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Good evening everyone welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church if you could please find your seats and grab your hymnals
We're gonna sing song number 22. Are you washed in the blood?
Song number 22. Are you washed in the blood?
Song 2 2 are you washed in the blood? Let's sing it together
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Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power are you
Are you fully trusting in his grace this hour are you washed in the blood?
Are you
In the soul cleansing
Or your car
Are you washed in the blood
Are you walking daily by the same or are you
Rest each moment
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Are your garments are they why are you
With the bride
Are you
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They aside the garments that are
There's a fountain for the soul
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Good singing let's open up in a word of prayer Heavenly Father. Thank you for this evening's service
I pray now that you would bless our pastors
he prepares to preach to us and pray that you bless this time of singing that we would sing out nice and loud and
That we would just be mindful of the words. We're singing. We love you and you send me pray. Amen
All right for our second song. Let's go to
138 the haven of rest
My soul and sadness I was out unlike sea So burdened with sin and distress
Till I heard a sweet voice
They made me your choice
I'll sail
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To say
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Good evening. Thank you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church
If you didn't already get a bulletin or you'd like another one
Just lift your hand up real quick. One of our ushers would be able to come by get you guys a bulletin
We are on Proverbs 31 verse 23 getting closer to the end on that and on the inside our service soul winning times
several ladies you can still be in prayer for
Who are expecting we have upcoming events March 9th is the preaching class that's on Saturdays at 2
One thing that's not in the bulletin
But just wanted to update you on March 16th is going to be a baby shower in honor of Mariah Jackson
And that's going to be at 1230
So please if you'd like to participate in that you can still RSVP to mrs. Milstead
So if you'd like to attend we would really appreciate that also
The 30th is a cedar like Cedar Hill soul South Dallas area soul winning marathon
We'll probably just meet at the church
For that Saturday morning and it'll pretty much just be like an all-day soul winning
We got new cards for our Easter service. And so you can go ahead and start handing those out right now
We got about 5,000. So we should have plenty to hand out from now until Easter. It is a little earlier this year
So it is March 31st
We'll have our Easter service in the morning and then in the evening
Amelie following the evening service will have our communion service that we have about once a year
also
April 9th through 10th is a very Baptist Church
It's a youth rally. It's it's geared towards teenagers and they had their first service today and their new building
So it's really exciting. They're actually really close to where they were already
Just kind of on the other side of the highway and it's been remodeling and a building and so
It's very exciting for them. Just be in prayer that everything continue to go smoothly for them and then also
April 13th is gonna be a soul winning marathon and Shreveport again
and so we pretty much hit this town about once a year for the last few years and
Every time it's been really receptive people really like going there for soul winning
If you're newer to soul winning or you feel maybe like you haven't gotten to get a lot of people saved
This is a great opportunity to go somewhere where it's it's been
Historically, very receptive. I would anticipate it's probably still gonna be very receptive again as we go
And so it's just a great opportunity
To be able to see a lot of people getting the gospel hearing the gospel and a lot of practice opportunities
It's only about three hours away. So it's not too too bad. You can make a day trip out of it and
Highly encourage you if you can participate with us
We've all had some friends also go out there with us at different times, too
So it'd be great to see them as well
That's pretty much all I really have as far as announcements are concerned on the events on the back. We have
The congratulations of the cracker family on the birth of Katrina Elizabeth
She was born on the 22nd at 2 40 a.m. 7 pounds 9 ounces and 20 inches long. Congratulations them
And of course we have our prayer lists on the bottom so please do help pray for our church family Psalm
148 we're gonna sing Psalm
148 is a Psalm
Special handout that you can sing with us
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Right, let's sing together Psalm 148
Crazy the Lord crazy the Lord
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All right as the offering plates being passed around please turn your Bibles to Deuteronomy 23 Deuteronomy chapter 23
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Deuteronomy chapter 23 will read the entire chapter as is our custom beginning at verse 1
He that is wounded in the stones or hath this privy member cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord a
Bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to his 10th generation
shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord and
Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to their 10th generation
Shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever?
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when he came forth out of Egypt
And because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pithor of Mesopotamia to curse thee
Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam
But the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the Lord thy God loved thee
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite for he is thy brother
Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land
The children that are begotten of them shall ever enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing
If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night
Then shall he go abroad out of the camp. He shall not come within the camp, but it shall be
When evening cometh on he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is down he shall come into the camp again
Thou shalt have a place also without the camp whither thou shalt go forth abroad
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon and it shall be when thou will ease thyself abroad
Thou shalt dig therewith and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee
For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee
And to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy can't be holy
That he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which has escaped from his master unto thee
He shall dwell with thee even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates
Where it liketh him best thou shalt not oppress him
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for
Any vow for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother usury of money usury of vittles
Usury of anything that is lent upon usury
unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury but under thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that the Lord thy
God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to do in the land whither thou goest to possess it
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it
For the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee
But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform
Even a free will offering according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God which thou has promised with thy mouth
When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard
Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure
But thou shalt not put any in thy vessel when thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor
Then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand
But thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn. Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
Father in heaven
we thank you for the souls that were saved at the 2 p.m soul winning time and
I just pray that you would move on their hearts and
Give them a zeal to want to serve you and I pray also that you would bless the sermon this evening
And help us to pay close attention to the message you've laid on pastor. Shelly's heart. We love you in jesus name. I pray. Amen
Amen
Deuteronomy 23 is a very powerful chapter and I want to look at verse 19 again. The bible says
Thou shalt not lend upon usury
to thy brother
usury of money usury of vittles usury of anything that is lent upon
usury, so according to the old testament law
usury was banned and specifically for
Usury to your brother meaning those of the same nation those of the children of israel within their own country
They're not to charge usury to any other person in their
Their land a word that we kind of use as a citizen
A fellow citizen when they use brother
That's kind of what they're referring to in the sense that
Those who are of the nation of israel are not to charge others of the nation of israel any usury
Now usury is kind of an older word. It's a word that we don't use as often
Our word that we're more familiar with is the word interest
And so when you go to the bank and you get a loan or you have a credit card often
We hear the words interest or interest charges
This is what the bible is condemning and banning and saying that should not be allowed in society is interest
and when those who came
Crossed the mayflower and came on many other ships to america decided to found this nation
They were given the ability to make laws
That were in congruence with laws of england because we were under english domain
And they sought to the bible to determine what kind of laws to use and so I believe
That that same principle should be applied no matter what the circumstances are that we as a people
Should determine our laws based on what the bible says
Now here's another principle that I think is taught in the bible and it's important for us to understand is the bible gives us
Principles and then from those principles we can derive laws. So it's not that every single thing
That is a law has to be a verbatim quote from the bible
It's simply giving specific principles or the spirit of the law and then from that we can derive our laws
And so I believe in america we should pass laws to ban interest
and specifically
charging interest to other american citizens
Now when it comes to this specific statute it says in the next verse it says this verse 20 unto a stranger
Thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury
That the lord thy god may bless thee and all they'll set us thine hand to in the land where thou goes to possess it
Now a stranger here is a person that we would refer to as a foreigner
Someone that's not part of the nation. Maybe they're just visiting. Maybe they're just sojourning, but they're not a citizen
They're not part of your nation. Perhaps they're just traveling for business. They're traveling for vacation or
Or whatever the circumstance is it's saying you could technically charge interest to this individual from a legal perspective
Now here's another thing we have to understand just because something's legal
Doesn't mean that god is recommending this or saying this is the right way to treat someone
It's just simply saying these are what the laws should be because when you charge interest to a person you are harming them
You are an enemy under that individual you are doing evil under that individual. Okay now again, it might be pretty minor
And inconsequential, maybe they're wealthy and you're charging them a nominal interest rate and it's not really that big a deal
But in some way it is a harmful action towards that individual
Interest is very destructive in nature
And in fact when you charge interest on your own nation, you're dooming your own nation. You're dooming your own people
It is impossible to ever pay back the interest because the money just doesn't simply exist
And so it's a very evil
device that god is trying to say this is illegal and it's funny that there's a group of people out there that do the
exact opposite of the bible
And they love to charge interest. Okay, and and this group of people
Are thriving off of industries that have practices that are banned in the bible
And we need to
Emphasize what the bible teaches on these issues now, this is what I find interesting because
I think that there's a lot of things we need to change about our laws. Okay
I think that we have a lot of problems in america. I think that there's a group of people that love satan
That would be really hard to get rid of but I came up with a plan that's I think really simple
And a way to eliminate a lot of these problems and as if we just ban interest
And we ban pornography that's all we have to do and it would it would solve a lot of problems
Now look at what it said in the verse right before this verse 17
There shall be no whore
Of the daughters of israel now again, this is where I say that is not necessarily
Describing every single law that could be driven from that particular principle. That's a principle
It's saying we as a society we as a whole should not allow
whoredom to be prominent in our society
And one of the ways that whoredom is prominent in a society is through pornography and you know
The pornography is just even a gross word. It's hard for me to want to say it and it's really a difficult subject
But unfortunately, we live in a dark world
That's very disgusting and sometimes you have to use disgusting words to describe disgusting things
Okay. Now i'm going to try and just talk about things like in smut and you know general
You know euphemisms but at the end of the day sometimes we just have to call it as it is
And god even has to call women sometimes whores
That's a that's a gross word to a lot of people a lot of churches you would go to today
You would never hear the word whore ever
Like they probably just wouldn't even read this verse out loud
They'd probably just ignore this verse just because they don't want to hurt your eardrums or something
But but here's the thing. God doesn't want to hurt your drums either and you know, what's really dangerous in a society
It's not the word whore. It's whores
Like some people they're so offended by the word whore, but they're not offended by literal whores
They're not offended by taylor swift. They're not offended by the ever-increasing pornography that's going on in this world
They're not offended by the smut and the filth put on the tv screen and they'll go and see all the rated r movies
Filled with whores, but then they get offended when someone brings up the word whore
It's like what in the world?
How dare you use the word whore? How dare you watch whoredom?
I mean what's really worse here
And these people that pretend like they're so holy and so righteous. They're not that righteous and they're not that holy
You know who's holy and righteous god
And his law is holy and righteous and we should look to it as to how we should rule and govern our nation
And I believe you know, i've thought about this a lot if we truly banned
Interest and pornography in our society it would cause a lot of people to want to leave like a specific group of people
That are running these industries. Okay, that's their main source of income. Okay
now we'll get there in a little bit but
I want to prove my first point a little bit further go to exodus 22. We need to ban interests
The bible is very clear on this. I do believe obviously, of course
There was an exception in the law that you could charge interest to
a nation right america could charge interest to another foreign country when we
Have to borrow or lend money to them or something but at the end of the day, that's not really a good thing
um, and in fact
I think there's definitely room in the bible and a lot of verses that talk about helping even strangers and helping foreign nations
Where we wouldn't necessarily have to do that but considering the fact that we live in a world with I think what?
256 nations or something you could fact check me on this a lot of different nations
Not all of them are our best friends if we have a literal enemy that needs to borrow
You know, I I don't see why it would be necessarily wrong to charge them interest from a geopolitical position
Okay, and again, we're talking about legality
What's right with god not necessarily what's the most christian thing you can do because of course
God loves to triumph mercy over judgment in the sense that god often gives us things that we don't deserve
I may deserve a particular punishment for my sin
But god gives me mercy and grace above that and I don't always get what I deserve, right?
So just because I may deserve something according to the law doesn't mean that that's how I have to treat somebody
For example, someone hits me on the cheek. I could turn him the other I don't have to smack him back on his cheek
Legally you should smack him on the cheek, but you could go ahead and show mercy and say i'm gonna decide not to
Exact exactly what you deserve i'm gonna give you grace. I'm gonna give you mercy
I'm gonna be long suffering unto you
This is a principle often taught in the bible interest is like the exact opposite interest is basically saying I don't trust you at all
And I don't like you and I want to take advantage of you
It's not even charging interest on someone is not
What's fair
Like I think that today's world many people think that charging interest is what's fair
Like if I give you money why at least deserve something in return
So therefore I should charge you a fee or interest or something. That's only fair. No, no interest is not fair
Interest is a predatory practice which takes advantage of people and you know, it takes advantage of
the poor because who needs money
Poor people rich people aren't necessarily
Needing tons and tons of money and of course
It's not that rich people don't make loans today or take loans out or do these type of practices
But the people that really need the money the people that really need the loans are the poor people
And the poor people are the ones who are taking advantage of the most and in our society
It is no different the people that are getting ripped off the most with high interest loans are often the poorest people in our society
They are the most financially
Deficit they have essentially just the the shirt on their back and people are just ripping them off with 15
20
25
30 interest loans
And when you don't have good credit, they of course
I mean you go get a car and you don't have good credit
You're getting a 20 25 interest loan from these shady car dealers
You can't buy a house someone will sell you a house with a super shady interest rate
And they'll rake you through the coals and they'll take every single one of your welfare checks, okay, because
Interest is a predatory practice
And it's always been that way. It always will be that way that's when the bible that's why when the bible brings it up
It's always talking about the poor look what it says in exodus 22
verse 25
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee
Thou shalt not be to him as a usurer
Neither shalt thou lay upon him usury notice. He's saying when you lend money to who?
To poor people because who needs the money poor people and then of course, he's saying hey to those people
Don't be a usurer
Don't charge them interest now for sake of time
I'm, not going to go through all this but some people would argue like oh, it's just high interest
Well, you know what and I believe it's the book of nehemiah, but he gets really mad at them charging interest and it's one percent
And good luck finding a one percent loan ever
Okay
You you can't even find that anymore this high interest high interest is just any percentage above zero
Okay, that's high interest. All right
Now go to lividicus 25 go to lividicus 25. I want to show you another verse on this
But the bible's really clear I mean this is a constantly being brought up in the old testament law
I don't think that god wants to repeat himself over and over for no reason
Why why would you think that he's going to say in exodus? No interest. No usury in lividicus
No interest. No usury in deuteronomy. No interest. No usury. You know why because it's a big deal
And it's a constant reason why people are taken advantage of nations are destroyed
Economic misfortune
depressions tyranny
Essentially every bad thing you can imagine it almost always is related to interest
Why because the love of money?
Is the root of all evil and the reason why people charge interest is because they love
Money, they love money and they love being lazy and making money
Because charging interest is what the bible describes as unjust gain
And we're going to get a verse in that a minute, but look at lividicus 25 verse 35
The bible says
And if thy brother be waxen poor and falleth fallen and decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him. Yea
Though he be a stranger or sojourner that he may live with thee
Take down no usury of him or increase but fear thy god that thy brother may live with thee notice
He's saying hey when this guy
You know, he's a screw-up. He doesn't he maybe doesn't work that hard. He's ruined himself bad things have happened
He's poor whatever don't be don't then just pile on
And then be a usurer to him on top of that help him
And yet that's what our society does is it literally preys on people in their weakest most vulnerable moments
These payday loan places are the most predatory and evil places
Never go there never let them rip you off
I mean they're taking people's paychecks and they're charging them all kinds of fees that are similar to the way usury
Works in europe at times because christianity reigned interest was illegal
From a historical perspective. So then what a certain group of people would do
That all wear the same tiny hat what these individuals would do is they would they would charge a fee
But it wasn't interest they would just charge fees in order to get around the fact that they were just charging interest on
Money, but you know what? It's always been the same
Always ways to try and work around and try to have these loopholes
So they can keep charging lots and lots of interest but you know what that is an evil satanic practice
And the bible says that it should just be not exist in our society. We should ban it
We should try to pass legislation now, of course, there's a lot of problems with that go to proverbs chapter 28
You know if you have a little baby wolf
That is born near you
And you decide to start feeding it
It'll grow
And then it doesn't it's no longer a baby wolf. It's a big bad wolf
And then when you let that big bad wolf have babies and then they have babies now
It's not just a little baby wolf now it's a pack of wolves and here's the thing
We've been feeding so many wolves so much interest and usury and they've gotten so rich and they have their fangs
Sunk in to america so much that if someone were to try to fight
This pack of wolves and say hey, let's be an interest. Oh boy
You might die very quickly. You might accidentally commit suicide or whatever because
Man there's a lot of people making a lot of money
And it is a big business
Okay, so we've allowed it to get out of control
But that doesn't mean we should just give up and just say now we're just subject to wolves for the rest of our life
you know
Part of the problem is just admitting the problem. Let's let's just admit the problem. We have an interest problem in america
We have a usury problem in america
and
You know both of the problems that i'm talking about this this evening
Are things that are very easy for all of us to fall into the trap the trap is available everywhere
There is an interest trap
Everywhere available for you. I mean whether it's a payday loan credit card
Just traditional loans mortgages. I mean just you can get interest charged on you faster than you can think
Someone will take advantage of you as quickly as you want them to take advantage of you
Okay, I mean i've even seen I got a letter in the mail about getting a loan to pay taxes
It was like what in the world it was like do you i'm like i'm already getting ripped off by the government
Now I have to then get a loan and then get ripped off by you while i'm getting ripped off by the government for time
I mean, it's just like the
Homelessness of someone trying to take advantage of you
It'll never stop there is a sea of wolves and bad people ready to pray on you
And many individuals today that seek to get ahead and to make money
They want to to be like the wolves and they want to get into this interest practice and making money through this
But you know, the bible is very clear that this is not a good way to make money
It's not it's not benefiting a society, you know, you know what benefits society
Growing wheat and then selling wheat. It's like your comp your your country as a whole
It's its economic system
When you charge interest you didn't add anything to the economic system
All you did was rip somebody off inside of that system
But by building something now you've added to society
By creating some hey creating wheat
or
Building something or manufacturing something growing something building something doing something you've actually added to society
And then there's value added because of the work that you've done
You know, there's a lot of ways to contribute to society that benefits society interest is the exact opposite
It is just sucking the life out of the economic system and it's basically just draining the system
All just to you it's a it's a complete selfish action
It's not really doing anything. It's not building anything. It's not helping anything
If literally every single person in our society, the only thing we did was just charge interest we would have no economy
We would have no society. It's a parasite without a host
People who charge money are parasites
Without a host the only way for a parasite to live is to have a host to suck the blood from
And the only way for someone to make money on interest is for a poor sucker to come in and get taken advantage of
It's like if if mosquitoes had no host to suck the blood from they would all die
okay, and the reality is if
America if americans started saying i'm not going to seek interest i'm not going to seek loans
Well, that's going to dry up that well, isn't it?
It's going to start killing off a lot of the wolves. The problem is we're so self-indulgent
And overindulgent and we fall into these traps so easily that we're allowing these wolves to multiply
And to grow and to increase and really try to destroy our
Nation, but the bible is clear here proverbs 28. I want to look at verse number eight
Let's get at least a verse on this. It's really clear
He that by usury and unjust gain and crease of the substance he shall gather it for him
That will pity the poor so god up from heaven though. He notices these parasites and he says hey, you're
You know, you're sucking all that blood
Well pretty soon i'm just going to pop you and all that blood is going to go back into the system, right?
He's just saying he's looking at these people that are ripping people off through unjust gain practices
And he's like i'll find out i'll figure out a way to then take advantage of you
And then i'll take your money and i'll give it back
because god obviously can't just allow this to happen because all the parasites would just suck everybody dry he
Through his wisdom and vengeance will constantly redistribute the wealth of all these wicked people
And it just somehow feeds its way back into
Society but at the end of the day, it's unjust to make money this way. It's what you would call dirty money
Dirty money meaning not every way to make money is good
Not every way to make money. God is pleased with
God
Thinks that some ways of making money are wrong like charging interest interest is considered unjust gain
Go to psalm 15 go backwards just a little bit psalm 15
The bible brings us up now i'm not going to every verse on usury in the bible
There's a lot but I want to just give you a sense of how negative it is in the bible charging interest
And I would say there's a lot sometimes people come up and they ask me
They're just like well, you know, I work for this company and they charge interest
And it's like should I work for them?
Well, you know if we were to play that game all of us would pretty soon be unemployed
Because it's just like
What what does your company not do that's bad. It's like well my company donates to sodomites. Yeah
Every company virtually, okay, my company charges interest. Yep. My company rips people off. Yep. My company doesn't pay taxes, right?
That's a lot of them my company, you know, it's just like my company sells liquor my company
I mean, it's just like what company out there isn't involved in sin. Like I don't know
Steadfast baptist church working but I can't hire everybody. Okay, you know, it's like
If you're fortunate to work for a church, you know, okay, that's a like an exception but outside of that
You know
I even have jobs outside of working for the church. I do a lot of other things and you know what?
You can't escape sin. You can't escape living in a sinful world
It's like you're going to if you want to find a way to think that your job's sinful
I guarantee there's not a person in this room apart from somebody that only works for a church that could say
Like hey, my job doesn't have some
Tie directly into sin. Okay, it just is there
and so, you know, I don't get like
I would never condemn somebody if they said like hey, I work for a bank. I'm not going to be like oh you wicked sinner
You're so evil, you know, but the guy that works for anizer bush is somehow a good guy, right?
Yeah, right. I mean it's like, you know, what is it? What's the difference?
You know, I mean like what companies out there are people not doing something shady
Weird there's probably issues with almost everything if you own your own business
There's some businesses that are more wholesome than others and I get it but I would just say this
Try your best to avoid being directly involved
In the most sinful businesses and if you're going to start your own business
Don't just start an obvious one that's sinful like i'm just going to start a business charging interest
It's like that's pretty much just asking for god to not be pleased with you and to basically curse you
Okay, hey daniel worked for neba kenezer. God still blessed him while working for a pretty, you know
Evil boss right for a boss that's not really involved. I mean you think neba kenezer is champion of holiness and righteousness for the kingdom
Probably doing a lot of evil stuff, right? But at the end of the day you can be a good servant
And and be a good testimony in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation
But at the same time I don't have to directly get involved with sinful practices
I don't have to directly start businesses that are just violating the bible clearly
Okay, and I think that there's plenty of things that you would just say are a complete off limits. Okay now
God forbid, you know if we had a perfect society then yeah, I would say don't ever get involved in interest in any way
But just to be honest almost every company's involved in this
I mean, it doesn't matter whether it comes to just a chair manufacturer
I mean think about it just your local furniture store. They're not doing anything wrong
But guess what? They have credit cards and they have interest to buy that furniture
You could go to walmart and walmart will give you a credit card with interest on it just to buy gum
You could buy gum on interest
I mean, it's just like it's like what business isn't involved in this shady practice now
I think we should as principled christians though say that we're against interest right we should stand against that and try to
Have a reasonable balance. I think that god
Doesn't expect us to have unreasonable demands put upon us
And try to live in a society where we've just escaped anything that could possibly be bad or negative or something like that
Obviously we live in a fallen world, but you know
Me personally like I just really didn't want to I worked for a bank for a while
And I was in the loan department specifically and was being groomed to be a commercial lender where that would be my like
Daily functions and I decided to get out of it and you know
You could tell like a lot of the people that were in that were getting sucked into the love of money
They had a weird
You know
They had a weird mindset. They didn't even look at people as people anymore. Everybody's just dollars and cents to them
And I think that that obviously is an unhealthy lifestyle. So I wanted to avoid it
Okay, so, you know, I I probably would do my best to avoid being a direct money lender
Just because it's just you know, it's a very negative thing
It's a very evil thing and you can see the evil
By what you do to people on a regular basis, especially when I work for wells fargo
Very satanic place and you know, I worked as a personal banker
And what they do to the poor people in society is just evil
How the lending practices and the way that banks manage people's money is just evil
They rip people off they literally will change your transaction history on purpose to charge you more fees
And like I even remember this one particular customer was being like stolen from like, I don't know a couple
like tens of thousands of dollars
And I try I was trying to tell my boss like we need to alert this customer and they said they'd fire me
If I told the customer they're being ripped off and it was just like it was just like why am I here?
Like you know banks in general are just very evil places because they're they're
essentially violating the most important aspects of what the bible says like
Having a love of money and their their whole business is based on a principle. That's just wrong
Not a legitimate way to make money is by selling interest. Okay, so you can take that for what it is
Somebody's gonna come ask me like should I have this I don't I don't care, you know
I've already told you what I think on that but at the end of the day, you know
If you feel really wrong about it or bad, then you probably should change
Right. I mean
You know to him that knows to do good to you know
And do it not to him it is sin or you know
If you if it's if you're not doing something by faith, it's sin to that person
So, you know if you just felt that crummy about the evil wicked things you're doing then
Yeah, you know if I worked for a company that just happened to sell alcohol
I would hope that i'm not in that department, but I don't want to be the bartender
You know, like I can't be the bartender somewhere literally serving people poison
And and having a god-fearing conscious like at that point it sometimes crosses the line for me. Okay, so I I want to
Give you a reasonable viewpoint here. But look what the bible says in psalm 15 about this verse 1
Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill
Just talking about the people that are going to be abiding with god close to god
near god in church
And look what it says in verse five he that putteth not out his money to usury
So who are the people that are abiding with god? Who are the people in his tabernacle?
Who are the people praising him? It's not the people putting their money out the usury
And you know, it's not a coincidence that people that love to charge interest and love to be in banking and stuff like that
Aren't knocking down the door of steadfast baptist church
They're not really knocking down the door of fundamental baptist churches. Usually they infiltrate
Non-evangelical churches and get on their board and basically rule from afar, you know, i've seen a lot of it
It's frustrating, but it is kind of gross
But you know the people that are going to buy it in the right kind of house of god. They're not
Greedy of filthy lucre and of this kind of money
It's evil go ahead to first samuel chapter eight go to first samuel chapter number eight
Well, you're not going to get a lot of rich people bringing in all their interest in here pastor
Shelly well, you know what curse would be you and your money
I don't need your filthy money
You know what? I'm not interested in you know, seeing how many people we can drag into this building
I'm not interested in seeing how many rich people we can get to be members of our church
You know, sometimes rich people aren't even there for the right reasons
Okay. Now again, there's always exceptions. I know people that are you know
Have lots of money and they're really nice generous people and they're very godly christians
So there can always be exceptions but by and large rich people are high maintenance
They are lovers of themselves
They want to basically act like they walk on a cloud into the church and be treated like, you know
Everybody should just worship them or something and it's kind of gross, you know, I remember
growing up there was an individual who
attended
A baptist church in our area and he started a bank and then he basically ended up just becoming a multi-millionaire
And kind of a very prominent figure
But but here's the thing
You could tell
That that affected how he treated people
You could tell like hey i'm gonna say something and it's like well
Why do you get to say something? Have you done anything in the church? No
Are you a soul winner? No, do you do anything spiritual? No, but you know what i've made a lot of money
And it's like what if we decided hey the next person that gets to preach a sermon while i'm gone
It's just whoever makes the most money in this room
Like is that really the best way to determine?
Who should be the person that gets to preach the next sermon or who gets to be on the board of directors?
Or the person who's the elder or the deacon or whatever the church but you know what in most churches
You know, they decide to be the deacons and the elders and whatever
It just who's the richest business owners in their in their church or the or the bankers or whoever
Can get them hooked up with loans and whatever
And prestige, you know what that's wicked
And you know who loves
You know taking advantage of of people false prophets
And evil satanic preachers and they're always obsessed with money
Now there's a common theme in the bible about unjust gain and filthy money and false preachers
Look what it says in first email chapter number eight verse number three
And his sons talking about eli's sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment
So these two sons of eli who were sons of belial according to the bible
They took what's called lucre now go over to first peter
I just want to go to a few places real quick go to first peter
I don't want people to get confused on some of these words
But the reason why i'm taking a kind of a break in the sermon to define this
Is because I think it really helps us to set words in our mind the word lucre is in reference to money
But it's always in reference to filthy money or dirty money or money made
in an
Just way what's an unjust way to make money charging interest here's another way to make money
That's really wicked is by preaching lies
Is buying being a minister of god and saying things that are not true for money
That is lucre when someone's taking money to preach lies in god's name
And so false prophets and false teachers are often
Called out for lucre
Why because they're not sincere they're not really in the ministry for ministerial purposes. They're in it for money
And even a lot of times people in business and in finance, they literally go to church for money
And you would think like how in the world
How is someone going to church for money that doesn't even make sense
But you don't understand how these these systems work you go to gateway. You know what they're going to do
They are going to network
They network in these churches and they tell they even tell people like hey if you're going to do business
Do business with the people in this room
And so anybody that needs a loan they'll go to the banker in that in that church
And they'll go to the so-and-so business person and basically just everybody is just having this incestual
Business relationship in these mega churches and they'll get them hooked up with their 401ks
There's a lot of predatory people that go around and try to sell 401ks everybody and mutual funds and all these different things
And they're always ripping people off
My mom even got suckered by one of these uh, sideshow freaks who tried to tell her like hey you should get
Um all your money in these mutual funds are doing really well
So she took like a bunch of her money and my money and invested all these mutual funds and just lost tens of thousands
Of dollars with this vampire coming in and just sucking the blood out of people and of course because in church everybody's so trustworthy
Oh, it's a guy in a nice suit at church, you know
He's going to probably do great, you know, be careful doing business with people in church
Okay
Look i'm not against any of you and I don't want any of you to not be successful
But at the end of the day sometimes it's better to stay friends from afar
Okay, because business can sometimes get a little messy and I try my best to avoid that sometimes
Not because I don't like you but just because when it goes awry it really sucks
Okay, especially when you know the person and a lot of bad people they literally go to churches only to network
Only just to try and procure business
It's just another social club for them to try and get ahead
And get more people on their bait their bank statement their payroll their mlm or whatever and it's wicked
It's wicked because it's similar to the preacher getting up and preaching lies
There at church on false pretenses
They're not there because they love the lord. They're just looking for the next sucker to take advantage of now first peter chapter five
Look at verse number two
Feed the flock of god, which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint, but willingly
Not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind meaning someone should never be a pastor for money
That should never be the reason why anyone is ever a pastor is for a paycheck
You know, it's it's it's a scary thing
That person should be a pastor because they love the lord because they want to minister to souls
Because they want to help other people serve christ better
And I don't think that it has to be the case, but i'll tell you
Men who have to make a financial sacrifice to become a pastor often are in way better shape
And way better people to be a pastor because you can tell that their heart was in it for the right reasons
Whereas somebody that's kind of not been good in business or not succeeded
If they were to make a lot more money by being a pastor that's a danger because that person could end up continuing pastoring
only for the paycheck
You know and and so I think it makes sense as we raise the next generation of preachers
That we should try to help young men make good money and have lots of skills
And then choose them to become pastors not to make more money some cases make less
So then that way they're only motivated to stay being a preacher
Because of the right reasons not for a paycheck
And you know, I know lots of people
You know myself included that you know pastoring is not furthering our financial careers
In the sense that you could you could take all the effort and energy you're putting into this
And apply it somewhere else and probably make way more money that's safer
Because it helps motivate people to do things for the right reason
Not to hey
I'm, just doing this for filthy lucre's sake look at i'm all for paying pastors a good price
You know a good price and making sure they're paid well, but you know if they
Are just doing it for a paycheck. It's filthy lucre at that point
Go view the first timothy chapter 3 we'll go to a few more places and i'll finish this tangent but
I don't want you to get confused. There's nothing wrong with paying a pastor
We have people coming here and they'll be they'll be telling me like oh, you know pastors should never get paid and it's just like
Why?
Should you not get paid?
Like, you know, why why would a pastor not get paid like that?
And they just they just they just hate on people for getting paid for the work that they do
And you know the apostle paul he kind of always says the opposite he's like saying hey if someone's ministering you spiritual things
How much more should they take your carnal things?
It's like you're not helping them. They're helping you. Okay, that's silly to think that by you giving them carnal money
You're somehow helping them out as opposed to them giving you spiritual things that no one can really distribute to you
I mean how many godly spirit-filled ministers really are out there that you can just get free services from the day
Versus how many people will hire you and just give you money for doing work?
This is like there's a there's billions of people that will pay me for doing work
There's very few people that are willing to offer me free spiritual counsel wisdom and advice from the scripture
Okay, so it makes plenty of sense to pay those people
Okay from a carnal perspective and specifically from a biblical perspective
I'm not going to prove that point
But when we talk about lucre
We're talking about as a pastor not getting paid for working for god
Not for doing that which is right not for preaching the right things but rather for preaching lies
For not being there for sincere reasons pastoring just to get the paycheck
Not because he actually cares for people or wants to be a minister now. There's something deceitful about it first timothy chapter number three
The bible says in verse three
Not given to wine. No striker not greedy of filthy lucre. Pastors should not be greedy of filthy lucre
Meaning what there's no way they would like to make money if it's by dirty means
Meaning that they're not a person that's willing to make money at all costs
They have a moral compass and they said i'm not going to make money on usury
I'm, not going to make money
By preaching lies i'm not going to make money on smut on literal smut
Okay
That kind of filth and we're going to get there in a minute
But there are literal ministers out there that make money on literal smut
It's insane. That's a person that's greedy of filthy lucre. Okay, look at uh verse eight
The bible says likewise must the deacons be grave not double tongue not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre
Hey, you want to be a deacon? It's someone that's not greedy of filthy lucre. Oh
Guess who's our our new deacon?
The the commercial lender
Oh
Let's all clap for the new banker the new guy. He makes all of his money by charging usury
Let's bring him up here the guy that's not greedy of filthy lucre
Oh, wait, that's exactly who we just ordained as the deacon of the church
And how many churches are doing that today?
And then they get mad about all the problems in society when they're literally
Praising
usurers and the bankers and the people charging money and making money by ill gain by unjust gain
and praising them on stage
I mean don't you think children in a church look up to the guy that you just ordained as the deacon or the elder?
The past like what do you do for a living? Oh, I charge money on usury on interest
Like oh, I want to do that then
It's wicked
You know what how can we as a society
Be christian when we're violating the old testament and then putting these people in positions of power
Right. I mean it just doesn't even make any sense yet. How many churches are doing that?
How many churches are putting these people in these positions of power?
shame on them
Titus chapter number one
It's because they don't want to actually define what lucre is
It's because they don't actually want to define what filthy lucre is and what these words actually mean
But you know what the bible is really clear on unjust gain making money by ill means preaching lies
titus chapter number one look at verse seven
For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of god not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine
No striker not given to filthy lucre
I think the bible is really clear on this. Hey, the leaders of the church should never ever want to make money
In an unjust way it reminds me of when moses are ordaining people and when they are doing men, it's men that hate covetousness
Hating covetousness, that's the kind of judges and leaders that we need in our society
Ones that say hey, the only way i'm going to make a buck is on the sweat of my back
I'm, not going to go out there and just rip off poor people and then pretend like i'm a righteous person
The bankers today going out and taking advantage of all the poor and the derelicts in our society
ripping them off
Taking advantage of them when they're weak and then pretending like he's a righteous person
Putting on his blood money suit. How is any better than the drug dealer?
Oh, I don't like this sermon. Well go to that church
He'll give you a loan
Look at verse 11
The bible says this whose mouths must be stopped whose overtly houses teaching things which they ought not
For filthy lucre's sake hey, you know what the jews did they taught things that they shouldn't for filthy
Lucre's sake here's something that they teach interest is a good thing
Hey banks are helping society, you know, who's like the the biggest proponent of praising themselves for donating money to charity banks
You know what the bible like literally says like not to let your left hand know what your right hand doeth
But banks will literally have huge checks
That they give and they'll be like we're donating this five hundred dollars to save a puppy
You know, we're donating it to this homeless charity now
Mind you this guy is the guy that we literally made ten thousand dollars off of his back
Charging him all kinds of interest and we literally made him homeless, but then we gave him five hundred dollars in a big check
Yay, yay us
Oh teaching that banks are such good. I mean you watch a commercial on a bank
They'll tell you how much they're helping society and they love people. We're helping people find a home
For three times the price it was worth. Oh, they never finished the sentence do they
We're we're helping people save for the future by taking a percentage of their money away from them
You know, it's like that's what bank that's how the banks promise it. You know, this is all all love
And happiness and goodness teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake, you know, they should be getting up
We're evil and satanic and gonna rip you off
Who's who wants to sign up now?
It's the fine print. They just don't yell it. Okay
The fine print will tell you all the dirty details
But they they make them so long and they just sign here just sign a couple times. Don't worry what that's saying
It's just saying we're gonna take your soul
You know, one of the worst people out there is the reverse mortgage people I hate the reverse mortgage people
Because they're taking advantage of the elderly, too
And and a lot of the elderly people they haven't they've lost their mind
You know, you can find them at the white house and a lot of other places
the geriatric unit
In the whole office
These people don't even know their name and they're signing up for these more forth
They're taking and ripping out all their inheritance and stealing all this money from them
And then they'll say oh they're just helping them preserve their home by stealing it from them
by literally stealing instead of like
I don't know them selling their house and moving in with their kids and not getting ripped off for the next 20 years
They basically get signed up with some reverse mortgage guy who literally will repo their house and put them in the house in the you know
community home
That's what our society has turned into why because everybody's just greedy of filthy lucre
And we have to stop the problem ourselves, okay now go if you went to leviticus chapter 19 go to chapter 19
The reason why I coupled these two is because they were coupled in the bible. I want to go visit the other one for a minute
Because it's another
Way of making money that's unjust
It's a dirty way to make money is by smell by selling smut
Okay, there's so many people selling smut today and it's just it's insane. How much this has grown
Mostly because of the internet and the internet hey is a neutral thing, but the internet is being used for a lot of evil
Um, I worked in software i've worked in software for over a decade and one of the first jobs
I had I worked with someone who originally worked for an internet servicing company
So they basically provided you internet. Okay, and they were like an alternative to a lot of the big big boy names
You know, we think of like spectrum comcast at and t they were just a small local
Supplier of internet and I remember talking with him about the issue this issue of smut being on the internet
He said they would monitor their traffic
And around 80 to 90 percent of all internet traffic is just pornography
That's a that's a scary statistic
That's sad. It's like you would think like hey the internet's a good thing, but 89 80 to 90 percent of it is that
Just that that's the only reason people are even using it
Now I think because of social media that would probably be a lot lower today
Just because a lot of people are doing a lot more activity
But you know, this was this was about 10 years ago 10 years ago
we didn't really have the explosion of facebook and and some of the youtube and stuff so
The vast majority of the internet usage was just that
Now again, I think that the usage has increased only
Because people are using the internet more i'm sure that statistic is probably lower. I have no idea. This was an anecdotal story
But it's pretty sad
It's pretty sad of what's really going on in reality
And what's happening in our society is we are being destroyed
because of this sin
And I believe that we need to stand against it now the bible says in leviticus chapter 19
Look what it says in verse 29 do not prostitute thy daughter
To cause her to be a whore this really stuck out to me
because
Notice it's saying to cause her to be a whore
It's not that she's a whore
You're causing her to be a whore. I don't think that young girls are whores
I don't think that young ladies are whores. There could be an exception out there
But the vast majority of women that become whores they were caused to become a whore
By being prostituted out and the prostitution in many cases is not obvious
It's just hey, we're going to drop you off at college and just see how it goes
and by prostituting their daughter they ended up causing them to be a whore why because
Young girls need things they need protection. They need emotional support. They need money
They need someone to help them to guard them
They need all these things and in a lot of ways for these young women
The only way they feel like they're going to get this is by whoring themselves out to their boyfriend or to some man
And some man will provide that for them when it should have been their father
Their father should have been the man in their life providing them with the emotional support the money
The security and just not letting them just go off and do whatever and be where because now you're causing her to be a whore
You're causing her to go into that and once they go down that road, it's really hard to pull them back
That's the really difficult, uh, you know aspect of this
go if you went to genesis 34, I have a few verses on this that I want to look at here, but
If we want to be honest and if we really want to solve the problem of pornography
We have to recognize why it's happening and let me explain why pornography exists. It is a father problem
It's it's only a father problem
And you know, it's sad because a lot of men have understood this and in high school and college and everything
They would even often try to target women or girls that would admit they have daddy issues
Or they have an issue with their father or they have an absent father
Why because they were more likely to become a whore or to go down that road and let me explain something
You know, the reason why women become whores is because of their dad
There could be an exception and I don't want to necessarily always say you couldn't have a bad seat
But the vast majority of whoredom and the vast majority of girls going in this direction is because of a bad father
It's because of the father's not taking responsibility for their daughters and the bible is literally even saying hey
Don't prostitute thy daughter to cause there to be a whore lest the land fall to whoredom
And you know what america has fallen to whoredom because fathers are allowing their daughters to prostitute themselves
And in many cases, they're literally prostituting themselves in their physical presence
I mean you just go to the mall today and there will be dads walking up and down
The all of the area with their daughter dressed like a literal whore dressed like a literal harlot
Dressed in a way that she would have been arrested 50 years ago in this nation
And people are horrified and shocked by that, you know
You couldn't just dress however you wanted in america in the 50s and in the 60s you couldn't wear that
Uh, itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, you know that whole song
Is is basically talking about there was so much of a social stigma and even criminal law against it
That this woman's afraid to be in a two-piece two-piece bikini
But now it's a sports bra and it's fine, right?
Now it's just whatever you want to call. I mean girls literally are just virtually just dressed naked everywhere in the presence of their father
I mean
You're causing the whole land to fall to whoredom
And of course now women then they sell their bodies online
For money because they feel like that's the only thing they can do
Because you've already got them going down that road and they're just going to keep going down that road
It's not that they're just inherently worse than other women or something
It's you're pushing them in that direction
They feel like they have no option and they end up going in that direction in many cases
Now a lot of times they don't even have a desire to get into that
But they they get damaged and as a result of getting damaged then they end up becoming a whore even more down the road
Now, let's let's try to stop it at its root
Here's a woman that I don't think's a whore but could very well go into that lifestyle and it's Dinah
Jacob's daughter. How did she even get there? Genesis chapter 34 look at verse number one
And Dinah the daughter of Leah which she bare unto Jacob went out to see the daughters of the land and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her
Notice Dinah went out to what?
See the daughters of the land. Dinah has no intention to become a whore
Dinah has no intention of going in that direction, but she ends up going in that direction. Why? Because her dad wasn't around
You know who wasn't with Dinah? Jacob
He's not hanging out with her. He's just letting her just go out on the town
And you know what if you fathers think you can just let your young daughters
Just go out and do whatever they want you are literally setting them up to destroy themselves
Don't do it. I saw someone. It's not even like a
Fundamental Baptist or anything he said you know my daughter is going to go straight from my roof to her husband's roof with nothing in between
and I was like how can even the secular world or these you know fake Christians figure this out and
Even fundamental Baptist can't it's like the college and the dorm room and just letting girls
Just go out and do whatever. It's destroying our country
It's destroying our society and once they get defiled here's the problem
Hamor is actually an honorable guy. He's considered the most honorable person in this town most guys are not like him
Most guys as soon as they get this now
They're done with her and then she just goes to the next relation next and then pretty soon now the sudden
She's she has no options so now. She's just selling her body online
Selling smut online getting tricked into this scam and when they get into this scam now
It's hard for them to get out. This is the story of many young women today
The dadder the dad is not present. Go over to Proverbs chapter 7. You'll see this is a common theme
Proverbs chapter number 7 the dad's not present and
It's just it's destroying our society. We need to ban
Pornography in our society and not even make it available
We need to make it a crime again, and you know it's so sad in many states in America
It's illegal to to engage in prostitution like it's it's a criminal act
But magically if there's a camera involved. It's all of a sudden legal isn't that insane?
That's literally insane who's coming up with these loopholes. I wonder
Jews that's who you know and of course if we banned interest and pornography Jews wouldn't have any way to make any money anymore
In our society they're their purveyor
They're the purveyors of a lot of this bill pretty much everything the Bible says not to do they're doing and making money on it
all the vices
Gambling casinos just all this kind of stuff, and they just want to they want to make everyone filthy and dirty like them
They want you to go down into the sewers with them
literally, and if you don't go they might just snatch your daughters and drag them in the tunnels with them anyways and
You know you know how your daughter doesn't get snatched up. You're with her our world's getting dark
people are getting
Literally just taking advantage of and praise God you live in Texas because if you lived in Europe or in some of these really
Democrat cities women are being snatched off the streets and droves and killed there was a young lady in Georgia recently
who some migrant just snatched her off the road and
Just did horrible things to her and then killed her
young 22 year old girl who's involved in her church and
She was trying to become like a nurse or something an a student in college
Just just walking up down the street. You know what you know who wasn't there dad because he's off to college
Don't just think oh, I'm just gonna send off Dinah and just see how it goes
That never goes well the Bible makes it abundantly clear. It's the dad's problem
The daughter whenever she's given in marriage, you know gets paid for the dowry the dad
But you know what that dowry went away
I wonder if it's because dad just kept shipping off their daughters and just not even caring anymore and none of them are virgin anymore
And they haven't protected them anymore. They're not worth getting paid anyways
because all the women have just become horrors, and they're selling their bodies online and
You know oftentimes when it gets to that point. It's already too late
And it's like a lot of a lot of Christians and a lot of people say like yeah, I've been in pornography
Do you know what they won't do?
They won't actually watch their daughters until they get married. Oh
I'm against pornography. Well, if you're against pornography then make sure your daughter never leaves your sight until she has a ring finger on her hand
How about that oh that sounds that's difficult that's hard I don't want to have to do that
I'm not to pay your bills. Yeah, that's how you ban it
When you literally stop the supply
when you literally stop people from just having all these young women being out there and
And being damaged goods and just having no real good option
And they just fall victim to this system look what it says in Proverbs chapter 7 verse 7
It says and beheld among the simple ones I discerned among the use a young man void of understanding
So this is a guy going out. He's stupid
Verse 8 passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house
He runs into a woman now
What kind of a woman it says in verse number?
9 in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night and behold there met him a woman with the attire of a
Harlot and subtle of heart so this woman's dressed like a whore
But you know this is what's sad
She is loud and stubborn her feet abide not her house now as she without now in the streets and lieth and wait at
Every corner this sounds like America
Just tons of women out on the street dressed like whores and no dad in sight
No father in sight no husband in sight just whatever
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him
I have peace offerings with me this day have I paid my vows
Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face
And I have found thee I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestries carved works with fine linen of Egypt
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh owls and cinnamon come let us take our fill of love until the morning let us
Solace ourselves with loves here's the key verse for the Goodman is not at home
None of this would have happened if the Goodman was home
None of this would have happened if the Goodman was standing there and putting on a modest dress or skirt on this horse woman
This horse woman's out there in the attire of a harlot out there seeking for tricks
and you know what it's a shame because the Goodman is not at home and
Why is it that we have such a pornography issue in our society is because the Goodman is not at home
It's because while men slept the enemy is sowing tears amongst the wheat
It's because men don't want to raise their daughters
It's because men are allowing girls to go out and just make this industry boom
Because if there wasn't any there wasn't any supply there wouldn't be any demand folks
And let's just be honest about the demand factor here men are always in demand of this
The problem wasn't like hey, let's stop men from wanting this
Never had gonna happen. It's saying don't supply it
It's basically like don't just put food outside and
Expect that critters won't come it's like we got to solve the critter problem stop putting food outside
You know you can't you can't just put food outside
And then not expect all the night creatures to come and try to get it you have to basically stop the food
You know my parents would always say if there's a stray cat never feed it because it'll keep coming back
okay, and if the reality is you know the only way to really solve this problem is you have to you have
To cut it off at the root, and we have to stop supplying it
We need to stop having the ability to put it out there and as as a Christian society
You know we us we need to stop supplying it a hundred percent. You know we're raising the next generation
We're the ones bopping out babies have you seen the bulletin?
So many precious little girls here
What a shame and embarrassment if we have the same rate of girls going into prostitution and pornography is the world I?
Mean all these precious little children
But you know what it's gonna be because a dad
Didn't watch his daughters didn't take care of his daughters didn't protect his daughters didn't provide for his daughters
You know we need some real men to rise up and and help this problem and stop this problem
And you know what there's even
Politicians there's a guy in Oklahoma City Dusty Devers. He's a state senator. He's proposed a bill to ban pornography
And I'm thinking like praise God
That sounds great, you know he's a Baptist pastor
Hey, praise God. There's actually a Baptist pastor out there. That's willing to ban pornography
I hope he also watches his daughters to though I
Hope he also encourages people to do that because the reality is this is probably never gonna happen
It's another wolf where there's so much money
There's another guy out there Solomon Friedman. I don't know if you know what religion he is
Solomon Friedman is the owner of a company called ethical capital partners
That sounds wonderful
Ethical we're so ethical well, what's unique about ethical capital partners is they recently bought a new company
They bought a company
That owns 16
Websites and guess what they're all invested in
adult entertainment in
Fact they're the top they're the number one all this is the number one company for providing adult entertainment online
Solomon Friedman and his company's part of this company
Ethical capital partners who recently purchased this here's some interesting facts about Solomon freedom. He's an ordained rabbi
You want to talk about someone that's guilty of filthy lucre you want to talk about someone
That's going after unjust gain. It's the rabbi who literally owns the top porn sites in the world
Think about that
The number one company and this company doesn't own one site it owns top
16 in fact some argue the top six in all the top six are owned by the same company
And it's this guy ethical capital partners
What a wicked satanic evil person
Now they have a business front website where you can learn about this ethical capital partners
This is what they say about them
They have like all these paragraphs talking about how wonderful the company is what is called ethics first investing
So of course they're their ethics minded first folks. Okay. Here's a quote from their website
We seek out investment opportunities and industries that require
principled ethical leadership
I
Mean
you invest in
Smut and that is requires
principled ethical
leadership
The this is insane folks the world that we live in
But you know what it's always the same people
Why do you think it the Bible says there's a synagogue of Satan and they do exactly the opposite of what the Bible says and
It's like what are Jews mostly invested in
Interest and pornography my friend you want to know who owns the banks you want to know who owns the money in this world
You want to know who's putting out all the smut in this world it is Jews and is
They are the minions of the devil it is Satan behind the curtain
using his minions to try and pervert the minds and the hearts of our youth and
They want Christians to fall into the trap of pornography and they want Christians phone the trap of interest and both will suck the life
out of you and
It has never been easier than 2024 to get to fall into one of these traps
It is literally on every street corner on every website on
Everywhere there's just businesses. Just trying to rip you off with interest
There is an opportunity to look at smut at the drop of a finger and let me tell you something
We need to protect our children from these evil traps
They will destroy them. They will destroy everyone and
You know the reality is you're never going to crush demand
for these products
We have to as men try to create boundaries and try to prevent our youth
From getting taken advantage of these areas and let me tell you something children are too foolish and too stupid
To guard themselves you as a parent you have to protect them on these issues
Protect them from the internet protect them from a lot of these evils don't let them get sucked in
I mean how many children are going to college and what are the two things that they leave college with?
student loans and
an STD list I
Mean think I mean think about it young men are going to college, and they're just getting just totally in debt and interest and
You know they have a big problem in this area usually as well
why because they don't have any boundaries you know I'm even for keeping your sons at home and
Protecting them and guarding them and not letting them down this road
You know we as men need to make sure that we are
The gatekeepers of our household, and we have to try our best to prevent this as much as possible
It's probably impossible to escape it
Completely, but can we at least limit it can we can we at least just be realistic about the threat?
That's out there. Can we at least do the best that we can for ourselves, and you know probably almost every
Person has fallen victim of both of these many times just because it's the reality
It's what's going on there, but just think of a Jew laughing every time you do it, and maybe that'll help you
Because it's literally a Jew behind the curtain
doing all this stuff go if you want to go one more place go to Leviticus 20, okay, and
You know
Just like anything
Sin is not trying to necessarily show you where they really want to take you at first
They just they just kind of want to get you
Like in the water and then eventually they'll suck you to somewhere you never wanted to be
And that is how pornography is where they just want to kind of get you enticed with something
And then they just want to take you to the weirdest most disgusting filthy
Places imaginable okay, and it's called Leviticus 20
Leviticus 20 is literally what's happening in our country right now and
Through this industry and it needs to be banned
I mean it's insane when you read this chapter, and you're thinking like why are people doing this or why are we allowing this?
It's like that's what's happening in the pornography industry in our country
now
Leviticus chapter 20 look at verse 10 and
The man that committed adultery with another man's wife even he that committed adultery with his neighbor's wife the adulterer and the adulterer
She'll surely be put to death
This is now being promoted by people like sneeko
Online who literally has men commit adultery with his wife and puts it on the internet I?
I
Mean that's the and then now it's like in popular culture where people are constantly talking about this and
Constantly bringing this up like this should be the death penalty
Sneaker's wife and that person should be put to death according to God's law not giving him lots of money
I mean this guy is literally making millions of dollars by pimping out his wife
And the worst thing about it is the Goodman is at home the Goodman is at home, and he's doing that
look at verse 11 and
The man that lieth with his father's wife
Hath uncovered his father's nakedness both of them shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them and if a man
Lie with his daughter-in-law both of them so surely with the death they have wrought confusion their blood shall be upon them
Incest and look there's a lot of incest in this chapter
I don't want to read all it's so gross, but a lot of that is happening in our society through this wickedness and
What happens next verse 13 if a man also lie with mankind is he lies a woman both of them have committed an abomination
There they they shall surely put the death their blood shall be upon them. That is a major component of pornography
the LGBT community is
Majorly involved in this industry, and they're putting it out there and in fact a lot of people are arguing
You know these Jews and a lot of these individuals
They're arguing that that's their goal is to get as many people involved in this
But they slowly get them involved and the normal stuff so they can take them to the perverted route eventually
And they can drag them down now of course we understand that someone who's saved can't go that far
But think about how many people are not saved and they're just going into the normal stuff
How close they're getting they're tempting fate on these issues and getting confused how many?
Teenagers and young people are being told that they're this something that they're not and then getting sucked into this stuff and messed up
on this stuff
There's so many teenagers and college students today that are struggling with this because their dad won't shut it off
He won't shut it off for himself
And he won't shut it off for the kids and he's not taking control of the household
And he's just destroying our country today
and
Some Jew is out there. Just destroying our country literally like the parasite. He is and
Ethical it's ethical capital standards. We're so ethical
look at verse 14 and
If a man take a wife and her mother it is wickedness
They shall be burnt with fire
Both he and they that there be no wickedness among you this this is what we should have as laws
You know verse 15 and if a man lie with a beast he shall surely with the death and he shall slay the beast
You know this stuff
I remember as a kid reading this chapter in the Bible and just thinking like why do we even need to say these things?
Like this stuff doesn't even like this doesn't even seem real
The sad reality is this is happening in America all the time. And you know what? Of course it happened in Canaan
Look at verse 23
I'm not gonna read the rest of it. You can read it later
You want to hurt inside verse 23 and he shall not walk in the manners of the nation
Which I cast out before you for they committed all
these things and
Therefore I abhorred them God abhors
America right now
God is so angry in our country. God is saying here is the worst things
Imaginable and here is a nation that was doing them. Here's a nation that was allowing them. Here's a nation that was
Excusing it and turning a blind eye to it
You know when you read Leviticus chapter 20th the very beginning of the chapter
It's saying hey when you turn a blind eye to this stuff
I'm gonna hold you guilty for it
And you know what God is looking down at America and he's so angry at the wicked sins that we have
He's so mad at the evil sins that we have and it would not surprise me if we are that end times Babylon
That the Bible talks about and we're just like Canaan where God's just allowing the wrath to come to the full and then he's gonna pour
Out extreme vengeance on our nation, but you know what as God's people we don't have to get into these traps
You know, I would love for us to actually have a senator that would propose a bill to ban interests in pornography
That guy has to be brave
But it probably won't happen
Now I'm all for it. I'll still support it. You know, let's go team. Hey, I'm for dusty Devers pray for him in Oklahoma
Just even trying to ban pornography probably not happen
But but let me say something at least just raising the issue causes a few people to say hey
Maybe I need to make a change in my life
Maybe I need to not have as much interest
You know, it's almost as inescapable with mortgages, but you don't have to necessarily buy, you know gum on interest
Stop, okay
Because you know, they'll stop offering you credit cards to buy gum on interest. Would you stop signing up for them?
right
Stop getting taken advantage of through interest and you know what stop letting the smut
Come into your lives
Stop letting daughters go out of your sight and get involved in all this sin and evil and wickedness
And you know when people bring this stuff up we need to shame them again
You know, it's sad the site OnlyFans has become so popular now
It has two hundred and thirty million users
That's a lot of people
3.1 million creators and
In 2020 it grossed 2 billion it makes more money than almost every other content like creator content site combined
It's disgusting, you know, it's you know, it's really interesting about OnlyFans. I think it was in 2021
They were going to ban pornography on their site
It came out
If you don't believe me you look it up OnlyFans literally said hey, we're we don't like the reputation we've gotten
We're gonna ban pornography on our site
And then all of a sudden it changed the CEO left and then Solomon freedom bought it
ethical capital partners
Hey, what religion is, you know triumphing in America right now
Christianity or
The synagogue of Satan that's a shame. That's an embarrassment. You know, there was enough pressure and enough
You know morality and someone to say like hey, I need to shut this thing down
But then he what he sold out
And just sold it to
Solomon
Sold it to Friedman. Hey, you know Solomon. It's interesting that guy's name. So Solomon seemed to have a problem this area too, didn't he?
I'm telling you, you know, there's a serious issue a spiritual issue in our inner situ in our country right now
and we need to take charge as leaders and set the right example and talk about these things and
Expose these things and you know, we need to protect our children
It's a it's a dark world if you give your children unfettered access to the internet you're an idiot
You should be monitoring and you know, even just as men you should allow
you know your wife to look at your phone and computer whenever they want and however they want and
You know, we need to just stop letting the Jews destroy us
I mean they they're not in it
You know the agendas that they're pushing through both of these things are so evil
I don't want to get into the details of it
but it's just what they're trying to do to our society is so bad and
they're trying to get people into the worst sins imaginable through these vices and we need to try and shut off the valve and
Get control of them and even if we can't ban it as a state
Let's just try to ban it in our own personal lives
Let's try to get rid of it. All right, let's close in prayer
Thank Heavenly Father so much for giving us righteous and holy laws
Thank you for helping us, you know, even deal with dirty and gross subjects
I pray that you would just give us strength as Christian men to resist the flesh and
To not fall victim a lot of the traps that are out there
I pray that we'd have the the fortitude and the wisdom
to avoid a lot of the evils that are out there and
I pray that you would give a strong desire in the hearts of men to protect their daughters and to protect their sons and
They would help us to avoid these evils that are out there and if possible, you know
I pray you just wake a lot of people up to what's really going on in our nation and
And maybe we could have a revival of people recognizing the evils that are there
But let us first begin at the house of God in Jesus name we pray amen
For
Our final song let's sing song 56 when we all get to heaven
Song 56 when we all get to heaven
Song five six, let's sing it out when we all get to heaven
His grace in the mansions bright and blessed
He'll prepare for us a place
when we all
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Right
The victory great singing. Thank you all for coming. God bless