We have a bulletin, today is November 16th and our service time is Sunday morning, 10
30 a.m. Sunday evening, 4 30 p.m. Wednesday service is 5 30 p.m. Pastor Cobb will be preaching
this Wednesday, he says I will have to travel and then I'll be back on Sunday. And then
the verse of the week is Philippians 1 10. Remind me to buy the ice cream, we forgot,
we need to get it. Everybody that's owed ice cream, my wife knows who's owed ice cream,
we will get you next week because we're gonna, I'm gonna send out a text. So what we decided is
I'll send out a text and if people jump on board we'll do a turkey and let everybody bring the
fixings. If nobody does anything we'll just buy some sandwiches or something and then we'll have
a little fellowship either way. So we'll still have a good time Sunday. So just count Sunday,
next Sunday, the Sunday before Thanksgiving we'll have a little potluck style fellowship where we
can eat and fellowship and have a good time. Being said the Bible verse of the week is
Philippians 1 10 that you may approve things that are excellent that you may be sincere and
without offense until the day of Christ. And then we have one baptism for the year and we have 225
souls. So Matt did a really good job right there at the end and he gave the gospel to a guy for
about 20 minutes and just cleared up that thing for him so that was good. And then we have all
the birthdays and anniversaries coming up. There is a correction. Did you grab the pen? Yeah the
frigees is the 22nd not the 21st. It's okay I already fixed it. And then November 28th
is Jayden's birthday and then we have the refugio soul winning marathon. I'll send out more info
this week but basically we're going to meet at the heritage park in refugio or as it's called
correctly in texas refurio in case ref refurio which apparently i don't know that has nothing
to do with the spelling yeah refurio so 78 377 408 west w west street refurio texas 78 377
and then we have the fellowship like i said and then we'll start talking about the christmas
fellowship and then we have the prayer request on the back and then the only thing i would ask is
before you head home if you guys can just help me any bottles that have water just put them next to
the coffee pot any empty juices stuff just throw them away and then of course whoever is in charge
of the cleaning will take care of the rest of the duties but those things would help us tremendously
and we would greatly appreciate it if there is no other announcements let's turn our handles over
to page 482 482 in the suite by and by throw me back so then we're going to be in first
corinthians 5 so lucy we will be in first corinthians daddy messed up this morning
491 apparently she was really perturbed that i kept getting the wrong reference 491 corinthians
chapter 5 corinthians chapter 5 corinthians 5 verse 1 the bible reads it is reported commonly
that there is fornication among you such fornication as is not so much as named among the gentiles that
one should have his father's wife ye are fucked up have not rather mourned that he hath done this
deed might be taken away from among you for i barely as absent in body but present in spirit
have judged already as though i were present concerning him that hath so done this deed
in the name of our lord jesus christ when ye are gathered together and my spirit with the power of
our lord jesus christ to deliver such a one unto satan for the destruction of the flesh
that the spirit may be saved in the day lord jesus your glorying is not good know ye not that a little
little leaven leaven at the whole lump purge out there for the old leaven that ye may be a new lump
as ye are unleavened for even christ our Passover is sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast
not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth i wrote unto you in an epistle not to accompany with fornicators yet
not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with
idolaters then must ye needs go out of the world now i have written unto you to keep company if any
man that is called a brother and or excuse me any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or
covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one not to eat no
not to eat for what have I to do to judge them that are without do not eat judge them that are
within but them that are without god judge it therefore put away from among yourselves wicked
person let's bow our heads and go to the lord in prayer father thank you once again for gathering
us here this evening thank you for this church thank you for your word uh lord we ask that you
fill pastor reyes with your holy spirit give him the boldness and the clarity to preach your word
and it's in jesus name we ask these things amen amen all right you're there in first corinthians
five you're there in first corinthians five and let me just get this plugged in here real quick
so i try to i try to do my best to stay you know abreast of what's going on i've already told you
that i'll even ask church members you know what's what's popular what's happening in the world
that we can preach about and the title of the sermon this afternoon is based on that it's based
on the state of what people think the church is and you know what we should forgive and not
forgive and how we should treat uh people that are living in sin the title of the sermon this
afternoon is fornicators and church finances fornicators and church finances before i go
too deep into it and give you too much in the introduction let's just focus there a little
bit in verse one it says it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such
fornication as it's not so much as named among the Gentiles saying hey this is worse than the
Gentiles that one should have his father's wife and then we see so basically what's going on here
is this young man who is not married is basically sleeping with his father's wife she's committed
adultery but he's actually fornicating and so he's calling him out and he's dealing with him
and then there in verse five it says that he needs to do that you know you need to call it out says
to deliver such a one to satan for the destruction of the flesh they meant that the spirit may be
saved in the day of the lord jesus because he says your glorifying is not good know you not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump so allowing this in the church ruins the church it's basically
anything that then he falls doctor you know we were talking about uh this young guy who was
talking about uh the trinity and his erroneous view and already it's gotten to other church
members you know it's just all it is is just a little leaven and it's and it's luckily these
guys that that he's uh talking to are sound in the faith and you know are more mature in christianity
but it doesn't take a lot to just get someone veered off right and it's the same thing with
fornication and then it says purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump in other
words get rid of it as you are unleavened for even christ our Passover sacrifice for us
then like this it says therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven and then it names the
leaven it says now neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness so this is not a good thing
fornication has uh carries with it malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of what
sincerity and truth so preaching against fornication from a biblical viewpoint is both
sincere to the listener and it's truthful it's honest if you want me to be loving the most honest
thing i can do is say hey this is not a good thing right and then right there in verse nine
where i want to focus it says i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators
yet not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with
the idolaters for they must ye needs go out of the world but i know i've written unto you not to keep
company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or idolater or a railer
or a drunker or an extortioner with such and one no not eat he goes so far as to say hey i've told
you that this list you shouldn't keep with you shouldn't keep company with it but let me just
remind you not only from the world's perspective but even from the church perspective it doesn't
matter if they're worldly and lost or if they're christians and saved this is a list you don't
want to be associated with because it will basically eat as a canker right it will rot
the church to the core and so then you see that it uses the word fornication five times there
i mean that's a lot of talk of fornication and the reason that i'm i named the sermon
or i titled the sermon fornicators in the church finances is one of ours a friend of mine pastor
anderson got on x earlier this week hey you know if i'm going to call about you know we're going
to talk about trending things like when charlie kirk was murdered or when trump you know uh and
netanyahu got up there and basically patted each other on the back as far as like the greatest
friends to the jewish people and blah blah blah well we're also going to talk about just anybody
who is within our circles that has made some notoriety for just preaching the word of the truth
right and on uh i believe this was like early it was november 10 uh pastor anderson so i don't if
you don't know how x works which is what's formerly known as twitter basically it's just a a social
media platform that allows a certain number of characters well it's changed a little bit but
that's how it started out and it's just like you surmise a strong viewpoint in a few words right
like you know a great example would be instead of me giving you the entire gospel we could say
we're once saved always saved we believe in the internal security of the believer you can never
lose it you know it's not of works it's just by grace you know like that's really quick surmising
or giving you I mean that's surmising there's a really quick summary of the gospel right
and so in there he made a post on November 10th of uh and it said he said I would be pissed and I
don't remember let me back up when I saw this I didn't think anything of it because from a biblical
standpoint this just made perfect sense to me so I'm letting you I'm giving you a little bit of
background it says I would be pissed if I donated to a church and found out that they were giving
the Lord's money to single mother whores I would not want it to I would want it to go to the Lord's
work or towards helping godly Christians who are in need churches should not be funding fornicators
and their bastards now on the surface any Christian to read that it's like that's read their Bible is
like yeah that makes perfect sense like I didn't actually think anything of it you know I remember
reading that I think I liked it and then moved on fast forward a week later today is what November
16th so not even six days later I took this screenshot maybe 20 minutes ago I wanted to wait
to the last minute and and as of 20 minutes ago it has six million views so if you do the math
because I did it with brother Matt because we were talking about it 1.7 percent of the U.S. population
I'm pretty sure I mean I'm just saying if we were to just say only in people in America saw this
1.6 percent of the population of the United States of America reacted to this
either positively or negatively most of it was negative just just so you know and so what's
interesting is that a statement like this would trigger so many people to be in favor of sin
it's really what they're saying because a lot of people were mad about this I mean uh Pastor
Anderson the church made it to the local news you know just about how bad of a pastor he is and how
he's not showing God's love you know how can he not care for the people obviously you know he's
not read the Bible that Jesus loved people no they've just not read the Bible in its entirety
we're gonna go there and then within a couple of days after that they went on google his google my
business profile and they they left like 65 reviews 63 of them were like one star reviews
you know basically like trying to destroy like the reputation of the church which by the way he
doesn't care and you know we as Christians shouldn't care about that stuff and then he
did a little like snippet of all the voicemails that they were leaving the church from angry
people from all over the world like the country calling them out saying you know how can you not
want how can you not care for single mothers and their children and blah blah blah blah blah but
what it what the reason that i bring it up is because it made me think how sad that we live in
a day where people know number one they're not reading their bibles but number two they're not
even able to attend the church that is preaching the truth of god's word those that statement is
probably one of the most innocuous like non-triggering statements to a bible-believing
christian i mean everybody else i guess could get triggered but as a christian i mean pastor
cobb and i've talked about it people come and ask us for food and money and all kinds we don't
even do it and then the main reason we always tell them is like well that's not biblical if you're
young and able-bodied you should be working if you're single you shouldn't be fornicating you
should go into marriage a virgin and if you if you're single you already messed up but by the way
i'm not picking on single mothers but if you've already messed up then get right with god find a
husband and get married that way you're not in that but don't expect people to just give you a
handout right so then he continued because he saw all this backlash and on november 12 he puts
another uh ex post i keep wanting to say tweet but it's no longer i guess it's still popular but
it's an ex the correct term is an ex post is and he says no one is criticizing widows he said i
specifically mentioned whores producing bastards through fornication because that's true the widow
is completely different from like just someone who has children on a wedlock you know as bastard
children says widows and then he gives statistics he says widows are also a tiny percentage of
single mothers having a child out of wedlock being a whore is different right also remember
that two-thirds of divorces are initiated by the women right so he gives the statistics five percent
of single mothers makes up that uh that uh category of widows right it represents widowed
single mothers according to the center of american progress analysis of 2023 census data now women
that have had a child out of wetlock represents 51 percent of women 51 percent of single women
that if you walk out and you see 10 women with children and there's no father involved
over five over five five to six of those women are going to be women that just were fornicating
and had a child and decided not to get married and raise that child on their own that's literally
what that is it says represents never married single mothers with the same it says primary
cause of auto wetlocked births is in this group the U.S. Census Bureau 2022 Center of American
Progress 2023 and then 28 percent represent divorced single mothers and excludes separated
which is 16 percent centers for American so between divorced and separated actually goes up to
almost another 40 percent so that's insane that basically 60 to 80 percent depending on where
you're drawing the numbers from are single mothers are either fornicators or they've had children and
now they're divorced which what ends up happening is especially they're young is now they don't want
to get remarried but now they're fornicating or actually really committing adultery with other
people but you know those people might be single and having other children and how often do you
run into people i mean it's it's like more prominent now we're all run into a single mother who has
you know children from multiple men or multiple husbands now that being said look if you clean
that stuff up amen and if you did it because somebody preached about it that's what you
should do that's not who i'm preaching to the people i'm preaching to is the people who like
want to dig in and continue in that lifestyle and those that are promoting that lifestyle
i mean think about it six million people and i would say over 80 or 90 percent were like this
is not good like how can you say something so egregious when the exact opposite is true
the egregious thing is that their little leaven is ruining the whole lump right it's like it's
messing up the whole lump it's ruining churches in america and what's the biggest problem in
america today is that fornication is rampant adultery is rampant and the preachers because
they want the tithes and they want the 401ks and they want the nice salaries and they want the cars
and for filthy lucre's sake they won't stand up and say what's true you know like i i want church
members to be here and you know i'm not i'm human whenever church membership goes down or you know
there's a shift because of vacations stuff i'm like man what's going on you know but but then
i remember i just got to get up and preach the word of god and if it's just two people then it's
two people and if it's a 50 people but i i'm not going to compromise on the word of god right i
mean if there's fornication in the church that's named among us then you know we need to call it
out and be like dude either fix that or leave the church and then on the same day it's interesting
this pastor anderson same path out of faithful word baptist church in arizona he he did a poll
you know he conducted his own poll that says and the question was should churches give money to
single mother whores like literally this is how he wrote it to pay for the best for their bastard
children or should the church's money be used exclusively for the work of the lord and the
poll was a yes no question the yes question was yes fund the fornication so he was actually really
blatant and no don't finance in and three thousand three hundred and eleven people voted and sixty
four point eight percent of those three thousand people said yes fund the fornication this is the
state of america where people are over empathizing you have bleeding hearts and they're like you know
who cares and you know why because hollywood because the the the the media right or left
keep justifying this stuff i mean you can't say anything about trump and about his whoreish
whoremongering not whoreish but whoremongering wicked lifestyle because you know monk's the
i mean trump's the better uh candidate but you know it started with bill clinton remember back
in in you know when when he got called out for monica lewinsky what did people start to say
well you know he's a really good president what he does behind closed doors is none of my business
actually the bible says that a little leaven leaveneth the whole love you wonder why america
is in the state that it's in is because we just turn a blind eye to fornication you know uh the
best solution if you're single is abstinence but really the most correct solution is marriage
because abstinence can only last so long for the majority of people you know you have a few people
like paul you know you those are select people that will live their life celibate never do that
but most of us need a physical relationship with the opposite gender and if we don't fulfill that
what we're going to end up doing is we're going to fall into sin that's why we get you know let me
let me just let me let me just be really blunt with you the the number one reason you know
you know remember uh what is it uh what is it when you do the polls what's that show
where the survey says number one reason that men get married is to be with the opposite sex
that's the number one reason be like oh you know well what about love and you know all that comes
later but the number one reason that men get married is because they're attracted to their
wives period in the story and you know churches today don't want to talk about that they think
it's taboo look i'd rather talk about it just say look young man don't think that you're going to
last that long go find yourself a wife get this thing over with so that you can be a productive
member of society without living in sin because that's the problem right don't live in that
same look and if you've committed for an occasion then just fix it clean it up ask the lord to
forgive you the bible says he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and then don't do
it anymore period end of story so i got a couple of points for you but i really want to break drive
this point home because apparently it needs to be preached on because at every turn not only was
uh you know by the way pastor anderson has been in the limelight for a long time this this doesn't
bother him at all uh you know i mean obviously he's a friend if if he needed someone to come
to defense i'd be willing to do it but he he's more than capable of defending himself he's not
worried about it i'm not i don't think he's even losing sleep over it but what really shocked me
was like maybe we need more pastors to get on this bandwagon and preach this and yes
i am writing the biblical coattails of correct doctrine so let me just because you know that'll
be the the probably the accusation yeah this thing is is is taking wind people are talking about it
so let's talk about it let's let's really bring it to the surface from a biblical standpoint right
the let's let's look at the bible's definition of fornication go to first corinthians six
first corinthians six which is just the next chapter over you know let's look at the spiritual
the physical moral and then like i like the national implication right fornication is not
merely just an act it's it's rebellion against it's a rebellion against god but let me just
clear up a couple things also because this is where the churches have done a bad job and also
the neat like all these perversions of the bible have done a bad job because i grew up in the 90s
i mean fornication was understood it was when you have relations with the opposite sex outside of
marriage meaning you're not married you're single and you're basically you know it's what they call
sowing your wild oats right if you're a young man and a woman if she's if there's a double standard
because if the women are doing it then she's whorish no in the bible it says you're a whore if
you're doing it as a woman and you're a whoremonger if you're doing it as a man so from a biblical
standpoint there's no double standard you shouldn't fornicate period you should go into the marriage
bed undefiled you should go into marriage a virgin period and the story if you didn't do that then
you just need to make sure that now that you're married that's it you're with the wife or the
husband of your life and you don't look back it's not that difficult right in first corinthians six
right there verse 18 it says flee flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without the body
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body so the only person you're harming
besides sinning against the lord jesus christ is yourself it carries a lot of consequences both
physical and emotional it says what know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost
which is in you which ye have of god and ye are not your own and ye are not your own for ye are
bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit which are gods you know
what i think about fornication i know i'm not usually going to but i always think like if you're
going to get like somebody's going to attack you you know flee is that act of like if somebody was
if somebody came in and was like chasing me with a knife i wouldn't be like oh what's going on here
you if i saw a knife i'd be like let's let's go right like i'm i'm ready to roll that's what
bible says hey flee fornication and we have a clear example joseph fled fornication the woman
was chasing him and he just ran off he ran off so quick that she pulled his coat and that's what she
i'm sorry leave your coat amen pastor cobs said in seminary they said hey leave your coat right
and you know it's interesting they would preach against this stuff in the 40s and the 50s and the
60s and then all of a sudden you have the revolution the civil rights movement of the
60s and the 70s the sexual revolution is what they called it and then everything just went out the
window go over to first thessalonians first thessalonians four and in verse one the bible
says therefore says furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you by the lord jesus
that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please god so ye would abound more
and more hey i've taught you from the bible how to walk how to please god so that well you can do
more and more work for the lord for you know what for you know what commandments we gave you by the
lord jesus for this is the will of god even your sanctification that ye should abstain from
fornication so abstinence is is part of it if you're a young man or young woman that's unmarried
abstain from fornication abstinence means don't do it you should know how to possess his vessel
and sanctification and honor not in the lust of concupiscence even as the gentiles which know not
God hey this is nothing new for us in America this problem has been since day one you know this is a
problem the flesh has needs God made us that way but we need to fulfill those needs in a godly
manner I mean you think about Lot he put his family in the worst situation possible they lived
in Sodom and Gomorrah you know they lived you know in those neighboring cities and when the Lord
removes them what happens immediately the daughters are like hey we need we need a progeny
and so what do they do they fornicate with their dad which is even hard I mean like that's just
even worse right but why did they do that because they were exposed to it a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump it didn't change their salvation because that's a picture of salvation right
but it but what it did say is hey while ye were yet sinners Christ died for us and I always
emphasize that word yet meaning you're still going to sin so that's why we emphasize cleaning up your
life and you know we do a much better job for those of us that believe in easy believism
of telling you hey clean up your life than those people that are telling you that works is what
cleans up your life those are the churches that are full of fornication and adultery and drunkenness
and rampant drug use and fraud you know and illicit all the illicit things that you can think of
that's what's going on in those churches i mean literally isn't it second baptist it's been you
know uh under uh scrutiny lately because of monetary uh improprieties you know and you know
obviously joe holstein's always in some kind of drama for all the things that they're then in a
tony emas step down for an unnamed impropriety yeah because they're just constantly promoting
that crap you say oh they're promoted from the pulpit no but anytime you turn a blind eye
you're promoting it in galatians 5 verse 19 the bible says now the works of the flesh are manifest
look manifest means obvious it says the works of the flesh are obvious which are these adultery
fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations
wrath strife seditions heresies envies murders drunkenness revelings and such like of the which
i tell you before as i have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of god you know the reason that i uh you know when you when you're reading
the bible the first few times and you're getting things you're like how does this work because it's
like all this stuff you know you could fall into any of these but it's not that it says if you're
making them obvious it says now the works of the flesh are manifest right when we're in the spirit
we want to live in the fruits of the spirit but the flesh is always at war so you can't have one
and then the other like you either have one or the other right if i'm thinking of the lust of
the flesh and the lust of the eyes you know what i'm not thinking of is our lord jesus christ right
if i'm looking at a woman and i lust after her my heart you know what i'm not doing is memorizing
scripture or praying for someone or thinking about going to church or going so and i mean
it's one or the other and then go to jude go to jude seven but fornication these are little just
within the same thing you know these are just things that fornication are fornication
creates destruction right it what is fornication fornication is when you do that act outside of
marriage and you're not married but it has consequences it creates broken homes and
fatherless children and it can mess up generations to come you know i literally have a cousin now my
cousin i'm not going to pick on him because i mean it's not his fault but my cousin was born a
bastard child and he's actually uh to to his testament he's a really smart guy and he's
married and he has three children and you know he's faithful to his wife they're not saved he's
probably you know on the more liberal side but at least he made that commitment and i think one of
the reasons was because he grew up without a father but what the strangest thing of this whole
story is that you know my aunt was just super rebellious at a young age i mean she quit school
at sixth grade she went to cut hair she made a ton of money all her life but she used to love
to dance and then just one night she just got with a guy and got pregnant and had my cousin
what turns out this guy was just fulfilling the lust of the flesh and lust that i and to this day
he's a flaming queer sodomy like he looks like a woman can you and the can you imagine the dance i
mean for my cousin like that's just like that's got to be a hard thing by the way i have a lot
of cousins so only the ones that know you know if they're listening only the ones that know who they
are they know you would never know them right but and i'm not picking on him but you know that was
wrong period it was sinful and it caused a lot of issues within the family right i mean it's just
those are the things that it does in jude 1 verse 7 the bible says even as Sodom and Gomorrah and
the cities about them in like manner given themselves over to fornication see fornication
was the start but then it says and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire likewise also these filthy dreamers what defile the flesh
despise dominion and speak evil of dignities you know i don't know much about what's going on but
apparently trump's mad at this this representative by the last name massie you know for for requesting
the epstein files to be released and one of the attacks he made was that you know like he he
didn't remarry or something about the remarriage and my understanding is this guy remarried shortly
after he lost his wife so he was widowed and then remarried and what's interesting is why is he
doing that because it makes me think of verse 8 it says likewise these filthy dreamers defile the
flesh despise dominion they don't want authority and speak evil of dignities you know why they
don't want the epstein files to be released because it's a lot of their friends it might even be them
they started out in fornication and then they just went down a wicked road first corinthians 5 first
one the bible says it is reported commonly that there's fornication among you this is extreme
immorality right and such fornication is not so much named among the gentiles that one should
have his father's life gross 7 verse 18 says and he saith unto them are ye so without understanding
also do you not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into a man it cannot defile
him because it entereth not into his heart but into his belly and goeth out in the draught perching
all meats and he said that which cometh out of the man that defileth the man for from within our heart
out of the heart of men preceded evil thoughts adulteries fornications murders thefts covetousness
wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness all these these
things come from within and defile the man it begins with the heart like it is a heart problem
right the world or hollywood specifically would call it love the bible calls it sin you know
the the porn industry is literally run the majority of it is run by judiizers and you know what it
promotes not so much adultery just pure fornication right just fulfill whatever you know whatever
feels good do it and it's a it's probably a trillion dollar industry and just think about
the damage that they're doing in all the homes across america and i mean it's hard to find an
american man who hasn't been affected by that industry at some point in their life including myself
i mean it doesn't take a lot if you're in the wrong circles i mean to be exposed to it i was
exposed to it as a young man like my 14 15 when you're 14 15 you don't know dilly squat about
being a man and you're exposed to it it just ruins you for a long time that's why we need to preach
hard against it yeah i mean it carries serious consequences point number two you know i only have
i don't remember i think i've like two like four points so you know how many points do i have here
yeah like four points here so uh point number two is addressing single mothers in scripture right
not all single mothers are equal in scripture because this is the the the crux of the matter
right that oh how dare the church you know attack single mothers no nobody's attacking the single
mother we're just attacking sin like and in in well i mean i guess we're attacking the single
mother but we're not uh let me let me rephrase that it's not an attack it's really an admonition
and it's a rebuke because we love people to just remove the sin from their lives so that they can
have a better experience so they can have the rewards and the blessings of jesus christ right
i know i get a lot of things backwards up on the pulpit but this is one of the things i want to do
my best to not get backwards because you know the the attack is not the attack is on the constant
leavening of the lump right like the constant fornication and promoting and then turning a
blind eye look we shouldn't be bleeding hearts we shouldn't have sympathy for this stuff we should
just remove it from from the church but also we should preach against it so that we can actually
do something about it right in first timothy go to first timothy this is not the sermon we will
spend a little bit of time here this is probably my longest point in first timothy five the bible
literally gives us the formula for how to deal with this right in the bible it says rebuke not
an elder in verse one but entreat him as a father and the younger man is brethren the elder women
as mothers and younger as sisters with all purity hey with all purity and it says honor widows that
are widows indeed and what is it now it's going to give us the definition right if any widow have
children or nephews let them learn first to show piety at home and to requite their parents for
that is good and acceptable before God now she that is a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in
God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day but she that liveth in pleasure is
dead while she liveth and let's just stop there what does it say hey there's a certain group of
women that have lived life they have grandchildren they have nephews they've trusted in God
they've continued in prayer like they've been faithful those are the ones we need to take care
of but notice the process like we go to the family first not even to church so even a widow doesn't
just automatically get an assistance from the church the conversation should be like well who
and your family can come to your aid who can care for you now skip to verse 9 it says let not a
widow be taken in the number under three score years old three score is 60 years old so already
if you're widowed under 60 years old then you're disqualified from just the church even considering
it unless it's a super super duper extreme situation which means that it would be an
exception that would prove the rule says having been the wife of one man says in verse 10 well
reported of good works if she have brought up children if she had lodged strangers if she had
washed the saints feet if she have relieved the afflicted if she have diligently followed every
good work so this is kind of the standard right and the reason this important is because the
next verse says but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ
they will marry meaning hey if they try to do what that older widow has done which is do all the
logs the strangers and what eventually the flesh is going to be at war with the spirit they want to
serve Christ but they're young they got young children they have needs not only of security
and protection but also they have physical needs and they will want to marry. It says having
damnation because they have cast off their first faith meaning they're now split between the
ministry and wanting to fulfill their flesh. See there's nothing wrong with fulfilling the flesh
what's wrong is fulfilling it out of God's plan God's union right and with all they learn to be
idle and so then what ends up happening is because they do this this is and with all they learn to
be idle wandering from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also in busy bodies speaking
things which they ought not I will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the
house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully for some already turned aside to
Satan so it says hey what's the solution for a young widow hey get married but this is a great
solution for just any young woman who's single get married and bear children meaning hey if
your widow and your single mother doesn't matter get married and have more children so you can
guide the house give dedication to the adversaries speak with you know every once in a while when
there's a lot of drama like with my pastor friends or even with us and there's a lot going on on
social media you know all of a sudden my wife will be like how do these women that get on social
media all the time to write all these long like responses she's like I can barely keep up you
know why because she's married and she's burying the home right and what does it say she's bearing
children she's guiding the house and she's giving none occasion for the adversary to speak repulsively
you know my wife's busy I mean even as simple as I was just sitting right here when my wife got here
earlier today and I asked my three-year-old daughter to come give me a hug and my daughter
goes mommy will you come with me I'm like you you cannot come 10 paces to say hello to your father
without your mother coming like that's the work of a mother right like she's requested even for the
simplest of tasks like the most simple task that even a three-year-old child could do which is walk
10 paces to give daddy a hug she needed the company of her mother you think she has time
to be busybody and gossiping and stuff I mean she could barely like go to the restroom by herself
let alone you know get on social media and you know tell all kinds of stories and stuff so this
is important because that's the only instructions I mean that's not we have others but this is the
most clear ones that's it so as the church our duty is only to help those that are three score
years old 60 years old and that have met these qualifications everybody else we need to encourage
them to get married because God has a greater work for us and the greater work is what to go
lead souls to Christ right to pull them out of the fire hey when the deacons were picked what did the
apostles say they're like are we to wait tables and deal with all this drama no we are to be in
the word of God and to be you know praying basically perfecting ourselves for the work
of the Lord in James 1 verse 27 says pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this
to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the
world in Isaiah 1 verse 16 the Bible says wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed
judge the fatherless plead for the widow come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though
your sins be a scarlet they shall be white as snow they will be red like crimson they shall be
though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool notice it didn't say hey learn to do well
seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow and take care of
single mothers that are fornicating with children i mean the bible is pretty clear and i think it's
important because you wonder why churches are fancier than any other institution sometimes
and why pastors dress nicer than some businessmen and why they drive nicer cars and i'm not against
anybody having any nice things i'm just saying because they don't take the finances of the
church seriously but i don't even like you know every once in a while like you know if i'm careful
man did we spend wrong here or do we you know you want the finances of the lord to go for the lord's
work right i mean i like i was telling some of the hey this is where the the cokes are you know i buy
the the good cokes you know the name brand for the soul winners and for the people working hard
because i know that's what people like nobody likes rc cola but i also am careful to say hey
this is not just up for grabs this is for those that are doing the work of the lord hey we go soul
winning we're going to go in a week to refurio or refugio as i would say it and we're going to feed
everybody there we're going to feed them good food and i'm not going to like be like look don't look
at the right side of the menu just pick whatever you want that's the work of the lord because we're
going to be pulling people out of the fire but you know somebody that just needs a handout no thank
you as a matter of fact it's funny brother matt didn't experience it but he's given the gospel
to someone some lady came by you know that lady that was talking about the cats and she actually
had the right gospel she saved i was giving her you know trying to give her the gospel she's like
you never lose it it's all through jesus christ but then she goes oh what kind of what kind of
programs does the church have for food and handouts and stuff like that's like our church doesn't do
that so people just automatically think oh church handouts not our church because our church follows
the bible hey if you can work go work you want a handout i'll give you a handout here's a list
of all the jobs that are available in our area go find one people would get offended but it's the
truth and most people are able by even these homeless guys that are like in their 50s and 60s
they look all old and raggedy that's just because they've been out there for a long time if you
cleaned them up and you just give them a shot of b12 and you fed them a good meal you know what they
could do some good labor and go do some work and be productive members of society we need people
that that do this right because the bible makes a clear distinction the widows we protect but the
fornicators are to be rebuked and all throughout the bible there's at least like 40 uh there's 40
references to the word fornicator fornication all this and a lot of us just it's actually all of it
but it's all strong rebuke either personally like to ourselves to a nation to people like it's just
rebuke in nowhere do i find that word fornication and then like some some nice thing god said be
like oh you're a fornicator but you know it's okay no stop fornicating go to ephesians 5
verse 3 and the bible says there be therefore followers of god as dear children and walk in
love as christ hath also loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice for god
a sweet smelly savor but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be named
ones among you as becoming becomeeth saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting
which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks look the bible scripture never commands
the church to financially reward fornication in colossians 3 verse 5 the bible says mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth hey what is what are you mortifying what are you
putting to death that's what that means kill your members to what fornication uncleanness
inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry 21 verse 25
is touching the gentiles which believe we have written and concluded that they observe no such
thing save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood
and from and from strangled and from fornication man it's it's kind of like it's a theme of the
bible this is this is a problem in the time of paul you know what it's a problem in 2025
america you want to you i could have just with along with this sermon i could have just pulled
up the statistics of all the children that are growing up without fathers i could have pulled
up all the statistics of the majority of people that are incarcerated today men are what single
family homes i could have pulled up statistics of and i've done that before it's gross how many
people you know if you just walk out and you go to the mall how many of those people actually have
a sexually transmitted disease from all the foreign occasion mercy does not equal subsidizing sin
right there's a difference of helping like the repentant like hey let me help you out let me
guide you let me do these things versus like hey let's fund your rebellion i mean can you believe
that a poll was done and people said yes fund the fornicators and 64 of the people that voted were
like let's do it that's insane but you know why it's insane it's insane because we've we've dropped
the ball as christians on bringing insanity back to america we're the we're not the moral police
we're just the moral light people are walking in darkness they're walking around the wall feeling
around and and they're just they're just like somebody give me some light so i can just follow
it and we have it in the bible and then we don't preach it we might not get through all the notes
but we'll cover what we cover the last few sermons i guess i've been preaching i've just
got a lot to cover but we will cover the main points so the fornicator in the church right
the bible gives us zero allowance for the church financing ongoing immorality like it's
it's funny that i even have to say that but i mean you saw the response like there's nothing
in the bible that says oh yeah if people are doing this you can take money to just help them out
no we see that again right in first corinthians 5 verse 11 says but now i've written unto you
not to keep company of any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater
or a railer or a drunker or an extortioner with such and one know not eat then we just go back
to verse nine it says i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators hey not
only did i write to you but now i let me clear this thing up and i feel paul's frustration
because sometimes i'll give an instruction and people won't follow it exactly even though i
gave it clearly so now i got to come back and give the instructions to say hey by the way
not only am i giving you the instruction but let me dumb this down for you and clear this thing up
first corinthians six verse nine the bible says know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of god be neither deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers
nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards
nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of god and such where some of you but
ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the lord jesus and by
the spirit of our god all things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient all things
are lawful for me but i will not be brought under the power of any hate just because you can do it
doesn't mean you should do it hey it's legal in america as a 45 year old man for me to walk out
of this church right now walk over the the the corner store and buy me a 40 of malt liquor or
a beer or go to the liquor store and buy wine or whiskey that does not mean that that that it's
expedient for me or it's lawful in the law in the eyes of god just because you can do it from god's
man's perspective doesn't mean you can do it from god's perspective or that you should do it right
i can it's lawful for me i could fly to california and smoke some weed that doesn't mean that it's
right in the eyes of god by the way that's i'm still grateful that you would have to fly to
california that is still illegal in some places i mean i'm sure there's other states i just don't
know them all so california was the one that came to mind revelation 220 the bible says that
was standing i have a few things against thee when jesus talking about the churches right he says
because thou sufferest that woman jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess to teach and to
seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols fornication is
just getting along with all the other evil things that the world throws at you in revelation 2 verse
14 bible says but i have a few things against thee because thou has there uh thou has there
them that hold the doctrine of balam who taught balak to cast a stumbling block before the children
of israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and what and to commit fornication hey what's the
problem with the mormon church what i preached this morning fornication adultery i mean that's
they just take it all you know right and polygamy and you know all kinds of things then you can go
to the extreme romans 129 speaking of the reprobate says they're being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetous maliciousness full of murder i mean envy murder debate deceit
malignity whispers and then the list goes on hey we reward sin then what's the purpose of the church
it reminds me like you know that's why we preach so hard because the government if there was a true
righteous government would follow the church's guidelines because the church is preaching from
the truth right if we're a righteous church but you think about like for example planned parenthood
right it's a welfare system to promote what fornication i can walk into any government
health agency and just say hey you know i don't have money but i'm promiscuous and i just want
to make sure i don't get some kind of weird disease and they'll give me all kinds of stuff
to to just promote it the government shouldn't do that but they do it because obviously they're not
righteous and they're not listening to the word of god but as a church we shouldn't do that right
we shouldn't be like hey come on and and here you know we'll we'll hand out all the things or give
you money to you know no abstain or get married so let me go down go to deuteronomy 24 if you
want or no go to psalm 127 sorry go to psalm 127 now in this example this thing that i'm talking
about everybody's like well what about the child well nobody's blaming the child the child is not
to be blamed which is i guess my fourth point right we never blame the child but unfortunately
they're the they're a bastard child they're the product of this you know what our duty is
is to preach hard so that child can get saved and you know there's truth in that brother man and
i were talking about this before and he sent me this thing i said hey send me that that
he was reading some of the comments and on one of the posts and it's interesting on one of the posts
against this you know preaching against you know just not funding this and not having bastard
children and not fornicating and not basically what do we call it in today getting knocked up
right a young lady commented there she said i was a teen mother and she said i agree with pastor
anderson if there was a different attitude on sin in my parents home growing up i might not have made
the mistakes that i did we didn't go to church my parents both worked a lot and we weren't and
weren't around much i didn't have a mother that was guiding the house i went to public school and
hung out with the wrong crowd later in life after becoming a saved christian and getting married and
trying to do things god's way i understand how poison is the sin of fornication is so important
to talk to our children and tell them what god wants for our lives and all of the terrible things
that can happen and in here you got people that just you know that says uh how about you take a
stand against fornication uh you stupid well without i'm not going to read that one because
that's got a little bit of choice words but you know some people are getting it so this is it's
a good thing to preach hard truth look the best way to separate the wheat from the tares is to
preach the truth people like oh you shouldn't talk about religion but then how are we going to tell
the mormons they're going to hell oh you shouldn't preach against single mothers hey how are we going
to tell them to get married and live righteously with the husband of you know the one husband of
their entire life if the church is always accepting people and never preaching about the things that
can lead them down a stray path how are they ever going to even understand any concepts of the bible
you know that's why these these fun centers are also fun centers that have a road directly to hell
because people go there thinking they're saved oh i go to church and i'm good and i never really
do anything bad to anybody well if you're fornicating you're sitting against god if
you have children that don't have a dad you're sitting against god you know children know that
stuff they pick up on it they know they don't have a dad they know they don't have a mom
they know when parents are getting divorced and a lot of the children i mean that's been proven
over and over again i'm not even going to go into it but children often if not most times blame
themselves for parents getting divorced children oftentimes blame themselves for the mother
fornicating and having them out of wedlock and being bastard children that's not i wish i was
making this stuff up i mean that's literally the theme of every teenage after school television
series when we were growing up in the 90s we would come home and you had these pbs you know
like mini series about dealing with drugs and and fornication and getting uh you know pregnant out
of wedlock and all of them always had like this overlaying theme about how you did it because
you know you blamed yourself for your parents failures like it was your fault somehow and you
always had like the one adult saying hey johnny it's not your fault hey i mean it isn't it isn't
the kid's fault but that you know children don't understand it deuteronomy 24 verse 16 the bible
says the fathers shall not be put to death for the children neither shall the children be put to
death for the fathers every man shall be put to death for his own sin but jesus said suffer little
children and forbid them not to come unto me for such is the kingdom of heaven bible says in psalm
127 verse 3 says low children are heritage of the lord and the prumen of the wood is his reward
as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man notice that the reward is because they're in the hands
of a mighty man it's in a biblical model so are the children of youth happy is the man that has
his quiver full of them they should not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate
you know men are to be blamed too number one men keep it in your pants until you get married
period and if you mess up then own up to it and be a man and put that woman in a place and say hey
we need to get married well but i don't know if we're compatible tough cookies let me tell you
something as compatible as i thought i was with my wife the minute we got married and we lived
with each other for a little bit we realized how not compatible we are so stop living under
delusion that there's compatibility she's a woman and you're a man the compatibility is what god
put together you know the twain become one flesh but the mentality is totally different you know i
see things way different than my wife does and she sees things different and that's the compliment
my my my two kids have birthdays i just showed up i like i woke up and i was like hey happy birthday
my wife's the one that stayed up and decorated and made sure they had their theme and bought
them the the toys that they liked or the car i don't even know half the stuff my kids are talking
about my children my children are like dad look look what i got this is so and so i'm like okay
great what is it i don't know i don't know but my wife knows the compatibility is that she's doing
the things that she needs to do and i'm not right i mean we need to like what can we do if we want
to help well we want to we want to preach the truth we want to disciple people we want to keep
showing to have it encourage people to show up three times a week we wanted people to read their
bibles you know i'm working on a project right now it's a lot of time and i told myself why am
i even doing this but you know when i see stuff like this i'm like i'm going to do it anyways
and i'm working on a project where i'm going to set up like this automation because i understand
the crm system that we run and i'm going to send out it started in january hey i'm going to remind
you to read your bible and here's an audio version of the bible and here's the link to read the bible
in the king james version and by the way if you need a bible let me know we'll get you a bible
read your bible so that you don't end up doing some of the stuff that you that ruin your life
you know the things that clean up my life is i read my bible the things that clean up my life is i
listen to other preachers preach against sin we our goal is not to weaken the authority of the
church our goal is to strengthen the authority of the church we have the authority from on high and
when we give into these platitudes that people these bleeding hearts and we we think oh well
they they might be onto something then what we do is what we're basically saying god might not be
right oh maybe maybe we should talk to them no just preach against it and move on and keep
soul winning and keep winning souls to christ and keep doing the work i've got two two minutes
bear with me i'm not gonna get through this whole thing so we're just gonna let me just give you the
points but i mean i think you guys get the point i've covered a lot of scripture point number five
is why god uh well let me hold on i'm getting ahead of myself oh basically uh point number five
is why god ties fornication to national and spiritual collapse right and we we have a lot
of examples i'm just going to read for you this one and we'll close it we'll start closing this
now but go to second chronicles two go to say i mean go to second chronicles 21 go to second
chronicles 21 fornication destroys a nation america is on a path to destruction you could
even make the argument it's already destroyed because we promote fornication at nauseam at
nauseam as a matter of fact as a bible believing hardcore independent fundamentalist king james
only man one of the things i hate about living in america i love the freedom i love that we can
preach the word of god but man it's hard to not go anywhere without being just thrown naked women
and fornication and the lust of the flesh you know because it's just everywhere but the second
chronicles 21 the bible says there in verse four says now when jericho jahoram was risen up to the
kingdom of his father he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with a sword and divers also
of the princes of israel you know why he killed them all because by then fornication has been
rampant and all others are rampant jahoram was 32 years old when he began to reign and he reigned
eight years in jerusalem and he walked in the way of the kings of israel like as did the house of
ahab for he had the daughter of ahab to wife jezebel the daughter and he wrought that which
was evil in the eyes of the lord howbeit the lord would not destroy the house of david because of
the covenant that he had made with david as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons
forever in his days the edomites revolted from under the dominion of juda and made themselves a
king then jehoram went forth with his princes and all his chariots with him he rose up by night and
smote the edomites which compassed him in and the captains of the chariots so the edomites revolted
revolted from under the hand of juda until this day the same time also did libna revolt from under
his hand because he had forsaken the lord god of his fathers moreover he made high places in the
mountains of juda and caused the inhabitants of jerusalem to commit fornication and compelled juda
thereunto he's like just go for it a free for all and we i mean there's just countless examples i
the time would not permit me to go into it but what's the problem with where the fornication
thrives morality collapses discipline goes out the window the preacher weakens you know you got all
these preachers who who divorce and remarried that's why they don't preach against anything
you know men stop acting like men women you know they become the women are the ones that suffer the
most they're unprotected women need the protection of a man right so they're not deceived and of
course the children suffer so as a church we need to fund the work of the lord and then the last
point give me just two minutes i know i'm over by a minute but just give me two minutes because
it's the most important part is preaching against sin is the most loving thing we could do preaching
against sin is actually love right hard preaching is what softens the hearts of people like we need
to be truthful to people. People want, you know, leadership. You know what your kids want? That's
why when you discipline them, the first thing they do when they're little children is they come and
hug you and caress you and kiss you because we want leadership. You know, I love it when the Lord
chastises me because then it makes me want to serve him more and it makes me want to show up
to church more and it makes me want to go soul-winning more and it makes me want to love my wife
better and it makes me want to raise my two daughters and say, "Hey, don't find an idiot.
Don't go fornicating. Don't just give up like the greatest treasure you have. Find a good man.
Find a manly man that'll serve the Lord. I don't care if he's a preacher. I just want someone
that'll serve the Lord and that'll stand on the side of the Lord." You know, so we just don't want
to promote this. We want to be loving, right? And in conclusion, the church is a place of holiness.
The funds are for the work of the Lord. What's the work of the Lord? To reach the lost. Inside the
church is to educate you on what the Bible says. Outside of the church is to go out there and go
soul-winning. So I would rather put better food in here and better material so that more people
will come and be like, "Man, I love going to Spring Crest." Because when we go soul-winning,
I get, you know, these great snacks and I love those snacks and I just don't get them anywhere
else. But when we go to Spring Crest, they have them. And then, hey, when they do a soul-winning
marathon, we have some fun stuff and they do fun activities and they do all this stuff and we get
to do all this great thing. So the title of the sermon was "Fornicators and Church Finances"
and those two don't go together. That is a true oxymoron, right? Like one doesn't have anything
to do with the other. We do not promote fornication in this church and we will never finance or help
anybody that's actively in that sin. If anything, we will rebuke that. If they're repentant, we will
bring them back. But that's the biblical model. Let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father,
Lord, thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings, Lord. Help us to stop this
endemic in this country where women are just opening up their legs at every turn and just
men are just, you know, rampantly trying to sow their wild oats. I mean, we have a nation that
would stop promoting and raising up whores and whoremongers. And we don't have a double standard
here. Men and women should get to the marriage bed, undefiled virgins. They should do it in
pureness and holiness. And if they've not done it, Lord, we know you forgive them, but then don't
go back and do it again. Clean it up and don't do it anymore. Move forward. Help us have a good week.
Thank you for all that you do, Lord. And also just bless the efforts this week, Lord, as we're about
to go soul winning in Rufuro and help us to just lead many souls to Christ this weekend in addition
to our regular soul winning. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Turn your hymnals over to page 560.
We'll close out. Turn your hymnals over to page 560. 560. Trust and obey. Oh, that's a perfect one.
Thank you, honey.