Great to be here tonight.
I love the new building.
I love what you've done with the place.
You kept the signature wood background,
but it looks a lot sharper than the old place.
I think it's a better location
and just an all around step up.
So I'm glad to be here and help celebrate
getting into the new place.
The title of my sermon tonight
is Woe Unto Them That Call Evil Good.
Woe Unto Them That Call Evil Good.
I'll get to more in this chapter later on,
but let's just start out there in verse number 20
where the Bible reads,
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil
that put darkness for light and light for darkness
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Now what does that mean, woe unto them?
It means you do not wanna be these people
because these are people upon whom God
is going to cloud up and rain.
Woe unto them means that they are going to be
the object of God's wrath.
They're gonna be the objects of God's punishment
or at least the object of God's chastening or chastisement.
You do not want to be the type of person that does this.
And let me tell you something,
this abounds in our world today.
We live in a crazy world today
where so many things are backwards.
And it's not even just that they call evil good
and good evil.
The Bible says they'll put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
They'll put light for dark and dark for light.
I mean, it's just crazy.
And we need a reality check from the word of God.
We need a reality check from the Bible.
We need a sanity check from the Bible.
Now, if you would flip over to 2 Timothy chapter one,
2 Timothy chapter number one in the New Testament,
while you're turning there,
I'll read for you from Romans chapter 12 verse two,
and be not conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The Bible is saying,
we don't want to be conformed to this world.
And the way that we get transformed
so that we can be different from this world
is to get our mind renewed.
We need a reboot on our mind.
And we go to the word of God
and it's like pushing a spiritual reset button
to get our feet back on the ground
and to get our mind back into the realm of sanity
from this insane world
that's constantly trying to tell us
that things are different than they really are
and trying to give us this upside down way of thinking.
Look at 2 Timothy chapter one verse seven.
For God has not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power and of love,
and watch this, of a sound mind.
God's spirit brings sanity.
It brings sanity to an insane world.
And the Bible says,
God has given us spirit of a sound mind.
And then look at the next phrase.
Be not thou therefore ashamed
of the testimony of our Lord.
Anytime we see the word therefore,
we got to see what it's there for.
It's always pointing to what was just said.
So he's saying, look, God gave us a sound mind.
So therefore don't be ashamed
of the testimony of our Lord.
See, it's crazy to be ashamed of the Bible.
It's crazy.
He said, look, God's given us not the spirit of fear.
It's the spirit of fear
that would be ashamed of the word of God
when the word of God is our dearest treasure.
God's given us a spirit of power
and of love and of a sound mind.
And what does that have to do with not being ashamed?
Because you'd be crazy to be ashamed of the word of God
when the word of God is the greatest thing on this earth.
It's the greatest book on this planet.
It's the most beautiful literature.
It's the most powerful spiritual meat that we have.
It's written by God himself.
Why would you be ashamed of anything that the Bible says
when God is always right about every subject all the time?
So why would you be ashamed?
What we ought to be ashamed of
are the sinful and wicked things of our world.
But instead many times we'd be ashamed of the word of God.
That's crazy.
That's backwards.
It's nuts.
Jesus said in Mark chapter eight,
whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words
in this adulterous and sinful generation
of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed
when he cometh in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.
You know, adultery is a shameful act.
Even worldly people would be ashamed of adultery, okay?
Evilness and adultery is what we ought to be ashamed of.
But in a backwards world they call good evil,
they call evil good,
and then people are trying to hide the fact
that they believe the Bible,
hide the fact that they're a Christian,
when in reality there's nothing more glorious
than being a Christian and having the word of God.
It's the exact opposite of what we should be ashamed of.
It's backwards to be ashamed of the word of God.
Let me give you some specific examples tonight.
Number one, we live in a world
where fools are considered wise
and wise men are considered fools.
Go if you would to First Corinthians chapter number three.
First Corinthians chapter number three.
And of course, while you turn there,
I'm just gonna quote you the famous verse
from Psalm 14 one and Psalm 53 one,
where it says, the fool had said in his heart,
there is no God.
The fool had said in his heart, there is no God.
Anyone who actually in their heart believes
that there's no God is a fool.
A lot of people say that there's no God,
but in their heart, they're like, God, if you're out there,
you know, and they're kind of praying to God at times
and asking him to reveal himself.
But someone who's actually convinced that there's no God,
folks, that's not logical.
That doesn't make sense.
That's foolish.
But today, people who believe in the Bible,
people who believe that God created the heaven and the earth
are considered fools today.
And men who believe that the universe
created itself from nothing are considered wise.
Folks, that's backwards.
Woe unto them that would turn that upside down.
Look at first Corinthians chapter three, verse 18.
Let no man deceive himself.
If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool that he may be wise.
Now, stop for a second.
Obviously, God does not want us to lack intelligence.
There's no glory in being dumb.
And some of these people will almost glorify,
well, I'm just a simple country boy and I don't know.
Well, you know what?
Learn how to read, read the word of God, get some smarts.
It's never something to be proud of
that you lack information or lack knowledge
or lack understanding or lack wisdom.
Hey, we should all know how to read.
We should all be growing in knowledge.
Hey, fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Anybody who's like, oh, instruction,
oh, learning, education, you know.
Well, you know what?
You just told us something about yourself there.
Wise man will hear and will increase learning.
That's what the Bible says.
So we want to learn.
We want to seek after knowledge and wisdom.
God says that we should go after those things
like if we were going after a buried treasure
and how they're better and more valuable
than gold or silver or rubies,
we should be, according to the book of Proverbs,
constantly on a quest for knowledge
and wisdom and understanding.
God's not actually telling you,
hey, I want you to be dumb here
so you can be a better Christian.
Folks, read it carefully.
He says, if any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world.
He's not saying, hey, if anybody's wise,
tone that down a little bit, get a little bit dumber.
He says, if any of you seems to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool.
And you know what the implication there is?
He's not saying actually to become a fool
because that would contradict all the scriptures
telling us not to be a fool.
He's telling us become a fool in the eyes of this world.
If any man, you gotta get the context there, right?
Because the context is if any man among you
seemeth to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool in the eyes of this world
that he may actually be wise in the eyes of God.
Why?
Because the next verse says,
for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
For it is written, he taketh the wise
in their own craftiness, and again,
the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise
that they are vain.
So the Lord, he knows everything.
He knows everything that every expert knows,
every science expert, every history expert,
every math expert, every language expert,
every expert in every area,
God already knows all those things.
And he knows what's important
and he knows what's not important.
And he knows that if you gain the whole world
and lose your own soul, it doesn't profit you.
And he also knows that in the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth.
And he knows that this idea of things originating
out of thin air, just out of nothing,
and the things coming to life by themselves,
he knows those are vain and foolish thoughts
that are not real.
And so the Bible says in verse 18,
let no man deceive himself,
because in many cases, that's who is primarily deceived
by these people who think that they're so smart.
A lot of people on the outside can see
that they're not as smart as they think that they are.
This world today calls good evil and evil good.
They put sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet.
And in many cases, fools are considered wise
and wise men are considered fools.
Why don't you just accept something right now?
If you're gonna be a fundamentalist Christian,
you're gonna be considered uneducated by this world.
You're gonna be considered ignorant.
You're gonna be considered to be lacking knowledge.
It doesn't matter how much you learn.
It doesn't matter how smart you get.
They're gonna look at you and say,
oh, you're one of these ignorant Christians.
You reject science.
It wouldn't matter what you learn about science.
There are always gonna be those people that say that
because of the fact that if you seem to be wise
in the eyes of this world,
God's looking at that and saying,
you know what, you're probably a fool
because that's who the world lifts up.
That's who the world exalts.
The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
And if we want to be actually wise,
sometimes we may have to look like a fool
in the eyes of this world.
And you know what?
That's okay.
Because this world has the taste in wisdom
like a little kid has in food.
Think about how kids, they don't know what food is.
Now, the word connoisseur is someone who actually knows.
Because if you speak Spanish, connoisseur means to know.
And a connoisseur is somebody who knows what good food is.
And there are a lot of people who are not connoisseurs.
And they'll tell you,
oh man, let me take you to the best restaurant.
And it's junk.
They're cooking in margarine
and they're trying to tell you this is the best restaurant?
It's crazy.
Talk about putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Okay.
But today, there are people out there
who they think they know what good food is, but they don't.
And let me tell you who really doesn't know
what good food is, little kids.
Okay.
And it doesn't matter what household they grow up in.
Kids are not connoisseurs.
Okay, if you take a kid to Chuck E. Cheese,
they think the pizza's great.
If you take a kid to McDonald's, they love it.
It truly is named the Happy Meal.
They will be happy, you know.
They'll be happy with Burger King,
Jack in the Box, and whatever.
And here's the thing.
You could make them a five-star breakfast,
and in many cases, they would look
at that five-star breakfast and say, I don't like that.
I don't, what is this?
But if you pulled out Count Chocula
or Lucky Charms or Trix or Fruity Pebble,
I mean, they're gonna love it.
They don't know.
They don't know the difference.
Basically, this world today, when it comes to wisdom,
knowledge, understanding, they're like a toddler
trying to tell you that your steak and lobster
and asparagus, they're like, oh yeah, that,
oh, the Bible, rah.
And they're just like eating like Trix.
You know, it's like, Stephen Hawking's new book.
Right?
They're just like spilling their junk all over themselves.
They don't even know what good literature is.
You know, I was on a Facebook group
about learning ancient Greek,
and people were on there talking about like,
oh, you know, God can barely even speak Greek,
and you know, the literature of fifth century Athens
is so much better than the New Testament.
You know, these scholars with their fifth century
Athenian orators and everything.
But here's the true story, my friend.
Those fifth century Athenian orators
are read by almost no one.
Almost no one.
But you know how many people are reading the Bible today?
More than hundreds of millions of people today.
Think about this.
Just today, here we are in 2020.
Hundreds of millions of people are opening the Bible today.
Okay?
And let me tell you something.
First Corinthians 13 is greater than anything written
in Athens and its heyday ever thought of being.
Hebrews chapter 11 is more powerful.
And you know, we could go down the list
of all the powerful scriptures in the New Testament,
whether it's Revelation 19,
or whether it's Romans chapter one.
I mean, we could go through just all these powerful
scriptures in the Word of God,
and it would just demolish anything that the literary world
or the classical world has to offer.
But folks, they don't know.
They don't know.
And so they'll look at you studying the Word of God,
learning the Word of God, meditating on the Word of God,
and say, oh, you're ignorant, you're not educated.
Nope, we are educated in what matters the most right here.
The Word of God.
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil.
This signage that we see everywhere,
black lives matter, science is real, love is love,
no person is illegal, kindness is everything,
water is life.
What is that supposed to mean, water is life?
I guess there's life on Mars then,
since there's ice on the ice caps of Mars, right?
Yeah, you wish water was life.
They're sending what, the 11th rover to Mars
to try to find life up there.
It's a fool's errand, it isn't there.
You can send as many rovers as you want,
but it's not alive up there, my friend,
because God created life on this planet.
It exists here.
But this signage, it always cracks me up.
Sometimes literally the top thing on the sign,
because I see it in Arizona when I go soul-winning.
Do you guys see that out on soul-winning here
on people's yards?
Or not in Texas, you know.
All right, yeah.
Because we'll go soul-winning,
and every time we go soul-winning,
it's in somebody's yard, they've got that sign up.
And it just cracks me up how the first thing they say is,
science is real.
And you know what's funny about that is,
then they go on to say love is love,
which is a pro-homo thing.
Well, isn't it amazing how they don't accept
what science says about homos?
Because you know what, science has proven conclusively
that there's no queer gene, number one.
And number two, scientific studies show on cdc.gov
and AIDS.gov that a homo male is 50 times more likely
to get AIDS this year than somebody who's not a homo.
What about that science, is that real?
Or what about the biological science that defines
the difference between a male and a female, is that real?
What about the science that defines what life is
that looks at a baby in its mother's womb
and says it's alive by every scientific definition,
but yet these libtards are gonna say,
oh, we believe it, so you christen,
no, you reject science.
You reject science whenever it conflicts
with your wicked satanic ideology, you reject science.
Oh, we're just so open-minded, I mean,
if the evidence is there, we believe it.
Okay, here's an XY chromosome.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I mean, look, if they found a fetus on Mars,
they'd get excited and say they found life on Mars.
If they found a virus on Mars, they'd get excited.
But somehow a fully developed baby
in his mother's womb is not alive.
Folks, that's not science, that's garbage.
Don't ever let a liberal tell you
that they believe in science.
Anybody who's so-called pro-choice that tries
to tell you they believe in science,
you know what, just ask them.
So, is that a human life in the mother's womb
in that ninth month of pregnancy?
Is that a human life?
Oh, well, you know.
Folks, they don't believe in science, okay?
Science is real, that's a code word.
It's code for we reject the word of God.
It's code for we believe science
is a replacement for the Bible.
That's what they actually mean by that.
What they really mean is we hate God,
we hate the Bible, and so we've replaced God
with a scientist who tells us that things
can come to life on their own.
Even though you can literally go down
to the public school system
and get their biology textbook,
you can literally go down to the university here
and get the university biology textbook
and in chapter one of the textbook of any biology,
even a secular biology textbook
that's gonna turn around and teach you evolution,
it'll still tell you in chapter one
that only life can produce life
and that life can't come from non-life.
But then it's like five minutes later,
it's like, so, you know, we're not sure
where life came from, but it originated on its own.
We don't know how, but it did.
Here, let's talk about how it evolved.
Wait, wait, wait, no, let's back up.
How did it start in the first place?
Since chapter one of any biology textbook worth its salt
is gonna tell you that life can't come from non-life.
It's just that simple.
You know, my children ask me if the grass
in the backyard was totally dead
when it was all dried up and completely dead.
Is it totally dead?
And I said, you know what, if it were totally
and truly dead, it could never come back.
It could never grow back.
It's in hibernation.
It's gonna come back later
because there's still life there.
Because if something were completely dead
and devoid of life, it could never come back.
It could never come, because life produces life.
If something's totally sterile
and without life, it can never live again
unless it's seeded with fresh life,
with something that still has life in it, okay?
So this world today says science is real,
but then they reject science
when it comes to what's male and female.
Folks, not only they put light for dark and dark for light
and sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet,
they put male for female and female for male.
Woo unto them that do so.
You know, the Bible says the woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man.
Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment.
For all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
You know, God wants there to be a difference
between men and women.
How they dress, how they look, how they act.
He created them male and female at the beginning.
And this world is crazy and wants to reverse those things.
Which leads me into my second point, number two,
and if you would flip over to Ezekiel chapter 16.
Ezekiel chapter 16, number two,
we live in a world where screwed up freaks and weirdos
are considered happy and joyful Christians
are considered bitter and hateful.
Joyful Christians with happy families
living the leave it to beaver dream
are considered hateful and bitter and bad
and then screwed up freaks and weirdos
are literally labeled as happy, even in the dictionary.
What am I talking about?
Well, the Bible tells it, you don't have to turn there,
but the Bible tells it in Malachi 3.15
and now we call the proud happy.
Now we call the proud happy, yay.
They that work wickedness are set up.
They that tempt God are even delivered.
You know, wicked people being lifted up
and the proud being called happy.
You say, what are you talking about?
Well, here's the thing.
The homos of this world, they want to be labeled as gay
and gay literally means happy.
Even when we were kids, we were pretty familiar
with that term as meaning happy
from watching the Flintstones
because we'll have a yabba dabba do time,
a dabba do time, we'll have a gay old time, right?
And also, at Christmas time, we would sing,
dawn we now are gay apparel,
fa la la la la la la, and nobody thought anything of it.
Okay, and even in the Bible, the word gay is used.
In James chapter two, it talks about someone
who's wearing gay clothing and what it means
is that they're wearing probably bright colors
or something that looks jovial or fun.
They're not dressed in all black or something.
They're wearing something that's a little more fun.
The gay apparel, the gay clothing.
It's talking about being happy
and that's why I refuse to use that word
about freaks and weirdos and pervers.
I'm not gonna call them happy.
I know that's why they wanna label themselves
but let me tell you something, they are not happy.
They're not happy.
That is calling bittersweet and sweet bitter.
That's putting good for evil and evil for good.
When you look at someone who's living
a screwed up death style that's gonna take them
to an early grave, a pervert evil person
who's miserable and ruining our nation,
I'm not gonna look at them and say, oh, he's happy.
The happy community.
And yet you'll hear even Baptist pastors
that will kowtow to this and talk about the LGBT community.
Folks, any pastor who talks about the LGBT community
is probably a card carrying member.
I mean, what do pastors do when talking about
the LGBT community?
What kind of a community is that?
What in the world?
And you know what the G stands for?
Gay.
I don't use that word.
Don't offend me with that word.
That word offends me.
It bothers me.
LGBT stands for let God burn them.
But it's not a community.
So there's no justification for calling it that.
What does the Bible say in Ezekiel 16, verse 49?
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom.
Get ready, folks.
Here's the iniquity of thy sister Sodom.
Pride.
First word out of his mouth.
Pride.
And isn't it interesting when these deviants,
these perverts, these freaks,
whenever they have an event where they parade
their filth up and down the streets,
they call it a pride event.
They literally call.
In fact, in Arizona, it doesn't even have anything
to do with queerness in the name.
It's literally just called Phoenix Pride.
That's the name of the event.
Phoenix Pride.
Why?
Because the sin of Sodom was pride, number one.
First thing.
But it doesn't stop there.
They weren't just proud and that's it.
Obviously, it gets worse.
He said, pride, fullness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters.
Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty and committed abomination before me.
They committed abomination before me.
Jude, of course, elaborates on this and says,
even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them
in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication
and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
The Bible tells us, of course, in the New Testament
that people who reject the Lord and that hate God
and don't even want to retain God in their knowledge,
that God gives them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient.
Even men with men and women with women,
God gives them over to those vile affections
because they hate God so much
that they don't even want to retain God in their knowledge.
So he turns them into that kind of a beast.
That's what the Bible actually teaches.
They committed abomination.
I already read to you earlier that even just dressing
as the opposite gender is an abomination in the eyes of God.
How much more if a man lie with mankind
as he lie with the woman, the Bible says in Leviticus 18 22,
it is an abomination.
They committed abomination.
But today we have people today
that tolerate the worst perversion and filth,
but they're offended by the word faggot.
You know why?
Because they call evil good and good evil.
Someone does something good,
somebody has the guts to stand up
and speak out against the wickedness
that today is being accepted in so-called Christian America
and somebody has the guts to call it out
and that person's called evil
and they'll say, oh, you need to bring over
your queer relative for a barbecue.
You know, only if they're gonna be put on the barbecue.
And I'm not telling people to do any violence, of course.
But folks, when God was ruling in the nation of Israel,
they were put to death.
That's what he prescribed in Leviticus 20 13.
I didn't write the Bible.
That's what the Bible says.
But here's the thing, folks.
I wouldn't be invited to that barbecue.
Pastor Shelley wouldn't be invited to that barbecue.
They hate us, but then it's like,
oh, but we gotta tolerate this filth.
You know how backwards that is?
To get angry at someone for using the word faggot,
but then they're not angry about
what it means to be a faggot.
Can you imagine getting more angry at a word
than what the word stands for?
That doesn't even make sense.
Like what would offend you more?
The word adultery or someone committing adultery?
I mean, what would offend you more?
The word dung or if someone just like
put a pile of dung in your hands?
Like which one's more vivid to you?
Like how could you be more offended by a word
than by what the word represents?
It'd be like if you said the word murder
and someone was like, ooh,
but then they would just watch a murder
and just not be affected.
That's not logical, is it?
It doesn't make any sense.
Well, it doesn't make any sense for someone to,
I can't even believe that you would use
this language, this word.
But then these people, but then they say,
well, we have to just tolerate these people
walking around us and we have to see them
in all their flamboyance and everything.
Like, so you're not offended by these people
existing in our society and us having to see them,
but you're offended by a word alluding to them?
That's madness.
And look, hey, the word is condemning them.
And by the way, this word condemns them right here,
the word of God.
And so to sit there and get offended by that word,
what do you want?
And then I always ask people,
well, what do you want me to call them?
Well, okay.
No, I'm not gonna call the proud happy.
God condemned me for that in Malachi chapter three.
He said, don't call the proud happy.
That's what he's saying.
You think that's a positive example?
He says, now we call the proud happy?
Is he saying, hey, let's go do that?
He said, don't do it.
Don't call them that.
Call them deviant.
Call them reprobate.
Call them wicked.
Call them beast.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse five,
there's an evil which I've seen under the sun
as an error which proceedeth from the ruler.
Folly is set in great dignity
and the rich sit in low place.
I've seen servants upon horses
and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
He's saying, I'm seeing things that are backwards.
Stupidity is being lifted up.
Folly is being set in great dignity.
And we have men of God today that are being hated
and looked down upon and ridiculed and mocked
when what they're doing is just speaking the truth,
speaking words of wisdom,
speaking the words of soberness and soundness of mind.
And then you have just the craziness of this world today
being just lifted up and praised and lauded.
In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
And so today, just getting up and just speaking the truth
and just standing for the word of God makes you radical.
It makes you a fanatic just to be for the family.
You know, the most radical thing you could do
is just like get married and have a bunch of kids
and act normal.
You're like, it's like what used to be
like what would be considered like a punk rocker,
counterculture, just kind of just giving the finger
to the world.
That's pretty much now that being a conservative Christian,
that's you now.
You're basically now Mr. Counterculture, punk rock.
Like, you know, you walk down the street,
just being clean cut with a Bible on your hand.
It's like how people would look at someone,
you know, 40 years ago,
if they had just like spikes coming out of their head
and just like, you know, all punked out.
Why?
Because we're living in a time when everything's backwards.
Woe unto them.
And you say, well, what's the message?
The message is that we need to go to the word of God,
get a reality check, get a sanity check
and not get sucked in to the craziness of our world today.
We need to renew our mind.
We need soundness of mind.
And the spirit of God can give you that sound mind
and give you a reality check.
Go if you would to John chapter 16.
John chapter number 16.
John chapter 16.
These things have I spoken unto you, verse one,
that you should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the synagogues.
Yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth you
will think that he doeth God's service.
And now let's read together Bill Clinton's favorite verse,
John 16, three.
And these things will they do unto you
because they've not known the Father nor me.
You know, because I just love John 16, three.
It's my favorite verse.
He meant John 3, 16.
But he's actually one of these guys
described in verse three.
That doesn't know the Father and doesn't know Jesus.
Okay.
But when the Bible says here in verse number two,
that whosoever killeth you will think
that he does God's service,
isn't that exactly calling evil good and good evil?
Killing a preacher or killing God's people
or killing Christians would be considered
by someone righteous when it's the most heinous,
evil thing imaginable.
And so it says here that whosoever killeth you
will think that he does God's service
because in a crazy world where things are backwards,
that's what people are gonna think.
We as preachers, it's our job to tell the truth.
It's our job to get up and speak the truth
in season out of season.
Whether it's popular, whether it's not popular,
whether it gets us in hot water with the world out there,
or even if it gets us in hot water
with our own congregation.
Even if our own congregation doesn't like what we're saying,
it's the job to get up and preach the word of God,
to preach the Bible, and not to hold back on the truth.
And we must tell the difference between clean and unclean.
Go if you would to Leviticus chapter 10.
Leviticus chapter number 10.
Don't put good for evil.
Don't put evil for good.
Don't put sweet for bitter.
Don't put bitter for sweet.
I mean, people who listen to this sermon
out in the world today, of course, I'm preaching to the saved.
I'm preaching to God's people.
I'm preaching to the Christians.
And so the vast majority of people in this room,
when they hear me rebuking and attacking
the sodomites of this world, they're loving it.
It agrees with their spirit.
But here's the thing.
If this sermon were listened to by those out there,
you know what?
They're gonna, oh, I can't believe how ignorant.
I can't believe how stupid.
I can't believe how hateful and bitter.
But folks, and by the way, if you feel that way right now,
then you know what?
You're brainwashed.
You need this sermon more than anybody.
You need the renewing of your mind
because I haven't said a thing tonight
that is not plainly taught in scripture.
And I can defend everything I've said tonight
with the Bible all day long.
And if you don't believe the Bible,
I don't even know why you're here.
Because this is a Bible believing church.
This is a fundamentalist Baptist church.
I don't know if you just stumbled in here by mistake.
But the thing is, in here we believe the word of God
and every last thing that I've taught tonight
and preached tonight is clear in scripture.
I'm not even teaching anything controversial tonight.
I'm not teaching anything that's a gray area.
I'm not up here like, okay,
these are the two witnesses of revelation.
Okay, let's talk about the 144,000.
Hey, let's talk about the finer points of eschatology.
No, I'm up here talking about things
that are super clear in scripture.
That even the liberal watered down churches of this world,
most of them would even agree with most of what I've said,
but they'd just be like, well, yeah,
but you know, I just wouldn't say it like that.
You wouldn't say it like the Bible says it.
Because the Bible doesn't pull any punches.
The Bible uses harsher language
than I've ever thought of using.
The Bible does say things in a rough manner.
And preachers wore rough clothing in the Bible
and they preached hard on sin and they rebuked wickedness.
And none of this that I'm preaching tonight
is original with me.
It's our job to put a difference between sweet and bitter.
Good, evil, light, darkness, right, wrong, clean, unclean.
And you know what?
Because that backwards world out there is so backwards,
they're gonna look at us and they're gonna get the opposite.
Everything you're preaching is wrong.
Because everything I'm preaching is right.
And they're gonna see it the opposite
because they've got the wrong filter.
Look at Leviticus chapter 10, verse eight.
And the Lord spoke unto Aaron saying,
do not drink wine nor strong drink.
Thou nor thy sons with thee,
when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation,
lest ye die.
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations
and that you may put a difference between holy and unholy
and between unclean and clean
and that you may teach the children of Israel
all the statutes which the Lord has spoken unto them
by the hand of Moses.
You know, when people get drunk,
they don't know the difference between clean and unclean.
People who would never normally drink after someone else.
You know, some people get really sensitive
about having to drink after someone.
I mean, now we're living in the age of Corona.
So I mean, good night, forget drinking after someone.
You can't even be six feet from someone.
But the point is, you know,
people who are just really not the type of person
that would drink after someone,
but once they get drunk, they'll drink after everybody.
They won't even think about it.
You know, they'll go and they will embrace that toilet
in a dirty restroom and puke their guts up into that toilet
and they're on the floor in a dirty restroom
and that, you know, they're not even thinking about that.
They're not even thinking about who they're with
and who they're getting close to
and what they're eating and drinking
and the toilet and the dirtiness.
You know, the Bible tells us here
that Aaron and his sons were not to drink wine
because of the fact that that wine could cause them
to lose their discernment between good and evil
and specifically between clean and unclean.
He said, look, I don't want them to go into that tabernacle
and mess up so bad that they could die.
Because look, when you go into the tabernacle
and you go into the most holy place,
you know, if you do the wrong thing there, you die.
You know, think about Uzzah putting forth his hand
and touching the ark, he falls over dead.
Can you imagine if the high priest got drunk
or the priest got drunk and he just kind of waltzed
into the most holy place?
What do you think is gonna happen?
He's gonna be dead.
You think that, what would happen if somebody gets drunk
and just starts offering the wrong,
God would have put a stop to that immediately.
And there's a spiritual truth here where God's telling us
we need to put a difference between holy and unholy.
We need to know the difference between right and wrong.
We need to be able to return and to discern
between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
And today, America is drunken today.
They're drunk.
It's like, go home America, you're drunk.
Because America can't tell the difference
between clean and unclean, right and wrong.
It's like just a drunken stupor upon the whole nation.
And you know, the Bible talks about Babylon, you know,
making the whole world drunk, right?
Just the filthiness of her fornication,
just drunk on the blood of the saints,
drunk on the martyrs of Jesus,
and just turning her cup to the whole world
and making her drunken also,
that they may look on their nakedness.
Folks, today America is drunk today.
And you know what?
This is gonna sober you up.
This is the black coffee you need.
This is the hangover cure right here.
This will sober you up in a hurry.
The word of God.
It's the only hope for America to be sobered up.
Look, we live in a time where evil's considered good
and good's considered evil.
Folks, there are people that would say
that teaching the Bible to your children is child abuse.
But yet they don't think it's child abuse
in the public fool system
when they literally are teaching kindergartners,
even in Arizona.
They're teaching them what goes on in the bedroom.
And folks, they're not just teaching them
about normal relationships.
That would be bad enough to be teaching them
about normal relationships
because young children must be kept innocent.
Look at Romans chapter number 16.
Romans chapter number 16.
Folks, children need to be kept innocent.
Children should not be exposed to adult things
when they're children.
They're too young to process it.
And let me give you an illustration tonight
of what it's like.
You know what it's like?
You know what this education that's going on
in kindergarten, first grade,
even if it's in sixth grade,
it's this elementary school teaching children
about what goes on in bed
between supposed to be a husband and a wife
within the bonds of marriage.
Let me tell you exactly what it's like.
It's like handing a child a loaded gun.
You're handing them something that could be used for good.
I mean, look, guns could be used for a lot of good things.
Guns could be used for self-defense.
Guns could be used for hunting.
Guns could be used for good, clean fun and recreation.
There are lots of good things that could come from a gun.
But would you hand that loaded gun to a five-year-old
and say, okay, here you go.
And not only am I gonna hand you this loaded gun,
I'm gonna tell you, experiment with it.
Can you imagine handing a loaded gun to a six-year-old
and say, experiment with it, experiment with this gun.
Use it, fool around with it.
And folks, that's exactly what they're doing,
except what they're doing is even worse.
It's disgusting, folks.
They can't handle that power.
You're putting too much power in their hand.
I mean, would you hand a little child $10,000
and say, here's $10,000, go, take off.
Bad things are gonna happen.
Hey, here's a loaded gun.
Here's a set of Ginsu knives for your fifth birthday.
Have a good time.
No one would even think of doing that.
So that information that they're giving them
in elementary school, they're not ready for that.
They are not ready to wield that properly.
Okay, look, to be a responsible gun owner
means that you need to know some safety rules about guns.
And you know when it's appropriate to carry a gun
and when it's not appropriate to carry a gun.
When it's appropriate to pull out that gun
and to use that gun or to even brandish that gun.
Folks, these are things that you must learn
before you're ready to use a gun.
And you know, we've all seen someone hold a gun
irresponsibly and it makes you nervous
and they start pointing a gun at you.
Don't ever point a gun at me.
Oh, it's not loaded.
Don't point a gun at me.
I don't want a gun pointed at me whether it's loaded or not.
I don't care if it's loaded.
I don't care if one's in the chamber.
I do not point a gun at any human being.
Don't point a gun at anything
that you're not willing to destroy.
Okay, these are basic rules that you would know like,
okay, if we go out shooting, everybody has to,
you know, you draw a line and say,
okay, everybody's gotta stand behind this line.
And then if somebody's gonna go up and cross the line
and do something with targets,
everybody's gotta put their guns down.
Everybody unloads their magazines and puts it all down.
All right, is everything clear?
All right, and you know what?
The people who are the best at shooting guns
are probably the people that are being the safest.
And they're actually following the rules
and they're actually having a healthy fear
and a healthy respect for that.
Well, let me tell you something.
That information that they're teaching to the kids
in the public fool system, even in elementary school,
is a power and a weapon that they're not ready to wield.
You say, what's a danger?
Come on, guns are dangerous.
Folks, you don't think it's dangerous
when people could be raped
and you don't think it's dangerous
when people could get diseases?
You don't think it's dangerous
when people are being psychologically damaged
for the rest of their lives?
Folks, look, you know, if you get shot by a gun,
you know, two out of three times,
you're still gonna be alive.
Yeah, I mean, look, look up war statistics.
You know, look up statistics about battlefields and wars.
There's always a lot more casualties than there are deaths.
Look at how many are wounded and how many die.
You know, most of those people who get shot out there
on the battlefield, they still live.
Now, a lot of them are dying.
You know, one out of three or something are gonna be dead.
And don't quote me on that statistic,
but that's, you know, roughly,
you got roughly a two out of three chance
of surviving getting shot.
Okay, but here's the thing about that, my friend.
You know, children who are being exposed to this filth
and engaging in that kind of activity before puberty
pretty much have a hundred percent chance
of getting screwed up in some way, shape, or form.
Now, look, obviously you can overcome that
by the blood of Christ.
And you know what?
You can overcome that as you get older.
And look, if you got abused as a child,
hey, that's not to say there's no hope for you to be happy
and well-adjusted and normal and have a happy marriage.
Many people have gone through those things.
And you know what?
It's not your fault that that happened to you.
The Bible teaches that you're a victim
if that happened to you.
And it's just like if someone had assaulted you
or attacked you in any other way.
You're not to blame.
You're not the one who's guilty.
You're a victim.
And you know what?
You can overcome that.
And we can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth us.
But look, those who've been through that,
they know that yes, you can overcome that,
but there's still damage that was done
that they have to work to overcome.
You could overcome the gunshot wound,
but you still might have to go to occupational therapy.
You still might have to get treatments and use medicine.
And it might take a while for that injury to heal.
And you know what?
These kids today are being abused.
Anyone who teaches little children about that
is abusing them.
See, they're showing them diagrams of this stuff
and explaining how it all works and then telling them
to go experiment with that.
And you might be even, and I won't use the word,
you might even be a homo.
Who knows?
And look, any child that hasn't reached puberty,
any normal child, and when I say normal,
I mean they haven't been abused.
Any child who has not been abused yet,
they will not have that thought on their mind whatsoever.
Any child who's thinking about that
has been exposed to pornography, or they've
been exposed to other adult material,
or they've been taught that, or they've been abused
and molested.
Because no normal kid is thinking about that.
It's when you hit puberty that you start thinking about that.
You're growing up as a kid, you're innocent.
And then when you get to that age, whether it's 12, 13, 14,
all of a sudden now you are not thinking that the girls have
cooties anymore.
But you know what?
I can still remember being in fourth grade lamenting
the fact that I sat in class with a girl to my left,
a girl to my right, girl in front of me, girl behind me.
I thought it was just bad luck until I
realized they arranged the whole class that way.
And the reason they arranged the whole class that way
is they know you're not going to be talking.
Because you don't want to talk to girls at that age.
I remember just looking at the names, ah, ah.
You know, I thought it was just me.
It's like, where are the dudes?
Where are my boys at?
Where are my dogs at?
You know, because it's just like, you know,
because that's how you think when you're in elementary school.
And then they tell these kids, oh, maybe you prefer boys.
Folks, every kid prefers boys at that age in an innocent way.
Because he wants to play with boys, and girls have cooties.
And then it's later, when biology kicks in later,
that you would actually have other kind of thoughts
and start to think along those lines.
And you know what?
That's when kids need to be educated.
And folks, they don't need to be educated to the level
that they're being educated in the fool system.
But that's when parents would take their kids aside and give
a godly talk to them, and explain to them how things work,
and explain to them what the word of God teaches,
and give them the basic understanding so
that they'll understand what's happening with their body.
But that should be done by parents,
Christian parents, who are going to teach a godly perspective.
And it shouldn't be handed.
It'd be like if I took my 12 or 13-year-old out
and showed him how to start using a gun.
And I said, look, son, the time has come.
I'm going to teach you how to use a gun a little bit.
But here's the thing.
I'm still not just going to hand a 13-year-old a gun
and say, OK, keep this in your room loaded.
Look, yeah, he has some access to learning about it
and doing some shitty.
But hey, he's not just going to be given an unfettered access,
is he?
No way.
But folks, we live in a crazy world
that's taking something that is very potentially dangerous.
And look, you're crazy if you don't think that there's
a potential danger in this, in 10-year-olds
and 11-year-olds being taught about this stuff,
and even teenagers being taught all this wild and crazy stuff.
I mean, stuff that would make people
who've been married for a decade blush,
and they're teaching it to these kids in school,
perverted things, obscene things.
Folks, that is child abuse.
They should be arrested for corrupting a minor,
for corrupting the youth.
But I'm the bad guy for teaching my kids
that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
I'm the bad guy for teaching my kids
that God created us in his image,
and that we are not gorillas or orangutans.
We are not a glorified beast.
We are men.
We are women.
We're human.
And we have dominion on this planet.
We are in the image of God.
And you know what?
We ought to carry ourselves like children of God
and not like brute beasts.
That's why I teach my family.
That's why I teach my children.
And I teach them that every man should
possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
not in the lust of concupiscence.
Because it's God's will that we be sanctified
and that we abstain from fornication,
and that God made them at the beginning male and female,
and that a man should leave his father and mother
and cleave unto his wife.
That's what the Bible teaches.
Oh, it's so radical.
You're crazy.
Go to Luke chapter 16.
Luke chapter number 16.
Talk about where all these people in public school
teach in that class are going to go when they die.
No, no, no.
I'm going to a different part of Luke 16.
Luke 16, verse 14.
We're living in a day where good is called evil
and evil is called good, right?
Christian parents raising their kids right?
Child abuse.
Showing pornography to a minor?
Oh, no, we've got to teach them.
Yeah, it's essential.
We live in a world where the fools are considered wise,
and wise, godly men and women are considered fools.
We live in a world where there's no difference made
between unclean and clean.
And we live in a time where those who love money
are exalted as godly role models,
and poor or working class godly Christians
are looked down upon.
We live in a world where things are backwards.
Who are the heroes today in the world?
Lovers of money.
Those who want to have the fancy cars and the fancy house
and the fancy clothes, that's who's
lifted up as a role model today.
And people who are just salt of the earth,
electricians, plumbers, carpenters, landscapers,
computer programmers, whatever, machinists,
hey, they're looked down upon today, when you know what?
That's the godly role model I want my kids to have.
You know what, I would love for my kids
to grow up and be blue collar servants of God
any day of the week.
What does the Bible say?
Luke chapter 16, verse 14, and the Pharisees
also who were covetous.
What does it mean to be covetous?
This is a greedy lover of money.
That's what we're talking about in this context.
That's what we're talking about in most contexts
with the word covetous.
When they heard these things, they derided him.
So they're attacking Jesus.
They're mocking Jesus.
They're laughing him to scorn.
Derision, what does derision mean, right?
Because it says they derided him.
Derision is mockery, scorn, what an idiot,
can you believe this guy?
Because he's teaching them to use the mammon of this world.
He said to make friends for yourselves
of the mammon of unrighteousness,
that when you fall, they may be able to receive you
into everlasting habitations.
They're like, what a stupid advice.
They don't want to be generous with money at all in any way
shape or form, and that whole story is another sermon.
But here's the thing.
Jesus taught to be generous, to lend, to give to the poor.
And they're like, what a stupid teaching,
because they just want to hoard everything for themselves,
because they're greedy lovers of money.
So they're covetous.
And Jesus says to them in verse 15,
and he said to them, ye are they which justify yourselves
before men.
But God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly
esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Now, what does that say?
That says that what men call good is often evil,
and what men call evil is often good.
Thou which is highly esteemed among men,
turns out it's an abomination in the sight of God.
And he said that to the covetous.
And the last place we'll turn, go to Isaiah 5 to end up.
But while you're turning there, I'm
going to read you a familiar passage from 1 Timothy 6.
Bible says in 1 Timothy 6.5, perverse disputings
of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness.
From such withdraw thy selves.
And then he goes on to say, the love of money
is the root of all evil, which while some covet it
after they've erred from the faith and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
He said that these people who are destitute of truth,
I mean destitute of truth means they don't have it
at all.
He says that they think that gain is godliness.
You know what they're doing?
They're putting good for evil and evil for good.
Sweet for bitter, bitter for sweet.
Light for dark, dark for light.
Why?
Because they look at someone who's
covetous and greedy of money, and they
look at that person as a good person, a godly person.
They think gain is godliness.
So basically they look at a nice house, a nice car, nice clothes,
and they say, God's blessing them.
God's blessing that person.
Folks, there are a lot of people with a nice house
and a nice car and nice clothes that God's not blessing them.
Gain does not equal godliness.
There are a lot of people who are prospering in this world
financially that are not godly because financial gain is not
godliness.
Folks, there are people today that they reject the virtues
that God lifts up and says, hey, we should be honest.
We should be clean.
We should be pure.
We should be faithful to our spouse.
We should be peaceful.
We should be loving.
We should be pious toward God and religious toward God,
and we should attend church, and we should love our neighbor,
and we should give and be generous.
They rejected that, and they want
to see you do good to yourself.
Men will praise you when you do good to yourself.
They want to see you in nice clothes, nice car, nice house.
Why?
Because on TV, that's what's lifted up as success.
Who are your heroes today?
Who do you look up to?
Who do you want to be?
Who do your kids want to be?
So-and-so the rap artist who loves money.
So-and-so the actor-actress who loves money.
Folks, people don't go into acting for their health.
They go into acting typically because they
want to have a lot of vainglory and a lot of money,
and that's why they end up doing immoral things
and things that they're probably not even comfortable with just
in order to make a buck.
I mean, what about the things that they do on camera
for money, like unto a prostitute?
And yet, we look to them and think, that's an idol.
That's a hero.
That's a role model today.
And I'm sure I'll step on some toes with this one,
but you know what?
Donald Trump is lifted up today as a role model,
and he's even looked at as a godly Christian.
You know what?
You've got to kind of have a little dose of Isaiah 5.20
in order to think that Donald Trump's a godly Christian.
You've got to put a little light for darkness, darkness
for light, sweet, bitter, bittersweet.
You say, he's a great president.
Hey, he's done great for us financially
and gains godliness.
Amen?
I mean, hey, I like the way he handles the finances.
Amen?
Gain is godliness.
Therefore, he's godly.
Amen?
No, that's ridiculous, isn't it?
That's nonsense.
Donald Trump doesn't love Jesus Christ.
Donald Trump does not love the Lord.
Donald Trump does not read his Bible every day.
He doesn't read the Bible at all.
Actually, he does read his Bible every day.
It's probably the Wall Street Journal or something like that.
That's probably his Bible.
Or maybe he reads one of his own books
that he wrote or something.
Think big and kick whatever.
But the point is today, I don't want my children
to idolize Donald Trump.
Now, some of my children, they kind of idolize Donald Trump.
Because here's the thing.
Kids kind of like to rebel against their parents
a little bit and show that they're different.
So my kids will kind of put on a Trump hat, like, hey, Dad,
look at this.
It's like, he's going through a rebellious stage right now.
You know what I mean?
You know, so we kind of joke about it in our house.
But you know what?
Honestly, we all know that Donald Trump is not
a godly role model.
He's not a godly Christian.
And I don't want my kids to grow up
and be like Donald Trump at all.
I want my children to grow up and be humble servants of God.
And I can't even count how many times I've got on my knees
and prayed and said, God, I don't care
how much money my kids make.
I don't care how successful they are in the world's eyes.
I don't care how successful they are with business.
Lord, I don't care where they live.
I've even prayed and said, God, I don't even
care if they like me.
But Lord, let my children grow up and love you.
All I care about is that my children grow up
and love the Lord.
Now, if they love the Lord, they're
going to love me too, so that prayer is illogical.
But that's why the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us,
because we don't know how to pray as we ought.
But I've said, God, I don't even care if they like me
if they love you.
If they only like me or you, let them love you.
Let them follow you.
I don't care if they fall in my footsteps.
I want them to fall in Christ's footsteps.
Now, hopefully, that's the same thing.
And of course, like I said, if they love the Lord,
they're going to love me, because I'm a child of God.
And everyone that loveth him that beget loveth him also
that is begotten of him.
But I'm telling you, I want my children to just love the Lord
and grow up.
And so, look, I don't care if my children make it financially.
I don't care if my children make it financial.
And you know what?
I'd rather that they be poor and love Christ.
I'd rather that they be poor and love the Lord
and work hard and do an honest job than to grow up and just
be lovers of money.
And they got a whole shelf of Robert Kiyosaki's books,
or Kiyosaki, or Kiyosaki.
What's his name?
Kiyosaki?
Kiyosaki, same thing.
But I preferred Suzuki.
No, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, so they got a whole shelf of Robert Kiyosaki
and Donald Trump's books on real estate and how to get rich
and how to make money.
If I saw that in my kid's house, I'd be like, ugh.
Because you know, I just know that the love of money
is the root of all evil.
And those that desire to be rich fall into temptation
and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition.
I'd rather walk into their house and see a well-thumbed Bible.
And I'd rather see an embroidery on the wall that says, hey,
as for me and my house, we'll serve the Lord.
I'd rather see that in a humble home
than some fancy schmancy bougie house
with no trace of Christianity or the things of God
or the word of God.
Folks, I'm telling you, we need a sanity check with the Bible.
And we need to get God's view on what success is
and what failure is, what right and wrong is.
Folks, we're living in a day where
Christians are being infected with the world's philosophies,
and they are starting to get into some things where they
look.
Let me just come right out and say it.
2020 is the year when about 50% of the new IFB pretty much
became a Fox News Baptist.
There, I said it.
Dude, I'm like, I thought we figured this Left Right
Paradigm thing out like 10 years ago.
I thought back in 2008, 2009, 2010
was when we figured out the Left Right Paradigm,
and we all understood that the right and the left
are two wings on the same bird.
And when we learned that the media is lying to us,
whether it's CNN or Fox News, that's what I thought.
But now all of a sudden in 2020, everybody's
just embracing the Republican agenda.
Everybody's just embracing Trump and the conservative talk
radio agenda.
And you know what?
They'll get angry at men of God who actually are preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ filled with the spirit of God
and teaching the Bible because we didn't get on the Fox News
agenda on coronavirus.
You know what I mean?
Because we didn't just go all the way Republican,
all the way conservative on the coronavirus issue because
of the fact that we're not just in lockstep with whatever
the conspiracy of the month is or the talk radio
conservatives of the month.
When the media is pushing your agenda,
you're not the resistance.
And you know what?
That goes for the conservative media too, my friend.
You really think that the Lord controls
the conservative media?
You know, it's the devil that's controlling MSNBC and CNN.
You know, I don't know who's been saying it lately.
Somebody said, you know, God is not a Republican,
but the devil is a Democrat.
Wasn't there ever been a quote like that going around?
I mean, that's about it right there.
I mean, look, obviously the Democrat party today
is just like openly worshipping Satan.
You know, how could anyone be a professing Christian
and be a Democrat right now?
They're just like openly worshipping Satan.
I mean, just everything that's wicked,
everything that's an abomination,
whether it's murdering babies, being a queer, whatever.
But here's the thing.
Just because they have gotten so extremely bizarre,
it doesn't mean that we need to all of a sudden just,
we've got to be a Republican now more than ever.
We've got to.
Folks, I'm telling you, we've got to be a Christian now
more than ever.
And I am not interested in being involved
in politics because I'm against both sides.
I am apolitical.
And you know what, at the end of the day,
independent, fundamental, soul-winning Baptists
are not going to be the ones who decide
public policy in this country.
Sorry.
We're not going to decide this election.
It's not like, well, let's see how the candidates are
doing with the most important voting block, the new IFP.
It's a drop of water on a hot stove.
But you know what it is doing, though?
It's causing a lot of God's people
to get distracted with the wrong things
and allied with the wrong people.
You know what I mean?
Who are our natural allies?
Who are my natural allies?
You know what, it should be my fellow
Bible-believing Christians, my brothers in Christ.
Those should be my natural allies.
But it's like, well, I agree with this person
more on corona, on politics, or on whatever the issue.
Folks, those issues are meaningless when
it comes to the things of God.
So you can't expect your local Baptist pastor
to jump on whatever political bandwagon or Republican
bandwagon.
Because folks, we know that the Republican Party of today
is the Democrat Party of when we were kids.
When I was a kid, the stuff that the Democrats were saying
is the stuff the Republicans are saying now.
You understand that?
You understand that don't ask, don't tell
was put in place by Bill Clinton.
It was his first act upon getting elected president
and getting inaugurated in 1993, was it, right?
When Bill Clinton got inaugurated in 1993,
you know what the first thing he did was?
It was on the front page of the Sacramento Bee.
Gaze in the military.
And you know what his policy was?
Don't ask, don't tell.
You can be a homo, but you can't talk about it.
We're not going to ask you if you are one.
Don't tell us.
We don't want to know.
And we're going to pretend that you're not one.
And when Bill Clinton came out with that policy,
conservatives were outraged.
Conservatives are horrified.
What do you mean you could be a queer and be in the military?
What in the world?
The don't ask, don't tell agenda horrified conservatives.
It was what Bill Clinton did, first act in office.
Now fast forward to a few years ago,
and now it's the Republicans are fighting for don't ask,
don't tell.
The Republicans are promoting don't ask, don't tell, right?
And then the Democrats just want open trannies.
That's what's going on, my friend.
Look, it just keeps moving and moving.
They both stay the same distance apart.
But as the liberals just get more and more satanic,
then basically the Republicans are just
right one step behind them.
And then it gets to a point, and you say, well, they have to.
They have to get elected, and that's what they have to do.
OK, fine.
Fine.
That's what the Republicans have to do.
Well, you don't understand.
Trump has to say those things.
He has to wave that queer flag and everything.
He has to appoint a sodomite and send him
as an ambassador to Germany.
You don't understand.
That's what they have to do.
Fine.
I'll give you that.
That's what he has to do.
He has to do it.
The Republicans have to do it.
Trump has to do it.
But I don't have to do it.
And you don't have to do it.
That's what they have to do.
Fine, then let them go do what they have to do.
But as for me and my house, we'll serve the Lord.
Let them do what they have to do to get elected.
Let them do what they have to do to save America.
Let them do what they have to do to keep us from going
all the way off the cliff.
But you know what?
They don't need my help to do it.
Let them go do that.
And you know what I'm going to do
is I'm going to keep myself pure.
I don't have to be part of it.
I want to be part of something clean.
I want to be part of something pure.
I want to be part of something right.
I don't want to spend my life apologizing to liberals,
explaining to them why I support Trump,
even though he has said all these perverted things
and done a bunch of wicked things and everything.
I don't want to be called a hypocrite
by some godless leftist liberal and find
myself apologizing for things that really are inexcusable.
So you know what?
I'd rather just say, oh, I don't support Trump.
I didn't vote for him, and I'm not going to.
What now?
Your move, creep.
Right?
What now?
You didn't vote for Trump.
Yeah, and you know what?
I have the moral high ground now.
No, I have the moral high ground.
No liberals can talk crap to me, because you know what?
You support Trump.
Look, he said to grab him by the whatever.
I'm like, well, no, I didn't support him.
I never have.
I don't know.
I don't bless the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth.
Not me.
What now?
You don't care about America.
Hey, you know what?
You know, I believe that I've done more for America
over the last 10 years just through serving the Lord
than I would have if I would have voted
in the last couple elections.
I mean, will someone at least give me that?
I'm not trying to.
Hey, you know what?
I'm not up here boasting or lifting up myself.
I'm just saying, I've done more for America in the last 10
years than I would have by voting in those elections.
And you know what?
If you went soul winning last week,
you did more for America than if you
would have voted in every election from George Washington
until now.
Because at the end of the day, folks,
we need to not be carnally minded.
We need to understand that we wrestle not
against flesh and blood.
We're wrestling against principalities and powers.
And you want to know election day is tomorrow.
Tomorrow is election day.
You don't know it's November.
You don't know it's tomorrow.
When you show up at soul winning,
you are showing up to cast your vote.
And the election is talking about people being elect.
The elect are the saved, amen?
So hey, I'm not voting for Donald Trump.
I'm voting for a lost person to go to heaven.
And I vote every week.
In fact, I've been voting.
Don't tell me I don't vote.
I've voted every week for the last 21 years.
I've been voting.
I mean, you know, it's like the Democrats that keep
voting over and over again.
Yeah, I was doing that before it was cool.
Hey, I vote with my feet.
And so let me wrap things up in Isaiah 5.
We're out of time.
We've got to get the cookies and ice cream, amen?
I skipped dinner so that I could indulge.
You didn't skip dinner, and you're still
going to indulge, amen?
All right, it's going to be great.
Here's the conclusion, OK?
Isaiah 5.20, woe unto them that call evil good and good evil,
that put darkness for light and light for darkness,
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes
and prudent in their own sight.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine,
and men of strength to mingle strong drink,
which justify the wicked for reward,
and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.
You can see all the backwardness here, right?
They justify the wicked.
They condemn the righteous.
They praise themselves for drinking, which
is obviously a shameful thing.
They've got everything backwards.
Therefore, verse 24, as the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the flame consumeth the chaff,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust.
And here's why.
Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore, as the anger of the Lord
kindled against his people, and he
has stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them, and the hills did tremble,
and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his wrath is stretched out still.
Folks, we live in a day where men
call good evil and evil good.
They put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
I know you guys are a little mad at me, some of you,
about Trump.
So let me say this.
They tell you that Kamala Harris is a black person
when she's actually not.
Talk about putting light for dark and dark for light.
She's not black.
African-American.
It's a what?
Let me help you with a map and show you where Africa is.
India is not Africa, and neither is Jamaica.
OK.
What is she, 1 10th black?
OK.
But they tell you, oh, this is a black person.
Oh, this is a righteous person here.
Oh, Biden, he is a person who's there to defend.
I literally, you know, because you can't even go on YouTube
without getting a bazillion campaign ads.
Good stinking night.
I can't wait till this election's over.
But I keep getting in with all these campaign ads.
This campaign ad came up, and it was one of the ones
that you couldn't just skip after five seconds.
This woman gets up, and she's like, I was abused,
and Joe Biden, like, went to bat for me
after I was molested and abused.
I'm like, this guy is sniffing every woman
that he gets within sniffing distance of.
This guy's the biggest creep ever.
But we're being told he's a champion for abused women
everywhere.
He's a champion for abused women, right?
Donald Trump's a godly Christian.
Joe Biden is a champion for abused women everywhere.
You know, Kamala Harris is black,
and she's going to help get the police in line,
even though she's a cop and a prosecutor who,
like, put more black people behind bars
than any other prosecutor.
It's just like, we're living in crazy town.
They just expect you to believe up is down, left is right,
good is evil, sweet is bitter.
Friendly, joyful, smiling Christian families
are bitter, hateful, clingers to guns and God and country.
We live in a crazy world, and it's
because people have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts.
We need to get back in this book, and you know what?
We could draw a graph today where
we graphed how much people in this room
like hard preaching versus how much Bible they've read.
And I guarantee you, there's going
to be a pretty linear relationship there.
You know what I mean?
There are going to be a few outliers.
But I'm telling you, you're going
to be able to plot a pretty good graph showing
that the people who actually read the Bible,
they like hard preaching.
And the people are just like, well, I'll never be back.
These kind of people, they probably
haven't even read the law of the Lord.
They probably cast aside the law of the Lord.
That's why they're willing to accept
the fact that up is down and good is bad and whatever.
Folks, we need to renew our mind.
And look, if you disagree with what I preached tonight,
that's OK.
You better have a chapter and verse
to back up why you disagree with me.
If you don't, then you're wrong, because I'm backing up
the things that I've said with the Bible.
I've quoted scripture tonight.
If you missed it, go back and watch it on YouTube
before it's deleted.
And there's a feature on YouTube where you
can watch things at half speed.
That way, you can actually get what
I'm saying this time, since you missed it the first time.
Slow it down and listen to what I'm saying right now.
He blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
If a man also lie with mankind.
Now, I don't think YouTube goes that slow.
But maybe you can slow it down again.
The software's got to be out there.
We need to have our minds renewed.
And it's OK not to agree with me.
It's OK not to agree with your pastor.
You better have chapter and verse, though.
Because you know what?
A lot of times, you're sitting there thinking,
I can't believe what Pastor Shelley said.
It's like, OK.
But is it biblical?
Is something comparable in the Bible,
where someone said something just as mean, just as harsh?
Study to show yourself approved.
Amen?
Let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
Because without it, we'd be a part of crazy town.
We would lose our minds like everybody else.
And we would think up is down, and good is evil,
and sweet is bitter, Lord.
We need our compass to keep us from getting
lost in this world, Lord.
Let the Bible be our compass.
Let it be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, Lord.
Help us to always get our bearings with the word of God.
And Lord, when we get drunken with the entertainment
of this world, and the newscasts of this world,
and the philosophies of this world,
and the advertising of this world, Lord,
help us to drink the stiff cup of coffee of God's word
to sober us up.
Wake us up, Lord, so that we can know
the difference between good and evil, right and wrong.
And in Jesus' name, we pray.
Amen.