The Bible reads word of the Lord came to me again saying what mean you use this turning the land of Israel saying
Fathers have eaten or eaten sour grapes children's teeth are set on it as I live faith the Lord God you shall not have occasion
Any more to use this proverb in Israel behold all souls are mine the soul of the father
So also the soul the son is mine so that sin it shall die for man be just
And do that which is lawful and right and has not eaten up the mountain neither has lifted up
His eyes to the idols of the house of israel neither has defiled his neighbor's wife neither has come
Near to a monstrous woman and have not oppressed any but has restored to the debtor his pledge
Have spoiled none by violence have given his bread to the hungry and have covered the naked with a
Garment he that has not given forth upon usury neither has taken any increase that has withdrawn
his hand from iniquity had executed true judgment between man and man have walked in my statutes
and have kept my judgment to deal truly he is just he shall surely live say the lord god
people got a son that is a robber cheddar of blood and that doeth the like to any one of these things
and that doeth not any of those duties but even has eaten upon the mountains and defiled his
neighbor's wife and have oppressed the poor and needy has spoiled by violence have not restored
the pledge and has lifted up his eyes to the idols of tremendous abomination has given forth
upon usury and has taken increase shall he live shall he then live he shall not live he have done
all these abominations he shall surely die his blood should be upon him now lo he begot a son
see if all his father sins what he have done and consider it and doeth not such like that have not
eaten up eaten upon the mountains neither have lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of
israel not defiled his neighbor's wife neither have oppressed any have not withholding the pledge
neither have spoiled by violence but have given his bread the hungry and have covered the naked
with a garment had taken off his hand from the poor that had not received usury nor increase
because it executed my judgment had walked in my statue he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father he shall surely live as for his father because he truly oppressed foiled his brother
by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. Yet say ye, Why, does not the Son bear the iniquity of the Father? When the Son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. So that sinneth, it shall die. The Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father, neither shall the Father bear the iniquity of the Son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and he that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him. In his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live.
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways and live?
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and commiteth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live?
All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned. In his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel, is not my way equal, or not your ways unequal? The man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive; because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Yet, saith the house of Israel, the way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel,
are not my ways equal, or not your ways unequal? Therefore will I judge you, O house of Israel,
every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions,
whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die,
Israel? No pleasure in the death of Him, the Diet, say the Lord God. Wherefore, turn yourselves,
and live ye. All right, the title of my sermon this morning is Don't Pass the Buck. Don't Pass
the Buck. And the verse I want to focus on here in verse number 20 is, "The soul that sinneth,
it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him." And basically what this verse is teaching is that everybody's
responsible for their own actions. And you know, if a father commits sin, that sin is upon himself,
and it does not transfer to his son. His son is not responsible for the sins that his father
commits. And likewise, if a son commits sin, it is not the father's responsibility because that son
has the choice of whether he's going to sin or not. And this plays out in our world too. I mean,
I'm not, I have not chosen the same path that my father has chosen in his life, and he's not
responsible for any decisions that I've made in my life. Now, of course, you know, everybody's born
into whatever status, country, poor, rich. We didn't get a choice in what family or what parents
we were born onto, right? So, but God still holds each person personally responsible for their actions,
for what choice they make, of whether they get saved or not. And so, like, is it God's fault that
you were born into a poor household or a household where both parents were atheists? Is that, I mean,
are we to blame God that that person doesn't get saved? No, because according to this passage, that
a son can look at what their parents are like and say, "Hey, you know what? I don't want to be like
that," or "I don't want to be dysfunctional. I want to change. I want to be something different."
And everybody gets the light of Jesus in their life at some point. They hear about Jesus even
in India or the darkest places of the world, including North Korea. People still sneak stuff
into North Korea. People have heard of Jesus there too. Yes, it's highly oppressed, but
people still have heard of Jesus all around the world. His name has gone out throughout the whole
world, and obviously there's places that are way darker. They've rejected the gospel as a whole,
as a nation, but they're still remnant in every place in the whole world. And I'm really just,
I get sick of this "pass the buck" mentality in our world where people are like, "Well,
it's this person's fault because this person is this way." Now, maybe there's some, you know,
extenuating circumstances of why maybe someone could, you know, maybe their life was a little
bit harder because of who they had as parents or whatever, but ultimately the decision according
to this passage is the person's responsibility, personal responsibility for how they turn out,
what decisions they make, and ultimately whether they get saved or not. You know, does God throw
a father in hell because of what their son does? Is that what this passage is teaching? No. Now,
just to give you a little bit of context here, Ezekiel is a prophet to the exiled people of Israel
that are living by this river Kibar, okay? And he said, "The people are not going to listen to you,
but I still want you to preach to them anyway." God knows they're not going to listen. Now,
this is the people that were taken out of Israel. They were not destroyed with the destruction of
Babylon, but God spared them. He let Ezekiel preach to them. Now remember that children of
Israel were taken out for 70 years and some of them were taken to Babylon. Some of them were
made eunuchs like Daniel. Daniel was made a eunuch and did he cry and say oh man my dad was so bad
it's my fault that my you know what got chopped off and now I sing a little higher notes and
you know Nebuchadnezzar is wicked and I'm just gonna you know rebel against him and stuff and
it's my fault it's my dad's fault that I'm here. No he just did what he was supposed to do. Was
Daniel saved? I mean he's named it if Noah, Moses, and Daniel were here I would still destroy this
place even though they were you know he mentions that that's a pretty high honor to be named with
Noah, Moses, and then Daniel. So Daniel despite the fact that he was in some I mean he could have
blamed God for you know being a eunuch could have blamed his parents for why he was exiled from
Israel but really it was mercy that God took Daniel out of there because he would have got
killed with everybody else and you know obviously he didn't have any children but Daniel was highly
loved by God so but I'm just saying that everybody has a personal decision to whether they're going
to follow God whether they're going to be like their parents maybe their parents are good
and the son's bad it's just this is what the Bible teaches and I don't understand why people
get this mentality that it's somebody else's fault why they ended up in a predicament that they did
stop blaming somebody else for your problems and this is a huge problem in our generation today
but it's been generations past I mean God is saying that there's a proverb here that the
fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge what does this mean well it
means exactly what what are you saying so I've ever eaten a sour grape a little tiny grape off
of the line and you're like oh this little cute little grape it's probably going to be and then
it's like really sour and like sets your teeth on edge it means it's like it's like eating a
a warhead or some kind of sour candy right and what it's saying is they've eaten that
and their children feel that sourness in them so that it's their parents fault that their life is
a wreck you see what I'm saying so God's saying you're not going to say this proverb anymore
I'm going to straighten you out with this doctrine and so we need to understand that it's what God
says that matters it's what the bible says that matters not our opinion not the opinion of some
other pastor it's what the bible says okay now the reason why I titled this sermon don't pass
the buck is because of this you know who's heard the term don't pass the buck the buck stops here
okay this is where it comes from a buck is a marker called a buck and it was used to show
whose turn it was to deal in playing cards in like the 1800s and early 1900s this marker was
often a knife with a buckhorn handle I did not know this before I researched it I heard politicians
say this the buck stops here you know and so you know we're going to take personal responsibility
is basically how it's used today but this marker you know when it's your turn to deal in cards
who's ever played cards and it's like oh it's your turn to deal it kind of goes in a in a circle
and what would happen is a player whose turn it was could pass the buck knife to the next player
and say i don't want to deal who's not good at shuffling cards here me i like to pass the buck
because i don't like to shuffle cards because i'm not good at it because you know when someone's
really good at and they're just like you know and then they can really shuffle cards really well
and you're like you know and you just can't do it very well it's embarrassing so that's probably
why people would pass the buck but anyway that's how the term began so but what what it really
means to us now is to shift the responsibility for a task or a problem to another person
and to avoid blame by blaming someone else and that's what i don't like i don't like this
mentality it permeates for our whole society well i was in a dysfunction home and dysfunctional
home and that's why my life is a wreck now now you can change those things you can change from
if you grew up in a dysfunctional home you can change those things and decide hey i want to be
in a functional household i want to get married i want to have children i want to raise my children
the way god says to raise them i want to have a marriage the way god says to have that marriage
you can change those things and maybe look no life is perfect no family is perfect no marriage is
perfect but we can do the best that we can it doesn't have to be the train wreck of alcoholism
or drug abuse or a broken home or a divorce marriage or children you know that weren't
raised right it doesn't have to be that way and some of the families in our church are proof of
that a lot of the families in our church are proof of that so quit blaming other people and other
things for your failures it's just a weak cowardly way to avoid blaming yourself instead of blaming
i mean blaming other people instead of blaming yourself so um you know it wasn't my fault i was
born this way who's heard that excuse before no you know this is what homos say i was born this
way and they're lying because the bible says that they weren't born that way they were given over to
a reprobate mind because they hated god so no you weren't born this way you're just a god hater
alcoholism is a disease i i'm i have a disease it's called alcoholism no you're a drunkard just
admit you're an not you're not an alcoholic it's not as maybe you have a proclivity from it from
your family being alcoholics from time past but you are an alcoholic you're you're not an alcoholic
you're a drunkard why don't you say what the bible says you are and just get past it it says saying
oh it's my dad's fault that i was an alcoholic or whatever no it's maybe it's your a proclivity
in your family genetics and but you don't who forced you to put a bottle to your mouth who
forced you to drink beer nobody forces you to do that you can decide not to do that um i'm big
boned no you're fat just stop eating as much and you can lose weight um i'm gonna just say i'm a
glutton i'm gonna lose some weight she's a little loose no she's a whore you know people you know
just close your legs i just i just tell a little white lies sometimes no you're just a liar you
know you're a false a false witness you know i've had 21 abortions no you're a murderer you're a
child killer you know these women i you know they wear these t-shirts now i i've had 21 abortions
so you've killed 21 of your own children that's what you've done you know i just and you're a whore
by the way so and then guys will be like oh i'm just a player no you're a whoremonger what's worse
though is when you know people have these issues or problems and they just want to dump them on
other people they want to blame other people they want to pass the buck and just say hey it's not my
fault i was born into this family my mommy didn't hug me my dad didn't love me enough or whatever
and they just put all their problems the reason why they have all these issues
on somebody else and that person is just passing the buck aren't they do you have to act that way
do you have to behave that way do you have to dress up in women's clothing because you know
oh my mom didn't hug me so now i have mommy issues so now i'm just going to dress like a woman
and you're a man i mean look that doesn't make sense i was molested so i'm going to molest other
people like what is that like you would think you'd want to do the opposite if someone hurt you as a
child why would you want to hurt other children like don't pass the buck no you're just a weirdo
now that's your that's your problem there's lots of people that get molested as children and they
don't turn out to be weirdos so don't be a weirdo and according to ezekiel chapter 18 god's irritated
with that issue too he's irritated with people he's irritated because he says stop saying that
parable stop saying the children's teeth are set on edge stop saying you've i've eaten sour grape
or my dad ate sour grapes and my teeth are set on edge it's it's it's my dad's fault the Babylon
took us away i didn't do anything it's my dad's fault but let me just recall something to your
memory didn't Zedekiah all he had to do is humble himself and give up and say oh to the king of
to king Nebuchadnezzar uh hey i give up and god would have spared everybody there he would have
spared all of his sons but what did he do he was afraid that his friends were gonna make fun of him
oh the the other princes are gonna mock me he's afraid of being teased by his friends he would
rather be captured and have his eyes put out after seeing his sons all put to death by Nebuchadnezzar
he made a run for it he thought he was going to get away and they caught him they killed all
his sons in front of him they poked his eyes out and they took him to Babylon i mean who would
would you rather get made fun of or have your eyes your sons killed before you i mean that's
not even a choice but jeremiah said i beseech you listen to the word of god because i mean
zedekiah came to to jeremiah one more time he gave him one more chance he had the power in his hand
to just stave off the judgment and look god wiped jerusalem like he would wipe a plate clean wash
it and put it in the in the strainer he destroyed it he completely destroyed the temple and everything
and it wasn't just Zedekiah it was all the people of that generation so it's not like it was just
the generation before that or that or before that or before that it was culminated up to that point
but Josiah the king right before him he was a good king wasn't he he staved off the judgment but
check this out manasseh was one of the most wicked kings that ever was a king in juda then he got
saved at the end of his life then his son was Josiah then Josiah was a was one of the greatest
kings his son was wicked is it Josiah's fault that his son was wicked i mean we just have this
mentality that every time some son is wicked in the bible they were just a bad parent or something
like that's just a bizarre is that what this passage is teaching we just put the sins of all
these wicked kings on the on their dads like i mean you can see where there's failures in parenting
but is it their fault does god say well you know that one time when he prayed when hezekiah prayed
for an extra you know he was sad because he turned against the wall and he prayed and god said i'm
going to put what do you say like 15 more years on your life manasseh was born after that 15 years
was added to his life it's your fault hezekiah you shouldn't you shouldn't have prayed for that
you shouldn't have prayed and felt sorry for yourself no god gave him the extra 15 years
that's like oh is it god's fault that manasseh was born then i mean really are we going to blame god
now no so according to god he's irritated with this mentality that it's somebody else's fault
and you know it's the father's fault and now this generation that ezekiel is preaching to
is saying it's somebody else's fault so point number one or statement number one this morning
is the soul that sins shall die the soul that sins shall die look at verse number one the bible
says the word of the lord came unto me saying again saying what mean ye now this is god speaking
here through ezekiel the prophet what mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of israel
saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge what are you
trying to say here as i live saith the lord god ye shall not have occasion anymore to use this
proverb in israel because he's about to straighten them out behold all souls are mine as the soul of
the father so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall die so he's using
this comparison he's just saying hey the father's or souls are mine the son's souls are mine but
he's saying the scent the soul that sinneth it shall die he's putting what personal responsibility
here personal responsibility but if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right and has not
eaten upon the mountains neither have lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of israel
neither have defiled his neighbor's wife neither have come near to a monstrous woman
and hath not oppressed any but hath restored to the debtor his pledge has spoiled none by violence
hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment he hath not given forth
upon usury neither hath taken any increase and hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath executed
true judgment between man and man he hath walked in my statutes and have kept my judgments to deal
truly he is just he shall surely live saith the lord so i mean obviously this is in the old
testament they were under the old covenant during this preaching during this message i
understand that um and i'll get to that here in just a minute but i'm just saying when a person
lived right when they did that which is right they're not committing a bunch of sin you know
obviously there are sins in the new testament that are not unto death but the bible does say
in the new testament there are sins that are unto death and i and i say that you should not pray
for them you know when someone does something against you you shouldn't pray for their death
every time someone sins against you okay that's just not the right way to go about things okay
or your boss at work you know made you work overtime it's like kill him lord i mean that's
just a weird thing to be like all right don't be like that so anyway it says he hath hath walked
to my uh look at verse 10 i'm sorry if he beget his son so the the father is saying the father's
done right right if he beget a son that is a robber a shedder of blood and that doeth the like to any
one of these things and doeth not any of those duties but even hath eaten upon the mountains and
defiled his neighbor's wife hath oppressed the poor needy hath spoiled by violence hath not restored
the pledge and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols hath committed abomination hath given forth
upon usury and hath taken increase shall he then live he shall not live he hath done all these
abominations he shall surely die his blood shall be upon him you know and these are these are pretty
serious sins that god is calling out here and but notice he says he his him this is singular this is
first person pronouns okay he is saying that this person is responsible for the things that he's
doing it's not the other person's doing he's making a difference here between the father and
the son one's doing right and doing true one is not verse 14 now lo if he beget a son that seemeth
all his father's that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done and considereth and doeth
not such like so so now he's saying lo if he beget a son that he seeeth the father's sins
and he hath done and considereth see you have a choice you can consider what somebody else is
doing and it says and doeth not such like you don't have to make that same decision you don't
have to follow a parent that is doing wrong so look you have a choice is that what God's saying
here am i crazy is that what it's saying it is what it's saying he does have a choice to not do
what a father has done if he is sinful even very sinful he does have a choice in the matter he
doesn't have to follow you know people have there's that saying well he sure walks in his
father's footsteps or the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree you've heard those sayings right
and people do do that but do you have to do that no you don't even in homes where a father or both
parents are wicked people could decide that they don't want to be like them they can get saved and
do good and again nasa and josiah are very perfect uh illustrations for that but look at verse 15 it
says um that hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lifted up his eyes and so on and so
forth i'm not going to read every single sin again here but look at verse 17 it says and has
taken off his hand from the poor and has not received usury or increase hath executed my
judgments hath walked in my statutes he shall not die for the iniquity of his father he shall surely
live you see how god's not holding him responsible for what his dad did do you see that right there
look look at it again the very end of verse 17 he shall not die for the iniquity of his father
he shall surely live is that god's judgment or not as for his father because he cruelly oppressed
spoiled his brother by violence and did that which was is not good among his people though even he
shall die in his iniquity so what's god saying when they're two completely different people
one is saved the other is not or even if both are saved because look you can be saved and do
wickedly you can it is a fact that is true you don't have to be and i'm just saying this we live
in a you know god saved us by his works we're saved by his works not by our own works not by
our own righteousness it's according to his righteousness we are saved so the only reason
why we have any righteousness at all is because it's jesus's righteousness that he imputed upon
us and our only prerequisite for salvation is that we put our all of our faith in him all our
trust in him he did all the heavy lifting he did all the work and all we have to do is believe in
him that's what the bible says we get everlasting life now if we do wickedly on this earth you know
we are we have free will you know and if we don't walk in the spirit you know we will fulfill the
lust of the flesh our flesh is not redeemable until jesus comes back and changes these vile bodies
and so we do have two natures within us we have the the spiritual man and we have the flesh
and if we don't walk in the spirit we will fulfill the lust of the flesh so i mean does it i mean
when we look at this passage we we can look at it from a new testament view where these things
can apply either way there you know one that you can apply it where the wicked here are unsaved or
you can apply it whether they're saved and just living wickedly okay but you can also apply it
where because at the end it says that they you know you need to have a new heart and a new
where you where the person needs to get saved or whatever i would just say you could apply this in
different ways okay so it says or even if both are sick you know so even if both are saved
one lives wickedly the other does not what is god's judgment on the situation though
and remember this is god speaking to the children of israel through the prophet ezekiel take this
today as god is speaking to spiritual israel because that's who we are we're no longer there's
no longer a nation of israel that god is using for his purpose on this earth that is done you
know there's a nation called israel over there but they're not doing god's will they're israel
after the flesh they're not spiritual israel we are spiritual israel and that's what the bible
teaches over and over once you see it you can't unsee it so and because the bible in every chapter
in every verse is written for our admonition and uh let's just hold your finger here because we're
going to come back to ezekiel chapter 18 but turn to second timothy chapter 3 verse 16 and of course
this is a super famous passage in scripture second timothy chapter 3 verse 16 it says all
scripture is given by inspiration of god does it say all scripture all of it right and is profitable
for doctrine what is doctrine it's teaching right for reproof so tell someone hey you're not right
about that for correction to correct someone that's not right for instruction and righteousness hey
what's right and what's wrong okay that the man of god may be perfect truly furnished unto all good
work so what the whole amount of scripture is is there for us everything in here is what we need
we don't need the book of enot because it's not the word of god we don't need the apocrypha
because it's not the word of god we don't need extra biblical sources because it's not the word
of god everything that's in here is for our admonition it is for our doctrine is for
reproof for correction for instruction righteousness that we may be perfect not that we're walking on
water but that we can be complete and well well-rounded christians and that we would be
truly furnished unto all good works so god wants us to do good works doesn't he look at uh let's
let's go back to ezekiel chapter 18 verse number 19 so my second point here is that and this is a
question does a son bear the sin of his father or the father of the sin of his son and i feel like
i've already kind of established this of course but what sayeth the scriptures that's the most
important thing what does the bible say because a lot of people are like hey well this preacher
says this this preacher says that but what does the bible say what does god say here look at verse
19 this is god speaking here through ezekiel yet say ye why and what what is the question why but
why though this is what people like to ask oh but why though doth not the son bear the iniquity of
the father and god's gonna explain it again for the very thick and slow-minded people and keep
you know they're by this river that he's trying to you know preach his message to it says when
the son hath done that which is lawful and right and hath kept all my statutes and hath done them
he shall surely live i mean that's pretty plain and simple isn't it the soul that sinneth it shall
die the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity
of the son so let me just read that for you again in slow motion the soul that sin it that shall die
the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
son is that real clear is that real plain is god just speaking in plain english there for us to
understand do you get it i mean it's not really that hard the righteousness of the righteous shall
be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him you do wicked you're going to be you
know that's that's that's on you if you're doing righteousness that's on you also it kind of sounds
like we're responsible for our own actions doesn't it we're responsible for our own choices doesn't
it sound like that brother bell so i thought so let's look at some other scriptures because
yeah but you can say well yeah but you're taking this out of context pastor thompson
this is for this people at this time you're not really rightly dividing the word of truth okay
well let's look at some old testaments verses first deuteronomy 24 verse 16 because this isn't
just an ice i mean this is god speaking though so it should be just good enough but deuteronomy 21
verse 18 it actually is covered in the law of moses before ezekiel preaches it here deuteronomy
chapter 24 verse 16 is that what i said no deuteronomy 24 verse 16 i'm sorry go there first
i might have said that sorry uh the thought it says the fathers shall not be put to death for
the children neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers every man shall be put to
death for his own sin i mean is that pretty clear so if your if your son does something it's not
your fault if your dad does something it's not your fault all right deuteronomy 21 verse 18
now let's turn there deuteronomy 21 verse 18 now this is one of the scriptures that really
upsets non-christians and some you know faint-hearted christians that have never
heard bible preaching before they only hear the hymns they never read the psalms the psalms that
they read are only the ones that are like psalm 23 you know and because i mean psalm 23 is great
too but they never see the impregnatory psalms or when their pastor's studying them in the bible
they get they get to the part about breaking teeth out and stuff like that and they stop
overall at a time for this bible study brethren they never get to the hairy parts of the bible
you know so look at this passage though deuteronomy 21 18 says if a man have a stubborn
and rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that
when they have chastened him will not hearken unto unto them so have they chastened him and
they still won't listen right then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring
him out unto the elders of the city and unto the gate of his place and they shall say unto the
elders of his of his city this our son is stubborn and rebellious he will not obey our voice he is a
glutton and a drunkard do you think this kid's five years old he's a drunkard and a glutton he's
eating up all the food all the pig's feet all the hog moss no he's a drunkard and a glutton he's
probably 18 19 years old maybe he's 16 maybe he's 15 i don't know but somehow he's become a drunkard
he's eating up all the food he won't obey our voice they take him to the elders of the city
and it says and all the men in the city shall stone him with stones that he die so shalt thou put
evil away from among you and all israel shall hear and fear now i'm sure this is a really
extreme case but the death penalty was put upon children that were extremely encourageable and
it's not mean that they encourage people it means that they're just not reprobable they're not
fixable they just won't obey their parent and look today this is just a this is a huge problem
in our country it's a huge problem in the world where you know children will rise up and strike
their parents strike their grandparents and you know we have this gentle parenting method
and you know take away their nintendo or you know put them in timeout and all this other stuff
instead of just yeah the doctor spock gentle parenting all this other stuff you know now
you know you take them into the store and they're they rage out because you don't buy them something
and then you're not supposed to do anything just just walk away you know in schools in public
schools i guess if someone starts acting all crazy all the kids get taken out of the classroom and
then they bring in like the hostage negotiators or whatever and try to talk the kid out of his
little tantrum or whatever you know what happened to me in in school the vice principal who came in
just gave you a look and then you're going to the office to get paddled i mean that was in public
school i got paddled more than once i wasn't encourageable i got i got spanked at in a public
school by the vice principal the vice principals were like the the goons at school the principals
were always really nice but the vice principals were like these you know these husky burly guys
that were no nonsense and they had paddles sometimes drilled with holes and everything
and i got spanked at school for spitting by a girl i didn't spit on her i just spit on the ground
i pretended like i was gonna spit on i went like that paddled i mean they didn't play and now like
it's bringing the hostage negotiators what's what's the problem are you okay have you experienced
racism do you need a safe place you know it's just like what in the world i wonder why there's a lot
of kids like this so notice it didn't it doesn't say they will ask that they ask them questions
maybe they did maybe they asked them did you chase in your son because it says when they had chased
in their son so maybe that is the question they asked well did you chase in them have you spanked
them did you you know but notice that they didn't just say well what did you do what did you do to
make your kid like this did they say that is that what it says in this passage no did they take the
side of the children no they took the side of the parent they said look this is how this kid is
and then they took the side of the parents didn't they they put the father to death or they put the
children the child to death they put the child to death didn't they and like i said this is not
preaching that people like and sometimes people just get up and walk out of your church when you
preach and stuff like this but you know what the our church is like the 0.001 percent that will
actually preach the bible in this country and i don't i don't really care i'm going to continue
to preach stuff like this this is what the bible says am i reading stuff that's not in the bible
no and so it doesn't say that they asked the question they didn't say answer the question
parent what did you do what did you do to make them like this why are they a glutton why are
they a drunkard what what happened why are you doing this they didn't say hey this isn't afghanistan
you know what you're ruling by constraint doesn't work did they say that no but you know ruling by
constraint constraint doesn't always work and this is the case where it doesn't work and this is what
the prescription was when it doesn't work because you do have to rule your children by constraint
you do have to spank them and it sounds like this kid was a teenager or more it says when you have
chasing them so i'd say this is a pretty good case for still chasing your teenagers so anyway
ruling by constraint doesn't always work though they don't it doesn't always work so what was the
prescription taken before the elders of the church look i'm again this is an extreme case
i'm not saying that if you're you know that that they're like oh you're not going to listen this
one time dead no they just he would not this is a bad kid that's so bad he won't listen to them at
all so sometimes it doesn't work in this case this is what was done and in this rocky movie
he doesn't get back up okay so no he's leaving this earth this is what happens so kids if you
think god is on your side in rebellion against your parents you're actually wrong about that
according to the bible he's not at all and when your parents are strict with you it's for a reason
it's because they don't want you to turn out like this kid right here and so but this is what god
thinks about you when you are rebellious against your parents when you do rise up against them
when you do rise up and strike your parents he says you should get the death penalty for that too
when you tell your parents you hate them when you rebel against them then try to you know put shame
upon them and you know what he doesn't care if you got spanked he doesn't he wants you to get
god wants you to get spanked he says it like read the proverbs chase a nice son while there is hope
you know you don't want your child we don't want our kids to go to hell look god looks at he looks
at it like this if we don't chase in our children we don't love our children i'm not saying beat them
and abuse them to an extent that's not right saying that he does expect us to chase in our
children so you know i think the question does i think one question does get asked to them you
know based upon the context of what it's saying here did you chase in them okay well you're done
turn to glacius chapter six glacius chapter six here's some new testament ones if you like well
you're you're living in the old testament preacher well let's look at some new testament ones let's
say we're responsible for our own actions well we're supposed to help other people with their
problems too and that's what teamwork is all about as christians we're part of one big team
you know team jesus right but look at equation six one it says brethren if a man be overtaken in a
fault ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thyself
lest they'll also be tempted so hey you can help people but if you think you're going to be tempted
with the problem they have because you had that problem before you should consider that there you
want another one's another's burdens and so fulfill the law of christ so we should help each other
right for if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceives himself well let
every man prove his own work so at the end of the day our own work is what we have to prove
and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not another can't live vicariously through
other people's stuff at the end of the day yeah it's we god wants us to help other people
but you know you can't just live through other people's stuff for every man shall bear his own
burden you see that are we responsible for ourself then yes we are let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things be not deceived god is not mocked for
whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he that soweth to his flesh shall reap of
shall reap the flesh so of the flesh excuse me reap corruption but he that sowed to the spirit
shall of the of the spirit reap life everlasting so what i'm saying here is that you know even as
saved people if we're just constantly sowing to our flesh then we're going to reap fleshly things
reap corruption but when we sow to this you know to the spirit we're going to reap of the spirit
life everlasting hey when we get someone saved that's an everlasting life for that person
and when we're earning rewards in this life for have you know towards heaven you know for godly
things then those things are everlasting rewards and it says but let us not let us not be weary and
well-doing because look doing well doing good works it can be weary it can make us weary it
can make us you know want to stop doing those things but god what's what's he saying let us
not be weary and well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not and fainting is like
being you know it's like i'm too tired to do this anymore i'm just sick of the grind and all that
kind of stuff and it says as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men so all
means all we'll just do our best to to help all people especially unto them that are the household
of faith so people that are saved you know that should be our first primary thing is to do well
for other people help bear one another's burdens but you know we should do good to all men so
you know people that aren't saved hey get people saved um help people that you can help but
especially those that are the household of faith so when we're doing well you know obviously we're
responsible for our own self and that's just the point of this passage though is that we will you
know we're ultimately responsible for the things that we do romans 14 10 romans 14 10 now this
context is talking about personal decisions that christians can make um what kind of food you know
it's what holidays certain people you know if you want to celebrate a holiday and somebody else
doesn't we're not supposed to destroy each other over things that are personal decisions you know
that don't really mean anything someone wants to celebrate christmas somebody else doesn't
we shouldn't be fighting about things like that it's stupid so whether someone wants to
eat meat and someone else doesn't it's not something that we should have these quarrels
about it says but why does thou judge thy brother or why does thou set it not thy brother for we
shall all stand before the judgment seat of christ for as written as i live saith the lord every knee
shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to god so then every one of us shall give account
of himself to god see how it's just a single person there we still shall give account to
ourselves and it says let us not therefore judge one another anymore but judge this rather that
no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way so you know even
though that person has a personal decision to fall or not a stumbling block does what makes
people trip so we shouldn't put things in people's way to make them trip and make them stumble like
saying hey you know let's do this or let's do that but it's still that person's personal decision to
fall or not but we shouldn't put things in people's ways to make them stumble you know we shouldn't
cause someone to sin basically but they're still ultimately responsible whether they sin or not
you see that and everyone must give an account to himself to god i can't give an account to somebody
else i got it i can only account for myself second corinthians 5 9 and basically i'm just showing you
that it's personal we have personal responsibility for ourselves you know obviously as a father we
give account for those types of things you know as how good we were as a children how good i was as
a pastor those types of things are separate things but i'm just saying ultimately at the end of the
day we we do give account to our what we did as christians how we were as christians look at what
it says in second christians 5 9 wherefore we labor that whether present or absent we may be
accepted of him for we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ that everyone may receive
the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad so and look
i'm not saying we're going to be judged to some kind of a thousand year purgatory or anything
weird like that but we will appear before the judgment seat of christ and we will give an
account of what we did in our in our body or not is that what the bible says am i like smoking
crack or something no that's what it says so the bible says what it says that's the new testament
look at philippians chapter 2 verse 12 but notice how it says that you're going to give an account
of yourself you know i can't give an account for somebody else that did things in their own body
i'm not responsible for what other people do if you call someone to stumble that's wrong but
ultimately they did whatever someone could say hey i don't think the bible says you can't drink
alcohol they can say that a pastor can preach that and pastors do preach that but you have a
decision you knew you had a problem with alcohol before they're like well yeah he's making a good
point you know you start well i can handle it i don't have to get drunk but why do you what makes
you think that if you were an alcohol or you're a drunker before sorry see i was brainwashed here
i was gonna say alcoholic if you were a drunker before and you're just like yeah the pastor that
pastor's right i can drink and then you start drinking but i'm not going to get drunk i just
want to have a beer after work well that beer is going to turn into two and like nobody buys a
single beer after work you're either going to buy a six pack that turns into a half rack that turns
into the 24 pack that turns into a 36 pack or whatever other packs they got but obviously you
could buy a 40 if you want to be some kind of wino in the corner with a paper bag around it or
something anyway i'm just saying you're personally responsible for yourself don't get enticed by
these types of things but again that's a stumbling block if someone said hey it's you know preachers
that preach like that they're preaching and they are held to a higher standard like that but
philippians 2 12 what does it say wherefore my beloved as ye have always obeyed not as in my
presence only but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
now this is not talking about that you have to work for your salvation this is what heretics will
say but it's talking about exercising your faith you know when you're saved you're going to
exercise the faith that you have and we need to work out you know it's like when you're lifting
weights or something you're working out you know your exercise program but it's work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling so we you know it's talking about doing works but see how it
says your own you can't hey you brother bill i expect you to be working out tomorrow i'm just
going to make sure that you do it from over here i just watch you work out that's weird right
i'm not responsible you know for your workouts i can encourage you to work out now brother
elijah's always like come on over to the barbell do some barbells with me i'm like yeah okay no
but is he responsible for me working out no he's not but he's offering he's just like hey come on
over at four o'clock in the morning i'm like five o'clock in the morning is it five o'clock in the
morning oh okay not five o'clock in the morning maybe i'm wrong all right sorry i'm railing
against you all right matthew 12 that's 12 did i finish that oh no i'm sorry verse 13 it says for
you can go ahead and turn to matthew 12 says for is is god which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure so for his god that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure god doesn't want us to do things so but it is still our personal responsibility to choose
to do those things or not Matthew 12 31 it says wherefore i say unto you all manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be
forgiven unto men and whosoever speaketh the word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him
but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world
neither in the world to come and so it says in verse 33 either make the tree good and is
in his fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt for the tree is known by
his fruit oh generation of vipers how can you be an evil speak good things for out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good
things and an evil man out of the treasure of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things but i say
unto you that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned this is
individuals isn't it so the person that says no i'm not going to get saved i'm an ather they answer
the door i'm pagan or i'm atheist i don't want to hear it those words will be held against them in
the day of judgment hey i didn't know jesus i didn't know well let's i know there's no jumbotron
up there but those words somehow are going to be recalled in their mind and those are going to be
held against them on the day of judgment and then they're going to be cast into hell they had
opportunity to get saved they refused to hear the word of the lord they had people come to their
door i mean there's people that we come to their door and it's the only person ever came to the
door i still have never had a baptist or any kind of actual soul winner come to my door and and
preach to god try to preach the gospel to me not one time so i mean but there are people that we
went to and i'm i'm pretty sure no one's ever going to go to that person's door again and you
know they have a testimony that someone came to their door and it says for thy word for by thy
words thou shall be justified now there's people that we went to the door and they trusted christ as
their savior they'll be justified because of that but nobody can get saved for you you have to get
saved on your own it's your own words your own responsibility to get saved and it's your
responsibility if you get damned to hell i mean i people say god is not how could god be a loving
god when he sends people to hell well i mean he loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten
son but you chose to not love him you chose to hate him you chose to reject him well do you let
murders and thieves and robbers and all those types of people in your house well why would god want
those types of people in his house with people that are no longer those things i mean that's
just a weird way to look at things i mean do you want jeffrey dommer coming over for your house
for dinner i certainly don't and he's in hell so and i don't want him hanging out with me in heaven
and neither is god and so god loves people he's not gonna allow those types of people in heaven
you're responsible for your own words and whether they condemn you to eternal damnation
or justify you to eternal life it is your choice you did that if you blast him the holy ghost i
mean they had that blasphemy challenge online where you upload a video of yourself they're
encouraging kids and stuff to upload a video of yourself blaspheming the holy ghost so they could
loot they would lose their other a chance to be saved forever and people were doing it it's like
that's your choice you did that you know isn't that what biden was saying you did that or whatever
anyway last point here there's a hope for the repentant and a scourge for the backsliders
look at verse 21 it says but if the wicked will turn from all his ways or excuse me verse yeah
ezekiel 18 21 but if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my
statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not die all his
transgressions that he hath committed that they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness
that he hath done he shall live have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the lord
god and not that he should return from his ways and live but when the righteous turn when but when
the righteous turn away from his righteousness and commiteth iniquity and doeth according to all the
abominations that the wicked man doeth shall he live all his righteousness that he hath done
shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he had trespassed and his sin that he has sinned and
then shall he die yet you say the way of the lord is not equal here now oh house of israel is not
my way equal or not your ways unequal when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness
and commiteth iniquity and dieth in them for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die so it's
just saying if a saved person just lives this really super wicked life and god decides to just
end his life early or whatever that's his fault and god's going to do justice to that person just
like he would do anybody else it's like that's equal but if an unsaved person or a saved person
that's living wickedly and they're like okay i'm going to turn this around i know i'm not living
right i'm going to come back like the prodigal son or whatever and do that which is right then
god will decide hey i'm not going to keep chasing this person i'm not going to kill this person
they're going to live so it says verse 27 again when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness
that he hath committed and doeth that which is lawful and right he shall save his soul alive
because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed
and shall surely live he shall not die yet stay at the house of israel so this is what people say
the way of the lord is not equal oh house of israel are not my ways equal are not your ways unequal
because what's their what's their unequal ways it's somebody else's fault daddy made me do it
dad's like my son made my son made me do it it's my son's fault if my kids weren't so wicked you
know or if my dad wasn't so wicked or my parents weren't so wicked i wouldn't i wouldn't have never
done that see their ways are unequal but god's ways are like hey this person's personally
responsible for the things that they've done and they're going to reap what happen they're going
to reap what they sow verse 30 therefore i will judge you oh house of israel everyone according
to his ways saith the lord god repent and turn yourselves from all the all your transgressions
so iniquity shall not be your ruin cast away from from you all your transgressions whereby
you have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will you die oh house
of israel for i have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the lord now again take this
for what you will but it says a new heart and a new spirit so if someone's unsaved of course this
can't be taught i mean nobody that's a reprobate can get saved by making a new heart and a new
spirit so if someone's unsaved of course all they have to do is get saved by calling upon the name
of the lord believing believing in jesus calling upon the name of the lord but so you have the
spiritual death that anybody that is not saved is going to go to hell but if you're already saved
and you're just backslidden really horribly backslidden then you can get right with god at
any time there's hope for the backslider but the person that's just uh backslidden in heart and
just refuses to get right then god is eventually going to deal with you according to your ways
and god look god's long suffering he's just not waiting behind you know every corner for every
little thing you do and just waiting to smash you in the face and kill you for everything not saying
that i don't think that we should live our life according to that feeling like god's just going
to smoke us for everything we do but um but we should expect that the ways that we in which we
live our life that god is the same yesterday today and forever obviously we're in the new covenant
i understand that but there's still a lot of new testament passages that teach us these things
so i don't think that he's changed in that way we are righteous because of what jesus did for us
that's it but when we walk in the flesh you know the bible still teaches that christians do still
sin in their flesh so do with that what you will so there's been a lot of drama though
that's caused over the fundamental issue go ahead and turn to proverbs chapter 22 verse 6
and there's been a lot of drama over how people interpret this verse but i used to interpret this
verse like no matter what you do if you try and train your child exactly perfect that they're all
going to turn out right no matter what they're all going to get saved no matter what but as i
and even before all this controversy started i already had changed my mind on this passage
but it says in proverbs 22 verse 6 it says train a child the way you should go train up a child
the way you should go and when he's old he will not depart from it so some hold this verse as an
absolute promise that if you're a great parent that every kid you have will turn out saved and
good but i mean unfortunately that flies in the face of a lot of scripture a lot of children in
the bible and it just it doesn't it's just not it doesn't always hold up to be true and so i
believe that it's a it's generally true but i don't think it's a hundred percent now you can say well
that kid turned out wrong and jacob's like jacob's whole his whole family basically did wrong and then
at the end they kind of did right at the end of their lives when they were older they seemed to do
well but at the beginning they were pretty rotten except for joseph joseph was the only good one out
of all of them but in the end everything kind of seemed to work out so um but other people they do
hold this verse to be like it's a hundred percent of promise no matter what and if you you're any
of your kids don't turn out to be zealous missionaries that wear dress and their wives
wear dresses and skirts and marry pastors why their pastor's wives or whatever then you did
something wrong it's your fault but kids do have free everybody has free will just like this passage
is teaching you know your person every person is personally responsible for the decisions they make
whether they get saved or not whether they're going to follow god or not not everybody chooses
to be on fire for god and everybody chooses to be a missionary or a pastor and that doesn't make
you better than anybody else anyway so it just it's it's kind of a lot to live up to and then
if one of your kids do you know they don't do as good as some of the other kids or whatever
then it's like well what did i do and they just live in this constant like i did something wrong
it's my fault what they're doing is my fault it's like you know when children leave your home
they're responsible for themselves you're responsible for them while they live in your
home so but uh we are absolutely not saved and go to heaven from turning from our sins
i just want to make sure that you understand that in that last portion that we went through
it's not what that's i'm not teaching that so and i don't think that we should take that
from the people will twist that passage and say see you got to turn from your sins to be saved
that's not what that's not what it's teaching so but according to this verse though and i've seen
a lot of people have this cognitive dissonance where they're like well i believe that this path
this train up a child the way you should go is generally true but then they'll say when you're
talking about the pastor anderson controversy with his children they're like i think this is
generally true but pastor anderson must be wicked because of his children i'm like well how does
that jive with ezekiel chapter 18 how are you going to say that when you don't know that for sure
it's like but well it's because his kids are wicked it's like aren't you aren't you judging
something when you don't know for sure i mean i just i don't i don't see how you can do that
and look at the scriptures honestly and and say that so i mean you're like well yeah but they're
wicked it's like but if you believe it's generally true and not a promise no matter what then you
can't believe two opposing things at the same time cognitive cognitive dissonance is this
it's a mental discomfort experienced when a person holds two conflicting beliefs or when their beliefs
are contradicted by their actions to relieve the tension individuals may change their beliefs or
behaviors and rationalize the contradiction or seek out new information to justify their inconsistency
so what that means is your whole you believe two different things at the same time but when those
those things collide then you just like it's you experience this uncomfortable feeling and then you
try to rationalize why how you believe something different at the same time and then you you've
contradicted yourself by your actions or you try to relieve that tension to change and you change
your beliefs or behaviors because of it and i've had a lot of people uh that call me and ask me
about these types of things and they believe two different things at the same time they'll be like
well i believe it's generally true when i asked him about this verse and then they'll say well i
just know that he did something because his kids are bad it's like well how can you believe it's
generally true but then believe the other thing at the same time it doesn't make sense now jacob's
kids were human trafficked uh they human trafficked their brother joseph who later sold the whole
nation of egypt into bondage bondage during the seven-year famine so even though joseph was a
great guy he was the bible doesn't really say he did anything wrong but if you read between the
lines there during that seven-year famine he bought all of egypt and gave all that stuff to
pharaoh and then when jacob came with all the sons the 70 sons they they lived in goshen and
then the first generation the pharaoh that didn't know joseph put all of all the children of israel
to bondage for over 400 years so i mean it's kind of like reaping what you sowed i'm not saying
joseph was wicked just saying that something he did kind of came back on the rest of the nation
so i guess you could say that he did do something that wasn't exactly right i mean after being human
traffic you'd think that he wouldn't want to sell the whole nation into bondage but anyway juda
came up with the idea to sell joseph instead of murdering him which you know which originally
what that that were going to kill him remember they they plotted together to kill joseph
and he's like let me sell let's sell him for 20 pieces of silver you know which pictures judas
iscariot and because he would have got they would have got 30 pieces of silver but he was only like
17 years old at the time so they got the marketplace for a slave which was 20 pieces of silver so juda
also had two sons that were so wicked that god killed them and then he went to his former
daughter-in-law which should have been the next daughter-in-law he promised to his next son in
line who he thought was the harlot on the side of the road got her pregnant and when he found out
she was pregnant he was going to have her burned and then she produced the proof that the twins
in her belly belonged to him and then he decided not to burn her and so wasn't exactly the greatest
guy in the world as he started out was he and then reuben the firstborn of jacob lie with his
concubine which is was his wife and jacob heard about it pretty weird to sleep with your own
stepmother but okay and then simian and levi slaughtered a city and enslaved their women
and children and plundered all their wealth for fornicating with their sister who speaking
of her name was dina played the horn her father's house and lie was sheckham who did want to make
things right and marry her but her brothers murdered him and his whole family took them all
as slaves and made their name to stink in the land the rest of the sons in the bible
it was said that joseph raised an evil report on them and that's why they all hated joseph
and because they were wicked and he dreamed a dream that they would all bow before him one day
which ended up being true right so when it says train up a child the way he should go when he's
old he will not depart from it let's turn to one last verse here one last passage genesis chapter
15 will be done genesis chapter 50 verse 15 so i mean i guess you could say in a way this
verse comes true in genesis chapter 50 because after jacob dies they go and bury him in the
promised land and they all come back right and joseph has already revealed himself to his brothers
you know he is second in command in in egypt and they think well after everything that we did to
joseph because remember they they went on with this lie they dipped his coat of many colors into
goat's blood and then they presented it to their father and and all those years before they found
out that joseph was alive before he found out they had to tell him that joseph was alive
they presented this coat of many colors with blood and said surely a beast had torn him so they let
their dad believe all those years that joseph was dead they never told him they felt bad about it
but they're not not bad enough to tell him the truth right so then they had to tell him the truth
because joseph revealed himself when they went during the famine to get seed and bread right
so genesis 50 verse 15 the bible says and when joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead
they said joseph will perventure or perhaps hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which
we did unto him and they sent a messenger unto joseph saying thy father did command before he
died saying so they're lying here he didn't command this so shall you say unto joseph
now i think that this is generally from the heart them saying them asking this from the heart but
they're saying that their dad said to say this right forgive i pray thee now the trespass of
thy brethren and their sin so they're admitting what they trespassed against joseph and they sinned
against him for they did unto the evil and now we pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants of
the god of thy father and joseph wept when they spake unto him and his brethren also went and
fell down before his face and they said behold we be thy servants so this fulfills the prophecy
of the dream that joseph had that really started off this whole thing in the first place
and joseph said unto them fear not for i am am i in the place of god now of course joseph pictures
christ when you know jesus said fear not multiple times and you know jesus you know came to his own
and his own received him not this is pictured in this uh this story but as for you you thought evil
against me but god meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive
now therefore fear you not i will nourish you and your little ones and he comforted them and spake
kindly unto them so in the end they all kind of you know even judah he went to his dad he's like
i will bring him back again and he said that uh you know he kind of came up with the plan he's
just like you know if i don't come back with him that'll be upon me forever which kind of
which pictures christ so at first he pictures judas his name is judah which is you know the
transliterated form in the greek from the greek to english is jude is the same name but then
he pictures jesus in the end where he's willing to take the blame for him forever and it says
when they you know so so basically all of them kind of did this about face they felt bad
they repented they got right with joseph in the end so doesn't that train up a child the way
he should go when he's old he won't depart from it so was was jacob really that bad of a dad or
were his sons just really wicked i mean do you believe that the children of israel were saved
i mean god built a whole nation off of them to say that they none of those guys were saved
were they wicked though they were wicked weren't they they were really wicked a lot some of them
were really wicked but i believe they were saved and i believe in the end they got right when they
were old they didn't depart from it they got right with their brother and they lived on into you know
living you know a right life before god when they were old they sought that forgiveness they felt
bad for what they did and even before that you know the dealings with benjamin and all that
it seems like they already had they already felt bad for what they did and you know the chickens
came home to roost but joseph forgave them you know so anyway so what is the the moral of this
whole what was the message i wanted to to to bring forth today quit passing the buck you know deal
your own cards take responsibility for your own actions and allow people to take responsibility
for theirs quit blaming people for other people what other people do quit assuming things that
you don't know what you're talking about and god is the god of justice so why don't you let him
serve it instead of you trying to you know play monday morning quarterback with everybody
and god you know he'll he'll do what's right and why don't we just start agreeing with what god
says in the bible and stop making up our own doctrine based upon who our favorite pastor is
and you know just start agreeing with him quit putting around and halting between two opinions
and having cognitive dissonance with what you believe if you believe one thing just stick with
what you believe but uh you know make sure it's based upon the bible and it doesn't matter what
other people say it doesn't matter what your guidance counselor says it doesn't matter what
your favorite podcaster says doesn't matter what your favorite ex new ifb pastor says doesn't
matter what your favorite ex new ifb stalker says you know it matters what god says so let's just go
with what he says and let's pray lord we thank you so much for the bible pray you'd help us to
just discern what the bible says and we'd live by that instead of what other people say what other
men say what other pastors say and just stick with what the bible says in jesus name we pray amen