Deuteronomy chapter 4 the Bible reads, "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes
and under the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live and go in
and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish aught from
it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-Pior, and all the men that followed
Baal-Pior, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
Behold, I have taught you the statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded
me, that ye should do in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight
of all of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God
is in all things that we call upon Him for?
What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all
this law, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which
thine eyes have seen, and lest thy depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but
teach them thy sons and thy sons' sons, especially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord,
thy God, in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live
upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And he came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire under the
midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness; and the Lord spake unto you
out of the midst of the fire.
You heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude, only you heard a voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform even ten commandments,
wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me at the time to teach you statutes
and judgments that you might do them in the land whether you go over to possess it. Take you therefore
good heed unto yourselves, for you saw no matter of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto
you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. Lest you corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image,
the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on
the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in the air, the likeness of anything that
creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars,
even all the hosts of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord thy
God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. The Lord hath taken you and brought you
forth out of an iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are
this day. Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go
over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance. But I must die in this land. I must not go over Jordan. But ye shall go
over and possess that good land. Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the
Lord your God, which he made you with you, and made you a graven image, and make you a graven image,
or the likeness of anything, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. For the Lord thy God is
a consuming fire, even a jealous God. When thou shalt beget children, and children's children,
and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image,
or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke them
to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly
perish from off the land, whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it, ye shall not prolong your
days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed, and the Lord shall scatter you among the nations,
and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the Lord shall lead you,
and there ye shall serve gods, and work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor
hear, nor eat, nor smell; but if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him,
if thou seek him with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation,
and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God,
and shalt be obedient unto his voice, for the Lord thy God is a merciful God, he will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he swear unto them.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man
upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been
any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it. Did ever people hear the voice
of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and lived? Or hath God a say to go
and take him a nation from the midst of another nation by temptations, by signs, and by wonders,
and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by turd terrors, according to all the
Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes. Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know
that the Lord he is God, there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice,
that he might instruct thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou heardest
his words out of the midst of the fire. Because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt. To drive out the
nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in to give thee their land
for an inheritance as it is this day. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart,
that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else.
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I commanded thee this day,
that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, and thou mayest prolong thy days upon
the earth with which the Lord thy God giveth thee forever. Then Moses severed three cities on this
side Jordan toward the sun rising, that the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his
neighbors unawares, and hated him not in times past, and that fleeing unto one of the cities he
might live. Namely, Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of the Rubinites, and Ramoth in
Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Massinites. And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel. These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments
which Moses spake unto the children of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt. On this side,
Jordan in the valley over against Bethpior in the land of Sion, king of the Amorites who dwelt at
Heshpen, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they were come forth out of Egypt.
And they possessed of his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites,
which were on this side, Jordan, toward the sun rising, and Eroar, which is by the bank of the
river Arnon, even unto Mount Sion, which is Hermon. And all the plain on this side, Jordan, eastward,
even under the sea of this plain, under the springs of Pisgah. Let's pray. Dear Lord God,
just thank you for salvation. Thank you for the King James Bible, Lord. And we thank you for this
church you've given us and pastor. We pledge you bless him right now as he preaches unto us your
word, Lord, and that us in the congregation could take these truths of your word, Lord, and apply it
to our lives and understanding, Lord. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay, we're in
Deuteronomy chapter four this evening, and the title of my sermon tonight is "Misconceptions
about the Ten Commandments." Misconceptions about the Ten Commandments. Here in Deuteronomy chapter
four, look down at your Bibles at verse number 13, it says, "And he declared unto you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables
of stone." Now, thankfully, we live in a world where the Ten Commandments of God are essentially
known amongst not just adherents to the Bible, but even people who don't even ascribe to Christianity.
They're not Christians. They are unbelievers. Virtually everyone has heard about the Ten
Commandments. Even if they can't quote every single one of them, even if you were to tell them,
"Give me the list of the Ten Commandments," they may not be able to give you all ten,
but they can at least give you one. Virtually everyone knows in general what the Ten Commandments
are referring to. I think that's great because of the fact that you can't really point to any
person and say, "Hey, quote me some commandments from the book of the Koran or from the book of
Mormon or from Buddhism or Hinduism." They don't know what it says because it's not powerful. It's
not God's word. The Ten Commandments, on the other hand, has been used for thousands of years
to improve the moral structure of many nations. And even if people in that particular nation aren't
saved, they're not Christians per se, they understand the value in the Ten Commandments,
the moral aspect of the Ten Commandments, and they understand the value of obeying God's laws
because they are superior. And in fact, if you look down at your Bibles at verse number seven,
it says, "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God,
as in all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes
and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" Showing us that, you
know, the nations will look at a nation that is adhering to God's laws, in particular, of course,
what we see here at the Ten Commandments, and be in awe of God's statutes and see how superior they
are to every other law that people impose upon their nation, their citizens, because God's law
is superior. So I think that's great that a lot of people know about it, and a lot of people,
you know, ascribe to it, even if they're not saved. Now, here's the thing, though. The exposure of the
Ten Commandments is great and all, but along with that increases the possibility of the Ten
Commandments being misconstrued and twisted, right? And so even though a lot of people know
about the Ten Commandments, they maybe quote one or two of them, unfortunately, a lot of people
will also use the Ten Commandments to teach a lot of false doctrine. And tonight I want to just
highlight four misconceptions of the Ten Commandments and what is it that the Bible
actually says regarding them. Now, before I get into that, let me just mention here that
when the Bible talks about the Ten Commandments, it's used synonymously with the covenant, okay?
And in fact, look once again at verse 13, he says, "And he declared unto you," what? "His covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments," okay? You say, why is that
significant? Well, because of the fact that if it's talking about the covenant or unto you his
covenant, it's referring to the Old Covenant. The Old Testament, as we mentioned this morning,
it's used synonymously with the Ten Commandments. You say, well, if it's synonymous with the Ten
Commandments and we're in the New Testament, does that mean that the Ten Commandments no longer
apply to the New Testament since that which is in the Old Covenant has been done away with? We're
going to cover that in just a bit. But the second thing I want to mention to you, aside from the
fact that it's synonymous with the covenant, is that it's written in two tables of stone written
with the finger of God. And this is essentially referring to when Moses went up to Mount Sinai
for 40 days and 40 nights and received instructions of the Lord regarding his statutes
and commandments. And God literally wrote his commandments with his own finger
on two tables of stone. Let me read to you from Deuteronomy 10 and verse number four. It says,
"And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the 10 commandments, which the
Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly,
and the Lord gave them unto me." Exodus 34 and verse 27 says, "The Lord said unto Moses,
'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee
and with Israel.' And he was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights. He did neither eat bread
nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the 10 commandments."
So we see here that it's obviously referring to those two tables of stone that would eventually
be placed into the ark of the covenant when the nation of Israel would move from place to place
as a reminder of the precepts and statutes of the Lord. Now go to Exodus chapter 20, if you would,
Exodus chapter 20. We're going to look at just the mention here of the 10 commandments that's
found in Exodus chapter 20. And let me go ahead and just start off with the misconceptions
regarding the 10 commandments that it's important for us to understand what's being referred to here.
Misconception number one. And this is a major misconception that there are only 10 commandments.
You're like, how can people believe that? Well, because they don't know the Bible,
right? And so a lot of times people think, oh, do you keep the 10 commandments?
But here's the thing is that the Bible is filled with hundreds and hundreds of commandments.
In the Old Testament alone, you add upon that the new commandments that Jesus Christ brought in the
new covenant. I mean, it's just hundreds of more commandments, right? So a lot of people out there
think, "Well, there's only 10. There's only 10 that you have to keep." Well, let's just say there
was only 10. You still can't even keep those 10, right? But, you know, when you actually read the
Bible, you see that there's not just 10. There's hundreds of them. The 10 commandments are actually
an abridgment of all of God's moral commandments saved the command to keep the Sabbath.
The book of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are essentially, or they possess
the expansion of those commandments. In other words, you have the 10 commandments being given
in two tables of stone, but then in the rest of the books, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,
it's an expansion. It brings clarity. It gives you specific scenarios wherewith you can execute
those particular statutes and judgments. So even though the 10 commandments gives you just one
statement, there's like a subset categories of each of those commandments. And a good way to view
this is that, you know, the 10 commandments can be viewed like a table of contents in a book,
right? When you look at a book, you open it up, you see the table of contents. It's essentially
giving you the overall picture of what the book is about, right? But within each of those chapters,
you have content, you have things written, the details of that particular chapter. Does that
make sense to everyone? And so the 10 commandments can be viewed as that table of contents that gives
you just the general statement of what God requires, but then the rest of the Levitical law actually
expounds upon, gives examples of ways to actually obey those commandments, okay? Now, let me give
you an example of this. You're in Exodus chapter 20. Oh, actually, before I get into that, let me
also say that when the Bible talks about the commandments, the law, the Old Covenant, that's
a very general statement, right? And it really depends what we're talking about in order to get
the context of it. It really depends on what exactly we're referring to, because we can say,
well, God's laws, right? And just essentially just refer to the Bible in general. Or we could
talk about God's law referring to the Old Covenant. And if you really want to get specific, you could
say God's laws referring to moral laws, purity laws, civil laws, dietary laws, and even the
instructions that God gave for the construction of the tabernacle in the Old Testament. So when
the Bible talks about when someone says the law, it's almost like, what exactly are you talking
about? Because the law could just be referring to God's statutes. Even the words of Jesus Christ
can be considered the law per se, because those are the statutes of the Lord. It's what he's
decreeing forth, you understand? But when we talk about the Old Testament, it's really broken down
into those categories, dietary laws, purity laws, moral laws, civil laws, instructions about the
tabernacle. Now look at Exodus chapter 20, where we find the Ten Commandments. And you say, why is
that important to note? That there are only ten, you know, that people make that claim that there
are only Ten Commandments. Well, because when you read the actual Ten Commandments themselves,
and you look at just the general statement that's made, you can see how people can
misconstrue these things and kind of make up their own, you know, subcategories of what it's referring
to. For example, look at verse 13. This is a very, this is one that pretty much everyone knows about.
It says what? Thou shalt not kill. Now that's pretty self-explanatory, right? Don't take other
people's lives. Don't, you know, God obviously upholds the sanctity of life. He doesn't want
people killing other people and taking other people's lives. But you know what? It's important
for the Bible to expound upon what exactly that means. Why? Well, because of the fact that there's
other portions of the Bible in the Old Testament that sanction the death penalty for those who
merit death. And when we talk about that, we preach about that, people who don't know the Bible
will often point to us and say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why are you saying that? The Bible says,
'Thou shalt not kill.'" Okay? So they would say that it's wrong to impose the death penalty
upon someone who murders, kidnaps, commits sodomy, things of that nature. And they're like,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a second. I thought the Bible says, 'Thou shalt not kill.'" And the
answer is, yes, of course the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." But we need to look at the
expansion of that law. We need to look at what the Bible actually says regarding the subcategory
of that commandment to understand what that means. Because the Bible's not going to contradict itself.
If he's telling us, "Thou shalt not kill," in one portion, and then in another portion it says,
"They shall be stoned to death," those aren't contradictions. What that means is that "Thou
shalt not kill" obviously has a specific definition that doesn't include the death penalty when a
person merits it. You say, "Well, what does 'Thou shalt not kill' mean?" Well, really, in the Bible,
the New Testament explains to us what that means, which is murder, premeditated murder at that.
Now, hold your place there. Actually, go to chapter 21, if you would, chapter 21, and look at verse
number 12, because he essentially gets right into it. He says in verse number 12, "He that smiteth a
man so that he die shall surely be put to death." Now, if someone's smiting a man, they're essentially
referring to the fact that they mean harm, okay? They are essentially violating that person. They're
killing them with their bare hands, and if they kill them, the person in the violation is worthy
of death according to the Bible, and it goes on to say in verse 13, "And if a man lie not in wait,
but God deliver him into his hand, then I will point thee a place where he shall flee."
So, it's making a distinction here, right? It's saying if a person purposely begins to beat a man
to the point where he takes his life, that, according to the Bible, is considered premeditated
murder. It's murder. But if a person doesn't lie in wait, in other words, he didn't have the
intention of killing this person, it's an accident that happens. That would, in modern times, be
considered what? Manslaughter, right? At which point, God actually prescribes a city of refuge
for that person to flee to so that the revenger of blood doesn't catch him and kill him, okay?
And you say, "Well, what does that mean exactly?" Well, you know, accidents happen sometimes,
you know? And if someone takes another person's life, not because they hated them or they wanted
to kill them, it's just an accident that took place, you know, obviously God sees both sides
of the story. He understands that this person did not intend to take that person's life,
but he also understands that the person who's related to the person who died is going to be
very angry over the fact that you killed this person, even if it's on accident. And the natural
result of that is that the family member, friend, whatever it is, will want revenge. So what God
prescribes the cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, and they'll be safe and protected from
the slayer. However, if the person decides to leave the city of refuge and the slayer catches
him and kills him, well, that's his fault, according to the Bible. Okay. In fact, look at verse 14 says,
"But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, thou shall take him from
my altar, that he may die." Go to Numbers chapter 35, Numbers chapter 35. So we see an example of
here of a difference between killing someone on accident, even though it's still bad, God still
creates a solution. He prescribes the cities of refuge, but he doesn't prescribe the death penalty
for manslaughter if the person did not come upon him unawares. However, if a person, you know,
determines or in a heat of passion smites someone, beats them and kills them, he does prescribe the
death penalty. And if he comes upon him presumptuously, he premeditates that murder,
then obviously he is put to death. So when the Bible talks about thou shall not kill,
this is exactly what it's talking about. Okay. Now look at numbers 35 verse 15. It says these six
cities shall be a refuge both for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner
among them that everyone that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. And if he smite him
with an instrument of iron so that he die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to
death. And if he smite him with a throwing a stone, wherewith he may die and he died,
he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with the hand weapon
of wood, wherewith he may die and he die, he is a murderer. The murder shall surely be put to death.
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer. When he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
So in these days, police didn't really exist to bring someone to justice. Who is the justice? The
people. And so he's basically saying, look, the way capital punishments were carried out was by
the people themselves. It says there, the revenger of blood, the family member, the husband,
the brother, the nephew, whoever's related to that particular person, you know, they have their
sanction or deputized to slay the murderer who took the life of their family member,
whatever it may be. God says that that is permissible and that does not violate the
command in Exodus chapter 20, thou shall not kill because this is obviously the exception.
It's not considered murder. It's considered justice. Okay. He says in verse 20, but if you
thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by lying of weight that he die or if enmity or an enmity
smite him with his hand that he died. He that smote him shall surely be put to death for he
is a murderer. The revenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meted them. And if he thrust
him suddenly without enmity or have cast upon him anything without lying of weight or with any stone
or with a man may die, seen him not and cast upon him that he died and was not his enemy,
neither sought his harm, then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger
of blood according to these judgments and the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the
hand of the revenger of blood so on and so forth. He's basically saying you know if you have a
situation where maybe questions arise but it doesn't seem as though the person had any
ulterior motive to kill the person the the victim well then at that point you bring them before the
congregation of the judge and they have to do uh inquiry they have to investigate and if they find
him innocent they realize this guy had no enmity he didn't hate the guy he didn't try to kill him
okay at that point send him to the city of refuge so that no harm comes upon him for this accident
that took place okay the point that i'm making here is that when the ten commandments say thou
shall not kill that's not just a blanket statement for anyone who dies at the hand of any person
because there's certain instances where taking someone life someone's life is justified it's
permissible in the eyes of god and in fact go to exodus 22 exodus chapter 22 let's let's show you
an example of this exodus chapter 22 so the misconception is oh there's only 10 commandments
not necessarily there's 10 chapters quote unquote in the table of contents but you actually got to
read the chapter to get the details and the expansion of that law lest you should disobey
the lord and not put people to death when they're supposed to be put to death okay look what it says
in exodus 22 verse 1 if a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it he shall restore
five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep in other words you know if someone steals something
they don't deserve the death penalty okay so yeah the bible says thou shall not steal but the
punishment for theft is not the death penalty it's restoration okay restitution verse 2 says if a
thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die there shall no blood be shed for him so
notice that it says not a murderer but a thief so if a thief is breaking up meaning he's breaking
into someone's house or someone's tabernacle or tent or whatever you know whatever they had at
that time and you know the dad just sees a shadow and just beats the living daylights out of him
because he's protecting his family the bible says that the person who kills the man even though
he's a thief he's not going to die for that he's not going to receive the death penalty even though
the bible does not prescribe the death penalty for thieves and even though he killed the thief
he does not put to death why 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 he have nothing then he shall
be sold for his staff so what is the implication here the implication is that if a man is breaking
into your tent and the son be risen upon him meaning what you can see what he's up to he's
taking your camel he's taking you know your resources you can plainly see the crime that
is being committed and you still decide to take his life well at that point then you're going to
suffer the punishment of the death penalty because you took someone's life unjustly because they
stole something from you you said what is the difference between that and verse number two
well verse number two based upon the sun being risen up in verse number three implies that
a man is breaking into someone's house maybe at night and you know obviously in the world in which
we live there's we have lights and you know sensor lights whatever but in these days it's just when
it's nighttime it's nighttime there's no lights that are out so if you have a man breaking into
your house you don't know what they're up to you don't know if they're trying to rape kill if they
have some nefarious agenda to harm your children and so the husband or the head of the household
is acting as a protector and you know he's thinking this person's breaking into my house
at night he's going to protect his family and even though the man is only seeking to
steal something if his life is taken the person who kills him is not held responsible for his
death because he didn't know however if the sun is risen upon him god expects for that person
to bring him to justice so that he can repay him that which he stole does that make sense to
everyone so obviously we're not going to go through all the commandments and all the details of each
commandment i'm just giving you one example to show how important it is to know the expansion
of each commandment because if someone just tells you well the bible says thou shalt not steal or
something okay well what are the details of that though you know the bible says thou shalt not kill
though how can it be before the death penalty how can it be for people being put to death for this
particular crime or another if the bible says thou shalt not kill well that's because the expansion
of thou shalt not kill needs to be read needs to be understood in order to carry out god's law
appropriately okay so there's obviously more than 10 commandments there are sub commandments to those
10 the 10 commandments is essentially the overall thought of god's standard of morality okay now go
with me if you would to roman chapter 3 the roman chapter 3 if you would so misconception number one
there's only 10 commandments wrong there's not obviously the 10 commandments is essentially the
overall arching theme of god's morality and really at the end of the day it's only nine of those 10
that are the moral commandments right we'll get to one of those in just a bit because it's another
misconception but there's far more commandments there's hundreds of commandments which is
important that's why it's important to understand the laws of god misconception number two
regarding the 10 commandments we have to keep the 10 commandments in order to be saved this is a major
misconception amongst many christians and in fact you know you have a lot of these workspace
salvationists they're not going to go out just and tell you that that's what you have to do
but that's what they imply okay you say well how do you know well because ray comfor for example
when he's out there evangelizing he'll often spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the
ten commandments in god's laws i mean just like probably like 70 of his gospel presentation and
i'm being generous okay no actually i'm not being generous it's probably more than that okay is
focused on the law you know because he has this philosophy that you got to get them like really
lost before you know you can get them saved but here's the thing is that everyone's lost
you don't got to get them lost they're already lost and so what he typically does when he gives
his gospel presentation which is a false gospel he'll spend all this time talking about how
they're adulterers they're drunkards they're liars they're fornicators they deserve hell
and look obviously that stuff is true right people are sinners who deserve hell but let's
just be honest with you let's just be honest uh with each other the vast majority of people
already know that like even if you told someone you're a sinner most people would agree we don't
have to like you know dig into their private life and say you know you know how you lust
you know how you drink and you're a drunkard are you living in holiness you know and that's
this is what he does he just hammers this and the sad thing about it is that like he not only gets
them lost i mean he almost makes them to the point where they just can never be found because after
he like just hammers that point then he brings in this repent of your sins false gospel where he
says that they have to turn from their sin in order to be saved okay so the 10 commandments
obviously using in your gospel presentation is essentially a thinly veiled workspace salvation
you don't have to go through all the commandments in order to convince someone that they're a sinner
i mean most of the time when i'm preaching the gospel i just say you know for example the bible
says we shouldn't lie but i'll be honest i've lied many times because i'm not perfect would you agree
do you've done the same and 99.9 percent of the time people will be like i've lied too yeah for sure
you know it would require like a very proud arrogant ray comfort type because he's he stated
in his gospel presentation when he's witnessing like he doesn't do any of that stuff because you
know he's repented of all that because he lives in holiness apparently but you know he's he's
violating the command to bear false witness because he's lying so the 10 commandments are no longer
used to signify our need for a savior but rather they become like a marker for salvation like are
you keeping these commandments and if you're not keeping these commandments you're not saved because
in order to get saved you have to keep these commandments well he's not saying you have to
keep these commandments yeah but by saying you have to repent of your sins you're saying you
have to keep the commandments because sin listen to this is the transgression of the law so implying
that if you have to repent of your sins you have to keep the law to be saved they're not going to
go out outright and tell you that but that's what it means now look at roman chapter three verse 19
it says here regarding the law now we know that what things so ever the law sayeth it sayeth to
them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
god therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight just kidding rey
comfor can get justified oh it says no flesh will be justified in his sight why for by the law is the
knowledge of sin so god intended for the law to help you to realize that you're a sinner now look
at verse 27 wherefore is boasting where is boasting then it is is it excluded by what law of works nay
but by the law of faith therefore we conclude and i love that word there conclude what does that mean
this is the conclusion of the matter okay this is the end of this discussion is what he's saying
therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law i still think
you got to keep the law to be saved we can think that all you want but you're going to think that
all the way to hell though because no man can keep the law perfectly and the reality is this if
anybody believes you have to keep the law to be saved they have a very low view of god's perfect
standard because they think that oh i have to keep the law but then five minutes later they say well
i know that no one's perfect well then you can't keep the law then because an imperfect
imperfect people are the only people that can't keep the law and the only one who is perfect is
the lord jesus christ now go to go to galatians chapter three if you would galatians chapter three
why are you turning i'm going to read to you from galatians chapter two and verse 16 it says knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of jesus christ even we have
believed in jesus christ that we might be justified by the faith of christ and not by the works of the
law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified i mean just kind of being redundant
here but it's there's a reason why it has to be redundant and isn't it interesting that the bible
so redundant regarding salvation but yet people don't seem to understand it i mean he's literally
saying you're not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of jesus christ we might
be justified by the faith of jesus christ not by the works of the law for by the works of the law
shall no flesh be justified and it's just like oh yeah for sure we got to keep the law to be
saved then look at galatians 321 is the law then against the promises of god you know because you
have people also are you saying we don't have to keep the law are you saying that it's not like
right to keep the law well it says here is the law then against the promises of god
god forbid and i want you to notice this for if there had been a law given which could have given
life verily righteousness should have been by the law now what does that tell us it tells us that
even when the law was given in the old testament it was still not intended to give life that means
people were not saved by keeping the law in the old testament so when the law was first imposed
upon the people in the old testament moses wasn't saying hey keep this so you can be saved because
if the law if if righteousness excuse me if the law if there had been a law given which could have
given life then righteousness should have been by the law and not by faith understand now that's
very important for the dispensationalist because they believe that people were saved differently
throughout the ages and they literally believe that keeping the animal sacrifices keeping the
laws of god in the old testament is what saved people but wrong there is no long give given
they should have given life because literally listen to me the very nature and essence of the
law is to kill that's literally what the law is intended for the law was never intended to give
people life it was never it's literally intended to slay people to kill people and in fact the new
testament listen to me refers to the law as the ministration of death it ministers death it slays
the soul it slays the spirit is what it does never intended to give life it says in verse 22
but the scripture has concluded all under sin you know because they've all transgressed the laws of
god that the promise by faith of jesus christ might be given to them that obey the law no that
believe but before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterward
be revealed wherefore the law was our school master to bring us unto christ that we might be
justified by faith the law in general is there to help you to realize that you can't save yourself
you know yeah you might be somewhat in general an honest person you might be a person who doesn't
steal you don't commit adultery you don't murder you don't necessarily lie all the time but here's
the thing folks there's not adjustment upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not you say yeah but
i've kept all of those commandments i try not to lie yeah but you probably lied one time in your
life and let's just be on way more than once okay and you took a paper clip that didn't belong to
you okay and let's let's just let's just pretend for a second that you know you've you've just
never lied you've never stolen you've never murdered you've never committed adultery you
don't have any gods before him you know you kept generally all those commandments well everyone
has at least coveted in their heart something that didn't belong to them even if you didn't
verbalize it there's no way around the laws it's what the bible is telling us here okay because
no one is god other than jesus christ the godhead god the father god the son god the holy spirit
you see the only one who can keep the laws the man who made the law okay and so the law is our
school master to bring us unto christ he said well pastor you know i know of a story though in the
bible isn't there a story in the bible where jesus christ told someone like to keep the commandments
you know in order to be saved what about that well let's look at that go to matthew chapter 19
matthew chapter 19 and by the way this is a very common scripture that ray comforter will bring up
in order to prove that you got to keep the commandments in order to be saved okay
you know i live in holiness do you covet do you lie you know are you are you a drunkard and you
know i just want to if i was like one of those people i want to be like you know what i'm not
perfect but at least i'm not a false prophet though because you're committing some of the most
grievous sins because you're teaching a false gospel according to the bible if any if anyone
teaches a false gospel let him be accursed so the bible says okay look at matthew 19 verse 16
and behold one came and said it's him good master what good thing shall i do that i may have
eternal life and he said it's him why call us down me good there is none good but one that is god
but if thou will what enter into life keep the commandments he saith unto him which jesus said
thou shall do no murder thou shall not commit adultery thou shall not steal thou shall not bear
false witness honor thy father and thy mother and thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself now i want
you to notice his response the young man saith unto him all these things have i kept from my youth
though what lack i yet now obviously he just bore false witness about himself because an honest
person who's not filled with pride would not say i've kept all these from my youth up what lack i
saw you know anybody who's actually sincere would say okay i've broken some of those commandments
for sure but he's convinced or at least he's trying to convince jesus that he's kept all
these commandments right he said what else do i lack verse 21 jesus said unto him if that will
be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shall have treasure in heaven
and come and follow me so notice that what jesus says is this he says sell your possessions and
you'll be saved sell your possessions and you'll have eternal life no he says sell your possessions
and you have treasure in heaven so really jesus never gives him an answer of how to have eternal
life and the reason for that is because jesus knows that this person is not trusting in christ
he's trusting in his riches because look what it says verse 22 but when the young man heard that
saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions then said jesus unto his disciples
verily i say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven and again i'm
saying to you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of god the parallel passage says it's easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a man excuse me it's easier for the camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god and it says because he trusts in his riches
he's placing his faith in his riches and this is still common even today where you'll talk to
people who are very affluent they have a lot of money a lot of possessions you know just a lot
of wealth and they are the hardest people to witness to it's almost it's almost as if you
would have an easier time putting a camel through the eye of a needle than getting that person saved
why because the nature of the beast is that when a person is wealthy they trust in their riches
more than they trust in god okay and look folks when we go to the rich neighborhoods we don't see
a whole lot of fruit in the rich neighborhoods okay you're not gonna see a whole lot of fruit
where the wealthy people live why because to them they already have everything that they need
you know they got themselves that wealth or whatever it may be so they're placing their
faith in their riches in unrighteous mammon rather than in god and this is why the bible
tells us and directs us to go preach the gospel to the poor because people who are not wealthy
people who do not have money are more likely to hear the gospel to listen to it to believe it
because they don't really have much okay so this is not god's this is not jesus christ you know
little one two three step of how to get someone saved by using the law this is a passage to
indicate that people trust in their riches okay and of course he quoted the law to kind of tell
him like do this and you shall live and then obviously by doing so he's exposing that the
rich young ruler was not you know he was prideful enough that he basically believed that he kept all
the laws of God from his youth up okay now go with me if you would to go to Romans chapter 2
Romans chapter 2 so misconception number two is that we have to keep the 10 commandments in order
to be saved that's completely 100 impossible to do and you know if you could keep all you know all
the commandments you're basically Jesus you're basically on par with the Lord Jesus Christ if
you're able to keep all of God's commandments okay but obviously no one is capable of doing so
righteousness cannot come by the law if it could come by getting saved through the law then there's
no need for Jesus Christ to have come 2 000 years ago to sacrifice himself because the the main reason
why Jesus came to sacrifice himself is because we can't keep the law so they say well we have to
keep the law in order to be saved then why did Jesus come just is that just like another addition
to keeping the law if we could keep the law perfectly then there's no need for Christ the
reason there's a need for Jesus is because of the fact that we are all condemned under the law
misconception number three okay and this is a major misconception of the ten commandments
misconception number three because the Sabbath was the fourth commandment it should still be
kept okay that's a major misconception because you know a lot of people say we got to keep the
ten commandments it's God's moral law and then you have these Sabbath keepers these Hebrew roots
types that will say well do you believe in the ten commandments and obviously we're going to say yes
it was okay then you should be keeping the Sabbath then because they that's like their wild card
right like we should keep the ten we should keep the Sabbath because it's found within the ten
commandments and since we need to keep the ten commandments the Sabbath is included in those
ten commandments therefore you should be keeping that command but wrong no not true okay and here's
a good way to interpret the Bible and that is if something is not specifically repealed in the New
Testament it should be kept right it should be observed and that which has been repealed will
tell us in the New Testament so nowhere in the New Testament does it say murder is now permissible
sodomy is now permissible you know theft is permissible and God doesn't necessarily need to
reiterate those things because obviously the Bible has told us that in the Old Testament but
thankfully in the New Testament we do have multiple instances where God's moral law is being
reinforced and we have many instances where the Bible shows us that Christians aren't keeping the
Sabbath. So based upon the example of believers that are part of New Testament churches not keeping
the Sabbath along with scriptures such as Colossians chapter two we see that the Sabbath is no longer
is no longer to be kept. Yeah but it's part of the Ten Commandments. Okay but it's one of the ten
that we no longer have to keep. Plain and simple. No that's not the way it works. Yes it is the way
it works and in fact if you studied the New Testament you'll never find the phrase ten
commandments. We found it multiple times in the Old Testament where it's laid out as ten commandments
but in the New Testament it's literally never found. Okay now where do I have you turn go skip
Romans 2 for now and go to Romans 13. We'll come back to Romans 2 in just a bit because I want to
show you something real quick. Now you know a great thing about the New Testament is that you'll have
people always quoting the Old Testament laws of morality right. I mean we just saw an example of
Jesus Christ saying thou shalt not kill thou shalt not murder thou shalt not bear false witness
talking about the law right. Now I want to do something real quick and that is I want to let's
just pretend we're heretics just just for just a little bit let's let's pretend we just don't know
any Bible whatsoever and let's just believe we have to keep the Sabbath okay. Let's just pretend
the Bible teaches that we have to keep the Sabbath okay like we're in complete violation right now
because we're meeting this is the mark of the beast okay the Sunday is the mark of the beast
or whatever you know whatever they say about Sunday and you know let's say we're in just complete
violation what the Bible says we missed it yesterday but from here on out we're gonna you know next
Saturday we're we're being Sabbath keepers corn flakes and all okay and let's say you know we
believe because I believe that we have to for sure observe nine of those ten commandments because
those are moral laws like I'm gonna observe the command not to murder okay I hope you do too
let's just pretend that we just come to this epiphany that we have to keep the Sabbath we're
just like oh man we've been in violation of this for so long what are we gonna do because since our
church started in 2017 we have not observed the Sabbath right I hope none has anybody here observed
the Sabbath since 2017 okay yeah we're all screwed you know just seven years and we haven't done it
but it's okay though it's okay though I got you okay because let's again let's just pretend the
Bible teaches that we have to keep the Sabbath even in the New Testament let's read verse eight
here oh no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another has fulfilled the law
for this thou shall not commit adultery thou shall not kill thou shall not steal thou shall
not bear false witness thou shall not covet and if there be any other commandments it is briefly
comprehended in this saying namely thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself love worketh no ill
to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law so guess what if you love one another
we've already fulfilled the Sabbath if we believe we have to keep it so someone says hey you have
to keep the Sabbath well i i just kind of kept every commandment because i just love my neighbor
because here's the cheat code to keeping all of commandments just love your neighbor and you keep
all the commandments no no that doesn't count you actually have to observe the Sabbath no it actually
says here that if i don't want to if i want to obey the command to not kill not steal not bear
false witness and instead of having to go through the entire list i could just love my neighbor and
the bible says that i basically fulfill the entire law now obviously i don't believe you have to keep
the Sabbath that's not a new testament thing but i'm just saying like let's say for example if we
did it would already be fulfilled since we're loving our neighbor and love worketh no ill now
the second thing i want to mention regarding this passage of scripture is it isn't it interesting
that it goes through this list of 10 commandments and there's one commandment is actually missing
that people talk about all the time and that is remember the Sabbath because he says thou shall
not kill thou shall not steal thou shall not bear false witness thou shall not covet if there be
any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely thou shall love thy neighbor
as thyself you know one commandment is not mentioned there is remember the Sabbath you know
why because the Sabbath was a symbol a shadow of things to come and if this included the Sabbath
that would be weird because loving my neighbor is not a way to or keeping the Sabbath is not
a way to express my love for my neighbor right and so God's laws should be kept unless they
were specifically repealed in the New Testament and the Sabbath was repealed in the New Testament
and in fact in the New Testament Jesus Christ is our Sabbath because the very intention of the
Sabbath of the Old Testament is to demonstrate that all people had to rest right and if anybody
did not rest on that specific day they were put to death and it's supposed to symbolize salvation
because of the fact that when Jesus Christ died he went to hell for three days and three nights
he did all the work so that we can rest in him rest in that salvation. Go to Colossians chapter
two Colossians chapter two if you would Colossians chapter two another thing I want to mention
regarding that is that you know the new testament talks about the works of the flesh are made
manifest adultery fornication drunkenness notice it doesn't say violation of Sabbath that's weird
hey if we're supposed to keep the Sabbath and if we don't keep the Sabbath that's a transgression
of the law why doesn't Galatians chapter five mention that and it's not the only place where
it lists grievous sins and in fact when Jesus Christ is listing grievous sins he doesn't mention
you know violating the Sabbath why because it's not a thing anymore in the New Testament
and even in Jesus Christ's day when he's nearing the conclusion of the Old Covenant he's not
necessarily imposing the Sabbath because it's going to be done away with eventually look at
Colossians chapter two if you would in verse 14 it says here 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 his 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 in meat or in drink or
in respect of it holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days why which are a shadow of things
to come but the bodies of christ and there's people out there that interpret this to mean
what am i saying don't let people judge you for observing the Sabbath but that would be nonsensical
since it's who's being addressed the church of colossi which are not jews they are gentile
believers and so when he says in verse 16 let no man therefore judge you in meat he's saying you
know if these judaizers seek to infiltrate your church telling you you can't eat shrimp telling
you you can't eat certain seafoods you can't eat catfish you can't eat bacon can't eat sausage
don't let anybody judge you about that because we're in the new testament and it's a okay to
eat the swine okay orange drink or respect of a holy day referring to you know the feast days
he says the new moon or sabbath days and it doesn't say oh except for you know the fourth
commandment and the ten commandments no it says sabbath for a reason my friends okay which are a
shadow of things to come but the bodies of christ and you know people say yeah well there's multiple
instances in the book of acts where people have kept the sabbath no there's not it drives me
bananas when people say that like all the disciples kept the sabbath in the book of acts
and what are they referring to they're referring to when they go somewhere on the sabbath because
the sabbath in the book of acts is often used as an increment of time of when they went somewhere
to kind of let you know they went on saturday you understand what i'm saying and even then
it's like okay you know if that's what you want to use as proof that they're observing the sabbath
you're actually using an example of them violating the sabbath because they weren't supposed to go
anywhere what are you doing but you know what you know this is a judaizing tactic to try to
bring people back under the law and not even under the law god's moral law they're trying to bring
people back under the meats drinks diverse washings and cardinal ordinances these old testament
dietary ritual purity ordinances they're imposed upon people that actually are supposed to
symbolize jesus christ so they in a sense they are basically just completely undermining jesus
christ by making people observe those laws because the reason we don't is because we
already have the fulfillment of those laws which is jesus that's why we don't observe the sabbath
because we have jesus you understand what i'm saying but then they're like oh no no no we have
to keep observing the laws basically they're undermining jesus and they don't recognize him
and you say well i think they actually recognize him then why don't they call him jesus then why
don't they call him jesus then why do they call him all these weird names these heber roots names
that are not in the bible and then when you talk about jesus they're like well jesus the name
jesus not even in the bible actually i was like have you read the bible well it's not in the
original hebrew well yeah because the new testament is written in greek thanks for coming crazy
people are like well that's not his actual name in the original hebrew he was actually called
something how do you know how do you know if the new testament is written in greek and the new
testament rendition the greek new testament rendition is isis which sounds like jesus what
sounds like in spanish jesus right not whatever the ha ha ha ha ha ha ha whatever you know and
here's the thing folks people who ascribe to those names often have a lot of false doctrine
they often have a false salvation a false gospel teach false doctrine they want people to keep the
sabbath they just undermine the lord jesus christ they want to blow the shofar and you know and
here's the thing look i love the torah but i just call it the bible anytime someone comes to me and
they're just like we're torah observers i'm like i'm a bible observer and so if you're only a torah
observer you don't know the bible because there's only five books out of the bible only five books
well i'm a sabbath keeper well i'm not a sabbath keeper i'm a jesus keeper you know i believe in
the lord jesus christ therefore i don't need to keep the sabbath okay i don't need to wear prayer
shawl and you know have a phylactery and enlarge the borders of my garments you know and and call
you know uh the apostle paul rabbi paul that's like a big thing i'm not into that stuff you say why
because that's called judaizing i'm here to christianize not judaize i want to be christianized
not judaized well what do you got against the jews i don't have anything against the jews
especially if they're believing jews right and i'm following in the footsteps of the apostle paul
who was a jew and he's telling me beware of the judaizers because judaizer is actually in the
original language that's the word he used actually to describe people who are trying to get people to
live like as the jews the word that he used this is there is actually judaizer that's his concept
that he put there inspired by the holy ghost romans 2 verse 14 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 why does the ten commandments resonate with all of humanity
or at least nine of the ten is because of the fact that the law is written in their hearts
and you can go to any civilization and they will have some law about murder they'll have some law
about theft they'll have some law about adultery but you know one law they'll never have is the
sabbath they'll be like what is that i don't know what that is because that wasn't written in the
hearts of men god's moral law was written and it doesn't include the sabbath the sabbath is not a
moral thing my friends now when people were in the old testament though you know if we're old
testament christians or old testament believers yeah we would definitely be sabbath keepers but
you know because we actually read the bible we would know like one day this will cease and we're
waiting for a redeemer okay to come and actually become the fulfillment of all of these so just
keep that in mind you know the laws of god are to be kept unless it's specifically repealed in the
new testament okay and so they're to be observed they're to be kept and you know you see this
throughout the new testament the new testament still reinforces nine of those ten commandments
to not have any other gods before him idolatry right you know not to take the lord's name in
vain you say well where's that in the new testament well here's the thing god doesn't
really have to put a commandment or reinforce that commandment in the new testament to not take the
lord's name in vain it's just that he expects people to have common sense to not take the
lord's name in vain and by the way let me just let me just park it here for a second and just
say you know saying oh my god that's taking the lord's name in vain if you're shocked you're
scared or something threw you off and you say and i'm just using this as an example okay i'm not
this is not me doing i'm just using it if you say jesus christ that's taking the lord's name in vain
oh my god that's taking the lord's name in vain okay you know even if you don't mean it if your
intentions or your motives are pure or whatever it doesn't matter still taking the lord's name in
vain take your own name in vain leave the lord's name out of it okay you know take your eye what i
do let me let me tell you what i do i take my soul's my soul in vain i always say oh my soul
i'm talking about my soul okay and you know we're fairly i don't want to say we're a new church but
we're a young church and so you know sometimes people don't know this so it's important to like
mention this you know saying oh my god or using the name of jesus christ as profanity or an
expletive or you know because you're shocked you just say god this or whatever or using it along
with a you know a cuss word of some sort that's taking the lord's name in vain okay so change your
lingo and you know you're like well i'm gonna graduate to gosh then that's a little too close
to god though you know what i'm saying well you know i just think it's it's a better way of saying
it just don't just don't say it at all just don't be shocked how about that just don't let things
take you to catch you off guard okay and i'm just using this as an example i'm trying to help people
here because you know and here's the thing if you're sitting here like oh man i've done that
before you know i'm kind of guilty of that i'm not mad at you or anything but it's just people
have to learn though okay if you're rejoicing or you got scared or you got shocked or something
or you're just excited you know do not take the lord's name in vain that is an old testament law
and it has not been repealed in the new testament and the reason it's not reinforced in the new
testament is just because it requires common sense to not use the lord's name in vain
understand what i'm saying okay um and i can just kind of go through the list here but i'm not i'm
not going to i don't have enough time to to cover all these adultery is reinforced in the new
testament theft is reinforced in the new testament bearing false witness coveting all these things
are reinforced and and you'll find commandments in the new testament to reinforce all of those
things but one you don't find is keeping the Sabbath you'll never find an example of that
and it just it just fades out after a while and in fact the only people who are keeping the Sabbath
in the new testament are a bunch of unsaved Jews that's it all right last one here go to
roman chapter 6 and we're done misconceptions about the 10 commandments lastly the 10 commandments
should not be kept today now the first one the one previous to this is like people who
are just kind of over excessive to the point where they say well we got to keep the Sabbath
but then you have another crowd which is more so like the liberal crowd the non-denom crowd
that is just like doesn't want to hear about God's laws at all okay you know we preach against
sodomy bestiality incest things that the Bible talks about or or you know cross dressing and
people are like well dude that's Old Testament though we're not under the law bro look at Romans
6 verse 14 for sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace
now what is the context here the context is this it's not saying that you are just free to just
cross-dress when it says you're not under the law but under grace it's in context of the fact that
sin doesn't have dominion over you because the person whom sin has dominion over the natural
man receives the wages of sin but if we're saved we're under grace we don't receive the penalty of
that the eternal penalty of hell okay and he says for verse 15 what then shall we sin because we
are not under the law but under grace god forbid so if he forbids us to sin that means he's
encouraging us to keep god's laws because the keeping of the law is that you're not transgressing
the laws of god so we should not use our liberty as an occasion to the flesh and folks in the day
and age in which we live not only should we be keeping god's laws we should also be proclaiming
god's laws and telling this wicked sinful world god's standard so preach against murder preach
against adultery preach against sodomy preach preach against bestiality so why is that even
a thing it will be it will be preach against incest preach against polygamy oh man is that
thing actually yeah it's starting to become a thing yeah the the throuples or whatever
whatever you call those people who are just like a dude getting with two chicks or something they're
like living together and they're just they're a couple or a throuple or whatever you call it
you know it's not even a word for it because it shouldn't exist but the bible says that that's
wicked it's vile it's wicked it's an abomination it's not god's design i don't care what andrew
tate and all of these migtal weirdos are saying it's not god's design god's intention for mankind
is for one man and one woman to marry till death do impart and not to have interference by any
foreign individual man or woman okay stop watching andrew tate the guy is a pervert he's a weirdo
he is you know and he's he's deceiving all these young guys into thinking that he's like super
manly but the guy's a sex trafficker he's super wicked he's gonna split hell wide open i don't
care if he says the right things every once in a while broken clock always is right twice a day
and you know what the devil spoke scripture so or should we follow him too or what don't just like
give credence to every single person that says the right thing and think they're just like a
fundamental baptist or something because they're just so godly because they took a stance on
something right you know ryan garcia was on x earlier this week and he was saying some stuff
that i was just you know i was kind of hearting some of those comments you know about the the
olympics he was using some language i'm like hey this sounds like new ip stuff right here
but you know he's not safe though and i don't endorse ryan garcia i just i just agree with
what he said there you understand but obviously someone like andrew tate who's actually involved
in human sex trafficking should not be supported or listened to or adhered to anything that he says
and obviously some of the truth that he does say he says in order to reel some of you guys in
into his wicked philosophies and wicked ideologies that he just puts down women
they're just subservient they're lesser in essence don't listen to that garbage okay
it's nonsense to go it's stupid and and men of god should not be listening to that crap
the point that i'm making here is that yeah god's commandments should be kept they should be kept
they should be upheld they should be exalted we should tell people about them explain to god
explain to people what god expects of them regarding their morality and not just have this
attitude well we're under grace you know we're not under the law but under grace that doesn't mean
we don't keep god's laws jesus christ died on the cross he didn't die on the cross so you can just
go out and murder people and steal and kill and cross dress and commit sodomy that did not give
permission for people to do stuff like that it's a weird mentality to have that type of that that
type of ideology that says well just don't judge anybody okay let's just throw the laws of god out
then you know why did god even you know provide these laws you know it's important for us to
promote that incest is wrong and sinful and wicked and abomination and you know what the less we say
it the more normalized it'll become hey we should like tell people that according to the bible
witches are put to death you say well that's not very nice here's the thing witchcraft is
actually becoming very popular right now i mean just i mean just talk to some of the ladies in
our church that have to find a midwife a lot of midwives out there are witches believe it or not
a ton of them are it's hard to find a midwife that's not a witch you know we've been blessed
with christian uh midwives a little charismatic at times but whatever you know i'm serious there's
some of those midwives it's just just a little too over the top you know they're like what
scriptures would you like to quote when your wife's giving birth i'm like none why do i why why would
i do that we're just trying to get through this sister like you know this is a curse sarah harley
the bible says in genesis 3 that you should like what do you should i be quoting genesis 3 or
something and pain and travail unnecessarily it's like overly spiritual like like giving birth
doesn't necessarily have to be like a spiritual experience folks i hate to break it to you let
her just give you know give birth give support you know what i mean what do you need you need
some food you got this you know word of encouragement or whatever or in our case we just don't talk we
just like i'm just waiting you know what i mean i'm just there and if she needs me to you know to
help her with the pain you know i squeeze the hips you know because that helps with the pain
and then the baby comes it's like all right everything good all right i'm going to sleep
because the baby's typically come like at two thirty three o'clock in the morning or something
where was i going with that oh okay but see i prefer that though over like witches though
and that's becoming like a major thing right now like witchcraft is becoming super popular
not just in midwifery but just like in general okay and so we need to remind people that
witchcraft is completely wicked that christians should not tolerate it
they should not make excuses for it it's not like an alternative or they're just a little mixed up
it's an abomination in the eyes of god okay it's demonic it's devilish and so i've overstated here
but you know it's important to kind of go over these misconceptions because people they just
kind of throw out the ten commandments and say well we got to keep them all no we don't have to
keep all the ten commandments sorry to break it to you i know it sounds good that we got to keep
all ten commandments but fact is we don't because one of those we cannot keep anymore and if you
keep the one of those ten commandments which is the sabbath you're essentially rejecting the
crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ okay it's like you wearing a star of david a star
wearing a star of david is an open rejection of christianity in jesus christ because when the jews
got away when israel got away from god they would wear or they would take up the star of their god
molok remphan and that's what they would parade around as an open testimony that they're rejecting
the god of the bible so how much more when you're wearing it on your neck uh-uh throw that in the
trash okay you know stop being so superstitious about that stuff and you know it's time for us
to just kind of go to the bible and say what is permissible what is not there's certain things
that have been repealed certain things that are not and let's love the law of god but we don't
necessarily have to adhere to things that god already said like hey that's already
it's vanished and ready to be ready to go away ready to vanish away let's pray father
we thank you so much for your word thank you for your commandments in your law lord your statutes
that improve our lives as individuals but even our nation our state our world lord and what
wonderful laws you've you've placed in your word lord and we're so thankful that you made it a
distinction between that which is moral and even civil laws uh separate from the purity laws the
dietary laws the instructions given for the tabernacle lord and i pray that you continue
to help us to make those distinctions uphold your law what your moral standard is for this world
and help us not to be ashamed of it lord we love you we thank you pray this things in jesus name
amen song number 208 grace greater than our sin song number 208 is our last song song number 208