Psalm 11 the verse that I wanted to focus on is verse number three where the Bible reads
if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do that's the title of my sermon
this morning if the foundations be destroyed now flip over if you would to Luke chapter
number six Luke chapter number six the Bible says there in Psalm 11 if the foundations
be destroyed what can the righteous do meaning that the righteous are powerless to do anything
if the foundations are destroyed that's how important the foundation is well what is the
foundation well according to the Bible itself it's Jesus that's the foundation and it's
the word of God that's the foundation the words of Jesus look what the Bible says in
Luke 6 verse 47 whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doeth them I will show
you to whom he is like he is like a man which built an house and dig deep and laid the foundation
on a rock and when the flood arose and the stream beat vehemently upon that house and
could not shake it for it was founded upon a rock but he that heareth and doeth not is
like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the
stream did beat vehemently and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great
so who is the man that built his foundation upon a rock it's the one who hears the sayings
of Jesus Christ and does them and the one who does not hear those sayings and does not
do them is like one who's building his house without a foundation the Bible says no foundation
so the Bible said in Psalm 11 if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do if
the foundation isn't there then when the storm comes when opposition comes and beats on the
house the Bible says here in Luke 6 that it fell immediately immediately it fell it just
crumbles why because there's nothing holding it up and so the Bible is teaching us how
important it is to have the right foundation go to Ephesians chapter 2 just a few pages
to the right in your Bible Ephesians chapter 2 according to Luke 6 the foundation was the
sayings of Jesus Christ the Word of God was the foundation according to Luke 6 while you're
turning to Ephesians 2 I'll read for you from 1st Corinthians 3 where the Bible reads according
to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation
and another buildeth thereon but let every man take heed how he buildeth there upon for
other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ look down at
your Bible there in Ephesians 2 verse 18 for through him we both have access by one spirit
unto the Father now therefore you're no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens
with the saints and of the household of God and are built upon the foundation watch the
foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone
so the foundation that we're to build upon is made up of all the apostles and prophets
it's made up of the entire Bible the Old Testament and the New Testament and then Jesus and his
sayings are the chief cornerstone but all of it is the foundation all of it is the Word of God
that is upon what we are to build our lives now go to Hebrews chapter 6 Hebrews chapter number 6
and by the way this is why it's so important that we are King James only at this church because if
the Word of God is the whole foundation for everything that we believe if it's our final
authority and all matters of faith and practice then it's pretty important what it says and we
can't just join the Bible of the Month Club because that would be shifting sands that would
not be a rock to found our church upon something that's constantly changing and you say well you
know you don't have to join the Bible of the Month Club you could just pick a different version and
stick with it no you can't the King James is the only one that remains for example if you said I'm
gonna make the NIV the anchor of my soul I'm gonna make the NIV the rock upon which I build my
Christian life and my faith and practice well it just changed in 2011 completely overhauled to make
it gender neutral that's the biggest overhaul look it up the number one change the number one reason
for a revision from the 1984 NIV to the 2011 NIV was to make it gender neutral and you know you can
get all into the American Standard version but then they're gonna come out with the new American
Standard and then they come out with the ESV to replace that and these versions are constantly
changing even within themselves the Jehovah's Witness New World Translation constantly changing
you know I preached stuff in our film New World Order Bible versions exposing the New World
Translation as a fraud and then a couple months after I preached that they can't and I'm not
saying they did it because of my sermon but I'm saying a couple months later they changed the New
World Translation and they got rid of the slimy juice of the marshmallow and then people accuse
me of lying and they're like you're lying that's not what it says I've got a New World Translate
yeah because they have the new silver one they don't have the black one and here's the thing it
said the slimy juice of the marshmallow in job six verse six for the last 50 years and they just
changed it at the end of 2013 or or was it 2014 one of the other they just changed it at the end
of 2013 I believe so these versions are constantly changing not only that but they twist key Bible
doctrines important doctrine about the deity of Christ about salvation about hell about everything
we believe is changed in these new versions and they claim to just be easier to understand but
in reality they remove 16 entire verses from the New Testament they remove hundreds of other whole
phrases whole sentences from other scriptures and so if we're gonna have a foundation that's secure
we need to get a Bible that doesn't change the traditional text known as the textus receptus
the English version that is based off of the true manuscript which is the King James version that
has stood for 400 years as the standard by which all other of these phony Bibles are judged and
condemned the King James Bible if it ain't broke don't fix it okay and these new versions are all
garbage and and I've proven that in many other sermons you know not only I just got to point this
out though it's funny because not only do the new versions affect key doctrines such as the fact
that Jesus Christ always has existed and he's not a created being you know like the King James says
he's from everlasting the new versions talk about his origin being from ancient times not only do
they affect key doctrines like the virgin birth but they also they literally read like they were
translated through Google Translate it's literally like someone just took the Greek text and put it
into Google Translate that's what the NIV it's such a bad translation just from a literary
standpoint it sounds awful I mean I can't imagine the dweebs and geeks that must have worked on this
thing because it's so bad just the way that it reads it has no soul it's just so mechanical and
wouldn't you know and in their zeal to go gender neutral one of my favorites is where the famous
verse in Micah says he has showed thee oh man what is good and what does the Lord require of thee but
to do justly and to walk humbly with thy God and so I misquoted it but this is what the NIV does
he has showed thee oh human one he has showed you oh human because they just don't want to be a
gender of he showed thee oh man just but the whole NIV reads that way it sounds terrible but I was
just every once a while I'll just open the NIV and just kind of flip through it because it's so
easy to find weird stuff in it so I open it this morning and then go to Job keep your finger in
Hebrew 6 but go to Job 36 this is just what I found when I randomly flipped open the NIV this
morning and just started looking at it but listen to the difficult to understand King James Version
in Job 36 verse 14 here's what the Bible says they die in youth and their life is among the
unclean okay this is talking about wicked people dying young hey they die in their youth and their
life is among the unclean everybody see that listen to what the NIV says they die in their
youth among male prostitutes of the shrines now that's the same thing right just a little bit
updated so you know they die in their youth among the unclean the NIV says again look down at your
real Bible they die in their youth among male prostitutes of the shrines what in the world I
mean this is the kind of weird stuff but it's like that on every page I'm not kidding but people just
think oh it's not a big deal what version you use or they'll say well that's why our final authority
has to be the Greek and Hebrew yeah languages you don't speak you know yeah that's a real smart idea
let's build our foundation something that we don't even understand great idea that's something to
base your life on stuff that you don't understand a language you don't speak a foreign language I
mean think about what if we were to tell some builder in Phoenix hey we want you to build a
building on this foundation that you've never worked with before that you have no idea what it
is you know and it's all metric and you're on the English system it's like whoa what are you talking
about it doesn't make any sense we need an English Bible that we can read and study trust thank God
we have an accurate translation we have a perfect Bible in English we have the Word of God without
error in the King James Bible but go to Hebrews chapter 6 verse number 1 what are we talking about
this morning if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do I mean if you take this Bible
away from the righteous what can they accomplish nothing right because the foundation has been
removed the foundation of what the Apostles the prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief
cornerstone hearing the sayings and doing them well we have to have the sayings and that's the
King James not these twisted new versions that that corrupt the original look if you would at
Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1 the Bible reads therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ
let us go on into perfection not laying again the foundation now he's gonna tell us what the
foundation is here not laying again the foundation of what repentance from dead works and a faith
toward God of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the
dead and of eternal judgment so he lists these the six foundational things right and he says
these are the foundation of the doctrines of Christ you know this is what we base our beliefs
on this is the starting point and he says let's move on from that unto perfection unto things
that are more complicated right but before we can move on to that which is more complicated
we have to make sure we have a solid foundation and if the foundation be destroyed what can the
righteous do what are those foundations first of all repentance from dead works now what is it to
repent from dead works well I like how brother Garrett defined it he said you know faith without
works is dead works without faith is dead see the dead faith is the faith without works and the dead
works are the works without faith in Jesus Christ that's a great definition because the dead works
there are the works that people are doing that they think are going to get them to heaven
basically they're doing these dead works and they think that they're gonna work there with him when
the Bible says for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
of God not of works lest any man should boast he said repentance from dead works and faith toward
God so you're turning from trusting in dead works that can't save you to putting your faith in the
true and living God to save you and look I can't help myself I got to show you what the NIV does
to this to just destroy the foundation of what we believe instead of repentance from dead works
here's what they say repentance from acts that lead to death so now it's repenting of your sins
now you know repenting of acts that lead to death because we know sin when it's finished bring
forth that so you see how they're corrupting the foundation by the way the NIV removes the word
repent about 46 times and it's all strategically removed in order to twist the definition of
repentance from what the Bible teaches the foundation is repentance from dead works
repentance means to turn from okay to change your mind or to change direction and so instead of dead
works being their hope to get them into heaven you know the things that people do every day and
every week think about the Catholics that go through all these dead rituals and doing this
and chanting and going through bees all those dead works that they do kneeling and in front of idols
and lighting candles and so forth things that God did not command you know we got to turn from that
and put our faith in Jesus Christ to be saved that's foundational faith not works turn from
works and turn to faith okay that's what the Bible is teaching here as a foundational doctrine
the Bible says repentance from dead works and a faith toward God of the doctrine of baptisms
and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment you know baptism
is a foundational doctrine and the doctrine of baptisms has to do with number one the fact that
baptisms by immersion that's why it says in Matthew 3 that Jesus when he was baptized
went up straight way out of the water that's why John was baptizing an anon near to Salem
because there was much water there if he would have been sprinkling he could have just brought
a water bottle you know he could have just brought a camel pack he could have just brought
a small amount of water no he had to go somewhere where there was much water so that he could dunk
people under the water that's why the Bible says in Colossians 2 that we're buried with him
by baptism well sprinkling isn't a burial no a burial is when you go down under okay that and
I'm not talking about Australia but when you go down under the water that is burial that is real
baptism that's foundational and when you see a church that's baptizing by sprinkling or pouring
you know what that tells me that church doesn't even have the foundation how can they build
anything of value when they don't even have the foundation to start with right they will fail
immediately the Bible says these things are foundational the doctrine of baptisms is a
foundation the doctrine of laying on of hands is foundational and yet there are people today who
just basically just proclaim themselves a pastor with without going through a local church without
basically coming up through the ranks of a local church or having the blessing of a local church
having a local church send them out to start a church you know the church begets the church
and in the Bible they would ordain elders in every city he said ordain elders in every city as I had
appointed thee and there are qualifications well who judges whether a person has met those
qualifications or not the church who judges whether somebody is sober just holy temperate
you know we can't really judge that of ourselves yeah all those things no you know somebody else
has to say yeah you are the husband of one wife you do have faithful children not accused of
riot or unruly you know you are not given to wine you are not a brawler etc so the doctrine
of the laying on of hands where the power of the holy spirit to preach is conferred through
the laying on of hands so that a person can go out sanctioned and ordained by a local church
to go out and pastor and be an elder a bishop etc but today people just proclaim themselves many
times these titles instead of being ordained in a local church or sent out or have the blessing of
that church the Bible says of resurrection of the dead I mean obviously that's a key doctrine
that has to do with the fact that we don't just have hope of Christ in this life only
but that there will be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust and then of course
eternal judgment that's foundational the teaching of hell something that you don't even hear about
a lot in in many churches today and therefore a lot of people who go to these churches they don't
have that foundation of understanding that there is an eternal punishment for the unsaved and that
punishment is hell it's eternal it's burning in the lake of fire forever and ever no rest day
nor night etc but if the devil can attack these foundations and pull the rug out from under us
look if these foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do and the answer is nothing that's
the answer to that question not only that but today the foundations are being destroyed not
just in the sense that the Bible is being corrupted in all these new translations new
versions that are coming out for one motivation the love of money because they make money by
coming out with new translations because all the churches now have to throw away their
1984 NIV and get the new 2011 edition and spend all that money okay not only is the wicked one
attacking the foundation of the word of God by translating it into all these goofball
translations that make it sound stupid and then atheists will take these goofball translations
and say look what the Bible says the Bible says you have to marry the one who rapes you and it's
it's from the NIV not in the King James okay and then another one that I saw these atheists
showing a verse that said if you if you speak the name of the Lord you should be put to death
it's like what in the world you know I mean the Bible wants us to praise him by his name
praise the Lord you know and and to use his name and hallowed be his name but to speak his name
and all throughout the Bible they're saying you know the Lord be gracious unto you the Lord bless
you but in this goofball it was called the revised English Bible this goofball version said if you
speak the name of the Lord you're put to death and then these atheists are like look how stupid the
Bible is no that's how stupid that translation is and the devil loves to put out all these false
translations just to confuse everybody and to give fodder unto the enemy where the enemy can use this
as ammunition against the true word of God and then most people aren't fact-checking it most
people are just like whoa that is stupid you know they're not actually you think an atheist is
pulling their King James off the shelf wait a minute check this out make sure that this is
really what it says but not only is the Bible being corrupted in that way not only are doctrines
being corrupted where you know they bring in a false repentance a false salvation a false
baptism false doctrine on all these subjects but not only that but even just basic words
that have had historically accepted definitions just the English definition that's always been
around these words are starting to be twisted to mean something completely different you know
words like believe which you know seems like a pretty straightforward word but the wicked one
will even change the definition of believe where people don't even know what believe means anymore
or you know he'll twist the definition of words like church baptism repentance faith and just
make them mean something completely different and if those foundations are destroyed what can the
righteous do if the very building blocks of our language and how we communicate in English are
altered to where when we speak people are getting the wrong meaning from our words what can the
righteous do at that point right here's the definition that's being twisted murder you know
murder is clearly defined in the Bible but today people don't know what murder is here's what
murder is killing an innocent person killing an animal is not murder and here's the thing
people today use words like abortion when they ought to be using the word murder
and here's another foundational word that's being twisted child yeah they don't know what child
means okay so then they'll just say oh it's a blob of tissue it's a bunch of cells you know
i saw somebody said what if they found an aborted fetus on Mars they'd say they found life on Mars
right i mean if they found if they found a protein bar on Mars they'd say like this is life on Mars
because we found amino acids it's a life it's life we found amino acid but you know when when
it's growing and breathing and the heart's beating and it's kicking and it's smiling in the womb
oh that's not a child i saw a debate between a couple of politicians who are the biggest
liars and frauds in this world politicians but i saw it was a republican and a democrat
okay and they're both talking about abortion they're asked by the debate moderator when
does life begin and both the republican and the democrat said it begins at birth
when does life begin in the womb at birth both republican and democrat because it was for some
commie state out on the east coast you know i don't remember if it was vermont or massachusetts
or one of these you know godforsaken communist liberal places where basically you know thank
god we live in arizona arizona is one of the coolest states we have idiots too for politicians
but at least it's a cool state though but anyway over there both republican and democrat said it
begins at birth now you have to just be completely insane to believe that they don't believe neither
one of those people believes that no one believes that because you'd have to be an idiot to believe
that it begins at birth because what in the world changes at birth that somehow makes it alive
you know i mean look now this tree is not alive but look outside look at that tree out there
that's alive that is alive that tree is defined as a living thing but these people won't define
a child in its mother's womb as a living thing bacteria is alive people but uh but a child a
fully developed child that's going to be born in five minutes is not alive why because they want
to murder it that's why and listen the doctor who performs it is a murderer the politician who signs
the bill to to perform it is a murderer the politician who wants to donate money to planned
parenthood it's a murderer and the people who want to support it and get behind it and vote
for it you're an accessory to murder call it what it is today but these foundations are being
destroyed we don't even know what murder is anymore i got one guy who agrees with my sermon
you know we don't know what murder is anymore we don't know what it means to be alive anymore
you know just the definitions of words are being twisted and changed to where we don't even think
that a baby in its mother's womb is a living thing it's a living thing by every definition
of a living organism it's growing it's multiplying it's eating and people come up with all these new
crazy definitions for what it means to be alive no we need to stick with the foundations that
we've had for generations and not be carried to and fro tossed about with every wind of doctrine
with the changing winds and the shifting sands of what people believe they've changed the
definition of murder today they've changed the definition of life changing the definition of
a child you know the bible says behold a virgin shall conceive and then the new testament it says
a virgin shall be with child because conceive equals a child when you conceive it's a living
child and if you kill it you're a murderer and you know what if you're a woman in this auditorium
that has had an abortion you're a murderer period end of story and look i'm not saying
that you can't you know be forgiven or that you can't be saved or that you're not living
a good life now or that you're not a righteous person now but you know what i'm not going to
sugarcoat it you have an abortion you're a murderer you had one in the past you've committed
murder confess that sin to god forsake that sin but it's murder period everybody who's had anything
to do with it's a murderer good look let's put the shoe on the other foot if it was an adult life
we'd all agree with that what if somebody drowned their baby in the bathtub you know what you'd call
a murderer and nobody would be offended by that but you've been brainwashed by these bunch of
whores that teach oh pro-choice and everything they're whores is what they are and they don't
want to wait until they're married to go to bed and and do it right and that gets to my next
subject the definition of fornication is being twisted today the foundation listen here's a
foundational teaching of christian morality that basically what goes on in the bedroom is to take
place between married people isn't that foundational wouldn't you say that that's a basic and and
another word for foundational is basic like base it's at the base it's at the bottom of things it's
a foundation look wouldn't you say that one of the basic teachings of christian morality
is that we we have a physical intimacy only with our wife not before marriage
not with other people outside of marriage i mean that is a basic teaching of christianity true or
false you know and people that are not christian they don't follow that morality and they just
basically say well if you love each other if it's consensual it's fine and they go out and they are
whores and whore mongers and they think that's okay but what does the bible teach no the bible
says that it's for within marriage now nowadays though what you're starting to have is even
christians today are starting to say well i don't think it's really wrong you know even just this
foundational basis of christian morality one of the basics now even christians are starting to
question this and say well i don't see what's wrong with it i don't think there's anything
wrong with it you know this judeo-christian mentality because the jews they you know they
don't have a problem with it their morality doesn't condemn it so let's see what the bible
says go to first corinthian seven and part of the reason why people are starting to doubt this
is these new versions again it comes back to that see the new versions completely remove the word
fornication and you know what other word they remove that's used 50 to 60 times in the king
james 50 to 60 times the word whore whore monger whoredom that's all removed in the niv you'll
never see the word whore in your niv see i don't like that where i've offended you use that word
then go get out of here and go buy an niv and and don't come back go read your niv and you go sleep
with everybody and you go be a filthy whore but you know what at faithful word baptist church
i'm going to stand up with a king james bible and say hey the bible calls it whoredom the
bible calls it fornication the bible says that if you have sex before you're married you're a whore
that's what the bible says and if you're a man that goes out doesn't you're a whore monger
this is what the bible says but this foundational teaching is going way to where now our kids are
growing up and even amongst christians it seems that in the in the in the majority of christian
churches the kids are growing up and they're not remaining pure until they're married they don't
even have this ethic they're not even striving toward that they don't even know about that
because they're being taught well it might not even be wrong well if you're reading an niv because
the niv completely removes those words and here's what the niv replaces them with immorality
immor which can basically mean whatever you want it to mean take out whoredom take out fornication
immorality take out the whore and replace it with promiscuous promiscuous now look is that easier
to understand i guarantee you that if we went out and did a survey on how many know people know the
word whore and how many people know the word promiscuous i guarantee you that more people
know the simpler word whore than the word promiscuous you know some of you aren't even
comfortable with me saying a word that's 60 times in the bible right but you're but you're
comfortable to live in a society where it's just normal you know but you don't even want me to name
it but what does the bible teach here in first corinthian seven the bible clearly teaches what
fornication means look at the bible in verse one of chapter seven it says now concerning the things
were of you wrote unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid
fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband that's how
we avoid fornication by getting married that's how you avoid fornication look at verse eight
i say i say therefore to the unmarried and widows it is good for them if they abide even as i but
if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn what is the bible
saying here oh if you can't contain yourself then just go out and just be with your girlfriend
be with your boyfriend is that what it says no it says you either contain yourself or you get
married and it's better to marry than to burn that's what the bible says jump down to verse 34
there's a difference also between a wife and a virgin okay notice what that says here it
doesn't say a wife and a live-in girlfriend it says a wife it doesn't say a wife and a whore
it says a wife and a virgin that's god's plan and if you read first corinthian seven the whole
chapter it's very clear what god's saying god is teaching that a man and a woman are to come
together and be married and have that physical relationship within marriage and be satisfied
within that marriage and to not have that relationship outside of marriage and to have
it outside that relationship is fornication that's what the bible is teaching go back to
deuteronomy chapter 22 deuteronomy chapter 22
so far i've been in the new testament this whole time it's all new testament stuff
but going back to the old testament will help illustrate some of these new testament teachings
because people today are starting to say i mean i i've i've been hearing it all the time
where they're saying well it's not wrong to do that before you're married
just as long as you're not they say well whoremonger that's when you're going from
person to person you know that's just one after another but you know if you're in a committed
relationship if you love each other christians are starting to buy into this junk now or here's what
they say oh well you're foolish to marry somebody when you haven't even tried it with them you might
not be compatible hey listen if you're a man and they're a woman you're compatible it ain't rocket
science folks folks i mean it's just you know it it's not that complicated you know i'm not
going to go i i spare you but you know this whole thing of oh i don't know if we're compatible or
not well you know what it think about it if you get married if you're a virgin and she's a virgin
you're going to be compatible i bet you're going to figure it out i bet it's going to be great
i bet you're actually going to enjoy it but there's a thing though oh no you got to try
first but you know it's been proven the facts don't lie statistically people who live together
before they're married are more likely to get divorced but yet the world will tell you oh you
got to live together first you got to test it out you got it you know you wouldn't buy a car without
test driving it would you personally i would i would buy a car without test driving it
okay i always test drive because my wife says like well don't you want to test drive it i'm like
okay but here's the thing that's a stupid illustration because your wife is not a car
okay and and here's the thing when i go to buy a car i bought my uh hunday sonata back in 2008
or whatever it was and it had seven miles on it okay well i didn't complain and say hey wait a
minute i thought this is a new car why does it have seven miles on it because nobody cares
whether somebody drove seven miles in your car before you got into it but you know what people
do care if you went seven miles with the with their spouse before they married them you know
that actually matters that actually hurts people's feelings that actually does damage to people's
lives in their relationship and you know what i'm preaching this morning is not popular but it's
bible right you know and i'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings about mistakes that they made
in the past that's the last thing i want to do you know what instead of being so self-centered
right now and thinking oh the past is hurting my feelings i'm so offended why don't you think
about the fact that we're in a room full of children and teenagers and you know the smart
parent right now is looking at their teenager making sure they're awake and listening right now
and not worried about oh i'm so offended because of stuff that i did in the past look forget those
things which are behind reach forth under those things or before i'm not trying to beat you up
about the past i'm trying to warn people who haven't made these mistakes yet how serious it is
it's very important very important but now christians are saying oh as long as you're
committed oh you know just as long as you don't go from person to person but look what the bible
teaches look down at deuteronomy chapter 22 just to define everything for you it says in deuteronomy
22 13 if any man take a wife and go in unto her and hate her and give occasions of speech against
her and bring up an evil name upon her and say i took this woman and when i came to her i found her
not a maid maid meaning virgin and it goes on to talk about if it was a false accusation she
really was a virgin you know how to deal with that but look what it says in verse 20 if it's true
but if this thing be true and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house and the men of her city
shall stone her with stones that she die because she hath wrought folly in israel to play the whore
in her father's house so shalt thou put away evil from among you now look at that verse and tell me
if i'm making this up that if she's not a virgin when she gets married that that is defined as
playing the whore in her father's house am i missing something but these christians will tell
you oh it's okay long as you're committed long as you love each other is that what the bible's
teaching i sat in a teenage youth group when i was a teenager in a liberal baptist church
and had students confront the teacher saying i don't think it's wrong to go to bed with someone
before you're married prove me wrong from the bible and the teacher couldn't show him
he had an niv in his hand and he didn't know where to turn and he turned to immorality which
is what it's been changed to in scores of places and they're just like well immorality i mean that's
just if you don't love each other that's if it's not consensual what is the bible i mean is there
any doubt to what the bible is saying here that that this is defined as major sin when this girl
is is not when she's losing her virginity as a young person major major sin and and by the way
go to go to chapter 23 and and you say why are you preaching this pastor anderson because if
the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do we have to make sure that we all walk out of
here today with a firm foundation and that we don't walk out of here you know with the ground
shifting under us we can't walk out of here this morning and say well i'm not sure what murder is
i don't know what the bible i don't know which version of the bible to use i don't know what
to believe i don't know what repentance means i don't know what believe means i don't know i
don't know is hell eternal or not i don't know you know i mean is it wrong and look it let me
tell you something if if young people are questioning i don't know is it wrong to have sex
before we're married guess what they're gonna do it they need a firm foundation that says
no it's wrong it's wicked don't do it it's a major sin and by the way christians who do it
are going to be judged much more harshly than non-christians because non-christians don't know
better unto whom much is given of him shall much be required the bible says that if you know your
lord's will and did it not you'll be beaten with many stripes he that knew not the lord's will
and did it not he's beaten with few stripes so god holds you accountable for your knowledge and
what you're hearing in this preaching but here's what's so just ridiculous about this doctrine that
says oh it's okay to do it before you're married which even christians now are starting to teach
this junk you know what's so ridiculous and foolish about it is that what's the product
of that relationship children so what are we supposed to just go out and just have children
with a bunch of people that we're not married to but see our society has just become so ingrained
in this birth control mentality it's like well of course we're going to use birth control and and
then we'll just you know stop using birth control when we get married yeah but is that what the
bible teaches no in the bible he's telling him be fruitful i mean the only guy who used birth
control in the bible god killed him in genesis 38 he pulled he spilled it on the ground the bible
says and god killed him but we're supposed to believe that god wants us going out and spilling
it on the ground with a bunch of strangers right but as long as you know we love each other that's
garbage because you know what the love of god is when we keep his commandments
it's not love to go out and commit fornication that's not love that's lust that's sin that's
not love at all but yet today we've been so ingrained in this mentality when in reality
the truth is that if people went out and committed fornication before they're married they would be
producing bastard children okay what does the bible say about that look down at your bible
deuteronomy 23 verse 2 a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the lord even to his
10th generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the lord now obviously that's
an old testament thing i'm not trying to bring that into the new testament that's an old testament
doctrine but here's the point though if if if bastard children are so wonderful then why did
god ever say that if being a bastard is such a wonderful thing why would god have had that
rule about the tabernacle where bastards weren't supposed to go into the tabernacle if it's just
if it's just fine to be a bastard child but you know what you're doing when you commit fornication
producing bastard children and don't tell me i'm cussing in the pulpit okay this is the bible let
me introduce you to the word of god the bible amen okay what's the bible saying here the bible is
saying that children are supposed to be produced within wedlock and when they're produced out of
wedlock that's a shameful thing so what's going to be the product of fornication children born out of
wedlock period and he didn't say oh do it safely to prevent bastards you'll never find that in this
book it's nonsense but today people are teaching all kinds of nonsense because the foundations
of our morality the foundations of our theology the foundations of everything we believe in are
under attack today by the devil and somebody needs to stand up and lay the foundation once again
we're gonna lay down the rock and say hey build your life on this amen and so many churches today
are shifting and swaying in the storm and let me tell you there's a storm going on today in
america yeah it's a storm going on the devil is this an all-out assault on god's people today
and all these churches and all these pastors are just crumbling and falling like a deck of cards
and listen to me we need to stand up and be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work
of the lord for as much as we know that our labor is not in vain the lord and the only way that's
ever going to happen is if we're founded on the rock the unmoving unchanging word of god and it
might offend people well you know what there's plenty of church that'll never preach like this
and you can just take your pick but somebody's got to lay this foundation
somebody's got to dig out the old foundation and lay it down so we can build our lives on it also
not only are they twisting the definition of fornication they're even attacking another
foundational institution marriage and twisting the definition of marriage where people don't
even know what marriage is anymore and and marriage is under attack today from all sides
first of all we have a bunch of homos getting married that doesn't make any sense it's garbage
the bible says in genesis you turn to matthew 19 if you would in genesis 2 24 the bible says
therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they
shall be one flesh look at matthew 19 verse 4 and he answered and said unto them have you not read
that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female fools male and female yeah
i don't even know what that means anymore you idiot it's a foundational truth that men and
women are two different genders but today even that foundation has been destroyed
so i'm gender queer no you're just queer you freak i'm gender queer i don't know you know
i'm a man trapped in a woman's body you know i was once a man trapped in a woman's body and
then my mom gave birth to me you know that's the only man trapped in a woman's body you know right
before my mother gave birth that was me but this whole thing yeah you too so the thing is okay we
had all these people that are so confused where they don't even know which bathroom to go into
and we got to have a third bathroom for these freaks don't know what they are i'm a man
and woman woman in man's body or you know what about people that are born with both
all the stupid unscientific lying garbage today when everybody knows there are two genders man
and woman period he made them male and female male and female created he them
it's real simple you know even in this really hard to understand king james version
you can figure out these really difficult words male female two become one flesh okay not three
not 12 muhammad two become one flesh not 36 joseph smith two okay so the bible says here in matthew
19 four have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female verse
five and said for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife
and they twain shall be one flesh therefore they are no more twain but one flesh what therefore god
hath joined together let not man put asunder what has god joined together the husband and his wife
and the two become one flesh they're married what god has joined together let not man put asunder
now because these homos are getting married now this is what's happening now now it's causing
normal people to forsake the institution of marriage i think that's part of the plan all
along because think about it makes people disdain the institution of marriage it makes people just
think marriage is dumb when you see some woman marrying an animal or this woman married herself
she had some ceremony where she walked down the aisle and like made vows to herself okay and then
you have two dudes get i mean look i'd rather marry myself than another dude any day of the week
but you know you have these two dudes getting married people getting married to animals people
getting married and you know what it makes people do is just think oh man i'm just not going to get
married at all you know some of these some of these uh government institutions that are handing
out the marriage licenses when they found out the homos are getting married they're like well we're
not going to issue marriage licenses at all then we won't even issue it to men and because they
didn't want to issue it to homos so they're like we don't even want to issue it to normal couples
because they felt that was the only way because then they you know they can't discriminate so they
just kind of went home for the day or whatever but you see how that has that effect where it
makes it devalues marriage to the point where people don't want to get married anymore and now
you're hearing a lot of christians and libertarians saying that christians shouldn't get a marriage
license who's been hearing this teaching it's everywhere it's huge right oh christians shouldn't
get a marriage license christians need to just they just get married on their own but you know
what i don't stand for that i will not stand for that and i've had a bunch of people come to me and
say oh will you perform a marriage that's not has nothing to do with the state and i refuse to do
it every time and let me and you say ah you feed my pastor no listen to me i will not perform a
wedding on a marriage that is not legally binding period i will not perform a marriage that's not
legally binding why because god ordained marriage to be legally binding legally binding i'll prove
it to you from the bible the bible says the adulterous shall be put to death the adulterer
shall be put to death let me ask something how can you put someone to death for sleeping with
another man's wife if there's no definition of marriage if there's no legally binding marriage
if two people who just go to bed together are magically married then how do you put people
to death for adultery how does the government issue a bill of divorcement which the bible
talks about the writing of divorcement the bill of divorce how do you do that if there's no legal
marriage but i'm supposed to just perform what and here's why i won't do it here's why i won't
perform a wedding for people that want to do it outside the law where they want to just do like
just a a handshake type marriage where it's not actually legally binding because this is what
this is what inevitably would happen you'll perform the marriage right and then later they'll
split up and just be like oh well we weren't really married anyway when it's convenient for
them they just won't have really been married anyway no marriage in the bible was always a
public thing that's before god and man and it's it's legal now look did they always have a
marriage license being issued no but they had some way where it was a legally binding whether
it was through the church or what whatever it was through so look if you want to go to some lawyer
and draw up some your own marriage contract or something you know okay maybe i'd be open to that
as long as i knew for sure that it's legally binding but you know what it doesn't make any
sense just shut up and get a marriage license and get married the normal way sanctioned by law we
don't have to reinvent the wheel okay and you say well what what the government is giving me
permission except they give everybody permission so it's not like you're going to the government
getting permission to get married will you please allow me to marry someone no you go down there you
show them you know that you're 18 and that you're not already married and boom it's done and you
know what the people sometimes they take their libertarianism too far and i'm as libertarian as
they come i'm more libertarian than a lot of people but let me tell you something there are
a few things that the government should be involved in and this is one of them period
because of the fact that the government is supposed to punish adultery the government
is supposed to regulate bills of divorcement etc so to sit there and say oh let's just get
the government out of marriage is that what the bible teaches no the bible says to get the
government out of building roads and welfare and everything else but does the bible say to get the
government out of marriage no there's supposed to be a human authority that enforces marriage even
the passage we just read about you know the guy who's marrying a woman that's supposedly a virgin
it turns out she's lying and she's been playing the whore who puts her to death she's bought
before the elders of the city you know the basically the authority there the civil authority
puts her to death but you know everybody gets on their trendy bandwagon where they're carried
about with every wind of doctrine of just well what do we need a marriage let's just make our
own vows and i've known a bunch of people who just made their own but oh we just made our own just
but no no it's supposed to be publicly sanctioned it's supposed to be before god and man and it's
supposed to be legally binding and so and you say well i disagree that's fine go ahead and disagree
but i'm not going to perform anybody's ceremony without a marriage license that's always been my
policy and it's not changing the bible says and here and here's one thing that some people will
try to turn to go to genesis 24 67 genesis 24 67 this is another foolish doctrine of people trying
to destroy the foundations of our society and look these are the foundations of a christian society
are they not marriage these are institutions that are the bedrock of who we are marriage family
the bible you know the fact that we don't believe in murder the fact that we don't
commit adultery the fact that we don't fornicate i mean these are the basics of a christian society
what did the bible say in genesis 24 67 and isaac brought her into his mother sarah's tent
and took rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her and isaac was comforted after his
mother's death now this is what people do they'll take that verse and say see that's how you get
married he just took her into the tent and she became his wife that's it go to bed with her and
you're married you don't need a marriage license you don't need any ceremony you don't need any
kind of a legally binding it's just you take her in the tent and you're married well you know they
forgot to read um 66 verses leading up to that see that verse has a number in front of it what's that
number say 67 and you know what comes before that 66 verses and you know what's in those 66 verses
abraham telling his servant go to the country where i'm from go find a wife they load up 10
camels full of gifts 10 camels full of gifts the servant brings 10 camel loads of gifts
unto rebecca's family they go and sit down with the family and explain to them
look you know abraham wants your daughter to be his son's wife and we're going to give you all
these gifts and we need to leave right away and you can and and the and the dad says it's fine
the brother says it's fine the mother says fine and then the the you know rebecca consents and
says yes i will go with him i will be his wife and then she goes to him and then they get back
and then she goes into the tent with him and she becomes his wife you know isn't that just a little
different than just just head for the tent and you're gonna be my wife you know this is it look
if you're gonna teach that doctrine this is a really poor example because this is an example
of a really elaborate marriage that involved a lot of goods being you know a lot of goods
being exchanged a lot of people's permission being granted i mean this is a major thing
so to point to this as the poster child for just oh anybody that you hop in the sack with is
automatically your wife no that is a fraud but if the foundations be destroyed what can the
righteous do what is marriage according to the bible it's one man one woman okay and they have
a covenant before god and man legally binding covenant and you know the laws are different in
different states the laws are different in different countries but you're supposed to have
a legally binding commitment between a man and a woman and it's for life it's till death do us part
what god has joined together let not man put asunder and it's one man and one woman for life
and that's where that physical relationship belongs period these are foundational things
these are the basics of christianity and when we are seeing these things thrown out the window
we are witnessing the destruction of our nation and the destruction of our society the destruction
of the family the destruction of morality right around us and you dig into this word of god and
you will see that everything i'm preaching this morning is the truth that all it's all in there
just do a word search on whore do a word search on fornication it's all there everything that
i'm saying is biblical if not prove me wrong from the king james version i'm telling you
if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do i'll close by reading the scripture
matthew 7 verse 24 therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them i will
liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock and the rain descended and the floods
came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock
and everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and do with them not shall be likened
unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand and the rain descended and the floods came
and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it make this
your foundation and don't let the devil chip away at your basic beliefs and your basic morality
state look if it isn't broke don't fix it okay we don't have to just throw out all tradition
there are good traditions people and they come from the word of god and we need to stay we need
to throw out that which is evil but we need to stick with the tested time-honored and true
traditions of our christian society and not let the devil pull the rug out from under us
let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much lord for a firm
foundation a rock of our salvation lord the solid rock on which we stand lord it will never move
and we thank you that it will say the same thing tomorrow as it said yesterday lord please help no
one to be offended this morning i know some sometimes these kind of harsh words can hurt
people's feelings lord and that's not my intent but sometimes the truth needs to hurt lord and
help us all to get on board with with the truth this morning and to realize the importance of this
type of message for this new generation that's coming up and throwing out all of the time-honored
traditions of our of our once christian society and in jesus name we pray amen
all right we're gonna go ahead and sing another song but before we do i just want to mention
that the baptistry is ready if anyone needs to be baptized so if you're here this morning and
you've never been baptized after you've been saved then come see me after the service if you're saved
but you've never been baptized after you were saved because if you got baptized before you
were saved you just took a bath you got wet but that's not baptism you're supposed to be baptized
after you're saved so if that's you this morning come see me after the service the baptistry is
ready