tonight. Take our seats and open for 10 is the victory seats and
open your handles page 410. Faith is the beach to pray that
you would Shelly your Holy Spirit is with your word message
to our lives. Jesus name I pray. Amen. Second song this evening
page 4949 me there so much for coming to said fast Baptist
Church. If you didn't already get a bulletin you can lift up
your hand nice and high. Get one we're working on our new
Bible memory passage Jude 11 as promised I have the prizes for
Matthew 28. Now it's all kinds of different gift cards. They're
all $10 each. And so you get two of them. So if you
completed I'm going to set them over here. So you can just come
on down and just pick anybody completed Matthew 28. They can
come and get to get two gift cards which are when they like
so you can come get them now. Let's give them a round of
applause. This is better to under promise and over deliver.
So there you go. Inside of our bulletin we have the service
time so winning times. And then we have our church stats on the
right are expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for them.
Coming events. We have the baby shower for the Scott family
May 3rd. Mother's Day brunch May 10th. Please make sure you
sign up. There's either a sign up sheet or you can do the
ladies group. You don't have to do both. Just do one. So winning
marathon in Cleburne, Texas May 24th. Brother Sam Foley and
brother Evan are the ones that kind of came up with this idea.
And so if you have any questions they might be good to just ask
them kind of like what the strategy is. But we'll be just
meeting out there in Cleburne in the morning, probably just at
the park, we probably won't even have breakfast, we're just
going to meet at the park like 10am, and then go soul winning,
have lunch and then go back out. If the park area is not what we
expect, or there's rain or whatever, then we'll have some
maps as backup and we can go out somewhere else. So even if you
drive out there, you should be able to go soul winning no
matter what. But the idea is that there should be about 1000
plus people hanging out at this park that are Marshallese and
testimonies have been that they're pretty receptive. So it's
just an opportunity to go out there. Soul winning marathon in
Durant is the following week, May 31, Pastor Dylan Oz of
Anchor Baptist Church is going to be joining us. And we're
going to be soul winning with them. And so it'll be great to
see them out there in Oklahoma. It's kind of just another small
town as well. It's about halfway between us and them.
Baby announcement. Congratulations to the Lugo family on the
birth of Annalise Marie. She was born on the 14th, nine pounds
for 11 ounces and 20 and a half inches long. Congratulations to
them. On the back again is those details of the baby shower.
Please make sure you RSVP to Miss Milstead. Prayer list on
the on the prayer list. We're going to be continuing to pray
for the Niams if you pray for their grandmother. I think
actually what they had an update didn't you and she's she's she's
recovered. She's out of the hospital. So things have been
going well. Just thank you so much for the prayers just
continue to pray for the Carlson's if you pray for Miss
Rebecca and David and then if you'd also pray for the Miller's
friend's mom who's still having cancer treatments. We're praying
for brother Scott's parents as well as his wife continue to
pray for their health. We're also praying for brother Garcia
and his health praise report for the good winds their friend
Sarah is cancer free and has recovered. And I think she's
going to be returning to the state. So that's great. Miss
Larky's also continue to heal from her arm. If you just pray
for her, pray for brother Brad's father and sister's
health and their personal work. Continue to pray for brother
Diego's friend, Miss Morris for health issues. And then Miss
Cindy also had a prayer request for one of her friends, Miss
Angela for her health. If you if you'd pray for the AFSOLs,
unfortunately, his father did pass away recently. And so they
are going to have services, I think on Saturday as a viewing
and then are and then I think the following day is a
celebration of life. And so I posted the details of that in
our group chat. But if if you'd like you can contact us or email
us or brother Sue Hale and he can give you the details on
that. And we'll continue to pray for their family. I'm also
pray for Brother Stewart's mother who's struggling with
Alzheimer's disease. So we'll just say a quick word of prayer
as a church family. Thank you Heavenly Father so much for our
church. Thank you for the ladies who are expecting I pray that
you please be with them for their pregnancies. Please help
them for their delivery. I pray that you would also just help
all of our friends that are struggling with either cancer or
serious illnesses. I pray it possible you could just give
them healing. Please help them to recover. We thank you for
those that have recovered. And for those that have gone to be
with the Lord, I pray that you would just comfort their family
members that you would use this opportunity as an opportunity
for the gospel to be shared. And I pray that you just continue
to bless our church family where they need work or jobs. I pray
that you would also help our upcoming missions trips that we
could get many people saved and that you continue to guide us
in all that we do. It's in Jesus name we pray Amen. That's all I
have as far as announcements. We'll go ahead and sing a new
song. I am the resurrections that we're seeing. Are we
seeing the where's where the spirit blows? Sorry, I wasn't
sure which one you're doing where the spirit blows in our
hem binders. Again, where the spirit blows back of your binder
the last page. Know y'all are tired tonight. But let's hear
that shout on the go at the end there and it better get louder
each time. So better hear you shout it all right. Where the
spirit blows
chapter 19, Matthew chapter 19, the Bible reads and it came to
pass that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he
departed from Galilee and came into the coast of Judea beyond
Jordan and great multitudes followed him and he healed them
there. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him and
saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife
for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have
ye not read that he that which made them at the beginning made
them male and female? And said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they
twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain
but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let
no man put asunder. They said unto him, Why did Moses then
command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away?
He saith unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your
hearts, suffered you to put away your wives. But from the
beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall
put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall
marry another, committeth adultery. And whoso marrieth
her which is put away, doth commit adultery. His disciples
say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it
is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot
receive this saying. For there are some eunuchs which were so
born from their mother's womb. And there are some eunuchs
which were made eunuchs of men. And there be eunuchs which
have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. Then were
there brought unto him little children that he should put his
hands on them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them. And
Jesus said, Suffer little children, forbid them not to
come unto me. For of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he
laid his hands on them and departed thence. And behold, one
came and said unto him, Good master, what good thing shall I
do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why
callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God.
But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
He said unto him, Which, Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt
not bear false witness, honor thy father and thy mother, and
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The young man sayeth
unto him, All these things have I kept for my youth up, what
lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go
and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. But when
the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful,
for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his
disciples, Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall
hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto
you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed,
saying, "Who then can be saved?" But Jesus beheld them and said unto them,
"With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Then answered Peter and said unto him, "Behold, we have forsaken all and followed
thee. What shall we have therefore?" And Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say unto
you, that ye which have followed me, in the
regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory,
ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an
hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first."
Let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be in church.
Thank you for this church. Thank you for Pastor Shelley. I just pray that you
fill them with your Holy Spirit, help them to preach your word unto us,
and help us to receive it. And I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Matthew chapter 19 verse 1 says, "And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished his
sayings, he departed from Galilee and came into the coast of Judea beyond Jordan.
And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there."
The Bible says in verse 3, "The Pharisees also came unto him,
tempting him and saying unto him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'"
Now, one thing you have to notice about the Lord Jesus Christ is a lot of people followed him,
but also people with not sincere intentions also followed him.
And a lot of bad people would constantly be there to harass him.
And the word tempting is kind of like trying or testing is what we're really kind of alluding to here.
A lot of times when we think of tempt, we think of like enticing to do evil,
but that's typically not the way the Bible uses it.
Typically the word tempt in the Bible is more like test.
So they're kind of like testing him and they're wanting to see what he's going to answer.
They're trying to trip him up. They're trying to get something to accuse him.
They're trying to get pull one over on him and really you know if you serve God long enough you'll
realize there's a lot of people like this that they they come to church or they ask questions
of the church not sincerely. Not because they actually want to have information. They just want
to attack. They just want to throw out accusations. They just want to do you some harm and so you
shouldn't always answer every question. You shouldn't feel burdened to always answer every
single person. You know, when you can perceive this person's a troll, when this person's not
sincere, when this person's not wanting a real answer, is an enemy, many times you don't
necessarily want to answer them. Give them all your time. Give them all your attention. Sometimes
Jesus, you know, gives these people some attention. Sometimes he doesn't, but he's also very careful
in how he answers his questions. They ask him here in verse number three, "Is it lawful for a man to
put away his wife for every cause?" Notice they kind of want an excuse to put away their wife for
every cause. But another thing you could think about is this question's not sincere. So we don't
really know exactly what they mean. All we know is that this question is designed to cause a problem.
This is a problem question. And I think this is just my speculation, what they're thinking. I don't
know for sure. This is what I think the Pharisees are trying to do. They can't answer this question
because they kind of think that the Bible has a contradiction here. They kind of think that
you should be able to divorce your wife for every cause, but that the Bible doesn't really say this.
And so they're kind of hoping to just like trip Jesus up on something that they themselves don't
really understand in the Bible because they can't really figure it out. And also there's a peer
pressure here because if you skip down, notice what it said in verse number 11, "But he said
unto them, 'All men cannot receive this saying.'" So by answering truthfully or answering what the
Bible really says on this issue, he's going to offend a lot of people. And so I think from
the Pharisees perspective, they're typically probably not wanting to just push the status quo
or cause a ruckus or get people to be upset with them. So they often probably answered in a very
vague way or in a way that didn't really answer the question. They're the kings of talking without
saying anything. And this is what you'll notice about false teachers and false prophets is they're
able to just talk for so long and you're wondering like are they ever going to make a point? Does this
even make any sense? And often they try to confuse you. They make you feel like the reason why you
don't understand is because you're not intelligent not because they're bad at speaking. And for the
most part if you're listening to a saved baptist pastor you should be understanding what they're
saying if you're listening. Okay obviously you can sit here in daydream and not pay attention or
something but as long as you're paying attention you should be able to pick up what's being put
down. Otherwise the person is a bad communicator. You know you shouldn't necessarily just
instantly think like I must be too stupid to understand the information. It might just be
that they're a bad communicator or they're not communicating the word of God very well okay.
Pharisees often give an uncertain sound and they want to use this tricky question here.
How does Jesus answer? Verse four, "And he answered and said to them, 'Have you not read?'"
Now it's interesting that Jesus doesn't just give them like a yes or a no or he kind of rebukes
them immediately. He just says like how do you not know the answer? Like oh you want the answer how
come you don't already know the answer? Right? "Have you not read that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female and said for this cause shall the man leave father and mother
and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh." Now I think the reason why he's
kind of giving that response too is that they're a Pharisee. Isn't there an expectation
that if you're a teacher of the Bible that you should have certain levels of knowledge?
He's saying hey how is it that you're a master of Israel and thou knowest not these things?
Have ye not read? And it would be kind of confusing like if somebody's read the Bible
cover to cover 10 times 20 times if they just don't understand basic things. You kind of think
like what's wrong with you? Have you not read it? Because if you read it well then you either have
a reading comprehension issue, you're not saved, like there's something there's something seriously
wrong here. You could be ignorant but if you're not ignorant then it's a major problem if you're a
master of Israel if you're a teacher of the word of God and you don't understand these things.
And he's saying look it's so obvious this is the very beginning of the Bible,
Adam and Eve, God put them together. Why in the world would we separate the husband from the wife?
It makes no sense. They're one flesh. The Bible gave us this doctrine in Genesis that when you
get married man and woman come together they become one flesh and their name is called Adam.
You know that's why I believe we have the tradition of wives taking their husband's name.
It's embarrassing if a man ever takes his wife's name. That is embarrassing. It's shame. It's
really just a mockery of the Bible too. It's a mockery of the role that you have as a man.
Yeah you take the husband's name and I like that tradition. It seems biblical. You become one flesh.
Now it says in verse six, "Wherefore they are no more twain," meaning two, "but one flesh. What
therefore God have joined together, let not man put asunder." So he does end up answering the question.
What is the answer? Let not man put asunder. What is the answer? Never divorce. He's asked can we
divorce for every cause? And the answer is let not man put asunder. Don't allow it. We shouldn't allow
this to happen. This just shouldn't happen. Divorce should just be off the table. And really let me
just give you some great marriage advice. Divorce should just be off the table. And you say in what
way? In the way that it'll never happen. Here's another way that you'll never say it. You'll never
even threaten it. You'll never suggest it. You won't even think about it. It's off the table.
It doesn't come up. You don't threaten it. You don't bring it up. You don't suggest it. You
don't entertain it. You only look down upon it. We only look at it with shame and reproach,
and we preach against it, and we don't suggest it. Now look, someone that has been divorced,
I'm not trying to sit here and beat up on that person. You can't change it. But at the end of
the day, I'm not going to sit here and excuse that sin. Just like I'm not going to excuse the
fact that we lie, I guarantee everybody in this room's lied before. But I'm not going to sit here
and say lying's good because we've all lied. I'm not going to sit here and say stealing's good
because of the people that steal. I'm not going to say, "Hey, it's good to disobey our parents
because we all disobeyed our parents one day." No, hey, and if you divorced, sorry, it was wrong.
It's not biblical. God is not pleased with that, and there is no justification for divorce.
Notice the Pharisees want it for every cause. This is called no fault divorce that you have
in America coming in 1969. I'm getting ahead of myself. I want to get there in a moment,
but you know what? The Bible is saying no. Now, what do they answer? Verse seven, "They say to
them, 'Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away?'"
Now, I think again, based on my just reading in the text, I think they knew Jesus would say this,
and they thought they would ask this question, and then they were going to end up tripping him up.
So that's why I'm saying they just kind of like don't believe the Bible, or they don't really
believe the doctrines, and so they thought they had figured out a whole contradiction in the Bible,
and many times they're like atheists. You know, if you go to these seminaries, if you go to these
higher institutions of learning where you're supposed to learn theology, many times it doesn't
even seem like they believe the Bible at all. It seems like they themselves even believe in
all kinds of contradictions and have goofy doctrine and weird ideas. And it makes me think
of these Pharisees who don't seem to really believe the text because he didn't even answer
them in his own way. He just said, "Didn't you read the Bible already told us? This is what the
Bible says." And then they're like, "Well, then why does the Bible say this?" Well, we should just
know for a fact there's no contradiction in the scripture. We should just know that Moses is not
contradicting Moses. We should know that Genesis is not being contradicted by Deuteronomy in any
way. Okay, but then they're just simply trying to like suggest that there's somehow a contradiction.
Verse 8, "He sayeth unto them, 'Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts,
suffered you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, except to be for fornication, and shall marry another,
committeth adultery; and whoso marryeth her, which is put away, doth commit adultery." So
he explains that the Moses provision is not the perfect will of God, but was technically allowable
in the Old Testament. Now let's go there for just a quick second, and I'll explain that. Go to
Deuteronomy chapter 24, because everybody likes to focus on the exception. They don't even focus
on the context. The context was, number one, never divorce. The second aspect of this was that, yes,
there was technically an exception, but that exception was because of the hardness of your
hearts. Again, a very negative mention, saying even though this might have even been lawful,
it was still not the right thing. It's not the best thing to do. It's not the best course of action,
because we have to understand that the law is a certain level of justice, whereas God often wants
us to go beyond what is just, on what is equal, because according to the law, you know, it's
supposed to be eye for eye, tooth for tooth, so that's what's equitable, that's what's just equal,
but many times God wants us to not only just be just, He wants us to go beyond and have mercy
and have grace and be long-suffering. You know, someone smites you on the cheek, you turn to them
the other also. And in this concept, you're not giving them what they deserve, it's not justice,
it's mercy, it's grace, it's charity, okay. And in the same way, God doesn't give us what we deserve,
what we deserve is hell, what we deserve is death for our sins, but God went beyond justice and
showed us mercy and showed us grace. And so in the same way, the Bible is kind of alluding to the
fact that yes, technically according to the law, what is just in some situations is technically
divorce could have been just in a sense, but you know what, it was also for the hardness of your
hearts and it's not what God prescribes and it's not what God wants and even from the beginning,
it didn't even exist. God's perfect will is that divorce doesn't even exist, that it's not even
allowable. Now the quote divorce exception in the Bible though is kind of misleading in our modern
vernacular because we don't even describe what the Bible's describing as divorce technically,
we describe it as more of like an annulment. And so really the Bible kind of has a quote an
annulment clause. It doesn't really have what we think in our modern idea of divorce that doesn't
really exist in the Bible as even being just because somebody might have misheard me and said,
oh he said divorce is just. No, the biblical divorce but that's more of like an annulment,
okay. And again, I still am against it. I still think it's wrong. I'll never tell someone to do
this or to exercise this provision, okay. I'm going to follow what Jesus said and say let not man put
us under. Now it says in Deuteronomy 24, let's just read it so we understand better. When a man
had taken a wife and married her and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes because
he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it
in her hand and send her out of his house. And when she's departed out of his house, she may go
and be another man's wife, and if the latter husband hate her and write her a bill of divorcement
and give it give it in her hand and send her out of his house, or if the latter husband die,
which took her to be his wife, her former husband which sent her away may not take her again to be
his wife. After that she is defiled, for that is abomination before the Lord, and thou should not
cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." So here's the
idea of uncleanness. Well again, I guess because it sounds a little vague, that's where the Pharisees
then just inserted everything. They just said everything. But they didn't really care to really
understand the law. Now in Deuteronomy 22, if you look at verse 20, it talks about a woman who lies
about being a virgin. He says, "But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found
for the damsel, then they shall bring out the damsel of the door of her father's house, and the
men of her city shall stone her with stones, that she die. Because she hath wrought folly in Israel
to play the whore in her father's house, so shall they put away evil from among you." So there's a
couple different scenarios. Number one, you get married to a woman that you believe is a virgin.
She told you she's a virgin. It's believed she's expected a virgin. You pay the dowry of her
virginity, and then you discover on the wedding night she's not a virgin. The Bible prescribed
if you desired to put her to death for that playing the whore. Okay? The second option though is also
on the table here in Deuteronomy 24, that this uncleanness, and I think it's kind of in two
scenarios. The first scenario could be what we see with Mary and Joseph, where Joseph cannot have
Mary put to death because she's found pregnant before they've come together. That's just off
the table. It's just not even an option because they are under Roman law and you can't put anyone
to death. So I think you could just say, okay, well then they had this second provision in that
scenario where you're ruled over by someone else, death to penalties off the table, then you still
have this as an option. And that's what the Bible says about Joseph, is that he thought to put her
away privily. And that's what he's describing here is because in his mind the only way she got
pregnant since he had not known her was she was with some other man until the angel came
and told him to fear not and take Mary thy wife because that which is conceived of her is of the
Holy Ghost. And so she had not known a man and she had not been unfaithful and so he stayed with her
and he did not know her till she had given birth unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Those Catholics need
that word till in there okay but then later he of course had many children with her. The second
option here is is where potentially the death penalty is on the table still let's say we're
in Old Testament Israel but it's not necessarily expected that she's a virgin perhaps that's just
already known that this is not on the table she hasn't lied about it it's just but here's the
problem she has a disease she has some kind of a serious issue well and the reality of the situation
is you know because of having decency and modesty you're not going to know that until you get married
right so it could just be on the wedding night okay didn't realize that was there didn't realize
this is going on and so as a result they're able to put them away that's what i believe would be
the second situation both though are kind of an annulment situation where essentially it's like
you get married you figure it out right then and there and then it's dealt with and every other
scenario you can pretty much think of has already been dealt with because if we're talking about
adultery that's already dealt with in previous chapters and it's just the death penalty so it's
not that kind of uncleanness that's the death penalty it's not lying about it because that's
already dealt with death penalty so it's just this other i believe scenario where it's maybe not
she didn't lie about it but it's just still not something he's willing to tolerate and so as a
result of she could be put away so you know let's go back to we would Matthew chapter number 19
Matthew chapter number 19 and actually i want to go one more place i want to go to first Corinthians
chapter number seven one thing i want to kind of just address is the fact that if you notice
what's going on pretty much in all the passages that deal with marriage and divorce is what we're
dealing with is essentially the duty of marriage you kind of notice there's a pattern here right
when we're talking about these issues it's like hey there was a problem with the duty of marriage
she was a whore in her in her prior time hey there's uncleanness hey when you put them away
you're causing adultery and there's this there's this this idea that what's the main problem here
is it's either infidelity or there's some kind of issue in this area and that's what the Bible
brings up look at 1st Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1 now concerning the things where have you wrote
into me is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man
have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband how does the Bible prescribe avoiding
fornication marriage so that must mean that it's a really important you know aspect of marriage then
and I think that this is the problem we live in society today where we live in a kind of a
feminist culture and they've really just destroyed and perverted the ideas of marriage and they've
tried to change a lot of what marriage is about and they've tried to make it about this like over
the top romantic novel or something like that or fairy tale or something like that whereas the
bible is just like hey this is how you avoid fornication and they it seems like for some
reason people don't realize that this part of marriage is the duty of marriage and what does
the bible say verse three let the husband render under the wife due benevolence and likewise also
the wife under the husband the wife hath not power of her own body but the husband and likewise also
the husband hath not power of his own body but the wife defraud ye not the other except to be with
consent for a time they may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again
that satan tempt you not for your incontancy so say any doctrine any belief any idea any statement
that is causing couples to not perform the duty of marriage is satanic that's what the bible says
and let me just give you a little bit of a taste of the world today the number one cause of divorce
in the united states is infidelity the number one reason now what does the bible say the bible says
that you should come together that satan tempt you not for your incontancy incontancy is your
lack of self-control it's kind of a difficult word it's not something we typically use incontinence
typically when people use this they're talking about how they can't go to the bathroom in time
or something or they have an issue there okay that's what it's typically referring to but it's
just simply like you know you you just can't control it and think about it if you were sick
if you're sick to your stomach you can't control it right we can all control it when we're healthy
when you're sick it comes and you weren't you didn't want it to happen but it just happens
it's inevitable in some cases right and it's basically saying hey if you are going to defraud
your spouse you're putting your spouse in a situation where they're sick to their stomach
and you could cause them to cause problems by incontinency and the bible is just basically saying
you need to make sure that this area of your life this area of your marriage you're not giving satan
a place to cause you problems or to cause you to stumble or cause some kind of a wedge to get driven
in there and honestly let's just be honest a lot of times when couples are fighting sometimes this
area of their life gets disrupted and you know what that can cause it to get worse you know what
couples need to make sure that they're taking care of this area because it's a very important
part of marriage this is the reason you're getting married paul even says if this was off the table
you shouldn't even get married that's what paul's opinion is paul's just saying hey if you didn't
if you don't even have struggle with this then just don't even get married but he's saying but
to nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every wife have
her own husband right and then you're supposed to render due benevolence it's saying this is the main
aspect of marriage this is the main component of marriage and you know what there's just a lot
of weird ideas today there's a lot of strange ideas today Catholics will try to teach you
oh you know that's not appropriate they'll say it's even kind of a sin or they'll say it's a sin
except for in very specific circumstances and all this all this just weird satanic doctrine number
one it just sounds bad number two it's satanic it's unbiblical okay and we need to make sure
that we're doing this part of our marriage because we don't want to destroy marriages
we don't want divorce what what's going to cause divorce infidelity and defrauding each other
often it'll start with the defrauding and then it leads to the infidelity and then it leads to the
divorce that is often the tip of the case and so you know if you want to really make sure that
your spouse is not going to do this you should just take care of this area now i'm not trying
to blame people obviously somebody could be a great spouse and the other person could be
rotten just make a big mistake but at the same time many times people are defrauding each other
and then they're basically just kind of putting their spouse in an uncomfortable situation
putting them in an opportunity where it's going to be easier to be tempted or causing issues
and it's just it's just ugly you know we need to make sure as married couples that we're not
defrauding each other and that we're making sure that we're taking care of one another
because that will really ensure you stay close you're supposed to be one flesh and and that was
purposeful the bible brings this up and the bible brings up in first corinthians 6 the the chapter
preceding that when you lie with a harlot you've you kind of like have that intimacy you have that
that one flesh aspect and you know it's not appropriate when you're not married you know
husbands and wives should you know be married you know boys and girls should not live together
unmarried they should be married together and when they're not it's fornication okay and that's what
the bible is describing go view it back to matthew chapter 19 so you know marriage is a natural
thing it's a good thing and we want to make sure that we're not defrauding each other because it
can cause all kinds of problems it will cause problems you know i've unfortunately heard people
tell me you know they've gone years and i'm just i'm just thinking like that's just a recipe for
disaster that's insane okay that is insane and that should just never even be a reality and so
you know you need to make sure that you're taking care of each other and you know i'm not going to
put like some frequency you know to it that's between you and your spouse but it should be
regular it should be often and it should be as your spouse needs not so much what you want it
should be as they need you know and what they want because it's it's not your body i've already
preached it's not it's it's my wife's body my choice and it's her my body is her choice you
know it's it's it's vice versa and you know for some men out there they think that's insane but
it's real it goes both ways and you know what it should always be that we take care of each other
and we're taking care of each other's needs in this area the bible says also in verse number
10 he says his disciples say unto him if the case of the man be so with his wife it is not good to
marry now i get this point and i think that unfortunately a lot of single people in america
get this point today and and this is like a major issue is that people are just very upset with
the idea of marriage today because of the possibility of getting their feelings hurt
or they're heartbroken because he's basically saying oh you're saying that if i marry this
woman there's no consequences to her action and in a sense in a sense yes but in another sense no
not at all okay and this is this is really why a lot of things are just so screwed up because we
live in a feminist hellhole in america and when you essentially empower people to have no consequence
they often just act horribly they act just uncontrollably bad you know a lot of people
get mad at rules but without rules you would act like animals in many cases in fact wherefore serve
with the law it was added because of transgressions is what the bible says and many times you know you
have strict rulers strict rules you actually act better when you have loose rulers and loose rules
you act worse and you know in america society has destroyed and stripped away the authority of a
husband over his wife and marriage it's just completely gone their their authority doesn't
work anymore the way of our system doesn't work anymore women have been yielded pretty much all
the power in relationships in america today in america women have so much power and authority
today because women can just divorce their husbands for any cause and so if women aren't
getting what they want they can just say well then i'll just divorce you and not only that women
could commit adultery divorce their husband and then the husband will still have to pay her bills
pay his alimony pay alimony pay child support while she should be put to death biblically
she can do this and look women are doing this all over the place women are doing this in america
and what's what's insane is that men still hold authority over women in the natural world
naturally speaking nothing changed men are still the physically stronger of the two of the two men
are just the physically stronger physically dominant mentally dominant and we have more
earning power but our society has flipped it upside down and given women authority over men
to where they can basically hold men to some unrealistic accountability of hey i know i
committed adultery on you but i can still divorce you and i can just take all your money and take
all your goods and take half your assets and take your family and take your kids and take
your dignity and take your honor and take your respect you know what and such a wicked evil
thing that's happening and we're allowing and empowering women to rule over us because here's
the reality women cannot yield this power women can't have this power women have no ability to
enforce this power you know what they do they use men to enforce this power over other men and it
could be a woman judge but they'll go to judge judy or whatever be granted a divorce and they'll
say okay you get you get half the goods you get the kids you get the whatever and then just think
about the natural order of things the natural order of things would be like come and take it
and then it's just like and it's over you won instantly but what will happen if you say that
then cops will come then lawyers will come then men will come and enforce evil satanic evil horrible
wicked things against men and they will take your paycheck away from you they will get into your
bank account and they will just take the money out of your bank account without you asking
they will just come and they'll arrest you if they need to they'll just come and seize your
house and seize your assets men will just take everything away from other men at the behest of
some scornful woman and we've empowered women in our society to have this power over men and it's
ugly it's satanic it's disgusting and look just because this is true you know what you women need
to be godly and just decide to submit anyways this should just not even be on the table
it should not be something that's ever threatened and you know you might think like oh well he's
saying he's gonna get away with it no no no god will probably just destroy you if you decide to
go down this path don't think that you're gonna get away with it you might temporarily think that
you're winning or succeeding but you will be destroyed and your emotions will be destroyed
and your heart will be broken also and you will just suffer so much loss because of this you know
they think that they're empowering women but by the end of the by the end of the whole equation
women realize they lost they lost and they didn't get what they wanted and it's not how they wanted
their life to turn out and they often find some horrible I mean after you just did that to some
guy what normal man would want to be with you after that what sane person would think like oh
wow I just watched you destroy this other guy's life please can I get in line next you know often
what happens is even more evil guys than you someone worse than you will come and pray on you
and take advantage of you often child molesters and predators will prey on single women that have
divorced their husbands to get access to children and they'll pretend to be that nice guy that you
didn't have and to be that shoulder to cry on and just do whatever you say just to get access to
hurt children we have such a screwed up society in such an evil society and when you go against
god's word boy it just has all kinds of downward spiraling ramifications to give you some idea
because historically divorce has not always been on the table anyways and especially in a lot of
christian nations throughout history it wasn't even legal it wasn't even an option women didn't
have this power in 1857 in england they passed the matrimonial act and it was limited to adultery
cruelty and desertion but boy we gave the crack open we cracked open the door where finally women
could divorce their husbands but prior to this i mean just for hundreds of years if not basically
a uh not only a millennia i don't know it was pretty much divorce this wasn't even possible
in europe there was no option and you know biblically speaking when you think about this
apart from modern america society if a man divorces his wife she's way worse off she's the one that
doesn't have the money the goods the earning power to fend for herself whatever so she would be the
one that would be capitulating to the husband in often cases it's just in our modern day society
where the roles have reversed in many cases and it really didn't even happen in america until 1969
just to give you an idea in 1920 less than one percent of all women in america were divorced
in 1920 less than one percent of all women were divorced in 1940 only three percent of women that
had ever been married had been divorced in 1969 california passed the no fault divorce with your
favorite governor ronald reagan oh everybody just loves president ronald reagan the guy who signed
into law no fault divorce in california ronald reagan and it was for irreconcilable differences
whatever that means it sounds like the Pharisees love it every cause every cause now in america
15 percent of women are divorced huge escalation when they look at statistics on divorces 70
percent of all divorces are initiated by women if your wife is college educated 90 percent of those
divorces are initiated by the woman sounds like college is really really good huh 41 percent of
all first marriages end in divorce 50 percent of just all marriages in all categories end in divorce
on average 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce 73 percent of third marriages end in
divorce and then they're dead but i don't know this is sad and you know you you think like oh
divorce is a good thing well then why is it that they have a higher likelihood of getting divorced
the next time let me explain it to you because they were the problem divorce is not a solution
really you're just you're just the problem in many cases and we noticed that it's being initiated by
lots and lots of women now i saw another statistic this was professions so this is men that have jobs
that have the lowest divorce rates so if you're if you're kind of nervous about this okay this
is how to hedge that bet all right this is i'm going to go from the the fifth down to the first
so this is the fifth best profession or the fifth profession with the lowest divorce rate is farmers
all right so farmers only have a divorce rate of 7.63 out of i think like a thousand or something
number four was podiatrists it's probably because all those good foot massages they can give or
something you know at 6.81 number three was clergy at 5.61 number two is optometrists at 4.01
and then number one was agricultural engineers so and it was only 1.78 so apparently the farmers
and the ad guys they're the ones that know how to stay married but at the end of the day it's just
it's just a sad sad reality you know maybe the ag and the farmers it's like the wife realizes like
how much they need their husband because you know what women can't go out there and do the farm work
and the ag work like a man can and maybe it's just it's just a little bit more obvious for them that
they realize they need that man but at the end of the day we all need to realize that you know men
are important men are the leaders men are the god-given authority and women need to submit to that
and it's frustrating you see these guys like oh then it's not good to marry if women have this
power and authority but you know what even in america they have pretty much as much power and
authority as we could give them and yet i still believe it's good to marry now go to first peter
chapter number three go to first peter chapter number three we need some women to break this
cycle we need some christian women to show that they're willing to submit under their husbands
now let me explain something submitting under your husband is not agreeing with them when you agree
with them this is what some women think this is what a lot of women think is they think well i
would yield or i would submit to my husband if he was perfect sorry that's never gonna happen
and then i say oh but if he was close to if he's near perfect like i'll do what he says when he's
pretty close to perfect or doing that which is right that's not what the bible teaches at all
the bible doesn't teach this well okay i know he's not perfect and he's not going to be perfect
but when he's acting right that's when i'll submit to him wrong again look what does the bible say
in first peter chapter three likewise you wise be in subjection to your own husbands that if any
obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives while they
behold your chase conversation coupled with fear notice that when a husband is disobeying the
bible disobeying the word of god not right with god what does the bible say it says that the wife
is still going to do something she's going to be in subjection to her own husband meaning it doesn't
matter if your husband's good bad throw word right with god wrong with god you just do what
your husband says in your subject undone period and they behold your chase conversation notice this
coupled with fear who are they afraid of they're not afraid of the husband they're afraid of god
and you know what we all understand the fear what's sad and sickening today is how women totally
understand this and don't apply it with husband you know where they understand this the job that
they have because when they go to their work they don't mouth off to the boss they do whatever the
boss says because they're afraid of getting fired but then for some reason they go home and they
don't show the exact same respect or appreciation or subjection to their own husband it just doesn't
make sense there are women that will go to work and they don't like their boss they think their
boss is a bad person but then they'll just do what he says anyways because of fear of losing their
job but for some reason they don't make the connection that okay hey if i'm at home and my
husband is my boss you know what i could still lose my job but you know it's gonna you're not
gonna lose your job god could cause you to lose your job have you not read in the bible i mean
the bible makes it clear god causes women to get sick god causes women to get barren god causes
women to get all kinds of harm to lose their children for their children to die to have bad
children and for themselves to even die in the bible i would not want to be a woman that is just
in constant rebellion to her husband constantly attacking her husband going against what her
husband says you know what it's garbage that women treat their bosses at work better than
their husbands it's garbage only in america where we have so many goofed up ideas and satanic ideas
as this exists in america and you wonder why there's so much divorce well number one because
you're defrauding each other and then number two because women aren't subjecting themselves
under their husband let me tell you something if husbands and wives are showing due benevolence
and they're they're not constantly fighting because she's being a subject you're not going
to have very much divorce it's going to disappear it's not going to happen it's because of those two
things that is mainly mainly happening and you know what you should show the same level of fear
towards your husband as you would your boss you know i i knew someone really close to me this
is years ago a long time ago i knew a woman who just randomly just ran away from her husband
didn't tell her where she where she was going took one of the children just just disappeared
just they get mad at each other and she just disappears for like days or a week you know
that's evil that's wicked same person becomes a boss baby later well here's the sad reality
this person died much younger than they would normally do and the other person the husband
is still alive and kicking and very old you think that's a coincidence you think it's a
coincidence that she is just going to do these kind of things to her husband and then nothing's
going to happen you know the bible says to honor thy father and mother thy days may belong upon
the land which the lord thy god giveth thee the bible says keep thy commandments and thou shalt
live let me tell you something you should keep the commandments like your life depends on it
you know why because your life depends upon it and don't think like oh well my husband's a good guy
so then god will be good to me that's not how it works god judges everybody according to their own
works be not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap
hey you want to treat your husband like trash god might just replace you it's called vashity have
you ever heard of vashity have you ever heard of my cow in the bible who disrespects her husband
and then god curses her where she have no more children ever again and look it's vice versa how
about nabal nabal is a trash husband nabal is a piece of dung and then abigail prays and then
that guy's heart just dies within him and he just kills over and then abigail's with david how about
zephora zephora is just like a super rebellious wife and pretty much we just and she's with moses
if anybody was going to be preserved because of who their husband was it was zephora but then it's
just like she's out of the story nobody knows what's going on with her moses ends up marrying
someone else, I would say, presumably, I can't say dogmatically, I would presume, maybe Zivora
died or left or who knows what happened. How about Rachel? Rachel died young and she was
a rebellious spirit. She's taking idols, she's hiding things, she's not having the right
attitude, the right spirit. Ananis and Zivora, they both died because they're both wicked.
You know, obviously, bad husband, bad wife, they could both die young. Bad husband, he
could die young. Bad wife, she could die young and get replaced by someone else. You know,
the Bible has the jealousy curse. Remember when the husband has to take the wife and
she has to drink the bitter waters and guess what? If she did bad, her belly will swell
and her thigh will rot and she's just going to be diseased and cursed of God. Look, I
just don't get why women today think that they can just act and behave however they
want and think that God won't punish them. You know, we need the fear of God back in
this country. We need the fear of God back in homes today where wives would submit under
their husbands as under the Lord, is what the Bible says. To submit under them on everything.
You know, it's just embarrassing, the society that we live in. And you know, if you don't
like what I'm saying right now, maybe you just watch too much TV. Maybe you're just
watching too many sitcoms where women are bossing men around and telling men how to
behave and so you got this stupid idea in your head. You know what? Wives should be
meek and quiet. That's what the Bible says. What does it say? Verse 3, "Who's adorning
let it not be that outward adorning of the plating of the hair or of wearing of gold
or putting on of apparel but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is
not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of
God of great pious." You know what meekness is? It's humble. It's saying, "Look, you're
just not in charge." You know, if you want to drive men out into the wilderness being
angry and a contentious woman is what the Bible says. You know, the meek person just
says, "You know what? I'm not in charge." You know, wives need to be subject under their
husbands, not telling them what to do, not constantly criticizing them, not getting on
their case all the time. Boy, you want to see unhappy marriages. You see the wife is
just always icy and cold and always contentious and always critical and always arguing and
always angry. And look, it is a dangerous path to go down because, boy, every man in
here is a sinner. I mean, if we all got a hypercritical spirit of each other, we could
sit here and nitpick on everything and get mad about everything. But you know what? That's
just going to destroy each other. You know what? Wives should look at their husbands
as their hero, as their Lord, meaning their boss. They should treat them with respect.
I mean, the way that you would talk to your boss at work is the way you should talk to
your husband. Probably even better, honestly. If you read the Song of Solomon, they're just
constantly praising each other. And if you listen to the lady in the Song of Solomon,
she can't say anything negative about her husband. It is just praise, praise. My beloved,
he's going to sleep till he wakes. You know, don't even bother him. Whatever he wants,
whenever he wants. I'm his garden and he can come into his garden and he can eat whenever he wants
and she's going to serve him. And you know, you look at Esther, a biblical model. Hey,
when she wants to ask her husband something, she makes him two meals before she asks him.
You say, "You just sound crazy." I sound biblical. Sorry, America has brainwashed you into thinking
that you should tell your husband what to do. I'm against divorce. If you're against divorce,
then you should love this preaching because you know what's causing divorce in America today
is because women are defrauding their husbands and then they're telling them what to do
and they're even using that to tell them what to do. Saying, "Oh, if you don't do what I want,
then you won't get what you want." Garbage. Hey, you know what? If you don't want to do that,
then God may curse you. God may do all kinds of things unto you. And I'm not saying this
because I hate you. I'm saying this because I love you. Let me tell you something. The person
that I brought up earlier in the story, I love with all my heart and is very dear to me and is
very sad to see them go young. I don't want that to happen to other people that are dear to me.
And women need to get in line and women need to submit to the authorities in their lives,
just like children need to obey their parents. Wives need to obey their husbands. Husbands need
to obey their boss at work. And you know what? Church members should obey their pastor in the
church. Lest you get a one in 17 trillion skin disease and have horrible pain, over 40 lesions
all over your body, taking hours and hours every day just to wind up all of your sores on your
body, lest you get infection and die. That's real, by the way. Go back to Matthew chapter 19. Look
at verse 11. "But He said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given."
Hey, this is hard preaching. Not everybody can handle this. And not everybody can handle the idea
of just never getting divorced. You know, you preach on divorce, always being wrong. You say,
hey, you should never divorce for any reason. And people just get super mad at you. And people
always want to know, like, people want to come to me with marriage problems. And this is what they
really want. Let me just explain all marriage requests to me. Please tell my spouse why they're
bad. Just being honest with you. And I'm not, it's not literal, but pretty close to it. I mean,
it just, it feels like a lot of people, they're just like, hey, will you tell them why they're
wrong. And it's like, look, all I can do is help you. All I can do is just tell you what to do.
And you know, if you like say, hey, we, I have marriage issues, or I've asked people marriage,
jump in the boat. We're all riding on the same boat. Okay. Everybody's going to have marriage
issues. Everybody's going to have marital spats. Everybody's going to have, you know,
things that are going on. And what's funny to me is like many times people that have issues,
they're not even that bad. They just have no idea. Okay. They just really don't even know. Okay.
But at the end of the day, you know, we need to make sure that we're committed to each other.
We're saying, Hey, I'm in it. I'm in it to win it as men. We should do everything we can to sacrifice
and love our wives. And as wives, you should do everything you can to sacrifice and love your
husband. And we need to treat each other with respect and we need to compliment one another.
And we need to not defraud one another. And we need to set an example of saying, Hey, you know,
we're not going to be like the world. We're not going to get divorced. And you know what,
if a man divorces his wife, he's a scumbag, you know, and even more so if they came to our
church and learned the truth on this issue. And then they did it anyways. It's a shame.
It's embarrassing. It's shameful. It's not being a real man. Real men will just take their wives.
Hey, if it's Zephora, just grab her and put her on the camel and bring her with you. You know,
I mean, let God deal with her. Okay. But you don't put her away. You know, we should never give up
on our spouse. We should always love them as much as we can and do good in them. But let me tell you
something. You know what? You being a good spouse isn't going to help your spouse with God. I mean,
it might help them decide to be won over, like the conversation of the wife, but at the end of the
day, like they have to decide to be a good spouse on their own. You have to be, you're going to be
accountable for all the things that you said and all the things that you did. And God is watching.
Look at verse number 11, or verse 12, I'm sorry. There are some eunuchs which were so born from
their mother's womb and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men and there be eunuchs
which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it,
let him receive it. Now, there's a stupid idea that eunuch is like a sodomite, that's not true.
There's basically three categories. Number one is, it says that some were born, this would be
someone that's just born with a deformity. And it's pretty rare, but it can happen. And you know,
let's just be honest. If it's a Y, it's a guy, all right? Genetically speaking, if they have
the Y chromosome, it's a guy. There is a technical exception where they can receive a Y that's damaged
and didn't work, but then it's basically like not receiving it. So essentially, less than, less than
0.001% or something like that, or less than 1% of that is even possible. But if it's got a Y,
it's a guy. But at the end of the day, just because you have chromosomes, you could be born
with a deformity or born with some kind of a physical issue and you just can't perform.
And really, that's how I describe eunuchs, is just someone that can't perform. They can't perform the
duty of marriage and so that's what a eunuch is. You could be born where you just can't perform.
A second option is that something happens to you. You weren't born this way, but something happens
to you from birth to the present that causes you to not be able to perform in the bedroom.
This could be from some either just accident, injury, or in many cases mutilation, like you see
with the children of Israel that are taken captive of the master of the eunuchs in the Babylonian
captivity. That was something where they had mutilated them, okay? And that's what's happening
in America today where a lot of people were mutilated, and it's disgusting, it's gross.
The third one was that they made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
Some weirdo thinks that this is like self-mutilation. No. It's basically just saying it's a choice.
This is like Paul. Paul the apostle is choosing not to get married, so he's choosing not to perform
in the bedroom in any capacity so that he can just serve God. He's not going to commit fornication,
he's not going to get married, he's just going to serve God, and he's choosing to be a eunuch,
even though he may physically be capable, he's just not going to do it. So those are the three
categories of eunuchs, and that's what he brings up. Verse 13, "Then where they brought in them
little children, that he should put his hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuke them.
But Jesus said, 'Suffer little children, forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.' And he laid his hands on them and departed thence." You know, some people would
try to keep children out of church. We need to have kids church. No, no, no, we should let them
be in the church service and we should suffer them, meaning allow. You know, suffer we typically
think of like being tortured but it and that can sometimes exist but no we're just saying hey we
should allow them okay we should allow them to be in here and Jesus loves little children and it
kind of gives this illusion that it's almost like heaven just filled with lots of little children
and I don't think that I don't know how it works I don't know if when little children die they get
like an adult version of themselves in heaven but like physically maybe mentally I don't know
I don't know how it works but I do believe that a lot of children from our side of the equation
have passed and gone to be with the Lord obviously all kinds of abortion and so stands the reason
that there's probably just a lot of children that are in heaven as a result of having been innocent
not having a chance to have understood the gospel so again you know we're talking under five and
whatever I think most of them are probably if they died they would just go to heaven because
there's no way they could understand the gospel so but you know once they start to understand it
we should make sure to try to get them saved verse 16 and behold one came and said to them
good master what good things shall I do that I may have eternal life and he said to them why
calls them me good there's none good but one that is God but if thou wilt enter into life keep the
commandments now it's kind of interesting how he answers this but you have to understand the
question I think the question is a flawed question and that's why he answers this way what good
things shall I do that I may have eternal life it's a flawed question in the sense that it's
impossible to earn your way into heaven but but think about it in a sense Jesus is still
answering that question with a truth what how could you how could you earn your way in heaven
by keeping all the commandments technically if someone kept all the commandments perfectly
they would enter into life but the only person that will ever do this is Jesus Jesus is the
only person that kept all the commandments and enters into life now he also brings up this idea
of like hey there's none good but one what's the definition of good keeping all the commandments
so what's implied here is that hey if you're calling me good are you recognizing that i've
kept all the commandments because there's no one that could keep all the commandments except for
God anyways so there's a lot of there's a lot of layers of this but number one this guy needs to
realize that he's not good and he's also needs to realize that Jesus is good because you know what
saves us recognizing that we're not good and recognizing that he is good because we have that
substitution we realize that he was perfect and so he could atone for our sins and that we're not
perfect and we need a savior if you don't understand that you're not good and that Jesus is good you
can't even get saved to get saved you have to realize you're not good and that Jesus is the
only one that is good there's none righteous but one and that's God okay and he's saying well if
you want to keep the commandments he say them to him which this is funny this is like your lordship
salvation crowd where they think like oh I want to make Jesus the lord of my life in what areas
though exactly like how many areas do I have to do it you know because they always want to lower
the bar when they say you have to keep the commandments to be saved isn't it funny lordships
used twice in the bible and neither of them have anything with salvation in fact it's kind of like
a negative mention yet then people say lordship salvation is like a biblical thing well it's just
not in the bible now Jesus answers thou shalt do no murder he's thinking like okay thou shalt not
commit adultery he's like all right thou shalt not steal that one's pretty iffy he's probably
thinking like big things in his head you know thou shalt not bear false witness oh that caught him
honor thy father thy mother and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself now in his mind this is
what's so funny he this is how he answers the young man saith on him all these things that i
kept from my youth up what lack i yet he always honored his father and mother liar he never
bear false witness liar he never he says he always loved his neighbor as himself liar verse 21 Jesus
saith them if thou wilt be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou
sort of treasure in heaven and come and follow me but when the young man heard that saying he went
away sorrowful for he had great possessions so Jesus kind of knows like hey this guy there's
something i could bring up that this guy is not going to be able to say yeah i got that one and
you know where it really hurts him is the money now i've heard people try to tell me literally
they read this passage and they say i've had someone say this this is the greatest picture
of salvation in the bible is this story and i thought like the guy didn't even get saved
like wouldn't you pick a story where the guy even got saved at least like that's bizarre and they
said yeah because it shows that you have to be willing to give everything up in order to get
saved and it's like no and if that was the case no one would be saved because even the poor person
doesn't give everything up i've never met i don't even know this person and i'm not saying it doesn't
exist but i'm just saying like virtually i don't know anybody that said i've literally sold all of
my possessions and given them all to church no matter what level of riches you have even just
the poorest person in this room would struggle to do something like that that would be a difficult
task under them and again salvation is not sell all that you have to get eternal life salvation's
free it's an absolute free gift but he is trying to earn his way into heaven he's trying to say
he's kept all the commandments he's a bozo and so you know what he gets these answers okay if you
want to be perfect then do this but notice he didn't say oh i got that too he just went away
this is what he should have said well i can't do that i'm not capable of doing that i can't
because and and saying hey i i guess i'm not perfect so then what do i need to do to be saved
right isn't that kind of where he's leading him he's trying to get him to realize he can't
but instead of just being like oh okay well then what do i have to do to be saved he went away
sorrowful still thinking he had to earn his way into heaven he just wouldn't make it and you know
there's a lot of catholics that walk away from the faith still thinking they have to earn it
and they just realize they can't isn't that sad and that's why we show up with the good news
and we try to give them the free gift of salvation we try to help them understand hey it's not about
doing good things because yeah we would all walk away at some point at some point we'd have to
recognize like yeah i already didn't make it i already screwed up too much like i can't i can't
be perfect enough this guy got that point but instead of coming to a logical conclusion well
then what i have to do to be saved he still walked away thinking like how am i going to earn this
because i don't want to give away all my money and it's sad why why will people not get saved
it's pride it's pride because he wanted to earn it at the end of the day we look into this guy's
heart and what is it that stopped him from getting saved was the pride in his heart he thought he was
good he didn't want to recognize that jesus was good and he didn't want to recognize that hey i'm
not capable of keeping the commandments he was just sad that he felt like he wasn't going to do
it he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions then said jesus unto disciples very
like saying that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven and again i say and
he was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter in the
kingdom of heaven when his disciples heard it they were exceedingly amazed saying who then can be
saved jesus beheld them and said unto them with men this is impossible with god all things are
possible now that's an interesting phrase i think what he's trying to imply is no one can keep all
the commandments but god can god could keep all the commandments i like they it's like they didn't
quite get it though because they're like then who can be saved but the guy didn't ask to be saved
the guy asked to inherit eternal life did you notice they're still confused because they have
the right mindset well then how do you get saved okay but at the end of the day no one can enter
into the kingdom of heaven through their works and this rich man is just an example of how rich
people hardly ever get saved because they're usually the most prideful people you know sometimes we
think like oh man i wish i had more money but maybe that would make you a worse person having
more money sometimes makes you very prideful i've known people that seemed pretty humble and then
they get a lot of money and they become pretty prideful you know who did this in the bible?
Saul. King Saul was kind of little in his own sight and then later he became king had riches
and had money and then oh now he's got an ego now he doesn't want to lose it he didn't even want to
be king think about this Saul didn't want to be king he hid among the stuff but then as soon as
it was threatened that he might need to step down and allow someone to come in he wouldn't allow
someone to take it that's a completely different attitude he at first didn't even want the job
and then now he refuses to let anybody else have it that's what you call pride it's pride where
you won't submit yourself to the things of God where you won't allow God to humble you and we
have to allow God to humble us to get saved that's how you even get saved notice that there's a
humility aspect of this whole chapter and marriage we need humility and the parable here we need
humility he says in verse 27 then answered Peter and said in him behold we have forsaken all and
followed thee what shall we have therefore and Jesus said in him verily I say unto you that ye
which have followed me in their generation when the son of man shall sit in the throne of his
glory he also shall sit upon 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel and everyone that hath
forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my
name's sake shall receive an hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life but many that are first
shall be last and the last shall be first so I think that verse 27 ties back to if you look at
verse number 21 notice that Jesus had told this guy that he would have treasure in heaven if he
followed him and so I think for them they were thinking like well I am saved and I did follow
you so then what am I going to get and notice that God's not a communist he says well the guys that
actually followed me notice what they're going to get they're going to get all kinds of stuff
They're going to receive a hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life.
Not only you get everlasting life, you get a hundredfold. All kinds of things.
Lands, brethren and sisters and everything. Other passages that bring up this parable
say in this life and in the next. So in many cases you trade one family member for another.
A physical brother for a spiritual brother. A physical aunt for a spiritual aunt. A physical
sister for a spiritual sister. And in many cases, you know, you just get all kinds of different
things in the house of God that you were, you know, replacing with the physical house that you have.
And it's sad because some people literally have to forsake their brother or their sister or their
father or their mother or their wife or their children. That's a lot. I mean, that's, notice
again, not all marriages are going to be a match made in heaven. You know, we love to say that,
match made in heaven. When I grew up, there was this idea. It was like, I want to, like,
I'm waiting for the spouse that God's picked out for me. Who's heard something similar to that? Or
they grew up with that kind of an idea? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But wait a minute. Isn't the saying,
like, some people are going to literally have to forsake their spouse? Was that the spouse that
God picked out for them? Well, if it was, it wasn't a match made in, it wasn't really a happily ever
after story. Hey, you know what a match made in heaven was? How about when God told Hosea
to marry a whore? That was a rough marriage. Moses' marriage is rough. And you know, I only
say that to give hope to the people that have a screwed up marriage. Don't use this as an
excuse to screw up your marriage, all right? But I'm just saying like, hey, if my marriage
got screwed up, if I was a true disciple, I would still serve God. If my spouse didn't want to serve
God, if I was a disciple, I would still serve God. And God expects us to serve God no matter
what our life circumstances are. For some of us, we have a great spouse. I have a great spouse.
My wife's awesome. I don't have this issue. But I can empathize with people that do because
my spouse is so important to me that I can't even imagine having to make that choice if I had to
actually, you know, make a choice like that. And God willing, I would make the right choice, but,
you know, it's easy for me to say. It's a lot harder for people that are actually going through
it to say that. Children, parents, you know, giving up on these types of relationships, but,
you know, serving God sometimes calls for that. Not always. Obviously, we should seek to have
the closest relationship with our parents and our spouse and everybody that we can. But it could be
in some scenarios where it's just not possible. And I typically say, "Hey, come with me to serve
God." It's not like, "Hey, I'm trying to get away from you. Come with me to serve God." They choose
to not serve God. They choose not to do the right thing. They choose to rebel. They choose to do
that which is evil and they're going to suffer the consequences of their sin. But at the end of the
day, you know what? We should serve God regardless. And again, that's humility. That's humility of us
just saying, "You know what? Whatever God wants me to do, I'm going to do it."
Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5. Notice that the Bible is saying that you're going to be rewarded
according to your works. There's this stupid idea out there that how you live your life doesn't
really matter. Hey, once you're sanctified, you're always sanctified. That's heresy in the context of
progressive sanctification. Now here's the thing. There is a context in which sanctification lasts
permanently. Once you get saved, you're set apart as a child of God and that is permanent. But you
know what? We should also work on sanctifying ourselves every single day and setting ourselves
apart and not only, not only just for rewards sake, number one just to stay on this earth.
Because when you don't sanctify yourself, God could cause you to go home early. When you do
sanctify yourself, it's the reason why you're sanctifying yourself is unto good works. You're
trying to be a vessel unto honor. You're trying to set yourself up for success into getting good
works. And then why do you do the good works? So they'd be rewarded for all of eternity.
You're only going to spend, you know, God willing 80, 90 years on this earth. Eternity is so much
longer, therefore we should look with an eternal mindset of how am I working towards getting lots
of rewards and staying on this earth as long as possible? You know, when you rebel against
authority, you know, you're going to get taken home soon. I mean, how many people are constantly
getting cancers and getting all kinds of diseases and all kinds of illnesses? And look, I don't want
to be Job's friends and just say every time it's a result of sin, but I also don't want to say that
it's not. I also don't want to say that it's not a punishment. I think in many cases it probably is.
And what does the Bible say in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 10, "For we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in this body according
to what they have done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord,
we persuade men." Notice that there's a terror of the Lord. It's terrifying to stand before God
and to be judged. And look, I don't believe that necessarily for all of eternity you're going to
suffer shame and embarrassment for all the bad things you've done, but there is going to be at
least a moment of shame. There's going to be at least a moment where the Bible says in 1st
Corinthians chapter number 3, you're going to suffer loss. If all you have is wood, hay, and stubble,
the Bible says you're going to suffer loss. That's a negative feeling. The terror of the Lord is
obviously a negative feeling. You are missing out on something. And obviously it's not all perfectly
equal. Some people are going to have a little bit greater joy. I think that all of heaven is joy.
I think that all of heaven is bliss. I think that we're all comforted. I think it's all blessed to
be in the kingdom of heaven. But there's also more blessings. There's blessed and then there's even
more blessed. And you know what? I'm not sitting here saying I can't wait to just get to heaven,
hit the nuke button. I want to try and earn more rewards. And I want to try and be pleasing
unto God. Because I know one day I'm going to have to stand before God and give an account
for the life that He gave me. For the wife, for the children, for the actions that I did,
for being a pastor. I mean, be not many masters. I'm going to be judged more harshly for the things
I did than someone that's not as a pastor for how I ran the church. You know, people can get all mad
at me, but guess what? I have to stand before God by myself and answer. And so I try to make sure
I'm doing what this says. And at the end of the day, we need to make sure that we don't let pride
destroy us. I want to go to, I know it's a long sermon. I preach long sermons. All right. Go to
one more verse. Go to Proverbs chapter 16. Go to Proverbs chapter 16. This is, to me, this is the
theme in this chapter so much as just pride. Pride is just such a, is just an evil, evil thing. It
causes people to not get saved. It causes people to destroy their marriages and it causes people to
get off track and not serve God with their life. It's an evil, blinding disease. Proverbs 16,
look at what it says in verse 18. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before
a fall. The Bible also says only by pride cometh contention. Only by pride cometh contention. Now,
here's the thing. Whenever there's contention, just know for a fact pride exists. Pride exists
anytime there's conflict. And you know what? We can almost always just by the situation
immediately know who's prideful. If children are arguing with their parents, you know why?
There's pride in the child's heart. And we already know who's wrong. It's the child. The child is
automatically wrong when there's contention. Now again, it doesn't mean there can't be some
level of disagreement or some suggestion. We're talking about contention. We're talking about
strife. When there's contention and strife, there is pride present. And whenever there's an authority
structure, whoever's supposed to be in subject is the prideful person. Meekness and humility just
says, "You know what? I'm not in a position of authority. You're right. I submit. I'm sorry.
I will be meek." The child, as a child, your parent is right. You just obey them. You just say, "Yes,
sir. Yes, ma'am." And you do what mom and dad said, period. Whenever there's marital strife,
let me just say something, the husband is right. You know why there's marital strife and contention?
Because the wife is prideful. If she was meek, she would just submit and just say, "You're right,"
and just move on. At work, if you're in strife with your boss, you know what? Well, guess what?
You're the prideful one. And let me say this, when there's contention and strife in the church
and you're arguing with the pastor, you're wrong. Why? Because you're prideful. You're prideful.
And look, the people that get thrown out of our church for being railers and attacking,
they're always the most prideful people you'll ever meet. Kids that are constantly
trashing their parents and arguing with their parents are the most prideful people you'll meet.
And let me tell you, Satan, women that are contentious with their husband are just some
of those prideful women, arrogant, haughty, and you know what? It causes destruction.
That's what the Bible says. And you know what? We should just take heed because I've noticed
some really prideful people constantly attacking us, attacking me, attacking our churches,
constantly getting destroyed hand over fist. Marriage is destroyed, children destroyed,
lives destroyed, people dying. Why would you want to constantly do it? When will you fear God?
Don't let it be you as the example. Let someone else be the example. Let the guy with 40 lesions
on his body be the example for all of us. Because you know what? If you won't fear authority after
seeing that example, nothing will convince you and you're in dangerous territory that God will have
to do something to you. We need to submit to authority. And when we see some in the Bible,
we just do it. I know I'm a preacher of the wizard night crowd, but you know what? We all need it.
And if you're listening online, obey. Let's go to prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father so much
for our church. Thank you so much for these hard lessons, these hard truths of the Bible.
I pray that you would help us all to have a humble spirit and not allow ourselves to get prideful and
arrogant and attack the authorities in our life. I pray that if we've been doing that, you'd give
us grace, that you'd be long suffering with us, that you'd help us to have a meek and humble spirit,
that we could just have the reality that your authority structure is right. I pray that you
could just bless marriages in this room, that you could just help the men and women in this room
never to get divorced, to never allow that to be a conversation, to never be something that's
threatened for people to never just like run away from each other, from people to not attack the
authority structure that you've laid out. I pray that we would be humble and meek enough to submit
under the authorities in our lives so we could get lots of rewards by serving you and doing great
works and that we do all these things in the name of your son, in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
And our last song this evening will be page 43, "We're Marching to Zion." Page 43,
"We're Marching to Zion." Sing it out loud to the Lord on the first.