Conference and the stop location is tonight here in Vancouver. So we have a pastor Steven Anderson here to preach for us great friend and
Obviously a great preacher very excited to have him preach for us tonight
And he'll also be going to Spokane on the 26th
So this Sunday in Spokane, he's preaching both services in Spokane
If you would like the location for the secret location in Spokane
Please see me after the service or show up for those a soul winning marathon on
Saturday in Chaney, Washington
The details are on our YouTube page and I think we're meeting for our regular times
But if you want to go soul name on Saturday in Spokane, it's actually gonna be in Chaney, Washington
You're more than welcome to do that. I know we have some families that are traveling to Spokane for
the services on Sunday
Um
Let's see. So yeah the 10 30 a.m. 3 30 p.m. There'll be lunch provided after the service and
Yeah, if you need the location for that, I'm not gonna say it over
The the airwaves here because you know what happens. But anyway, I
Encourage you if you want to go up there and just spend a weekend supposed to be really hot here
I don't know what's supposed to be like they're probably as hot or hotter. So anyway pastor Anderson brought the heat with them. So
thanks pastor appreciate that and
Let's see. We got
What do we got else? Let's see. The 4th of July fellowship is gonna be at the Yankee residence. That'll be a Monday and
Then miss Alana's baby shower here at the church building at I want to say 12 o'clock. Am I right about that?
Somebody can I get a witness here?
11 okay, I was close 11 o'clock
So that'll be July 9th and they're registered on Amazon and then July 14th through 17th
We have the red-hot preaching conference. So that's very exciting if you can you're gonna want to go
It's gonna be bigger and better than ever and there's gonna be more preachers
More ping-pong. Hopefully everybody's gotten a chance to own their skills at the very
established sport of table tennis and
They don't want to play football anymore after what happened the first year. So they don't want they don't want none of this. Trust me
Anyway, so I think that there might be a sign up for the ping-pong. I haven't seen the video
So if they're if you're wanting to play, I think you need to contact
Verity Baptist to make sure that you're in on the tournament. Can I get away brother Adam? Do you know you're not gonna play area?
You scared? Okay. I'm just kidding. All right, so that's going on
That's the 14th through the 17th and at the end of July we're gonna have our fourth year anniversary
I can't believe it's already been four years and to celebrate we're gonna have pastor Jared Pizarnsky
He's gonna preach for us on Friday night
And then that'll be the last weekend in July and then Pat the infamous pastor Joe Jones will be here for Sunday. So
He's been under a lot of fire lately so pray for him but
Yeah, pastor Shelley too. It's it's been a whirlwind June. I don't know why they're so agitated this month, but a
Lot of sermons preached against them
Anyway, if you're a first-time guest, we're very happy that you're here and we do have some gift bags
There are in the past that little divider there on the left hand side. There's some gift bags
It's got a film being Baptist and a really nice pen and some other stuff about our church
please feel free to grab one of those on your way out and
We're really thankful that you're here tonight
Miss Sheila had a birthday was it yesterday?
Two days ago, I'm sorry miss Sheila. Happy birthday. Miss Sheila. Did they sing happy birthday to you already?
You weren't here. Okay, we're gonna sing happy birthday then
And to Kohath and Karina if they weren't here
God bless
Oh
All right
Anniversary did you guys get your anniversary sang to you? Yeah. Okay. Yes, sir. All right. All right. Well, happy anniversary
It's been what eight wonderful years
That what it was. Okay. Anyway, I'll shut up. It's time for the
Sing another song and then we'll receive the offering
I'm writer next on the song number 49 in your blue hymn books. How great thou art
Song number 49 in your blue hymn books, how great thou art
Song number 49 how great thou art. Let's see it out on the first
Oh my god
Oh
When I an awesome wonder
Consider
The world's my hands have made
I see the stars
I hear the rolling thunder
Thy power throughout the universe displayed
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
Oh
How great
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
Oh
And
Forest glades I wander and hear the birds
sing sweetly in the trees
When I look down
From lofty
mountain grandeur and
Hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
How great thou are
How great thou
Are
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
And when I think
That God his son
not sparing
Sent him to die
I scarce can take it in
That on the
My burden gladly bearing he bled and died
to take away my sin
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
How great thou
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
How great thou
When I shall
Wish out of
Acclamation and take me home what joy shall fill my
Then I shall bow
In
Adoration and their proclaim my god
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
How great thou
Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
How great thou
And then good scene brother Sean, could you bless the offering for us
Pray you would bless this offering bless both the gift and the giver in Jesus name
You
All right, would you turn with me please to the book of Genesis chapter 38
The first book of the Bible the book of Genesis and chapter 38
As is our custom we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1
If you don't have a Bible there should be one in front of you
And if there's not you can raise your hand and one of our ushers will bring you one
Genesis chapter 38
Starting in verse 1 of
Genesis 38 and it came to pass at that time that Judah went down from his brethren and
turned into a certain Odullamite whose name was Hira and
Judah saw their a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shuah and he took her and
went in unto her and she conceived and bear a son and he called his name err and
she conceived again and bear a son and she called his name onan and
She yet again conceived and bear a son and called his name Sheila
and he was at his Eve when she bear him and Judah took a wife for err his firstborn whose name was Tamar and
err Judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of the Lord and the Lord slew him and
Judah said unto onan go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother and
Onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife
That he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother and the thing which he did
Displease the Lord wherefore he slew him also
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law remain a widow at thy father's house till Sheila my son be grown
for he said lest peradventure he die also as his brethren did and
Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house and
In process of time the daughter of Shua Judah's wife died and Judah was comforted and went up unto his sheep
shearers to Timnath
He and his friend here are the Adulamites and it was told Tamar saying behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath
to shear his sheep and
she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a veil and wrapped herself and
Sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath
For she saw that Shayla was grown and she was not given unto him to wife
When Judah saw her he thought her to be in harlot because she had covered her face
And he turned unto her by the way and said go to I pray thee
Let me come in unto thee for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law
And she said what wilt thou give me that thou mayest come in unto me
And he said I will send thee a kid from the flock
She said wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it and he said what pledge shall I give thee
she said thy signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand and he gave it her and
came in unto her and she conceived by him and
she arose and went away and laid by her veil from her and put on the garments of her widowhood and
Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adulamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand
But he found her not
Then he asked the men of that place saying where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside
and they said there was no harlot in this place and
he returned to Judah and said I cannot find her and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this
place and
Judah said let her take it to her lest we be shamed
behold I sent the kid and thou hast not found her and
It came to pass about three months after that it was told Judah saying
Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot and also behold. She is with child by Hordom and
Judah said bring her forth and let her be burnt
When she was brought forth she sent to her father-in-law saying
By the man whose these are in my with child and she said discern
I pray thee whose are these the signet and bracelets and staff
and
Judah acknowledged them and said she hath been more righteous than I
because that I gave her not to Shailah my son and he knew her again no more and
It came to pass in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb
And it came to pass when she travailed that the one
put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
scarlet thread saying this came out first and
It came to pass as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out and she said how hast thou broken forth
this breach be upon thee
therefore his name was called Phares and
Afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name was called Zara
Brother Brandon, would you pray for us?
Here to try
Amen it's great to be here tonight. Thanks everyone for coming out. We're on a road trip of course, so
I've already preached in Los Angeles on last Thursday and then
Fresno on Sunday here. This is our third stop and
I'm starting to think this was a really bad idea to drive this many thousands of miles and
I'm only like 1 4th of the way in so I don't know but I'm here we are
All right
So we're having a good time though, and I'm preaching a series where I'm going through the sons of Jacob
So virtually I'm going through the 12 tribes of Israel
Reuben Simeon Levi and now we're at the fourth son of Jacob, which is Judah and
So we're gonna start out actually in chapter 37 here tonight with this story
About Joseph being sold into slavery and I'll just kind of quickly bring you up to speed in the story
Of course Joseph is hated of his brethren because he's the favorite
He's the baby of the family
and if you remember Jacob has multiple wives and he's got the one wife that he loves more than the other and
So her son Joseph gets special treatment and he loves Joseph more than the others
So Joseph's brethren they envy him they hate him and
Joseph makes things worse by having these dreams where he has a dream that they're basically about bowing down and worshiping him and
Of course that literally is eventually going to happen. He's having a foreshadowing of that but
You know when they hear this they're very angry
and so they're out on a trip and Joseph goes to meet them and
When they see him coming they conspire to actually murder him. I mean think about the wickedness of
Murdering your own brother. I mean murdering anyone is wicked but murdering your own brother and so they see him coming
They're gonna murder him, but then Reuben
Steps in and intercedes and says hey, let's not kill him. Let's just throw him in this pit
Okay
So he wants to deliver him out of their hand Reuben's plan is to actually come back later to the pit
And rescue Joseph and take him home to dad
But while Joseph is in that pit the rest of the guys sit down to eat
Reuben's not there. They sit down and they see this company of
Ishmaelites coming so that's where we're gonna pick up the story in verse 25 of
Genesis 37 they were gonna murder their brother Joseph instead
They just threw him in a pit and now we pick up in verse 25
They sat down to eat bread and
They lifted up their eyes and looked and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing
spicery and balm and myrrh going to carry it down to Egypt and
Judah said unto his brethren
What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and let not our hand be upon him
For he is our brother and our flesh and his brethren were content
And so of course they pulled Joseph out of the pit and they end up selling him into slavery
Selling him into the Ishmaelites. This was all Judah's idea. Remember the sermon tonight is about Judah
We're looking at this biblical character Judah. So what do we see from Judah right away?
First of all, he is one of the conspirators that wanted to murder his brother so you can see that wickedness right there
But at the same time he has somewhat of a conscience about this and says, you know, maybe we shouldn't
Murder our own brother. I mean, he's our flesh and blood. Maybe we shouldn't do this and not only that
He says well, what profit is it? We can actually make some money off this
so this is another level of wickedness of wanting to get financial gain or profit by selling Joseph into slavery and
So he suggests this his brethren go along with it and Joseph ends up being sold now
It might be easy to just kind of read over this and not really grasp
Just how wicked this is because you think like well, at least they didn't kill him
You know
But stop and think for a moment about human trafficking in our day because we don't really call it being sold into slavery
We would call it like human trafficking, right?
The the merchandise of human beings
Kidnapping someone because I mean that's what they're doing here. They're basically
kidnapping their brother and
selling him to human traffickers and
Stop and think about the types of things that would happen to someone today if they got human trafficked
It could be a lot of horrible things
In fact, sometimes it could even be a fate worse than death and when we read the story
Sure things turn out okay for Joseph, but that's only because the Bible says the Lord was with Joseph
So because the Lord's with Joseph things end up going well for him
But what if the Lord hadn't been with Joseph?
Chances are if you're being sold into this kind of human trafficking bad things are gonna happen even in the Bible
We see people that are taken as slaves like this and they end up getting castrated
They're made eunuchs their their body is mutilated in that way
you know other people could be forced into who knows what kind of strange things or wicked things or perverted things or
Just put to work in
extremely dangerous conditions, you know working in some mine somewhere or something or
Somewhere where OSHA isn't there to kind of you know, make sure that everything is is safe
You know, they could be put into a super dangerous
situation
The bottom line is this they don't even know
What situation they're putting him in. I mean they could be sending him to certain death
They could be sending him something worse than death. Who knows what is gonna happen to him
they're all manner of horrible things that could happen to him and
Yet they just do this to Joseph their own brother and you know
Just before the service we were talking about different things that are going on and it's crazy
How many of our pastor brethren are being persecuted right now in a big way now? I'm not one of them
You know, I'm doing great
But a lot of these guys are getting persecuted pretty hard right now
And we're talking about this before the service and manage it just gets me fired up
The wickedness and and I was thinking about how it kind of connects to what we see here in this chapter
Because what is this? It's the wicked
Persecuting the righteous, you know, Joseph is a godly young man
The Lord's with him and the Bible talks about how he had brought to their father Jacob
the evil report of
Dan and Naphtali and the and Gad Asher the sons of the concubines, you know
He brought their evil report
They were wicked and obviously the fact that they're gonna murder him the fact that they're gonna traffic him makes them
Super wicked and Joseph's a godly young man. So this is actually also an incidence of wicked people
persecuting the righteous
Okay, and it's the same way now the Bible says he had all that will live godly in Christ. Jesus shall suffer
Persecution and let me say I support my pastor friends and my pastor brethren who are being persecuted right now
I have no problem identifying with them
Backing them up. I approve their message
Okay, pastor Thompson's son-in-law and and his clip that's going around. That's a great clip. I like it
I approve this message
Okay, thank God somebody's got the guts to tell it like it is and preach the Word of God with boldness in the midst
Of a crooked and perverse generation. We're supposed to be shining the light of the Word of God and these
cockroaches these wicked scum of the earth
They don't like having their sin exposed, you know, the pastors of America need to be bringing that evil report
Doesn't matter whether the persecution comes or not
Okay, they need to preach the Word of God and woe unto this nation
For the persecution that they're bringing on God's people where you have judges, you know ruling to evict a church
In Texas, you know because of preaching the Word of God
You know and you have all of these freaks
surrounding church buildings with their protests and their signs everything like that and just defiling everybody's eyeballs with their very
existence and then you have God's people and
The vast majority of Christians not standing with the man of God, but rather defending the perverts and weirdos today
They're not standing with Joseph. No, no
They're hanging around and eating bread with Dan and nap to lie and the rest of them saying hey
let's go ahead and kill him and
Then you know, so Judah we see here
You can see that he's not a total reprobate. He does have a conscience and
so he says, you know, maybe we shouldn't do this of
Actually murdering him. Maybe that's going too far
So, you know, hey, let's make some money too while we're at it so Judah is still super wicked
But he still has some level of a conscience and and you know
He feels a little bit of bad about it because what you'll notice is after this incident takes place in Genesis chapter 37
Look at chapter 38 verse 1 it says and it came to pass at that time
that Judah went down from his brethren and
Turned into a certain Adolah might whose name was Hira. I don't think it's a coincidence that this is the time
when a family that had been working together and
They're shepherding together and they're living together as a community
Why all of a sudden Judah leaves the family at this time? That's not a coincidence that at that time
He leaves why because now that they've committed this horrible act
Obviously, there's a lot of guilt there their conscience is bothering them and you know
They they all know that that they were guilty
They kind of know each other's guilt and they probably feel weird around each other
And so this ends up estranging Judah from the family
So Judah ends up actually leaving the family and just going off with the heathen
So he's gonna go hang around with a bunch of Canaanites and Adolah mites. He's he's leaving his family
he's leaving the people of God and
He goes to be with the worldly crowd. Why because he's in sin
He's guilty of a major sin. And so he feels bad about it
And so he wants to leave, you know, it'd be like if you committed some awful sin and then you just say why you know
I'm just gonna get out of church because I don't want to face anybody
And I'm just gonna kind of just go to the world because they'll accept me over there
No matter what I do over there because you can see that these people that he's hanging around with the Adolah mite and the Canaanite
You know, they're a little more loose with their morals over there then then with Jacob and them
So it says in verse number two and Judah saw their a daughter of a certain Canaanite
Whose name was Shewa and he took her and went in under her and she conceived and bare his son
And he called his name Ur. So he marries this
Canaanitish woman. He has a son called Ur verse 4
She conceived again and bare his son and she called his name Onan
She yet again conceived and bare his son and called his name Sheila and he was at Kizib when she bare him
So we see here that he's with these people for a long time, you know, he's gone to the heathen
He's there for many many years
Enough time to get married have three kids and so forth
Now the main point that I want to make in my sermon tonight is that when we do something wicked when we commit sin
We always end up facing a greater
Consequence than what we expected, you know sin takes you further than you wanted to go
It keeps you longer than you wanted to stay and it cost you more than you were willing to pay
And so a lot of times we could commit a sin and think it's not
That big of a deal or that or maybe that we got away with it or something like that
But you know God is going to punish the sins that we commit on this earth
the Bible said even if we're saved the Bible says whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and
scourgeth every son and we receive it and
the Bible says God is not mocked whatsoever a man showeth that shall he also reap and
so
We see here in Judah's life
That he faced serious consequences for the sin that he committed every step of the way now
Let's stop and think about what went into this sin that he committed
Why did he hate Joseph he hated Joseph because of the fact that dad loved Joseph more than him, right?
So he wants more love and affection from dad or whatever
He feels like Joseph's getting all the attention and whatever so he's bitter about that and envies that
You know Joseph has these dreams about leading the family and and Judah is thinking that you know
He'd rather lead the family or whatever
But stop and think about the result of Judah's sin does this get him more attention from dad
No, in fact, it completely estranges him from the family. Not only is he not leading the family
Not only is he not getting more attention from his dad. He's completely separated from his family now
He's completely estranged from them and goes off to live with the heathen
But not only that what sin did he commit by selling Joseph into slavery? He's basically
depriving Jacob of his favorite son
This is Jacob's favorite son Joseph and Judah has deprived him of that
Well now what's going to happen to to Judah as a punishment? What does the bible say?
It says in verse number seven and ur Judah's firstborn
Was wicked in the sight of the Lord and the Lord slew him
So now what happens to Judah he ends up losing his son
So he took away Jacob's son from him and now he's losing
Is it his favorite son? Well, I mean it's his firstborn son
He only has three sons. The firstborn son is killed now not only that but why was he killed?
His son was killed because he was wicked in the sight of the Lord. Well, look just having wicked children
is already
Not something that you want, you know, the bible says he who so beget it the fool has no joy
And so he already had to go through
The the pain or the nightmare
Of raising this wicked son of dealing with ur and raising him and then his son dies
So this is not a happy story about his son ur so think about how much time is going by
He said he's had enough time to have these three kids
Now they're growing up
Now one of them is old enough to get married
And to die
So, I mean who knows how long has gone by, you know, 20 years or something. I don't know could be less than that
But probably somewhere in that neighborhood
But you know long time is going by right
Whatever the time period maybe they're getting married as young teenagers or whatever. But the point is
that
ur
Is killed and that's no coincidence
That's a punishment from God because he deprived Jacob of his own son because look what happens next
Then Judah said unto Onan verse eight go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed under thy brother
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his
And it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground lest he should give seed
to his brother
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord wherefore he slew him also
So now out of three kids the first one dead
Wicked and then dead second one also wicked also dead
I mean, this is a this is not the kind of family that you want to have. Okay, and not only that
But if you think about why was Onan killed
Because of his resentment toward his brother
Onan resents ur and says well if I know this seed
Is going to be counted
For ur well, then i'm just going to go ahead and spill my seed on the ground rather than to give him a child
You know what that shows that Onan hated ur
So isn't it interesting that now Judah who hated his brother Joseph who mistreated his brother Joseph who deprived?
His father of his children and now what happened? He has children
He's deprived of his children and his children also hate each other
They hate each other to the point where Onan
You know commits this sin right here
Of refusing to raise up seed unto his brother a selfish act on his part and showing his disdain
for his brother
And so we can see that Judah is reaping everything that he sowed back in chapter 37
So it says in verse 11 then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law
Remain a widow at that father's house till she let my son be grown
For he said let's peradventure he die also as his brethren did and Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house
So i'm going to go ahead and summarize the next part for sake of time
But basically what happens is, you know, there's a third born son
And again, they're getting married young but the third born son is not quite old enough to get married yet
and so therefore
Uh Tamar is told hey, you know, you need to wait
Until he's old enough and then you're gonna marry the third son, you know, you've already been married to the first two
You know, we're gonna keep you around
We like you as a daughter-in-law, you know, so you're going to be married to the third son, but we gotta wait until he's grown
Okay, so she's hanging around. Well, what happens is
Sheila gets to the age where he's old enough to get married and she notices that
They're not getting married. Nothing's happening
So Tamar is kind of in limbo
And she's impatient about just being held in limbo because it's like, you know, what does she do?
She can't really marry someone else
But here she is and she's waiting and she feels like maybe Judah is not going to make good on his promise
To marry her to Sheila. So she's in limbo. She doesn't like it
So she does something super bizarre and horrific
Okay
And you know, sometimes you read the stuff in the bible and you're just like wow
This is some really gnarly stuff that we're reading in the bible like
What's going on with the bible? But you know, the bible is a reflection of the world that we actually live in
It always cracks me up when people say like oh man, you know, I don't believe the bible because you know, i've seen some things
You know when I was in the when I was in nam
I saw some stuff
And so, you know, I don't believe in god, right?
You know, that would actually make sense if the bible was all sweetness and light and unicorns and rainbows
Okay. Now there are some unicorns and rainbows in the bible
But the thing is, you know, if the bible was all sweetness and light and people said like oh man
The horrific things in this world. I can't believe the word of god, but hold on a second the word of god accurately reflects
the wickedness of the world that we live in
And if you wonder why these rough things are in the bible, it's because these kind of weird
Thick evil horrible violent perverted type things that you read in genesis. They're going on every day out there in this world my friend
Just because you don't always see it. Thank god
You don't always see it
But the bible says it's a shame even to speak of those things which are none of them in secret
And the dark places of the world are full of the habitations of cruelty
There is a lot of wickedness and let me tell you something. The truth is stranger than fiction
Okay, and so the bible is the truth
Don't be surprised if sometimes it gets a little stranger than fiction, but let me tell you something in this world
There are all kinds of hair-raising things going on every single day because of the wickedness of man, you know
We thank god live in the most prosperous peaceful country in the world pretty much where we live
In the nicest place of the world and we live on the west coast
So we live in like the nicest part of the nicest part of the world
You know pacific northwest california arizona
I mean, these are some beautiful areas and it's like, you know, we are are so blessed
There are so many countries around this world that you know trump would call a whatever hole
And and that are just some really rough places
Of this world am I right?
But even in america, there are all kinds of horrible sick violent things going on all the time because of the wickedness of man
And so don't get offended
When we read a bible story like this because you know, this bible story is in the word of god
God has given us this story. We need to hear it preached. We shouldn't skip this chapter and say it's too weird
It's too wild, you know, well guess what? It's it's in the word of god
And it's nothing weirder than what actually goes on in real life in this world
And by the way, sometimes the same people who are offended by bible stories like this will also go home and watch all kinds of
Sorted things on tv and movies and everything and then they're just like shocked when
We see a bible story that gets a little bit jerry springer over here. Okay
So basically, you know, this is what happens
And again, you know the bible's just recording the wickedness here
but tamar
decides
To dress up as if she were a prostitute and she veils her face
So that juda doesn't know that it's her
And she actually lies in wait for him puts herself on display
As though she were just a prostitute. Okay
And he comes along and he doesn't know
That this is his daughter-in-law. Okay
and so
He decides to hire her
And he falls for the trap
and by the way
For her to even have this idea. She must have known a little something about the character of juda in the first place
That he's going to go for this now juda's wife is dead
Okay, because not only did his first two sons die this happy family. His wife is now dead
So he goes down there
And he's with his buddy. He's with his worldly buddy that he's been hanging around with
And he sees tamar
He just thinks that she's a prostitute
He ends up hiring her but he doesn't have the money on him, you know because he's going to pay
one goat
All right, so that's the price one goat
I don't know what that is in today's money
But he basically
Says i'm going to send you a kid of the goats and she basically wants to hold on to his id
To make sure that he actually comes back and pays and that he doesn't just take off and not pay the bill
So, you know he ends up leaving her with his staff and his ring and he leaves her with these tokens
That are basically like his identity like what we would have as like a driver's license or a passport or something
He leaves her with tokens of his identity
And and in the process of taking advantage of her services he ends up impregnating tamar
Okay, so she's pregnant now
Well, she goes back to living in his household like nothing happened puts on her normal clothes nobody knows what happened
Judah just assumes that he went into this prostitute or whatever and then he sends his buddy with the goat
But they can't find her anywhere
And they ask around and they the people are like what you know, there was no harlot in this place
What are you talking about?
So then judah says hey, this is embarrassing to keep asking around about this, you know, like hey
I'm trying to pay this hooker, you know, you guys know so, you know, it's kind of embarrassing after a while
So he said, you know, we don't want to be ashamed
Lest we be ashamed. Let's just let her keep my id. Let's just go to the dmv and get a new one
Okay, let's just it's not a big deal
So he ends up, you know going back to his house life goes on
Okay, and then several months go by and all of a sudden
It becomes apparent that tamar is pregnant
Now here's the thing, you know tamar is supposed to be betrothed
Onto sheila remember she's kind of in limbo and wondering why it isn't happening
She got impatient
Well because she's betrothed unto sheila
And she's going out and basically getting pregnant from some other dude
This is basically
Adultery, you know in their sight it's like an adultery, you know, because it you know, for example later in the law of god if you
Uh, basically lie with the woman who's betrothed
It's it's you know, it's like an adultery in that sense because she's promised to somebody else or whatever. So basically
judah declares a punishment and says
You know, oh she's pregnant well
Burn her with fire
You know, she's gonna be put to death
for playing the whore
In my house and dishonoring us and and cheating on her future husband and doing this
But then of course then she pulls out and says, oh, okay. Well just so you know the guy who's the father
You know, it's the guy and and they did this on a tv show by the way. No, i'm just kidding
no, it wasn't a tv show but
You know, that was a big reveal the ratings went through the roof
Because she when she pulled out the signet ring and the staff and said well, this is the dude
That knocked me up and then and then when judah sees that
you know now he's
In a real weird position
And he says oh well, you know, she's more righteous than I am because you know, I didn't give her uh, I didn't give her she loves
As a husband, you know, it's like well, dude
You're in a real weird position because now these kids are going to grow up and like what do you tell them?
What do you tell the family? Like what do you talk?
You know, what do you say at thanksgiving when people come over and you know, it's like what's
It's horrible
Now stop and think about this for a minute, you know
The first thing I pointed out was the fact that when judah sold his brother into slavery. He got a big punishment
Because for that act of trafficking his brother down into egypt what happened to him?
His firstborn son is wicked dies second born son hates the firstborn son wicked dies wife
Dies, okay. I mean bad things are happening to this guy
It's coming back to get him
Big time but then not only that how about the sin of going to a prostitute?
Folks the bible teaches that we should not be whoremongers
And that we should not commit fornication. We should flee fornication
And fornication is a wicked sin in the sight of god
Old testament new testament is wicked
And so he commits the sin of fornication
And i'll bet he probably thought that it wasn't a big deal
But think about this
If you commit that sin of fornication
You could get some serious punishments from god, but stop and think about this for a minute
Let's say you were to go out and commit fornication
And you could think about all the bad things that could happen as a result, especially what he did going to this
worker
Right what he thought was a a prostitute, okay?
well
Think about this you could say, okay, you could get an std
Doing that and not just from a prostitute but even just from the the loose women of this world
You know, you could pick up
a disease
And you say man, that'd be horrible to pick up some
std
But not only that, you know
You could end up getting some girl pregnant out of wedlock and that could be a big disaster
and a shame
And a humiliation and then there's just the financial aspect of the child support or whatever that you're gonna have to deal with
All the drama all the problems that are associated with that
Or you could say, you know that if you committed that sin
People could find out about because we're talking about earthly punishments that could happen people could find out about it
And then you're exposed and you're humiliated and you're embarrassed because you know
Maybe he was okay with his buddy hira the idolamite knowing about it because that guy's kind of a probably a sleazy kind of guy
But he doesn't probably necessarily want the whole family to know about it and everything so you can think about all of the the pitfalls
of committing that fornication
You know of it could be a disease. It could be humiliation. It could be
Getting getting her pregnant just dealing with whatever
problems
You can think about all the scenarios, but you know what if you sat down and you hadn't read this story
And you sat down and thought of all the bad things that could happen all the horrible scenarios
Nothing is as bad as what actually happened
I mean think about like because you because think about it you might be thinking to yourself. Oh, you know what?
I let's say I go out and commit fornication. I mean, maybe maybe i'll get an scd, but I probably won't
Maybe i'll get caught but I probably won't you know, maybe i'll be well, you know
I'll go for it probably not going to be a big deal. I'll probably get away with it
But stop and think about this. Okay of all of the things that judah could have imagined as a person
imagined as a punishment
Never would he have thought you
Are going to be fathering children with your own daughter-in-law
It's just like
What
You know, this is sick. This is perverted. This is humiliates. Oh, and by the way, it's going to be written in the bible
People are going to be you're going to be roasted
You know
thousands of years from now
You know approximately four thousand years from now
You're going to be getting roasted in vancouver washington on a thursday night four thousand years from now
by the way
But I mean just stop and think about the enormity of this
This horrible
Incestuous union and the children is just like what in the world and you might not you you're like well, what's so weird about it?
I know things are getting really weird today
But this is weird
The the father and the son being with the same woman is horrific
The word of god paints it as horrific and weird and sick
and it is
and so
What we see here is judah
reaping
The worst that he could possibly get from this scenario and if you stop and think about it
It's sort of like when you go to court and and and you've been convicted of a crime and then there's a sentencing
And the judge has a certain leeway to give you maybe he could give you
Five years or he could give you eight years or he could give you 12 years or what?
You know, he might have a certain latitude where the law says here's a minimum sentence
Here's a maximum sentence, but you know what i'm seeing in the life of judah is i'm seeing him
It seems like he gets the maximum sentence for what he does
I mean what he did to joseph. He gets the worst possible punishment what he does with that prostitute
It's the worst possible punishment. Why i'll tell you why because he's growing up in a godly home
And when you grow up in a godly home unto whom much is given of him so much be required
And so you don't want to think to yourself young people like oh, you know
I could go out and commit fornication and I can do these things and you know, yeah pastor anderson
Is trying to scare me with all these things that could happen
Yeah, I could die in a in a car wreck or I could get a dui if I get drunk or yeah
I guess I could get an std. But what are the chances that i'm actually going to get an std?
Well, i'll tell you this if you're raised in a christian home
If you're under the sound of my voice right now hearing this bible preaching your chances just went through the roof
Of getting hit with the maximum punishment that god could send your way
If anybody's going to get the dui, it's going to be the christian young person who's who's out drinking
If anybody's going to get the std, it's going to be the christian young person who's out
Uh fornicating if anybody's going to be humiliated and exposed and have these things happen, you know
Judah is reaping what he showed and let me tell you something you don't get to pick
When and where and how the punishment for your crimes come?
You don't get to pick and you can't predict
I mean judah probably thought he got away with it. I mean he committed the crime
Think about how much time went by he goes down there and has three kids before anything bad happened. He's down there
He's married. He's three kids. That was before anything bad happened
But then what happens the punishment start coming it doesn't always happen right away
But this is a real poetic justice for him the type of things that are happening to him
And that's not even to mention
The stuff that he's going to deal with just going down to see joseph and joseph really messes with their minds
And kind of messes, you know, that was that was stressful
I mean, that's not the worst thing judo went through with his kids dying his wife dying, you know
Fathering these weird bastard children, you know and and all this stuff
but the thing is
You know, he also then had to deal with all the stress of of of you know being put in that really weird situation
With joseph down in egypt where he eventually finally just breaks down
And actually gets right. I think you know, what is this chapter about?
It's it's about judah kind of hitting rock bottom
I think in genesis 38 because it kind of interrupts the joseph story if you think about it because the joseph story is in
Chapter 37 and then we just have chapter 38 is just kind of this wild story
And then it's like boom. We're back to joseph in 39
But everything in the bible is that way for a reason
And I believe that this chapter is here to show us
judah hitting rock bottom
And just getting all these punishments because then later a few chapters chapter 43
We're going to see judah actually having something of a change of heart and he ends up actually
Getting right with god and he actually is willing to sacrifice himself for his brother
As opposed to wanting to do away with his brother. It's like a it's like a total 180 and he turns it around completely
But now stop and think about america, you know because we were talking about how
You know this story can kind of picture
The the wicked persecuting the just because joseph is a godly young man and these uh brethren are wicked including judah punishing him
But you don't think about america under whom much has been given of him shall much be required, you know
America has been given more spiritually than any nation on this earth
Not even israel
Could even hold a candle i'm talking about the ancient is the real israel not the anti-israel fake israel
Over there in the middle east i'm talking about the real israel back in in the old testament days
You know america
has received more
Because america has been given what the entire word of god on a silver platter
the bible in the english language
Right there case closed
But now with that, you know ancient israel they saw through a glass darkly. I mean we have the new testament
We've got an english bible
Perfectly accurate translation in our language the word of god king james bible in english
best translation in the history of mankind
perfect without error
We've got the word of god at our fingertips
I mean what a blessing but not only that
We've had more baptist churches
more
Evangelical preaching more door-to-door soul winning than any country in the history of mankind
It's not just us. It's not just the new ifb. I mean think about it before we were even born
You had the ifb churches knocking doors preaching the gospel using the roman's road winning people to christ
We've had more missionaries that we've sent out all over the world
I mean the united states has sent more missionaries all over the world than any other country
So we've had so much church so much religion
So much of the bible the bible is in every dollar tree and walmart and every corner drugstore
Churches everywhere the true gospel of jesus christ everywhere. I mean look I go out soul winning in phoenix arizona
Every single time I go soul winning for an hour. I run into at least one person who's already saved
I mean you run into people that are saved all the time
This country knows the gospel this country has heard the gospel now that this country's heard a lot of hard preaching
I mean, there's all kinds of hard preaching on youtube. I mean some of it's been removed, you know
I mean i'm a little bitter about that
But i'm saying like there's some there's some great preaching on youtube even to this day
In spite of all the censorship and everything. Hey, there is some great
Preaching that has thundered forth in the english language for hundreds of years now and even right now even today
Sunday morning sunday night midweek service the word of god is thundering forth in churches all over america
You got baptists everywhere. You got 50 million people in america
identifying as baptist
Out of 340 million people in america 50 million of them are identifying as baptist
I mean, you've got all the non-denom that are basically baptist
But the pastor wears skinny jeans and a and a graphic tee and they have a rock band
But they're pretty much baptist a lot of these non-denom churches. You've got baptist. You've got the king james version
You've got soul winning folks. We
Have received more
blessing from god
Spiritually and we've had all of this preaching and spiritual investment in this country
And what are we doing with it right now? We're flushing our country down the toilet right now
And committing all these sins and persecuting god's people
So let me ask you this
Do you think that the judge who's sitting up in heaven is going to give the minimum sentence to america?
Or you think he's going to give the maximum sentence to america. I mean stop and think about it
You know, why is judah reaping the whirlwind
Because he's jacob's son. That's why
Because he should have known better
Okay, he is a son of jacob. He is growing up worshipping the lord and knowing these things
Okay, and so today we in the united states
And
Are throwing away?
our spiritual heritage today
And then those of us that are actually trying to fight back and stem the tide and speak up and preach the word of god
Are persecuted and hated even by our fellow brothers in christ, you know, even by our own brothers christ
You say well, this is different because this is his own brother and persecuting him folks. Most of the persecution that we face today
Is at the hands of fake christians
Or even real christians who are just so backslidden and so watered down and so lame
And so worldly that they're so stupid that they don't even know whether they should stand with the man of god
They're a bunch of angry sodomites
You say yeah, but you know pastor shelley used a potty word the other day
Do you think I give a rip about that
I don't I I couldn't care less about that
Because you know what he's surrounded he's surrounded by freaks every single week
for years
The guy's going to church for years
surrounded by freaks
Okay, that are saying the most filthy
Vile things to him and his church members every week
They're just trying to go to church and they're surrounded by freaks and you know, the christians around him
Are all backing up the perverts
People that are literal satanists and perverts and then you have the christians around him
Backing up the weirdos giving them aid and comfort giving them water
You
Know and and and helping them
And and and saying that you know that they will support them and that pastor
Shelly is horrible and that he's the bad guy and that dylan is a bad guy and all these things, right?
I mean dylan's your guy. Am I right?
He's your boy
So
But you know
He's going through all this he's surrounded by all these weirdos surrounded by all these freaks saying all manner of vile horrific things
Doing all manner of vile and horrific things. I mean, it's it's the battle of our generation my friend
Okay, you've got the judges
You know, uh, just just totally unjust
totally wicked
You know, just just allowing his landlord to defraud him
And sitting there and supporting these freaks of nature. Okay?
And then
Everybody wants to basically just find a reason
To not support the man of god. You know what i'm gonna support the man of god
And I don't even care if he doesn't do everything just right
I don't even care
Because i'm just gonna i'm just to me. It's like you have to be a complete idiot
To side with those freaks out there for any reason against the man of god, even if the man of god
You know, let's say he preached a little too hard against the sodomites or something
Hey idiot side with the man of god and not these evil god hitting represent and i'm not saying he did because like I said
whatever pastor shelly said about homos and whatever pastor or whatever, uh, brother dylan aus said I
Agree with 100%
I don't think they went too far
With what they said about homos no way like i'm there i'm right there with you, buddy
But i'm saying even if they did
Even if they did how can you not be disgusted and horrified by the things that are going on in our nation?
I mean just even just driving just driving through oregon today. We saw so many weirdos in oregon. What is wrong with oregon?
You know, we just drove from ashland to portland and it was just like, you know
Don't look back kids you're gonna turn to a pillar of salt if you look back at that at that last town we just left
It's been bad
I'm like what in the world is going on?
But it's like oh but you know, he he did something really bad
I mean, I know that there's no verse in the entire bible that actually says what he did was a sin
But i've been all the new ifb guys just get defended
I mean, I know there's no verse in the entire bible that says that what he actually did was a sin
But you know, I mean, you know, come on
And you know what obviously I get it I understand that that you know
Things aren't always appropriate, you know, I mean look i'll put you this way, you know
I get it that there's a time and a place and and things can be appropriate or inappropriate
But you know, i'm not going to stand in judgment of him and I don't even care quit quit messaging me about it
You know
Stop forwarding that crap to me. Amen, you know, that's why I don't I don't care nuts to you
Like i'm supposed you know what they're doing they're straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel
Right, like we're all we're all supposed to freak out
We're all supposed to freak out
Because pastor shelly had a you know, a different judgment call than you or a slip or said something inappropriate or whatever
But it's like, you know, why don't you try walking a mile in his shoes?
You know and and why don't you you know next time you want to tell me?
You know the iniquity of one of my pastor friends make sure you have a bible verse ready that they actually violated. How about that?
Yeah
You know if you want to you know, if you want to come at me and talk smack about one of my pastor friends
How about actually having a bible verse that mentions what they did?
and not just some catch-all verse that just says like don't you know, it just says like do right or something and he
And he didn't do right
And this verse says that we should do right so that's the verse that he violated
I mean somebody somebody came at me and said well, what's this verse mean unclean lips? Hmm?
And i'm just thinking like are you are you do you really think that this verse is referring to an english
Vocabulary word it's it's it's like prophesying an english vocabulary word 2700 years in the future
Like that's just like like it was just like a mic drop it was just like unclean lips
Okay
What now
You know what you know what you want to know what unclean lips are the lips of every filthy faggot in this country
And every faggot loving preacher who's getting up and preaching that we need to love them and bring them into our church
And that we need to uh, love them if they're in our family and our aunts and uncles that are queers
We need to have them over for a barbecue. No. Hey, that's unclean lips my friend
And you know what I don't care
If people out there are gonna get mad at me for being a little too mean or mad at my friends
For being a little too harsh a little too. Hey you nothing that you say about these sodomites will ever offend me
Let me just say that right now you when you can never there's nothing
That anyone could say about these homos that would offend me. I'll just be like
I'm serious. Nothing you say will offend me
now I might say like well be careful saying that because you know, you might get arrested or something but like
But it won't offend me
There's no there's no vocab you could use about these sodomites that would ever offend me
There's nothing you could call them where i'd be like, whoa
That's too harsh
I'll just be like, okay
So
But you know what we live in a real strange time don't we
You know, we live in a time
where
evil
satanic
Filthy pervert predators are indoctrinating our children in schools
They're indoctrinating our children
In in through cartoons this new buzz lightyear cartoon that I see all these billboards for buzz lightyear
Oh, okay. You know, this is a nice thing for the kids
Right. I mean it's a it's a toy astronaut or whatever
Sounds great
Right except that it has a sodomite
Love thing in it. Who knows what i'm talking about
Well, the whole auditorium knows what i'm talking about
So this this is a buzz lightyear cartoon showing it to a kid showing kids and perverting their minds
Corrupting their minds. Let me just say right now
Anyone who wants to corrupt our children's minds with that evil smut is super evil
And ought to be destroyed by god and let me tell you something and let me tell you if that's half of america
Then so be it
I don't care. You say well, it's a billion people
Because you know what anybody who wants to indoctrinate my kids with that evil sick
Filth is wicked and should be destroyed and let me tell you something right now
Let me tell you something right now
I'm 40 years old. I'm a grown man. I'm sick of seeing this crap myself
I don't want to look at it either
You know, I want to go through life having a clean mind, too
I don't want to be exposed to this junk. I don't want to be exposed to this filth
They say well, why are you bringing it up?
Because i've been looking at it all stinking days just trying to drive through oregon just trying to stay with the high five
I barely even left by five and i'm seeing weird things
Let me tell you something my friend
You need to stop getting so offended and worried about a pastor who who who rips a little face
You know raises a little hell and you're worried about that
Folks let me tell you something
Baptist pastors who preach too hard are not ruining america. You remember that verse
Do you remember that verse in the bible where one of the prophets of god god had to take him aside and tell him?
He was preaching too hard
You remember that part i'm trying I can't remember what part that was
You remember the part where god told him? Whoa, don't use that word
You remember the part where he said whoa, buddy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you know, you need to be a little nicer to
Dagon and his crowd and you know, you're being a little rough on the sodomites. Did you really have to break down their houses asa?
You know josephat you think that you really had to do that
Can somebody show me that in the bible
Somebody show me in the bible where the prophets of god or anyone were ever told that they rebuked sin too hard
You know what so where is this coming from you know what I mean, but but we're just so brainwashed by our society
Into thinking that our pastor is supposed to be like the guy on little house on the prairie reverend alden on the tv show or whatever
And and you know, look I don't care
You know the men of god in the bible
They were some bad dudes. They preached hard. They ripped face. They raised hell and so, you know what?
You know like it or lump it
You know and there and if you don't like it, there's plenty of the other kind of church around
You know, i'm not going to change i'm not going to stop
I'm not worried about it and look again. I'm not saying that everything I do or say is always right
I'm, not saying that everything I say behind the pulpit is right
I'm sure I say things behind the pulpit that aren't right
I'm sure sometimes I get carried away and maybe say something that's that's that's uh over the top
I'm sure that some of my pastor friends say things that are that are out of bounds or overboard or inappropriate or offensive or whatever
But you know what i'm not going to worry about that
I'm, not worried about that because you know what god has chosen to use the foolishness of preaching
Whenever I feel, you know, sometimes I look at my own preaching. Sometimes I just think like man
You know my preaching isn't really what it should be
And i'm just thinking like man, I wish I could be a better preacher
I wish I preached a better sir. I wish my sermon was more polished, you know, or I wish that
I had done a better job, but you know, sometimes, you know, we as preachers sometimes we feel bad about
Sometimes the sermon that we preach because maybe it just wasn't really
It didn't come out the right way or wasn't really the quality that we wanted
You know, we work hard to prepare a sermon and then it just kind of it's a dud or whatever
You know, I mean we're human and we feel that way we sometimes feel that way
but you know whenever I feel that way whenever I preach and I feel like man that sermon was not a good sermon like
I it was just a dud
Yeah, I kind of just kind of get in the car and leave kind of fast because i'm kind of embarrassed about my sermon
You know, but you know the thing about that is that you know, what I think to myself is that you know
God has chosen the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe
And so i'm thinking to myself, you know what that god uses
Imperfect people he uses the foolishness of preaching now
Look, if one of my pastor friends is out getting drunk and fornicating and doing something that's actually mentioned in the bible
Then then yeah, you know, we're gonna have an issue
Yeah
Something that's actually a a big sin something that's actually mentioned in scripture once
Or twice, you know, but but but what i'm saying is, you know, we ought to
have patience with
pastors
That are
Doing the job that no one else will do
And you know, here's here's the funny thing. It's like oh, you know, you don't like, uh this pastor or that pastor
You don't like the new ifb
Here's the thing about that is that you know
There aren't really a lot of choices if you're actually looking for a pastor that's actually going to preach the whole bible
And if you actually want a pastor that's actually going to confront this issue, that's the big fight of our generation
With the sodomites, you know, it's not like you just have a ton of options
It's not like you're just like well, there's 15 churches in portland preached in leviticus 2013
Which one am I going to go to?
So, you know don't you can't just sit there and pick apart
The guys that are actually doing something for god because you know what? Hey
You know, they're doing something big for god
And they're they're going through a lot. They're being persecuted have some grace
when they make a mistake
Or even or even just they do something you don't agree with or that you don't like or that you feel is inappropriate
You know, there are a lot of things that the that the preachers did in the bible
that were
Inappropriate if you think about it, I mean didn't isaiah preach naked. It's I mean, you know
I mean, there's some there's some there's some pretty wild stuff
That these guys did
In the bible, you know, and i'm not i'm not saying
That basically anything goes behind the pulpit, but you know, it's like oh the sacred desk and you know, how dare you desecrate?
The sacred desk and everything, you know
but but here's the thing about that is that
You know
I think god's a lot more pleased
When his words thundering forth with power and uncensored and unfiltered and boldly the king james bible's being preached hard from behind his sacred desk
Even if a few eggs get cracked in the making of the omelet
Rather than the guy who's just oh the sacred desk, but he never preaches anything worth listening to
Across his sacred desk now. He never said anything. He never said anything bad or whatever, but he didn't say anything
It's easy not to get it's easy not to get a little too worked up and say something a little crazy
When you're just never worked up
Because you're just not even preaching hard
Because you're just not even preaching from the heart because you're so scripted, you know
You got your you got your script out there and you know
You're preaching your eloquent perfect little sermon that you downloaded from paul chapel's website or whatever
You know, i'd rather listen to somebody that actually has somebody something to say rip some face, you know
That's how that's how I feel about it personally, you know
I don't know about you, but you know, that's how I feel, you know
And you know, look I get it that certain things aren't aren't appropriate, you know
In certain situations and you say well, are you condoning what he did? I'm not condoning what he did, but i'm not condemning it either
I'm, just minding my own business
Because I don't care because it's not it's not my it's not my choice. It's not my job to judge another man's servant
I'm not going to sit there
And i'm not going to sit there and and and decide
Whether what he did is okay or not because that's not my place
You know, whatever he does and says is his business and he answers to god and frankly
I think that's going to be a great day for him when he answers to god because I think he's doing a great job
So whether you know the the issue of whether it's appropriate or not, you know
You're rearranging deck chairs on the titanic as far as i'm concerned. It's such a nothing. It's such a nothing burger
You know, the whole ship is sinking
And you want to rearrange the chairs on the titanic? That's how I feel about it
You know
That's where i'm at my friend. I'm just just telling you
And so i'm not i'm not worried about it. I'm not judging him
Uh for or against I will say this it's as far as i'm concerned
It's for sure not a sin because the sin's the transgression of the law and there's no law like that in the bible. So
Amen
All right, I don't know how we got off on that but judah
But you know as nor, you know, you say that was a pretty gnarly rabbit trail. Yeah, but it's it was like
Mellower than the story we're reading because I mean the story
Judas is 38 is wilder than anything. I just said
In the last 15 minutes, okay
Can we all agree on that?
And so my friend let me tell you something
sin
That is major sin that is an abomination in the sight of god things like
You know murder human trafficking
Uh, you know, uh whore mongers and and whores and the these terrible things these big things. Let me tell you something
They bring serious consequences
And there are going to be some serious consequences
That come upon our nation
There are going to be some serious things that will come into your life
And I don't know about you, but I don't want to live judah's life at all
I don't want to have a family like judah had
I don't want to have the kind of fate that judah had where everything I do is going wrong and everything's falling apart. I mean
We need to take this as a warning as a nation and personally
And say you know what we need to be
We need to be careful
That we don't go into sin and in our generation that's become so wicked it could be easy to start justifying sin
And saying well, look how these horrific sodomites at least i'm straight, you know as you commit fornication
Or well, at least i'm not you know, like these weirdo transvestites were but let me tell you something fornication is wicked
Drunkenness is wicked. Hey, I don't care how many billboards I saw today smoking pot is wicked
I saw
703
Pot billboards on the way up here
Okay, and it's wicked. I don't care if it's legal. I don't care if everybody's doing it
drunkenness
drugs
fornication
stealing murder
Hey, we as god's people we need to be holy. We need to follow the word of god the laws
That were given us in the word of god for our benefit for our protection
Quit listening to these weirdo freaks out there
Quit letting these people brainwash you even with their cartoons
And teach you that this stuff is okay and gets you all mad at the preachers of god's word
Instead of getting mad at the people you ought to be mad at people are actually ruining america
We need to make sure that we don't as christians squander our heritage like juda
Squandered the good teaching that he's getting and the good christian home and go out and waste a few decades
In the world
and
Ruin his family and his life and everything now eventually it gets right with god and things go well for him
You know, you can always come back as a christian and and and fix things but you know, I don't know about you
I don't want to be gone for 15 years messing up my life
You know, I want to stay with the lord. I want to stay in church
I want to stay doing what's right and i'm not going to let them out there
Tell me what's right and wrong and tell me what to believe
And tell me who I should be for and who I should be against i'm going to let the bible tell me that
It's fine and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word lord
And we thank you for these stories. Some of these stories are a little rough to read lord, but
I just pray that every single person here would realize that
We're living in a in a in a crooked generation
There are a lot of horrible things going on out there in this world lord
Help us to be sober and to be vigilant and help us to keep ourselves pure
Help us to keep our loved ones pure help us to keep the church a place where it's a culture that's against fornication
And against drunkenness and against idolatry and everything else lord help us to stand as lights in the world and lord
Just please just bless the soul winning on saturday and sunday and spokane and everywhere else lord
Help us to win many more people to christ and get them get them saved from hell before it's eternally too late
And in jesus name we pray. Amen
All right our last one is 368 in your blue hymn books blessed assurance
Song number 368 in your blue hymn books blessed assurance
Let's sing it out on the first blessed assurance
Jesus is mine
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation
Purchase of god
Born of his spirit washed in his blood
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
Perfect submission
Perfect
Visions of rapture now burst on my side
Angels descending
Bring from above
Echoes of mercy whispers of love
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
Perfect submission
All is at rest
I in my savior
Am happy and blessed
Watching and waiting
Looking above
Filled with his goodness
Lost in his love
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
This is my story
This is my song
Praising my savior
All the day long
Amen, good scene brother alex coach you and us a word of prayer
You