Music
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
We can go ahead and find our seats. We'll go ahead and get started this morning.
And once you've found a seat, go ahead and find a hymnal, and we'll start this morning off with song number 409.
Song number 409, the fight is on.
Song number 409, song number 409, the fight is on.
Everybody sing it together on the first.
The fight is on, the trumpet sound is ringing out, the cry to arms is heard afar and near.
The Lord of hosts is marching on to victory, the triumph of the Christ will soon appear.
The fight is on, oh Christian soldier, the place to face this stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage to fail.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong in his vital past.
With God before us, his men roar us, we'll sing the main first song at last.
The fight is on, the rousing soldier's brain intrusion hold the lead, and victory will assure him,
the buck go long, the armor God has given you, and in his strength, forever we'll endure.
The fight is on, oh Christian soldier, the place to face this stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage to fail.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong in his vital past.
With God before us, his men roar us, we'll sing the main first song at last.
The fight is on, the rousing soldier's brain intrusion hold the lead, and victory will assure him,
the buck go long, the armor God has given you, and in his strength, forever we'll endure.
The fight is on, oh Christian soldier, the place to face this stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage to fail.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong in his vital past.
With God before us, his men roar us, we'll sing the main first song at last.
All right, great singing, everybody. Let's open up the service with a word of prayer.
Lord, we just want to thank you again. We love you, Lord. We're just so grateful for this church,
grateful for the opportunity to gather here and sing unto you and hear great preaching, Lord.
We just love you, and thank you again. We just ask you to bless this service in Jesus' name. Amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 149.
Song number 149, Trusting Jesus.
Song number 149, Trusting Jesus Every Day.
Simply trusting every day, trusting through a stormy way.
Even when my faith is small, trusting Jesus that is all.
Trusting as the moments climb, trusting as the days go by.
Trusting him, whatever befall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Brightly does his Spirit shine, age to this poor heart of mine.
While he leads, I cannot fall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Trusting as the moments climb, trusting as the days go by.
Trusting him, whatever befall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Singing if my way is clear, praying if the path be drear.
If in danger for him fall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Trusting as the moments climb, trusting as the days go by.
Trusting him, whatever befall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Trusting him while life shall last, trusting him till earth be past.
Till within the jast for all, trusting Jesus that is all.
Trusting as the moments climb, trusting as the days go by.
Trusting him, whatever befall, trusting Jesus that is all.
Alright, great singing.
Good morning, thank you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church.
If you did not already get a bulletin, and you would like one,
just lift up your hand nice and high.
One of our ushers is going to come down the aisle,
and when they see you, they can get you a bulletin on the front.
We have the Bible memory passage, Proverbs 31 verse 24,
and on the inside we have our service times.
We have Spanish service at 4.30 on Sundays,
and then we have our evening service at 5.30.
That's for you guys that only come Sunday morning.
We do actually have a service at 5.30 on the evening, okay?
So, they didn't find that funny, it's alright.
I won't see you later anyways, so.
Down below we have the soul winning times,
and the church wide meet here at the building,
and then regional times meet at different parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area,
and so you just need to see the respective leaders there.
Also we have our church stats down below.
Please make sure you're turning in your soul winning numbers
to your soul winning captains and lieutenants.
Also on the right, we have a list of still several ladies who are expecting.
Please be in prayer for them during their pregnancies.
Also we have some upcoming events.
March 9th is going to be our next preaching class,
so that's this upcoming Saturday.
March 16th is a baby shower in honor of Mariah Jackson,
and that's going to be at 12.30.
I think the details, yeah, the details are on the back.
On the events list on the 30th,
there's going to be a Cedar Hill South Dallas Soul Winning Marathon,
so we'll meet here at the building at around 9,
and then we'll go out at about 10,
and we'll just go soul winning, have lunch somewhere,
and then go out soul winning again in the afternoon,
and we have these nice Easter invitations that you can be using for your soul winning.
We ordered a lot, so don't feel shy about using them now to invite people.
Easter is a great service to also invite family members, friends,
or anybody that you think would love to come visit our church.
That evening we're going to be having our communion service
that we have about once a year,
and so if you would like to participate in that as well,
I encourage you to come then.
One thing that's not in the events list,
and I just thought of it so I want to say it,
is we'll be having our year-end recap finance meeting next Sunday evening service,
so that just gives you one week just to know that.
It's an annual business meeting.
We pretty much do it actually every six months,
so every six months approximately,
we have a year-end review and a midpoint of the year review
where we just present all of the annual business financials for the church
and everything like that and just have a simple business meeting
immediately following the service.
It is for members only,
but if you are wanting to participate or be here for that,
it's going to be next Sunday evening,
so I just wanted to put that on your radar.
Also, April 9th through the 10th,
that is an event that one of our friends,
Pastor Roger Jimenez from Verde Baptist Church,
is hosting a youth rally.
It's geared towards teenagers.
There is a poster in the hallway that has much more detail,
and so that's a great way to figure out what's going on.
You can always email their church if you have any questions,
and then I believe we have a sign-up sheet,
and we're not really going to do anything with it,
but it just simply allows other individuals to see who's going
or if they want to communicate with others who are planning on traveling to that.
April 13th is a Shreveport, Louisiana soul-winning marathon.
We're going to be driving out and meeting in Shreveport, Louisiana.
We've done this pretty much once a year approximately,
and really, honestly, it's always been very receptive.
It's been a lot of fun.
People really enjoy this particular soul-winning marathon.
I think that everybody enjoys all the soul-winning marathons we go on,
but this one specifically, a lot of people,
I get the most thank yous or excitement usually around this one
just because of the fact that it's a lot more receptive than other areas,
and so especially considering being stateside, being in the United States,
it's got to be one of the most receptive areas within the United States itself,
and so for you guys that can't necessarily travel to the Caribbean or Fiji
or Philippines or all these crazy awesome destinations,
you can always go to Shreveport, okay?
And honestly, it's pretty receptive.
I'm sure that some of these other areas are better,
but mostly the only reason other areas are better
is just because you have a sheer volume increase.
There's just so many more people to talk to,
but honestly, when I've gone to Shreveport,
the people there are a lot more receptive than other areas,
and so I'd really encourage you, you know,
you got to go before we all gobble them all up
because, you know, eventually we might get everyone saved there
that can get saved, and so it won't be receptive anymore,
but while the getting's good, we're going over there and dropping our net
and trying to drag it into the boat, okay?
Also on the back is the details about our baby shower on the 16th.
It is going to be happening at 12.30 to 2.30.
Please RSVP to Ms. Milstead if you would like to attend.
Also, if you would like to get them a gift, they're registered on baby list,
and if you would like to bring a dessert or side dish,
please communicate that as well.
So all ladies are invited.
It is nursing's only preferred, so if you can, that would be a blessing.
Down below is our prayer list.
Please continue to pray for our church family,
and if you have any additional prayer requests,
you can always email those in, and we would love to be in prayer with you.
That's all I have as far as announcements.
We're going to go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 149.
You can use your special handouts or King James Bible if you need to.
Handout makes it a lot easier.
Psalm 149.
All right, that was Psalm 149.
Psalm 149.
Everybody sing it out together.
Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song,
and his praise in the congregation of saints.
Let his real rejoice in him that made him.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Let them praise his name in the dance.
Let them sing praises unto him with the temple and harp.
For the Lord, take his pleasure in his people.
He will beautify the meek of salvation.
Let the saints be joyful in glory.
Let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouths
and the vengeance stored in their hands.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen
and punishments upon the people,
to right their peace with chains.
And let the fools, their survivors,
to execute upon them the judgment written,
let this honor have hold in him.
Praise ye the Lord.
All right, great singing, everybody.
Now is the offering place for being passed around.
Go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 13.
That's Leviticus chapter number 13.
This is Leviticus chapter 13.
Leviticus 13, we'll read the entire chapter as is our custom.
Follow along silently beginning at verse 1, the Bible reads,
It is a plague of leprosy and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh and when the hair in the plague is turned white and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy and the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean.
If the bright spot be white and the skin of his flesh should in sight be not deeper than the skin and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days.
And the priest shall look on him the seventh day and behold if the plague in his sight be at a stay and the plague spread not in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more.
And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day and behold if the plague be somewhat dark and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean, it is but a scab and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again.
And if the priest see that behold the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprosy.
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest and the priest shall see him and behold if the rising be white of the skin, it hath turned the hair white and there be quick raw flesh in the rising.
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up for he is unclean.
And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh, then the priest shall consider and behold if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague, it is all turned white he is clean.
But when raw flesh appearth in him, he shall be unclean.
And the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean, for the raw flesh is unclean, it is a leprosy.
Or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest and the priest shall see him and behold if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague, he is clean.
The flesh also in which even in the skin thereof was a boil that is healed, and in the place of the boil there be a white rising or a bright spot, white and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest, and if when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin and the hair thereof be turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
But if the priest look on it, and behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a plague.
But if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not, it is a burning boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Or if there be any flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish or white, then the priest shall look upon it, and behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out of the burning, wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is the plague of leprosy.
But if the priest look on it, and behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day, and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is the plague of leprosy.
And if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not in the skin, and it be somewhat dark, it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is an inflammation of the burning.
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard, then the priest shall see the plague, and behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.
It is a dry skull, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
And if the priest look on the plague of the skull, and behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the skull seven days.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague, and behold, if the skull spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the skull be not in sight deeper than the skin, he shall be shaven, but the skull shall he not shave, and the priest shall shut up him that hath the skull seven days more.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the skull, and behold, if the skull be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
But if the skull spread much in the skin after his cleansing, then the priest shall look on him, and behold, if the skull be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair, he is unclean.
But if the skull be in his sight at a stay, and there is black hair grown up therein, the skull is healed, he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots, then the priest shall look, and behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white, it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin, he is clean.
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald, yet is he clean.
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald, yet is he clean.
And if there be in the bald head or bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy sprung up at his bald head or his bald forehead.
Then the priest shall look upon it, and behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appearth in the skin of the flesh, he is a leprous man, he is unclean, the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean, his plague is in his head.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his cloth shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry unclean, unclean.
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled, he is unclean, he shall dwell alone, without the camp shall his habitation be.
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment or a linen garment, whether it be in the warp or woof of linen or of woollen, whether in a skin or in any thing made of skin, and if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest.
And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days, and he shall look on the plague on the seventh day.
If the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin, the plague is a fretting leprosy, it is unclean.
He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or in any thing of skin, wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, it shall be burnt in the fire.
And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin, then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.
And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed, and behold, if the plague have not changed his color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean, thou shalt burn it in the fire, it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
And if the priest look, and behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.
And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is a spreading plague, thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven, I pray, Lord, that you would fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help him to preach the sermon you've laid on his heart with clarity of mind and with boldness.
And I pray that you soften hearts in the room and help us to receive the preaching of your word and to make any necessary changes subsequently to serve you better.
We love you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
I want to look back at verses two and three here.
The Bible says when a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priest.
And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy, and the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean.
Now, the Bible really emphasizes, especially in the Old Testament, the distinction between things that are clean and things that are unclean.
Today, when we talk about someone being unclean, often we use the word sick.
And the Bible does use the word sick often to describe what we think of as someone being sick.
Sickness is also described sometimes in the Bible as that feeling of just feeling bad emotionally.
So not every time sickness is used in the Bible is it talking about a physical illness.
Sometimes it's talking about an emotional feeling.
But when we talk about this cleanliness and this uncleanliness, we're talking about things that are related to being sick, diseased, having some kind of illness.
This is the concepts that we're talking about.
And really, what we're talking about is things that are dirty.
If you're unclean, it's dirty.
These are really basic concepts.
They're pretty simple.
And I think because of our culture and our society, a lot of us are very familiar with these concepts.
But throughout history and in different civilizations, many people didn't understand dirtiness, uncleanness, or cleanness,
or they have weird ideas on what things are clean or unclean.
And really what the Bible always does is it gives us a balanced view.
And my goal this morning for my sermon is to try and help us have a balanced view on sickness and to have a biblical view on sickness.
Now, I'll say this.
I guarantee if we were to ask everybody in the room their views on sickness and illness and disease,
we're going to have pretty much people on both sides of extremes.
We're going to have people all over the map.
There's a lot of different views on sickness, illness, disease.
And I'm not trying to get super scientific with my sermon this morning,
but what I do want is I want everybody to recognize the fact that the Bible talks about this.
And no matter what your views are as far as modern science or health or medicine or doctors,
you should agree with the Bible every time.
The Bible is always right.
And the Bible, regardless of what science says or medical says, you know what?
The Bible is always giving the right advice.
And many times science is trying to catch up to or figure out, like, wow, the thing that the Bible said is actually right.
And many times what science is doing is it's trying to describe or understand the phenomenon associated with why biblical advice is right.
It's more of the details or the specifics as to why certain phenomenon are true.
And I think what sometimes happens is people will look at a particular explanation and say,
I think there's flaws in this particular explanation or I don't like some of the things that they're saying.
And then they'll reject the obvious biblical advice that's given.
And what we need to do is say, hey, we're going to do whatever the Bible says,
regardless of if we understand all the details of it,
regardless if it makes perfect sense to us,
regardless if our world or culture agrees with that or not,
we should follow what the Bible says regarding sickness.
And the title of my sermon is this,
Sickness and Stopping the Spread.
Now, the Bible hammers this point.
In fact, I have so much Bible that we could be here for five plus hours
if I was going to show you everything the Bible talks on this subject.
But luckily it's only going to be three.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, I'm really trying to condense this as much as I can this morning.
And I want to cover a lot of material,
but to try and help us to walk away from the sermon and have something tangible,
I kind of came up with an acrostic or some kind of a device
to try and help us remember the principles that the Bible gives us in regarding to sickness.
So I have just kind of seven points that I'm going to be constantly referring to,
and it kind of spells two words together,
and I was trying to make this in a way that would be easy for us to remember.
But basically this is what you have to remember.
Wash men, all right? Wash men.
That's all you have to remember, okay?
So if you walk away from the sermon and that's all you remember, great, all right?
Now, I believe that these seven letters represent seven principles that we find here in the Bible.
The first one is really easy because it matches the word.
It's wash, all right?
And the Bible constantly emphasizes this.
Look at chapter 15 for a moment.
We're going to come back here.
Go to chapter 15.
Now Jesus said this in the New Testament.
He said,
But thou and thou fastest anoint thy head and wash thy face.
So Jesus was instructing people to wash their body, wash their face,
and really one of the most important principles when it comes to being healthy and getting rid of sickness is just washing.
And specifically, the Bible tells us with running water,
if you look at verse 13, the Bible says this,
And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue,
then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing,
and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
So notice cleanliness is associated with washing your body and specifically even in running water.
Throughout history, this has not always been common knowledge,
and in fact, many times when people would wash,
they weren't washing with fresh water, clean water, or running water.
They would simply bathe their hands or body in water that had already been used by someone else.
So doctors may dip their hands in a bowl of water that already has been contaminated with blood, or disease, or bacteria, or all kinds of different things.
People are constantly taking a bath in the same bath water.
So the oldest takes a bath, then the next oldest takes a bath, then the next oldest takes a bath.
By the time you get to the youngest, now it's really not water anymore.
It looks like coffee or tea, and you guys drink that.
So go back to chapter 13 for a minute and look at verse 34.
Chapter 13, look at verse 34.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the skull, and behold, if the skull be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Notice that the Bible also mentions not just washing your body or your flesh, but also washing your clothes.
And really this just goes a long way. Please, please wash your body and wash your clothes.
This is a huge factor in how often you're going to get sick.
The Bible extends this to many things.
Your sheets, your pillowcases, your furniture, your carpet.
Basically any fabric or any kind of cloth substance that you have, the Bible is constantly reiterating the idea of washing these things.
And we want to keep these things clean, and that prevents people from getting sick or illness or disease or these type of things from spreading.
Now, that's point one, wash.
Point two is verse 44 is alert.
I want you to alert.
And what is alert? Alert people.
What do you alert people for when you're sick? Look at verse 44.
He is a leprous man, he is unclean, the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean, his plague is in his head,
and the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent and his head bare,
and he shall put a covering upon his lip and shall cry,
Unclean! Unclean!
Now what is he doing?
He's telling other people that he's sick, that he has some kind of illness,
and he's telling other people so that they'll be alerted and they'll realize, hey, I should stay away from this person.
And you know what? It just should be common sense and it's common courtesy to tell people when you don't feel good
or when you are feeling sick or you have some kind of illness or some kind of disease like, hey, I'm not going to shake your hand,
or hey, you might want to stay away from me, or hey, I'm not feeling very good.
It's just common courtesy to let people know that you don't feel good.
So you're going to wash and then you're going to alert people.
Here's the third point. You're going to separate.
Look at verse 46.
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him, he shall be defiled, he is unclean, he shall dwell alone,
without the camp shall his habitation be.
So notice when you want to become clean, when you cleanse yourself from the illness, you would wash.
But when you're sick, while you're sick, it says you need to alert people and then specifically you need to separate from people.
In fact, notice that it says that you should dwell alone.
It doesn't say, like, dwell with family members, dwell with your cousin.
It doesn't say go to church. It says dwell alone.
And here's something that I think a lot of people maybe don't realize is when you're sick or your kids are sick,
sometimes it's good to isolate them from even your own family members.
Keep them away from the other children or other people so as to try and not cause them to get sick as well.
You don't want other people to get sick and so you're supposed to dwell.
Notice this alone.
When someone is sick or ill or has an issue, there's no need for other people to get that.
They can just deal with their issue on their own so as to not spread.
You don't want to spread whatever illness, sickness, disease, or whatever issue is going on.
So you're going to wash, you're going to alert people, you're going to separate.
Here's another point that the Bible brings up and I want you to go to Deuteronomy 23.
Keep your finger here because we're coming back to Leviticus a lot.
Go to Deuteronomy 23 for a moment.
And this one is hide.
So that spells our word wash.
We're going to wash, alert, separate, and hide.
Now the hiding in the Bible is in reference to the idea that you want to hide contaminated material.
And the Bible constantly brings this up in lots of different contexts where you have something that's contaminated
or something that's dirty or something that's unclean and it's supposed to be hidden.
Most of the time you're covering it with the dirt or with the earth.
There's a lot of different ways in which something could be hidden.
But generally speaking, it's supposed to be buried and you're hiding it.
Now Deuteronomy 23, look at verse 13.
So what the Bible is saying is that when people use the bathroom, that needs to be covered.
And specifically, it says to cover it with dirt. That's what they're doing.
But you're hiding it. You're hiding it.
It's not like it disappears.
It's not like it goes somewhere.
I mean, it can't just disappear or just go somewhere else.
It's supposed to just be hidden.
It's just supposed to be covered.
And so the Bible consistently talks about how things that are contaminated, dirty, diseased, or just infected
have some kind of a problem, that they could be covered.
They need to be discarded in such a manner.
And there's other ways to deal with waste or trash, as it were.
But this is one of the specific ways.
Now most of our trash, if you think about our society, this is how it works.
Essentially, they go out to the outside city limits somewhere
and they literally just throw the trash out somewhere and then they cover it with dirt.
And then eventually it becomes a giant mound.
So a lot of times where we have our trash areas, it's really tall now.
It almost looks like a mountain, just because they've constantly been covering it in the trash.
But here's the thing.
When you put trash or waste or anything like that in the ground,
it slowly decomposes and then goes back to the state that it was,
turns back into dust or rock or whatever material it was made of,
and so it gets put back into the environment and it can become safe again.
And in fact, a lot of times people even use waste products for specific gardening or making fertilizer.
It's very interesting how almost everything has some kind of use
or can be turned back into something useful again.
It can be redeemed, okay, in a sense.
But in its current state, it's unredeemable.
It just needs to be hidden, buried, covered.
I mean, a dead body, same thing.
What do we do with dead bodies?
We bury them. We hide them in the earth.
We cover them, and then that body will slowly decay, rot, decompose,
and turn back into the dust that we eventually are, okay.
So when it comes to excrement, blood, dead animals, all kinds of things like this,
the Bible is telling you to hide these things.
Some societies weren't doing this.
Some cultures have, like, what I'm saying, you might be thinking, like, duh, Pastor Shelley.
You have to understand that parts of Europe and other places throughout history,
they would be having excrement in the middle of the street,
trash in the middle of the street, dead animals and dead people in the street.
And in fact, you go to third-world countries, you go to places in India,
you go to places in Africa, you go to places where disease is rampant,
and I'll tell you something.
They have excrement and dead things and all kinds of stuff out and open in the public,
and it's not being hidden, it's not being dealt with,
and so that dirtiness, that uncleanness is causing problems for that area.
It's like, I wonder why God's not walking through India and Africa and some places.
It's because of the excrement, literally.
And I mean, think about it.
God says specifically, if you're not doing this, if you're dirty, I won't even walk around you.
You know, you're, like, causing God to not want to be around you because of your uncleanness.
You know, that's what the Bible is teaching.
Go back to Leviticus 13.
So our first word, wash.
We need to wash, alert, separate, and hide.
As a individual, as a church, as a state, as a country, as a people,
we should be doing all of these principles consistently.
We need to be washing, alerting, separating, and then hiding.
Now, here's another one the Bible brings up, is masking.
Look at Leviticus chapter 13, verse 45.
We're going back to this verse.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent and his head bare,
and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip and shall cry unclean, unclean.
So another aspect of this is that he's literally putting some kind of a garment over his mouth
and covering his mouth when he was crying.
Like, unclean.
He's probably lifting his voice because it's been kind of muffled.
It's been kind of, you know, unclean, unclean.
And basically what the Bible is kind of teaching is the idea that
there's something associated with covering your mouth when you're ill to what?
Reduce the spread again.
Okay?
And this is, I would think, common knowledge.
Most people recognize, like, if you're going to sneeze, if you cough, if you're ill,
like, cover yourself, cover your mouth.
You know, don't just be like, achoo!
You know, all over your brother.
Or just be coughing all over other people.
Again, most likely if you're so ill that you're just coughing every second or something,
you probably need to do what I said earlier, alert and separate.
But if you even find yourself in a situation where you're around others,
you have to be around others, you know, at least be covering your mouth when you're coughing,
covering your mouth when you're sneezing, covering your mouth especially when you're ill
or you have some kind of illness.
A lot of hospitals, a lot of places that use masks and face masks to prevent contamination.
And this is just honestly biblical.
It's biblical to cover your mouth.
Now, here's a couple of things I want to make notice of.
Notice it didn't say cover your nose.
Okay?
Now, this is what made me mad when we had that stupid COVID thing,
is that they wanted people to cover their nose when they weren't even sick.
Notice again, the context of this is someone is sick.
It's not even a question.
They're definitely sick and then it's saying cover their mouth.
Again, if you sneeze or something, that could come out.
So I'm not saying don't cover your nose if you're going to sneeze or something like that.
But generally speaking, we don't need to stop people from breathing while they're sick.
That's just a bad idea, okay?
Also, when people aren't sick, they shouldn't be having to be stopped from breathing, okay?
That's just going to make your life worse.
So I don't recommend wearing a mask as a fashion statement, okay?
It's not China.
We don't need to look like China.
And we don't need to necessarily just wear a mask every single where we go.
I think there's probably a detriment to your health for just wearing a mask all the time, okay?
But notice that in some cases, in some situations, wearing a mask is appropriate.
And I'll say this, you know, there's lots of times where people wear a mask and it makes tons of sense.
You know, if you're working outside in the yard, a lot of times wearing a mask will help prevent
a lot of the allergic reactions you can get from all of the dander and the pollen
and all the other elements that are being exposed.
Because when you're cutting these plants and the grass and the trees, you know,
that's releasing all kinds of different pollen and things throughout the air.
And you know, by having a mask, it can reduce the amount that you're ingesting.
Sometimes you can, I have bad allergies sometimes when it comes to just the release of different pollens
and different elements into the air.
So wearing a mask during that, if you're doing woodworking and you have a lot of really fine sawdust,
that's also another important time to wear a mask because you don't want to be inhaling large portions
of dust or just these kind of things.
They can cause issues in your body.
So you know, there's lots of times to wear a mask, okay?
But one of them specifically in the Bible is in regards to if someone is sick to cover their mouth,
to cover their face a little bit, and to not contaminate other individuals, okay?
Here's another point that I believe is in verse 51.
Look at verse 51.
The Bible says,
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day, if the plague be spread in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the wolf, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin.
The plague is a fretting leprosy.
It is unclean.
Now, fretting is not a word that we use very often, I think, in this context.
But I believe if you look it up, it's kind of describing a decaying composition or consuming aspect.
So the fretting is the fact that it's kind of consuming.
And it has a connotation with fretting as well.
But just think about something that's like eating the flesh away or kind of just consuming the flesh.
That's what it's talking about when it's talking about this fretting aspect.
Notice it says in verse 52,
He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or wolf, in woolen or in linen, or in anything of skin,
wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, it shall be burnt in the fire.
So sometimes you hide things that are contaminated.
Other things that have this, you know, arguably a flesh-eating bacteria on it.
I mean, if you had a garment that's slowly being consumed by some kind of a disease or illness,
it's saying, we're not just going to bury this thing, we're going to burn this thing.
And so my next point is that we need to eradicate contaminated materials.
So you kind of have to identify what kind of material it is.
Certain materials they hide, we bury them, other materials they burn them.
We need to eradicate. This is just so bad, this is so evil, we're just going to eradicate it.
And this is in context of things like garments, houses.
Think about this, why do you think the Bible is saying that we need to break down the houses of the Sodomites?
It's because their houses were so contaminated with disease and illness and filth,
and it's just like, this is not redeemable, we need to break it down.
And in fact, when you read these chapters, which I would love to do,
I would love to just read all this and really explain all this, that's when we go through Leviticus.
But honestly, you can tell, like, hey, there's a reason why the houses of the Sodomites were broken down.
Because of the disease and the illness and the issues that are going on in this house,
the material itself is contaminated and the material itself needs to be destroyed.
And so sometimes even housing needs to be destroyed.
I mean, San Francisco might need a lot of burning, okay?
But it's a beautiful city and it's a beautiful area, you know, we could burn a lot of houses down
and then rebuild the city and it could be beautiful again, you know?
I heard someone say, and I kind of like this point, they were like,
you know, I know that a lot of people's attitude is just to flee, you know, Chicago and New York and L.A.
and all this, and he's like, but it's not really, that's not really a manly attitude
where we're just forfeiting our best cities and the things that make America, America.
You know, we should be cleaning up those cities.
And you know what? Amen.
We need to apply the burning principle, okay?
We need to start knocking some stuff down and burning it and destroying it and cleaning it up.
I mean, talk about human feces.
You know, we talked about, you know, the idea that we should be covering feces.
San Francisco has a poop map where literally human feces are everywhere in the city.
I mean, people are spotting this everywhere.
I mean, this is insane.
But you know what? You know why things are happening like that?
Because they reject the Bible over there.
Because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty and cleanness, okay?
When you kind of notice the cleanest parts of the world,
often the most godliness and the Spirit of the Lord is there,
and the most disease and illness and issue is usually often where there's a rejection of the Bible,
rejection of God's Word, rejection of these things.
That's why the most evil religions such as like Hinduism and Buddhism and atheism,
a lot of these countries are filthy, disease-ridden places, and they're very awful.
I mean, consistently through the Bible, the most ungodly places, Canaan,
or other areas of just ungodly places are the most filthy, the most diseased.
Egypt was also known as a place full of disease, very filthy and contaminated,
and I guarantee they're not observing and following the statutes and the principles
and the ordinances that God has laid out.
You know, the Bible says, my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge,
and let me tell you something, part of that is just knowledge around cleanliness and uncleanliness,
just understanding how disease, illness, and these kind of things can spread
and trying to stop the spread through the principles that he's laying out,
like what? Washing, alerting people, separating, hiding, and then we want to mask,
then we want to eradicate, and here's my last point that I have, is nutrition.
Nutrition is also another important point.
Now, I'm not going to have you turn there, but it does say in 1 Timothy,
this is Paul instructing Timothy himself, it says,
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.
So the Apostle Paul recognizes the fact that sometimes the things that you eat or consume
also have an impact on your overall health.
And you know what? There's a lot on that subject.
I plan on preaching another sermon about nutrition and health.
That's not what I'm dealing with this morning. I'm dealing with the sickness side.
We're talking about sickness and stopping the spread of sickness.
There's going to be another sermon where I want to emphasize the idea of nutrition and health.
The Bible talks about this a lot as well.
But I just want to help you understand what I'm saying.
So I want to just cherry pick a lot of verses here in Leviticus 13,
but I want us to read and notice a pattern here.
We're in Leviticus chapter 13. Look at verse 5.
And I'm not going to read the whole verse. I'm reading sections of these verses, so try to follow along.
Verse 5, And the plague spread not.
Verse 6, And the plague spread not.
Verse 7, If the scab spread much abroad.
Okay, verse 8, Spreadeth in the skin.
Verse 22, If it spread much abroad.
Verse 23, And spread not.
Verse 27, If it be spread much abroad.
Verse 28, And spread not in the skin.
Verse 32, If the scab spread not.
Verse 34, And if the scab be not spread in the skin.
Verse 35, But if the scab spread much in the skin.
Look at what it says in verse 51.
If the plague be spread in the garment, the plague is a fretting leprosy.
Verse 52, For it is a fretting leprosy.
Verse 53, The plague be not spread in the garment.
Verse 55, And the plague be not spread, it is unclean.
Verse 57, It is a spreading plague.
I'm noticing a common theme in this chapter that is talking about something.
If something's spreading or not spreading, what do you think all these principles are in Leviticus chapter 13?
They're principles to stop spreading fretting illness and disease.
And specifically it's dealing with leprosy.
But these principles can be applied to any disease, any illness, any kind of issue.
And it's trying to do something. Stop spread.
Washing will stop the spread.
Telling people to stay away from you will stop the spread.
Separating from people physically will stop the spread.
Hiding contaminated material will stop the spread.
Masks will stop the spread.
Eradicating things that are just gross and bad and cannot be redeemed, that will stop the spread.
And by having good nutrition, it can help stop the spread.
But notice that these principles are taught in the Bible.
I haven't shown you anything science or medical theory.
I haven't gotten a doctor up here.
I'm just telling you what the Bible says.
And it's really clear that things spread and things don't spread based on how you deal with them.
And God is wanting these things to not spread.
Now, when it comes to uncleanness, we need to identify things that are unclean.
And it was the priest's job.
One of the priest's main jobs was helping everybody understand something that was clean and something that was unclean.
That's a giant job. It's a huge job.
Main aspect.
Now, in these chapters and all through the Bible, I'm just going to give you a list of things that are unclean.
What are things that are dirty?
Well, it says if you have a rising in the skin, that's some kind of an uncleanness.
So where your skin is, if the skin starts to rise or be higher in a place, that's something that can determine if it's unclean.
If there's a lowering in the skin, so the skin's actually depressed or going down, that is a potential for something to be unclean.
If there's a scab, that's determining whether it's clean or unclean.
If there's a bright spot, so the color of your skin is changing, that could be a determination on something being unclean.
If the hair color is changing color, that's also a determination if something is clean or unclean.
If there's a burning sensation, that's determining whether something's unclean or clean.
If there's an issue of fluid, according to the Bible, all issues of fluid are unclean.
Now, I don't even have to describe all the things that can issue, but it's saying any kind of issue, any kind of seed of copulation,
any kind of issue of blood, or any kind of a woman's flowers, her special monthly flowers, that is all unclean, according to the Bible.
And again, when something's unclean, what do you do?
Well, you wash, alert, you separate, you hide, you mask, you eradicate, and nutrition.
Now, not all of those principles apply to every situation.
You have to use them as seeing fit, what's appropriate, what kind of material, what kind of situation.
Leviticus chapters 13, 14, and 15 really hammer all the different kind of scenarios.
What's the protocol? How do I handle this particular situation?
I think, generally speaking, most of what's taught in our country follows a lot of these things.
I think that because we are a Christian nation for a long time, because people had respect for the Bible, a lot of these things got ingrained into our culture.
I think a lot of people are accustomed to washing themselves, washing their bodies, washing their clothes, hiding contaminated material.
But sometimes people forget about these things.
I think some of the more lackadaisical things are how people don't really alert people when they're sick anymore.
People aren't really separating when they're sick anymore.
And some of those principles are still just as important as all of the others.
Other things that are disgusting, gross, diseased, have a problem?
Dead animals.
The Bible says you touch a dead animal, you're unclean.
You've got to wash yourself.
The Bible talks about someone being sick, they're unclean.
Fecal matter, unclean.
Vomit, unclean.
Here's another thing that's unclean, according to the Bible.
Fornication.
And I think a lot of people don't realize that fornication, there's an associated dirtiness or uncleanness with it.
Why?
Because the issues, the seed of copulation or whatever, has happened, and so there's an associated dirtiness with it.
Also, fermentation is uncleanness.
Death in the pot is described in the Bible.
That's uncleanness.
And here's a big one, leaven.
Leaven is associated with uncleanness.
Now go to Numbers 31.
Go to Numbers 31.
What you have to understand is God uses carnal truths to expound spiritual truths.
Carnal truths to expound spiritual truths.
So the Bible wants us to understand that there are things that are dirty, and there's things that are clean.
Now this is what you don't want to get confused on.
Just because something is dirty, or just because the Bible describes something as unclean, doesn't mean it's sinful.
Okay?
If I touch a dead body, I didn't sin.
Okay?
But I'm unclean.
I'm dirty.
Okay?
And then that dirtiness needs to be dealt with according to the Bible.
So if I touch the dead body, I now need to wash myself.
I need to not touch other people.
And here's the thing.
If I violate what the Bible says, though, let's say I get defiled by something, dead body or something gross,
and I don't wash myself, or I don't follow those principles, then that would be a sin.
The sin is not dealing with the defilement appropriately.
Okay?
So getting sick, or being defiled, or being unclean, it doesn't mean that you sin.
Okay?
Some people work in sanitation, and they have to deal with a lot of these things.
You know, janitors, sometimes they have to clean up vomit and excrement.
And there's people that have to deal with dead animals.
There's people that have to deal with dead bodies.
There's people that have to deal with cleaning up blood.
There's a lot of these different things.
That doesn't mean that person's sinning when they deal with those issues.
It just means that they're dirty, and they need to clean themselves up.
They need to make sure they're following the protocol here.
But here's the thing.
When someone is dirty, and they're not taking these advices,
and they're not taking these statutes and origins seriously,
and they're not applying appropriate cleanliness standards, I believe that is sin.
I believe it is a sin to not deal with uncleanness appropriately.
Okay?
And so we need to make sure that we, as God's people, are taking the Bible seriously,
taking sickness, illness, uncleanness seriously.
Now, of course, God then uses uncleanness, physical dirtiness, to illustrate spiritual truths as well.
So uncleanness or dirtiness physically represents sin often in the Bible.
Okay?
And cleanness represents righteousness.
And so there's a correlation of these, but I don't want anybody to get confused and think,
well, if my hands are dirty, I'm sinning.
No.
You know, dirty hands are when you take bribe money.
Dirty hands is when you shed innocent blood.
Okay?
That's sinful.
That's wicked.
You know, playing in the dirt doesn't make you a sinner.
Okay?
And of course, you know, Jesus was dealing with the Pharisees a lot on this,
and they found fault with his disciples for eating with unwashed hands.
But you know what?
The Bible doesn't say that eating with unwashed hands is a sin.
The Bible doesn't even actually describe that in any kind of real detail.
So here's the thing.
Let's say I've gone my whole day and I haven't washed my hands today, but then I just eat dinner.
I pick up a burger and I eat it.
That's not sinning because the Bible didn't say that.
But you know what?
When Jesus was dealing with those people, you know what Jesus was not saying?
Pick up dead animals and get your hands defiled and then eat food.
He's not saying, you know, because he talks about how when you eat something,
or what goes in through the mouth, it doesn't defile the man.
That wasn't in the context of literally anything.
That wasn't in the context of eating with unwashed hands.
Okay?
It was not in the context of like, now I can eat dead animals,
now I can eat poison, now I can drink Clorox and bleach and it won't defile me.
That is not what Jesus Christ was saying.
And in fact, often when Jesus Christ is talking to people
and he cleansed them of their issue, he would then say,
go show yourself unto the priest.
Do exactly what Moses said.
Because I believe that Jesus wants us to follow exactly what Moses said
when it comes to cleanliness principles.
Now of course, we don't have to show ourselves to a priest.
We don't have a priest.
We don't have the Levitical priesthood.
Some of the sacrifices associated with becoming clean,
obviously we don't have to do that.
But I'm saying the principles, I believe, are something we should all follow.
We should be washing, we should be alerting, we should be separating,
we should be hiding contaminated material, we should be masking,
we should be eradicating, and we should have good nutrition.
I think all those things are really important.
Okay?
And when you think about the children of Israel as a whole,
they needed to be careful of other nations and other cultures from what?
The spread of illness, leprosy, and disease.
So think about it.
You just conquered some other nation or some other city.
What do you have to be worried about?
You have to be worried about their disease and their illnesses
and all the things spreading.
So the principles that God gives them actually help
eliminate the chances of any kind of sickness coming into their camp
from taking over consuming another nation.
What are some of these principles?
Look at Leviticus, I'm sorry, Numbers 31, look at verse 17.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones
and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
So notice they would actually kill everyone but the female virgins.
And one aspect of this is certain to prevent any kind of sickness or illness
or disease from coming into the camp.
Because there's no chance of some kind of an STD
or some kind of an uncleanness or filthiness coming in
because the only people that are coming in
are the young virgin females who have not been what?
Defiled.
And in fact if you read in Revelation which we've read
that the 144,000 are considered virgin
and it said these were not defiled with women.
Meaning that what?
That there's some kind of uncleanness associated with that.
Now again, I'm not Catholic.
Catholics will literally teach that relations between husband and wife is sin.
It's like, what is wrong with you?
There is nothing sinful.
Marriage is honorable and all.
And the bed, undefiled.
But let me explain that.
That's undefiled from a sin perspective.
It's not saying it's undefiled from a physical cleanliness perspective.
There is a physical dirtiness associated with that
and so that's why the Bible talks about washing.
You know when David and his men came
unto Abiathar the priest
they literally had to tell him like,
hey we've been kept from women three days
so they could eat the bread. Why?
Because there was a physical dirtiness,
there was a physical defilement associated with that
and they weren't supposed to be touching things
when they were in an unclean or defiled status.
Why? Because we don't want to defile the house of God.
If you let sickness and illness come into the house of God
well now the priesthood and everything is going to come to a halt.
I mean what if all the priests get sick?
Who's going to worship God?
Who's going to be lighting incense?
Who's going to be doing the sacrifices?
You know they had very strict principles
associated for all the priests. Why?
To prevent a lot of the sickness and illness
getting spread amongst God's priests
and for them to cease the work of the Lord.
So it was really important that they had these really high cleanliness standards.
In fact the Levitical priests,
they weren't even allowed to marry a woman that was not a virgin.
They had to marry a woman that was a virgin
and they were really careful in preventing a lot of sickness and illness.
I mean people that just even had some kind of defilement physically
like they were a dwarf or they had some kind of physical deformity
or any kind of blemish, they were kept from the priesthood,
they were kept from the tabernacle.
I mean God is really specific on these details.
And of course some of that is to illustrate how Jesus Christ is the perfect spotless
and land without blemish.
And we get that.
But there's also a physical truth with this.
Now when you take their physical possessions,
we've taken captive this nation or the city,
we're eradicating all the people that are not virgin female.
Here's what else we're doing, verse 23.
Everything that may abide the fire,
ye shall make it go through the fire and it shall be clean.
Any kind of material that could survive fire,
they were supposed to put all of that in there.
Gold, silver, precious stone.
And of course that's illustrated in the New Testament
with the spiritual truths of 1 Corinthians 3
when we talk about heavenly rewards.
How we don't want to lay up for ourselves wood, hay, and stubble,
but rather we want gold, silver, and precious stone,
which can what? Abide the fire.
And this is illustrated by the physical carnal truth
that we have materials today, like gold, silver, and precious stone,
that when they go through fire,
it doesn't destroy them or cause them any kind of harm.
And in fact, in many cases, it purifies them and makes them even better.
So the reason why gold is considered, quote, pure gold
is because it's been going through a refining process
and actually heated up to get all the impurities out of it.
And so that's a process.
Now we're not Catholic, so we don't have purgatory.
Catholics teach that humans have to go through that.
They have to go through purgatory, and they have to burn off the impurities
where they can go to heaven.
Problem is, when you go to hell, there's no getting out.
You weren't that gold getting purified.
You were that fretting leprosy and contaminated product
that just needed to be eradicated.
That's what you were.
One more verse, verse 24, it says,
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day,
and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
And in this verse, it talks about the water separation.
Basically, they take over an area.
Only people that could come into the camp were female virgins, young children,
and then stuff that was either burned or washed completely.
Why? Because they don't want to bring their diseases.
They don't want to bring their filth, bring their uncleanness into their nation
and cause their nation to be destroyed by conquering this people.
Some people don't recognize or realize that many Native Americans
were killed from settlers of Europe, not through physical violence,
but rather from just disease.
Just the spreading, just disease wiped out a large portion
of the Native American population was just disease itself.
And disease can be very harmful to another nation
when they're not necessarily maybe exposed to your diseases or illnesses
or maybe they have bad health principles.
Maybe they don't have the same kind of standards or principles as you
and so by just sheer fact that they're not ready to handle this,
they could be eliminated or eradicated through just simply disease itself.
And again, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
You see a lot more disease and illness in the children of Israel as a nation
when they're more sinful.
The more they get away from the Lord, the more they forget the Bible,
the more they have these issues, the more sickness, illness, disease, plague
is consistently shown in the Bible.
Now, when we talk about spreading, there's the idea that we use today
of the idea of something being contagious or contagion.
Now, if you just read a dictionary definition of the word contagion,
it says this, transmissible by direct or indirect contact,
capable of transmitting a disease, or spreading or tending to spread
from one to another infectious, communicable by contact,
by virus, or by body exhalation.
I don't see how that isn't just describing exactly what we are reading
in Leviticus chapters number 13, 14, and 15
when it comes to the ideas of spreading disease.
Now, I want to go to a couple more places.
Go, if you would, to Ezekiel 24.
Go to Ezekiel 24.
But Jesus said this,
They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
You know, Jesus didn't say, you never need a physician.
He said, if you're healthy, you're well, no physician.
Hey, if you're sick, you need a physician.
And look, what did the Old Testament priests do?
They were diagnosing the sicknesses and the illnesses,
prescribing certain activities for them to do.
So, you know, whether they're supposed to be in some kind of quarantine,
or washing, or what kind of state they're in,
and they're giving them a lot of this instruction.
And you know, there is value in our society having doctors and physicians,
individuals who check and notice diseases and illnesses,
and they tell people things.
Now, of course, we live in America, so a lot of this has changed over time,
and as a result of that, advice and recommendations have greatly shifted.
Many times they're not giving advice that's coming from the Bible.
Sometimes they're giving advice that's just like, take a drug.
But you know, we don't really see the Bible saying take drugs anywhere.
Now, the Bible did say nutrition, right?
So drink a little wine.
But that's more like eating the right kind of foods.
A lot of doctors are not necessarily giving you advice like that,
giving advice of eating specific foods, or staying away.
I think sometimes they do give the right principles of like,
hey, you need to stay away, or cover, you know, this is spreading,
this is contagious, you know.
And I think all of those advices should be taken seriously.
If a doctor tells you, hey, you're very contagious, stay away from people,
I think you should stay away from people.
You know, I think that just fits exactly what the Bible is saying,
and it's a pretty common modern application that we could have today.
You know, to basically just say, well, I don't think so,
is sometimes just ignorance on your part.
And really, it doesn't really help society if you're smarter than the doctor.
You know, what is it going to hurt if you isolate yourself a little bit
every once in a while, and really follow kind of what the Bible is saying?
That's why I constantly reiterate like, hey, if you're sick, don't come to church.
You know, you don't get a special trophy in heaven for coming to church sick.
I don't think that God's like, well, this person went to church a lot,
but this person went to church when they were sick, you know.
Let's give them an extra special trophy or something.
You know, like, I am really big on church attendance.
I'm sure that you hear me harp on church attendance all the time.
But it has a very clear and obvious exception.
If you're sick, I don't want you here.
No one wants you here, okay?
And when you're not sick, we all want you here.
We're really excited. I love seeing everybody at church.
I get excited when I see people at church, especially if they've been away.
I'm disappointed when people are not here.
I would love for everybody to be here all the time.
But let's be real, no one wants you here when you're sick.
And even the carnal world recognizes this.
Even like many companies, if they notice you're sick, they'll just send you home.
Or if you have an office job that can be done from home,
they'll tell you, work from home today.
You're not allowed to come in the office.
You're not allowed to show up or be around other people
because we don't want to get contaminated.
And really, it's common courtesy.
It's loving your neighbor as yourself to not infect other people
or to spread something that could potentially be eliminated
through you just separating yourself.
Staying away from people, washing your hands, being very careful.
I'm thankful that when I go to a lot of restaurants,
it literally has a sign up that says,
employees must wash their hands before returning to work.
What if it said, no one needs to wash their hands?
I mean, I'm already thinking that food's sketchy.
Like, that is at least one principle.
Can we continue that thread?
Like, let's continue the sign that says that.
And you know, how would you feel if you go to a restaurant for lunch this afternoon
and everybody in there is like, we all have the flu and RSV and whatever.
Here you go.
Like, here's your food.
You'd be like, uh, no thanks?
Like, that's not very nice, right?
Wouldn't you want the restaurant to have a standard
where if their employees came sick, they're like, just go home.
We don't want sick people to make the food, right?
But if that's how you feel, then why wouldn't you have that same approach
to your workplace, to the house of God?
You know, we don't want to necessarily bring in these type of things.
Also, some people are more susceptible to sickness or illness.
You know, elderly people, maybe sometimes people have a weakened immune system
because they're struggling with something.
Sometimes, you know, what people don't understand
is that somebody will be sick or ill from something
and then they'll catch something else that's even worse
and then that causes them problems.
You know, and this is what is identified sometimes as a comorbidity even
where somebody has multiple illnesses or multiple diseases,
multiple problems, and they die.
And they die in a motorcycle accident from COVID, you know,
and it's just like, it's crazy how they were driving
and they, like, hit another truck and right before they bled out,
COVID just got them, you know?
I mean, it was just like, it was like, what's the chances?
I mean, that person just wasn't lucky that the COVID just got them
right before they bled out and died or whatever, you know?
But what I'm trying to say is that, you know, people that are elderly,
sometimes, you know, you want to be more careful around them.
If you have grandparents or other people,
try to stay away from them if you're sick.
Like, don't put them at risk when it's not needed.
I've been to some churches.
There was a church that I went to back home
and they had a very large sanctuary.
They were blessed with a large building, with a large sanctuary,
and in fact, one whole section was basically just like for people
that were either just kind of trying to avoid sickness or illness,
like elderly or something, and so they could kind of just be on their own
and they weren't necessarily having to interact with as much people
so they could feel safe coming to church
but not being exposed to a higher level of risk.
You know, another thing is newborn babies.
Newborn babies are more susceptible to sicknesses and illnesses
and so it's often very good advice to just stay home for the first few weeks, okay?
Again, I'm not going to put any hard and fast rules on our church,
but, you know, the Bible has a lot of principles here.
When a woman gives birth, it literally says that she's unclean for the first seven days
and then there's like another period of days, depending on if it's male or female,
and, you know, I think it's good advice to not go into the public
for at least a few weeks, maybe three weeks, after giving birth.
And we have a lot of ladies pregnant.
Don't feel any pressure from me to show up like,
I gave birth 20 minutes ago and I'm here for church,
I didn't want to miss, pastor.
I'm going to be like, go home, okay?
You know, that's extreme.
And look, some people could physically do it,
but it's, you know, it's not, I don't think that it's impressive or anything like that.
You don't need to impress me or anybody else or like, look how spiritual I am.
And I think that most people do it just because they just love church
and they just love the social interaction, they love to be around people,
they hate being stuck up in the house.
I hate being, you know, stuck alone doing nothing and being bored,
but because I travel so much and I have six kids,
being alone is actually a lot of fun for me.
But, you know, I'm just saying in general,
if I were a housewife where I was stuck in the house with just the kids for a long time,
I would get stir crazy for sure.
Like, I love to go out, play golf or run or hang out with people or be social,
you know, like, I love it and so I totally get it.
But at the end of the day, you know, we all have our different burdens.
You know, my wife, I'm sure she would like to be out more or do more fun things
and she notices me doing a lot, but I would rather many times stay home.
So it's, you know, the grass is always greener, folks.
You know, it's like you, you know, you got to just accept your plight and life.
You know, sometimes I just have to go out more and do more
and I don't necessarily want to do it
and sometimes she has to stay home more, she doesn't want to do it.
You know, we want to abide by good principles
and it's just not considerate to come to church being sick,
getting other people sick, causing them to not come to church.
That's not fair.
And that's not loving your neighbor as yourself, you know,
to get other people contaminated or for them to be ill.
Now, I said all that, I want to take a second
and explain what modern science says on some of these issues, okay?
And I'm sure that in here people aren't going to agree
and I don't really care what your opinion is,
but at the end of the day, like, there's a lot of different schools of thought
and I guarantee there are people in here that are kind of pro-vaccine
and then there's some people in here that are kind of, that are just extremely anti-vaccine
and I'm sure that there's some people in here that like hospitals
and I'm sure there's people in here that hate hospitals with a burning passion, okay?
And I'm the pastor of all these people, okay?
And I love all of you and I don't care about all of your opinion, okay?
So I'm not here to, like, piss any specific person off,
just all of you at the same time, okay?
But here's the thing, the only thing that matters,
Washmen, okay, the biblical principles we talked about.
But when we look in the world, we don't want to just completely distract ourselves with what the world's saying,
we want to, how does this reconcile with what the world says?
Now, the world will say that there's a thing called germs
and there's the idea of germ theory.
Not everybody agrees with this, not everybody believes that, okay?
And some people have what's now deemed as germ theory denial, okay?
This is a term that's being thrown out there.
Now here's the thing, I am probably well known as a conspiracy theorist.
So, like, I don't think that anybody would accuse me of just believing every narrative that's being espoused, okay?
But at the same time, I'm also not the person that believes in literally every conspiracy theory out there, okay?
Obviously, if you're a flat earther, you're retarded, okay?
You're mentally inept, okay?
If you don't think that Michelle Obama looks like a dude, there's something wrong with you, okay?
If you think that a building can fall, a skyscraper can fall in seven seconds flat due to office fires,
you have serious issues, okay?
I mean, there's all kinds of things out there.
You know, if you don't think there's anything suspicious about the Federal Reserve and the Titanic and all that, you know,
well, you definitely believe anything and everything.
Also, I believe that we landed on the moon.
And some people will be like, ah, you're so ignorant, Pastor Shelley.
You know, I don't just think we landed on the moon, I'm very confident that we did.
And I believe a lot of things that NASA said.
Woo!
Now he's a FEMA pastor, you know?
It's like, obviously, this is what I want to do.
I want to have a balanced view.
Some people, they just go, like, way over here, just like literally every YouTube conspiracy video is true.
And then other people go over here and they just think, like, everything that the government does is right.
81 million people voted for Joe Biden.
Like, okay.
And I've known people that are, you know, conservative and they believe that.
And I'm just like, wow, okay.
But, you know, we have to comfort the feeble-minded, okay?
Now here's the thing.
Germ theory denialism, I just want to read a little bit of this, okay?
This is what it says.
Germ theory denialism is the pseudo-scientific belief that germs do not cause infectious disease.
And that the germ theory of disease is wrong.
It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong and that Anton Bachamp was right.
In fact, its origins are rooted in Bachamp's empirically disproven theory of pleomorphism.
Another obsolete variation is known as terrain theory and postulates that the state of the internal environment determines if germs cause disease rather than germs being the sole cause of it.
So I'm just reading this to just tell you kind of the things that exist.
I'm not telling you what's right or wrong.
I just want you to know these things exist.
Virtually everyone believes in what's called germ theory.
And then there's a smaller group of people that would say that's totally wrong and they believe or subscribe to an idea of terrain theory.
Now here's the thing.
From my research or understanding kind of these two different things that exist, I don't think that they're mutually exclusive.
I don't even personally believe that it's like black and white over here.
I think that there's probably a lot of crossover personally, okay?
But I also think this.
I kind of identify there's flaws with a lot of the conclusions of germ theory and there's a lot of flaws with the conclusion of terrain theory, okay?
And I think there's a lot of truth on both sides.
That's my personal opinion.
If you don't agree with that, you can believe that Michelle Obama is the most feminine person you've ever met, okay?
And that Joe Biden's coherent.
But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter the details as long as everybody's going to agree to the biblical principles, okay?
I don't really care so much like how you describe what you think's happening as long as like I'm still going to wash, alert people when I'm sick.
I'm going to separate.
I'm going to hide contaminated material.
I'm going to mask.
I'm going to eradicate bad material and I'm going to work on my nutrition.
I think those are really important, okay?
Now when it comes to germ theory itself, I think that germ theory is compatible with what the Bible teaches.
Because, frankly speaking, we recognize that the Bible is constantly talking about things spreading.
Well, you know, germ theory is the idea of small microbes, or we know as bacteria, these type of things, growing and expanding.
Now the Bible actually teaches similar concepts to this and a lot of the things that Louis Pasteur discovered,
I believe, are biblical.
You know, one of the things that Louis Pasteur is famous for is disproving spontaneous generation.
And spontaneous generation is the idea that things just come out of nowhere, called evolution and Big Bang.
Well, you know what? That's garbage.
And you know what? I do agree that spontaneous generation has been disproven and is not true.
That life can't come from non-life.
That you're not going to have a bunch of rocks and then all of a sudden just bacteria just magically shows up
and then that bacteria turns into a fish, which turns into a cow, which turns into us.
You know, that's ridiculous, obviously, okay?
So that was a good thing that Louis Pasteur did.
Another thing that's attributed to him is the idea of pasteurization.
Which if you go to the store today and you get some milk, it'll say pasteurize on a lot of the milk.
What is the idea of pasteurization?
Pasteurization is the idea of heating the milk to a certain temperature to try and kill off or destroy some of the bacteria in it and cause it to have a longer shelf life.
That's the idea of pasteurization, okay?
But you know, what's interesting about pasteurization is I believe that that's actually found in the Bible a little bit.
If you went to Ezekiel 24, I had you try to turn there earlier, and look at verse number 6, okay?
Ezekiel 24, look at verse number 6.
The Bible says,
Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it.
Bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall upon it.
Now God uses carnal truths to expound spiritual truths, and he's talking about a physical pot of food that has its scum still in it.
That the scum wasn't taken out of it.
Now as we keep reading in this particular passage, skip down to verse 10,
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, and the brass of it may be hot and may burn,
and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
So what the Bible is saying is that by heating up this food and causing it to have an extreme temperature,
you're actually going to destroy and consume the scum that is found in it.
And this is the basic principle that is parallel to the idea of pasteurization.
That you have something that may contain some kind of harmful element, some kind of disease,
or some kind of bacteria that's spreading in it, and by heating it up you can eliminate, eradicate,
or neutralize that particular substance to where now it's safe to consume.
So you know, I'm not against the idea of pasteurization.
Some people are really big proponents of raw milk. I'm not against raw milk at all.
In fact, I'm sure there are benefits to raw milk.
But when you think about the mass production of milk from a lot of these dairy farms
where things are not always as sanitary as possible, I think the pasteurization sounds good to me.
You know, I'm thinking like, hey, let's make sure that this is okay. Right?
And in fact, meats, many meats. In fact, you could eat raw meat technically, and there's no problem.
But the reason why eating raw meat is bad today is because many times they contain harmful bacteria
or some kind of issue, and by cooking it, you actually now make it safe.
That's why you cook a lot of meats, specifically like chicken or poultry.
You want to make sure there's no red in it so that there's no contaminants in it.
Technically, if the chicken was perfectly healthy and there was no issue, you could eat raw chicken meat
and not get sick, but the problem is it's very likely that that chicken meat could contain some kind of contamination
and by not cooking it properly, you don't get all the disease or illness out of it, but by cooking it, you do.
Same principle. I think that's good.
Now, Louis Pasteur is also famous for a lot of things associated with vaccination.
And, you know, I personally just think that a lot of the vaccination science is misguided and misunderstood,
and there's a lot of problems with it, so I don't really agree with a lot of the vaccination principles
because I don't think that it causes the same immune response in your body as catching the disease itself.
But there's a lot of things that we all notice.
You notice that when you get a specific disease like chicken pox or certain other kinds of diseases as a child,
you never get them again.
And that's through the idea that, look, your body has created antibodies that now can handle that particular illness
or issue and you're less likely to get it.
Here's another thing that we notice.
When a little kid has chicken pox and you put them in a room with a bunch of other little kids,
all the other little kids get chicken pox, okay?
And if you were to try and tell people, like, that's not happening, they would look at you like you're a flat earther, okay?
That you're just denying the reality that we notice consistently where people go into an environment with a lot of other sick people
and then they get sick from it.
I went to Red Hot a few years ago after COVID and it was like literally every single person got COVID except for, like, my wife and Pastor Anderson.
You know, it was like three or four hundred people all got COVID at the exact same time.
Why? Because obviously you notice a phenomenon that when you're around sick people, you're highly likely to get sick and that it's somehow spreading.
I think that's why God's giving us all those principles of washing, alerting, separating, hiding, masking, eradicating, and nutrition.
Because things can spread.
We observe them spreading.
The Bible's talking about it spreading in the skin, spreading on the wall, spreading on the garment.
What is that? That's bacteria multiplying.
And Louis Pasteur, his experiments were based on another man's work.
A guy named, I have it written down here, I think it's Nathan or something.
Let me see if I can find it.
These notes are out of whack.
Theodore Schwann. I was totally off.
Alright, Theodore Schwann.
But a lot of these experiments were based on wine.
And they were based on the process of fermentation specifically.
And Proverbs 23 goes into that a lot.
Go over to Galatians 5. I just want to go to two more places. Go to Galatians 5 and 1 Corinthians 5.
Theodore Schwann would study the process of fermentation.
How a great beverage will turn into alcohol.
But what he noticed is that through microscopes, there's something called yeast.
And that yeast grows. Yeast multiplies.
And without yeast, alcohol does not ferment.
So if you put alcohol in a container where there's no yeast and it's not exposed to other air,
then you can actually preserve that wine for a long time.
Have you ever noticed? People have bottles of wine and they're like, this is from 1957 or whatever.
Or in fact, you could take even juice itself and if it's in a container where it's not being exposed to the outside air
and it's sealed tight, it can last for a long time.
Why? Because things can be preserved without being exposed to more yeast or any kinds of yeast.
The fermentation process even stops without the adding of more yeast.
Yeast is also very prevalent in baking.
If you have dough and you want it to rise, you add yeast.
But there's a principle that the Bible teaches that's very important here.
Look at Galatians chapter 5 and I'm thinking which verse number it is. What's the verse number?
Yeah, verse 9. A little leaven leavened at the whole lump. Notice this, the whole lump.
Why? Because it spreads. It spreads through the whole thing. It can't stop.
It's just going to keep growing, growing, growing until you either cook it out or do something.
But you could have unleavened bread, meaning it never had any of that leaven.
So we can actually physically see, and the Bible literally is teaching, the idea of multiplication of what?
Bacteria, yeast, leaven, these kind of principles.
And that's the kind of same principle that comes with sickness.
Someone has some kind of germ and it gets on you and then what happens?
That little leaven leavens the whole lump, essentially.
That bacteria on you can grow, multiply.
People talk about this with cancer.
Cancer can grow, it can multiply. A lot of diseases, illnesses, that's how it works.
Essentially that you get exposed to it and then that little leaven can leaven the whole lump.
And it's the same principle that's being taught in the Bible.
That's why it's important to not be getting the leaven.
And in our parable, disease, illness, sickness, whatever that we're kind of talking about.
Go to the one more place, 1 Corinthians chapter 5.
So when it comes to germ theory and train theory, I don't think that either of them are just 100% accurate.
But I also think that a lot of people take these things to weird extremes.
The germ theory is taken to like get every single vaccine and all kinds of weird medical suggestions and drugs and stuff like that.
And then you take this train theory to its extreme, it says like germs don't even exist.
And you're just like, what?
That's just weird. It's like thinking we observe bacteria, we observe these things growing, we observe people catching diseases.
I mean, I can totally get where train theory comes from a lot of times is the importance on physical health.
Like being healthy and getting good sleep and nutrition and all that.
All of that is great.
But I don't want to go so far in extreme to say like nothing can be spread, contagion doesn't exist, germs don't exist.
I don't think that that's compatible with what the Bible is teaching in these areas.
And at the end of the day, whether you agree or disagree with me, please abide by the biblical principles.
Okay, that's what's important.
And these carnal truths are to expound what? Spiritual truths.
Think about the little leaven that leavens the lump.
That's representing sin.
You get a little bit of sin and a little bit of sin can leaven the whole lump.
In an individual and in a church, it's important that we eliminate physical illness and sickness in our church and spiritual illness and uncleanness in our church.
And you know what principles we apply? The same principles.
Alright, you know what we need to wash? We need to wash ourselves with the water of the Bible.
We need to be constantly washing ourselves of the filthiness with the word of God.
You know, we need to alert people.
Hey, when someone's spreading some kind of a sin issue or some kind of a heresy issue, you need to alert the pastor.
You need to alert the people about the situation.
When someone has a serious illness or situation, spiritually speaking, you know what we do? We separate from them.
That's what 1 Corinthians 5 is about, is church discipline.
Eliminating that sickness and illness because you know what?
It can spread to others.
And so you want to eliminate that illness because a little leaven, leavens the whole lump.
So when something is obvious, like this is a big issue, you have to deal with it. What does the Bible say?
Specifically in 1 Corinthians 5, it says in verse number 11, someone that's a fornicator, covetous, idolater, railer, drunkard, or extortioner.
Those people are supposed to be put out of the church.
Just like you would deal with physical issues, you deal with spiritual issues the exact same way.
Why? Because God uses carnal truths to expound spiritual truths.
And notice in this chapter, in verse number 6, your glory is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
The same principle. The same principle.
Don't mess around with sickness and illness, and don't mess around with spiritual sickness and illness.
If someone's drinking alcohol on a regular basis, is drinking hard liquor, they need to be disciplined from church and removed until they repent.
Until they get clean again.
And then when they get clean, they can come back.
This is what people say. Church is a hospital. Wrong. Wrong.
This is not a hospital.
We are not trying to find people that are diseased and ill and bring them in.
We're saying you're not welcome.
Whether that's spiritually, whether that's physically.
People are like, ah, come as you are.
Not if you're a drunkard.
Not if you're a fornicator.
Now here's the thing. When we get people saved, or we meet them for the first time,
often what we do is we allow them to come to church for a few weeks or a month or something,
hear the preaching, so that they have a chance.
But, you know, eventually it gets to a point where those things need to be addressed.
You know, if people are living together and they're not married, that's fornication.
They're not welcome to be in church.
Now again, someone that's new, we're not going to just be mean to them or whatever.
We want to lovingly tell them, hey, you're sick.
You have an issue. This is a problem. We can fix it.
You know, let's get married.
Or stop living together. But you know what?
If you just let everybody commit fornication, or you let one person commit fornication,
now everybody's committing fornication.
You let one person get drunk, everybody gets drunk.
Just like, hey, someone brings in RSV, everybody gets RSV.
Someone brings in pink eye, everybody gets pink eye.
And it's like, why in the world would you come to church with pink eye or RSV?
And it's like, why in the world would you come to church when you're a drunkard or a fornicator?
It's the exact same principle.
Hey, you know, we want to make sure that we're washing with the Bible, we're alerting the pastor,
we're separating, then we're also hiding the contaminated material.
You know what's the contaminated material that we need to hide? The NIV.
You know where we found that? Someone dug it up.
We need to put it back in the dirt and cover it up.
But in fact, we've actually recognized that that method didn't work,
so we need to go to the burning method, okay?
We'll go to that in a second.
But hey, how about the mask?
The mask was the idea of covering things.
You know, not everything you think needs to be said.
Sometimes you need to have discretion and shut your lips.
And not say things.
Hey, if you have something negative to say about your spouse, shut your mouth.
If you have something negative to say about church, shut your mouth.
If you have something negative to say about brothers and sisters in Christ, just shut your mouth.
We need to eradicate false doctrine.
We don't mess with that stuff. We need to burn it with fire.
We need to destroy that.
And lastly, nutrition. We need good, healthy doctrine.
Healthy doctrine, if you have lots of good doctrine, you will not get sick, spiritually speaking.
Just the same way. You have really good nutrition, often you won't even get sick.
Because you're really healthy, you're in a good shape.
You know, you're basically preventing yourself from getting sick, okay?
Just like when you know the Bible really well, when you know doctrine really well,
you're basically, it's not very likely that you're going to get infected with any kind of weird idea
or some kind of a heresy because you have such good nutrition, you have such good doctrine.
So we want to apply these principles, these carnal truths, and these spiritual truths in our church.
We want to constantly wash, alert, we want to separate, we want to hide, we want to mask,
we want to eradicate, and we want to have good nutrition.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for the Word of God and for giving us such great principles in the Bible
to help us to stay clean physically and to stay clean spiritually.
I pray that you just help our church, you help our church members to take these things seriously.
And that you would help us to eliminate sickness and illness physically
and to eliminate sickness and illness spiritually from our church as much as possible.
People are going to get sick and things are going to happen,
but I pray that you would help us to learn how to deal with those issues, to fix them, to cleanse ourselves.
And I thank you so much for giving us so much wisdom and knowledge.
I pray that all of us would take heed to the biblical advice here.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, in closing, let's go to song number 136.
Song number 136 in your hymnals,
Master, the Tempest is Raging.
Song number 136.
Song number 136. Everybody sing it out first.
Master, the Tempest is Raging.
The billows are tossing high.
The sky is o'er shadowed with blackness.
No shelter or help is nigh.
We perish, thou naught that we perish.
How canst thou lie asleep
when each moment so badly is breathy?
A grave in the angry deep.
The waves and the waves shall obey my will.
Peace be sailed.
Whether the wrath of the storm toss thee
Or demons or men or whatever it be
The water can swallow the ship where lies
The master of ocean and earth and stars
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace be sailed.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace, peace be sailed.
Master, with anguish of spirit
I vow in my greed today
The depths of my sad heart are troubled
Awaken and save my brain
Torrance of sin and of anguish
Sweet for my seeking soul
And I perish, I perish, dear Master
O race him and take control
The winds and the waves shall obey my will
Peace be sailed.
Whether the wrath of the storm toss thee
Or demons or men or whatever it be
The water can swallow the ship where lies
The master of ocean and earth and stars
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace be sailed.
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace, peace be sailed.
Master, the terror is over
The elements sweetly rest
Earth, God, and earth all make it nearer
And heaven within might rest
Wingard, O blessed Redeemer
Leave me alone no more
And with joy I shall make the blessed harbor
And rest on a blissful shore
The winds and the waves shall obey my will
Peace be sailed.
Whether the wrath of the storm toss thee
Or demons or men or whatever it be
The water can swallow the ship where lies
The master of ocean and earth and stars
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace be sailed.
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace, peace be sailed.