Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Faith is the victory.
Oh, glorious victory that overcomes the world.
Zoey.
433.
Okay, in a major page 433, sing it out on the first.
Hey, last one.
Eli.
Page 423.
Page 423, joy to the world on the first.
Heaven, heaven, nature sing.
Announcements?
That was the last one.
We can do one more.
Got another one?
Right here.
56?
Can we all get to heaven, page 56?
Sing the wondrous love of Jesus.
Sing his mercy and his grace.
In the mansions bright and blessed.
He'll prepare for us a place.
When we all get to heaven.
What a day of rejoicing that will be.
When we all see Jesus.
We'll sing and shout the victory.
Man, apparently I wasn't paying attention.
Sorry about that.
All right, welcome back to the Church Foundation Baptist Church.
Look at our bulletin.
If you need a bulletin, why don't you raise your hand?
One of the ushers will bring you on.
On the front cover, we have our verse of the week.
It says, the crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.
We're in Genesis chapter 14, verse 24.
Our service times are Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m., Sunday evening, 3 30 p.m.
We're in Genesis chapter 34 tonight.
And Thursday Bible study is at 6 30 p.m.
We'll be in 2 Corinthians, a new book, brand new book this week.
So it would be a good time to, if you're not normally here on Thursdays, to come on that service.
Our soul winning times are listed below.
We had soul winning today.
If you had this salvation, would you lift up your hand and just show me how many you had?
One here, one there.
I thought somebody else had a couple.
I thought Sean had two, three.
So four total?
All right, amen.
Praise God.
So four salvations for the afternoon soul winning.
Great job, everybody.
And sorry it was a little weird.
We thought there was a gated community.
It didn't end up being gated.
So it worked out that we had four salvations.
The first door I knocked was a really mean lady.
So I think some people got some mean doors.
So I got all the mean doors, so hopefully you got some good doors.
Anyway, if you look down, you can see the praise report, the salvations, baptisms, and attendance totals for last week.
And our Christmas choir practice, just a quick announcement, is going to be right after the service for the kids.
It will meet right here.
And we have a men's singing group that's going to be meeting in the back room there.
So if you're a man and you want to sing with that group, I think we have like ten people that are doing it.
You are welcome to join up.
And I think, did you guys have the songs picked out yet or not?
How many songs you got?
Three.
Three songs, all right.
So three songs, so the practice will be right after the service in that back room.
So if you could get your kids that are going to be in the kids' choir here and then clear that room out.
No games right after the service, kids.
This isn't a jungle gym.
No, I'm just kidding.
We don't play games here, but we have games back there.
But anyway, I'm just kidding.
But right after the service, we do need to clear that out.
So kids, you're practicing over here.
So anyway, after the practices are over, you're welcome to play the games or whatever.
But anyway, this Wednesday, I forgot to announce this this morning that we have our men's leadership class.
So if you forgot about it, you better get your stuff done.
And we'll be here at six o'clock.
So if you're in the men's leadership class, 6 p.m. here at the church building.
And if you don't know what your homework is, then you're kicked out of the class.
No, I'm just kidding.
You should know your homework, though.
But anyway, it wasn't that hard.
But remember to have a sermon ready for the end of the class.
And remember to watch your sermon that you're supposed to watch.
And that's it.
So if you have any questions, just ask me after the service.
December 11th, we have the ladies' cookie exchange.
And that's at the Bender home.
And then December 16th, we have the kids' cookie and ornament decorating here at the church building at 2 p.m.
December 19th, we have the Christmas service, children's choir and men's group singing.
The primary of dinner is after the morning service.
December 23rd, we have a candlelight service here at the church building on Thursday night.
December 31st, we'll pray the new year, 9 p.m. Play some games before that.
I haven't decided what time we're going to get here, but we'll figure it out.
And ping pong tournament, we'll have a foosball tournament also for anybody that wants to do that.
And then if you get some volunteers that want to put the brackets together, that would be great.
If anybody was interested in doing that, I'd appreciate it.
So then January 1st is the New Testament challenge.
That begins our reading of nine chapters a day in 30 days to get through the whole New Testament.
So your goal should be, like I said, to get through the whole Bible in one year if you can.
But it starts with the New Testament challenge.
And so once you get that one done, it's 30 days, and then you've got the other 11 months to read the Old Testament.
And sometimes it can take that long, can't it?
So it's a long book.
So anyway, that's a good thing to get started on.
And then all the other stuff.
I don't think we have any visitors here tonight except for Evan.
But other than that, no, I'm just kidding.
Anyway, it's good to see you, brother Evan.
It's Nicky.
Let's see.
So, yeah, let's just move on with our service.
We'll sing another song and we'll receive the offering.
Turn to page 425.
No room in the inn, page 425.
Page 425, no room in the inn.
On the first verse.
No beautiful chamber, no soft cradle bend.
No place but a manger, nowhere for his hen.
No praises of gladness, no thought of their sin.
No glory but sadness, no room in the inn.
No room, no room for Jesus.
Oh, give him welcome free.
Blessed you should hear at heaven's gate.
There is no room for thee.
No sweet consecration, no seeking his part.
No humiliation, no place in the heart.
No thought of the Savior.
No sorrow for sin.
No prayer for his favor.
No room in the inn.
No room, no room for Jesus.
Oh, give him welcome free.
Blessed you should hear at heaven's gate.
There is no room for thee.
On the last.
No one to receive him.
No welcome while here.
No balm to relieve him.
No staff but us here.
No seeking his treasure.
No weeping for sin.
No doing his pleasure.
No room in the inn.
No room, no room for Jesus.
Oh, give him welcome free.
Blessed you should hear at heaven's gate.
There is no room for thee.
Good singing.
Brother Sean here too, will you bless the offering?
Thank you so much for this day, Lord.
Thank you.
Genesis 34, the Bible reads,
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter.
Now his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it.
And the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, and lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.
I pray you, give her him to wife, and make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
And ye shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
And Shechem said unto her father, and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift. I will give according as ye shall say unto me, but give me the damsel to wife.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor's father deceitfully, and said, Because he had defiled down of their sister, and they say unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that were a reproach unto us.
But in this we will consent unto you, if you will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised, then we will give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us.
And we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. But if you will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
And the young men deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was more honorable than all the house of his father.
And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, These men are peaceable with us.
Therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein, for the land behold it is large enough for them.
Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Only herein will the men consent unto us, for to dwell with us, to be one people.
If every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised, shall not their cattle and their substance of every beast of theirs be ours?
Only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearken all that went out of the gate of his city, and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field.
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
And I, being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with in Harlot?
Brother Evan, will you pray for us?
Dear Lord, thank you for this day, Lord. Thank you for this church.
Amen. All right, we're in Genesis chapter number 34.
And the title of this sermon is The Defiling of Dinah. The Defiling of Dinah.
Now, last chapter you saw Jacob make some wise judgments concerning his family.
You know, he took his family, and he got away from Esau.
Remember Esau was like, Hey, come to my, come on over to my house.
And he's like, Yeah, I'll see you there, bro.
And then he like went on to Canaan and because, you know, that's what God told him to do.
So he made that decision. He's like, Should I go and be with my family or should I go to Canaan where God told me to?
And so he went to Canaan where God told him to.
So here we pick up where, remember, Jacob had built him a house.
He built the garage, the two car garage where he could put the cattle in and all that stuff.
And so he planted himself there in the land where God told him to.
And remember the Bible kind of, it doesn't kind of teach, it teaches that we're supposed to be in the world but not of the world.
So here in, you know, every Christian should understand that principle.
You know, that we're not supposed to be worldly.
We live in the world. We go out into the world to preach the gospel to people.
We're supposed to shine our lights before the world.
The love of Christ is supposed to shine through us and we are the light of the world now that Christ is gone.
So obviously Christ is the savior but he actually said we're the light of the world.
Now, Jacob, let's look at verse number 31.
It says, And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
So right away, you know, and this is his only, this is, as far as I know, this is Jacob's only daughter.
So he has 12 sons, you know, the 12 tribes of Israel come from his loins and he has the one daughter with Leah.
And she goes out to see the daughters of the land.
It says, When Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her and defiled her.
So what was wrong with what he did? Well, it's called fornication.
The Bible teaches you're supposed to be married before you lie with someone in that way.
Now, I don't want to get too graphic tonight because of, you know, children, of course, and it's just, you know,
the Bible uses euphemisms like this so that it doesn't have to get into graphic detail.
But he saw her and he took her. Remember the sermon this morning?
He saw it, he took it. Well, he took something that didn't belong to him.
He took somebody else's daughter and lay with her, you know, and so he coveted after her, obviously.
And it says that he defiled her. Now, what does it mean to be defiled?
Well, it means to make something dirty, right?
And so because he was not married to her, you know, the Bible teaches that you're not supposed to do those acts without being married.
And so, but here's the problem. What was she doing out in the land by herself in the first place?
So Jacob had a very powerful, you know, it shows a very powerful picture about protecting your children and how he was protecting his children from Esau.
But then he gets into the land here and he allows his daughter, who's obviously old enough to do these things,
just to go out into the land of Canaan where, you know, these people don't believe the same that they do.
And just, and then what happens? She gets defiled.
Now, I know that we live in a feminazi type of world right now, but let me tell you something.
Women are weaker than men, physically. They're weaker than men.
And so we, you know, you don't hear about men getting, you know, a man went out to, it doesn't say a man,
one of his boys went out to see the lay of the land and then all of a sudden some woman defiled him.
It's the men do the defiling. The men are the ones that are, you know, they're out there and they can grab a woman and take her if they want to.
You know, rape happens in this country a lot and all over the world.
And, you know, a lot of the problem is, is that dads aren't protecting their daughters like they used to be.
And they should be, obviously even back here. You know, Jacob's a man of God.
And he just lets his daughter walk out and just go hang out with the worldly kids in the neighborhood or whatever.
She goes out to see the daughters of the land. Obviously the daughters of the land don't have the same, you know, moral compass that they're supposed to have.
You know, and if you send the weaker vessel out, you know, and some man's just like schmoozing her or whatever, she's going to get defiled.
You know, and really women cannot fight men off. See, a man could fight a woman off, but women cannot fight men off.
I mean, obviously the exception proves the rule. There's some Brunhildas out there that could get after it, right, and just mess some guy up.
But in most cases, a woman's not going to be able to fight a man off.
We have too many dads out in the world just sending their daughters out to go do whatever they want and they're getting defiled.
They're letting their daughters dress however they want and they're going out and getting defiled.
So dads, don't allow your daughters to be out of your protection. Look, it's your job to protect your own daughters.
It's not, the responsibility falls upon the man. It falls upon the dad.
And you know, I mean, just think about this. In the marriage ceremonies, what happens? The dad walks the daughter down and gives, and then the groom,
he is, you know, the dad like basically changes places with the groom and then he becomes under her protection.
I mean, she becomes under his protection. Good night. So, you know, when you're marrying off your daughter, you give them away.
That's what it's called, giving away your daughter who takes this woman to be or to be with this man. And then the dad goes, I do, you know, I do.
But that's the way it's supposed to work because, you know, the woman is supposed to be under protection of a man for a whole life.
You know, obviously there's situations where that might not be able to happen. I understand that. But if you're a dad and you have a daughter,
it's your responsibility to protect her all the way up until they are married off. And then it's the husband's job to protect them.
They're the covering. They're supposed to cover and be a covering for them. And so I would say this, don't let your daughter just go off and work.
You know, if they're supposed to be, grow up and get married and be keepers of the home and have children and things like that, why would you send them off to college?
Why would you send them off to work at Taco Bell with a bunch of dudes from the land? You know what I mean?
And obviously, you know, we've all come from all different walks of life in here and things like that. But, you know, why would you allow your daughter to be outside of your protection like that?
Well, she just wants to work. Well, you know, why would you want her to work outside the home?
Why don't you train her to work inside the home so that when she gets married, she can take care of the husband that she has and the children that she has later on?
Why not prepare our daughters to be in the Christian world instead of being in the world that they're not even supposed to be a part of?
That doesn't make sense. And allowing your daughters just go out and spend the night wherever they want to.
You know how children get defiled? By allowing them to spend the night with people you don't know.
It happens. It happens every single day in this country. You know, in all walks of life, people's children get defiled.
Don't let them out of your sight. Why do we have a family integrated church here? Because we want the children to be with the parents so that nothing can happen to them.
And obviously, we want the children to be in the church to learn the Bible. We don't want them to be in cookie-kool-aid, you know, class where they just sing ra ra ra songs the whole time, which those songs are okay.
But, you know, then they get into big boy church. In most churches, they go to kids' classes until they're like 12 years old.
And they're like, well, you're just too, they're too unruly to take care of now. Put them into the big person's class.
And then they come into the regular church and they're like, where's the cookies and kool-aid? What happened to the candy?
What happened to the fun songs like Father Abraham? And, you know, the B-I-B-L-E and all that stuff.
And those songs are good, okay? I'm not saying they're bad. I'm just saying that if you're preparing your church kids to be at Joyce Meyer's church later on, then by all means, you know, have those kind of classes.
But here at this church, we want everybody learning together. And in case you haven't noticed, you've been here for a while, our kids sit and listen to the preaching and they learn.
And so that's a good reason to be family integrated, but the other good reason is so that people can't defile your children.
You know that predators gain access to Christian churches so that they can abuse children?
They take the good nature of Christians and the forgivingness of Christians and they're like, well, you know, they need to be forgiven too.
Well, have them go get forgiven someplace else, because it's not going to happen here.
We don't want them here. I don't want them to have a second chance to do something else to somebody else's kid.
How would you feel if I just let any pervert into this church and you just don't know who they are?
You don't know who the pervert is, but they're hanging around your kid all the time.
Because predators will try to find a way to get to you, to get to your children.
But I'm specifically trying to focus here on Dinah and daughters.
So she just got let out to go hang out with the daughters of the land.
You know, if you let your daughters just go do whatever they want, don't be surprised if they get defiled out in the land.
You're like, well, I can't believe you'd do something. What kind of morals do you have?
Hey, what kind of morals do you have?
Allow your daughters just go free range wherever they want and do whatever they want, wherever they want.
You know, and you just think nothing's going to happen to them. Of course something's going to happen to them.
You're an idiot. Take care of your daughters, man.
They'll just let them go do whatever they want.
Now, I'm not saying let your boys do whatever they want either.
And boys can get themselves in all kinds of trouble as well.
I'm just saying that women are the weaker vessel and you need to protect them.
You know, you know, obviously men get defiled by sodomites and stuff like that.
I get that, you know, but usually take a pack of them or at least a couple of them or, you know.
But obviously you don't want your boys hanging around out in the world doing all kinds of weird stuff either.
You know, but men have to work. Men have to learn early to get outside the home and work for a living and be prepared to provide for a family.
And they're stronger. They're going to be able to take and deal with these kinds of situations better.
But, you know, allow your daughters just go and do whatever they want and dress however they want.
I mean there's people that let their daughters walk out of the house and I'm just like, I don't understand how you do that.
You know, in public they're walking down the street and their daughters are naked.
I mean your little girl, daddy's little girl, naked walking down the street, you know.
And what I mean by that is their thighs uncovered, you know, everything, all the cracks are showing, I mean it's just disgusting.
And they're prostituting their daughters to be a whore is what they're doing.
And they just don't realize it.
Why would you want your daughter to be looked at like that?
You know, it doesn't matter, that's what they want to do. Well that's the problem, you're letting them do whatever they want.
Now, why would you want your daughters to have free access to the Daughters of the Land and what is the result?
What's the end result going to be? What happened to Dinah?
She was a Christian, she had morals.
But, you know, she couldn't resist Prince Charming, right?
Didn't it say he was the prince in the land? Oh, the prince loves me.
That's what every young girl wants, is a prince to come and sweep them off their feet and take them in, you know, the carriage or whatever.
Put the glass slipper on her foot or whatever.
I mean girls, you know, they want to fall in love with a prince or whatever.
So, I'm not saying every girl likes that, you know, but girls are more romantic than men are, let's just be honest, alright?
They think and daydream about stuff like this.
But, so it happened though, with her, but you know what?
He put the cart before the horse.
And let me just say this, he's a worldly guy.
This is what worldly guys do.
This is what worldly men do.
Our society here is filled with a bunch of men that are just pigs.
And they don't have any scruples at all.
They'll lie with other people's wives, they don't have a problem with it.
Because, you know, they don't have that Christian moral compass to do what's right.
So, you can't blame, you know, this prince necessarily for what he did.
I mean, obviously, he wasn't supposed to be doing that, but he's also not a saved man.
He's just doing what unsaved people do.
But you allowing your daughter to go out and find prince charming defiles your daughter, that's on you.
He should have never, Jacob should have never allowed that to happen.
Defile means to solely mar or spoil, to violate the chastity of a woman.
That's the two definitions that I found.
To violate the chastity of a woman.
Now let me just say this, daughters in here, you should go to the marriage altar as a virgin.
And, you know, maybe you're in here and you're not, and you didn't do that.
I'm not trying to pick on you.
I'm just saying, don't you want the daughters of this church to be pure when they go to the marriage altar?
For their first kiss to be with their husband?
For the first time they hold their hand to be with their husband?
That's what I would want.
That's what I did want.
That's what I did.
And so, that's, I mean, that's what the Bible teaches, that women should be virgins, men should be virgins when they go to get married.
It was an expectation in the Bible.
And if you weren't, then it was just weird.
It was a great shame for you to be defiled like that.
Now turn to Leviticus chapter 19 verse 29. Leviticus chapter 19 verse 29.
You know, and going back to the whole allowing your daughter to dress, you know, like a sleaze or a whore.
Wow, I said whore.
Because that's what the Bible calls it.
Whores.
Whore mongers.
Whores.
That's a man.
A man whore is a whore monger.
And women are harlots or whores.
And it says in Leviticus 19, 29, it says,
Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore,
lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness.
So what happens when you, I mean, I couldn't even imagine just prostituting out your own daughter to be a whore.
I mean, that's a, what a weird thing to even do.
Why would God even have to say that because people do it?
But think about this.
Just allowing them to dress like a whore is enough to allow them to be prostituted like a whore, isn't it?
Because if they see them looking like a whore, they're going to think that she's in business, aren't they?
Well, she dresses like that for a reason.
You know what people say?
Well, you shouldn't be, you know, judging people by the way they dress.
Yeah, you should.
Because if you dress like a whore, people are going to think you're a whore.
And that's just the bottom line.
If someone dresses sleazy, if a woman dresses sleazy, and you know what I'm talking about,
showing more skin than they're supposed to be, people think that they're, you know, a whore.
And if they don't, they look like one.
So, you know, the man is the leader of the home and the daughter is under the covering protection until the day you give them away, period.
And you should be protecting them.
Let's look at Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 13.
Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 13.
Now, this chapter in Deuteronomy spells out a lot of things for us to understand.
But the main thing I want you to see in the context of this chapter is that there's, well, first of all, there's different rules,
but notice that the dad, the father in these cases, is in charge of the situation.
Until they get married.
Now, look at verse number 13, it says,
If any man take a wife and go in unto her and hate her, and give occasions of speech against her,
and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid.
Now, when it says I found her not a maid, it means I found her to not be a virgin.
I got married to her, and then he's saying all this stuff about her, saying she's not really, she wasn't really a virgin, she was lying.
You see how much of a big deal it was to where, you know, if they weren't a virgin, then they got something to say about it.
Because their dad should have been protecting them, look at what it says.
Then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity
unto the elders of the city in the gate.
Now, the tokens of the damsel's virginity is something that, you know, if you want to talk to your daughters about that at home,
I'm sure your parents will explain it to you someday.
Anyway, it's something to prove that she was, in fact, a virgin.
It says, and the damsel's daughter shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her.
And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid,
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity, and they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city,
and the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him.
So, if a man starts to lie about a woman that he just doesn't like her for some reason, he married her, he doesn't like her,
well, if they've lined together and then the tokens are found to be true that she really was,
then it says, the elders of the city shall take that man and chastise him.
That means they're going to beat him.
So, he's to be beaten for that, and it says, and they shall immerse him in a hundred shekels of silver
and give them unto the father of the damsel.
So, the father of the damsel that you put the bad name on gets a hundred shekels of silver,
and it says, because he hath brought forth an evil name upon a virgin of Israel,
and she shall be his wife, he may not put her away all his days.
So, once you've consummated the marriage here, and it's found to be true,
you don't get to just throw her away like a piece of trash.
You're bound to her because you married her, and you're going to keep your word, you're going to keep your vows,
and they're not allowed to divorce them.
So, that stops them from being some kind of a whoremonger that's just tricking girls and lying about them,
or that, you know, you make this covenant in marriage and then you just try to get out of it by lying about them,
then the Bible is saying that you're not allowed to do that,
and you get beaten, and you got to pay the dad for lying about,
because what are you ultimately doing? You're saying that the dad didn't watch out for his daughter,
the dad didn't protect her, the dad didn't watch out, and he was purporting that she was a virgin when she really wasn't.
And the money goes to dad, because you profaned, you know, the name of his daughter,
and basically just lied about her, and so basically, dad gets, beside the dowry,
he gets a bonus of 100 shekels of silver, and he gets a beat down.
So, and I'm not sure how bad that beat down is, but I'm sure, you know, maybe dad gets a lick in,
I'm not sure how that works, but I'd be definitely pulling for that.
Now, look at verse number 20, it says,
But if this thing be true, the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel,
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.
So you see how big of a deal it is? It's a big deal.
So if a woman is just lying and saying that they're a virgin and they're really not,
and it's found out to be true, she got the death penalty for that.
And it says, Because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore in her father's house,
so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
So if it's found out to be true that she really was doing that, you've wrought folly in Israel.
You've wrought folly, you know, and as far as like modern day, we are the Israel of God.
So doing that even within our Christian homes, it's the same situation.
God still looks at it the same way. God doesn't change.
You know, we might be under the American laws right now, but that's going to change someday also.
We're going to go back to the way the Bible says we should be,
and the law will be in effect in the thousand year reign of Christ.
But it says she played the whore in her father's house.
It's a big deal. It's a bigger deal than people give it credit for.
Right now we live in a world where fornication just runs rampant, disease runs rampant.
Everybody wants to know, you know, any worker at Wal-Mart can ask us for our vaccination status,
but some queer out there or some, you know, pervert or some whore monger or whore
can run around with every disease and sleep with whoever they want,
and they don't even have to tell them, you know what, it's not even a felony to do that.
You could have AIDS and go around and give AIDS to everybody,
and it's not even a felony anymore to do that.
That's sick.
But some bozo at Wal-Mart wants to ask me what my vaccination status is,
I got to give my personal information, I don't think so.
Anyway, that's a different sermon.
Chapter 22, if a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die.
So what is this talking about? It's talking about adultery.
What is the Bible punishment for adultery?
Well, it says they both of them shall die.
Both the man that lay with the woman and the woman,
so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
You're like, I didn't know this part of the Bible existed.
Well, welcome to the Bible.
This is how God feels.
You're like, well, God seems mean.
Well, maybe you're just sinful,
and you just don't know that God is a God that's holy and just and righteous,
and he just doesn't put up with everything.
We think that he has to put up with whatever we want him to put up with,
but that's not how it works.
It says in verse 23,
if a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband,
and a man find her in the city and lie with her,
then he shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city,
and he shall stone them with stones that they die.
So she's a virgin, and she's betrothed.
That means they've already made the deal.
They haven't consummated the marriage.
It's still considered the death penalty,
even if they haven't consummated the marriage.
Isn't that what it's saying?
The damsel, because she cried not, being in the city,
and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife,
so shalt thou put away evil from among you.
See, in modern day America,
people just get divorced for whatever reason they want,
but see, it hasn't always been that way.
Easy divorces have only been around since 1969
in this country.
Divorce wasn't even really a thing
until America started putting it into place.
I mean, obviously, there's always been divorce,
but on the scale that it is right now,
it wasn't seen until 1969.
Look at verse 25.
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field,
and force her and lie with her,
the man only that lay with her shall die.
What is that talking about?
It's talking about a man that rapes a woman.
And so the woman doesn't die for that.
That would be weird.
You know, hey, you both have to die
because you got raped.
I mean, that doesn't make sense.
The man only.
So what does the Bible say for raping a woman?
What is the penalty for it?
Death.
Anybody that rapes anybody should be surely put to death.
But yeah, we have all these rapists just running around
getting all these different chances, right?
All these child molesters just running around
getting second and third and fourth chances.
Look at the guy that Kyle Rittenhouse capped.
The first guy he capped had done the worst horrible things
you could ever do to a little boy,
five different little boys between the ages of eight and 11.
Did the worst possible things you could imagine
and that guy was still out breathing air.
He should have been dead years ago.
He should have been put to death in 2002
when he got convicted for it in the first place.
What's he doing running around Kenosha
lighting fires and dumpsters on fire?
The guy should have been dead.
That's what happens when you rape someone.
You should be put to death, period.
You know, but that's hateful, right?
I'm being hateful by saying that.
You know, well then if you're saying that
then you're saying God's hateful.
Because that's not my law.
That's God's law.
But you know what?
I back up God's law.
I preach the Bible.
Welcome to the Bible being preached.
Look at verse 26.
But under the damsel thou shalt do nothing.
There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death.
For as when a man riseth against his neighbor
and slayeth him even so is this matter.
So basically God looks at it like
they forced themselves upon him.
And this is not what happened with Dinah.
It says some of the similar language
but it doesn't say that she was raped.
She was consenting, okay?
But look at verse 27.
For he forced her in the field
and the betrothed damsel cried
and there was none to save her.
And this is the kind of stuff that happens
but why are you letting your daughters
out where they can just get raped?
You know what I'm saying?
Like we gotta protect our daughters.
We gotta protect their virginity.
We gotta protect their chastity.
And it doesn't matter what they want to do.
We need to protect them.
And if we need to protect them from themselves
then that's what we gotta do.
But don't give into this kind of stuff, man,
because we have to take care of our daughters
and we don't want them to be defiled, right?
Look at verse 28.
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin
which is not betrothed and lay a hold on her
and lie with her and they be found,
then the man that lay with her
shall give unto the damsel's father
50 shekels of silver and he shall be his wife.
Because he hath humbled her,
he may not put her away all his days.
So this is the shotgun wedding
that I was talking about this morning, right?
So this is basically two people caught in fornication.
So and what's it say?
That if you fornicate and you're caught doing that
then you've humbled that girl.
This isn't talking about rape.
This is talking about just two consensual people fornicating.
And it says that they're supposed to get married.
Isn't that what it says?
And he may not put her away all his days.
So that's the modern shotgun wedding.
It's like, hey, you're gonna defile my daughter?
Well, you better make sure
that you take care of her and marry her.
So now turn to, okay, so,
and I just want to point this out to you
because a lot of people give us grief
about the King James only,
how we're King James only
and how the modern version,
they'll say, well, the modern versions,
you know, they're better.
There's access to newer documents and stuff like that.
Well, in Deuteronomy 28 where I just read to you,
it says if a man find a damsel that is a virgin
which is not betrothed
and lay hold on her and lie with her and may be found,
then the man that lay with her
shall give unto the damsel's father
50 shekels of silver.
She shall be his wife
because he hath humbled her.
He may not put her away all of his days.
Now I'm gonna read for you from the NIV.
Now I normally don't do this,
but I just want to show you
and let you listen to how stupid the NIV is.
I had some guy commenting stuff to me
about how the NIV is superior to the King James
and I just posted this verse to him.
Listen to what it says in the NIV.
It says if a man happens to meet a virgin
who is not pledged to be married and rapes her
and they are discovered,
he shall pay her father 50 shekels of silver.
He must marry the young woman
for he has violated her.
He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Well, what a treat for the woman, right?
What a treat for the woman.
She gets raped and then she has to marry her rapist?
Do you see how the new international version is not right?
Is that what the King James said?
No, it's not.
And so the King James is right.
This is talking about two people that fornicated.
It doesn't say anything about them raping her.
Now last time I checked,
if you're gonna lay with someone,
you have to lay hold on them, okay?
It's not talking about rape.
But what the NIV says is that
the rapists get to marry their victims.
Well, I bet in the world of the NIV,
I bet a lot of people would like to be able to do that.
But that's just not what the Bible says.
The Bible actually says where I read to you earlier
that if someone rapes a woman,
they're to be put to death.
You see the contradiction there?
It's garbage.
The NIV is garbage.
So just that alone right there
would cause me to never ever pick up an NIV
and say, this is my Bible.
When's the last time you heard of an NIV only church before?
Never.
And you know what?
If you have an NIV
and you're holding on to it's grammy gave it to you
or something like that,
throw that thing in the garbage can
and get rid of it because it's trash, all right?
So let's look back into our text,
Genesis chapter 34 verse three.
I know I went off on kind of a long tangent on that,
but it's important stuff.
Look at Genesis chapter 34 verse three.
It says,
In his soul, clave unto Dana.
Excuse Dana.
Dana.
Dinah.
Dinah is her name.
Okay.
And his soul clave unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob,
and he loved the damsel
and spake kindly unto the damsel.
So does it sound like he's,
I mean we know that what he did was bad
and what they did was wrong,
but it doesn't sound like he's like
a really super bad guy.
Like he's just not saved.
He obviously made a stupid mistake.
They both made a stupid mistake and it says,
And Shechem spake unto his father,
saying, get me this damsel to wife.
So he, it's not like he didn't want to marry her.
He wanted to marry her.
It says he loved her and he spake kindly unto her.
It wasn't like he was just trying to throw her
in the trash or something.
So, and we just got to remember
that the world views things differently.
That's why we're not supposed to have,
give our daughters unto unbelievers.
That's why we're not supposed to give our sons
unto unbelievers because they,
we just have different moral compasses,
different morals and they just, you know,
look people that are sinful are just gonna do sinful things
and they don't, they might not know any better.
They might not even know it's wrong.
You know, there's fornicators out there,
they don't even know what they're doing is wrong.
And maybe they did at one point,
but you know, they just, people just don't realize.
Now look at Genesis 34, have you guys ever,
some of you people might not have ever heard
some of the verses I read about what God says
to do to people to punish them.
Sounds pretty outlandish, but I didn't,
I didn't write the Bible.
But it's not really outlandish
because if you think about God being holy,
then he's gonna handle things the way a holy God would.
And we're not holy like he is.
And so sometimes some of the things he says
are pretty hard.
Like, you know, that she gets stoned to death
but he just gets beaten and has to pay a fine.
I mean, some people might take exception to that,
but you know what, that's what God says to do.
So he has his reasons for making laws
and I'm not gonna question him,
he's the one that made me, I didn't make him.
But a lot of people think that God has to be
the way they want him to be.
But that's not how it works.
He's God, we're just creative beings, okay?
We might be made in the image of God
but last time I checked, I can't be everywhere at once.
I don't know all things.
And you know what, I'm not all powerful.
So I have to sleep at night.
You know what, God doesn't have to do that.
So look at verse five.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter.
Now his sons were with his cattle in the field
and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
And Hamor the father of Shechem
went out unto Jacob to commune with him
and the sons of Jacob came out of the field
when they had heard it and the men were grieved.
They were very wroth because they had brought
folly in Israel and lying with Jacob's daughter
which thing ought not to be done.
So Jacob's sons are ticked off and with good reason.
But why doesn't it say Jacob's ticked off?
That's what kind of bothers me about this story is,
you know, he doesn't say anything.
You know, most fathers would be really mad
and angry about something like this
but Jacob doesn't really fly off the handle
or anything like that.
Look at verse eight says,
And Hamor, commune with them,
saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth
for your daughter.
I pray you give her him to wife
and making marriages with us
and give your daughters unto us
and take our daughters unto you.
And he shall dwell with us
and the land shall be before you.
Dwell and trade you therein
and get your possessions therein.
And Shechem said unto her father
and unto her brethren,
Let me find grace in your eyes
and what you shall say unto me I will give.
So here's Shechem, you know,
he's saying, Let me find grace in your eyes.
You know, but as we heard the story at the beginning,
do they give him grace in the end?
No, they don't.
They give him much worse than that.
It says, Ask me never so much,
dowry and gift, and I will give according
as he shall say unto me,
but give me the damsel to wife.
Now, honestly, by God's law,
they shouldn't even be really having this conversation.
It should be you pay Jacob 50 shekels of silver,
you know, get married right now.
You know, that should be what's going on.
But, you know, if they're working out a dowry
and all that, I don't see anything wrong with that either.
But like the fact that, you know,
and obviously Jacob could probably deny
and just say, I don't want my daughter
to marry her scumbag son, end of story.
So, but look, it says,
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem
and Hamor his father deceitfully,
and said, Because he hath defiled Dinah their sister.
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing
to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised,
for that we were reproach unto us,
but in this we will consent unto you
if you will be as we be,
that every male of you be circumcised.
So, you know, these are the children of Israel.
Always trying to get somebody to get circumcised,
it seems like.
But anyway, that's what they do today, right?
The children of Abraham, they wanna,
you know, the Jews wanna, you know,
like even children at the hospital.
It's like, it used to be a big thing,
you know, where boys would get circumcised.
But like there's no reason for that to happen.
There's no reason, there's no biblical reason
to be circumcised, that's just something
that Jews wanna just glory in your flesh
and get you circumcised for some weird reason.
But anyway, look at verse 16.
Then we will give our daughters unto you,
and we will take our daughters to us,
and we will dwell with you,
and we will become one people.
But if you will not hearken unto us
to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter
and we will be gone.
And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem,
Hamor's son, and the young man
deferred not to do the thing
because he had delight in Jacob's daughter,
and he was more honorable
than all the house of his father.
So I mean, I kind of,
even though this guy defiled Jacob's daughter,
he's not, does he seem like he's really
that bad of a guy?
He seems like he wants to do the right thing.
Hey, he screwed up, you know,
and there's a lot of people in this room
that screwed up in the same way.
I don't know if it's a lot, but I mean,
there's some people in this room
that have screwed up in the same way, okay?
I shouldn't say that, a lot.
Like everyone, 99% of you, no, I'm just kidding.
But you know, we all have made our mistakes too,
you know, and so,
I'm not trying to excuse this either,
so don't get me wrong,
because definitely it was a wicked sin,
but again, you gotta protect your daughter.
But now the situation is what it is,
and they should just get married,
and that should be the end of it,
and you know, he seems like he wants to,
it says he was more honorable
than all the house of his father.
You know, and it said he loved her.
So wouldn't you want your daughter
to at least marry someone that loves them?
You know, instead of giving away
to someone that doesn't love them?
Anyway, and it says,
And Hamar and Shechem and his son came into the gate
in the city and communed with the men of the city,
saying, These men are peaceable with us.
Therefore let them dwell in the land
and trade therein for the land.
Behold, it is large enough for them.
Let us take their daughters to us for wives,
and let us give them our daughters.
Only herein will the men consent unto us
for to dwell with us, to be one people,
if every male among us be circumcised
as they are circumcised.
Shall not their cattle and their substance
and every beast of theirs be ours?
Only let us consent unto them,
and they will dwell with us.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem,
his son hearkened,
all that went out of the gate of the city,
every male, excuse me,
and every male was circumcised,
all that went out of the gate of the city.
And it came to pass on the third day
that when they were sore,
that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword
and came upon the city boldly
and slew all the males.
So they tricked these guys,
all the men, into getting circumcised.
When they're sore and unable to get up
and defend themselves,
they come boldly onto the city
and kill all the men of the city.
Including, it says,
and they slew Hamor and Shechem his son
with the edge of the sword
and took Dinah out of Shechem's house
and went out.
Hey, can we find grace in your sight?
What do they do?
They slaughtered them like their cattle
because they defiled their sister.
It says, and the sons of Jacob came up,
the slain and the spoiled of the city
because they had defiled their sister.
Now let me ask you this.
Did the Bible say when I was reading
in Deuteronomy that if two people fornicate
that they're to be put to death?
Did it say that?
You know why?
Because that's not what the Bible says.
Now could God kill someone for being a fornicator?
Absolutely, he's done it before.
But the death penalty is not something
that God expects men to put in place
for fornication.
So when two people fornicate outside of marriage,
the death penalty is not upon them.
Like I said, God can kill anybody for any sin.
He could kill you for lying.
He killed Ananias and Sapphira for lying to the Holy Ghost.
It's an example of that every sin that we do
will bring forth death at some point.
But sometimes God can call you home
faster than you want to be.
But my point is that these people,
Shechem messed up.
But he did love Dinah.
He did want to marry her.
He was more righteous than all the other people
of his father's house.
And he said, can we find grace in your eyes?
Can you give us a little grace
in what they do?
Came in and chopped them up
and killed them.
And not only did they do that,
it says they took their sheep
and their oxen and their asses
and that which was in the city
and that which was in the field
and all their wealth
and all their little ones
and their wives took they captive
and spoiled even all that was in the house.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,
you have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land.
So wouldn't you say what they did
was a little egregious?
A little, a lot egregious.
I mean, they killed everybody.
They took all their stuff
and they even took their children
as captives and their wives.
The wives of the men that they killed,
they took captives
and brought them into their own houses or whatever.
And so Jacob,
you know, he's like, you've troubled me.
You've made me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land.
You know, this is like,
you know, think about this,
a Christian family
who's going and lies
and tricks these people
and then murders them
and takes all their kids
and everything they have.
Of course that's gonna make you
to stink among the inhabitants of the land.
It says among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites,
I being few in number,
they shall gather themselves together
and slay me
and I shall be destroyed,
I and my house.
And so what is their response?
And they said,
should he deal with our sister
as with an harlot?
You know, so they just went over the top.
Not only did they do these wicked sins,
but they also,
they just went over the top
and then they acted like it wasn't a big deal.
Well, he kind of had it coming.
You know, he defiled our sister.
But you know,
there's a failure on a lot of levels with this.
And one of the failures of the story
is that Jacob failed to protect his only daughter
and allowed her to be defiled by an unbeliever.
He went out, allowed his daughter
to go and view the daughters of the land
and go hang out with them.
She went out to go hang out
with Hannah Montana
and Miley Cyrus
and Britney Spears
and whatever else.
I don't know.
I'm old, so I don't know
all the new people or whatever,
but what's some other ones?
You worldly ones.
Anybody know any of the new Jezebels out there?
Ariana Grande.
Ariana Grande, yeah.
Whatever.
Did I say that right?
Ariana Grande.
Probably said it wrong.
Anyway,
but what I'm saying is that,
you know, that's not who you want
your daughters to emulate.
Why would you want your daughters
to emulate the women of the land?
You know, and that's what Hollywood
and the music industry is putting out
that that's what your daughter should be like.
Dancing around,
showing all their stuff,
singing, dancing,
whoring around with a bunch of men.
That's what,
that's the examples that are put forth.
Why would you want your daughters
to be in,
you know, to go out and emulate that?
Jacob failed to protect her
and he didn't deal with the situation right
and allowed his sons to deal
with the situation
that he should have been dealing with.
It wasn't his son's place
to go and make this
and make this,
all this stuff happen.
Jacob should have piped up right there
and said, hey, these people need
to be married right now.
That's what God's law calls for.
Obviously, God's law wasn't there yet,
but he was still a prophet of God.
I'm sure he knew what God wanted him
to do in that situation.
You know, and he just,
he didn't even,
he wasn't outraged.
It doesn't say that he said
anything about it.
And so I'll tell you what,
if somebody did that
with my daughter,
I'd just start swinging.
Then he could give me
the 50 shekels of silver
after that,
but you know,
someone's gonna get hurt.
Someone's gonna get dropped.
And then you got Simeon and Levi
committing this horrible,
over-the-top act of vengeance
and violence,
including murder and enslavement
of women and children.
I mean, it's just so far
over the top,
it's like classic over-reactor, right?
You know those people
that are classic over-reactors?
My wife says I'm a classic
over-reactor.
She doesn't know
what she's talking about.
But anyway,
this is classic over-reacting
right here,
like way over the top, right?
But this is also a picture
of when Christians
publicly sin,
it makes the name of Christ
to stink among the inhabitants
of the world.
So these people took a mountain
and made it into,
or a molehill made it
into a mountain.
And Jacob is right,
it caused them to stink
amongst the people in the land.
So us as Christians,
when we go out
and do some kind of public sin,
or we sin in our work
in front of all of our
co-workers,
or we sin out in the world,
and people see what we do,
and they know
you're a Christian,
you know what it does?
It causes you to stink
amongst them,
but not only you,
but it causes them
to think of Christ
and that His name stinks
among the inhabitants
of the land also.
And that's something
that we don't want.
Turn to Genesis chapter 49,
verse five.
Genesis chapter 49,
verse five.
Now Jacob even talks about this
at the end of his life
when he's blessing his sons,
you know,
or giving them,
telling them what's gonna happen
and befall them
on the end times
because I don't necessarily
see this as a blessing to them.
But look at verse five.
Jacob's telling his sons
what's gonna happen
in the last days.
Simeon and Levi
are brethren.
Verse five.
Instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
O my soul,
come not thou,
come not thou
into their secret,
into their assembly,
mine honor.
Be not thou united,
for in their anger
they slew a man,
and in their self-will
they digged down a wall.
Cursed be their anger,
for it was fierce,
and their wrath,
for it was cruel.
I will divide them in Jacob
and scatter them in Israel.
So it doesn't really sound
like a very good blessing
there to them,
does it?
And they were,
it says instruments of cruelty.
We don't want that
to be said about us.
That Christian,
oh, he's just a cruel person.
He's just,
he's so angry,
he flies off the top
and does things
that he shouldn't be doing.
He's, you know,
it's talking about
their anger being cursed.
When you're angry,
you can be angry
and sin not.
But when you're angry
and you're sinning,
you know,
and you're doing it
in front of the unbelievers,
you're doing it
in front of the world,
look, that's not
a good look.
And it causes us
to stink among
the inhabitants of the land.
It causes the name
of Christ to stink
in the land.
Matthew chapter five,
verse 13,
what should we be like?
Well, you know,
the Bible has a lot
to say about that,
but I'm just going to turn
to a couple more verses
and we're going to
be done tonight.
So Matthew chapter five,
verse 13,
what are we supposed
to be like?
Well, the Bible says
we're supposed
to be salty, right?
We're supposed to be
like salt.
Now, salt preserves,
doesn't it?
What else does salt do?
Salt irritates, you know,
but salt,
the main thing that,
you know,
we're supposed to be
salt, you know,
makes things taste good.
Doesn't salt,
like if you have an egg,
do you like it with salt
or without,
or with salt
or without salt?
With salt.
What's it taste like
without salt?
Bleh.
Right?
Doesn't taste good at all.
But with salt,
it tastes great
and a little bit of pepper
even tastes better.
Hard boiled egg,
you know what
I'm talking about, right?
But anyway,
what's the Bible say?
Matthew five,
verse 13,
it says,
ye are the salt of the earth,
but if the salt
have lost his savor,
wherewith shall it be
salted?
It is henceforth,
or excuse me,
thenceforth good for nothing,
but to be cast out
and to be trodden
underfoot of men.
So once we've lost
that savor,
you know,
and I would just say this,
if you've totally lost
your testimony
and you're just not
doing anything for the Lord
and you're just making
his name to stink in the land,
then don't be surprised
if God takes you out
of this world
sooner than later.
Because,
what's it say,
it's good,
you're good for nothing.
If you've lost your savor,
you're good for nothing,
but to be cast out
and trodden underfoot of men.
You know,
and when you fail
in front of people
and they know
you're a Christian,
they're gonna tread you
underneath their feet.
They're gonna go,
I thought you were a Christian.
What are you talking
about that for?
What are you doing this for?
Why are you acting like this?
Why are you losing your temper?
Why are you freaking out?
Why are you swearing?
Why are you cussing?
You know,
and I know I'm sure
all of us have lost it
at some point.
We've lost our cool.
We've lost our temper.
We've done something
we shouldn't do,
but you know what,
it's hard to get
that testimony back
with that person
and you might not ever
get it back with them.
That might be,
trying to give the gospel
to that person
might be a lost cause.
Maybe you should just
let somebody else do it.
Pray that somebody else
gives them the gospel
because you probably
lost any influence
you had over them.
You've lost your savor
with that person.
They think that Christ is,
they look at you
and they think about
what a Christian is,
you know,
you said you're a Christian
but then they think
about how you are,
they want nothing
to do with it.
So you might as well
just let some other
Christian come and
talk to them instead.
Look at verse 15,
it says,
neither do men
light a candle
and put it under
a bushel,
but on a candlestick
and it giveth light
unto all that are
in the house.
Let your light
so shine before men
that they may see
your good works
and glorify your Father,
which is in heaven.
So we're not supposed
to be, you know,
letting our darkness
dim people,
we're supposed to be
letting our light shine
before them.
We're supposed to be
letting good works,
you know,
go forth so that they
can,
so they will glorify
our Father.
Not so that they'll,
it'll make His name
distinct.
Because once we make
His name distinct,
then we're good for
nothing,
we're to be cast out
and trodden under
the feet of men.
Isn't that what
the Bible says?
Turn to 1 Peter 4, verse 14.
1 Peter 4, verse 14.
And this is the second
to the last place
I'll have you turn.
1 Peter 4, verse 14.
It says,
If ye be reproached
for the name of Christ,
happy are ye,
for the Spirit of glory,
and of God resteth
upon you.
On their part
He is evil spoken of,
but on your part
He is glorified.
See that,
if you're reproached
for doing good,
if you're reproached
for soul winning,
you know,
if you get kicked out
of an apartment complex
because you're out
preaching the gospel
to somebody, you know,
that's,
you should be happy
about that.
You know,
be happy when you're
persecuted for doing
something that you're
supposed to be doing
and you're spoken evil of.
Maybe you decide
not to take an extra
15 minutes on your break
at lunch,
but everybody else does.
And you know,
if they're speaking evil
on you because you don't
want to do something
that you know is wrong,
that's good.
Oh, that guy,
he's just,
you know,
he's just,
he's a little goody,
little two shoes Ned
Flanders or something.
Well,
you should be thankful
for that,
but look what it says
in verse 15.
But let none of you
suffer as a murderer
or as a thief
or as an evil doer
or as a busy body
in other men's matters.
So,
if we're suffering
for something that
we're supposed to be
doing,
that's good,
or,
you know,
you're not being persecuted
if you murdered somebody.
Okay?
You're not being persecuted
if you stole from somebody.
You're not being persecuted,
you know,
when you're being
an evil doer.
You're just getting
what you deserve
or as a busy body
in other men's matters.
Yet,
if any man suffer
as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed,
but let him glorify
God on this behalf.
So,
it's good to suffer
as a Christian for doing
the right things,
but don't be caught
doing the wrong things
because it's gonna make
your name to stink
amongst the inhabitants
of the land.
It's gonna make
the name of Christ
to stink
amongst the inhabitants
of the land.
Do you understand that?
Now,
let's look at
one last verse here
in Ecclesiastes
chapter 10,
verse one.
So,
the last thing
that we wanna do
is allow Christ's name
to be dragged
through the mud
because of something
like that.
Look at what
Ecclesiastes 10,
one it says.
It says,
dead flies cause
the ointment
of the apothecary
to send forth
a stinking saver.
So doth
a little folly
him that is
in reputation
for wisdom
and honor.
If you have
a reputation
for being wise
and honorable
and then you do
something foolish,
it says you're
like that fly
that got in the ointment.
And it causeth
a stinking saver
to come forth.
And so,
I mean,
I liken this to
what Jacob is saying.
You know,
don't,
if you're,
if people think,
hey,
this person's a Christian,
they're wise,
they've been saved,
you know,
they're saved,
they're honorable,
we can count on them
to be honest
and forthright
and then you do
something just
a little folly.
Doesn't say like
you make a big mistake,
it says a little folly.
This is the dirt bag
that watches porn
on his break
or tells dirty jokes
or, you know,
if you're in construction,
people do all manner
of wicked things,
trust me.
They'll do
all kinds of stuff
and nobody cares
if they're late for work,
nobody cares
if they miss
a day at work,
nobody cares
if they didn't get
the job done
as much as they do
a Christian
because when you're
a Christian,
you're under
a magnifying glass.
People are watching
everything you do
and when you have
a name,
it's going to cause
your name to stink
and so if you just
can't help but just
be a sinful person
at work or you can't
help but be a sinful
person out in the world
or amongst your
family members
or whatever,
well just do yourself
a favor and don't
even tell them
you're saved
because you'd be
doing Christ a better
favor to just say,
just to not
say anything
and I'm not saying
we shouldn't tell
people we're saved
but if you can't
help yourself,
then maybe you should
just keep your mouth
shut and don't tell
them to stink in the
land which obviously
makes Christ's name
to stink in the land,
right?
So, I mean,
and again,
everybody I'm sure
has failed in some
way, shape or form
out in the world
or out in the workforce
or with your family.
You know,
you freaked out on
your wife in front
of your mom or dad
or whatever or
whatever it is.
You know,
we've all had some
ugly sides to us,
haven't we?
We've all failed
and made mistakes
but just remember
that the mistakes
could have some kind
of effect on somebody's
eternity
and that's what
we don't want
and we also don't
want people to look
down their nose
and hate Christ
because of something
we've done.
Now obviously,
we're sinful just like
anybody else is
and people don't
see it that way though.
They kind of look at it
like, well,
that person's saved,
they should never do
anything wrong ever
again for the rest
of their life
and anything they do.
You know,
obviously,
they have an unfair
view about things
and we still make mistakes.
See my sermon
from this morning.
We still make mistakes
but the stakes
are higher for us
because we can't help
how they view us.
That's just how
they view us
and this just proves
it right here,
even just a little bit
of folly,
a little bit of,
you know,
fudge in the numbers
or a little bit of
being late or whatever.
People are going
to be on you.
I thought you were
a Christian.
I thought you,
you know,
why are you
talking like that?
Why are you watching this?
Why are you watching?
Why are you listening
to that?
Why are you listening
to this?
You know,
they're going to judge you
and by judging you,
they're judging Christ.
Think about that.
So in closing,
number one,
we need to protect
our children
and I'll say this,
especially your daughters.
Protect them.
Don't let them
out of your sight.
Don't let them go
see the daughters
of the land.
Don't let them just go
spend the night,
any of your kids.
Don't let them,
don't trust anybody
and protect your children.
I can't stress that enough.
I mean, obviously,
your mom or dad
or, you know, whatever.
You can do whatever you want,
but just allowing them
to go to slumber parties
at some person's house
you don't know,
that's a mistake.
I mean,
just watch any
true crime show.
Watch any Dateline or 2020
and you're going to see
just a mess
that this world is in
and you'll see
children getting hurt
all over this world,
women getting hurt
all over this world
and we don't want that
with our kids.
You know,
we need to be different
and that means
all aspects of our life.
Number two,
don't be a classic
overreactor, all right?
Don't be, you know,
what Simeon,
what these two sons did
and, you know, obviously,
if anybody just goes around
killing people in here
you're going to go to jail.
So, but,
I mean,
just they overreacted
to a point where,
you know,
they went past
what God's laws
and God's commandments
said, didn't they?
Now, they should have
just had to get married
and, yeah,
it's shameful
and everything,
but to kill
and murder a bunch of people
and steal their wives
and all their stuff,
that's overreacting,
isn't it?
Number three,
don't cause the name
of Christ or you
to stink in the land.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father,
we thank you,
Lord, so much
for a great day in church.
We thank you
for the four salvations
that we had today.
Pray, Lord,
that they'd come to church
and get baptized
and learn the Bible.
Pray and help us, Lord.
Keep us safe as we drive
and, Lord,
watch over us
until we come back
in your house again.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
We're going to be singing
O Holy Night.
If you need a paper
please raise your hand
and one of the ushers
will get you one.
O Holy Night.
O Holy Night,
let's sing it out
all in the first verse.
O Holy Night,
the stars are brightly shining.
It is the night
of the dear Savior's birth.
Long lay the world
in sin and error blinded
till He appeared
and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of guilt,
the weary world rejoices
for yonder breaks
a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees,
O hear the angel voices.
O night divine,
O night when Christ was born.
O night,
O Holy Night,
O night divine,
led by a light
of faith serenely beaming
with glowing hearts
by His cradle we stand.
Over the world
a star is sweetly gleaming.
Now came the wise men
from glory and land.
The King of Kings
lay the signal we made sure
in all our trials
born to be our friend.
He knows our need,
our weakness is no stranger.
Become your king
before in lowly men.
Become your king
before in lowly men.
Truly He bought us love
for one another.
His law is love
and His gospel is peace.
Chains He shall bring,
the slave is our Father.
And in His name
all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy,
grateful chorus raise we
with all our hearts
we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord,
appraise His name forever.
His power and glory
evermore proclaim.
His power and glory
evermore proclaim.
Good singing brother Kyle
will you end us in a word of prayer?
Mother God we thank you
for your goodness
and your greatness.
.