and the drunkard. And if you want to have poverty, hey, go ahead
and be a drunkard and a glutton. It says your drowsiness shall clothe the man or their drowsiness
shall clothe the man with rags. So it says that these people that are costing 20 to 24 billion
a year, these are individuals that are impaired. They're drivers that are impaired. Their drowsiness
is costing a society billions and billions of dollars every single year. Well, that was one
definition, just a lazy, worthless person. So drunkards are worthless person. They really have
no value, which is why God said, you know what, get rid of them. Same thing with the sodomites.
You know what? If a man lied with a man like he does with a woman, guess what? Their pleasure
be upon them, they shall surely be put to death. Why? Because they don't help society. They destroy
society. And witches, they don't help society. They destroy society. They send people to hell,
the Harry Potters, the whatever dragon movie that's out there, the Lord of the Rings, you name
it. Hey, that stuff is an abomination and needs to go. Why? Because it's going to hinder people
from being saved because you can confuse them. They may think, well, you know what,
it's a fairy tale, but maybe the Bible is too. Maybe, you know, to them it's more cooler to
watch the Harry Potter, the whatever movie, et cetera, et cetera. That was God says, you know
what? A witch shall surely be put to death. It says rebellion. Rebellion people tend to destroy
communities, tend to destroy societies. And it says, you know what? These witches that destroy
individuals are kind of like the rebellious people that end up being drunkards and end up destroying
individual lives. And as you see right now, every 20 minutes, these drunkards are killing people.
Well, it says in dictionary.com that a bomb is a person who avoids work and sponges of others.
Does that sound familiar? Sounds like these street people that are out there. They're a derelict,
according to dictionary.com, and it says that that person, a bomb, is abandoned by society.
You better believe it when it says that, hey, put them to death. Yeah, society has basically
abandoned them in Theuteronomy 21. You better believe they've been abandoned by society
permanently though, not just like, oh, well, you know what, their parents don't want anything to
do with them. I'm pretty sure I know why they don't want nothing to do with them.
And this is interesting. Another definition for bomb is this. One such as a prostitute or
drunkard. Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? This is just another one.
Who conducts whatever, vagrancy, a rover, et cetera, et cetera. A bomb. This is from the
Merriam Webster's dictionary. One who sponges. That just means to live off, you know, one who
sponges off others and avoids work. Well, I think that's the individual from Theuteronomy. Why?
Think about it. Maybe the guy drinks, but if he's a hard worker, you think the parents are going to
have an issue with him? Probably not. They're probably going to let it go. Well, you know what,
you work hard, understand you want to play hard or whatever. I'm not saying it's right,
but I highly doubt that if somebody's son is a hard worker, but he drinks or maybe gets drunk
every so often, I highly doubt they're going to take him to the elders. I highly doubt that.
Once they get to the point where he's doing nothing, he's just lazy, he's just sponging,
maybe that's the point where they say, you know what, we're getting sick of you, it's time to
take you to the elders. We're giving you a chance to change, it's clear that you're stubborn,
and you know what, now that you're rebellious, because okay, you're stubborn, but once you get
to be rebellious, now you're adding to your sin. See, if I tell my son, hey, go make your bed,
I don't care if he's stubborn, I don't care if he thinks that it's stupid to make your bed,
you know, it's like, I don't make my bed, why? You know, stupid, you know, can't I just start
my homework, start reading my Bible? No, make your bed. That's just dumb, but he does it anyways,
I'm kind of okay with that, you know, and I'm like, yeah, you know what, you may not understand
what I'm trying to teach you, but you know what, watch your attitude, as long as you're doing it,
we won't have any problems, you won't get a spanking, but if you're doing it with a bad
attitude, here comes the spanking, you know, if you disobey me, here comes the spanking,
but they may not get it, because who knows, maybe they just don't understand, maybe haven't explained
it well, maybe they're just stubborn, they don't want to change, they think that making your bed
is dumb, but if they're doing it, it's like, okay, you know, but once you get to the point where it's
like, no, I'm not going to do it, now we're going to have some major problems, now the spanking is
going to come, bottom line, but this person, even though he gets chastised, he still doesn't change,
he's like, punish me all day long, spank me all day long, I'm not going to change, I'm going to
stick to what I'm doing, that person has now added to his degree of wickedness, then he starts to just
eat, eat all day without working, now I can kind of see where this definition makes sense, one such
as a prostitute, a drunkard, hey, he refuses to work, he sponges off others, and what does that
sound like, sounds like these individuals on the streets in San Francisco and LA and Oregon, what
should we do with these people, we need to help them, well, Deuteronomy 21 says this, hey, this is
our son, stubborn, rebellious, will not obey our voice, he's a glunted and a drunkard, and here just
happens to be another definition for bum, I never even heard this one before, but another definition
for bum, as I was checking definitions, is this, a drinking spree, a drinking spree, such as a two-day
bum, well, that couldn't be, I don't know, as accurate as I can think of, that's what these
individuals pretty much do with their lives, they're just living a long drinking spree of a life,
and they need to just, I don't know, they need to be either, you know, woken up, they need to be
corrected, whatever the case may be, but bottom line in Deuteronomy, if somebody was rebellious,
somebody was stubborn, somebody was just a drunkard, a wicked individual, hey, they said put this
individual to death, stone them, and put them to death, but you know what, if that law existed here
in America, you know that we wouldn't have problems like we have, we wouldn't be spending
600 million dollars a year in LA trying to fix this situation, you know, but when I say bum,
this is what I'm referring to, not a homeless individual, when I say bum, I'm talking about
people that are stubborn, rebellious, they refuse to work, and they spend their time just eating
and drinking, also can be doing drugs all day long, that's what I'm talking about, because I
can't necessarily knock somebody for being homeless per se, the reason why is because
sometimes things do happen, they do happen, you guys know me as Pastor Anderson's assistant,
but I'm gonna tell you right now, at some point I ended up homeless, I ended up homeless with my
wife and my kids, here's how, well I wanted to move to faithful work, I decided I'm gonna move
to faithful work, I did my best to figure out the best game plan, sure enough me and my wife
found this lady that was renting out her house, we got a hold of the lady, say look, here's our
situation, I don't have a job, but I do have some money, I want to move down to Arizona, I want to
start working down there, can we rent your place for 30 days, she says sure, no problem, sounds
great, okay no problem, how do we pay you, well you know what, I'll meet you at the house, give me
the money there, I'll make sure you guys are legit, I don't want to show up, and there's a ton of you
there, I just want to make sure that it's legit, that it's you, your wife, and your three kids,
no problem, I'll rent to you for 30 days, I'm like you know what, all I need is 30 days, I think I
get a job within a week, start getting paid within that time, and then I'm moving to an apartment,
that's our game plan, what do you think, she like sounds good, sure enough, drove the 12 hours, get
to the house, I'm tired, my wife is tired, my kids are tired, we drove a long ways, sure enough, we
call the lady, she's not picking up, 20 minutes later we call her, she's not picking up, an hour
later we're calling her, she's not picking up, let me just tell you this, she never picked up,
now I'm in Arizona, a homeless bum, no I'm just kidding, I wasn't a bum, but I guess you can say
I'm homeless, I had nowhere to go, so I'm like well what do we do, so lucky enough we just went
to the hotel, my wife started checking out hotels, we found out what they call an extended stay,
went up to the extended stay, the lady basically liked us, whatever the case, they usually charge
about 60, 70 dollars a night, we told our situation, I guess she felt bad for us, I said you know what,
I'll give you the extended stay for 24 bucks a night, how about that, we're like hey that works
perfect, you know, it's like we're going to start getting our feedback, you know, we're starting to
get our lives back in check, and that's pretty much what ended up happening, so yeah technically I
ended up homeless, I had nowhere to go, I was in a hotel for a couple months, but I ended up getting
an apartment, then from the apartment I got a house, and from there the rest is history,
but you know what, we also have individuals in our church that just chose, hey I'm just going to live
in my car, some single guy is going to live in their car, working 40 hours a week, saving money,
it is what it is, you know, save enough money to get enough faith to get married, now they're
getting married and they're getting an apartment, then it is what it is, we've had people who moved
down here, sure enough they didn't have enough money to move down here, they didn't calculate it,
they didn't count the cost, they realized that they didn't have enough money to really get a place to
stay, so they ended up living in their vehicle for a couple weeks, you know, save some cash,
got a job, later on get an apartment, all right whatever, you know, it's like you're homeless,
so when I say bum, I'm not necessarily talking about homeless people, I'm talking about people
that are rebellious, stubborn, they refuse to work, they don't want to work, they've chosen
to live a life where they just want to drink and do drugs all day, and they just want to live off
of people, they just want to sponge off of people, instead of getting their act straight and going
out there and doing what's right, and getting a job and doing what the bible says to work six days
a week, that's what the bible commands us to do, so if you have your bible go to Proverbs 22 13,
because I know things can happen, I've seen bad things happen, you know, if I go to Proverbs 22 13
and look, let me just tell you this, the majority of these people, you know, are choosing this
lifestyle, they are choosing to be on the streets, they are choosing to target you and take money
from you and sucker you and make you feel bad for them, so that way they don't have to work or get a
job and they continue living the life that they're doing, I saw a few videos on the internet, one was
a guy that were interviewing in San Francisco and they asked him, do you love this lifestyle, and he
didn't say, yeah I do, kind of, sort of, no, without hesitating, they asked this guy on camera, do you
love this lifestyle, without hesitating, this is what he said, of course I do, that's what the guy
says, he looks like he's in his mid-20s, they're like, oh you're homeless, why are you in San
Francisco, oh San Francisco's a pretty cute place to hang out, do you love this lifestyle, of course
I do, so he's chosen to do that, so he loves, hey sir, can I get a dollar, hey sir, do you got a buck,
hey mister, hey mrs, whatever, whatever, that's what they chose, they don't want to work, period, then I
saw another video, different location, this is now Los Angeles, they asked this guy, this camera news
crew found this guy living under a bridge, you know, eating food out of a dumpster, they asked him, hey
have you chosen this lifestyle, this is what he said, he said, of course I do, or no, hold on, what did
he say, most definitely, that's what the guy says, most definitely, he said, you chose this lifestyle,
most definitely, that's what he wants to do, and then the same guy picks up a dirty needle off the
ground, sticks it in his pocket, they're like, are you going to use that, yep, yep, stubborn, rebellious
individual, this guy looks like he's no more than 25, 26 years old, why is he in the streets, doesn't
he have a mom, doesn't he have a dad, doesn't he have a brother or a sister, or at least some friends,
or how about a church, doesn't he have anything, I highly doubt this individual has no one, but you
know what his problem is, he's stubborn, he's rebellious, he doesn't want to listen to anyone
whatsoever, and he likes drugs so much that he doesn't mind living in the streets in order to get
free drugs, and who's giving him free drugs, the government, with their two free, two or three million
needles, their drug change program, that's what these individuals are doing, but then they target
people like you and me, they have a heart, and they try to make you think that they're trying everything
they can to get out of that lifestyle, but in reality, they're not, they're not at all, now if
they had the Deuteronomy law, they probably would be trying a little harder to avoid death, but we
don't have that in America, so guess what, they're taking advantage of the system, and people that
don't know the Bible, that don't know the law, they have no clue what to do with these individuals,
they just, they just give them free stuff, and there was another video, at least this lady was
honest, they were interviewing this lady, I think it was in Oregon, or some, some other state,
and they asked her, what's the deal, what do you think's going on, and she said, you know what,
on camera, this is what she says, after living this lifestyle for a while, I've realized, and I think
she's being, you know, a little deceitful, she says, I realize that about 80% of these people want to
live this way, and the reporters are like, want to live this way, yeah, because you know, they get to
do drugs, and they get the drink, and they, they choose to be like this, and the people around her
are all in their 30s, early, mid-20s, you know, some of their early 40s, and at least she admitted,
hey, about 80% of us, we don't want to change, this is what we want to do, it's like, don't you,
don't you realize this is bad for you, but they're stubborn, they're rebellious, they don't want to
hear it, they don't want to change, they just want to do drugs, which are said, hey, they want to do
the drugs, and that's why we're living in the streets, because we get to do drugs, nobody bugs
us, we get to wake up late, no big deal, well, the Bible says in Proverbs 22 13, the slothful
men say, if there's a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets, and this is where they're
at, they're making up stuff to get you to help them out, to get you to feel sorry for them,
because notice, the slothful men, this is their issue as well, is that they're slothful, the
slothful man says, there's a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets, they'll make us stuff to
get you to think that they're actually trying, I would be working, but, I would be doing this, but,
and they're very deceitful, why, because on the inside, they just deal with iniquity,
and it will happen at this church, people will walk in here trying to give you this crazy story,
I'll give you an example, this is an email that our church got, and it changed the names of the
individuals in case they get right with God, because they kind of chew them out, and who
knows if they'll come back to church and try to make things right, but this is what they ended up
emailing, they said, hi, Steve, and that's already a red flag, it should be Pastor Anderson, you know,
a little bit more respect, but this is an email that somebody sent to our church, hi, Steve,
and I changed the names, okay, my name is Oprah Winfrey, I'll put her name because she's full of
baloney, all right, my fiance is Donald Trump, I'll put his name because he's full of baloney,
so this letter, let's just say it's from Oprah and Donald, okay, my name is Oprah Winfrey,
my fiance is Donald Trump, and you know, they're talking about how they met a couple of our church
members in Mexico and Belize, you know, or a country called Belize near Mexico, that's where
they met these people, he says, you know, we saw them in May or June, you know, this is a group,
you were all out there, and they met us, and they pretty much gave us a gospel, and he told us to
stop by if we're ever near Phoenix, he says, we told them we were targeted individuals,
that's what this email says, we told them we were targeted individuals, and that demons in the flesh
were following us, what does that sound like, the sloth of man say there's a lion without,
I will be slain in the streets, so this is what they're saying, and when I read, when I used to
read that verse, I'm thinking, is there really people that are saying these things, you know,
crazy people that make up stuff like this, oh yeah, you guys will run into them, it says this,
you know, we're targeted individuals, demons in the flesh were following us, and your pastor,
he thought he was a pastor, said that yeah, they do exist, because of course they do exist,
they have been targeting us since 2010, and they're trying to kill us,
so there's these people that email the church, demons are following us since 2010,
and they're trying to kill us, they've been kicking us around the world, taking everything
from us, and they finally took Donald's income, and left us with less than 200 dollars, that's
what they're emailing us, what's wondering, you know, if you can read this letter, you know,
to your church, so they can be warned, etc, etc, you know, these are demons, you know,
we also want your church to help us to stop them, you know, if you can read this, etc, etc,
you know, we would really appreciate it, yada, yada, yada, but here it comes, and we're also
wondering if you can find us a safe place to go while we come back and make money, it's like,
do they think we're that stupid, but these people are stubborn, they don't want to change,
I'm sure they've been chewed out, you guys need to go work, you guys need to do something,
you guys just can't roam around all day long doing nothing, you guys just can't go up and down
like you want, you have to live a life, you have to be normal, go work, make some money,
don't just live in your vehicle or whatever, and you know they're being rebellious because
they want nothing to do with the Lord, and I'll get that in a second, but of course,
turns out they also have a drinking problem, big shocker, but they met our people in Mexico,
and so sure enough, they're emailing us, we're targeted individuals, they're out to kill us,
these are demons in the flesh, and then they put down, here's our website to come check out,
we also started a GoFundMe, so they started a GoFundMe, so they're going the extra mile,
if you want to help us out, here's our GoFundMe, blah blah blah blah blah,
and they're trying to raise two hundred thousand dollars, you know,
because they're targeted individuals for us, and we'll have other target individuals as well,
and so this is what they wrote down in their little GoFundMe, it says, what is a target
individual, you ask, a target individual is someone that is put on a list in order to torture,
abuse, destroy, and sometimes eventually kill, it's like, do you really think I'm going to buy
into this, but all right, whatever, so I just let the email there, and sure enough, they showed up
this past Wednesday, so they showed up this past Wednesday, but Proverbs 26 13, once again,
the slothful man said, if there's a line in the way, there's a line in the streets,
they came up with every excuse under the sun not to go work, I told them, well, what's going on,
they show up, hey, what's going on, well, I don't know, we want to talk to the pastor,
I'm like, well, he's not here, but I'm in charge, we're going to help you with,
well, we emailed the church, he said, you did, yeah, you know, we're targeting individuals,
then I knew what email they were talking about, and so, well, what's going on, guys, what's up,
you know, they're like, we're targeting individuals, you understand, they're demons,
they're after us, they're trying to kill us, they chase us all over the place, etc, etc,
you know, I'm like, okay, and what do you want from us, you know, well, we don't want much,
what, do you want money, do you want a place to stay, because I'm gonna tell you right now,
we don't give money to people we don't know, let's just get that out of the way, well,
we're not asking for monetary help, but we're just asking for advice, like, what advice,
like, what to do, I'll tell you what to do, you need to obey God and he'll protect you,
the Bible says that you need to fear the Lord, it says the angel of the Lord and capital rather
them that fear him and deliver with them, guess what, he can protect you, but you have to start
fearing him, and how do you fear God, like, guess what, hating evil, and not just that,
realizing that God can crush you if he wants to, and if you disobey him, hey, he's gonna hurt you,
and you need to realize that that will happen if you don't repent, he's gonna come down on you
really hard, so if I were you, I would stick around for church, which is in about three hours,
and to see what God wants you to do, because God will speak to you through his word, through his
men, and you know what, through circumstances, how does that sound, well, we don't believe in
religion, big shocker, we don't believe in religion, you know, God never said believe in
religion, he said believe on me, and I've turned off, I checked the salvation, it wasn't there,
you know, Jesus is a created being, God created Jesus, you know, salvation is through God,
God is the only one to get saved, Jesus was just a son, blah, blah, blah, just blaspheming the
gospel, and next thing you know, I'm like, well, you know what, I'd like to show you what the
Bible says, well, what kind of Bible is it, King James, well, King James was a Freemason,
did you know that, now he's attacking the word of God, any excuse whatsoever, and I'm thinking,
well, if you're really being targeted, the only person that can help you is God, so you're telling
me if I sit down in church, these problems are going to go away, I was like, let's face it,
you haven't worked in a while, have you, when was the last time you even worked, well, I just
applied yesterday, all day you applied to how many jobs, well, just one, and bottom line, he didn't
want to work, he didn't want to work, he was starting rebellious, and sure enough, they have
a drug and drinking problem, big shocker, what should I do with these individuals, I'll get into
that in a second, you know, but if you have your Bibles, go ahead and go, you know, to Proverbs
21, 25, because these individuals do obviously exist, let's just call them what they are,
they're bums, they're rebellious, stubborn individuals, they're glutton, and they're drunkards,
and if they're not drinking alcohol, that's not their main thing, guess what is, drugs,
and they're living, these two individuals were living in their vehicle with their dogs,
big surprise, big shocker that that was going on, and they went to Mexico because it was cheaper,
started running the money, and instead of saying, hey, you know what, hey, this church,
they witnessed to us, they cared about us, they showed us the gospel, hey, at least now I'm saved,
hey, you know what, at least they went the extra mile, they didn't just care about our bodies,
they cared about our souls, hey, let's go give them a visit, I think we can trust them,
let's start seeking the Lord, let's start getting right with him, that wasn't the case at all,
they just want to take money and give nothing back at all, and they're doing it through deception,
the law is in the street, can't you understand my situation, this is why it can't work,
because I'm being targeted by demons in the flesh, well, you know what, the Bible does talk about
devils, but it tells us that if we resist the devil, he's going to do what? Flee, if you've
been targeted by these devils for the last nine years, guess what, you're not doing anything,
you're not resisting Satan, you're probably joining him in sin, but these people didn't
want to hear it whatsoever, you know, but here's the thing, the reason they're in this situation,
I'm just going to go over that, why they're in this situation, you guys already know why,
I'm just going to show you from scripture why they're there, then I'm going to show you how
to handle these individuals, what's the best thing to do for them, obviously, according to
Deuteronomy, it tells you what they did in those days, but now those days are gone, what can we do
today that will really help these individuals, because this is what San Francisco is doing,
spending 250 million dollars to try to figure out how to deal with these bombs, when the answer is
simple, you know, it's just two things you really need to do, and they'll get right, they will,
I guarantee you, but the main reason that they're in this condition is because they're slothful,
they're lazy, they refuse to labor, you're right there in Proverbs 21 25,
this is what the Bible says, it says the desire of the slothful killeth him, hey, they want things,
the slothful individuals, the bombs, they want things, but here's the problem, for their hands
refuse to labor, we have people coming to church a lot, hey, you know what, do you guys help people
out financially, none of them ever come in saying, hey, you know what, I'm in a financial hurt,
can I clean your building or something, you know, can I wash the church car, they never come in
saying, hey, you know what, I ran into some money problems, can you guys help me out, you know,
can I do some work around the building, they never do that, because they want freebies, you know,
they come in, they're like, hey, can you help a brother out or whatever, they don't come in saying,
you know what, I don't have any money, I messed up, you know, I made bad decisions, I want to get
back, hey, I want to come to your church, is there any work I can do for some money, no, I understand,
you know what, you know anybody that, you know, I can go do some work for really quickly,
I'll make some money, yup, across the street, there's a day labor place, as long as you have
your ID, go sign up with them, four in the morning, be there, they have a job for you by 8 a.m.,
and it's usually construction, but the people that we send down there, they come back, oh,
it's construction, I can't do that, I got this issue or that issue, all they want you to do is
hold a sign that says stop and go, you know, that's all they want you to do, just stand there
for eight hours, stop, go, stop, go, while they do construction, they put a vest on you and a
little hard hat, how hard is that to do, but they don't even want to do that, they're not serious,
why, because like it says right here in Proverbs 21, 25, hey, they refuse to labor, and I feel
sorry for them, but I know the reality of things, you know, and they need a little bit of tough love,
now if you got your Bibles, go to Proverbs 20, 40, but I'll read Proverbs 21, 26, it says he,
talking about the slothful man, it says he coveted greedily all the day long, but the righteous
give it and spare it not, well, the difference between he that covet it and the righteous is
that one is working, the other one is not, based off of Proverbs 21, 25, but it says that he
coveted greedily, and it's funny because I looked up the word greedily just to see what it says,
and this is what came up in dictionary.com, greedily, having a strong desire for food or
drink, what does that sound like, Deuteronomy, right, they're coveting greedily all day long,
you look at the word greedily, strong desire for food or drink, and it's not talking about,
you know, apple juice here, the drink is referring to some alcoholic beverages, that's what they
desire, but Proverbs 24 says this, the slugger will not plow for reason of the cold, they just
refuse to plow, they refuse to work, therefore he shall beg, so why are these people begging,
and look at the other end of that verse, Proverbs 24 says this, they will beg and have nothing,
so why do they have nothing, because they're sluggers, that's why they don't have anything,
Proverbs 13 4 says this, the soul of the slugger desireth and has nothing, go to Chronicles,
1 Chronicles 28 9, 1 Chronicles 28 9, Exodus 29 says this, six days shall thou labor and do all
thy work, do you know what, I helped out financially people in our church for the last nine years,
and I helped this individual with this amount, this individual with that amount, but when I
stop and think about it, the common denominator is simply this, they don't work more than 40 hours,
some of them that are low money to do work, but they don't work over 40 hours, I'm not saying you
need to, I mean if you're able to make 20, 30, 40 bucks an hour and you're fine, but these
individuals, they don't do that, and only that, a lot of them didn't even tithe, so now I'm thinking
you know what, I can give them all day long money, but if they don't change, if they don't start
doing what the Bible says, six days shall thou labor, because think about it, 40 hours a week,
that's almost part time, if a day in the Bible is 12 hours, 40 hours, that's almost part time
right there, but people in the Bible put in six days, and I'm thinking maybe 10 hour days, but
everybody that works 50 hours, they never ask for money, you know what I'm saying, there are
people that work 60 hours, whether it's a part time job and a full time job, I guarantee you,
they'll probably never come up to you, they probably never will, and if they ever do,
it's like here man, take all the money I got, you tithe, oh okay, here, let me help you out some
more, because you know it's just a matter of time before their situation is reversed by the Lord,
but the other people that are working just four tens or five eights or whatever the case may be,
that's great for now, but when your family gets to be six, seven, eight, you might have to step
it up a little bit more, and that's okay, because Exodus 29 wouldn't tell you to do it if it wasn't
possible, oh but it's going to ruin my marriage if I work six days a week, if it would, it wouldn't
be in there to do it, you know, God's not going to tell you to do something that's going to ruin
your marriage or your family life, the fact of the matter is, we got plenty of time for family,
even if we have a job that requires to work six days a week, 10 hour days, we still got time for
the family, time for the Lord, etc, etc, or that will not be in there, it will not be in there,
so if you're having financial problems, hey you might need to step it up, and you'll still be okay,
I don't know if I can do 40 hours, I got family and this and that, my wife and everything else,
hey you know what, you'll be okay, you'll be okay, if you need to work more, God will still
bless you, but if you're right there in 1 Chronicles 28, 9, here's the root of the matter,
hey they're all messed up, they have nothing, why? Because these individuals forsake the Lord,
and if you forsake the Lord, it's not going to go well with you, it says simply this, I'll go down
to the very last part of verse number nine, it says, if thou seek him, he will be found of thee,
but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off, go to Luke 15, 11, I'll read from 2 Chronicles
15, 12, that says this towards the end, and if you seek him, he will be found of you, but if you
forsake him, referring to the Lord, he will forsake you, big shock to none of these people,
none of these bums, want anything to do with church, want nothing to do with the Lord, hey
it's not a coincidence they're in a situation that they're at, they're already stubborn, rebellious,
but now they want to add more sin to the situation by refusing to step into a church for the right
reasons, when they do step into our churches, it's not because they want to come to church,
it's not because they want to go sowing it, it's because they want to know if your church helps
out people financially, and none of them come in with the attitude, you know what, can I help you
guys out, is there anything I can do, you know, I need a little bit of money to pay for a gas,
or you know what, I'm a little bit behind on food, I got a couple kids in my apartment,
is there anything I can do, is there some work I can do around here where I can make a little
bit of money, they never do that, they just come in, hey can you help people out financially,
because they just want to take, take, take, and they don't want to give at all, why, because they
chosen that route to forsake the Lord, and now the Lord has forsaken them, you know, but you're right
there in Luke 15, it says simply this in verse number 11, and he said a certain man had two sons,
the younger, you know, of them said to his father, father gave me the portion of goods that followed
to me, and he divided unto them his living, and not many days after, you know, the younger son
gathered all together and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with
righteous living, meaning wild, uncontrolled, wicked living, and when he has spent all the
rules of mighty famine in that land, he began to be in want, and whenever we go that route of
the prodigal son, the Lord will make sure there's a famine, and he's going to take everything from
you to where you have nothing, that's just what's going to happen, so why do these people have
nothing, number one, it's because they refuse to labor, they don't want to work, they're okay just
doing drugs, and whatever they can find in the trash can, whatever they can find to eat, that's
all they're going to spend their day is just eating, being a glutton, and drinking, being a
drunk, or doing drugs, but the other reason why they're where they're at is because they refuse
to seek the Lord, and when you forsake the Lord, he's going to forsake you, that's the bottom line,
if he promises you, like in Matthew 6 33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you, there's no reason for them to be begging,
there's no reason for them to be on the streets with nothing, with nothing, this is the reason
why they're in that situation, and by you helping them out, they're never going to seek the Lord,
by you giving them money, they're never going to turn to him, and say hey Lord help me out here,
like the prodigal son, once they lose everything, now they're starting to get their head straight,
so really quickly, why are they in this situation that they're at, because they refuse to labor,
what else are they doing wrong, they're disobedient, they're forsaking the Lord,
they want nothing to do with him, so God's going to make your life hard, real hard,
says the way of transgressors is hard, according to the Bible, you know, but what can we do for
these individuals, if you got your Bible go to first Timothy 5 9, first Timothy 5 9,
you know these people are cursed, they don't want God in their lives, and that's a big mistake,
because in Psalms 127 1 it says this, except the Lord built the house, they labor in vain
and built it, except the Lord keep the city, the washmen wakened but in vain, whatever they're
trying to accomplish in life is not going to happen if they don't have the Lord on their side,
so these bombs, these people that are just stubborn, rebellious, they're gluttonous,
they're drugs, they refuse to work, here's how we handle them, if you go to first Timothy 5 9,
this is talking about widows, but we can apply this to bombs, when they come in here asking you
for money, or they see you at the gas station, hey sir, you're such a wonderful looking guy,
you have some money I can borrow from you, I can have from you, you know, they're very deceitful,
they start telling you how wonderful you are, excuse me sir, have anybody ever told you have
such a wonderful face, you know, by the way, I need some money to help a brother out, I had
some guy do that to me one day, excuse me sir, I just want to let you know you have a wonderful,
kind, amazing looking face, and I know I don't, so he's already starting off on the wrong foot,
you know, just want to let you know sir, is there any way that you can spare a dollar,
I'm like no, I don't spare any money, you know, but if you want to know how to go to heaven,
I can help you out with that, oh, they walk away all upset, but let's take a look at first
Timothy 5 9, let's talk about widows, but let's figure out how we can apply this to the bombs,
letting out a widow be taken into the number under three score years old, a widow somebody
who obviously has no husband, either they died, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't think it has
to do with divorce, it's just somebody who, a woman that has a husband who has died, it says
letting out a widow be taken into the number under three score years old, having been the wife of one
man, well reported for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lost strangers,
if she has washed the saint's feet, if she has relit, relived the afflicted, or relieved the
afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work, then yes, the church should take this
individual in, so here's a woman who's over 60, this is a rare situation, just letting you know,
where she has no husband, no children, no grandchildren, nobody to take care of her,
but she's a very good Christian, she's been faithful to church, she's only been married once,
she just doesn't have a husband, has no one, and say look, if this is her, take her in,
but look at verse number 11, but the younger widows, those are, those are the ones that are
under 60, refuse, refuse, now are we talking about a man or a woman here, a woman, God is telling you
if there's a woman, that's a widow, has no husband, she's under 60, and she's in your church, and she
needs some help, she needs some money or whatever, what does it tell you to do? Refuse, tell her sorry,
but I can't, and here's the thing, how much more should you refuse, amen, amen, have you gotten
that yet, it says refuse, oh that sounds so mean, well you know what, she needs to go married, so
the bible says, a younger widow, refuse, refuse them, even if she's a good Christian, even if she's
brought up children, lost strangers, watched the saint's feet, and she has relived the afflicted,
you know Dylan, she followed every good work, but she's under 60, refuse her, how much more,
some wicked guy, there's a drunkard that just wants to take your money, collect enough money
to go get some drugs or something to drink or whatever the case, and comes in here with some
crazy story, how there's demons chasing them and all that mess, and you ask them do you go to
church, no, you ask them are you even married, no, and they're living in sin and they know it,
but yet they refuse to do what's right, they refuse to at least confess that what they're
doing is wrong, why should we get married, I love her anyways, because the bible says that you
shouldn't come in for an occasion, well I don't think the bible is God's word, it was written by
man, and you know what, leave, you're wasting my time, because you're not going to like the rest
of the bible, you know, those individuals you refuse, they come at you, refuse them,
you got to refuse them, the bible makes it very clear, we should refuse really good Christian
ladies that are under 60, how much more some bum comes in here asking you for money, try to get
them saved, but if they don't want to hear it, don't waste your time, refuse them, if you get
your bible, go to Luke 15 14, we're almost done, but I'll read from second Thessalonians, it says
now we command you brethren in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which we have received of us,
for yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you,
neither did we eat any man's breath or not, but rot with labor and travail, night and day, that
we might not be chargeable to any of you, not because we have not power to make ourselves,
you know, but to make ourselves an example to you to follow us, this is the verse I want you guys to
listen up, it says for even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work,
neither should he eat, so these people do not work, don't give them anything to eat, you're like
what, what, what, you want them to starve, you know, that's kind of a good thing if they starve,
and not just that, if it gets them to the point where they're starving so bad and they cry unto
the Lord, hey some miracles probably going to happen, let me just put it that way, because
have you heard this verse before, this come, this, this only cometh through prayer and what, fasting,
what is fasting, you're going without food, you're hungry, you're starving, you know, so God says hey
if you're, if you're fasting and you pray to me, you're going to make some miracles happen, so
these people are starving, let them starve, don't give them anything, don't mess up their fast,
don't take away those hunger pains, let them look up to the Lord, because now not only are
they fasting, but they're going to start praying, and that's where something's going to probably
happen, so keep them in that stage, don't let them get out of it, tell them seek the Lord,
oh I'm so starving, can you help me out, well are you a bum, do you have a job, no, no,
you know, going through hard times, I haven't eaten anything today, then you know what,
you need to pray before that hunger goes away, pray, God says hey you're praying your fast,
something big is going to happen, but you guys are right there in verse number,
and you guys are in verse 14, go ahead and Luke 15, 14, we'll wrap it up with this,
see if you give them money, bottom line, these drunkards are going to use it to get drunk,
that's just the bottom line, so don't give these people out there in the streets any money,
any cash, look, they don't deserve your money, sitting around that's not work, that's being
idle, that's against what the Bible says, so don't feel, I mean let me rephrase that, feel bad for
them, but stick with what the Bible says, stick with what the Bible says, I feel bad they're on
drugs, I feel bad they're drunkards, I feel bad they're in the streets, I feel bad they're going
through diseases, but you know what, we can't just feel sorry for them, and and break what the Bible
tells us, you know, not to do, all because we think that we know better, or you know we're nicer
than God in a way, you know, but this is what happens when they don't eat, this is what happens
when no man gives unto them, they'll start seeking the Lord, this is the best way to help them to get
right with God, is to not give them any money, and don't give them anything to eat, especially
as you know they're flat out bums, it's like hey you really don't want food, you know, can you give
you something to eat, did you work today, sorry, you know what, go do some work, and I'm sure
somebody give you something to eat, not only that, it's like you have no one to help you out, not a
single person to help you out, you know what, start digging in the dumpsters and find something
to eat, because hey you need to serve the Lord, bottom line, and they don't want to, they just
want to get something to eat and continue in sin, and when you try to give them the gospel, they
don't want to hear it, don't give them anything to eat, because when they don't have anything to eat,
then they start looking up, and let me show you really quickly where I found that,
prodigal son story, verse number 14, we'll end it with this, and when he has spent all,
now he's blown all his money, there arose a mighty famine in the land, and he began to be in want,
so now here's the guy, the prodigal son, blows all his money, has nothing, he's now in want,
now he needs food, now he needs shelter, and it says that he went and joined himself to a citizen
of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swan, so when they don't have money, they
don't have food, guess what they'll start doing next, looking for work, that's what they'll stop
doing next, so what are we going to do about this homeless crisis in San Francisco, stop giving them
free money, stop giving them food vouchers, definitely stop giving them drug needles,
for crying out loud, and guess what they'll do next, they'll start looking for work,
at least in Mexico, you know what, in Mexico we went to get some tacos, and this guy literally
jumps on our church van, pulls the windshield wipers, and starts cleaning the windshield,
you know what pastor Anderson said, hey make sure you give that guy some money when we're done
eating, all right, because he burned it, at least that guy found himself a spray bottle and a dirty
rag and sprayed our windshield, and did something, and then he did it to the next car, and he did it
to the next car, and he didn't even ask us for money, we just knew what he wanted, he cleaned
it for a reason, he has a little cup, you know, so it's like hey, here you go, and then guess what,
when I tried to give him the gospel, he already told me he's going to heaven, how do you know,
it's by believing, can you lose it, no, I'm like who taught you this, oh your church members did,
I go to tip this guy, and somebody already got to him, you know, I'm thinking great,
I'm gonna go tip him and get him saved, nope, somebody already got him saved, I was just able to
tip the guy, because they deserve a little bit of cash, amen, young kid washing windows, there's no
jobs in Mexico, but here in America, these people have no excuse, but when you give them money, and
you give them food, you know, if they don't want to hear it, they don't want anything to do with God,
let them be, let them continue to starve, because once they're so hungry, to the point where that's
it, they're done, they'll start calling upon God, that's what they'll do, but before they even call
upon God, they'll start looking for work, that's what happened here, he joined himself to a citizen
of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine, so that's what's going to happen,
if you don't give out handouts, these bombs are going to look for work, they'll take anything at
this point, they'll take anything, but they're so prideful and rebellious and stubborn, they're not
at this stage yet, it takes a little bit of hunger, a little bit of pain, to get them to get, you know,
to repent and take whatever job they can find, and it says in verse 16, and he will fain have filled
his belly with the husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave out to him, so nobody's giving
this guy anything, he took whatever job he can find, because now he's humble, and look at this,
verse 17, and when he came to himself, now he's getting the right mindset, it took
humility to get him to that point, where now he has a job, but now he's doing what makes sense,
since this job isn't good enough, he's looking for a better job, big shocker, he's coming to a
sense, now he's going to start looking for a better job, because it said, he said, how many
higher servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, say look, my father is paying enough,
where they have plenty of bread to spare, I'm over here working, and I barely have enough to eat,
I'm thinking of eating the pig's food, but now he went from getting a job to looking for a better
job, and that's what's going to naturally happen with these people, without the handouts, they're
going to take whatever job they can get their hands on, once they have that, they're going to
start looking for a better job, that pays more and can provide more, so they can have extra,
that's what they're going to end up doing, and sure enough, what is the last step,
says I will arise and go to my father with sin to him, father I have sinned, so now they're going
to get right with God, and that's where you want these people, let them be in the pig pen, let them
take whatever job they can get their hands on, they'll start looking for a better job, once they
realize, hey, if this is how I got to live from now on, it's time to get a better job, and once
you get out of working, once you get out of that work mode, it's hard to get back into it,
so that first job, got him back into work mode, and I'm thinking, you know what, I need to work
more, hey, I think I can get a better job than this, I'll go to my father's, but not just that,
it says I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son,
make me as one of thy hired servants, so there's the story, if you keep reading it, there's a happy
ending to it, but the key thing was that no man gave unto him, he was refused, and the Bible says
if you don't work, you don't what? Eat, and people that refuse to work, the Bible says,
get him out of here, the Bible says show up, they don't want to work, get him out of here,
especially when they show up smelling like piss, sorry to use that word, hey, it's time to get out,
you're not here for the right reasons, and when people show up at our church all smelly, they
just want to come in there because they want to get out of the heat or whatever, they say, you
know what, let me talk to you outside, hey, come back when you don't smell like pee, you know,
because you're clearly not here for the right reasons, he's like, by the way, if you die right
now, you're not sure if you're going to heaven, I don't know, you want to know, no, but you know
what, get out of here, you can come back, oh, you got something against poor people, yeah,
they smell like pee, I do, you know, church people don't come to smell you, you're interrupting the
service by coming in and smelling so bad, you know what, go take a shower, come back, and we'll talk
again, we'll let you in if you go change yourself, bottom line, but he went in there because he
wanted to ask for money as soon as the church service was over, you know, he didn't stuck
around, he said, I'm sorry, I'll go clean myself up, I'll be back later on, he didn't do that,
but it's how you deal with these bums, obviously, how did they deal with them back in the day,
it was severe, they got put to death, but nowadays, they want to give them everything,
they want to give them free housing, they want to give them free food, clothing, whatever,
and churches are like, oh, yeah, you're down on your luck, drug problem, we'll understand,
but still, let us help you, it's like, no, let him hit super rock bottom, and then they fix themselves,
so don't feel too sorry for these individuals, because at the end of the day, they are wicked,
now, if they're stubborn, rebellious, and they have drinking and drug problems,
you know what they do, refuse them, yeah, silver and gold have I none, but try to give them the
gospel, but a lot of them are not going to want to hear it, they just want your cash, bottom line,
but that's why I think it's a sin to serve bums, what I mean by serve, I mean this, tending or
serving to save, rescuing these people, they don't need to be rescued, they need to be allowed to hit
rock bottom, and then they'll start seeking the Lord if there's any hope for them, and by the way,
just so you know, a lot of them have criminal records, and a lot of them have molested children,
a lot of them have, so that's why in our church, we don't allow these individuals there,
we tell them, hey, you're not allowed here, and we've been able to catch one guy,
found out that he was one, but he left, didn't come back, but about 25 percent of them have
committed that crime, they have committed that crime, and it wasn't something minor,
something severe, and they're very, very wicked individuals, and this is probably why the Bible
says, hey, these people need to be put to death, because they probably crossed that line with God,
and they're reprobated at that point, you know, so let's just keep that in mind,
but at the end of the day, don't feel like you have to help these people out, because they don't
deserve your help, it's sad, I hate to see them suffer like that, I mean, I don't think anybody
does, but at the end of the day, you must refuse them, and if they don't want to work, hey, let them
starve, a little bit of starving and prayer will come a long way with God, let me just tell you
that, let's pray, dear Father, we thank you for all that you've done, we ask you to please help us,
Lord, to live a righteous life, we ask you to guide us, dear Lord, help us to know the truth,
the truth will make us free, Lord, and help us to stay free, and continue in your word,
that we may serve you until the end of this world, in Jesus' precious name, amen.