Baptist Church. If you would find a seat, grab a hymnal, turn to our first hymn, number 110,
all the way my Savior leads me.
your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for another opportunity
today to gather, to learn from your word, to sing praises in your name. As always,
I just pray that you'd be with the service, that everything would be done
decently and in order, and that you just be with us all and keep us safe as we go
our separate ways after the service this evening. These things we pray in Jesus'
name, amen. All right, for our next hymn, number 19, there is a fountain.
Hymn number 19 1 9 there is a fountain
Hymn number 19 there is a fountain on the first
you
Please raise your hand and an usher will bring you one on the front is our Bible memory passage of the week Galatians chapter number one
Verse 17 and if at the end of this you could quote this word
Perfectly to an adult non-family member. You will receive a prize to keep working on that
Service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 in our evening our Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 o'clock
below that we do have our soul winning times and there's going to be a slight
pause in the Tuesday time coming up because we have one of our members going
to the Philippines to preach the gospel there for several months so I'll make
sure to update everyone on that time
We do have below that the nursing home ministry
Schedule as long as our as well as our year-to-date soul winning statistics below
Our upcoming events May 16th through the 18th is the King James conference hosted by sure foundation Baptist Church
If anyone's interested on in going to that or checking it out online
May 31st is the Durant Oklahoma soul winning marathon with steadfast Baptist Church
June 28th is the Tinker Airshow Fellowship Day and then the next day brother Ben Nyim from
Steadfast Baptist Church is preaching for us both services. Looking forward to that.
August 27th through the 31st is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship. I want to say that this is the
Fourth ever FBBF someone can correct me on that. I think it's the fourth ever
So I'm looking forward to that and October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas mission trip hosted by steadfast
But we definitely have lots of people going and we're excited for that mission trip
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Some updates were given for this week.
Please make note of those and be praying for the people asking for a prayer.
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That's going to be it for announcements this evening.
We'll go ahead and go to our third song.
Our third song this evening, number 315.
Take My Life and Let It Be.
3-1-5
Take my life and let it be
315 starting there on the first
In fact
the offering plates are being passed. Turn, if you would, to Psalm chapter 7. Psalm number 7.
Good evening Psalm 7 the Bible reads oh Lord my God and thee do I put my trust
Save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me lest he tear my soul like a lion
Rending in in pieces while there is none to deliver. Oh Lord my God if I have done this if there be iniquity in my hands
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me, yea, I have delivered him, that without cause is my enemy.
Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it, yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust.
Sila, arise, O Lord.
In thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies, and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about, for their sakes, therefore, return thou on high.
The Lord shall judge the people, judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity that is in me.
O, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just, for the righteous
God triumphs the hearts and reigns.
My defense is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
If he turn not, he will wet his sword.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death.
He ordained his arrows against the persecutors.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief
and brought forth falsehood.
He made a pit and digged it and has fallen into the ditch which he made.
His mischief shall return upon his own head,
and his violent dealings shall come down upon his own fate.
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness,
and we'll sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
That's about our heads for prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you for this day.
And we just ask that you fill our past with the Holy Spirit
and help us to learn from your word.
And in Psalm 7, let's read verse 11, the Bible says God judges the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day.
We have to understand that our God, the God that we serve, is not just that anything goes God.
He's not a God that just turns away the eye, that doesn't care about sin.
The Bible says that he judges the righteous, that would be the saved.
God looks down and judges the righteous and is angry with the wicked every day.
So, God judges sin both from the saved and from the unsaved.
You can stay there.
I'll read for you Isaiah chapter 5, verse 25.
The Bible says, Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people.
and he hath stretched forth his hand against them.
So God judges the saved, God judges the unsaved.
This is a very important concept
that we must understand as Christians.
So tonight I wanna preach a sermon
called God's Judgment of Sin.
God's Judgment of Sin.
And I'm gonna have three points tonight.
I'm gonna show you the three different ways
that God judges sin or that God punishes sin.
Three ways that God punishes sin.
Go to Colossians chapter number one.
Number one, natural punishment of sin.
There's one way that God judges sin, and that is just from the natural cause and effect relationship
between breaking God's commandments and the consequences that you reap by doing that.
See, we live in a natural world, but this natural world that we live in was created by God.
And so all of the natural processes that we observe in our world, though it's natural, they were created by someone, God Almighty, look at Colossians 1 verse 6.
The Bible says, for by him, that's Jesus, were all things created that are in heaven and that are in
earth, visible and invisible. Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him and for him. And he is before all things and by him all things
You know, the Muslims wouldn't like that one, but the Bible teaches that Jesus is not only the Son of God, but that he is God in the flesh and that Jesus Christ is the creator of all things, the universe, the things that we observe with our eyes and also things that are invisible.
And so in our universe, there exists natural scientific laws and these laws are just as real as the things that you could see with your eyes.
and these laws were created by Jesus Christ.
So there's a natural cause and effect relationship
that exists in this universe.
And when people sin and they reap
some natural consequence from that,
that is the punishment of God in a sense
because God's the one that created
that natural process to begin with.
Look at Galatians, go to Galatians chapter number six.
I'll keep showing you this principle
and then we'll look at some examples of this.
And what do I mean by natural punishment of sin?
What I mean is that God in...
Not in all cases, does God have to stretch forth His hand against someone to destroy them?
Not in all cases, does God have to actively intervene to punish someone for their sins?
It's just that God has created this world, God's created the natural processes of this world,
and if you try to go against the laws of nature, you're going to receive a punishment.
And even though it's not God directly punishing you actively,
it still is the punishment of God because God created this world.
Look at Galatians 6 verse 7.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting."
So notice, there is just a simple cause and effect relationship that nobody can escape.
You will reap what you sow.
If you sow to the flesh, you will reap corruption.
Right? If someone goes out...
and just smoke cigarettes for 40 years,
God does not have to necessarily actively curse you,
actively put forth his hand to judge you.
It's just like you're destroying yourself.
You're smoking cigarettes,
your lungs are gonna get destroyed.
That's not God's active judgment,
but you're still violating just the laws of nature
and you're getting hurt as a result of it
and that is the punishment of God.
Let me give you some examples.
How about gluttony?
Go to Proverbs chapter 23, Proverbs chapter number 23.
If you are a glutton, you are someone that does not control your eating habits and just whatever the flesh wants.
You're just gorging yourself on candy and ice cream and soda and sugar and all this food all the time.
You know, God does not have to actively, supernaturally put his hand against you for you to reap bad consequences in your life.
There is just a natural consequence that you're going to receive that is the punishment of God.
Look what it says in Proverbs 23 verse 20.
It says, be not among wine-bibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh, for the drunkard
and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
So what is one of the natural consequences of being a glutton?
The Bible says poverty.
You know, if you are just gorging your flesh at all times and you just wake up in the morning,
you drive to the convenience store and you just pack up on the donuts and the candy
and the soda and you just fill up your bag with all these snacks throughout the day and
then lunch comes around, you want to go eat out and eat this gigantic meal and you just
do this all the time, every day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, that's going to cost
a lot of money.
And the Bible literally says that the drunkard and the glutton is going to come to poverty.
Did God stretch forth His hand and force that person to be poor?
Or is it just the natural consequence of the sin that they're committing?
And on top of just money problems, if you just gorge your flesh, if you don't take care of your body,
you know what's going to happen? You're going to get fat, you're going to get out of shape,
you're going to get unhealthy, you're going to have heart problems,
you're going to have all sorts of health issues, and it's not necessarily God putting forth his hand
to curse you, but you're just reaping what you've sown. And this is the natural punishment of sin,
and this happens to the saved and to the unsaved. Doesn't matter who you are, if you just start being
you're gonna reap the consequences of that.
Go to Proverbs 19, a few pages back.
What about lying?
Look at what Proverbs 19, verse 5 says,
See, when we tell lies, there is a natural consequence that we will face
where God doesn't have to necessarily curse you.
It's just that if you tell lies and people find out, you know what's going to happen?
People are going to stop trusting you.
People are no longer want to be your friend or trust you if they find out that they're that you've been lying about them
You're not gonna go unpunish the Bible says the Bible says you're not gonna get away with it
There's going to be natural consequences that come from lying he that speak it lies shall not escape
How about just getting caught telling lies?
What do you end up having to do oftentimes telling more lies to cover up previous lies?
You get deeper and deeper into this web of lies. You end up getting exposed. You end up facing shame
right? These are natural consequences of sin. Go back to Proverbs 23. How about this? How about
drinking alcohol? You know, drinking alcohol is drinking poison. And if you go out and drink poison,
God does not have to actively curse your life. You're going to curse your own life.
You're going to reap the natural consequences of drinking alcohol. Look what it says in verse 9,
Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine? They that go to seek mixed wine.
Notice these consequences that the Bible is saying. Who's going to have all these terrible things?
It's those that tarry long at the wine. It's those who drink alcohol.
These aren't things that God necessarily has to curse you with.
This is just the natural ramifications of drinking alcohol.
And if you've ever been around someone who's drunk,
you know what surrounds them?
Whoa.
What does that mean?
Just like extreme negative situation.
Cursing bad situations.
You know, we all know about that situation that happened a few months ago
over by Lake Overholzer,
where the two young men were drunk driving,
they went into the lake and one of them drowned and died.
It's like, who have, whoa, those who drink alcohol?
Now, was that God's active punishment?
Maybe, but it doesn't necessarily have to be because you know what the natural ramifications of being drunk is?
Is that you do stupid things that you lose control that you can't you know
You don't function properly when you're drinking alcohol and you know what you could literally die like that man did
You could literally just drive off the road and drown in an icy lake
That is who hath whoa those who drink alcohol that's who has whoa
Who has sorrow?
Man, I guarantee you the family members of people who die every day in America from drunk driving accidents,
you know, or just drinking themselves to death.
Bring sorrow.
It brings pain.
Who have contentions?
Boy, don't drunk people just love to fight for no reason.
Don't they like to just, you know, it's called liquid courage.
All of a sudden they're so macho, they're so tough, they want to go mouth off to the
guy at the bar or whatever, getting themselves into all sorts of fights.
That's a natural consequence of drinking alcohol.
who have babbling. God didn't make them dumb, right? God's not confounding their tongue.
The poison that they're drinking is hurting them.
The poison that they're drinking is causing them to babble like an idiot,
who have wounds without cause. People who drink alcohol, right?
Getting drunk, all of a sudden you're getting all these fights, you're getting all these problems,
and they wake up and they have all these wounds that they don't even know where it came from.
Because they were so inebriated, they were so drunk that they were blacked out.
and they didn't even know what was happening to them.
Who hath redness of eyes?
Again, this is just natural.
Cause and effect, natural relationship with sin.
They that tarry long at the wine,
they that go to seek mixed wine,
that's why the Bible says,
look not thou upon the wine when it is red.
when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself a right.
You know, a lot of false teachers just love to preach that we could drink alcohol,
that it's no big deal, that it's not a sin, we're just not allowed to get drunk.
Okay, then explain to me why the Bible says not to even look at the wine when it's red.
When it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright, that process of fermentation that causes the drink to move in the cup.
That's an indication that, hey, this is alcoholic, this is something the Bible says you shouldn't even be looking at.
Because people would be like, oh, you know, Jesus turned water into wine.
Yeah, wine is an old English word for juice, my friend.
There is the pure wine that comes from the grape, that's not alcohol.
And people are so just deluded in their mind to think that Jesus Christ actually made alcoholic wine.
That is so blasphemous and stupid, it's not even funny.
To think like, oh, here's a wedding where everybody has already well drunk
and they're out of, you know, wine and here comes Jesus just bringing them a bunch more. That's insanity.
No, Jesus did not create alcoholic wine.
Jesus turned water into pure, fresh grape juice is what He did.
And there's a type of wine that the Bible says don't even look at.
Why? Because we need to stay as far away from alcohol as possible
because of the fact that we're going to reap all these terrible consequences
in our lives if we drink alcohol.
Notice what it says in verse 32.
At the last, it biteeth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Notice God is not forcing people to start beholding women that aren't their wives.
God is not forcing you to start uttering perverse things.
This is just the punishment of sin that you've inflicted on yourself by drinking poison, by drinking alcohol.
He says, Ye thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that
lieth upon the top of a mast.
They've stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick.
They have beaten me, and I felt it not.
When shall I awake?
I will seek it yet again."
You know, it's like...
If you've ever been in a boat for a long period of time
and you're out on the water for a long period of time and you get back on land,
you kind of feel like you're still moving.
You know, if I'm on a boat for a while, that night when I go to bed,
it feels like I'm still moving. It's such a weird feeling.
It's not comfortable. It's why people get seasick, you know?
But the Bible is saying like, this is what's going to happen to you when you drink alcohol.
You weren't even on a boat, bro. You weren't even on the ocean.
But here you are. You're acting like you are. You're getting sick.
You're throwing up like you are. You're dizzy. You're stumbling around.
And that wasn't God putting his hand against you.
That was your own stupidity.
That was your doing.
That was the natural consequences of sin.
And God created this world.
God created the laws of nature.
God created your body to react certain ways to certain substances.
And if you try to go against that,
you are going to reap a natural consequence of sin and natural punishment from sin.
This is very clear.
Go to Romans 1.
Romans chapter number one.
How about this?
How about sodomy?
I mean, just being a sodomite is a punishment in and of itself.
Just the act that they do together destroys their bodies.
And yes, of course, God has cursed those people.
Of course, God has given those people over to reprimand mind.
But even just the act that those freaks do with each other destroys themselves.
And God just allows them to destroy themselves.
Look at verse 24, it says,
who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the
Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
For even their women did change the natural use into that, which is against nature.
Likewise, also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burn in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat.
that recompense, that reward of their sin which was fitting to them.
And you know, we're not going to read this entire chapter for the sake of time.
The sermon is about this issue, but of course when you read this chapter you know
that there are some people who they hold the truth and unrighteousness.
They know God, but they don't want to retain God in their knowledge
and they reject God over and over and over again.
And there are some people in this world,
the Bible calls them reprobates,
who have rejected God so many times
that God in turn has rejected them
and has given them over to a reprobate mind
and allows them to do things that are not convenient,
meaning that it does not come natural.
You know, we all have natural sins as human beings
that we struggle with.
Every human being is gonna struggle with covetousness.
Every human being, I mean,
you don't have to teach a kid how to steal.
You don't have to teach a kid how to lie.
You don't have to teach a young man to look after a woman in lust or anything like that.
These are just natural sins that we struggle with.
But zero people naturally struggle with mass murdering children, you know that?
Like no one thinks that unless you're a reprobate.
Anyone who goes and like shoots up a school of kids,
that is a reprobate.
That is someone that's been given over to a reprobate mind.
And look, no one is born lusting after the same gender.
It is not a natural temptation that is common to man.
It is something that happens when God gives you up,
when God gives you over to a reprobate mind.
And like it says in verse 28,
and even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
Notice.
to do those things which are not convenient.
The things that sodomites do is a punishment from God
and the physical act that they're doing
is hurting themselves, it's just cause and effect.
It's an unnatural act and when you do that,
when you go against the laws of nature,
you're gonna reap a...
A recompense, the Bible says.
You're receiving in yourself that recompense of your air, which was meat,
which it could be referring to the fact that God's given them over to a reparate mind.
That, of course, is a recompense that God gave to them.
And also, they're just reaping all these diseases and issues with their body
from being this abominable, disgusting beast that they are.
And so, that is just a cause and effect relationship with that act.
Go to Hosea, chapter number four, Hosea, chapter number four.
And again, some of these can kind of interlap, where God can put his hand towards you if you're doing one of these things.
And on top of that, you're also reaping the natural consequences of sin.
You know, of course, we know God punishes his children, and if you drink alcohol, you're going to reap all those same physical consequences as anyone else.
But on top of it, God can also put forth his hand against you.
And that's kind of what I'm thinking with this next one, with adultery and fornication.
You know, adultery and fornication, there's a very natural and physical consequence that you can receive by committing these acts, whether you're saved or not.
I'll show you that. Look at Hosea chapter 4 verse 13.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks and poplars and elms
Because the shadow thereof is good
Therefore notice your daughters shall commit hordom and your spouses shall commit adultery. Wow. What a great prophecy that is, right?
So your daughter's gonna be whores your wife's gonna commit adultery
But the next phrase has always perplexed me because if you look up this phrase in your Bible like I will punish
I will punish like the Bible says that so many times God said I will punish but notice verse 14
I will not punish
Your daughters when they commit hoard them nor your spouses when they commit adultery
Now that seems on the surface is kind of a weird statement
He's saying like your daughters are going to be whores your wives are going to commit adultery
I will not punish them when they do this and on the surface. You're just kind of like what is going on
That seems weird that God wouldn't care or God wouldn't judge this
But notice what it says for themselves are separated with whores and they sacrifice with harlots therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Then you can get to a point where you're so wicked, people committing all this fornication
and adultery, God doesn't even have to actively put forth His hand to judge you because the
acts that you're doing are hurting yourself, are destroying yourself.
And you know the Bible talks about how if you commit fornication, you sin against your
own body.
So, yes, God can go over and above and really extracurse your life when you commit adultery
or fornication.
But just the natural cause and effect relationship of committing these sins, you're already
destroying yourself.
So, it's like he's saying, I won't punish.
He's saying, I don't have to do anything.
I don't have to put forth my hand in this situation because you're already separated
with horse.
You're already with harlots and the people that doth not understand shall fall.
That's just like, there's some things in this world that God has just programmed to where if you do them, you are going to reap a consequence.
And it doesn't even matter if you're saved or not, you do it, you're going to be affected by it.
And people that go out and commit hordom, commit fornication, you know what is going to happen? They get diseases.
They get STDs, they have bastard children,
they piss off the boyfriend or they piss off the husband
and get killed by the husband.
Like there's all these physical things
that could be a result of committing those sins
that don't necessarily have to involve
God actively punishing you.
There is just a natural punishment of sin today
that we need to avoid.
Number two, punishment from God-ordained authority.
You see, there's a way that God could punish us.
It's just the natural cause and effect of this world.
Here's another way that God could punish us.
It's through God-ordained human authority.
Go to Romans chapter 13, and I'll show you that.
Romans 13, and here's what I want you to understand is that
if you're reaping the consequences of sin, God is punishing you.
And if human authority that was ordained by God is punishing you, God is punishing you.
Go to Romans 13.
Look at verse 1, the Bible says,
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, for there is no power but of God.
The powers that be are ordained of God.
This is not saying that every single person in every position of leadership in the world
was handpicked by God, handordained by God.
What this is saying is that God has ordained real authority.
God has ordained human authority.
where the father is the head of the household, where the husband is the head of the household.
God has ordained masters at work to have authority over their servants.
God has ordained pastors to be in charge of churches.
God has ordained human government to be in charge and over the people of a nation.
These are real powers that God has ordained.
Then it says in verse two,
and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
So notice when you resist God ordained authority,
what you're resisting is God,
because God's the one that ordained that authority.
And when authority is in its lane,
doing what it's been given permission to do,
and you resist that, you are resisting God.
And you're gonna receive to yourself damnation.
That's not talking about going to hell,
it's just talking about condemnation.
Condemnation. Look what it says in verse 3.
For rulers, that's human government, are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
So that means that rulers are a terror to evil works, and they should be.
You know, people should be afraid of authority who are wicked.
Now, if you're righteous, you should not necessarily need to fear the authorities because you're doing that which is right.
And if authority is doing what it's supposed to do, it would never punish people doing right.
But people doing wrong, they should be afraid of power.
It says,
Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Verse 4 is very important.
For he is the minister of God to thee for good, but if thou do that which is evil, be afraid.
For he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute
wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Therefore, you must need to be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
We know that the Bible teaches for us not to avenge ourselves.
But then you ask the question, well, how will justice ever be done if we're not to avenge
ourselves?
Well, God has ordained a human structure that is going to carry out the judgment of God.
It's not just man's judgment.
No, they're carrying out God's judgment.
That's why the Bible says that he is the minister of God
for you, for good.
But if you're doing that, which is evil, be afraid,
for he beareth not the sword in vain,
for he is the minister of God,
a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
So here's what this means.
If we have laws in our country, and thank God we do,
and we honestly need to improve these laws even more,
but you know, in our country, we have the death penalty.
In the state of Oklahoma, we have the death penalty.
Now, it's not for nearly enough offenses
as it should be used for,
but you can get the death penalty
in the state of Oklahoma.
You know, if you go and murder a cop,
if you go on some sort of shooting spree,
if you commit certain sins,
our state government will condemn you and will kill you.
Do you know what that is?
That is God punishing you.
If someone is executed, if you're executed by the government, that is God punishing you.
Not just man.
Why?
Because God ordained this power.
God ordained this authority.
If someone goes out and points a gun at a police officer and gets killed by the police
officer, that was God punishing you.
because he is the minister of God and he doesn't bear the sword in vain.
You know what the sword is used for? The sword is used for killing people.
And you know, we're not to avenge ourselves.
We're not to go out and say, okay, you violated Leviticus chapter 20 verse 10.
You're an adulterer. No, that's not how it works.
We're not to avenge ourselves.
But a righteous government has been given power by God.
And you know what? Our government should use that power.
Our government should say, hey, God has ordained us as the power.
We are not bearing the sword in vain and we need to execute judgment.
Why? Because that's what God wants us to do.
And if a government is not doing that, well, you know what? Well, unto that government.
But it's still not our job to step in and be vigilantes and step in that judgment.
Unless you're in a position of authority, then don't exercise that authority.
God has ordained those powers and so yeah, you know, we're not against government. We're against wicked governments
We're not against police officers. We're against police officers breaking laws doing things that they shouldn't be doing
But you know to be anti police is insanity to be anti
Government it's insanity to be anti death penalty is insanity
Because there would just be no judgment on this earth, there'd be no condemnation.
We need the death penalty in our country. We need to use it more in our state.
And when someone is executed under the laws of Oklahoma, that is God judging them.
There is the natural consequences of sin, and then there's judgment by God ordained authority.
And when God ordained authority condemns you, that is God condemning you.
That is God punishing you. Go to Job 31.
Job 31, Job chapter 31, verse 9, this is what Job said in verse 9,
If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid weight at my neighbor's door,
he's saying, if I committed adultery, verse 10, then let my wife grind unto another,
and let others bow down upon her.
For this is an heinous crime.
Yay, notice it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
See, Job had the right attitude about this, that if someone commits adultery,
this is not just a sin, it is a crime.
There are things that are just sins, right?
And then there are things that are sins and crimes.
And he's like, if I went and laid weight at my neighbor's door
and slept with my neighbor's wife,
this is a heinous crime that should be judged by the judges.
And you know what, I agree with him, 100%.
I wish today that adultery was punished
criminally in our country.
And at one point it was, and you know, a lot of marriages would be saved, and a lot of,
you know, people would not go down this road if they knew that they were going to be put
to death before they went and did that.
A lot of people are just, you know, committing adultery, no big deal, they're not thinking
anything's going to happen of it because of the fact that we live in a society that has
tolerated it, that we live in a country where preachers haven't talked about it, where it's
But, you know, if we lived in a country where you got put to death for committing adultery,
we would have a lot less of it.
And, you know, it ruins families. It's something that we should judge.
Go to Exodus chapter 22, Exodus 22.
I want to keep showing you a couple more examples of how judgment by government is judgment by God.
Exodus 2 verse 1.
If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it,
he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
So someone goes and steals some of your livestock,
and then you have a trial and the judges say,
here's what you've got to do.
You've got to restore five oxen for that ox.
You should just look at that as God chastising you.
You should just look at that as God telling you to do that
he is. What we're reading right here is the Bible. What we're reading here is God telling us how to run
a government at the time and he's saying this is what you should do. Verse two,
if a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die there shall no blood be shed for him.
So someone's breaking into your house late at night you don't see who it is and you shoot
and kill this person you are not guilty of murder the Bible saying there's not going to be any blood
be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him.
For he should make full restitution, if he have nothing,
then he shall be sold for his theft."
So the biblical principle here is saying,
well, if the sun is up,
You will be able to see the perpetrator and you'll be able to decide if this person is just stealing
Just trying to get your stuff or if he's trying to hurt your family
Now I've heard some people say that like you could literally never defend your home or never defend your property
If it's done during the daytime because of this verse
But again, you have to understand the difference between the spirit of the law and the letter of the law
What is the spirit of this law? It's that you're defending your life that you would use lethal force on someone else
Because at night, you don't know the person's intentions,
and so you should just assume, like, oh, they're trying to hurt me.
They're trying to do something bad, and you could kill them,
and you would not be in any legal trouble.
But it's saying, like, in the daytime, you'd be able to see and discern,
oh, this person's just stealing, and it would not be right to just kill someone
for stealing something out of your yard, for taking your car or something like that.
That would not be right.
But here's the thing, if someone's breaking into your house in the daytime,
And they're just kicking open your door, doing something violent, please blow that person away.
Don't think that this verse is like prohibiting you from defending yourself, defending your body.
No, the whole principle is that you would only use lethal force to defend your life.
And thankfully, the laws in our state and country have this right.
To use lethal force, you have to be in fear of imminent death or great bodily harm.
Amen. I agree with that 100%.
I don't think it's right to just, you know,
someone stealing your boat and just to blow that person away.
That's too far.
And in some states you can do that.
right? But that is not right. Really, if your life is in danger, if someone else's life is in danger,
if they're in danger of great bodily harm and that's an imminent threat, yes, then you could use
lethal force and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I am four Christians carrying firearms,
learning how to use them well, being ready to defend their families. Thank God we live in America
and have the Second Amendment. That is a great blessing from God and we should use that. You
You know, watch out in Oklahoma because if you go into someone's house at night in Oklahoma,
you're probably going to die.
And you know, if someone broke into my house in the middle of the night, I would kill them
so fast it's not even funny.
And guess what?
That would not be murder.
That would not be a sin.
That would be defending my family.
There's nothing in the world wrong with that.
So this is God's judgment here notice go to Deuteronomy chapter number 22
Deuteronomy chapter 22. So again, this is criminal law here the judges would judge they would find out
What was this person using lethal force in defense of their life or were they going beyond that if they went beyond that?
You know what happened then the judges would judge that person and there would be bloodshed for that person
You know what that would be God's judgment through human authority
Deuteronomy 22 verse 25.
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field,
and the man force her and lie with her,
then the man only that lay with her shall die.
You know what the Bible teaches is that if a man goes out
and rapes a woman, that man should be put to death.
and amen and amen to that.
I wish that we had that as a law in our country
that if a man grabbed hold of a woman
and forced her in that way,
that we would take that person, give them a trial,
convict them, and then execute them.
That's what we should do, but we live in such a weird jacked-up country where half the country
You know if a man rapes a woman and there's a pregnancy by that half the country wants to kill the baby and not even worry about the
Rapist there's like well, what if a woman's raped? Can she kill her baby? No, she cannot
That's murder, but you know what we should do is we should kill the rapist and that's actually God's judgment
And if we lived in a country where that was God's judgment or where that was man's judgment as well
and someone committed rape and the government put that person to death,
you know what? That is God judging that person.
You're starting to see the picture here.
When you're judged by rightful human authority, you are judged by God.
When you are punished by righteous human authority, you are punished by God.
It says in verse 26,
but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing.
Hey, don't let any of these atheists tell you,
oh, you know, the Bible says that if a woman gets raped,
she should be put to death.
Actually, no, it doesn't.
You're a liar.
It says that if that happens to a woman,
the man should only be put to death.
And unto the damsel, you should do nothing.
Why? Because she is a victim.
She is an innocent victim.
And you know, it's sad today.
How many women will sadly lie about this?
Because it's a spit in the face to women who are real victims of this horrific crime.
You know, and it makes light of such an evil, heinous, disgusting act
when people who are just whores and regret being whores want to accuse men of being rapists.
Look, real rapists should be killed.
But you just being a whore and regretting it and calling a man a rapist is a joke.
It's insane. No, we should actually focus on the real sin and the real victims and
That's actually the loving thing to do for those people
But notice what it says says there is no there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death
For as when a man rise it against his neighbor and slay of him even so as this matter
I mean the Bible likens rape to murder
The Bible says like a woman getting raped,
it's as if someone just got up and killed an innocent person.
Why? Because it's a heinous, horrific, capital crime.
And it should be treated as such in our nation.
It says, verse 27, for he found her in the field
and the betrothed damsel cried
and there was none to save her.
So she cried out.
This was obviously not consensual.
She was asking for help.
She cried out, help me, save me.
This man's trying to hurt me.
When a woman does that, it's showing that,
hey, this is not consensual.
And if she doesn't cry out, if she's not saying that it's not consensual, she's not making it clear that she's in danger,
well then obviously she was not raped.
That's just reality.
Go to 1 Corinthians 5.
I know we've been going to this chapter a lot lately, but apparently we just need to.
You know, there's real human authority that God has ordained.
God has ordained government, and when government is in its rightful lane and it is punishing sin, that is God punishing you.
Same thing with church authority.
God has given the authority, real authority to the church,
and when the church exercises discipline,
when the church gives out a punishment,
that is God punishing you.
1 Corinthians 11 verse,
1 Corinthians 5 verse 11.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company.
If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one, know not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God, judges, therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person. So God's actively judging people without the church. How is God judging people within the
church? Through the human authority that he's instituted. He's already given the church real
authority and he's told the church these people are not allowed in. And so when we as a church
execute church discipline, that is God punishing someone. That is God chastising someone. And so
people should look at church discipline as a serious thing.
It should be something to be feared, it's not something to be taken lightly.
And you know what? It also takes a whole church to observe church discipline for it to actually be effective.
Because it's God's punishment on someone.
And here's the thing, like in church if someone was kicked out of church
and the people that they were friends with before they were kicked out of church
are still friends with them after they're being kicked out of church,
then do you realize that nothing has changed for them?
They still have all the same friendships.
They still have all the same relationships.
They haven't really lost anything because you're not helping in that.
When it comes to church discipline, it has to be a whole church endeavor
that we put away from among ourselves that wicked person
that we wouldn't even eat with that person.
That is the execution, the judgment, the punishment of God on an individual that's doing one of these things.
And so again, you know, if someone's kicked out of church, I'm not going to police anyone's life,
but if someone's actually kicked out of church for committing one of these sins,
you know, I would implore you not to continue to have a relationship with that person
because you're helping that person escape the judgment of God that they need.
And this is just what the Bible teaches.
Go to Matthew chapter 18 Matthew 18
But you know if someone is under the judgment and the punishment of their local New Testament church
They are under the punishment of God
They are under the judgment of God, you know, that's why I've even had people email me telling me
Hey, I've been kicked out of this old IFB church and I've literally contacted that church to figure out why
Because if someone just you know gets kicked out of an old IFB church because they listen to pastor Anderson
I'm not going to honor that because that's a bunch of garbage.
But if I call that pastor and he's like,
oh yeah, you know, he was committing fornication,
then I'm going to honor that church discipline even if it's a different church.
Because God has given that church authority,
and if that authority has condemned this person,
then that person is under the condemnation of God.
And I'm going to honor that.
Matthew 18 verse 18, the Bible says,
And whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
You know when the church marks someone, God backs that up.
When the church authority makes a decision and says, you know what, this person is wicked,
this person needs to be kicked out of church, Jesus Christ backs that decision up.
And you know if someone repents and asks for forgiveness and comes back into the fold and
And Jesus gives that person grace as well.
You know, but God has actually instituted human authority to carry out his judgment.
Jesus is not here physically today to lead the church.
So you know what he's done?
He's given a pastor with real authority that he backs up.
And God's people need to back it up as well.
Good Ephesians 6, Ephesians chapter number 6.
Here's another one. How about your boss at work?
Your boss at work has a real authority.
given to him by God." Ephesians 6 verse 5, servants, be obedient to them that are your
masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart
as unto Christ.
So, you know, in our modern vernacular, we wouldn't necessarily say servant and master.
We'd probably say like employee and employer or worker and boss.
And guess what?
Boss has real power.
Boss has real authority and we are supposed to obey our bosses at work.
And, you know, if your boss is chewing you out, if your boss is punishing you, you should
look at that as God punishing you.
You know, I remember seeing a post on Facebook like a year or two ago where this person said
that he walked into his boss's office and ripped up his performance review and threw
it on the ground.
And he was like, please pray that God blesses me with another job.
It's like God's not going to bless you with another job because you were extremely disrespectful
and flippant to the authority that was there.
You do not have a right to be disrespectful to authority, even if you don't like them,
even if you disagree with them.
The Bible literally says that we should be subject to our masters, even to the froward.
Not just to the good and gentle.
Not just to, oh man, my boss is so great, so wonderful, I really just love my boss, we're
like best friends.
No, even to the ones that are froward, even to the ones that are harsh, even to the ones
that scream at you, even to the ones that cuss you out, you don't have a right to be
You don't have that right and when a Christian does so you know what who you're being disrespectful to God Almighty God
When you disobey your boss at work, you know who you're disobeying Jesus Christ
and we live in a day and age where employees are so
Entitled and so spoiled little brats where they think they can mouth off to their boss and it's disgusting. It's crazy
and this culture has rubbed off even on bosses
where I feel like bosses at work are like walking on eggshells
and afraid to tell their employees what to do,
afraid to correct them to the point where like,
I've even, to some of my employers,
but in the past it's been like,
you could tell me to do anything.
Like just tell me because you know,
when you have certain jobs,
some people are real sticklers about their job description.
And it's like, well, if it's not in my job description,
I'm not going to do it.
And I'm just like, look, I know this isn't my job description.
I will do whatever you want me to do, because you're the boss.
And I just want my boss to feel like he could just
tell me what to do.
And I'm not going to cry about it.
I'm not going to report him to HR over it.
I'm just going to do what the boss says.
And even if the boss was mad at me and yelled at me,
I'm still going to do what the boss says.
And even if I disagree with him, and even if he's objectively
wrong, I'm just going to let him be wrong,
I'm not going to sit here and ridicule him or make him look stupid.
This is what employees love to do.
They love to find an instance where their boss was wrong and they love to publicly humiliate
them in front of the team.
That is wicked.
You should be trying to save face for your boss and you should try to be gentle if you
ever have to correct anything that was said by your boss, like be extremely respectful
to your boss.
Why?
Because God has said that you're to be in subjection to him and when you're disrespectful
to him, you're disrespectful to God.
How about children and parents? Look at verse number one of Ephesians 6.
Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.
Look children, if your parents are chastising you,
if your parents are spanking you, that is God punishing you.
That is God chastising you because God has given real authority to parents and God has told children to obey your mother and your father.
And when you disobey mom and dad, you know who you're ultimately disobeying is God, is Jesus Christ.
And so when you disobey earthly authority that God has ordained and they punish you, that is God punishing you.
That is God chastising you.
Flip the page back to Ephesians chapter number five.
You know, everything makes sense so far until we get to this part.
Then, Christians just lose their mind to this one.
Okay, husbands and wives, look at Ephesians 5 verse 22.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body.
I mean, the Bible describes the amount of power that a husband has over his wife to the same amount of power as Jesus Christ has over the church of God.
I mean, Jesus is the ultimate head of our church.
He has all power.
He has all authority.
And the Bible says that wives are to submit unto their own husbands as unto the Lord.
But, like you would submit to Christ, is how a wife should submit to her husband, and
it says in verse 24, therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be
to their own husbands in everything.
If a wife is disobedient to her husband, she is being disobedient to God.
And let me say this, if a husband has to chastise his wife, has to correct her, has to get on
her case about something, you should look at that as God chastising you.
You should look at that as God punishing you.
He's like, oh, this is crazy.
Funny how it wasn't crazy when it was the government.
Funny how it wasn't crazy when it was your boss.
Funny how it wasn't crazy when it was your parents, but it's just crazy for a husband
to have authority over his wife.
No, you're brainwashed.
No, you're not believing what the Bible says.
Obey your husbands as unto the Lord.
And wives, if your husband corrects you,
you should look at that as God correcting you.
Now, of course, you have the idiots
where they love to preach the 1% and ignore the 99%.
I love all these pastors recently
that their whole ministry is just focused
on the exception to the rule.
It's like, well, what if your husband
commands you to go commit murder?
What if your husband commands you to become a stripper?
What if your husband commands you to do this?
This isn't happening in 99.999% of marriages.
So why would I sit up here and constantly preach the exception of when it's okay for
children to disobey their parents, when it's okay to disobey your boss, when it's okay
to disobey your husband.
No, why don't we just focus on the rule, wives obey your husbands.
And you know what, most of the time the husband is right.
Husband is right, that's the rule, exception, sure there is exceptions to that, but you
know if your husband is correcting you, if your husband is chastising you, if he is
getting on your case over something, you should look at that as God getting on your case.
And if your default is to always think that your husband is wrong, if your default is
to always think that your boss is wrong, or that your pastor is wrong, or that your parents
are wrong, you're wrong.
You are so just full of yourself to think that you're just better and smarter and greater than all the authorities in your life
It's a bad way to live your life
It's gonna just it's not gonna bring any peace in your life
Being a constant conflict with your authorities is just gonna lead to a sad and stressed out and miserable life
You will be happier when you submit to your boss at work even when you don't agree with him because that's what submission is
Doing something that you both agreed on that is not submission. That's like, hey, we both agree
Submission by definition means you don't agree
You don't agree, you obey anyways, you're gonna have peace.
You're gonna be a lot better off in life.
You're gonna have better relationships
with all the authorities in your life.
When your default is just, you're right.
Yes, sir, you're in charge.
I'll do what you say.
That should be your default.
And yes, I am not an idiot.
I realize that the one in the million out there,
there are exceptions to the rule,
but I am not gonna sit up here and preach the exception.
I'm gonna preach the rule.
And if you're the exception, you know that you are, but chances are you're not.
I doubt that anyone in here has been told by their husband to commit a crime.
No ladies in here were told by their husbands to become strippers, to make money.
Hey honey, start an OnlyFans.
Said no husband ever!
Like what are you talking about?
There's not husbands out there telling their wives to do this stuff.
And look, obviously if they are, that would be a different story,
but I'm not preaching the exception, preaching the rule.
Go to Acts chapter number five. So, we're talking about how God judges sin, how God punishes sin. Number one,
cause and effect, the natural punishment of sin. God created a natural world with natural consequences.
When you violate those laws, you're gonna pay the price. Number two, punishment by human authority that was ordained by God.
God institutes an authority that authority executes a judgment that judgment is backed up by God and you're being punished by God
When you're being punished by your human authorities number three, let's talk about God's
active
Supernatural punishment. These are the three ways that God punishes sin
natural human authority and God's active
Supernatural punishment now. This is the scariest one by far
And I could preach a hundred sermons of all the times that God did this in the Bible.
But let's look at a few examples.
How about examples where God strikes people dead?
Acts chapter 5, verse 1.
But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession
and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it,
and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why have Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land?
You know, this husband and wife had sold a possession, sold a piece of land?
And they acted as if they were donating 100% of the proceeds to the Apostles, to the Church of God.
They were making a show of their giving, trying to say that they were giving 100%,
but the Bible says they kept back part of the price.
So it'd be like someone saying like,
Oh, I donated my full paycheck to church. Aren't I so great?
Aren't I so spiritual?
But in reality, they're lying.
They didn't actually do that.
And so look at what Peter says in verse 3.
Or I'm sorry, verse four, it says,
while it remained, was it not thine own?
And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?
He's saying, look, no one forced you to give this gift.
You were not under any commandment by God,
any law or regulation where God said,
thou shalt give this much money.
This was yours, this was your decision.
And so it's like, why are you lying about this?
It says,
Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
These people are lying to the Holy Spirit.
They're lying to God.
Verse 5 in Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost.
And great fear came on all them that heard these things.
This is the supernatural, active punishment of God.
And look, God is real, my friend. God is judging. God is watching. And you know what? God can get you a lot of ways.
You could suffer the natural consequences of your sin. Your human authority can get on to you and punish you for your sin.
And if that doesn't get you, you know what he could do? He could supernaturally, actively stretch forth his hand in your life and judge you any way he sees fit.
And you know what? God did not just do that in the Old Testament. God did that in the New Testament. And God is doing that today.
And I know someone who is smitten with a skin disease,
a one in a trillion skin disease.
His name is Ryan Becker, who's under the judgment of God,
under the punishment of God, for being a wicked Judas,
for stealing God's money, for attacking a church of God
that was a soul winning church, doing great works for God,
for lying against men of God.
And you know what? God has actively judged that man.
God was judging. Then God is judging. Now we serve a terrifying God and we should be scared of God
even after you're saved.
Fearing God does not stop when you get saved.
Look, some save with fear, the Bible says, and you know what? A lot of people get saved for fear of hell.
Praise God for that because hell is scary. You should be scared of hell.
If you are not saved, you should be terrified
because at any moment, you could close your eyes on this earth
and wake up burning in hell where you will be for all of eternity.
That should be scary.
But you know what? It doesn't just stop there
because we serve a God that could supernaturally,
actively punish people on this earth.
And you know what? I believe that Ananias and Sapphira were saved.
Saved people are not exempt from the punishment of God.
From the chastisement of God.
Look what it says in verse number six,
and the young men arose, wound him up,
and carried him out, and buried him.
And it was about the space of three hours after,
when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
And Peter answered unto her,
tell me whether ye sold the land for so much?
And she said, yay for so much.
You know, so she conspired with her husband to sin.
Verse 9, then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord?
Behold the feet of them which have buried thy husband, or at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost, and the young man came in,
and found her dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
And it's like, why is this story given to us in the Word of God?
I'll tell you exactly why, is that we should be afraid to tell lies.
People act like, oh lying, it's just little white lies, oh lies aren't that big of a deal.
We look at it sometimes and our culture is lying, not being that big of a deal.
But you know what?
God has killed people for telling lies.
And you know what, especially you would never want to lie about spiritual things.
You know liars that God really hates?
What do they do? They teach lies for gain.
They're greedy, they're covetous, and they preach false doctrine for the love of money.
You know, God hates those people. Those people should be scared.
False prophets should be scared. You know what? Anyone that lies to God,
anyone that lies about spiritual things should be very scared.
You know, it makes me think about this like...
When I was at Steadfast Baptist Church, this was like in 2021. It was very shortly after moving there
I was a part of pastor Shelley's
preaching class and he asked for a raise of hands of who wants to be a pastor someday and honestly
I knew that I had the desire to potentially do that yet
But I wasn't anywhere close and so I didn't even raise my hand at that time
But he had this pastor's test that he had all the people who raised their hand
take. And I didn't even raise my hand, but he just made me take it anyway. So I had to take it anyways.
But in that pastor's test, there's questions. There's questions about how many times you read
the Bible through cover to cover. There was a question of, have you ever committed physical
adultery? There's like all these questions about Bible knowledge. You know, and I was thinking,
what a fool it would be for someone to lie on this test.
What an idiot it would be, you know, he asks if there's anything you disagree with on
his doctrine.
You know, what kind of an idiot would it be that would lie on a test like that?
Because hello, God's watching, idiot.
God knows who you are you can't lie to God and get away with it
And it's like it'd be so dumb if someone was just trying to get ordained and trying to become a pastor
Even though they knew that they weren't qualified even though that they knew that they disagreed with Pastor Shelley on a ton of stuff
And they just omitted the truth and lied on that test. Hello idiot
Your future is in God's hand and God gets to decide if he's gonna bless your ministry or not
And why would you want to become a pastor just to fail?
Why would you want to go into the ministry without God's blessing on your life?
You know, this was my attitude, is that if I wasn't ready, then I don't want it.
If I'm not ready, I don't want it because it's a lot of responsibility.
It's a lot of accountability that's going to be put on you.
And why would we ever want to put someone in the pastorate who isn't truly legit?
and isn't truly ready, that would be crazy.
But there's people out there that will lie,
that will snake around their pastor to get hands laid on them.
But you know what? It's a fool's errand
because God's not going to bless those people.
Because it's a foolish errand to lie to the Holy Ghost.
Go to 1st Grand Theon's chapter number 11.
1st Grand Theon's 11.
While you're turning there acts 1221 says an upon-a-set day Herod a raid in royal apparel
Sat upon his throne and made an oration unto them and the people gave a shout saying it is the voice of a God and not of a man and
Immediately the angel of the Lord
Smote him because he gave not God the glory and he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost
There's another example in New Testament where God just strikes someone dead
Where God sees a man, lifted up with pride, and he's being agulated and worshiped by all these people saying,
oh, it's like the voice of a God, and he just soaks that in, he doesn't correct that, he doesn't downplay that.
It's like, oh, you want to take worship like God? Let's just have you get eaten alive by worms, and just give up the ghost right there.
We serve a fearful God, folks. People should be afraid to mess with God. Saved or unsaved, you should be scared of God.
Notice this, 1st Crate Deans 11, verse 27.
Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord."
It's referring to communion, the Lord's Supper.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup, for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Notice this, for this cause, many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
You know what that means? Many are dead.
Many are buried in the ground for taking of the Lord's Supper unworthily.
Which again, I would look at that as either someone being unsaved
or someone being involved in some 1 Corinthians 5 type sins
where they shouldn't even be a part of the congregation.
Yet they're partaking of the Lord's Supper.
You're partaking unworthily, not discerning the Lord's body.
And you know what? God punishes.
God chastises and God can straight up just kill.
often times. And you know what that is? That's the active supernatural hand of God
moving into a situation and judging people. That is something we see even in the New Testament.
But let's go back to the Old Testament real quick. Go to Leviticus 26. Leviticus 26.
I don't know where people get in this idea, where we shouldn't fear God, or that we shouldn't try to
use the fear of God to get people to follow his commandments
or to not do certain things. Like I'm just seeing the fear of God even the New
Testament here.
Let's look also at the Old Testament.
Leviticus 26 verse 13, it says I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt that you should not be their bondman, and I've broken the bands of your yoke and made you go upright.
Now, who is he talking to?
He's talking to God's people, because he's saying like, hey, I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
He's obviously talking to God's people here.
Verse 14, notice, but if you will not hearken unto me.
will not do all these commandments. And if you shall despise my statutes, or if
your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but
that you break my covenant, notice I also will do this unto you.
I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning agieu that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Notice what God was saying, I'm going to do this.
This isn't the natural consequence of sin.
This isn't human authority.
Correcting you, punishing you.
God's saying, look, if you despise my statutes,
if you refuse to keep my commandments,
if you're not going to fear me, you know what?
I'm going to do these things to you.
I'm going to hurt you, I'm going to punish you, I'm going to chastise you.
You're going to have sorrow of heart because of what God is doing.
God's active supernatural judgment.
Notice, in I, verse 17, and I will set my face against you,
and ye shall be slain before your enemies.
They that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when none pursues you.
And if you will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy
your cattle, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be desolate.
And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me, then
will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins."
The land also, oh, I'm sorry, go to verse 43, verse number 43.
The land also shall be left of them and shall enjoy her sabbaths while she lieth desolate without them.
And they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity because even because they despised my judgments and because their soul abhorred my statues.
That is some intense Bible that we just read.
That is some terrifying verses that we just read and you know what the Bible says the Bible says in Hebrews chapter number 10
Of how much sore punishment shall he be thought worthy who have trodden underfoot the Son of God
The New Testament you should be more scared of God than even in the Old Testament
And what we see in the Old Testament if you despise me if you want to turn away your ear from hearing law
You want to despise God commandments? I'm gonna come after you
I'm going to send wild beasts after you.
I'm going to cause your enemies to kill you in war and your children.
It's like, how are we not to fear God?
Fear the Lord.
Fear God.
Our God is a consuming fire.
Yes, you should be scared of God.
And you know what?
This is just logical, and this kind of helps people to understand salvation too.
Because when we go to Hebrews 12 in the New Testament, and we show them whom the Lord
People, people get this weird idea that they think, well, because we believe salvation is by faith alone,
we also must believe that you could just break all of God's commandments with impunity,
you could just live however you want, and there's no consequence whatsoever.
But guess what? That's not what we believe.
We believe that if you get saved, if you put all your trust in Jesus Christ,
you can live however you want if you want to get beaten by God severely.
If you want to get punished by God, if you want God coming after you,
his hand moving against you, hurting your life,
hurting the things that you love, well then go ahead and just live however you want.
Go ahead, God will whip you. God will chastise you.
And then people, they're like, oh that makes sense. Okay,
we're saved by faith, but if I just go out and rob a bank,
I'm gonna get killed by the police.
You know, if I just go out and commit adultery, I'm going to get a disease.
Oh, if I go out and do some wicked sin, God could just kill me.
That actually makes sense.
And don't do these super weird illustrations out soul winning that just aren't logical
and are just extremes.
Be like, you know, if I believe in Jesus and I go and shoot up a thousand kids and rape
a village and drop atomic bombs on 20 countries, am I still saved?
People are going to be like, what the hell, you know, it's like, what is wrong with you?
Don't use those bizarre examples because, first of all, a lot of those things are just reprobate activities.
But if you go out and just live a super wicked life as a Christian,
no, you're not going to lose your salvation, but yes, your life will be a wreck.
You'll be constantly getting beaten by God. You'll constantly be chastised by God.
And you know what? I don't want to live that way.
don't want to see your life that way. This is why I preach the fear of God.
This is why I preach about God's punishment so that you will fear Him
and depart from evil. Because you know what I want? I want you to be saved and
to live a good life. I want you to be saved and be blessed in the next life,
but also in this one here.
I want you to be like we talked about this morning.
I want you to draw an eye to God and actually have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
I want you to actually be his friend.
But you know what?
A saved man who's a drunkard, who doesn't provide for his family, who's an adulterer, who's a thief,
who's doing drugs, that's not the friend of God.
Sure they might be saved, but you know what?
They're going to live a miserable existence and God might even kill them and take them home.
And what's so funny is recently I heard from a pastor saying like,
well, if it's true that God's going to punish your children and possibly even kill you,
well, then you better include that in your gospel presentation.
And I'm just like, I already do.
I already do.
Every time I preach the gospel, I explain to people the punishment and chastisement of God.
And I very often even say these words, God can even kill you.
Because I believe that.
Because it's what the Bible says.
I'm not preaching my opinion, I'm showing you Bible verses where God is dropping people dead, even in the New Testament.
You should fear God.
And like, what's better, fearing God a little too much?
and just, you know, repenting of a little too much sin and being a little too righteous
or just not fearing God and constantly getting beaten by Him
and constantly doing all these wicked sins and reaping the consequences of God cursing your life.
Which one's better?
Like, I'd rather be on the this side of just like,
okay, maybe I fear God a little too much.
Maybe I'm preaching a little too hard.
Maybe I want you to fear God a little too much.
That's better than this crap.
Oh, you better preach that in your gospel presentation.
I do because I want people to fear God.
And you know what? When I do that, people go,
oh, these aren't psychopaths that think you could just shoot up a school and be saved
and have no problem whatsoever.
It's that no, salvation is by faith alone,
but if you live wickedly afterwards, God's going to tan your hide.
And God could even kill you.
Go to Numbers Chapter 12, Numbers Chapter Number 12.
So we talked about just dropping people dead, dropping all these curses on people.
How about God just smiting you with a disease?
This happens. This can happen.
How about Miriam? Look at Numbers chapter number 12 verse 1 and Miriam and Aaron
spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married for
he had married an Ethiopian woman. Now there's kind of two views on this. Some
people think that Moses was totally fine in what he did. There's no problem
whatsoever that you know you can marry whoever you want. There's another view
that says that well Moses was actually in the wrong here. I tend to think
And I'm willing to be corrected on this if someone could show me in the Bible.
But I tend to think that Moses was actually in the wrong here
because the Bible says that you're not supposed to intermarry
with different nations in the Old Testament.
And it had nothing to do with race or anything like that.
It's just that in the Old Testament, the people of God was a physical nation.
Just like in the New Testament, you shouldn't go marry a Catholic.
You shouldn't go marry a Hindu.
Now look, there's nothing wrong with marrying a different skin color
or a different nation in the New Testament,
but there is something wrong with marrying someone that's not saved.
Okay, in the Old Testament we had a physical nation and I don't think that God's people should have been marrying with the heathen, okay?
So I even think that there's a possibility that Moses was wrong here
but I actually think that my view on this makes this passage a little more interesting because
let's just say that Miriam and Aaron had some validity to their problem. They still shouldn't have been speaking against Moses.
They still shouldn't have been talking crap about the man of God even if he's wrong and notice God judged them for that.
It says in verse 2, and they said,
half the Lord indeed, spoken only by Moses,
hath he not spoken also by us, and the Lord heard it.
So notice they're like, oh, I guess Moses isn't perfect.
Oh, I guess, you know, Moses as a leader made a mistake here.
Well, has God only spoken by him?
Aren't we great?
Aren't we wonderful too?
And God hears this and notice what it says in verse three.
Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.
That's a great attribute, by the way, to be meek, to be humble.
And that's oftentimes the people that God uses that exalts to leadership are people that are meek and humble.
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam.
Come out, E3, unto the tabernacle of the congregation.
And they three came out.
That has to be scary right there.
I mean, think back when you were a kid and your dad's like,
hey, come here.
You're just like, oh, your heart's beating.
You're like, what's going to happen?
God's just like, you three out.
God saying that.
Like, that's got to be a terrifying scene right here.
Verse 5.
of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam and they both came
forth and he said here now my words if there be a prophet among you I the Lord will make myself
known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream my servant Moses is not so who is
faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth see he's the friend of God
Even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold
Wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
He's saying like look, Moses is special here
Moses is a serious man of God. Moses is definitely a friend of God
Moses has close access to God and these people should have been afraid to speak against him
And this is not to say that Moses was perfect.
In fact, I think this is an example of where he was not perfect, where he made a mistake.
But you know what?
A man of God not being perfect does not give you an excuse to start talking crap about him,
railing against him, causing division against him.
No, who do you think you are? That's wrong.
And God hears that and God's angry at that.
That's what it says in verse number 9,
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them.
and he departed. See, if Moses was wrong, then God will take care of that.
God will correct him. God will chastise him, just like how God chastises all of his children.
But it wasn't Aaron and Miriam's place to do that.
That's why this idea of like, oh, you know, how do you overthrow a pastor who's gone bad? That's a stupid question.
That's a stupid question you shouldn't be overthrowing pastors go to different church if you don't like your pastor or it's like even this
You know people just decide in their heart. They've just decided that a pastor's
Unqualified and they'll just stop calling that pastor pastor and it's like that's not for you to decide
Someone's a pastor. You just call them pastor so-and-so and there's pastors that I don't like that
I think personally are disqualified, but you know what?
That's not my position to say so I still call them pastor so-and-so I still refer to them as pastor so-and-so and if God
Wants to remove them God will do so and we've seen that happen before
Didn't we have see that with Donnie Romero the former pastor of steadfast Baptist Church when he was wicked when he got into sin
Did anyone have to overthrow him or did God just expose him before the whole congregation?
So, you know what? That's not your job to go correct, Moses.
It's not your job to go overthrow a pastor.
It's not your job to declare a pastor unfit.
I'm not even going to refer to him as a pastor anymore.
That's pride.
Just be humble.
Fear God.
Know He hears things.
And don't just speak presumptuously like that.
God doesn't like it.
That's why it says in verse number 10 in the law and the cloud departed from off the tabernacle and behold
Miriam was leprous white as snow and Aaron looked upon Miriam and behold. She was leprous
I mean God just struck her with a disease for being presumptuous for talking crap has the Lord only spoken by Moses
Aren't we great too? Aren't we wonderful too? No, you're not apparently because God just smoked you with leprosy for being a punk
Go to 2nd Chronicles, chapter 26, 2nd Chronicles, chapter number 26, and again, I think that
Miriam was saved. I think Miriam was one of God's people, yet God's judging her harshly.
God's punishing her harshly. Here's another man who I believe was saved. That's King Uzzah.
The Bible says at one point that King Uzzah did that which was right in the side of the Lord.
I believe that this is likely a king that was saved. Notice verse number 16.
The Bible says in 2 Chronicles 26 16, but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction
You know that's often when people get prideful is when things are going well for them and they're strong and the finances are going great
Everything's going well
For he transgressed against the Lord and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
You know, this was not the place of the king to do.
It was not the king's place to go in and offer incense in the temple of God.
That was the priest's job.
We saw King Saul in 1 Samuel made this exact same mistake and he was punished for it.
Uzzah's getting presumptuous.
He goes into the temple.
He starts doing the sacrifice.
He starts doing the incense.
In verse 17,
in Azariah the priest went in after him.
And with him forescored priests of the Lord that were valiant men, and they withstood Uzziah the king and said unto him,
It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, and to the priests, the son of Aaron,
that are consecrated to burn incense, go out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honor from the Lord.
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censor in his hand to burn incense, and while he was wroth with the priests,
the leprosy even rose up in his forehead
before the priests in the house of the Lord
from beside the incense altar.
He was struck with leprosy for being presumptuous,
for doing something that was not his right
or his authority to do.
God strikes this man with leprosy,
and you know what the Bible says?
That he remained a leper until the day of his death.
And again, just why are these stories in the Bible?
It's for us to look at these things and fear the Lord.
and realize that, yes, we can reap consequences just from our sin, from just cause and effect.
Yes, earthly authorities can judge us, punish us, chastise us, and that's God's judgment in a sense.
But also, God could put forth His hand against you, and that is the worst type of punishment you could receive.
Because when God is angry, I mean, he's smiting people with diseases.
That is just great. I mean, that is supernatural, folks.
You're just healthy. You're good. You got no problems.
You piss God off. You can just strike you with the disease. That's terrifying.
And you know, people will be like, well, I don't like that.
Well, God's mean. Well, guess what? It doesn't matter what you think.
Because it's reality. And you know what? God is not going to sit in judgment of you.
Like, you're not going to sit there judging God. It's actually going to be the other way around.
And God doesn't have to answer to you.
You have to answer to God.
But we live in this insane society where it's like kids want to give their parents
a progress support of how they've been doing parenting.
And you know, even at work this happens, it's like,
what feedback do you have for your manager?
How are they doing it at their job?
Dude, that's not how it works.
management judges the employees, okay? Boss, employee, God, human. You don't sit
here and judgment of God, okay? Well, I don't like the God's being. I think
that God's being, or I think that God's too harsh. Doesn't matter what you think.
What matters is who God is. And you know what's funny? I happen to love who God is.
I happen to agree with all of his judgments.
I happen to love the fact that he's gracious, merciful, long-suffering, kind.
He gives us so much more than we deserve.
He punishes us so much less than our iniquities deserve.
Thank you, God, for that.
I love God.
But you know what?
I also love his judgment.
I also love when he curses the wicked.
I also love when he sees a reprobate, a God-hating reprobate like Ryan Becker, and curses him
with a skin-eating disease?
I love God for all of His judgments.
Who am I to sit here in judgment of God and say,
well, you're a little too mean here.
Why did you strike Miriam with leprosy?
Why did you go after King Uzzah?
God's always right, my friend.
I'm not gonna sit here in judgment of God.
He's gonna sit here in judgment of me.
And I should fear God.
And you should fear God.
Go to 2 Kings 17, 2 Kings chapter number 17.
You know, another way that God could just supernaturally...
Judge is by creating warfare and you see sometimes in the Bible.
There's warfare where God will like cause confusion to take place and like the enemy
will kill themselves or like army will come out of nowhere and like
rescue God's people. Like God is definitely actively working in these situations
oftentimes. 2 Kings 17 verse 16 the Bible says
and they left all the commandments of the Lord their God and made them
molten images even two calves and made a grove and worshiped all the
and served Baal, so they're being super wicked.
And they caused their sons and their daughters
to pass through the fire
and use divination and enchantments
and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord
to provoke him to anger.
Therefore, the Lord was very angry with Israel
and removed them out of his sight.
There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Also, Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God
but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they made.
Notice verse 20.
And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of the spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
So notice God delivering his people into the hand of their enemies to do what they want
onto them, to spoil them. You know, that should make us fear. That should make us fear thinking of,
you know, even the history of our country. We've been blessed with so much peace. It's not even
funny. Like America is a unique country in its history in the fact of like how peaceful our mainland
has been since the inception of our country. This is not the norm of the world.
Okay, you study the history of the world, it's like constant warfare all the time,
and it's kind of an anomaly that in America, on our homeland, we really haven't fought a big war
here since the Civil War, right? Civil War was the last time on these, you know, on this land
that there's a big war. But, you know, just because that was true in the past does not mean
that that will always be true in the future. And, you know, we don't know when Jesus Christ is
coming. Some people think he's coming in this lifetime. Look, Christ can come back a thousand
Christ can come back two thousand years from now. We don't know and we shouldn't sit here and be all prideful and be like
Well, we're Americans. No one could ever touch us. No one could ever get past these shores
We got guns if we piss off God
If we're wicked as a nation, if we turn ourselves over to idolatry,
if we start just, you know, just promoting all this sin and promoting sodomy
and allowing all this wickedness in our land,
we could provoke God to turn his hand against us as a nation
and judge us supernaturally and, you know, we could get invaded by our enemies.
We could be given over to the hand of our enemies
and America is not invincible.
We as a nation should fear God
and not just think, well, we've been in peace.
In my father's days and in my grandfather's days,
therefore, it'll never happen to me.
You don't know that.
And you know when I look at this world and some of the warfare that's happened the last couple of years in
Ukraine and in Russia and how horrific and terrible warfare is and you know
I've seen videos of the Ukrainian government how they're just going around town and they're just kidnapping men off the streets and just
Constricting them into the army because it's such a bloodbath over there
It's such just a meat grinder of destruction and death over there. I don't want that here
I don't want that in our country.
God forbid that would happen here.
And so what we should do is just beg God for mercy
and repent and fear God and keep Him high and holy
in our minds and not think we're so great
that could never happen to us.
Yes, it could.
It could happen to us.
There was a time in this country where hundreds of thousands of men died on this land fighting each other in the Civil War.
There was a time in this country, on this land, where thousands and thousands of people died fighting the British.
And look, we should not glorify warfare. We should not think war is cool.
No, war is horrific and terrible and is oftentimes the judgment of God.
And you know, anytime a nation is involved in war, it should examine itself and wonder if it's being cursed by God.
You know, I wonder if maybe Ukraine is being cursed by God for being so liberal and promoting sodomy and filth all over Kiev.
I mean, Western Ukraine is so wicked, it's not even funny.
And you know whose fault that is?
A big part of it is the United States' fault.
for promoting a bunch of filth over in that country.
Back in 2014 in the Maidan coup,
you know, overthrowing that government
and putting some pro-western, pro-fagotry,
you know, government over there, it's wicked as hell.
We have a large responsibility in that,
but, you know, Ukraine should look at itself
and wonder if it's being judged by God.
Russia should do the same and if we're ever in war we should do the same and not just think like we're always right
We're America. We're always great. No, you know what? America's done a lot of wicked things
And we're doing a lot of wicked things right now and you know, thank God
There are some positive things that I'm seeing and praise the Lord for that, but we need to keep preaching hard
We need to keep fearing God. We need to keep cleaning things up in our country because there's a lot of problems still going on
You know, I went to the library yesterday and you know what I saw?
I saw a disgusting tranny with two little kids.
That should not be tolerated in our country.
Why are we allowing a tranny to have children in our country?
What a sick and disgusting abomination that is.
What a reproach that is to our nation.
Righteousness exalted the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
What a reproach to the state of Oklahoma that it's even legal here for a disgusting
That is disgusting, folks.
And look, overall, I love Oklahoma and I love our country,
but that's not going to stop me from preaching hard
against the sins that go on here.
I'm not going to be a respecter of persons, or of nations,
or of states, or of cities, or anything.
You know who I stand with?
100% is Jesus Christ and the Word of God.
Go to 2 Kings chapter 17, 2 Kings chapter 17.
Look at verse number 18 I want to read that again where it says therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight
There was none left, but the tribe of Judah only notice these people were so
Destroyed that the only tribe that was left was Judah and you know sometimes God can judge a nation
By pretty much just wiping it off the face of the earth
or just dwindling it down to almost nothing.
You know, when that happens to a country,
you should just assume that you're under the judgment of God,
that you're under the punishment of God.
And what's so stupid is, countries will do this
and they won't turn from their sin,
they won't, you know, consider if they're doing things wickedly,
they'll just like, we just need to keep fighting no matter what.
It's like, maybe you need to change.
Maybe you need to realize that you're being cursed by God.
And you know, sometime during end times,
Babylon is going to be completely destroyed by God.
Sodom and Gomorrah was a country, a city state, if you will, that was completely destroyed by God.
Go to 1 Peter chapter 1 while I read.
1 Thessalonians 1-10 says,
You know, thank God that we are saved and spared from the wrath of God from the punishment of hell.
But that does not mean that no matter what you do that you would not be spared from the punishment of God from the chastisement of God and you know
Some people make a difference between chastisement and punishment if you think that's different. I'm not against you
No big deal whatsoever
But you know like in second Corinthians after someone was kicked out of church and first Corinthians
The Apostle Paul said sufficient to such a one was this punishment which was inflicted of many
So I think it's accurate to say that God punishes his children chastises his children
I don't think there's any difference between those things
But look just because God spared you from hell does not mean that you're gonna be spared from the punishment of God for your sin in this life
You should fear the Lord. You should with every decision you make think about the ramifications that could happen
Whether that's from a carnal cause and effect reaction. Hey, if I smoke these drugs, I could overdose and die
God doesn't have to actively curse you if you do with these things you could die or hey
If I go out rob a bank, I wonder what the Oklahoma City Police Department is gonna think about that
You know if I go out and start shooting people. I wonder what the cops are gonna think about that
Yeah, they'll probably kill you and you know what that is
It's a punishment of God, because He ordained that authority.
And then, what went to you when the hand of God is against you?
When the hand of God is working supernaturally to curse your life, that is terrible.
Look at verse number 13 of 1 Peter 1.
The Bible says,
wherefore,
gird up the loins of your mind,
be sober,
and hope to the end for the grace
that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
By the way, you know why we need grace?
Because we're deserving of punishment.
Because we're deserving of hell even.
Verse 14,
as obedient children,
not fashioning yourselves
according to the former lusts
in your ignorance,
but as he which hath called you is holy,
so be ye holy.
in all manner of conversation because it is written be ye holy for I am holy. And if you call
on the Father who without respect of persons, judge it according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. What is the application for this sermon this
From the day you got saved, from today, if you will, up until the day that you die, you know what you should be doing?
You should be passing the sojourning of your time in this world in fear of God every day.
Do not ever lose the fear of God in your heart.
Do not ever think, well, I've been saved for 10 years, for 20 years, so I don't need to fear God anymore.
No, you need to still fear God every single day.
because just because you're saved,
just because you've been saved for a while,
doesn't mean that if you start living wickedly,
that God's just going to spare you from His judgment.
No, it doesn't matter how long you've been saved,
you go out and start doing fentanyl,
you're going to receive some punishment.
You're going to receive some serious punishment from that,
and it's just cause and effect.
You could even die from it.
What is that?
Just nature.
God created this world.
God created your body to react to certain things.
You start drinking alcohol.
I don't care if you've been saved for 60 years.
You could black out and get drunk
and do all these terrible things.
It doesn't matter if you've been saved for 50 or 60 years.
If you go rob a bank today, the police are going to get you.
It doesn't matter how long you've been saved, and look, it doesn't matter how long you've
been saved if you decide to just not give a rip about God's commandments, and not give
a rip about what He tells you to do, what He tells you to avoid, and you just start living
however you want, just according to your own lust, according to your own flesh, doesn't
matter how long you've been saved, God is going to punish you.
For whom the Lord loveth.
He chaseneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Every son, the Bible says.
If you're without chastisement, you're probably not even saved.
You should fear God until the day you die.
Let us as a church fear the Lord. Let's pray, Lord.
Thank you for your word.
Thank you, God, that you are a balanced God,
that you're both a gracious, loving, and merciful God,
but that you're also a wrathful God,
that you're also a terrible God,
that you're also a fearful God.
Let us both be in awe of your love and also let us fear your wrath.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
At this time we'll go to our last hymn. If you will grab your hymnal number
343 revive us again
343, 343, us again.
343, they're on the first.
Amen, with that you are dismissed.