Now, we talked about one sinner can destroy much good.
One person can get in and corrupt many people.
I think about Christian schools that I grew up in.
Good night.
Every Christian school I went to, there was always at least
one bad egg, at least.
There was never a Christian school I went to where there
wasn't at least one bad egg.
I mean, good night.
You got 20-some kids, 30-some kids in the class.
One of them is going to be a filthy pervert, period.
How do you know that?
Well, growing up, I went to seven different Christian
schools, and I could testify that all seven of them, you
could point at at least one or two kids.
And they were just the infiltrators.
They were just the bad eggs.
They were the bad seeds.
And I mean, I personally had those kids try to get to me
and tell me all the filth and expose everybody to filth.
And they would have the whole class exposed to their filth.
They would destroy the whole class.
They destroyed all those kids.
That's why the Christian school movement, the Christian
fool movement, has not worked.
Because I'm going to tell you something.
Back in the day, big fundamental Baptist searches
were thriving, and this is what they said.
They said, we're all going to start Christian schools, and
we're going to use them to produce an army.
This is the word that they used.
An army of pastors, a great army of Christian school
teachers, an army of soul mentors.
That army does not exist today, because there are less
now than there were back then.
Isn't that terrible?
There's less now than there were back then.
Why?
Because one sinner gets in there and destroys it.
One bad apple destroys the whole barrel.
One bad egg gets in and destroys the whole thing.
And so look at what the Bible says in chapter 2 of Song of
Psalm, verse number 15.
The Bible says, take us the foxes, the little foxes, that
spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.
You see that?
The Bible talks about vines and vineyards, talking about
producing fruit.
There's a lot of analogies like this in the Bible.
I believe that your children are tender grapes on that vine
of your house.
And he says, little foxes, little tiny foxes that can
just go through little holes in the wall, they slip in, they
creep in, and he said, they'll destroy the vine.
They'll destroy the grapes on the vine.
Little foxes.
You see, it's not always an adult that's going to defile
your children.
It's not always a-- it could be another child.
Hey, did you understand that?
The little fox.
Oh, it's just a little fox.
Don't worry about that at all.
We've repaired the big breaches in the wall.
Good night, we put the gates up.
This little hole over here, nobody can fit through that
hole.
Well, little foxes will fit through that hole.
And I'm going to tell you something, you must put a wall
around your children.
You must put a wall of protection around those kids.
I do not, and I've said it before, I'll say it again.
I do not let my children out of my sight ever, except when
they're under my wife's supervision.
I'm looking at my kids, or my wife's looking at my kids, or
we're in the house.
When we're out and about, when we're at church, when we have
other people over at our house, when we're at other
people's houses, relatives, friends, we don't let our kids
out of our sight.
You say, that's a little bit extreme.
That is not extreme at all.
We don't let them out of our sight, period,
ever for any reason.
You say, what about this relative?
No.
What about this relative?
No.
And I'm going to tell you, the San Valens and the Tobias and
the Gishan, the Arabians, they laugh at us, just like they
laughed at Nehemiah when he built the wall.
People make fun of us sometimes and say, come on,
what's the big deal?
Don't you want to take your wife out to eat?
Leave her with the babysitter that you met last week.
Leave her with the babysitter you've never met that I could
refer to you.
Here's her phone number.
Hey, don't worry about it.
We'll watch the kids.
Go out and have a good time.
Do you think I'm going to go out and eat a meal with my
wife so that my work with my kids can be flushed down the
toilet in one evening?
Come to me after the service.
I'll tell you about the people who have been molested.
Come to me after the service.
I'll tell you about the people that I grew up with in church
who were pornographers, who were in jail, who were
molesters, who were perverts, who were predators.
I guess you could call predators seeking out, trying to
destroy people.
You've got your own, so I don't even need to tell you.
Think about your family.
Think about your extended family.
Think about the people you've talked to.
I am not going to risk my tender grapes back there.
I wouldn't leave a suitcase of a million dollars at
somebody's house.
I'm not going to leave my kids at somebody's house.
You do whatever you want.
I'm not telling you what to do.
But I'm going to tell you something.
I don't let my kids out of my sight.
And my wife doesn't let the kids out of her sight.
We keep our kids with us all the time.
Sometimes, sometimes I've been there, watching.
And I've seen people try to defile my kids.
I've seen people try to get to my kids, both verbally
or physically.
But I was right there to say, no, stop it.
People tried to get to me when I was growing up.
Scary things.
Hey, it's reality, friend.
Read the book of Genesis and see what people are really like.
You'll see the kind of filthy stuff that goes online.
You don't have to read all 66 books of the Bible
to figure it out.
Read the book of Genesis.
And then come to me and tell me you're
going to leave your kids with every aunt and uncle.
It's always some pervert uncle.
Yes, it is some pervert uncle all the time.
It's always some pervert cousin somewhere.
It's always some pervert relative
that wants to get in there and defile my hard work.
You see, I could work on my kids.
I could read in the Bible.
I could preach to them.
I could love them.
I can train them.
But as soon as I just let them go into the hands I made,
their life could be destroyed.
All my work up in smoke because I
wanted a break from the kids.
Sorry.
My wall is not that weak.
And part of the reason why my wall is not that weak
is because I try to have my house be very different
than the world outside.
I mean, we live in a godliness paradise.
That's what we try to do.
At least we're not perfect.
But we don't let all the world's trash in it.
I'm sorry, but my kids don't know
about all the American Idol.
They don't know the movies.
People walk up to them and they talk
about any movie character, any TV show, any cartoon character.
My kids don't even know what they're talking about.
Like, what?
What's that?
They don't even know.
So you see how different it is?
That's why we have a bigger wall, bigger wall.
My kids are not going to the devil without a fight for me.
If my kids go to the devil, it's going to be over my dead body.
And so I keep my kids-- hey, shelter your kids.
Yes, I shelter my kids.
What do you want to do, leave them out in the rain?
Put them out in the rain, right?
Put them out in the snow?
Kind of a stupid argument is that.
Don't shelter them.
OK, well, I'm going to tear my house down there.
We're going to start sleeping outside, kids,
because we don't want to shelter ourselves.
Hey, I'm going to shelter my kids.
Physically, I'm going to shelter them.
Spiritually, I'm trying to protect them.
You say, oh, but they've got to be exposed to it sometime.
Hey, they're exposed to it with me out soul winning.
When I'm right there protecting them, they see the beer,
they hear the cussing, they hear the rock music,
but they see it in its natural, real environment.
And I'm right there to say, see, son, see what I said?
I told you, you want a house that smells like this?
You want to live in this neighborhood, see, son?
This is where you'll end up, son.
See, that's the right way to expose your kids to sin,
not on the hella vision where everything's
clean and pristine.
And look, if you would, at 2 Peter, chapter 2,
in the New Testament, toward the end of the New Testament,
in the Bible there.
And I don't care who that makes mad.
My kids are not going to be left out of-- and I beg of you
to watch your kids.
Beg you, please.
I plead with you, don't just let your kids go off everywhere
and stay with everybody and not be under direct supervision.
I mean, you're nuts in today's world.
I mean, I think things have changed dramatically in the
last like 20 years.