Let's look back at verse 21 where the Bible reads and God created great whales and every living creature that moveth
Which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw
That it was good and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl
Multiply in the earth. So in the beginning God shows us his creation
He shows us all the things he did he did it took him six days to create everything and he rested on that seventh day
And as he creates living creatures as he creates fish and fowl and all these different animals and beasts
He gives them a certain commandment to be fruitful and to
multiply and the Bible tells us that every one of his creatures has its seed inside itself so that it can
replicate so that it can grow and it can fill the earth with not just
You know animals or plants, but even mankind look at verse 28 and
God blessed them
so after he created the man and the woman says and God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the earth and
subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every
Living thing that moveth upon the earth
So God created man and the first instruction in the Bible the first
Mention of any kind of commandment any kind of statute anything that God says to mankind. What's the first thing he says be fruitful and
multiply be fruitful and multiply and that's the title of the sermon this morning is be fruitful and
Multiply now. This is a very important commandment that God gives to Adam and Eve and every creature
You say why is it so important? Well, let me just point out an obvious fact if Adam and Eve did not
Produce reproduce mankind would have immediately died
They were they had to I mean if Adam and Eve don't reproduce then mankind will cease to exist
So obviously it's extremely important that Adam and Eve
Reproduce that they're fruitful and that they not only just have one or two kids, but they multiply meaning that
There's more kids than they are them. In fact now
Keep your finger in Genesis because we're gonna come back to Genesis but go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 for a moment
Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4
Now what I'm gonna teach this morning is that you should have as many kids as God will bless you
But unfortunately that doctrine that teaching is under attack from so many different people
There's so many different people that don't like that commandment. They don't think that's a biblical commandment
So they come up with all kinds of crazy weird ways to try and discount this as a commandment
Look, it's the first instruction given to them in the Bible
I mean if you go to Genesis chapter number two you find out that God gave a commandment to Adam
Technically before this one
but the first commandment mentioned to mankind in the Bible in Genesis chapter number one is to be fruitful and to
Multiply and I'm gonna argue that it's the most important commandment in the Bible
I mean if you're gonna say what's the most important instruction you can give to mankind it's the be fruitful and multiply
That's the most important instruction you can give them but no matter what God says it's a commandment. Okay now
Let me prove you that everything in Genesis chapter number one's a commandment because anything that God says to you
Let me tell you something. It's a commandment. God doesn't give you suggestions
God doesn't give you like good ideas. He commands you to do things and
Everything he said in Genesis chapter one was a commandment and some people I've heard and say this well
He blessed them, but it wasn't a commandment. Look God's telling them to do something. He's saying be fruitful
That's an obvious commandment. It's an action that they have to take that they have to do
It's something that they're instructed to do. It wasn't like a good idea. It wasn't like a maybe it's like
This is what you need to do. You need to be fruitful and you need to multiply just like every creature
Just like every beast, you know, even the inanimate objects as we would look at them
God commanded them and they obeyed look what it says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 6 for God who?
Commanded the light to shine out of darkness. So notice when he said let there be light that wasn't a suggestion
What does the Bible say he commanded he says hey let there be light and it just happens because anything God says
It's a commandment and it's gonna happen. I mean when God speaks there's power
There's nothing like the power of the Word of God and whenever God the Father says something. It's a commandment
It's not a good idea. It's obviously a good idea, but it's not just that alone. It's something you're instructed to do
Okay
and notice it says that shined out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the
Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ
So obviously the beginning God even separating the light from the darkness was a picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ
It was a picture of the fact the world is in darkness today and the only thing that gives them light is the gospel of Jesus
Christ but go back to Genesis and I want to prove this further
I don't want to leave any doubt in your mind that to have children is a commandment instructed in the Bible
Okay. Now go to Genesis chapter 9 and let's look at verse number one
Now it would never be more important than at the time of Adam Eve for this instruction because if they fail
Mankind fails right but there's other times in history where it was very important very vital
Especially after the flood after God has just wiped out all mankind
This is another time in which it's very important that mankind is fruitful multiplies so that they don't cease to exist
So they don't go and they're not eradicated. They're not extinct
okay, now look at Genesis chapter 9 verse 1 and God blessed no one his sons and said unto them be fruitful and
Multiply and notice this and
Replenish the earth now some people will like squawk at this wording
They're like replenish, you know, it's mentioned in Genesis chapter. Number one. It was mentioned in Genesis chapter number nine
You know why the word replenish is used is because that instruction is not just for Adam and Eve. It's for all mankind
And the reality is didn't they fill the earth before the flood?
Yeah, they'd filled it but then it was decimated. It was destroyed
Mankind was wiped out except for a handful of families
And so why would he say replenish because if you just said fill the earth then they can say well mission accomplished
We don't need to do that again, but no God wants you to continually replenish the earth
No matter what happens throughout history no matter what plague or virus or war or whatever would decimate
Regions or areas of the earth God wants mankind to constantly replenish those areas and to fill the earth over and over again
There's no time in which God does not want us to multiply, you know, and there's all kinds of atheists and scientists
You know, we got to limit the the carbon emissions in our environment, you know, and one of these, you know
carbon emissions have to go down either cattle or
man, or
You know, it's like well, I don't eliminate either those so
You know, I like both of those and you know what God likes both of them
And you know what God can handle us multiplying on the earth
You know God if you just drive through Texas, there's a lot more land than there is people
I mean you just drives just land for miles and in every direction and it's just like there's plenty of space on the earth
My friend, okay, we're not overcrowded. You might be overcrowded in your weird apartment, but it's not overcrowded on the earth. Okay?
Now somebody would say again
Yeah, but if you pay attention to Genesis 1 and Genesis 9 it says God bless them. So it's a blessing
It's not a commandment
Well, it's both because you know what bless is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly
Hey, that's a commandment. Still you you don't think that it's a commandment to forsake the ungodly
Hey, you're supposed to delight in the law of God and you know what when you follow God's commandments
Yeah, of course, you're gonna be blessed but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's commandment
You know honor thy father my mother that thy days may be long on the earth, you know, that's a blessing
You know, it's also commandment
As it's both and here's the thing if you're gonna say that everything God's saying here is just a blessing
Well, you're gonna have some weird doctrine. Look at verse number six
Who shall shedeth man's blood by man? Shall his blood be shed for in the image of God may be man
Is that a blessing or commandment?
That's a commandment now, obviously, it's good to eradicate evil, but you know what?
It's not just a blessing to have the death penalty. It's a commandment
God commanded the death penalty you say well, that's the law. This isn't the law
This is before the law and notice the death penalty was already instituted and it's an important doctrine because you know when there's no death penalty
Then their violence just spreads in all the earth
It's just but it's abundant, you know, he's spreading and it's going everywhere and we live in a society today
That's lowering the death penalty
It's importance not wanting to utilize that and notice what we see lots of murder
Lots of all kinds of evil in this world, you know, if you want to eliminate murder you have to kill the murderers
That's how you get rid of it
But notice the next breath and you be fruitful and multiply bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply there
So notice God is telling Adam and Eve multiply. He's telling Noah and his sons multiply
He's saying kill the bad people and you guys multiply
But you know, what's sad today is God's people are not multiplying and the murderers are multiplying
We need the exact opposite today
We need God's people to multiply and we need to put these wicked people down go to Genesis 35
Let me show you another place in the Bible
But God just keeps hammering this doctrine
It's the first instruction given in the Bible to mankind be fruitful and multiply
It's the most important thing we can do is to be fruitful and to multiply
He tells Noah and his sons be fruitful and to multiply he says in Genesis 35
Look at verse 10 and God said unto him thy name is Jacob thy name shall not be called any more Jacob
But Israel shall be thy name and he called his name Israel and God said unto him
I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply
So he's just like he's like I am God Almighty. Hey, what's the most important instruction?
I gave you be fruitful and multiply. I mean, this is out of the mouth of God
He's instructing Adam and Eve he's instructing Noah he's instructing Jacob or Israel
What's the most important thing you can tell them be fruitful and multiply?
God wants his people to multiply you know why because it gives more honor and glory to him
You know what? God wants the heavens to be filled with saved people
He wants the earth to be filled with saved people why so they can sing praises unto his name
And you know what God puts that in the heart of mothers and fathers to have lots of children because it's a blessing and
it's a commandment to a
Nation and a company nation shall be of thee and King shall come out of thy loins now go to the decks
It's 21 X is 21. Not only did God instruct you to be fruitful and multiply
There's other places in the Bible that prove the exact same doctrine. It's impossible to escape this doctrine from the Bible
It's extremely clear. And in fact having children is a duty of marriage
Okay. Now this is what people will say to this. This is what how people will kind of attack this
They'll say well, you can't affect whether or not you get pregnant. I
Will say the answer to that is true
You can't God according the Bible God opens and closes the womb
But here's the thing if you're gonna follow all God's commandments. He will honor his word
Okay, and I can prove that in the Bible, but here's the thing it's not in your
Power to open and close the womb. But you know what if you're married you must come together
That is a clear commandment. So, you know really when it comes to being fruitful multiplying
This is what I tell people you should try to have as many kids as God will bless you with
You should just try to have as many kids as God will bless you
Then you're within God's will if God for whatever reason causes you to not have children or delayed children
Or whatever scenario you end up falling into as long as you're trying you're doing your part
Okay, and you have to trust in the Lord with faith with faith that he is gonna honor his word and he's gonna do
What's right for you and your family? But here's the thing
You have to do the duty of marriage and the reason why most people aren't having children is because they're not doing the duty
of marriage
Look at what it says in Exodus 21 verse 10
If you take him another wife her food her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish
So this is saying in a bad scenario
Some man takes a second wife, which is a sin
It's not right for him to do but if he finds himself in that scenario if he happens to have two wives
Like the Old Testament a lot of men did it's saying he's not allowed to
Forgo the bare necessities of marriage just the most basic requirements of marriage. What are they food?
I mean you got to provide the food if you're the man you have to provide for your wife number two her raiment
You have to buy her clothes. Okay, she's excited about that one
All right, and then number three her notice this her duty of marriage
That's children. And when you read the Bible in the Old Testament, it's continually the theme that women want to have children
Women are disappointed when they're not having children or their husbands not being with them and you know
It's a duty of marriage that the husband lie with his wife and they do the duty of marriage
So that they can have children go to the first Corinthians chapter number seven first Corinthians chapter number seven
Let me show this to you in the new test. You know, that's Old Testament. Okay. How about New Testament?
Let's go to the first. Let's go to first Corinthians and let me show you that you should be fruitful and multiply
Look at verse number one
The Bible reads now concerning the things where have you wrote unto me? It is good for a man not to touch a woman
Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
So if you want to avoid fornication, you have one option marriage
That is the only option for avoiding fornication and for 99% of us that is our option
Okay for ninety nine point even maybe nine percent of us
That's what you should do
If you have any desire towards the opposite gender you should get married says in verse three
Let the husband render unto the wife do benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband
The wife have not power of her own body, but the husband and likewise
Also, the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife defraud ye not one the other
except it be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves the fasting in prayer and
Come together again that Satan tempt you not for your notice this incontinency
Now, what is the Bible teaching here? It's using a little bit of
You know a vague language so as the guard, you know little ears, but it's just saying that the husband and the wife
They're supposed to come together on a regular basis, and they're not allowed to defraud one another
What's the point of getting married if you're not gonna do the duty of marriage?
It's not a roommate agreement
It's not like your buddies. It's not like you're just pals. It's much more than that. It's the duty of marriage
That's an obligation. That's a little point of marriage
Otherwise you could just be friends
But you know what marriage is much different than just being friends. It's being companions
In fact, the Bible like isn't becoming one flesh. You're now unified. He even called their name Adam
That's why a wife takes on her husband's name. They become one flesh
They're supposed to come together and when you come together, let me tell you a little secret you have kids
You want to know where kids come from from a man lying with a woman from knowing his wife
That's how they that happens now in verse number five
He says the reason why this is so important
The reason why this is such a major commandment in the Bible is because of your incontinence e what is incontinence e
It's a lack of self-control
There are certain physical needs that every person has okay. What are those needs?
Well, they were covered in the previous chapter verse that we looked at food
If you don't get food your body's gonna start screaming some of you might already be there
All right, you're like man. I need food food food, right if you aren't clothed upon
You know what go outside and you're gonna wish to be clothed upon very quickly
Why because these are basic human needs and in fact the duty of marriage is another
Basic essential need and it's saying if you're not getting it. Guess what you might look somewhere else for it
You know if you're driving across Texas and there's nowhere to eat McDonald's start sounding good
You know, but if they're you know, if you're eating at home if you're eating good meals, you know, you pass by McDonald's
You're like hey, you know what when it's late at night and everything's closed. You're like a double quarter pounder sounds pretty good
All right, I'll eat those fries as long as they're hot as soon as they're not hot
I don't know what happens to them, but they're not good
But the reality is what you have basic human needs and so you need to satisfy your partner
So that they're not looking for something else so they don't go towards something else. It's an important aspect of
marriage and let me tell you what this parlays into having children if you and your
Spouses are coming together and they're not using any kind of weird drugs or some kind of synthetics or some kind of
Murder control, I'm sorry birth control then essentially they're gonna have children
Now go to June Genesis 38. Let me show you the only story of birth control in your Bible
You say well, I I like to have kids when I want to have them. Well, that's not what God said
Number one and you're not supposed to take the place of God God opens and closes the womb
He decides when to do this and there was a certain man in the Bible
He liked the duty of marriage, but he didn't want to have the children
And you know how God felt about it. Well, let's read Genesis 38. Look at verse 6 and
Judah took a wife for err his first one. That's a bad name for your kid. Okay, err. His name was Tamar and err
Judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of Lord
It's almost like you see that one coming and the Lord slew him
He erred all right verse 8 verse 8 and Judah said in Onan go in under thy brother's wife and marry her and raise
Upceded thy brother now, here's the thing if you're married you owe it to do the duty of marriage
Okay, it says in verse number 9 and Onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in
Under his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground
Less that he should give seed to his brother and the thing which he did is please the Lord notice this
Wherefore he slew him also
So the only guy to practice birth control in the Bible just dies
You know the Bible says that these things are written for our admonition
Now how many times you think God needs to give us a story about birth control for you to realize how he feels about it
How about just one?
There's so many topics in our life. He doesn't have to sit here and give you 19 birth control stories
He can just give you one
This story is where he gives it to you over and over and over again
Signify its importance. How about like be fruitful multiply be fruitful multiply. Hey be fruitful multiply
Hey, how about he destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and then he destroys and judges chapter 19
And then they destroy the house of the sodomites that must be an important doctrine because he mentions that one a lot, right?
But this one mentioned one time it's a lesser doctrine, it's maybe a minor doctrine, but you know what God still feels strongly about it
God killed the first guy that we read about practicing this and you know what it's not right go to 1st Timothy chapter 2
1st Timothy chapter number 2
What's what's the point I have be fruitful multiply it's a duty of marriage
Notice onan is not willing to satisfy the duty of marriage
He forgoes and God kills him 1st Timothy chapter number 2
Let's see another example here of the duty of marriage
It says in verse 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in
childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety
So God says the way that the woman is saved from transgressing and being deceived by the devil is by bearing children
Now why would he say that if it's not even a commandment if it's not even something they should be doing
It's obvious. They should be doing it
It's an obvious lifestyle that they're supposed to be having and you know what a woman that wants to save herself from these things
I believe God's gonna fulfill his promise here and they're gonna bear in childbearing. Okay?
Now they have to continue in faith and other aspects of their life
But you know what children are gonna save you from the woes of this world
You know, if you don't have anything to do you're gonna get into trouble and you know what children is a lot to do
There's more than you can handle when it comes to kiddos
Especially if you have lots of them and that's gonna help save you from all the evils out there
You know being in church is gonna save you from making a bad decision this morning
You're not gonna do something stupid. You're not gonna
Do something that you shouldn't do because you're in church
Go to chapter 5 for a moment go to chapter number 5
Let me show you another place where the Bible literally commands women to bear children
First to be chapter number 5 look at verse 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry
Bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reposely
So notice he gives us just a straightforward commandment bear children
Bear children now, here's a question
They'd say well that's to the widows
Are you telling me that a woman who's single is sinning because she's not bearing children. No, that's stupid
Obviously all of God's commandments are contained within a certain context, right?
there's certain commandments that are for the single there's certain commandments for the married and
This commandment is to a specific woman. What is this woman? It's a woman that desires marriage
You know, I know she desires marriage because she's a widow
She was already married. You know what that tells me
She desires marriage, you know, if you were married you desired marriage now
It's the exception was someone that turned 60 or older because as you get older
Maybe those feelings could wane or could get to a point where you don't feel like it's as necessary
But it's saying a young woman who's already been married. She's gonna desire a husband still she's gonna desire that relationship
And so what's her commandment to bear children? So let's abstract that doctrine. Okay, let's take a young single lady
Who desires marriage, you know what they should do the same thing
They did marry and bear children and guide the house and give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully
The only exception the Bible gives and and people bring this up. It's stupid is they'll say well Paul says better not to marry
Yeah, but it's better to marry than to burn
And if you read that in context, he's basically saying this if you have no desire to be married then yeah
Technically speaking it would be better to stay unmarried and just serve God without distraction
But if you desire marriage, you know, it's better to get married
So then you can avoid fornication so you can avoid all the other sins that come with that necessity of life
And in fact, that's what God wants. Most people to do is the bear children
He didn't want Adam to be like what's probably better to be single, huh?
No, Adam was like this is great, you know, whoa, man
You know, I got a woman here and you know what they are gonna reproduce and they are gonna have children
Don't go to Psalms 127
So we're commanded to be fruitful multiply number two. It's the duty of marriage. It's expected of marriage
It's a commandment of marriage to come together and because you're coming together that will inevitably
reproduce children, okay
Third point is children are always a blessing. There's nothing negative with children
Nothing the Bible says that children are a blessing
they're always a blessing and it's only a brainwashed world that would look at a child and say that it's not a blessing and then
Kill it and then murder it and then give it to somebody else. I don't want to give people my blessings
I want to have my blessings that God has given to me and you know what?
There's all kinds of tactics and weird scenarios that people want to justify
Not having children or giving away their children or killing their children, but you know what you're destroying your own blessings
Psalms 127 verse 3 lo children are in heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward as
Arrows are in the hand of a mighty man. So are children of the youth
Happy is the man that at this quiver full of them
They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate
Look at 128 right next to it verse 1 blessed is everyone that fear at the Lord
You want to be blessed fear God, you know what he told you to do be fruitful multiply
And that walketh notice this in his ways
but thou shalt eat the labor thine hands happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee thy wife shall be as a
fruitful vine by the sides of thine house thy children like all of plants round about thy table
So the Bible saying when you fear God and you follow his ways and you do his commandments
You know what?
You're gonna your wife's gonna be like a fruitful vine and she's gonna reduce lots and lots of children
In fact in the 1900s and prior the average size of a family was eight children
That was the average
Eight and you know what throughout history having lots of kids was always looked at as being a blessing because now you have more people
Do you know bring in the harvest? Okay, they go plant the seed to go work in the field to work on the house
You know, they were looked at as servants because they should be servants
All right, amen, and you know what you need lots and lots of servants and you know what?
It was a blessing to have lots of kids
It was always looked upon as negative when you couldn't have lots of kids or you were struggling to have kids
It was a reproach as the Bible describes it. Okay, and
Ultimately, this would be called Baron right a woman who's barren or it could even be a man
It could be a man that his seed there's something wrong with his seed and he's unable to
Reproduce and this affects people obviously now. I think because of this scenario
People would balk at everything I've said so far
They would say well, how can it be a commandment if people are barren? Well good x is 23
Let me show you a couple things in the Bible first before you start balking at what the Bible actually says but
Baroness is not a positive thing
It's a negative thing and obviously we live in a sinful world
we see all kinds of the consequences of sin and we see we live in a fallen world and
There's all kinds of consequences of the fallen world that we live in that does not negate or take away from God's clear Commandments
Okay, and if you actually study the Bible, let's just see what the Bible says in this topic
Okay, throw out all preconceived ideas and just let the Bible speak for itself this morning. Okay. Look at Exodus 23 verse 20
The old I sent an angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place
Which I have prepared
Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon your transgressions for my name is in him
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I speak
Then I will be an enemy under thine enemies and an adversary under thine adversaries for mine angel
So go before thee and bring thee in under the Amorites and the Hightites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites
The Hivites and the Jebusites and I will cut them off
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them nor do after their works
But thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their images and you shall serve the Lord your God
And you shall bless thy bread and thy water and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee
There shall nothing cast their young notice this nor be
Barren in thy land the number of thy days. Well, I I will fulfill
Notice what God said
God said that if his people would follow his commandments perfectly and they would do everything that's right in his sight
Nothing would be barren and this isn't just humans. This is even their beasts
It's saying every single thing would bring forth
everything would always
Multiply so somebody would say well, how is it a commandment if it's out of your control?
Well, here's the thing if you follow all of God's commandments you this would never be a scenario technically speaking now
We have to understand about this is I get sick you get sick
Why because for all of a sudden comes short of the glory of God and there's gonna be consequences to those actions
But that's not gonna cause me to say well, you know what?
I don't believe God's commandments on health or sanitation or any of these things or I don't believe what God told me in
The Bible because bad things happen to me. Look why don't you take the consequences of your sin number one?
And you know, there's lots of people they get on birth control at a very young age and they take this medication for decades
And then they try to have kids and they're barren and they say oh, what's the problem?
Well, maybe it's the consequence of taking birth control for a decade. Have you ever read the insert?
Have you ever read what it says about it? I mean, it'll literally cause ovarian cancer
It causes all kinds of dryness in the womb and there's all kinds of consequences and ill effects
You know what? I'm not gonna blame God for me not having children if I've been on birth control for decades
Okay, and you know what even people that have done that they've still had children
Okay, there could be other reasons why you know
I am barren based on the consequences of my sin go to Deuteronomy chapter number seven Deuteronomy chapter number seven
You say that's not nice to say I didn't say it God did
I'm just telling what the Bible says. Okay, don't get super mad at me first
All right, and I'm gonna explain this thoroughly
But barrenness is the result of sin
Okay, as the Bible would describe here that you would not be barren if you're following all of God's commandments
Okay, just like everything that's negative in our life is a consequence of our sins
Okay, Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 11 thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command thee this day
to do them
Wherefore it shall come to pass if ye harken to these judgments and keep and do them that the Lord thy God shall keep
unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware to thy fathers and he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee
He will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land
Thy corn and thy wine and thine oil the increase of thy kind in the flocks of thy sheep
And the land which he sware unto the father I father's to give thee now notice
He's saying if you follow my commandments, I will bless you. I will give you children
I will open the wound and you say well, maybe that's just generic
Maybe that's just like as a whole
Well, let's look at the next verse thou shalt be blessed above all people
There shall be not male or female
Baron among you or among your cattle
What does the Bible say
The Bible says if they follow God's commandments perfectly if they were following his law
There wouldn't be a single guy or a single woman that were barren none
zero even their cattle
So people that want to say well
It's not a commandment to have children because you're not Katie. You're not in complete control
Yes, and no obviously God opens close to the womb
But notice if he says if you followed all those commands perfectly you would have children
That sounds like you are in control then to me, doesn't it go over to Galatians chapter before go to Galatians chapter number four
Now, what are you saying pastor Shelley? Are you saying that if someone's barren?
They're just super sinful and we should you know, tell them how sinful they are
No, in fact, we see at least three stories of people that are barren in the Bible and they're like the greatest people on
The planet there's some of the godliest Christians you see Zacharias and Elizabeth
They're perfect in the law and they're barren for a very long time
Do you know what eventually happens? They have John the Baptist. Hey, you see Hannah a
Godly woman someone who loves the Lord someone who fears the Lord barren for a very long time
As a child you see Abram and Sarah
Abram and Sarah some of the godliest people on the planet barren for a really long time
No one's been as barren as long as they have I
Mean 99 and 89 and we're talking about people that are real old and for a real long time
Not having God's commandments and you know what instead of
Sticking with the Bible and sticking with having faith in what God promised. They tried to have children their own way through a surrogate
Through agar, you know what and that was a sin. That was a mistake. There was consequences to that decision
They should have stayed faithful and not bought that God's commandments
But you know what?
They eventually got it right and they didn't balk at God's commandments and Abraham didn't stagger the promise of God
But through faith he had the child of promise which is Isaac
Okay
So are you saying someone that's barren is you know a worse sinner than us? No, I'm not saying that
But what I am saying is this every single person should try to have as many children as God will give them
You know what if God caused you to be barren your whole life
That's probably just the consequence of sin
You know what people that are barren for a really long time God could still end up blessing them with children
You know every person that was barren in the Bible and repeatedly prayed and asked God to have children they all ended up getting pregnant
Now I'm not saying that that's definitely gonna be your scenario, but why don't you have the faith like they did?
Why don't you just ask the Lord and then beg and pray for them?
Hey, you know what?
I try to pray for people that are in that scenario because I want them to have children and I know that God wants
to have children and you know what it's a spitting in the face of
People that can't have children when you can and you choose not to
There are so many people that they wish they could have a child
That they're praying every single day to have a child and then there's parents that could have them and they're like me
I don't want a child
You know, what are the excuses that people come up with? Oh, it's not healthy to have lots of kids
Well, you know actually if you look up statistics just look it up
women that have children even into their 40s
Always have longer lifespans in a general population
You know why because God gave you certain body parts to be put to use and when you use them
God is gonna allow you to have a longer life and look a little kid is gonna cause you to be more active
It's more pressure. It's more things to do. So it's gonna give you more to live for
You know a lot of people die when they finally have nothing to live for
Like my grandfather this year. My grandfather this year was 97 years old and good health probably could have made it to 100
you know the stupid COVID nonsense where they lock people in a room and just slide food under the door and
TV is just gone to like hell even worse than before it's the same reruns of hell, you know
It's like it's not only it's not new hell. It's like the old hell and it's just like, you know baseball, you know
No basketball nothing and my my grandfather just ended up giving up the ghost and you know what?
He has nothing left for nobody can see him. Nobody can talk to him. Nobody can be around him
So he has nothing to live for you know
But when you have lots of grandkids you have lots of life you have lots of people around you
You know what? It's gonna extend your life
Not gonna decrease your life people say well, I can't afford it
No one can afford it. Okay
They're expensive and you buy your kids everything you want to buy them. You can't afford it
You have to limit yourself, you know, and honestly if we were to just compare
The mayor the families in America the ones that have the most money and the least amount of money
You know which families are bigger
The ones that the least amount of money
Isn't that funny that all the ones have the least amount of money are the ones somehow making it work and all the families
That have you know millions they have one little, you know, Lord Fauldrons or whatever, you know
Theodore, you know, it's like and you know, how are we gonna afford everything?
You know, I had a family member tell me well, you can't just have lots of kids. How are you gonna Ford College?
And I said well, I don't want my kids to go to college. I
I
Said I just want them to be saved. I wanted to be saved and serve God. That's what I want for my kids
I said I I hope I have a hundred and if they none of them go to college
But they're all saved and they love God. Praise the Lord
You know what? College is the worst decision I ever made my entire life
Anyways, I just got in all kinds of sin and trouble and I learned absolutely nothing
Because the professor gave you the test before you took it. So, you know what the curve was
97 I feel bad for the idiots that got a 90 or whatever on that test
They were probably just trying to make it like they weren't cheating or something, you know
I got to miss one or something, you know, I'm like what college that's stupid
That why is that a reason not to have kids?
Because you can't afford college
Oh, I I can't pay people millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars to brainwash my child into atheism. Oh, man
How are you how are they gonna survive?
How are they gonna waste and get all this debt waste their life get debt play beer pong
Get venereal diseases get STDs become make bastard children have no skills to work in the workforce
Oh, man, I don't know how to I can't carry these kids
Because they can't go through all those problems
Like it's stupid
That's a dumb reason even if I couldn't give them the best education on the planet. I'm still gonna have them
As you know what a bunch of poor fishermen that were ignorant or whatever became the greatest apostles on the planet
How about them? Oh, I can't afford for Peter to go to the college better not have him. Oh wait
Peter is a pretty good guy. I think
Like John and James and all these fishermen these poor fishermen
You know what? There's plenty of people that are blue-collar and they're way more godly than all these people that got into college
And you know what God's sight they're wise because the fool has said in his heart. There is no God
Oh, man, I hope they go to college. They won't be smart enough. They go to college. They might become stupid
They might become a fool. They might start believing dumb doctrine. That's a bad idea
Here's one that I've heard it seems legitimate, but I don't agree with it is they'll say well, we're struggling to have children
And we've had miscarriages and because we're having miscarriages. I don't want to just keep going through that emotional roller coaster
Well, let me first say I'm sorry because that sucks. That's terrible
You know, I've known I've known people that have over 10 miscarriages
That's a lot
You know, there's people that and if you have lots of children inevitably you might have a miscarriage here there
I know people their first child was a stillborn, you know, and that's horrific
That's horrifying, you know and not even knowing you're gonna have another child or any of these things
You know a lot of the people that miscarriages also have children, you know
And they look at those children. They would never ever take that back
They would never say, you know what I'll go through a hundred miscarriages if I get to keep my kid
You know and obviously that's terrible
But you know what God can still use it for good
God can still give you more character because you've gone through something difficult
You've gone through something very hard and you know what God asked his people to go through a lot of hard things in life
You know what God asked Hosea to marry a whore
It was that easy no and
After she committed a serial adultery on him after his kids were bastard kids not from him
He still he had to pay for his wife to stay with him
That's terrible
under God's direction under God's
Guidance because he wanted to picture
Israel suffering in a horrible marriage was like God with the children of Israel, you know
And some people have terrible marriages. Some people have a hard time having kids
Some people have all kinds of evil that happened to them. You know what? There's no excuse to not follow God's commandments
And you know what if it's hard, it'll just make you a better person
You know some of the people that are the greatest people that the most character have gone through the most difficult
Circumstances, you know and that'll make you a really good person
It'll help you appreciate the things you have in your life people that never have a miscarriage may not appreciate the difficulty of bearing children
And you know what? I feel bad for anybody that's gone through this difficulty, you know, or you even lost a child
I knew families they had a child and they lost him at six months or they lost him at one year
That's even harder. You know what? They're not gonna come up to you and say well
I wish I'd never had them maybe in the initial moments of rage, but afterwards they're gonna say, you know what?
I still appreciate the little bit of time. I had that child, you know
My mom had miscarriages and she would always when people would ask how many children do you have? She would just say four
Because she had a miscarriage and she's like, I can't wait to see them in heaven
Hey, you know
David had a miscarriage
And you know what David wasn't glum about it. David says I'm gonna see him. I'm gonna be with him
I'm gonna still get to rejoice with him and you know what that should not discourage you from having
Children because they might have a short life
Or maybe no life outside of the womb
God commanded be fruitful multiply. I'm not gonna take away from God's commandments because things might get tough
You know and some people say well that's selfish to make your wife have all those kids
Well, first of all, my wife loves being pregnant
She begs to be pregnant. She prays to be pregnant. She wants to be pregnant
Okay, so I don't feel like it'd be selfish for me to tell her not to have kids
In fact, it'd be selfish if I told her not to
And you know, I know women who complain and cry and weep because their husband won't have kids with them
You know and they do stupid things like get a vasectomy
Which you just basically, you know clipped off your man card for that one
Talk about being a henpecked man, you know, I know you're a henpecked man. You had a vasectomy
You know and these stupid losers they get vasectomies, you know
They usually do commit adultery
Because now they give themselves these green lights in their mind and they come in all this adultery and infidelity
Look, don't get rid of your manhood. All right, we need men to stay men today
Don't become an effeminate queer sissy by chopping off what God gave you
Okay, the only people that do that are transgender faggots
Okay, and I'm not gonna be that and you shouldn't be that either. I
Would rather have a thousand children to raise than have a vasectomy
And I know it's not gonna happen, all right, so
But that's stupid. Well, they say well you can't spend as much time with your kids
It's like that's a dumb argument
Okay, first of all, if I play basketball with my one kid
how is that different than playing basketball with my five kids and
You know what kids want they want other kids to play with it's more fun to play with five than one
You know what? If you only have one kid, there's like a whole host of board games. You can't even play
Cuz it's like four players. It's like
You know what? Hey the more the merrier
This is so stupid. It's a dumb argument to say that if you have too many kids, you can't spend enough time with them
Whoo, you know, that's a dumb argument. That's a foolish argument
You know what?
It's just any excuse not to have children and people come up with the dumbest excuses the weirdest excuses to break God's commandments
You know what God's commandments stand there the wisdom of this world go to Galatians 4 if I had you go there Galatians chapter 4
And look I'm making a very strong carnal application
But you know what the great beauty of God's Word is it not only has carnal application has spiritual application
Have you ever looked at our bulletin we have both
We have the carnal being fruitful multiplying and then on the front on the very beginning
We have what the spiritual being fruitful multiplying
But you know, what is hammered on our bulletin be fruitful multiply
I'm a just hammered. I mean, it's so winning time on Sunday and so any time on Monday and so any time
Hey, this lady's expecting and this lady's pregnant and hey, here's the baby announcement
I mean, you know, we're hammering and thundering God's most important commandment to be fruitful and multiply
And you know what those things were a picture not just carnally but spiritually Galatians 4 verse 24
Which things are an allegory?
For these are the two covenants the one from the Mount Sinai which gender at the bondage which is agar
This agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answered the Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with their children
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all or it is written
Rejoice thou baron that barest not break forth and cry now that travail us not for the desolate
Have many more children than she which hath and husband now
We brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise now if you can't have physical children, you can all have spiritual children
Hey, you could be barren physically, but you know what you don't want to be barren spiritually and
There's a lot of people that are barren spiritually today not producing fruit. And you know what it's a shame
It's a reproach and the commandment the clear commandment of God is for us to be fruitful and multiply and you know
What if we don't multiply?
Christianity will cease to exist
It's so important that we go out and preach the guys
I mean if we were gonna argue what's the most important Commandments given in the New Testament?
How about go you therefore and teach all nations?
You know what that is being fruitful multiplying. How about going to all the world and preach the gospel every creature
What is that being fruitful and multiplying? How about the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life?
And he that win his souls is wise
You know what we need to go out soul winning so we can do what be fruitful and multiply
Go to mark chapter 4 go to mark chapter number 4
Look Jesus Christ gave us the power. He gave us the Commission. He gave us the job
What's the most important thing we can do as we can be fruitful multiply physically and we can be fruitful multiply spiritually
These are the only two things that matter in your life
When you go to heaven, you know, it's gonna be the most important two things you did
multiplying physically and spiritually
Those the only things that matter and obviously the spiritual is the most important
The spiritual is the one that matters the most but you know what when you have physical kids
If you train up a child the way you should go when he's old and not apart from it
You know what? You can still get them safe, too
And every soul is precious. I want my children to be saved
I want my children be up there with me in heaven and not just to be a
Saved Christian but also be a soul winner, too
I want to produce trees like me that are gonna go out and produce fruit. Look at mark chapter 4 verse 20 and
These are they which are sown on good ground
such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit some 30 fold some 60 and some a
Hundred now that's a multiplication
one person 30 one person 60 one person a hundred and look it takes a lot of
Effort to multiply spiritually to a hundred. I mean a hundred is a lot
I mean you have to go soul winning at least like an hour or two hour every week to produce a hundred in a year
I mean you're gonna have to be unless you're going to the most receptive place on the planet
I mean if you're going into America and you know, there's some places in America where that wouldn't be the case
There's some people that might go four hours every single week and only get 30 fold or maybe get 60 fold
You know what? It's not your job to think about
Well, it's not important if I'm going this area, you know
Some people need to get the 30 fold area saved and the 60 fold and the hundred fold
You know what? You need to go out and reproduce but you notice what it takes a good heart
You know, it's sad about this parable the parable of the sower. There was other hearts
There was the stony heart
There was the one that was choked with thorns, you know, those people were saved
But they weren't producing fruit, you know, it's sad people that get married and decide not to have kids
You know, it's even more sad Christians who are saved and decide not to give anybody the gospel
They just decide to be barren. They decide well, it's difficult. Well, it's hard. Well, I got better things to do
Well, I don't know if that's how it works. Yeah, that is how it works
You got to go to someone you preach the gospel you spread the seed and you know what you let the seed germinate through
God God's the one that opens and closes the womb physically and spiritually, but you know what?
It's your job to go out and sow the seed
With your wife and out preaching the gospel today. That's how people get saved
Is by preaching the gospel and we need more people to have a good heart
To go out and to preach the gospel and get people saved
You know and eventually we'll see what happened
Look at verse 21
and he said to them is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed and
Not to be set on the candlestick for there's nothing hid which should not be manifested
Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad. We will eventually know who won the 2020 election
It may not be next year, but there will be a time we'll know everything we'll know who killed Jeffrey Epstein
We'll know everything we're you know, there's gonna be that moment the great white throne judgment
It's gonna be like and you killed Jeffrey Epstein. You were like, oh, yeah, you know
It was Hillary
But everything's gonna be manifested and you know what we're gonna see who is getting the 30 saved
We're gonna see you got the 60 saved
We're gonna see you got the hundred saved. We're gonna finally see how Judas got no one saved
Zero
It's gonna be manifested hey, we have three groups of Christians are getting no one saved go to Psalm 109
I want to pick on this for a second
The stupid Judas doctrine good night
Someone that believes Judas is getting people saved is wicked
There I said it if you think Judas is getting people saved you're wicked and ignorant of the Bible
There's no other excuse
now
Go to Psalms 109 and let me just destroy and shatter this stupidity for a second
It says in Psalms 109 look or six set thou wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand
You know some people get mad at singing Psalms 139. This one seems more harsh
When he shall be judged let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin
someone needs to put this to music quick and
Let his days be few and let another take his office now you say who is he talking about?
Keep your finger here because we're coming back go to Acts chapter 1 go to Acts number 1
The Bible says there's a certain person
That you want a wicked person to come over him you want Satan to be right next to him you want when he's he's
Judged to be condemned you want even his prayers to be sinned you want his life to be short you want whatever
Office he had to be taken away from him now the Bible tells us exactly who we're talking about look at Acts chapter 1 verse 16
Men and brethren this scripture must needs have been fulfilled
Which is the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake concert before concerning notice this Judas
So the Bible says hey David when he was preaching whenever he was speaking
It was about Judas
We don't have to question
Which was a guide to them that took Jesus for he was numbered with us and obtained part of this ministry now this man
Purges the field with the reward of iniquity and following had long
He burst asunder in the midst and all his gals bowels gushed out
And it was known and all the dwellers that Jerusalem in so much as that field is called in their proper tongue
Al-saddamah that is to say the field of blood for it has written the book of Psalms
Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his bishop Rick let another take
So it's saying hey that Bishop Rick and the Old Testament is his office and it's saying let someone take his office
So go back to Psalms 109
Go back so tonight the Bible just tells you 100% we know for certain this verse is about Judas
Okay, so let's read that in mind
Set thou a wicked man over Judas
Verse six and let Satan stand at Judas right hand
When Judas shall be judged let Judas be condemned and let Judas prayer become sin and let Judas
Days be few and let another take Judas office
Okay, but let's keep reading
verse 9 let Judas children be fatherless and
Judas wife a widow that's extreme
Let Judas children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places
let the extortioner catch all that Judas hath and
Let the strangers spoil Judas labor
Let there be none to extend mercy unto Judas neither. Let there be any favor to Judas fatherless children
Let Judas posterity be cut off and in the generation following Judas name be blotted out
Let the iniquity of Judas fathers be remembered with the Lord and let not the sin of Judas mother be blotted out
Now this is extreme
You know what's coming from Exodus 20 the Bible says thou should not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the Lord
thy God
I'm a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers
Upon the children and the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, you know that tells me about Judas family
They must all hated the Lord
They almost been haters of God and he said hey let Judas father sins
come on Judas and let Judas mom sins come on Judas and
Not just Judas his children to the third and the fourth generation of them that hate him. Look at verse 15
Let them meaning Judas family be before the Lord continually that he may cut off the memory of Judas from the earth
Because that Judas remembered notice this not to show mercy. So how much mercy did you to show?
none
But persecuted the poor and needy man. What did you just do to the poor and needy man? He persecuted them
Notice this that he might even slay the broken in heart. Oh, what was Judas ministry like he persecuted the poor
What did he do? He slayed the broken in heart?
Now keep your finger here. Go to John chapter number 12. Go to John chapter number 12. Keep your finger here as we're coming back
How did that work out? How did he persecute the poor pastor Shelley?
Well, you know what the Bible tells you if you actually read the Bible
But there's stupid idiots out there that don't read the Bible and they just spew out nonsense
Like Judas is you know, the the greatest all winter. Oh, man. He's so awesome
Why don't you actually read what the Bible says about him first and then start forming opinions John chapter 12
Look at verse 4 then sayeth one of his disciples Judas Iscariot Simon's son, which betray him
Why was this ointment? Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor?
This he said not that he cared for the poor
But because he was a thief and had the bag and bear what was put there in you know
He persecuted the poor he would guilt people into giving money and then steal it and not give it to the poor
So you'd actually persecute people that were poor he would steal their money he would be he was a thief
Oh, he's such a great guy. No, he's wicked. He was wicked the entire ministry
He would slay the broken-hearted. You know what Jesus did he healed the broken-hearted
You know the Bible says in Luke 4 it says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
Because he has anointed me to preach the gospel of the poor
He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted. So Jesus was helping the poor Jesus was preaching the gospel of the broken-hearted
What was Judas doing?
persecuting them
Slaying those that have a broken heart go back
Go back Isaiah 61
It says the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good tidings under the meek
He has sent me to bind up
The broken-hearted to proclaim liberty of the captives and the opening of the prison of them that are bound Judas didn't go around doing that
He slayed the poor he slayed he persecuted the poor he slayed the broken-hearted
Jesus was healing them. Jesus was blessing them. Jesus was preaching them Liberty
Look at verse number 17. What was Judas like as Judas loved cursing?
so let it come unto him as
Judas delighted not in blessing. So how much blessing did you just give?
He didn't do it. He didn't lie to he just cursed
So let it be far from him notice this as Judas clothed himself with cursing
Like as with the garment this guy loved cursing so much it was like his clothes
So let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into Judas bones
Let it be unto Judas as the garment which covereth him and for a girdle
Wherewith he is girded continually let this be the reward of mine
adversaries from the Lord and of them that speak evil against my soul. Oh
man after reading that
You know, this is what manly Perry said about Judas. He said he was a superstar apostle
a
Superstar apostle
What what kind of an evil person says that go to Titus chapter 1 let me
Let me go to another place. She said why are you preaching this pastor Shelley? Well, first of all, Judas can't get anybody saved
Not just Judas
Even the stony-hearted Christians not gonna get anybody saved
Even the the Christian with thorns in his heart isn't gonna get me saved. You know what it takes a good heart
It takes a good heart to get someone saved
Hey, you know what the stupid nonsense of saying Judas is getting people saved. Well, then how much less a Christian has a stony heart
You know what? They're not gonna get people saved either and the thorny-hearted Christians getting people saved either
we need to tell people hey, you need to have a good heart if you want to get people saved and
You need to go out and preach the gospel
You know, it's destroying soul winning by saying Judas gets people say you're an idiot and a moron and fool and you're wicked
Look what Titus chapter 1 says verse 15 under the pure all things are pure
But of them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled
They profess that they know God sounds like Judas
but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and notice this phrase and unto
every good work
reprobate
Well, I think Judas did some good works. No, they're reprobate
Every good work every single one of Judas works were all
Reprobate they were all wicked. They were all evil doesn't that match. We just read he was like in Psalms 109
How about when you read the story of Judas Iscariot is anything he's saying or doing good
No, he's all he's always lying. He's stealing money. The devil's entering his body twice
I wonder if that's what he's getting people saved when he was possessed by the devil himself. I
Mean what do you what kind of nonsense?
This is go to Matthew 23 for a second
Matthew 23
Now if it couldn't get worse it did because not only did manly Perry say that he used Matthew
23 verse 15 is a proof text that Judas is getting people safe
Now let's read it
Matthew 23 verse 15. Whoa undo scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites for you compass see and land and make to make one proselyte and when he is made
You make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves
This is his evidence that that Judas got the most people saved
He bolded it and he made like a public statement of faith, you know all his false doctrine
He teaches he's like it's like here's the summary fags get saved
Then IV get saved people get saved reading the Bible on their own Judas is a superstar apostle
and
Then his church members are liking that
What kind of nonsense is this go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 you say why do you teach against this?
Well, because I want people to get saved
Because I want us to be fruitful multiply and I don't want to teach that
You know infiltrators are gonna be the best soul winners
Because they curse because they don't do anything good every good works reprobate and not only them look
There's plenty of Christians. There's plenty of saved people. They're never gonna Bruce fruit. You know, why because their hearts not right
Cuz it's got a bunch of stones in it
It's got a bunch of you know thorns in it and we need to clear out that forest that's going on in your heart
So you'll actually preach the gospel and get someone saved
Like a second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3, but if our gospel behead it is head to them that are lost
Well unless Judas comes around
no, and
whom the god of this world is blinded the minds of them which believe not lest
The light of the glorious gospel of Christ is the image of God should shine unto them
Actually up to 19 extra 19, I'm almost finished
But this is an important doctrine that we have to understand, you know a man and a woman get married and they have children and
A godly Christian gets saved and he goes out and he preaches the gospel and he gets someone saved
And we don't want to shy away from these doctrines
we want to keep them and emphasize them and teach them and preach from the house tops and let me tell you this an
Unsaved person can never do any good works in the name of the Lord
It's not possible without faith. It's impossible to please him. God is not letting unsaved people run around just doing his work
It's not it's not rocket science, you know, how many people
That are not hired by me
That don't work for me that I don't send them do work for me zero
You
Know how many people work for your boss that don't work for your boss zero
You actually have to hire them
You actually have to get on the team
They actually have to be part of the group and look Jesus Christ is not commissioning the unsaved to do his work
He's commissioning them to get saved and then once you get saved now, you're the Lord's army
Now you can do the work of the Lord
Let me prove this look at Acts 7 19. Here's some guys trying to do the work of the Lord, but they're not safe
Verse 13 then certain of the vagabond Jews
Exorcist took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits in the name of Lord
Jesus saying we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches
Not who they preach as who Paul preaches
and
There were seven sons of one Sceva Jew the chief and chief of the priests which did so and the evil spirit answered and said
Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are ye and
the man whom the evil spirit was leaped on them and
Overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded
Let me tell you what. I don't care what you say verbally if you're not saved doesn't have power. I
Don't care if you can train a parrot to preach the gospel that's not gonna get people saved. I
Don't care you get your little Siri or your parrot or you write the track or look it takes faith
It takes a man of God. It takes a woman of God
It takes someone that's filled with the spirit to preach the gospel because that's what has power
That's what gets people saved
But a Matthew 7 and I'm almost finished. What do we learn?
Well, if you're gonna be fruitful multiply spiritually you have to have a good heart number two
You can't be evil number three a corrupt tree bring us not forth good fruit
You're never gonna see an apple on these trees out here because they're not apple trees
You're not gonna see bananas. You're not gonna see a baby born on it
Okay, you're more likely to see a baby born on that tree than Judas getting someone saved
You're more likely to see a rock turn into a child than Judas getting someone saved
Because God said that he could raise up children unto Abraham from the stones, okay?
You know what the Bible clearly says in Matthew 7 verse 18 a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. It just can't happen
It's impossible and people that believe this doctrine are either a hundred percent ignorant of Bible or wicked as hell
I
Mean, how can someone that's a preacher? I mean, there's so much versus so many Bible
So not only you have to have a non corrupt tree and you can't be evil and you have to have a good
Heart, but you also have to have preacher
Go if you had Romans one last place of you turn
Romans chapter 10 clearly says for whose service will call upon the name the Lord shall be saved
How then shall they call him when they're not believed?
Here's the thing. How could someone pray and ask for salvation if they never believed in Jesus
They can't and there are people that pray every single day of the Lord and they're not saved
Because they're not trusting in Jesus to save them and look you don't have to pray every single day
You can pray one time and go to heaven
Just like the the publican said Lord be merciful me a sinner and the Bible says he went home justified
You know, we see the thief on the cross look to Jesus say the Lord remember me when thou comest my kingdom
He said today thou shalt be with me in paradise. You didn't have to pray again
You didn't have to do anything else. You didn't have to do any works
He didn't have to say Jesus didn't say well, are you willing to turn from your sins though?
Well, if you came off that cross would you serve me
The answer is probably no anyways, because have you heard the story about where are the nine?
And you know what? Jesus said they didn't come to give thanks
Well, if they didn't actually get saved because they didn't come then what would they have to give thanks for?
They would have nothing to give thanks for
No, they had something to be thankful for they were saying they were healed
They were purified they were cleansed and you know what it's like where the 99
I don't know. You know what that's their problem
They're gonna have to stand before Jesus Christ and answer for the fact they had no fruit and let me tell you this Christian
You will stand in front of Jesus Christ your creator by yourself to answer for your life
Are you ready? Are you ready to answer all the fruit you did or did not produce?
Because you know what your mom's not gonna be there to answer for you your spouse isn't gonna be there to answer for you
No one's gonna be it's gonna be you and Jesus
And he's gonna say all right. Let's look at your life
What is he gonna say Oh bad bad bad bad bad bad bad?
Is that your life?
Or do you want to have a couple like good good
Hey this year 30 good hey this year 60 good
Well done about good and faithful servant, you know, it's not the NIV it's not gonna say slave, okay
But look you need a preacher and you know who can preach everyone in this room
Every single one of you has the capability of talking to an unsaved person and giving them gospel getting them saved
And you know what you will stand account for the Lord
Now not only that you need the Word of God
You have to have a Bible, you know, you have to have the Word of God
It's not your words to get someone saved, you know
So then faith go by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
You have to preach them the gospel you have to preach them the Word of God
Lastly you have to have faith like we're Romans chapter 1 verse 15
So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you there Rome also
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God and the salvation
To everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek
There it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith
Now some people say oh look, it's the Bible that has the power. Yeah. Praise the Lord it is
You know, it's called the sword of the Spirit
You know what swords are not gonna pick themselves off the ground and start slaying
It takes a soldier to pick that sword up in the sleigh and you know what the power isn't necessarily and how strong that guy
Is it's how sharp that sword is is a really really really sharp sword
Even if a child swings it it's gonna slice through
You know what the Word of God is sharp
It's quick. It's powerful
It can slice through anything even a five-year-old picking up the sword of the Spirit can slay through anything
Because it's not the power of the wielder. You know what it takes that wielder to pick it up
It takes a little boy like David to pick up the sword of Goliath and you just chop off the heads of those
beasts
You know what? We need to go out and we need to preach the gospel
You know the Apostle Paul wasn't ashamed and notice he says it's revealed from something
from faith to faith
Not revealed from Judas to faith
From infiltrator to faith
From unsaved person to faith from unbelief to faith
No, it's from faith to faith. The Bible is crystal clear on this document
Okay, and look I'm preaching really basic doctrine here have as many kids as you can physically and spiritually
Like it's the first commandment given to us. Let's elevate that commandment
Let's live and breathe that commandment and let's not let the gainsayers and the naysayers get us down
No, I want our bulletin to extend its spiritual and physical
Bearing of fruitful and being multiplying. Okay, let's go to prayer. Thank you father so much for your word
Thank you for this great church
I pray that we would continue to be mindful of your commandments that would emphasize the in stress the importance of being fruitful and
Multiplying and we thank you for giving us the most important job
To have children which is such a blessing and not only just physical children
But even spiritual blessings of having spiritual children. I prayed you'd motivate us to clean up our hearts
Clean up our lives to be a clean vessel today and have faith in your promises to have faith in your word and that you would
Just continually to bless this church as we give you the honor and the glory and in Jesus name we pray. Amen