And pray that we in the congregation be edified by the preaching and do you stay with Raymond?
Amen, all right, we are in Exodus chapter 23
Look down at your Bibles at verse number one
It says thou shalt not raise a false report
Put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness verse number two says thou shall not follow a multitude
To do evil neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to rest judgment
And what I want to preach on this morning is this topic of the Wisconsin shooting from a biblical perspective the Wisconsin the Kenosha, Wisconsin
shooting from a biblical
Perspective now if you don't know what I'm referring to
Let me just give you a brief overview
Regarding the events that have transpired over the last week or so about a week or so
You have a man by the name of Jacob Blake who is just this pedophile
Who gets shot by the police because he's threatening, you know to pull out a knife then he's trying to go get his gun
They shoot him they paralyze him which ends up sparking this mass protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Well, the people there are on high alert
They recognize that their businesses their homes their persons are in danger of these mobs because they're not peaceful protest
Right. These are people who want to take advantage
These are people who are opportunists who want to violate people and so these people these inhabitants of that area
They decide to band together and protect their properties and protect the properties of others with assault rifles and so on and so forth
You have this young man a 17 year old guy by the name of Kyle Rittenhouse
Who was part of it wasn't part of the militia, but he was part of protecting the properties of the owners thereof
And he's there simply protecting them. He has his rifle. He has a safety kit with them
He's there just to simply protect that which belongs to others protect the innocent, right?
Well, lo and behold you have one of the members of the mob attacking him
He in self-defense basically shoots the guy and kills him. Okay, he shoots the man
He kills him and even then he begins to call 9-1-1
Right to basically help the guy but the guy's already dead
He then begins to realize that there is a major threat because the mob is
Recognizing that he's shot this guy and he killed them and they begin to turn on him
Which in turn causes him to run and to just get away from this mob
Well, they begin to chase him and you see
Just a multitude of people trying to hurt him acting like they're gonna punch him
He loses his footing falls down a guy with the skateboard comes and tries to hit him in the back of the head
Now, let me say this is that this guy is a cute. Okay, this guy knows what he's doing
He falls to the ground and even though he's fallen to the ground
He's able to keep his rifle and his mental composure the guy with the skateboard seeks to hit him
He shoots him in the stomach and kills him
Okay a
Satanist it is good
Folks self-defense is biblical
Let me I'm not done yet a Satanist
Rushes him pulls out a gun
The young man is still on the ground points and shoots the guy in the arm blows his arm off
Completely just disintegrates his muscles to the point where the guy's not able to let go of his gun
Okay, and he was a Satanist. I mean you see pictures of him
He has a scarf with the with the pentagram and Baphomet on there
The guy's a Satanist by the way, all three of these individuals are all felons. The first guy who was killed, you know was a pedophile
So basically, you know Kyle just basically took care of what what the government could not do
He shoots the guy in the arm disarms him the guy's crying out for the police
The 17 year old gets up he walks away he's going towards the sirens and he's trying to turn himself in
Make a long story short. He turns himself in and is now facing listen to this
He's facing first-degree murder along with other charges
First-degree murder intentional homicide for defending himself
Now, let me start off by saying that this kid is a hero folks
He is a hero and should not be punished for defending himself against these wicked violent derelicts. Okay
Now why are you say why are you preaching on this pastor?
Are you preaching on this just because you want something exciting to preach about?
No
I'm preaching on this because it should be
that when events like this take place in our
Country in our state that the man of God should get up using the Word of God to tell the people of God
What should be our perspective regarding this? It should be the people that Christians don't look to the media
They don't look to the leftist liberal media or the news outlets to figure out what we believe
We should go to the Bible, you know
The Bible says that the house of God is the church which is the pillar and ground of truth
And we should go to say what does the Bible say regarding this event that has taken place folks first-degree murder
Is referring to the unlawful killing that is premeditated
Okay, the Bible were actually refers to this as lying in weight and somehow
They conclude that because he had an assault rifle
He was planning on killing people
You know, isn't that what they say? Oh, he had an assault rifle. Why does he have that assault rifle?
Why does he have that gun? He's planning to kill people but I guarantee you they're not gonna hold that same standard to the Satanist
Who had a gun?
You know, it's funny I want to say that about a 17 year old who was literally defending himself
But yet they don't want to say that about the Satanists who actually pulled out a gun on him
Did that guy come with the intention to kill?
Let me tell you why
They are convicting Kyle of intentional homicide first-degree murder. I'll tell you why it's to placate the mob. That's why
the only reason they are convicting him or they're trying to convict them of
Homicide intentional homicide and first-degree murder is because they're afraid of the mob
They're afraid of the evil multitude and what they're gonna do if they let them go free folks. Justice is blind
Justice should be served doesn't matter what part of the of the side you're on whether you're a liberal whether you're Republican a Democrat
doesn't matter
Look down at your Bibles at Exodus chapter 23 verse number one
Let's see what the Bible says about this thou shalt not raise
a false report
put not thine hand with the wicked to be an
Unrighteous witness the Bible says verse 2 thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
Neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to rest judgment. What does that say? It's basically saying hey
Don't pervert judgment by just capitulating to the mob
You know, don't be an unrighteous witness. Don't give raise a false report
Don't just go along with the evil multitude because you're afraid of them
Don't decline after many only because you want to rest
Judgment and let me say this this judgment that they're making that he is guilty of intentional homicide is a joke
Why is it a joke because there's so much footage out there
Showing the exact opposite. We're in 2020 folks. There's cameras everywhere
You know the people with cameras on their phones, you know, there's security cameras everywhere
You just can't get away with it
And how are you gonna convict someone of a murder when you literally have the video of him running away disengaging the crowd
Being assaulted and him defending himself
It's nonsense. They're simply doing it to try to piece them up. Hey, look, there's nothing new under the Sun
We see this throughout history folks. One of the most famous stories in the Bible of someone who did this is pilot
Right where you have Barabbas who is guilty of murder in an insurrection
Isn't that funny
You know and what is pilot pilot wants to let Jesus go
He's the innocent man, but what he doesn't instead is he capitulates to the desires of the mob?
He declines to many to rest judgment that release Barabbas and then they convict the innocent person
This is something that people do all the time pilot was just a weak leader who's afraid of the mob. Okay?
Look don't appease the mob
Don't go with the multitude to do evil punish the evildoers and there won't be any violent mobs or protests
You know, the Bible says smite the corner and the simple will beware
That's not only for the church and by the way that works for the church
Does it not when a person is openly rebuked? They're openly corrected. They're openly just thrown out of the church
You know other people in the church they beware
They make sure that they dot their I's and cross their T's and walk uprightly
Less the same should happen to them
But I was a smite the scorner and the simple will beware
The Bible says they that sin rebuke before all that others may fear these people become an example
And you know what? It's great that he did this
Because that tells other people who are tempted to go loot and violate people
Maybe I shouldn't cuz I might get shot and killed
I might die if I try to go violate someone
I might die if I try to go join a multitude to do evil to loot and rob and pillage
I'm something bad might happen to me. Yeah, exactly right. We got three examples of that from last week
And I'm not mourning for those three guys
evil wicked people
pedophiles
You know who sought to take a young man's life
Okay, you know the Bible tells us in Deuteronomy 2121 and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he died
They didn't have ar-15s in those days. Okay, that's stones, but I got the job done
So shalt thou put evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and what fear
All Israel shall hear and fear
You know what God's way to correct violence and those people who want to violate people they hear and fear
Well, they got to hear the right thing
They got to hear that people are actually standing up and defending themselves and this is biblical folks
So let me just give you a couple things that we can learn from the events that have taken place and I'm for Kyle
I think he's a hero. The guy is a stinking marksman
The guy is very trained
Okay, you know, I'm sure there's some who you know
As soon as they fell to the ground they would have just left their ar-15 and just ran for the hills
He kept his composure. He kept his mental composure. He kept his rifle
The guy knows how to shoot obviously, you know, and people are trying to immortalize and make these guys who died heroes
The first guy who died who's a pedophile who attacked him first
They had they literally have him in a video prior to this and I'm quote saying shoot me nigga
Shoot me nigga. Well, it looks like he got his wish
This is what he said
Well, that's exactly what happened to him. Okay
Let me give you a couple things here that we can learn from these events that have taken place in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Regarding the shooting there number one. Let's just keep in mind
The reason I'm giving these points and these are points that you already know
But we ought to use current events to reinforce the things that we already believe to prove that the Bible knows exactly what it's talking about
Okay, it's not like well we're Christians that's not our arena we should just stay out of it things like that folks
The Bible has everything that pertains to life and godliness
The Bible should be the one that changes the way we think and if you feel offended by this sermon
It's obvious that you don't know what the Bible says
Well, I thought Christians are supposed to be pacifists, you know
Just pacifist just let a guy come into my house and just rape my wife and kill my children
And just let God sort them out doesn't work that way folks and that that's what you think
It is then you have a war twisted view of the Bible
Number one, what should we learn? We should never be hasty to shed blood
Never be hasty to shed blood. Look folks life is precious according to the Bible
Life is a precious thing and I guarantee you Kyle did not go out there hoping to kill someone as
The media would like to portray it but you know who did was the evil multitude
The evil multitude and in fact you one of the interviews with one of the guys that survived says, you know
I wish I had killed the kid
He wishes he would have killed him. Okay. These are people who are hasty to shed blood
Go to promise chapter number one if you would promise chapter number one
Let me read to you from Psalm 55 in verse 23 says but thou O God shall bring them down into the pit of destruction
Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days
But I will trust in thee a bloody and deceitful man is up is a violent person and let me just make myself very clear
That the Bible teaches that self-defense and violence are two separate things
You know, I know people say how could you have a gun? This is the Bible teach against violence
Yeah, but it doesn't teach against self-defense
Hello
Violence means to violate someone it means to try to corrupt and pervert someone without their consent
Right, it's just to come upon someone unawares
Privately to take their life to rob them to vandalize their property. This is a violation
Okay
Psalm 11 5 says the Lord tried the righteous but the wicked in him that loveth violence his soul hateth
There's a bunch of people out there who are protesting right now who God says I hate you
Why because they love violence look at Proverbs chapter 1. Let's see if this
Jives what we see today in 2020 verse 15 says my son
Walk not down the way with them
Refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil the Bible says and make haste
To shed blood look folks when you look at the videos, it's a group of people that are running to do evil
He did he did it and everyone just rushes that person to kill them and look if
Kyle wouldn't have had the ar-15. He would have ended up like the other guy who was not armed
It was beaten to death and killed
Right, but no one wants to talk about that
For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird and they lay wait for their own blood
They lurk privately for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of
Gain
Which taketh away the life of the what owners there of?
Make no mistake about these people who are looting who are rioting. They're willing to take your life in order to take your possession
you know, I posted this this meme on my Instagram and
It basically said, you know, the leftists will say, you know
If you take someone's life who breaks into your house you value your things more than their life
And then the response is so anyways, I started blasting
You know and someone commented and said no just let them take your things, you know, their life is more precious
Well, hold on a second first and foremost if someone breaks into my house and I kill them I kill them not for my things
I kill them for my wife and my kids
How do I know they're not gonna do something to my wife and kids second of all folks listen to what you're saying
The person who's breaking into my house values my things more than their own life
Right
They obviously value my things
More than their own life
So why am I gonna value their life more than the lives of my children and my wife? It's ridiculous. It's hypocrisy. It's stupidity
Okay
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain which taketh the way the life of the owners are of folks life is
precious
Go with me if you would to Deuteronomy
Chapter 4 Deuteronomy chapter 4
So we should never be hasty to shed blood, you know, even when it comes to
Being in the street or something and someone begins to try to violate you and try to fight you
You know should be the response of the Christians just to run away
Right and look, isn't that what Kyle did?
He disengaged in Iran all the videos that I see him doing is him disengaging and running
It's not until they catch up to him that he feels his life is in danger and he shoots them and he kills them
End of story and look that should be our response
Our response should be if someone's trying to jump me or fight me or try to violate me
My response is I should run. I don't want to fight someone. This is what the Bible means by turning the other cheek
But folks if they run faster than me
Then obviously I can't keep running obviously at that point I need to do something to defend myself, okay
But
There's people out there that are hasty to shed blood they're hasty to shoot someone
They're hasty to fight someone and that should not be the temperament of the Christian
We should value life as much as possible and seek to stay away from those things as much as possible as well
You know the Bible says he that hath no rule over his own spear is like a city that's broken down and without walls
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruled the spear that he that taketh the city God
Commends those and commends those that basically are able to have self-control, right?
You know, we don't have this machismo mentality where we have to we feel we have to prove ourselves to everyone
Oh, man, that guy looked at me all crooked-eyed, you know, he's mad dogging me and all these things. Let it go
Let it go
You know
I don't want to kill anybody but folks if someone breaks into my house or someone's trying to beat up my wife out in the
Street or do something to my children. It's on folks
Or you're not valuing life. What are you talking about valuing the life of my children? Hello
You don't value that person's life. I'm valuing the life of my wife
What about your own life yeah, I value my life too
My life has value folks. I'm preaching the Word of God
I'm seeing people saved and you know what it's sanctioned by God to be able to defend yourself
It's biblical and we'll see in just a bit. Don't be hasty to shed blood
Why because when you're hasty to shed blood your blood shall be shed
Okay
But not only that what can we learn from this shooting? We learned that, you know, regardless if there's a multitude who's running to do evil
They pay the price when they're hasty to shed blood, but not only that we need to define what murder really is
Okay
If you own a gun people are like hey thou shalt not kill
It's like what in the world, you know cars kill people too, right?
So it's like anytime you buy a vehicle to say hey man that shall not kill
Yeah, but a but a gun is used as a weapon to shoot look I've known people
I've had a gun for years and I've never had to shoot anybody
People go their whole lives without killing people and still owning guns. Did you know that?
But it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it
Okay, but they'll often come up and say hey thou shalt not kill
Okay, so let's just use that all across the board for plants and animals and you know wicked people
Let's just completely disregard the teaching of the death penalty in the Bible then, right?
Because they define as kill is just the taking away of life for whatever reason
Whereas the Bible actually sanctions the death penalty. Did you know that?
You're in Deuteronomy 4 I'm gonna reach you from Exodus 21 verse 14
It says but if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile
Thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die
Well, that means die spiritually. No, it means die like to take away his life
Okay
Why because he came presumptuously this is referred this what we know as premeditated
Murder when someone comes to you with hatred
They come to you with hatred with the intent to kill you
The Bible says that person should be put to death according to the Bible
Look at Deuteronomy 4 verse 13. It says verse number 4, excuse me
Let me make sure I have the right verse here
Deuteronomy chapter 4
I don't think I have the right verse here. Let me just read this to you. It says oil. I'm sorry verse 13
No still not the right verse. Sorry. It's in the Bible. Look it up. Okay?
It
Says and this is the case of the Slayer which shall flee thither that he may live who so killeth his neighbor
Ignorantly whom he hated not in time past so, you know, there's times when people accidentally kill others
You know, it's a freak accident. They didn't have an intention to kill that person. They did not hate that person
It says as when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to Hugh down to Hugh wood and his hand fetch fetch
It the stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slippeth from the health and lighteth upon his neighbor that he
Die he shall flee unto one of those cities and live lest the avenger of the blood pursue the Slayer
While his heart is hot and overtake him because the way is long and slay him
Whereas he was not worthy of death in as much as he hated him not in time past
So what is the teaching here the teaching here is this look?
God in the Old Testament actually sanctioned the family member of the person who was slain to actually take the life of the person who?
Took his family's life
so if there is an actual person who had the intent to kill the third the person who
Is supposed to lay hands on him and kill that person is the family's member the the person's family member
Okay, but there was times when someone would kill someone not with the intent
It was an accident, but that doesn't mean that their family member was not gonna be mad about right their heart would be hot
They would want vengeance and so God created the system of the cities of refuge where the Slayer
Can flee to to be protected from the person who wanted to kill him, but here's the thing if that individual
Left the city of refuge for any reason okay, and the Slayer found him and killed him
God says no blood shall be shed for the Slayer
Because I commanded this person to stay away to stay in the city of refuge, and you know what the Slayer found him
You know why because God understands
God understands human emotion is what he understands
He understands that this is this person's family member
I made a way for you to be safe from this individual
But if you choose to disobey the instructions that at that point I'm not gonna convict the Slayer for killing you
Because of the fact that you disobey the instructions, okay?
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter number three
Murder folks look what we what you saw over this last week on Tuesday is what it was when it took place. It's not murder
When someone is disengaging and running
That's not considered murder, and I'm wondering if they would have convicted the Satanists for killing him
No, they would have said oh, no self-defense
Right well all of a sudden because the guy's white
Because he has an ar-15
Because he's not part of the evil multitude all of a sudden. Oh, it's murder. Oh, so you're redefining. What murder is that?
To fit your agenda and look they try to say this they try to say well. Yeah, he's a white supremacist
Right, but here's the thing and this is a brown
Hispanic Guatemalan saying this okay, if he's a white supremacist. He's still innocent
Let's let's just imagine for a bit that guy's a white supremacist who hates my guts
And he committed those things I still think he's innocent
Why cuz justice is blind folks and the evidence speaks for itself?
Okay, I don't care if he was white. I don't care if he was black. I don't care if he was brown folks
Justice is blind. We need to make sure that when we look at the evidence. We don't come up with a false report an
Unrighteous witness okay doesn't matter what color of skin they are and he's not a white supremacist by the way
It's just something they want to cake on in order to make the kid look bad
Now I'm hoping that he just gets a misdemeanor right for having a rifle. I'm hoping that's just all he gets
If he gets charged for for for murder. I mean this is a really stupid country
This country has lost its marvels
With all of the of the evidence the footage and still convict them of murder first-degree murder
This country has lost its intelligence
Okay
Which leads me into my third point you know what so what is murder murders when you premeditate to take someone's life
When you hate them in times past you let you lay weight
Privately in order to take the person's life, but folks when the Bible says thou shalt not kill
That's actually what it's referring to it's not referring to killing someone in self-defense or because you're defending an innocent person who is
Incapable of defending themselves which leads me to my third to my third point there is listen to me. There is a time to kill
There is a time to kill now, it's not every time
Look
At the Ecclesiastes 3 verse 1 it says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven a
Time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted
look at this a time to kill and
A time to heal a time to break down and a time to build up
Well, you know you you're taking that verse out of con. That's not proper exegesis
Folks it says what it says
There is a time to kill and lest anyone should take my words out of context, I'm not referring to just any time
There are specific times when God sanctions to defend your family to defend your property or you feel if you feel like your life is in
Danger that is a time to kill
Hey, how about this when the government should put those who are worthy of death to death. That's the time to kill
You know, apparently the pedophile it was his time amen
But people, you know and you have these pacifist Christians out there
Who just want to completely disregard the Old Testament scriptures and this is what they'll say
Oh, you guys always go to the Old Testament, you know to prove that you need a weapon and prove that you can defend people
You know by killing someone else you always use the Old Testament scriptures, you know
How come the New Testament doesn't say a whole lot about it? I'll tell you why
This is why the New Testament doesn't say a whole lot about self-defense
You know and taking someone's life because they are assaulting you
I'll tell you why because God already spent an entire Old Testament telling you about it
Problem solved
Why is he gonna reiterate it in the New Testament he expects for you to already know
Why is he gonna spend the New Testament which widely has to do with the local New Testament Church
Soul-winning preaching the gospel folks. He's already covered that in the Old Testament
So this is already common knowledge within the New Testament and look and
Just in case you don't believe me or just in case you feel that's not true. Then Jesus himself said to buy a sword
That's out of context we'll get into that just a bit
He spent the Old Testament talking about these things so he doesn't need to reiterate it for you
You need to get the Word of God
Use both Old and New Testament all scriptures given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction and instruction in righteousness
Look folks. The Bible is not just a spiritual book. It's a practical book on how to just live life
Right how to have an earthly government how to govern people what type of laws to make what God sanctions and what he doesn't
You think he's gonna reiterate all of that in the New Testament. He expects for you to already know he spent that much time
To write it in the Old Testament. He doesn't need to reiterate in the New Testament, okay
But there is a time to kill when well when protecting your family
when protecting your friends
Or even yourself, okay
Protecting property is not only biblical. It's actually common sense. Go to Exodus chapter 22
Exodus chapter 22
Look God expects for us to just use common sense
Right
He's given us a brain. We should use it
Right, and in fact some of the parables that he used in the New Testament shows the common sense that he wants us to have
Let me read to you from Luke chapter 11 verse 21 when referring to your property
Verse 21 says when a strong man armed
Keepeth his palace his goods are in peace
So what is the common sense teaching these trying to tell you hey when someone is keeping his household
His goods and he's armed. He has a machete. He has a sword
He has you know, some sort of weapon, you know, what his goods are gonna be in peace. Oh
No, no, but that's just the parable. Yeah, but he's using a common sense parable to teach a spiritual truth
And if the story or the principle that he's teaching here the actual, you know example that he's given has no validity
Then he wouldn't have used it as a parable
But
When it's stronger than he shall come upon and we're overcoming
Overcome him he take it from him all his armor wearing he trusted and divided his spoils
He's saying look if you have a knife, but the guy comes at you with the gun. He's gonna take your stuff
That's just what's gonna happen he's stronger than you
We're gonna have you go Exodus, let's see here
Hold your place there go to Nehemiah chapter 4 because I want you to see this
we're gonna go to Nehemiah and Esther and obviously Nehemiah and Esther are not necessarily books that we would refer to as a
Proof text of what we believe in this regard but because it coincides with everything else we see in the Bible we can use it
Right. It's like basically it's like saying this, you know, we never want to use parables to prove our point
We give clear statements of the Bible and parables reinforce our beliefs, right?
Well in like manner what we're gonna look at here simply gonna reinforce
What the rest of the Bible is already teaching look at Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 16
And it came to pass from the time forth that the half of my servants wrought in the work and the other half of them
Held both the spears the shields and the bows and the haberghians and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah
Now look are the people who are building the wall are these people soldiers?
No, these are just common people
Yeah, you should just leave the assault rifles and the guns and all this stuff
You just leave it to to to the police and to the authorities. No according to the Bible. Everyone should have a weapon and
Here we see that common people had spears shields both
they had all manner of weapons to protect themselves verse 17 says they which build it on the wall and
They that bear burdens with those that laid it
Everyone with his with one of his hand wrought in the work and the other hand held a weapon
So in one hand, you know, they got the hammer and the other hand they got the hammer
You know
these are common people and
The point that I'm trying to make here is that the common man should have a weapon
If you can afford it, I have a 9 millimeter, you know, it's a Smith & Wesson 9 millimeter
It's not the most fancy gun, but it'll get the job done at close quarters
Okay, I'm looking to expand my you know, my repertoire of
Assault rifles and whatnot, but it's good for a person to have a weapon
He said what if I can't afford it then get something that you can use
Right a hammer a bat, you know, especially if you're married with kids
It's important
Look at Esther chapter 8 Esther chapter 8
Look I encourage everyone in our church to have a weapon and most people do in our in our church
I encourage all of our people to have guns and most people in our church do hold your hand up if you have a weapon
I'm not gonna say a gun. Just hold your hand if you have a weapon. Okay, it's good
So YouTube sees it out there amen
Well, that's California folks people think that because we're in California. We can't have there's a bunch of people out there who have guns
You
Know
Legally or illegally. Let's just put it that way. Okay
Look at Esther 811 wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together
Look what it says and to stand for their life
To destroy to slay to cause to perish all the power of the people in province that would assault them
Both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey
You said well, that's not right
They're taking a spoil for prey, but here's the thing what he said previously whether you agree with that or not
He's telling them hate protect your life
Protect the lives of your little ones. This is a noble thing to do folks
The cowardice thing to do is to allow people to violate your family
That's the cowardice thing to do the cowardice thing to do is to have your wife assaulted and you just don't do anything about it
You run
Well, I'm running to get help
You're you're a coward. You're weakling and if you don't have weapons, you better learn how to fight
Okay
Go to Exodus chapter 22
Let me read to you from Psalm 82 verse 1 it says God's standards in the congregation of the mighty
He judges among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked sealer?
Defend the poor and the fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy
Deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked
What means deliver, you know, like win them to Christ deliver
Well, actually it says here to rid them out of the hand of the wicked
So God actually commands for us to protect those who cannot protect themselves
Okay
Psalm 94 you're in Exodus 22. We'll get there in just a bit Psalm 94 verse 15
I want to read these verses here
It says but judgment shall return unto righteousness and all the upright in heart shall follow it
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers or who will stand up for me against the workers of?
Iniquity he says, you know God is looking for
Heroic noble men to be able to stand up for others
You know what? I mean to be able to defend people
It's a noble thing to put yourself on the line to protect someone else's life
Even sometimes at the cost of your own life
Right, you know greater love hath no man than this that a man laid down his life
For his friends. That's what Jesus said and obviously that's referring to him
But that's practical all across the board if someone gave their life for you. You would say that person loved me
To the they valued my life to the point that they're even willing to lose their own, right?
I'm gonna skip some verses here
Look at Exodus chapter 22
This is a familiar portion of Scripture that most of us know here
Says in verse number one if a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it
He shall restore five oxen for an oxen for sheep for for sheep
Look what it says in verse number two if a thief be found in breaking up and be smitten that he died
There shall no blood be shed for him
So, what is the teaching God is saying the narrator the one who wrote the Bible is saying look if a thief comes in
And he's trying to steal and you smite him you slay him with the sword you beat him and you take the man's life away
You're not held responsible for that person's life
Now why is that?
Well, look at verse number three if the son be risen upon him there shall be bloodshed for him for he should make full
Restitution if you have nothing then he shall be sold for his theft look in other words
What is basically insinuating here is that if a person comes in broad daylight?
Trying and you see him taking your television or whatever your radio or whatever it is. You obviously know what his intent is
Now even then it's still questionable in 2020
Is it not because some people come and they steal but they don't want to steal they want to rape
They want to they want to kidnap
We don't know what their intentions are but what he's saying here is that if you see him doing that
Okay, you should not kill him. He should make full restitution. But folks we're living under a government. Well, they don't do that
They can steal your stuff they go to jail for a couple days to get out and they do it again
Happens all the time, right and the reason the person who kills the thief
No blood shall be shed for him is because the insinuation there is that he comes at night
And if a person breaks into your house at night
You do not know what their intentions are
And he can say while I was coming to steal he's like, well, I don't know that
How do you know you're not coming to do something to violate my family?
How do I know that you're not some Richard Ramirez?
Right who would break into houses and just rape women and do all this manner of evil. We don't know that and
That's why God says well you're in the right this person came in
You had no idea what their intentions were and therefore you're justified in taking that person's life
Okay, and I don't care what state you're in
This is biblical all across the board
Since the time of Moses up until today
Doesn't matter what the Constitution says doesn't matter what the law says. This is what the Bible says
Okay
The Bible actually condemns those who choose not to deliver others. Did you know that go to Proverbs the book of Proverbs chapter 24?
Proverbs chapter 24
Proverbs
Chapter 24 and make no mistake about it folks. Someone breaks into my house
You know, I walk into the living room and this person's in my house with the machete or something like that or some sort of knife
I'm gonna cap him
Why because I got a wife and kids I want my kids to live I
Want my wife to live
Even at the expense of if they take my life in the process, so be it
As long as before he takes my life I take his and he's not able to take my wife for my kids life
Okay
You say man, I thought you want to live. Yeah, but you know what?
I I love my wife my kids to the point
I'm willing to give my life and you know what I have everlasting life. So it doesn't matter. Okay?
You know live forever and I know that God will take care of my family
You
Know I remember one time when I was when we were living in the back house of my wife's family's house
I had just gotten my gun because people were breaking in they were doing home invasions and
These home invasions these people were pulling out knives and stabbing people inside their homes and I was like I need a gun
Because if someone comes to try to do that, you know what I mean? Like I gotta handle business
So I got a gun and then I remember my mother-in-law she of course my father-in-law is disabled at this time
He's still disabled, but he wasn't at the house. He was still at the hospital and I remember it was around 1130 maybe midnight
And my mother-in-law calls me and says there's a man who keeps knocking on the door
By the way during this time they have it now
They didn't have locks on their door so you can just like walk in for whatever reason
It's just you know, but they they wised up and now they have locks
but someone was knocking on the door and she answered the door and he was like, where's your husband and
This individual was was helped by a church member and
Basically, the church member said hey if you do some yard work right here in the back of the pastor's house
You know, I'll give you some money or whatever and you know, he was just a real shady person
and we told him like hey man, you gotta be careful who you like invite back here because you know
They might be trying to survey the land here
And sure enough he can you know, he ended up leaving and he ended up coming back and she's like he's like
Where's your husband? And she's like, well, hold on. Let me go get him and she closed the door
And she didn't know what to do. So she called her son-in-law and she's like, there's this guy out here
It's the same guy from earlier
You know, I don't know what his intentions are, but he keeps asking for my husband. Where's my husband?
Where's my husband and I think he wants money
And I was like, okay, I'll be right there. So I pulled out my 9 mil, you know, put on put on my slippers
You know put on my bathrobe and you know and
I loaded my gun cuz I don't know and look I have to protect my mother-in-law, too. I
Have to protect her life too. So I went there and I asked her as a where's the eggs like he's out in front
You know, he doesn't even know you're coming
But just you know, so I opened the door and I stepped outside and he was on the sidewalk. His back was to me and
I said hey
And he turned around looked at me looked at my gun and said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I even came
I'm out of here and he took off
You know, I'm sorry. No, he didn't take off. He just said I just wanted some money. I said you don't come at midnight
You don't come knocking at someone's house at 1130 midnight asking for money first of all, you don't do that period right
You know unless I know you or something
But we don't know you
You don't think it looks weird that you're coming to knock on her door to ask for money let alone at midnight and then you
Tell the woman of the house, where's your husband?
Suspicious, but you know what? He looked at me. He looked at my gun and say big mistake
I'm not coming back here and he never came back
One time by my brother-in-law my all my brother-in-laws are very big advocates of guns. They all have shotguns and guns and stuff like that and
He was at church and he wasn't feeling well
So he actually came home early and this is during the time of the home invasions
We came home and he was just like I need to go lay down so he laid down for a little bit and he's someone
Knocked on the door
He went out and he heard like a lot of you know whispering
Outside the door and he looked at the people and there was a group of men
You know
outside the door
So he's like they're trying to do this home invasion and there is a vehicle that was running
Still on with people inside there as well. So he went back and grabbed his gun
And they knocked one more time and he just cocked his gun
They heard it and they took off running. They got in their car. He came out. They saw the gun. They never came back
But let's say I didn't have a gun
Let's say he didn't have a gun. What would have they have done to him if he did not have the gun
Folks, it's common sense
Okay
And I don't care what any
Pacifist Christian says the Bible condemns those who do not protect the innocent look at Proverbs 24 verse 11 if thou forbear to deliver
Them that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain if thou say is behold
we knew it not doth not he that ponder at the heart consider it and
he that keepeth thy soul doth not he know it and
Shall not he render to every man according to his works
He said look if you are such a coward you're not willing to defend the innocent
Don't you think God knows what your heart really is?
Of course, you knew about it. God expects not just Christians. He expects men in general to be courageous
That's a quality of man to be courageous to protect people to be to be the protector of the home of the city of our
Neighborhood this is the quality that he wants us to have and he considers it a bad thing
He considers it a cowardice type thing when they choose not to do he's saying don't you know that I know how you feel in
Your heart don't you know that I know I'm considering your heart and knowing that you're lying about this whole thing
Now go to Luke chapter 9 Luke chapter 9
Luke chapter number 9
They should let Kyle go free
And be an example to everyone else and look folks if they let him go free a bunch of people are just gonna get
Some boldness and say you know what this is right. We need to protect our property
We need to protect our people and we need to have the guts to stand up to the evil mob. Okay?
Here's one of my last points look owning a weapon for self-defense is biblical
Okay, it is biblical to own a weapon. Look at Luke chapter 9 verse number 1
Let me say this it's biblical for Christians
To own weapons
Luke 9 verse 1 says then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all
Devils and to cure diseases and he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick and he said unto them
Take nothing for your journey
Neither staves nor script neither bread neither money neither have two coats a piece now here
We see that he says look when you go out, you don't need to stay. What is the statement? It's a stick
It's not a walking stick
It's a stick to protect themselves
Because he's told not to take it it's like don't take the walking stick but go walking it doesn't make any sense
This the insinuation here is that they did have staves before they did have some sort of stake
Some sort of stick that they can protect themselves with from robbers from people who would grow violent towards them
But he's telling them don't take it now. Why is that?
Why did he tell him don't take a weapon when you go out because they had Jesus there
That's why and even though Jesus wasn't present when they would go out into the cities
Jesus was present on this earth
So while Jesus was on this earth they had God's divine protection during that time because the work needed to be done, right?
They had God's divine protection
Jesus Christ was there providing for them and protecting them. This is why he told them don't have it now go to Luke chapter 22
Luke chapter 22
This is nearing the end where Jesus Christ is going to be crucified right he's gonna be taken from this world
He's gonna fulfill prophecy by dying for the sins of the whole world
look at verse 35 and
He said unto them when I sent you without purse and script and shoes lacking anything and they said nothing
He's saying look remember when I told you don't take anything
Remember how I provided for your needs. I provided the financial needs. I provided the food
I even provided protection because he's saying lacking anything if they would have like well protection God
I mean, you know that robber they took they took my sandals or whatever
You know
Lacking anything they said nothing then said he unto them, but now
he that hath the purse let him take it and
Likewise his script he said now I'm gonna be taken
You need to make sure you have some money with you because I'm not gonna be here with you
I'm not gonna multiply the fish and the bread as a four-time, right?
Well, we need to depend on the Lord. Yeah, but we also need to work to gain resources and finances
That's what God told us to do, right?
And he that hath no sword people hate this verse
Pacifist Christians hate it. I feel like they if it was up to them when they get to heaven
They want to say like why did you put that verse in the Bible?
We ran into so much trouble with this
Jesus said this and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one
Let me explain to you what it says in the Greek. Okay?
The Greek there is if you don't have a sword sell your garment and buy a sword
I'm pretty good in Greek, huh?
Now why is he telling them that
Why is he saying look if you don't have a sword you need to sell some of your possessions
Because it's important to have a weapon on you
Why is he saying that verse 37 for I say unto you that this is that this that is written must yet be accomplished in
Me and he was reckoned among the transgressors for the things concerning me have an end
He says I'm not always gonna be with you. I
Can't always be there to protect you. So now you need to make sure that you at least have a sword with you folks
Why would he say that?
Why would he sanction the disciples to have a weapon if we're not supposed to have weapons?
I mean people today are literally saying the exact opposite of
What he is blatantly saying here in this passage of Scripture buy one
Verse 38 they said Lord behold here are two swords
You know when he says in moderation they do an excess
And he said it's him it is enough, you know, you know, you don't need a third sword because you don't have a third arm
Okay
But he said it is enough
He didn't say hey, well, we're not supposed to be violent
What are you doing? We're not supposed to be killing people
He's saying you need to buy a sword because the times gonna come when I'm not here and they're gonna come after you and you
Have to defend yourself
Okay, go to Matthew chapter 26 Matthew chapter 26
Now we don't use sorts today
Right, maybe some of you still do. Oh, yeah. I forgot brother. John carries a sword with him like everywhere
He goes it's that a Syrian in him, okay
We
Don't use swords like John does today
Most people they buy a gun right they get some sort of weapon a shotgun an assault rifle handgun, whatever it may be
Because that's the weapons that we use today look at Matthew 26 verse 50 says in Jesus sentence and friend wherefore art thou come
Then came day and laid hands on Jesus and took him and behold one of them which were with Jesus stretch forth stretch out his
Hand and drew his sword and struck a servant of the high priest and smote off his ear
Then said Jesus unto him put up again the sword into his place for all they take the sword shall perish by the sword now
The pacifist Christian will try to use this and say see there you go. That's supposed to have a sword
by the way, I want to just know real quick that
Peter is not trying to cut the guy's ear off
He's not going for the ears you understand that
He's like wait till I just slice off that ear
You said what was he trying to do he was trying to decapitate the guy
The guy ducked and sliced off his ear
So what does that tell us that tells us that Peters crazy man? Okay, that guy was in it for the long haul
He's I'm gonna take this guy's head off
Now why did Jesus stop him because he doesn't want people to he doesn't want his disciples to defend themselves
No, because he didn't want Peter to hinder or to stop what the scriptures, you know, the scriptures from being fulfilled
Because Jesus was supposed to die
He was supposed to be delivered. And in fact the sheep were supposed to scatter, right?
Smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered the Bible says so he's not hindering him from defending himself
He's trying to stop him in order for Jesus to fulfill
Scripture and let me just tell you you're not Jesus a
Lot of things that took place during Jesus time is like it was a unique time, right?
There's a lot of things that he said and he did that wouldn't necessarily apply to us today
Because of the fact that he had three and a half years to accomplish that what he set forth to do
But it would be contradictory to say to tell them by a sword then he tells them what are you doing with the sword?
Did I tell you to get that? I don't remember saying that
He's stopping him because of the fact that he needs prophecy to be fulfilled he says thinkest thou verse 53
That I cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels. This is proof
He says look, I don't need your sword
I'm Jesus I
can command
Right 12 legions of angels and just completely decimate these guys and a twinkling of an eye if I wanted to
I don't need you to protect me. That's what he's saying verse 54
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be that's the proof there right there
He's saying look don't try to defend me. I need to die for the sins of the people. Okay?
I'm pretty much out of time, but let me go go to Psalm
144
Excuse me, Psalm 44 go to Psalm 44
And
People will say yeah
But you got to turn the other cheek turning the other cheek when it says if someone smites you on the cheek to turn the
Other cheek smiting someone on the cheek is basically challenging them to a fight
right
And he's saying look don't just be this machista
You know guy who needs to prove something if someone smites you on the cheek. First of all, you should have ducked
Or parried right or backed away or something and then just get away from the fight. It's not worth it a
Fight is different from taking someone's life. Okay?
He's telling them, you know, you got bigger fish to fry
You know, you should prove something to me by obeying my commandments and doing other things be a peacemaker
Okay
Here's my last point. Okay, and let me just reiterate what I said at the beginning
Kyle is a hero
He does not deserve the the you know, this first-degree murder charge. He does not deserve that
He did this in self-defense just like any normal human being deserves if someone attacks them
They have every God-given right to defend themselves
To defend their family to defend their property and do the same thing that he did. Okay
But ultimately, let me just remind us as Christians that ultimately the safety is not in the assault rifle
It's not in the sword. Who's it in? It's in God
Right horses are prepared against the day of battle, but let us not forget that safety is of the Lord
Okay
You know and it should be that we should pray that we would never get into an altercation
Where someone's life has to be taken
Even if it's some wicked person
You know our job on this earth is not to take people's lives
Even even in defending someone our job is to go preach the gospel now if we're put in that situation
absolutely
But we should not seek that opportunity so to speak we should not seek that situation
We should do our best to avoid those situations as much as possible and look folks. That's why we should not be out at night
Why because as the song goes the freaks come out at night
Okay
Look at Psalm 44 verse 6 through the verse 5
Excuse me through thee will we push down our enemies through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us?
For I will not trust in my bow
Neither shall my sword save me. I mean this is who's this is David
This guy's slain a lot of people and yet he himself is saying I'm not gonna trust in my bow
I'm not gonna trust in my sword verse 7
But thou has saved us from our enemies and thou has put them to shame that hated us
He's basically saying look and look David was trained with the bow
He was trained with the sword
But even then he said those aren't gonna be the things that I trust him
I'm gonna trust in the Lord and then after the Lord, I'm gonna load my ar-15
I'm gonna load my gun cuz you gotta have both folks
You can't say well, I'm just gonna trust on the Lord not own any weapon not trying to defend myself. That's not
Incense God has given us a brain
But we never want to take it to the extreme. Well, we only depend on the weapons that never depend on the Lord
We should pray and say Lord, please protect my family and I today
Please protect us when we go out soul winning protect us from the Rottweilers
Protect us from the pit bulls protect us from wicked people who would want to rob us or cause us harm protect our church
Smite those who would want to come to our church to harm us. May you smite them so that I don't have to smite them
See what I'm saying? We need both
But if we have to choose we choose the safety of the Lord. Amen. Hey free Kyle
Let's bow our heads in our word of prayer father. We thank you so much
For your word and thank you that it has everything that pertains to life and Godliness
I pray Christians would wake up Lord and not allow their worldview to be
molded by the news by the liberal media by
News outlets Lord who can misconstrue the truth help us to go to the Word of God help us to look at the evidence
the footage that which is already set forth and
help us to look at it through the lens and the scope of the Bible and
If anybody in here was offended by what I said, I prayed that their minds would be renewed
That they would have their minds washed
And not conform to this world, but renewed
Transformed by the renewing of our minds Lord and I pray God that you'd I pray for Kyle
I pray that Lord you would give him favor and that he would be released and
That others would fear and in Jesus name we pray. Amen