Deuteronomy chapter number 23 starting on verse number one there the Bible reads
he that is wounded in the stones or at this privy member cut off shall not
enter into the congregation of the Lord a bastard shall not enter into the
congregation of the Lord even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into
the congregation of the Lord now these are a couple of verses that you're
probably gonna never hear preached a lot of churches I was thinking about this
today that you could probably live an entire Christian life in the United
States of America and I was wondering what percentage of Christians probably
go their whole life without ever even seeing these verses in the Bible let
alone hearing a sermon on them because let's face it most Christians haven't
even read their Bible cover to cover I would guess and I've been around church
my whole life I've grown up in a Christian home I've been to lots of
churches I would say at least 99% of saved Christians have never read the
Bible cover to cover in their life even if they've been saved for 10 years even
if we just were limited to Christians who've been saved for a decade or longer
99% have not read the whole book cover to cover sadly it's a shame I believe in
our church the vast majority of people who've been saved and in church for
years at our church have read the Bible cover to cover and if not then I would
encourage you to make sure that this coming year you read the Bible cover to
cover in a year because it only takes about 15 to 20 minutes a day to read it
in a calendar year there are all kinds of charts and plans online that could
help walk you through this it's like three or four chapters a day 15 20
minutes a day you've got to read the whole Bible cover to cover to know the
will of the Lord to know who God is to have the full picture and not just part
of the picture and a lot of churches are not giving you the full picture because
they would shy away from passages like these and then if you're not reading the
Bible on your own well you're just not gonna get this teaching and you say well
pastor Anderson you know I could have just gone my whole life without reading
these verses and I think I would have been okay but all scripture is given by
inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine there are valuable truths to be
learned here from these verses now when we're reading the Bible we always want
to start with the literal interpretation because we want to make sure that we
don't skip the literal and go straight to those that are figure figurative and
symbolic but of course the Bible is so deep there are a lot of figurative and
symbolic interpretations as well and in fact when you're reading Old Testament
laws that maybe don't make a lot of sense to you or you don't really quite
understand why they are the way they are well it's probably because of the
symbolism that's going to come from it and the things that are figurative that
are so important and that's why God has some of these commandments the way they
are now let's start with verse number one it says here he that is wounded in
the stones obviously this is talking about his private parts right enough
said or hath his privy member cut off talking about another aspect of those
same private parts shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord now what is
the Bible saying here it's basically saying that someone who has been
mutilated in that way whether accidentally or on purpose this person
cannot come to the house of God in the Old Testament now what we have to
understand is that the house of God in the Old Testament is different from the
house of God in the New Testament okay in the Old Testament you have these
really strict protocols about approaching God because God is so holy
that if you go into that most holy place wrong person wrong time you're
just gonna die okay you have to follow these strict rules and you've got the
holy place the most holy place and they're all these protocols of
purification and being clean and you have to be of the sons of Aaron and all
these different things why because God is trying to show us how holy he is so
then in the New Testament when we have access to boldly enter the throne room
of grace and to just boldly enter with our prayers and supplications before God
and when we have that mediator Christ Jesus to bridge the gap between God and
man it actually means something because hearing about the love of God and how
accessible God is and how easy it is to reach God it doesn't really mean a lot
unless you understand the other side that hey in the Old Testament it was not
as easy to approach unto God as it is in the New Testament it wasn't as easy to
approach God's house as it is in the New Testament so God's showing us in the Old
Testament his terror his dread his holiness so that then we can really
appreciate in the New Testament his love his mercy his compassion and his
openness in the New Testament and so in the New Testament obviously literally
speaking people who are disabled or even mutilated in these specific ways you
know would obviously be allowed to come to church I'm not talking about a bunch
of faggots right now I'm talking about people who are actually injured or
deformed or something like that if some faggot chops off his whatever well he
was already not welcome before he chopped it off he just wasn't welcome
because he's a homo and no homos will be allowed in this church you know the rest
you know the point is here's the deal okay in the Old Testament when it came
to the priesthood people are offering sacrifices to the Lord they were not
allowed to be a hunchback they weren't allowed to have any extra body parts or
missing body parts or being crook back is God just discriminating against
disabled people no there was a significant reason for that because they
were picturing as priests of the Lord as high priest they're picturing Jesus
Christ and so just as the lamb that's offered in sacrifice had to be without
spot or blemish the people who offered the sacrifices picturing Jesus as the
high priest they had to not have any physical impairments or disabilities
okay the same type of thing is going on here why God does not allow certain
people to approach it's not because God doesn't love these people it is because
of the fact that God is symbolizing his holiness and the perfection of the Lord
Jesus Christ and let me prove this to you go over if you would to Isaiah
chapter 56 we're gonna compare Scripture with Scripture let's go to Isaiah 56
it's not that God is just up in heaven saying I don't like hunchbacks and I
don't like people with extra body parts or missing body parts and I don't like
you know people who are handicapped God loves people that are handicapped he
doesn't have some discrimination against them in that way just because he says
they can't do a certain job okay and by the way if you don't have any feet today
you are not going to be a ballerina when you grow up either you know there are a
lot of things that you can do with your life as a ballerina but yeah I mean as
excuse me let me back up there are a lot of things that you can do with your life
as a person with no feet but being a ballerina is not one of them but one
time I was invited by friends to see this dance thing and they were doing
ballet and they literally had somebody out there in a wheelchair doing ballet
and the whole thing was just kind of absurd and you know I'm all for making
things handicap accessible and putting in the ramps and everything and I love
handicapped people but you know trying to kid this person into think hey you
can even do ballet it's just like hey you know that just doesn't make any
sense my friend you know we've all been given different talents and abilities by
God and we've also been given various crosses to bear and there are a lot of
wonderful things that all of us can do with our lives but we shouldn't just
have this attitude of I can do anything no you can't you're crippled you're not
gonna be a ballerina okay and if you're crippled in the Old Testament you're not
gonna be a priest unto the Lord now does that mean that God doesn't love these
people well let's look at Isaiah chapter 56 it says in verse number three neither
let the son of the stranger that have joined himself to the Lord speak saying
the Lord has utterly separated me from his people now what did we just read in
Deuteronomy 23 we read the whole chapter of course a moment ago and he also
talked about how all the Ammonites can't come into the congregation Lord the
mobites can't come into the congregation Lord that's who we're talking to right
here right because he said oh to the tenth generation they can't come in what
does he say here well don't let the son of the stranger who had joined himself
Lord speak saying the Lord has utterly separated me from his people now look at
the next part neither let the eunuch say behold I am a dry tree now what is a
eunuch a eunuch is a man who has had his stones completely cut off his that part
of his genitals have been removed they're gone now isn't that what
Deuteronomy 23 is talking about when it says he that is wounded in the stones or
at this privy member cut off cannot enter the congregation of the Lord
that's who God's talking to and I in Isaiah 56 when he talks to eunuchs these
are people that would fall under that category where they can't enter in the
congregation of the Lord because they're eunuchs but what does the Bible say
about them he says don't neither let the eunuch say behold I'm a dry tree verse
four for thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths and choose
the things that please me and take hold of my covenant even unto them will I
given my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons
and of daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut
off no pun intended here's what's not gonna be cut off I know you had some
stuff cut off guys but your name's not gonna be cut off and so what's the Bible
saying here he's saying look if you're a eunuch that loves God God's gonna bless
you God is gonna do great things for you and in fact in the New Testament you
will have a place in God's house he's prophesying that in the future in the
New Covenant you will have a place in God's house and when you get to heaven
you're gonna be in the real God's house because let's face it the tabernacle the
temple in the Old Testament we're just figurative of the true tabernacle in
heaven and so he's saying don't worry guys because life is short and when you
eunuchs are dead you're gonna be entering into the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven and in the New Covenant the eunuchs of
this world will be brought in foreigners will be brought in what does the Bible
say let's keep reading even unto them will I given my house verse 5 a place
and a name better than of sons and daughters I will give them an everlasting
name that should not be cut off also the sons of the stranger that join
themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his
servants everyone that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and taketh
hold of my covenant even then will I bring to my holy mountain and make them
joyful in my house of prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be
accepted upon mine altar for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for
all people the Lord God which gathered the outcasts of Israel said yet will I
gather others to him besides those that are gathered in them now when you hear
that does that sound to you like God is just angry at eunuchs and he's just
angry at every Moabite and angry at every Ammonite and just he just
discriminating against the handicapped is that what it sounds like to you
reading Isaiah 56 so you got to get the whole picture of what scripture is
saying here just because God says hey you're missing feet you're not going to
be a ballerina he's also saying I need the people who are priests to not have
anything physically wrong with them because of the fact that it's picturing
the Lord Jesus Christ as the high priest just like I don't want anything wrong
with the lamb and then when we go to the actual case in point Deuteronomy 23 why
does he not want those who have their stones broken or their privy member cut
off why does he not want them to enter the congregation of the Lord well because
the symbolic meaning of that would be God does not want his house to be a
place of emasculation and let's face it my friend a lot of Christians today and
our culture today literally equate being spiritual or being a zealous Christian
with being feminine I remember when I was in Christian school the most feminine
guy in the school people just say oh he's so spiritual and I'm just thinking
like there's nothing spiritual about this guy he's just a little bit of
feminine but that just made him so spiritual he's so tender and mild and
gentle and kind what but he really wasn't more spiritual I didn't see this
guy reading his Bible more I didn't see him preaching the gospel more I did all
I saw him doing was just being this soft kind of a feminine guy and I you
know frankly I don't think that's godly at all because the Bible says the that
the effeminate will not inherit the kingdom of God you know the Bible
condemns effeminacy and wants men to be men and women to be women but yet today
when TV or Hollywood want to portray pastors when they want to portray men of
God they will typically portray them as a
feminine some effeminate little Catholic priest some queer little sissy of a
pastor or whatever that's the image that they portray because they want you to
believe that somehow Oh churches for women and children and you'll go to some
churches heathen churches and it's just all either elderly women or children and
you don't have young men you don't have the teenage boys you don't have the 20
the men in their 20s and 30s and 40s that's a missing demographic in a lot of
churches thank God it's not a missing demographic in our church this is a
church that is filled with men okay why because church is not supposed to be a
place of a map of emasculation where you have to leave your masculinity at the
door but that's what the devil wants people to believe today so you could
take a symbolic view here that says God does not want the church to be place of
emasculation you know the church doesn't need to be breaking your stone
spiritually you know what I'm saying but but but allowing you to be men to go to
church and still be a man in fact church should make men more manly and make
women more feminine and not the reverse but not only that you could take another
symbolic view when he's saying hey you know if they have a privy member cut
off or the stones broken I'm saying hey God doesn't want sodomites in the New
Testament Church you could take that as a figurative interpretation because you
know a little bit later on he's gonna have something to say about the
sodomites in this chapter about not even accepting their money their money came
and go on the offering plate and we'll get to that in a moment but but the but
the point is that you know God is not up in heaven looking down on people who
are physically disabled at all because they're just as important to him they're
just as valuable to him and Isaiah 56 makes that crystal clear that's not the
point here and people that get offended by this stuff they're just being too
sensitive and we live in a society that's way too sensitive and if you tell
somebody like sorry you know you can't do this job because you have this you
know lack of ability or whatever I can do any job you know my kindergarten
teacher told me I could do everything I could be an astronaut no you're not
gonna be an astronaut you know you have no arms you're not gonna be an astronaut
but we're living in a crazy time aren't we you know you're probably not gonna do
data you're probably not gonna type you're not gonna be a typist either
without hands you know you're probably not gonna be a great piano player since
you have no hands I mean come on folks it's just common sense oh you got COVID
lost your sense of smell you know you're probably not gonna be designing perfume
for a living it's just it's kind of just common sense and it doesn't mean that
you know you hate anybody right and and and and so don't get this idea that well
God is just you know being mean to hunchbacks or something no he's not he's
just saying this job requires this qualification get over it when it comes
to entering the congregation he doesn't want the Moabites he doesn't want the
Ammonites but if there's some Ammonite out there or some Moabite or some eunuch
who loves the Lord God's gonna bless them big time and they're going to
heaven so what's the big deal you know and in the New Testament of course all
nations are welcome in the house of God and even eunuchs and whoever can waltz
right in but sodomites no because they are haters of God why would we want
someone who hates God to come to church when they're just here to be a predator
it's literally the only reason that they would come and then we move on to verse
2 a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord what's going on
here you know is God just up there just hating on bastards and and and and a
bastard can't love the Lord or so God absolutely not and people would say well
you know it's not the bastards fault that he's a bastard now what is a
bastard a bastard is a child that's born out of wedlock their parents are not
married right so they are born of fornication as opposed to being
conceived within marriage that's what a bastard is in the Bible and in the
English language in general obviously we're most familiar with just calling
someone this as a name so it's lost a lot of its meaning but that's what the
word actually means and so you can see right away the symbolic meaning of this
the bastard not coming into congregation of the Lord the Bible says that if
you're not saved you're a spiritual bastard in Hebrew chapter 12 so you can
see how okay you have to be saved to approach unto God that's a pretty
obvious symbolic meaning but let's get to the literal interpretation the
bastard can't enter the congregation of the Lord you know what God is basically
saying here he doesn't want us to have a society where having kids out of
wedlock is normal so he stigmatizes it and a lot of people would say like well
you can't stigmatize being a bastard because it's not that kid's fault it's
his parents that committed the sin and it's not his fault okay what does the
Bible say thank you for sharing but I don't give a rip what you think I care
about what the God of the universe thinks and God apparently stigmatizes
this why because of the fact that God doesn't want us to be a society that
just thinks this is normal and just acts like it's fine and just acts like it's
cool it isn't children need to be conceived and raised within a married
struck a married couple as the structure the nuclear family we need to get back
to having old-fashioned families mom and dad raising their biological children or
children they've adopted but not this thing of just people conceiving a bunch
of kids out of wedlock and they just got bastards all over the place that is not
what God has prescribed his word he didn't want Israel to turn to Iceland
nation of bastards right he's trying to keep the nation valuing the family now
again let's say you're born into that situation in ancient Israel and let's
say your parents conceive you through fornication hey God still loves you you
can still be greatly used by God you can still love the Lord with all your heart
mind soul and strength you could be a great man of God or woman of God you're
gonna go to heaven if you believe on Christ or looking forward to Christ
calling upon the name of the Lord whatever you are still important God
still loves you but you can't enter into the congregation of the Lord in the Old
Testament get over it why because God wants to stigmatize this act of bringing
a bastard into the world because we are supposed to wait until marriage to sleep
together and to produce children okay and that's what the Bible is teaching
here so don't let don't let anybody turn you around on this and and get you to
think oh God's a big meanie or something first of all if God were a
big meanie he's still God so shut up and do what he says because he's literally
the God of the universe but number two God's not a big meanie God's a loving
God God's a gracious God God's a merciful God but the problem is when we
try to take the definitions of love and mercy and grace from 2023 corrupt
America and then try to judge God let's see if you measure up to the American
view of what a loving God is supposed to look like how dare you judge God let
God's gonna judge you and you don't have the right to stand in judgment of God
and say he's not loving enough maybe you just don't understand love maybe you're
just too sensitive maybe you're just brainwashed by our modern society and
you better just get on God's program and do a little more reading in the Bible
and start thinking the way he thinks because I mean I read this stuff and it
all makes sense to me I get it I get all of it totally makes sense and then I
read Isaiah 56 and it makes total sense over there and it all works together it
all fits it's all beautiful it's God's Word I'm not gonna apologize for it I'm
not gonna try to adapt it to our society I'd rather try to adapt our society to
the Bible and adapt my way of thinking in my lifestyle to the Bible not vice
versa he goes on to say an Ammonite or Mobite should not enter into the
congregation of the Lord even to the tenth generation right and we already
dealt with that over in Isaiah 56 it's not that God hates the individual it's
just that God is punishing these nations in general these nations in general are
cursed by God but yet the individual can always get saved from any nation right
from any group of people jumping down to verse 7 for sake of time
thus shall not abhor an Edomite for he's thy brother thus shall not abhor an
Egyptian because that was a stranger in his land and he talks about how those
children can enter the congregation in the third generation let's keep going
verse 9 when the host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee
from every wicked thing verse 10 if there be among you any man that is not
clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night then shall he go
abroad out of the camp he should not come within the camp but it shall be
when evening cometh on he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is
down he shall come into the camp again what's the point here the point is I'm
just gonna take the time to explain this because this might be a little bit
difficult to understand the idea here is that throughout the law of God there's
this idea that when you get unclean for some reason then you're supposed to
bathe your flesh in water and then you're still unclean until the sun goes
down right so you got some uncleanness what are the things in the Bible that
make you unclean right it'd be things like touching a dead body but this could
even just be butchering an animal you know you're butchering an animal or
something you're hunting you kill an animal that makes you unclean unclean
does not mean sin it doesn't mean bad it doesn't mean wicked it just means
unclean like unsanitary like follow these protocols to be clean again okay
a woman who is menstruating is unclean and women are like oh you know God is
negative about menstruating I'm just gonna go menstruate all over the place
in public you know and it's just like why don't you just chill out and relax
and just understand that these are just basic sanitation principles and some of
it's obviously symbolic and it has other figurative meanings but it's not
about being wicked or sinful or bad right if you sleep with your wife within
marriage that's a godly act that's not sinful but yet it makes you unclean okay
if you cook dinner and you're handling raw meat you're unclean right these if
you're if you're sick you're unclean if you get around a sick person you're
unclean right there are just all these different things and I'm not gonna go
over all of it but there are all these different protocols and things in the
book of Leviticus talking about who's clean who's not clean how to get clean
and this is clarifying something about that because if you're unclean you bathe
yourself but then you're not just instantly clean you're unclean when the
Sun Goes Down why I don't know for sure exactly why but I would say that part of
it is the fact that you know it's it's just like well let's see if you're
really unclean you know if you're really clean yet you know what I mean like like
you're not just declared clean at the drop of a hat because of the fact that
you know maybe you you realize oh I missed a spot when I washed up or
whatever so you're just letting a little I feel like the waiting until evening is
just a little time go by make sure you're really clean make sure you
really got clean make sure you're really purified and whatever before you're
allowed to be considered clean once again but what the Bible is saying here
is that if it's nighttime so evening just happened so you know let's say the
Sun went down at 7 o'clock and boom you get unclean at 915 p.m. you know are you
basically like well I bathe my flesh and water the sun's already down so I'm good
to go he's basically saying no you know you have to wait until the next evening
to be technically declared clean so I feel like this verse is just to clarify
that point that basically yeah you do have to wait the 22 hours or whatever
okay anyway let's move I don't want to spend a lot of time on that I just
wanted to kind of clarify that quickly verse 12 thou should have a place also
without the camp whither thou shalt go forth abroad this talking about using
the restroom going number two it says thou should have a paddle upon thy
weapon and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad thou shalt dig
therewith and shall turn back and cover that which cometh from thee for the Lord
thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp and he doesn't want to step in it is
what he's saying right the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to
deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy
camp be holy and that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee so
again we're talking sanitation you don't want to have just a bunch of
extra excrement laying around in the streets you want to bury that you know
this is the same type of thing that a hiking guide would tell you how to get
rid of your waist when you're out hiking or something you know you want to have a
paddle on your weapon so you can dig a little hole bury that which cometh from
thee okay and get rid of that because he says I don't want to step in that when
I'm walking through the camp we don't want to have a gross encampment that
stinks and look there have been a lot of unsanitary cultures throughout history
right God's teaching them that he wants his servants to be clean and again is
there a spiritual application absolutely because he wants us to be spiritually
right with him the physical cleanliness pictures a clean life clean living
morally spiritually and so forth because you know when the Bible talks
about people being immoral it'll often call that uncleanness as we talked about
on Sunday and so he says you know clean up that which goes from you you know
there's a go without the camp go outside the camp right the encampment the place
that's close to where the house of God is is a holy place the and again you
have like these concentric circles of holiness you know there's the most holy
place then there's the holy place then there's the tabernacle then there's the
courtyard around the tabernacle then there's the camp and then there's
outside the camp right you can be still pitching your tent outside the camp
you're still an Israelite you're still in the nation of Israel but the closer
you get to God's house the more clean you have to be the more holy you have to
be that's the point verse 15 thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant
which has escaped from his master unto thee he shall dwell with thee even among
you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it like at
them best thou shalt not oppress him so again the Bible here is protecting
slaves the runaway slave who comes to Israel gets a sanctuary there and he
doesn't get returned to his master you know I don't see the atheist bringing
this one up they should you know they should love how enlightened God is and
how forward-thinking he is and how you know contemporary this way of thinking
is because we would say in America this would pass our test in 2023 America like
yeah God's a really nice guy here he's doing what we like here we agree with
this because we do agree with this but guess what some of us agree with all of
it including this this is good stuff but so was the stuff we just read that was
good stuff too I like all of it you know God's just smarter and more
righteous than everyone you know I'm not gonna stand in judgment say well I like
this part about the runaway slaves you know getting sanctuary but you know
what's this business about you know the bastards well you know it's all God's
Word we need all of it he says in verse 17 there shall be no horror of the
daughters of Israel nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel does not bring the
higher of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for
any vow for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God now
let's stop and deal with this for a moment here no whore of the daughters of
Israel nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel these are two things that are not
acceptable you don't want your kids to do this you don't want to allow your
kids to do this you don't want to promote this this is something that we
don't want to have in our society we don't want to have prostitution we don't
want to have sodomites okay now what the modern versions will do is every time
the sodomite is mentioned they will change it to male prostitute okay which
and look that is not what that word means and it can be demonstrated and
proven that that's not what that word means because if you and I'm not gonna
go through it now for sake of time but I made a whole video about this Kevin's
got it I'm sure on a hard drive somewhere you know it's out there
somewhere I know my youtube channel got deleted you know 700 times but it's out
there somewhere I went in depth on this for like 45 minutes went over the Hebrew
words and debunked these people and showed that the King James Bible is
right when it's even just from looking at the context where this word comes up
but again what happens is people they go back to the Greek or the Hebrew and they
don't actually know the language they're not actually fluent in the
language what they do is they kind of just know the basics or they know how to
look things up in a dictionary is really what's going on and sometimes they'll
kind of just look at two words and think that they look the same and then they
think that they are the same and so what happens is the word for a whore and a
sodomite in this passage are two words that are very similar to one another
okay now there's another word for whore that's more common that looks different
but these two particular words happen to look really similar one kind of looks
like just the masculine version and one looks like the feminine version of the
same word so then these people who just kind of amateurs they come along and
just think oh well this must be the same thing sure looks the same to me and in
my video I demonstrated I'm not going to say this word out loud because most
Spanish speakers think this is a cuss word and here's what I've learned about
Spanish is that if you talk to ten different Spanish speakers you get ten
different opinions and I've talked to some Spanish speakers and say that's not
a bad word that words fine I would say that in front of my grandma and then
other Spanish figures like what did you just say wash your mouth out with soap
pastor Anderson and so you know you get so I don't I don't want to offend any
Spanish ear drums out there with this word but I'm going to spell it for you
okay so if you if you can't handle that well tough okay but this word is spelled
P U T O okay and if anybody worked in construction you've seen this Sharpie in
the porta-potty okay you you know every construction workers got a Sharpie and
we've all been in that porta-potty and we got fluent in a certain aspect of
Spanish over the years but anyway there's another word spelled P U T A
okay so you got the word P U T O and the word P U T A now again I don't want to
get a single email from a Spanish speaker telling me I'm wrong because I'm
not wrong so just save your time typing me the email because guess what if you
think I'm wrong right now it's because you're just speaking a different dialect
of Spanish because Spanish has spoken all over the world and these words can
mean different things in different dialects okay but in a lot of the
Spanish-speaking world in a large part of the Spanish-speaking world maybe not
the exact part you happen to be from but in a very large part of the
Spanish-speaking world millions and millions and millions of people this is
what these two words mean P U T A is a prostitute this is a whore this is a
woman who is selling her body for money whereas P U T O is not a prostitute and
is not selling anything but is rather a homo it's just a word for a faggot so
you literally have one word and look the only difference is just P U T O I keep
almost saying it and P U T A and you know and and and these words look the
same but yet when you use the feminine version you're talking about a
prostitute when you use the masculine version you're not talking about anybody
selling it you're talking about a sodomite and that is literally the exact
situation that we have in the Hebrew but again you got these guys who they're
just they you know they took two semesters of Hebrew in Bible College and
they're ready to correct the King James translators and they know how all you
know the King James translators even though they didn't just speak Hebrew
they also knew Arabic and Aramaic and they you know spoke multitudes of
language they're super duper experts you with your two semesters of Bible College
you look at that and you say well those words look like the exact same word
masculine feminine version well you know what sort of the two Spanish words that
I brought up but yet in a large part of the Spanish-speaking world those two
definitions that I gave you are accurate now of course other parts of the
Spanish-speaking world those words could have different shades of meaning I'd get
that I've researched it but I'm talking about the dialect and I'm talking about
which is a big dialect okay somebody see what I'm saying this is the danger of
being an amateur going to the Hebrew or going to the Greek and all of a sudden
now you know more than 54 expert scholars who worked on the King James
version who by the way we're already working from a very good Bible version
an excellent Bible version called the bishops Bible the bishop's Bible was
already a really good Bible and then they just spent seven years perfecting
it and they're experts yeah they got it right folks and so don't just be so
hasty to correct them no we're talking about the whore and the sodomite now
could a sodomite also prostitute his body of course he could of course he
could I'm sure that that's been a thing and it's out there we know that's a
thing but when the Bible says sodomite he's talking about a homo in general and
what does he call the sodomite he calls the sodomite a dog because look at the
first verse there should be no whore of the daughters of Israel nor a sodomite
of the sons of Israel because let's face it my friend most prostitutes are female
right ninety-nine percent so that's why he said what about the male person it's
rare but what's not rare is a faggot unfortunately I mean it's relatively
rare but not but it but it's but but what's even more rare is the male
prostitute okay the the whore is not that rare
unfortunately either and you say this is not a wholesome sermon pastor Anderson
you know I come around Wednesday night and you're just you're just you know
you're just really making my ears burn but you know what deal with it I mean
it's the Word of God it's the Bible and what's funny is that the people that
would complain about a sermon like this they probably they probably then go home
and watch some some some Netflix series or something that's way worse than
anything I'm saying you big hypocrite or you go to the theater and watch some
movie that's way worse than anything I'm saying everything in the Bible is fine
we can talk about it and you say well there's children the children who aren't
old enough to hear this they don't understand what I'm saying right now
they don't know what I'm they're like p-u-t they don't know what's going on you
know what I'm saying that's why you'll notice that I don't use language that
little kids would understand usually when I talk about these kind of subjects
I try to use big words that'll go over their heads and then that way they don't
understand it until they're old enough to understand it but you know I'm not
afraid of exposing my children to anything in the Bible it's God's Word
the Word of the Lord is clean and so I want people to hear this at all ages I
think they'll be okay but the Bible says here no horror of the daughters of
Israel nor sodomite of the sons of Israel that should not bring the higher
of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any
vow for even both these are an abomination of the Lord they got he's
saying I don't want these people's money I don't want money coming from these
people in to the coffers of God's house and if you remember in the New Testament
the money that was paid unto Judas Iscariot to betray the Lord Jesus Christ
remember they didn't want to receive it into the offering because it was blood
money and they didn't feel good about that this is a similar principle but
notice the parallelism no whore no sodomite but then the next verse he
says you know the price the higher of a whore or the price of a dog okay so the
dog is standing in for the sodomite but if you wanted to make the case that
we're talking about male prostitutes that would be the dog because when we
start talking about money we switch from saying sodomite to dog
everybody see what I'm saying so if you wanted to say no no we're just talking
about present it's not the word for sodomite that would be if anything you
could say well the slang word a dog is referring to that okay now why would a
dog be used to describe a sodomites because you know dogs are gross okay and
and I'm sorry if you're a dog lover okay but let's face it a dog is not a clean
animal now maybe you've got your dog really well trained and you keep it
really clean but you know you just let that dog run loose that's not gonna be a
clean beast my friend you go to the Indian Reservation and see the res dogs
running wild they're not clean they're dirty they're gross they're mangy that's
what happens to dogs if you're not sitting there keeping the thing clean
okay the dog will literally vomit and then just start eating his vomit and
the Bible says as the dog returns to his vomit so does a fool to his folly and so
dogs will just puke and be like oh that looks good duh it's a dirty animal it'll
just start eating its own vomit I mean it'll eat other gross things and let's
face it dogs will hump everything they just do right they'll just that you know
when the right chemicals are present in their system or in the system of animals
around them they'll they'll they'll hump inanimate objects they'll hump you you
ever walk over to your friend's house something the dog just jumps on your
leg and just starts up who has experienced that before you've had a dog
just yeah basically half the people were here the rest of you just haven't been
around dogs that much okay you walk in the house you walk over to your friend's
house and all of a sudden they got that dog they just and you know we one time
we bought a dog it was a beagle and this dog was like an extreme version of this
like this dog just it just anyone came over their legs getting humped it's it's
it's going after it's going after everything in the house everything
outside everything animate or inanimate and finally we had to get rid of this
dog dog's name was gizmo okay we had to get rid of we had to get rid of gizmo
because this we're just like this dog is obscene this dog's a pervert get rid
of it okay but all dogs are like that to an extent all dogs are somewhat like
that you know gizmo was just an extreme example and so he had to go you know
down the river and so the point is that that's what these that's what these
sodomites are like they're like a dog they're gross they'll do all kinds of
gross things they'll just be gross with with so many different people and I
don't even feel like talking about that tonight because it's already gotten
weird enough tonight I want to make it any weirder but like you know go to any
of my sermons where I've talked about sodomites and yeah you'll see why
they're called dog and if and again you could make the case you could say well
the price of a dog you could say well the dog is specifically the one who
sells it you could make that case I don't think that that's for sure
necessarily true but it's definitely possible but I'll tell you what's not
possible is that the sod the word sodomite is only referring to prostitutes
because it just isn't and I've already proven that in another video I'm not
gonna take all the time to look up all the references but I've done it in the
past and it isn't the case all right let's quickly move on we're almost out
of time it says in verse number 19 thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy
brother usury of money usury of vittles usury of anything that is lent upon
usury unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury but under thy brother thou
shall not lend upon usury that the Lord thy God may bless thee and all that
thou saidest thy hand to in the land with thou goes to possess it and again
the idea here of lending to usury on a stranger this isn't about ethnicity or
genetics because remember anybody of any ethnicity red yellow black and white
could always join the nation of Israel be circumcised keep the Passover and
join the nation of Israel and then there are certain restrictions on certain
groups about entering into the congregation as far as like Ammonites
and Moabites and everything but you know the Ethiopian can show up be circumcised
eat the Passover and be a full-fledged Israelite no issue it's not about
ethnicity here you're not gonna say oh well you know I know you're one of us
now but you're black so here I'm gonna lend upon you lend to you upon usury
that's not what we're talking about the stranger is talking about the foreigner
not a permanent this is not a permanent guy okay the stranger is like a merchant
or something right so merchants who are doing business in their country that's
probably what we're talking about here not their fellow countrymen that they're
charging interest to but rather charging interest to foreign
businessmen is what we're talking about okay but this has been abused where Jews
they'll come into a country and be citizens there and then they'll want to
just charge everybody interest except their fellow Jews and I'm sure they
charge it to their fellow Jews as well but I'm saying like they would say like
oh we can charge the Gentiles usury but that doesn't make any sense because if
they're an American and I'm an American and we're all Americans here you know
why are you why are you having this us against them mentality why are you
victimizing your poor fellow countrymen with predatory lending or even just
lending upon usury in general even if it's not what we would say is predatory
and so I just wanted to clarify that quickly verse 21 when thou shalt vow
avow unto the Lord thy God thou shall not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God
will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee but if thou shalt
forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee and look when we get to the New
Testament what does Jesus say Jesus says okay just don't vow at all don't swear
at all swear not at all so in the Old Testament God's already saying look if
you swear an oath if you make a vow pay the vow but guess what if you don't vow
that's okay too and in fact it's a lot better to just not vow at all then to
vow a vow and break it verse 22 if thou shalt forbear to vow meaning you don't
bow at all it shall be no sin in thee meaning you're never required to take a
vow never okay now here's what a lot of people will say because I've preached
this a lot I've done whole sermons about this and said hey swear I preach sermon
called swear not at all because in the New Testament God takes this further
because in the Old Testament he's saying hey you don't have to vow but if you do
keep it and hey there's nothing wrong with not making vows Jesus comes in the
New Testament just don't do it okay just swear not at all and then the book of
James again says above all things my brethren swear not so with Jesus and
James both say this but a lot of people will say oh yeah well what about getting
married what about marriage vows wedding vows but here's the thing about that is
that those aren't vows we call them vows just because we say wedding vows or
marriage vows those aren't actually that you're not actually swearing because
last time I checked when we get married we don't say like I swear to God that
I'm gonna be with you till death do us part is that what we say no do we say
well you know yeah you know oh it's all right if we write our own vows the Lord
do so to me and more also if I am not with you until the bitter end so help me
God no you know what we say when we get married do you take this man to be your
wedded husband will you love him honor and keep him in sicknesses and health in
poverty isn't wealth and forsaking all others keep the only unto him so long as
you both shall live do you still promise and here's what you say I do you don't
say I swear so help me God the Lord do so to me and more also you know let my
belly swell and my thigh rot if I don't do it no what are you saying you're
basically just saying I do you know what you're doing you're just letting your
yay be yay and your nay be nay because I do is pretty much like saying yay yeah I
do you know I take thee to be my wedded wife to have and to hold from this day
forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and health to
love and to cherish till death do us part it's just a statement and there's
no what makes something swearing or an oath or a vow is that there are these
imprecations these curses if you don't go through with it right now obviously
we know that God demands that we go through with that but that's called
letting our yay be yay and our nay be nay so yes we do call those marriage
vows or wedding vows but that's not the same meaning of Al as what the Bible is
talking about because I don't think that we should ever swear to God anything in
the New Testament at all we shouldn't make any oaths we shouldn't make swearing
or vows or anything and that's why even in the criminal justice system when you
are asked to swear do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth so help me God you know you're not required to swear that in
court that's why in the fourth amendment in the Bill of Rights if you look at the
Constitution the Bill of Rights fourth amendment it says that warrants shall
only be issued upon oath or affirmation so even in the Bill of Rights it says
you don't have to make an oath judges don't have to make an oath the witnesses
in the court don't have to make an oath but they have to make either an oath or
just an affirmation what's an affirmation it's just yay so basically
when you go to court and they say do you swear to tell the whole truth nothing
but the truth so help you God you say I affirm to tell the truth and that is
acceptable you're not required in the u.s. to swear why because some of the
founders of our country were what offended by the swearing of oaths
because they're reading the New Testament they're reading the words of
Jesus they're reading the words of James everybody understand if James is saying
swear not at all if if Jesus saying swear not at all well then guess what
swear not at all and so are you surprised that the founders of America
are like wait a minute some people don't want to swear because they're following
the words of Christ here so how about an oath or an affirmation now I've talked
to some of my pastor friends about this I believe I was talking pastor Shelley
about this and he was basically differentiating between a vow and
swearing and he was basically saying you know well you should never swear by God
and and do those things that James and Jesus are saying but you know you could
you could make a vow but it's more like just letting your yay be a I mean to me
that's that's basically just another kind of another way of saying the same
thing if you want to differentiate between the vow and swearing you know I
see what he's saying at the end of the day the point is this okay we should not
be swearing at all period and when we get married that is not swearing there's
no swearing of an oath involved there's no imprecation or curse involved right
it's just I do I mean I do it's such a basic statement I do and there's no you
know may the roof cave in on me if I don't or anything like that or you know
I'm I swear by my mother's grave or something you know or you could be like
Tyler Baker and just swear on everything you know and then admit you lied 30
seconds later but I digress it says in verse 24 when thou comest into thy
neighbor's vineyard then thou mayest eat grapes I fill at thine own pleasure but
thou should not put any in thy vessel when thou comest into the standing corn
of thy neighbor then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand but thou should
not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn now I know the sermon kind
of went a little all over the place tonight but that's kind of how the
chapter was but at the end of the day it's advertised a Bible study we studied
the Bible we went through Deuteronomy chapter 23 and we dealt with these
things and look I think you'll agree as we look at these things these things are
relevant to us these things are profitable some of them have great
literal implications about hey we don't want to have a society that normalizes
having kids out of wedlock and then there are lots of other great symbolic
meanings of saying hey we don't want to have the sodomites in the house of God
we don't want their money we don't want them here stinking up the joint they're
they're haters of God they don't belong or other symbolic meanings of hey Christ
is perfect he's a perfect sinless son of God he's without sin he's without sin
both as the sacrifice he's without sin as the high priest right God's church is
to be kept holy right in the Old Testament you don't have excrement
laying around in the New Testament we don't have spiritual excrement laying
around we want to be spiritually clean spiritually righteous moral godly people
we're all sinners nobody's perfect and everybody pretty much has something
wrong with them even physically not everybody's a hunchback or a serious
physical element but you know everybody's got problems just like we're
all sinners we all have things wrong physically spiritually mentally you know
but at the end of the day God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting
life regardless of ethnicity regardless of mental or physical problems and you
know what that should be enough of enough for us of the love of God and
Isaiah 56 should be enough for us where we don't turn around and start standing
in judgment of God and getting all bent out of shape because Deuteronomy 23 got a
little bit gnarly okay that's why I didn't have a word of prayer father we
thank you so much for your word we thank you for loving us and we thank you for
Christ's substitutionary death for us on the cross his burial is resurrection
Lord help us to live a life that's pleasing to you help us to win as many
souls to Christ as we can and Lord help us to continually read your word to find
out what your will is and Lord if there's anybody here who has not read
the Bible cover to cover Lord I pray that they would begin planning now and
preparing now and getting a head start now to make 2024 the year that they get
through that Bible cover to cover it's in Christ's name we pray amen amen let's
take our hymnals please and go to him number 425 him number 425 no room in the
end him number 425
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