Go to the book of Micah and look at that preaching briefly here.
Flip over to Micah.
Micah is toward the very end of the Old Testament.
Jonah Micah, it's right after Jonah in fact.
Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk is the order.
So look at Micah chapter number three
and let's look at this preaching.
Verse number eight of Micah chapter three.
But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord
and of judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob
his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Here's the thing, preaching that doesn't preach on sin
lacks power.
He said I'm full of power by the Spirit of the Lord
and of judgment.
But here's the thing, you preach judgment today
and what do you hear all day long?
Don't judge.
Judge not, judge not, brah, judge not.
They just keep repeating that as their mantra
and it just doesn't make any sense, my friend,
because by their attitude of just,
oh, well no one can judge.
We can't judge.
How dare you judge?
Jesus said not to judge.
I mean, next time I go to court,
that's what I'm gonna tell the judge.
I'm gonna be like, I'm offended by your name.
I mean, you're a judge?
Judge not!
I mean, think about how dumb that is.
Or what about this?
How about this?
I go out and do some reckless driving
and get pulled over by the police and just tell 'em,
hey, don't judge.
Are you, hey, he that is without sin among you,
let him write me a ticket.
Know what I mean?
Or why don't my children tell me,
next time I'm gonna give them a spanking,
and they say, well, wait a minute,
are you without sin, Dad?
Well then you can't judge me.
Only God can judge me, Dad.
You think that's gonna work when my toddler tells me that?
Only God can judge me.
But I got a news flash for ya.
The Bible doesn't say, don't judge.
The Bible says, judge not that ye be not judged,
for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged,
and with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother,
let me pull out the mote out of thine eye?
And behold, a beam is in thine own eye.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye,
and then shalt thou seek clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Oh, but that's too many big words.
That's too complicated.
I can't...
Judge not!
Sorry to confuse you with the whole passage when it tells you to make sure that you're
not a hypocrite, that you first get the beam out of your own eye, and then he doesn't say,
and then leave the mote in your brother's eye.
He says, no, no, then you'll see clearly to remove the mote out of your brother's eye.
So we are to judge our brother, but we're to first make sure that we're not being a hypocrite.
Make sure that we have our house in order and that we aren't living in a glass house
throwing stones.
That's what the Bible actually teaches.
Jesus said, "Judge not after the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
The Bible says that we're going to judge angels, how much more things that pertain to this
life.
"If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge that are least
esteemed in the church."
I speak this year's name.
Is it so that there is not a wise man among you, no not one, that shall be able to judge
between his brethren?
What about when Paul said in 1 Corinthians 5, when he heard the common report about the
young man that was taken in fornication, and he said, "Well, I've already judged."
As though I were present concerning him that it's so down the street, "I've already judged."
Oh, how dare you, Paul.
You're so judgmental.
Judge not.
Ridiculous.
It's nonsensical.
I mean, you know what it means to judge?
It means to make a decision.
It means to have an opinion.
So basically, if we're just supposed to not judge, then we're just supposed to just go
through life with no opinion about anything.
You know, "Oh, you're murdering?
Who am I to judge?"
I mean, that's right.
I mean, they asked Pope Francis, "What about the homos?"
Well, "Who am I to judge?
Who am I to judge?
Oh, I can't judge.
Well, just murder, adultery, rape, pillaging, burning down the city.
Who am I to judge?"
I mean, think about how ridiculous this is.
It's nonsense.
But this is the mantra of people who want to live in sin.
This is their mantra.
Judge not.
Now listen.
I'm a sinner.
You're a sinner.
None of us is perfect.
Right?
But then people will try to say, "Oh, because you're not perfect, you can't judge anything.
Because you're not perfect, you can't preach the word of God."
Well, then no one can preach and no one can judge.
We need to close the service and go home and never have an opinion again.
It doesn't make any sense, folks.
It's a perversion of what's being taught in scripture.
And you know, a perfect example of this, and I'm just going to call it out by name because
it's a common report and because he's rubbing our nose in it, this Kent Hoeven garbage.
And let me tell you, this guy, look, and I defended Kent Hoeven when his wife is divorcing
him, but you know what?
I'm going to call him out right now and you say, "Well, it's none of your business."
Well, you know what?
He goes on YouTube and puts out a video telling everybody, "If you don't agree with me committing
adultery, then you're a hypocrite and a Pharisee."
Well, you know what?
I'm a Pharisee then.
I'm a Pharisee.
Yeah, you know what?
Actually, Kent Hoeven, in Matthew 19, it was the Pharisees that justified divorce and remarriage.
Read the Bible, folks.
Matthew chapter 19, the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, "You can divorce your wife
for any reason you want."
That's what the Pharisees believe.
That's what rabbinical Judaism teaches.
That's what they taught.
No, it was Jesus who rebuked the Pharisees and said, "No, when you get married, it's
till death."
And what God has joined together, let not a man put asunder.
Look, if Ken Hoeven wants to marry a divorced woman, you know, whatever, that's his business.
But for him to get up and tell everybody, "Oh, I prayed about it, I fasted, and I sought
God the counsel, and I told God, 'I'm willing to do whatever you want, God, and this is
what God led me to do, to marry a divorced woman.'"
That's a lie out of the pit of hell.
God would never lead you to disobey the Bible.
And look, if he would have just said, "Well, you know what, I'm going to marry a divorced
woman because I'm weak, I've been in prison for years, and, you know, I'm throwing up
my hands on my marriage, I give up, I'm just going to..."
You know what?
Whatever.
I wouldn't even make a big deal out of it because, you know what, that's his business.
He's the one who's going to deal with the consequences for that.
I'm not that...
But you know what?
When he's just going to publicly announce, and he even said, "I want this to be an example
to other divorced people."
That's what he said.
Who heard him say it?
Yeah, see, am I making this up?
He flat out said, "I want other people who are divorced to see this example."
Oh, you mean where you're already scheming on a divorced woman before your wife has even
divorced you?
You're defending you in April and you've been scheming on this other woman since February?
And you know what?
People try to say, "Oh, Ken Hoeven, there's nothing he can do about his wife leaving him."
How do you know?
And even if that's true, okay, is he marrying a single?
Is he marrying a widow?
No, he's marrying a divorced woman.
Go to Luke 16.
And look, if you're divorced and you're remarried, I'm not attacking you, I'm not mad at you.
Look, I have lots of good friends that are divorced and remarried.
My parents are divorced and remarried, people make mistakes.
But you know what?
If you're going to go around and start telling everybody that God told you to do that and
that God wants other people to do that, you're destroying people's marriages, you're destroying
their lives.
Hey, I don't want anybody in my church to listen to that liar, Ken Hoeven, saying, "Oh,
you know, it's great to divorce and get married to somebody else, you're a liar, Ken Hoeven."
And here we defended you.
We helped you, we stood up for you, and then you call us Pharisees for pointing out what
Jesus taught.
I don't want the marriages in this church to be destroyed.
I want every single person in this church to stay married to the person that they're
married to right now.
I want every single person, and I don't want anybody watching that Ken Hoeven video and
saying, "Well, hmm, my wife treats me like crap.
Maybe there's a way out for me, and I can go trade up for something different.
Well my husband treats me like crap.
Maybe I can go trade up.
No, it's till death."
And you know what?
I know how this game works.
When people want to marry somebody else, you know what they do?
They push the other person away until they provoke them to divorce you so that they can
blame, "Oh yeah, they divorced me.
They divorced me."
I've seen it.
Don't you tell me it's not out there.
When people want to trade up their spouse, they start treating them like dirt, and they
keep provoking them until finally they divorce them, and then they're like, "Oh, he divorced
me.
Oh, there's nothing I could do.
Oh, she divorced me.
There's nothing I could do."
Hey, look, there's no excuse for it, and you know, it's kind of funny when the ink isn't
even dry on the divorce papers, and you're already getting married, and now with that,
you're committing a double sin by marrying a divorced woman.
Not only are you divorced, she's divorced, and you say, "Oh, I'm going to leave the
church because I'm divorced and remarried," then get out.
Get out if you're going to justify that sin to me.
Now look, if you've been divorced and remarried, and you're willing to admit that it was wrong,
great.
Or, if you think I'm wrong about this and you're willing to keep your mouth shut about
it, great.
But you know what?
I don't want anybody to get up and teach publicly that divorce and remarriage is fine because
it destroys people's lives.
Because it's that kind of teaching that gives people a way out.
And you know what?
We need to have a do or die attitude toward marriage.
And you know what?
It's amazing.
When people believe the doctrine that Jesus taught, that it's a one time, you get married,
it's still death due as part and there's no way out except the grave, isn't it amazing
how people find a way to make it work?
They find a way to make it work.
But when people have this other option, see let me put it to you this way.
So let's look at the scripture first, Luke chapter 16 verse 18, whosoever putteth away
his wife and marryeth another, committeth adultery.
Now is there something that anybody doesn't understand about that?
Whosoever putteth away his wife and marryeth another, committeth adultery.
You say oh well he didn't put away his wife, she put him away, okay how about this one.
And whosoever marryeth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery, committeth
adultery.
If you marry a woman that's put away from her husband, divorced from her husband, you're
committing adultery.
If you put away your wife, you're causing her to commit adultery.
And if a wife puts away her husband and marries somebody else, I believe it says it that way.
What, in Mark chapter 12 off the top of my head, somebody help me out, is it Mark 12?
Some of you guys in the preaching class, we've been going through where to find things in
different chapters.
I want to say Mark 12, is that right?
Is it Mark 10?
Oh, I had 12 in there somewhere.
Yeah, how about this one, 10, 11?
And he saith unto them, whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth
adultery against her; and if a woman shall put away her husband and be married to another,
she committeth adultery.
Okay, so he says it all different ways, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, but in Luke it said if
you marry her that is put away, you're committing adultery.
Oh, but I prayed about it.
I fasted about it.
He said I sought Godly counsel, I talked to 15 pastors, and 14 of them told me adultery
is fine.
14 of them told me that it's okay to marry a divorced woman, and it's okay for me to
just, now that my wife has divorced me, just marry somebody else.
14 compromising phonies.
Give us their names and I'll call them out from the pulpit tube because they're destroying
people's lives.
And look, I've been in these Baptist churches that teach this doctrine of all these loopholes
where you can, oh, well you can, it's like pick an excuse and you can pretty much get
divorced and remarried for any reason.
And you know what?
It's like a wife swap every year.
Look, I can think of a particular independent Baptist church I went to.
I was there for five years and I can think of like eleven people who swapped wives while
I was there.
Think of eleven people who got divorced.
You know, do you see that going on in our church?
Where families are constantly divorcing and all these different things?
No, because I'll bet you that if somebody was in our church, a married couple, look
at all the married couples around our church.
Look around.
I guarantee if there was a married couple in this church and they wanted to get a divorce,
they'd probably quit the church before they got a divorce because they'd be so ashamed
to show their face here in the process of divorcing their spouse because it's so preached
against.
It's shameful.
Well, you know what?
It used to be shameful in this whole nation before Christians started to just accept it.
"Oh, congratulations!
Isn't it wonderful?"
It's not wonderful at all.
And this, you know, this thing of, "Oh, and our first kiss is going to be on our wedding
day.
Oh, you saint.
I'm so glad you're waiting.
You're doing adultery right.
You're doing it right."
You say, "Well, I thought you're Ken Hovind's friend."
I'm a friend of God.
I'm not a friend of the world.
And I'm not going to be friends with somebody who gets up and teaches this, because I love
the sanctity of marriage too much.
And this is crystal clear in the Bible.
And they come up with all this.
People are coming at me with like, "Well, if the unbelieving depart, all this junk, misquisting
1 Corinthians 7, okay, is his wife an unbeliever?
Hello, is Ken Owen's wife not saved?
She's saved.
What is it?
But they're just like, just throw it at the wall and see what sticks because we're going
to do what we want.
And then this woman that he's marrying, I looked on her Facebook wall three months ago.
She's talking about people hundreds of thousands of years ago living in some valley.
What in the world?
You're a creation scientist and you're marrying this woman that's posting on Facebook, oh,
a hundred thousand years ago, but it's like, whoa, you didn't watch the seminars.
Somebody didn't see the seminar.
You say mind your own business.
Yeah, I would if he kept it his own business.
But when he brings it to a public forum and says, hey, let me teach everybody who's divorced,
let me encourage you all to sin.
Let me encourage you to disregard the commandments of God.
And then they'll say, oh, well, we're all guilty.
We're all guilty.
Okay, well then why don't we just all swap lives then?
And then nobody can judge because we've all lusted once.
So let's all just swap lives.
What kind of stupidity is that?
Who believes in this junk?
The Bible says you stay married.
You stay married until you die.
And if the wife departs from her husband, she's to remain unmarried or be reconciled
to her husband.
That's what the Bible says.
The Bible says you marry a divorced woman, you're committing adultery.
The Bible says you divorce your spouse and marry someone else, you're committing adultery.
The Bible says you divorce your spouse and they marry someone else, that you cause them
to commit adultery.
You cause them to commit adultery by divorcing them.
So oh, well his wife divorced him, well then she's causing him to commit adultery.
And then he's committing double adultery by marrying a divorced woman.
And you know what, he hasn't done it yet, so maybe his true friend is the one who's
telling him the truth so that he can repent and get it right.
I am never going to compromise on this issue, it's crystal clear in the Bible.
But you know, I'll tell you one reason why people compromise on this, because half the
people in America are divorced, so therefore they don't want to step on any toes.
Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes tonight, but you know what, I'm not preaching against
the people who've already made the mistake, I'm preaching to the people that are still
married.
And you know what, if you're divorced and remarried, you need this sermon too so that
you don't move on to the third wife.
You need to stay married to who you're married to right now, so that you don't become Elizabeth
Taylor, so that you don't become Jerry Lee Lewis.
What do you have, eight wives?
I mean, so that you don't go down that road, my friend.
And by the way, your spouse is probably, you say, "Oh man, I'd have such a great marriage
if I could just switch spouses."
No, you're the problem, and you're going to bring that problem with you.
You're going to bring that problem with you?
You're the one, look, you picked that person.
What's wrong with you?
You're probably going to pick another, you're probably going to pick another, you're probably
going to make another bad choice.
So the point is, look, and you know what?
At the end of the day, you can huff and puff and get mad at Pastor Anderson, but Jesus
said it.
In Matthew 5, Matthew 19, Mark 10, and Luke 16, four times it's laid out, crystal clear,
and I'm not just going to sit here and just, you know, let somebody just publicly, somebody
who we've, you know, stood for when he was a victim, and then he just stands up and just
says, "Not only am I going to commit sin," which, you know, if people commit sin, right,
we're supposed to forgive them if they commit sin, right?
Forgive them.
Okay, but here's the thing though, there's a difference between forgiving somebody and
that person saying, "No, no, no, I'm not committing sin, I'm doing God's will, and let me teach
other people to do it."
I mean, he tried to compare, first he said, first he said what he's doing is not a sin,
then he compared it to the woman taking an adultery.
It's like, well is it a sin or not?
And he said, "Oh, it's like the woman taking an adultery," except I don't remember the
part where the woman taking an adultery made a big speech about how she prayed, fasted,
and sought godly counsel and committed adultery.
Do you really think that Jesus would have treated her nicely if she would have got up
and said that?
No, he treated her that way, she was repentant, okay?
He told her, "Go and sin no more," and she didn't argue with him, "What are you talking
about Jesus?
How can I sin no more when I didn't even sin the first time?"
Is that what she said?
No, when he said, "Go sin no more," I'm sure she probably said, "Yes, sir."
When did the woman taking adultery put a video on YouTube saying, "I want to be an example
to other women all over the world so they can be like me?"
And he builds this straw man up, "Oh, well look at all the people who had all these wives
and God still used them."
Okay, look, nobody's saying that God can't still use you after you've been divorced.
Nobody's saying that you can't continue to serve God after divorce, but what we are saying
is that you can't get up and say, "Divorce and remarriage is fine and it's God's will
and we're obeying the Lord."
And to lie through his teeth and say, "Oh, I went to God, just God, what do you want
me to do?
What do you want me to do?"
And God led him to marry a divorced woman who thinks that the earth is a hundred thousand
years old.
Whatever.
Or she thought that a specific group of people had lived there for a hundred thousand years.
Who saw that?
And look, I have to speak out about this because people ask me, "What are you -- everybody's
coming to me asking me."
But most people knew not to ask me because they already know where I stand.
Since I've been preaching the exact same thing for years, for decades, literally I've believed
this, and I've taught it publicly as the pastor for eleven years, and I will go to the grave
teaching it.
And fourteen out of fifteen Baptist pastors agree that it's fine to get divorced and remarried,
but I'm, not me, not me, let's go back to Jeremiah chapter twenty-six.
No, no, no, we're in Micah, right?
Yeah, we're not done in Micah.
I gotta wrap this thing up.
So funny, somebody comes out and publicly announces something and says, and then just
oh, mind your own business, right?
He gets up and spiritually expounds how righteous it is that he's marrying a divorcee and then
he's just like, oh, how dare you pipe up?
It's none of your business.
Well, you know what?
When you're publicly making an announcement, you're opening yourself up to public scrutiny,
especially when you call anyone who actually believes what Jesus said a Pharisee and a
hypocrite.
What blew me away is just how many thousands of people are just like supporting what he's
teaching.
Well, because they have itching ears to hear that, you know?
And look, again, if you've made the mistake in the past, there's nothing you can do.
Love the one you're with.
Amen?
But the bottom line is, though, you can't go around teaching people that it's right.
And look, look, I've sinned.
I've lied before.
What if I go around teaching that lying is fine?
Right?
Or what if, any sin that we've, if we've stolen something, it doesn't mean that God can never
use us.
It doesn't mean people shouldn't forgive us if we've stolen.
Of course people should forgive us if we've stolen.
But should we go around teaching?
I prayed and fasted and God led me to steal?
No.
Micah, I got to wrap this up, Micah chapter three, brother we thank you so much for bold
men of God like Jeremiah and Lord we thank you for Eurygia, Lord.
Even though he had fear, he's human, we're all human.
We all have fear at times, Lord, but help us to be like these men, uncompromising, and
to stand for the truth, Lord.
And I pray that our brother Kent Hovind would repent of this wickedness that he is teaching
where he's just boldly proclaiming this marriage and remarriage and divorce and all this junk,
Lord.
And we pray that preachers would stand up and teach this doctrine, Lord.
Why?
Because we love people and we love children and we love husbands and wives and we don't
want to see marriages ripped apart, Lord.
So I pray that the sanctity of marriage would be upheld, Lord.
And I pray that even if the whole world is divorcing their spouse and trading up for
something that they think is better, Lord, I pray that every member of Faithful Word
Baptist Church would tonight, if they haven't done so already, Lord, would tonight settle
it in their heart that they will never divorce their spouse for any reason, Lord.
I pray that every single person in this room would make that commitment, Lord, to their
spouse that they should have made on the day that they got married.
But Lord, if they haven't made it already, I pray that they would make it tonight.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.