Now if you would turn to Revelation chapter number 2. We're going to come back to Proverbs 5.
But let's go to Revelation chapter number 2. Last book in the Bible and the second chapter, Revelation 2.
And of course Revelation 2 and 3 is God giving a specific message to each of the seven churches which are in Asia.
Jesus Christ, appearing to John, gives him these different messages for each church.
And this message is to the church at Thyatira that I want to focus on.
Look if you would at verse number 18 of chapter 2. The Bible reads in Revelation 2 18.
And of the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass.
I know thy works in charity and service and faith, and thy patience and thy works in the last to be more than the first.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
Behold I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
And I will kill her children with death.
And all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts, and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
And here's my text verse in verse 24.
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak,
I will put upon you none other burden, but that which ye have already, hold fast till I come.
And he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
As the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers, even as I received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
You see, this church at Thyatira, there were a lot of great things about this church.
We notice in verse 18, when he first begins to speak with them, he says,
These things saith the Son of God, his eyes like a flame of fire, and so forth.
He says in verse 19, I know thy works.
So he saw a church that was doing the work, that was out serving God, getting things done.
He said, Thy charity.
This was a loving church, a church that cared about other people.
The root word of charity is the word care.
They cared, they were reaching out to people, they loved people, they were doing the works.
It said in verse 19 that they had service, again referring to their works.
Faith, patience, all these great things that they had going for them.
But he said in verse 20, I have a few things against thee.
And he said, Let me just spell out for you the problem that I have with your church.
He said, The problem is that thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
So there was basically a woman in the church who they were allowing to teach.
And this woman's name was Jezebel.
She was teaching not only just her little Bible class or whatever it was,
but she was also seducing God's people, men in the church, into committing fornication with her.
And she was also teaching this permissive doctrine of,
Hey, it's okay to eat things that are sacrificed unto idols, which the Bible conducts.
Now if you want to turn to 1 Timothy chapter 2,
keep your finger here. We're going to come right back here.
I don't believe that anything in the Bible is incidental, coincidental, or accidental.
I don't think that the Bible is filled with coincidences.
I believe that every word of God is pure
and that every word is placed the way it is placed for a reason.
And so I do not believe for one second that this is a coincidence,
that what's found in 1 Timothy 2 is worded in almost the exact same way as what's found in Revelation 2.
Keep your finger in Revelation 2.
I want you to flip back and forth between these two scriptures.
Look what it says in 1 Timothy 2.12.
But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor do you serve authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Now, isn't it interesting that that verse is worded exactly the same way?
I suffer not a woman to teach.
If you flip over to Revelation 2, look what it says in verse 20.
About halfway down the verse.
Because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach, and to seduce my servants.
So basically he said, I suffer not a woman to teach.
Here it says, thou sufferest that woman to teach.
I don't think that's a coincidence.
And we ought not to have women teaching the Bible.
We ought not to have women teaching in the church.
The Bible says, if you're back in 1 Timothy 2, we'll finish this up.
It says in verse 11, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
You say, I don't think that's very nice.
It doesn't matter what you think.
That's what the Bible says.
That's not what Pastor Anderson says.
That's what God's Word says.
He said, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor do you serve authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first form, then Eve.
It's funny, I got a thing in the mail from Fuller Seminary this week.
And I was looking at it, and it was advertising that they have a campus here in Phoenix where you can go and take Bible classes.
And they have a class called Systematic Theology III.
And boy, they're going to go down deep and stay down long and come up dry.
And it was explaining all the doctrines that they were going to go into.
And it was explaining how they were going into eschatology, soteriology, and all these great big words.
And then I turned the page and it showed who was teaching it.
And it was a woman teaching.
But not only that, the woman's name was Eve.
It was like Eve so-and-so, and I'm thinking to myself, you know, Adam was first form, then Eve.
You know, God does not allow women to teach God's Word. Period.
That's what the Bible says.
He said that women should keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak.
And so women will never preach or teach the Bible in this church.
So that's the first thing, but that's not really the main thing here.
Go to Revelation 2. That was part of the problem.
Because I'm trying to show you what's wrong with this church.
Number one, they have women teaching. Period.
That wasn't right in the first place.
But not only that, this woman is seducing God's servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And he said, I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not.
Now the word sufferest means to allow. To suffer someone means to allow.
So basically the problem with the church, God was angry with the whole church because of what this one woman was doing,
because of the fact that they were allowing it to happen.
He said, your problem is that you are suffering this woman to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication.
Now God calls it this, when we go down to verse number 24, he says,
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine,
and which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak,
I will put upon you none other burden, but that which ye have already, hold fast till I come.
Now the title of my sermon tonight is this, The Depths of Satan.
Now that's what God calls it. The Depths of Satan.
He says, there is a place that you can go where you've gone all the way down to the bottom.
He said there are the depths of sin and depravity that you can sink to.
Here he's describing basically fornication, adultery, he mentions both there,
because she was seducing both married and unmarried,
fornication and adultery taking place in a religious setting in God's house
by someone who's a so-called teacher of the Bible, God's word mixed in,
permissive preaching, everything's allowed, everything's okay,
eat things sacrificed unto idols, free love, commit adultery,
we're free in Christ so let's go out and do whatever we want.
This is what the Bible calls the depths of Satan.
This wickedness that this church had gone into.
Now I want to preach about all manner of different subjects here in the Bible on this
when I talk about the depths of Satan.
Number one, we're going to talk about fornication,
because that's the thing that he is describing here, fornication.
Look back at Proverbs, we're going to look at some scriptures on this.
Proverbs chapter 5 where we started the sermon.
Proverbs chapter 5, you see the reason why the Bible talks about the depths of Satan
is because of the fact that you don't start out in sin down at the depths of Satan.
I don't think that this church just went from one day to the next,
being a great, righteous, godly, soul winning church, everything's great,
to all of a sudden, just one week, all of a sudden,
here's this woman who's teaching a Bible class,
and all of a sudden, she's lying and preaching heresy and false doctrine,
and then next thing you know, she's sleeping with men in the church.
That doesn't happen overnight.
That's when you've gone down the downward spiral and you're in the depths of sin.
You see, sin always takes you further than you want to go.
It always keeps you longer than you want it to stay,
and it always costs you more than you were willing to pay.
You see, sin starts out small.
Let's start with fornication.
The Bible is describing here the strange woman,
and this is something that we, as all men, need to be aware of.
Jezebel was one of the ones that would fit this bill right here,
and she was in church.
She was in a good, godly, soul winning church.
She had crept in, and it says in verse number 3,
For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
You see the appeal of sin?
I mean, it looks good.
And at that first moment,
when this foolish young man that we read about in Proverbs 5,
at the moment that his lips touched her smooth as oil lips
that tasted like the honeycomb,
boy, he was enjoying the pleasures of sin,
but only for a season,
because the Bible says in the next verse,
but her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
This is the way sin is.
It starts out when you're just kind of wading in.
Before you go down to the depths,
when you just kind of put your toe in the water,
oh, it feels nice, it looks good,
and the devil is a master of advertising.
He's a master of illusion,
and the billboard makes sin look good and appealing and fun,
and the television and the commercial and the movies and the huddle,
it all looks so good on the outside,
it looks good on the surface.
But in the depths,
when you get down to the depths, it's bitter.
It's horrible.
It'll make you sick, my friend.
When you get down there in the depths with Satan,
it's not a place that you ever want to be.
And nobody starts in the depths.
They start out on the surface, and they go down, down, down, down.
It's like quicksand. They can't get out.
Let's keep reading here.
He said in verse 5,
Her feet go down to death.
Her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life,
her ways are movable that thou canst not know them.
Hear me now, therefore, ye children,
and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her,
and come not nigh the door of her house.
You see, you don't want to play with sin.
People think they can play around with it and get close to it.
Like, well, I'm not going to go to the strange woman's house.
I'm not going to be embraced in her bosom.
But I will just kind of go down that street
and just kind of take a look at her.
You know, maybe I'll just see what she looks like today.
Maybe I'll just kind of see how close I can get to the door
without going through the door.
No, he says, don't even get near it.
Stay away from it. Pass not by it.
He said, look, if she lives on X Street, just go around,
even if it takes you longer.
Don't even go by that way.
I mean, this could be, maybe you could put this in today's perspective.
If there's a certain billboard that's wicked,
you know, find another way to work.
You know, there's a place on University Avenue.
I go to a place called ADI, okay?
And ADI is an alarm distributor where I get my alarm parts.
And if I go directly from my house to ADI,
I pass, Brett knows, you pass like 12 strip clubs.
There's a whole strip among University Avenue.
And there's all kinds of obscene pictures there.
You know, and whenever I think of it, whenever I remember,
I just try to just hop on 10
and just get off at the 32nd Street University exit
and just approach it from the other side.
You know, otherwise I just make sure that I just look straight ahead
and not to the right hand of the left.
Because we don't want to play around with sin and think,
well, I can handle it. You know, I can take a look at it.
It's not going to bother me.
I can see these images and they're just going to go in my mind and be gone.
No, what goes in doesn't come out.
And so we need to stay away from sin.
He said in verse number 9,
Lest thou give thine honor unto others and thy years unto the cruel.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth
and thy labors be in the house of a stranger.
And look at verse 11.
And thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed and safe.
How have I hated instruction?
And my heart despised reproof,
and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor inclined mine ear to them that had struck me.
It's funny, recently I ran into somebody that I've known for a long time.
A wicked person.
An ungodly person.
A filthy person.
A child molester.
A pervert.
A fornicator to the extreme.
A whoremonger.
A sodomite.
This person that's a distant relative of mine.
And I saw this relative.
And I looked at him and let me tell you something.
He looked like death warmed over.
And he's not an old man.
And his body is filled with disease.
Because the life of debauchery and lewdness and wickedness and filth
has caught up with him at a young age.
Because you can't live that way without reaping what you've sown.
And I'm sure it started out when he was just a young person.
I'm sure it started out when he was just a young teen
playing around with sin,
playing around with pornography,
playing around with whatever,
watching whatever filled,
hanging around with the wrong people,
and he just got worse and worse and worse,
and he rejected the gospel,
and he just got into sin and just lived a filthy life.
And now here he is, you look at him,
he's a disgusting human being that you don't even want to look upon.
You don't even want to be near him.
He's sick.
And he's both spiritually sick and physically sick
because he's just filled with disease
from his wicked, disgusting lifestyle.
That's where sin ends up taking people.
And that's not what they show you on the commercial.
That's not what Will and Grace...
Instead of Will and Grace,
why don't we do a reality show of this pervert's life
and see if that's where you want to be?
And the world's going to lie to you.
They'll try to tell you,
oh, AIDS has nothing to do with homosexual...
You're an idiot.
AIDS is the judgment of God
on a wicked and lascivious world.
And you can say,
oh, it has nothing to do with one another.
You know, Uganda,
I don't really know that much about it.
I'm not an expert on world events and current events.
I am an expert on the Bible, thank God.
You know, I'm not an expert necessarily
on everything that goes on in the world.
But I saw on the news,
and one of you, I don't know who it was,
but you guys brought me this newspaper article.
Who gave me this?
Uganda?
Is that you?
Uganda Bill Proposes Death Penalty for Gays.
Okay?
And basically in Uganda,
and they did this about ten years ago too.
They were arresting homosexuals
and putting them in jail,
giving them the death penalty and so forth in Uganda.
And basically it says here,
well, I don't want to read this,
but anyway, the point is
the Senate of the United States passed a resolution condemning this.
You know, first of all,
I want to know why it's any of our business
what the Uganda government does.
I thought that was their country,
to run how they want.
I don't remember Uganda telling us how to run our country.
But second of all, this is great.
Praise the Lord.
Maybe they learned it from the Bible.
Maybe they read it in Leviticus 2013.
I don't know.
But the funny thing was,
I read the actual text of the resolution,
that went through the Senate of the United States condemning this,
and they said,
oh, this legislation is hindering us combating AIDS.
They said this legislation made it harder for us to combat AIDS.
This is the warped and deluded society we live in,
where they think that a law against homosexuality
is going to make more people have AIDS.
Yeah, right, sure.
Okay.
And today, Africa is filled with AIDS.
There are countries in Africa
where two-thirds of the people are infected with AIDS,
where 80% of the people are infected with AIDS in certain sectors.
And the reason why is because of homosexuality.
That's why.
Amen.
It's because of filthy, whore-mongering.
It's because of illicit sex.
That's what causes it.
That's what it is.
It's a disease that literally,
you're 20 times more likely to have, or whatever,
even according to the government's lying statistics,
to have if you're a homosexual.
And so you can sit there and look at this stuff and say,
oh, it looks good.
But let me tell you something.
These people didn't become a homosexual overnight.
Nobody becomes a drunk overnight or an alcoholic overnight.
Every alcoholic started out as a social drinker.
Everyone who's addicted to cigarettes
just started smoking just one cigarette.
Everyone who's addicted to drugs
just took one drug for the first time.
You see, it starts somewhere, and it goes a downward spiral
down, down, down, down, down,
until you're at the depths of Satan.
Look what it says in chapter 7.
That was chapter 5 of Proverbs.
Look at chapter 7.
Well, I'm sorry.
I forgot to show you
I wanted to show you there in Proverbs 5.
He said in verse 11,
remember I told you about that disgusting relative that I saw?
And I'll mourn at the last
when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.
You see?
It started out just a pretty girl,
but at the end of the day,
his flesh and his body are consumed,
and he realized the mistake that he made.
Look at verse number 5 of chapter 7.
Chapter number 7.
And I realized that, you know,
the homosexual, the sodomite, is the way he is
because he rejected God,
and God turned him over to a reprobate lion.
Romans chapter 1.
Obviously, no Christian is going to go down that road,
but it's just an illustration
of just how people can get into a really filthy lifestyle,
because even those who are not homosexuals
can still contract a lot of these diseases
just by sleeping around with the opposite gender.
And so it says in Proverbs 7, verse 5,
that they may keep thee from the strange woman,
from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
and beheld among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths
a young man void of understanding.
A young man who's not listening to me preach right now
is what he's saying.
That's what he's saying.
The young man who's not listening
to what Pastor Anderson is preaching
and doesn't care what he said,
that's who he's talking to,
the simple one void of understanding
that won't listen to his teachers, he said.
He doesn't want to hear God's word preached.
He doesn't want anybody to tell him
not to look at pornography,
not to look at the videos,
not to worship these Hollywood actresses,
not to go down that road where all those strip clubs are,
not to see all these things.
He said, I looked among the simple ones,
I discerned among the youths,
a young man void of understanding,
passing through the street near her corner,
and he went the way to her house.
In the twilight, in the evening,
in the black and dark night,
twilight, what a filthy book.
It doesn't have anything to do with the sermon,
but this is the craze,
some filthy book, some fornication story
about some Dracula vampire perverted,
this is not of God, it's satanic.
I don't know that much about it.
From what I've seen, it's satanic,
the twilight series.
And by the way,
anything that everybody in the world loves so much
that's a bestseller,
it's probably satanic.
Look at Harry Potter.
All the popular stuff in the world
is always ungodly,
and it's so perverse,
I don't know that much about it,
but from everything I've heard about it
was perverted.
I don't even know why I'm talking about that.
In the twilight, verse 9,
in the evening, in the black and dark night,
and behold, there met him a woman,
watch this,
with the attire of an harlot.
That's a whole sermon in and of itself right now.
I could preach a whole sermon
called the attire of a harlot.
According to the Bible,
there's clothing you could wear, ladies,
where God would look down at you,
because this is God speaking, right?
This isn't man speaking.
God looked down and said,
well, let me describe for you
the way she was dressed.
She was dressed like a harlot.
How would you like God to say that
about the way you're dressed?
That'd be terrible, wouldn't it?
Yeah, think about that.
Am I wearing the attire of an harlot?
What does a harlot wear?
Short skirt, right?
Low cut top, I mean, come on.
And yet that's what a lot of girls wear
and call themselves Christian.
But it says,
there met him a woman
with the attire of an harlot
and subtle of heart.
She is loud and stubborn.
These are the attributes, ladies,
that you don't want to be used about you.
Loud and stubborn.
Meek and quiet spirit
is what you're supposed to be.
Her feet abide not in her house.
Now is she without.
Now in the streets
and lieth and wait at every corner.
You know why she lieth and wait at every corner?
Because there are millions of women
just like this.
It's not one woman lying in wait
at every corner.
It's a million different women
just like this
lying in wait at every corner.
There are plenty of women
out there like this.
The sleazy women of America
would number in the millions.
It's true.
So she caught him and kissed him.
And with an impudent face
said unto him,
I have peace offerings with me this day
have I paid my vows.
So a couple things to point out here.
In verse 13,
first of all,
these fast women, right?
If you just meet a girl,
let me just give you a tip guys.
You meet a girl
and she's just automatically
just all of a sudden
just kissing you
and she's all over you.
Let me explain some of you.
You're not the only person
that she treats that way.
It's not just you, okay?
You know what I mean?
And so think that through
whether that's the girl
that you want to be with, okay?
Enough said with that.
Verse 14,
she tries to tie in religion.
I know it really makes God sick.
I have peace offerings with me.
This day have I paid my vows.
I'm a Christian.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
diligently to seek thy face,
and I have found thee.
She wasn't looking for him.
That's just the guy
who happened to come along.
Oh my God, I'm looking for you.
But it was really just a random guy.
You're not the first.
You're not the last.
She said,
I have decked my bed
with coverings of tapestry,
with carved works,
and linen of Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
You see, God warns us here
that the devil is going to try
to dress up sin
and make it look really good,
make it smell good,
make it taste good,
make it look appealing to the flesh.
And she says,
Come, let us take our fill
of love until the morning.
Let us solace ourselves with love,
for the good man is not at home.
He has gone a long journey.
He hath taken a bag of money with him
and will come home at the day appointed.
Now, the good man of the house,
I believe that's talking about her husband.
Now, maybe, I guess,
it could be talking about her father
is not going to be home.
Even worse if it's her husband.
You know, help us if it's her husband.
But, you know, who knows?
Either way, it's fornication
if it's not adultery either way.
He says,
With her much fairer speech,
she caused him to yield.
With the flattering of her lips,
she forced him.
You see,
the pole of sin,
when you get up close to it,
is going to be strong.
And you think that you can handle it.
You know, you think you can resist it.
This guy thought that he could go the way by her house
and be okay.
And yet the Bible says she forced him.
Because right away,
she's throwing her arms around him,
kissing him,
appealing to the flesh,
and he just couldn't say no.
He wasn't strong enough to say no.
And many will not be strong enough to say no.
This is why you've got to flee fornication, the Bible says.
Flee, as in run screaming in the other direction.
Don't even get anywhere near it.
Don't see how close you can get to it
without committing the sin.
Stay as far away from it as possible.
And it says,
She forced him with the flattering of her lips.
Verse 22,
He goeth after her straight way,
as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stalks,
till a dart strike through his liver,
as a bird hasteth to the snare,
and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Hark it unto me now, therefore, you children,
and attend to the words of my mouth.
Let not thine heart decline into her ways.
Go not astray in her paths.
He's saying don't even go there in your heart.
Don't even go there on your TV.
Don't even go there in your mind.
He said in verse 26,
For she hath cast down many wounded,
yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell,
going down to the chambers of death.
Let's look at chapter 9.
We looked at 5.
We looked at 7.
Let's look at 9.
Chapter 9, verse 13.
And this is a great book for young men.
If you're a young man, read the book of Proverbs.
Read it again.
Because it's a book that will give wisdom to the young man.
The young single man would do well to study Proverbs.
And even an older man can profit as well.
But young men can really gain a lot of wisdom.
They could save them a lot of trouble
if they really get this.
Maybe memorize some chapters in the book of Proverbs.
These would be great scriptures to learn.
Verse 13.
A foolish woman is clamorous.
She is simple and knoweth nothing.
For she sitteth at the door of her house,
on a seat in the high places of the city
to call passengers who go right on their ways.
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither.
Simple meaning, you know, you're stupid.
Hey, anybody that's stupid enough, come on in, she's saying.
And as for him that wanteth understanding,
she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there,
and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Now if you would turn in your Bible to...
Let's look at Ezekiel 16.
I'll read you a couple of these other scriptures
without turning to them.
Ezekiel 16.
Listen to these scriptures.
Revelation 17, 4.
You're turning to Ezekiel 16.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand
full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.
Did you get that?
Filthiness of her fornication.
You see, you look at sin on the outside, on the surface.
What's the title of the sermon?
The Depths of Satan.
You know, you look at it on the surface.
You look at the strange woman.
And understand the word strange.
It basically just means that she's unknown to you.
It doesn't mean she's weird.
It means she's not your wife.
It means that she's just a woman who you don't know,
who's trying to basically seduce you,
like this woman Jezebel did in the Church of Thyatira.
And the strange woman, she looks appealing on the outside.
It's these Hollywood actresses.
You don't know them.
But you look at them and the lust of your eyes
and the lust of your heart deceives you.
And you think, oh wow.
And you covet in your heart another man's wife.
You covet this woman, whoever she is.
But what you don't understand is the filthiness of the harlot.
The filthiness of the whore.
The filthiness of the woman who is a loose, lascivious, lewd woman.
She's dirty.
She's filled with disease.
You see, fornication is unsanitary, my friend, to an extreme.
The human body was not designed to be intimate with all these different people.
That's why our world is so filled with disease right now.
And the STDs, did you know, I think they said 25% of people
residing in the city limits of New York City.
And keep in mind, this is including every sweet little old lady
and every married couple and everybody.
25% of the people living in that city limits are filled with STDs.
That's the statistic from the government.
25%, one in four.
Because you see, it's unsanitary, it's disgusting.
You see, your body, and I don't want to go into detail,
but your body is filled with bacteria.
Even a very healthy person is filled with all kinds of bacteria.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
In your mouth, in your saliva, all throughout your body,
in your bloodstream, and all the various areas of your body,
there are bacteria living there.
There are microorganisms living inside your stomach,
living inside your intestines, living inside your body,
which is all fine and dandy.
It's all part of God's creation. It's all part of God's plan.
You have healthy bacteria, you have helpful bacteria, you have bad bacteria.
But the problem is that your body is not designed to exchange bacteria
with a large number of people.
You see, if I'm married and basically my wife and I become one flesh,
as the Bible said, that's all fine and dandy.
Or maybe somebody's married and then their spouse passes away
and then they become remarried.
This is the normal cycle of life.
But today's college atmosphere at ASU over there,
where it's just a whoremonger society,
where it's just to the next, to the next, to the next,
it will destroy your body.
It's filthy, it's unsanitary, and it's disgusting.
That's what the Bible teaches.
Nobody wants to call it that.
Everybody wants to just say, well, it's a sin.
No, it's not just a sin, it's filth.
You can call it sin, you can call it a mistake,
or you can call it, well, it's not the best way to live your life.
Call it what the Bible is, it's filthy.
Now if you've gone down that road in the past,
forget those things which are behind
and reach forth under those things which are before.
Confess and forsake that sin.
And move on and from this point be as clean as you can.
But let me tell you something, it's filthy.
The filthiness of fornication is what the Bible says.
And today we try to tone these things down and say,
well, adultery is really bad, but fornication, you know...
Now, yes, adultery is worse than fornication,
but fornication is still filthy and wicked
and can still take you down a downward spiral
that'll destroy your life.
I thank God that when I was a teenager
and all these temptations were coming at me,
and you live in the same world I live in,
and you live in a worse world than I live in,
because back when I was a teenager,
it wasn't even as bad as it is now.
It's getting worse every year.
We're living in the last days.
And when I was a teenager,
and these temptations were coming at me like a flood,
the only thing that kept me pure,
the only thing that kept me from committing fornication,
I'll tell you what it was, the fear of God,
because I had heard preaching,
thundering across the pulpit like I'm doing right now,
saying, flee, fornication.
I had heard the sermon preach where God killed
many of the children of Israel
when they committed fornication.
I heard all this preaching, thundering forth.
My parents ingrained it in me.
I heard it in church.
But today, you're not hearing it in church.
Describe the same way,
because everybody just wants to preach peace and mercy
and mercy and forget it.
We went to a funeral in the liberal church.
We walk into the liberal church, into the restroom.
There's some poster on the wall
about something for women who've had abortions,
you know, don't worry about it type of thing.
You're a murderer.
You know, you can polish it up and dress it up.
If you've had an abortion, you're a murderer.
Now look, sure there's grace for the murderer,
but call it what it is, it's a murderer.
Yes, there's mercy for the murderer,
but if you want mercy, you look up at God and say,
God, I'm sorry, I'm a murderer.
That's how you get mercy from God.
You don't say, oh God, sorry, I made a mistake, God.
Whoops.
You say, God, I'm a murderer, I'm sorry.
Look at the way David got right with God
when he committed sin with Bathsheba.
He didn't try to water it down and make excuses.
He said, it's my fault.
He said, I've done wrong, I'm the one who's done,
I'm wicked, my soul cleave into the dust.
He said, I'm wrong, I've done it.
Not this thing of, well, you know, just, oh, don't worry about it.
You ought to worry about it.
And you know, yes, there's forgiveness.
Yes, you can move on.
But first you ought to be afflicted and mourn and weep for your sins.
You shouldn't just sin and just say, oh, whoops, I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm forgiven, great.
No, you should get on your face and cry and say, I'm sorry,
you know, and confess it to God.
We need to get back to what the Bible calls confession.
And I'm not talking about that girly guy
who calls himself father and dresses like his mother.
Okay?
I'm talking about confession to God Almighty, the true Father.
You need to confess your sins to God.
Now, I'm not talking about getting re-saved every day.
I'm saved, I don't have to get forgiven, I already have forgiveness.
But you know what, I'm going to get on my knees every day and confess my sins to God.
Because that's what He wants me to do.
We ought to confess our sins to God and say that we're sorry every day.
Whether, you know, it has nothing to do with salvation, it's just confession.
It's just something that God wants us to do, to humble ourselves
and confess so that we'll get mercy and get less chastisement
and so that He can cleanse us and help us to move on and do right.
But you see, we just want to skip that phase and just go straight to the restoration.
Straight to the mercy, straight to the peace.
Before we've really been broken and sorry for our sins
is where we ought to be when we do something wrong.
If we commit a vile sin, or we could say we ought to be sorry, weep, and give mercy from God.
Fast, and so forth.
And so today this permissive preaching is causing young men to commit fornication to think nothing of it.
Because they haven't heard the stern warnings of God's word.
They haven't heard it called what it is.
Filled.
Say that together with me.
Filled.
Okay, that's a Bible word.
Look if you would, or you're in Ezekiel 16, I'm going to read one more scripture.
2 Corinthians 7, 1.
And the reason I just read that other verse for you is to show you that phrase, the filthiness of fornication.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness and the fear of God.
So there is physical filthiness.
He said we're to cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit.
Spiritual filthiness.
Look if you would at Ezekiel 16, 35.
Wherefore, O harlot,
What is a harlot? A prostitute.
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God, because thy filthiness was poured out,
and thy nakedness discovered through the whoredoms with thy lovers,
and with all the idols of thy abominations,
and by the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them.
That's abortion.
Behold, therefore, I will gather all thy lovers,
with whom thou hast taken pleasure,
and all them that thou hast loved,
and with all them that thou hast hated,
and I will even gather them round about against thee,
and will discover thy nakedness unto them,
that they may see all thy nakedness.
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged,
and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
And I will also give thee into their hand,
and they shall throw down thine eminent place,
and shall break down thy high places.
They shall strip thee also of thy clothes,
and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
They shall also bring up a company against thee,
and they shall stone thee with stones,
and thrust thee through with swords,
and they shall burn thine houses with fire,
and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women,
and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot,
and thou also shalt give no higher any more.
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest,
and my jealousy shall depart from thee,
and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry,
because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
but has fretted against me in all these things.
Behold, therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thine head,
saith the Lord, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness
above all thine abominations."
Look at Ezekiel 24.
You say, man, that's some harsh words.
That's right, some harsh words from a God who hates Phil,
from a God who hates fornication,
from a God who hates adultery,
but Satan would love for you to come down in the depths
where he lives, to the depths of Satan,
where fornication runs rampant,
where disease racks everybody,
where everybody goes down the road of filthiness
and away from the spiritual road of cleanness
and godliness and righteousness and temperance,
following the Lord.
You say, oh, man, this preaching's too hard for me.
Then you trot, you trot yourself down
to little sissy britches Baptist church.
There's a million of them, my friend.
You won't have any trouble finding it,
and you go ahead and take your little child.
You take little Johnny and little Susie
or your teenager or your child down there
and let them hear that pansy, sissified preaching,
and then we'll see if they turn out pure.
I wouldn't have turned out pure, I'll tell you right now.
I would not have turned out pure
but for the preaching of God's Word.
I'll tell you right now,
if it weren't for God's Word being thundered forth,
I would have committed the sin of fornication
probably several times over.
I mean, the temptation was there.
You know, in those teenage years,
in those young adult years,
the temptation is definitely there, and it's strong.
But, you know, I thank God for the Bible.
I thank God for the preaching that kept me pure
so that I could be a virgin when I got married
because of this kind of preaching
and because of nothing else.
I was scared to commit fornication
because I had read all these...
I didn't want these curses that I had read,
and I read Proverbs a lot as a child.
It was one of my favorite books.
I didn't want these curses to come upon me.
And so I said, you know, I'm not going to do it
as strong as the temptation is.
But you see, you get into fornication
when you start playing with fornication
and you start looking at pornography,
you start hanging around with loose girls.
And you know what? There are girls like...
I promise they're in every high school.
I promise they're in, you know, in most...
If you go to a big church with a lot of people,
you'll find these kind of loose girls
who come up to you, and they're just touching you,
they're hugging you, they're hanging on you.
They're out there.
And you better have the sense that when...
And literally, I've known girls like this,
and I literally saw them walking down that hallway,
and I decided to take another path.
Stay away from them, you know?
Don't go that way. For real.
You know that what I'm saying is true?
If you've been around this world for a little while,
and if you don't know that what I'm saying is true,
just take my word for it.
She lies in wait at every corner.
That's what the Bible says.
Look at... Where did I turn? I'm sorry.
Chapter 24.
Chapter 24. Let's look at verse 11.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof,
that the brass of it may be hot and may burn,
and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,
that the scum of it may be consumed.
She had wearied herself with lies,
and her great scum went not forth out of her.
Her scum shall be in the fire.
You're like, I've been in church for years.
I've never heard these verses.
And thy filthiness is lewdness,
because I have purged thee, and thou was not purged.
Thou shalt not be purged from my filthiness anymore
till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
Now, you know, you've heard that many great sermons
are what? Three points in a poem.
You know, point one, filth.
Point two, scum.
Point three, lewdness.
Here's a poem for you.
No, I'm just kidding.
Roses are red, violets are blue.
You know, fornication is filthy,
and so are you.
No, I'm just kidding.
That was a very nice poem. I'm sorry.
Look at Isaiah chapter 28, if you would.
Just go back a few pages through the book of Jeremiah.
If you're in Ezekiel, you go back one book.
Find Jeremiah right before that.
That's Isaiah.
These three big, long books.
Isaiah 28, verse 7.
But I'm telling you what.
This is really biblical stuff.
You didn't even know the word scum was in the Bible.
You know, but it's there.
And you know what it's referring to?
lewdness.
Fornication.
Loose women.
That's what it's referring to.
I don't know if the word...
I haven't done a word study on scum.
I don't know if it's anywhere else,
but that's where it is.
It's talking about a loose woman.
It's talking about a woman who commits adultery,
who sleeps around, who's a harlot, who's a whore.
You say, what's the difference between a harlot and a whore?
From my understanding, a whore is a married woman who's doing it,
and a harlot is an unmarried that's selling it.
And so this is filthy stuff,
and this is the world we're living in.
Look at Isaiah 28, verse 7.
And we're going to switch subjects here.
We talked about what?
Fornication.
Now let's talk about alcohol.
He says in verse 7 of chapter 28,
we're moving on from point 1.
Those weren't really my points, okay?
Point 1 was fornication.
Point 2 is alcohol.
Isaiah 28, 7.
But they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way.
The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink.
Now that's the depths of Satan.
The depths of Satan is when the woman is not only a fornicator,
and loose, and lascivious,
but she tries to say,
I have peace offerings with me and have paid my vows.
You see, it's one thing to drink and be a drunk,
but when the preachers are drunk, that's the depths of Satan.
When the harlot and the adulterous is teaching a Bible class,
that's the depths of Satan.
But he says here in verse 7,
the prophet have erred through strong drink.
They are all swallowed up of wine.
They are all out of the way through strong drink.
So look how many times he mentioned it.
He said, wine, strong drink, strong drink, strong drink.
They er in vision.
They stumble in judgment.
Verse 8,
for all tables are full of vomit and filthiness
so that there is no place clean.
Put that on a Budweiser commercial.
Just a table full of vomit.
A bunch of people sitting at the table.
Go ahead and dress them up the way you do in the bikini top,
and the big strong athletic man,
and the tank shirt,
and the little visor,
and everybody's just looking so cool.
Sitting at that table just filled with vomit
with their face in the vomit.
That is what it's really like.
It's not like when it's chosen on TV, kids.
Solomon, Isaac, John, whoever's listening to me.
Hey, it's not like they'll show you on TV.
It's dirty.
Amen.
Don't look at the outside of the bar
with all the neon lights and the pictures.
Go to the restroom of the bar.
That's where you need to go.
Go look at the restroom,
and just take a big...
Oh, it smells wonderful.
That's how you're going to get the true picture of Sam.
That's right.
Go in the alley behind the bar.
Go meet all those people tomorrow morning.
That's what it's really like.
But you see, it doesn't start out like that.
It starts out dressed nice,
beautiful girls,
good-looking guys,
and we're just drinking, you know,
not beer and hard liquor and vodkas.
We're just drinking these little fruity little...
You know what I mean?
Like these fruity... What do they call it? Cocktail?
Is that what they call it?
You know, little fruity little drinks
and pineapple, you know?
And sometimes I'm always jealous
because I'm on an airplane or I'm in a restaurant
and all they have is these dumb sodas
like Pepsi, 7 Up,
and I'm reading all these drinks that sound really good
like pineapple juice, coconut.
I'm like, man, that sounds good.
And then it's like, and rum.
And you're like, ugh.
You know, you're reading it.
It's like, it's got a chariot?
I'm like, can you just...
Can you make me a fruity drink
that doesn't have alcohol in it?
But you know, it starts out with a bunch of
good-looking, healthy, strong-bodied people
with little fruity drinks
and they're on a beach somewhere
and they're living the life...
But you know where it ends up?
Is in that restroom of some dirty, ugly bar
because they had some special where it's like $2
for some high alcohol content drink or something.
You know, and the lights are dim down low
so you don't have to realize how ugly
the people are around you
because they live the life of sin
and it's starting to take its toll.
You know these bars where people hang out in their 50s?
You know what I mean?
They're in their 50s.
They don't look like they did
when they were in their 20s because...
And it's not because there's anything wrong
with the way people in their 50s look.
It's because when you live in your 50s
after a hard life of sin,
that's when you start looking bad, my friend.
It's true.
You ever look at somebody and say,
she's lived a hard life?
I'm not trying to be rude or anything.
I'm not even trying to be fun.
You look at somebody and say,
she's lived a hard life.
You look at the man and you say,
he's lived a hard life.
I've seen people who were very beautiful
in their young days
who today look awful
because of just a life of sin.
It takes its toll.
And they go to that dark, dank bar
where the lights are down low
and you drink so much that you don't even realize
how stupid you are in the dumb place that you're in.
The smells don't bother you anymore.
I spoke to somebody a while back
who's a godly Christian,
but they had been at a stage where they were drinking.
And this person was a person
who never will drink after or eat after anyone.
You know what I'm talking about?
We grew up in our house,
you never drank after anybody.
You never ate after anybody.
If somebody drank out of something,
it's like, I'm not touching it.
We're just really paranoid about sanitation.
That's how we grew up.
There are a lot of people
who just kind of pass it around.
And that's kind of how we are in our family.
We kind of drink after each other.
Me and my wife drink after each other.
But some people,
and when I was a kid I was like this,
and other people I've known are like this.
They won't drink after anybody.
I'm kind of like that too.
Everybody's like that to an extent,
but some people are more than others.
But this person I was talking to,
they're really like that to this day.
They don't eat after people, they don't drink.
And this is what they said.
One of the things that they noticed
about the effects of alcohol
is that when they drank,
the most unsanitary things,
all of a sudden, you didn't mind
drinking after anybody, eating after anybody.
Eating your food that fell in an unsanitary place,
you just didn't even think about it.
You didn't even think about the fact
that when you're on your knees in a public restroom,
up checking your guts after drinking,
that that's really dirty and unsanitary
and you're putting your hands on the toilet bowl,
your knees are, I mean, it's just so gross
that any of us, if we walked in there
in our sober status, we wouldn't even think about
putting our hands up like this.
Getting out your hand sanitizer
that's on your key chain.
You'd be like putting on a mask.
You put on one of those little white little masks
just to go in the restroom.
You just don't want to inhale the fumes.
But not when you're drunk.
No. Not when you're under the influence of alcohol.
Every dirty thing is clean
when you're under the influence of alcohol.
The Bible says,
Thine eyes shall behold strange women.
Thy mouth shall utter perverse things.
Look, if you've been to traffic school
as many times as I have,
and that's probably impossible,
but if you've been to traffic school
as many times as I have,
you'll know, they explain to you
the effects of alcohol on the body
and it wasn't for drinking.
I've never even tasted beer in my life, I think.
I know what it smells like.
It smells like urine.
But I know what it smells like.
I've never tasted it.
But let me tell you something.
If you've been to traffic school,
how about one-fourth as many times
as I've been there,
you'll know that alcohol is a poison.
They explain to you.
They show diagrams.
They explain the science
of how alcohol poisons your mind
and makes you have these euphoric feelings
and you get all giddy
and you don't know what's going on,
how it works.
It's a poison.
That's why it's called being intoxicated, okay?
But it starts out on the surface
as just a little wine with my dinner.
It starts out a little fruity drink, okay?
It starts out,
well, everybody else is drinking,
so I'm going to do it.
My sister worked at a job recently,
my younger sister,
and she was working for a seed lab
where they test seeds and do all this stuff.
And so they're going to this,
they want her to go to a wine convention
to sell their product
because of the fact that, you know,
obviously these vineyards are growing things with seeds
and they could use these services.
And this is what they told her at this job.
She hasn't worked anymore, thank God,
and this was when she left.
This kind of pushed her over the edge.
They said,
we want you to go to this convention.
And, you know,
she didn't even want to go to this convention
in the first place.
But they said,
you must drink while you're there.
I mean, I'm sure she'd probably sue them
for this or something.
And they said,
because if you drink, you'll sell more
if you've got some alcohol in you.
They said,
we want you to go to this wine convention.
We want you to drink the wine
because the more you drink,
the more you're going to sell
because they know she's going to be able to act
inappropriate when she begins to drink.
That's what they're thinking in their mind.
She'll be too friendly, you know,
and then she'll sell, you know,
because then people will see this,
you know, pretty girl
and she's kind of drunk
and she's saying stupid things
and then, you know,
this is the world that we're in.
It's wicked.
But that could be where it could start.
Can you see how that's where it could start?
Like, if your job
wanted you to do something like that
and then you just did it
and then you just drank
and then next thing you know,
you just, hey, I kind of like this.
Hey, I kind of like the attention I get.
And you see how if you go down a downward spiral,
they'll take you to the depths of Satan.
But it could just start out with something like that.
I know of a situation
of a man and a woman
and basically,
they were both pure when they got married.
And they were living, you know,
a life together as a young married couple.
And the man went to where,
this is a true story.
I've heard this from firsthand, okay.
This young married husband
went to a company party at work
and people at his job
thought it would be funny to get him drunk.
And so this man was not one that drank.
They got him drunk
and because he was drunk,
he committed adultery with someone
that worked at that office with a woman.
It destroyed his whole marriage,
divorced.
To this day,
he can't get over the guilt of it,
destroyed his marriage,
altered the entire course of his life.
I mean, is that amazing?
Just from one time,
somebody thought it would be funny,
let's get this guy drunk
because he doesn't drink.
Let's get him drunk.
Let's get him drinking.
And it was, I mean,
it was a really sad,
if you hear the whole story,
it's a really sad story.
It's a true story.
Somebody that I know personally.
But it all started out
just with a little fun at the office.
That's how fornication starts.
That's how adultery starts.
That's how drunkenness
and alcoholism start.
I'll read this for you.
You don't have to turn there.
You're still, you know,
I'll just let you have your Bible open
on that vomit table page
while I read you some other stuff.
The Bible says in verse,
Ezra 9-11,
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophet,
saying, The land unto which ye go to possess it
is an unclean land,
filled with the filthiness,
is an unclean land with the filthiness
of the people of the lands,
with their abominations,
which have filled it from one end
to the other with their uncleanness.
That's where we're living in America.
Filthy place.
2 Chronicles 29-5,
you don't have to turn there.
And said unto them,
Hear me, ye Levites,
sanctify now yourselves,
and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
So you see,
filthiness of fornication, number one.
The filthiness of alcohol.
And we could go on and on
and preach all different points,
all different stents,
but these are the two big ones today
that you need to watch out for
if you're a young person.
Stay away from alcohol.
Stay away from fornication.
Amen.
These are the two big ones
that are going to bring you down.
You know, and today it's also drugs.
But just put drugs in the exact same category as alcohol.
There's no difference.
It's the same thing.
Any verse in the Bible that talks about alcohol,
you can apply to drugs.
I mean, it's the same type of thing.
It's a poisoning of the mind.
It's mind-altering.
It's intoxication, whatever you want to call it.
But God says, look, it's filthy.
Get that filthiness out of the house of God.
You see, the problem with the church at Thyatira
was they allowed it in church.
1 Corinthians 5 is the last place we're going to turn.
And look what the Bible says.
And then I'm going to explain to you
why the Bible says this
because you might see this
and be a little surprised by it
if you're not familiar with the passage,
but the Bible says this in verse 7.
Here's a good scripture from this morning.
Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that you may be a new lump,
even as you are unleavened.
For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Purge out the leaven, he said.
Get out the leaven.
A little leaven leavened the whole lump.
Look at verse 9.
I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators.
I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators.
He says, yet not altogether
with the fornicators of this world
or with the covetous or extortioners
or with idolaters,
for that much he needs go out of the world.
He's saying, that's what the world is all about,
my friend.
They're all from one or the other,
by and large, most part.
They're into fornication,
covetousness, extortion, idolatry.
But he says in verse 11,
I want to clarify what I meant by that.
He said, but now I've written unto you
not to keep company
if any man that is called a brother
be a fornicator.
He's saying, look,
the world is going to be the world.
But he says, if a brother is a fornicator,
he said, if one that's called a brother is a fornicator,
he says, don't company with that person.
Don't hang out with that person.
He says, if one that's called a brother is a fornicator,
he says, don't company with that person.
He said, now I've written unto you
not to keep company
if any man that is called a brother
be a fornicator,
or covetous,
or an idolater,
or a railer,
or a what?
So should we hang around with Christians
who are drunkards,
according to the Bible?
Should we hang around with Christians
that are fornicating?
No, we shouldn't.
Now what if there's a guy who's unsaved
and unbelieving
and he's a fornicator?
He's a drunk.
Now, he shouldn't be our buddy anyway
because we shouldn't be
the friend of the world.
We don't want to just
be best buddies with the world,
with unsaved people.
But let me tell you something.
Having lunch with someone
who's a drunk or a fornicator is fine.
Do you remember Jesus
ate with publicans and sinners?
Harlots.
Drunkards.
And there are many times
when I've been at work
and I've taken people out to lunch,
given the gospel and so forth.
It's not going to be my close friend.
It's not going to be my
good companion and my buddy.
I want to be friends with God's people.
Friends with God's people.
But you know, the separation
when somebody's called a brother
is more extreme.
Because he says this.
Or a drunkard or an extortioner
with such and one know not to eat.
So, let's do just a quick illustration here.
Stuckey, why don't you
sit in this chair right here
if you will, please.
You see, Stuckey right here
is going to represent an unsaved guy.
This is the guy that I work with.
And of course I work with unbelievers.
And we all do.
It's a part of life.
God doesn't want us to go
live in a convent somewhere
or a monastery somewhere.
He didn't say
I want you to be taken
out of the world.
He said I just want to
keep you from the evil.
We're in the world
but we're not of the world.
He wants to keep us
from the evil.
So Stuckey here is my co-worker.
He's not saved.
But he's a drunkard.
He's also a fornicator.
There's no secret about it.
He's a drunkard.
He's a fornicator.
This gentleman right here
on the other hand
he is saved.
And he didn't just get
saved yesterday.
But he's one that's
called a brother.
I mean, this guy's
been saved for years.
He's been in church.
He knows the truth.
He knows what's going on.
He's been a fundamental Baptist.
He's called a brother.
And even if he were
well we'll get to that
in a second but
he's called a brother
and he's a drunk
and he's a fornicator.
Now this guy right here
I want to reach out to this guy.
This is the guy who's not saved.
I want to reach out to him.
I want to love him.
Hey, let me buy you lunch.
I want to talk to you
about something.
Yeah, I'll buy you a steak.
And we'll sit down
and I'll give him the gospel
and I'll talk to him
and hopefully he gets saved
and I say
I give him the gospel
maybe he doesn't get saved
but he listens to it
and I say, hey listen
if you ever need anything
let me know
and maybe we can talk about this
another time.
Maybe we can have lunch
again sometime.
Talk about this a little more.
But this guy right here
if I eat lunch with him
I'm violating scripture.
Even one time.
What do I do with this guy?
I reach out to him.
What do I do with this guy?
I push him away from me.
I put away from our church
that wicked person.
This guy's not welcome
in our church.
He needs to be kicked out.
He needs to be thrown out.
This guy can come to church.
Yeah, I'd love it
for this guy to come to church
because maybe something
in the preaching
will water that seed
that's been sown.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you want?
Yeah, great.
You'll come to church
on Sunday night?
Great.
You're not welcome.
That's what the Bible teaches here.
Okay, that's what you got
to see the difference here.
Now, here's another guy
we're going to bring in.
We've got A and B here.
Let's bring in C.
Chris Brock.
You just have to be sitting there.
You're sitting in the wrong place.
Okay?
Now, this guy right here,
this guy's not saved.
Okay?
But he's a member
of an independent fundamental
Baptist church.
Okay?
And he's a drunk
and he's a fornicator.
Should I have ones
with this guy?
No.
Because he's called a brother.
He's claiming to be saved.
I'm not talking about a Catholic
or a Methodist
or a Buddhist
or whatever.
I mean, this guy's
actually claiming
to be one of us, right?
And he's not saved
and he's a drunk
and a fornicator.
You know, we don't want
that guy around here.
Does everybody understand this?
Yes.
Because he's called a brother.
He's posing as one of us.
Now, this guy really is
one of us
in the sense of being
our brother in Christ.
Okay?
But because he's a drunk
and a fornicator,
we don't want him around.
We're going to pray for him.
That God will punish him.
That's what we're going to pray.
That's what he's saying.
Deliver him over to Satan
for the destruction of...
We're going to pray for him
that God chastises him
and chases him.
We're going to pray for him,
but we're going to
throw him out of our church.
That's the best thing for him.
This guy right here,
you know, same thing.
We'll pray for him
to get saved,
but we're going to
throw him out
because of that reason.
This guy right here,
we want to reach out to him.
We want to try to
love him and so forth.
Should I be best friends
with this guy?
Should this guy be
my best buddy though?
No, because the problem is
if he's my best buddy,
he's going to begin
to rub off on me
and I'm going to start
to act like him,
talk like him.
You act like your friends too.
You ever start to
hang around with somebody
and then you start noticing
yourself acting like them?
I've noticed that
in my own life.
I'll start hanging around
with somebody,
and next thing I'm saying
what they say,
I'm acting like them,
I'm talking like them,
and so forth.
And so, the depths of Satan,
it's beautiful on the surface,
but you go down, down, down.
Your physical body
will be destroyed from sin.
Your life will be destroyed.
Your marriage will be destroyed.
Your finances will be destroyed.
Everything about you
will be destroyed.
Stay away from it.
Get it out of the house of God.
Keep the church pure of it.
We've got to do what's right.
We've got to flee it.
We've got to stay away from it
and we've got to call it
by the right name.
That's the main thing
right there.
Call it what it feels,
whatever.
Call the name sin.
That's a good word.
Sin.
Sin, wickedness, filth.
Instead of giving it
these euphemisms,
you know, the world
wants to dress it up.
Alcoholism, nope.
Drunkenness.
Homosexuality, nope.
Exotomy, right?
Call it what it is.
I'm trying to think
of a word for throwing up
that the word gives us.
It's a really nice word.
I guess there's not
a nice word, is there?
Regurgitation.
Vomit.
You can call it regurgitation.
It doesn't make it
smell any better.
You know what I mean?
You can call it a hangover.
You know, but what is it really?
Puking your,
up-chucking your guts
over a filthy toilet.
That's what it really is.
And so, I'm preaching tonight
to the young, primarily.
Because those that are older,
you already know
what I'm saying is true.
You know, those that are older
that have been around,
you know what I'm saying is true.
People that are older than me
know more than I do
how true this is.
But you know who I'm preaching to?
Children tonight.
Young children.
Teens.
Who it's going to be so easy,
and you've got to just
let this sink down in your ears,
just think about
what I'm saying right now.
Just listen up right now.
You will come to a point
where sin will be appealing
and where it will start
to pull you in.
You've got to remember
the depths that it's
going to take you to.
You're going to think,
oh, one drink's
not going to hurt me.
You know, just one drink,
no big deal,
but one leads to another
and another and another
and another.
You say, oh, you know,
this loose girl,
she's fun to hang around with.
You know, man,
she's a really fun person
to be around.
This is great.
You know, I'm not going
to commit fornication.
You know, I mean,
I'm not going to marry
this girl,
but boy, is she fun
to hang around.
No, you will go down
that downward spiral.
Next thing you know,
your life's going to be
destroyed and you're going
to wish that you'd
listen to me right now.
You're going to wish
that you'd listen to that
sermon by Pastor Anderson
about the depths of sin,
the depths of Satan,
where sin will
eventually take you.
The end thereof
that's bitter is wormwood.
Let's bow our heads
and have a word of prayer.
Father, we pray that you
please just help every
single person that's here,
every young person,
every boy, every girl.
Father, the young teenage girls
and even my young girls
that one day will grow up
to be teenagers,
there are wolves,
there are young men
that have wicked minds
that would love to devour them,
to use and abuse them.
The young boys and young men
and teenagers that are
listening to my voice right now,
there are loose women
just waiting for them,
waiting for them to turn 18
or waiting for them
to get out from under
the guidance of mom and dad
to just take their life
and destroy it and force them
like an ox to the slaughter.
God, I pray that you help
every child and every teen
and every young adult
in this room to have
the wisdom to listen to me
and say I am going to
stay away from alcohol
and from fornication
because even though it may
seem like a light thing
just toying around with it,
I don't want to go down
to those depths of Satan.
And in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.