And it says, but it had a timeline, okay?
It says it was imposed on them until the time of reformation.
So in order for us to know, you know, how long do we have to keep these laws, we have
to know what the time of the reformation is.
Reformation simply means when something is improved upon, something is made new with
something better.
And we understand that in Hebrews, what was made better?
The new covenant.
See, the old covenant waxed away, is vanishing away, but the Bible talks about how Jesus
is a mediator of a better covenant, a better testimony, which is the New Testament.
So when He came, He died on the cross, that was considered to be the time of reformation.
He was making something better is what He was doing.
So now, we don't have to adhere to these things, right, man?
We don't have to worry about not eating shrimp and pork.
We don't have to observe holy days like the Sabbaths.
You know, the Seventh-day Adventists want to grill that in and look at us Baptists and
say, why don't you guys have church on Sunday?
You guys should be keeping the Sabbath.
You know, Exodus chapter 20 says, remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.
Yeah, but that was a holy day in the cardinal ordinance that was imposed upon God's people
until the time of reformation.
And look, I find it interesting that they want to keep that one law, that one commandment,
what about the other commandments in regards to the ordinances?
You know, do you sacrifice in the morning and in the evening?
You know, do you still eat shrimp?
Do you still do these diverse washings and cardinal ordinances?
No.
So how can you say you want to keep the observance of holy days such as the Sabbath, but you're
not sacrificing morning and evening?
You're not even sacrificing on the Sabbaths.
You know there's a commandment to do sacrifices on the Sabbaths?
They weren't even doing, they're not even doing that.
Go to your local Seventh-day Adventist church and go in there and say, hey, I'm here for
the Sabbath, so where's the sacrifice at?
Because that's what they're supposed to be doing.
But you know what they're doing?
They're basically nitpicking what they want to obey and what they don't want to obey,
you know?
And that's what happens when a woman creates a religion, by the way.
The Seventh-day Adventist was created by a woman, right?
Go to Hebrews chapter 8, Hebrews chapter 8.
So the reason these laws were imposed upon God's people until the time of Reformation
is simply for the fact that these laws and commandments were a figure.
They were a shadow of things to come.
Well, what things was to come?
Jesus Christ.
And when Christ came, He was the fulfillment of those ordinances, of those sacrifices,
yea, even of the Sabbath, okay?
Look at Hebrews 8 verse 6 says, but now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry by how
much also He is the mediator of a what?
Better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
That is considered the Reformation.
So once Christ came, He died, all those things were done away with regarding the ceremonial
laws, okay?
Go to Colossians chapter 2.
I'll read to you from Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 says, think not that I am come to destroy
the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy but to fulfill, and that's what He
did.
He fulfilled them all.
He fulfilled the sacrifices.
Look, we say, what about the diverse washings?
Well, a lot of these things were symbolic of separation, okay?
The separation that we're supposed to adhere to today.
You know, the fact that we weren't supposed to eat shrimp or these unclean animals, well,
in 2 Corinthians chapter 6, it talks about us not touching the unclean thing, but come
out from among them, the Bible says, and be separate, okay?
And it explicitly explains to us what that means.
It basically talking about, you know, being separate, have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness where we were to reprove them, for what concord hath Christ with Belial?
You know, what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
So that is a fulfillment of the laws that we see in the ordinances in the Old Testament.
Now look at Colossians chapter 2 verse 13.
And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together
with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it
to the cross.
And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you and meet, that's food, or in drink, you know, the drink offerings,
or in respect of an holy day, like the Sabbath or the feast, okay, the different feasts they
were supposed to observe, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow
of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
So it's important to understand that only these ordinances can be deemed as being a
shadow of things to come.
Because the law of not committing adultery is not a shadow of things to come.
I mean, how is that a shadow of things to come, right?
You know, that's a shadow of things to come in the future.
No, that's moral.
Thou shall not commit adultery, that's a shadow of things to come.
That's stupid and foolishness.
That's not a shadow of things to come.
That's something that was, you see, the ceremonial laws was something that was introduced by
Moses, but the moral laws was something that's always been there, okay?
It's not like God just decided to become moral when Moses came on the scene.
He's like, you know, I think I'm gonna say adultery is bad.
astronomy is wicked, only when Moses came.
That's not true.
It's always been that way.
In fact, the Bible says that the law of God is written on our hearts.
You know, in the Old Testament, both Jew and Gentile had the law of God written in their
hearts.
It's always been that way.
However, the ceremonial laws were instituted during Moses, and they were done away with
at the coming of Christ when he was crucified on the cross.
Now, go to Hebrew chapter 4.
So we don't have to, you say, well, yeah, but you talk about the Ten Commandments.
Yeah, but it just so happened that one of the Ten Commandments has a ceremonial law
on it.
But it's still the law of Moses.
Does it make it null and void because, you know, to remember the Sabbath and to keep
it holy is in the midst of all these moral laws?
No, it just means that that's the law of God.
Now look what it says in Hebrew chapter 4, verse number 1, let us therefore fear lest
a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short
of it.
For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not
profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
By the way, this is a good verse for the dispensationalists to memorize.
You say, why is that?
Because it says in verse number 2, for unto us the gospel was preached as well as unto
them.
We got the same gospels, okay?
Verse 3, for we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in
my wrath that they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh
day from all of his works, the Bible says.
Now go to Romans chapter number 2.
So we understand that the Sabbath, as soon as we got saved, we're experiencing that rest.
We're resting from all our works, we're not trying to work our way to heaven, we believed
on Christ and therefore we have that rest.
So that's a ceremonial loss, okay?
Those are done away with.
So anybody who says we have to keep the Sabbath, remember the Sabbath to keep it holy, why
aren't you guys having church on Saturday, you can respond to them and say, well, why
aren't you sacrificing on Saturday?
Why aren't you doing the cardinal ordinances and diverse washings, why aren't you doing
that?
Why are you only doing the Sabbath?
If you believe we're still under that law, why aren't you still doing them?
And then show them Hebrews chapter number 8, where it says it was imposed on them until
the time of the Reformation, so you don't believe Christ died?
I mean, there's no way around that.
But then you have the second category of Moses' law, which is the moral law, okay?
Now what is the moral law?
Thou shall not commit adultery is the moral law, okay?
Thou shall not steal, thou shall not bear false witness.
These are things pertaining to morality, okay?
Often people will say, you know, the first couple of commandments of the Ten Commandments
have to do with our relationship with God, and then the last few have to do with our
relationship with man, okay?
Not committing adultery, not coveting, not bearing false witness, et cetera, not stealing.
These are moral things.
Look at Romans chapter 2 verse 14, it says, for when the Gentiles which have not the law
do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law are a law unto
themselves which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience
also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
So the Bible tells us here that God has written his moral law within our hearts.
That's why you don't have to teach people how to sin.
They already know how to sin, and they know that they're doing wrong.
You know, a person who lies, they don't need the Bible to know that they've lied, they
already know that they're lying.
A person who commits adultery or commits theft, they know that they're doing wrong, they didn't
need a preacher to tell them that, they already have the law of God written in their hearts,
okay?
We won't spend too much time on that, but these things are considered sinful, right?
Now go to Leviticus chapter 20, and here is the thing where people really stumble at,
they get confused, they mix together the fact that there is a moral law, and then there
is civil law, because they'll say, well, you know, we're not under the law, we're not under
grace.
Yeah, that's right.
You've been forgiven if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ from your offenses of breaking
and violating God's moral laws, but that does not mean you're excused from not suffering
the consequences of breaking his civil laws.
You see, for the wages of sin is death, and that death is referring to a place called
hell.
So if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will not go to hell, okay?
You won't suffer the consequences of breaking God's moral laws, okay?
And the Bible tells us that whosoever keepeth the whole law, yet offended one point, he's
guilty of all, okay?
We've broken all of God's laws, but then we need to realize that there is something called
the civil law as well.
These are laws that are imposed, they're not only just sinful, they're actually considered
a crime here in this world, okay?
So there's sin, and then there's crime.
And this is where people get this whole thing about sodomy confused as well.
Oh, you know, we're supposed to forgive them, and they can get saved, it's sin.
No, sodomy is a crime.
Now in a spiritual sense, they're reprobates, they can never be saved, but as far as civil
law is concerned, it's actually considered a crime punishable by death.
Now sometimes we focus so much on that that we forget that there's other things in the
Bible that are actually punishable by death as well.
You know, worshiping other gods is punishable by death, okay?
In the Old Testament, working on the Sabbath was punishable by death.
And the reason for that is because why?
The Sabbath was a shadow of things to come, what shadow was that?
That Christ was gonna die for us, he was gonna do the work for us.
So someone who decides to work on their own to try to get to heaven, what's gonna happen
to them when they die?
They're gonna go to hell.
Well just as in the Old Testament, anybody who is trying to work on the Sabbath day when
they were supposed to rest, they're basically marring the figure in the shadow of things
to come, okay?
Therefore they were put to death.
You know, kidnappers were put to death in the Old Testament as well, okay?
And the reason for that is because anybody who's involved in kidnapping often is involved
in sodomy as well, okay?
They kidnap people and they rape, pillage, and they murder them, okay?
That's why they were put to death.
Now look at Leviticus chapter 20 verse number 10, it says here, and the man that committed
adultery with another man's wife, even he that committed adultery with his neighbor's
wife, the adulterer and adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
So the Bible tells us that the consequence of committing adultery, the physical act,
is supposed to be put to death.
You deserve the death penalty.
Now we live in the United States and they don't do that, but does that mean that it's
not still imposed by God, you know?
Does that mean that God is just like, okay, yeah, I'll just leave that in the Old Testament?
You know, I won't hold you responsible for that.
No, according to the Bible, you still deserve death.
That's God's law.
Now that doesn't negate the fact that it's also sinful, okay?
So not only is it sinful, but it's also a crime, all right?
Now people get mixed up and they think that fornicators are like, well, what about fornicators,
you know?
Are they put to death?
No, they're not.
According to God's laws.
There's laws that are imposed in the Old Testament in regards to fornicators, but they're not
put to death.
He said, why are adulterers put to death?
Because adulterers are people who are married who made a covenant with God.
That goes to show you that God holds the marriage as something to be very sacred, okay?
So sacred that if you're to violate that rule, that law, you deserve death.
You deserve to be taken out and be stoned with stones, according to the Bible, adulterers.
That means Hollywood will be filled with a lot of dead people.
You know, if we're still under the law of Moses, man, there'll be like, I mean, death
penalties all day long, okay?
Every single day throughout the day, because there's so many adulterers out there, okay?
So adultery is sinful, but it's also breaking civil law.
It's also considered a crime.
Now go to James chapter number four, excuse me, go to Hosea chapter one, Hosea.
I'll read to you from James four.
So I'm going to go through the different aspects of adultery, okay?
Because the Bible talks a lot about adultery.
The first one I want to focus on is spiritual adultery, okay?
Spiritual adultery, look at James, I'm going to read to you from James four verse four
says, he adulterers and adulteresses, knowing that the friendship of the world is enmity
with God, whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Look at Hosea chapter one and verse number one.
If you've read through your Old Testament, you'll know that Hosea had a rough commandment,
okay?
Look what the Bible says here in verse number one, the word of the Lord that came unto Hosea,
the son of Bri, and the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and the
days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, the beginning of the word of the Lord
by Hosea, and the Lord said to Hosea, go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms.
So what is a wife of whoredoms?
It's a whore, a prostitute.
And children of whoredoms for the land have committed great whoredom, departing from the
Lord.
Now go to chapter two.
So people often read this and they'll stumble at it, like, whoa, hold on a second, if that's
like wicked, you know, why is God commanding them to do that?
Well, throughout the Old Testament, you'll see certain exceptions to the rule.
And the reason for that exception is to prove a point, is to illustrate a point that God
is trying to make.
For example, he had Ezekiel eat dung, okay, which was contrary to God's law.
You weren't supposed to allow any unclean thing to enter into your mouth, but he made
that exception to illustrate the fact that Israel was eating dung.
Okay?
He often would do things like this and have, for example, he had Isaiah show his nakedness,
and it was to illustrate the fact that that's exactly what Israel was doing.
So many times you would have illustrations in the Bible that would seem contrary to God's
word, but God is making an exception to illustrate the fact that they, as a nation, had violated
that specific law.
Okay?
And that's what he's doing here.
Look at chapter two, verse number one says, say unto your brethren, am I, and to your
sisters Rehuma, plead with your mother, plead for she is not my wife.
Neither am I her husband, let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and
her adultries from between her breasts, lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day
that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with
thirst.
And I will not have mercy upon her children, for they be the children of whoredoms.
For their mother had played the harlot.
She that conceived them had done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers that
give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my dream.
Skip down to verse number seven.
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them and she shall
seek them, but shall not find them.
Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with
me now, better with me than now.
For she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oil and multiplied her silver
and gold, and look what it says, which they prepared for Baal.
So what is the application there?
He's calling her an adulterer, why?
Because she's actually serving other gods.
So spiritually speaking, what God would see as adultery, he would see as someone who's
worshiping false gods.
That's what you see in First Corinthians chapter number 10.
It talks about how, it tells us neither be you idolaters, as were some of them, when
the Bible talks about how they rose up to play.
What were they doing?
They weren't playing Scrabble or Monopoly.
They were rising up to play the harlot, to play the whore.
They were committing idolatry is what they were doing.
Now the United States is filled with that today.
With a lot of adultery, spiritual adultery.
United States is a whore, okay?
And it's filled with whoredoms.
I mean obviously you see Buddhism, you see all these different religions that are entering
in.
At one point, the United States was a Christian nation in the sense of the majority of the
people were Christians that would adhere to Christianity and to the word of God.
Now it's not like that.
You see, I mean we got a temple down the street from us.
We got a whore.
Oh, a temple of whores down the street from us.
They're committing whoredom is what they're doing in God's eyes, okay?
And by the way, you know, they call it the Catholic whore.
That's a great name for it.
Because that's exactly what it is.
It's an institution of whoredom, why?
Because they got nothing but idolatrous statues and all these things, this faggoty Jesus and
Virgin Mary this and whatnot and all these things.
What is it?
It's a temple of whoredom is what it is.
And the Bible tells us that God considers that to be spiritual adultery.
They're playing the harlot is what they're doing.
And it's no wonder that's why the United States is facing the judgment that it is, okay?
There's no question why the United States is in the condition that it is.
Why?
Because it's a whore.
Go to Matthew chapter number five.
Matthew chapter number five.
So spiritual adultery in God's eyes is when a nation actually adheres to idolatrous practices,
okay?
Religions that begin to practice these things.
You know, Dia de los Muertos is coming up, okay?
And what is that?
That's basically a day of complete idolatry where they have all these shrines and altars
and things that they do to worship their dead.
You know, they always say, we're not worshiping our dead.
We're honoring our dead.
According to the Bible, you're worshiping the dead.
According to the Bible, you're committing spiritual whoredom and adultery, okay?
But then the Bible also talks about adultery in the heart, okay?
And I hate this thing that I hear all the time where it's like, how can you say that
adultery need to be put to death?
You know, that means you need to be put to death because haven't you ever lusted in your
heart?
Well, the Bible says you've committed adultery already with her in your heart.
It's not the same thing.
I'm not excusing the fact adultery in the heart is wicked.
But it's not the same as physical adultery.
It's not.
And that is clear in the Bible.
Because any adulterer in the Old Testament that was put to death physically did it, okay?
And look, how would someone be able to even tell if they're committing adultery in their
heart?
It's in their heart.
You know, God does not impose the death penalty on people for what they think.
It's for the actions that they take, okay?
So we've got to be able to learn to separate the two.
Look at Matthew chapter 5 verse 27 says, ye have heard that it was said by them of old
time, thou shall not commit adultery.
But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart.
So the Bible does condemn lust, okay?
Now this is a sin that men struggle with.
All men struggle with it.
And if you say you don't struggle with it, you're a liar.
Or a faggot, yeah, thanks.
You beat me to it.
You're either a liar or you're a faggot.
We live in sinful flesh.
We can't, you know, dictate what every woman wears, you know?
And it happens, okay?
But it's still wicked.
It's still vile.
And you say, well, you know, I'm a sinner, so I'm just, yeah, you're right.
So I'm just going to let myself wander around.
No, don't do that.
You know, you need to get right with the Lord.
You know, you need to make sure that you protect your eyes and protect your mind.
And don't allow your eyes to wander to the parts of a woman even if they're dressed like
a whore.
Okay?
And I understand.
We live in a society where women are just like dressed like sluts.
We can't do anything about that, obviously.
You know, we preach against them from the pulpit.
But at the end of the day, we need to make sure that we're keeping our hearts clean,
our minds clean.
We're making sure that we protect our eyes.
And look, if you stumble and you fall and you lust after something, confess it right
away.
You know, the scripture, do what you got to do, but don't fall into that trap of lust.
Bible says in verse 29, if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee,
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell.
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, for it is profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast
into hell.
And no, this isn't referring to the mark of the beast, okay?
Which Robert Breaker likes to say, okay?
I believe in context.
This is referring to, hey, anything that's causing you to stumble, you need to cut it
from you.
Mortify, therefore, the members of your body, the Bible says, okay?
Now, a good illustration of this, I shared this with some people yesterday, is there's
a guy who went rock climbing.
I don't remember his name.
And he was rock climbing by himself and he stumbled and he fell and he was pinned between
two, his arm was pinned with a boulder.
And he was by himself.
He couldn't get in contact with anybody.
He literally survived by drinking his own urine and eating insects or whatever was around.
He just eat it and that's how he would survive.
And you know, he tried to eat that and try to live off of that, hoping that someone would
find him, but no one ever found him.
No one came to look for him.
So he took matters into his own hands and basically what he did is he used the tools
that he would use for rock climbing and he basically chopped off his arm, okay?
He just went in and severed off his arm, all right?
And he even explains how he ripped through the flesh and he went through the bone and
just, you know, just cut that thing off.
Look at everyone's cringing, woke you up.
Good.
It ain't that hot anymore, huh?
Everyone's like, whew.
But you know what?
He had to make a choice.
He was like, this thing's going to kill me, so I need to cut it off.
You know what?
He doesn't have an arm, but he has his life, okay?
And the guy's still rock climbing.
I mean, he put like, he put one of those apparatuses that now can help him rock climb, so now it's
like a hook or something.
I'd be like, I'm done with rock climbing.
What if it happens again?
And my other arm is pinned.
You're not going to be able to use that other arm to cut off the other one.
What are you going to do, bite it off or something?
I mean, I'd be done at that point.
But you know what he did?
He said, it's either I die or I cut it off and I live, you know?
And spiritually, that's what we need to do.
We need to cut things off from our lives that are going to cause us to stumble, okay?
It's causing us to lust, whatever it may be.
Maybe it's social media.
Maybe it's friends.
Maybe it's people.
Whatever it is for you, if you feel like those things are causing you to stumble and lust
in your heart, you need to cut it off.
Better is it for you to cut it off, okay?
If not, you'll get destroyed spiritually.
Go to Matthew chapter 15.
Matthew chapter 15.
So lust is wicked.
And honestly, you know, ladies don't necessarily have that same lustful struggle as a man would.
Now in recent years, it's been that way, where even women now lust, okay?
And I believe it's just because of the wicked society that we live in today and television
and movies have conditioned women to think that way, okay?
Because men are the gender that really are stimulated by sight.
Women are stimulated by touch.
But now it's gotten to the point where even women are stimulated by sight now, you know?
And it's wicked.
So look at Matthew chapter 15, verse 17, it says, Do not ye yet understand that whatsoever
enter at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draught.
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile
the man.
But out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adultries, fornication, thefts, false
witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashing hands defileth not a
man.
You know that goes to tell me that we ought not to be joking about adultery.
We ought to be talking about fornication.
We shouldn't be talking about sinful things.
Why?
Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, okay?
We ought not to be the kind of people that just flippantly talk about sin.
You know, fools make a mock at sin, according to the Bible.
You know, fools talk about sin coming out of their heart and the Bible says that when
that comes out of your heart, guess what, eventually it'll come out in your actions
as well.
That's what defiles you.
That's why we need to make sure that the things that are coming out of our mouth are wholesome,
godly things, things that are pleasing unto the Lord.
You know, the Bible tells us, Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed into
the day of redemption.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.
But that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
That's what we ought to be focused on doing.
Not pouring wickedness out of our mouths, not threatening, not reviling, not any of
those sorts of things.
Why?
Because that stems from a wicked heart.
And if those are the things that are coming out of your heart, you need to make sure you
get that right before you actually commit the act, because every single wicked act obviously
begins in the heart.
You know, people just don't fall into adultery.
I just fell into adultery.
No, you thought about it long before you ever did it.
People don't just like, oh man, I just fell into fornication.
No, you meditated upon that before you ever did it.
You thought about it.
You meditated upon it.
You ruminated on that act, and that's why you did it.
That's why it's important that the Bible tells us, cast down imaginations at every high thing
that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ.
Not the rebellion of Christ, the obedience of Christ.
So once you get that thought, that wicked thing, that motive or whatever it may be,
cast it down.
Throw down those altars.
Throw down those imaginations so you don't give in to those things, or else you'll be
defiled.
And look, it only takes a series of bad thinking to create an act that will just destroy your
life, destroy your marriage, destroy your children.
It only takes a series of thoughts.
God has given us an imagination, and that imagination is supposed to be used to conjure
up great works for God, great exploits, so we can ask for things that, for God to do
things in our personal lives, so that He can do abundantly above all that we can ask or
think.
That's what the imagination's for.
But you know what?
Satan can also turn that imagination and use it against us.
Your flesh can turn your imagination and use it against you.
Now this is important for single guys, because single guys, Satan's after them.
If he can ruin their opportunity to get married right, they're ruined, especially if you want
to become a pastor or you want to do something great for God, you have a clean slate.
Satan can destroy your life using your own temptations.
You want to make sure that as a single guy, you're keeping yourself pure.
And if you're dating, keep yourself pure.
Don't do anything stupid.
Don't trust in yourself.
Don't say, well, you know, I know me, I'm godly, I read my Bible, I pray.
No.
If you think in your standing, you need to take heed lest you fall into the hands of
a living God.
Now go to Proverbs chapter six.
But this is also important for married people, because married people also have a target
on their back.
Satan wants to attack the married people as well.
Now look, people think, well, you know, yeah, well, lusting was just something that a commandment,
not to lust, it's a commandment that Jesus Christ introduced in the New Testament.
No, that was in the Old Testament too.
God's laws of morality and civil law don't change.
Look at Proverbs chapter six, verse 23, for the commandment is a lamp and the law is light
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life to keep thee from the evil woman.
So please notice that he's saying, look, I'm giving you commandments, I'm giving you
a lamp, instructions, but primarily it's to keep thee from the evil woman.
That should show you the severity of the danger of evil, sluts, whores, and the like, okay?
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Now why would the Bible call a whore a strange woman?
Well another word for strange would be a foreigner, okay?
So a strange woman is a foreigner trying to make her way into the relationship between
a man and a woman.
They're a foreigner, they shouldn't be there, okay?
So when a man commits adultery, he's committing adultery with a foreigner, someone who doesn't
belong there, okay?
Now it says there, from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman.
So this is important because at work, if you're working in a secular job, you know,
you need to be careful talking to the ladies at your job.
And look, if you're married, ladies, you know, you need to make sure that you're puffing
up your husband's ego.
I'm not joking, you know?
Tell him he's handsome, tell him he's buff.
If he's got a gut, say, man, I like that thing, looks good, you know?
I'm serious.
You think I'm joking, but here's the thing, if you don't do it, someone else will.
If you don't praise your husband, another woman will.
And you know what?
If you don't praise your husband for his qualities, you know, talk about how handsome he is and
how he's so strong and, you know, I don't know, whatever.
All those other things that your husband's good at, whatever.
If you're like, nah, he doesn't need that, well, you know what?
A woman is going to find him at his job.
And this isn't right.
I'm not saying it's right if he gives in to that.
But you know what?
She's going to feed into his ego.
That's why sometimes you hear about stories about people committing adultery, and you'll
hear about like a man who has his, you know, beautiful wife, but then he goes for this
other woman who's just like a, you know, whore, and he's just like, what in the world were
you thinking?
Well, the thing is that she was puffing him up.
She was complimenting him.
You know?
She was giving him what basically he needed from his wife, but wasn't getting.
I'm talking about as far as words are concerned.
So wives, you got to make sure that, hey, you have to be your husband's cheerleader.
Okay?
I don't think so.
Then you know what?
Then you need to get your feminist mentality right.
Okay?
No, you know, he needs to make sure, just be content with the things as he has.
Be content with me.
You know what?
Put that aside.
You know, just close your mouth, and just do as the Bible says, and be a blessing to
your husband, and praise him.
Reverence him.
I mean, doesn't the Bible talk about reverence?
That's respect, right?
Well, one of the ways you do that is by praising who he is.
Okay?
Now, on the flip side of that, man, be respectable.
You know?
Be the kind of man that your wife doesn't have to like remind herself to praise.
Like, I got to praise, I got to praise.
It should come naturally, obviously, amen?
You should have a reason to praise you.
But either way, this is very important, because the Bible talks about the flattery.
So when you praise your husband, you actually are sealing the deal, so that when that strange
whore comes and praises your husband, he's like, get away from me, you wicked woman.
No, you know, you need to move somewhere else.
I'm married.
You see this?
You see that?
I'm married.
Go like this.
Say, this is what I think of you.
I'm married.
I'm serious.
You say, well, why?
Because if not, she can destroy your marriage, your children, your life, simply by the flattery.
Okay?
It says there, lust not after her beauty in thine heart.
So see there, that's Old Testament.
It says, don't lust after her beauty in your heart.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
I think of like the old cartoons with the girls, like, you know, I don't know if girls
still do that.
For by means of a whorish woman, you say, why do you use whore all the time?
Because God uses it.
For by means of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulterous
will hunt for the precious life.
Look, every single life in here, as far as the man is concerned, your life is precious.
You're a saved person, you're in church, you want to go sowing, you want to live for the
Lord.
You're precious.
Therefore, guess who wants you?
The adulterous.
He wants to hunt your precious life.
And don't be the woman that's saying, well, not my husband, he's not that precious.
Well, that's exactly who the adulterous is going to get then.
Okay?
Now, go to 2 Peter chapter one.
You see, this is a hard saying.
This will help your marriage.
And if you're not married, this will help your marriage.
So don't say this is not applicable to me.
This is applicable to you.
And look, I remember before I got married, I tried to live like I was already married.
I remember my father-in-law telling me, Bruce, I know you're not married right now to my
daughter.
What he said is, he said, you need to live like you are married to my daughter.
Don't be staying out late at night.
Make sure you're careful.
Be accountable.
Live like a married man.
Right?
Because if not, I can make a mistake that can get me out of the race, and then I won't
get married.
Don't live a loose life just because you're single.
Don't think that some rules don't apply to you because you're single.
In fact, you need to become more strict on your personal life because you're single.
Because you're more susceptible, okay?
Look at 2 Peter chapter one.
We see the solution to this.
Verse three says, as his divine power had given unto us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
This is talking about the Bible.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these he might
be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust, and beside this given all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge.
So what's a solution to fighting off lust?
The Bible.
Amen.
You need to learn how to hate these things.
And it's gotta be a continual practice.
Because for me, that is in my flesh dwells no good thing.
Our flesh has a desire to adhere to those things and to lust after those things.
We need to make sure that we're hiding the word of God in our hearts.
Thy word have I hid in my heart that it might not sin against thee, the Bible says.
The Bible says in 1 Peter chapter one, verse 13, 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.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the form of lust and your ignorance,
but as he which hath called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of what?
Conversation.
That's talking about your conduct.
Because it is written, be holy for I am holy.
You know, you gotta make sure that you're living a clean life.
Don't be out late at night.
If you're gonna be out late at night, be with the brother at arts, okay?
Or here at the church.
Don't be hanging out where whores are at.
You know, don't be around your old buddies at one o'clock in the morning.
I'm trying to win them to the Lord.
Why couldn't you do it like six hours earlier?
Why did you have to do it in the dark?
Only bad things happen at night.
Such you know that.
And look, I'm starting to notice that we're like a nocturnal church.
We like to fellowship late.
Nothing wrong with that.
I enjoy it.
You know, my kids love it.
My son Bruce, he cries, he laughs, he cries, he laughs, he plays, he laughs.
He loves it.
He loves church.
He loves it.
Every time we're at church, church, going to church, he loves going to church.
I love coming to church.
I love the fellowship.
I love fellowshiping late.
But you know what?
This is where we need to keep it, okay?
Don't be hanging out with your buddies at two o'clock in the morning, you know, if they're
smoking pot.
No, I'm not smoking pot.
I'm trying to win them to the Lord, you know?
And they're just more open when they're high or something.
Don't fight that.
You're going to end up doing that, okay?
Don't try to win your old girlfriend to the Lord, okay?
And if, look, win your old, try to win your old girlfriend to the Lord, but if she's not
hearing it, then see ya.
See ya, sucka, you know?
Just cut her off, okay?
I remember when I first got saved, okay, it was like Satan pulled out all the stops.
And I'm being honest.
I'm being honest with you.
I even told my pastor this.
I said, I need to let you know this so that you know this about me, you know?
Because I came from the world.
I got saved when I was 21.
You know, I didn't have a church background.
I had friends who were girls.
I had friends who were guys.
And to be honest with you, we're used to just hanging out late at night.
That's just what we did.
We go to sleep like at four o'clock in the morning or whatever, you know?
And I remember there's girls who I had who were my friends, but you know, once I got
saved, we need to cut those relationships off.
And I remember one girl in particular, she wasn't happy that I got saved.
She wasn't happy that I was going to church.
And she was like, you don't want to hang out anymore.
And I said, you can hang out with me, but you got to hang out with me at Pacific Baptist
Church.
You got to come to church.
That's where I'm going to be.
That's where I'm going to be most of my time, I told her.
And you know what?
She didn't really come.
So guess what?
She wasn't really a good friend, okay?
And she liked me, but you know what?
Obviously, she didn't like me enough, or else she probably would have came to church,
you know?
And if you have someone that you like or something like that, but they're not willing to come
to church, you need to drop them.
Why are you going to go after a person who doesn't even like coming to church?
I mean, you love coming to church.
You love the things of the Lord.
You love the Bible.
I'm talking to single guys, okay?
And you need to make sure that the people you date are on board with you spiritually.
I just think I could win her and just make her...
You know what?
If it's been months and months and months and yea, even years, and they're not coming
around, you need to move on, because it's going to drag you down spiritually.
And there's plenty of fish in the sea.
Sorry, girls, I'm not calling you fish, but I'm just saying there's plenty of fish in
the sea.
And look, the man who walks with God always reaches his destination, okay?
God always blesses the man who's walking with the Lord, who's reading the Bible, who's doing
right.
God's going to bless that person.
Don't try to force God's will, okay?
Don't try to force a wife to get a wife or whatever it may be.
You know, you need to make sure you make the right decisions and do things that are pleasing
unto the Lord.
You know, if you know someone and, man, she's just chasing you down, but she's not willing
to come to church, she's not willing to do things, she gets annoyed when you talk about
spiritual things, see ya, I have no interest in dating you, you know?
I remember...
Let me tell you another girl's story, all right?
This will be the last one.
So I remember this one time, this girl from my job.
I knew that she liked me, and she wanted me to take her on a date.
I said, look, why don't you do this?
You could come to my church, you come to my church, and we can hang out at our church
if you want.
And she was like, okay, and she came to church.
But previous to her coming to church, I talked to someone in my church, a lady in our church,
and I said, this is this girl coming.
So when she comes, she thinks she's going to be sitting with me, but she's actually
going to be sitting with you.
I was like, you know, you could disciple her, you know, talk to her.
She got saved or whatever, and you know, maybe you could talk to her.
So she came, and she was like, hey, I'm like, hey, what's going on?
I was like, this is so-and-so, I'll see you later, okay?
And she was like, uh, uh, uh, but hey, she came to the church, she came for like three
services.
But you know, after that, she didn't come back.
So obviously, it wasn't real.
You see what I'm saying?
Because obviously, the person that I want to marry is a person who they should desire
to come to church.
They should desire to want to hear the preaching of God's Word.
They're going to church based off of their own personal conviction, okay?
They're not going for a person.
You understand what I'm saying?
You know, if they're coming for you, that's good in the very beginning, but after a while,
they have to come because they believe it's right to go to church.
So see ya, okay?
Now let's see here.
Go to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
Let's talk about mental adultery, okay?
That's when you lust after someone.
That's when you desire someone that doesn't belong to you.
And if you're single, that's everyone.
If you're married, that's everyone, okay?
When you desire to have a physical relationship with a woman who you're not married to, that's
considered adultery.
That's considered fornication of the mind, okay?
1 Thessalonians 4.3 says, For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that
you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess
his vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
Gentiles which know not God.
Now go to Matthew chapter number 5.
Matthew chapter number 5.
So the Bible says we ought to keep our bodies in sanctification and honor.
We ought to know how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor.
But not only that, there is an adultery of the mind, there's a spiritual adultery, but
there's also adultery through divorce, okay?
And this is something that's not talked about much in churches, but divorce is adultery.
Now once the act of the divorce has been committed and they've been remarried, it's not a perpetual
adultery.
It's not like they're constantly in adultery and they can't get out of it because they're
just in this cycle or whatever.
No, as soon as they're committed, it's done, obviously, okay?
Look at Matthew chapter 5 verse 31, it says, It has been said, Whosoever shall put away
his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, put away means to divorce them,
saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.
And whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committed adultery.
So when a man puts away his wife, he divorces his wife, he's actually causing her to commit
adultery.
And then the person that she marries is committing adultery, even if he wasn't married prior
to that, he's still committing adultery.
Now go to Matthew chapter 19, verse 3 says, The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting
him and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning
made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother
and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain, shall be one flesh?
Therefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
They say unto him, Why did Moses in command to give a writing of divorcement, to put her
away?
He saith unto him, Moses, because of the hardness of your heart, suffered you to put away your
wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, excepted be for fornication, and
shall marry another, committed adultery.
So now the person who's putting her away is committing adultery.
And whosoever marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Now he said, wait, hold on a second, keep saying, but for the cause of fornication,
excepted be for fornication.
That's it, brother Bruce.
That's the only reason they get to get divorced.
You have pastors that get up to you and they'll say that.
They'll say, yeah, you know, if they're, you shouldn't divorce, it's wrong, but if your
husband's cheating on you, you know, excepted be for the cause of fornication, you should
divorce him.
You know, it's biblical for you to do that.
There's people who say that.
That's stupid garbage.
You know, I'm talking about people who've been saved for years will go out and say that
divorce is okay as long as you know that the person's committing adultery on you.
Well, newsflash, adultery and fornication are not the same thing.
It doesn't say except for the cause of adultery, it says except for the cause of fornication.
Fornication is not committed between two people who are married.
It doesn't work that way.
This is talking about when a woman is already betrothed, they have not consummated the marriage
and the man finds out that she's been sleeping around, they can give her a bill of divorcement
just like Joseph did to Mary because he thought that she had, they had, she was betrothed,
but they had not consummated the marriage as of yet.
So this is why I say people have to understand there's a difference between adultery and
fornication.
So now, except for what?
Except for nothing.
So I hate to say even if a person commits adultery, that's still not grounds for divorce.
It's wicked, the person should be put to death, it's vile, God's not pleased with it, but
it's still not grounds for divorce.
Now if you lived under the Mosaic law, you can remarry, why?
Because the Bible says that you're under that law until your husband or your spouse
is dead.
Well, if you're committed to adultery, your husband or wife will be put to death, then
you can remarry.
But we're not under that law, and that doesn't deputize you to kill your spouse, though I'm
sure a lot of people would want to.
But the fact of the matter is divorce is adultery, and we have pastors today, weakling pastors
who are not willing to get up and say, hey, divorce is wicked.
That's adultery, don't use the D-word in your marriage, don't ever threaten your spouse
with divorce.
It doesn't matter how bad it gets, yeah, but you don't owe him, yeah, but you married the
person.
That's why I tell every single person, you married them, I mean what did you expect?
You married, you know the person better than any of us do, you knew her beforehand, you
chose to make that covenant before God.
So it's through sickness and in health and in poverty and in wealth and all these things,
you made that covenant before God, made your bed and now sleep in it.
Well then I'm just going to go out and commit adultery too.
You're wicked as hell, if that's what you think.
You know, how do you fight fire?
With fire?
No, you don't.
You don't fight adultery by committing adultery yourself.
That's wicked.
You know, and the fact remains, you deserve to be put to death if that's what you're doing.
Now obviously no one in here, no one in this country is going to put you to death, but
that's what you deserve and it's still wicked.
Divorce is wicked and we will continue to preach that, we will always say that, we will
always stand by that because that's what the Bible says, okay.
Now go to Proverbs chapter 6, go back to Proverbs chapter 6.
Lastly we're going to talk about the physical act of adultery.
Now although divorce is considered that, you know, just the act in and of itself obviously
is adultery, but look at Proverbs chapter 6 and verse 32, it says, but whoso committeth
adultery with the woman lacketh understanding.
He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
A wound and a dishonor shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
You see, once a person commits adultery, it's hard to walk away from that.
You know, it takes a lot of grace, it takes a lot of walking with the Lord and making
sure that you're getting things right with your spouse, but it's a wound and it's a dishonor.
You know, it's a reproach that shall not be wiped away.
It's so bad.
It's always in the back of the mind.
Now can it be conquered?
Yes.
It's going to take work on your part, okay.
Verse 34, for jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he will not spare in the day of
vengeance.
He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
I mean, you want to, you want to incur the wrath of a man, that'll do it right there.
Doesn't matter how you try to appease that person, how you try to come to grips with
them and create peace, there will never be peace.
Vengeance is on that guy's mind.
There's people who have literally died, people who have been killed because they committed
adultery and the husband came, found them in the act and just murdered them on the spot.
That's wrong, by the way, obviously, but that's what it's talking about right there.
They have vengeance.
There's people who kill out of passion, they just lose it.
It's wrong, but that's what the Bible's talking about there.
Go to chapter five.
Now probably chapter five, we're going to read this entire chapter because this is good
here.
Now, you know, we need to make sure that we're careful with this and that we're not placing
ourselves in a position where this can potentially happen.
And don't ever think, well, not me.
Well, you know, if you're not careful and you're playing around with sin, you're flirting
around with the girl at your job or you're flirting around with the guy at your job or
whoever it may be, you can end up at that point destroying your family.
And think about your kids.
Think about your kids.
Your kids will grow up and they can't say that their parents loved each other all the
days of their life.
They kept each other for each other all the days of their life.
They can't say that.
Don't be selfish.
Look at verse one.
It says, my son, attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding that thou
mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as in honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than oil,
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
So looks can be deceiving, can't they?
Verse five, her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell, lest thou shouldest
ponder the path of life.
Her ways are movable that thou canst not know them.
You don't know what that whore is going to do next.
And look, any person who commits adultery with another woman, she's movable.
You think she's going to be faithful to you?
She's movable.
She's probably going to do it to another.
She's going to do it to you, too.
Her steps are movable, the Bible says.
Thou canst not know them.
Hear me now, therefore, all you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house, lest thou give
thine honor unto others and thy years unto the cruel.
Let strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labors be in the house of a stranger,
and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.
I mean, this will cause you even physical damage.
You commit adultery and you get AIDS, you're done.
You commit adultery and you get chlamydia, gonorrhea.
All these STDs you can get from one night of pleasure can cause you a lifetime of hurt.
Your body and your flesh can be consumed.
Verse 12, and say, how have I hated instruction?
And my heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
my ear to them that instructed me.
I was almost an all-evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
He's like, man, this, by the way, this is where you don't want to be right here.
Where it's already done, you're like, why did I hate the instruction that I was given?
Why did I not listen?
Better to just bite your tongue at me right now, get it right, and not do it and not have
to be in verse number 13 and 14, okay?
Verse 15, so how do we avoid this?
Well, drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets.
Let them be only thine own and not strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Look, there's a solution right there.
You need to rejoice with your wife.
And that goes for the wife and the husband as well.
Rejoice with your husband, okay?
Have a good time, appreciate and joy and rejoice with your wife, okay?
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe.
Let her breast satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love.
You know, some of you guys, you just need to take your wives on dates, amen?
Now, we got Brucie right now, we got Kyla, so it's kind of hard to like get away from
them because they like need adult supervision, you know what I'm talking about?
But we can still make it happen, you know?
My wife and I take walks, give me your hand, let me hold your hand, give me your hand.
You see, you guys are looking at me weird because you don't do that.
You look at me like I'm some sort of weirdo.
I'm married, that's what married people do, they hold hands.
You know, compliment your wife, okay?
You look beautiful today, wow.
You go, man, you look good today, I like your hair.
That's corny.
Yeah, but you know what, at least I'm not going to get into adultery.
Call me as corny as you want.
Call me an old fogey corny guy, but you know what, at least I'm not going to commit adultery
because I'm being ravished with my wife.
I allow my wife to attract me and vice versa.
We're making precautions so that this stuff doesn't happen.
Now when it says, let her breast satisfy thee at all times, this is what that means.
Verse 20, and why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman and embrace the bosom
of a stranger?
Okay, and what is embrace?
It means to hug.
Well, when we talk about the bosom, it's talking about the breast.
So that means touching should only be for you and your wife.
The only woman you should hug is your wife, right?
Don't be hugging other people that are not your wife, unless it's your sister or your
aunt or your mom, those are okay, right?
But you know at your job, there's always that one lady, oh, hi, and you're just like, don't
embrace that.
You know, this is what you do.
When they do that, go, hi, nothing bad with a handshake, but just go, hey, how's it going?
Handshake, stop it right there.
Why?
Because the Bible tells us to let your wife's breast satisfy thee at all times.
What's that?
Hugging your wife, you know?
That ought to be that which satisfies you at all times.
Don't go embracing some other woman, okay?
Now, look, there's going to be ladies throughout the years that they just probably catch you
off guard or whatever, in their culture, that's what they do is hug.
Hispanic culture is like that, Hispanic culture is like everyone hugs, and everyone kisses
the air.
You guys know what I'm talking about?
Who knows what I'm talking about?
Like they'll hug and they'll go, go kiss the air, I'm like, what is that?
I mean, I didn't grow up like that, my mom didn't and stuff like that, but that's what
they do.
How many of you know what I'm talking about?
They kiss the air.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
They do that in Armenia?
Oh, wow.
Oh, they actually kiss.
Oh, you guys are wicked.
I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
But it says there, but why would my son be ravished with a strange woman and embrace
the bosom of a stranger?
So it's making a contrast there, be ravished with your wife, don't be ravished with a strange
woman.
You know, don't go to work looking forward to seeing that one lady.
It's just like, oh, I wonder if they have my shift today, you know?
That's wicked.
And vice versa.
The woman out there has to be going and saying, man, I hope that one guy is there.
And by the way, this is the way you could eliminate that.
Don't let your wife work.
There you go.
Case closed.
Let's pray.
All right?
That's how you could eliminate that.
And much of adultery that takes place in marriage is when a woman is working out in the world.
That happens all the time.
Why?
Because women are weak.
I'm not downplaying them.
I'm not degrading them.
It's fact.
It's in the Bible.
They are the weaker vessel.
So they get some suave guy, you know, at their job who's complimenting them, you know, and
buying them lunch or whatever it may be.
That's grounds right there.
That's what they'll do.
That's what's going to happen.
That's why my daughter will never work.
Ever.
I mean, she'll work at the house, but she's never going to work a secular job.
Over my dead body, would I ever allow my daughter to work a secular job?
Why?
Because my daughter's going to be weak.
She's a woman.
She's weak.
And some Rico suave papi chulo is going to come up and try to, you know, my daughter's
beautiful.
She's going to look like my wife, so she's going to be beautiful.
Trying to see if she's listening.
She's going to be beautiful.
So it's going to be guys who are going after my daughter.
I'm not going to, no way.
No stinking way.
And look, side note here, this is what my father-in-law taught me.
Take your daughters on dates too.
Compliment your daughters.
Okay.
Take your daughters on dates.
Compliment them.
Compliment them till the cows come home.
Because if they're getting that from their own father, they're not going to be looking
for it from someone else.
You're basically fulfilling that need that they have.
And then when they get married, you're handing her off to the future husband, and you can
hand that off.
But you don't want someone to creep in unawares.
You don't want a stranger to come in and steal the heart of your daughter as well.
Let's keep reading here.
It says there, verse 21, for the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and
he pondereth all his goings.
His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall behold him with the cords of
his sins.
He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly, he shall go astray.
Now go to Hebrews chapter 13.
I know we're going over a little time, but I want to go over this verse.
So adultery is wicked.
And let me just remind everyone today, if anybody in this church is involved in adultery,
you're out of here.
Okay?
You're out of here.
And look, just remember this, be sure of your sin will what?
Find you out.
That's just the way it works.
So that's what you're involved in.
I'm not talking about mental adultery, okay?
I'm not talking about if you've been divorced in the past and you got it right.
I'm talking about if you're in the current act of adultery now, we're throwing your hinder
parts out of here.
Amen.
Okay?
But how do you avoid this?
How can you avoid it?
We just looked at Proverbs chapter 5, some instructions there, but look at Hebrews 13
verse 4.
Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled.
So it's telling us here that marriage is honorable and you know what the bed undefiled, what
does that refer to?
It's referring to the physical act of marriage, what takes place within marriage.
I'm trying to keep this PG-13, all right?
But the fact remains is that the way you keep marriage vibrant is you keep that physical
act going.
It's sinful to abstain from one another when you're in marriage.
You need to make sure that you have a healthy physical relationship with your spouse.
I just don't find them attractive.
Well, you're not that attractive years later either.
You know?
You need to get over that because if not, guess what's going to happen?
She's going to find someone and you're going to find someone and your lives are going to
be destroyed.
It's a command.
It says there, but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
So just look at it this way.
God is saying, hey, look, men, marriage is honorable in all things and the bed undefiled,
I approve of that, of that act.
But whoremongers and adulterers, I'm going to judge you.
If you're involved in adultery, I'm going to judge you.
And that ranges from all sorts of things, including death.
God can kill you and destroy you and fill you with AIDS and STDs and things that will
rack your body with pain.
You know, he may not kill you on the spot, but you know, he can fill you with an STD
to make your life miserable after that.
And for the rest of your life, you'll be miserable with all kinds of wicked diseases in your
body because you chose to commit adultery.
Did you know if you stay physically, if you stay physical with your wife, you'll never
catch an STD.
It's impossible to do that.
But one night, one act with a person who's a foreigner can destroy your life forever.
Why?
Because whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
I like the first part of the verse.
I'd rather just stick to that.
Marriage is honorable in all things and the bed undefiled.
You know, I want to stay clear from the second part where I can be judged.
Because in verse five, let your conversation be without covetousness.
It's interesting how it rolls into that.
And be content with such things as you have, for he has said, I will never leave thee nor
forsake thee.
Be content with your wife.
Be content with your husband.
Okay?
I was going to go to 1 Corinthians 7, but we're out of time.
First Corinthians 7 talks about defrauding not one another.
Okay?
You need to make sure that you keep a healthy physical relationship.
Now, I want you to notice this last thing is this, it talks about the bed being undefiled.
That means you guys are staying in the same house.
Okay?
Because when you get married, you move in together.
Is that hard?
Or do you guys understand that?
Like the man and the woman, he leaves father and mother, right?
And he cleaves them to his wife.
You need to be in the same house.
That will avoid a lot of adultery.
You need to make sure that you're living together.
It's interesting that people want to live together before marriage, but after marriage
they don't want to live together anymore.
It's like, what's wrong with this culture?
Okay?
No.
Live together.
The bed undefiled, that means the bed is in the house, in one house.
I mean, do I need to draw it out for everyone?
Okay?
We need to make sure that we're living together if we're married.
If not, you're opening yourself up to potential temptations and adultery.
Okay?
You say, why are you being so crude?
Why are you being so mean?
Because I don't want your life to be destroyed, okay?
I don't want your life to be destroyed.
I don't want you to fall into some wicked sin where God has to judge you for being a
whoremonger and an adulterer.
I'd rather you understand, hey, the bed is undefiled.
God approves of that.
Enjoy it.
That's what God made.
He approves of that.
It's okay in marriage, amen?
Don't fall into the second part of that verse.
Keep your marriage vibrant.
Enjoy it.
Be corny with each other if you have to.
Nothing wrong with those things.
Be funny with your wife.
Be funny with your husband.
Enjoy each other, because if not, someone else is going to enjoy your spouse, and that'll
be enough to scare the socks off of you.
You say, man, I need to make sure that I'm appreciating my husband, I'm appreciating
my wife.
I'm doing whatever I can to make her happy, make him happy.
I'm making sure that I stay attracted to my wife and I stay attracted to my husband.
I'm complimenting them to keep this thing going, amen?
It's not like, I'm not calling it, it's just making it sound like it's work.
It's work at times, but you know what, when you put in the work, after a while, you can
just kind of cruise into it, because you're just enjoying it, okay?
So what's the message today?
Adultery is wicked.
It's vile.
Those who do it are worthy of death.
Those who do it within our church are going to be cast out, okay?
But it's also this, is that, hey, let's make sure we keep our minds clean.
Let's make sure that we understand what spiritual adultery is and we're not getting involved
in idolatry.
Let's make sure we're keeping our hearts clean and keeping our marriages vibrant, amen?
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
I pray that you would help us in our marriages, Lord, and God, help the D word never to come
up within our marriage, but we always determine never to be divorced and to keep our marriage
going.
And I pray that you bless the couples in our church, those who will be married, bless them
as well, keep them pure, protect them from the wows of Satan, and I pray that, Lord,
we continue to bless our church with children, with more weddings, with just more godly people
who desire to be married, and I thank you so much for those.
I'm thankful that I was able to perform four weddings in one year, what a blessing.
Those are four couples that have decided to do it right, and I know there's been other
marriages also, and I'm thankful for them as well, and I just pray that, Lord, you'd
help us as we move forward in this wicked culture, that you'd help us to be burning
and shining lights to adhere to your principles, and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.