Welcome to Faith Award Baptist Church.
It's such a pleasure to have you all here back
for our Sunday Night Service.
Find your seats, please, and take a song book.
Go to hymn 49, hymn number 49.
Meet me there, hymn number 49.
Once you find your place together, we'll start.
Singing on that first now number 49 on the happy golden shore where the faithful part no more him number 49
Lift it up on that first now
On the happy golden shore where the faithful part no more where the storms of life are all meet me there
Where the night dissolves away into pure and perfect day
I am going home to stay meet me there
Go far no more, meet me there
In our fondest hopes are made
Dearest links are ripped in twain
But in them no drama, meet me there
By the rivers sparkling bright
In the city of the light
Where our faith is lost inside, meet me there
the shore where the faithful part no more need be left where the harps of angels sing and the
blessed forever sing in the valleys of the game need be left where the sweet communion plant
to our sink tonight. We're going to go before the Lord and ask his blessing on the service
so I've asked for the Jason, Magistio, if you would please. Dear Father, Lord, thank you
for allowing us to be in church tonight. Please bless the music as we sing praises
unto you and please fill Pastor Anderson with the Holy Spirit as can Jesus' precious name, Amen.
Amen. Up to him, number 63, hymn 63. What a day that will be. Hymn number 63.
63, there is coming a day when no heartache shall come.
Him number 63, lift it up.
On that first verse altogether now.
Him number 63, there is coming a day.
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announcements together. If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high.
On the inside we have our service time Sunday mornings at 10.30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6. Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study. This week we'll be in
Second Chronicles 34, just a few more chapters to go in a Second Chronicles, big book that
we've been working through. But Second Chronicles 34 this week, soul winning times listed there
below as well as Salvation and Baptisms. Across the page are the birthdays and anniversaries.
On the back, keep praying for the expectant ladies
in our church that they'll have a good pregnancy
and delivery.
Thank you to everyone who participated
with the baby shower this afternoon.
Other upcoming events we've got,
Pastor Shelley preaching at Faithful Word
on February 19th.
We've got Pastor Corbin Russell preaching
on March the 12th.
We've got the Bahamas cruise mission strip on March 23rd,
but also
there is another cruise mission strip happening in February
because maybe you're just like,
man, I don't want to wait that long, let's go.
Well, in February,
Steadfast Baptist Church is going to be doing one.
And I was talking to a bunch of people
when I was out in Oklahoma that are going on that trip
and that are excited about it.
And so I don't remember the exact dates
or the vessel involved,
but it's on their website.
If you go to the Steadfast Baptist Church website,
Dallas, Fort Worth area, Cedar Hill, Texas is called.
They'll have the dates and the info on that.
You can reach out to them, but they have a big crew going.
I'm excited about that,
because I'm sure they're gonna get a ton of people saved
and do something great for God on that trip.
And so that is it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and tally up the soul winning
from the past few days.
So going back to Thursday, anything from Thursday?
Okay.
Was that it? Okay, gotcha.
All right, got it.
Anything else from Thursday?
How about Friday?
Anything from Friday?
Okay, got it, got it.
Okay.
All right, and then Saturday.
Got it.
Okay.
Anybody else?
Five for the main group with brother Scott got it any okay got it
All right, and then another thing speaking of soul winning brother Steve Tilson is going to be doing a soul winning event
It's at a thing called First Friday
in the downtown Phoenix area.
And if you need any details,
go ahead and stand up if you would real quick,
Brother Steve, just so that we can know
who we're talking about.
So this is who you talk to if you're interested.
And it's gonna be meeting at Taco Boys at 6 p.m.
He's got these little cards
that have all the details and everything,
but they're gonna be going out and doing soul winning
at the First Friday Art District Festival deal.
And so if you're free this Friday night,
want to do that style of soul winning,
Brother Steve Tilson would love to have you
work with him on that.
I posted something on the Facebook page today.
Okay, so the church members Facebook group
on Facebook as well is a good place to get details
or you can talk to him, he can give you
the details on that.
All right, very good.
I think that that's about it for announcements.
So let's go ahead and sing our next song, come lead us.
All right, should find the answer.
God your hymnal with Psalm 126 if you don't have an answer you can raise your hand
and we'll sing it together on that first when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion
when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream
Then was our mouth filled with laughter
And the song was singing
Then said they among the haven
The Lord had done great things for them
The Lord had done great things for us
Whereof we are glad
Turn again our captivity
O Lord, as the streams in the south,
Day that so in tears shall reap in joy,
Them said they among the heathen,
The Lord hath done great things for them,
The Lord hath done great things for us,
Whereup we are glad.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed.
Sheldal is come again.
Sheldal is come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
It's a day of heartache and the Lord at the great things for them.
The Lord at the great things for us, whereof we are.
Matt, good singing, everybody.
Let's go to hymn number 193 in your Psalm books, hymn number 193.
You may have the joy bells.
Hymn number 193, 193.
You may have the joy bells ringing in your heart.
Let's sing it out together on that first now, hymn number 193.
You may have the joy bells ringing in your heart
And the peace that from you never will depart
Walk the straight and narrow way, live for Jesus every day
He will keep the joy bells ringing in your heart
Joy bells ringing in your heart
Make the Savior hear below, with you everywhere you go.
The joy bells ringing in your heart.
See, so those are having a little trouble
remembering this song.
So let's go back and sing that first verse, all right?
So on that first together now.
You may have the joy bells ringing in your heart.
And the peace that from you never will depart
Walk the straight and narrow way
Live for Jesus every day
He will keep the joy bells ringing in your heart
Joy bells ringing in your heart
the Savior here below with you everywhere you go. He will keep the joy bells ringing in your heart.
Love of Jesus in its fullness you may know. And this love to those around you sweetly show.
Words of kindness always say, deeds of mercy do each name. Then He'll keep the joy bells ringing in your heart.
Joy Bells!
bringing in your heart. Joy vows, bringing in your heart. Take the Savior here below, with you everywhere you go. We will keep the joy vows, bringing in your heart. You will meet with trials as you journey home. Praise the fish and he will give to overcome. Though unseen by mortal eye, he is with you every night.
And you'll keep the joy vows ringing in your heart, joy vows ringing in your heart, joy vows ringing in your heart.
Take the sin you're here below with you everywhere you go, and you'll keep the joy vows ringing in your heart.
Let your life speak well of Jesus every day.
On His right to every service you can pay
Sinners you can help to win if your life is pure and clean
And you keep the joy bells ringing in your heart
Joy bells ringing in your heart
Take the Savior dear below
With you everywhere you go
Meg, good seeing you tonight.
In Hebrews 13 the Bible reads,
Let brotherly love continue.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,
for thereby some of entertain angels unawares.
Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them,
and them which suffer adversity
as being yourselves also in the body.
Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled,
but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have,
for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, so that we may boldly say,
the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God,
whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines, for it is a good thing that the
heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited them that have
been occupied therein.
We have an altar, where if they have no right to eat, which serve the tabernacle.
For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin are burned without the camp, wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach, for here have
we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the
fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
But to do good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your
that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you.
Pray for us, for we trust we have a good conscience, and all things willing to live honestly.
But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Now, the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd
of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work
to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory for ever and ever, amen.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation, for I have written a letter
unto you in few words.
Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom if he comes shortly I will
Salute all them that have the rule over you and all the saints they of Italy salute you grace be with you all Amen
We're Baptist Church.
I think if you had the opportunity to hear your holy
and your sacred word, I ask you,
fill Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit,
open our hearts and our ears to receive your word.
I pray this in Jesus' holy name, amen.
Amen.
Tonight we're continuing with the Revelation 21.8 series.
We've talked about the fearful, the unbelieving,
the abominable, murderers.
And tonight we are on
Hormongers, right?
And the Bible says that Hormongers and sorcerers
and idolaters and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death.
And of course, we're thankful that Christ came
to this world to save sinners
and that by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ,
we are saved, we are redeemed, we're forgiven.
We've been sealed by the Holy Ghost
under the day of redemption.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,
and so we have been forgiven of all of our sins.
But at the same time, as we read a verse about God's wrath being upon these particular sinners,
even though we are saved and forgiven children of God,
we do not want to displease God by engaging in the same types of sins
that would incur the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
And so we wanna make sure that we are not fearful
or unbelieving or abominable or murderers
or as we're gonna see tonight, hormongers.
Now, what is a hormonger?
Well, this is probably not a term
that people use very much in 2025
unless they are a Christian, unless they go to church.
It's not something that is really
in the popular imagination.
Kids probably aren't hearing it on TV
or in school or anything like that.
but a whoremonger is a word that's used interchangeably in the New Testament with a fornicator,
and it's really just talking about a man who is engaging in, you know, that kind of activity
outside of marriage, right? He's sleeping with women outside of marriage. It is the male counterpart
of a whore, right? You have the whore and the whoremonger. And here's what can sometimes confuse
Harlett and whore, of course, we're talking about that in its literal sense,
which is talking about a woman who is actually selling her body.
for those services. Okay, and that's what the literal definition of a whore or a harlot is a prostitute, right?
But what you have to understand is that in the Bible
women will often be labeled as a whore or a harlot or that they're playing the whore or
playing the harlot. They're being like a whore or being like a harlot.
even if they're not actually selling their bodies,
but just if they are just loose,
if they're just easy, if they're just promiscuous,
then they get labeled as a whore.
And in the same way, the Hormunger is not only talking about men who are actually paying for fornication,
but rather this is just talking about dudes who are engaging in fornication in general.
You see, our society has this really big stigma on prostitution as being really immoral,
but then they turn around and then they're fine with fornication.
And this is not the way that God looks at things in the Bible.
God is very upset about fornication in and of itself.
It's not the selling aspect that bothers God.
It's the fact that people are sleeping together outside of marriage
that is the problem, not the fact that money is being exchanged.
Okay. And in fact, God even rebukes women
in the Bible for sleeping around saying,
you know, you're just like a whore except you're not even making money.
And he even insults them in that way and says,
the difference between you and a prostitute is that at least a prostitute's getting paid.
And he roasts them in that way in Ezekiel chapter 16, for example.
And so, you know, obviously the world has their standard of what right and wrong is,
but the Bible has a superior standard.
And the Bible is not just condemning women for selling their bodies.
He's also condemning them for hopping in the sack with the guy that they're not married with to in general.
But sometimes there could be a double standard where Christians, churches, or even society
could be negative toward loose women, promiscuous women, easy women, women who have sex outside
of marriage, and then it can turn around and kind of give a pass to guys who do the same
thing.
Or to somehow act like a girl who does that is sleazy,
but a guy who does that is somehow macho,
or he's a Casanova,
or he's a pimp daddy, mac daddy, whatever.
And they basically would almost glorify this in men.
And just as they would shame women for engaging in this activity,
they would then turn around and glorify men, like,
eh, that a boy or something, you know?
And let me tell you something.
In God's economy, it is equally sinful.
It is equally shameful on both sides.
It also is something that you should be ashamed of
and something that you should not be doing as a young man
and don't think somehow well because I'm a young man it's not a big deal you know
the girls should stay pure
but I'm a young man it's normal for me to go out and sew my wild oats or whatever
know my friend God demands purity
from not just the girls but also from the boys as well
And I think one thing that kind of evidences
this double standard that sometimes takes place
is that I was thinking about the German language.
Where are my Germans tonight?
There we go.
You're gonna have to do tonight, you know?
You're gonna have to be my German, you know?
So, you know, it's like in German,
the word for a virgin is a word that really sounds like
it could only be applied to a girl
Which literally means like, you know, kind of young lady, but when you put it together, when you put the yung, yung, frow, lady,
if you put it together, yung frau, it's a word that means virgin.
But how do you think you feel as a dude saying like, I'm a yung frau?
It doesn't really sound that great, but that is the word.
It's super weird, but it just shows...
that German is a stupid language in that area, okay?
I'm sorry, but it just is.
I like German, I speak German every day,
and you know, but that's just dumb.
German is actually lacking in some other areas
morally as well.
It's funny how you can look at the language
and see some problems with the morality of Germany
just from the language.
But I think that that Jungfrau being virgin
and that that being the word for it
kind of shows that it's like,
oh, we expect that from the girls.
Well, we need to expect it from the man as well, okay?
And let me prove that to you.
Look, you're already in Revelation 21, maybe,
or actually you're not, but let's pretend that you were.
And let's go to Revelation 14, Revelation chapter 14,
and we're gonna see that God wants the man
to be virgins as well, okay?
When they get married, they should be a virgin as well.
Look what the Bible says in Revelation chapter 14, verse four.
It says, these are they which were not defiled with women
for they are virgins, and we're talking about men,
and the Bible is using the word virgins about men,
and what's the opposite of being a virgin as a man?
Being defiled with women.
Right? So it's not just women that are being defiled by committing fornication.
It's not just them that are losing value or that are
cheapening their bodies or cheapening themselves or selling themselves short.
No, the young men are also cheapening themselves.
They're also selling themselves short.
They are also defiling themselves by committing fornication.
And that's why in order to not be defiled, they need to be virgins, right?
Now obviously, if you would flip over to Hebrews chapter 13,
obviously within marriage, this is a godly act.
This is a clean, righteous act.
It's not a defiling act unless you're some weird Catholic
with a bunch of weird hang-ups
and you're probably whipping yourself
and getting in a little box and telling a priest
all your dirty secrets and whatever
in that pagan idolatrous cult that is Roman Catholicism
and they have all these weird doctrines
that like even within marriage
it's kind of sort of sinful or something.
They're just a bunch of weird, so-called celibate pervert.
queer faggots, other than that they're wonderful people, but the point is that that religion
has a weird view on this subject. And in some ways, their weird view on this subject has
sort of permeated society and culture sometimes, but we need to get a biblical view on this subject
which is found in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4. Marriage is honorable in all. You see that?
Right and what did it say about the virgins? They've not defiled themselves with women
But that's talking about doing it outside of marriage because within marriage it's the opposite
It's not defiled right the bed the marriage bed is not defiled, but
Hormungers and adulterers God will judge, right?
So the Bible is saying that for a man to engage in this activity within marriage with his wife is wholesome,
it is undefiled, and it is honorable.
It is an honorable activity.
However, Hormungers and adulterers God will judge.
Now, we're talking about men here.
because whoremonger, like I said, is a male term.
The female term would be whore, the male term would be whoremonger.
And so what the Bible is saying here is that whoremongers, which would be dudes that are
having sex outside of marriage with single women,
and adulterers, dudes that are having sex outside of marriage with married women,
God will judge. Okay, so these are both
Directed at a man who would commit this sin so God's not just gonna judge the women
He's gonna judge the man as well. He expects purity on both sides
In fact, in that list, fearful, unbelieving, abominable murderers, and hormongers, specifically,
that is a male term.
Now, of course, we know that male terms in the Bible typically can be used to refer
to both genders because of the fact that God isn't just going to spell out every single
time, you know, son or daughter.
You know and just always fall all over himself to say that obviously if the Bible says that if you believe in Jesus
You'll be a son of God
You should be smart enough to know that if you're a woman you're actually gonna be a daughter of God
Right, and he doesn't have to sit there every single time and say you know
He she or it or whatever every single time
Or no, there is no more it because now there's only two genders again.
I remember that it's been declared by executive order that there are only two genders and
two pronouns now.
So I heard a rumor, you know, I'm hearing all these things.
I don't follow the news or politics because I figure if something's really important,
somebody will tell me about it, you know, or I'll see the memes about it.
If there's no meming, did it even happen?
Is it even important?
And so I heard somebody said that all the passport applications,
because we just renewed some passports for our kids recently,
and we were kind of just scoffing at how it said, like,
you know, male, female, unspecified, you know, whatever.
It gave, like, four options for the gender.
I heard a rumor that all the passport applications
where they checked one of those weird boxes are all, like, on hold,
and they're all, like, getting sent back,
because now the federal government is not recognizing that anymore.
Thank God.
Praise God.
Hopefully that they keep on changing things like that.
And we could kind of, you know,
get back at least halfway to normal in our society.
And so the Bible says here in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4,
marriage is honorable in all, right?
So activities that men and women do with each other
when they're intimate with one another,
you know, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
There's nothing sinful or unclean or defiling about it
or like, oh man, you know, it's a little naughty
or whatever, no, not really because you're married.
And so it's actually a wholesome, godly,
righteous activity. In fact, it would be sinful and wrong for you to not engage in that activity
in the sense that you'd be depriving your spouse of something that they want to do and then you're
not doing it. Well, that it's kind of like, you know, you're actually sinning by not engaging in
a physical relationship with your spouse. We're supposed to have that relationship.
But hormongers and adulterers, God will judge. So this is a stern warning. There are lots of sins
But one of the ones that is really rebuked hard in the New Testament is fornication.
You know, this is not something that is taken lightly.
It's saying, no, I'm going to judge you for this. You're not going to get away with this.
And there's a lot of scripture about fornication in the New Testament.
You know, if you had to ask the question, which sins are called out the most in the New Testament?
Fornication is going to be on that list every single time.
of just sheer frequency for being brought up
as something that we as Christians should not engage in.
Now, if you would go to 1 Corinthians 5,
and I remember when I was a teenager back in the late 90s
and there were Christians in liberal churches
that I went to and even, you know,
people that were on staff and everything
that would sometimes argue the possibility
that, hey, maybe sex outside of marriage is okay.
and people would try to act like maybe this isn't the sin,
maybe it's fine.
And part of the reason why is because they have these new Bible versions
and the new Bible versions change all these references
and they don't use words like fornication or whoremonger.
They get rid of those terms
and a lot of times they'll just use this blanket term sexual immorality.
And the problem with that is that if you study the word immorality or moral, okay,
it really just has to do with what is considered right and wrong by society, you know.
And in fact, there's another similar word, ethics, you know.
And if you think about the word ethical or ethics,
if you look at the root of that word, and I'm kind of a language geek,
so I'm always thinking about the etymology of words,
And I understand that, you know,
words don't always mean what their root is,
but if you think about ethics,
it comes from the same root as like the word ethnic.
And it really has to do with like what's considered right and wrong by society.
And you might live in a different ethnos and have a different ethos, you know what I mean?
And so you can see how these words are kind of connected, ethics.
Then if you think about the word moral and you could think about the Spanish word,
for example, those of you who speak Spanish, morar, which has to do with where you live
and you think about social mores and so forth.
These are habits and customs of a certain group of people or a certain geography.
Here's a problem I have with that is that if you have a Bible that just condemns
sexual immorality, well, who decides what that even is?
Who decides what's that even mean?
Because you could just say, oh, that just means you're paying for it.
Or, oh, that just means you don't really love each other.
Oh, that just means that you're not committed or something.
No, my friend, the Bible's clear.
It's got to be within marriage.
And let the Bible define itself.
Marriage is honorable and all,
but here's the other two ways that you could satisfy that.
You can either satisfy that craving within marriage,
or it's being a hormone or an adulterer.
There is no third choice of having some kind of a moral, respectful, consensual thing outside of marriage.
The Bible does not leave room for that.
And when the Bible uses the word fornicator or fornication, it is talking about any and
all sex outside of marriage.
It's not like, well, you know, it's not really a sin as long, no, my friend, and these modern
Bibles are confusing people.
And when I was in these churches in the late 90s, they all had an NIV in their hand and
they were having trouble like actually figuring out whether sex outside of marriage was a
in what it says, where the King James is clear on this.
And so we need to, and also let me just say this,
these kind of false doctrines, they're just dumb.
Think about how dumb it is to think that God's okay
with you having sex outside of marriage
because then you just have a world full of bastards.
Because if you have all these people sleeping around
outside of marriage, where do you gonna have
a bunch of kids out of wedlock?
That's not God's will.
So, how does that even work?
Oh, well, you know, birth control, whatever.
Where does the Bible teach that?
Where does the Bible teach you, hey, you know,
go out and just use birth control?
No, my friend, the Bible is telling you
to abstain outside of marriage.
and people will lie and twist scripture
to try to fit their doctrine of convenience,
but at the end of the day, common sense will tell you,
this is stupid and it isn't going to work.
And we have a bunch of idiots today
that will try these weird alternative lifestyles,
like having an open marriage and all this stuff,
and it just ends up...
torturing everyone involved, everybody's miserable,
it spreads a bunch of disease around, it creates a bunch of bastard children who
don't know who their parents are or they're living with all these
weird creepy step-parents and all these weird situations and bad situations.
Hey, we need to do things God's way and if you get sucked into one of these weird
teachings, Hormungers and Adulters, God will judge and that's you!
If you think, oh, well, I think it's OK.
And then you have these people saying, oh, you know,
polygamy is OK.
It's OK to have two wives or three wives.
Think about how stupid that is when 50% of the people
on the planet are male and 50% are female.
How's that going to work?
Tell me, how is polygamy going to work when the world is
literally split right down the middle, 50-50?
So how is a dude going to have four wives?
Then there's not going to be enough wives to go around.
And that's why, if you look at it, every single society that embraces polygamy ends up with a bunch of teenage brides and child brides because they just don't have enough women to go around to satisfy the greedy dudes who are not satisfied with one wife like God prescribed.
And so if you look at the fundamental Latter-day Saints up in Northern Arizona that are practicing polygamy,
and of course the brides just keep getting younger and younger,
because it doesn't work, it doesn't even make common sense.
What makes common sense is a man and a woman getting married for life till death do us part,
and then the product of that relationship is children,
and then those children are growing up in a nuclear family with a mom and a dad.
and its foolishness to try to justify your sin
and say, well, you know, I'm in a committed relationship.
Hey, it better be called marriage.
It better be legal.
You better have a marriage certificate.
You better have it sanctified in the eyes of God
and in the eyes of man and not just be out there
being a whoremonger, being an adulterer.
You'd better do it legally and do it right
and do it in a godly way.
And marriage is the option here.
You're either doing it in marriage, or you're a hormonger and adulterer.
That's what the Bible is saying.
And so if you would flip over to 1 Corinthians 5,
we don't even have time to look at all the Scripture on fornication tonight,
but that's what a hormonger is. Hormonger is talking about a fornicator.
You know, whether he's paying for it or not isn't the issue.
The Bible doesn't emphasize that distinction.
Again, the Bible just brings out the fact that, hey, you know, whether you're paying
for it or not, it's wicked, it's sinful, it's dirty, it's filthy, it's wrong.
That's what the Bible emphasizes.
Now the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 9, and really we're going to look at chapter
5, chapter 6, and chapter 7.
All three chapters deal with this subject.
And we could spend time looking at all the passages in the New Testament.
First Corinthians chapter 5 says in verse 9,
I wrote unto you in an epistle,
not to company with fornicators, right?
Do not hang around with fornicators.
Now, if this were just a minor sin,
if it weren't a big deal,
God wouldn't be telling you,
do not hang around these people.
because everybody's a sinner, nobody's perfect,
but there are certain sins that he singles out and says,
do not company with fornicators.
But then he says, I wrote that to you.
But he has to clarify what he meant he says yet not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or
Extortioners or with idolaters for then must he needs go out of the world. He's saying, you know when I wrote to you
Not to company with fornicators and these other type of really sinful people. He's saying, you know, I didn't mean
The fornicators of this world because then you'd have to go out of the world because obviously we're living in the world
People are unsaved people that are sinful
They're going to be either a fornicator, covetous, idolater,
railer, drunkard in many cases
And he's saying you'd have to go out of the world.
He's not saying you'd have to get on a spaceship,
you know, and go to the moon or go to Mars.
That's not what he's thinking about
because obviously that wasn't possible back then
is not even quite possible yet now,
but you know, maybe it will be possible soon.
I guess we'll find out.
But, you know, they're obviously talking
about colonizing the moon, colonizing Mars, whatever.
But it hasn't happened so far
and it certainly wasn't on Paul's radar at that time, was it?
So, what does he mean when he says you'd need to go out of the world?
When he talks about withdrawing from the world,
he's talking about withdrawing from the inhabited world.
What he's talking about is withdrawing from society.
He's saying you'd have to go out of the world,
meaning you'd have to go live in some cult compound somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
You'd have to be a hermit or living in a monastery.
You'd have to isolate yourself from...
the world as in the people in the world is what he means by that right because often when the Bible says world
It's not talking about the planet. It's talking about the people like when it says God so loved the world
And so he says look you'd have to leave the world
And he said that that's not what he wants to do.
And in fact, when Jesus is praying in John 17, he says to the Father,
you know, I don't want you to take them out of the world,
but I want you to keep them from the evil.
And so we are to be in the world, but not of the world.
And so God does not want us to withdraw from society.
And I'm not even interested in, you know, strategically relocating
to some place out in the middle, nowhere or something.
You know, I want to live
in this great big city of Phoenix, Arizona,
with five million people,
because I'm here to reach people.
I'm here to preach to people.
I'm here to win the souls of people,
not to go withdraw myself,
and then maybe I can get to heaven,
get an award for being the most super holy person ever.
That's not what God wants us to do with our lives.
He wants us to reach people with the gospel.
And in order to do that,
sometimes you gotta get among the people of this world,
of course, in order to do that.
So God's not trying to remove us from the world.
So he's saying, look, you're going to be around fornicators,
covetous people, extortioners, idolaters.
You're going to interact with those people.
It's okay to interact with those people.
It's okay to have a meal with them.
It's okay to go to their house.
It's okay to have them at your house.
It's okay to interact with them.
But here's the clarification, verse number 11,
but now I've written under you not to keep company
and here's the difference.
If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator.
So what the Bible is saying is here is that the people that we really need to stay away from is not just
sinful people who are engaged in these big sins like fornication,
railing, extortion, covetousness. He says, no, no, no, then you'd have to leave society.
But he's saying, no, what I'm writing to you is not to keep company with someone who's called a
brother who's doing those things, right? So what's worse is getting around Christians who are living
in fornication, Christians who are idolaters, and so those are the things. People that are a saved
Christian, or at least people believe that they're a saved Christian, they're claiming to be a saved
evangelical Christian, and then they're doing these things, those people should be ostracized,
It says if any man that's called a brother, be a fornicator, etc.,
with such a one, know not to eat.
Verse 12, for what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within, but them that are without?
God, judges, therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
So the people that we need to stay away from are Christians
who are living in fornication and these other sins.
That tells me that fornication is a big deal.
because if someone is a saved Christian
or calling themselves a saved Christian
and they are a fornicator,
this is a bad influence on our life
that we need to get out of our life.
And that's why the Bible said earlier in this chapter,
a little 11, 11 is the whole lump.
You know, you don't want to be influenced, contaminated, defiled, or leavened by that influence.
I mean, imagine you're a teenage boy or a young adult man, and you're trying to live a pure life.
You're trying to keep a pure testimony until your wedding day, and then you're around guys that are out sleeping with women.
I mean, that's going to make it a lot harder for you, you know, to have the right willpower and to stay on a godly path.
You know, it'd be like if you're on a diet or something and you're just hanging around with a guy who's just eating an ice cream cone all day
or eating candy bars all day or something. You're supposed to be on a diet, right?
You'd probably be better off hanging around with a guy who's constantly
exercising self-control, exercising, period, you know, in general.
And so we don't want that influence in our lives. Go to chapter 6.
So fornication is a big deal. And look, anybody who tries to tell you
that, oh, sex outside of marriage is allowed in scripture is a fool.
It's easy to prove from the Bible there's marriage and there's fornication.
There's marriage, there's adultery. There's not this thing of just going out and sleeping
with people that you're not married to and that somehow that's okay or fine.
I mean, it's madness. Okay, it's easy to debunk from scripture
and it's just a doctrine of convenience for people who want to
And so don't even fall for it for one second, and I'm blaming the modern versions for their
vague wording and their use of the stupid word, immorality, instead of spelling out
what we're talking about, fornication, okay?
Look at 1 Corinthians chapter number 6, verse 12, it says, all things are lawful unto me,
but all things are not expedient.
All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them.
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.
And God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ.
Now, the word member in this context is a body part, right?
You've probably heard of someone being dismembered.
It means that they lost a body part, okay?
A body part came off of their body.
And so the idea here is that our bodies are not to be used for fornication.
Our bodies are to be used for the service of God.
Our bodies exist so that we can be on this earth interacting with this world and serving God.
Not so that we can just go out and indulge the flesh in fornication.
The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord.
The Lord for the body, okay?
And it says, your bodies are the members of Christ,
meaning that our bodies are basically
the body parts of Christ in the sense that, you know, number one,
we're the hands and feet that he's using to get the work of God done
in 2025. He's not physically here on this earth doing the work,
we're doing the work, and he's working through us.
And so we are the members of Christ.
But not only that, we have become united with Christ through salvation.
Okay, and not only that, we have been bought with a price and so we belong to Christ and
He owns our bodies in that sense as well.
And so we are the members of Christ and then it says in verse 15,
Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot?
God forbid, right?
I mean, I'm taking something that belongs to God,
my body is a temple of the Holy Ghost,
I've been bought with a price,
and then I'm going to take the members of Christ
and go make those the members of a harlot,
or unite them physically with a harlot?
God forbid.
What?
Know ye not that he which is joined to in harlot is one body?
For two, sayeth he, shall be one flesh, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
So we are spiritually united with Christ.
We have Christ in us.
Jesus Christ is in our hearts, right?
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, the Bible says.
And then we're going to go become one flesh with a harlot, God forbid, right?
It's super wicked, it's ungodly, it's a defilement of the temple of God, big time, it's disrespectful
and defiling of the temple of God, which is why he says in the next breath, and you've
got to love these little punchy, you know, two-word type statements in the Bible, flee
Flea fornication. What does it mean to flea fornication? Fleaing means to run away and it's not just running away. It's running scared.
Fleaing is when somebody's after you and you're scared and you're running as fast as you can to get away. You're trying to escape.
That's what fleeing is and the Bible says flea fornication.
And so here's the thing, if you are hanging around fornication,
if you're opening yourself up to temptations
and making provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof,
right, you are very likely to fall into this trap of fornication.
It is a sin that is easy to get into.
Okay, because of the fact that our biology as men,
and we're focusing on the men tonight,
you know, we could talk about the women as well,
but we're gonna focus on the men tonight,
because again, the title of the sermon is Hormungers,
which is a male term.
And so focusing on the men tonight,
this is a sin that's easy to get into,
because our biology is wired for us to desire
this type of sin.
You see, men are wired by their DNA, their biology, it's just inborn, it's innate, that
men find a multitude of women attractive and are tempted to commit fornication a lot, big
time.
Okay, now of course every once in a while you'll have some guy that will just lie and claim that this isn't the case
Whatever, but you know our people. They're just oh, I'm just so holy. I just don't even think that way
I don't even look at women that way. I'm just I'm just super right just super pious. Okay, whatever. That's great
But let's talk to 99 of everybody else
And just understand that this is a temptation that is common to man
You know and every once in a while you'll get these guys that oh you just don't understand
You know, I'm special. I just you know, I just have this really wild, you know drive or whatever
That's just called being a dude
You know what I'm saying like like you have these guys that oh you don't understand. I'm broken or something
No, you're not broken. That's just how dudes are
But the difference is that you have to exercise self-control and not just give in to every animal urge that you have
So don't try to think that you're different and you're special and all this stuff.
Now look, there are some people who do not have a strong urge in this area
and these people can go through life just being single and serving God
and that's great but they're the exception not the rule.
Okay, and I'm and that's great. I'm not upset at them except I'm upset at them if they then turn around and act like oh
Everybody needs to be like me because see here's the thing the apostle Paul was one of these guys that he didn't mind being signal
Single but you know what he said though?
He said let every man have his own wife let every woman have her own husband and he said you know not everybody has this gift that I have
You know most people need to be married because of the fact that it's better to marry than to burn and the burning is talking about burning with lust
You know, it's better to satisfy that appetite in a natural, normal way within marriage.
But, you know, people try to think sometimes that, oh, you know, I'm different because I just have all these urges.
Dude, there's no temptation taking you but such as common demand, okay?
Men are wired this way, and women are not this way, typically.
And, you know, I'm so sick of our stupid, weird society that just acts like men and women are the same.
Men and women are not the same
Men and women are wired different. Okay, and it's like this young this new generation
They they've been brainwashed. They just think men and women are the same. They're not the same
You know what because I guarantee you that there's probably about a thousand times as many magazines
With a bunch of naked or half naked women in them
There's probably about a thousand times more than magazines with dudes looking that way
Because women women don't want to sit around and look at magazines of dudes like it's just that's just not how women think
You know and there's probably all kinds of filthy establishments all over Phoenix of strip clubs and and all these places
But I guarantee you that 99% of them are geared toward men
Because unfortunately, you know, this is just part of the male condition that men are super tempted in these areas
And they're super susceptible to this temptation
Because our biology just wants us to just go out and just have all this fornication and whatever
But God is asking us, sorry, God is commanding us
to transcend those physical urges
and to walk in the spirit
and to abstain from fornication.
And so don't have this excuse of,
well, God made me this way and it's just biology.
You know, you can't just ask the sun not to shine.
You just can't ask the apple not to fall from the tree.
I mean, it's just the way it works.
You know, the water is going to flow downhill and it's just gravity and it's just nature and whatever.
No, my friend, because we're not animals, we're humans.
And as humans made in the image of God, we have the ability to rein these things in and not just be like some weird animal that's just out there just humping everything and anything.
No, we as a man, as a man, a human in the image of God, no, we are to control ourselves and to have dignity and honor and keep ourselves pure and abstain from fornication.
And I'd say, well, you know, I just have to check out every babe because that's just my biology
You know what that is your biology, but you know what I am more than biology. I am a soul. I am a man
I'm not an animal and so no
I don't have to just check out every babe and just be out there tempted by these things
I can transcend what the flesh is telling me to do and I can walk in the spirit
And so, you know, obviously, this is something that's easy for men to get involved in,
which is why the Bible says you've got to flee fornication.
Okay, in fact, if you go back to the book of Proverbs,
it talks about the strange woman greeting this guy,
and she kind of catches the guy off guard a little bit.
She just grabs him and kisses him right out of the gate.
And then the Bible talks about how she seduces him and entices him back to her place,
and it says that she, quote, forced him.
Now when it says that she forced him she's not stronger than him
Right, that's not what it's saying
But I'm telling you the temptation is so strong that the Bible is
metaphorically using the language oh she forced him
And so, obviously, yeah, women aren't going to physically overpower you but if you allow yourself to get in these compromising situations and you allow yourself to be seduced and you allow yourself to be manipulated like that, you know, you may not be able to stop yourself, unfortunately.
And you need to run out of there. You need to literally, literally run away.
and flee fornication.
You need a literally flee fornication.
And this is what Joseph does back in the book of Genesis,
right?
Because Potiphar's wife is throwing herself at him
and he literally runs out of there.
She grabs his clothes as he's running out
and she rips part of his clothing off his body
and she's left holding his outer garment
as he runs screaming in the other direction.
And that is a symbol of what we are supposed to do.
We are supposed to flee fornication.
Do not put yourself in these compromising situations.
Do not hang around with these sleazy girls.
And here's the thing, you know,
hopefully if you're a Christian young man
and you're dating a Christian young lady,
hopefully one of you is at least going to have the godliness
and the self-control to put a stop to anything
before it turns into fornication.
But here's the thing. Let's say you're a godly young man and you're deciding, okay, I'm gonna be pure and I'm not gonna commit fornication
I'm gonna wait till I'm married, but then you're around some loose chick. Well, then as soon as you have a weak moment
She's gonna jump on that
But what should happen is that when you have a weak moment?
She's there to say no and when she has a weak moment
You're there to say no and it's like a double and then you need a third fail safe of just you're in public
Right and you're not dating in these kind of behind closed doors type of places where you could even get away with
committing such an act
So, if you have a combination of godly young man who committed a purity, godly young lady
committed a purity, and being in a public space, you know, now you're going to avoid
fornication.
And the thing is that that way, even if the boy's morality slips, if her morality slips,
well guess what, at the end of the day though, hey, the other one.
will be there to say no, but if you're hanging around with some guy
that's always pressuring you to sleep with them or something,
you know, then all it takes is just for you to have
one weekday or moment, ladies, and then you're going to give in that or vice versa.
You have some girl that's throwing herself at you physically,
you know, if you do that long enough, eventually you're going to have a week
moment. You need to keep yourself out of these
You know run into these situations you need to run away from these situations, okay?
And again, it's like I was preaching the other day
You know you need to make sure that you put out a clear signal and put out a clear vibe
That says that you're committed to purity and that you're not interested in fornication or adultery as a man
Because women are pretty good at reading reading those signals
And so, if you put out that right vibe, then you're going to save a lot of trouble right there.
And so, the Bible says, flee fornication, okay?
So, especially you young men I'm preaching to tonight,
you know, do not hang around with these loose, easy girls.
They might be fun to hang around and you think, oh, I just want to kind of play with fire,
see how close I can get or whatever.
No, man, you are playing with fire, you're going to get burned
and you need to stay away from those kind of girls.
and be around girls that are also committed to purity like you are.
They also have a Christian view of this subject.
So it says,
every sin that a man doeth is without the body, meaning outside of his body,
but he that committed fornication,
sineth against his own body.
Right?
So what the Bible is saying here is,
you are hurting yourself when you commit fornication.
You are harming yourself.
You are doing yourself a disservice.
Do not do it.
And then he says what?
No, you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
which is in you, which you have of God,
and you are not your own, for you're bought with a price,
therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit,
which are God's.
Now that's the end of chapter six,
but then we could roll directly into chapter seven, right?
And it says in the very next verse,
now concerning the things where have you wrote unto me,
it's good for a man,
not-to-touch-a-woman and you know you sometimes kind of wish you could get like the Corinthian letters back to Paul
Because we're kind of reading like one side of the correspondence
But he says hey, it's good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless to avoid fornication
Let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
So again, how do you avoid fornication by being married?
Which proves that what is fornication sex outside of marriage?
Again, you don't have to be a genius to look at these verses and see that that's what we're
talking about and that that's the definition of the word fornication.
And so he says, look, the way that you avoid fornication is by every man having his own
wife and every woman having her own husband, because the idea here is that if you satisfy
then it's not going to be as tempting, right?
What does the Bible say?
The full soul loatheth a honeycomb.
But to the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
And so if I already ate at home,
I'm not going to be tempted to spend a bunch of money
on eating out if I can't afford it.
You know, I remember when I was first married,
my wife and I had no money.
My wife's budget for one week for groceries and toiletries
and just basic household needs was $40 per week
for the whole week for both of us,
if you can imagine that, okay?
So she had 40 bucks to spend to feed us
by cleaning supplies, so we just had no money.
We lived in just a one bedroom apartment,
we got a mattress on the floor,
we have a car that we're sharing
and we had everything we needed, can't complain.
We were super happy just to be with each other, just to be married,
and those were wonderful times, but we had no money.
So eating out was unthinkable, even just a fast food or something.
Like a lot of people today, you know, maybe just take it for granted,
just constantly buying the fun little drinks and,
oh, Starbucks and frozen yogurt and, oh, get a burrito, get a burger, whatever.
I mean, to me, like eating off the Roach Coach was just a luxury that I couldn't afford.
So we had no money. So it was like and it was tempting sometimes because I would be in a situation
Where all the other guys are all going out to you and I have to go out to eat with them
And I'm sitting there at the table with them while they're all and I can't order anything because I have no money
Okay, and I don't want to just like spend up the family's money when there's so little to go around and waste it in that way so
You know occasionally if I did have to in a bind get food out
I'd go to Taco Bell
I'd get two bean burritos and get them double wrapped so two tortillas on each bean burrito
And it was like less than two dollars back then and I'd be stuffed
You know so that was like but even then that was too much of a splurge man
And so here's the secret you say well, what did you do Pastor Anderson when you're constantly going out to breakfast with these people and
There they'll take you out to you know, sometimes there'd be a business breakfast or or you know
Everybody's going to the Roach coach everybody's going to lunch. Here's what I had to do
I had to just bring a lot of food from home. I
Had to eat a big breakfast at home
Bring a big lunch full of food and then there's no temptation because you're full
So I had to get full
in the right way to avoid spending money
I didn't have eating out of the house.
Because it's a thousand times easier
to say no to Burger King and no to Long John Silver's
and those things if you've already had your sandwich
that you packed from home.
Does everybody understand that concept?
Pretty simple concept, right?
Well, guess what?
You need to eat the sandwich at home.
And here's the thing, just as,
With this analogy and I think this is a great analogy to be honest because here's the thing about that is that?
Idiots think that fast food is better than eating at home
Am I right?
Sorry, I know it's like super quiet in here.
This is, I just said the wrong thing.
I've made a terrible mistake.
I'm so sorry.
So, so sorry.
No, because guess what?
You know who always thinks that fast food
is better than eating at home?
Kid, little kids.
Cause foolishness is bound in the heart of a child.
But let me tell you something.
It's dumb to think that fast food is better
than eating nutritious, home cooked, healthy meals.
And you think,
fast food, and I'm not talking about a nice restaurant,
I'm talking like they think McDonald's,
they think Wendy's, they think Jack in the Box
is better than eating at home,
they think that's a step up.
They think Chuck E. Cheese is a step up.
Right?
Now wouldn't you say that a more intelligent person says,
you know what, the food that I'm getting at home
is better than this fast food?
that's available.
Wouldn't you say that smarter people probably eat at home
more and dumber people probably eat more fast food
in general?
I'm sorry to hurt your feelings.
I'm not saying you're dumb.
Not saying you're dumb, okay?
I'm just saying, statistically,
you're the exception that proves the rule.
You're that super smart person that eats fast food every day.
But I'm just saying, I believe that about you.
But what I'm saying is, though, that don't you think, if we're honest, in general, wouldn't
you say that in general, if we were to go around and take a survey...
And then we took a, and everybody took a, a, a test on intelligence.
Probably the smarter people probably eat at home more, or at least eat better food.
And it's probably a demographic that's not as smart that's eating a bunch of fast food and out, right?
Because here's the thing, it's kind of dumb to think that somehow fast food is going to be better than what you're eating at home.
Right?
Well, let me tell you something else that's dumb.
It's dumb to think that fornication is going to be more enjoyable than that relationship
within marriage.
That's also dumb.
You're dumb, too, if you think that.
If you think that the ultimate in enjoyment is going to be you out there with some skank
that you bring home from some bar or from some club or that you meet up with on some
app or something, if you really think that that's going to be more fun and more enjoyable
encounter then what you can get at home you know you're stupid now here's the
thing I guarantee you say well you know I you know that's just your opinion but
here's the thing about that is that what you have to understand is that the
quality of the food at home does kind of vary from house to house doesn't it and
I also have a feeling that probably dumber people also probably have a lot
Smarter people are probably cooking things that are more nutritious and healthy and just of a better quality and probably dumb people are, you know, they are making all kinds of weird struggle meals at their house or whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
And so here's the point that I'm trying to get out.
I hope I'm not losing you in the food illustration
and that you're actually remembering
like what we're actually talking about.
Because the idea here is that the wise man is able,
the wise woman is able to put together
a quality meal in the home that is economical
and nutritious and delicious.
And let me tell you something,
the best meals are eaten at home period.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm married to a world-class cook because I literally am
But here's the thing about that, you know
I went to Armenia for four weeks and in four weeks I ate at all kinds of different restaurants
I ate all kinds of meals the best meal that I ate the whole time
I was in Armenia was when the pastor
Invited me to eat with his family and they made a home-cooked meal and the food was
Incredible and it was way better than any restaurant. I ate at the whole time. I was there
just blew me away how good the food was.
Let's face it, the best meals that you have in your life are at home, right?
So here's the thing, the wise man, the wise woman
are actually putting in time and effort
because guess what?
These really good home-cooked meals, they don't make themselves, do they?
They take all kinds of time and effort and love to put together these really high quality meals
I mean my wife spends a lot of time in the kitchen
Putting together these really good meals putting in the effort
That's why the food at home is so good. So then my kids back. Hey, I've got to go to Chipotle
I'm like mom is literally making Mexican food tonight
Why would I get Chipotle when there's literally tacos themselves at home right now?
Waiting for me. Why would I eat it Chipotle when there's a chimichanga?
Homemade at home right now. It would be madness
Now look, I love Chipotle everybody who knows me knows I love Chipotle
I've eaten at Chipotle several times in the past few days, but that's because my wife's out of town
And I was out of town in Oklahoma, so, you know, I got guys got to eat
But I would never in a million years
Prefer to pollate to my wife's Mexican food that she's making but again
It's because my wife's putting in the time and the effort and so here's what I'm saying is that within marriage you
can
tag summits and reach mountain peaks and have sublime experiences that will transcend anything
that all these bunch of dirty whores and whore mongers are out there are experiencing and
thinking oh yeah we're having so much fun and you know yeah whatever we're going to
hell but who cares because we're having so much fun no I'm having more fun.
You know, but again, what's it gonna take? It's gonna take more effort. It's gonna take love. It's gonna take time
It's gonna take effort
Just like making the good home cook meals takes effort
But you know what if you put in the time if you put in the effort if you put in the energy
You know, you can have the best possible relationship at home and
then
If you are having a proper relationship with your spouse at home,
adultery is not a temptation hardly at all.
You know what I mean? It's like, it's not even a thing.
You see, the guys that are just really struggling
with, you know, temptations to commit adultery
or really struggling with temptations to look at porno or whatever,
you know, it's because they're not eating at home, typically.
You know, and so you got to put effort into that relationship and both man and woman
they both need to put effort into that relationship and
Make that relationship what it should be so that they can sit down and have a good quality
Home-cooked meal because then the full soul loatheth the honeycomb and the Bible talks about how the lips of the strange woman
The harlot her lips are sweeter than honeycomb, but if you're full you're not tempted
Right
And so I understand that nobody's life is ever going to be perfect.
Nobody's marriage is ever going to be perfect.
Marriage has its ups and downs.
Sometimes the cupboards are stocked well.
Sometimes the cupboards are a little bare.
Sometimes there are going to be lean times.
I'm not trying to create some kind of a false reality that,
oh yeah, you're just going to eat awesome meals at home
all the time every day and it's going to be great.
No, sometimes you're not going to have a good meal at home
and you're still going to have to skip the fast food
suck it up and just get through it.
I'm not saying this is always gonna work,
but in general, it's gonna be a lot easier
to withstand temptation and a lot easier to stay pure
if you're married than if you're single.
And if you're married and if you are engaging
in this relationship,
because there's things, if you're married,
but you're not having a physical relationship
with your wife, this doesn't work.
Like how is this going to help you stay pure if you're not even doing the activity that doesn't even make sense
It'd be like oh, well, you know, I'm not I don't have to eat out because there's all this food at home
But if you're not eating it if you're not eating the food at home. Is that really going to help you?
Not be lusting after the Burger King and and Wendy's and Jack in the box if there's food at home that you didn't eat
No, because there has to be food at home, but then you also have to eat the food at home, you know
And, and, and here's the thing, you know, sometimes, you know, you need to really eat that big breakfast and pack that lunch and everything because then that way, you know, it's just going to be way easier.
Now look, whether it's easier, look, sometimes I had to pack lunch and it was super easy, other times I didn't have a lunch and I had to just sit there just watching my friends eating all this food at work and I'm just like so hungry.
And then that's where just self-control has to kick in and you just have to say no anyway
so obviously
Failure is not an option when it comes to keeping yourself pure
I mean you got to keep yourself pure is a big fornication the big sin adulteries a big sin
Failure is not an option, but why don't you set yourself up for success?
by getting married and indulging in this relationship
within its proper context in marriage, okay?
And again, I understand everybody's life isn't gonna be perfect,
everybody's marriage isn't gonna be perfect,
there are gonna be ups and downs,
good times and bad times, but I will say this,
within a godly, righteous, committed marriage,
the mountain peaks that you will reach,
the summits that you will tag,
will, I promise you, surpass what's out there.
amongst the the Hormongers and whores this world, you know, I don't have to go out and experience it to know that
because common sense tells me that and my reading of the Bible tells me that and so I don't have to figure that out myself
And if you're smart, you'll just believe me when I tell you that
And by the way young people, you know, you're listening to a 40-some-year-old man up here talking to you right now
You're listening to a 43-year-old man who's been successfully married for 25 years
who was pure on his wedding day, right?
I did not commit fornication.
I went to my marriage pure,
and I have been successfully married for 25 years
and faithful to my wife for the last 25 years.
And not only that, I deal with people for a living.
I deal with people all the time and I've dealt with their problems and I've dealt with issues and stuff
Look if you're smart teenagers and young people you will listen to me because I know what I'm talking about
And I am right and I'm telling you the truth
You know and you need to listen to my
Counsel as coming from your elder brother in Christ who has been down the road and done things right and understood
what these things mean and I am telling you that I am right about this and you know because sometimes
teenagers oh you're a different gender you just don't know or what do you know what is it what
do mom and dad know well I don't know they they must have known something because they produced you
and if they're still married then they sounds like they've been married for a while you know and if
they're even if they're not still married you know they have more experience with these things than
And so, yeah, your parents do know more about this,
and let me tell you something.
You know, life is really simple when you're a teenager.
Life gets a lot more complicated as you get older,
and so it's pretty easy for little teenagers
to stand in judgment of their parents,
to stand in judgment of other adults
and their pastor and different people.
But you know what, at the end of the day,
you get into your 30s, you get into your 40s,
you get into your 50s, you're gonna find out
that there's a little more to life than you think.
And you need to be smart and listen to counsel.
Listen to instruction, listen to the words of the wise and their dark sayings, okay?
I'm giving you a parable right now. I'm speaking to you words of wisdom that are in line with what the scriptures teaching
What does the Bible say? I mean, let's get back to the word of God to avoid fornication. Let every man have his own wife
Let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence
And likewise also, the wife under the husband.
You know, I heard one of these bozo idiot pastors
who's been attacking me lately.
He literally got up and preached his pastor said,
do benevolence means being nice.
It's talking about being nice.
It's like, what the heck?
Are you really that stupid?
Does Paul just have to spell it out for you?
He's talking about having sex with your spouse.
He's not saying, be really nice.
It's like, come on, dude, really?
Get a clue the Bible is using euphemism the Bible is not going to get graphic for you
Sorry that I had to get graphic there
But I have to because you got these bozo pastors out there
Teaching stupid foolish feminist garbage, and then they're like well to bedevils such as me's being nice
I'm sorry. I don't want my wife to just be nice to me
My wife being nice to me isn't gonna do it I'm looking for a little more than that
There's a little more benevolence that's due
You know and she's gonna have to pay the piper and it's not gonna be
By niceness what the heck that's not the currency that I'm looking for
But it says that the husband
shall render unto the wife due benevolence,
and likewise also the wife unto the husband."
This is saying that, you know,
he needs to fulfill that physical need that she has,
and vice versa, she needs to fulfill his physical need.
And then it says this, it says,
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband.
And likewise also, the husband hath not power of his own body,
but the wife defraud ye not one the other,
except it be with consent for a time
that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer
and come together again.
Watch this, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
See, God understands that there is a tendency
in men, possibly in women, of incontinency,
not being able to contain yourself
and giving into these temptations of the lust of the flesh.
And so the Bible is saying,
look, you don't want Satan to tempt you for your incontinency.
So here's the best way for Satan not to tempt you
is that the wife renders dubin-evilance to the husband.
The husband renders dubin-evilance to the wife.
And then,
Satan's not going to be able to tempt you for your incontinency.
It's like, you know, he holds out that bag of Wendy's,
and you're just like, not today, Satan.
Because I just ate an awesome meal at home.
Now look, even if you didn't eat the awesome meal at home,
you still can't have the Wendy's.
Amen?
It's not an excuse.
Well, you know, my wife didn't render due benevolence,
so you know, here I am eating at Wendy's.
No, man, you still never have an excuse to commit adultery, right?
You don't have an excuse to commit these heinous sins, but why would you want to make it hard on yourself when you can make it easy on yourself?
Right, why would you just want to put yourself in a position where it's difficult when you could make things easy and that's why
investing in your marriage and marital relationship
is the best way to avoid these temptations.
According to the Bible, and I'm not the author of the Bible.
You know, all Pastor Anderson's got these really extreme teachings on marriage, you know?
Pastor Anderson's got these really wild and imbalanced teachings on marriage.
Really? Because this is straight out of the Bible.
I mean, who here has a Bible in your lap right now?
You've got a Bible in your hand, you've got a Bible in your lap.
So, there's no faith required in what I'm saying.
All you need is faith in the Word of God.
Right? Everybody got the same Bible.
The Bible literally says, the wife hath not power of her own body.
Now if I get up and preach that people say oh, I'm radical. I'm imbalanced. No, here's how I balance that the husband doesn't have power over
His body see how balanced that is
perfect balance
Totally balanced and then you know because I said that the wife doesn't have the right to say no to her husband and
That she has to sleep with her husband
And he doesn't have to get her consent and you know, you know, is this okay honey? Is this okay?
May I kiss you honey?
You know, is this all right? Just stop me if at any time
We're married idiot, okay, that's not how interactions with my wife go
But this is our weird stupid brain-dead society, you know, you want to know why they're so into consent is because they're a bunch of fornicators
you know, and so like for example, you know, there's all these training videos that you'll see at your job or kids
That are going to college they watch all these training videos at their colleges and universities and literally I watched one of these training videos
For Arizona State University. I watched the training video and it was literally it showed a guy and a girl on a date
And they're like, and he's like, you know, is this okay?
You know, is this okay?
And then he's, may I kiss you?
Sure, you know, is this okay?
You know, because basically what are they talking about?
They're talking about young people
that aren't married, fornicating.
And basically they're trying to say, you know,
we don't want a bunch of people raping each other or whatever.
So therefore, you know, we got to have all this consent
and everything.
Folks, that is a culture that is outside
of God's word and marriage.
This is what married people don't talk about consent.
What kind of a weird lesbian relationship are you in?
What the heck is that?
Let me guess, you call your wife your partner?
You know, if you talk about your partner, you better be in an LLC.
You know, and it's like...
Like a guy said to me the other day my partner and I just instantly thought is this guy a faggot or what?
You know, but I'm like no man. I got to give this guy to benefit out. Hopefully he's just straight and he's just talking like a faggot. Oh
My party got a consent from my partner. It's like shut up faggot. I'm gonna sleep with my wife whenever I want. I
Got her consent on the wedding day and guess what my wife can sleep with me whenever she wants and she doesn't need my consent
You know, I don't have to do that little consent app or whatever that proved that we're both sober and everything and whatever
We're always sober anyway, so it's not the issue
You know the closest thing to being inebriated in my house is just when people get a little sleep deprived
You know and start losing their better judgment, you know
But the point is the Bible literally says the wife has not power of her own body
Her husband has power over her body. She doesn't have the right to say well
This is my body my choice. No, no, no, that body is my body, but but then oh
NIFP preaching so imbalanced. Well, no, here's the balance. She can say the same thing. She owns my body
Can't be like, oh, don't touch me, you know
Right
And you say, well, I don't know.
This preaching is radical.
You know what?
I'm sorry.
But why do you even go to church here if you're that stupid?
I have to wonder.
Are you really that stupid that you
can't understand this passage?
Because I don't understand how you're
going to understand the rest of the Bible that I preach.
This might just not be the church for you
if you're this brain dead and stupid that think, oh,
but husbands are raping their wives.
And well, you know, it's like, you're an idiot, OK?
And there's the door.
And it has a push bar now so you can get out even faster.
The city made us put in all these stupid push bars.
I'm sorry, but you know what?
I've dedicated my life to this church for the last 20 years,
not so that I could babysit a bunch of brain dead idiots.
It's so that I can preach the Word of God to actual
Spirit-filled Christians who want to learn what the Bible says
and don't give or rip what the world out there says or thinks about it.
Amen!
And it'd be one thing if this were a gray area,
if this were something that were hard to understand,
if this were something that were unclear,
this is the clearest passage in the Bible that I've ever seen.
Right, amen.
Okay?
Like, I have zero doubt that I'm right about this.
There are other doctors that I preach where I'm 99%.
98%. This, I'm 100% because again, you have to just be a feminist or a libtard or an idiot
to not see what is right in front of your face in this passage.
And you know, I had one of these women come to me one time and say, oh, my husband raped
me. I said, oh, really? Why were you refusing to have sex with your husband? Oh, oh, well,
Okay, well then I guess that makes you an idiot for marrying a guy who raped you, idiot.
But she's a liar because she's just lying and making crap up because people lie all
the time.
And you know what?
This thing, oh, my husband raped me.
It's impossible for your husband to rape you because he's your husband.
And you know what I would say,
oh, I heard this horror story about a husband raping his wife.
That sounds like a horror story about a wife refusing
to have sex with their husbands, what it sounds like to me.
There's the door, anybody?
Anybody want to leave right now?
We can all know who all the little weenies are,
who are hen pecked, weirdos.
You can get up and leave right now.
We can all laugh at you, loser.
Because you know what the Bible says marriage is honorable and all the Bible says the wife has no power of her body
But the husband the husband has no bar over the body
But the wife and so no my wife and I are engaged in a marital relationship
Where you know I meet her needs and she meet my needs and it's not optional
It's not if I feel like it. It's not if she feels like it's just we need to be there for each other and be selfless and
not self-centered and help each other out and take care of each other in these situations and
Look I could sit there and give a bunch of disclaimers and caveats right now
I'm not going to because I don't care because I want idiots to leave
I don't want to be surrounded by fools.
I don't want to be surrounded by feminist libtards
because those kind of little weenies that get all...
Yeah, I get all uncomfortable when Pastor Anderson
preaches hard when he preaches the bile, I get all uncomfortable.
Those are the same people that are going to put me in the nut house.
I don't want to go to the nut house again, okay?
I don't want to go back to the Nutt House.
And these little, faggity little French people
who basically will get offended by this kind of preacher
are the same kind of people
that are going to give me sense of the Nutt House again.
I don't want to go back to the Nutt House.
So why don't you just hit the road,
jock, and don't you come back no more?
And look, nobody is telling anybody
to be rough or rude or violent with their spouse, idiot.
What we're saying is, hey, if your wife wants to have a relationship with you, you need to be there for her and vice versa.
And you know what's funny is that over the years, as a pastor, people come to me with all kinds of problems and they come to me with all kinds of issues
because I've pastored a large church for many, many years now.
And I obviously, a lot of people all over the country look to me and send emails and look for help.
more, I've had more women come to me and say
that they're having a problem in their marriage
where their husband is refusing to fulfill this need
for them than men.
It's, and I'm not talking about a little bit,
I'm saying dramatically more.
It's men who are refusing to fill this need for their wife
more than the other way around.
In my experience as a pastor, in 20 years of pastoring.
But I don't know what I'm talking about, right?
But so, you know, it's just, oh, it's just all these bad men.
And, you know, oh, the poor little women
and their evil, bad, abusive men.
No, my friend, because it's a two-way street.
First Corinthians 7, it's a two-way street.
And guess what?
Women, they need this relationship, too.
Sometimes they might want it more, sometimes they might want it less, you know, and you could even maybe argue that they want it less in general, okay?
I'm not going to argue with that, but at the end of the day, though, you know, there have been many times in my experience where women are being defrauded in this area.
in my experience that I've seen that we're being defrauded in this area than men
saying, you know, what do we do here? Why is our relationship messed up?
Why doesn't my husband want to be intimate with me more than the other way around?
So you could get up here and say
that I'm just this big, bad, scary, evil, Pastor Anderson being mean to women
but you know what, maybe I'm actually going to bat for women that want their
husband to hop in the sack with them.
Do you ever think about that?
Because in 1 Corinthians 7, it's apparently a two-way street.
Now, I don't understand how I could get any more balance than that.
This is like the most balanced verse in the whole Bible.
Because if you think about it, lots of verses about marriage are imbalanced
because they're saying the husband is the head of the wife.
The wife is to obey her husband.
That's not a balance.
That's male authority.
But when it comes to the bedroom, it is balanced.
But their their balance is like oh, well, you know you need to ask your wife for permission
Before impregnating her and you got to ask your wife for it's her body
And you got to ask you know may I please impregnate you and you know may I please?
Pretty please and this is what they say if your wife refuses to go to bed with you
You just need to take her out to dinner. Hey, you know
We can't always afford that
And then and then what happens is now the doubenevolence becomes a weapon
It becomes weaponized where women are like,
oh, here's how I'm going to get that new pair of shoes.
Here's how I'm going to get that credit card.
Here's how I'm going to get that vacation.
Here's how I'm going to get that out to dinner.
All I have to do is just clam up for a while, right?
And it's like, hey, if you want business to be open,
then you're going to have to whine and dine me.
And then you have a bunch of idiot fools getting up
behind the pulpit and teaching this crap.
And saying oh, oh your wife doesn't want to be intimate with you
That's just your it's your fault because you're not whining and dining her enough spend more money
spend money
buy things
Wine and dine her
No, my and look let me tell you something. I
Love my wife and guess what my wife's not even here
So I'm not up here preaching like you know alright, honey
You know I'm not trying to fix my wife because my wife doesn't have a problem in this area
I'm trying to help other people that need this preaching.
I don't need this preaching.
I'm not up here preaching for myself.
I already know this, and my wife already knows this.
We've known this for years.
We have a great marriage.
We have a successful marriage for decades now.
She's not even here, and I know how she is.
She, when she's here, she loves my preaching,
but she's probably not even gonna download this sermon.
And I'm not gonna be like,
hey, you need to hear this one or something,
because it's like,
in our house it's already settled, friend.
Okay, I'm up here preaching for you.
I'm helping you out in internet land,
even you hating weirdos, creeps that are hating on me.
You need to hear this too.
Because at the end of the day...
This marital relationship is a big reason for divorce.
It's a big problem for a lot of people.
It's a big temptation for a lot of people
because of the fact that they're not getting the right teaching.
And you have men and women that are not rendering this as a benevolence that's due,
but instead it's something that has to be earned.
It's something that's weaponized because men have to earn the right. I guess I have to earn the right every time
I want to sleep with my wife, right? No, man. You know how I earned that right by being her husband
And I don't have to whine or done and listen anybody who knows me in real life
Anybody who knows my family if my wife were here, she would know this obviously, you know
I love to whine and dine my wife
I take my wife out to eat all the time now that we can afford it, you know
There were times when we couldn't afford it, but yeah, I'll take her out to eat whenever I'll spend time with her whenever
You know, I'd love to treat her well and be nice to her.
And you know what, I'm not one of these husbands
that just like never changes a diaper or something.
You know what I mean?
And I'm not against you if you're that kind of husband
because, you know, it's not necessarily your job.
But you know what?
Hey, I love changing diapers, helping out around the house.
you know, helping out wherever I can, being a,
but you know what, the second that my wife
started commanding me to change a diaper
or telling me that I have to change a diaper
or telling me that I have to take her out to eat,
I'd be like, nope, forget it.
You know what I mean?
And here's the thing, men should do good
unto their wives because they love them.
and be kind unto them, and give them gifts, and take them out, and help them out, and do favors for them.
Not because they're being forced to do it, and coerced to do it, because that is a backward relationship where the wife is the boss.
And that's why we have so many jokes in our society about the wife being the boss,
I gotta ask the boss, the old ball and chain.
You know what, those jokes are based on reality.
Those jokes are based on truth, that's why they're even funny.
And it's sad today with these backwards relationships where women are the ones that are controlling
their husbands and extorting gifts out of their husbands and extorting favors out of
their husbands and extorting help around the house out of their husband by withholding
that physical relationship and weaponizing it.
It is wicked.
It is fraud.
It is ungodly and it isn't right.
And you know what?
her husband because, oh, he's not being nice.
No, no, no, he's the boss.
And you know what's funny is I've been counseling people
for 20 years as a pastor.
And you know what I've never do?
I never side with children against their parents.
I never side with wives against their husband.
So put that in your pope and smack it
because I just don't.
Go find some, you'll find some other watered down, little
sysified, queer little sissy pastor that'll side with you
against your parents and side with you against your husband
and side with you against your boss.
You've come to the wrong place because I support biblical
authority around here.
I just do.
All right, beloved, let's turn to one more scripture just
very briefly.
Very quickly, let's look at 1st Thessalonians 4.
We got off on a little bit of tangent there.
I have no regrets.
I have to just keep ringing this bell.
I said 2025 is the year of doubling down
on every doctrine I preach that people don't like.
You know, you don't like,
hey, he that hath the near, let him hear.
Anybody who is offended by what I'm saying
is offended by 1st Corinthians 7
because it is not a vague passage.
It's extremely clear.
And look, I love my wife more than any other person on this planet.
I'm not saying, you know what I mean by that.
I love her more than I love any other person on this planet.
I'm not claiming to be more loving than you are or something.
I'm saying I love my wife more than I love anyone else on this planet.
I love to help her out, I love to do favors for her,
but you know what, I do not let my wife push me around,
tell me what to do, and extort favors out of me,
and I do not, and not that she would try to do that.
I'm just saying, that's not the way our relationship
has worked, does work, or ever will work.
It will work that way over my dead body.
And you know, people can say,
oh, you know, there's this preaching,
that do I have to be preaching?
You know what's funny, is how many people come to me
and tell me how much this preaching has helped their marriage.
You know for every little lying piece of crap like Colin Schneider out there
There are a whole bunch of people coming to me and telling me hey
You're preaching has helped my marriage. Our marriage is better than ever
Our marriage was saved by this kind of preaching cuz it's the word of God
And the Bible is always right about every subject every single time and I've been preaching it
I'm gonna keep preaching it and I don't care if people like it. I don't care if my channel gets deleted
I don't care if some, you know, big tech company doesn't think that my preaching is appropriate wants to censor me everywhere
Well, you know what if you don't like it
then walk away, but I will never stop preaching what the Bible explicitly says.
And the reason I love to just really double down on this particular subject
is because I really love preaching stuff where I just know beyond any of a shadow of a doubt
that I'm a hundred percent right. Because it feels good. It feels good, you know? And look,
look, I, you know, I got my beliefs about the tribulation and the rapture and Babylon and,
and, you know, Revelation 12 and Revelation 14, but, you know, I've never been on firmer ground
in my entire ministry.
I've never been on firmer ground
than what I've just preached for the last 30 minutes.
First Thessalonians 4, the Bible says in verse 2,
for you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus,
for this is the will of God,
even your sanctification,
that you should abstain from fornication.
And this is the part I love here,
that every one of you should know
how to possess his vessel,
in sanctification and honor.
So we're off of marriage now.
Let's get back to the main subject,
Hormungers, okay?
There's nothing cool or macho or honorable
about being a Hormunger,
about, you know, being this womanizer or whatever,
being this pickup artist or whatever you want to call yourself,
Mac Daddy, Pimp Daddy, whatever.
There's nothing cool or honorable about that.
You know what the Bible says?
That we should know how to possess our vessel.
What is our vessel?
It's talking about our physical body.
You know, this is a vessel.
It's a container.
Vessel means container.
It's a container that houses our soul,
houses our spirit,
and houses the spirit of God.
And we need to know how to bear this container,
this vessel.
This shell of our body, we need to know how to bear this vessel in sanctification and honor.
We need to be honorable, respectable men, and don't have this double standard expecting girls to be pure
when you're not going to be pure yourself, young man.
You need to keep yourself pure.
Sorry, Moses, but you need to be a Jungfrau, okay?
We don't understand.
I know, don't you hate that language?
to be honorable men as well.
And you say, well, I've already screwed up
because I've already committed for an occasion.
Well, then you know what?
Time to push a reset button and be pure from here on out.
Amen.
and have honor and respect yourself
and respect your girlfriend
and respect the people around you
and be pure and free from fornication.
Do not be a whore monger.
And you know why nobody knows this word?
Is because we need to bring back these concepts.
The reason the words are going away
is because the concept is going away, unfortunately.
Because now we've replaced the word whore monger with what?
Pimp, Mac Daddy.
What dog you got that dog in you or something, you know all this stupid that you know trying to make it seem cool or positive
You're not a pickup artist
You're a horn monger
You lack honor
You are defiled
Let's bow it's enough word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word Lord God. Please help us to keep ourselves pure
Lord, I pray that these single guys, the teenagers, and the young men would realize that our
life is just a vapor and that if they would just hang on in there and hang on for a few
more years, they can indulge in this relationship righteously within marriage for the rest of
their lives, help them to get control over their biology.
for the next few years, until they can satisfy that urge righteously within marriage.
Lord, for those that are already married,
Lord, I pray that you would bless every marriage
and help every husband and wife to love each other
and to care about each other and be unselfish enough
to take care of each other in this area
in order that Satan might be foiled in his attempts to get us
to defile ourselves. Lord, help us to keep ourselves pure as singles and also to keep
ourselves pure within marriage. And in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. All right, everybody. Take your hymnals, please. Go to hymn number 315. We'll be at
We'll begin. Take my life and let it be. Consecrated, Lord, to the hymn number
300 and 15. Sing it out with me on that first now.
Take my life and let it be. Consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take my hands and let them...
At the impulse of thy love, at the impulse of thy love,
Take my feet and let them be, swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my voice and let me sing.
Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise, let them flow in ceaseless praise, take my...