Song number two, maybe?
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Of course the service times are in the upper left hand side as usual
Every sunday at 10 30 a.m. Again at 5 30 p.m. Thursdays at 7
We will be in the book of genesis chapter number four this week
And I will be finishing up genesis chapter number three tonight. I didn't have time to finish
last thursday, so that's what's on the
Menu tonight is genesis chapter number three part two and then we've got the salvations the baptisms again
A uh, just a proud note of
The soul winning that was accomplished this year. So i'm looking forward to
The next year. Hopefully we can all we got to do is get 211 and we can break it again
We can have another record-breaking year. Okay
All right over on the right hand side, of course, happy birthday to everybody celebrating
In the month of january and you have the note about the giving statements if you would like them
That's the only time that's probably going to appear in the bulletin at this point. So
If you know, you might want to get on that anyway, uh, let's go ahead and count up the soul winning going back to
Friday if anyone has anything from friday to report
Or from saturday, I know a few of us went out
And what about sunday today anything from today or praise the lord? We're off to a good start
Well, praise god
That's always great knock them all out at one door call it a day
All right, well keep up the great work soloing everybody let's go ahead and sing one more song before we get to preaching tonight
You can turn your song books to song number 55
Song number 55 when the role is called the fyonder
Sing it out
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Sir, can you please pass through the room? Can you please open up your bottles to first peter three?
First peter chapter three
So
First one the bible reads likewise be wise means objections to your own husbands that they obey not the word
They also may without the word be won by the conversation of wives
But if you hold your chase conversation couple with fear through the door
It might not be the outward adorning who played with hair and wearing gold or putting on a repair
Let it be the hidden man of the heart now, which is not corrupt even the ornament of me quiet spirit
Which is in sight of god the great price?
For after this matter the old time the holy women also trust in god adoring themselves being subjection
unto their own husbands
Even as sarah a neighbor calling him lord whose daughters you are as long as you do well
And are not afraid of any amazing likewise and husbands dwell with them according knowledge
And the honor into the life is unto the weaker vessel as being heirs together the grace of life
That your prayers cannot hinder you finally be all of one mind having compassion one of another love is irrelevant and pitiful
And courteous now rendering the evil for the even the railing for rare
The contrary is blessed knowing ye knowing that you're there to call you should inherit blessing
For he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips
They speak no god
Let him show you can do good let him seek peace and suit
But the eyes of the lord over the righteous and his ears are open to the prayers
The face of the lord is against them to do evil and who is he that will harm you to be followed
Which is good, but if you suffer for righteousness
Happily be not afraid of the terror that would be trouble but sanctify the lord god in your hearts
You're ready always to give an answer to everyone to ask you to a reason the hope that is in you
There's meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil dealers
It may be ashamed that falsely accused of good conversation christ
Praise better the will of god you sow that you suffer for well doing
That's real for christ also to once suffer for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to god
Being put to death in the flesh but quickly by the spirit but which also he went preaches in spirits of prison
But sometimes in disobedience the once long-suffering god within the days of noah
But the ark was preparing where few that is eight souls saved by water
The like figure until even that is enough with also now savings not the putting away of the filth of the flesh
With the action of a good conscience for god by the resurrection of jesus christ who has gone to heaven
He's on the right hand of god angels authorities and powers, but made subject to him
For the favor, let's pray for us
Thank you for your word lord, thank you for this church thank you for the salvation to be actually he's written the church
Lord
So continue on tonight in genesis chapter number three
Last week, you know, we got into uh the fall or this last thursday rather with the serpent and the temptation there
And of course, uh as a result of them having eaten of the forbidden fruit if you recall
They are cursed each in their respective order there and we'll just pick it up tonight get right into it in uh verse
16 it says another woman. He said I will greatly multiply thyself
I know I had you in in first peter three. We'll come back. Sorry for the confusion there
I don't sometimes I don't want to read the same chapter two services in a row
So we'll be back to first peter three a little bit later
Maybe you kind of pick up on where this is going if you know, uh, genesis chapter three
But we're dealing with the woman right, uh eve
After she's sinned it says there in genesis chapter three if you've gone there in verse 16 unto the woman
He the lord said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow in that conception
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire to be sure thy husband
And he shall rule over thee now
I know I touched on this for just a moment on thursday night, but I really didn't have time to develop it and it
And there's more that i'm going to develop besides this point
But uh, I don't want to just gloss over this because this is an important subject the fact that woman was put into subjection
To man specifically a wife to her husband. I'm not saying that all women are subject to all men. Okay
But the bible is clear that when it comes to marriage the wife is to be in subjection to the husband
And this is a very important topic
This is why we have so much trouble with marriage today
It's because of the fact that people reject this teaching out of the word of god
they reject biblical counsel on marriage and
Each one man the husband and wife in a lot of cases refuse to do
Uh, what the duty that has been assigned to them by god, they don't want to fill
Their respective roles as husbands and as wives, okay
now I do want to point out and if you would, uh, go over to
First timothy chapter number two. I know we looked at this briefly on thursday night, but we're going to touch on it again
Because there's I do want to address an argument that's out there. Some people will say
You know when you read through the many several passages that we'll look at in the new testament in the epistles that paul
Paul wrote people say oh, that's just paul's take on it. You know, that's paul
Being a misogynist, you know, that's paul's hatred of women coming out. That's
Just the culture that they lived in back then, you know
This doesn't really apply today and they'll try to sweep all the of the the writing, you know
These writings under the rug, you know, they'll try to rest the scripture. They'll try to ignore the scripture, okay
But what we'll see here is that this actually predates
Paul's so-called misogyny, right? This is genesis chapter three
Where god is saying that you're going to to the woman that he shall that her desire shall be to her husband
And that he shall rule over her meaning he's going to have authority over her in that relationship in marriage
That's you know, that's not paul writing. Okay, that's genesis chapter three
So, you know, is that just the culture is that just you know, the lord's hatred for women
Of course god doesn't hate women. God loves women. God loves men and women. God loves loves all of us. God loves people
but the fact is is that god has
Determined that a wife is to be subject unto her husband, okay
And the bible teaches us through and through look at first timothy chapter two
Look at verse 11 let the woman learn in silence with all subjection
But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man boy. There's a lot to be said
Just about that right there when women are usurping authority over men
You know in isaiah three that talks about how that is a curse upon god's people when women rule over a nation
That's actually a curse upon a nation. Okay, and that's where we're at today
You know, we have women in all kinds of different public office
ruling over men
And you know, I believe in my personal opinion that's part of the problem while while we're in the situation that we're in
Because women are you know, it's just a fact it's just it's just a biological fact that women, you know are more
easily
Controlled by their emotions, right?
They're concerned more about feelings and they're more compassionate. I guess you want to say I don't know
But you know, they're they're not as prone to make the hard decisions that sometimes have to be made
In order to run a society, okay
They want to you know
Just accommodate everybody and make everybody feel good. Look that's great. You know, that that's a great thing inside of a home
You know, sometimes you need mom to kind of temper dad with his attitude towards the children say hey, they're kids, you know
Or hey, you know remind us that they're they're being you know
They're just children and not to be too hard on them that I could see where that's useful inside of a home
When it comes to ruling, you know a a society
It's not what you need you need men in leadership making hard decisions
okay, and it's not just by virtue of being a man what you need to to have a
well-run society
Is men that are?
Ruling according to the word of god. Okay. Now i'm not holding my breath here
I'm not expecting, you know anything to change anytime soon if you know ever really, okay
And that's not the entire point of the sermon, but it is there that women are not to usurp authority
Over the man but to be in silence, this is of course
speaking
You know directly when it comes to the church. Okay, but it's it is a principle. There's a reason why god is saying
No way in church, okay
Because he knows men and women he knows what they're what they're capable of what their strengths are what their weaknesses are
And who it is that should be leading things and god says and when it comes to the house of god
Men lead it's pastor led church. It's not a deacon led church
It's not a board-run church
It's a man-led church under the authority of the bible. Okay the word of christ
And you know what's good for the goose is good for the gander
You know society could look in on the word of god and take a tip from this. Okay
Then he goes on and says why for adam was first formed and then he and adam was not deceived
So paul's clarifying in genesis 3 that adam was not deceived when adam ate of the fruit
That he was not to eat of the of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
He did that not out of uh, having been beguiled as it says here right as eve was
But he ate of it because of the fact that he chose to he went along he knew full well what he was doing
Okay
Adam was first formed then even adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in transgression
So women also it seems here that there's they have more tendency to be more easily deceived. Okay
And look we talked about how subtle the serpent is and that's not a knock. That's not to say
Uh, you know, that's not something to cast shame on women or anything like that. But you know, it's just what the bible says
Okay, what kind of baptist preacher would I be if I got up here and tried to you know?
Well, you know, that's what it says. But uh, you know, that's what it says, you know deal with it. Okay
But you know, that's the satan is very subtle and the bible's warning us here that the woman was deceived
And that's why she's not to rule
You know, and that's why you isn't it interesting today
That how we have all these wicked policies taking place and we're being run by women more than ever
Because they've been deceived, you know, oh they're born that way
You know where they you know, we can't assume their gender all this safe space snowflake soft language
Isn't it a coincidence when that that deception has swept over our land?
Around you know in a time where women have come more and more into public office
You know, i'm i'm not some political scientist up here, but it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots when you're reading the word of god
Uh look on verse 14 there it says
And adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was transgression notwithstanding
She shall be saved and childbearing
If they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety, so it's not saying that she'll be saved like go to heaven
If she has children, okay, we're not mormons or something, okay, and no heaven is not perpetual childbirth. Sorry, you know lds mormon church
Forgive me for using the term lds. It's mormon. Why because they hate that. Okay, that's why I use it
Because I hate mormonism, all right
But uh, you know, it's saying here that she'll be saved and childbearing meaning god will spare her life
you know god will look, you know, we'll make sure that
That is a uh that they're they're not going to suffer
Needlessly, right if they continue the faith and charity and charity and holiness with sobriety, right?
That's what he's talking about the salvation like you're going to make it through the jaws of death. Okay
And that is childbirth, right? I mean, that's what he's saying in genesis three
I will greatly cut, you know, multiply thy conception and thy sorrow
So
But again, this is paul writing but what is paul paul is saying that women should be in subjection here
He's saying they should be in silence. They should not accept authority of the man
Oh paul that misogynist, you know, this is just paul at his culture
But paul's citing genesis
So this isn't something paul just pulled out of the air. This isn't just something that paul made up
You know paul is citing the word of god here. This is what he is referring to. That's where he's getting it from
So if you want to cat, you know throw out the writings of paul when it comes to the subject
Well, you're throwing out genesis three
You're throwing out, you know, the old testament you're throwing out the word of god
Go over to ephesians chapter five
Ephesians chapter number five the bible, you know talks about this in several different places
about wives being in subject
Being subject to their husbands to men ruling over their wives
It says in colossus chapter 3 verse 18
wives submit yourselves under your own husbands
As it is fit in the lord, he's saying this is what's proper. This is what's fit
This is what's uh appropriate
When you know if you're going to live a life according to godliness that wives are going to submit unto your own husbands, okay
first corinthians chapter number 14 verse 34
Let your women keep silence in the churches for it's not permitted unto them to speak
But they are commanded to be under obedience. It's also saying at the law
So is this paul's just you know, misplaced misguided misogyny just coming out
Is this just as hatred bubbling for women bubbling to the surface?
No, he's saying that's also saying at the law. He's saying i'm just
Reiterating what the old testament has already told us
that
That women are going to have their husbands rule over them. Okay
Okay
And if they will learn anything
Let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the church
Go tell that to all your women pastors out there today
Go tell that to joyce myer
and whoever trump's
Spiritual guy, you know, who knows who who is trump? You know someone in here knows
You don't know this one fact checker. You don't got no that that
No idea good for you
Yeah, she's from florida
And she's new age
Paula white boom. I told you someone would know I knew at one point, but I forgot
But I think I preached a sermon against a bunch of a bunch of those false prophets at one point
Go tell paula white about this verse like they care like they care what the bible says
You know, they'll preach damnable heresies. They'll preach lies for filthy lucre's sake. Okay
You know go tell it to all these women women pastors let your women keep silence in the churches
Anyway, and if you point that out, this is their argument. Oh, well, that's just paul. That's just a culture
You know, that's just a the corinthian, you know, uh culture back then. No, it's also say at the law
You know and when paul taught this he goes back to adam and eve this isn't paul just making this up
It goes on it says it is a shame for women to speak in the church
Okay. Now obviously we understand it's talking about preaching and teaching the word of god
It's not like we expect you to cross the threshold of the door out there
And zip it up ladies, right?
That would be an exercise in futility, right? I mean
There would be a lot of rebuking going on, you know
I'm, just kidding. But you know, that's not what it's talking about. Obviously, okay
It's talking about you know, when it's time for the preaching to teach the word of god
It's you know, that's not a woman that's supposed to be doing it supposed to be a man
And he says, uh, well you're there in ephesians five let's move on here
Because I love how comfortable it's getting in here. It says in verse 21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of god
Wives verse 22 submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the lord
I mean so there we're looking that's the fourth passage that we're looking at where the bible's talking about wives being in subjection being in obedience
Submitting themselves to their husbands as also say at the law
Wives submit yourselves under your own husbands as unto the lord. Okay, and that's important
Right marriage is an earthly institution
That is going to come to it's going to come to an end when
In the millennial reign once christ is ruling and reigning on earth, you know, obviously they'll still be marriages and things like that
Among the people that are here, but as far as we're concerned in heaven those that are saved when we get there
You know marriage is no longer a thing
You know, it's not it's going to end. Okay
So that and women are being told here to submit unto their husbands as unto the lord
I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself here
But you know, we're all going to give an account and we're all going to be
rewarded according to our obedience to the word of god and I believe there will be
uh rewards for those in when it comes to their roles in marriage those that
You know fulfill their role in marriage. There will be reward for that. You know, there's going to be the gold silver and precious stone
You know that silver could you know, you know
I've heard it preached has been it was representative of our submission to the word of god because often when you see silver used in
the bible
It's used as the price of submission when you're you know
It was the price of you know, a slave was the price of a servant is often paid in silver
You know joseph was paid for with silver. Christ was betrayed with silver. They're being brought into the subjection of somebody else, right?
So that's silver
At the great, you know, not the great white throne
But at the at the judgment seat of christ when we're rewarded that silver, you know could be potentially
You know will be rewarded according to how much we submitted ourselves to the word of god
Meaning this that if a wife submits unto her husband as unto the lord and fulfills this role
There will be a reward for that. I believe that that's my take. It's my opinion
And I believe i'm right
It says there in verse 23
uh
For the husband is the head of the wife even as christ is the head of the church. I mean
Does it sound like there's much wiggle room there? Well, you know, it's it's a it's a 50 50 marriage
Is that how it is with us and jesus? Is that how it was with the church and the lord?
It's kind of 50 50, I mean we'll read through the word of god and we'll pick and choose, you know
What we agree with that's what we'll do down here
You know the parts that we like that's what we'll preach now. I know there's some churches that are exactly like that
You know, that's not right
You know, there's some parts we'll like we'll preach that but other things we'll do what we want, right?
No, we're supposed to be subject unto christ as a church and men are subject unto christ
He is our head as it says in verse 23. The husband is the head of the wife
Meaning the authority the head even as christ is the head of the church
He is the authority and he is the savior of the body therefore as the church is subject unto christ
So let the wives be to their own husbands in everything in everything, right?
As much as we as a church are to be subject to the word of god and to christ
So should a wife be subject unto her husband, okay?
And look, I know that's not popular and I know that might be kind of hard for people to to accept
But this is what the bible says
And another argument that people will bring up is will say well
The bible says in verse 21 of ephesians 5 that we're supposed to all submit one to another in the fear of the lord
right
But if you notice there at the end it says in verse 24
It says in everything when it's addressing wives submitting to their husbands, right?
Wives submit to their own husband being subject to their own husbands in everything, right?
That's that that phrase in everything is making a distinction from the wording in verse 21
Right, it doesn't say
In in everything at the end of verse 21 says in the fear of the lord
So are we supposed to be submitting ourselves one to another in everything?
No, we're supposed to be submitting ourselves one to another in the fear of the lord
Okay, because think about it if i'm if we're all submitting to one another all the time who's leading
Who calls the shots
You know, it's like, you know after you know after you know after you remember those cartoon those two chipmunks
I can't remember what it was
The one would hold open the door after you know after you know after you they're just submitting one to another
And no one goes anywhere, you know, they stand at the door. No one gets anything done
You know, so if we're all supposed to submit one to another
Who's going to lead? How are we going to get anything done? Who's going to call someone has to call the shots
So you see what i'm saying there in ephesians 5 how that that's a poor argument because at the end of verse 24
It's when it's addressing wives specifically
When it's narrowing it down to that role of a wife submitting unto her husband that situation it says in everything
Right, it says in everything that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands
It makes that distinction
Now again, a lot of ladies out there probably might not like that. I'm sure not there can be said of any ladies in this church
But you know a lot of the feminists out there today are gonna you know, that's just gonna
You know, that's just gonna
Make them want to just pull their hair out here in this kind of preaching
But you know, that's what the bible says now. I will say this as I was mentioned a moment ago
That marriage is an earthly institution. It's something that's going to come to an end. So don't worry ladies
All right
You know and I get it, you know, and it's a great responsibility for husbands
Okay, and you say well, what about the husbands? You know, when are you going to get after them?
Well, they're going to get they're going to get it theirs in a minute, too. So
Don't worry
But everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. Okay, because marriage will eventually come to until death do us part, right?
When we go to heaven it's over
And that should probably be a little bit of a motivation for us as husbands
To treat our wives. Well, that's why he commands us to love our husband to love our wives
Husbands don't love your husbands. If if you've got that problem, come see me, right?
I need to talk we need to have a little talk. Okay
But you know we as husbands ought to love our wives we're commanded to do that
you know and in the light of the fact that you know, we are going to be
Co-heirs with christ in heaven that we're both going to inherit the promises that we're both going to be rewarded husband and wife
We might want to treat our wives. Well here on earth
Because if we treat our wives poorly, you know, and if we use this selfishly this position this authority
We've been given to just serve ourselves, you know, there will not be a reward for that
Okay
And you know, you thought getting the silent treatment down here was bad
Imagine getting to heaven your wife wanting nothing to do with you for the rest of eternity
You know some husbands might look forward to that, you know
I not me. I I love my wife, you know
Hopefully she wants to hang around a little bit, you know, hopefully our mansions are near each other, you know
She wants a little space to herself
I don't that's fine. There won't be any cooking up there. You know, there won't be that the proximity won't be necessarily
Out of necessity, right?
It just because I want it, right? We just want that proximity
But you know, they're gonna have their own will up there
I mean they have their own will here too, obviously, but they're gonna
There's not going to be an authority over them other than christ in heaven. Okay
And again, this is something that is the result of the fall that we're reading about the result of sin coming into the world
And god had to set up a system that so where whereby man could
survive whereby
Families could be formed society could be held together
In a fallen world. Okay, somebody has to lead
In an organization in an institution there has to be a leader
Someone has to be appointed as the one that's going to make decisions
And their word is final. Okay
It just so happens according to the bible that that responsibility falls upon the husband upon men. Okay
Now I have you now go back to first peter chapter three you might as well read it since I had we read it this
Beginning of the service there. It says in verse one. Likewise. He wives being subjection
Unto your own husband to your own husbands. There it is again. There's the fifth passage now
Versus being taught that if any obey not the word that may also without the word be won by the conversation of the wives
Why they behold your chase conversation coupled with fear who's adorning?
Let it not be that outward adorning of plating of hair
And wearing of gold or putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart
In that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which in the sight of god of great price, okay
for after this
Manner in the old time the holy of women also who trust in god adorn themselves
Being in subject in their own husband to their own to their own husbands
So again paul is referring back to the old testament when he's teaching this
Verse six even as sarah obeyed abraham
Right, he's saying well, let me cite, you know, I cited adam and eve earlier now, let me cite
sarah and abraham
Calling him lord even as sarah obeyed abraham calling him lord
Now i'm not saying gotta go home and call your husband lord tonight
But you could
There'd be nothing wrong with it. You know, it probably it probably I don't know if my wife did it'd be kind of odd
I'd be like why are you calling me lord? You know, I don't know why I don't know why I don't know why I don't know why
Honey is good, you know honey works
Or deer, you know
In the lord there meaning like sir, right? That's how you would address somebody you have respect for
I mean we as men, you know, hopefully if we're smart we do that at work
We have a superior. We have a boss. We have a supervisor, you know, assuming they're a man
You know, we would address them as sir
You know, we would respect that position, okay
And you say oh well, what if you have a woman supervisor what then
Well, you know, I could still respect their authority that they've been given by society
Say do you have a problem with women? No, I don't I don't have a problem with it
If that's what they want to do with their lives go ahead
There's no skin off my back if women want to forsake their god-given roles and go out of the workforce and put on a power
Suit and click around a bunch of heels
Put their hair in a bun
You know and feel like you know big stuff because they got into some
Got into some you know institution and climbed the ranks somewhere like big whoop
Great
You know wonderful good for you. I'm glad you got what you wanted out of life
You know and I can go there and I can call I can call her ma'am just as easily
I call in somebody sir. I don't have a problem with it because it doesn't affect my life
I realize we're living in the 21st century. Okay, and this is the way of the world
All right
But this is what the bible says
And if for those of us who actually care about the word of god those that are actually concerned with what the bible says
This is how we ought to live our lives. This is how we ought to set up our households
You know unless you want to you can go ahead and go do what the world's doing
But you know, you're not going to have the blessings that come with living a christian life
Okay, and you can have all the problems that come with it
You can drop off your kids at daycare if you decide to have any kids
You know or you could just abort them, you know
You can abort them or if you decide to have your 1.8 children
You can drop them off at a daycare and just hope for the best
You can drop them off at some public institution to have them, you know, brainwashed. I mean educated
you know and you can and you can just go on your merry way when they come home one day and
They think they're you know
They're your little girl says she's a boy and your little boy says he's a girl
And they want to get hormone blockers and they want to you know, uh mutilate their bodies, you know
You can just go right along with everything else the world's teaching, you know
And I will hang out with my family and my little goshin here in egypt and it'll be all good and we'll be fine
But i'm just preaching this to god's people people that I assume care about what the bible says
Look at verse seven. Let's get on husbands a little bit. Likewise. He husbands dwell with them according to knowledge
Now giving honor unto the wife is under the weaker vessel and is being heirs together the grace of life that your prayers be not
Hindered so we're heirs together of the grace of life
We're both going to inherit we're both going to be rewarded as husbands and wives. I believe those roles will be rewarded. Okay
If we are obedient to them
And we as husbands, you know have to dwell with our wives
according to knowledge a knowledge of what and
It's kind of a tricky verse kind of understand, you know, what exactly does it mean by what does it mean to dwell?
According to knowledge with your wife
You know, you could say it's you know, you should know your wife. Well, yeah
I mean that's pretty good marriage advice even outside the bible. You should probably
You know what she likes know what she doesn't like what's her favorite color? What's her favorite bird?
You know, it's a cardinal gotcha, right? You should know these things. What's your favorite animal turtle, right?
What's at one point she hates it
You know, but you should know these things, right?
So I don't know that's that's pretty general. Like wouldn't you say that even the world knows that right?
You should know some things about your wife
And obviously things beyond what children talk about favorite color and stuff like that, you know
Those are silly examples
But what I think he's saying here and he says you should dwell with them according to knowledge
The knowledge of the fact that they are the weaker vessel and that we are
Heirs together the grace of life. We should dwell with them according to that knowledge
The knowledge that this authority that we have ends in heaven
you know and we need to
Also, you know dwell with them according to the knowledge
Of what god has commanded us as husbands
we are to love our wives and to
Sacrifice for them and to provide for them and to do those things dwell with them according to the knowledge
That you know, we have a role to fulfill as well, right dwell with them according to the knowledge
Giving honor unto the wife, right giving honor unto her
You know protecting the wife esteeming the wife, you know making the home a pedestal upon which you know, the wife can be
Placed, you know lifting up the wife right supporting her in that role. Okay
It's hard. It's hard work being a mother
It's not easy
You know, oh no, it's harder to go out and be a doctor and a lawyer and a marine biologist and a you know
It's hard to go fight climate change
Right, it's harder to it's hard to get in some public office and and make great social initiatives, you know
No, it's it's hard to be a wife
It's hard to be a mother. That's real hard work. Okay
And it's it's rewarding work
We ought to dwell with our wives according to that knowledge
And not just think well, you know being a wife, you know what?
You know, we ought to honor that position we ought to honor them as the weaker vessel
Okay
And everybody talked about how the respective roles will end and there will be an account given
Uh to our obedience to the bible and we as husbands ought to take that into account the bible says in colossians 3
Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them
Ephesians 5 where we just were
Husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church
And gave himself for it. So how should a husband what's his role? It's a sacrificial love that we have for our wives
Provide you know, what did christ do he provided salvation for us
He sanctify us with the cleansing of the water of the word, you know
We are there to sanctify to protect to provide for our families for our wives
Let's go through let's let's continue on in genesis though chapter number three
And move on to the man, okay
Move on to adam. So we just kind of looked at you know
You know what what eve brought upon all women, right?
If you don't like what the bible says you could bring it up take it up with your sister, you know eve
You girls can get together in heaven and talk about it. All right
She did that, you know, she was the one that was beguiled
And obviously adam, you know, you could say he had a role in it, too
He was accountable for that because he was not deceived. He knew he saw it taking place and allowed it to happen
Look at verse 17 and unto adam
He the lord said because thou was hark on the voice of thy wife and has eaten of the tree of which I commanded
The saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy sake
And sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life now
I already talked about this earlier when god put man in the garden and he commanded him to dress and to keep it
Right god had given man work to do before the fall. Okay, so work in and of itself is not some curse
It's not some dirty word
You know as much as today the society people just want to avoid work as much as they can right
It's just that now after the fall that that work is not going to be as productive as it once was
It's going to be more burdensome
he said, uh
He said cursed is the ground for thy sake and sorrow shalt eat of all the days of thy life
Thorns and thistles shall I bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread
Till thou return unto the ground
For out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return so man's lot in life
Is to work all the days of his life and then die
It's going to be a long hard life of work for men. That's the way it ought to be
That's that's the burden that we have to bear
We are the ones that have to go out there until the ground proverbially speaking today, you know, we're not living in
you know enough in a society that's
Made up mostly of farmers, you know, we're not living in agrarian society
We're living, you know in modern times, you know, we still have to go
Till the ground so to speak we still have to go out there and bring home the bacon. That's our role and that's hard work
You know work and employment
Labor is a major aspect of men's lives
It's a huge part of a man's life
And it ought to be okay. It should not
Not be a small thing. It's not something that we should just think. Oh, that's what we do
And uh, and then we have all these other things that we do and look I understand that we're living in a very
uh, you know
Prosperous, you know, uh, uh, what's the word?
prosperous times
Living in very prosperous times where a man can go out and maybe work 40 hours and have a lot of free time
okay, that's but that's that's because of
Society that's because of the prosperity that we have
You know, it used to be that man's life was an up it dawn to dusk grind
Out there farming out there working hard out there building things making things happen
You worked all day and you went home you ate dinner
You went to bed and you got up and did it again, you know
And that you know, that's by and large been the way that society has operated and obviously there's still some of that today
But we're getting farther and farther away from that in at least in the society that we're in
We've become very decadent. We have a lot of free time
Where men are able to just spend their time doing a lot of different hobbies different different things. Look i'm not against those things
but
You know when it when it comes when the rubber meets the road if a man needs to provide for his house
He needs to provide for his house
It means if he's got to go out and get two jobs go get two jobs
I'd rather work around the clock and send my wife out there
Put a name tag on her and ask have her ask people if they want fries with that or whatever
I'd rather have her at home with my kids than to you know farm out the raising of my children to
public school system
You know, I would rather go work around the clock than do that. Okay
It's a major aspect of men's lives, okay
Something we're supposed to be doing
Men ought to be working. I know I kind of already touched on this
So i'm going to take this in a different direction. Okay, and i'm going to address an issue
that we have
You know all over major metro areas in this country in many of them
But it's particular it's a problem here and that's homelessness
And vagrancy and idleness and and just we're being we're just being inundated overrun
by bums
And you know and when I was reading up on some things it's just amazing even how soft language has gotten
Soft, you know that that people women okay again because proves my point
I was making earlier women that are in these you know
These these positions where they're deciding policy and how we're going to address
These issues are using such soft language to describe these vagrants and that's what they are. They're vagrants
Let's bring back some harsh terms
So you don't want people won't grow up and think well I want to be unhoused
Well, i'm not a vagrant i'm just unhoused
You're a bum is what you are
You're a you're a blight on this city is what you are
Okay, bring these terms back so that less people, you know
They'll let the stigma be there so that people it'll be a deterrent to people
hopefully
Because some people choose that life and I understand, you know people get into situations and things are out of control
But there's a lot of people out there. They choose that life
They choose drug addiction. They choose drunkenness. They choose rebellion. They blow off their parents. They blow off their elders
They don't want to listen to anybody. They're a bunch of rebels and that's where it leads them
And then we have to deal with it
What are you talking about?
Anyone that is driven down this road knows exactly what i'm talking about
If you don't believe me just go out to the end of the parking lot turn right and start walking east on grant
And try not to get mugged
You know and make sure you bring plenty of loose change because you're going to get asked about a 300 times before you get
You know a few miles past the 10 here for money
Okay, even i'm going to pick up the donuts down here down the road this morning
And i'm trying to get in the drive-through and there's some derelict some bum
You know with his walker
Right in the drive-through and then I got another one coming across the parking lot. I had to stop the van had nowhere to go
And not not they just both looked at me just kept going right like they're not even gonna move out of my way
So I crept around the one guy and of course he goes
You know
Just starts waving
Saw another one down here, you know on the off-ramp nodding off sitting on a curb on an off-ramp that looks real safe
Because we know how everyone in this town just drives so carefully
Always how people today are just so alert behind the wheel not distracted at all
Just sitting there nodding off about ready to fall, you know head first
Below, you know, someone's line of vision into traffic and he snapped he and he would come up
He would come out of it just enough to wave
That's what he was doing
And look, it's sad and I feel bad for those people. I'm not i'm not under
Underestimating the you know, the the grip of addiction that they're in
It's a it's a terrible vicious cycle that they're in but you know
What are we going to do about it?
You know, what's the solution
Okay
And people are scrambling to come up with them if they care at all, you know
People are coming up with these so-called solutions
My I would argue that they're just more concerned about the money that they get from having this problem
You know, they're just oh look at all the homeless we have
All we need is more. We just need millions of federal funding to come our way
So we can employ a bunch of other women
You know, we can employ a bunch of other people a bunch of social workers to figure out how we're going to fix the problem
of the unhoused
It's a joke
You know homeless homelessness homelessness vagrancy
Idleness is a sin. It's a sin
God's command you say oh, this is a curse that god put upon man in genesis 3 no god commanded man
You're going to work all the days of your life in the sweat of thy face. Thou shall eat bread
Thou shalt eat bread in the sweat of thy face
You want to eat get to work? That's what god said in genesis 3
And nothing's changed
So when you have people that are just getting all these handouts who refuse to work
to sin
period
They say but no the bible says to help the poor that's not the poor folks
Poor people are people that work hard and can't get ahead
Poor people are people in third world countries
Where you know, they they work all day for less than minimum wage and they you know
They barely have enough to you know, pay the rent on their their shack with the wood floor with a dirt floor
You know where they're going and trying to buy a live chicken for you know
Three hundred dollars, you know what I mean? I'm not coming up the exact numbers here
But that's who the poor are of this world
It's not people in america, you know, I okay
Maybe some of the reservations which is a system that should just be abandoned at this point in my opinion
You know these people that they don't get the health care that they need they're out in a food desert
It's it's ridiculous. That whole system was born out of oppression. I can't believe anyone wants to continue living like that
Okay
And I know i'm just you know, I don't know if i'm making anybody mad here but out there in internet land
You know some people might get a hold of this and get upset, but I really don't care
Okay, i'm expressing some strong opinions, but you know, we've got a real problem on our hands today
With this this vagrancy, that's what i'm going to start calling is vagrancy bring that back
It's a sin it's a sin to be idle. It's a sin to be homeless. It's a sin to be a vagrant and to not work
Go to second thessalonians three we all know it here because we all know this is my hobby horse
Well, you bring this up an awful lot. Well, you know, it's because I see it everywhere I go
You know, I I i'm at least four or five miles off the 19th
So I don't have to put up with much of it until I get a few miles in on my commute
But you know, we've got those big culverts right out four miles out
And those big concrete culverts like eight foot wide in diameter these huge culverts that have just been
You know out in this empty lot right in the corner where you turn to go down to my house
And when every time it rains the blue tarps go on it
And if they don't do anything, you know, and and then eventually, you know
The camp gets set up
And then the trash starts going everywhere
And then they start showing up at my park where my kids play and and I and I hate it
I'm gonna let my kids go play. I have to worry about some, you know, bums shooting up next to the playground or something
You know, I bring it up a lot because it's a serious problem
It's a problem in the city. It's a problem in you know, the southwest it's a problem in california. It's a problem in portland
Boy, is it a problem in portland
This vagrancy and it's a problem because you have a bunch of idiots running things
You bunch of have have a bunch of soft people running things a bunch of touchy feely people who are too afraid to just
Call it like it is
And have some tough love
Look at second thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6 now
We command you brethren in the name of our lord jesus christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother
That walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us
he's saying the tradition that we you've received of us the tradition of
laboring night and day as he's going to say here in a minute of working with our own hands of not being
being chargeable in anybody of working
Verse seven for you know how you ought to follow us for we behave not ourselves disorderly
So what's the disorderliness that we're supposed to withdraw from?
Neither did we eat any men's bread for not but wrought with labor and travail night and day
That we may not be chargeable unto any
He's saying we were not walking disorderly. We had our we we had we were
Had ourselves in order right? We were squared away. We were taking care of business
Not because we don't have not power but to make ourselves in a sample unto you to follow us
He's saying we could have received wages we could have taken money from the church
But we didn't to set an example among you to that so that others would not be disorderly in the church
For even when we're with you verse 10 this we commanded you if any would not work neither should he eat
Because that's it, you know we
In the past the church band has had you know, the vanity plate, you know, or the kjv only or
Post-trib, I think we should put I obviously can't fit the whole verse here, but second thessalonians 3 10
It was it would be appropriate one in this town
Maybe some people would be behind the church van at some of these off-ramps and look that verse up
Instead of handing these people money out the window so they can go get their next fix
They'd say oh, yeah, that guy needs to hit rock bottom
That's what the bible says if any would not shouldn't doesn't work neither should he eat that's what the bible says
We
Hear that our some which walk among you disorderly working not at all. So that's the disorderliness
Not working. Okay
And look, I understand we're living in a time in a day and age where people can find themselves in positions
Where they don't have to work
You know, they get retirements pensions and different things, but i'll say this
You know that that's it's not a sin to take those things and do enjoy those things and that's the fruit of your labor
That's what you've earned
But stay busy working do something
You know, i've i've already thought about it if and when I should be able to retire someday
You know, i'm already talking about i'm gonna volunteer here. I'm gonna go there
I'm gonna work be able to work more for the church and do things, you know
I'm not just gonna sit around and be lazy and not do anything. I'm gonna have work to do
You know, maybe even just i'll i'll go be the greeter at walmart
You say nobody wants you as a greeter at walmart
Right i'll go get a job as security kicking these bums off the property or something like that. I don't know right
The point is this, you know is that you know, obviously the day and age we're living in
You know, a lot of people can find themselves in positions where they don't have to work, but it's still a good idea to work
Because that's what god has given man to do
You know thou shalt eat bread and the sweat of thy face
God has it is good that the man should work. Okay from the creation from before the fall. God has ordained men to do things
It will help with people's self-esteem
It'll help with people's health and mental issues
I mean whenever i find myself not working if i've ever been in between jobs or something like that. That's a miserable time for me
Anybody's experienced that knows what i'm talking about
As a man you gotta it's it's not fun but my wife hates it more than one reason, right?
Not not only are the bills not getting paid. You're a you're a grump more than usual. You're even worse than normal
right
You know, and another thing about working is it helps you learn to play nice with others
It makes you a more sociable person
You learn teaches you how to get along and work with people. Okay
A lot of benefits to working besides just making money. Okay
And the bible's saying here when it comes to
People who don't work they shouldn't eat
I mean, I don't know how else to say it. The bible is so crystal clear on this
And yet we have people, you know, just a couple weeks ago coming down here
Pulling up in a pickup with a bunch of free food and feeding these lazy bums
Feeding these vagrants handing out food handing out drinks to a bunch of people who haven't worked and who knows how long
It's a sin
It's a sin to feed those people
Oh, that doesn't sound very christian. What I mean, are we not reading the same bible here?
You know, and you know, he said why do people do that? Why do churches do that?
You know and the police I for you know, police have said the biggest problem with you know with with homelessness
Why is it so bad is because of college students?
And churches they feel bad and they just hand these people money. That's what the 10p police department said
When somebody called them and said hey do something about this
Oh, we would love to our biggest problem is is all these college students who just have a soft spot probably a bunch of girls
Probably a bunch of young women with their head full of a bunch of feminist ideas and all their soft language
You know their touchy feelingness
Instead of you know, you know directing that compassion of their own children or something like that
They're out there feeling bad for some vagrant some bum some derelict who doesn't deserve to eat
You know and then churches
Because a lot of churches today. They just want to go out there and be seen of men. Look at us
Look how compassionate we are
You know, I even heard of one church that decided to invite the homeless in for thank for a thanksgiving meal
Yeah, who wants to eat around these people
Did you de-louse them first?
Did you did you scrub them down with a you know, six foot brush
On the parking lot before you let them in your church
Did you pat them down for weapons and eat us because a lot of these people are violent offenders
There are people that you know committed horrific crimes and then got out of prison
And now they're on the street
Oh, let's bring them into the church show everybody how compassionate we are feed them some turkey
Well, that'll that'll solve everything
That let's go down there with a bunch of styrofoam so they can they can you know
Take two bites out of it and throw it in the in the cat, you know, the the river over here
It's ridiculous, you know, why would anyone do that so they can do this?
Look how look how good I am so they can feel good about themselves
If they cared about these people they'd let them hit rock bottom
And stop feeding them
The only people that pissed me off more than these bums are the people that I see hand them money
Where's my bumper sticker don't feed the bums
You say it's don't feed the bears no the bums
Don't feed them the bible commands you not to feed them
He says in verse 12 now them that are such we command and exhort by our lord, jesus christ
That with quietness they work and eat their own bread
So, well, I don't know that's gonna solve anything
Well, you know, I I don't think I don't see society doing any better
I mean how many billions of dollars do you think they've poured into this problem?
It's doing a lot of good, isn't it?
And so well does god do we have any do we have any pro do we have any solutions?
Does does god have a social services program?
Yes, he does. You're not gonna like it though
You're not gonna like it
Go to deuteronomy 21
Now let me preface by saying this but i'm about to read i'm not suggesting
That we round up the homeless and start executing them
But I am saying if this was put into practice this would be a deterrent this would be preventative maintenance
if if
If deuteronomy 21 18 and onwards was put into practice these people would even get to the streets
Okay
Well, it says in verse 18 of deuteronomy 21 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. So they have this rebellious stubborn son who they're correcting
They're beating him. They're trying to get him to do what he's supposed to do
It's not talking about young children. So i'm not a grown man
It's only got adult children and it's interesting that it's it's specifically applied to a man
Because that's what most of these bums are are men
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him unto the elders of the city into the gate of his
Place and say give him free needles
You know give him shelter take him off our hands
You know, give him give him free health care like they're trying to do in california, maybe they've already done it
They're literally want to give the homeless health care
Free health care because they can't pay for it. They don't have any money
Any money they get they're gonna drink or shoot up or smoke
Oh, but it's free health care free it's there's no such thing as a free lunch folks who's paying for that californians
Who's paying for that? You know the federal you know the
The federal government, I guess when you can just make up money and just print money
You know, it's just another you can do that kind of thing. It's probably just another excuse to tax us
Is that what they go and they say to the elders when they have the stubborn rebellious son
Oh, you know take him off our hands
They shall say to the elders cities this our son is stubborn and rebellious he will not obey our voice
He is a glutton and a drunkard
Drunkenness, he's a glutton. He has no self-control
He's stubborn. He's rebellious. He doesn't want to work
He just wants to lay all around all day and just fill his belly and get drunk and do drugs
Then all and all the men in the city shall stone him with stones
And it didn't say that all the men in the city shall stone him with stones
They'll get him stoned, you know, and we'll send him down to the methadone clinic
You know legal, you know, give him free drugs
No stone him with stone so that he died
So thou shall put evil away from among you and all israel shall hear and fear
Well, that's not very nice
Well, you know, that's what the bible says
And this would put evil away from us and notice also he says that all israel shall hear and fear
How many times you think you'd have to do that before people got the message
Now look at verse 22 and if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, which is the one we just talked about
Glut being a being a gluttonous drunkard stubborn and rebellious son
Is a sin that's worthy of death. Okay, so the story with this this this
This gluttonous rebel doesn't end here
If a man have committed serving worthy of death like we just read he and he be
Be to be put to death
And thou hang him on a tree, right? So after you've killed him hang him on a tree
What's the point of that? He's already dead. It's so everybody else can see him
So he can die a shameful death and everybody else can take heed
You know like
Back when they used to draw and quarter people and then send their body parts to the four, you know
Four quarters of the kingdom, you know, this is what happens to so these types of people when you come here
That's what it's that's that kind of a thing. Oh you want to be a glutton you want to be a drunkard?
You want to be stubborn? You want to be rebellious rebellious you want to refuse to work?
You want to just be a litter bug out there shooting up, you know?
Uh heroin you want to be out there as a litter bug smoking whatever fentanyl, you know
You know today often the drugs will do the work for you
You don't even need the stones or the elder the city, you know, they're they're getting stoned to death
You know
shooting up
Taking fentanyl or whatever else is in that crap today
You want to do all that you want to be that way? Okay. Well, you're going to die
We're going to you know, the elders the the the local municipality
The city government is going to execute you publicly and then we'll hang your body up on a tree for everyone to see
Wonder how many times you have to do that before all the other young men that were contemplating that life would go
Yeah, you know what? I don't I don't want to do that
Well, I just don't think that that's a very good way to go about it. Oh, okay
Let's then let's just go back and you know, let's just use nancy reagan's policy. Just say no
Well, someone offers you drugs kids just just say no that'll do it
the war on drugs
You know that that'll be a good deterrent just have dare get a dare t-shirt
You know, just have a cop go there and just tell kids don't do drugs. Just say no
Or, you know, how about how about the ad this is your brain on drugs who remembers that one the egg frying
This is your brain
This is your brain on drugs
any questions
Yeah, some kids are like cool man, where do I get them?
That's not a deterrent right this would be a deterrent
Some gluttonous drunken bum his corpse hanging on a tree after it's been stoned to death
That would probably you know, you say oh I can't believe anyone would do that no one's ever done this
And you know, it wouldn't surprise me if this was never done in the entire history of mankind if this was never god said to do it
I doubt it was ever done. We never read an instance of it taking place in the scripture
But don't you think that'd be a better deterrent instead of some egg frying in a pan
It was a brain like rotting had maggots, you know, this is your brain
This is your brain when it's six feet under being devoured by worms because you were executed
Any questions
Uh, nope, that pretty much clears it up don't do drugs. Nope
And again i'm not saying that's what we should go do to all these people
but i'm saying if this was what was going on if there were actually
A government that would follow through on this and there was actually godly parents who cared enough about you know, everybody else
And having a godly society
It wouldn't even get to this point
You say well, what are we supposed to do about the people we have now, I don't know it's not my problem
I'm not in the position to make that that call, uh, bring back bring back the labor camp for back the asylum
Because that was so inhumane i'm not suggesting we start lobotomizing or you know doing electroshock therapy
But maybe round them all up, you know, take them up to some farm and make them work for cheap labor
What if they refuse to work beat them?
Whip them
I mean, that's how that's that used to be the law. I mean up until like the 1960s 70s vagrancy was a public crime
Punishable by law you can find yourself in a chain gang building the road
Just for wandering around with nothing to do just being a vagrant
But oh, oh, oh we are so much more compassionate today with our unhoused
Right, we've got a bunch of soft women in office
Who just are just so compassionate just so caring
But other people's kids that have grown into a bunch of you know, lazy jerks
I say round them up and put them on a work camp
I mean if they're hiring for the position i'll help put me on horseback. Give me a bullwhip
I'll even put the hat on big cop glasses
Get that straw, you know, they always have the straw in their mouth chewing on a piece of grass
Sit on the horse, right get to work
Get on the bus
Going to work today
Right
I mean the bible talks about and i'm running out of time
But in deuteronomy 15 it talks about you know
A man that would when a man would sell himself basically into what we would call slavery or servitude, right?
He would sell himself into that in order to work off debt
And the bible teaches i'm not going to take the time to develop all this but the bible talk about you know
You had a you could beat your servant
I mean how else are you going to make somebody who doesn't want to work work
You know swift kick in the pants
The bible says in proverbs 26 a whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back
A bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back a rod for the fool's back
People that you know refuse to work want to be bums want to be derelicts
Want to be out there just you know, how about this? How about give them a job, you know?
Get them off the street
You know get them cleaned up put them in some you know housing somewhere
In by force arrest all of them
Oh, that was the law
For the longest time. I mean that was colonial law that came over with the europeans
You couldn't just be a vagrant wandering around. It's like what are you doing? You need some work to do
We'll find you some work
And they'd put people to work and make something make some useful out of round them all up
Rest them and then when they've sobered up a little bit have them go pick up all their trash
Have them go around this town and pick up all the trash that's blowing all over this desert
This beautiful place
Look the sonoran desert's a beautiful place
It's beautiful and these bums are trashing it
This could be a beautiful city
If it weren't for all these bums trashing the place
It's gonna be a beautiful stretch of road
You know and I see and I but I see other people I see other good people go down here
Down to this canal and bag up these bums trash while they're just sitting there watching them do it
Piling up black bag after black bag after black bag full of trash that these bums just leave around
Don't even have the character to walk, you know, 200 feet down to the gas station and put their trash in a receptacle
Give them a job doing that after you beat some sense into them
That'll be my platform that I run on folks when I run for mayor
I think i've got about maybe a dozen votes
right
Oh, but you know, i'm i'm so in you know, so uncompassionate
You know the bible so barbaric
You know, what's what's the what's the real solution
Maybe we should go talk to our mayor. I don't even want to say her name
You know, the only good thing about her being re-elected is that she's only got four more years
You don't have to worry about it happening again
Who knows what other democratic idiot we're going to get in there next
Not that the republicans are much better they don't have any solutions either it's just more of the same
But it's i'm just going to read real quick. She when she became mayor
This is just article if you want to know come talk to me
The city when she became mayor the city didn't have a strategy place to address affordable housing and homelessness. Romero said there I said it
So she directed the city's housing department to come up with a housing affordability strategy for tucson
Unsheltered homelessness, isn't that kind of redundant unsheltered homelessness
That's a term that they use repeatedly unsheltered homelessness
That's what it means to be homeless to not be sheltered. Okay
Unsheltered homelessness is more complex than just removing people from the street. Oh, no, it's not
Oh, no, it's not it's not that complex
You get a big bus
And you get a bunch of guys with nightsticks and fire hoses and nets
And tranquilizers whatever you need lassos and you round them up it really is that what's the problem they're on the streets
Could the solution beat really be as simple as just getting them off the street? Yes, it could
You know go go on these huge plots of ground take your billions of dollars your millions of dollars
That you're getting from the federal government and build a giant housing complex build an asylum like the one we had in northern, michigan
Huge complex where they had their own farm
They had their own plumbing. They were put to work they learned skills
And they and you went there for being a drunk
It wasn't just crazy people back then if you were just a drunk on the street
You're just a wino just a hobo. That's where you would end up and you would sober up and they'd put you to work
Round them all up and take them to a place like that
On to the next issue
Done
Oh, it's more complex than just removing them from the street
No, that's the problem. They're on the street. It really is that simple
Under her leadership the city implemented a housing first program
Which places people in housing and then layers on services from non-profit partners for mental health and substance abuse disorders
PTSD treatment for veterans and other needs
You know, you could do all that in one facility
Many other programs have upfront requirements for sobriety or require people to live in large groups. So it's a volunteer. That's the problem
Oh, we got all these programs. We got all this money to spend on you bums
We got all this taxpayer money all this federal funding to spend on you
If you just come down to these places all these nonprofits are going to take care of you, but you got to sober up first
But what was the problem back there in deuteronomy
He's a rebel and stubborn he was stubborn and rebellious and a drunken a drunkard and a glutton
They don't want to sober up
If you as soon as you say you could come in and get the help you need but you got to sober up
First they'll say no, thanks
You don't think these people can't go find services
Oh because there's just none out there
There's tons of services there's tons of shelters they're not there because that's not where they want to be
They want to be on every bus bench
Smoking crack or I know that's like 80s 90s. I don't know what they're smoking today
You know under under their, you know, piss sodden blanket their filth sodden blankets in public in the middle of the day
In front of everybody it's disgusting
You know, but but you know, let's just keep trusting these people to solve the issue and i'm not holding my breath
There are an estimated
2209 people experience experiencing homelessness in pima county choosing to be derelicts and bums
according to numbers from the tucson pima collaboration to end homelessness
Pima county has seen a three hundred percent increase in individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness being vagrants from
2018 to 2023
Not that long five years three hundred percent increase
Uh
Whatever you're doing miss mayor ain't working
Whatever you're doing city council ain't working
But i'm sure it's lying in a lot of pockets
I'm sure there's a lot of people with nice titles and nice benefits and retirement plans
and health care and paychecks
That are sitting, you know, I bet there's a lot of power suits in their closets
The love of money is the root of all evil folks
Romero said that the city has been trying the same programs for homelessness for 40 years
And it was time to try adding housing first a list of programs. Just just throw more money at it
Just keep throwing money at this problem
And I love what she's quoted as saying it's a one piece of the solution and not the silver bullet
Anyone else find that ironic just talking about a silver bullet
There's hey, there's your there's your solution
Deuteronomy 21
Make a public example out of somebody and watch how quickly these things clean up
And that's exactly why i'll never be in office
All right, this sermon will come back to haunt me if I ever ever tried
Not that i'd ever want to be i've thought about just doing a whole series of sermons on politicians in the scripture. It's pretty interesting
No, let's let's just give them more stuff
What's the answer, uh, let's give them clean needles let's give them health care. Let's give them methadone. Let's give them free housing
Let's get them free. Let's give them free bus rides. You know, that's another thing here in tucson stay off the buses
families
You know, it's free for everybody
Guess who's taking the most advantage of that?
Who do you think's riding buses on a rainy day like today?
Where do you think all those bums went
You know, once the overpasses got filled up or you know, the culvert was too far to walk stop on a bus
In portland, they literally have a bus that will go around and keep these bums warm in the winter
They can just ride 24 7. Oh, you need to stay warm. Just hop on the bus
Tucson public transit to remain free
I've got to read it's a short read. I know i'm going long. This is a short read. It's funny
It's sad but funny. I I like the author. I he's just stating the facts
But I feel like if you kind of read between the lines
He's kind of he's kind of outing people a little bit here
Tucson's buses and streetcars
I believe this is written in 2022
And streetcars will remain free to ride through the end of the year and possibly longer as far as I know that it's still the case
someone just told me was
when the corona
Coronavirus pandemic was raging two years ago tucson followed the lead of other cities by eliminating transit fees
So no bus fares during during covid
Besides encouraging people to ride it reduced interaction between drivers and passengers who could board at the back of the bus
To remain to maintain social distancing
Tuesday the mayor and council continued the policy, you know
There's our mayor again continue the policy through the end of this year over the objections of teamsters union
That claims city buses have turned into rolling shelters for people experiencing homelessness
A letter from the local
Teamsters local 104 that's the the union that that the bus drivers are part of claimed that a surge in homeless riders
Drove many community members away from public transit because they didn't feel safe
Oh, oh, well, they're just experiencing homelessness. What's the problem?
The union claimed without fare charges being charged transit vehicles had become quote a mobile refuge
From the elements frequented by drug users the mentally ill and violent offenders
Oh, that's the compassionate move let these people just remain on the street
Wallowing in their own filth and their own and their own and just wallowing and and their own misery and dying a slow death
Saying I can't believe you would suggest that anyone would ever execute anybody for any reason that's exactly what they're doing to these people
Except it's a much more slow and excruciating a death to die from drug addiction
and exposure
What do you that's a death sentence these policies these policies are a death sentence to these people. It's not helping them
Oh, well if they just sober up they're not going to that's the nature of addiction
You can't you can't just say one day the next day. Well, i'm just going to give up this incredibly
Addictive substance it's impossible people have to literally be locked away
In rooms and go through withdrawals and monitored medically to get to get clear of these drugs
And the damage is that's done is permanent. It's it's it's horrific. It's terrible
But you know, we can't just dangle a carrot out them. Oh you want help it's over here
These people ought to be rounded up and put on asylum put on a work camp good night
You wouldn't have to put them on a farm today
You could just put them, you know in a in some kind of a warehouse where they could just make things
You know, they could make pants for all the other men that have enough character to get up and go to work every day
They could go make the tools that we use
Give them a job doing something indoors and climate controlled
Or we could just let them ride around the bus
And then they have these geniuses that pipe up however
Because so the the teamsters they're objecting, you know, hey, it's the mentally ill it's the drug addicts
It's the violent offenders that are taking advantage of the free transit
mayor
However, transit advocate kylie
Walczak testified the problem goes deeper than bus fares. Oh, I wonder how many how many
Thousand tens of thousands of dollars you paid at a university kylie to figure that out
It took a genius to go. Oh, it's the problem isn't bus fares
Oh, is it really is it really hard on the bus?
Our society in general is experiencing widespread trauma from pandemic massive inequality poverty and other stresses. It's it's trauma
This is what i'm talking about. This is why women shouldn't be leading things
Because they don't have the stones just say round them up put them to work
No, it's oh oh they experience trauma
You know, i'm sure they have experienced trauma and you know, they can work that out while they're working
The effects from the stressors on people surviving on them on the margins are not limited how people treat each other in public transport
whatever
The teamsters complain that traditional transit riders students and workers have been replaced by what they call unhoused and displaced individuals
So the students the workers, you know, the people are actually trying to make some of themselves. They can't even take advantage of this
And they'd be they'd be paying customers. They'd gladly pay the fares
To ride the bus and make use of they have need because they're actually trying to do something in their lives
They can't do it because they don't know if they're going to get knifed
You know or talk to about astral projection or you know have you know, someone with a tinfoil hat's going to try and talk them
You know tell them that you know, the the cat's breast smells like cat food. I mean, it's crazy stuff, right?
They can't go on there because all the nut bags that are on there
These unhoused and displaced individuals and I could tell these teamsters are just they're having to use this this lingo
Council member kevin dole said homelessness is a societal problem that isn't caused by free transit. Oh, thanks kevin
Thanks for chiming in on that one. Oh, it's the free trans. It's not the problem
Duh
I don't this is him. I don't think it happens because it's free
You should have stopped with I don't think
I think there there are people in our community who are having problems, whatever his words not mine
Whatever his words not mine
And they're on a bus and they cause problems
He's saying kevin, you know these and these are the people that are leading
These are the people that are filling these roles that all the tax dollars are going to to solve this problem
This is this is what these geniuses are coming up with. Well, I don't think that the bus fare is being free or the problem
I think the problem is that these people that have problems get on the buses that are free and cause problems
And you you don't want to hear me say it because it's asinine
Makes no it's like yeah, duh. What's next water's wet?
the sky's blue
He asked the city manager to look for ways to address the problem just kick the can down the road
Just you know
Pass the buck
On to the next, you know on to the next person who's just been appointed to figure it out
The council the council continued the free fare policy at least through the rest of this year as part of the two billion dollar
Budget, I know i'm going long, but I gotta get this off my chest folks
This has been
It's it's coming out all the time now
And it's a seething
Go back to genesis. We'll wrap up
I promise just just a minute. I just want to make one last point. I gotta wrap up. Genesis 3
What are we learning tonight
That people have work to do
We as human beings have roles to fulfill
God ordained
Women have work to do as wives and mothers
Men have work to do as husbands as fathers as providers as members of society as leaders
We have work to do
And the world doesn't have the solution to this problem so don't hold your breath
I I just believe it's too far gone at this point
Everyone's just so much more compassionate than god so much more caring and so much more loving
Than god
That it's just so much more caring to just let these people
Die a slow death on the street than to actually do what would be good for them
At the very least, you know, don't you dare give these people money ever don't do it
You're not helping them
The world's answer isn't working
You say it doesn't sound very compassionate
Well, let's let's let's look at these last few verses and make an application here
So after the curse is given out it says in verse 20 and adam called his wife's eve because she was the mother of all living
Until adam also and his wife the lord make coats of skins and clothes then we talk about that on thursday
And lord god said behold the man has become as one of us us us
eternity to no good and evil and now let us put now lest he put forth his hand
And take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever
Therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden to till the ground whence he was taken
So when god sees them in their sinful condition
What does he do? He puts up a big sign that says no loitering
No vagrancy in the garden of eden. You're not allowed here, right?
Verse 24 so he drove out the man and placed him at the at the east of the garden of eden
Cherrybims with a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life
God banishes them to a death sentence
Right
Because that's what's going on here right lest he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life
Is eaten of the knee of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
We don't want him to keep eating of the tree of life and live forever
in this state
We need to banish him. We need to kick him out
We need to kick him out of the garden and so that he can go and die
right
You can see how that's kind of a tie-in tonight, don't you?
Tough love is what's needed when people are in sin
When people are in a fallen poor state when people are
Racked with sin they need tough love. They need somebody to say no
No, you can't have a handout you can't have eternal life
You have to go and it's under under the punishment of death
Right, that's what the the cherrybims
With the flaming sword represent you try to come back and you're done
So god in his mercy banishes them from the garden of eden think about it this is a merciful act
It wasn't like oh, I just can't stand to have him in my sight get him out of here
It's like lest they eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of the tree of life and live
Forever, let's get him out of here. That was an act of mercy kicking them out
So they wouldn't just stay in that state that they could be redeemed that that christ could come of the seat of the woman
So that salvation could play out. Okay, that had to happen. They had to go and start that right?
God banished them from the garden mercifully
What would he do? How do we apply this to the sermon tonight true compassion?
Does not enable perpetual sin
Does not enable perpetual sin true compassion does not enable sin, okay
You want to be compassionate
Stop enabling people
That's what I see god doing here at the end. So i'm not going to enable adam and eve in this state
I'm, not going to let them continue to eat of the tree
Of life they got to go so that they can die
And their and the seed can come of the woman and man can be redeemed
That was compassion that was mercy
When god banished them and didn't sit there and just condone what they had done and enable it
You know and and we could stand to learn some things like that from that as a society
And it's something society used to understand for a very long time
Until people got out of their roles
Until everybody got liberated
And started got all touchy feely and he got a bunch of snowflakes
In these public offices who don't have the spine
To give real justice to give real mercy and real compassion to the people that need it the most
Let's go to closing word of prayer
Lord again, thank you for this great book lord. Thank you for its timeless truths
That even all these thousands of years later
We can read the story and learn so much we can apply it to the times that we're living in
And lord, I pray that you would help us to be
Hard workers lord in each of our respective roles as as wives as mothers as husbands of fathers as employers
Lord as employees that we would we would labor hard
And lord that we would be open-handed that we would give to those that are truly in need lord
That help us to have discernment and know what's best for people and when to withhold
So that people can get the the true help that they need we ask these things in christ's name. Amen
All right. Let's go ahead and sing one more song before we go
If you could open your song books
Song number 64 shall we add up the river song number 64
Oh
Hey
Yes
Oh
Yes
Oh
So