And what I want to preach about tonight is a subject that pretty much most people just
consider it kind of a case closed and, you know, why are we still talking about this
and does anybody actually still believe in this type of an issue.
But honestly, you know, we as Christians need to not just follow blindly what our society
tells us is right and our society tells us normal because there are a lot of things that
our society accepts that are just frankly wrong.
And keep your finger on Isaiah 7 and go over to Romans chapter number 12 because what I
want to preach about tonight is the subject of birth control.
And again, this is something that everybody pretty much agrees that it's acceptable, 99%
of people are doing it.
But honestly, if we look at the Bible tonight and examine this, we'll see that this is actually
not something that God wants us to do.
Now look if you would at Romans chapter 12 verse number 2, it says, and be not conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that
good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And that's what I want to point out to you that we need to prove what the will of God
is.
Not just say, well if everybody's doing it, if society says it's okay, if 99% of pastors
and churches are fine with it, let's just go with the flow.
No, he said we need to not just be conformed to the world and just follow their pattern,
but we need to be transformed, we need to renew our mind, and we need to prove for ourselves
what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The Bible says prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
And if you think about when David was going to face Goliath and Saul offered that David
might wear his armor.
And he tried it on and it just didn't seem to fit right, and he said I cannot use these
for I have not proved them, okay.
He hadn't tested them, that's what it means to prove something.
And so we should be careful what we just blindly do and what we use without testing it first
and proving it to see whether it is God's will, to see whether it's biblical.
Now when it comes to birth control, the statistics show that 99% of women ages 15 through 44
who have ever had intercourse have used at least one contraceptive method.
So according to the statistics by the Guttmacher Institute, 99% of women have used birth control.
Okay, so you say well this sermon is going to offend somebody, but you know what, that's
not the point though.
The question is, is it right?
Is it biblical?
Now out of the birth control that women use, the most popular method of birth control,
the number one method is the birth control pill, and specifically it is the combination
pill of estrogen and progestin.
So the number one most commonly used method of birth control today, and these are statistics
from 2010 and 2013 from the Guttmacher Institute, is the pill.
And in fact, four out of five women have used the pill as contraceptive.
And I'm going to demonstrate for you and explain to you right now, first of all, before
I get into the rest of the sermon, that birth control pills cause silent abortions.
If you are taking birth control pills, you are inadvertently literally killing your children.
And remember, this is the most commonly used birth control method.
So before we get into the subject from the Bible of whether birth control is right or
wrong, let me just start out by saying that the most commonly used, the most popular method
of birth control, the one that four out of five women have used, the one that is 28%
of women who use birth control are using it right now, is a pill that will literally cause
your unborn children to die.
Now let me explain to you why that is and then we'll move on.
But before I do, let me start out by proving to you from the Bible that life begins at
conception.
Okay, who here agrees that life begins at conception?
Say Amen.
Amen.
Yeah, it begins at conception.
Well, let's show it from the Bible.
Look down at your Bible at Isaiah chapter 7 verse 14.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, behold a virgin shall conceive and
bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.
Now flip over if you would to Matthew chapter 1 because in Matthew chapter 1, this exact
scripture is quoted in the New Testament.
In the Old Testament it said, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
Well in Matthew chapter 1 verse 23 the Bible reads, behold a virgin shall be with child
and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Immanuel which being interpreted
is God with us.
So isn't it interesting that in the Old Testament it says conceive and in the New Testament
it says shall be with child.
You know what that tells me?
That conception produces a child, not a blastocyst or an embryo or a fetus, but God considers
that a child.
Flip over to Hebrews chapter 11.
And while you're turning to Hebrews chapter 11, we're not going to turn to all these for
sake of time, but there are so many scriptures that we could use to prove that life begins
at conception.
For example, we could go to the fact that John the Baptist leaped in his mother's womb
when John the Baptist was brought in close proximity with Mary who was pregnant with
Jesus and the two children were in their mother's wombs.
And when John the Baptist got near Jesus, he leaped in his mother's womb.
That shows there was a spiritual connection there.
The Bible says that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb.
The Bible talks about the fact in Psalm 139 that God knows us in the womb and forms and
fascinates us.
And in fact, anyone who says that a baby in its mother's womb is not alive is just a complete
fool.
It's really only just the most atheistic, evil fool that would say such a thing other
than politicians who say it routinely because of the fact that they want to be elected in
liberal areas.
So they lie and say, I believe that life begins at birth.
I watched a debate one time between two politicians.
One was a Republican and one was a Democrat.
And they were running on the east coast in a very liberal area.
And the debate moderator asked them, when do you believe that life begins?
One of them said, birth.
And then they said to the other one, when do you believe life begins, birth.
Now that is so scientifically stupid and it's amazing to me today how the atheists will
claim to be so into science and we believe in the science.
But it's funny when you confront them with science that flies in the face of their wicked
ideology that all of a sudden they don't believe in science anymore.
Science will tell you it's alive.
I mean science will tell you that a tree is alive.
Science will tell you that an earthworm is alive.
But a human being living in its mother's womb, nine months gestation, one day away from being
born, they'll say it's not alive because they're liars and they worship Satan, that's why.
And they love death.
The Bible says all day they hate God, love death.
And that's what these people are.
They love death.
They're pro-death.
It's not pro-choice, it's pro-death.
Pro-life versus pro-death.
The Bible says choose life in the book of Deuteronomy.
But when we, excuse me, when we talk about life beginning at conception, the devil loves
to change the meaning of words.
Because if he can't get you to believe in the stupidity of some politician that tells
you, oh, it's not alive until it's born.
Well what he'll do then is try to change the definition of words.
And so he'll get Christians to agree, oh yeah, life begins at conception.
So then he'll change the definition of conception.
Now conception has historically always meant fertilization.
When the seed from the man and the egg from the woman come together and that egg is fertilized,
that has been known as conception.
But now they're starting to change the definition.
And even in some dictionaries, they'll put a definition that says, well, it's fertilization
or implantation.
I've even heard a Baptist preacher buy into this and say, well, life doesn't begin until
it's implanted.
Let's see what the Bible defines as conception.
Let's make the Bible our final authority.
The Bible says in Hebrews 11, verse 11, through faith also Sarah herself received strength
to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him
faithful who had promised.
So let me ask you this, could conceive seed refer to implantation?
Let me explain to you the terms here.
This is how the birds and the bees work, children.
I'm not going to go into any detail, don't worry.
Don't plug your kids' ears or anything.
But basically the seed from the man travels into the woman's body and finds the egg and
the egg is fertilized up toward the top of the fallopian tubes.
That fertilized egg, that developing child that's multiplying and growing and so forth
begins to travel down that tube until it gets to the uterus.
And when it arrives at the uterus, it implants itself into the wall of the uterus and then
eventually that's where the placenta is going to be attached and then there's going to be
a cord and the baby and so on and so forth.
But that developing life comes down that tube and implants in the wall of the uterus.
Now when the Bible says that she's received strength to conceive seed, notice that conception
is tied in with the seed, isn't it?
What's conception?
What's conceived?
She conceived seed, okay?
Now does the seed come from the man or the woman biblically?
The man of course.
When the man provides the seed, the woman has the egg.
And so what happens is that developing child travels down that tube and that trip takes
seven to fourteen days, okay?
So conception or fertilization takes place up here, then it travels down the tube and
seven to fourteen days later it implants in the wall of the uterus, okay?
Now this new definition of saying well conception is implantation.
Is the seed involved with implantation?
No because the seed is long gone.
The seed from the man fertilizes that egg and then all the seed is gone, okay?
And then a week goes by and then it implants.
How could you call implantation conceiving seed?
You can't.
There's no seed there anymore.
The seed has been gone for over a week.
So we see that the world's definition that's a new definition that they're twisting and
changing things to mean and that Planned Parenthood has pushed this new definition of conception
is not in tune with the Bible.
It's just a lie of the devil to try to get you to say oh yeah life begins at conception.
That's seven to fourteen days after fertilization.
You say well what's seven to fourteen days?
Oh that seven to fourteen days is important.
It's critical.
You ever heard of the day after pill?
And women today take what's called a day after pill or emergency contraception so that in
case they got pregnant they can take a pill that will then kill the developing child in
the womb.
You say well it's just such a small simple organism at that point but it's still a child.
It's still growing.
It's still alive.
You know you can't pick a time and say well I think it's okay up to three months or I
think it's okay to kill it up to six months.
No it's either the stupidity of the politicians who say birth or it's conception like the
Bible says.
Which one is it?
You know you can't just have some great well I think it's three months.
I think it's four months.
I think it's when the heart starts beating.
On what authority do you think that?
You know the Bible says that we don't know how the bones grow in the womb of her that
is with child.
We should not think that we can decide when it's alive when God says conception equals
a child when we compare Isaiah 7 14 to Matthew 1 23.
So here's how these birth control pills work.
The combination pill works according to two mechanisms.
There's a primary mechanism and then there's a backup mechanism okay.
The primary mechanism is to stop a woman from ovulating.
She does not release an egg therefore no pregnancy can occur.
Now if a woman just doesn't release an egg and no pregnancy occurs is any human life
being snuffed out?
Is anyone being killed?
No it's just no egg is produced and so there's not a pregnancy.
But there's the backup mechanism because if that was the only way birth control pills
worked where they just did made you not release an egg they would not be 99.9 percent effective
and let me tell you something birth control pills are 99.9 percent effective.
When you see women getting pregnant while they're using birth control pills it's usually
because they didn't take it consistently or something or they're lying and saying that
they're taking it when they're really not.
But according to the studies and research birth control pills are 99.9 percent effective.
Why are they so effective?
Because of the fact that they have a backup mechanism to make sure that if the primary
mechanism doesn't work the backup is there.
Here's the backup mechanism.
They actually harden the lining of the uterus itself making it impossible for the developing
blastocyst to implant in the wall of the uterus.
So that developing child that's 7 to 14 days old gets to the uterus and it cannot implant
and so it dies and is flushed out and the woman doesn't even know it.
And that there was a life there that was alive for 7 to 14 days and is snuffed out.
You say well how often is this happening?
Well it depends on what type of pill is being taken.
The most common pill the popular pill is the combination pill which is estrogen and progestin
combination breakthrough ovulation which is when an egg is released even though you're
taking the birth control pill occurs 5 to 60 percent of the time.
Okay let me get out my figures to make sure that I've got all this right here.
Five to sixty percent of the time breakthrough ovulation can occur.
Now it's different with different types of pills but for the basic combination pill five
to sixty percent of the time.
So just to put it in perspective even if we were to use the most conservative number there
that five percent of the time an egg is being released, a woman can get pregnant and basically
that child's going to die it would be happening every two years.
And the average woman is on these birth control pills for three decades.
That's what the statistics show that they use them for decades.
But if you go with the sixty percent figure this could be happening every other month
if you think about it.
You could be having a silent abortion literally every other month maybe it's happening once
every three months maybe it's happening every six months maybe it's happening once a year
or once every two years but the bottom line is it's happening and it's wicked to do that
to your body to turn it into this killing machine where it'll still produce the egg
that's going to be fertilized but then it's going to die.
That's why these birth control pills are so effective because they do that to the uterus.
Not only that but women who take these birth control pills then when they decide okay I
want to get pregnant now their uterus lining is still not the same and then they'll have
miscarriages because of the fact that the lining is still not right.
That's why even a doctor will tell you that if you've been on these pills you need to
take a few months and wait before you try to get pregnant again because your uterus
has to go back to normal and you have to metabolize all this junk these hormones that you've been
putting into your body.
Now there's another pill called the mini pill or the progesterone only pill the POP
as it's called.
These type of pills are hardly suppressing ovulation at all and they are mainly relying
on the backup mechanism and they are mainly just destroying the environment creating a
hostile if you actually look at the package insert as I've done I've taken the birth control
pills and literally read the package insert all that fine print says it creates a hostile
environment in the uterus for the developing blastocyst as they would call it.
So these mini pills or progesterone only pills are actually doing this even more often constantly
could be every other month that this is happening when you're on these type of pills.
Same thing with the Depro Provera patch the Depro Provera shot any hormonal birth control
method is an abortifacient that is causing you to have a silent abortion some percentage
of the time and we as Christians should just reject it outright as being manslaughter or
murder to take these type of pills knowing what they're doing to your body and knowing
what they're doing to your children.
We need to just reject it outright and say it's immoral it's sin it's wrong we shouldn't
do it.
That should be case closed for the most popular birth control method in America today.
Not only that but a lot of women will use what's called an IUD an interuterine device
this is where they put an actual object up into their bodies and and in order to again
stop the child from being able to implant it's not going to stop you from ovulating
necessarily but it'll stop the child from implanting.
Now we're starting to understand why it's called birth control not conception control.
It's not necessarily stopping you from conceiving it's stopping you from giving birth.
Doesn't mean that a life's not going to be created it's just going to die it's not going
to be born.
We as Christians need to wake up and realize that everything that the devil and the world
dishes out down at Walgreens is not something that we need to be purchasing and participating
in and we need to prove all things and we need to figure out what we're putting into
our body before we just put it into our bodies and we need to be careful with this stuff.
You say well you're condemning me because I've used it.
Look 99% of women have used it and if you didn't know any better well you can't change
the past you know shame on you for not knowing but hey everybody makes mistakes we've all
made mistakes but you need to now that you know the truth repent.
You know now that you know that it's wrong you need to decide well I'm never going to
use those I've never taken birth control pills now that I know what they're doing and not
only that I'm doing you a great favor by warning you about these things because honestly birth
control pills are very harmful to your health in the first place because of the fact that
they also increase your chances of getting blood clots and having a stroke and having
a heart attack can't you go you can go to the cancer dot what is it cancer.gov or whatever
even their main website and they'll talk about the fact that estrogen that's in these birth
control pills is a known carcinogen or something that causes cancer and I mean who has heard
research and things about estrogen being related with cancer you know estrogen being yeah it's
pretty common and so taking this synthetic estrogen in these birth control pills is increasing
your cancer risk, risk of blood clots and a lot of other bad things it's bad for your
health and it's bad it increases your risk for breast cancer it increases your risk for
a lot of other illnesses and so these things are bad for your body you say why are they
so popular why are so many women taking them well obviously somebody's making money selling
them number one and advertising them and telling you how great they are and number two because
women are just hell-bent on not having children apparently they just want and a lot of people
when you start criticizing the birth control pills well but what are we going to use I mean
what you know provide me with an alternative and I'll get to that in a little bit but as you say
you know well which method of birth control is acceptable you know what should we be using well
the short answer is nothing okay but I'll explain that more as we as we go through the sermon here
but first of all before I get into the Bible really heavily because I've got a lot of Bible
but I want to just say this if you look at the history of birth control in this country first
of all historically it's been considered ungodly and immoral to use birth control by Christian
people throughout history in fact it was illegal in the United States until the 20th century did
you know that totally illegal people were imprisoned things were see you know devices
were seized and you are not allowed to sell birth control in this country until the early
20th century the woman who is responsible for bringing birth control into the mainstream and
making it legal in the United States was a woman named Margaret Sanger now this Margaret Sanger
was a eugenicist she believed that white people were superior to other races and she would like
the Nazis you know believed that certain races were inferior to others and that we need to
encourage those people not to reproduce so that we can just have the good people reproduce and
the fittest and the strongest people reproduce and she was a big part of the eugenics movement
in the United States which by the way there was a really big eugenics movement in the United States
you know everybody always wants to pin that on the Nazis which is true that they were involved with
it but you know a lot of it they got from the United States this is where a lot of the eugenics
was pioneered okay and so she started an organization called the birth control Federation
of America and you know what the birth control Federation of America later changed its name to
Planned Parenthood which I call Planned Baron hood okay Planned Parenthood that wicked organization
that conservatives rail against for being pro-abortion and pro-death was actually originally
known as the birth control Federation of America so you can see the type of evil people that are
behind this agenda she's the one who pushed this through and got it legal in the United States she's
the one that promoted it and made it mainstream this wicked evil person named Margaret Sanger
who is an evolutionist and who was not a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ by any stretch of the
imagination preachers used to be against birth control you know one of the most famous Baptist
preachers of all times name is John R Rice and whether you love John R Rice or you're not a fan
of John R Rice isn't really the point he was a mainstream very popular independent Baptist
preacher that even a lot of people today look to as he wrote the hymnal is that we have is put out
by the sword of the Lord publishers which was founded by John R Rice okay and John R Rice said
this in 1946 he wrote a book in 1946 called the home where he dealt with all types of issues with
the family and children and discipline and so on and so forth here's what he said he said the use
of artificial means drugs and appliances to prevent conscious or to prevent conception has
for centuries been regarded as immoral wrong for the individual and dangerous to society as a whole
here's what else he said birth control measures if generally practiced would be disastrous to
public morals and public welfare he had three chapters in the book dedicated to this subject
one of the chapters is called birth control but he really deals with it for three straight chapters
in his book yet people today will act like oh you know what are you preaching you're you know you're
an independent Baptist and you're preaching against birth control you're wild you're crazy
you're fanatic but this is what everyone used to believe even John R Rice a mainstream popular
preacher that was accepted all over the nation and preaching everywhere was one who strongly
stood against birth control and wrote a whole book dedicated to exposing the agenda behind it
and so forth a lot of people when you say something against birth control will say oh you know you're
Catholic you know that's Catholic stuff you know what guess what even a broken clock is right twice
per day okay and so you know what the Catholics also believe in the Trinity and that's true too
you know the Catholics also say that Jesus died on the cross okay now obviously Catholicism is
a wicked false religion I'm not defending it but you know what everybody has something right it
doesn't that's like saying well you know you're just like Billy Graham because you both wear
pants you're but you're like Billy Graham because you wear pants and so does he I mean wouldn't that
be just stupid and ridiculous or what what about this oh oh you use the King James Bible you must
be Mormon that's what the Mormons use the King James version I mean isn't that a dumb way to
think about it that's just a dumb logic people accuse you of being Catholic because you believe
in replacement theology or because you believe in the fact that you know birth control is wrong but
you know in reality Catholics are complete hypocrites on this subject anyway because in
fact night data shows that ninety-eight percent of experienced women of childbirth age who identify
themselves as Catholic have used contraception other than natural family planning at some point
in their lives so ninety-eight percent of Catholics are using birth control so you know yeah they're
just being hypocrites about it anyway but anyway the bottom line is that biblically speaking God
wants us to have children and he wants us to be fruitful and multiply let's look at some
scriptures on this start out with me if you would in Genesis chapter 9 while you're in Genesis 9
I'll read for you from Genesis chapter 1 verse 28 the Bible says and God blessed them and God
said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth and you say well pastor Anderson God's just telling them to be fruitful
and multiply because there's only two of them obviously when there are only two people you're
gonna have to be fruitful and multiply but what you have to understand is that he used the word
replenish for a reason now if he were just talking to Adam and Eve only the word replenish would make
absolutely no sense because replenish means to refill well guess what it had never been filled
before so how can he tell them refill or replenish the reason he tells them to replenish is because
the fact that it is not a command just to Adam and Eve but rather command to all of mankind to
continually replenish the earth children are going to be born and people are going to die and it's
our job to be fruitful to multiply and to replenish the earth on an ongoing basis and the word
replenish proves that he was not speaking to just Adam only in that scripture but even so we have
tons of other scripture look at Genesis chapter 9 what God said to Noah and God blessed Noah and
his sons verse 1 and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth say pastor
Anderson there's only eight of them of course they need to replenish he says in verse 7 and
you be ye fruitful and multiply bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein
jump forward to Genesis 17 20 I'm gonna show you that this is a theme that comes up over and over
and this wasn't just Adam this wasn't just Noah over and over again God's people are told to be
fruitful and multiply it says in chapter 17 verse 20 and as for Ishmael I have heard thee behold I
have blessed him and I will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly twelve princes
shall he beget and I will make him a great nation go to chapter 28 verse 3 and by the way notice
that being fruitful and multiplying is always associated with blessing being blessed when
you're fruitful when you multiply that's a blessing in the Bible Genesis 28 verse 3 and
God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of
people flip over to chapter 48 and while you're going to chapter 48 I'll read for you chapter 35
verse 11 and God said unto him I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company
of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come out of thy loins Genesis 48 4 and said unto me
behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and I will make of thee a multitude of people
and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession go to Leviticus
chapter 26 and then we're gonna go to Exodus 1 go to Leviticus 26 and then we're gonna go to
Exodus 1 Leviticus 26 verse 9 for I will have respect unto you and make you fruitful and
multiply you and establish my covenant with you this is many years later this is when the
children of Israel are already numbering in the millions there are millions and millions of
children of Israel and they're out of Egypt and they're going into the promised land and God says
if you obey my voice and if you keep my commandments I will make you fruitful and I will multiply you
Deuteronomy chapter 1 you don't have to turn there you go to Exodus 1 but in Deuteronomy chapter 1
verse 11 Moses said this the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more
as you are and bless you as he had promised you how many Israelites were there that came with Moses
out of the land of Egypt millions there were 600,000 just the men of war that were of the
fighting age that means that there were probably three or four million people altogether and Moses
said God make you a thousand times as many that would be what three or four billion just for that
one nation of the children of Israel God wants his people to be fruitful and multiply and it's
a blessing when they do now in Exodus chapter 1 we have a story about the children of Israel
they've gone down into Egypt and when they went down into Egypt the Bible tells us in verse 5
and all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls for Joseph was in Egypt
already so the children of Israel they go down into Egypt are 70 souls 70 people and they're
going down to Egypt which is one of the most powerful nations in the world a great big giant
powerful nation they are 70 people let's fast forward a few hundred years and look what the
Bible says in verse 7 and the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and
multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty and the land was filled with them let me ask is our God's
people multiplying and look what the Bible says in verse 8 and there arose up a new king over Egypt
which knew not Joseph and he said unto his people behold the people of the children of Israel are
more and mightier than we so are the Egyptians multiplying at the same rate as the Israelites
no the Egyptians are obviously not multiplying and by the way if you go to Planned Parenthood's
website they'll tell you birth control was invented in ancient Egypt that's what Planned
Parenthood says on their website the oldest known birth control we found was found in ancient Egypt
and the Bible here shows us a contrast of God's people being fruitful multiplying and increasing
abundantly while the population of the worldly Egyptians is not keeping pace at all to the point
where 70 people outpace them and fill the land and multiply exceedingly and abundantly and the land
is just filled with them and they say the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier
than we now look Pharaoh here this evil king that wants to kill children later in the chapter
represents the devil you say prove it well there's another king who did something similar to this
where he wanted to kill babies what was his name King Herod right okay King Herod wanted to kill
all the children from two years old and under what about in Revelation 12 when that story is covered
and it says that the dragon wanted to devour the child as soon as it was born so who was behind
Herod wanted to kill the babies the dragon Satan okay so Satan is represented by this king of Egypt
that would want to murder young children and so what we see in this story is that number one God's
people multiplied greatly number two we see the devil didn't like it the devil is upset about it
so what's the devil gonna do about it to stop it let's read it it says in verse 10 come on let us
deal wisely with them lest they multiply and it come to pass that when they're fall without any
war they join also unto our enemies and fight against us and so get them up out of the land
they said look we need to do something about this we need to stop these people from multiplying
it says in verse 11 therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens
and they built for them for Pharaoh treasure cities Python and Ramses but the more they
afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew and they were grieved because of the children of
Israel and the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor and they made their
lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field
all their service wherein they made them serve with what was with rigor and what do we see here
in all these verses over and over again they're making them do what work and serve with rigor and
have burdens and have to do all this hard work and be in bondage but even in spite of all that
they keep multiplying and growing don't they so look what the next step is it says in verse number
15 and the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives of the name which the name of the one
was Shiphrah and the name of the other Pua and he said when you do the office of a midwife to the
Hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a
daughter then she shall live but the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them but saved the men children alive so what do we see here in this story number one
God's people are multiplying greatly number two the devil doesn't like it number three he afflicts
them with burdens hard work servitude and makes their lives rigorous and difficult and then number
four he instructs the Hebrews to murder their children because he has the heat he doesn't go
kill him he doesn't send his troops to do it he has the Hebrew midwives slay the children and of
course they feared God they refused to do it now do you expect me to believe that in 2014 the devil
today doesn't mind when God's people multiply he's okay with it you know the devil hated it
back in Exodus chapter 1 he was grieved when God's people multiplied but today the devil wants us all
to have children and and and raise godly children right no the devil today is grieved when he sees
God's people multiplying and he says come on let's deal wisely with them and you know what he's done
to make God's people have to not multiply or they don't have to because in this story we have people
who continue to do right but you know what the devil has done to try to stop God's people from
multiplying as he says you know what let's put them to work and notably he wants to put the
women to work put the women to work that'll stop them from multiplying because what was the devil's
answer in Exodus 1 he said put him to work and then kill the ones that are conceived and that's
exactly what the devil's agenda is today he says number one send the women to work and then they
won't be able to reproduce because they're not going to be able to miss work they're not going
to be able to take care of the kids so they're going to be so busy with their job they're going
to be forced to use birth control and then not only that but the ones that they would conceive
we will slay them through what birth control pills that do cause silent early abortions
and also through abortion itself surgical abortion itself that's what God or that's what the devil
has promoted today he's promoted women working and he's promoted abortion now the united states
department of labor has these statistics for 2013 that women participating in the labor force
in 2013 that are of a working age is 57.2 percent and men working is 69.7 percent it's not even that
different i mean think about it today men are working at a rate of about 70 69.7 percent and
women are working at a rate of about 57 percent it's only about what a 12 percent difference
between the men working versus the women were it didn't used to be that way folks
it used to be that men went out to work and the women stayed home that was the norm that was the
accepted uh societal norm that men would go to work and provide and that the women would stay
home marry bear children and guide the house i think i read that in the bible first timothy
chapter 5 verse 14 that women would use the new testament look i'm so sick of people rejecting
the teachings of the old testament he that is of god heareth god's words ye therefore hear them not
because you're not of god and the old testament is just as much god's word as the new testament
i'm sick of this what about the new testament the new testament teaches the same thing as the
old testament i mean what do you think it's like the book of mormon where it's just some other
testament that just teaches totally different things no the new testament confirms and
strengthens the teachings of the old testament and the same things are taught in both old and
new testament the reason we turn to the old testament a lot is because it's longer
the old testament is four times as long as the new testament so there's more scripture to preach from
oh you're always in the old testament no we're just in the old testament three or four times
as much because there's more of it not even trying to do that it's just the way that it
works out because the new testament is short but this stuff is confirmed in the new testament the
new testament says that women should marry i will god's will i will therefore that women
marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully
for some are already turned aside after satan that's what the bible says
are there women today who turn aside after satan i'm sure that there are
and you know what one way to stop that would be if they would marry bear children and guide the
house now look i understand that there are exceptions because there are women who are
in situations and maybe they've made mistakes in the past or maybe they're suffering from
mistakes that someone else made in their life or whatever that's not the point okay obviously
people are in different situations for a variety of reasons but the question is what's god's will
the question is what does god want us to do yeah we can get in positions where we're in a situation
that's not ideal through our sin or someone else's sin but according to the bible there's a plan and
it's called the family and it's what we grow up in as children where we have a mother and a father
raising us this is the ideal situation folks a mother and a father raise us then we grow up
and we get married and we leave our father and mother and go directly to our spouse and we cleave
unto our wife or cleave unto the husband and we become one flesh and then we produce children
together and have our own family that is god's plan and the men go to work and the women stay
home and bear children and guide the house that's what the bible teaches in both old and new testament
you say what about me i'm in this situation i'm divorced my husband left me or my husband doesn't
provide he doesn't have a job or he wants me to work and so he's telling me to go to work
look i understand there are all these other situations but that's not what the sermon's
about today the sermon's about the right way of doing things i mean we could talk about all the
problems and all the wrong things and all the bad situations in the world but that would take all
night wouldn't it but you know what there are plenty of people in this room that are not in a
bad situation there are plenty of men in this room that can go out and work and provide for
their family and that's what they need to be doing and they need to be saying to their wives honey
you stay home and you have children and raise those children and i'll go out and bring home
the bacon that's what we need a generation of god's people to be fruitful multiplied i'm sure
that not every single person in the nation of israel was being fruitful multiplying at this time
but in general as a whole the majority were and that's the way it should be amongst god's people
are there going to be exceptions to the rule of course are there some women who are barren and
cannot have children well eventually they always got a child in the bible eventually if they prayed
and sought the lord eventually they did but either way some had one child some had two children god's
not always going to choose to bless you with a lot of children you know isaac and rebecca
were godly people they waited 20 years and had a set of twins and that's all they had but you know
what though that's all god gave them they weren't purposely going out and using birth control to
prevent you know god might give you like he's given me eight children so far and he's given
some people one child two children uh other people he he's given even more that he's given me you know
there's a guy in the bible named he-man that had 14 sons and three daughters but whatever god gives
me i'm going to accept it as a blessing from god but this story that we see playing out in exodus
chapter one is the devil's modus operandi in 2014 as well same thing put the women to work
and then slay the unborn that's the plan you say okay pastor anderson you've at least convinced me
that the birth control pills are wrong because they are taking a life i mean how can you be
against the morning after pill and not against normal birth control pills when the morning after
pill is just a high dosed birth control pill that's all it is the morning after pill contains
the same hormones at a higher dose that will just quickly change the lining of the uterus to make it
a hostile environment for the child that's why it works but you say well pastor anderson okay i'm
convinced that uh you know birth control pills are the wrong way to go they're abort efficient
but what about other birth control methods i mean come on are you telling me that birth
controls is wrong and that there's no acceptable birth control method in a word yes but let's just
go through the methods quickly and i don't want to you know i'm not going to get into any detail
or be graphic or anything but there are a few different types of methods go to genesis chapter
38 if you would genesis chapter 38 because genesis 38 is the only mention of birth control in the
entire bible and if someone else has another mention of birth control see me after the service
because i'd like to see it to my knowledge and i'm not perfect i don't know everything and maybe
somebody's going to show me after the service where i'm wrong to my knowledge genesis 38 is
the only instance of birth control in the entire bible from genesis revelation and again i'm open
to being corrected on that but in genesis 38 we see a man using birth control and guess what his
wife was not on the pill they didn't have the pill back then he did not give his wife a pill and say
hey you need to take this at the same time every day and you need to go see the doctor to get your
prescription filled no onan used a more primitive type of birth control method it says in verse 8
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 was considered to be responsible is that what it says no it says the
thing which he did displeased the lord wherefore he slew him also now god did not just frequently
in the bible just kill people where he personally killed somebody but this is a guy that god actually
personally killed and why did he kill him for spilling it on the ground he went in unto his wife
to raise up seed unto his brother he knew that the seed should not be his and so he decided to spill
it on the ground god got angry and killed him not a very good advertisement for birth control right
here in genesis 38 it's not looking good and and especially when you realize this is the only
mention of birth he said oh pass rioter so you poor ignorant fool don't you realize that the
reason why god was mad at onan was the reason why he spilled it on the ground why what was wrong
with his reason because you know what there was nothing wrong in those days with not raising up
seed unto your brother because you were allowed to do it you just the girl would slap you in the
face and and so forth remember that whole ritual you know she'll slap you in the face and loose the
shoe and do all that and you know spit on your whatever but you know you don't have to do it
god did provide allowance that hey if you don't want to take your brother's wife and raise up
seed unto your brother you don't have to why is god so mad at this guy because he goes in unto her
and then spills it on the ground okay now you say well it's because he did it for a selfish reason
yeah but everybody who uses birth control is doing it for a selfish reason
name for me a birth control motivation that's not selfish
more money less work easier life these are the type of well it's my carbon footprint oh okay
whatever you're so unselfish but you can sit there and say that all you want but this is the only
example god gave and it's a negative example of birth control when onan spilled it on the ground
go to psalm 105 psalm 105 you know i wrote psalm 105 but i'm pretty sure it's actually psalm 106
go to psalm 106 i i could be wrong let me turn there and find out
my notes are telling me 105 but my mind is telling me 106
yeah it's 106 psalm 106 and look down at verse number 35 this is about the children of israel
it says they were mingled among the heathen and learned their works and they served their idols
which were a snare unto them and by the way covetousness is idolatry the bible says
you know and when you're going to sit there and live a life that's about amassing money and wealth
and toys and cars and trucks and boats that can be idolatry and the bible says that they were
mingled among the heathen and learned their works and they served their idols which were a snare
unto them and by the way the new testament talks about serving mammon he says the love of money is
the root of all evil and you cannot serve god and mammon and these people are serving idols and it
says in verse 37 yay they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils and shed innocent
blood even the blood of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed under the idols of
canan and the land was polluted with blood and they were defiled with their own works and went
a whoring with their own inventions so here we see people that are killing their own children
that's the birth control pills that we talked about with inventions even it says but then you
say well you know what about the onan method well we saw how that ended up for onan and it didn't
look good you say okay well what other methods are there there's got to be an acceptable method
out there of birth control well these are the basic classifications of birth control methods
first of all you have hormonal birth control and that's going to include your your iud's that
release hormones these myrena ring thing and the patch and the shot and the mini pill and the
combination all hormonal birth control methods will put those in the same category and those
should be immediately ruled out of being manslaughter or if you do it intentionally on
purpose it would be murder if you do it by accident it's manslaughter okay those are
ruled out well then another method that people would use is the onan method we'll call it you
know spilling it on the ground you know the bible isn't really saying anything positive about that
method then another method that people would use is is a barrier method is what they'll call it
and to me a barrier method is pretty much the same thing as onan's method you know i'll put it
in the same category personally okay and then another method that's pretty popular amongst
catholics and this is what the catholics teach that you should be doing is called natural family
planning or nfp now natural family planning you know you're not really using birth control per
se because you're not using barriers you're not using the pills or anything like that
oh and i forgot another uh birth control method what i call mutilation
either the man or the woman mutilates themselves or you know has a surgery that mutilates their
body so that they become infertile but you know natural family planning now i'm just going to say
it right now i'm against natural family planning i don't believe in it i do not think that it is
a good way to uh to well i i don't believe there's any way and i'm going to get to how my children
because because think about this i have eight children are my children all nine months apart
my children are approximately two years apart and we do not use any birth control we use none
zero zilch okay the only birth control method we use is getting on our knees and praying for
god to give us more children that's our only birth control that we use okay but we never use
any so how and i'll explain to you a little later how our children are two years apart and we do not
use natural family planning nfp this is also sometimes known as the rhythm method we do not use
it and i'm repeating this because people often mistakenly think oh pastor anderson you know
believes in natural family planning or pastor anderson is you know believes in the rhythm no
i don't i've never taught that never believed that we don't use it none of our children are spaced
through natural family planning okay i'll explain to you a little later how our children are
naturally spaced without using any birth control method whatsoever but natural family planning and
if you would flip over to first corinthian seven natural family planning is where you chart out
a woman's cycle and they they they chart out her monthly cycle and sometimes they'll use computer
software smartphone app different charts maybe even take your temperature and and chart all this
data and enter it into a computer and this software will tell you when you are the most
fertile each month and what you'll do is you'll have a blackout period where for maybe three help
me out with this juja how long is the blackout window in natural family planning five to seven
days so there's about five to seven days a month that are blacked out as okay this is the time when
she's most likely to get pregnant so if you abstain during these five to seven months she's probably
not going to get pregnant that's called natural family planning or the rhythm method now a lot of
catholics will use this and this is what the catholic church promotes and they'll say this
they'll say well you know god could still make you get pregnant if he wanted to so it's not
really birth control you know it's just kind of like well you know it could still be but but
here's the here's why i'm against natural family planning because of the fact that first of all
there's another big blackout period each month if you know what i mean so now we have two major
blackouts each month number one okay but number two the fact is that during the blackout period
is actually the best time for a husband and his wife to hit the sack because that's actually when
a woman is going to enjoy it the most you know i'm not trying i'm keeping this g-rated but it's
just a scientific fact that women actually desire intimacy the most during that period why because
when their body is ovulating and when they are releasing that egg and able to become pregnant
they naturally desire that union with their husband so it's isn't it kind of foolish to
black out the best part of the month for intimacy between husband and wife and say well okay the
best time for doing it the best week we're not going to do it that week that's not very good for
your marriage okay especially because now you have these two big blackout periods each month
so half the month is x'd off the calendar okay but not only that look what the bible says in
first corinthians chapter seven let me turn there myself it says in verse number one now concerning
the things where have you wrote unto me it is good and by the way not only that also it's been
scientifically proven that a man finds his wife the most attractive during those seven days as
well by the way so that's just the best time all the way around but look what it says in verse
number one it says now concerning the things where have you wrote unto me it is 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 let the husband render unto the wife do benevolence
and likewise also the wife unto the husband that 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 you may use natural family planning
is that what it says it says except to be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves
to fasting and prayer and come together again that satan tempt you not for your incontinence
what is the purpose of god saying hey do not abstain from a physical relationship with your
spouse do not defraud one the other he said because you don't want satan to tempt you
for your incontinence and the blackout period of natural family planning is the time when the
husband and wife would be the most open to temptation so and and god's not even making
any allowance for it here he's not teaching us that hey abstain every month in order not to have
children no children are a blessing they're supposed to be fruitful and multiplying we're
supposed to be having lots of children according to the bible psalm 127 says this and if you would
turn to hosea one hosea chapter one psalm 127 3 lo children are in heritage of the lord and the
fruit of the womb is his reward as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the
youth happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall
speak with the enemies in the gate god says children are a blessing we should want to have
our quiver full of them wait it's a joy and a blessing and a good thing to have children so
when you teach this and you say hey be fruitful multiply increase abundantly exceedingly have
children don't use birth control you don't need to be onan you don't need to murder your own
children you don't need to sit there and abstain from a physical relationship from your spouse
during the best parts of the month no the bible is telling us to have children
people will say this well if you do that you're just going to get pregnant every nine months
and that's not healthy that's what they'll say won't they if you heard this opposition
what are you going to do have a bunch of irish twins you know iris twins is when you have two
children within the same year and they're not twins they're irish twins meaning that you're
just having kids every nine ten months now personally i don't think that that's healthy
for women to have children every nine or ten months and frankly that's why god didn't design
it that way and that's why even though my wife and i use no birth control we do not have children
every nine or ten months you say pastor anderson how do you do it how are you not having children
every 11 12 months pastor anderson what's the deal what's your secret well here's the thing
this used to be information that was passed down from mothers to their daughters
but this information has fallen off the face of the earth unfortunately so now your pastor has
to teach you in church of all places but actually the answer is in the bible because look down at
your bible there at hosea chapter 1 verse 8 and by the way the answer is always in the bible
sometimes it's hard to find sometimes it's not obvious but the answer is always in the bible
hosea chapter 1 verse 8 says this now when she had weaned low ruhamah she conceived and
vera's son when did this woman conceive when she weaned why because breastfeeding will stop you
from getting pregnant period now you say oh i don't believe it i have the hoax old wives fable
okay look at my family back there and tell me it's an old wives fable
if it's an old wives fable then why is it that my wife and i have been having a physical
relationship for all these many months since boaz has been born and yet she's not pregnant
how are we doing it what's the secret are we using natural family planning no own and style
no wall greeds no cbs no how are we doing it because she's breastfeeding the baby
you say wow that doesn't work for everybody but here's the thing
it doesn't work for everybody because of the fact that people don't do it right now again
i'm not saying that there's never going to be an exception to this where a fluke could happen and
a woman could get pregnant whatever look there's always a chance that she's going to be pregnant
look there's always a chance for a fluke to happen and the exception proves the rule
but it is 99 effective if you do it properly if you breastfeed on demand your child that will
prevent you from getting pregnant again until it is naturally safe to do so look god designed it
in his wisdom think about how smart god is god designs it where a woman gives birth to a child
and then breastfeeding that child keeps her from getting pregnant again until her body has
a chance to recover and then by the time the child is older and grown and and you know able to eat a
lot of solids and breastfeeding less and less then the woman's fertility will come back and
then she'll be able to have the next child i mean if you look at how children are spaced in the
bible they're not just back to back you look at a lot of children where it actually gives us the
spacing because the bible doesn't usually give us the spacing but some examples where we get the
spacing is like with shim ham and jfeth we can calculate the spacing we can also calculate the
spacing with miriam aaron and moses and they were like two or three years apart when we look at the
spacing in those situations how do they do it through breastfeeding now these are the rules
though in order for this to be effective and the fancy name for this is lactation amenorrhea
all right and this is not a birth control method because we were you know we were going to
breastfeed the kid anyway it's just called doing it normal it's called just having your kid and
feeding it the way god planned so this isn't natural family planning that's why i want to
make sure there's no confusion here this is not a birth control method this is not using birth
control and yet having children that are spaced normally and naturally and healthy but this is
why it doesn't work for most people because if you put your kid on a four-hour feeding schedule
not gonna work it's popular to say oh feed your kid every four hours on the nose four-hour feeding
schedule not gonna work you must feed the child on demand meaning when it's hungry feed it and
with a newborn that's pretty much every hour so when my wife has a little baby she's feeding the
baby constantly she's nursing it constantly okay that's one of the rules okay number two
the baby has to sleep in bed with you because if you don't have the baby in bed with you
then you can't feed it on demand throughout the night every hour i mean well you know you're not
going to get up every hour and sit there and and you know people make it so much harder than they
have to they get up they feed the baby or especially if they're doing formula feeding you
know they get up they heat it up they get it going there and people always ask my wife and i
you know they'll ask us you know hey are you guys getting any sleep and honestly we usually sleep
pretty well after a baby's born we're like yeah we slept all night just fine now we've had some
sleepless nights usually when they get older and they fuss and we have issues but honestly
when my wife just had a baby often we will sleep like babies you know we'll sleep perfectly why
because this is how my wife feeds the baby in the middle of the night she rolls over sticks the
breast in its mouth and falls back to sleep without even getting up without doing anything
she's just laying there sleeping the baby starts squirming and she grabs it puts it on there and
done feed in your sleep what's the point of staying up and torturing yourself okay that's how
she does now a lot of people will say oh baby in bed with you that's a bassinet next to the bed no
see and this is why it doesn't always work for people because they don't
follow the protocol that's going to work they try to do a four-hour feeding schedule
they're supplementing with bottles they're they're having the baby in a bassinet or a crib or
something like that no the baby has to be in bed with you okay you say well no you know you're
going to roll over and it's going to die well that's a myth you know the woman who overlaid
it in the bible was probably drunk or on drugs she was a prostitute for crying out loud okay
and you know to show bible on this in luke chapter 11 in the parable where the father is giving the
holy spirit he said you know my children are now in bed with me you know so throughout history a
lot of times people have had the baby in bed with them we've always had you know the baby in bed
with us and it you know we say well how can you have a relationship with your wife well you know
what my wife and i seem to be having a physical relationship if you look at the children we're
producing i don't think we have a problem in that area you know but there are other places in the
house okay but the bottom line is then there are other times but the bottom line is that at night
during sleep time the baby should be fed throughout the night and that will prevent you from becoming
pregnant too soon in an unhealthy way and like i said we've we've got the proof right there you
know seven seven spaces there that are naturally spaced and if you tell that to a doctor they'll
laugh in your face but you know what doctors believe a lot of foolish things and it is a fact
it is true there are all kinds of scientific reasons why it works and it's what we do it's
what we see in the bible and and uh you know unfortunately most women have never even heard of
this never even been taught these things but in reality it's it's the way to go so let me just
wrap up the sermon by saying this you know society has a certain agenda and it's of the devil
and that society is to that societal agenda is to promote birth control society wants you using
birth control i think exodus 1 shows us why because the devil doesn't like it when god's
people multiply and while the mormons are multiplying and while the muslims are multiplying
god's people are having 2.5 children and it's a shame we as god's people need to multiply
abundantly and churches would be filled with a new generation that's growing up and learning
the word precept upon precept line upon line and they're going to grow up and be by the army for
the lord but instead people are refusing to have kids because they're serving the idols of this
world and chasing after materialism or they're buying into the ideology of the satan worshiper
margaret sanger because they're being brainwashed by tv and school and everything else or they're
believing in this environmental junk that oh the earth's overpopulated and we need to reduce the
population down to 500 million in all this garbage you know what that is of satan that agenda this
world's not going to be here forever oh but in the year 2335 the population is going to be too
high this world's not going to be here forever jesus is going to come back at some point and
let the heathen you know puncture themselves with iud's and pump themselves full of drugs that make
their wife you know grow a beard and everything else you know let them pump all the birth control
let the egyptian population stabilize but let god's people become more and mightier
by following god's advice to be fruitful and multiply and by viewing children as a blessing
listen to me birth control has been a very big factor in the moral decline of this country period
that's what john r rice said what happened in 1946 he said if this stuff ever were generally used
it'll destroy morality and that's what it has done you know why even today i've been
hearing from more and more christians that they think fornication is okay
because the the bibles these new versions now the niv and so forth they take out the word
fornication and they replace it with sexual immorality now you know what immorality means
pretty much whatever you want to it to mean and there are more and more christians today that are
saying well as long as you're not a whoremonger as long as you're not sleeping around as long
as you're not just a complete loose promiscuous woman it's okay before marriage i'm starting to
hear it when i was a teenager kids in my youth group believed in a baptist church and more and
more with these new versions and with this wicked ideology you're hearing this teaching that says
hey it's okay to go to bed with somebody that you're not married to just don't commit adultery
and just don't be a whoremonger but let me tell you something that kind of stupidity would not
even be possible without birth control because you'd be producing all these bastard children
i mean think about it if you didn't have birth control and you taught young people hey it's
okay to you know in a committed boyfriend girlfriend relationship to have this relationship
you'd be producing bastard children all over the place it doesn't even make any sense but birth
control has allowed people to start thinking that way yeah i can fool around i can experiment i can
be with a few people no it's wicked we need to stay pure until we're married we need to abstain
from that relationship until we're married and then when we're married we can enjoy that
relationship and we can enjoy the product of that relationship children and you say well i don't
want to have that many children well you know what it doesn't matter what you want because
you're not your own you're bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body and in your
spirit which are gods and the world will say my body my choice no your body is the temple of the
holy ghost which is in you and you're not your own you're bought with a price therefore glorify
god in your body and in your spirit with the gods and look you say well i can't afford it look god
knows what you can and can't afford if god gives you a child he'll provide he'll provide all your
need according to his riches and glory by christ jesus and if he thinks you're not ready for a
child he won't give you one because he opens and closes the womb and if he decides that that you
can't afford another one he won't give you another one if he decides that it's his will that you have
two children you'll have two just like ising and rebecca and if it's god's will that you have one
child you'll have one child just like sarah had and if it's god's will that you have 10 children
you'll have 10 unless you kill them or unless you use barrier methods and natural family planning
and by the way this stuff destroys marriages you know the divorce rate increasing also has to do
with the use of birth control because you know having a normal relationship with your spouse
actually improves your marriage having a normal natural physical relationship with your spouse
is good for marriage and today we've we've corrupted that relationship with all these
weird methods because these pills they affect women psychologically they affect women physiologically
it's true look you don't think that taking hormones is going to change their personality
hello even men who take hormones men who take steroids have you ever heard of roid rage
not road rage roid rage because men who take steroids get angry and aggressive and it's a
mind-altering thing and so are these birth control pills and they create all kinds of changes in a
woman's body that are not conducive to that marital relationship and i'm here to tell you today that
god's way is the best way the natural way the christian way and if you would get on god's
program by faith and just step out in faith and say i'm going to do it god's way you know what
you'll find that god will provide and that god will give you a lot of joy and happiness in your
life and god's going to bless you because the path to god's blessing is through the door of obedience
and so we need to stop leaning on our own understanding trust in the lord with all
thy heart and lean not unto thy known understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall
direct thy paths do you believe that okay god never told you to use birth control and every
example of it's bad so why don't you just do it god's way and you know you say well i'm still
waiting for my first child you know just be patient keep praying god waited 20 years to give
isaac and rebecca a child be patient wait upon the lord let him direct your paths you say well
i'm afraid god's going to give me too many children i'm going to have my own reality show
or something but here's the thing you know what god's going to give you the right amount
just trust him just trust him and let the chips fall where they may now so far i have eight
children i'm 33 years old say what in the world but here's the great thing you say well how many
are you going to have it's going to be crazy but here's the great thing eventually they're going
to start becoming adults and leaving so you're going to get to a certain point where you reach
critical mass because they start leaving and then the new ones keep coming in you know and so you're
there's it's going to max out at some point i mean i i mean i'm hoping that this vehicle is the last
vehicle i have to buy because we have a 12 passenger van and i'm hoping that we can make
that thing work until the bitter end okay because you know we fit nine people into an eight passenger
for a long time you know we can squeeze 13 into that beast out there and so you know i'm i'm
planning on you know that being the final vehicle god willing but you know what though whatever god
has in store he's going to provide i'm just going to trust him and just keep doing it the old
fashioned way and enjoying every minute of it let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer
father we thank you so much for your word lord and we thank you for your wisdom because frankly
without your word and your wisdom we'd be following the way of this world just like the
99 is doing lord but god you've opened our eyes help us to not stick our head in the sand and
ignore the truth but lord help us to uh hearken unto these scriptures and hearken unto these
principles and bless us with many children i pray that you would bless me personally with more
children if you would see fit lord and also bless the people of our church lord i know that there
are those who would like to have children or like to have more children lord i pray that you would
just bless them and open the womb and make them fruitful and multiply them lord we love you in
jesus name we pray amen