noon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. Great to see everybody here tonight. If
we can go and find our hymnals we will get started with song number 66. 66 for our first song this
evening. Song number 66. Thank you again and thank you so much for this church. Once again we we love
you and we just so great to be just have such a great church to serve you in and worship you in.
Sing unto you Lord we just ask now that you fill this room with your spirit and help us to sing
out to you tonight and it's in Jesus name we pray amen. For our next song go to song number 396
the week 396 so little one just lift up your hand nice and high we have our new bible memory
passage psalm 53 anybody that's able to quote verse 1 that's 18 and under can get an ice cream
treat after the service on the insides there's service times and our soul winning times also
our church stats down below keep up the great work on soul winning on the right is a list of
expecting ladies please be in prayer for them upcoming events we have our fall swap coming up
october 26 chili cook-off the 31st fwc missions conference uh november 5th of the 9th i i do want
to say about the chili cook-off if you're planning on entering a chili into the competition you need
to have it here before 6 p.m so that way uh we can make sure to get all the judges set up and uh
then we can feed people hopefully close to 6 p.m that evening and of course you can bring any board
games or any cards or anything that you would like to play just uh people like to just kind of
fellowship hang out it's just kind of a free time to just hang out and fellowship enjoy chili so um
also the missions conference i'll be preaching that thursday i believe that's the sixth uh so
if you're interested in tuning into that uh anchor baptist church is having their one year
anniversary november 23rd i'll be preaching there for both services uh november 29th we have a turkey
bowl so we're just playing some flag football brother marcel is going to be help leading that
so if you have any questions ask him ladies christmas party december 5th all ladies are invited to
attend and of course everything at our church is always free so if you'd like to attend we'd love
to have you christmas caroling december 8th that's a lot of fun we'll probably meet at a specific
location not here and we'll just got caroling in different parts of the dowsforth area it'll
probably be kind of central also the cookie bake-off december 21st christmas candlelight service december
24th and then men's preaching and pizza december 31st on the back is our prayer list we'll go ahead
and talk about that we're continuing to pray for the carlson's parents health miss miller's friend's
mom who also has cancer continue to pray for brother porous and miss grace for their sickness
and illness and also miss olivia please pray for brother tony's health we're continuing to pray for
the folies for their dad's kidney disease please continue to pray for brother abanek's friend who's
recovering from surgery brother gabe's mother also has a foot issue if you pray for the miss olga and
miss cecilia has a couple friends and family members that have health issues there and we're
continuing to pray for brother paul and his recovery continue to pray for miss illy's
grandmother who's out of the hospital but is still recovering if you pray for her please pray for
brother goodwin's sister-in-law her her husband had passed away and so we're praying for her
also continue to pray for miss lola and her baby on the passing of brother kevin and then if you'd
also pray for brother wallock for his aunt who had recently passed away so that's pretty much
all i have as far as updates on the prayer request we'll just go ahead and say a quick prayer request
as a church family we'll say prayer together thank you heavenly father so much for this evening thank
you so much for our church i pray that you would please be with those that are struggling with
cancer and these various illnesses these these chronic issues i pray if possible you just give
them healing please give them comfort during this time of difficulty i pray that you would help our
family and friends that are also struggling with various sickness illness those of temporary
illness i pray that you would just please give them a speedy recovery so they can get back into
church please also help those that need favor with their jobs and their work and please bless
the missions trips and the work that we're doing please bless our evangelist in the philippines and
the work that they're doing over there and we thank you so much for all the expecting ladies
in our church please bless them in their pregnancies please bless them and give them a timely birth and
we just thank you so much for our church i pray that everything will be done in honor and glory
of your son in Jesus name we pray amen that's all i have as far as announcements we're going to go
ahead and sing our psalm of the week it's psalm 58 it's in our special binders psalm 58 sing it out
nice and loud psalm 58 in your binders psalm chapter 58 let's all sing that out together
psalm 58 go ahead and turn your bibles to the book of deuteronomy chapter number four that's the
book of deuteronomy chapter number four for heart israel unto the statutes and unto the judgments
which i teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the lord god
of your fathers giveth you ye shall not add unto the word which i command you neither shall ye
diminish ought from it that ye may keep the commandments of the lord your god which i
command you your eyes have seen what the lord did because of bail pior for all the men that followed
bail pior the lord thy god had destroyed them from among you but ye that did cleave unto the lord
your god are alive every one of you this day behold i have taught you statutes and judgments
even as the lord my god commanded me that you should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
nations which shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people for what nation is there so great who hath god so nigh unto them as the lord
our god is in all things that we call upon him for and what nation is there so great that hath
statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which i set before you this day only take heed
to thyself and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen
unless they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life but teach them thy sons and thy son's
sons especially the day that thou stoodest before the lord thy god in horeb when the lord said unto
me gather me the people together and i will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me
all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children and ye came
near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven with
darkness clouds and thick darkness and the lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire ye
heard the voice of the words but saw no similitude only he heard a voice and he declared unto you his
covenant which he commanded you to perform even 10 commandments and he wrote them upon two tables of
stone and the lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments that ye might do
them in the land whither ye go over to possess it take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves for
ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the lord spake unto you in horeb out of the midst of
the fire lest you corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image the similitude of any figure
the likeness of male or female the likeness of any beast that is on the earth the likeness of any
winged fowl that flyeth in the air the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground the likeness
of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth and lest thou lift thine eyes unto heaven
and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars even all the host of heaven shouldest be
driven to worship them and serve them which the lord thy god hath divided unto all nations under
the whole heaven but the lord had taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace even
out of egypt to be unto him a people of inheritance as ye are this day furthermore the lord was angry
with me for your sakes and swear that i should not go over jordan and that i should not go in
unto that good land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance but i must die in this
land i must not go over jordan but ye shall go over and possess that good land take heed unto
yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of the lord your god which he made with you and make
you a graven image or the likeness of anything which the lord thy god hath forbidden thee
for the lord thy god is a consuming fire even a jealous god when thou shalt beget children and
children's children's and you shall have remained long in the land and shall corrupt yourselves and
make a graven image or the likeness of anything and shall do evil in the sight of the lord thy
god to provoke him to anger i call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over jordan to possess it ye shall not
prolong your days upon it but shall utterly be destroyed and the lord shall scatter you
among the nations and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen whether the lord shall
lead you and there you shall serve gods the work of men's hands wood and stone which neither see
nor hear nor eat nor smell but if from thence thou shalt seek the lord thy god thou shalt find him
if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul when thou art in tribulation and all
these things are come upon thee even in the latter days if thou turn to the lord thy god and shalt be
obedient unto his voice for the lord thy god is a merciful god he will not forsake thee neither
destroy thee nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swear unto them for ask now of the days
that are past which were before thee since the day that god created man upon the earth and asked
from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing
is or hath been heard like it did ever people hear the voice of god speaking out of the midst of the
fire as thou hast heard and lived or have god assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst
of another nation by temptations by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a
stretched out arm and by great terrors according to all that the lord your god did for you in egypt
before your eyes unto thee it was showed that thou mightest know that the lord he is god there is
none else beside him out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee
and upon earth he showed thee his great fire and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the
fire and because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out
in his sight with his mighty power out of egypt to drive out nations from before thee greater and
mightier than thou art to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance as it is this
day know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the lord he is god in heaven above
and upon the earth beneath there is none else thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his
commandments which i command thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy children
after thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the lord thy god giveth thee
forever then moses severed three cities on this side jordan toward the sun rising that the slayer
might flee thither which should kill his neighbor unawares and hated him not in times past and that
fleeing onto one of these cities he might live namely beezer in the wilderness in the plain country
of the rubanites and ramoth in gilead of the gaddites and golin in bayshan of the menaceites
and this is the law which moses set before the children of israel these are the testimonies and
the statutes and the judgments which moses spake unto the children of israel after they came forth
out of egypt on this side jordan in the valley over against beth pior in the land of saihon king
of the amerites which dwelt at heshpon whom moses and the children of israel smote after they were
come forth out of egypt and they possessed his land and the land of aug king of bayshan two kings
of the amerites which were on this side jordan toward the sun rising from a rower which is by
the bank of the river arnon even under mount scion which is in hermone and all the plane on this
side jordan eastward even unto the sea of the plane under the springs of pisgah let us pray
dear heavenly father thank you for the word of god i thank you for this chapter of the bible
please help pastor shelly as he brings the lesson the study that he you've laid on his heart please
help us to be instructed from it and be better christians in jesus name amen amen we're picking
back up our bible study in deuteronomy and again just the quick context of this particular chapter
moses is kind of revisiting everything that has happened to the children of israel from their
exodus out of egypt and leading up to this point now where they're about to enter in the promised
land but moses himself is not allowed to enter into the promised land and so he's just kind of
giving these general instructions to the children of israel and kind of reminding them why they are
where they're at and what's happened you could even argue like deuteronomy that root word the
the duet part is kind of talking about like duo or the second it's kind of like the second time
they're getting reminded of the law and so he's just kind of reminding them a lot of the commandments
that were given to them at mount sinai 40 years ago and here he's kind of in this particular chapter
really reminding them about the law reminding them about the commandments telling them why they're
so important giving them a lot of instructions so that's kind of the context of where we're at in
the particular chapter we're going to go through is a long chapter there's a lot of great stuff
here verse one says this now therefore hearken oh israel under the statutes and under the judgments
which i teach you for to do them that you may live and go in and possess the land which the lord god
of your fathers giveth you so the word of god the commandments actually help you live a longer life
if you kind of just understand god's commandments at a really basic carnal level they basically just
preserve your physical life these allow you to live longer they're just instructions to help you
live a longer life and not even just you your family not even just your family your tribe your
area your state your country you kind of just have to understand god's law is kind of designed to
allow people to live in a way where there's the maximum potential for society to grow thrive and
life to continue that's kind of the main essence here the problem is that there was no law or
commandment that you could give that would give eternal life and so that's why we had to have the
lord jesus christ come and we had to have the gospel so that we could be saved but simply put
if you kept the law perfectly then you would live forever that's just a hypothetical situation
though the problem is the mankind is sinned and we're not going to keep the law perfectly
and therefore the wages of sin is death but technically speaking if you kept the law
perfectly you would live forever because the law gives you life and if you think about it even
some of the commandments specifically say this honoring your father and mother actually is
supposed to prolong your days upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee is what the bible
says so by keeping god's commandments god gives you blessing it keeps you alive but also just in
general it just helps you have better health and if you realize people that sin a lot often are
dying younger having all kinds of health problems and issues drinking alcohol doing drugs being
promiscuous all these different things are actually going to harm you physically and actually be a
detriment to your life laws against incest and and all kinds of weird perverted things
they destroy and decay society not putting murderers and rapists to death and fags and stuff
this is a detriment to society and destroys society all the laws of god are basically designed
to give you life and to give your society life and when you don't follow god's commandments
it's really just taking away from your life it's taking away from the the length of days
you're going to have and the perpetuate the perpetuate i can't say this word the perpetuity
sorry thank you the perpetuity of society itself society needs to have good laws in order to last
for a long time now it says in verse two he shall not add under the word which i command you neither
shall you diminish ought from it that you may keep the commandments of the lord your god which i
command you this is also interesting that god does not want you to add or take away from god's word
now i think we have to understand this in two different contexts okay number one it's not
saying that you can't make up rules that are in the bible but what it is saying is that when you
make up rules that are not in the bible you make it clear that it's not in the bible so you have a
clear distinction for what god's word actually says and you don't add or subtract from that
but then additionally hey it's okay to have rules it's okay to have statutes and commandments
that aren't in the bible in society it's just that you want to make the clear distinction
between these two right it's not saying that parents can't make rules for their children
it's not saying that bosses at work can't have rules it's not even saying that society
can't have their own rules and statutes it's just simply stating though we want to make it clear
that this is what god said and this is what man is saying and we have this clear line and that
we're not going to add or diminish from what god said and when it comes to sin it has to be what
god said you have to show me something in the bible because sin is a transgression of the law
and specific is the law of god now of course the bible does say that there's certain authorities
in our life and if the authority that god has ordained gives you rules and you break them
then that could be considered a sin but you're breaking the law of obeying that particular
authority not necessarily that specific statute and so we have to understand these things
in their place and in their roles this is a big point in the bible though we're not supposed to
add to god's word we're not supposed to invent things or or dream up new things or new standards
keep your finger go to proverbs 30 for a second it's also reiterated in the book of proverbs
this uh principle and really what you see is there's a tendency in man to make up their own
arbitrary rules i was thinking about preaching a sermon on this sunday evening this week
but you know there's so many different rules that people come up with all the time that are just
not in the bible and look it doesn't matter what the nomination it doesn't matter what version of
christianity people are always doing this you know when it comes to the catholics they have all kinds
of weird rules and things they come up with they don't want their priest to have a wife or be
married i mean that's not what the bible says they're just adding random things to the bible
you know they have all these weird uh observing things of like lint and like certain feasts and
all kinds of weird rules that they have in that particular regard this is not biblical it's not
what the bible says in these particular statutes and look even baptists have had their rules
baptists have had rules puritans have had rules and you know i don't want to steal my own thunder
but it's kind of funny like puritans actually outlawed the celebration of christmas at one
point so they literally just made it where it was illegal to celebrate the holiday of christmas
for a period of time and this was in england and in boston specifically so it was in america
and it was in those areas where they just outlawed it you couldn't even celebrate christmas
as a holiday because the puritans were so against it puritans were even against like
the architectural design of a church being anything other than like a rectangle so like
they didn't want it to be like a circle or anything like that as far as the shape
of the building they wanted everything to be really simplified and they thought by having
any kind of decoration or ordination of of the church building that it would be like
sin and wrong they want everything really simple so you can come up with all kinds of rules
baptists have historically thought you know just all dancing is just sin and just wrong
like no dancing whatsoever that is just somehow wrong people come up i mean when it comes to music
everyone has an opinion on music and they come up with all kinds of different rules and statutes
i mean people sincere people ask me like hey do you think this frequency of music is a sin
and i'm just thinking like well what commandment in the bible are we going to go to to say that
this quote frequency this sound is now somehow magically a sin but look people really believe
this kind of stuff i mean the church of christ has no musical instruments in their service
so look it doesn't matter who we talk to or who we look at man is always trying to add to god's
word just trying to bring up all kinds of arbitrary rules and ideas and different things
what does the bible say in proverbs chapter number 30 verse number six add thou not unto his words
lest he reproved thee and thou be found a liar look if you add to god's word and you come up
short you are a liar is what the bible says and you're not allowed to add to god's word go back
if you would now again i try to be really careful you know when it comes to our church that i'm not
just making a bunch of arbitrary rules that are just not found in the bible and you'll find that
our church hey we police the things in the bible real heavily i mean the things are in the bible
we're pretty strict about and we we really take people to task on the things that are mentioned
explicitly in the bible but when it's not in the bible i'm a pretty like laissez-faire type person
i was trying to think of like standards that i've created or rules that i have that are just not a
bible rule and i'm sure there's more than i could think of but probably the only one i could really
think of on top of my head is like you know at church i want the guys behind the pulpit to wear
like a button-up shirt and to wear a tie now is that in the bible is that is that really any kind
of thing you could find in the text like hey you have to have this particular style shirt and this
particular you know tie no that's just kind of a personal standard that i wanted i just wanted our
church to have a little bit of formalcy to the preaching and and be respectable and and not have
people come up in a t-shirt or come up and you know just kind of dress down that's just like my
personal standard but you know it would be wrong for me to then start criticizing or condemning
other churches if their guys didn't have a dress up shirt and tie on because of my standard because
that's not a commandment in the bible but if they have a woman getting up behind the pulpit yet you
better believe i'm going to take them to task and say that's wicked and that's wrong and that's evil
to have a woman preacher and we can take people to task and look i'm not adding to god's word
by having my own standards but i am adding to god's word by taking people to task when they
don't adopt my standards when they're not in the bible and the bible says when you're adding your
own statutes and your own judgments that that is wrong and you're a liar we're not allowed to add
our standards and our rules on to other people and again that's a whole nother sermon come sunday
night and i'll yell a lot more about it all right but it's important for us to realize we shouldn't
add unto god's word we shouldn't diminish either so anything god said we want to believe it all
and we don't want to like add anything to it we want to be strict to the text whatever the text
says goes and we want to we really should only be concerned ourselves with one thing what does the
bible just teach like what does the bible say it doesn't matter if it affects me or doesn't it
doesn't matter if i like it or not it doesn't matter if it's popular or not it just matters
what does the text say and that's what goes and that should always be our philosophy always should
be how we approach the bible we should just say i just want to know what it says well if you say
that it's going to offend men okay then offend men well if you say this is going to offend women
okay then offend women if you say that's good it's going to affect you know or offend a certain
demographic or a certain culture or a certain person who cares we don't care about that we
just care what does the bible say oh well the lawyers are going to be offended well then let
the lawyers be offended well if you say this then your friend might be offended well then let my
friend be offended well we say this then the women in the church are going to be offended well let
the women be offended you know it doesn't matter who is offended it matters what the bible say
oh well if you say this gross people are going to be offended well then let the gross people be
offended you know is it really fair that gross people can come into church and make it gross
and you have to smell their grossness and see their grossness like that's not offensive what's
offensive is someone getting up and saying you're gross right but you being gross and infringing on
everybody's nostrils and eyes and just protruding all your you're just grossness onto everybody
else that's not offensive someone getting up and calling you out that's offensive right
no let let the bible be true in every man a liar okay let god be true in every man a liar and let
us just care what the bible says and at the end of the day good preaching and hard preaching is
just saying what the bible says and it doesn't matter if people like it or not honestly and
really good hard preaching will even touch on the crowd a little bit it'll touch on the home crowd
not just people outside of church but it'll address us as well and so we need to make sure
that we only care what the bible says period not adding anything not taking away verse three
your eyes have seen what the lord did because of bel pior for all the men that follow bel pior the
lord thy god hath destroyed them from among you but ye did cleave under the lord your god are alive
every one of you this day so the people that serve god attach themselves to god they lived and the
people that attach themselves to bel pior die meaning what we don't want to attach ourselves
to false religion and you know i don't always study you know current events or i don't always
pay attention not always up to up to date on everything so maybe this has been happening
for a while and i just didn't notice it what i did notice this week is just a lot of people
praising this stupid holiday called diwali who's like been seeing this just like pop up everywhere
this diwali celebration which is a hindu celebration it's a false religion and the
bible is saying like hey these people that join themselves under bail pr are destroyed
and god cursed them and god killed them but then why is americans why are christians tolerating
a similar false religion in our country in our nation you know donald trump celebrated this
diwali nonsense in the white house this week lighting some lights or something because i
think diwali is a festival of lights or some celebration of lights but it's a problem hinduism
is darkness it has no light in it and hindus are not saved and hindus are headed for hell
and hindus have one of the grossest countries in the world and look there's nothing wrong with
india you know india is a great place india i mean the british were going to india exclusively
because of all the spices and all the resources and all the minerals and all the people there
i mean they really wanted to go to india for all of the good things that india had to offer
and you know they brought the gospel with them but you know hinduism is a big opponent to the
gospel and by and large it seems like that nation has rejected the gospel in a lot of ways and we
see the ramifications of hinduism that it's producing bad results why in the world would
i want to emulate my country on india and the results of hinduism hinduism has failed india
hinduism has destroyed india india hinduism has made it gross like dung because it's a dung
worshiping religion it's a false religion it's a demonic religion why would i want to import that
into america you know if it wasn't even for india we may not even have america because
weren't the settlers trying to find india and then they came over here i mean praise god for
india that they wanted to go there so bad they found america they were trying to find a quicker
trade route to india and they discovered the new world and you know praise god we have america as
a result you know i don't hate indians i don't hate india but let me tell you something i hate
hinduism and i hate you know this false religion destroying their country i hate this false
religion destroying our country you know someone should call it out and someone should say it's
gross and someone should say it's a false religion so that maybe we can even preserve india a little
bit we have a lot of indians in america and most of them are very affluent most of them have the
top paying jobs you know think about if we could get a lot of them saved maybe they could bring
some christianity back to their country not just money because their country is being destroyed
through false religion and it's a shame and embarrassment when our president is getting up
and endorsing this religion endorsing this ideology he should be condemning this ideology
he should be calling it gross and saying you need to become a christian christianity is what built
this nation not diwali not hinduism not false religions and especially not judaism either
not catholicism either christianity protestant christianity is what built this nation now look
at verse four i'm sorry verse five behold i have taught you statues and judgments even as the lord
my god commanded me that you should do so in the land whether you go to possess it keep therefore
and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which
shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people
for what nation is there so great who hath god so nigh unto them as the lord our god is in all
things that we call upon him for and what nation is there so great that has statutes and judgments
so righteous as this law which i set before you this day what is the bible saying the bible is
saying because god's law is so superior to any other law that foreign nations would just look
at a nation that's implemented this and say wow god must be nigh unto them because look how awesome
their country is look how awesome those people are look how successful and look how prosperous
that nation is why because of god's law that's why he didn't say oh look at the genetic specimens
of this nation oh look these people are white people they're just better than everybody else
no no what did he say it was the law of god that made that nation so great and that god was nigh
unto them because of the law of god that's what made it so great that's what made it so wonderful
and look if america is going to be great again it is not about skin color it is about having god's
word thundering forth in the government and in the church house you know and i want to address
a few things because you know it is people just get weirded out about all kinds of stuff look
america was built on protestant christianity and when i say protestant christianity you know some
people cringe at that because they think like oh i'm a baptist i'm not a protestant and i get that
but you know words can be used in multiple ways some people use words to mean different things
look if i'm talking to someone that's not a christian when we talk about just if i go to
the college campus and i tell them catholics are not christian they're going to look at me like
i'm weird they're like what do you mean because they think the word christian just means anything
with under the umbrella of christ they would think catholic is christian and orthodox is christian
they would think all Protestant denominations are christian they would think mormons are christian
and of course when we use christian a lot of times what we mean by this is someone that's saved
we think a saved christian is what we mean by christian that's how we're using that particular
word but people mean these in different things some people when they use the word protestant
what they mean by that is someone trying to reform the catholic church they want the catholic
church to kind of you know change a little bit and just you know tweak it or whatever
but you know if you really think about it most protestants didn't want anything to do with the
catholic church at all they were trying to form their own church i mean the puritans weren't
trying to reform anything buddy they wanted nothing to do with the catholic church in fact
they were so opposed to the catholic church like i told you they wouldn't even allow their buildings
to be made in a circle right they just hate it they hated the catholic church so hard they wanted
everything the opposite and to a fault they were so so against the catholic church they're like
well they have leadership so we want no leadership well that's a bad move because the bible talks
about bishops right they were like just so against it they wanted no bishops that's why king james
had to say in his famous line no bishop no king because he said hey if you want me to give you a
king james bible you're gonna have to get on board with the idea of bishop being the word used
in the new testament because they didn't want the word bishop they wanted like a shepherd or
something more generic because they wanted to try and teach that we're all shepherds and
there's no real bishops there's no real pastors there's no real authority or leadership in the
church they're just against everything and anything they wanted they wanted you actually
physically suffer in church because they were like thinking like it was just you know unspiritual if
you actually sat down in a chair and enjoyed yourself so they wanted like hard wooden benches
they wanted to be ugly on purpose just like just all this over the top reaction to the catholic
church it's hard for me to look at the puritan group and be like man you guys just kind of want
to tweak things at the catholics huh no no they wanted the exact opposite of everything catholic
okay and everyone's going to identify them as being protestant okay obviously you have the
anglican church which is trying to be like hey we're picking the good from the catholic church
and we're picking you know some of the scripture here they just didn't go far enough then you have
another group that's like the non-conformists non-conformists are people that were like hey
i don't want to be like a crazy weird puritan but obviously the anglican church didn't really
go far enough so they're kind of like a christian without a place to go you know they're just kind
of like out in the wilderness so they kind of are just called a non-conformist one of the most
famous non-conformists is a guy named isaac watts why is isaac watts popular well he's basically the
father of hymns he basically wrote like all of our hymns music there's kind of the father like
joy to the world and all kinds of the hymns that we sing is by this guy and he was considered
ecumenical at the time and a non-denominational christian at the time but he didn't have a non-
non-church to go to okay he also didn't have a new ib church to go to he had you know he basically
just doesn't have really anywhere to go and there's a lot of people like this of course because
there's not really anywhere to go there's nowhere to really serve god what did a lot of people do
they fled europe and they went to the new world so they could have their own churches the first
guy to establish a baptist church his name is john smith he formed a church in amsterdam
and i fact check the date i think it's like 1609 or something you can fact check the date go look
it up but basically he formed the first baptist church in 1609 everybody considered him protestant
then you have roger williams being accredited as the first baptist in america and he forms
baptist churches they start popping up basically america is either methodist or baptist for most
of its history both were considered protestant every founding document they're saying we need
to protect the protestant religion and they were mostly baptist i mean baptist is like 50 percent
of the church population so when i say hey america was founded on protestant christianity
what i'm saying is what everyone was saying for the last 400 years but you have a small group of
what's called landmarkus baptists these landmarkus baptists they kind of think like no there's this
unbroken chain of baptist churches that have always existed from now until peter who's ever
heard this ideology okay i personally don't subscribe to that ideology there was a documentary
made that i supported and only said positive things about that taught this and i don't agree
with it it was called being baptist it's a documentary made by verity baptist church
and they teach a very clear landmark is ideology in that particular documentary i don't agree with
it and i was never going to say anything about it but now i don't really care so you can just
you know what i care about is the truth okay and and that's just another proof and evidence of
the fact that when i'm friends with people i try to be really gracious and and not say anything
but at the end of the day like i don't agree with this ideology i don't really think that it fits
history or or reason and it's not necessary okay so look some people they really cringe like i'm
not a protestant or whatever and what they're trying to say is like i don't subscribe to the
catholic church i don't think that my heritage goes to the catholic church and it's like you
don't have to you can still be using that label and not necessarily mean those things again if
i walk up to people i'm not trying to go around and saying i'm a protestant i don't really care
i would say no i'm not really a protestant i'm a baptist because most people think of protestants
as being kind of like catholic light and i get that but it's kind of like what circle you're in
what kind of terminology you're going to use i'm not going to necessarily shy away from using that
term but i'm also not necessarily saying i'm embracing it in all kind of type of cases but
when i look at historical documentation and i look at our founders and i look at what they said
they're bringing up protestant christianity and i'm agreeing with what they're saying and i'm agreeing
with their version their ideology what they want and their definition of that particular word
look in georgia specifically they are protecting protestant christianity and they say in that
document that papists are not even allowed to practice in the state of georgia it was
illegal to be catholic it was illegal to practice catholicism in the state of georgia until the late
1800s okay so like don't think of this protestants like we're tweaking catholicism it was a vehement
hatred by most of them yeah some of them wanted to tweak it yeah some of them wanted to just reform
it yeah martin luther has the famous line of hey i didn't leave the catholic church the church left
me and blah blah blah and i get that but at the end of the day you know i'm not going to just shy
away from the terminology just because some landmarkus wants me to okay i don't really care
to be a landmarkus i don't need to have that particular ahistorical position okay but here's
another document that i have with me and i think this is an important document and it's the laws
of connecticut of 1673 and i always reference this but there's a reason why i reference this
and it's actually in you know this particular chapter 2 that it brings up this point but look
at what it says in verses 9 and 10 for a second only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul
diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from
thy heart all the days of thy life but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons specially the day that
thou stoodest before the lord thy god in horrib when the lord said to me gather me the people
together and i will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they
shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children god wanted the children of israel
to tell them about all the miracles and tell them why their nation exists and tell them how god
delivered them and tell them all these things so they would realize i need to fear god and i
believe the same can apply to us where you know god pulled out a lot of christians from europe
to found a new nation called america and they built this nation on god's wording on god's laws
and we had god supernaturally bless america and became the superpower of the world for a reason
and i think it's wrong for us to not teach our children why we're here and what god has done
for us and the special miracle to literally pull poor people out of europe and build the
greatest nation on earth that's a special miracle just like you poor you got a bunch
of poor people from egypt and built the greatest nation on earth the nation of israel at one time
and we see these incredible miracles of god we should realize hey this is something we should
teach people they should learn history they should learn why america is what it is so when you go to
the university of austin in texas i'm sorry university of texas at austin and you talk to
the students and they say well america's great because it's secular it's like what are you
talking about i mean the brainwashing that's happening in our country in our nation is extreme
they have forgotten where we came from they've forgotten what our nation's even built on they
don't even understand law at its root core law is important is imposed morality they say like oh we
don't want our laws to be religious all laws are religious all laws are religious you're imposing
your morality on other people the question is where are you getting your morality where are you
getting your religion the people that founded this nation said we're going to get ours from
the bible we're going to get it from the word of god now we read verses five through eight i'm going
to read the introduction to this particular document okay and and let's just see what they
had to say about the law of god the serious consideration of the necessity of the establishment
of wholesome laws for the regulating of each body politic hath inclined us mainly and obedience
unto jehovah the great lawgiver who have been pleased to set down a divine platform not only
of the moral but also of judicial laws suitable for the people of israel now that might be
difficult for you but let me just boil it down they said hey we got to make laws so you know
we're going to look jehovah god and the laws that he gave to israel we want them to be our laws
that's what they said that's the opening paragraph of this document and it's also in a movie called
sodomite deception watch it okay it's great in this particular document it also had capital laws
and think about the capital laws for a second that they had in the in this colony and in this
statute here's the first one number one if any man or woman after legal conviction conviction
shall have or worship any other god but the lord god he shall be put to death deuteronomy 13 6
17 21 exodus 22 verses two and verse two now put that in your diwali pipe and smoke it right hey
you're going to worship hinduism death hey you're going to worship the god of islam death hey you're
going to have another god death penalty that's what the this is what america was built on they
weren't worshiping diwali they were putting people to death they were hindu now again they weren't
having to do that because the hindus were not going to come over here but they had this law
to prevent that from happening it's like oh we're worried about mass immigration not when you have
that law here's the second one if any person within this colony shall blaspheme the name of
god the father son or holy ghost with direct express presumptuous or high-handed blasphemy
or shall curse in the like manner he shall be put to death leviticus 24 verses 15 and 16 those are
the first two laws of this particular country that's what our nation was built on that's what
founded this country that's why our country was blessed by god is because we had laws like that
they're saying hey we're going to enter into a nation we're going to enter the land of canaan
how are we going to be successful implementing those laws and then americans came over here and
they said how are we going to be successful we're going to implement the exact same laws we're going
to do exactly what god said that's why we were successful why is america deteriorating at the
seams because our president is celebrating dewali because our president is supporting the most
anti-christ religion on the planet judaism and we've been infiltrated by anti-christ religions
and people that are blaspheming god blaspheming the father blaspheming the son and you know those
people should be put to death you want to have a successful nation start there well you want to
fix america quick just those two laws by themselves will do a lot of correcting fast i mean think
about it we would correct a lot of stuff real fast just on those two and then people would look at
our nation you know what they would say what an awesome nation what awesome statutes what awesome
laws wow god must be really nigh under those people that's what they would say oh they would
say you're bigot no they would say we're awesome that's what they would say what what nation is so
great that has statues like this it says surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people a wise and understanding people they look at america today and it looks like a joke it's a
joke that has forgotten its heritage has forgotten its history has forgotten its god and has forgotten
where that success came from which was their god which is the word of god and it's just it's sad
that we're not teaching this i mean where are they where are they teaching this you go to public
school they're going to teach you any of this you go to public school and basically you're going to
all put on native american hats and celebrate thanksgiving you know oh they were just so
peaceful they just you know the native americans gave them corn and the pilgrims gave them you
know love or whatever pocahontas that's that's what you're going to learn you're not going to
you're not going to learn that they came to the to america and the native americans had a pagan
wicked false religion and they're being slaughtered by christians they'll just say white man hated
dark man and killed them it's like no no they hated wicked pagan false religion they hated the
weird practices of the native americans and many of them they were trying to convert and preach the
gospel to and get them saved but the ones that didn't convert yeah they did get killed yeah they
did get slaughtered and you know the pocahontas's came into you know the bloodline that's why we all
have a Cherokee princesses and you know our family somewhere okay but at the end of the day hey you
know we should teach real history somewhere i guess it has to be at church right where else are you
going to learn this stuff not at the university of texas and austin they're not going to teach
you that they're going to say america's great because it's secular no such thing there's no
such thing and there's no such thing as secular laws anyways because all all all laws are religion
all of them it's just whose religion man's religion or god's religion hinduism religion
i mean what religion and the only religion that's successful is god's word that's the one that's
successful that one's gonna last it's gonna have perpetuity thanks for the word let's keep reading
here verse 11 and he came near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire
under the midst of heaven with darkness clouds and thick darkness had lord spake unto you out of the
midst of the fire he heard the voice of words but saw no similitude only he heard a voice and he
declared unto you his covenant which he commanded you to perform even 10 commandments and he wrote
them upon two tables of stone so important points here number one the children of israel heard god's
voice audibly god literally spoke to moses on the mountain they heard it now maybe i don't know
exactly what they heard in the sense of maybe they didn't actually catch the actual words maybe they
just kind of heard the sound but the bible's clear they did they heard something it's not that they
heard nothing and i mean again when the bible describes god talking it sounds like thundering
and it sounds like lightning and it sounds just like the ocean it's just like this this thundering
booming voice did they get the exact dialect did they understand all the words verbatim maybe not
maybe they did i don't know but they didn't see god why because he was clouded in thick clouds and
thick darkness that was on the mount they couldn't actually see because the problem is if you see god
you die that's the point why would why was moses putting the cleft of the rock and why did god have
to cover him with his own hand and he could only see his back parts because if you see god's face
you die the bible says there shall no man see his face and live now again this should be obvious
it's because he has a face all right i know that's really like esoteric for these catholics
and a lot of these catholic lights but there is a faction of people online that think god can't
be seen at all i don't believe that at all i think that's a false doctrine i believe that
you could see god the father you just can't see him and live okay and no man has seen god the
father at any time the only begotten son of god which is in the bosom of the father he had declared
him okay so only jesus christ which was in the bosom of the father he's seen god the father
moses saw his back parts a couple authors saw god in like a vision or from a distance sitting on a
throne and he looked like a man but they didn't really describe his face because they didn't see
his face they would have died okay the bible talks about in the end times people will actually be
able to see his face and live but right now we can't do such a thing so he's saying here you
saw Nelson Mills do what's the point of that they can't make a graven image of God because you've
no one's ever seen him so any picture any drawing any graven image would be wrong as far as just
accuracy and he puts limitations that man is not supposed to make graven image we're going to get
to that in a minute but he gave that commandment in the 10 commandments you notice it was written
there in verse 13 even meaning specifically 10 commandments now this is mentioned a few different
places flip to Deuteronomy 10 we'll see it in verse 4 Deuteronomy chapter 10 look at verse 4
it says then he wrote on the tables according to the first writing the 10 commandments so on the
tables of stone that Moses actually got there was 10 commandments specifically written if you go
backwards to Exodus 34 you'll also see this mentioned once so when we come up with the idea
or the the term 10 commandments it's something explicitly mentioned in scripture that does not
mean that God only has 10 commandments there's more than 10 commandments it's just only 10
commandments are written on this particular tablet of stone that Moses had made and was going to
bring down okay now Exodus 34 look at verse 28 it also says and he was there with the Lord 40 days
and 40 nights he did neither eat bread nor drink water and he wrote upon the tables the words of
the covenant the 10 commandments so that's where we get this idea in Exodus 20 the 10 commandments
yet the group of Catholics today they bastardize these 10 commandments and they skip the second
commandment and the second commandment is that should not make under the any graven image I'm
not going to read the whole thing but that's the first opening line of that second commandment
and they basically get rid of this why so they can have graven images is that simple okay and
then they in order to fix this because the 10 is a real obvious number here and it's pretty simple
to like count to 10 you know even Catholics could count to 10 so they had to like make up a
commandment so basically when you get to the 10th commandment they split it into two so it's like
thou should not covet thy neighbor's wife and they're like oh and thou should not covet thy
neighbor's house and whatever so it is kind of like make it two commandments even though it was
obviously just one okay and this particular chapter rebukes them harshly on this particular
point let's keep reading verse 14 and the lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and judgments that you might do them in the land whether you go over to possess it take you therefore
good heed unto yourselves for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the lord spake unto
you in horrib out of the midst of the fire lest he corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image
the similitude of any figure any figure like mary oh well she's female the likeness of male
or female you're not allowed to make any graven image that's what the bible just says yet then
catholics they make tons of graven images tons of icons tons of things and you know they didn't see
god in this particular story here's another thing no one saw jesus on the cross either catholics
your little crucifix is not based on a picture or any real evidence or an eyewitness it's made up
and it's i believe blasphemous and sinful to have crucifixes and have these images of god that they
parade around in their churches these images of mary that they parade around in their churches
it's wicked it's idolatry it's ungodly they've corrupted themselves it's pagan it is not christian
how does a catholic interpret this verse you know how they interpret it they don't
every time you bring this up to a catholic this is what they say oh what about the brazen serpent
let's just put that aside for a second interpret the verse because it has to mean something
what does it mean it says not to make it they're like what about the brazen serpent
well number one god literally told him to make a brazen serpent so god can always make exceptions
to his own rules whenever he wants just like he told him don't make a king and then later doesn't
he say makes all king does that now mean that god didn't really mean it when he said don't make a
king or there's other exceptions how about when he says hey we should love the stranger and he's
like kill the king tonight obviously god is going to give rules and he can he can have exceptions
to those particular rules even if you take the brazen serpent story and you read it they quickly
start worshiping it and corrupt themselves and then god says for them to destroy it and they
destroy it so it's like uh obviously this was a problem obviously idolatry is wrong obviously
graven images is wrong where do you see the disciples or anyone in the new testament doing
anything with graven images at all where do you see you know peter walking around a little
crucifix or paul talking about his idols you know every time idolatry is brought up in the
bible it's wicked it's wrong it's false religion it's pagan and look we need to make it clear
catholics are not christian they're pagan they're not saved and their idolatry is clearly called
out in the bible and look he's saying the nation's going to go bad when you bring in idolatry
america is going bad because of idolatry bringing in graven images bringing in all these things you
know we should destroy the statute of liberty i mean i don't even know exactly what it is
it kind of looks like it might be a tranny i don't i don't even know like what it actually is
i think it's supposed to be a dude in a dress i mean why is that the the picture of our nation
you know we should demolish it and then we should make leviticus 2013 just like a sign that just
says leviticus 2013 so when people are riding on the boat they just turn around they take that
little fairy back to wherever they came from you know what i mean because we don't we don't need
graven images in our nation they're not making anything great and that that stupid little
statue is not making anything great we need to believe you know the word of god here and you
know what i'm against graven images of all kinds and sorts you know and look i'm not going to like
you know not be friends with baptist churches because of this reason but i'll just be honest i
don't like it i don't like it when you go into a church at christmas time and they have a bunch of
graven images in there for the nativity scene or something and look i'm not saying that nativity
scenes are evil or wicked but i don't want to graven image nativity scene in my church i don't
think that it's right i don't want to make it i don't i'm not interested in it look there's
nothing wrong with drawing pictures there's nothing wrong with you know whatever you want
to do you want to have your little play have your little play but you know i just don't want
graven images in my church how else do you interpret these verses and look some people
have an interpretation to say well you're just not supposed to worship it he hasn't even brought
that up yet he's just saying don't even make it says in verse 17 the likeness of any beast that
is on the earth the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in the air the likeness of anything
that creepeth on the ground the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath isn't it funny
that it brings up birds and fish and then those are the two graven images that christians love to
have on their car you know i noticed people that have these images on their car are usually the
least christian people i know they're not soul winners they don't care about king james bible
they don't care about anything it's just it's just wrong and you know people don't even realize like
christian bookstores 20 years ago had nothing catholic in them that's why it's called a christian
bookstore and you have to go to the catholic store to get graven images and all their little
precious moments and all their weird little you know half naked angel baby things or whatever
they have which i just i don't even get it why is that cool why is it cool to have half naked
baby angel things oh you know michael angelo he drew a bunch of naked babies on the ceiling at
the church why would i want that like what like wouldn't somebody be like this there's something
off about this person you know somebody that's really into children is a bad person okay like
if someone said like hey pastor i want to draw you this mural it's gonna be a bunch of half naked
babies i'd be like you should just leave our church okay just go join the catholic church
right and again of course many of these painters for the catholic church were just open sodomites
just known you know reprobates or whatever it's like why why are people doing this kind of stuff
because they don't care what the bible says and you know we've started to just catholicize
america just now the christian bookstore you go in it graven images everywhere why because they
only care about one thing money you know the king james bible section is a small little tiny
section over in the back corner and you know everything else is just pretty much wicked in
that store and it's wrong and look i'm not against christian bookstores but let's make
them king james only again let's get rid of the pagan you know idolatry and the images that are
in there you know and it's it's just uh it's it's destroying our country people don't care about
these now when you have the graven images what's going to happen well he says here in verse number
19 unless that lifted by his eyes unto heaven and when they'll see the sun and the moon and the stars
even all the hosts of heaven should be driven to worship them and serve them which the lord that god
had divided in all nations under the whole heaven so again you have these images you have even just
people worshiping the stars in the sky and it just basically destroys society verse 20 but the lord
had taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace even out of egypt to be a people of
inheritance as he are this day furthermore the lord was angry for me for your sakes and swear that i
should not go over jordan and that i should not go into the good land which lord thy god giveth
thee for inheritance but i must die in this land i must not go over jordan but ye shall go over
and possess that good land so again you got to look at deuteronomy 4 this is like instructions
for their nation as a whole these are important national instructions national statutes national
rules that he's really emphasizing idolatry is destructive to a nation you know allowing people
that false religion is destructive to the nation and look this is very destructive to america having
false religion in our country having idolatry in our country and when our founders were forming
the federal government you know i wish that they had enshrined a few different things in to law
i mean again i'm not against the constitution i think it's a pretty good document in general
they should have put you know a couple statues saying like everything we're saying is in the
context of protestant christianity they should have just said that all of them would have probably
been fine with it we should have just said that out loud but people don't even understand those
documents at all because the opening line of our bill of rights is like congress shall make no law
it's not giving rights to anybody it's taking away rights it's saying the congress is not allowed
to do something the congress is not allowed to decide what church we can or cannot go to
because they were sick and tired of the catholic church giving them a bad church option they wanted
to have good church options again and they said hey you know some of these
colonies one of them being Baltimore or Maryland is infiltrated with a bunch of
Catholics that was like the one Catholic stronghold and they're like we don't
want a bunch of Catholics take over our government and then make us Catholic
again and we have to start all over again so we're saying hey Congress is
not allowed to make any law establishing you know any kind of religion you know
we don't want that here that's why we left that's why we have this country
that's why we're here and it's to protect the gospel and to protect the
Bible and to protect us from the oppression of the Catholics and you
know that's what we have to understand was important not to have this false
religion but they sure as hell would have not allowed Hinduism into this
nation Islam into this nation they didn't want Catholicism in their
colonies and in their cities and in their areas they were like go up north
where it's freezing and die of frostbite go to Maryland or something right I
mean they did not want Catholicism in this nation yet we just allowed it to go
rampant to our Supreme Court is Catholics and Jews to where the
presidential cabinet is just Judaism to where it's just rampant false religion
in our country and that destroys a nation and of course people that hate
God and hate Jesus you know what they understand these things that's why
they're pushing all this multiculturalism and multi-religion because
they want to weaken our nation and weaken our country and destroy Protestant
Christianity because they hate Jesus they hate God's people and they they
hate the truth and you know we need to resist that we need to push back we need
to remind people why our nation is successful because if we don't do these
things we won't be successful America will not be successful being a
multi-religious country America will not be successful abandoning God's laws and
God's Word America will not be successful when the church cannot thrive
when the church does not have freedom America will not be successful when you
don't have leaders in our government that believe in the Christianity of the
Bible they do not praise the Word of God I mean you have Ronald Reagan getting up
and praising the King James Bible in times past it was a huge deal when JFK
was elected president why he was Catholic he was the first Catholic to
ever be a president of the United States and it was a big deal the second Catholic
who knows that Joe Biden yeah what what great things have come from the
Catholics in our country the Catholics in our nation Catholics have only made
our nation worse and and caused even more problems that doesn't mean to say
that Protestants are all good or all great but we have to understand where
our success is coming from is coming from the Bible it's coming from the Word
of God okay and we need to harken under those things now Moses was not allowed
to enter into the promised land and we have kind of a spiritual picture here
because Moses pictures the law and what the law cannot do is it cannot give you
eternal life just like Moses could not enter into the promised land you cannot
get into heaven through following the commandments that's why Joshua had to
lead them in and Joshua is a picture of Jesus in fact his name is basically the
exact same name Joshua is basically another alternative for Jesus in the New
Testament and it's Jesus that gets us into heaven something that the law could
not do because the law can't give us eternal life we've sinned we've broken
the law the law condemns us to hell that's what the law does and Jesus
Christ gives us salvation triumphing over the law because he kept the law for
us and look Joshua kind of kept the law in a sense kept God's commandments so
that he could enter into the promised land and we get to enter in through
Joshua and his efforts and his works and he leads the force so that's kind of the
spiritual picture that we have here that is kind of woven into this particular
story we'll keep reading here this is there's a lot more but we don't we don't
have to necessarily elaborate on these points as much he says here in verse
number 23 take heed on yourselves lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your
God which he made with you and make you a graven image or the likeness of
anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee for the Lord thy God is a
consuming fire even a jealous God night he went on this law he says there's ten
commandments do you remember that ten commandments and then for several verses
he's just like hammering making graven images making graven images make your
images then he goes on another point and he's like hey I just want to bring up
the graven images thing again did you notice that I mean there's ten
commandments and he's bringing up the second one and then he's like oh wait I
want to bring up the second one again and did you read it in verse 23 where he
said hey don't worship them or does he just let's just read it again take heat
on yourselves let's you forget the covenant the Lord your God which he made
with you and make you a graven image or the likeness of anything was the Lord
that I got ever been me for the Lord that I got is a consuming fire even a
jealous God you know in order to worship something you got to have it first and
he's just saying I don't even want to get it to base one I don't want you to
get the first base here don't even make it I mean he's emphasizing this it's
like am I taking crazy pills here or is the Bible just sitting here hammering
don't make graven images but it's like how many Christians are thundering this
point forth oh they don't want to say that to offend the Catholic well you know
what your Mary statue is garbage burn it with fire we should burn all of the
graven images we should get rid of your precious little Statue of Liberty we
should get rid of the statue of Sam Houston down there in Houston Texas and
you know we should definitely start with the Hindu statues they've been raising
all over America I mean they've been raising all these stupid Hindu statues
and all kinds of garbage things burn it with fire destroy it why because it's
gonna corrupt us it's causing us problems and of course when you have them
then you start worshiping him and forgetting God and forgetting what God
has done for us says when thou shalt beget children the children's children
and ye shall remain long in the land and shalt corrupt yourselves and make a
graven image or the likeness of anything and shalt do evil in the sight of the
Lord thy God to provoke him to anger I call heaven and earth to witness against
you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land where until you
go over to Jordan to possess it you shall not prolong your days upon it but
shall utterly be destroyed not only did he say it one time now you bring up a
second time now it's the third time and what's the third time he's saying now
I've told you not to do it twice but you're gonna do it and then when you do
it you're gonna start perishing off the land you're gonna make you a graven
image then you're gonna be destroyed off the land and you know that's just how
the world works isn't it America's founded great nation we get the Bible
we're so successful and then generations start to forget they start for to get
the boomers don't teach us anything and then pretty soon we're just all just
gonna be destroyed because we've forgotten we've forgotten now we're
worshiping the Star of Remfan and churches a day they have a little graven
image little star or something that they got they're worshiping it's it's it's
it's the same pattern it's sad what's gonna fix it yelling and screaming and
getting people to wake up I don't know what else to do says in the Lord shall
scatter you among the nations and you should be left few and number among the
heathen where the Lord shall lead you and there you shall serve God's the work
of men's hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell
so it's like you're gonna be drug off to Hinduism and Islam and have to deal
with that but if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find
him if thou seek him with all thy heart with all thy soul when thou art in
tribulation and all these things are come upon me even the latter days if
thou turn to the Lord thy God and shall be obedient on his voice for the Lord
thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor
forget the covenant of thy fathers which you swear unto them for ask now of the
days that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man
upon the earth and ask from the one side of heaven under the other whether there
have been any such thing as this great thing is or have been heard like it so
you're saying look I won't forget you don't you remember I brought you out of
Egypt and nothing's ever happened like this ever before or ever will happen
again did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the
fire as thou has heard and live like has anybody ever heard my voice audibly or
hath God assayed to go take him a nation from the midst of another nation by
temptations by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a
stretched out arm and by great terrors according to all the Lord your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes unto thee he was showed that thou mightest
know that the Lord he is God there is none else beside him out of heaven he
have made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee and upon earth he
showed thee his great fire and thou heardest his words out of the midst of
the fire and because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed
after them and brought thee out of his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt
to drive nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art to
bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance as it is this day know
therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God in
heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else you know it's like he
brought a nation of a nation isn't that kind of America he brought a nation out
of Europe out of many nations and he formed one nation I mean that's kind of
what even a lot of our founding names and terminology is out of one many or
out of many one I'm sorry and this kind of idea of like how we came out of this
these nations became this great nation and look it was God's blessing that
built this nation and it's like how do we then just forget it verse 40 thou
shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I commanded this
day that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that
thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the Lord thy God giveth thee
forever then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sun-rising that the slayer might flee thither which should kill his neighbor
unawares and hated him not in times past and that fleeing unto one of these
cities he might live and then it gives these areas namely Bezer in the
wilderness in the plain of country of the Rubinites and Ramoth and Gilead and
the Gadites and Golan and Bashan of the Manassites and this is the law which
Moses set before the children of Israel and I'm not gonna read the rest of this
but I just want to focus on this one point we'll finish it's a long sermon
but it's 49 verses all right give me give me a second says in verse number 41
and 42 they were supposed to appoint them cities where a slayer could go and
flee now what is a slayer in our modern vernacular we call a man slaughter man
slaughter is an unintentional killing of another human the Bible brings up a
scenario that you're like chopping wood and basically the head comes off of the
axe and it lights upon your neighbor's head and it kills them so it's like
you're chopping wood and it comes loose and the axe head flies and it strikes
your neighbor in the head and it's just a freak accident and he just dies the
Bible says then that person was supposed to just dead sprint run to one of these
cities of refuge but if somebody that cared about this guy was mad enough they
could chase you and it's basically if they caught you before you got to the
city of refuge and killed you no I mean they can just do it there was no legal
ram vocation there was no crime committed but if you've made it in the
city of refuge then you were safe and you know there's a lot of spiritual
pictures here one could be just the fact that it's like hey you start in life and
you commit sin as soon as you commit sin the timer is ticking and if the devil
kills you before you get in the quote city of refuge you go to hell for all
of eternity but if you make it in the city refuge was the Lord Jesus Christ
you're safe and he can do you no harm and so there's kind of like that same
picture here of this little story of this symbolism another thing that's
important to understand is that not all killing is the same there's a difference
between first-degree murder and second-degree murder and even third
degree murder and all these different things you know there's a difference
between premeditated murder and an accidental killing and we all understand
this and we all believe this and even America's judicial system is based on
this that there's different degrees of sin you have to basically understand
that all sin is just selfishness all sin is selfishness and when it comes to all
sins they all have like roots to particular ideas in Matthew 5 Jesus
brings this up that a lot of the sins that we see are rooted in something
like hatred is the root of killing that you first you start hating somebody and
then you want to wish evil upon them then you may strike them or hurt them
and the ultimate culmination is going into murder first-degree murder
premeditated murder but it started with hatred and that's why Jesus is saying
like if you hate your brother in your heart you've committed murder now did
you commit first-degree murder and you're worthy of the death penalty no
it's just a form of murder it's a lesser degree of murder it's the most basic
least form of murder and the Bible brings up looking on a woman and
lusting after her in your heart is a form of quote adultery but it is not the
same as what the Bible is prescribing as the death penalty for adultery now go to
Leviticus chapter number 20 and look at verse number 10 what does the Bible
prescribe as far as adultery and the Old Testament law because we have to
understand there's degrees to every sin and look I'm not even joking when I say
that some people don't get this point and I've even heard like women sometimes
thinking like their husbands should be punished with the death penalty for
looking on upon a woman to lust after her it's like there's adultery it's like
no okay yes it was adultery is it first degree adultery that the Bible's
prescribing the death penalty no not at all okay these are different things okay
these are different layers all right yeah obviously it's sin obviously it's
wrong you shouldn't do that we should never do that but if we're gonna kill
men for having a bad thought all men will die okay I mean I mean it's just
it's over all women would die if you held that same standard okay God why do
you think Jesus brought that one up because he knew everyone's guilty of
that one okay obviously the Bible says the thought of foolishness is sin okay
we get that there's a difference between sins and crimes though what was the
whole point of these statues in this chapter so that society can have
perpetuity so it can continue and thrive and be able to sustain itself
certain capital punishments are instituted for perpetuity reasons okay
Exodus I'm sorry Leviticus 20 verse 10 says this 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 adulteress shall surely be put to death
now in this particular passage in this chapter has lots of death penalty crimes
this is one of them what is it saying if any man it doesn't say a married man it
just says any man if a man is to lie with someone's wife he it says even he
that committed that both him and the woman would be put to death now the word
even is a really important word because it means specifically that's what it
means when we hear the word even we're thinking math we're thinking like you
know some kind of a mathematical equation you know being something being
even or being equivalent that is not what this is meaning at all it's
meaning specifically okay so it's saying specifically in the scenario
specifically he that committed adultery with his neighbor's wife the adulterer
and adulterer shall surely be put to death I mean the Bible couldn't be clear
that is outlining one scenario an a man with a married woman it does not matter
if he's married or not you can be a single man and commit this type of
adultery and the Bible would prescribe the death penalty now what would be a
reason for this just I mean the Bible says in the book of Proverbs that a man
is to lie with another man's wife that man will not rest content and jealousy is
the rage of a man and that he wouldn't even take a ransom he'll just kill you
and the reality is most men would probably just kill you I mean if you did
this if you violated his wife he would probably just kill you is that gonna
work really well for society I mean that's probably pretty dangerous so you
probably since someone's gonna die already we might as well just have the
law do it and do it in a kind of a proper civilized way because otherwise
you're just gonna have rampant just vigilante attacks and just like all
kinds of crazy things happening and it's gonna be dangerous and chaotic and just
wild wild west it's like hey we're just gonna hey basically have this
particular rule now some people say what about another scenario what if what if
it's just a woman with a married man well it just doesn't bring it up it just
doesn't say okay now some people would get offended by that but you know what I
don't really care because I just care what the Bible says okay and at the end
of the day you know we have to understand that while both would be adultery no
one's gonna argue that it's not adultery unless they're just taking crazy pills
not all adultery is worth the death penalty according the Bible there's
different degrees of murder there's different degrees of adultery you know I
heard a Baptist pastor get up and literally say that polygamy is not
adultery because they were trying to teach they were trying to teach that
somehow all adultery should be punished with the death penalty regardless of the
scenario and in an effort to teach that they basically just said polygamy is not
committing adultery and they said like concubines are always never committing
adultery either like all concubine situations and all polygamy is just not
a form of adultery therefore I can have this idea you know we don't want to just
come up with an idea and then try to force that on the Bible because then we
start saying weird things I mean Jesus Christ is really clear in Luke that if a
man divorces his wife and marries another that's a form of adultery now
that the form of adultery that should be punished with the death penalty no but
is it a form of adultery yes okay and we want to make sure that we understand
there's these different layers what is the context of Deuteronomy chapter 4
it's about the society as a whole about them being successful as a nation and
then you know basically thriving now I'm gonna give you one other thing we're
done you don't have to go anywhere else in the Bible just one other thought
though let's just say and you know in times past I haven't really been sure
exactly I felt about that I think many times I kind of argued that maybe you
know having men being put to death for adultery in the sense that they lay with
a woman you know married man even with an unmarried woman perhaps adultery
would be appropriate you know a death penalty scenario would be appropriate
there but you know in thinking about that here's one reason why that might
not be a good idea obviously apart from the fact that there's just no clear
verse in the Bible that says that obviously that should be the most
important point but here's just a second thought that I had it's so prevalent in
humanity unfortunately it's so common in humanity that what would that do to a
society it may actually just eradicate all the men from society and if you
think about it if you have no men in society you're basically susceptible to
invasion and destruction as a nation now again is that justifying what they're
doing no I mean what does the Bible say in the book of Hebrews it says
marriage is honorable and all and the in the bed undefiled and it says the
whoremonger and adulterer God will judge hey adultery is wicked as hell God will
judge adulterers but you know what just because God's gonna judge adultery and
adulteries wicked as hell and no one should ever commit adultery doesn't mean
that that was necessarily what the law was saying in this particular statute and
we can be really against things in the Bible and not necessarily make it a
crime. You know, not everything has to be a crime, even though we should be against
sin in general. We should preach hard against sin. You know, I don't want to start making
techno music a crime, okay? And if you don't like it, then fun. You know, you can just
not like it or whatever. But at the end of the day, you know, we need to stick to what
the Bible says we shouldn't add or we shouldn't diminish. We should keep it specifically.
We should keep it even to what it says, specifically what it says. And then if we want to add stuff,
we need to make it clear that we're just, you know, we're making a distinction between
these things. Hey, this is just our personal standards or our personal ideas, but we're
not enforcing that on other people because we're keeping it straight to the Bible. And,
you know, America is just being destroyed because we just have so much idolatry, just
forgotten where we came from. You know, if we want to make America great again, we need
to make it Baptist again. We need to make it fundamental Baptist, King James only.
They need to get the Baptist bias. And, you know, at the end of the day, I'm trying as
hard as I can, but, you know, I don't know if we're going to ride the ship, but we might
as well do as much as we can and turn as many people to the Lord as possible. If you love
this nation, you'll want to make them Baptist and you'll want them to get rid of their graven
images and you want them to believe all these statutes because they're great. I love Leviticus.
I love Leviticus 20. It's a great chapter. I love this book. Learn a little bit of history.
All right. Let's go to prayer. Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for giving us such
a great nation to live in. Thank you for giving us great laws that we've been able to benefit
and be blessed from. I pray if it's possible that you could turn the hearts of America
back to the Word of God so we could have more righteous statutes and more righteous judgments
in this nation. I pray if possible that you could just perform a miracle and overturn
Lawrence versus Texas and make sodomy illegal in Texas again. I pray if possible that you
could just help us to get rid of all the idolatry and the graven images. I pray you'd help Baptist
churches stop being Judaized and just infiltrated with just false religion and wickedness. I
pray it'd be possible that you could raise up a generation that fears God and loves the
Word of God. And I pray that in our own hearts and our own lives that we would only cling
to what the Bible says. We wouldn't be offended by God's Word, but rather we'd love God's
Word. And I pray that you would help our church to be a bright and shining light in such a
dark world. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our last song tonight, we will go to song number 410. Song number 410, "Faith
is the Victory." Song number 410. I'll sing that out together, song 410.