WEBVTT 00:01.900 --> 00:07.900 Please follow along silently as we read 1 Samuel 16. 00:07.900 --> 00:09.660 The Bible reads, 00:09.660 --> 00:12.060 And the LORD said unto Samuel, 00:12.060 --> 00:17.340 How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? 00:17.340 --> 00:20.700 Fill thine horn with oil, and go. 00:20.700 --> 00:25.580 I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided me a king among his sons. 00:26.000 --> 00:29.920 And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it, he will kill me. 00:29.920 --> 00:34.400 And the Lord said, Take in heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord, 00:34.400 --> 00:39.280 and call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do, and thou shalt anoint 00:39.280 --> 00:46.160 unto me him whom I name unto thee. And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem, 00:46.160 --> 00:50.560 When the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Comeest thou peaceably? 00:51.000 --> 00:54.840 And he said, Peaceably, I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord. 00:54.840 --> 00:58.360 Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. 00:58.360 --> 01:02.520 And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. 01:02.520 --> 01:05.960 And it came to pass when they were come that he looked on 01:05.960 --> 01:09.880 Eliab and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. 01:09.880 --> 01:13.880 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of 01:13.880 --> 01:18.800 his stature, because I have refused him. And the Lord seeth not as man seeth. 01:19.700 --> 01:23.140 For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 01:23.860 --> 01:28.900 Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, 01:28.900 --> 01:30.580 Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 01:31.140 --> 01:35.540 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by, and he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 01:36.260 --> 01:41.620 Again Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel, and Samuel said unto Jesse, 01:41.620 --> 01:43.140 The Lord hath not chosen these. 01:43.860 --> 01:45.300 And Samuel said unto Jesse, 01:46.400 --> 01:52.080 Are here all thy children?' and he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth the sheep. 01:52.080 --> 01:57.840 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come hither. 01:58.560 --> 02:03.600 And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ready, and with all of a beautiful countenance, 02:03.600 --> 02:08.240 and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he. 02:09.200 --> 02:13.040 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, 02:13.040 --> 02:16.800 and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. 02:16.800 --> 02:18.800 So Samuel rose up and went to Rama. 02:19.600 --> 02:24.160 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. 02:24.880 --> 02:29.360 And Saul's servant said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubled thee. 02:29.900 --> 02:36.740 Let our Lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man who is a cunning player on an harp, 02:36.740 --> 02:43.140 and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.' 02:43.140 --> 02:48.020 And Saul said unto his servant, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. 02:48.020 --> 02:52.060 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse. 02:52.400 --> 03:03.000 the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him. 03:03.000 --> 03:11.120 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep. 03:11.120 --> 03:17.720 And Jesse took an ass, laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.900 And David came to Saul and stood before him, and he loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer. 03:23.900 --> 03:31.240 And Saul said to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me, for he hath found favor in my sight. 03:31.240 --> 03:37.240 And it came to pass when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took in harp and played with his hand. 03:37.240 --> 03:42.520 So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. 03:42.520 --> 03:44.760 Brother Nick, can you pray for us, sir? 04:00.500 --> 04:07.260 Remember 1st Samuel chapter 16, I'm gonna preach two sermons out of this passage here. I'm not gonna cover a lot of 04:08.100 --> 04:10.100 Scripture from the text itself tonight 04:10.620 --> 04:16.020 But I'm definitely gonna study. We're definitely gonna still have a Bible study. It's not like an old life be 04:17.620 --> 04:20.240 Sermon where I'm just gonna preach a couple verses and then 04:21.100 --> 04:26.780 Give my opinion through the whole thing or something like that. So but there is two topics that I want to discuss 04:27.500 --> 04:29.500 and preach about tonight. 04:29.500 --> 04:32.300 And so this is part one. 04:32.300 --> 04:34.800 Next time we're here, we'll be in part two, 04:34.800 --> 04:35.900 and we'll cover the rest of the chapter. 04:35.900 --> 04:38.800 So verse number one and point number one 04:38.800 --> 04:43.500 is that we need to get and take on God's mindset. 04:43.500 --> 04:45.700 And that's very evident from verse number one. 04:45.700 --> 04:48.500 The Bible says, and the Lord said unto Samuel, 04:48.500 --> 04:50.600 how long wilt thou mourn for Saul? 04:50.900 --> 04:58.900 Seeing I've rejected him from reigning over Israel fill thine horn with oil and go and I'll send thee to Jesse the Bethlehem 04:58.900 --> 05:02.660 I for I provided me a king among his sons 05:03.380 --> 05:04.580 so 05:04.580 --> 05:07.980 apparently salt is being mourned over by Samuel and 05:08.540 --> 05:10.540 The Lord thinks it's taking him too long 05:11.100 --> 05:18.900 He's just he's really upset and and you know obviously when people fall out and we have people 05:18.900 --> 05:21.960 that we've been friends with for a long time or somebody we care about for a long time, 05:21.960 --> 05:27.260 maybe has gone to our church for a long time, and we see them just fade away or they have 05:27.260 --> 05:30.300 a big crash out and they're no longer part of our church. 05:30.300 --> 05:33.660 And obviously that doesn't mean they're not saved or something like that necessarily every 05:33.660 --> 05:40.940 time, but sometimes we just have these great schisms that happen and sometimes people just 05:40.940 --> 05:42.740 go and depart. 05:43.200 --> 05:46.520 And it hurts us, because maybe we're good friends with them, but it's very clear that 05:46.520 --> 05:50.560 we should not be friends with them anymore, we shouldn't be hanging out with them anymore. 05:50.560 --> 05:54.400 And obviously Samuel understands this part, because he never goes to visit until the day 05:54.400 --> 05:58.540 of his death, so obviously Saul's not alive when he goes to see him again. 05:58.540 --> 06:03.960 But he's still mourning him in his heart, and God has rejected him, and said he's no 06:03.960 --> 06:09.360 longer good to be the king, and he's taken him out of that position, but he hasn't really 06:09.360 --> 06:11.160 taken him out of the position. 06:11.200 --> 06:13.600 It's not like he killed Saul. 06:13.600 --> 06:17.360 And so Saul remains the king in name 06:17.360 --> 06:20.720 only for many, many years after this point, 06:20.720 --> 06:23.200 because David gets anointed in this chapter. 06:23.200 --> 06:28.160 So God's real anointed now has now become King David, 06:28.160 --> 06:30.600 and he's going to be the one that replaces King Saul. 06:30.900 --> 06:33.220 But he doesn't just take Saul out. 06:33.220 --> 06:38.420 Saul, and here's the thing, that Saul is going to get taken out of being the king when God 06:38.420 --> 06:41.900 is good and ready for him to be taken out as the king. 06:41.900 --> 06:48.040 So until that happens, then, and a lot of people disagree with the divine right of kings, 06:48.040 --> 06:51.460 but I happen to think that scripture kind of teaches that because... 06:52.000 --> 06:58.000 And I know that King James, when he was a believer in this doctrine, 06:58.000 --> 07:03.000 and it got his son killed. So his son believed it, and it got him killed 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 because he wasn't going to just let Parliament push him around, 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 and he ended up losing his head over it. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 And it caused a big schism in England. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 A great civil war happened because of it. 07:14.400 --> 07:18.660 But basically he was just saying that he is the supreme authority in the land. 07:18.660 --> 07:28.060 God made him the king, so why would he have to listen to what some stuffed shirts are telling him what to do? 07:28.060 --> 07:30.660 Ultimately, he is the authority. 07:30.660 --> 07:33.200 And King Saul, was he the authority? 07:33.200 --> 07:34.500 He was the authority. 07:34.500 --> 07:35.060 And so. 07:35.500 --> 07:40.900 There's no if, ands, or buts about it that God, you know, obviously, you know, God is 07:40.900 --> 07:42.300 the authority over the king. 07:42.300 --> 07:46.340 So everybody has a boss, and God was supposed to be the boss of King Saul, and the reason 07:46.340 --> 07:51.540 why he demoted him and rejected him as the king is because he wasn't doing what he said. 07:51.540 --> 07:57.500 So, but this is just, you know, something that was going to take place later, but he's 07:57.500 --> 08:00.360 definitely getting his heir apparent here. 08:00.360 --> 08:00.900 So. 08:01.100 --> 08:07.700 But he says, how long would thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? 08:07.700 --> 08:09.100 Fill thine horn with oil and go. 08:09.100 --> 08:13.500 So he's telling him to go and anoint somebody else. 08:13.500 --> 08:18.700 But the thing that I wanted to key on just in this point is that he says, how long would thou mourn for Saul? 08:18.900 --> 08:21.880 And so, God's kind of sick of him doing this, 08:21.880 --> 08:23.420 is basically what he's telling him. 08:23.420 --> 08:25.780 He's like, just, you need to move on, 08:25.780 --> 08:28.180 and move on with your life, Samuel, 08:28.180 --> 08:30.080 and stop pouting over this issue, 08:30.080 --> 08:32.460 because I'm done with him, 08:32.460 --> 08:34.580 you need to feel the same way, basically. 08:34.700 --> 08:37.940 And so that's why I said that we need to take on God's mindset. 08:37.940 --> 08:40.340 And this is evident in the scriptures. 08:40.340 --> 08:44.980 It's evident in the Bible that we should take on God's positions and God's mindset 08:44.980 --> 08:52.020 on issues of the heart, on issues of doctrine, on issues of righteousness and truth. 08:52.020 --> 08:55.220 And it is a dangerous mindset to start going... 08:55.400 --> 08:59.460 to start going down certain negative, 08:59.460 --> 09:02.520 down certain negative, un-Biblical paths 09:02.520 --> 09:06.640 and just having this thing in your heart 09:06.640 --> 09:09.920 thinking that God is wrong about something, basically. 09:09.920 --> 09:13.680 So, and look, this happens in Christianity 09:13.680 --> 09:16.560 where someone says, well, I'll just take the doctrine 09:16.560 --> 09:18.200 of women not wearing pants. 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 Okay? 09:19.400 --> 09:21.440 That it's a man's garment or whatever. 09:21.440 --> 09:26.620 Some women will fight that tooth and nail and just say, no, it's not true. 09:26.620 --> 09:31.060 And even, you know, they'll get their men to agree with them because they're, you know, 09:31.060 --> 09:34.480 they're not wearing the spiritual pants in the family, so to speak. 09:34.480 --> 09:35.720 This is just a for instance, okay? 09:35.720 --> 09:37.120 I'm not trying to just harp on this issue. 09:37.120 --> 09:38.920 I'm just saying that. 09:39.300 --> 09:43.300 We have to put on the mentality of what God wants us to, 09:43.300 --> 09:46.300 He wants us to agree with Him on these things. 09:46.300 --> 09:49.300 And when we're resisting the things that He puts forth, 09:49.300 --> 09:52.300 then it's going to put us in a bad position. 09:52.300 --> 09:54.300 So if He would have just kept mourning after Saul, 09:54.300 --> 09:56.300 and mourning after Saul, 09:56.300 --> 09:58.300 then God probably would have got angry with Him. 09:58.300 --> 10:00.300 It's like Moses when he's persisting and saying, 10:00.300 --> 10:04.300 I can't be the one that goes and leads your people out of Egypt. 10:04.300 --> 10:06.300 I can't speak well. 10:06.300 --> 10:07.300 And he just kept going on. 10:07.300 --> 10:10.660 on about it and then finally God gets angry with him and says, who made the 10:10.660 --> 10:15.980 tongue? Who made the mouth? Did not I make the mouth and I made the 10:15.980 --> 10:20.720 tongue? But then he's like, Aaron can speak for you. He speaks well. He's just 10:20.720 --> 10:24.820 like, quit making excuses Moses and just agree with me and do what I say. I'm 10:24.820 --> 10:29.060 calling you to do this. This is what I want. And so finally Moses just shut up 10:29.060 --> 10:35.300 and did what he said. So we have to have a mindset that even if something 10:35.300 --> 10:39.700 And even if it's something that we don't agree with God on initially, we need to get to the 10:39.700 --> 10:43.120 point where we're agreeing with His point of view. 10:43.800 --> 10:47.000 And, you know, so mourning too long. 10:47.000 --> 10:50.840 I mean, and especially if it's another Christian that we're mourning over. 10:50.840 --> 10:54.960 It's like some people will get angry with God and bitter with God because like, oh, 10:54.960 --> 10:58.420 well God took this person away from me too early, or they took this person away from 10:58.420 --> 10:59.420 me. 10:59.420 --> 11:03.200 And it's like, hey, you know, there's nothing you can do about that. 11:03.200 --> 11:06.640 And I'm not saying get over that person or stop caring about that person or something 11:06.640 --> 11:07.640 like that. 11:07.640 --> 11:11.800 saying that we can get this bitterness that can... 11:11.800 --> 11:18.880 bring up in us and say, hey, you know, God was wrong for doing this or, you know, something 11:18.880 --> 11:23.360 along those lines or you can get bitter in your heart because you don't understand why 11:23.360 --> 11:25.400 God does the things he does. 11:25.400 --> 11:27.900 And it's like, you know, sometimes God doesn't do it. 11:27.900 --> 11:30.480 Sometimes just evil people do these things. 11:30.480 --> 11:32.480 And, you know, obviously, God... 11:32.900 --> 11:35.660 He doesn't want people to die. 11:35.660 --> 11:40.740 He doesn't want people to go through all these debilitating diseases and all these different 11:40.740 --> 11:41.740 things. 11:41.740 --> 11:43.540 But this world is a simple place. 11:43.540 --> 11:48.140 We have to accept the fact that when he does deliver us out of these situations and when 11:48.140 --> 11:52.920 he does deliver people out of situations, that it's his grace that does that. 11:52.920 --> 11:54.220 It's his power that does that. 11:54.220 --> 11:56.420 A lot of times it's a miraculous situation. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.720 but he doesn't always do that. 11:58.720 --> 12:00.280 And so sometimes people are just like, 12:00.280 --> 12:03.120 well, you said if I prayed in faith 12:03.120 --> 12:04.440 that you would do these things. 12:04.440 --> 12:07.480 But it's not always God's will to do these things. 12:07.480 --> 12:10.080 And people do need to understand that. 12:10.080 --> 12:13.200 And we don't understand always why God does things. 12:13.200 --> 12:14.720 And we don't necessarily have to. 12:14.720 --> 12:18.360 But we do have to come together and agree with him, 12:18.360 --> 12:19.920 because it is going to make him angry. 12:19.920 --> 12:21.840 How about being angry too long? 12:21.840 --> 12:24.520 You can be angry too long about something, and that also. 12:24.520 --> 12:25.000 So. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.760 brings up bitterness. 12:26.760 --> 12:28.240 We don't want to do something so long 12:28.240 --> 12:30.960 or disagree with God so long that we become bitter 12:30.960 --> 12:32.340 with him over something. 12:32.340 --> 12:33.880 There's a lot of people in this world, 12:33.880 --> 12:35.740 you know, we knock on people's doors, 12:35.740 --> 12:37.200 that say that, oh, I got bitter 12:37.200 --> 12:38.580 because this church did me wrong, 12:38.580 --> 12:41.000 or this pastor did me wrong, or whatever, 12:41.000 --> 12:42.400 and they get bitter with God over that. 12:42.400 --> 12:43.960 It's like, why are you bitter with God 12:43.960 --> 12:45.960 over something that somebody else did to you? 12:45.960 --> 12:47.040 That's not God. 12:48.100 --> 12:51.940 or something that you feel like God allowed to happen 12:51.940 --> 12:53.940 and you are blaming God for that. 12:53.940 --> 12:56.380 That's not a mindset that's right. 12:56.380 --> 12:58.900 And so we need to get on the right page 12:58.900 --> 13:01.780 and on the right mindset with what God says. 13:01.780 --> 13:06.860 So, and God, we need to learn to love what He loves 13:06.860 --> 13:09.220 and hate what He hates. 13:09.220 --> 13:12.220 And who He loves, we should love. 13:12.220 --> 13:14.660 And who He hates, we should hate. 13:15.100 --> 13:18.900 And that which he judges right, we should agree with those things. 13:18.900 --> 13:22.500 That which he judges evil, we should also agree on those things. 13:22.800 --> 13:26.300 Because if we're contrary to what the mind of God is on things, 13:26.300 --> 13:28.800 and what the written word of God says to us, 13:28.800 --> 13:30.800 then we're resisting God. 13:30.800 --> 13:32.300 We're resisting His will. 13:32.300 --> 13:34.800 And look, I'm not saying that nobody ever does this. 13:34.800 --> 13:39.300 And, you know, I'm sure everybody in this room has resisted God on certain things. 13:39.300 --> 13:44.800 But what I'm saying is that we need to get and take time to get on God's mindset. 13:44.800 --> 13:48.200 And not dwell in these things for too long because they can destroy us. 13:48.300 --> 13:52.980 They can be bitterness inside of us and before you know it, you're undermined. 13:52.980 --> 13:57.740 You know, you're that plant that looks healthy but all of a sudden, you know, you just have 13:57.740 --> 14:00.260 dry rot or whatever, dry root. 14:00.260 --> 14:05.780 And you end up, you know, falling out of church, you end up falling out of the things of God, 14:05.780 --> 14:07.380 and so on and so forth. 14:07.380 --> 14:12.520 So you know, because God says stuff like, you know, when, say, someone has to be put 14:12.520 --> 14:13.520 to death in the Bible. 14:13.520 --> 14:13.700 Thanks for watching! 14:14.100 --> 14:17.540 You know, God says, Thine eye shall not pity them. 14:18.660 --> 14:19.620 Why does he say that? 14:19.900 --> 14:23.900 Because people have a tendency to pity people when they see a situation like, 14:23.900 --> 14:25.700 man, that just seems so rough. 14:26.340 --> 14:31.020 But if God is saying to do that, then it's what God wants you to do. 14:31.400 --> 14:35.560 and whether we feel bad or not, that should be, you know, he's saying, 14:35.560 --> 14:36.760 dine eye shall not pity him. 14:36.760 --> 14:41.160 That's why all the libtards have control over who gets executed 14:41.160 --> 14:43.240 in our country and who doesn't. 14:43.240 --> 14:44.920 And look what happens because of it. 14:45.300 --> 14:53.820 You know, it's rape and molestation and sodomy and murder and robbery and theft is just going 14:53.820 --> 14:55.700 out of control in this country. 14:55.700 --> 15:01.140 Pornography and all these other things are just out of control in this country because, 15:01.140 --> 15:04.820 you know, the insane people are running the asylum basically. 15:05.400 --> 15:12.400 And when Christian people stop agreeing with God, and they're agreeing with what the people of the world are saying, 15:12.400 --> 15:16.900 we're in trouble. When Christians are spewing the same stuff. 15:17.200 --> 15:22.200 They're spewing the same Yoda mindset that the world has. 15:22.200 --> 15:24.200 They watch Star Wars too many times. 15:24.200 --> 15:28.200 That's the danger of Star Wars, is picking up the mentality of Star Wars. 15:28.200 --> 15:32.200 If you can watch Star Wars and go, hey, this is just an entertaining movie or whatever, 15:32.200 --> 15:34.200 but if you pick up the mindset of Yoda, 15:34.200 --> 15:38.200 you think that you're a Jedi for real or something, you've lost it. 15:38.200 --> 15:42.200 If you're going to conventions and you're dressed up like some creature, 15:42.200 --> 15:45.200 maybe you've just gone a little bit too far. 15:45.200 --> 15:46.200 Right? 15:46.200 --> 15:49.100 Look, I'm not saying don't have fun, okay? 15:49.100 --> 15:50.100 Have fun. 15:50.100 --> 15:55.600 But, you know, if your mentality is that, that you now have let Yoda take over your 15:55.600 --> 16:05.200 mind and hate leads to anger, anger leads to the dark side or whatever he says, look, 16:05.200 --> 16:06.960 that's not what the Bible says though. 16:07.500 --> 16:10.140 Obviously, there's a hatred that we shouldn't have. 16:10.140 --> 16:12.620 We shouldn't hate those things that are good. 16:12.620 --> 16:16.720 Shouldn't hate the things that God says is right and true. 16:16.720 --> 16:18.620 But we should hate the things that God hates. 16:18.620 --> 16:20.960 We should hate the people that God hates. 16:20.960 --> 16:23.500 And so that is the mentality that God has. 16:23.500 --> 16:25.260 Look at Isaiah 55. 16:25.260 --> 16:26.140 Isaiah 55. 16:33.200 --> 16:38.320 Isaiah 55 verse number six the Bible says 16:39.440 --> 16:45.040 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near 16:45.360 --> 16:49.000 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts 16:49.400 --> 16:55.840 And let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon 16:56.400 --> 17:01.120 See, because the wicked, they get this way about them, or they're doing the wrong thing, 17:01.120 --> 17:03.020 they're thinking the wrong thing. 17:03.020 --> 17:08.080 But it says, and the unrighteous man, his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord. 17:08.080 --> 17:09.080 Because what? 17:09.080 --> 17:11.040 The Lord's going to fix his mindset. 17:11.040 --> 17:14.040 The Lord's going to fix the way he thinks. 17:14.040 --> 17:17.000 Because once you get off the right path, you're going to start thinking wrong things. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.920 You're going to start making excuses for why you're living the way that you are. 17:19.920 --> 17:23.440 And it says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts. 17:23.700 --> 17:27.540 Neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." 17:27.540 --> 17:28.700 And that's a very famous scripture. 17:29.100 --> 17:35.740 But it's true because mankind is sinful. Our thoughts aren't always his thoughts. Our ways 17:35.740 --> 17:41.980 are not his ways. And so what I'm saying is we need to take on God's mindset and his ways 17:42.540 --> 17:46.220 and that's going to help us to live a better Christian life. Look at it says in verse 15 or 17:46.220 --> 17:53.420 verse 9 it says, as for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways 17:53.420 --> 17:57.020 and my thoughts than your thoughts. God's always going to be 17:57.100 --> 18:02.300 morally higher than we are. God's always going to be on a moral high ground way more than 18:02.300 --> 18:08.660 we are because he's perfect and incapable of committing sin. His ways are higher than 18:08.660 --> 18:13.940 ours. His thoughts are higher than ours. So when people make these accusations against 18:13.940 --> 18:20.020 God saying he's evil, he's wicked, he's megalomaniacal, he's this ethnic cleanser 18:20.020 --> 18:23.020 and just all the wicked things that they say about God. 18:23.020 --> 18:24.000 Well... 18:24.100 --> 18:26.100 Those things are not true. 18:26.100 --> 18:32.100 They're just mistaken. They just don't understand the way God thinks because the natural man received not the things of the Spirit of God. 18:32.100 --> 18:36.100 Neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned. 18:36.100 --> 18:40.100 You know, and so if a natural, the natural man cannot understand the things of God. 18:40.100 --> 18:47.100 But see, we can. And so we need to make sure that our mindset is on the things of God and the way that God thinks. 18:47.100 --> 18:48.100 That's how we should think. 18:48.200 --> 18:53.000 And if our thinking is off, then we need to get on the right track and go, hey, well, 18:53.000 --> 18:56.440 this is what God says, so He's right. 18:56.440 --> 19:00.880 And if we just have this attitude that, hey, God's right and we're wrong, then we're going 19:00.880 --> 19:05.480 to be way more ahead than a lot of other Christians are because not all Christians feel that way. 19:05.480 --> 19:06.800 Not all Christians think that way. 19:06.800 --> 19:07.800 And it's sad. 19:07.800 --> 19:09.920 Turn to 2 Chronicles chapter 19. 19:09.920 --> 19:11.920 2 Chronicles 19. 19:11.920 --> 19:13.400 And this is a very famous. 19:13.600 --> 19:17.600 A passage in the Bible, maybe not so much in 19:17.600 --> 19:22.600 Littletard churches and even, you know, IFB churches necessarily. 19:22.600 --> 19:25.600 But in new IFB churches, this is a very famous passage because 19:25.600 --> 19:28.600 we understand this doctrine very well. 19:28.600 --> 19:32.600 We like to teach this doctrine because it's the truth. 19:32.600 --> 19:37.600 Now, Jehoshaphat has made an affinity with Ahab. 19:38.100 --> 19:42.820 And so he's married, it's either his son to their daughter or his daughter to their son. 19:42.820 --> 19:47.140 Either, I can't remember which one it is, but either way they've made an affinity so that their 19:47.140 --> 19:51.460 kingdoms, because they're separate, in separate kingdoms, one's the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat 19:51.460 --> 19:56.020 is the king of Judah. So he's made this affinity where he married their children. 19:56.660 --> 20:01.300 And Jezebel is the wife of Ahab and she's a literal witch. 20:02.000 --> 20:07.540 She's a heathen dog and Ahab should have never married her. 20:07.540 --> 20:12.340 She corrupted him totally and he's done very wicked in the sight of the Lord. 20:12.340 --> 20:18.540 And he also tried to get him, he got Jehoshaphat to dress up like him when they went to fight 20:18.540 --> 20:19.620 the Syrians. 20:19.620 --> 20:21.180 I mean how stupid do you have to be? 20:21.180 --> 20:23.500 Yeah, sure I'll dress up just like you. 20:23.500 --> 20:25.260 So that they can all chase him? 20:25.260 --> 20:26.620 That's exactly why he did it. 20:26.620 --> 20:29.740 So that they would kill Jehoshaphat and not kill Ahab. 20:30.100 --> 20:33.820 I mean, duh, why would you do that? 20:33.820 --> 20:35.780 But you know, Jehoshaphat was a good king. 20:35.780 --> 20:39.620 He was a righteous man, but he just had a lapse in judgment here. 20:39.620 --> 20:43.500 And this prophet comes to him to let him know just how stupid he's being. 20:43.500 --> 20:47.540 It says in verse number one, the Bible says, In Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, returned 20:47.540 --> 20:49.900 to his house in peace to Jerusalem. 20:50.300 --> 20:59.540 And Jehu, the son of Hineni, the seer went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, 20:59.540 --> 21:05.020 shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the LORD? 21:05.020 --> 21:08.520 Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. 21:08.520 --> 21:10.060 So what is he saying? 21:10.060 --> 21:13.300 He's saying why are you helping the ungodly? 21:13.300 --> 21:13.400 you 21:13.500 --> 21:16.300 Why are you helping people that hate God? 21:16.300 --> 21:19.500 Why are you loving people that hate the Lord? 21:19.500 --> 21:23.300 That'd be like us loving faggots. 21:23.300 --> 21:25.800 Oh wait, a lot of churches do that, don't they? 21:25.800 --> 21:28.600 A lot of them just have rainbow flags hanging out the side of their building. 21:29.100 --> 21:30.460 Oh, we love you. 21:30.460 --> 21:31.620 Everybody's welcome. 21:31.620 --> 21:33.700 Hey, come teach our Sunday school class. 21:33.700 --> 21:35.380 Here's a whole class full of kids. 21:35.380 --> 21:37.980 This is what that born this way after all, 21:37.980 --> 21:40.300 or born that way after all ministries was trying to do, 21:40.300 --> 21:43.020 trying to infiltrate the Baptist movement with that stuff, 21:43.020 --> 21:46.420 which our movement shut that down completely. 21:46.420 --> 21:48.500 And if they are doing it still, and they are passing 21:48.500 --> 21:51.780 that stupid, blasphemous piece of garbage book around, 21:51.780 --> 21:53.460 they're doing it on the sly. 21:53.460 --> 21:54.300 Because... 21:54.400 --> 22:01.760 Anybody promoting that book or pushing that book, there's something wrong with you to 22:01.760 --> 22:05.440 say that, oh, queers are just confused eunuchs. 22:05.440 --> 22:10.240 No, eunuchs are people that have had their privy members chopped off or that they were 22:10.240 --> 22:15.360 born or they can't use those parts, so on and so forth. 22:15.360 --> 22:19.280 They're made eunuchs by men, which that stuff doesn't really necessarily happen too much 22:19.280 --> 22:20.280 in the modern day. 22:20.280 --> 22:20.500 Thanks for watching! 22:20.600 --> 22:23.000 Or again, they were born in that way. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.360 Or, you know, God has just allowed them to be 22:26.360 --> 22:28.120 where they don't care about that kind of stuff. 22:28.120 --> 22:31.080 But in no way, shape, or form is that talking about queers? 22:31.500 --> 22:36.460 Every time the Bible talks about queers, it talks about them molesting and hurting and 22:36.460 --> 22:43.340 raping and killing and having the worst quality of characteristics about them. 22:43.340 --> 22:46.780 To where God blew up a whole city with hellfire because of it. 22:46.780 --> 22:51.700 And so this is an example of things that should, those that should live on Godly afterward. 22:51.700 --> 22:52.300 So 22:52.600 --> 22:57.320 Anyway, so look, that's what he's being told here. 22:57.320 --> 22:59.040 Don't help the ungodly. 22:59.040 --> 23:01.120 Don't love them that hate the Lord. 23:01.120 --> 23:03.640 And if you do, wrath is upon you. 23:03.640 --> 23:09.200 And so any of these pastors, including IFB pastors that sit there and go, well, how dare 23:09.200 --> 23:12.960 you know the Andersonites or the new IFB is wrong. 23:12.960 --> 23:14.080 No, you're wrong, buddy. 23:14.080 --> 23:16.520 And you should shut up and maybe read these verses. 23:17.200 --> 23:22.800 and get God's mindset instead of some libtard college that you went to, 23:22.800 --> 23:27.300 some left coast Baptist mentality that you have, 23:27.300 --> 23:32.000 and stop kowtowing to these queers and these homos and these faggots 23:32.000 --> 23:34.400 and get God's mentality about things. 23:34.400 --> 23:37.700 Because he sent a prophet to the king and told him, 23:37.700 --> 23:40.200 hey, don't love those people that hate God. 23:40.200 --> 23:43.200 And they're like, well, no, they love God. No, they don't. 23:43.500 --> 23:45.840 Have you ever wondered whether people could lie? 23:45.840 --> 23:47.240 Oh yeah, they can. 23:47.240 --> 23:48.400 And they do all the time. 23:48.400 --> 23:50.200 That's what predators do. 23:50.200 --> 23:54.240 Even predators that aren't necessarily very obvious, 23:54.240 --> 23:56.040 they camouflage themselves so they 23:56.040 --> 24:00.400 can lie and wait and stealth themselves and then get them. 24:00.500 --> 24:03.260 All kinds of animals in nature are like this. 24:03.260 --> 24:08.900 So we should take note to the predators in our world, in the world that we live in, and 24:08.900 --> 24:13.460 go, hey, the predators in humankind are going to be a lot like that. 24:13.460 --> 24:15.340 They're going to pretend to be one of us. 24:15.340 --> 24:19.140 And then they're going to spring their trap and do their damage. 24:19.140 --> 24:22.420 And then people are going to go, yeah, it's a Christian that did it. 24:22.420 --> 24:23.580 Big surprise, huh? 24:23.580 --> 24:27.100 And all these chat logs and stuff, these chat groups and things like that. 24:27.100 --> 24:28.100 Oh, big surprise. 24:28.100 --> 24:28.500 See you. 24:28.500 --> 24:33.500 suspects. All you mean, faggots that infiltrate our churches and pretend to be saved? Yeah, 24:33.500 --> 24:37.940 that is the usual suspects. Because it's not real Christians that do that. But see, again, 24:37.940 --> 24:42.060 they can't get this through their stupid minds that it's not real save people because save 24:42.060 --> 24:48.740 people wouldn't do that. Save people can't do things that a reprobate would do. We have 24:48.740 --> 24:49.260 these... 24:49.700 --> 24:53.540 These parameters that are ingrained in our brains and our consciences, 24:53.540 --> 24:55.540 we actually still have consciences. 24:55.540 --> 24:59.300 But somebody would do that to a child or to somebody else 24:59.300 --> 25:01.060 doesn't have a conscience anymore. 25:01.060 --> 25:04.260 Their conscience is seared with the hot iron, the Bible says. 25:06.600 --> 25:09.000 So, don't give me that garbage. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.200 Oh, it's the usual suspects. 25:11.200 --> 25:13.360 Yeah, it is. 25:13.360 --> 25:17.360 It's like people like to prey on places where children are present. 25:17.360 --> 25:18.780 That's what they do. 25:18.780 --> 25:20.700 They try to pick off the weak. 25:20.700 --> 25:24.800 That's what predators do in the wild is they get someone that's weaker than they are and 25:24.800 --> 25:26.900 then they dominate them. 25:26.900 --> 25:30.900 Or they, you know, they spring a trap on them so they can't escape because they overpower 25:30.900 --> 25:32.320 them because they're stronger than them. 25:33.600 --> 25:35.600 This is what predators do. 25:35.600 --> 25:36.600 Verse 3 says, 25:36.600 --> 25:38.600 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, 25:38.600 --> 25:41.600 in that thou hast taken away the groves of the land, 25:41.600 --> 25:45.600 and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. 25:45.600 --> 25:49.600 So it's not like Jehoshaphat was some evil reprobate, 25:49.600 --> 25:51.600 and he is some evil person, 25:51.600 --> 25:54.400 but he had a lapse in judgment here. 25:54.500 --> 25:57.300 And God told him he was going to have wars because of this, 25:57.300 --> 25:59.900 and so on and so forth. 25:59.900 --> 26:03.940 But look, we don't need a prophet to show up and tell us 26:03.940 --> 26:04.820 these things. 26:04.820 --> 26:08.100 Because we have all the prophets that give witness to us 26:08.100 --> 26:09.260 in this book. 26:09.260 --> 26:11.940 And the prophets tell us all these things. 26:11.940 --> 26:13.780 We should already know these things. 26:13.780 --> 26:17.700 And you shouldn't have to have a prophet come up and tell you 26:17.700 --> 26:20.540 that you shouldn't allow your son to marry a witch. 26:21.800 --> 26:27.540 Or the daughter of a practicing witch and have a wedding with them and make affinity 26:27.540 --> 26:28.660 with them. 26:28.660 --> 26:30.540 I mean how strange would that be? 26:30.540 --> 26:36.420 Oh yeah, you know, my son is just in love with this witch and you know, I really, she's 26:36.420 --> 26:37.420 so sweet. 26:37.420 --> 26:39.140 She's a good witch. 26:39.140 --> 26:40.940 She's a white witch. 26:40.940 --> 26:42.620 No such thing. 26:42.620 --> 26:45.700 They just say that they are but there's no such thing. 26:45.700 --> 26:47.540 So all witchcraft is. 26:47.900 --> 26:55.180 black magic. So, and you don't need, you know, we have the Scriptures here. We have all the prophets 26:55.180 --> 27:00.940 to give us witness, to tell us not to do these things. Turn to Psalm 139 verse 17, Psalm 139 27:00.940 --> 27:08.540 verse 17. Of course, this is another famous psalm that we sing, and we sing it for a reason. 27:09.740 --> 27:13.420 And well, I remember when our church first started singing this song, and people, I'd look around at 27:13.420 --> 27:14.900 of people I'll be like man they're 27:15.000 --> 27:17.280 This is making them feel uncomfortable. 27:17.280 --> 27:19.840 Let's sing it some more. 27:19.840 --> 27:21.640 And I can tell when there's visitors here 27:21.640 --> 27:25.360 when we sing this song that they feel uncomfortable. 27:25.360 --> 27:27.960 But it's in the Bible. 27:27.960 --> 27:31.080 I mean, why would you feel uncomfortable about something 27:31.080 --> 27:32.200 that's in the Bible? 27:32.600 --> 27:35.340 It's because the Yoda mentality pops in our mind. 27:35.340 --> 27:37.440 Hate leads to evil or to hatred. 27:37.440 --> 27:39.440 Hatred leads to the dark side or whatever. 27:39.440 --> 27:44.600 And Yoda's words are in their heart more than God's words in their heart. 27:44.600 --> 27:46.600 Is what the truth of it is. 27:46.600 --> 27:48.340 And look, it's not just Yoda. 27:48.340 --> 27:55.740 It's just repeated like a mockingbird all over the news channels, all over social media. 27:55.740 --> 27:57.240 You know, stop hate. 27:57.240 --> 27:59.840 You know, no hate in Hearst. 28:00.100 --> 28:07.780 I mean, hate is like the this time period's bad thing. 28:07.780 --> 28:11.140 You just hate some bad, hate so wrong. 28:11.140 --> 28:12.060 How could you hate? 28:12.060 --> 28:13.260 You're never supposed to hate. 28:13.260 --> 28:15.100 You're never supposed to judge. 28:15.100 --> 28:17.220 And you're never supposed to hate. 28:17.220 --> 28:20.620 But what David says in Psalm 139, verse 17, 28:20.620 --> 28:24.660 he says, how precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God. 28:24.660 --> 28:26.220 How great is the sum of them? 28:26.700 --> 28:29.820 See, God's thoughts unto us are good things. 28:29.820 --> 28:36.460 He wants us to, you know, to have good thoughts and He thinks good thoughts for us. 28:36.460 --> 28:42.020 It says, if I should count them, they are more than the number of the sand. 28:42.020 --> 28:44.740 When I awake, I am still with thee. 28:44.740 --> 28:47.500 Surely thou will slay the wicked, O God. 28:47.500 --> 28:50.380 Depart from me therefore, you bloody men. 28:51.200 --> 28:55.520 for they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. 28:56.320 --> 29:02.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against 29:02.560 --> 29:12.000 thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies." So David again, and I like this 29:12.000 --> 29:18.000 because David is called the man after God's own heart. He is called the sweet psalmist of Israel. 29:18.700 --> 29:21.700 And then people would read that and be like, how sweet is he though? 29:21.700 --> 29:25.700 He still is sweet. In God's mind he is sweet. 29:25.700 --> 29:28.700 The Bible calls him the sweet psalmist of Israel. 29:28.700 --> 29:33.700 There's sweet things in this psalm, but these things are hard things for some people to deal with 29:33.700 --> 29:35.700 because they don't have the mentality of God. 29:36.200 --> 29:40.200 Their mind is not on the same page with God. 29:40.200 --> 29:45.700 If you read these, if you sing this psalm in some 7-11 church where they sing the same 29:45.700 --> 29:51.380 seven words 11 times in a row and have these rock bands and the steam coming out and the 29:51.380 --> 29:57.320 purple lights and the plexiglass pulpit and the drum machine and all that stuff, they 29:57.320 --> 30:00.960 wouldn't even know if this is God's word because they probably never heard these words 30:00.960 --> 30:01.360 before. 30:02.900 --> 30:05.540 But it says, I hate them with perfect hatred. 30:05.540 --> 30:09.180 I count them mine enemy, mine enemies. 30:09.180 --> 30:10.700 So then they would say, well, this 30:10.700 --> 30:12.860 is canceled out because in the New Testament, 30:12.860 --> 30:14.900 Jesus says we're supposed to love our enemies 30:14.900 --> 30:15.740 and pray for them. 30:15.740 --> 30:17.420 Yeah, but that's not what it says. 30:17.420 --> 30:22.660 It says, I count them mine enemies, those that hate God. 30:22.660 --> 30:25.020 So there's a difference there. 30:25.020 --> 30:26.700 Search me, oh God, and know my heart. 30:26.700 --> 30:28.220 Try me and know my thoughts. 30:29.100 --> 30:31.340 See, and why would we want that? 30:31.340 --> 30:35.040 So that we can make sure that our thoughts are agreeing with God's thoughts. 30:35.040 --> 30:38.860 So we can make sure that our mentality is on the same page with God's mentality. 30:38.860 --> 30:39.860 That's what he wants. 30:39.860 --> 30:41.580 Hey, search me, God. 30:41.580 --> 30:44.540 And this is why he's a man after God's own heart. 30:44.540 --> 30:47.280 Because he's saying all these things and look, they made it in Scripture. 30:47.280 --> 30:50.260 This psalm made it in Scripture. 30:50.260 --> 30:52.140 And so God agrees with him. 30:52.140 --> 30:56.500 The Holy Ghost moved David to write these things down. 30:57.300 --> 30:59.620 Because they're true because they're right 31:00.100 --> 31:05.600 He says and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way 31:06.660 --> 31:07.860 everlasting 31:07.860 --> 31:09.100 so 31:09.100 --> 31:13.060 After he just gets done saying he hates them with perfect hatred he counts them his enemies 31:13.060 --> 31:16.980 I mean David writes all kinds of gnarly Psalms 31:17.700 --> 31:21.820 like melting people melting like snails and breaking their teeth out oh god and 31:21.820 --> 31:22.740 all these different things 31:22.740 --> 31:27.260 because they're people that hate God they're in precatory prayers 31:27.260 --> 31:30.740 against the wicked people look and there and look 31:30.740 --> 31:34.180 there are people in this world that you can just and our mentality is this 31:34.180 --> 31:38.740 that unless they're just this worst serial killer of all time or something 31:38.740 --> 31:42.020 then those are the people that really need the death penalty 31:42.020 --> 31:45.380 now the person just murders one person also needs the death penalty 31:45.700 --> 31:49.300 people that premeditate to kill their unborn children, 31:49.300 --> 31:51.300 they also need the death penalty. 31:51.300 --> 31:53.200 And look, I'm not saying that everybody, 31:53.200 --> 31:54.400 that you know, God obviously, 31:54.400 --> 31:55.240 we're in the New Testament, 31:55.240 --> 31:56.300 God gives us mercy, 31:56.300 --> 31:58.800 He gives people many chances. 31:58.800 --> 32:00.600 But people are just, you know, 32:00.600 --> 32:01.900 they just are bragging 32:01.900 --> 32:03.820 that they murdered all these children. 32:03.820 --> 32:05.200 That is wicked. 32:05.200 --> 32:07.820 And you know, unless they repent, 32:07.820 --> 32:10.000 they're gonna likewise perish. 32:10.000 --> 32:11.720 Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter two. 32:11.720 --> 32:13.100 1 Corinthians chapter two. 32:14.300 --> 32:18.140 And David's prayer is a great prayer. 32:18.140 --> 32:21.740 And basically, it's, you know, help me to think like you 32:21.740 --> 32:24.780 and understand where my beliefs don't line up with yours, God. 32:24.780 --> 32:30.700 It's kind of like the Aaron, you know, rendition of that. 32:30.700 --> 32:34.860 So God, he said, you know, if there be any wicked way in me, 32:34.860 --> 32:35.940 lead me, you know... 32:36.200 --> 32:40.440 Search me Oh God and know my heart and try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me 32:40.440 --> 32:47.860 And and we should take that to mean that we we should pray those types of things to help me God to understand this 32:47.860 --> 32:49.620 And to believe it 32:49.620 --> 32:53.720 Help me to apply these things in my life and not be hung up on these things 32:53.880 --> 32:58.240 Because there's a lot of gnarly things in the Bible that we can get hung up on and not understand 32:58.700 --> 33:01.800 Just because you don't understand doesn't mean you have to disagree with it. 33:01.800 --> 33:05.260 And this is what people do though, as soon as they find something that they don't like 33:05.260 --> 33:07.820 in the Bible, that just turns them away right away. 33:07.820 --> 33:10.340 And, oh I don't want anything to do with this Christianity stuff. 33:10.340 --> 33:11.700 You're not saved then. 33:11.700 --> 33:16.300 I mean, if you just hate the Bible and you say that you're saved, you're lying. 33:16.300 --> 33:18.700 How can you hate God's Word and be a Christian? 33:19.700 --> 33:24.400 And when people just say, the King James is stupid, the King James Bible is retarded, 33:24.400 --> 33:27.740 and all this other stuff, it's like, there's way better versions of the Bible than the 33:27.740 --> 33:28.740 King James. 33:28.740 --> 33:30.820 It's like, how can you say that? 33:30.820 --> 33:34.780 How can you actually form those words in your fingers when you type them on the screen or 33:34.780 --> 33:35.780 whatever? 33:35.780 --> 33:38.100 How can you actually really believe that? 33:38.100 --> 33:40.740 I just don't understand it. 33:40.740 --> 33:45.260 People are always defending Mark Ward, that sissy little queer voice guy that he is. 33:45.800 --> 33:53.600 And who said that it's child abuse to give a child a King James Bible after they get saved? 33:54.440 --> 33:56.440 I mean, child abuse. 33:56.440 --> 33:57.960 It's wrong. 33:57.960 --> 34:02.360 It's a sin to give a kid a King James Bible. 34:02.360 --> 34:06.360 Now, I would tell you this, that it's a sin to give them an NIV. 34:06.360 --> 34:10.280 It's a sin to give them the new American Standard Version, 34:10.280 --> 34:13.560 the one that we blew up the other day with guns. 34:13.800 --> 34:16.760 You know, that's wrong. 34:16.760 --> 34:19.640 To give somebody something that's not true, 34:19.640 --> 34:22.440 to lead them in a way that's not right, 34:22.440 --> 34:24.600 where they take the word sodomite out 34:24.600 --> 34:28.400 of every instance in the Old Testament. 34:28.400 --> 34:32.800 And then when we say sodomite or homo or whatever, 34:32.800 --> 34:35.360 they're like, oh, you mean male shrine prostitutes? 34:35.360 --> 34:38.000 Is that what you're talking about? 34:38.000 --> 34:40.840 It's like, where historically is the male shrine prostitute? 34:41.300 --> 34:43.860 It's just non-existent. 34:43.860 --> 34:44.860 They are queers. 34:44.860 --> 34:48.660 Anyway, first Corinthians 2, 9 says, 34:48.660 --> 34:52.460 But as it is written, I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 34:52.460 --> 34:56.940 of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 34:56.940 --> 35:00.620 But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. 35:00.620 --> 35:04.620 For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 35:04.620 --> 35:08.660 For what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him. 35:09.100 --> 35:13.100 even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. 35:13.100 --> 35:18.220 Now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, 35:18.220 --> 35:22.220 that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, 35:22.780 --> 35:26.220 which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, 35:27.020 --> 35:31.580 but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 35:32.200 --> 35:35.400 And this is the great advantage that we have over the world. 35:35.400 --> 35:38.360 This is the great advantage we have over the Old Testament saints, 35:38.360 --> 35:43.880 is that we have Scripture to compare with Scripture. 35:43.880 --> 35:48.200 We can look at the Old Testament and know from the New Testament how to interpret those things 35:48.200 --> 35:53.800 that were hard to understand. And we also have the Spirit of God that is always indwelling the 35:53.800 --> 35:58.120 the believer and never leaves us nor forsakes us like it did Saul. 35:58.600 --> 36:01.800 you know, where the evil spirit comes and torments him or whatever. 36:01.800 --> 36:06.600 And it says, but the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, 36:06.600 --> 36:11.600 for there are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 36:11.600 --> 36:16.600 They can't know him. They can't understand the spiritual things of God because they're not saved. 36:16.600 --> 36:21.000 Is what it's saying. But he that is spiritual judges all things. 36:21.000 --> 36:23.600 Oh, so I guess we are supposed to judge. 36:24.000 --> 36:25.880 Doesn't it say, we that are spiritual? 36:25.880 --> 36:28.040 If you're spiritual, you should judge all things. 36:28.040 --> 36:31.800 Yet he himself is judged of no man. 36:31.800 --> 36:35.520 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? 36:35.520 --> 36:38.240 What is the answer to that question? 36:38.240 --> 36:42.100 Nobody knows the mind of the Lord that we can instruct him. 36:42.100 --> 36:43.240 He instructs us. 36:43.800 --> 36:45.480 Get that through your head. 36:45.480 --> 36:46.840 We don't instruct him. 36:46.840 --> 36:49.960 We don't lay our opinions on him, 36:49.960 --> 36:52.440 and that he has to go by what we think. 36:52.440 --> 36:54.680 This is the problem with mankind, 36:54.680 --> 36:56.800 is that we think we're better and bigger than God. 36:56.800 --> 36:58.680 We think we're more moral than God, 36:58.680 --> 37:00.480 and you're wrong about that. 37:00.480 --> 37:02.360 They can sit there and say that all they want 37:02.360 --> 37:05.120 as he throws them into hell. 37:05.120 --> 37:06.720 Then what are they going to say? 37:06.720 --> 37:08.360 I don't deserve to go here. 37:08.360 --> 37:09.520 Yeah, you do. 37:09.520 --> 37:11.120 Yeah, you do. 37:12.100 --> 37:14.900 I came to your door, dummy! 37:17.700 --> 37:19.700 You wouldn't believe. 37:19.700 --> 37:21.700 They think they're more moral than God. 37:21.700 --> 37:23.700 It's ridiculous. 37:23.700 --> 37:26.700 It says, but we have the mind of Christ. 37:26.700 --> 37:29.700 And so that's why we have no excuse 37:29.700 --> 37:31.700 to not be on the same mindset 37:31.700 --> 37:35.700 of the same mind of Christ. 37:35.700 --> 37:37.700 We have the Scriptures, we have the New Testament, 37:37.700 --> 37:39.700 we have everything that we need 37:39.700 --> 37:42.700 perfectly, thoroughly furnished 37:42.700 --> 37:44.540 furnace unto all good works. 37:44.900 --> 37:47.620 We've been given the word of God, it's complete. 37:47.620 --> 37:50.420 We have no excuse to not be on the same wavelength, 37:50.420 --> 37:54.980 on the same mindset, and to be able to agree with God on these things. 37:54.980 --> 37:56.980 We can compare scripture with scripture, 37:56.980 --> 38:00.580 where people in generations past have not been able to do. 38:00.580 --> 38:04.180 And so we have no excuse to not be on team God 38:04.180 --> 38:08.260 and believing the things that we're supposed to believe. 38:08.260 --> 38:10.660 And obviously some things come to us a little bit harder. 38:11.300 --> 38:16.080 Some things we have struggles with I get that I'm not saying that you're some dirty rotten no good because 38:16.540 --> 38:23.560 You have struggled with some things in the past that you have a hard time believing and people have queer kids and queer 38:23.960 --> 38:26.980 This and that and their families they sometimes they like 38:27.740 --> 38:31.360 But I love him. It doesn't matter whether you love them or not 38:32.020 --> 38:37.100 You know, how does God feel about them because how God feels about them is how you should feel about them 38:37.620 --> 38:39.300 And that's it 38:39.500 --> 38:40.500 That's all. 38:40.500 --> 38:41.500 That's all. 38:41.500 --> 38:44.220 So what's this going back to? 38:44.220 --> 38:46.700 Quit mourning over Saul. 38:46.700 --> 38:48.820 I've rejected him. 38:48.820 --> 38:50.140 Let's move on. 38:50.140 --> 38:51.140 It's moveon.com. 38:51.140 --> 38:53.660 We're going with David now. 38:53.660 --> 38:55.700 Stop worrying about Saul. 38:55.700 --> 38:59.180 He's going to just, you know, and obviously God knows what Saul's going to do next. 38:59.180 --> 39:02.580 And he's going to do a lot more wicked things from here on out. 39:02.580 --> 39:06.100 He's going, he's turning to madness basically. 39:06.600 --> 39:08.600 mental illness and 39:09.840 --> 39:14.840 So number two tonight, and this is I gotta be way faster here, but 39:15.640 --> 39:22.040 We got to get on God's mentality on God's page here. So number two is is lying ever permissible or 39:23.160 --> 39:25.280 Overlooked in the Bible. This is a controversial 39:26.240 --> 39:31.860 Topic and I'm gonna try my best to present it in a way that makes sense. Okay 39:32.600 --> 39:36.380 So, 1 Samuel chapter 16 verse number 2, the Bible says, 39:36.380 --> 39:39.380 And Samuel said, How can I go? 39:39.380 --> 39:42.940 If Saul hear it, he will kill me. 39:42.940 --> 39:44.540 Which do you think he's right? 39:44.540 --> 39:46.740 Based on what we know of Saul later on? 39:46.740 --> 39:49.020 Yeah, he would kill him. 39:49.020 --> 39:51.180 And the Lord said, Take in heifer with thee, 39:51.180 --> 39:54.180 and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. 39:54.180 --> 39:55.560 Now he's not telling him to lie. 39:55.560 --> 39:56.960 I'm not saying that. 39:56.960 --> 39:58.960 I don't believe that God's telling him to lie. 39:59.300 --> 40:08.420 He's legitimately giving him a reason other than that to tell why he's there. 40:08.420 --> 40:13.940 But is he allowing him to conceal his real motive for being there? 40:13.940 --> 40:15.800 Yes, he is. 40:15.800 --> 40:18.340 But he's not telling him to lie. 40:18.340 --> 40:21.660 And I'm not saying that he is. 40:21.660 --> 40:23.380 So, what it says in verse three. 40:23.500 --> 40:27.660 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do. 40:27.660 --> 40:32.340 And thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee." 40:32.340 --> 40:38.580 So again, God is not telling Samuel to lie here, but what is his true motive for sending 40:38.580 --> 40:39.580 him? 40:39.580 --> 40:45.180 To anoint David, he says, grab that horn of oil, anoint David, I've picked a new king. 40:45.180 --> 40:46.460 Go do it. 40:46.460 --> 40:48.100 Quit worrying about Saul. 40:48.100 --> 40:48.940 this horn of oil. 40:49.800 --> 40:52.600 And so he's worried about getting killed. 40:52.600 --> 40:55.920 And is his feelings valid? 40:55.920 --> 40:57.640 Now think about this also. 40:57.640 --> 40:59.880 What would happen to David? 40:59.880 --> 41:07.320 Just say Seymour comes and he's like, God's finished with Saul. 41:07.320 --> 41:08.120 Check this out. 41:08.120 --> 41:10.680 And then he pours the horn of oil on David's head. 41:10.680 --> 41:12.600 What's going to happen to Saul? 41:12.600 --> 41:14.080 I mean, what's going to happen to David? 41:14.080 --> 41:14.580 Dead. 41:15.100 --> 41:20.100 Samuel dead, Jesse dead, all of his sons dead, probably everybody dead. 41:20.100 --> 41:26.100 I mean, he killed all the Lord's priests just for giving David a sword and some bread to eat. 41:26.100 --> 41:29.100 He killed like 90 priests or something over that. 41:29.100 --> 41:34.100 So you don't think he's going to kill everybody in Jesse's family just to make sure none of them are going to be king either? 41:34.100 --> 41:37.100 I mean, I'm sure that he would. 41:37.100 --> 41:41.600 So God is giving him an out here to not sin. 41:42.000 --> 41:48.400 but also, he's also allowing him to be able to conceal the actual motivation for him being there. 41:48.400 --> 41:50.400 So he's not... 41:50.400 --> 41:53.100 So, obviously God can't lie. 41:53.100 --> 41:56.700 The Bible says in Numbers chapter... 41:56.700 --> 42:00.100 Go ahead and turn to... actually, turn to Hebrews chapter 6. 42:00.100 --> 42:02.900 I'm going to read a couple of verses for you while you turn there. 42:02.900 --> 42:06.800 Numbers 23, 19 says, God is not a man that he should lie. 42:07.900 --> 42:13.120 And Titus 1-2 says, In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before 42:13.120 --> 42:14.500 the world began. 42:14.500 --> 42:15.500 Can God lie? 42:15.500 --> 42:17.200 No, He can't. 42:17.200 --> 42:22.860 And Hebrews chapter 6 verse 16 says, For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for 42:22.860 --> 42:26.100 confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 42:26.600 --> 42:33.840 where God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability 42:33.840 --> 42:40.360 of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible 42:40.360 --> 42:41.360 for God to lie. 42:42.100 --> 42:46.740 we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to hold upon the hope set before us." 42:47.300 --> 42:53.940 So is it impossible for God to lie? Yes. Can he lie? No, he cannot lie. It's not in God's nature 42:53.940 --> 43:01.300 to be able to sin at all. So he's obviously not telling Samuel to lie, but he is allowing him to 43:01.300 --> 43:08.100 conceal the true motivation for him being there. He's given him a secondary mission. 43:09.000 --> 43:12.880 He's, you know, because is that, was he really going to do a sacrifice? 43:12.880 --> 43:15.080 Was that on the schedule already? 43:15.080 --> 43:17.520 Or is God giving him an out? 43:17.520 --> 43:20.360 God's given him an out, isn't he? 43:20.360 --> 43:24.540 So, but it isn't the true motivation for him going. 43:24.540 --> 43:25.540 That much is clear. 43:25.540 --> 43:30.880 So, anyway, let's go to Exodus chapter 20. 43:30.880 --> 43:31.880 Exodus chapter 20. 43:31.880 --> 43:32.000 you 43:36.400 --> 43:42.400 So, is it ever permissible to lie or overlooked? 43:42.400 --> 43:48.400 Look, all sin is transgression of God's law. 43:48.400 --> 43:54.400 But all sin is not equal either, is it? 43:54.400 --> 43:58.400 Is stealing a pencil and shooting somebody in the face on the same level? 43:59.000 --> 44:01.340 No, because you can pay them back four pencils later on. 44:01.340 --> 44:02.880 Oh, I'm sorry for stealing your pencil. 44:02.880 --> 44:05.840 Here's four in return, or five in return, or whatever. 44:05.840 --> 44:07.840 But you can't take back shooting someone in the face. 44:07.840 --> 44:09.040 They're dead, right? 44:09.040 --> 44:10.160 More than likely. 44:10.160 --> 44:12.400 99 times out of 100, they're going 44:12.400 --> 44:13.960 to die from that gunshot, depending 44:13.960 --> 44:16.320 on what you shoot them with and where you shoot them. 44:16.320 --> 44:21.280 So obviously, killing someone takes them off this planet. 44:21.280 --> 44:22.320 They're done. 44:22.320 --> 44:24.280 You can't un-make that. 44:25.000 --> 44:26.680 But you can remedy stealing. 44:26.680 --> 44:31.280 You can give back what they've done. 44:31.280 --> 44:38.360 There's provisions in God's word for exceptions to rules. 44:38.360 --> 44:40.880 OK, and I don't have time to get into every single one of them 44:40.880 --> 44:41.560 tonight. 44:41.560 --> 44:43.680 But what about long hair? 44:43.680 --> 44:49.400 Why was Samson able to have long hair for his whole life? 44:49.400 --> 44:51.120 Is man supposed to have long hair? 44:51.120 --> 44:52.800 What does 1 Corinthians chapter 11 say? 44:53.100 --> 44:56.100 It's a shame for a man to have long hair, isn't it? 44:56.100 --> 44:58.300 But what about Samson? 44:58.300 --> 44:59.860 Why was he allowed to have long hair? 44:59.860 --> 45:02.780 Because he was a Nazarite from his mother's womb. 45:02.780 --> 45:14.980 It was a special deal that God did for Samson to be able to. 45:15.400 --> 45:19.780 be under this special provision for his whole life. 45:19.780 --> 45:23.180 His strength was in his hair, when his hair got cut. 45:23.180 --> 45:25.420 When he told the secret of his hair, 45:25.420 --> 45:27.680 being long is the secret of the strength, 45:27.680 --> 45:30.520 then God allowed him to be weak like any other man. 45:30.520 --> 45:32.860 That was the ultimate end of his secret. 45:32.860 --> 45:37.860 So what is the provision for divorce? 45:38.420 --> 45:39.200 Anybody know? 45:41.600 --> 45:42.600 Huh? 45:42.600 --> 45:43.600 For divorce. 45:43.600 --> 45:44.600 For divorce. 45:44.600 --> 45:47.600 In what instance are you allowed to divorce? 45:47.600 --> 45:48.600 Fornication. 45:48.600 --> 45:50.560 Fornication. 45:50.560 --> 45:56.300 So if someone says, if a woman says, hey I'm a virgin, you get married, then you find out 45:56.300 --> 46:01.600 that she's not on the wedding day, you can divorce her because she lied to you about 46:01.600 --> 46:02.600 that. 46:02.600 --> 46:06.600 And that is the only provision that Jesus Christ gives in the New Testament. 46:06.600 --> 46:08.920 Matthew chapter 5, Matthew chapter 19. 46:09.300 --> 46:12.300 So, is adultery always a sin? 46:12.300 --> 46:18.100 Yeah, except for when you put them away, saving for the cause of fornication. 46:18.100 --> 46:22.300 So there's one reason why you can divorce. 46:22.300 --> 46:24.100 What about killing somebody? 46:24.100 --> 46:25.460 The Bible says, thou shalt not kill. 46:25.460 --> 46:26.460 Exodus 20, 19. 46:26.460 --> 46:30.300 Exodus 20, 19 says, thou shalt not kill. 46:30.300 --> 46:32.580 Are there exceptions to that rule? 46:32.580 --> 46:35.180 Well, if you're defending yourself... 46:35.700 --> 46:37.980 I mean, you can kill somebody, right? 46:37.980 --> 46:40.780 If they're trying to kill you, you can kill them. 46:40.780 --> 46:41.780 I mean, you're not supposed to. 46:41.780 --> 46:45.060 I know this isn't the case in a lot of other countries. 46:45.060 --> 46:46.760 You're supposed to hide in the bathroom. 46:46.760 --> 46:48.820 If you can't get out the bathroom window, 46:48.820 --> 46:52.140 then you can finally defend yourself with something equally 46:52.140 --> 46:54.340 as equal as they're trying to kill you with. 46:54.340 --> 46:56.100 Even though if you don't have a gun on you, 46:56.100 --> 46:58.060 and they have a gun or whatever, I mean, 46:58.060 --> 46:58.860 it's just ridiculous. 46:58.860 --> 47:01.140 In California, you have to just run and get away. 47:02.000 --> 47:04.080 It's like the dumbest rules ever. 47:04.080 --> 47:05.880 At least in Washington, we still have the Castle Doctrine, 47:05.880 --> 47:10.320 which you can stand your ground on your own property. 47:10.320 --> 47:12.160 And even though you're going to go through the gauntlet trying 47:12.160 --> 47:15.280 to defend yourself as to why you did it, 47:15.280 --> 47:17.240 they still do have self-defense laws here. 47:17.240 --> 47:21.320 Or if you find somebody trying to kill somebody, 47:21.320 --> 47:24.720 you can also protect other people's lives. 47:24.720 --> 47:25.760 What? 47:25.760 --> 47:27.040 Surrogate self-defense, yes. 47:27.400 --> 47:29.600 If you find somebody raping somebody, 47:29.600 --> 47:32.880 you can kill them in Washington state. 47:32.880 --> 47:38.320 You can kill them, because it's capital crime. 47:38.320 --> 47:44.520 If you are in a war, you have to kill other people, don't you? 47:44.520 --> 47:50.560 So in the Bible, he had people kill people in wars. 47:50.560 --> 47:51.520 So are there? 47:51.900 --> 47:54.780 caveats as to killing. 47:54.780 --> 47:58.500 And obviously Jesus says, thou shall do no murder. 47:58.500 --> 48:01.740 So that's, when it says thou shall not kill, 48:01.740 --> 48:04.060 it's talking about murdering people. 48:04.060 --> 48:08.780 And so you could argue those points if you wanted to. 48:08.780 --> 48:11.340 So what about stealing? 48:11.340 --> 48:14.580 Is it always wrong to steal? 48:14.580 --> 48:16.580 I mean, I think it is always wrong to steal. 48:17.000 --> 48:21.620 But people will have forgiveness over someone that steals because they're starving to death 48:22.100 --> 48:28.120 Right doesn't the Bible talk about that? You know they'll have mercy over someone. That's just hey. I stole that 48:28.580 --> 48:30.580 You know watermelon out here 48:31.060 --> 48:35.680 Out of your yard or out of your wheelbarrow because I was starving that I needed something to eat 48:36.780 --> 48:40.900 You don't even have to be starving to death if you're just super hungry, and you know your faints or whatever 48:40.900 --> 48:42.900 I mean, I think that there's you know 48:43.300 --> 48:51.780 Because what's worse, letting yourself die or not stealing someone's extra 10 melons 48:51.780 --> 48:52.780 that they have? 48:52.780 --> 49:01.100 Or the famous cartoons or whatever movies where people are letting the pies cool on 49:01.100 --> 49:04.620 their windowsill and some thief comes up and grabs the pie and whatever, eats it or 49:04.620 --> 49:05.620 whatever? 49:05.620 --> 49:06.300 I mean... 49:06.600 --> 49:15.480 So when it comes to bearing false witnesses, there are ever times in the Bible when people bear false witness and it is kind of overlooked. 49:15.480 --> 49:16.680 I'm not saying it's right. 49:17.600 --> 49:20.520 I don't think that lying is right. 49:20.800 --> 49:31.280 But in order to keep the greater commandment, I believe that the Bible shows us certain things wherein it was right in that situation. 49:31.600 --> 49:35.160 Because you kind of have one law that's greater than the other. 49:35.160 --> 49:38.800 Because are there greater laws in the Bible? 49:38.800 --> 49:41.360 What's the first commandment? 49:41.360 --> 49:45.800 To love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength. 49:45.800 --> 49:49.600 And the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as yourself. 49:49.600 --> 49:53.600 So we have those two laws that are the greatest of all the commandments. 49:54.400 --> 50:00.400 And obviously these other ones kind of fall under those umbrellas in one way, shape, or form. 50:00.400 --> 50:10.400 But not all sin is equal, not all commandments are equal, 50:10.400 --> 50:17.400 and you have provisions that would allow you to break or just not. 50:18.300 --> 50:20.140 keep some of these commandments. 50:20.140 --> 50:22.980 So let's look at a couple of these stories in the Bible. 50:22.980 --> 50:23.940 Exodus chapter 1. 50:23.940 --> 50:25.000 Exodus chapter 1. 50:29.000 --> 50:36.000 Exodus chapter 1 we have the famous story of the midwives saving the men children alive because 50:37.680 --> 50:41.040 After Joseph died which was about 30 years after 50:42.200 --> 50:44.760 I think it was like 30 years after 50:45.680 --> 50:49.120 You know all the events take place up until the time when 50:50.000 --> 50:55.560 Joseph and his brethren are there and Jacob and all things are going well 30 years later 50:56.400 --> 50:59.120 They hate, they hate Joseph. 50:59.120 --> 51:01.200 So look at verse eight, says, 51:01.200 --> 51:03.480 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, 51:03.480 --> 51:05.080 which knew not Joseph. 51:05.080 --> 51:05.920 And he said unto his people, 51:05.920 --> 51:07.320 Behold, the people of the children of Israel 51:07.320 --> 51:09.700 are more and mightier than we. 51:09.700 --> 51:12.840 Come on, let us deal wisely with them. 51:12.840 --> 51:16.000 Lest they multiply and come to pass 51:16.000 --> 51:17.760 when they fall without any war, 51:17.760 --> 51:20.920 they join also unto our enemies and fight against us, 51:20.920 --> 51:23.680 and so get them up out of the land. 51:23.900 --> 51:29.100 Therefore, they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens, and they 51:29.100 --> 51:34.060 built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom, and Ramses. 51:34.060 --> 51:38.500 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, and they were grieved 51:38.500 --> 51:39.820 because of the children of Israel. 51:39.820 --> 51:45.260 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor, and they made their lives 51:45.260 --> 51:47.740 bitter with hard bondage and mortar and brick. 51:48.000 --> 51:52.400 In all manner of service in the field, all their serviceware, and they made them serve, 51:52.400 --> 51:53.400 was with rigor. 51:53.400 --> 52:00.480 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was Shephra, 52:00.480 --> 52:02.560 and the name of the other Pua. 52:02.560 --> 52:09.240 And he said, When you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the 52:09.240 --> 52:13.560 stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him. 52:13.560 --> 52:15.160 But if it be a daughter, then... 52:15.500 --> 52:22.500 she shall live." So he's not just saying, he's saying to kill them when they're born. 52:24.000 --> 52:26.780 For the midwives and they're Hebrew midwives. 52:27.060 --> 52:33.700 It says, but the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 52:34.500 --> 52:36.700 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives 52:36.700 --> 52:38.820 and said unto them, why have you done this thing 52:38.820 --> 52:40.740 and have saved the men and children alive? 52:40.740 --> 52:42.580 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, 52:42.580 --> 52:46.100 because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, 52:46.100 --> 52:47.700 for they are lively and are delivered 52:47.700 --> 52:50.660 ere the midwives come in unto them. 52:50.660 --> 52:51.900 Is that true? 52:52.900 --> 52:54.900 Is that a true statement? 52:56.100 --> 52:57.700 I mean, I don't believe that it is. 52:57.700 --> 52:59.820 I don't believe that they're telling the truth. 52:59.820 --> 53:01.420 I think that they're covering up for the fact 53:01.420 --> 53:04.020 that they're allowing them to live. 53:04.020 --> 53:05.980 Maybe some of them are being born before they get there, 53:05.980 --> 53:10.820 but these specific midwives are probably have a, 53:10.820 --> 53:12.380 they probably have a lot of duties 53:12.380 --> 53:14.660 because there's a lot of children of Israel here, 53:14.660 --> 53:19.060 but they're allowing them to live because they fear God. 53:19.980 --> 53:23.340 So that just tells me that obeying the king, 53:24.000 --> 53:28.080 would have been wrong. Killing those children when they came out would have been wrong, 53:28.080 --> 53:32.320 and so they're obeying the higher power, aren't they? And they're also obeying the higher law. 53:33.120 --> 53:39.600 Even though the law of God hasn't been given yet, they still know it's wrong to kill. The covenant 53:39.600 --> 53:44.480 he made with Noah, he made that very clear when he came off the ark. It says, 53:44.480 --> 53:49.400 says, and it came to pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses. 53:50.200 --> 53:54.200 So God made them houses because of what they did. 53:54.200 --> 53:57.900 Now, did they have to say what they said? 53:57.900 --> 54:02.300 Well, I mean, what do you think is happening here? 54:02.300 --> 54:04.440 Do you think that they're just like, 54:04.440 --> 54:07.380 they never check to see whether kids are being born or not? 54:07.380 --> 54:09.380 Of course, you probably have soldiers that are coming 54:09.380 --> 54:11.380 and checking to make sure, 54:11.380 --> 54:13.620 then you got children that are born, 54:13.620 --> 54:15.620 and somehow they're not, 54:15.620 --> 54:17.860 somehow he finds out that they're not being killed. 54:18.600 --> 54:19.600 So who does he go to? 54:19.600 --> 54:23.000 He goes to the people he charged to do it with, and then they had to say something to 54:23.000 --> 54:24.000 them. 54:24.000 --> 54:25.480 So what do they say? 54:25.480 --> 54:28.040 If they don't answer, then what's going to happen? 54:28.040 --> 54:29.800 He's going to know that they're lying. 54:29.800 --> 54:31.440 He's going to kill them. 54:31.440 --> 54:37.040 So in order to save lives, they did not tell them the truth. 54:37.040 --> 54:39.080 Is that kind of what you take out of the story? 54:39.900 --> 54:41.020 It's kind of what I take out of the story. 54:41.020 --> 54:42.100 It's what I've always taken out of the story. 54:42.100 --> 54:44.740 It's what I've always believed ever since I first 54:44.740 --> 54:45.700 came across this issue. 54:45.700 --> 54:48.860 But it says, and Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, 54:48.860 --> 54:52.300 every son that is born, you shall cast him to the river, 54:52.300 --> 54:54.580 and every daughter you shall save alive. 54:54.580 --> 54:55.940 So he makes more rules. 54:55.940 --> 54:58.860 He charged all of his people, saying. 54:58.860 --> 55:02.140 So now they're just probably like the Gestapo going 55:02.140 --> 55:04.980 from door to door, making sure that they 55:04.980 --> 55:06.140 killed all these children. 55:06.800 --> 55:09.720 But God's blessing the midwives. 55:09.720 --> 55:15.560 I'm not saying he blessed their lie or something, but they did have to say something. 55:15.560 --> 55:21.200 So which one is more important for them to keep? 55:21.200 --> 55:26.440 Saving the children or saying the truth? 55:26.440 --> 55:29.160 The whole truth and nothing but the truth. 55:29.160 --> 55:33.720 I mean I believe that they had to say, they had to answer him in a non-truthful manner 55:33.720 --> 55:34.300 here. 55:34.500 --> 55:39.500 Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I mean, I think that the story is in the Bible for a reason. 55:39.500 --> 55:43.500 And again, you don't have to agree with me on this if you don't want to. 55:43.500 --> 55:49.500 It's not like I believe that this doctrine is something that, you know, that everybody has to agree with me on. 55:49.500 --> 55:55.500 But let's go to the next one, Joshua chapter 2. Joshua chapter 2. 55:55.500 --> 55:58.400 This is the story of Rahab the harlot. 55:58.500 --> 56:00.500 And she definitely lies. 56:00.500 --> 56:02.820 There's just no if, ands, or buts about it. 56:02.820 --> 56:06.660 She lies straight through her teeth here. 56:06.660 --> 56:08.340 Joshua 2.1 says, 56:08.340 --> 56:12.820 Joshua the son of Nuns sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, 56:12.820 --> 56:15.300 saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. 56:15.300 --> 56:19.060 And they went and came into a harlot's house named Rahab and lodged there. 56:19.060 --> 56:21.700 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came in 56:22.300 --> 56:27.980 hither two night of the children of Israel to search out the country. 56:27.980 --> 56:33.980 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, 56:33.980 --> 56:39.220 which are entered into thine house, for they be come to search out all the country. 56:39.220 --> 56:45.740 And the woman took the two men and hid them, and said, Thus there came men unto me, but 56:45.740 --> 56:47.820 I wist not whence they were. 56:48.600 --> 56:51.520 So, I mean, she's kind of concealing some things. 56:51.520 --> 56:54.920 She doesn't really necessarily know where they came from, but she does know who they 56:54.920 --> 56:56.040 are. 56:56.040 --> 56:58.780 So she is lying here. 56:58.780 --> 57:02.320 She said they came, but they don't know, she doesn't know where they came from. 57:02.320 --> 57:06.040 It says, and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate when it was dark, 57:06.040 --> 57:09.640 that the men went out with her, the men went, I want not. 57:09.640 --> 57:13.020 Pursue after them quickly, and ye shall overtake them. 57:13.020 --> 57:14.120 So did they actually leave? 57:14.700 --> 57:17.580 Did they actually run the way that she said they ran? 57:17.580 --> 57:18.580 No. 57:18.580 --> 57:24.220 She told them that so that they would go away, as far away as possible, and not come back 57:24.220 --> 57:25.620 for maybe a couple days. 57:25.620 --> 57:29.980 It says, but she had brought them up on the roof of her house and hid them with stalks 57:29.980 --> 57:33.940 of flax, which she laid in order upon the roof. 57:33.940 --> 57:38.060 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords, and as soon as they 57:38.060 --> 57:42.100 which pursued after them were gone, they shut the gate. 57:42.100 --> 57:42.600 So. 57:42.900 --> 57:50.100 How did, what did Rahab do? Well she protected the lives of these spies and their spies coming into her city. 57:50.100 --> 57:53.380 They're definitely spying it out to see whether they can destroy it or not. 57:53.380 --> 57:56.020 But Rahab, I believe, is already saved here. 57:56.100 --> 58:01.420 I mean, I've preached about this before, but she's definitely trying to save their lives 58:01.420 --> 58:07.220 because their city is wicked, their people are wicked, and she is trying to preserve 58:07.220 --> 58:12.340 and save the lives of the innocent men that came there that day. 58:12.340 --> 58:18.320 And it says in Hebrews 11, 31, by faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed 58:18.320 --> 58:21.420 not when she received the spies with peace. 58:21.420 --> 58:22.940 So she knew that they were there. 58:23.500 --> 58:29.200 She knew who they were. She received them into her house when she wasn't supposed to do that by law or whatever. 58:29.200 --> 58:32.900 And when they came to question her about it, she lied to them. 58:32.900 --> 58:38.400 So, but again, the greater commandment is to what? To preserve life. 58:38.400 --> 58:45.700 Okay, so now let's turn to 1 Samuel chapter 21 verse number 1. 58:45.700 --> 58:47.700 Now, in the question of... 58:49.000 --> 58:51.500 Someone points a gun to your head and says, 58:51.500 --> 58:53.300 are you a Christian? 58:53.300 --> 58:56.740 Like the Columbine incident where they were asking people, 58:56.740 --> 58:57.420 are you a Christian? 58:57.420 --> 58:59.980 And when they'd say yes, they'd kill them. 58:59.980 --> 59:02.300 In that instance, I would think that you should probably 59:02.300 --> 59:03.340 just tell the truth. 59:03.340 --> 59:05.580 And you should probably die a martyr. 59:05.580 --> 59:07.660 I don't think that there's anything wrong with dying. 59:07.660 --> 59:10.860 I think in any of the situations, you know, 59:10.860 --> 59:10.900 you 59:10.900 --> 59:13.980 where you're choosing for yourself, 59:13.980 --> 59:15.980 I think it's perfectly fine to die a martyr. 59:15.980 --> 59:19.900 Even in Hebrews 11, it says that some chose not to, 59:19.900 --> 59:22.020 you know, to forgo, and they allow themselves 59:22.020 --> 59:23.740 to be tortured and killed 59:23.740 --> 59:26.060 because they wanted a better resurrection. 59:26.060 --> 59:29.740 So I don't think that you have to necessarily lie 59:29.740 --> 59:33.260 to get out of something, but when it comes to like, 59:33.260 --> 59:35.180 denying Christ, I don't think that that's something 59:35.180 --> 59:36.700 that we should do, I think we should. 59:36.700 --> 59:40.700 die as martyrs in those cases because some people will die as martyrs. 59:40.700 --> 59:44.700 That's been happening for thousands of years. 59:44.700 --> 59:46.700 Now, first image, chapter 21, the Bible says, 59:46.700 --> 59:50.700 Then came David to knob to Ahimelech the priest, 59:50.700 --> 59:53.700 and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, 59:53.700 --> 59:55.140 to him, why art thou alone? 59:55.400 --> 59:56.480 And no man with thee. 59:56.480 --> 59:58.360 And David said to a himalike, the priest, 59:58.360 --> 01:00:00.680 the king hath commanded me a business, 01:00:00.680 --> 01:00:03.160 and hath said unto me, let no man know anything 01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:05.720 of the business whereabouts I sent thee, 01:00:05.720 --> 01:00:08.760 and what I have commanded thee, and I have appointed my servants 01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:10.280 to such and such place. 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:12.240 Is that true? 01:00:12.240 --> 01:00:13.960 No, it's not. 01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:18.440 Now therefore, what is this thing, this under thine hand? 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:21.680 Give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, 01:00:21.680 --> 01:00:23.080 or what there is present. 01:00:23.080 --> 01:00:23.300 Thanks for watching! 01:00:23.700 --> 01:00:26.340 So now he's asking for bread that he's not supposed to have. 01:00:26.340 --> 01:00:28.340 It's the priest's bread that they put out every morning, 01:00:28.340 --> 01:00:29.060 right? 01:00:29.060 --> 01:00:30.700 And the priest answered David and said, 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:32.780 there is no common bread under my hand, 01:00:32.780 --> 01:00:35.940 but there is hallowed bread if the young men have kept 01:00:35.940 --> 01:00:37.260 themselves at least from women. 01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:39.220 And David answered the priest and said unto them, 01:00:39.220 --> 01:00:41.060 of truth, women have been kept from us. 01:00:41.060 --> 01:00:41.300 you 01:00:41.500 --> 01:00:49.260 about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread in a manner common. 01:00:49.260 --> 01:00:52.140 Yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 01:00:52.140 --> 01:00:56.940 So the priest gave him hallowed bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, 01:00:56.940 --> 01:01:02.940 that was taken from before the Lord to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. 01:01:02.940 --> 01:01:05.900 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day. 01:01:06.100 --> 01:01:11.100 detained before the Lord, and his name was Doag and Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul. 01:01:11.100 --> 01:01:17.100 And David said to him, like, And is there not under thine hand spear or sword? 01:01:17.100 --> 01:01:23.100 And I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. 01:01:23.100 --> 01:01:28.100 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, 01:01:28.100 --> 01:01:31.100 behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:36.800 If thou will take that, take it, for there is no other save that. 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:39.680 And David said, There is none like it, give it me." 01:01:39.680 --> 01:01:45.600 So David is not telling the truth here about being on some special mission from Saul. 01:01:45.600 --> 01:01:47.180 And he gets the bread. 01:01:47.180 --> 01:01:49.300 Why is he getting this bread? 01:01:49.300 --> 01:01:50.300 Because he has no food. 01:01:50.300 --> 01:01:55.880 You know, he's trying to keep his men alive, keep them sustained as much as he can. 01:01:55.880 --> 01:01:58.080 And so you kind of have two things here. 01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:04.760 He's lying to not put himself in jeopardy or his men in jeopardy to get them killed. 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.400 And he's also getting the showbread. 01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:12.200 And, you know, he's getting the sword, all that. 01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.900 He's definitely lying about these things. 01:02:15.900 --> 01:02:21.660 But Jesus brings this up in the Gospels about this specific instance. 01:02:21.660 --> 01:02:23.580 It says in Matthew chapter 12, 1, it says, 01:02:23.580 --> 01:02:26.860 At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn, 01:02:27.340 --> 01:02:32.380 and his disciples were unhungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 01:02:33.580 --> 01:02:36.700 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, 01:02:36.700 --> 01:02:40.300 Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. 01:02:40.900 --> 01:02:45.300 He said unto them, Have ye not read what David did when he was unhungred, and that were with him? 01:02:45.300 --> 01:02:50.020 How they entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for them to eat, 01:02:50.020 --> 01:02:54.660 neither for them which were with him, but only for the priest? 01:02:54.660 --> 01:03:00.500 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priest and the temple profaned the Sabbath, and are blameless? 01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:07.200 But I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple, but if you have known 01:03:07.200 --> 01:03:11.880 what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the 01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:16.000 guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." 01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:19.040 And so what is he teaching this principle? 01:03:19.040 --> 01:03:25.440 Well, saving their lives was more important than keeping that law of not allowing them 01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:26.280 to eat the showbread. 01:03:27.200 --> 01:03:32.000 Okay, so preserving life is more important than that law. 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:36.080 So the priest gave them that without even a struggle. 01:03:36.080 --> 01:03:38.160 He's just like, here you go, here's the showbread. 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:41.040 And were they breaking the law by doing that? 01:03:41.680 --> 01:03:42.400 Absolutely. 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:46.880 And so Jesus uses that story from David in the Old Testament to say, 01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:49.600 well, we're not really breaking the law either. 01:03:49.600 --> 01:03:50.640 They're hungry. 01:03:50.640 --> 01:03:51.360 They're picking the... 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:58.460 They're picking things off the wheat kernels, off the wheat, and eating them. 01:03:58.460 --> 01:04:03.460 And he says, by the way, even though all this is, you're talking all this stuff, he's like, 01:04:03.460 --> 01:04:07.060 I'm the Lord of the Sabbath also, by the way. 01:04:07.060 --> 01:04:11.660 So, he is the one that made the Sabbath day in the first place. 01:04:11.660 --> 01:04:18.420 So, he is, you know, but in the other story, what's being done? 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:23.200 A law is being broken so that they can have food to eat to survive. 01:04:23.200 --> 01:04:29.080 And he's also not telling the truth so that him and his men don't get killed because Saul 01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:34.400 is actually trying to kill David and his men, not sending them on a special mission. 01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:38.640 And so to preserve their lives and to preserve the lives of his men, he's not just going 01:04:38.640 --> 01:04:40.160 up and telling them everything. 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:45.100 Because and look I'm not saying that necessarily everything he said there was right or whatever 01:04:45.640 --> 01:04:52.000 But you know you don't owe the truth to somebody that's going to use it to kill you and destroy you is basically 01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:55.880 What I'm seeing in these three stories, okay, so 01:04:56.560 --> 01:04:59.160 There was actually a case of a Baptist 01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:06.360 Church splitting over this doctrine. It's called the 1804 schism in Kentucky 01:05:07.100 --> 01:05:11.560 and it involved long-run Baptist Church in Jefferson County 01:05:11.560 --> 01:05:16.480 splitting over a fiery theological debate about whether a person is ever justified 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.940 in telling a lie to save their own life or the lives of others. 01:05:20.940 --> 01:05:27.820 The specific ethical dilemma that famously fractured the congregation was the Indian problem. 01:05:27.820 --> 01:05:33.320 What was happening is Indians, this is in the time of when the West wasn't even settled yet, 01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:33.400 Thanks for watching! 01:05:33.600 --> 01:05:35.960 This is when, yeah, I mean... 01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:37.200 Kentucky was the frontier. 01:05:37.200 --> 01:05:41.000 Yeah, Kentucky was the frontier. 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:44.880 Was his name Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:49.120 and all those guys were the ones that were the frontiersmen 01:05:49.120 --> 01:05:51.640 or whatever, the famous guys or whatever. 01:05:51.640 --> 01:05:52.500 So... 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:59.000 So during this time, the Indians were still, you know, regardless of what our history now tells us, 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:02.840 that there were just peaceful basket weavers that, you know, we stole their land or whatever. 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:07.160 In reality, they're going around scalping people, murdering people, raping women, 01:06:07.160 --> 01:06:11.300 killing children, taking them captive, eating each other. 01:06:11.300 --> 01:06:18.100 killing each other. The tribes were doing that well before we ever got here. Well before Columbus ever, you know, sailed the ocean blue, 01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:20.440 they were killing each other too. So 01:06:21.020 --> 01:06:23.660 that's just the way it is. It's just a fact of history. 01:06:24.140 --> 01:06:28.720 But they try to whitewash all that stuff and make us look like these evil colonizers. 01:06:28.720 --> 01:06:32.880 But in reality, what happened in this situation was there was a father of 01:06:33.500 --> 01:06:39.220 five children and these murderous invading savages came and they killed four 01:06:39.300 --> 01:06:44.880 of his children and they're asking him, you know, do you have any other children that 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:51.880 are still alive? And one of his sons was hiding somewhere and they didn't find him, he was 01:06:51.880 --> 01:06:57.800 hidden. And so he lied and said, no, I don't have any other children. Which, who in their 01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:02.480 right mind would tell them where their other child was so they could kill them too? I mean, 01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:03.480 I wouldn't do that. 01:07:04.600 --> 01:07:08.280 Some self-righteous person might do that, but I'm not going to do that. 01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:09.560 I mean, that's just crazy. 01:07:09.560 --> 01:07:12.000 Why would you tell them, oh yeah, he's over there. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:13.040 Go kill him too. 01:07:13.040 --> 01:07:15.000 Like, that's weird. 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.080 I don't understand that mentality. 01:07:17.080 --> 01:07:19.120 But they got in a big fight about this. 01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:19.760 Here's the split. 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:22.560 The split was the congregation bitterly divided on whether the father was 01:07:22.560 --> 01:07:26.480 justified in lying to save his last child. 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:27.720 The group that supported them. 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:32.000 the permissibility of lying, left the church 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:36.520 and formed the Flat Rock Church in March 1805. 01:07:36.520 --> 01:07:39.480 This debate is well-documented in regional archives, 01:07:39.480 --> 01:07:43.000 including J.H. Spencer's Kentucky Baptist history. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:44.620 So you can read up about it if you want. 01:07:44.620 --> 01:07:46.540 It's kind of interesting. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:52.800 You definitely have to find the right trail of internet stuff, but that's it in a nutshell. 01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:58.360 They split over the fact that that guy lied to those savages so they wouldn't kill his 01:07:58.360 --> 01:07:59.360 son. 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:01.300 I mean, how self-righteous do you have to be? 01:08:01.300 --> 01:08:05.560 They literally split because he saved his son's life. 01:08:05.560 --> 01:08:07.040 I mean, that's weird. 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:19.300 I just don't get that. Now if he's dying because he wants to say yes, I believe in Jesus, and then they tomahawk him to death or whatever, 01:08:19.300 --> 01:08:22.300 I think that that's perfectly fine to die for that reason. 01:08:22.300 --> 01:08:29.300 But, I mean, it's one thing to die for your own, like you want to be a martyr for something that you choose to do, 01:08:29.300 --> 01:08:35.300 but to choose to kill somebody else, have them kill somebody else when they're trying to hide and try to stay alive, why would you do that? 01:08:35.300 --> 01:08:37.300 To me, that's the greater sin. 01:08:38.100 --> 01:08:39.500 You know, just like Jesus said, 01:08:39.500 --> 01:08:42.700 He who hath delivered me to you 01:08:42.700 --> 01:08:45.500 hath committed the greater sin. 01:08:45.500 --> 01:08:48.700 I mean, Jesus says that multiple times in the Bible. 01:08:48.700 --> 01:08:51.700 So, obviously there is a greater sin. 01:08:52.100 --> 01:08:53.940 The Jews did the greater sin. 01:08:53.940 --> 01:08:57.100 Yeah, the Romans killed Jesus, but who actually brought them to Him? 01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:59.500 Who was the one that actually falsely accused Him? 01:08:59.500 --> 01:09:02.100 Who was the one that was actually following Him around from place to place? 01:09:02.100 --> 01:09:07.500 The only Romans that were following Him from place to place were asking Him to heal people and their families. 01:09:07.500 --> 01:09:11.300 The only reason why they killed Him is because they were saying, 01:09:11.300 --> 01:09:18.100 you know, you're no friend of Caesar, you know, and trying to move them politically against Him. 01:09:18.100 --> 01:09:19.100 So... 01:09:19.900 --> 01:09:24.900 David ate the showbread because it was to preserve his life. 01:09:24.900 --> 01:09:31.300 I mean, Rahab lied to the Canaanites because she wanted to preserve life. 01:09:31.300 --> 01:09:35.940 And the midwives lied to the Pharaoh because they wanted to preserve life. 01:09:35.940 --> 01:09:38.700 They wanted to probably keep on doing it. 01:09:38.700 --> 01:09:42.340 So if they lied, I mean, because if they said, well, we don't care about our lives, 01:09:42.700 --> 01:09:48.700 What about the next kids that are born tomorrow, the day after that, the day after that? 01:09:48.700 --> 01:09:51.420 I mean, it's not like they necessarily cared about preserving their own lives. 01:09:51.420 --> 01:09:57.580 I think they just cared about being able to continue to be midwives and keep saving children. 01:09:57.580 --> 01:10:00.020 You know, what would have happened to baby Moses? 01:10:00.020 --> 01:10:03.700 What would have happened to tons of kids that wouldn't have been born if it hadn't 01:10:03.700 --> 01:10:08.140 have been for those midwives doing what was right and saving and preserving life? 01:10:08.900 --> 01:10:11.620 And again, all sin is not equal. 01:10:11.620 --> 01:10:13.580 Therefore, when faced with hard choices, 01:10:13.580 --> 01:10:15.080 such as keeping the greater commandment, 01:10:15.080 --> 01:10:17.820 we must discern which commandment is 01:10:17.820 --> 01:10:19.900 the greater commandment. 01:10:19.900 --> 01:10:22.980 And again, I don't believe that we owe the truth to them that 01:10:22.980 --> 01:10:27.820 would use that truth to kill us unless it's dying as a martyr. 01:10:27.820 --> 01:10:31.500 And making that choice for yourself is perfectly fine. 01:10:31.500 --> 01:10:35.220 But if you're like, I will not lie, 01:10:35.220 --> 01:10:35.600 Thanks for watching! 01:10:36.200 --> 01:10:39.400 By the way, my whole family is hiding underneath the basement steps. 01:10:39.400 --> 01:10:44.840 I have a fake little thing covered up with a rug, and they're right underneath there. 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:51.020 Yeah, there's this movie called the glorious bastards or whatever and it's like they're underneath the stairs aren't they? 01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:55.920 It's like he just gives them all up, you know and let's them all get smoked or whatever 01:10:56.400 --> 01:10:59.420 But I mean we don't have to be like that 01:10:59.420 --> 01:11:04.840 We don't have to tell everybody so that everybody else gets killed make that decision for yourself, but don't take some 01:11:05.660 --> 01:11:11.700 Over-the-top holler than now stance that you and everybody else, you know should die because you won't lie 01:11:12.300 --> 01:11:18.500 I mean, so in that Kentucky split, one group was called the lying Baptists, and one group 01:11:18.500 --> 01:11:21.580 was called the truth-telling Baptists. 01:11:21.580 --> 01:11:27.780 But I would just say this, and look, I'm not saying that lying is right, but I probably 01:11:27.780 --> 01:11:30.380 would have been on the side of the lying Baptists in that situation. 01:11:30.380 --> 01:11:36.500 Because I'm not going to just let some savages tomahawk my children and scalp them or whatever 01:11:36.500 --> 01:11:38.500 weird things that they were probably 01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:45.680 going to do to them. Not happening. I'm going to protect life because it's the greater commandment. 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:50.320 And look, this can play out spiritually in spiritual life too. 01:11:50.320 --> 01:11:54.480 Look, one time we were out souling, this was before we started the church, 01:11:55.120 --> 01:12:00.320 and we were out souling and one of the caring apartment managers, you know, story that we've... 01:12:00.500 --> 01:12:04.380 We all know well and true, happens a lot to us out there. 01:12:04.380 --> 01:12:09.900 Well, she caught one of the people that we were out soul hunting with, it was this lady, 01:12:09.900 --> 01:12:15.540 and she said, are there any other people here with you that are doing the same thing? 01:12:15.540 --> 01:12:19.900 And she didn't have, I mean, here's my thing, she didn't have to answer, she could have 01:12:19.900 --> 01:12:20.900 just said, okay, we're leaving. 01:12:20.900 --> 01:12:25.820 And she didn't have to lie, but she could have just said, hey, yeah, I'm just going 01:12:25.820 --> 01:12:26.600 to go, okay. 01:12:26.900 --> 01:12:28.400 and not answer her. 01:12:28.400 --> 01:12:29.460 But what does she do? 01:12:29.460 --> 01:12:33.180 She takes her around and rats out every person that's 01:12:33.180 --> 01:12:36.840 at the complex and showed her where everybody was 01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:39.860 so that we all had to leave. 01:12:39.860 --> 01:12:42.900 It's like, why would you do that? 01:12:42.900 --> 01:12:45.980 Because you're so righteous that you don't want to lie, 01:12:45.980 --> 01:12:47.380 that you're just going to rat out everybody that's 01:12:47.380 --> 01:12:48.100 getting people. 01:12:48.100 --> 01:12:49.900 Because I think that some people were actually even preaching 01:12:49.900 --> 01:12:51.900 the gospel at that time. 01:12:51.900 --> 01:12:52.700 It's like, 01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:56.800 Now you're messing with someone's spiritual life. 01:12:56.800 --> 01:12:57.800 You know? 01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:07.800 I wonder how many people would have got saved that were supposed to get saved because that person chose the high road of not lying. 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:13.800 And not only not lying, but hey, let's rat out all the soul winners and tell them so that these people can't get saved. 01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:15.800 I mean, is that the righteous thing to do? 01:13:16.700 --> 01:13:21.020 Or should you just shut up and leave and let the people get caught if they're going to get caught? 01:13:21.660 --> 01:13:26.220 And you know who would do that? Someone that wants people to die spiritually? Yes. 01:13:27.340 --> 01:13:33.180 I mean what other reason could you have other than you just want to be self-righteous and some 01:13:33.180 --> 01:13:38.700 spiritual holier than now? But that I mean and that's someone's eternal destiny. 01:13:39.660 --> 01:13:43.500 You know if someone's already saved and they die a martyr or whatever they at least they go to heaven. 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:48.400 But you're stopping someone from actually getting saved and going around and ratting 01:13:48.400 --> 01:13:49.840 out all your fellow soul-wonders. 01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:51.520 What kind of person does that? 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:54.720 Someone that's not right with God, I'll tell you that. 01:13:54.720 --> 01:14:00.440 So I mean there's more ways to do, you know, to commit this, you know, to do these things 01:14:00.440 --> 01:14:02.520 and just to be a problem. 01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:06.520 I mean, again, you want to be a martyr? 01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:07.520 Then knock yourself out. 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:07.800 you 01:14:07.800 --> 01:14:12.300 but don't be some kind of a... look I don't want to be anywhere near you when the tribulation hits 01:14:12.300 --> 01:14:17.300 and I have my family with me because if this is... if you want to be the truth-telling Baptist... 01:14:17.700 --> 01:14:19.820 and tell everybody where my family's hiding, 01:14:19.820 --> 01:14:22.780 I don't want to be anywhere near you when the tribulation heads. 01:14:22.780 --> 01:14:25.420 You go off and be with your truth-telling Baptist people, 01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:27.020 and we'll split right here. 01:14:27.020 --> 01:14:28.020 We'll be friends in heaven. 01:14:28.020 --> 01:14:31.940 You can explain to all the people that you ratted out in heaven 01:14:31.940 --> 01:14:33.900 why you let their family members get killed. 01:14:33.900 --> 01:14:37.100 I mean, are you following my logic here? 01:14:37.100 --> 01:14:38.580 Hopefully you are. 01:14:38.580 --> 01:14:40.100 And again, you don't have to agree with me, 01:14:40.100 --> 01:14:42.020 but then we'd both be wrong. 01:14:42.020 --> 01:14:42.520 So, um. 01:14:43.500 --> 01:14:50.500 So if your mentality is that you would just turn over everybody, allow your children's hiding place to be divulged because lying is a sin, 01:14:50.500 --> 01:14:56.500 again, please do not be my partner, my friend in the tribulation. Just stay far away from me. 01:14:56.500 --> 01:15:02.500 All right? And that is the end. We'll cover the rest of the chapter next time. All right. Let's pray. 01:15:02.500 --> 01:15:07.500 Lord, thank you so much for the Scriptures. Lord, and to some people this... 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.400 They might not agree with this, that's fine. 01:15:10.400 --> 01:15:13.560 There's good people that don't believe this necessarily. 01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:16.680 But Lord, I just hope, pray that you'd help us 01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:18.520 to follow the spirit of the law 01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:20.000 when it comes to these things, 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:22.200 and to not be spiritual, holier than that 01:15:22.200 --> 01:15:24.040 when it comes to stuff like this. 01:15:24.040 --> 01:15:24.880 Lord. 01:15:25.300 --> 01:15:28.660 to obey the greater commandment, to keep the greater commandment. 01:15:28.660 --> 01:15:32.020 And Lord, help us to have the scriptures be 01:15:32.020 --> 01:15:35.060 always the thing that we rest upon when it comes to 01:15:35.060 --> 01:15:38.660 the things that we believe. And help us also, Lord, 01:15:38.660 --> 01:15:43.140 to always get on the same mindset that you're on, Lord, and help us to not... 01:15:43.400 --> 01:15:48.200 Help us to not drift and get bitter over things that we somehow are blaming you for. 01:15:48.200 --> 01:15:51.160 Help us to not blame you for anything. Just help us to be on the same page with you 01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:55.080 on all the things that you believe so that we would believe those things also 01:15:55.080 --> 01:16:01.880 and that our walk in this world would be improved and better because we agree with you, Lord. 01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:10.040 We thank you and we love you. Take us home safely, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 01:16:14.100 --> 01:16:17.940 Alright, turn with me to our last song, 307 in the blue. 01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:24.040 307 in the blue. My faith looks up to thee. 01:16:34.100 --> 01:16:36.100 All together on the 1st 01:16:36.100 --> 01:16:41.100 My faith looks up to thee 01:19:27.200 --> 01:19:28.200 Close this with a prayer please.