Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If everyone could please find their seats and grab a song book.
Let's turn our song books to song 245, The Old Account Was Settled.
Song 245, The Old Account Was Settled.
There was a time on earth when in the book of heaven
An old account was standing for sins yet unforgiven
My name was at the top and many things below
I went out to the keeper and settled long ago, long ago, long ago
Yes, the old account was settled long ago
And the record's clear today for he washed my sins away
When the old account was settled long ago
The old account was large and growing every day
For I was always sinning and never tried to pay
But when I looked ahead and saw such pain and woe
I said that I would settle, I settled long ago, long ago, long ago
Yes, the old account was settled long ago
And the record's clear today for he washed my sins away
When the old account was settled long ago
When in that happy home, my Savior's home above
I'll sing redemption's story and praise him for his love
I'll not forget that book with pages wide as snow
Because I came and settled, and settled long ago, long ago, long ago
Yes, the old account was settled long ago
And the record's clear today for he washed my sins away
When the old account was settled long ago
O sinner, trust the Lord, be cleansed of all your sin
For thus he hath provided for you to enter in
And then if you should live a hundred years below
Up there you'll not regret it
You settled long ago, long ago, long ago
Yes, the old account was settled long ago
And the record's clear today for he washed my sins away
When the old account was settled long ago
Amen, let's open up with a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day
And for the opportunity to be gathered together in your house
To sing praises to you, to hear your word preached
Pray that we would just sing out to you from our hearts
Worship you in truth and in spirit
And thank you so much for all the mothers that are with us
And for all that they do for us in our lives
In Jesus' name we pray, amen
All right, let's go to song 147, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
What a fellowship, what a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
Oh how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Oh how bright the path grows from day to day
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
What have I to dread, what have I to fear
Leaning on the everlasting arms
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
Good morning, happy Mother's Day, thank you so much for joining us
If you don't have a bulletin, lift every hand nice and high real quick
And one of our ushers, hey can you go ahead and pass out some bulletins real quick
Some of these down here
Lift your hand nice and high and one of our ushers come by
Get you a bulletin on the front we have our Bible memory passage
On the inside we have our service and soul winning times
As well as our church stats
And then we have our list of expecting ladies or prayer lists
Continue to pray for them
Also because it is Mother's Day
We have a gift that we wanted to give all the mothers
So I'm going to have a couple of our ushers come and help
Hey brother Tony do you mind helping real quick
And we're going to pass out a gift to all the mothers
If for some reason you're here today and your wife or your mom is not with us
You can still take one and give it to her
So don't be ashamed to take one if for some reason she didn't make it this morning
Make sure to grab one so that way we can get it to her
And just a little thank you to all of the mothers in here
And hopefully by next week or so we're going to get our church directories
They've already been ordered and I'm really excited about this
And hopefully every family should be able to get one
And so I'm really excited about how they turned out
Thanks to everybody that participated and helped
A couple people that did not take the family picture
We got them in another picture in like a group picture
We'll put them in there okay so there you are
So even if you didn't think you made it in you might have made it in alright
So that's the risk you take when you don't take the picture okay
And that's pretty much all I have for announcements
We'll go ahead and go to our third song for this morning
We'll go to song 22 Are You Washed in the Blood Song 22
Again that's song number 22 Are You Washed in the Blood
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you fully trusting in his grace this hour
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you washed in the blood
In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you walking daily by the savior's side
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Do you rest each moment in the crucified
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you washed in the blood
In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
When the bridegroom cometh will your robes be white
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright
And be washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you washed in the blood
In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin
And be washed in the blood of the lamb
There's a fountain flowing for the soul unclean
Oh be washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you washed in the blood
In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
And follow along silently starting in verse 1 we'll read the whole chapter before the sermon
Exodus chapter 21 the Bible reads
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them
If thou by an Hebrew servant six years he shall serve
And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing
If he came in by himself he shall go out by himself
If he were married then his wife shall go out with him
If his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters
The wife and her children shall be her masters and he shall go out by himself
And if the servant shall plainly say I love my master
My wife and my children I will not go out free
That his master shall bring him unto the judges
He shall also bring him to the door or unto the doorpost
And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl
And he shall serve him forever
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant
She shall not go out as the men servants do
If she please not her master who hath betrothed her to himself
Then shall he let her be redeemed
To sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power
Seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her
And if he have betrothed her unto his son
He shall deal with her after the manner of daughters
If he take him another wife
Her food her raiment and her duty of marriage
Shall he not diminish
And if he do not these three unto her
Then shall she go out free without money
He that smiteth a man so that he die
Shall be surely put to death
And if a man lie not in wait
But God deliver him into his hand
Then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour
To slay him with guile
Thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die
And he that smiteth his father or his mother
Shall be surely put to death
And he that stealeth a man and selleth him
Or if he be found in his hand
He shall surely be put to death
And he that curseth his father or his mother
Shall surely be put to death
And if men strive together
And one smite another with a stone
Or with his fist and he die not
But keepeth his bed
If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff
Then shall he that smote him be quit
Only he shall pay for the loss of his time
And shall cause him to be thoroughly healed
And if a man smite his servant
Or is made with a rod and he die under his hand
He shall be surely punished
Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two
He shall not be punished
For he is his money
If men strive and hurt a woman with child
So that her fruit depart from her
And yet no mischief follow
He shall be surely punished
According as the woman's husband will lay upon him
And he shall pay as the judges determine
And if any mischief follow
Then thou shalt give life for life
Eye for eye
Tooth for tooth
Hand for hand
Foot for foot
Burning for burning
Wound for wound
Stripe for stripe
And if a man smite the eye of his servant
Or the eye of his maid
That it perish
He shall let him go free for his eyes sake
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth
Or his maidservant's tooth
He shall let him go free for his tooth's sake
If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die
Then the ox shall be surely stoned
And his flesh shall not be eaten
But the owner of the ox shall be quit
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past
And it hath been testified to his owner
And he hath not kept them in
But that he hath killed a man or a woman
The ox shall be stoned
And his owner also shall be put to death
If there be laid on him a sum of money
Then he shall give for the ransom of his life
Whatsoever is laid upon him
Whether he hath gored a son or hath gored a daughter
According to this judgment shall it be done unto him
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant
He shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver
And the ox shall be stoned
And if a man shall open a pit
Or if a man shall dig a pit
And not cover it
And an ox or an ass fall therein
The owner of the pit shall make it good
And give money unto the owner of them
And the dead beast shall be his
And if one man's ox hurt another's
That he die
Then they shall sell the live ox
And divide the money of it
And the dead ox also they shall divide
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in times past
And his owner hath not kept them in
He shall surely pay ox for ox
And the dead shall be his own
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
Father we thank you for this Mother's Day
And for our church
We pray that you will fill passage really with your spirit
In the name of Jesus Christ, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen.
The part of the chapter that I want to focus on is verse 22 where the Bible read
If men strive and hurt a woman with child
So that her fruit depart from her
And yet no mischief follow
He shall be surely punished
According as the woman's husband will lay upon him
And he shall pay as the judges determine
And if any mischief follow
Then thou shalt give life for life
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth
Hand for hand, foot for foot
Burning for burning, wound for wound
Stripe for strife
Now in the book of Exodus
God is giving Moses the law
And he's giving them the statutes and judgments
So they would know how to govern themselves
As a nation, as a civilization, as a group of people
And so what you have to understand is that
The law of Moses is what is right
It's what is just, it's what is equal
This is how civil society should be formed
These are the laws that God gives
For a nation to govern itself
And while many people would scoff at the Old Testament laws
Or would scoff at these rules of civility
I will submit to you that these are the proper rules
Of every civilization for all times
Some people would categorize the Old Testament law
As the moral law, kind of the civil law
Or the criminal law
And kind of have these distinctions
And say oh there's also like spiritual
Or like cleanliness aspects of the law
And I think that's a pretty valid way to look at it
But any law in the Bible that's essentially given
To govern a society
Jesus didn't die on the cross so that civilizations could have anarchy
Jesus Christ died on the cross
To save us from a spiritual punishment called hell
And you know Jesus Christ even when dying on the cross
Did not spare you from a physical punishment due to your sins
If you lie, steal, cheat, commit adultery, commit murder
Jesus Christ's death on the cross
Is not some kind of exoneration from the punishment or penalty of that crime
I mean what kind of foolishness would it be to walk into the courtroom today
And say I know honor that I killed this person
But did you know that Jesus died on the cross
Therefore I shouldn't have any punishment
I shouldn't have any kind of recompense
That's Old Testament
No one believes that
America has never believed that
That is a foolish way to interpret the Bible
And so if we're going to learn how to govern ourselves
If we're going to learn the rules of civility
We must go to the Bible
We must go to where God has clearly laid out a plan for a nation
And implement those laws the best of our ability in our situation
And this is what the initial settlers in America did
This is what the first colonies did
This is what many states have done
And in fact America's history is one of taking the Old Testament laws
And making them the laws of the land
And it's only in modern recent day times
Where they've deteriorated to a weird extreme
And they're no longer in application
But let me tell you something
There's nothing wrong with us going back to that
In fact we should go back to that
And so the title of my sermon this morning is this
Make Abortion Murder Again
Hashtag Mama
You know it's Mother's Day
And we should celebrate mothers
Celebrate those who have become pregnant
And this is how I classify if you're a mother or not
Have you ever been pregnant?
That's why men will never be a mother
Because they cannot get pregnant
But if you've ever gotten pregnant you are a mother
Because birth is not when a baby's life starts
Conception is when a baby's life starts
And so any woman that's ever conceived is a mother
And the Bible makes us abundantly clear in this passage
Now I want to clean something up
Because I've taught on this passage before
And having studied this more in depth
I actually have changed my mind a little bit
On what this passage actually is saying
However it doesn't change any of the applications that I've ever preached before
So all the applications and my doctrine is the same
It's just what this passage is saying
I've kind of said something a little bit different in the past
And I want to kind of just make sure what it's actually saying today
What I believe it's clearly articulating
But notice in verse 22 the Bible says
If men strive
Meaning these are two guys fighting each other
Now the intent is not necessarily clearly defined
As far as why they're fighting
But what's important is that we understand men are fighting
Men are struggling, they're fighting
We don't know exactly all the details
But in some happenstance
A pregnant woman is in the vicinity of these men fighting
Striving, there's some kind of conflict
And a woman that's pregnant ends up becoming a consequence
To this fighting, to this striving
She gets hurt
Now we don't know how intentional or accidental this is
For the sake of this verse I don't believe that it necessarily matters yet
We'll talk about what it means yet
But I believe what it's clearly saying is it's not intentional
Because men are striving
It's not saying that a man's attacking a pregnant woman
That's just weird, okay
It's basically saying a man is attacking another man
And there's collateral damage in the sense that a woman
Who happens to be pregnant
Ends up getting injured as a result of this conflict
It says in the next verse or part
So that her fruit depart from her
So not only did this woman get injured
It causes her to have a premature birth
Essentially meaning that this child's no longer in the womb
It's basically forcing the baby out
And then it says, and yet no mischief follow
Now the word mischief, and I'm going to prove a lot of this even further down in my sermon
So don't get too caught up yet
I'm just kind of telling you what I believe this is saying
And then we're going to prove everything from the Bible
But mischief simply means harm or evil, okay
So let's say a woman's about to give birth
She gets struck or hurt or pushed into a wall
Something happens
And she immediately starts laboring
And then the baby comes out
The Bible's saying if no mischief follow
Meaning that even though it's a premature birth
The child's still perfectly healthy
Perfectly fine
No evil, no harm happened to the child
It says he shall be surely punished
And according as the woman's husband will lay upon him
And he shall pay as the judge determined
So even if no harm happens to this baby
Even if the baby's still perfectly fine
What the Bible says is that the person who happened to cause this conflict
Is supposed to still pay a penalty to this husband
For the injury to his wife
And just whatever medical expenses may have been incurred
From them having to go to the hospital
Or to get an ambulance
Or to pay an extra doctor that's, you know, over time
Just basically any of the consequences
Related to this event occurring when it shouldn't have occurred
It didn't happen naturally, basically
And look, as a woman who's pregnant
You can go into labor unnaturally
Meaning that something happens to you
If you get hurt, if you get damaged
If something happens near the end of your pregnancy
It can cause you to go into pregnancy
It can cause you to go into labor and basically birth that child
That's why it's so important that a pregnant woman
Is not being hazardous with herself
Near the end of her pregnancy
Because something could trigger that
Something could cause that
And we don't want any harm to her
We don't want any harm to the baby
And so a woman that's pregnant
We should guard and protect
And not allow them to be in a dangerous situation
And if men are gonna fight
Here's a really bad place near a pregnant woman
I mean, that's a really foolish idea
In fact, throughout history
And if you watch movies
What do guys typically say when they wanna fight?
Do you wanna step outside?
Why? Why are they saying that out of respect
For the other people at least?
You know, it used to be that it would be a respectful thing
You don't wanna just start fighting and brawling
In the midst of other women and children
Or other innocent people that could possibly get hurt
As a result of your conflict
You know, a really dangerous place
For a pregnant woman to stand
Would be near Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
When they were married
I mean, there's bottles flying
And all kinds of crazy stuff happening, right?
And basically this is just saying
When you start fighting with someone
You are responsible for any consequence
That happens as a result of your fighting
And if you end up hitting a woman
And she goes into early labor
You have to pay a financial fine
Now what happens if something bad happens to the child?
It says in verse 23
And if any mischief follow
So this is meaning any harm
Any injury
Then thou shall give what?
Life for life, eye for eye
Tooth for tooth, hand for hand
Foot for foot, burning for burning
Wound for wound, stripe for stripe
So he's saying if any injury happens to the child
Then they get the exact same injury to them
But notice what the Bible describes
A child in the womb
A life
It says that thou shalt give life
For life
And so God does not distinguish
Between a person that's outside of the womb
And inside the womb
If you kill a person
Inside the womb
In God's eyes it's the exact same
As killing somebody outside the womb
He gives the exact same value
To a life in the womb
As a life outside of the womb
And I'm going to prove this even further
Go to Isaiah chapter number 7 now
Go to Isaiah chapter number 7
We're going to come back to Exodus
And we're going to basically
Really dive into this passage
And make sure we understand it
But the Bible is making it very clear
That if you
Cause
A baby in the womb to die
That that is
A life
It's not a clump of cells
It's not
Just a fetus as it were
We can't just hide it and conceal it
In scientific terms
To try and turn it into something that it's not
It's still a life
If I say someone's a toddler
That doesn't stop them from being a life
If I say they're a child
That doesn't stop them from being a life
If I say they're an elderly person
That doesn't stop them from being a life
And if I say they're a fetus
That doesn't stop them from being a life
And it still has the same value
As a toddler
As a child
As a man
As a woman
As an elderly person
And God takes the killing
Of any person
For any reason
Extremely severe
And I'm going to show you in the Bible
How God actually feels about someone dying
And I think it might shock you a little bit
We don't feel the same way that God feels
And our laws do not reflect
What the Bible actually teaches
But the Bible is very clear and consistent
That God is very angry with
Anyone who takes
Anyone's life
There is only one caveat
And that is self-defense
That is the only caveat
And I'm going to explain that further
But in Isaiah chapter 7
The Bible is giving a prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ
And it says in verse 14
It will give you a sign
Behold a virgin shall conceive
And bear a son
And shall call his name Emmanuel
Notice the Bible says
A virgin shall conceive
And bear a son
Now it's not that he's a son
When he's born
He was a son before he was born
He was a son at conception
And he was a child
At conception
Now go to Matthew chapter number 1
In the state of Texas
We have a legislation
That was passed called the heartbeat bill
And it essentially
Says that you cannot
Abort or kill
A child after
Six weeks of it being
Ingestation
And that's based on the fact that you can hear the heartbeat
That's why it's called
The heartbeat bill
Because essentially at six weeks or further
You could have someone take a tool
Put it up to the belly of the mother
And detect the heartbeat through
Inventions modern science
But here's the thing
Inventions of modern science do not determine
When someone is alive or a child
And
While hey I'm glad
That some abortions have ceased
It's not like I'm mad about that
But that is not what God said
God didn't say six weeks
God actually determines that a person
Is a child at conception
Because notice how it's quoted
In Matthew chapter 1 verse 23
Behold a virgin shall be
What? With child
So the Bible is a
Self-defining dictionary saying
Conception is with child
It didn't say with fetus
It didn't say with a clump of cells
It said it's with a child
And let me tell you something
That's also why us as a fundamental Baptist church
We're against birth control as well
Because birth control
Is killing whatever
Was conceived in the womb
And let me tell you something
What was conceived in the womb was a child
And I don't care if it's one day old
Nine months old
Or a hundred years old
You should never end its life
Period
That is murder
That is slaying of a child
Now go back to Exodus 21
We've proven a few things
What have we proven?
God considers conception
When that life begins
Now let's consider
What God's punishment is then
For someone
That would commit this crime
And let me tell you something
Abortion is a crime
Whether America says it's a crime or not
It's a crime against God
And abortion
Is not even men striving and accidentally
Causing a woman to lose her child
They're intentionally doing it
What does the Bible say when you intentionally
Cause someone to die?
Look at Exodus 21 verse 12
He that smiteth a man so that he die
Shall be surely put to death
Notice God saying
If you intentionally kill someone
Your punishment is death every single time
Now what you have to understand about God
And God's laws is God is very efficient
God does not
Feel the need
To explain the exact
Same scenario over and over
Again in the law
In fact once he's done
Explaining a particular situation
He then elaborates
On different situations
Or expounds it in different ways
So that you have a full understanding
But God is not going to necessarily
Belabor the point
In every single law
So we should already understand
All intentional killing has already been dealt with
It's murder
And not only is it murder
It's death penalty
Now that is where abortion actually lives
Cause they are intentionally
Smiting a newborn
Baby and killing it
And they're not doing it on accident
They're scheduling it
They're planning it
They're plotting it
They have tools and instruments that they're going to use on it
And it's sick
It's satanic
It's demonic
It's evil
It's contemplating
Even just the idea of this is wicked
Not just doing it
Just having the thought of it is wicked
You know they want to say
Oh these women that commit abortions
You know they're having to make a tough decision
No just even thinking about committing abortion
You're wicked
That's where you started with the wickedness
It wasn't going to the clinic
It wasn't getting the abortion
It was thinking about it
Then going to the clinic
Getting the abortion even more wicked
And it's such murder
You're deserving of death
Is what the Bible says
And I know that's not popular
But I don't care what's popular
Did you come last Sunday morning?
I mean I'm not going to get up here and tell you
What's popular today
I'm going to tell you what the Bible said
But you know it's sad because in America
A lot of these laws used to be popular
They used to be the common belief
And you know we should make that comment again
And we should preach what the Bible says
Now he says in verse 13
And if a man lie not in wait
But God deliver in his hand
Then I will appoint thee a place where he shall flee
So if you kill someone
Not intentionally
Essentially saying this would be kind of your idea
Of a passion crime
Perhaps you see someone
Do something you don't like
Or they're causing injury to you or someone else
But they're not worthy of death
And you just kill them because you're mad at them
That would be essentially
A crime of passion in essence
And it's saying that
You could flee to a
City of refuge
But notice it didn't say
That the death penalty doesn't apply to you
It basically just gives you a caveat
Of saying you have a place where you could
Run and flee and not die
Says in verse 14
But if a man come presumptuously upon his
Neighbor to slay him with guile
Thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die
This is Joab
Joab grabbed the horns of the altar
And Benaiah came unto him to kill him from the
The Cree of Solomon
And Joab's like, kill me here
And then Benaiah's like, I don't know what to do
And then Solomon's like, kill him there
Because
If you are worthy of death
It doesn't matter what you try to grab onto
For mercy, you are worthy of death
Okay, I don't care how saved you are
Saved people that commit crimes
Worthy of death should be put to death
Now it says in verse 15
And if he smite his father his mother he shall surely be put to death
Notice that the Bible even says, hey
I don't care if you killed your parents
If you just hit your parents, death penalty
Notice what God's
Law is actually saying here
It's saying, you kill someone
On purpose, death
You just strike your parents, death
If you kill someone
Not trying to kill them necessarily
Or perhaps you did try to kill them
Purposely, but you hadn't thought about it
You're mad at them, they lie to you
Or rip you off
And you just kill them
You didn't really premeditate or anything
You didn't hate them before
You still are worthy of death
But you can run away to a city of refuge
Now
Flip the page and look at chapter 22
And I'm gonna kind of explain all
Of the examples of murder in the Bible
And what the penalty is
Look at Exodus 22 verse 2
If a thief be found breaking up
And be smitten that he die
There shall no blood be shed for him
So here's another thing
If you're just putting someone's life
At risk
You are worthy of death
In the sense that if someone
Breaks into your house at night
And you feel the threat that they could harm
You or hurt you or kill you or something
Your life's being put in jeopardy
You can kill that person
Lawfully, according to God's word
And there should be no punishment
Now praise God
In the state of Texas, we have castle doctrine
And that's also applicable
In the real world
If someone's breaking through your house at night
You can use all
Levels of defense
To basically stop the threat
Now you shouldn't just try to hurt them
And harm them
But if your life is in danger
In the state of Texas, in your house
You basically have the right to defend yourself
And defend your property
Some people say, oh it's just property
Well in the state of Texas, you can defend your property
And think about this
Isn't this the law literally saying
That you can defend your property at night?
It's making a distinction
Though, because if we read the next verse
It says, if the sun be risen upon him
There shall be blood shed for him
For he shall make full restitution
If he have nothing
Then he shall be sold for his theft
So you can't just defend property
Carte blanche
If someone can steal from you
And if they do it in broad daylight
According to God's word
You're not allowed to kill them for that
In fact, if you kill them
For stealing from you
You're to be put to death
That's what it says
It says, shall be blood shed for him
This happened in America
A really famous trial
A young man was killed
Named Ahmaud Arbery
Who knows what I'm talking about
Because it was a black young man
And a white guy
Now, here's the thing
A lot of white people want to come to the fence
Of this Travis Michael
And Greg Michael
These men that ended up
Slaying Ahmaud Arbery
And I don't know all the facts
Of the case
So you can look it up yourself
But basically, it was kind of a more
Affluent, white neighborhood
Off the beaten path
And there was a house being built
New construction
And somebody was coming around and stealing stuff
From that new construction project
And having burglary
Around the houses
On a regular basis
Well, it happened during broad daylight again
Where this young man
This black young man
Was basically seen fleeing from this new construction house
And so
Travis and Greg
Michael
Basically followed him
Trying to basically
Stop him
Now they grabbed guns
And they basically kind of trap him at the end of their neighborhood
And there's even video of this
And pretty much the video just shows
Them kind of trapping this young man
Then the guy kind of like
Starts attacking them
There's a back and forth
And then eventually Ahmaud Arbery gets shot
So there's a lot of elements here
Some people would argue
That maybe it was self-defense
But here's the thing
What did the Bible say? Did the Bible say
If someone's found stealing in broad daylight
You're allowed to go and hunt them down and kill them?
The answer's no
Now obviously if someone's attacking you
That could kind of turn into a self-defense argument
But really they kind of trapped him
And put him in a corner
And here's the thing
Even a criminal
If trapped and put in a position
Where his life is on the line
He found himself
So you have to be very careful
And because of this
Obviously there was a lot of politicization of this case
But here's the thing
They found them guilty and they went
They're going to like federal prison
For having slain this Ahmaud Arbery
But here's the thing
What does the Bible actually say?
The Bible actually says
If someone stole from you in broad daylight
And you tracked them down and shot them and killed them
You shouldn't go to federal prison
You should be put to death
So think about it
As weird as our society is
They still didn't even give that harsh of a punishment
According to what the Bible actually says
Meaning if you catch someone
Ripping you off
Or taking money out of the cash register
Or whatever during the day
You can't just go and kill that person
Because if you killed that person
You actually would be worthy of death
You should be put to death
For that slaying
Notice how God is literally
Allowing criminals
To not be killed
Think about that
How much value does God have on life?
That's a pretty high value on life
That God's not even willing for thieves
And robbers to be put to death
So God takes
People's lives very seriously
And He does not want
Bloodshed whatsoever
We should be very careful
That no one is being killed
Go if you want to
Deuteronomy chapter 19
So I kind of have it broken into a few categories
If you commit premeditated intentional homicide
You receive the death penalty
If you
Try to hurt your parents
Death penalty
And in fact think about this
This is kind of even attempted homicide
So you just strike them
Death penalty
If you kill someone out of passion
Or circumstance
You still are worthy
Of death
But you have the chance to flee
Unto a city of refuge
As the Bible basically describes
But you basically
Have to kill someone
Without trying
Because if you try to kill them
As we just evidenced in Exodus 22
So intent always comes into play
When it comes to the slaying of any individual
Why did you do that?
But if you kill someone as a pure defense
You're only trying to defend yourself
Or someone else
In the right circumstance
The Bible says that there's no penalty
There's no punishment whatsoever
Now let's get a little bit more understanding
About this city of refuge
Deuteronomy 19 verse 1 says
When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations
Whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee
And dwells in their cities and their houses
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee
In the midst of thy land
Which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it
Thou shalt prepare thee away
And divide the coasts of thy land
Which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit
Into three parts
That every slayer
May flee thither
And this is the case of the slayer which shall flee thither
That he may live
Who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly
Whom he hated not in time past
Now notice the only way to get this caveat
Is you kill someone not trying to kill them
And you have no hatred towards them
He says in verse 5
As when a man goeth into the wood
With his neighbor to hew wood
And his hand fetcheth the stroke
With the axe to cut down the tree
And the head slippeth from the health
And lighteth upon his neighbor that he die
He shall flee unto one of those cities
And live
Lest the avenger of the blood
Pursue the slayer
And shake him
Because the way is long and slay him
Whereas he was not worthy of death
Inasmuch as he hated him not in time past
So according to God
You're not really technically worthy of death
Per se
But God still allows the revenger of blood to kill you
If he can catch you in time
So you better not kill someone that's faster than you
Or his brother's faster than you or whatever
Because he would chase you down, hunt you down
And you would basically
It's fair game as it were
If you are worthy
If you've killed someone
And notice this is a complete accident
This is saying you didn't try to kill someone
You had no goal
You may have loved this person
But for whatever reason
Pure accident
You kill someone
You have to flee to a city of refuge
Otherwise you are liable
To be killed by the revenger
The revenger has all manner of authority
From God to kill you
Verse 7
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee
And if the Lord thy God enlarges thy coasts
As he hath sworn unto thy fathers
And give thee all the land which he promised
To give unto thy fathers
If thou shalt keep all these commandments through them
Which I command thee this day
To love the Lord thy God and walk ever in his ways
Then shalt thou add three cities more for thee
Beside these three
That innocent blood be not shed on thy land
Which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance
And so blood be upon thee
But if any man hate his neighbor
And lie in wait for him
And rise up against him
And smite immortally that he die
And fleeth into one of these cities
Then the elders of this city
Shall send and fetch him thence
And deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood
That he may die
Thine eye shall not pity him
But thou shalt put away the guilt
Of innocent blood from Israel
That it may go well with thee
So notice
If you flee to the city of refuge
But it's not legitimate
There's stills to drag you out of that city
And you're still supposed to be put to death
So the only way
If you kill someone
The only way
To have no punishment
Is it's pure self-defense
The second option
Is if you kill them and it's a pure accident
No malicious intent
No evil
You still have to go to a city of refuge
And you have to stay there
Until the death of the high priest
And at any point you leave that sanctioned area
That sanctuary city
You can still be put to death
That is what the Bible is saying
Let me prove this even further
Look at verse 16
If a false witness rise up against any man
To testify against him
That which is wrong
Then both the men
Between whom the controversy is
Shall stand before the Lord
Before the priests and the judges
Which shall be in those days
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition
And behold if the witness be a false witness
And have testified falsely against his brother
Then shall ye do unto him
As he had thought to have done unto his brother
So shall thou put the evil away from among you
And those which remain
Shall hear and fear
And shall henceforth commit no more
Any such evil among you
And that I shall not pity
But life shall go for life
Eye for eye
Tooth for tooth
Hand for hand
Foot for foot
So he's saying not only
Can you be put to death
For killing somebody
Trying to kill someone
Think about what he's doing
They're lying on purpose
They're falsely witnessing
To try and get someone put to death
Through the legal channel
If you're lying about that
You're supposed to be put to death
So just even planning the murder of someone
You get the death penalty
I'm not writing the Bible
I'm just telling you what the Bible literally is saying
If you are trying to kill someone
And you have the plan
And you're lying about it
And you're testifying under oath
Against your brother or sister or whoever
You found lying
You're put to death
You get the exact same punishment
Go to Joshua chapter 20
And I want to continue with this thought
Of this refuge city
For just another moment
And we're basically looking at all the places
The Bible are bringing up this
This situation of murder
Attempted murder
Intentional homicide
Accidental homicide
All of these different scenarios
But notice that the Bible has a really consistent theme
God is angry at all of these scenarios
Essentially self-defense is your only exoneration
And you have to understand
That I believe in studying the Bible
War is kind of put in the self-defense category
And we kind of think of this
Because we've been reading 2 Samuel
We've been studying 2 Samuel
That Joab's brother Abishai
Is hunting down Abner
And Abner doesn't want to kill him
But he basically kills him in what?
Self-defense
Well here's the thing
God gets mad at Joab killing Abner
If Abner had not killed him in self-defense
It had been some kind of premeditated
Intentional homicide or something like that
Well then
It would have been justified for him to kill him
There would have been no problem
Okay
So what you have to understand is that in war
God considers all of that basically just self-defense
I mean you're on the battlefield
Someone's trying to kill you
I mean it's basically considered self-defense at that point
That's not the same
Now obviously God's still mad at all the blood being shed
God doesn't like war
And people that are picking fights and wars with people
God's not just saying like
Oh you guys are innocent
You know you can't like invade a country
And then claim self-defense all of a sudden
Okay
But we understand in a time of war
A lot of the killing could be just purely self-defense
You're not necessarily wanting to kill those individuals
But you have to to survive
So obviously war is an evil thing
We're kind of not talking about that
We're talking about every other scenario here
Joshua chapter 20 look at verse 2
Speak to the children of Israel saying
Appoint out for you cities of refuge
Whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses
That the slayer that killed any person
Unawares and unwittingly may flee thither
And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood
Says and when he that doth flee
unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city
And shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city
They shall take him into the city unto them
And give him a place that he may dwell among them
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him
Then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand
Because he smote his neighbor unwittingly
And hated him not before time
And he shall dwell in that city
Until he stand before the congregation for judgment
And until the death of the high priest
That shall be in those days
Then shall the slayer return and come unto his own city
And unto his own house unto the city from whence he fled
So notice again the Bible is bringing up a refuge city
A person can flee to, they can live there
Until the death of the high priest
At the point of the death of the high priest they can basically return
Now I'm not saying that our system is perfect or right
But it's similar to prison
If you think about it
Now obviously this prison sounds better than our prison
However, in essence, if you commit manslaughter in America
Meaning, let's say involuntary manslaughter
You accidentally kill someone
You would still go to jail in many cases
You could still go and serve time in prison and jail
And it's basically once you served your time though
You're let loose and it's not supposed to be technically held against you
You're not worthy of death at that point because you served your time
That's kind of what's in essence, you know, from a civil perspective happening here
Where you have to go to a very specific area
You're sanctioned
You have to live in that area until a certain set time
And then you can leave that particular area
What happens if you leave that area prematurely?
We'll go to Numbers 35 and we'll describe this even more
Numbers chapter 35
And the Bible, when you take all of these judgments and you put them together
You basically figure out every scenario
Every scenario can be explained within the judgments of God
You intentionally kill someone
Death penalty
You accidentally kill someone
Not even trying
No guy on your heart
You can flee to this sanctuary city
Now here's a question
What if you hurt someone
And you're trying to hurt them
But you're not trying to kill them
That's kind of where we're in the middle
We kind of have the extreme of
I want to kill you
I didn't want to kill you
What about I just want to hurt you
But I didn't really want to kill you
That's kind of where we have the grave
As it were as far as circumstance
But let's see how God describes these events
Verse 15
These six cities shall be refuge both for the children of Israel
And for the stranger and for the sojourner among them
That every one that killeth any person unawares
May flee thither
If he smite him with an instrument of iron
So that he die, he is a murderer
The murderer shall surely be put to death
And if he smite him with throwing a stone
Wherewith he may die, and he die
He is a murderer, the murderer
Shall surely be put to death
Or if he smite him with a hand weapon of wood
Wherewith he may die, and he die
He is a murderer
The murderer shall surely be put to death
You know we can take application here
forceps, and ye murder a child in the womb, you're a murderer.
Verse 19, the revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer
when he meeteth him.
He shall slay him.
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him
by lying of weight, that he die, or an enmity smite him
with his hand, that he die, he that smote him
shall surely who put to death, for he is a murderer.
The revenger of blood shall slay the murderer
when he meeteth him.
So here's what you have to understand.
The Bible is basically saying, if you catch someone killing
someone, in that moment of time, you basically
have a window to revenge the blood.
But if you kind of let it pass, and you wait a really, really
long time, and then you kill them,
you're actually a murderer.
Now, this happens in the Bible.
This is like Absalom with his brother Amnon.
Amnon takes advantage and forces his sister Tamar.
And really, that punishment is worthy of death,
according to the Bible.
But no one does anything about it.
And then we wait two years later,
and then Absalom kills him.
That's murder.
And that was actually not right.
He should have not killed him, basically, in that essence,
is what it's saying.
It's saying, when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
So it doesn't mean that it necessarily
has to happen that day.
But it's basically like, you find out about it,
you have the opportunity, and you decided not to do it,
then you kind of forfeit your opportunity.
It's similar to the Bible talks about a woman making a vow.
It says in the day that her husband hear of it,
he can nullify her vow completely.
But if the day passes and he doesn't nullify it,
then it's basically permanent.
So if I come into contact with this person that's
worthy of death, I'm the revenger of blood,
and I give him a free pass that day,
then I'm not allowed to basically come back and do it
again later.
But if I meet him for the first time, fair game.
That's what the Bible is saying.
Y'all understanding?
So you meet your abortion doctor the day
that he killed your baby, according to God's law,
you'd be willing to kill him.
Now, in America, you can't do that.
We don't take the law into our hands, and we never will.
We never have.
We believe that we should obey the law of the land
in this regard.
But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't still
preach what the Bible says and believe what the Bible says.
It says in verse number 22, but if he thrust him suddenly
without enmity, or have cast upon him anything
without lying of weight, or with any stone,
wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him,
that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm,
then the congregation shall judge between the slayer
and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments.
So when it says, but if he, it's not really talking
about the avenger, just talking about any person.
Meaning, if you kill somebody, for any reason,
your only option is to run to the city of refuge.
But they're gonna basically have a trial,
and in this trial, if you're found to have done it
intentionally, notice that it said in verse 23,
neither sought his harm.
With any harm, any ill intent, then basically,
they're gonna take you out of the city and kill you.
So the only way to escape the death penalty
for killing someone is a 100% accident,
but you have to live in the city of refuge
or complete self-defense.
In which case, you don't have to go to the city of refuge.
It says in verse 25, and the congregation shall deliver
the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood,
and the congregation shall restore him
to the city of his refuge, where he was fled,
and he shall abide in it under the death
of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
But if the slayer shall at any time come
without the border of the city of his refuge,
where he was fled, and the avenger of blood find him,
without the borders of the city of his refuge,
and the avenger of blood kill the slayer,
he shall not be guilty of blood.
So essentially, let's give the scenario.
You're working as a tree cutter.
You go out in the wood, and you work for a company.
You chop down trees for a living.
You're a lumberjack, and your brother's a lumberjack,
and your friend's a lumberjack,
and your friend is just chopping wood like crazy.
For some reason, the ax gets knocked a little loose
on the tree, and he rips it back.
The head comes off of the health,
and it hits your brother and kills him.
But for whatever reason, your friend's faster than you, okay?
He runs track.
He starts just sprinting to the refuge city,
and you're like, I'm gonna kill you for killing my brother.
You sprint after him.
If he makes it in time to the city of refuge,
you can't kill him, and that city's supposed
to defend him against you and not allow you to kill him.
But at any point, he says, you know what?
I'm gonna sneak out at night,
and I'm gonna leave the city.
And you catch him, you can kill him.
But it has to be the first time you caught him.
Does that basically make sense?
But notice how God feels about killing, of slaying.
I mean, a person that did a complete accident,
not trying whatsoever, can still be killed
by the revenger of blood in that one moment.
But notice he's not technically worthy of death
to any other person.
Any other person that wants to kill him
out of revenge or spite or with guile,
they are to be put to death.
That is how the Bible explains the murder and killing.
He says, let's keep reading in his passages
a little bit more.
It says, and the revenger of blood shall find him
without the borders of the city of his refuge,
and the revenger of blood kill the slayer,
he shall not be guilty of blood,
because he should have remained in the city of his refuge
and to the death of the high priest.
But after the death of the high priest,
the slayer shall return in the land of confession.
Now here's what's cool about the Bible though,
even understanding all these carnal truths,
because these are all very carnal truths.
I believe all of them.
They have spiritual significance.
What is the spiritual significance?
When we sin, we're worthy of death.
And our only escape is to run to the city of refuge,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And only through the death of the high priest
can we be exonerated.
And notice if we're found outside of his sanctuary,
as it were, we're gonna be put to death.
Meaning that if you don't have the blood
of Jesus Christ applied to you, you are worthy of death.
The Bible says, for the wages of sin is death.
And just like this murderer is worthy of a punishment,
this slayer, as it were, we too are guilty
and we deserve a punishment.
And the only way to be exonerated from that punishment
is through the mercy and forgiveness
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And also notice that this person doesn't do any good works.
It wasn't like he did good time in the city
or he's a good person in the city.
I mean, he could have laid in the street
and done nothing his entire life,
but the death of the high priest
would have exonerated him.
Why?
Because salvation's not of works.
Even in this guy's situation, it's not of works.
All he had to do was flee.
All he had to do was look, basically, look and live.
We just flee to the cross of Jesus Christ.
We just rest on his mercy and on his grace.
But here's the thing.
If you're going to church but you're not saved,
that won't rescue you because you'll be cast out
and the revenger of blood will find you
and you'll die and you'll go to hell.
It's not being in church.
It's not just, you know, claiming that you're a Christian.
It's actually putting your faith
on the Lord Jesus Christ to save you, okay?
And we put our faith in Jesus Christ and he saves us.
But not from physical punishment.
It's a spiritual punishment that we avoid.
It's that second death in the lake of fire, okay?
And really hell too, which is the first death.
But it's just death in general from a spiritual sense.
But you can't say that that is an exoneration
from physical death because physical death
is often a punishment for even God's people,
for even the saved.
Now he says in verse 29,
so these things shall be for a statute of judgment
unto you throughout your generation and all your dwellings.
Whose will killeth any person?
The murderer shall be put to death
by the mouth of witnesses,
but one witness shall not testify against any person
to cause him to die.
Moreover, he shall take no satisfaction
for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death,
but he shall be surely put to death.
And you shall take no satisfaction for him
that has fled to the city of his refuge
that he should come again to dwell in the land
until the death of the priest.
Notice, you're not even supposed to feel sorry
for the guy that accidentally killed someone.
Let him do his time.
Let him go and serve that punishment
of being in this city of refuge
until the death of the high priest.
It says in verse 33,
so ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are,
for blood it defileth the land.
And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood
that is shed therein,
but by the blood of him that shed it.
Defile not therefore the land
which ye shall inhabit wherein I dwell,
for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
Now think about what God just said.
He said that God is still imputing
the blood of slayers on a nation
until we shed the blood of the slayers.
You know, America has a lot of abortion doctors
walking around right now,
causing God to not be able to bless America
until we shed their blood.
Now, I do not believe
that we should take that into our own hands.
I won't touch one of them.
I won't hurt or harm one of them.
Only in self-defense.
But you know what?
We should pass legislation and our government
should find these people guilty of murder
through due process,
through the legal processes of multiple witnesses,
of hard evidence,
and then they should legally and lawfully
sanctionally kill them.
And anybody that does in the future.
Now if I was, you know, quote unquote,
king of the nation,
I probably would give everyone a free pass for past sins,
but just starting like immediately effective,
any future abortion at this point,
we would slay them.
We would kill them.
Because I don't want God to be mad at me
and my nation and my country.
You know what?
God is mad at America today.
God is angry at a nation that's slaughtering
child after child after child,
life after life after life.
And we need men to get up and say that it's a life today
and say that it's murder.
It is murder.
Go back to Exodus 21.
Now, when I'm explaining Exodus 21,
you have to understand,
Exodus 21 is not even as extreme as abortion.
This is way less extreme of a scenario.
Because in Exodus 21,
these guys are not trying to destroy a life.
They're just simply trying to destroy each other.
They're just mad at each other.
But here's the thing.
If you get in a fight with someone,
if you're throwing punches,
if you're causing harm,
you are liable for all the consequences of your actions,
including up to you could lose your life,
whether you're trying to kill someone or not.
You know, it's no different.
If I'm fighting with someone
and accidentally hit just another random person
and they die,
I would have to go through this checklist.
Okay, well, did I hate them in time past?
Was I doing it intentionally?
And if I wasn't doing it intentionally
and didn't hate them in time past,
my only caveat would be staying in the city of refuge.
But I could still be put to death
by the revenger of blood.
Look what it says in Exodus 21, verse 20.
And if a man smite a servant or is made with a rod
and he die under his hand,
he shall be surely punished.
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two,
he shall not be punished for he has his money.
So the Bible's saying another scenario.
And you have to understand that
if I just punch someone trying to hurt them or harm them
and they die, I deserve the death penalty.
If I strike them or hit them,
not trying to kill them or whatever,
I don't know what the circumstances exactly with the scenario
but I'm not trying to hurt them or kill them or whatever,
but they still die.
I have to flee to the refuge city.
Now there's times when you might strike somebody
and it's justified because that is a punishment
in the Bible.
You would beat someone with the rod.
You would give them basically some kind of finish,
a punishment, a corporal punishment.
This could be done unto a child.
This could be done unto your servant.
Now obviously when you're punishing your child,
you should never punish your child in any way
that could possibly cause permanent damage,
harm or kill them.
And the same would apply with a servant,
that if you had a slave or a servant,
you shouldn't be hurting them or harming them
in a way that could kill them.
But what if someone did, right?
What if someone is trying to punish their servant,
hit them and for whatever reason it caused them to die?
Well, they should be punished.
If they didn't die, then they are not punished.
What we have to understand is they were punished,
it's just not on top of punishment.
Because if you struck someone and you hurt them,
previously in this chapter as we read earlier,
it explained that I would have to pay all their
medical bills and their loss of time.
So if I hurt someone but they don't die,
then whatever medical bills, whatever injury they occurred,
any wages that they lost at their job,
I have to pay for and make up for.
This though is kind of like workers comp.
Workers comp is basically you're on the job
and your job's putting you in risk or harm in some way,
you get injured, they have to pay your wages still,
they can't just fire you or not pay you
because you can't do your job when you got hurt on the job.
So basically you get hurt on the job through whatever means
then you would have to pay their wages.
And what is the loss that the employer suffers?
They didn't have that labor for that particular time.
You basically lose a servant, you lose labor,
you lose that productivity for that period of time
so there's no on top of punishment.
But if I smite my servant and he dies,
then it's gotta go down this checklist
that we've already read and we've already notified.
Did I strike my servant wanting to kill him?
Well then I'm put to death.
If I struck my servant not trying to kill him,
not trying to harm him,
I would have to run to the city of refuge
until the death of thy priest.
Now there's even other scenarios
that are mentioned in this chapter
where you basically have kind of an ox situation.
Look what it says in verse number 28.
And if an ox gore a man or a woman that they die,
then the ox shall be surely stoned
and his flesh shall not be eaten
but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
Now for an animal intent is never decided.
For animals they're always put to death.
If an animal kills a person for any reason
it should always be killed, immediately.
Says in verse number 29,
but if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time pass
and had been testified to his owner
and he had not kept him in
but that he hath killed a man or a woman,
the ox shall be stoned
and his owner also shall be put to death.
Notice if someone dies due to your purposeful negligence,
you are also put to death.
So meaning you didn't try to kill,
you don't wanna kill anybody,
you have no desire to hurt anybody,
you have no desire to harm anybody,
but you basically just make a dangerous situation for others
and then they die as a result of that.
Notice that God is saying you are put to death.
Think about how God's law is actually taught.
It is not just like,
well, I wanted to kill them, then I'm put to death.
Look, for so many different reasons,
if someone dies, you are worthy of death.
How can we not say that abortion is murder
worthy of death then?
I mean, this is way beyond the scope of this, is it not?
Their only argument is to say it's not a life,
but we already proved it's a life.
I don't care what your reasoning is.
Ending that life is murder and it's worthy of death.
Now, I wanna explain the passage we talked about
just a little bit more.
Verse 22, if men strive and hurt a woman with child
so that her fruit depart from her,
and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished.
Now, in times past, I kinda thought when it said
that her fruit depart from her,
it was saying that the baby died.
And if that's what that truly means,
then this wouldn't be the right interpretation,
I don't think it means that it definitely died.
I believe it just simply means it's being born
and it's being prematurely born, that's the context.
I'm not a Hebrew scholar,
so I'm not gonna go back to the Hebrew, okay,
and try to mystify you with the Hebrew word.
But here's the thing, every lexicon does agree with that,
and even every modern Bible pretty much agrees
with what I'm saying right now.
So it's not like this is a strange view or anything.
In fact, the underlying Hebrew word is often used
in the King James Bible as being someone just giving birth,
in a positive sense, not in a negative sense.
So I believe it's just simply saying
that the child's departing, meaning it's being born.
But then the question is, did it get injured
as a result of that, and if it got injured,
then you basically get the same punishment
that the baby did, okay?
You hit the woman, she gives birth,
and the child's deformed or has some kind of issue
with her hand, eye, foot, or whatever,
you get that punishment.
You kill it, you get that punishment.
God does not look at an unborn child
as a clump of cells, but as a life.
And I've used to thought that it was based on the intent,
but I don't think it's on the intent.
And based on this, this shows that God
has the same respect to unborn children as any person,
as any person, because the same would apply
to any person outside the womb
that we've already seen, isn't it?
If I were to strike someone, then I'm worthy of death.
Again, my only caveat is fleeing to the city of refuge.
So I would say this, if in this story,
you have two men fighting,
they're only intending to hurt each other,
and by accident, they get pushed into a woman with child,
the woman ends up going into early labor,
and the child dies.
Because that individual didn't mean to kill them,
he should be able to flee to the city of refuge,
and he would not be drug out
because intent was not to hurt that baby or that woman,
so he wouldn't have to die.
But if, for whatever reason,
he's attacking, let's say, a man and his wife,
he hates both of them, and is throwing fists,
and he ends up causing that baby to die,
he should be put to death.
He should be drug out of the city,
and he should be put to death.
That is what the Bible's saying.
Now let's, abortion doctors,
they don't follow any of these scenarios.
Because they were purposely,
they're like, at the previous part of this chapter,
where it's just saying, hey, you smite someone, verse 12.
He that smites a man so that he die,
he shall be surely put to death.
There's your abortion verse.
They're trying to kill it on purpose,
so they deserve the death penalty,
and you know what, in America,
we should make abortion murder again.
Now, I'll prove one more thing.
Go to Genesis 42.
What does the word mischief mean?
And I'm just trying to make sure
I don't leave any stones unturned.
I'll read for you in Psalms 21, the Bible says,
for they intended evil against thee.
They imagined a mischievous device,
which they are not able to perform.
So it uses the word evil synonymously with mischievous,
meaning you're trying to cause evil or harm.
Genesis 42, verse four, but Benjamin, Joseph's brother,
Jacob, sent not with his brethren,
for he said, less peradventure, mischief befallen.
Now, that mischief is clear that the context of him dying.
Kind of, it doesn't make any sense to say the baby died,
and then if mischief followed, if that means death,
because if it died, it died.
There's no question of whether it died or not.
So it'd be saying, if there's any,
and think about this, any mischief.
So meaning it can't, it's not just death,
it's just saying any harm, any evil.
And then it brings up a whole list of life for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, burning for burning,
because it could be any harm, any evil.
I want you to go to Proverbs chapter 12,
go to Proverbs chapter number 12.
So mischief can include death,
but it's not always necessarily death,
it's just evil, harm, any kind of bad thing that happens.
In Psalms 38, the Bible says,
they also that seek after my life lay snares for me,
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things
and imagine the seeds all the day long.
So it's saying someone seeking my hurt
is a mischievous thing.
It doesn't say necessarily death, just any harm, any hurt.
Proverbs 12, look at verse 21.
There shall no evil happen to the just,
but the wicked shall be filled with what? Mischief.
So notice it's kind of saying synonymously, evil, mischief.
There's no evil to the just,
and then all kinds are filled with mischief or the wicked.
Look at chapter 13, verse 17.
Chapter 13, verse 17.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief,
but a faithful ambassador is what? Health.
Notice that the antonym of mischief is health.
So if a baby's born and there's no mischief,
what would you say?
It's in perfect health, right?
If it's not in perfect health, you would say what?
There's mischief, okay?
And go to Proverbs 24 and look at verse number eight,
Proverbs chapter 24, and look at verse number eight.
One more verse.
It says, he that deviseth to do evil
shall be called a mischievous person.
So again, you wanna cause harm,
you wanna cause evil in the Bible, that would be mischief.
Now, really, I only want you to go one more place.
Go to Proverbs 14,
but I'm gonna read a little bit before we finish.
Because what's interesting is in America,
abortion used to be a crime in many places.
In fact, I was trying to do research on this,
and one of the first places that laws against abortion
was in the state of Illinois, as Chicago's there.
And if you remember what I've taught you
from previous sermons,
where are the laws passed on really bad sins
in the worst places first, okay?
The places that are not really wicked,
they don't need these laws.
So you know, some people get mad at rules or laws,
but it's because the people have bad behavior.
You gotta think about it.
The place with the least amount of laws
is probably the best people.
The place with the most kind of laws
are like the worst people, typically, okay?
So in Illinois, in 1826, I think, or 1827,
basically in that timeline,
I don't know when it was drafted versus passed,
but in this timeline, there was a law in Illinois.
It said in Section 43,
if any person shall hereafter willfully and maliciously
or by agreement fight a duel or single combat
with any engine, instrument, or weapon,
the probable consequence of which
might be the death of either party,
and in so doing shall kill his antagonist
and or any other person or persons,
or shall inflict such wound
as that the party injured shall die thereof
within one year thereafter,
every such offender his second,
as well as the second of the person killed
and all other aiders, abettors, and counselors,
being thereof duly convicted,
shall be considered to have committed the crime of murder
and shall be punished in the same manner.
He said, hey, you're fighting with someone
and you cause them or any other person to get hurt
and they die, it's murder,
and you're supposed to be killed in the same way.
I wonder where they came up with that law.
That doesn't sound familiar, does it?
Oh wait, that sounds exactly
what the Bible just taught, didn't it?
Now, of course, they should have been real specific
and said including pregnant women
and their unborn children, right?
But that's where this law's coming from.
They also say in Section 46,
every person who shall willfully and maliciously
administer or cause to be administered to
or taken by poisoning any person,
any poisoner or other noxious or destructive substance
or liquid with an intention to cause the death
of such person or to procure the miscarriage of any woman,
then being with child and shall there be duly convicted,
shall be imprisoned for a term
not exceeding three punishment years
and be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000.
Now, we have to understand about this law
is this law is not saying that you killed a child.
It's saying you tried to kill a child,
saying you did some kind of task,
you took some kind of potion, some kind of drink,
some kind of after morning pill, some kind of birth control,
and you tried to kill it,
you would go to jail for three years.
That's what they said in Illinois.
Then later, 1867, this is from the Chicago Tribune.
This is from the Chicago Tribune.
They upped the law.
This is basically in the Chicago newspaper.
They're telling you about the laws
that was passed in 1867.
It says there was a bill to punish the crime of abortion.
Among the bills which passed the House this morning
was to punish the crime of abortion
or to attempt to produce abortion
with not less than two years or more than 10,
incarceration in the state penitentiary.
When death occurs, the crime shall be considered murder.
Abortions produced as a medical necessity
to be exempted from the operations of this law.
Now, that's stupid.
They said, hey, we're gonna criminalize abortion,
but if it was necessary, then it's not.
I was like, when is it necessary to kill a child?
Let me tell you, never.
But they at least said, hey,
when it wasn't medically necessary, it was murder.
Now, of course, I don't know what the law was in Chicago
for the punishment of a murderer.
Should have been the death penalty.
But notice, in Chicago, in America,
they used to say abortion is murder.
And let me say what America should do.
America should make abortion murder again.
Make abortion murder again.
Like even Chicago had the common sense to believe.
Like Illinois used to believe.
Now, certain areas like Texas or other states
may not have these kind of laws
because Texas is kind of still forming in the 1800s.
Texas is not a state of the United States
in the early 1800s, okay?
There's a reason why you have six flags over Texas, right?
Because you had multiple nations,
you have all these things happening.
And most of these people are not
these ravening, child-murdering Satanists
so they don't even have to think about this law.
They don't have to worry about this nonsense.
Where is it happening?
Chicago, okay?
A more developed area,
a city that's had a lot more reprobates being churned out,
a lot more time to develop these evil satanic practices,
bunch of devil worshipers, you know?
And of course, we know where it's really coming from,
the synagogue of Satan.
You wanna trace abortion?
You know it'd be an interesting chart.
Someone should do this research project.
Figure out when Jews moved into a certain area
and then abortion started skyrocketing.
The synagogue of Satan.
And think about it.
Where's the main abortions coming from?
New York, then Chicago, then what?
California.
I wonder if a bunch of Jews moved to California
at some time in our history.
It's called Hollywood.
You know?
And if we look at the most liberal hell holes,
the most satanic evil places,
I wonder where the Jews live.
I mean, where is rampant sodomy and bestiality
and all this stuff?
Israel, New York, LA.
I wonder if there's a correlation to these things.
And you know what?
We should make abortion murder again.
We should really look at the source
of where this is coming from.
In America, there was the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
passed in 2004.
So in the United States, there is a law on the books
that says in the United States law,
it recognizes an embryo or fetus
and utero as a legal victim.
If they are injured or killed during the commission
of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence,
the law defines child and utero
as a member of the species Homo sapiens
at any stage of development who is carried in the womb.
So there was a law passed in America in 2004
that said if an unborn child is killed
based on all kinds of different crimes like murder
or whatever, then it's considered homicide.
So you could kill a woman that's pregnant, double homicide.
But in this law, it said abortions don't apply.
What kind of sick provision is that?
What kind of weird provision is that?
Someone could drive down the road
and be a little reckless in their driving,
accidentally wrecking a woman,
kill her and her unborn child,
and be charged for double homicide.
But a woman can walk into a clinic
and a doctor can purposely kill that child
and it's not homicide.
Think about the logic of our country today.
Only Satan can come up with such foolishness.
Only Satan can come up with such evil.
And only his ministers can believe and champion such filth.
You know, it makes me mad
when I see these crisis pregnancy centers
and all these areas that help women
that say we're not gonna judge you if you get an abortion.
We don't wanna tell you that that's a bad decision.
We just wanna help you make an informed decision.
We wanna help you be brave.
Look, it's not brave to not murder a child.
I'm not gonna give you a badge
and celebrate you for not killing a child.
In fact, even thinking about it,
you should be called wicked.
Not celebrated as, oh, I'm so glad you didn't murder it.
Oh, I'm so glad these crisis pregnancy centers
are helping babies not be killed.
Okay, but how many more would not be killed
if they'd get up and say it's murder?
Instead of allowing women to come and say,
we won't even judge you, we'll still service you,
we'll still help you even if you get the abortion.
It's not a hard decision.
It's not something you need to be brave about.
In fact, you're a psychopath if you wanna murder a baby.
You've been given over.
Now, I understand that some women are just really stupid,
really silly, especially young women,
and they haven't been taught anything.
They just watch TikTok videos all day
and they end up getting taken advantage of
by their boyfriend and then they don't even know
what's going on and their parents force them
to do something wicked.
Hey, I'm not here to say that I hate you
or anything like that, but it was still murder.
And if you've ever had an abortion,
I don't personally hate you.
Let me tell you something, God's mad about that.
And you should ask him for forgiveness.
Now, if you ask him for forgiveness
and you have the blood of Jesus Christ, you know what?
You move on with your life.
But you know what, you should be a champion
and say that abortion's murder still.
You shouldn't cower and say like,
well, because I've had an abortion,
I don't wanna call it murder
because it'll make me feel bad.
No, you should say it so that other women won't do it.
I mean, it is this self-loathing culture that we have
and we can't make anybody feel bad for their sin,
which actually helps sin abound
by not calling it what it is.
It used to be, the phrase was,
that I was more nervous than a whore in church.
What to God, we could make the person committing abortion
a little uncomfortable in church.
I mean, we can't even make whores feel bad in church?
You better believe that a whore
should feel embarrassed in church,
let alone people murdering their own children.
Oh, church should be the place where women run to.
Okay, not if they look like a whore.
No, in fact, if you commit fornication,
you're not even welcome in church,
let alone a murderer, let alone you're destroying that baby.
And look, there's so many sick satanic women out there
that are going around championing their abortion,
saying they're so excited about it.
Or I saw these ugly leftists saying,
well, you know what, if that passes,
then we're not gonna commit any more fornication
as a punishment.
And I'm thinking like, please stop anyways.
Please punish me with that.
And most of them are so hideous, I'm thinking like,
you weren't even gonna do that on purpose.
You're just saying that as a cover
for the fact that no one will date you.
Everyone thinks you're so ugly.
And here's the thing, unfortunately,
you only have a window
where you can get pregnant as a woman, it's not forever.
So these women that are just killing their unborn children
on purpose, they're not getting married,
they're full of birth control,
they're gonna eventually get to a point in their life
where they're ugly, old, and barren.
And they have nothing to live for.
Now, you know what, the women that can't have a children,
there's nothing wrong with you.
But you know, at least if you're married,
you have a husband, you get plugged in church.
I mean, there's women that are greatly praised
in the Bible, even though they were barren.
But you know what, they were plugged in at church.
They were serving God.
And they still had something to look forward.
You know, they had a bunch of spiritual children
to minister to and to love on,
and to have to appreciate and to love.
And they had brothers and sisters in Christ.
But these leftists that don't go to church,
these God haters, they're gonna get old,
and you know what's gonna happen?
They're gonna be put in some nursing home
and no one's gonna care about them.
No one's gonna like them.
And they're gonna be filled with all kinds of syphilis,
and gonorrhea, and AIDS, and every other horrible disease.
And they're just gonna die a slow, miserable death.
Because let me tell you something,
no guy is contemplating being with Nancy Pelosi.
And you know what, these leftists are destroying women
by trying to convince them not to settle down
and get married to a man, and raise a family,
and have children.
Look what the Bible says in Proverbs 14, verse one.
Every wise woman buildeth her house,
but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
You know what, you are a fool
if you decide to destroy your own children on purpose.
You should have all the children
that God wants to bless you with.
Because you know what, you're gonna get old one day,
and you're gonna be like,
I'm so glad I had every child that I could.
I've never in my life met an old person
that didn't tell me that they wish they had more children.
And I'm sure it's out there.
I'm not saying that it's not.
But I'm telling you, saved, unsaved,
red, yellow, black, and white, tall, short.
In fact, the ladies that are the most adamant about it
are the ones that had like eight.
They're like, I wish I had eight more.
You know what, there's nothing wrong
with having lots of children.
It's a blessing from God.
The Bible always says children are a blessing.
And this culture that is teaching that children are a burden
that they're causing women's lives to be ruined
by having them are of Satan.
And they're lies of Satan.
They're not, oh, I can't have a career.
Michelle Williams or something,
some Hollywood actress saying that she had to murder a child
in order to get some Oscar or something.
Guess what, that Oscar's never gonna talk back to you.
It's never gonna lie to you.
It's never gonna say I love you.
It's never gonna poop on you.
It's never gonna throw up on you.
It's never gonna cry all night.
It's never gonna do anything.
It's never gonna maybe fall down at night
and its head fall off like Dagon,
the wicked false god that it is.
And you know what, these mothers, while they hate it,
they think back to times when their children threw up
and vomited and got lost and all these horrible things,
and they cherish those moments.
Because every moment with your child is precious.
Every moment with children is precious.
The good, the bad, the ugly, it's all wonderful.
And you know what, we need to teach our generation,
we need to teach the people in this world
that abortion is murder, and we need to help them
preserve the lives of their children.
And raise up a generation of people that love God's word
no matter what this world says.
And you know what, once you're no longer young and clean,
being a whore loses its luster.
Guys are not interested in old, dirty whores.
Like Nancy Pelosi, like Kamala Harris.
You know, it might have worked for Kamala Harris,
a sleeper way up to the top,
but now it wouldn't work on anybody.
Especially since most of our politicians are fags anyways.
Certainly not gonna work.
Nobody wants that, nobody's interested in AOC.
You know, not deciding to have children.
She just gets uglier by the second.
She is just so wicked, and she's gonna die lonely,
and then she's gonna burn in hell lonely.
You know what, we need to raise our children,
and I hope, I pray that God will have mercy on our nation,
and allow abortions in some parts of this country
to get overturned, and not to happen.
And we can have more of those children.
And we need to ride that wave.
You know, we should tell people what the Bible says
and not cower.
You're so brave for not murdering your child.
I'm not gonna say that.
You're wicked for thinking it.
You're wicked for wanting to do it.
Every person that thinks abortion is even an idea,
is wicked, is evil.
And I'll tell you, when you're allowed to kill your child,
never.
What about rape?
No, kill the rapist.
What about if it's medically necessary?
I don't believe that argument.
And I never will.
You could never convince me that the baby in my mother's,
in my wife's womb, needs to die so that she can live.
Now obviously if you had to pick
between which one you're gonna save,
that's a different conversation.
You know, if you have two people drowning in a river,
and you can only swim towards one,
you're gonna swim towards one over the other, right?
My wife's more precious to me than all my children.
I'm gonna always swim towards my wife.
She already knows that.
But let me tell you what,
I'm not gonna shoot the person on the other side
of the river just because I can't get there in time.
What kind of nonsense is that?
I don't think I can make it to you in time.
So I'm just gonna blow you away just in case.
Like that's stupid.
Just so I'm not tempted or distracted
while I'm swimming over there or something.
You know, that's the logic of these liberals.
And you know what?
They never thought that.
They never wished that.
They just wanted to make abortion legal
in a little bit of a way
so they could make it in all the way later.
And we should stand firm on the Bible
and say it's always murder, it's always wrong,
we'll never stand for it,
and you're wicked if you wanna do it.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for the word of God.
Thank you for giving us righteous laws.
I pray that we wouldn't let American laws warp our mind,
we wouldn't let our culture warp our mind,
but rather, we would look to the laws of God
for our understanding, we would renew our mind.
We would realize that your laws are always right.
We realize that this nation has so much blood shed in it.
And it obviously grieves your heart,
it should grieve our hearts.
The cries of the unborn children in this nation.
I pray that you would stir up a spirit of love
in women's hearts today,
that they wouldn't abandon their children,
they wouldn't hate their children,
they would actually love their children,
they would have natural affection today,
that the cries of the unborn would come into the ears
of the people in charge of this nation,
and that they would realize that it's wicked,
and they would outlaw it.
And I pray that all the women in this room
would realize they have one of the greatest jobs
in the world being a mother.
That motherhood is not a curse, it's a blessing.
That it's a great honor and it's a great privilege,
and we celebrate all of the mothers that we've had
that brought us into this world.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, for our final song this morning,
turn to 274, Come Unto Me.
274, Come Unto Me.
Song 274, Come Unto Me.
["Come Unto Me"]
Hear the blessed Savior calling the oppressed,
O ye heavy laden, come to me and rest.
Come no longer, tarry, I your load will bear.
Bring me every burden, bring me every care.
Come unto me, I will give you rest.
Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed.
I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind.
Come, my oak is easy and my burden's light.
Are you disappointed, wondering here and there,
dragging chains of doubt and loading down with care?
Do unholy feelings struggle in your rest?
Bring your case to Jesus, he will give you rest.
Come unto me, I will give you rest.
Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed.
I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind.
Come, my oak is easy and my burden's light.
Stumbling on the mountains, dark with sin and shame,
stumbling toward the pit of hell's consuming claim.
By the powers of sin, deluded and oppressed,
hear the tender shepherd come to me and rest.
Come unto me, I will give you rest.
Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed.
I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind.
Come, my oak is easy and my burden's light.
Have you by temptation often conquered men,
has a sense of weakness brought distress within?
Christ will sanctify you if you'll claim his best.
In the Holy Spirit, he will give you rest.
Come unto me, I will give you rest.
Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed.
I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind.
Come, my oak is easy and my burden's light.
Great singing.
God bless.
You are dismissed.