Man the part of chapter that I'd like to focus on is beginning there in verse 17 where the Bible reads brethren
Be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as you have us for an in sample
For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping
That they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction
Whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame?
Who mind earthly things and the title of my sermon tonight is glorying in their shame
Glorying in their shame the Bible talks here about wicked people whose God is their belly whose end is destruction
Whose glory is in their shame now? What is?
Glorying in the Bible well often the Bible we use the term glorying in the place where we would in our modern vernacular
Probably say bragging or boasting right when the Bible talks about glorying a lot of times
It's bragging what we would think of so when he says here. They're glorying in their shame
He's saying basically they're proud of their wickedness
They glorify it they brag about it. They're not even trying to hide it
They're just putting it out there in the open on display, and they glorify it and the Bible says
It's those who mind earthly things so many of the carnal people of this world people who are
Unspiritual will glory in their shame their God is their belly meaning what that?
Everything is just to gratify their appetites not just the appetite for food
But all their other lusts and things that that would involve now flip over to wood to Isaiah chapter number three in the Old Testament
Isaiah chapter number three
Glorying in their shame listen to what the Bible says in Jeremiah 6 15 you're turning to isaiah 3
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
Nay, they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush
Therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that I visit them
They shall be cast down sayeth the Lord so the Bible is talking about people who not only committed abominations here
But they weren't ashamed at all they didn't even feel bad about it
They had no guilt about it or regret and they just openly
Gloried in these things they couldn't even blush
They didn't even begin to be ashamed and the result is he said they shall fall
Among them that fall sayeth the Lord they shall be cast down
God's going to destroy and wipe out a people who's not only sinful
But they glory in that they expose that they just openly revel in their wickedness look at Isaiah chapter 3 verse 8
for Jerusalem is ruined and
Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory
the show of their countenance
Doth witness against them and they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not
Woe unto their soul for they have rewarded evil unto themselves
So the Bible is saying here that these people they declare their sin as Sodom
They hide it not, you know, there have always been sodomites in this world, right?
There's nothing new under the Sun and we look at some of the weird things that
Perverted things that are happening right now in the United States and we might think to ourselves that you know
Hey, this is new or it's never been like this
But then other people will come along and say well no this has always been around, you know, this was around even in the
1700s the 1800s and 1900s. It's just that it wasn't as open
You know, it's just that they were in the closet at that time
But here's what you have to understand
It's so much worse when these things come out in the open and they're just accepted by society
You know every society is gonna have its perverts and sodomites in it
Okay, that's just because there are always going to be wicked people in this world and these creeps and people that would infiltrate
even churches, schools, whatever the institution
but
You reach a new level of depravity
You reach a new level of wickedness when these things become accepted out in the open
It's one thing when a few people are practicing this filth and when they get caught they get busted
It's shamed. It's it's punished. It's just
execrated by everyone
But in America the difference today because yeah, what's the difference? It's always been around
No, the new thing is that it's being done openly in America. Now. It's being accepted openly
It's even being
glorified in the media that it's actually a good thing that it's actually a blessing and that it's wonderful
And these are such great people and let me tell you something sodomites are
Disgusting filth and you know what the Bible says they should be put to death
So put that in your Pope and smack it
All right, the Bible says that if a man lie with mankind as he lies with a woman
They have committed an abomination
They shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them
And you know what? I'm sick and tired of Christians getting watered down on this subject and backing down on that
Hey, you know the Bible still says that
You know, it's sort of like, you know on Facebook where people will do that little feature where they share a memory
And it's like five years ago or seven years ago
You know, I saw somebody had a memory that they shared the other day and it was like Leviticus 2013 or Leviticus
1822 or one of those and it said five years ago, you know, and it just had that verse and
I was thinking to myself, you know, it'd be funny to comment on there and say hey, buddy
That's five years ago times have changed, you know
That verse has now become obsolete and what well stupid would that be to think that right?
Well, guess what? It didn't become obsolete in the last five years. It didn't become obsolete in the last
3505 years
Because God's Word is the same yesterday today and forever and that's what the Bible says
But there's an agenda today to bring that which is shameful
To bring that which is something that the Bible says it's even a shame to even speak of those things
Which are done to them in secret to just bring that out in the open and say here it is
Let's take pride in it
Let's teach it in school to kindergartners and first graders and and let's bring it into the churches and everything else folks
It's a wicked agenda, you know today in church. We had a couple of sodomites show up for church
I didn't even notice because you have to understand when I'm up here preaching or when I'm running the service up here
I can't really notice everything around me because I'm just kind of focused on what I'm doing and
Obviously there are a few hundred people here and I'm focused on what I'm doing, but I guess you know
Thankfully there were some other people that were being vigilant and there were a couple of queers in the service
And I think it was Logan that showed them the door. Am I right?
Yeah, thank you know, thank you for taking care of that taking out the trash
Okay, the spiritual trash man to take these people out and you say oh we gotta have these people in here and reach them
You know what wrong?
The Bible says they're already reprobate. The Bible says that when they knew God they glorified him not as God they hated God
They didn't even want to retain God in their knowledge according to Romans 1 and God gave them over to a reprobate mind
To do those things which are not convenient men with men
Burning in their lusts one toward another hey, the Bible says that's not
Convenient and you know what the Bible means there by that statement because that's kind of a different way than we would talk in 2020
When he says things that are not convenient you say these are not things that would come naturally
They're not things that would just happen on their own
It's not normal for a man to desire another man carnally that isn't normal
Say well, we're all sinners right, but that isn't even normal
sin
Normal sin would be man's desire to fornicate or commit adultery and he has to walk in the spirit
So he doesn't fulfill those lusts of the flesh, but these kind of desires the Bible says are against nature
It's not even part of our sinful nature or human nature. It's against nature
How did they get that way?
The world says they were born that way the Bible says God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things
Which are not convenient the Bible says God gave them over to vile affections
Now, I don't know what Bible people are reading
That they don't understand that God gave them over to vile affections yet literally
99% of preachers they will never preach that they don't preach that God gave them over to that
You'll go to church after church after church and you'll never hear them say hey
You know why the homos are that way because God gave them over to vile affections
That's not what they say
They'll either if they're super compromised. They'll say well, they're born that way and
If they're a little bit compromised, they'll say well they made that choice
They chose that for themselves. That's their fault
It's a sin like any other sin and they chose that is that what the Bible the Bible say that they chose that
That's not what the Bible says
That's not what Romans chapter 1 says and you know
If you don't know what I'm talking about go home and read Romans chapter 1 and then we'll talk
Because you know what Romans chapter 1 says God gave them over to vile affections
God gave them over to a reprobate mind now
Why did God give those people over to a reprobate mind? Does he just randomly just choose people and say hey
I think I'm just gonna give this guy over to a reprobate mind. No, we're not Calvinists
We don't believe that God decides who goes to heaven and who goes to hell
We believe that God's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance
God
hardened their hearts
Blinded their minds gave them over to vile affections gave them over to a reprobate mind
why because they
Hated him and didn't want to retain him in their knowledge and that's what the Bible actually says if you read Romans 1
They're the ones who?
Push God away
That's what the Bible says because he says even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. You see there's a cause and effect here
The cause is they didn't want to retain God in the knowledge. They did not glorify God
they
Change the truth of God into a lie. So because they did that even as they did that in
The same way that they didn't want to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. So basically they
Wanted nothing to do with God and then they pushed God to the point where he said well
I want nothing to do with you
And let me tell you something when you take away
God's influence over a person and when that person is given the reprobate mind and turned over to vile affections
basically that person is capable of any
wickedness and
They'll even do bizarre things and you'll hear in the news about people doing bizarre things and you say how could a human being
Do those things those are the things that only an animal could do
But here's what it is when you're given over to a reprobate mind
You're given the heart of a beast and you're like an animal and you'll do all these horrible
Animalistic things that no normal human being would ever do okay
That's what the Bible says and you know, the sad thing is a lot of people they've never even heard of this doctrine
You know and they they hear a sermon like this. I don't know what I've never heard this before
Well, you know what? It's as plain as the nose on your face in Romans 1
You can't miss it and you know you think I mean isn't Romans
The second most popular book in the New Testament last time I checked
I mean even if you're just a missionary
Translating the Bible into a foreign language
the first book you translate is John and the second book it translates Romans and
missionaries all over the world are handing out copies of John and Romans
Coupled into one pamphlet if they only have time to translate two books
They say let's get them the Gospel of John and let's get them the epistle to the Romans
I mean, these are the two classics, right?
I mean, these are the two probably most popular books in the world and it's not just Romans. It's Romans chapter 1
You don't have to read far to get to this and
by the way, John chapter 12 teaches the same doctrine about how people that
Rejected Christ that God hardened their hearts and blinded their eyes to the point where they could not believe the Bible said
They could not believe anymore because God hardened their eyes. That's John chapter 12 around verses 39 and 40
So this is a clear doctrine in the Bible
Christians today are pretending that they don't understand it. They're playing dumb is what they're doing
Pastors are pretending that they're too dumb to understand it or they're pretending that they don't agree with it
Even though it's just clear. What does the Bible say vile affections?
It's vile. It's sick. It's against nature God
Gave them over to do beastly things as a punishment
The worst way God could punish anyone would be to give them over to vile affections
Okay, and that's what he does to the worst people and that's why homos are the worst people
Period see oh, I'm so offended then. You know what?
Why don't you just leave and go to some little lily-livered little wimpy church down the street?
That's gonna tell you what you want to hear
All right
But here we preach the Bible and we're not changing with the times and we don't care if it's popular
And we don't care if it's considered hate speech. You can call it whatever you want
The truth is hate to those who hate the truth. All right, and so today
What's happening in America? Is it not only are these abominations being practiced, but there's no shame
There's no blushing. There's no humiliation. It's just yeah, we're out and proud
Well, you know what? That's way in any society that allows that is a disgusting society ready for the judgment of God
Now what's the right reaction if you would flip over to Habakkuk chapter 2 toward the end of the Old Testament
What's the right reaction to this, you know when we're confronted with gross sin when we're confronted with
Abominations when we're confronted with just extreme wickedness. What reactions should we have?
We saw the wrong reaction, right? The wrong reaction is just yeah
So what let's just declare our sin as Sodom and just openly show it no blushing
No, shame just glory in it brag about it
Right the right reaction. I'll read it for a year in Habakkuk, but I'll read this from Ezra
Here's how Ezra reacted to sin
Verse 6 of chapter 9 of Ezra and said oh my god
I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God for our
Iniquities are increased over our head and our trespasses grown up unto the heavens
So Ezra when he saw that his nation was in sin
He got on his face for God and said God I'm embarrassed. I'm ashamed
I'm blushing to even lift up my head and just oh God, please be merciful to it
You know folks that's the right reaction to sin not
Glorying in it bragging about it and whatever now look at back at chapter 2
It says in verse 15 woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink
That put us thy bottle to him and make us him drunken
Also that thou mayest look on their nakedness thou art filled with shame for glory
Drink thou also and let thy foreskin be uncovered the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee and
shameful
Spewing shall be on thy glory
so notice here that we have a wicked person described that gives his neighbor drink and
Put us his bottle to him and makes him drunken also
that he may look on their nakedness and
He says in verse 16 thou art filled with shame
For glory so in order to be filled with shame for glory shame is instead of glory
So what it's saying is this person expected to have glory for what they've done and instead they get shame
That's why also in verse
16 it says
Thou art filled with shame for glory
drink thou also and let thy foreskin be uncovered the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee and then watch this and
Shameful spewing shall be on my glory. Let me break this down in order to have shameful spewing on your glory
You have to have glory
Right, so this is a person who not only is a drunk
But they actually give their neighbor drink and get their neighbor drunk so that they can look on
His nakedness so they could take advantage of him or abuse him
You know Bill Cosby style or whatever, you know getting someone under the influence of a drug or alcohol
That they might look upon their nakedness
Okay, sort of like the story in Genesis 19 with Lot's daughters and so forth, you know
There are stories like this throughout the Bible
and
He says you're filled with shame for glory and then he said shameful
Spewing shall be on thy glory
What does that mean? Well spewing is vomiting
Now when when I was a teenager that word was still pretty commonly used about
People vomiting, I don't know if that is that in common use today amongst the young people who's who's familiar
Who's a young person that would say? Yeah, that's something we would say like he spewed
You know, it's all people my age raising their hand. I think I'm gonna spew
I think I'm gonna hurl right, you know, those are kind of
different slang terms that go in and out of fashion, you're gonna up Chuck or
Hurl spew whatever but you know, this is a word that the Bible actually uses many times
It's actually repeatedly used throughout the Bible
the Bible talks about
Spewing for example, there's a place where God says be drunken and spew in the book of Jeremiah. So
Shameful spewing shall be on your glory. Here's what he's saying. Basically like your glory is
Is covered in vomit is what he's basically saying there
Shameful spewing shall be on your glory and you know today we have people who brag about being a fornicator
Right, they brag about fornication. They brag about being a womanizer
They brag about being a pickup artist as if that's some kind of an art form that wickedness
They brag about adultery. They brag about getting drunk
They brag about getting high and they brag about their sin just like we talked about this morning
They brag about stealing and they glorify stealing
But if we could see these people with spiritual glasses something glorious about it
What God sees is a filthy vile drunk covered in his own vomit
Covered in his own sick. That's what God's saying here when he says you are filled with shame for glory
Drink thou also let your foreskin be uncovered
Shameful spewing shall be on your glory
This is not a pretty picture
Go if you would to Isaiah chapter 5 there are people who glory today in their sin they glory in their shame they brag
About drunkenness they brag about sleeping around they brag about these things when they ought to be ashamed of these things
Look, everybody's a sinner
Okay, nobody's perfect
But you ought not brag about your sins and glorify your sins. That's a whole nother level of wickedness now
Obviously some of these sins are so wicked that they're an abomination
Whether you brag about them or not, but you know what even small sins in our life
We shouldn't brag about those things and glory in those things and think it's cool and especially you young people
You know don't get this attitude that sin is cool. It's cool to be a rebel
You know, it's cool to break the law it's cool to be a vandalist
I mean when I was a kid people thought it was cool to break things and do vandalism, right?
You know, I was I was talking to my dad he told me a story about
Some some guys that he knew when he was a teenager and they were siphoning gas out of a car
You know, they're stealing gas. So they're they're siphoning gas out of a car
He was at some party or something
They were they went down the street some of the people in their group and they siphon gas out of a car and when they
Were done siphoning gas out of this guy's car down the street. He's a bunch of bozos one of them just
Lights a cigarette and just take the match and just throws it and just ignites because he'd spilled gas
Everywhere in the process of siphoning gas he'd spilled gas
He just tossed a match and walked away and this guy's car just you know
Went up in flames or whatever.
I mean what it's like what kind of stupidity is that what kind of wickedness is that to just go to some random
Stranger's car, you know, you don't know who's that is. You don't know what they're going through in life
You don't know what kind of a time they're having in life and you're just gonna steal their gas and then just light their
vehicle on fire
Just why just for kicks?
Folks, that's not cool
You know, that's not like oh man such a rebel so cool man rip the system, you know, no that's not cool at all
It's evil is what it is and don't glory in something that you ought to be ashamed of hurting people
There's nothing glorious about hurting someone
Brag about it and think it's so cool. And by the way, while I'm offending people tonight
Let me just let me just offend people more
You know, why why do we think it's so cool that our country
Assassinated that guy in Iran like I you know, and look I don't really follow politics
I don't care about politics, but since when is it cool to brag about?
assassinating someone
We're so bad. We're so tough. We're America
Wow, that's so that's so valiant. You're so brave
When you can just assassinate someone
Not not not in battle night last time I checked. I don't remember when we declared war on Iran
In fact, I don't remember declaring war on Iraq. In fact, I don't remember us to claim war on Afghanistan
In fact, the last time we declared war was in 1945 when we declared war on Hungary
Folks
The war with Hungary that was the last war that we did as seriously I'm not kidding in World War two
We declared war on
The you know, Japan Germany and all their allies which the last one that we declare war on was hungry
but the point is my wife scandalized because she's Hungarian, but
Folks this isn't this is why would we be happy about the fact that our
Constitution no longer applies anymore our United States Constitution that says only Congress has the power to declare war
So then here's their little loophole. Oh, we just won't declare war then
Only Congress can declare war. Okay. Well, then let's just not declare war for the last 75 years
We just don't declare war we just fight
For the United Nations now or whatever or we fight for Israel now, or we just fight wherever and the president can just
Assassinate someone okay, and you say well, you don't know the holes
I don't need to know the whole story to know that it's that we should not be fighting undeclared wars
That's unconstitutional
Okay, and and I don't understand
And maybe someone can fill me in after the service or something why it's okay for us to just assassinate
another government's official and
brag about it and
You know, you know what you know why you shouldn't brag about that and think that's cool cuz you're next
Okay, if you know what yeah, oh, yeah
Let's just bomb these bunch of you know Muslims into the Stone Age
But you know what the same government that you give the power
To basically just ignore the law ignore the Constitution and you just give them the power to just
Fight these wars with no
declaration of war
constitutionally and just
Assassinate people you know the same government you give the power to do that is the same government
That's gonna infringe on your freedom of speech
And it's the same government that's gonna infringe on your right to bear arms and your freedom of religion
And your right not to be searched when you just give the government this ultimate power
And you're cheering as they kill and destroy over on the other side of the world you're next
You're next
Say our government would never be that way folks there are people running our country who hate the Lord
They hate Christianity
There are many people in our government that hate what's right and our government has promoted wickedness all over the world
Folks you know you're gonna see the deported film in a couple weeks, and and you know what here's a little spoiler alert
You know I got deported from Botswana and so did a bunch of other people
Okay, now you probably knew that was coming, but you know not only that
But guess what the US government was behind it
And the reason I can tell you that and it's not a spoiler is because that scene got cut from the film is that
Right Paul didn't we end up cutting that scene. Yeah, that's cut. It's only in the trailer
It didn't make it in the film because there's even better stuff in the film so but anyway, but the point is folks
The United States government
Literally
donated
8,000 US dollars to the radio station
That got us banned and kicked out of South Africa in Botswana so here. We are we're over there to preach the gospel
We're there to win souls where they're going door-to-door with Bibles and telling people about Jesus
Okay, and and we're going over there to do that
There was a radio station that literally just full-time for like five to six months leading up to that trip
They worked full-time to get us banned
So I mean they were they had petitions they're lobbying the government
They went through all this stuff, and they worked and worked and worked and worked to get us banned from the country
It was called gay SA radio was the name of the institution that did this
Literally the week that they got us finally they succeeded at their mission got us kicked out of the country
they got an
$8,000 check from the United States government a grant for their radio station
$8,000 now that might not seem like a lot of money you say well $8,000 isn't a lot of money well
Here's the thing
$8,000 in South Africa is a lot of money. That's like six months wages for somebody over there, okay
That's it's a more money over there than it is here, but not only that eight thousand dollars
It's not the amount that matters. It's the fact that our government is paying a
Faggot radio station to persecute Christians
American Christians overseas so here's the thing our government would love to persecute us here except for the fact that we have rights
Except for the fact that we have the Constitution in the Bill of Rights so because they can't persecute us here
We go on a missions trip somewhere else. They pay other people to do it
And by the way some of our people during that whole Botswana South Africa debacle
They went to the embassy to try to get help they went to the US Embassy
I believe Sam went to the US Embassy and a few other people to say hey, you know
Our American brother here has been arrested, and they took him, and we don't know where he is and and and you know
Can you help us out and they didn't want to help at all and they said no?
We're actually were they were actually working with the Botswana government saying like yeah deport these guys
Yeah, so instead of the US Embassy defending us and helping its own citizens. They're actually working against us and
influencing the Botswana government to shut down our church and throw us out of the country and they're even giving money to some
sodomite filthy queer radio station, okay
So don't sit there and tell me how hey rah rah America
No friend
because this
Country if it's gonna promote sodomy over in Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan
Just needs to just leave those people alone because they don't need the gospel of sodomy over there
Okay, now I look if our country was bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ
I think that'd be great
But you know how many reports have I read where members of the US military are being told hey you can't preach the gospel
Over here. You know oh you're stationed in Iraq. Well don't preach the gospel don't give out Bibles
You know we don't want to destabilize the region or whatever
Even though that's all they've been doing anyway
over the years
Folks I'm telling you their glory is in there
You say well
How do you know that the US government gave that eight thousand dollars to that radio station because they bragged about it
They showed the letter they posted to their Facebook page. We're so thankful for this grant
This is gonna help us get new equipment
We got this eight thousand dollars from the US Embassy
Just happen to be two days after they threw us out of the country
I'm sure that's just a coincidence right that and why is our government even giving money to something like that
Is that what you want your tax dollars to go to some sodomite radio station on the other side of the world?
Okay, so don't glory in our shame
Don't glory and look if people are being killed on the other side of the world because Babylon USA is on the conquest or whatever
Yeah, that's something to get excited about a glory in you ought to just be praying and saying dear God
Please help our country not to get involved in World War three
Right, I mean that's what we ought to be praying like dear God help us not to go to war
Please don't punish us with some war. That's just gonna suck up billions and trillions more dollars
Put us more into debt more blood on our hands of just bombing and killing and murdering
For what?
for what
For oil for money. The love of money is the root of all evil
and so don't glory in your shame that was a little bit of a
Tangent, so let's get back to the sermon Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil and friend. That's the day that we're living in today
We're living in a day where my sermon that I'm preaching right now, even though I'm preaching the Word of God
That says that sodomites are vile and and evil and wait. I'm considered evil today for preaching these things
I'm considered evil for getting up and saying
What Leviticus 2013 says or what Romans 1 says?
Because they're calling good evil
Preachers of the gospel are now called hate preachers, even though they have the love of Christ
They're trying to evangelize and by the way our event in South Africa and Botswana had nothing to do with homos
It was a soul-winning event
They just turned it into something about homos because that's all they want to talk about because they're a bunch of reprobates
Okay, we went over there. We were trying to evangelize bring the gospel. We're trying to do something good, right?
We're trying to help people and you know what they call evil good and good evil
Woe unto them that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter verse 21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight
woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and
Men of strength to mingle strong drink. So we see here people that brag
About their sin, right? They glory in their shame they glory in
Being a womanizer they glory in fornication and here we see that they glory in drinking
They're mighty to drink wine. Have you ever known people who brag about how much money how much alcohol they can drink?
They'll have a contest
They'll have a contest who can drink the most alcohol and they brag about how they can really hold their liquor
Right, and that's what the Bible is. Isn't it interesting that thousands of years ago that was already going on
This college atmosphere beer pong keg thing. This isn't new
Because back then the Bible says one of them that are mighty to drink wine. Yeah big tough guy. I can really drink wine
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink folks drinking alcohol doesn't make you tough
You know how you know what it means when you can hold your liquor
It doesn't mean that you're tough. Oh
Man, I'm so tough
No, you know what it means it just means you're an alcoholic that's all it means
Any loser it's not like you have to go do some intense
Obstacle course to get to toughen up so that now I can drink more beer now
It's not like you go out and and and scale walls and do an obstacle course and and go lift a bunch of weights
And and you know you walk across hot coals and you you know juggle chainsaws or something and you're like, okay now
I can drink a lot of beer now. I'm tough now
I'm mighty folks, you know how you build up your tolerance to alcohol is just by drinking a lot of alcohol
any idiot can go to the store and buy a
24 pack of natty ice and
Just drink one after the other day after day after day and just drink beer after beer after beer and shot after shot
And wine after wine and you know what you too
Can be mighty to drink one you too can get a beer belly you too can get man boobs you too
Can get you have your nose swollen up like an alcoholic you too can have your eyes turn yellow
You too can ruin your life
Folks there's nothing tough about it. There's nothing mighty about I can drink a drink
I mean, it's like oh wow, that's so cool. I'm so impressed. Wow, you can actually drink up beverages
What is the glory in I drank 32 ounces I drank 64 ounces it's like what are you a toddler or something?
How is that an achievement
Yeah, I really drink a lot of beer you're a loser and you know what basically you and a bunch of other losers
Decide to get together and pretend that it's cool like the Emperor's new clothes because you don't want to go around saying I'm a loser
I'm a deadbeat. I have nothing going for me and like I'm a drunkard. I am an alcoholic
I'm destroying my liver. I'm destroying my brain. I'm destroying my body
I'm gonna end up in the gutter somewhere or with a DUI somewhere or killing some innocent family in a drunk driving accident
Somewhere or like, you know losing my family losing my job losing everything, but oh man, you know
I really know how to have a good time because you know what I'm so creative at having a good time
I can just sit and drink this brown liquid and it's so fun. And I thought of it all by myself
No one else has thought of it. I
Mean all over the world people are just sitting around and they're not having a good time
But I've learned how to have a good time. I just I just go somewhere that sells brown liquid and I drink it
And I just the rest just happens magically
Folks there's nothing worse than being a sober person around drunk people. She's like get away from me you idiot
Sober up
It's not cool now TV makes it cool movies make it cool
Advertisements make it cool bunch of bunch of shredded, you know dudes playing beach volleyball with a bunch of bikini babes
Okay, fast forward 20 years later, and it's a bunch of men who look like they're pregnant
Okay, a bunch of women who look 15 years older than they should
Did you know what if I told you that that that beer ladies did not come from the fountain of youth?
Okay, and women who look like they've lived a hard life and look about 15 to 20 years older than they should
You know, it's alcohol and cigarettes and drugs that do that to you and it doesn't have to be all of the above
It can just be one just one of those things
Listen to me alcohol is not improving your complexion and beauty
It's not
It's not going to okay, whether you're a man or a woman. It's not gonna make you better looking
Okay, and it's not gonna make you smarter. It doesn't make you cool
Unless you're just around total losers that like like what you don't know how to have fun without alcohol
You know people who are actually
Intelligent can actually find a way to have fun. They can actually be creative and have a good time. No chemicals required
people who have no
Imagination have to just get together and just drink themselves
So drunk that they forget what a loser they are and how they have nothing going for them
But you know people glorify drinking today. Oh
So cool, man beard. Yeah
They're glorying in their shame is what they're doing well one to them that are mighty
To drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink
Go if you would to first Timothy chapter 2 first Timothy chapter 2
You know, it's funny whenever you preach about drinking out when I was growing up and and you'd hear preaching against drinking and drunkenness
Pastors would often turn they would often quote this verse, you know
Whoa unto him they giveth his neighbor drink when they were rattling off verses against alcohol and
Verses against drunkenness and they would rattle off, you know, whoa unto him
They giveth his neighbor drink when they were rattling off verses against alcohol and verses against drunkenness and they would rattle off
And I you know, I've heard that a million times they usually wouldn't actually turn to the pastor to read the whole passage
They would just kind of quote that one part like whoa unto him to give his neighbor drink and it's funny
I've several times in my life. I've had
Christians who justify drinking alcohol
Actually say oh man when preachers quote that verse they just quote the first they only they don't even read the whole verse
That's not even what that's about
But I'm thinking to myself man if you read the whole verse it's so much worse
Woe unto them to give his neighbor drink and put us thy bottle to him and make us him drunk
And also that thou mayest look on their nakedness. So these people who want to justify drinking. They're like, oh well, see
I mean all we all I did was give him drink. I'm not trying to look on his nakedness
Okay, so so therefore I'm okay
But hold on a second just the fact that that is a practice that's going on
Enough to where there are multiple Bible stories about it and there's this warning about in Habakkuk chapter 2 tells me that in
2020 in the perilous times that we live you're gonna go to a party and drink a bunch of alcohol
What if there's one of those Habakkuk 2 15 dudes around?
Am I right
Look, I had a friend one time. He got he told me that he got so drunk
This was a guy I worked with a while back
He got so drunk that he passed out in his front lawn. His brother picked him up off the front lawn
Dragged him into the house while he's unconscious just drunk out of his mind
Dragged him into the house took all his clothes off him took him into the shower
Hosed him off in the shower to clean him up of his filth of his vomit or whatever
Hosed him off cleaned him up dressed him in pajamas and put him in his pajamas
Dressed him in pajamas and put him into bed and tucked him in
All while he's unconscious and has no clue what's happening
And he woke up the next morning and his brother told him
Yeah, I dragged you in from the front yard
I dragged I took off your clothes dragged you in the shower hosed you down
Put on fresh clothes put you in your bed, and he didn't believe him and his brother said, okay here
Let me show you a picture
And he showed him a picture of him slumped unconscious in the shower getting sprayed off
And he said hey you believe me now?
Because here's a picture of what I did and look obviously his brother loved him his brother
What about the Habakkuk 215 guy is around?
When you get drunk and pass out like that
Folks what about people who don't love you? What about somebody who's not your brother or your friend?
What about the person who's there to take advantage of you and abuse you and use you and who knows what?
Folks you are making yourself vulnerable
to sin
And vulnerable to other people when you drink it's stupid
It doesn't make any sense the bible says be sober and people say well the bible just says don't get drunk
No, the bible says be sober
Over and over again be sober be sober be sober
Why why are we to be sober? Hey be sober because your adversary the devil
Walketh about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour
And when you're under the influence of alcohol you're likely to do something stupid or someone else is likely to do something to you
They can harm you or you could do something stupid to yourself. You could harm yourself, okay?
Just look up the statistics on suicide and you'll see how often they're under the influence of drugs or alcohol the vast majority of the time
People kill themselves people will get in horrible car accidents. They commit adultery
I you know, I knew someone else who uh was faithful to his wife
And you know, he was both he and his wife were virgins when they got married
They were roman catholic and they got married and they were faithful to each other
and never any adultery or anything but
This guy's friends at the office thought would be fun to get him drunk at this office party because he was kind of a straight
Laced guy
And he wasn't saved back then. He's roman catholic later. He ended up getting saved
But they ended up getting him drunk and because he got drunk he ended up committing adultery
With one of the women at the office while he was in that drunken condition something they never would have done sober
This guy was not a drunk a partier
Not an adulterous type but because he got totally drunk because they thought that'd be funny
He ended up just losing his good judgment
sleeping with this woman at the party
Committing adultery and you know, he and his wife they couldn't get past it. They could not work it out
They could not move on and so they ended up getting divorced
And you know when I knew them, you know, she was on like her third husband at that point
Okay
And she was and she lamented this that this had happened early in their life
You know, I mean it's a sad story
But you know what? That's what alcohol does. There's nothing there's nothing to brag about
You know, you say well pastor anderson, I drink well, you know what you ought to be ashamed of yourself if you drink
If you drink you ought to be ashamed of yourself
I don't want you to drink. You know, I I want you to be sober. I want you to to live a happy life
I want you to be blessed by god. That's why i'm preaching this
Because I don't want people in this room to drink. I don't I don't want my children or your children to grow up and drink
Okay, so I want them to hear this and understand the truth of it
But you know what if you do drink hey keep your mouth shut about it
And don't you influence young people around you and glory in that hey if you have that sin
Keep that wicked sin to yourself and don't drag other people down to the gutter with you
I don't want you to drink. But if you must drink don't drink in front of my kids
Don't drink in front of your kids. Don't drink in front of other people's kids
Hey, don't lead other people in that don't glory in shame. You got to be ashamed of yourself
There's nothing cool about that there's nothing to brag about with that
First timothy chapter 2 verse 9
It says in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shame-facedness and sobriety
Not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array
But which become with women professing godliness with good works
The bible says that women should adorn themselves with modest apparel with shame-facedness
And sobriety sobriety and shame-facedness now, what does that mean shame-facedness?
Well, remember the opposite of glorying in your shame is actually being ashamed when you do something wrong, right?
The right attitude when we do something wrong is to be sorry
Right, we commit a sin. We should be sorry
We should be ashamed. We should feel bad about it and we could be like ezra saying oh god, you know i'm blushing
To to even bring this to you lord, but i'm so sorry
I'm ashamed lord, you know having actual penitence and actually feeling bad
So when the bible talks about women having shame-facedness and sobriety
What he's saying is that they should not just be okay with just openly exposing themselves to the world and ex
And just being shameful
Shame-facedness is that actually they would blush at those things. Okay
Now this is in the context also of modest apparel. What is apparel?
Apparel is clothing, right? So modest apparel is modest clothing. So he's saying I want women to be dressed in modest clothing
With shame-facedness
Now, why would he say that because all throughout the bible
Nakedness is associated with shame. Okay, and and you don't have to turn these i'm just going to go through a whole litany of these
But the bible for example says in exodus 32 25 and when moses saw that the people were naked
For aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies. So notice they were naked unto their shame
isaiah 20 verse 4 says
So shall the king of israel lead away the egyptians prisoners and the etheopians captives young and old
naked and barefoot
Even with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of egypt
So these guys who had their butt uncovered it said that's shameful, right?
Their buttocks were uncovered they were naked and barefoot. It was a shame. Okay
isaiah 47 3
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered. Yea thy shame
Shall be seen mica chapter 1 verse 11 says having thy shame
naked
Nahum chapter 3 verse 5 says I will show thy nakedness
To the nations and the kingdoms thy shame
So notice how it's just verse after verse right i'm giving you all these examples where it's just like the shame of your nakedness your nakedness
To your shame unto your shame, right?
Flip over to revelation 16 if you would revelation 16 while you're turning there
Revelation 3 verse 18 says I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire
That thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear
And anoint thine eyes with eye sad that thou mayest see revelation chapter 16 verse 15 behold I come as a thief
Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked
And they see his what?
If you walk naked they see your shame, right so it is a shame to show your
Nakedness that's what the bible says
So when god says he wants women to wear modest clothing he wants them to be wearing modest apparel
He doesn't want the and he says do it with shame face in this he's saying they should be ashamed to show their nakedness
And and by the way, you know god's standard for nakedness is not the world standard of nakedness
The world basically says if you have just three little triangles of fabric
On your body. You're not naked according to this world
Right
Just a few little triangles and you're good to go three Doritos
And you're good to go. Okay. I mean that's pretty much what the world standard is
Now look the world has a standard
You know, I you know, I saw a thing in the news where a guy got you know expelled from
University of california berkeley because he went to school in just a backpack
Even the most communist
You know school in america
Said this guy's naked
Well, he's wearing a backpack well you're still naked, okay
So everybody's got a standard for this I mean the the city of tempe has a standard for this
Okay, the city of tempe has standards of this where if you were to walk down the street naked in tempe
You'll get arrested for that
You know, I talked to somebody who worked at a local business and had some weirdo come in that was that was
You know pretty much virtually naked
And they dragged the guy out and then it was a big court battle and they were going through
What is the exact definition of nakedness and all these different things tempe has a defined?
View on what nakedness is but it's not the same as god's view
One of the things that i've seen before in the city of tempe is when you go on campus
I've gone to some of the restaurants there. I was eating there with some of my friends at the burger fi on
University this message has been brought to you part by burgerfi, but I was at the the burgerfi on university
And literally this woman walks into burgerfi just wearing like a string bikini
Just into burgerfi
Okay, and this is like in the evening dinner time and she's just in a bikini and like we're not swimming
We're not at the beach, you know, it's just like she just walks in wearing that
And you can see like people all over the restaurant were kind of horrified
Like I there was this one elderly lady that was just downright scandalized
And I mean I was scandalized. I mean, we're all just like what what is this?
And that's not the only time i've seen something like that in tempe
Sometimes i've just been driving through that downtown tempe and seen women walking down the street in a bikini like when it's cold outside
Like I guess just from one bar to the next or something it's bizarre but but here's the thing about that
The vast majority of normal people would look at that and say
That's not appropriate. That's indecent
You don't have to be some
Fundamentalist baptist or something to think that way, right?
I don't think grandma at burgerfi was a fundamental baptist necessarily, but she was just kind of horrified
Like why is this woman walking in here?
Just virtually naked. I mean just barely wearing anything at all. Just walking in like that. That's weird, right?
Now what what if a woman walked into church in a string bikini?
Wouldn't that be super weird and you'd be like what in the world?
What is this? I think even liberal churches would be horrified by that
even if you were down at the fun center church or or a more laid-back church, they'd be like
Come on, you know and then they they'd probably say hey, you know, the bible says we need to clothe the naked, you know
You know you were I was naked and you clothed me and they'd probably
Give her something could have put her in a baptism garment for crying out loud put her in something
But but hold on a second isn't interesting though that even christians will say but if we go to the beach it's fine
That doesn't really make any sense does it
Look if it's weird in burgerfi
If it's weird at church, you know what you shouldn't you just because you dug a hole in the ground and filled it with water
Doesn't all of a sudden mean hey, let's just strip all our clothes off
Okay, because there's a hole in the ground with water there
And then it's like well, that's fine. You know what what if I told you that you could actually go swimming with your clothes on
And i'm not i'm not saying that you have to wear coveralls or something
But you know what you could as a man when you go swimming you can wear swim trunks that actually go down to your knee
Right
Whoa, it just messes with my stride you got the wrong stride
You got the wrong style of swimming
You know what? I look i'm not an expert swimmer
But you know
I wear trunks down to my knees and you know what?
I can swim just fine. I can do the the forward crawl
And I can do a breast stroke and I can do a butterfly stroke just fine with trunks that go down to my knee
It's possible to do that
Okay
And you say well, but you know, it's gonna slow me. Are you going are you in the olympics?
How high are the stakes for you?
Michael phelps or
It's like what here, you know, do you shave your legs too, you know
Like are you really trying to just get that extra little edge and people are like, oh, it's dangerous to swim in all those clothes
Really
Like i'm just yeah. Yeah, this is a problem. I have all the time when I go swimming
I'm constantly just getting tangled up in my swim trunks
That does it that never happens does it
Millions and millions of men all over the world every day are going swimming in trunks that go down to their
Knees and you know what? That's the bible standard for covering your nakedness by the way
The bible we just saw it in exodus chapter 28 a few weeks ago, you know, the bible talks about the the britches
covering the loins and the thighs
You know, we should have something that we should wear a knee length garment
In order to have our nakedness covered not the short shorts are not god's standard for covering your nakedness, right?
We need a knee length garment. And by the way that goes for male and female
Ladies skirts need to go at least to the knee to be under god's standard
You say well, but no the world thinks it's fine to wear fingertip length or you know short skirts and everything
But hold on a second. What does the bible say?
You know, the bible talks about covering your nakedness as covering your loins
And your thighs and your buttocks
Loins thighs and buttocks need to be covered in order for your nakedness to be covered
So if you're a man wear trunks down to the knee you say well, I play a sport and they don't allow it
Then play a different sport would be my advice to you. And you know what? Usually there's a workaround
You know, I remember like when I was doing
Muay Thai
Which is kickboxing and they you know, there were certain sparring and things where you had to wear the Muay Thai shorts and they're pretty short
They're really too short, okay the Muay Thai shorts
Because Thailand's a weird place, but that's another sermon. Okay. So anyway
You know what I did though?
Is I just I wore like bicycling shorts
Under the Muay Thai shorts
And that was considered. Okay, you know what I mean? That was allowed in the rules
And i've even seen amateur
Muay Thai fighters, you know where they would actually have bicycle shorts onto their knees and then they'd have the little daisy duke
Muay Thai shorts
Over that and that's in compliance with the rules so you can work around and you can still do your sport and do that
But you know, it's like oh well, you know, it's just i'm gonna lose that edge or whatever, you know
Did you know that God did not call us to excel at athletics as much as he called us to excel at
Holiness and godliness. What does the bible say bodily exercise profit little
But it says exercise yourself rather under godliness. So i'm for exercise
I'm for being in shape and and doing sports, but you know what it's more important though that you that you focus on being righteous
So i'm going to look like a weirdo look
Most dudes out there are wearing long shorts anyway, so why don't you just put on long shorts and get over yourself?
Okay, well but not in my sport hey don't put on a speedo it's weird
Okay
And it's he I think a dude and a speedo is even weirder than a woman in a bikini in my opinion
Okay
And i'm not even going to go into why but you should be able to figure out why but it's too weird. Okay
But here's the thing about the women though. Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
You know what isn't interesting how men can go swimming
In uh shorts down to the knee no problem, and they don't get tangled up and drown
in in their own trunks
Okay, but you know what women can actually go swimming in a skirt that goes down to their knee
Okay, and they can put on some kind of leggings or something underneath it something they could put on something like a wetsuit
Or some kind of a you know, like bicycling shorts and then they can have a skirt over it
And they can look like a lady
And they can wear some kind of a swim dress or something
And they can actually swim and be modest and let me say this, you know, you say well, I don't want to look like an
Idiot, you know what i'd rather look like an idiot in the eyes of the world than have god be displeased with me
Number one, you know what y'all instead of being ashamed of doing right
You ought to be ashamed of doing wrong and not glory and shame
Okay, but you know what i'll say this my daughters all have
Stylish
Beautiful swim dresses that look great
They're stylish
They look great
They look classy and you know what when we go places and they go swimming at this lake or that ocean or whatever
You know what? They only get compliments
When they're swimming in the hotel swimming pool, you know what they have people coming up to them and saying wow
That is a cool swimsuit. That's beautiful. It looks great
Where do I get the where do I get the uh, the the uh, the uh, the what do you call the pattern?
I was gonna say recipe, but i'm like this isn't food. I'm hungry. Okay
I didn't have enough dinner
Yeah, can we go to burger fight after?
But anyway
you know
Where can I get the pattern for this? You know, this is amazing. It's beautiful
They if you've seen them, they look sharp. They look classy and there are lots of solutions you could do if you cared
To look and you can still look cool i'm not telling i'm not telling you to look like a weirdo
I'm, not trying to put you in a hijab tonight
Okay, i'm not trying to dress you up like some kind of a muslim ninja outfit
But what i'm saying is you know what you can actually cover your nakedness
And you know what? I I guarantee you that a lot of these women who walk up to us and they ask my wife
Because my wife will be wearing it my daughters be wearing and they walk up and they ask my wife. Hey,
Where do I get that?
How can I buy that?
You know, I get I bet a lot of them aren't even christians
And i'll bet a lot of them it's not even a moral issue for them. They're probably just ashamed to just strip down
practically naked
Because there's just something inside of us as human beings that that just feels weird about just exposing our nakedness out in public, right?
And so I think a lot of these people it's not even a moral issue as much as they're just embarrassed to just go
Out stripped nude like that in in the in the triangles and so basically what they do is
You know they would and I guarantee you look I promise you this if those type of uh, swim dresses
Were were on the shelves at coals and jc penny and all these places. I guarantee you people would buy them
And you know and if the tv commercials showed that and if the billboards showed that you know
I think a lot of women would probably love it
But you know what?
It's not because the devil wants people
To strip down naked but get why so that men
Can can can lust after that and and it can just cause sin to take place when when you know
Out of sight out of mind. Amen
and and so you ought to
Be ashamed to show your name. I'm out of time
I I took too long on certain points of the sermon and then added in some bonus points
But let me just finish on
on this thought
Uh, the bible says in proverbs chapter 3 verse 33 the curse of the lord is in the house of the wicked
But he blesses the habitation of the just surely he scorns the scorners, but he giveth grace under the lowly
The wise shall inherit glory
But shame shall be the promotion of fools
So the bible says the wise shall inherit glory shame shall be the promotion. So don't glory in shame
What this world glories in is shameful they they glory in a half-naked woman right they glory in
Uh sodomites they glory in drunkenness they glory in
Murder and and and endless warfare and kill them all and let god sort them out
That's the kind of things that they brag about right?
Oh, man, we just go in there and kill everybody. Yeah
That's not good
Okay, it's sad
You know, we we should be we should seek after a peace
but
They glory in all the wrong things
Okay
They brag about the wrong things god forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our lord. Jesus christ
If you want to have real glory, it's the glory that comes from being a godly christian being glorified with christ
okay, because christ
deserves all the glory but
Glorying and shame
Folks don't be that guy that that brags about drinking and brags about look
Everyone's a sinner don't brag about your sin
When you sin be sorry
When you sin be ashamed and confess it to god and be like ezra and confess it and get it right
Don't go around and try to drag everybody else into it and try to make it look cool
So you can glorify yourself let's have a word of prayer father
we thank you so much for your word and we thank you for
Salvation lord and we thank you that even though we are sinners and even though we've we've all sinned and come short of the glory
of god
We thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and saving us and giving us a free gift of eternal life
And and that we can never lose our salvation lord. What a blessing to be saved
The lord now that we're saved help us not to just live like the rest of the world around us
But rather lord help us to be different and help us not to glory in the shameful things
That the world glories in lord you you you said it
In luke 16 that which is highly esteemed among men
Is an abomination in the sight of god. So lord help us
To get your view on what is glorious and what is shameful?
And not to glory in things that are shameful or brag about them in jesus name. We pray. Amen