And you know, we're surrounded in Phoenix and Tempe
with homeless people who are completely able-bodied,
young, healthy people that could be going to work,
but yet they're out there asking for a handout
and people are just giving them free money
without even asking them what their situation is,
without even getting to know them
or getting anybody to vouch for them
or figuring out what's really going on.
They just keep handing these people money.
And how many times has someone just handed
these people money?
And then they just go buy drugs with it.
And then they just go buy more booze,
more liquor, more drugs.
They just have no motive to fix their lives
because there's no accountability.
Now look, our church is willing to help people out.
But you know, when people come to us for help,
we say, okay, and we help them get a job.
We help, we take them down to places
that we know will hire anyone with a pulse.
And so we take them down to a job
and we help them get cleaned up.
We've bought hotel rooms for people.
We've bought clothes for people.
We've taken people places.
But you know what?
People who come here and they don't wanna work
will get zero help from us.
They will get nothing from us
because they need to hit rock bottom.
If someone is so sinful and lazy and wicked
that they refuse to get a job and integrate into society,
then they should starve.
The Bible says if any man will not work,
neither should he eat.
Let me say that again.
You bleeding heart liberal, woke, whatever you are.
If any man will not work, neither should he eat.
Thus saith the Lord.
That's God's word.
Anybody who's mad at me about saying that,
you know what, you're mad at God.
God said, well, that must be the Old Testament.
No, that's Second Thessalonians, that's the New Testament.
If any man will not work, neither should he eat.
That's what the Bible teaches.
People who refuse to work, hungry.
Hungry, God bless.
You ought to be hungry.
Because you know what?
When you get hungry enough, you know what?
Then you'll come home.
When you get hungry enough, maybe you'll get right with your parents.
When you get hungry enough, maybe you'll get right with your church.
Maybe you'll get right with your brothers and sisters.
Maybe you'll get right with all the people that you've burned in your life and all the
people that you have treated badly in your life.
All the people that you didn't care about in your life when you cared about yourself
and your drugs and your liquor and your fornication and everything else.
Hey, you need to hit rock bottom so that you can come to yourself and get right with God.
You know, people have accused me of hating homeless people.
I don't hate homeless people.
But you know what?
I despise what they're doing.
I despise their sin.
I don't hate them.
And you know what?
If any of them actually wants to get right, I would love to help them get right.
I would love to help them get right.
But you know what?
I'm not just going to help someone be a drug addict, help someone be lazy, help someone
be worthless.
No.
If they want to make something out of their life and get right with God, hey, amen, let's
help them out.
I'm willing to help the poor, but I'm not willing to help the lazy.
It isn't right for people in their, I mean, these people are in their 20s.
It's insane.
It's an epidemic.
Somebody needs to say something about it.
You drive around, they're in their 20s, they're in their 30s, they're healthy, they're able
bodied.
You see them running across the street, and then at night they're cutting out people's
catalytic converters probably.
That's a whole nother sermon.
We've had like three catalytic converters cut out in our parking lot.
It's unbelievable.
Don't park your car here at night unless someone's guarding it, is the moral of the story.
That's why when we do our soul winning trips, we hire a security guard to watch the vehicles
because it's just, that's what our society is becoming.
It's just a bunch of derelicts, bunch of thieves, bunch of lazy people that don't want to go
to work.
It's incredible.
They scrapped the catalytic converter for 50 bucks, and it cost us $1,500 to fix it.
But any man, I'm way off track in this sermon. You can always come back. All right