belong silently with brother Raymond as he reads Deuteronomy chapter 22 starting
in verse number one.
Deuteronomy 22 in verse one the Bible reads thou shall not see thy brother's
ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them thou shalt in any case
bring them again unto thy brother and if thy brother be not nigh unto thee or if
thou know him not then thou shall bring it unto thine own house and it
shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it and thou shalt restore to
him again and like manner shalt thou do with his ass and so shalt thou do with
his raiment and with all lost thing of thy brothers which he hath lost and thou
has found shalt thou do likewise thou mayest not hide thyself thou shall not
see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide thyself from
them thou shalt surely help them to lift them up again the woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for
all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God if a bird's nest chance to
be before thee in the way and any tree or on the ground whether they be young
ones or eggs and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs thou shalt
not take the dam with the young but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go and
take the young to thee that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest
prolong thy days when thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a
battlement for thy roof that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man
fall from thence thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diver seeds lest the fruit
of thy seed which thou has sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled I shall
not plow with that with an ox or an ass together I shall not wear a garment of
divers sorts as of woolen and linen together thou shalt make the fringes
upon the four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou covers thyself 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 then shall the father of the damsel and her
mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsels virginity into the elders
of the city in the gate and the damsels father shall say unto the elders I gave
my daughter unto this man to wife and he hated her and lo he hath given occasions
of speech against her saying I have found not thy daughter a maid and yet
these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity and they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city and the elders of that city shall take that
man and chastise him and they shall immerse him in hundred shekels of silver
and give them unto the father of the damsel because he hath brought up an
evil name upon a virgin of Israel and she shall be his wife he may not put her
away all his days 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
died because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore in her father's
house so shout thou put evil away from among you if a man be found lying with a
woman married to an husband then they shall both of them die both the man that
lay with the woman and the woman so shall thou put away evil from Israel if
a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto and husband and a man find her in
the city and lie with her then you shall bring them both out unto the gate of
that city and you shall stone them with stones that they die the damsel because
she cried not being in the city and the man because he had humbled his
neighbor's wife so thou shalt put away evil from among you but if a man find a
betrothed damsel in the field and the man force her and lie with her then the
man only that lay with her shall die but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing
there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death for as when a man riseth against
his neighbor and slayeth him even so is this matter for he found her in the
field and the betrothed damsel cried and there was none to save her if a man find
a damsel that is a virgin which is not betrothed and lay hold on her and lie
with her and they be found then the man that lay with her shall give unto the
damsels father 50 shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he hath
humbled her he may not put her away all his days a man shall not take his
father's wife nor discover his father's skirt brother Daniel will you pray for
us dear God please fill pastor Anderson with your spirit and please bless us all
your ears to hear the message you have for us in Jesus name I pray amen
how about now or is it just that you don't want to hear what I have to say
this morning huh this morning I'm preaching on the love of God no title my
sermon this morning is pants on women pants on women now when you preach a
subject like this a lot of people are gonna think hey this is outdated don't
you know it's 2020 what are you talking about you're crazy you're fanatic you're
the Taliban you know these are the kind of reactions that I've gotten over the
years preaching on this subject but I want you to approach the sermon this
morning with an open mind and see what the Bible has to say about this subject
instead of just having an emotional reaction or getting upset actually
listen to what the Bible has to say on this subject now I want to start out in
this important verse in Deuteronomy 22 5 where the Bible reads the woman shall
not wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment for all that do so our abomination unto the Lord die God this
is obviously something that God feels strongly about when he talks about an
abomination it means it's something that he hates so this is something that is
very serious in God's sight that he does not want men to put on women's clothing
and he does not want women to put on men's clothing now when it comes to men
putting on women's clothing you never really get any argument from anybody
everybody pretty much agrees that I should not wear a dress or that I should
not put on a skirt in fact there's only one garment that would be deemed
acceptable for me to wear I'll prove it to you because I'm 39 years old so I've
existed as a man as a boy before that for over 14,000 days I have woken up and
put on a pair of pants well over 14,000 times in fact there has not been a day
of my entire life that I did not dawn a pair of pants because we could also
classify shorts as pants they're just short pants and over 14,000 times I have
put on pants and not one of those days did I put on something other than pants
does everybody understand and how many men would say I have that same testimony
Pastor Anderson I have put on pants every single day of my life so then why
would there be confusion about what a man's garment is when we all wore it
every single day and there was no other it wasn't like should I wear pants or
there wasn't another choice the only choice is am I gonna wear short pants or
long pants that was the choice that we've made throughout our lives now if
you're further confused about what is a men's garment and what is a women's
garment look at the bathroom door the universal sign for a man and woman on
the bathroom door is a stick figure of a dude in pants and a stick figure of a
woman in a skirt okay everyone would agree that if a man were walking down
the street in a skirt or an address they would say this man is cross-dressed this
man is in drag this man is wearing a woman's garment but then when you flip
it over and say okay well women shouldn't wear pants because that's the
man's garment they're like whoa what are you talking about buddy according to our
world today men can't wear women's clothing but women can wear any kind of
men's clothing that they want that's basically the standard that we have in
our day they want to apply half of this verse I want to apply the whole verse
instead of just saying men don't wear women's clothing I'm gonna say women
don't wear men's clothing and I don't think that's pants then what is it there
is no other garment that is exclusive to men it doesn't exist okay now you say
well there's men's pants and women's pants okay well why don't I get a men's
skirt and a men's dress and I look my wife and I we were visiting somewhere
one time on vacation and we saw this biker dude show up in like a jean skirt
with chains all over it and leather and it was it was a very manly skirt but I
didn't look at that and say well no problem it's a men's garment I looked at
it as like this guy is dressing in the wrong genders clothing okay so that is a
is not a legitimate argument to just say well there's women's pants and and and
here's the thing what's the difference between men's pants and women's pants
the difference with women's pants is that they're tighter more form-fitting
and more revealing well guess what that's not something that pleases the
Lord either because we're supposed to be dressed in modest apparel so the snug
fitting form-fitting clothing that's showing every curve of your body guess
what that's not appropriate clothing either okay so God wants women to wear
women's clothing and men to wear men's clothing flip over to 1st Corinthians
chapter 11 another objection you hear is oh that's Deuteronomy that's the Old
Testament you're trying to bring us under the law we're free in Christ but
hold on a second I'm gonna prove to you that God's opinion about this subject
has not changed in the New Testament and we can't just throw out the entire Old
Testament folks Jesus Christ death on the cross changed some things about the
rules that govern us but the Bible is very specific about what those changes
are you know for example in the New Testament we're not doing the Levitical
priesthood we're not doing animal sacrifices we're not doing the
tabernacle we're not doing a meat offering and a drink offering the Bible
really clear about those things about the Sabbath and about the holidays and
the new moons and the feast days that those things are done away in Christ but
does anyone truly believe that Jesus died on the cross to open up a brand new
era of gender can inform gender uniformity where there's no more gender
and we all dress the same we all wear a space jumpsuit no so the death of Jesus
Christ on the cross and the bringing in of a new covenant has nothing to do with
with men and women's clothing if God said in the Old Testament that it's an
abomination to wear women's clothing as a man or vice versa he didn't change his
mind about that and here's the proof he didn't change his mind look at 1st
Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 it says does not even nature itself teach you
that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him but if a woman have long
hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering look if God's
saying in the New Testament men need to have short hair and women need to have
long hair obviously he still wants the genders to look clearly different and
let me tell you something it should be that I can look at somebody from 200
feet away and know whether they're a man or a woman because I could look at their
hair and I could look at their clothing those are the two things I could look at
and instantly know am I dealing with a man or am I dealing with a woman but yet
today I could be two inches from somebody and not be able to know whether
I'm dealing with a man or a woman and you're constantly making mistakes and
misidentifying people you know it's ma'am or whatever and you know you you
can't figure out what you're dealing with and we are living in a messed up
gender confused society and God wants this point one I have five points this
morning point number one is that God wants men and women to look differently
we don't want to just go by the letter of the law we want to go by the spirit
of the law what is the spirit of the law why would God say don't put on a woman's
garment because he wants men to look like men and women to look like women
that's the spirit behind that law we should follow both the letter of the law
and also the spirit of the law okay so God doesn't want them to look the same
now here's the thing if you're gonna tell me it's okay for women to wear
pants then basically my wife and I could dress exactly the same because we
could both put on a pair of jeans we could both put on a t-shirt we could
both put on a pair of tennis shoes and we'd be dressed identical and we'd both
be in compliance with your standard because your standard says t-shirts are
fine for both pants are fine for both sneakers are fine for both then
basically you'd have men and women dress exactly the same and that's what we see
today out in the world whereas what I'm saying is that in order for the Bible to
make any sense when it says neither the woman should not wear that which pertain
to men there has to be some garment that pertains to a man or that commandment
would make no sense and the spirit of the law is different clothing for men
and women to where my wife and I don't dress the same we shouldn't have the
same length hair and we shouldn't be dressed the same there should be a
difference between men and women and then people will say well how short is
short or how long is long why didn't God give us an exact measurement why
didn't he give us how many inches because here's why if he said well you
know it's it's nine inches is the length then you know you'd have a bunch of guys
with eight and three-quarter inch hair and a bunch of women with nine and a
quarter inch hair and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference see the
whole point is that manners and look men you don't have to have your hair as
short as mine obviously mine's very sure you have to be this short but you so
you're really sure yeah but anyway you know you just want to have short hair
where people would just look at it and just clearly say it's short if you have
to wonder like is this short didn't get a haircut and same thing with the ladies
how long well you know just make it long make it to where we can see it and say
that's long hair and and you say well what about in between nobody should have
in between here how about that how about there's like this DMZ of hair length
that nobody has right like like you have short hair and then like this is a
no-man's-land no woman's land and then you got long hair let because what's the
point folks look I'm not gonna go through my life trying to figure out how
far can I push God's rules and still technically be in compliance I'd rather
just roll out of bed every day put on a men's garment have short hair and go out
of the world and everybody instantly knows that I am mr. Anderson and not
mrs. Anderson instantly now that's point number one but point number two is that
pants are mentioned in the Bible go to Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 because one
objection you'll get is well that's Old Testament well I showed you in the New
Testament where God still teaches that he wants the genders to look different
different hair obviously that's the same thing as different clothes he wants us
to look different but another objection is they'll say well the Bible doesn't
mention pants I've even heard some people say this pants weren't invented
yet which is so ridiculous because you know pants aren't exactly the theory of
special relativity folks I mean how hard is it to come up with pants it's a piece
of fabric on each leg I'm pretty sure that had been invented a long time ago
but they'll say well pants aren't even been invented yet everybody just wore a
robe so they just want us to believe everybody's is naked with a robot just
working battling traveling it's nonsense okay but look what the Bible says in
Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 it says Exodus 28 42 and thou shalt make them
linen britches to cover their nakedness from the loins even under the thighs
they shall reach so when the priests are getting their clothing laid out for them
and God's describing what clothing they're supposed to wear he says that
the priests are supposed to wear linen britches and britches maybe you're not
familiar with that word it's just an old word for pants you've heard of people
being too big for their britches okay but britches are pants now I've heard
some people say no no no pastor Anderson that's not talking about pants and I
think even some of the modern versions change this to underwear it's under it
let me let me check the ESV or can you check the ESV for me we're in Exodus 28
42 because I'm pretty sure that they change this you want you want to check
this for me in the NIV the non inspired version but while they're checking that
flip over to yeah so ESV changes this to linen undergarments NIV undergarments
here's what's so dumb about this under garments so did you notice the under
okay what does the Bible say that this garments used for to cover now somebody
explained to me how something that's under is a covering can somebody explain
that typically a cover goes over something doesn't it if I put a cover on
my car do I put it under the car cover me I'm going in you get under me hey a
covering is something that goes over so they're cut the verse is contradicting
itself in their dumb version where they're like Oh undergarments to cover
their nakedness okay well let's all start wearing our underwear on the
outside as a covering to cover our nakedness like Superman or something
with our underwear on the outside the Bible is talking about the britches
covering your nakedness it's because they're on the outside because guess
what's under the britches your nakedness guess what they're covering your
nakedness but if they were under something and we never saw them then
they would not be needed to cover your nakedness see here's the thing I could I
could go 14,000 times without wearing underwear and nobody would even know it
who would even know cuz you don't see people's underwear do you you don't well
yeah nowadays you do yeah okay before the hip-hop culture you didn't see
people's underwear I'm saying you're not suppose yeah see people in 2020 they
don't get this preaching because they're like well I see people's underwear every
day well guess what when I was growing up you didn't see people's underwear you
never saw anyone's underwear because that's why it's called under where okay
and by the way we're not a member of the Bible of the month Club around here we
believe in the King James Bible so we don't surf all the Bibles to get the
opinion that we want we believe britches means britches and britches are a pair
of pants okay so he's telling them to wear linen pants to cover their
nakedness you know what's covering my nakedness right now pair of pants that's
what it's talking about okay now these particular pants the Bible says reach
from the loins to the thighs so we would call these shorts right so these
particular britches are knee length britches sometimes in historical writing
you'll see these called knee britches that's actually a word knee britches
where they'll wear their pants down here and you remember like in the 1700s or
something they'd wear the pants that go down on their knees and then they'd have
like stockings pulled up and fancy shoes and whatever in French you'll sometimes
see these as culottes right and they'll have culottes or culottes where they
would have knee length pants okay that's what these are look at chapter 39 verse
28 let me hurry through some of these Exodus 39 28 and a mitre of fine linen
and goodly bonnets of fine linen and linen britches of fine twined linen go
if you would to Daniel chapter 3 Daniel chapter 3 while you're turning to Daniel
chapter 3 Leviticus 6 10 says the priest shall put on his linen garment and his
linen britches shall be put upon his flesh and take up the ashes and so forth
Leviticus 16 4 he shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have linen
britches upon his flesh and shall be girded with a linen girdle and a linen
mitre shall he be attired these are the holy garments therefore shall he wash
his flesh in water and so put them on so he gives a rundown of the holy garments
and what have you got you got a hat you got a coat you got britches and that's
the outfit and a girdle right which is like a belt that makes sense I mean what
it's not really that different from what I'm wearing right now because I got a
coat and I got britches and I got a belt and I got this shirt on and I got a tie
on right but the basic components are there of the britches the coat you know
and so forth so this makes sense it's a man's garment Ezekiel 44 18 they shall
have linen bonnets upon their heads they shall have linen britches upon their
loins they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat Daniel
chapter 3 verse 21 this is Shadrach Meshach and Abednego then these men were
bound in their coats their hosen and their hats and their other garments and
were cast in the midst of the burning fiery furnace now for those of you that
speak German you know hosen means pants English is a Germanic language German
and English used to be the same language and then they drifted apart as languages
do just like Spanish and Italian drifted apart or Spanish and Portuguese well
English and German have drifted apart so back when the Bible was put in the King
James Version in 1611 the word hosen was still in use for a type of pants whereas
we don't use that anymore but it's just an archaic word for pants now here's
what's interesting pants are mentioned in the Bible six times and every single
time it's a man that's wearing them 100% of the time and by the way six is the
number in the Bible that represents man man is created on the sixth day the the
Antichrist number is the number of a man 666 and so a six represents manhood and
we've got what six mentions of men wearing pants no mentions of women
wearing pants okay the next point I want to make number three and if you
would flip over to Job chapter 38 number three only men in the Bible gird up
their loins only men in the Bible gird up their loins now what does this mean
to gird up your loins well pay attention I'm gonna read for you some verses while
you're turning to Job and see if you can figure out what girding up your loins is
second Kings 429 says then he said to Gehazi gird up thy loins and take my
staff in thine hand and go thy way if thou meet any man salute him not and if
any salute thee answer him not again and lay my staff upon the face of the child
so when Elisha is sending Gehazi and he tells him to gird up his loins he also
says go to this child that's dead and he says don't say hi to anybody and if
anybody says hi to you ignore them why would he tell him to not say hi to
people and and ignore people that greet him what's he based what's the essence
of what he's telling him to do yeah hurry up go fast get there well guess
what girding up your loins is part of that he's like hey gird up your loins
rush over there do not pass go do not collect $200 okay second Kings 9 1 says
and Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets and said in him
gird up thy loins and take this box of oil on that hand and go to Ramoth
Gilead and again it's haste that is the idea here hurry up get there go quick
gird up your loins to do that okay Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 17 thou
therefore gird up thy loins and arise and speak unto them all that I command
thee be not dismayed at their faces lest I confound thee before them and then the
Bible says in 1st Peter 1 13 gird up the loins of your mind and be sober okay now
look down at your Bible in job 38 verse 3 job 38 verse 3 says gird up now thy
loins like a man so we see that girding up the loins is something specific to
men it's something that men do you gird up your loins like a man girds up his
loins as opposed to a woman that does not gird up her loins okay all of the
example and again you have six examples of girding up the loins all men okay
look at verse 7 of chapter 40 go to job chapter 40 verse 7 job chapter 40 verse
7 says gird up thy loins now like a man I will demand of thee and declare thou
unto me so what does it mean to gird up the loins now we know what a girdle is
right a girdle in the Bible is a belt being gird the Bible talks about having
your loins girt about with truth so the modern versions will say like the belt
of truth or whatever so girding up your loins has to do with the fact that men
in those days in Bible times it often talks about them wearing a long coat
like we saw earlier they'll have a long coat and this type of a long coat if you
tried to run with it or do some kind of serious work or something it could end
up getting tangled or getting caught on something you know it'd be like if you
went to work as an electrician or a carpenter or a plumber or something and
you're wearing like a long duster or a trench coat or some kind of a long coat
you know you could see how it could cause a lot of problems and get caught
up on things or that running in that would not necessarily be the best
running attire so when he tells them to gird up their loins they basically take
the bottom of that garment and basically tuck it in to their belt to get it out
of the way so that their legs are free to run without being encumbered by that
long garment. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? So you have a long
garment and then you would gird that up put it up into your girdle so that you
could run or whatever and be in a hurry you're ready for action you know you're
ready to fight you know you could picture like a gunslinger in the Old
West and what does he do you know before the quick draw he takes this and like
buttons it who knows what I'm talking about who's ever seen that the gunslinger
like buttons this up here so that this is like ready so that he can you know do
the the quick draw or whatever you know you think of like you know these martial
artists or whatever in some Asian movie some kung-fu movie or something and they
have like kind of a flowing garment or something and they take that off before
they do the the fight scene or whatever right
everybody kind of picture that you know they're they're getting rid of anything
that's loose and hanging and flowing well these guys that are going on a long
trip they bring their coat with them because they sleep in their coat like a
sleeping bag you know when it's cold and they they need it for in the evening
when it gets cold they're bringing it with them and they're running folks in
the ancient world most people aren't riding horses horses are expensive and
hard to take care of rich people have horses throughout the Bible we see a lot
of walking and a lot of running and you don't want to carry a bunch of excessive
gear you don't necessarily want to carry a big sleeping bag if you're in a fairly
warm place you just have your coat and you bring that and that's why Jesus say
you know hey don't bring two coats it's one coat when he sends them out
preaching and so forth so the idea is that the reason that you'd gird up your
loins like a man is because let's say a man girds up his loins is he naked
underneath he's got pants on so there's no issue right so his long coat is there
but all he has to do or roll or if he's wearing a robe or whatever you want him
to be wearing if he lifts it up and tucks it in he's got a pair of pants on
so there's no issue with girding up his loins but because a woman is wearing a
skirt or a dress if she girds up her loins she'd be naked from the waist down
and so therefore it'd be inappropriate for her to just you know all right ride
up my skirt and let's go that's why girding up the loins is something
specific man that's why the Bible says gird up your loins like a man like a man
because that's a man would do that because he's got pants underneath but
today Bible teachers and scholars and theologians expect us to believe that
everybody in the Bible was that guy in Central Park with a trench coat on and
no pants that's what they're teaching all men didn't wear pants and then these
same people turn around and say how dare you teach women not to wear pants they
are not gonna be able to do anything
who's heard that argument well if you tell women they can't wear pants how are
they gonna do anything they can't do anything okay well then how'd people do
things in the Bible you're claiming none of them wore pants how'd they build
empires and ride horses and farm and fight and do it it's like which one is
it folks you can't have both ways the same people that tell you women can't
do anything in a skirt are the same ones they're gonna tell you everybody in the
Bible wore a skirt nothing happened until recently now here's the thing
about this I have a wife and I have daughters and guess what they do
everything in skirts and dresses and they they ride horses they go on
rollercoasters they go swimming they do everything no problem and isn't it
amazing how they do it all in skirts and dresses their whole lives with no issue
every single activity there's a way to do it and there's no issue now here's an
objection to this go if you would to Proverbs 31 Proverbs chapter 31 and I
gotta hurry Proverbs chapter 31 is an objection they'll say well no no women
gird up their loins also look at Proverbs 31 here's what the Bible says
in Proverbs 31 verse 17 it says she girdeth her loins with strength and
strengtheneth her arms what words missing there there's no up there she
girds her loins with strength well here's the thing the Bible frequently
talks about people girding their loins have your loins gird about with truth
that's just talking about wearing a belt or wearing a sash and just like in the
Bible you have the whole armor of God the breastplate of righteousness the
helmet of salvation loins gird about with truth well this woman basically you
know she girds her loins with strength it's sort of like the whole armor for
her is like instead of girding with truth she you know she's girding her
loins with strength but this is not girding up her loins like a man this is
not her lifting anything up and tucking it into her girdle or tucking it into
her loins so that is just wrong this is not an example of girding up the loins
now flip over to Genesis chapter 1 Genesis chapter 1 and while you're
turning there I'm going to read you this verse remove not the ancient landmark
which thy fathers have set remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers
have said now what does that mean the landmark was used in order to separate
one person's property from someone else's you know this is back before GPS
and back before really good maps and topography so I've got a field and
you've got a field how do I know where my field ends and yours begins there's a
landmark and it could typically be like a giant boulder or a big pile of rocks
or something something that's there that says this is the border moving the
landmark would be something that you would slowly do over time and in Job he
says some remove the landmarks and he talks about people moving the landmark
and what you do is like if you just moved it a couple inches each year
you're like slowly gaining property and your neighbor's losing it'd be like if
you kept moving your fence and it just kept getting over on your neighbor's
property and some neighbors do that right they build a fence a few inches
onto your property sort of like you know Israel and Palestine but that's another
sermon so here's the thing we don't want to move the ancient landmark of the line
between right and wrong good and evil male and female okay so what let me do
an illustration here come on up here Daniel and Raymond come on up here so
here's here's the way it works okay basically come on back here so everybody
can see better basically here's the idea okay this represents what's right okay
this represents what the world thinks is right this is like what's actually right
this is what the world thinks is right the world standards and then this is
where Christians are right so I'm Christian so here's what I should be I
should be over here with this guy right hey I'm gonna stick with what's rights
what the Bible says right and wrong now here's the thing he and I are a certain
distance apart right now okay we're socially distancing right now this is
six feet apart okay now here's the thing the world gets worse and worse they get
weirder and weirder so that's where he was in say 1981 when I was born is he
gonna stay there no he's gonna get a little weirder okay and he's going down
lower okay so here's the thing what a lot of Christians do is they move with
him now they're not gonna go all the way to where he's at that's way too weird
okay but what they do is they say well we're still six feet apart okay and then
he gets even weirder and then I get a little weirder and then he get and it's
just like do you see what's happening here we're moving the landmark and then
you you call out Christians and say hey that's not right that's not what the
Bible says that's not godly and here's what they say well look how different I
am from the world look at this six feet of difference I mean what's the big deal
I'm I'm separated I'm holy I'm sanctified because you know what I'm not
like that guy but what happens is notice I'm standing now exactly where he
was standing in the past do you notice that so now the Christians of today are
in some ways like the worst most worldly people of the past but they still think
they're righteous cuz I have not as bad as that guy but do you see how if I if I
use the world as my standard and say well as long as I'm more righteous than
them I just get worse and worse and and folks go ahead and have a seat guys and
by the way that's what's happening politically like the Republicans now are
like the Democrats from when I was a kid you know the Democrats from when my dad
was a kid are like more conservative than the Republicans now or whatever
because it's just it's just that they always stay a distance apart and there's
a shifting that's going on so I don't want to follow the world's standards you
know I'd rather just stay put no matter how far just let him keep going and then
people are oh man you're crazy you're weird look how far you are from that guy
it's not my fault that that guy just keeps going does everybody understand
what I'm saying so don't move that ancient limber and look let me give you
a little history lesson a hundred years ago in this country was illegal for
women to wear pants did you know that so I'm up here in 2020 I'm a lunatic on the
Taliban for saying women shouldn't wear pants I'm preaching this in a church but
even in the secular world women were arrested for wearing pants in the early
20th century okay how about this my dad going to school in the 60s in Los
Angeles California guess what women weren't allowed to wear to school in the
1960s in Los Angeles California they were not allowed to wear pants not
allowed to wear shorts they had to wear knee-length skirts and dresses in public
school in Hollywood California in the 60s but I'm supposed to believe that
God's just perfectly fine with women and pants and shorts and and that it's
just normal and that anybody who says it's wrong is crazy well isn't it
interesting how for the first 350 years or 400 some years in this country people
had this figured out you know all the way to 1500 1600 1700 1800 and most of
the 1900s this is no issue now all of a sudden it's like well how do you know
that man the pants are even men's clothing because I put it on 14,000
times and on the 14,000 at first time I was like whoa I think this is what I'm
supposed to be wearing and so you can see how things drift okay now let's move
on to my fourth point and here's a real controversial point in 2020 we said
number one God wants men and women to look differently all God's people said
amen isn't that obvious number two pants are mentioned in the Bible are they
mentioned or not okay number three only men in the Bible gird up their loins
well the implication is men have something on underneath and women don't
that's why you gird it like a man number four here's the controversial point
buckle up there's only two genders I know this is real controversial now but
there are only two genders we see only one amen in the whole auditorium no so
Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 says so God created man in his own image in the
image of God created he him watch this male and female and and and and it's
just male and female created he them I've got a bombshell for you this
morning every single person on this planet is either male or female there I
said it God only created two genders male and female okay Genesis 5 to male
and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the
day they were created now you you know what's funny is that today the liberals
and the degenerates of our day they love to say that science is their
religion don't they you know I don't believe in God I believe in science I
don't believe in the Bible I believe in science aren't they big on science but
here's what's interesting they don't want to hear what science says about
gender at all all of a sudden they don't want to hear about science when it comes
to abortion they don't want to hear about science when it comes to the
sodomite death style well let's talk science you know you guys want to talk
science I love science well let me explain something to you about human
beings human beings their gender is genetic okay genetics determine your
gender okay I'm not going to go too complicated this is going to be real
simple everybody's gonna understand this okay you get a sex chromosome from your
mom and from your dad okay now your mom has two exes okay she gives you one of
them your dad has an X and a Y he gives you one if he gives you an X your female
because you have an X and an X that makes you a female right if your dad
donates a Y you have an X and a Y your male any questions everybody got this so
far so every man here is XY and every woman is XX now we say wait a minute
pastor Anderson what about people who are mutant or they have some kind of a
genetic defect hermaphrodites or you know that people bring up all the stuff
okay well I'm glad you asked well let's talk about these genetic defects and
this comes from the the scientific term for this would be non disjunction during
meiosis and the most common type of this is down syndrome so we're just talking
about genetic defects in general right so down syndrome one in eight hundred
people will be down syndrome right one at one in eight hundred human beings
will be down syndrome or at least in the inception and that's because there's a
certain chromosome that ends up it's supposed to split into two and it
accidentally splits into three whoa there's a problem right down syndrome is
the result one in eight hundred well what if the exact same thing happens on
one of your gender chromosomes the X or the Y what if instead of two you get
three or what if instead of two you get one right you get a defect well these
are the I'm gonna give you the possible defects don't tune out this is gonna be
quick and painless okay well there's one defect like that called Turner's
syndrome and this is where a woman instead of getting an X and an X she
just ends up with just an X only one instead of two she gets only one well
this is what that type of woman is going to be like she's going to be broad
shouldered sterile meaning she can't have children and short and this is about
one in six thousand times this will take place remember down center was one in
eight hundred this is one in six thousand now here's what Mayo clinic dot
org says Turner syndrome a condition that affects only females results when
one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing Turner syndrome could
cause a variety of medical and developmental problems including short
height failure of the ovaries to develop and heart defects intelligence is
usually normal in females with Turner syndrome okay so notice it's still a
female right one X or an X and a partial it's only female still female they're
just shorter they have like maybe shoulders as broad as Michelle Obama's
and they're sterile and whatever okay but then there's another defect where
instead of having a single X they have a triple X okay now don't google this
because you know the wrong things will come up it's not gonna be a genetics
website okay so I didn't Google this one I had to look it up in a biology textbook
and basically it's these women are if they have the triple X they're tall and
thin with irregularities with their monthly cycle but that's it and this is
about one in 1500 instead of two X's they have three X's right okay then we
have what's called Klinefelter syndrome and this is where a man instead of
having XY he ends up with XXY he gets two X's and a Y so here's how he ends up
he ends up with smaller reproductive organs he's sterile and he's gonna have
a little bit of breast development but listen to this men with Klinefelter
usually don't know they have it until they run into problems having a child
because how many dudes just have a little bit of whatever here anyway man
whatevers you know who knows what I'm talking about I mean you know and by the
way drinking beer gives you man boobs by the way just just that's true because of
the the hops and the phytoestrogen mimickers and stuff you know you drink
beer it can give you a little bit of a saggy chest like that okay but here's
the thing these dudes are still a dude they got XXY still a dude they've got
Klinefelter syndrome they go through their whole life sometimes not even
realizing that there's an issue until they just thought they're a little
chubby or whatever it's not a big deal lots of guys are a little chubby doesn't
mean that they have something wrong with their genetics and then they end up
going to have kids and boom it's like I can't have kids can't have kids hey
let's go down to the fertility clinic it's like whoa you have Klinefelter
you have an XXY chromosome you can't produce offspring and then there's
another even more rare situation where they have three X's and one Y still male
does everybody understand what I'm saying so far I don't think this is too
complicated then there's another condition where you can get an XYY
instead of XY your XYY and these guys are abnormally tall they have bad acne
and higher testosterone levels and it's controversial whether or not they have a
slightly lower IQ but their brain is pretty much totally normal okay okay so
that's it folks there we go I believe I hit everything here okay so that's it
your genes today every person's genes on this planet are one of those things that
I just mentioned they're either XY XX or in these more rare cases XXY XYY X
alone or XXX folks these are clearly if you have a Y in it it's male every
single time if there's a Y it's male any questions if there's no Y it's female
that's it done now there are other diseases or abnormalities or issues
where let's say a woman's pregnant and something goes wrong in the pregnancy
where her child who is genetically biologically male doesn't get hit with
the right dose of testosterone at the right time in the womb and he could grow
up deformed or having hormonal problems or you know having underdeveloped
reproductive organs or women could get hit with the wrong hormone and have
over developed reproductive or but let me tell you something my friend every
single person on this planet in every cell of their body is either male or
female and you know this actress or whatever this week they just became a
dude this week and said my name's Elliot now and what's so stupid is that like
every now you go to the her Wikipedia page and it just it's just everything he
him him he and it just acts like she's been a dude her whole life he acted in
this movie he was in this movie he and it's a picture of a woman he so so let
me ask you something who's crazy this morning is Pastor Anderson crazy or is
the world that accepts Elliot crazy who's crazy is it me or Elliot folks
who's crazy and you know who believes in science me or Elliot because you know
what all I have to do is go dig in Elliot's trash and get a soda can or a
cigarette butt or something I can take it down to the police station and go to
the forensics lab and check the DNA and you know what we're gonna know right
away we're gonna know that Elliot's a female and it doesn't matter what what
cell of her body we harvest that DNA from it's gonna be just female female
female female female female female okay God created two genders my friend and
don't give me this garbage well you you you fundamental Christians you just
don't know science no the idiots out there that say that there's three
genders don't know science or five gender yeah maybe in some bacteria
there's a bunch of different genders but in human beings there's only two my
friend God created man in his own image and they created them to be male and
female the Bible is right and they're wrong it's male and female two genders
that's what science says and if you actually read any real science book
that's what they'll tell you but in our world today it's not about science it's
just about being against the Word of God so when science is against the Word of
God in their mind they'll rally behind that but you know what when science
confirms the Word of God which all real science confirms the Word of God you
know they don't want to talk about that do they I gotta hurry up I'm almost done
but if you would flip over to Luke chapter 17 actually I'm sorry go to
Matthew 19 go to Matthew 19 I want to finish on this point here what does the
Bible say about these people that are XYY XXY all these different genetic
disorders and make no mistake this is a genetic disorder it's a it's a problem
it's a mistake it's just just like like Down syndrome is a problem okay it's an
issue now look obviously God allows these things to happen for his glory you
know God allows people to be born with Down syndrome for his glory he has a
reason he has purpose and look we've had people with Down syndrome in our church
we've had people in our church that had Down syndrome go out soul winning and win
people to Christ you know and and especially with today's technology and
information you know a lot of people with Down syndrome could be pretty
highly functioning in today's world and they can actually live pretty normal
life sometimes they can even like drive a car and I mean it's it's it's it's
pretty wild the advances that have been made but but here's the thing God
allowed that person with Down syndrome to be born with Down syndrome when I say
it's a mistake or you know it's it's the same thing as if someone was born blind
it's it's not a good thing nobody wants nobody's like oh I really hope I have a
child that's born deaf or blind or you know with some kind of a genetic defect
nobody wants that for their child right but here's the thing if we had a child
like that we would love it we would be we would thank God for it we would
praise God for it and God would use it in our lives and all things will work
together for good just like the guy who was born blind God said well this guy
was born blind for God's glory you know so there's a reason why so look let's
say someone is born with this genetic defect that that that makes them develop
abnormally in regard to their gender God still loves that person God created that
person that way for a reason there's still a human being that you know can
live a life that could be blessed by God and they're either male or female okay
it's no issue but look what the Bible says some of these people could be so
deformed that they cannot reproduce whatsoever or can't have a normal
marital relationship what does the Bible say in Matthew 19 12 it says for there
are some eunuchs which were so born from their mother's womb isn't that what
we're talking about because a eunuch a eunuch in the olden days was where
people would take a slave and they would castrate them and that's called a eunuch
so the Bible is saying there are some eunuchs which are so born from their
mother's womb he's talking about somebody who's born deformed in that in
that way and then he says there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men
and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of
heaven's sake he that is able to receive it let him receive it and obviously he's
not saying that they mutilated themselves what he's saying is that they
basically have remained unmarried and remain celibate that's all he's saying
okay last point is this and I got to hurry for sake of time just go to 1st
Corinthians 6 we're have to skip Luke 17 go to 1st Corinthians chapter 6 the last
point I want to make is that today in 2020 with all the insanity and craziness
out there we need more distinction in the genders not less did you hear me we
need more distinction in the genders not less explain this to me if for decades
independent fundamentalist Baptist churches have always taught women wear
skirts and dresses men wear pants that's how that's how it was when I was
a child teenager young adult that's what the independent fundamental Baptist have
always stood strong on that and they said we're not changing on this we're
not backing down on this and you know we don't care what the world does we've
always stood on this and we're not changing we're staying with it okay why
would now be the time for fundamental Baptist churches to back down on this
think about that so in the 80s there it's like hold hold 90s hold 2000 hold
and then all of a sudden now it's just like who cares it's not a big deal it's
just a preference now hold on a second why now folks back in the 80s I went
through the entire decade of the 80s without ever seeing a homo in real life
not even one that I knew about you know I went through most of the 90s without
even seeing a homo they didn't even hardly exist they were all in the closet
you didn't know about it it was something that was a shameful thing and
even then the preachers are up saying hey women wear skirts and dresses they
wanted it to be they said hey man get a haircut don't wear long hair have short
hair wear pants and back in the 80s now did we need that preaching in the 80s
yeah did we need it in the 90s yeah but do we need it now less or more when
today we've got all the you know you go to sign up for anything now male female
I'd rather not say male female other and I I think I don't know Facebook still
does but I remember at one point Facebook rolled out what was it 75
genders 73 it was like 73 options under gender because there's a cis male and a
cis female and a gender queer gender fluid yeah anyone can name all 73 I you
know I I've only come up with five or six but there were little I remember at
the time looking at it and scrolling down and I'm just like the folks that's
not that's not from biology I didn't come from science it didn't come from
the Word of God so if it didn't come from science didn't come from the Word
of God why should I believe in it stupid it's perverse it's weird it's
confusion and so today I feel like if anything I want to dress more like a man
than ever and you as ladies should really want to be as feminine as
possible at this time and not want to be part of this confused society that we're
living in it's not of God God does not look down and see all the people dress
the same and and and and think this is I'm well pleased God wants there to be a
distinction and a difference okay the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 6 9 know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not
deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate
nor abuses of themselves of mankind now some people try to twist this effeminate
into being a homo or something folks effeminate is not a homo you know what
a feminine is a feminine is a man who is feminine that's what it means okay
God says here that it's a sin to be effeminate he's listing sins he's
listing adultery idolatry fornication and effeminacy okay being effeminate is
wrong okay well listen to me the Bible is often written from a male perspective
that's often how it's written you know most of the authors are male and and you
know well all of the authors are probably male of course some of the
books are anonymous but you know most of the authorship is is for sure male you
know most of characters are male it's just it's just obviously you got to be
able to kind of flip things over my friend it's of God saying men shouldn't
be effeminate don't you think he would also say that women shouldn't be butch
or do you think he's just saying well I just said for men look like I literally
had somebody tell me because the Bible said chasing thy son while there's hope
and let not thy soul spare for his cry they said well we're supposed to
discipline our sons but not our daughters because it said son it's like
when the Bible is telling you to discipline your son isn't it kind of
obvious that he's also telling you discipline your daughter you know
because like I said some some things are written from a male perspective you're
supposed to extrapolate and be like okay obviously you know if it when he says
man or son obviously you're supposed to apply that across the board you know let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall but if you're a woman and
you think you stand it's great but it's dumb right obviously it apply so if God
says don't be effeminate then wouldn't it go to stand a reason that women
shouldn't be masculine that women shouldn't be butch and you know look
don't get a flat top women you know don't get a flat top don't put on pants
don't be a tomboy be feminine be a girl be a woman right celebrate femininity
Bible says woe unto them they call evil good and good evil that put darkness for
light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter
now look I believe I've put forth some pretty strong evidence this morning a
pretty compelling case for why women should not wear pants now look you can
go out of here and say well I don't agree with that and and you know I'm
still gonna keep doing it and and I think pastor Anderson's wrong you know
what that's fine because you know what you do what you want I'm not I'm not the
one that is is gonna you know dictate your wardrobe but I will dictate my
family's wardrobe and my daughters are not allowed to wear pants and and and
the thing is that you can sit there and say well I don't agree with this but
hold on a second just realize though that even our sinful world agreed with
this until 50 years ago okay that's not that long ago folks and that a hundred
years ago it was just it was just completely beyond the pale for women to
put on pants it was considered scandalous and so some people change and
some don't some people are just gonna keep drifting with the times but you
know what some of us are just drawing a line at some point and just saying you
know what with all the gender confusing garbage that's going on you know I'm
gonna stick with the old-fashioned men in pants women in skirts and dresses the
Bible talks about men wearing pants the Bible says for a woman and again the
strongest piece of evidence is this the woman should not wear that which
pertain to a man there has to be some garment that pertains to a man and if
it's not pants then what is it use the process of elimination it's pants so as
for me in my house we will serve the Lord and you know I believe that it's a
sin for women to wear pants and you know here's the thing you know I it with I
run into ladies from our church out in pants or something you know what that's
none of my business I don't care but it's my job to get up and preach the
truth from the Bible this morning you can take it or leave it I don't confront
women I see it Trader Joe's and pants I'd be like what kind of an abomination
you know look I'm but but but you know what what I'm preaching this morning is
the truth so you you take it or he that the near let him here let's my rides in
our word of prayer father we thank you so much for your word Lord and we are
living in some crazy strange times Lord I think everyone would agree even people
that are offended by this sermon would agree that we're living in an insane
time when it comes to gender Lord and so I pray that Lord every single person
that's under the sound of my voice would would want to live up to the spirit of
your law and say you know what it's time to dress like a lady it's trying to it's
time to dress in a way that's that's distinctly feminine and Lord help us as
men not to wear a feminine clothing as well Lord in Jesus name we pray man and
men let's grab our song books and turn number 420 number 420 there's a song in
the air
it's what do you sing it out
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