All right, we're here in Esther chapter 3 and I want you to keep your place in Esther 3
But turn to Jeremiah 6 real quickly Jeremiah 6
And the name of the sermon is Haman the psychopath reprobate Haman the psychopath reprobate and
You might not be familiar with the word reprobate
So I just want to quickly explain what that is and notice what it says in Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 30 where the Bible reads
Reprobate reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them and so reprobate means though
Basically, you're rejected and the Bible speaks about people that have been rejected by God you say what exactly does that mean?
Well, basically what it means is this even though we know that Jesus Christ died for all people and the Bible says whosoever
Believeth in him there are people that basically turn their back on God so much so many times that in this life
They basically are rejected by God and they have no hope of salvation
And so yes, Jesus died for them and died for all of their sins
But they reach a point where they basically make God so angry and reject him for so long that they become a reprobate now turn
to Titus 1 Titus 1
Now I'm just kind of briefly covering this an introduction before we get into it
I think we're gonna be starting a series maybe on our anniversary maybe in December on on
Psychopath reprobates and we'll see what the Bible says about that because the Bible talks about them quite a bit
But I want you to notice one other verse here real quickly
Where the Bible reads in Titus 1 verse 15 Titus 1 verse 15
It says unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
But even their mind and conscience is defiled
They profess that they know God but in works
They deny him being abominable and disobedient and onto every good work reprobate
So the Bible speaks about people who basically are reprobate. They're rejected by God
They have no hope of salvation and what it says in verse 15 is their mind and conscience is defiled in verse 15
It says unto the pure all things are pure. See the natural man just has pure normal thoughts going through his mind
Let me give you an example of this
Let's say for example
My son after the service just ran out in the middle of the road there in front of traffic with cars going by
All of us would be horrified and scared that he'd get hit wouldn't we but that's not what goes through the mind of
Reprobate because their mind and conscience is defiled. They don't have a conscience. It's not gonna make them feel bad
now what happens though is they'll go through the motions of acting sad and they've learned because they're very good actors to basically act a
Certain way act like society wants them to act but in reality they don't feel that way
They don't have the same sorts of emotions. We do they'll pretend to have it
And if they're very good at what they do, they'll be good at it
You look at famous serial killers like Ted Bundy and you can see him in court putting on a smile on his face and talking
He's very convincing
He seems like a normal guy and yet it's the same guy who murdered like I don't know 30 different people in brutal ways
And it's like how could you do something like that?
He doesn't have a conscience but they can do a good job of acting like they have the same sorts of emotions as us
They they do a good job of pretending like they actually care. We're horrified by priests defiling little boys
But that's not what goes through the mind of reprobate
They don't care and all those priests they are reprobates because no normal person would think that way under the pure
All things are pure you have normal thoughts and it's hard to think like these people
And so what we really need to do is just go to what the Bible says to try to get some insight on these people
Now turn back to Esther 3, Esther 3
Haman is
What the world would call a psychopath and the Bible defines it as a reprobate
And so basically what the world calls the psychopath the Bible defines as a reprobate. We actually have a documentary
I'd encourage everyone to watch it who hasn't watched it
We do have copies of it called psychopath reprobates that our church participated in back in Sacramento, California
on this very topic and what you see here in Esther chapter 3 is you have a great example of someone who is a
Psychopath someone who is a reprobate. He is a great representation of the devil Haman
now notice what it says here in Esther chapter 3 verse 1 and the first point we have here today is this that
psychopaths or reprobates they have
Positions of power they have positions of power
It says in Esther 3 verse 1
After these things did king Ahasuerus
Promote Haman the son of Hamadeth the Agagite and advanced him and set his seed above all the princes that were with him
So Haman is above all of the princes
You could probably argue that he's the second most powerful man in the world
This is the most powerful Empire and he's number two in the entire kingdom now, it's possible
There's some other Empire where some other King might be pretty rivaling in terms of power
but probably he's the most second most powerful man in the entire world at this time and this is what you commonly see with
Psychopaths is they make it up into positions of power
Verse number two and all the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed and reverenced Haman for the king had so commanded
Concerning him but Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence
So Haman is so powerful at this point that everybody bows down and worships him
Except for Mordecai
He's the one person who basically feels guilty about doing that and he refuses to do that because of the God he believes in
but everybody else is gonna bow down and worship this guy Haman because the king commands it and what you see is that
Haman is in a position of power in the secular world
They did a study in 2010 and they say that there are at least three times as many
Psychopaths that are executive or CEO roles than in the overall population and more recent data found us
It's much higher around 20% of CEOs quite honestly
It's probably even higher than that but based on their research 20% of CEOs are
Psychopaths, this is not an independent fundamental Baptist doing the study
This is just in the secular world you say how is that possible because psychopaths do not have a conscience
They do not feel guilty about stepping over someone to make it to the top
They don't feel guilty about stepping on somebody to get to the top
They would have no problem with lying and saying yes
I did that report brother Ehrman actually didn't help me at all. Like he was supposed to they'll do it in a very subtle way
So it makes him look bad and it makes them look good
They have no problem doing that now for us we would feel guilty about lying about something like that
We would feel wrong about that and quite honestly
That's why you're not gonna see a whole lot of independent fundamental Baptist soul winners that become the CEOs of companies
It's just not gonna happen. Yes. God wants us to have the money to provide our bills, but he doesn't want us to be rich
I'm not saying it's it's wrong to have money because there are people in the Bible that do have money
But that certainly certainly shouldn't be what we seek after and quite honestly if you make it to the CEO of a company
Most likely you had to step over and on people to get to that level and that's what you see with Haman and Haman
Is number two in the kingdom, okay?
Notice what it says in verse number 10 verse number 10
Verse number 10 of
Esther chapter 3 and the king took his ring from his hand and gave it on to Haman the son of him a death of the
Agagite the Jews enemy and the king said unto Haman the silver is given to thee the people also to do with them as it
Seemeth good to thee and so he really trusts
Haman and the reason why these people make it so high in influence and power is they're often very trusted
Because they're very good at what they do and they make it up because they've spent their whole lives
Acting and trying to be a certain person and people like Haman are very good at it now
He's given the ring of the king you say what is the significance well back in that time period
The ring would be used to basically seal something and basically it's the stamp of approval from the king
And the king just hands over his ring and basically is saying I trust you Haman
You can make the seal and mine ain't and so Haman was given that sort of
Ability that he could make the seal and basically make the decisions for the king because the king trusted him so much
He says here's the silver here's the people do what seems good to you
Why because King Ahasuerus deeply trusts Haman, but it's not just King Ahasuerus
It's not really like King Ahasuerus is being kind of bobo because quite honestly in the world these people are very trusted and respected in fact
Moses trusted a man called Korah turn to Numbers chapter 16 Numbers chapter 16
You know what I find interesting in Esther 3 is that everybody's willing to bow down to Haman except Mordecai
You know all these religions out here that act like they're really zealous about their God in reality when push comes to shove
They will bow down before man. They won't have a problem with that now certainly the Catholics won't have a problem with that
They're like good night, man. I'll do that anyway. You know I'll bow down before man bow down before statues
I have no problem with that, but these religions
They're not really loyal to their God and under pressure only Mordecai is the one who refuses to bow
Now notice what it says in Numbers chapter 16 verse 1
says in Numbers 16 verse 1 now Korah the son of Ishar the son of Kohath the son of Levi and
Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and on the son of Peleth sons of Reuben took men and
They rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel
250 princes of the assembly
Famous in the congregation
men of
renown and what you see in number 16 is
that Korah
Dathan Abiram these people they are famous in the congregation. They are trusted
They are men of renown they have made it pretty high up in influence people like them people trust them now look
We would be naive to think that Moses could be fooled, but we can't be fooled
That would be very naive for us to think that if Moses one of the greatest men who ever lived
Someone that probably none of us will ever achieve that sort of level if he could be fooled by these guys
Any of us could be fooled by these guys you look at the 12 apostles and one of them was a devil
But remember nobody thought it was Judas
I mean Judas pretty much outed himself, and they still were wondering you know is it I you know surely it's not Judas
That's the last person I would suspect and so the reality is that these people the ones that are very successful
They're gonna be very trusted and any one of us could be fooled now
It's true that they're gonna probably throw off some red flags from time to time
But quite honestly if they're very good they're not gonna throw up that many now
I have met people that turned out to be bad people and they were just very obvious
we had somebody who visited Verity Baptist Church and
He had visited one time before and he had a big family him his wife
They had like six or seven kids or something and then the next time
He came out soul-winning with our church the next Sunday
He came and when he came out soul-winning he asked me can I leave my kids in the car?
You know when I go out soul-winning
I was like I don't know what the law is if you're legally allowed to do that
I wouldn't suggest that you leave your kids in a car by themselves when they're four years old six years old
But I was like you know I don't know
But anyways as we went out soul-winning he actually was talking as we're going soul-winning
He told me you know the Bible actually never teaches door-to-door soul-winning
It's not in there one time. It's like this guy is literally going soul-winning and while he's going soul-winning
He's telling me actually you know this isn't I mean it's a good thing that we go soul-winning
I'm not saying it's not a good thing, but it's actually not in the Bible
It's just like are you kidding me, and then he comes back to church
And he was talking to me and some other person
This is this is his second time at church service second time at church service
And he's telling me and a few other guys that basically the King James Bible is not perfect
It's like boy talk about red flags, and yeah, he was not allowed to come back after that service
He was gone this guy ended up having a YouTube channel where basically he did not believe in hell
He basically taught that hell did not exist and he had a whole YouTube channel and subscribers
And he was basically just pretending to play a part
He was a very bad actor okay
but
Not all of them are bad actors
Judas was there for three years
And you know what he was not
Suspected and see sometimes we see the bad actors and we think they're not that hard to spot well someone like that's not hard to
Spot, but the Judas's are hard to spot the Haman's are hard to spot the you know people that like
Kura
Daith and Abiram these people they are hard to spot
You're not always going to be able to tell that they're bad people and part of it is because we as people
We naturally want to think the best in people. I don't want to think people are bad people
I want to give people the benefit of the doubt
I think we all do we don't want to think people are bad people
But reality is there are bad people out there and Haman was a bad person
Turn back in your Bible to Esther chapter 3 Esther chapter 3
You say brother stuck yeah, I don't get it
You know why would this man Haman want to not just kill you know some people, but basically all of them
I mean he's not just okay with killing Mordecai. He wants to kill all the Jews
What would make a man want to do something like that?
I can't see why you would have that desire and look it doesn't make sense to us if
You've got a normal mind if you have a conscience it will not make sense
They do not have a conscience
We do not know what it's like to think like them because we will never be like them because when you're saved and in dwell
With the Holy Ghost you will always have a conscience, but there are people out there that don't have a conscience you say brother stuck
I don't understand why they're serial killers that enjoy killing people
I don't understand how people could enjoy raping people serial rapists
I don't understand all these Catholic priests that molest little kids. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to us
How do they find enjoyment in it?
I don't know because I don't have a mind like that and it doesn't make sense to you
But you must understand there are people there whose mind and conscience is defiled
It's seared with a hot iron they have no conscience and there what the Bible says a child of the devil
Now look there's three types of people in this world
There are children of God which are people that have believed on Jesus, and they have eternal life
There are people that are just unsaved people like all of us were before we got saved
And then there's people that are children of the devil these are people that were normal unsaved people
But they rejected God for so long that basically they became reprobates
They were rejected by God and they became children of the devil and so now
They're they're just defiled and wicked people and that is how they become Catholic priests
That's how they become serial killers now the second point we have not only do we see that psychopaths or reprobates are in very powerful
positions
We also see from this passage. They're very prideful people
They're very arrogant people Esther 3 verse 4 now it came to pass
Now it came to pass when they spake daily on to him
And he hearkened not on to them that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand
For he had told them that he was a Jew and when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence
then was Haman full of
Wrath look every single person is bowing before Haman and
Worshipping him except king Ahasuerus and Mordecai
Those are the only people that are not bowing down
Before Mordecai or before Haman and Haman has a problem with it because one person won't bow
You have all these people that are worshipping you and one person won't bow down and you're upset about it
Why he's a very prideful person he's not gonna be satisfied unless everybody's bowing down before now one thing that's interesting is this
Notice what it said in verse 4 said now it came to pass when they spake daily on to him and he hearkened not on
To them these are people telling Mordecai like hey, why are you not bowing down before Haman?
We have to do it
You have to do it too as presumably what I think they were telling him that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's matters would
understand, for he had told them that he was a Jew and so they're telling Mordecai that guess what we're bowing down
But Mordecai is not and verse 5 and when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not
So now Haman actually sees that Mordecai is not bowing for Haman not to notice Mordecai
Not bowing before him for a long time until it was pointed out to him
There must have been a lot of people bowing down before
See like in a room this big with this many people
I would be able to tell if one person was not bowing down
But Haman saw Mordecai and he could not tell then they tell Haman
Hey, Mordecai's not bowing down verse 5 and when he saw that he didn't bow down
What that shows you is there were a lot of people a crowd of people just bowing down before him
It's basically like when the Pope comes into town
The Pope could come into town here and I'm sure you'd see everybody down on their knees
Just bowing down before the Pope that is what's taking place with Haman and Haman does not notice Mordecai
And so if this was not pointing out to Haman
It could have been years and he would have never even noticed because everybody else is bowing down
He doesn't even notice it because there's a crowd there turn to Psalms 10 Psalms 10
And
Now I think it's a pretty weird desire to want to have people bow down before you to be honest
That's pretty weird to me. I guess in the normal mind of a reprobate is pretty, you know
Feels pretty normal to them people like the Pope they love that or Haman. I think it's pretty strange
But Haman he's not even satisfied when he has a thousand people bowing down before him
He needs a thousand and one he's every single person he's a very prideful man Psalms 10 verse 2
the wicked in his pride
doth persecute the poor let them be taken the devices that they have imagined for the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and
Blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorth the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God
God is not in all his thoughts
And what you're seeing here in Psalms 10 is that the wicked person the child of the devil they are very
Prideful and so this would be a subtle sign that someone could be a bad person if they're an extremely prideful person
Now I would caution you to say this that as believers we can become prideful as well
And so we can be prideful we can have moments where we're not humble
That doesn't mean that we're a bad person
But it is an attribute one of the big attributes you're gonna see and people that are reprobates is they're very
Prideful people turn to Psalm 17 Psalm 17
And I'll tell you what if you want to get on God's bad side as believer
Start getting filled full of pride, and you'll come down hard
It's not just the unbelievers or the reprobates that are come gonna come down due to pride
Believers will come down due to pride and quite honestly pride is is often the root cause of why we end up just in
Destroying our lives we get filled full of pride. We have a little bit of success it gets to our head
We become bad people sometimes notice what it says in Psalm 17 verse 9
From the wicked that oppress me for my deadly enemies who compass me about they are enclosed in their own fat with their mouth
They speak
Proudly with their mouth they speak proudly pride is evident with the things that they say have you ever met people like this
Where every time they talk you can just hear pride coming out of their mouth, and they might act like they're humble
They might try to say something to act like they're really humble
But you can just tell from the way they talk that they're very prideful individual
They always want to talk about themselves and all the accomplishments. They've achieved look nobody likes people like that
Haman was not a liked person
Nobody liked Haman and you can prove that through the book of Esther you say he had a lot of friends
He had a lot of friends because he's the second most powerful man in the world
He had a lot of money
Look yeah, if you're rich you're gonna have a lot of friends everybody's gonna want to be your friend
Nobody actually cared about him though turn to Romans 1 Romans 1
Honestly even with believers obviously as a believer you could never end up becoming these reprobates
You're never gonna become a serial killer or a serial rapist or a pedophile or something such as that
But I will say this that I have met people before
That when they were young were very good preachers and when they got older
They were not at all and I believe the root cause was pride
I've told the story before but I visited a church in West Virginia a very famous
independent fundamental Baptist pastor and
He was after Jack Hiles you might not know these names you might you might not Jack Hiles was a very famous independent fundamental Baptist
and he was the head of Hiles Anderson College and First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana and
After he passed on the person who took over was Jack Scott and Jack Scott was the son-in-law of Jack
How's he ended up being a bad person?
But the person who I believe I've heard was second to end up taking over for Jack Hiles is the guy I'm talking about
I'm not naming his name, but I guess it would be pretty obvious from that for people that know the history
But he's a famous independent fundamental Baptist pastor in West Virginia
and I remember me and my friends we visited his church and I ran into four different people before the service started that
Shook my hand and said hello, you know, somebody new comes to church and you greet them
You say hello, but all four of these people said the same thing. They said have you ever heard our pastor preach before? I
Mean it was so odd to me. It's like none of them asked me
I mean, they asked me what my name was, but none of them asked me. Hey, do you know for sure?
You're going to heaven. You know, it's just like hey, have you heard our pastor preach before like four different people?
I mean, it's really bizarre. And so later on, you know me and my friends were kind of looking around and everything
It's it's pretty big church. I mean, it's a normal Sunday, but it's a pretty packed room big church
Now remember I was looking up because they had a second floor like a balcony and all of a sudden I just started clapping
And I'm like, why am I clapping because everybody else was clapping
So it's like a natural reaction and then I asked my friend I was like I asked pastor Jason Robinson
He was there with me and I asked him, you know
Like why are we clapping and he said oh the pastor just entered the room and it was a normal Sunday
It wasn't a special service. I mean, I wouldn't really like it for a special service, but it wasn't a special service
It was a Sunday morning church service and he had like a back entrance
Can you imagine if I like climbed up here and just kind of came in right before the service, you know, right?
You know the Bible readings being done and as the prayers going on all of a sudden you just see me pop through
There's like a like a trick door back there
He basically went in and everyone just started clapping for him on a normal Sunday now
Look, I'm not saying that he started that culture at the church. Here's what I'm saying when he was young
He was a very good preacher. You can hear sermons of his online and man. He laid down the hammer
He was a good preacher and I heard him preach many times later on down the road 15 years down
the road is when I heard him preach and
He was just not the same preacher
but every single person I know who's met him and I know many people that have met him before and have
Experienced because I talked to him after the service briefly and they all said the same thing. He's a prideful person
It was just evident in him just the stories and I don't want to go on and on about this person
I don't think this guy's a bad person
I actually think he was greatly used by God when he was young
But what I'm saying is we better be careful as people of God that we don't allow pride to destroy our lives no matter
How great you are?
You're just a man. You're just a woman. You're just a safe child of God
That's the center just like everybody else and this person who accomplished great things for God
He ended up coming down very hard and I would say the reason probably why is because of pride and it's not just my thoughts
He actually did come down hard and that's a whole nother story
Don't really want to get into that
But this guy was greatly used by God and he came down hard and I believe the root cause really was
Pride notice what it says in Romans 1 verse 30
And so look as we're looking at some of these verses I'm talking about a reprobate
But even as a believer pride is something we need to be very careful about now in Romans chapter 1 verse 30
I want you to notice some of the attributes of these reprobates
Back biters haters of God
despiteful
proud
Notice how it says proud proud or pride is one of the characteristics of people that are reprobates
They're filled with these things
It's I mean we are prideful from time to time every single one of us if we are honest
We can admit that from time to time we get a little bit prideful, but they are filled with pride
There's a difference there
And so when you see people that are just always prideful in everything they say
Those are people you want to watch out for
Even if they're a believer that person is going to come down hard
And I wouldn't want to be in the way that person when they come down
Turn back in your Bible to actually look at Romans 1 Romans 1 one more second
And not only are these people very prideful
but what you see from the story of Esther chapter 3 is that psychopaths or reprobates are
Violent people they are violent people notice what it says in Romans 1 verse 29
being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness
covetousness maliciousness full of envy
murder
Notice what it says full of murder isn't that a pretty odd characteristic to say of a normal person I?
mean people have tempers
But just because somebody has a temper I wouldn't say they're full of murder that basically just killing someone's no big deal to them
That's pretty strange say how is that possible? They don't have a normal mind like us their mind is
Seared their conscience is seared they do not have a conscience, and they don't feel guilty about these things like we would now
They don't want to get caught
Obviously they want to get away with these things and they would get sad if they got caught
But
They don't feel bad about actually doing the act they would just feel bad if they ended up getting caught now turn to Romans 3
Romans 3
Romans chapter 3 verse 15
The Bible reads their feet are swift to shed blood their feet are swift to shed blood now
I don't have time to go into it, but if you were here for the sermon
I preached when I was talking about Romans chapter 3 I can't remember the exact sermon
But I kind of went in depth on Romans 3 10 and 3 23. I think was from Psalms 14
I went in Psalms 14 you can listen to that sermon, and I proved that in verse 15
This is referring to reprobates Romans 3 verse 15 now Romans 3 verse 23 is just the common everyday person
We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God
But there's a section in here that is referring to reprobates
And you can go back and listen to my sermon Psalms 14 if you want to hear that and I talk about that
But here in verse 15. This is in reference to reprobates their feet are swift to shed
Blood look the normal person their feet are not swift to want to kill somebody
That's weird. That's what it's saying by shedding blood
They enjoy this this is something they want to do their their feet are swift to shed blood the normal person
We don't want to kill people. I don't want to see people die
Whether they're saved or unsaved. I don't want people to die, but these are not normal people
We're talking about Haman is not a normal person now go back to Esther 3
Esther 3 and we're gonna see that Haman was a very very bloody man
And I didn't look at it in Romans 1, but another word used to describe
Another characteristic of these reprobates in Romans 1 which are referring to sodomites in Romans 1 you can look at the context
But in Romans chapter 1 it also talks about them being unmerciful
Now look I don't want to go into that or think about it
But you think about what would be you think about like a little child and a Catholic priest and that priest being unmerciful
It's like what is wrong with these people. They're not normal people
That is what the Bible is showing you Esther chapter 3 verse 6 Esther chapter 3 verse 6
And he thought scorn delay hands on Mordecai alone for they had showed him the people of Mordecai wherefore Haman sought to destroy
All the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus even the people of Mordecai
This guy doesn't want to just kill Mordecai alone. He wants to kill every single
Jew every single one of them. I mean what kind of a normal person would want to do that now look
There's a lot of unsafe people out there and false religions, but look I don't want to kill all the Buddhists
I don't want to kill all the Muslims
I don't want to kill all the Mormons
But he literally wants to kill all the Jews all the people whose God is the Lord
He wants to destroy every single one of them because he hates Mordecai that much
This is a man who's not a normal person
This is a man who's a very bloody person a very prideful person a man who's in a position of power and a man without
A conscience turn to judges 19 judges chapter 19
And
You think of that word unmerciful and even think about this situation, I'm sure the Jews are crying out
I'm sure he heard their cries
I'm sure he saw the fear of these people that they were gonna get brutally killed and yet he did not care
That is strange
Why would you have that sort of emotion that you would be fine with just seeing people die?
But he does not have a conscience. That's what we see
Judges chapter 19 judges 19. This is also referring to sodomites here in Judges 19 and sodomites are a type of reprobates
they're really kind of the worst reprobates because of the fact they're just so far down the level of
Deprivation of just being so depraved and wicked people but in Judges 19 verse 22 the Bible reads
Now as they were making their hearts Mary behold the men of the city certain sons of Belial
Beset the house round about and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house the old man saying
Bring forth a man that came into thine house that we may know him
So a new man comes to town and he's taken basically overnight
He's just going to sleep and all of a sudden the sodomites these sons of Belial sons of the devil is what that's saying
These are now look when you become a child of God
You're a child of God for how long?
forever
When you become a child of the devil, you're a child of the devil for how long forever
It's common sense. These are sons of Belial they became sons of Belial
Even though Jesus died for them. They rejected God
They're rejected by God and now their sons of Belial and then this new guy comes to town and they say bring this guy out
Though we may know him you say what do they mean by we may know him?
When it's saying we mean you have to understand in the Bible. God is not very graphic about stuff
Okay, especially disgusting stories because we don't want to see these things
You know, one of the things I've never understood is when people will post all these images and videos of like sodomites and say
Isn't this disgusting?
It's like yes, it is disgusting. Why are you posting that? So everybody has to see it
It's weird. It's bizarre to me and yet people post these things
and I mean I always when they do that either unfollow them or block them or whatever and
Honestly, it makes me wonder about some of these people because for me it's disgusting and I don't get how they're not disgusted by it
But people say they hate the sodomites so much and then they'll post all these pictures online say look at how gross this is
It's like yeah, it's Nakakadiri. I agree. I don't want to see it. Why are you showing it to us?
I don't understand that now
I understand sometimes you might put a picture and not realize like there's something tagged in you don't realize what's going on
But look if you're a believer you should never put that so other people have to see it
God is not graphic in the Bible
We only know what this means because you can see from the whole story
But also because you can cross reference with know him and what that means and so basically they're saying physically
Basically, they want to rape these men
They want to force these men as the Bible says that's what they're saying verse 23 and the man
The master of the house went out onto them and said unto them nay my brethren nay
I pray you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is coming to mine house. Do not this falling
Behold, here's my daughter a maiden in his concubine then
I will bring out now and humble you them and do with them what seemeth good unto you
But unto this and do not so vile a thing
This guy is a is a man who really cares about these people notice how he says here's my daughter. I
Don't understand some of these people in the Bible
I mean lots like this as well and he is a believer which it's like you would never guess he was a believer unless the Bible
Told you that but it's like here's my daughter. I don't want this guy to be raped
Here's here's my daughter do with her as you want and here's his concubine do with her as you want now
This is very strange. But you know, what's interesting is this man?
Has an understanding that reprobates that sodomites they go both ways
Look when we're saying sodomite, I want you to understand there is really no such thing as a homosexual
every single homosexual is
Bisexual okay. See in Judges 19. He has an understanding. Hey, they're willing to
Rape men surely they'd be okay with doing it to women as well
You have to understand everybody starts out and they naturally as a man you desire the opposite gender you desire women and women
You desire men. That's how you start. You're not born a homosexual
You become that way but you have to understand you never just forsake that desire either
When you see some of these people that are serial killers because they'll look at serial killers and they'll say well
You know a very small percentage of these serial killers are homosexuals like 5%
But it's like it's not high enough to make any correlation. Yeah, but there's like 80% of them that are bisexual
It's like why don't you bring that up?
because those ones that you look at the famous ones like pretty much all of them they went both ways and
So why because they started off liking the person of the opposite gender and then they become more and more wicked
And they go to liking people of the same gender and then they go to liking little children and it gets worse and worse and worse
That's what takes place because they no longer get satisfied with just committing this and they want to get worse and worse
And worse you say brother Stuckey. This doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me either
Because your mind is not defiled and my not mind is not defiled and we can only go with what the Bible says
Look judges 19 is
The the like the worst chapter in the Bible
I don't like judges 19, but it's in there because of the fact
I mean, I like all the Word of God, but I'm just saying I don't enjoy reading this
I don't enjoy hearing stories of people getting raped
but this is what you're seeing take place and this man offers up his daughter and this man's concubine and
he says
Humble ye them and do with one do with them what seemeth good unto you
But unto this man do not so vile a thing and so he's saying vile a thing
This is very vile or wicked what they want to do, but the men would not hearken to him
So the man took his concubine and brought her forth onto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning
and when the day began to spring they let her go and
So these men these reprobates these sodomites or bisexual people that are rejected by God that are wicked people
They abuse this woman throughout the entire night until the morning and she wakes up and she is dead
Notice what it says in verse 26
then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the man's house where her Lord was till
it was light and
her Lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman
his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house and her hands are upon the threshold and
He said under up and let us be going but none answered
Then the man took her up upon an ass and the man rose up and got get him onto this his place
And so the Bible is discreet in this story as discreet as you possibly can be with actually telling what's taking place
But she is forced. She is raped and murdered by these sodomites. That's what's taking place
Now I've heard people say because since the story is discreet if you don't pay attention you can get confused
I've heard people think that the man actually kills his concubine when he cuts her up
It's like no that that's after she was murdered by the sodomites
They're the ones that killed her and so it's a very it's a very disgusting story
but it's in the Word of God for a reason and
This is the reality and it's something we need to know in this country because in case you didn't notice it
There's men running around with dresses all the time in this country
It's a very common thing and you cannot be trusting one thing
You'll see is that women will often be trusting with these people and they think well, you know, he's a homosexual
I'm okay. He has no interest in me. No, no, no, he's bisexual
They never change that first thing they're gonna go after anything because notice they do end up going and abusing that woman
That wasn't their first choice because it's not as wicked as abusing the guy
But they're still willing to do it and they kill her and so yeah, you know what women are not safe around these people either
Why well, they're violent people. That's what the Bible teaches now turn to Psalms 5 Psalms 5
Psalms 5
You
Say brother Stuckey, this is not the most pleasant sermon
Well, you know, we're doing the fruits of the Spirit on Sundays. So I got to balance things out
You know, we're doing the fruits of the Spirit love and joy and peace
It's gonna be long suffering and gentleness and goodness the next three weeks, but on Wednesday night Esther chapter 3
I can't escape the fact that the theme of Esther 3 is Haman the psychopath reprobate now
This is the only sermon through Esther of these ten chapters that I'm really gonna focus on this
But this is the theme in in Esther chapter 3 you're seeing this evil man who's in a position of power
It's a very violent man. He's a very prideful man, and he is a reprobate Haman Psalms 5 verse 6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful
Man, the Bible says the bloody and deceitful man
One thing you're also gonna see is that the bloody person and the deceitful are often mixed together
The violent and the person who's to see for the person full of lies turn to Psalms 10 Psalms 10
Psalms chapter 10. This is a very common theme in the Bible
Psalms 10 verse 7 Psalms 10 verse 7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity
And so we see that under his tongue is mischief
Which basically means to kill someone when you look up mischief every time the Bible's if someone's a mischievous person
They're basically a murderous bloodthirsty person and it says it's full of deceit and fraud his mouth
Deceit and fraud. So he's a liar. He's a phony
So you're seeing the violence and you're seeing the liar these things are mixed together
You don't have to turn there
But in John 8 verse 44 the Bible reads year of your father the devil and the lusts of your father you will do
he was a murderer from the beginning and
abode not in the truth
Because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie
He speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it John 8 44
Just kind of probably the most famous verse on basically, you know reprobates or being a child of the devil
I should say it mentions murder and liar
Why those are attributes of the devil and if you're a child of the devil, you're gonna have those same attributes
And so not only is this reprobate someone who's very violent. He's also someone who's
Dishonest he's a liar. He's deceitful turn to Esther three. I'll show that to you Esther three
That's the fourth point psychopaths are dishonest psychopaths are dishonest
Now I
Didn't go super in-depth, but we're going to in a sermon series here soon about reprobates or psychopaths
But let me just say this
In case there's confusion on this and I do believe there's actually a lot of confusion
Even amongst like-minded people on the topic of reprobates
There is no indication in the Bible that Haman was a sodomite that he was a homosexual that he was bisexual
Now he was certainly a reprobate but there are plenty of reprobates that are not bisexual
What you have to understand is in today's world
We have this huge influx of sodomy and homosexuality
But in a lot of countries, it's illegal and quite honestly
It's been punished by the death penalty in other countries through the ages in the Bible
You're seeing they would get rid of them
Now what you have to understand is even if they got rid of all the homosexuals people practicing these things
They didn't get rid of all the reprobates
you have to understand being a homosexual is way down the chart on depravity a
Person doesn't start that way when they first become a reprobate that's further down the path once they become more and more wicked
I would say that through history the majority of reprobates were not homosexuals
I would say the ones that are the worst now in today's world though
I think the majority are
Why because it's very accepted in the world today and they're very much increasing and look don't don't misunderstand me
every homosexual is a reprobate but
Not every reprobate is a homosexual
That's what the Bible teaches and quite honestly
There's no indication that Haman is a homosexual and the other three examples in the book of Jude are
Korah, Cain and Balaam. Tell me which one of those that there's any indication. They're homosexual with none of them
None of them
So when you're looking at you say why is it the Bible does not speak about homosexuality very much because it wasn't a common
problem throughout history
When it was a problem in Genesis 19 God got rid of it
You don't see it popping up that much in the Bible, but in today's world, it's a real issue
So even though you hear me preach against vice-pung eat a lot. I
Am not saying that every single reprobate is a homosexual
I don't believe that and I do know people I've heard people that believe that or say that
But look in the Bible most reprobates are not homosexuals. You do not see that
Okay
Now I'll go really in depth on that when we have our sermon series on the topic
but it is very important for us to understand the distinction you say why because if somebody comes in our church and
Ends up being a bad person
What I've seen take place is sometimes when they leave people say well, he couldn't have been a reprobate. He wasn't effeminate
Look you can be a reprobate
without being a homosexual
Quora who is really the example core causing mass destruction in the church
That's the person we need to watch out for for a church is the chorus. There's no indication. He's a homosexual. I seriously doubt
You say why because not all reprobates are homosexuals in the Bible
You do not see all of them doing that in Romans one. You're seeing the worst of the worst
Okay, now look reprobates are still filled with all of this wickedness
But what I'm saying is that that's really far down the level of depravity
Look, I don't think that guys like Billy Graham who lived to be a hundred years old
I don't think he was a homosexual say why because that sort of lifestyle would have killed him when he was 50 years old. I
Think he's a Matthew chapter 7 sort of person where he honestly thinks he's going to heaven and he finds out whoops
I guess you can't work your way to heaven. I guess repenting of her sins is not the answer now
I don't want to go too much into that for sake of time, but I will cover that because
There's a lot of confusion on this topic of reprobates or psychopaths and we with everything
We need to have an accurate understanding of the truth or it can cause you problems in other area and the areas
I've seen it cause problems is people assume. Well, you know, he couldn't have been a bad person because he wasn't effeminate
Okay. Now look at what we see in Esther chapter 3 remember on this fourth point. We're talking about psychopaths are
dishonest psychopaths are dishonest and
And so in Esther chapter 3 verse 8 the Bible reads and Haman said unto king Ahasuerus
there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom and
Their laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the king's laws
Therefore it is not for the king's prophet to suffer them. And so Haman tells Ahasuerus
There's this group of people that are just unruly people that are not listening to any of your laws
Isn't that what he says? They're not listening to your laws. Look, the only thing they're refusing to do is bow down to you
Haman
They're obeying the laws laws like thou shalt not kill. Look God's people would obey that in general
The laws of the land. I'm sure they did a better job obeying them than the wicked heathen
And so he's lying to them when he says hey, they're not keeping your laws
The only law they're not gonna keep is bowing down to you Haman
They're keeping the laws
Now, of course if the king imposed certain laws that would restrict their religious ability to practice their religious liberty
Then yes, they would be like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, I hope
Not all of God's people would but you hope they're gonna be like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and reject it
Or if they do what they did to Daniel
You would hope that we would be like Daniel's but quite honestly, you know under pressure
We might not handle it the right way
But look God's people they're not just breaking all the laws of the king you say why because God's law tells us to obey
the laws of the king
Obey the commandments of the country unless they supersede the laws of the Bible
Look if there is a law that tells you
Some stupid law that says every Tuesday you have to wear a blue hat
Just wear a blue hat. Just do what the law says. You say it's a stupid law. It's a stupid law. I agree
But if it's the law you do it. You just obey what they say. Why? Because it's not a sin to wear a blue hat
It's just pointless. It's stupid, but it's not a sin now
I'm using a silly example, but there's a lot of silly laws out there
And if there's a silly law you just obey it
Now we don't really have the same example as much here like in the US
You know, they'll have speed limits and oftentimes the speed limit is dumb
It should be a lot higher than it is, but it's like well, that's the law you just obey the laws of the land
Unless they go against the Bible and that doesn't go against the Bible. It's not a sin to drive under 70 miles per hour
Notice what it says in verse number nine. So in verse eight, he's dishonest and basically tells the king
It's not for your prophet to suffer them
Basically, what he's saying is hey
It's not going to be good or profitable to you to allow them to live because to suffer means to allow
It says suffer the little children basically put up with them on Sunday. We'll talk about long suffering
Basically you allow a long time, you know, what's going on that's bothering you
So basically saying it's not in your best interest to allow these people to live
Because they're unruly people that are breaking your laws that is being dishonest
Verse number nine if it please the king Oh Haman such a nice guy if it please the king, you know
He's saying in such a nice tone. He's such a nice guy
Let it be written that they may be destroyed and I'll pay
10,000 talents of silver to the hands of those that have had the charge of the business to bring it into the king's treasuries
And so Haman is dishonest
to have these people destroyed and killed why because
Psychopaths are dishonest you say why because their father the devil was a liar from the beginning
He is a liar in the father of it
And so his minions the children of the devil they are also going to be liars
Look if you catch somebody lying quite a bit
That is a big red flag
That is one of those subtle signs where it's like whoa
Watch out for that person because oftentimes people will say things and then you find out later on
Oh, it was dishonest and you forget about it after time
but some of the some people are the same people that just often will say things that are not really true and
Look, we all lie
Bible says let God be true
But every man a liar every man every woman and trust me every baby they lie. They're dishonest
but
People that are reprobates they lie a lot and we know that because in John
844 that's mentioned in pretty much the chief verse of being a child of the devil being a murderer and being a liar and so
if people often tell lies
Quite honestly, they might be bad people
It's a big red flag and if you notice somebody's lied a lot and you've caught them in it
How many more times have they lied and you didn't catch them?
We naturally assume people are telling the truth. Don't wait. Somebody tells you something you believe it's true
Somebody tells me something. I'm gonna believe it's true
But quite honestly people that are bad people they'll tell lies for their own benefit and quite honestly, that's how they become CEOs
Because they lie about other people and cause problems and they just slowly work their way at the top because they're just oh so nice
And friendly now, let's look at our last point here tonight
in Esther 3 verse 15 and
The last point I want you to realize is that psychopaths or reprobates. They usually produce very
Little they're actually very unproductive workers notice what it says in Esther 3 verse 15
The post went out being hastened by the king's commandment and the decree was given in Shushan the palace and
The king and Haman sat down to drink
But the city Shushan was perplexed now is Haman doing any work in verse 15?
he's just sitting down doing nothing and
Honestly when you read the book of Esther the name Haman comes up a lot, but it's like what does he actually do?
What does he actually accomplish in the book of Esther and it's a big?
Nothing he's accomplishing
Nothing you say, how do you know this is a sign of reprobates? Well, you can notice in that verse and
You can tell he's not doing anything
But I have heard it said and this was in the documentary psychopaths
Reprobates that people that are reprobates in companies people that are psychopaths that make their way up
They are usually when pulled by people
very
unproductive employees
But very well-liked employees
Basically, they're very good at talking and everyone really likes them and they think they're really good employees when they actually look at the work
They do it's like wow. They're the worst employees, but people think they're the best employees
They do a very good job of pretending like they're hard workers and when you actually look at their production
They always have excuses why they do nothing in reality
They're the ones who produce absolutely nothing and if you have an office job where there's lots of workers
And look, you know that the reality is that if you work at an office with 50 people, there's a good chance
There's going to be a psychopath in the midst and you're probably not going to notice that person's a psychopath unless they're you know
Flaming sodomites other than that, you're probably not going to be able to tell that but here's what you need to understand
Those people if you really look at them, they actually are not good workers. They do not produce much
they're some of the worst employees, but they are very talented of passing off their work to other people and
Taking credit for it and I encourage you if you get a chance to rewatch that documentary psychopath reprobates
It talks about that in there
I actually watched it recently because we're going to be doing a series on it and I want to kind of re-educate myself on the
Topic and I actually watched it with my dad when I was was in the US and you know
I noticed that and it hadn't stood out to me before but then I noticed in Esther chapter 3 verse 15
Well Haman's just sitting down. He's doing nothing and quite honestly
Haman is never really doing anything in the book of Esther and that is considered a trait of psychopaths
They actually are bad workers. They produce very little surprise surprise. They're probably very lazy people
Okay, and so what we're seeing here in Esther chapter 3 is
We're seeing a good
Person to notice for being a psychopath or reprobate Haman's desires in Esther 3 are not normal
He wants to kill a mass amount of people would you feel comfortable with ordering a hundred thousand people killed?
You say but what about all these politicians that have no problem just starting all these wars and killing all these innocent people
Look, I promise you a lot of politicians are psychopaths
I don't know what the percentage is, but probably higher than CEOs a large percentage of the politicians now
I'm not saying every single one is I don't believe that but I promise you a lot of them are and
So they have no problem with causing destruction and bloodshed you say why because if it makes them look good
They're happy with it because they don't have a conscience why because these psychopaths they only care about themselves
And when you read the book of Esther, isn't it true about Haman that he only cares about himself
That's all he cares about even when he's around his friends and his wife. He's just around them bragging. That's all he's doing
It's like you don't even care about your wife not like hey, honey
You know, how was your day at home? You know, was there anything happened?
No, he just said he just comes home and brags about himself. You say why he's a prideful person
He only cares about himself. He's a very violent man. He's a very wicked man
He is a great example of a psychopath reprobate in the Bible. Let's close the word of prayer dear Heavenly Father
Thank you for allowing us to be here today and just getting to read of Esther chapter 3 and help us become more educated on
this topic God including myself and
This isn't really a fun topic to preach about it's not fun to think about but we we preach every single
verse every single word in the King James Bible and this is what Esther 3 talks about and help us to to be
more knowledgeable about this topic God help us be ready for this because we will run into these people in our lives and we
Need to be ready for the signs that you mentioned help us to study our Bible and know what the Bible says about this
We pray this in Jesus name. Amen