You
So I'm left to turn to page number 22
We're gonna be singing are you washed in the blood welcome to sure foundation Baptist Church
If you could find your seats and grab your green and red song books, we're gonna be singing. Are you washed in the blood?
Song number 22 in your green him book. Are you washing the blood? Let's see it together on the first
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you fully?
Trusting in his grace this hour. Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you washed?
In the blood in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you walking daily by the Savior's side are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Do you rest each moment in the crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you?
washed in the blood
in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow are you washed in the blood of the lamb
When the bridegroom cometh will your robes be white are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Will your soul be ready for the mansion's bride and be washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you?
washed in the blood
in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin and be washed in the blood of the lamb
There's a fountain flowing for the soul
Unclean I'll be washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you?
washed in the blood
in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Hey man good seeing brother Eli would you us up with a word of prayer?
Hey man our second song will be song number 296 follow on
Song number 296 follow on
Song number 296 follow on let's see it together on that first verse
Down in the valley with my Savior. I would go
Where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow?
Everywhere he leads me I would follow follow on
Walking in his footsteps till the crown be won
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
anywhere
Everywhere I would follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Everywhere he leads me I would follow
On
Down in the valley with my Savior. I would go
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters flow?
With his hand to lead me. I will never never fear
Danger cannot fright me if my lord is near
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Anywhere
Everywhere I would follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Everywhere he leads me I would follow
on
Down in the valley or upon the mountains deep
Close beside my Savior would my soul ever keep
He will lead me safely in the path that he has trod
Up to where they gather on the hills of God
follow
Follow I would follow Jesus
Anywhere everywhere I would follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Follow follow Jesus everywhere he leads me. I would follow on
Foundation Baptist Church, let's take our bulletins and go through some quick announcements
if you need a bulletin would you I think we have so does anybody need a bulletin would you lift up your hand and
One of the ushers will bring you a bulletin
On our front cover. We have the verse of the week
It says the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogance in the evil way in the froward mouth
Do I hate Proverbs chapter 8 verse 13 and our service times are 10 30 a.m.
For our preaching service on Sunday mornings Sunday evenings 3 30 p.m.
And we will be in Exodus chapter 19 this Sunday night and Thursday Bible study. We're currently in the
Book of Malachi and the Bible studies on Thursday nights are 6 30 and you're here. So you probably know that but
Anyway, there's so many times or listen below. Do we have any salvations out there brother Robert? Okay, no salvations
So just some good labor to get some rewards and some free exercise
Anyway
I feel like that you see the praise report the
Salvations and baptisms and attendance tolls there and on the upcoming events the next
Event here we have is Saturday and it's gonna be the annual men's shooting event in Stevenson, Washington
We're gonna meet at the bridge of the gods and that's going to be at 12 p.m. On Saturday
There'll be burgers and chips. Is there dogs too?
Just burgers and chips. Okay. Well, that's good enough and
so
12 p.m. Are you is there any kind of interesting are we going to do a shooting competition? Okay
So many of you have been there before who's plan on going to the shooting event
Yeah
How long do you have to tell you have to report like an hour
Okay, gotcha
Okay, so but anyway, that's what's going on Saturday. And then if you have any other questions, please see mr
Sean Harrington there for the deets and
June 18th is Father's Day, of course, and we're gonna have a gift for every every father in attendance here and
Lunch will be provided after the morning service. So we're gonna honor the fathers in our church that day
Looking forward to that and June 30th through July 2nd is the Bible believers Baptist Church
big weekend in Yakima deacon Corbin Russell is gonna be preaching for us Friday night at 7 p.m. And
We'll be doing some soul winning on Saturday at the reservation between 11 and 2
And 2 p.m. There'll be a meal and fellowship at the church building at 3 p.m. Sunday at 1030
I'll be preaching and 3 30 p.m.
For the both of the services there. So who's plan on going to that? I know I am
Anybody else? Okay. It's the Yakima trip at the end of the month raise them high
Okay, so and if anybody wants to go up early you're more than welcome to do that
And maybe just if someone wants to do any soul winning on Friday
You're more than welcome to do some soul winning go up a little bit early if you want
of course, we'll have soul winning on Sunday also and
La Pinto is not very far from the church. So that's on the reservation. It's got really
receptive
Areas, we've hit a lot of it
I think we've pretty much hit it all but you know, of course you got the law of diminishing returns, but
That's still a receptive area and
So it's gonna be a great weekend there very excited about that and then July 20th
We'll have pastor Steven Anderson preaching here on Thursday night at 6 30 p.m. Regular times and it's part of
His I want to say road show but it's his
Conference, I guess he calls it a conference but it's like a road show where he drives to all these churches and preaches
So he just kind of gets it out of the way and and everybody wants him to preach so
He's starting in West Virginia this time and then we're like one of the last stops, but he is gonna be on the 19th
He's gonna be in Spokane
So if anybody wants to double dip and go to Spokane and we're welcome to do that and that'll be at our regular church
Building regular church time there also and then also that same day the Red Hot Preaching Conference kicks off
The eighth annual Red Hot Preaching Conference. I had to be corrected about that
But for some reason I was thinking it was seven. I just don't know how to add very well
But it's the eighth annual Red Hot Preaching Conference. It'll be a Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California
It's not a conference that people like to miss who's going to that if I just get a show of hands
Everybody's going to everything. That's great
So and then the last thing on there is the our church five-year anniversary
And that's gonna kick off Friday night with Pastor Roger Jimenez preaching for us at 7 p.m
And there'll be no Thursday night service that week. We'll just have the Friday service will be our midweek and then Saturday
We're gonna have sowing from 10 30 to 1 p.m. And then at 1 30 p.m. We're gonna have lunch provided
we're gonna have burgers and dogs and that kind of stuff and
There'll be a bounce house and the mechanical bulls coming back
So if any of you got shamed by the bull
You can try to grab the bull by the horns and see if you can do better this time
So and some of us didn't go on it
But I saw the first person I saw get flipped really hard on that. I was like I
Got a bad hit, bro
So anyway, but that's what's going on so from 1 30 to 4 30 p.m. On
Saturday, they'll be also we're having a guest preacher and he's one of our own
It's evangelist Winfield Fisher's gonna be preaching for us at the p.m. Service on Sunday
I'll be preaching Sunday morning that weekend of the anniversary and he'll be preaching the p.m. Service
So it's gonna be great to have him come down and preach for us
It's been a long time since he has so he was here during the conference, but he didn't preach
so looking forward to that all the other stuff is
par for the course here and
We had some birthdays. Let's see. Well, I don't even know what day it is. Okay, we got
Well, anyway, we'll do some birthdays later on but I know Robert and crystal had an anniversary
So happy anniversary and then Ryland and Julene had an anniversary last week
So happy anniversary, and then we got Sarah and Ryan coming up and Tony and jazz
Alright, so that's all I got for announcements. Let's go ahead and sing another song and then we'll take up the offering
All
Right next on the song number 10 near the cross
Song number 10 in your green red hip books near the cross
In song number 10 near the cross, let's sing it together on that first verse
Jesus keep me near the cross
Free to all
Healing stream
flows from
Calvary's
Mountain in the cross
in the cross
Be my glory
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest
Beyond the river
Near the cross a trembling soul
love and mercy
found
Me
there the bride and morning
star
Sheds its beams
Around me in the cross
in the cross
Be my glory
Ever till my raptured soul shall find
Rest
Beyond the river
Near the cross
O lamb of God
Bring it scenes before me
Help me walk from day to day
With
Its shadows or me
In the cross be my glory
Till my raptured soul shall find
Beyond the river
Near the cross
And wait
Hoping trusting
Till I reach the golden strand
Just
Beyond the river
In the cross
Be my glory
Ever
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest
Beyond the river
Amen good to see you brother Alex. Could you bless the offering for us?
You
All right, if you would please turn to the very last book of the Old Testament
Malachi or if you're Italian Malachi
Malachi chapter 2, please
Malachi chapter 2 and as is our usual custom
We're gonna read the whole chapter beginning in verse 1 if you'd read with me silently starting in chapter 2 verse 1
And now oh ye priests
This commandment is for you
If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name
Sayeth the Lord of hosts. I will even send a curse upon you
And I will curse your blessings. Yeah, I've cursed them already because you do not lay it to heart
Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces
Even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you that my covenant might be with levi sayeth the Lord of hosts
My covenant was with him of life and peace and I gave them to him for the fear
Wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my name
The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips
He walked with me in peace and equity and did turn many away from iniquity
for the priest's lips
Should seek should keep knowledge
And they should seek the law at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts
But ye are departed out of the way
Ye have caused many to stumble at the law
You have corrupted the covenant of levi sayeth the Lord of hosts
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and based before all the people according as ye have not kept my ways
But have been partial in the law
Have we not all one father?
Have not one god created us
Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
judah hath dealt treacherously
And an abomination is committed in israel and in jerusalem for judah hath profaned
The holiness of the lord which he loved and hath married the daughter of a strange god
The lord will cut off the man that doeth this
The master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of jacob and him that offers an offering unto the lord of hosts
And this have ye done again covering the altar of the lord with tears with weeping and with crying out
In so much that he regardeth not the offering anymore or receiveth it with good will at your hand
yet ye say
wherefore
Because the lord hath been witnessed between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously
Yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant and did not he make one
Yet had he the residue of the spirit and wherefore one that he might seek a godly seed
Therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth
For the lord the god of israel saith that he hateth putting away
For one covereth violence with his garment sayeth the lord of hosts therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not treacherously
You have wearied the lord with your words yet. Ye say wherein have we wearied him
when you say everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the lord and he delighteth in them or
Where is the god of judgment?
Brother bill, would you pray for us?
Thank you for the reading of the word
Amen
We're in malachi chapter number two
and
God has a problem with the priest and so in the last chapter if you remember last week
that he kind of goes on a
On a tear we kind of studied some of the things of esau and edom and the people of israel are saying, you know
How have you loved us and he said because I hated esau and I loved
jacob
but he's talking about in the first chapter also about how
You know, they profaned
the name of the lord
and
offered polluted bread
offered
blind and
other kinds of animals that were not
fitting for a sacrifice
And he he's just going off on about that. But then in chapter two, he also begins
To go after the priest again. So
God, you know he made in the in the old testament. He made the levites the
Uh, the one the tribe that would not have an inheritance their inheritance was the lord
and
in times past and and in many different times in the old testament the levites
Were kind of carrying the torch and doing the things that were right
But then of course they would get corrupted too and then god would have to deal with them
But remember the history of this book is that it's after the new temple is built after so it's during the after the second
Temple has been built because he's talking about these sacrifices
and things like that so
They're already corrupting themselves again. And so
God
Is going to bring forth the new covenant. So this is the book
That there's about 400 years between this and when christ comes
and so
God is just dealing with how
Israel and judah and the levites and the and all those priests
Have basically just messed up so many times that god is just going to officially be done with them
As far as them being the priest of the lord
And all that stuff so
Let's start off with verse number one
The bible says and now oh ye priests this commandment is for you. So he's he's definitely talking to them, right?
He's talking to the priest
So the first point I want to make tonight is that the lord continues to to rebuke the priests
He rebuked them pretty hard in the last chapter and this week he's doing more of the same
He's really zeroing in on the priest and remember they have to be levites to be priests or they can't be priests
so malachi chapter 2 verse 2 says
If you will not hear
And if you will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name sayeth the lord of hosts
I will even send a curse upon you
And will I will curse your blessings?
Yea, I have cursed them already because you do not lay it to heart
So he's like he's giving them a chance, but he already knows what they're going to do
And so he's saying i'm already you've already been cursed i'm going to curse your blessings now
When that term where it says lay it to heart it means to take into account
to
Take it to heart to believe to consider to take into consideration
Give consideration to or to take on board
to take in to absorb to apply
To think over to accept so god wants so what he's saying to the priest is hey
You're not going to you're not laying it to heart. You're not applying it to your life. You're not absorbing it to your heart
You're not even thinking about it. You're not considering the things that i'm trying to tell you
And so god is already saying hey i'm going to curse you because you're not taking it to heart
Let's turn over to deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 26 because there was conditions about the covenants, okay?
God a lot of times in the old testament go ahead and turn to deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 26 god has
You know, they had to keep the covenant
and in exodus chapter 19, we're going to see where
god's going to the children of israel and then
moses is kind of about that in-between guy and he's taking back the answers of the children of israel to god on mount sinai
but there were certain things
that they were they were agreeing to and obviously
It's impossible to completely keep the law but god also has stipulations in there if they sinned why were they sacrificing animals?
Why were they doing all these offerings and things like that because people are sinning so god's kind of
Giving them a chance to atone for those things and the priests would go and make the offerings for them
And that's kind of the system they had until christ was supposed to come
Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 26 says behold. I set before you this day a blessing and a curse
A blessing if you obey the commandments of the lord your god
Which I command you this day and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of the lord your god
But turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods
Which ye have not known so when the children of israel are going into the promised land
you know, they're supposed they're they kind of do this thing where moses is like
Making them redo the covenant so to speak or you know, you know people get they get married
They sometimes they renew their vows. It's kind of something like that
And he's he's saying hey if you keep my commandments then i'm going to bless you
But if you don't i'm going to curse you and that's what he's saying to the priest
here in malachi chapter 2
is that he's going to
Put a curse upon him and yeah, he already has look at verse three back in our text. It says behold
I will corrupt your seed
and spread dung upon your faces
and when pastor anderson preached that sermon about the the language of the king james the
The hard language not the hard language. What is it?
Strong language, thank you. Yeah
Strong language. Yeah, it's not hard. It's strong
So the strong language of the kjv and here god is saying i'm going to spread dung in your faces
And if anybody doesn't know what that is
It's the thing that comes out the other end, right? It's uh, you know, ask pastor shelly
If you need to know what that other word is, but anyway dung is just like refuse
It's something that our bodies don't need or the bodies of animals or whatever
It's the extra stuff that comes out that uh is kind of gross. So
He's talking about rubbing it in their faces
and
Even the dung of your solemn feast. So these animals that they you know that they
Use as sacrifices obviously they were supposed to bet, you know, they were supposed to burn it with all the pertinence thereof
And so sometimes it was that stuff too
so
They kind of they they hold in high regard the things
That god's asked them to do in some ways, but he's talking about their solemn feast
So maybe they just enjoyed the feast and and the revelry and all the things that went along with that
But god, you know if they're not going to just obey the simplest things then god is going to curse them
And he's talking about spreading dung
Upon their faces and it says and one shall take you away with it
And I believe that this is referring to the destruction of the levitical priesthood when the other temple gets destroyed in 70 a.d
I think it's just kind of alluding to it
You know because when jesus christ gets crucified they still continue to do animal sacrifices up until that year
Then the romans came and destroyed the other temple
And jesus obviously, you know prophesied that that was going to happen there wasn't be one stone
Left upon another that wouldn't be thrown down and that's what happened. And so god
Annihilated the temple and therefore the levitical priesthood is no envoy. It was no envoy the day that jesus christ died
And was buried and he rose again the day the the third day. He was the the one that confirmed the new covenant because
If there's a new testament there has to be the death of the testator and jesus christ died and he was the testator
He's the one that it was based upon his blood was sprinkled upon the mercy seat confirming that covenant for us
in heaven so
But uh, he says they're gonna he's gonna take he's gonna spread dung on their faces
Even the dung of their solemn feast and take and one shall take you away with it
And when the romans came and annihilated the temple and they killed all the priests
And so there is no more levitical priesthood. The bible says there's no more levitical priesthood
It's the priesthood has been changed and i'll get to that here in just a minute
but um
And you're like, well, what did the priests do that were so bad?
Well, I believe that this is kind of alluding to this these chapters here where he's talking about the priest specifically
Is alluding to what they would be like when christ comes
Let's let's look at some verses together tonight and let's look at matthew chapter 16 verse 21
because
Right away, even when harrod was asking about, you know, where's the christ going to be born?
He goes to the priests and the scribes and the priests and the scribes say that he was supposed to be born in bethlehem
So they're around and they know that they do know some of the scriptures, but they're completely corrupted
Look at matthew 16 21 it says
From that time forth began jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go into jerusalem and suffer many things
Of the elders and who the chief priests
And scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day
So he suffered a lot of things not only from the pharisees because the pharisees weren't the priests
The pharisees could they were like theologians of their time. They were
Uh, you know doctors of the law or whatever
they weren't necessarily the levites, but they were the rulers of the people along with the sadducees and then
You had the chief priests the ones
That were in charge of all the sacrifices and things like that
And then of course you had the high priest and the high even the high priest was against jesus
so
Look at matthew chapter 20 verse number 18 matthew chapter 20 verse number 18
I just wanted to show you a few verses about how treacherous these these chief priests are
It says in matthew 20 verse 18. It says behold we go up to jerusalem
And the son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death
So, I mean they're killing their own covenant. They're killing their own they're killing their own savior
The messiah that they've been waiting for all this time
The the the priests are so corrupt by the time he gets there that they're trying to murder him. I mean, that's pretty bad, right?
Matthew chapter 21 verse 15 matthew chapter 21 verse 15
the bible says
in matthew 21 verse 15
It says and when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did so they saw what the wonderful things that he did
And the children crying in the temple and saying hosanna to the son of david. They were sore displeased
So instead of being happy like everybody else was when jesus comes in for his triumphal
You know, he's riding on the colt and you know, people are putting the branches down and saying hosanna to the son of david
They're upset about it, but they should be happy
But they're not because they want everything for themselves. They don't want to change
they don't want the things that they have to go away because you know, they're really uh,
They're really high up and the people kind of you know
Look at them like they're better than everybody else and they kind of treat people like they're better than everybody else
And they're super ultra spiritual
Making long prayers as a pretent pretending to pray these long great prayers in front of people
Look at verse, uh with the math matthew 21 verse 23
a few verses down there it says
And when he was coming to the temple the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him
As he was teaching and said by what authority doest thou
these things and who gave thee
This authority and what's really sad is that they should know who did
And he's doing you know that says that they saw the wonderful things he did and they still hated on him
They still didn't like him look at matthew chapter 26 verse 14
Now, of course, we know judas was a was a treacherous betrayer of the lord. Jesus christ
And sold his his hide for 20 pieces or 30 pieces of silver
Look what it says in matthew 26 14. He says then one of the 12 called judas iscariot went unto the chief priest
So who'd he go to the chief priest and said unto them?
What will you give me and I will deliver him unto you and they covenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver
so
These guys are so bad that they're buying
uh, uh, basically the the chance to
Arrest jesus when he's away from all the crowds they they come at night
Which is what bad people like to do is they like to come at night
And when he's you know separated from the the crowds that love him
And they and they you know, they betray him. They're treacherous
This is what the chief priests are like in a time of jesus
And that's why in hebrews 7 go ahead and turn to hebrews 7
It explains to us that
Because christ is going to be this new priest
This new high priest after the order of melchizedek look what it says in hebrews 7 11
Says if therefore perfection were by the levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law
What further need was there that any priest should rise after the old order of melchizedek and not be called after the order of aaron?
For the priesthood being changed there is made a necessity a change also of the law
So because the priesthoods changed the law is also changed
In certain areas and one of those things is that there's no more levitical priesthood
So god does away with them just like he's talking about doing in malachi chapter number two
Let's go back to malachi chapter two look at verse number four
malachi chapter two verse number
Four the bible says and ye shall know that I have sent this this commandment unto you
That my covenant might be with levi saith the lord of hosts
My covenant was with him of life and peace
And I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my name
So there was a time when levi did fear the lord and his covenant was with him with life and peace
But they you know forsook those things and I believe it's probably directly talking about moses himself
Who was the greatest of all the levites in my opinion?
But I mean think about moses's parents
So they were supposed to kill moses when he was born
But what do they do? They feared god more than they feared the king
And so they kept moses alive and because of that god blessed them and made moses the deliverer
And moses did fear the lord greatly. He was a great man of god and he used him to bring in
the covenant with the levites and with the people
so
You know, obviously there's other good levites that were born after him
But you know his brother erin, I mean he kind of gets a bad rap with some people
I think and he did do some stupid things. There's no doubt about that
but god chose him because
You know the gifts and calling of god are without
Without repentance, right?
So even though he did those things god still allowed him to still be the priest because you know what?
priests make mistakes too, but that's why the law was what you know, the the things that they could do to
um to
Not cover their sins, but like atone for their sins in a temporary
State basically until jesus blood was going to pay for everything. So
You know, we still have the blood of christ that we can plead when we sin in our lives also
so
But uh, you know because no, you know that saying nobody's perfect. That's true
But as a christian you can be a perfect christian not a sinless christian
see
We're all going to sin probably every day of our lives, but
What is your attitude towards that? Do you love god? Do you confess your sins to him? Do you?
Do you try your best to obey his commandments?
Well, then, you know, he he understands that we're but dust he understands that we have problems and that we're sinful
and so that grace that he extends to us is
An everlasting grace and obviously there's going to be a day when we stop sinning when jesus comes back and gives us that perfect body
We will no longer be sinners. We'll no longer be sinful, but our days on this earth are you know lived
in in hardship
and
Betrayal and treachery and you know people will turn against you just for simply believing in god
but
You know these levites feared god at one point in their life, but god's saying this that's no more and so god just
god's
God's long suffering has an end at some point
You know, he's going to put up with things from us for a long time
And then he's going to get to the breaking point where he judges that sin
And he's he's very long suffering. He's very merciful
So when you do sin, you know
We do have the ability to go to god and confess our sin to him
And he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
So that's the right attitude when we sin we should acknowledge that sin. We should confess that sin and god will be
Merciful to us, but you know when he's not going to be merciful to us when we're just hardened on something
And like I don't think that's sin
even though you know darn well that the bible says it is but you're just trying to
You know make it out that it's not or something or you just want to you know
It's one thing if you just want to do something
And you know, you're going to just do it anyway
But to say that it's not sin when it actually is that's when god's probably going to come down on you
Like a house of bricks
Look at verse six the bible says the law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips
He walked with me in peace
And equity and did turn many away
from iniquity
Because the part of the levite's jobs, it wasn't just to do the animal sacrifices. It wasn't just to move the tabernacle. It wasn't just maintenance
They were supposed to know the bible
They were supposed to know the law they were supposed to teach the people
And they lived in these different suburbs in the nation of israel and they were supposed to be teaching people
They had synagogues, you know because people can't just go to jerusalem every week
So they had kind of like local churches in their areas that they called synagogues
and
But what happened is that they would always just become corrupt and not do
That which was right it says
But at one point in time they did turn many away from iniquity they they were the people that were
Evangelizing and bringing people in because it wasn't just jews
Quote-unquote they got saved there was people like if you just think about david's mighty men
It's saying all these guys of different nationalities, right?
So there were people that attached themselves to the children of israel
They had to be circumcised and they had to agree to keep the commandments and and those types of things and god accepted them
God's always accepted people that believe in him. It doesn't matter what race you are
So obviously god chose the nation of israel to be the lighthouse to be that shining light for all the other nations and then
You know when that when god chooses a nation like that
He holds them to a higher standard just like he holds christians to a higher standard
We can't get away with the things that other people get away with you're like, well, I don't understand
How come these guys keep getting away with everything it's because they're not saved
And god holds us to a higher standard because people are watching us people are watching our lives
And if people know you're a christian and then you act one way and then you know
God is just gonna you know, it makes them sick. It irritates them
And it makes them want to wipe dung all over your face
And sometimes god will make you look foolish
When you're trying to pretend that you're not a christian or something in front of people
So
You know just be who you are if you're gonna if you're a christian, you know, don't be ashamed of it
Because god's not ashamed to call you brethren
but you know when we're
Being the light of the world like we're supposed to be god's gonna be pleased with us
When our church is being the light that it's supposed to be god's gonna be pleased with us
but when he came down on israel's because
People are supposed to look at israel like this light
And then they're seeing them be more wicked than the nations around them
That's a bad look that's you know, it's it's a disgrace to god
And that's why it's a disgrace to god when he looks at churches and he sees them being worse than the world
When he sees quote-unquote christians being worse than the world
It's a bad look for god and he and it upsets him
now that term
equity
people use that word
in modern day to like give things to people
Based upon their skin color their ethnicity and things like that and and like, you know, they'll give people chances that are of color
Even though they don't score as high as somebody else or whatever. It's kind of this equity equality thing that's going on
And white people are passed over when someone else didn't do as good of a job
Look if you want to be equitable equity means fair and impartial
Like so if you're fair and impartial that means what you're equal
That's what equality is
But instead they're like, well these people don't have a good enough as good of a chance as these people
So that's why they scored higher on the test. Look that shouldn't matter
Whoever the best person is for the job not whoever's grandson is on is is is on the list
Not whoever's you know, family members on the list
You know
I remember when I I was I was taking a test and I was a christian
And it was about it was a job interview and they're asking me all these like integrity questions
And they asked the question
They said I think it was like it's not what you know
It's who you know
But you know agree strongly disagree strong strongly and all that and I said I agree strongly it's not
What you know, it's who you know because that's not the way it's supposed to be
But I was answering honestly like they came back and said we have 70 questions that we
We need to go back over with you
I was just like I sat down with the guy and he was a christian. I didn't know it at the time
I just said look i'm just being honest
You know, i'm being honest about what I believe i'm being honest about how I view the world and so with that particular question
How many people do you know that got a job just because they knew so and so?
That's not equity that's that's inequity that's being uh, you know bias and partial
so
When god says that he walked with me with peace and equity
Moses was fair in his judgments
And that's what god expects is that we're fair in our judgments with everybody as the pastor of the church
Whether it's family or not i'm supposed to be fair and impartial with everybody in my judgments and you're like
Well, that's really hard to do blood's thicker than water. It is thicker than water
And I and I understand that but when it comes to the things of god, I can't be impartial
Or I mean, I have to be impartial. Excuse me. I have to be impartial with anybody in this church
and so no matter what the infraction is no matter what the what what it is, it's you know, I can't just
Pretend like that's not happening. That's not equity
Equity is to be fair and impartial
And as the pastor of the church, it's my job to be that way and god's going to judge me based upon how I do that
Because isn't that one of the things he finds important about moses?
or about the levites
That you walked with me in peace and equity and did turn away or many away from iniquity
That's what god is looking for look at verse seven it says for the priest lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law
At his mouth for he is the messenger
Of the lord of hosts now remember the word malachi
means my messenger
And then later in the next chapter, we're going to be introduced to john the baptist the uh, you know
He's just basically my messenger. It can also mean an angel or a pastor or a preacher
but it's somebody that god has sent to you know, seek the law in his mouth and
Send that message back to other people. So
It's it's good to know the bible. But if you're never teaching anybody anything from the bible
Then you know, what good is it? I mean, obviously it's good for you, but we're supposed to share those things
We're supposed to love our neighbor
as ourselves
And we're supposed, you know, we're supposed to be kings and priests in the new testament
God has given us a special
place
In in, you know, these things weren't in the old testament, you know, they obviously, you know, they were in theory
But there was a priesthood called the priesthood the levitical priesthood
And there were certain people that were just like that was their job was to minister
But he's all god's saying here that the priest's lips should keep knowledge
So what is what kind of knowledge is it talking about that and they should seek the law at his mouth?
Where should we get our knowledge on what the on what god wants from us from the bible itself?
You know and a lot of people like to go to commentaries
And they like to go to jewish scholars
And they like to go study things and and look it's cool to study other things
I'm, not saying don't don't study other things do study other things
But what you're preaching and teaching?
Should be what god said
And that's why he's saying my messenger
Of the lord of hosts so the the priest is supposed to know the bible and to teach others
And it's kind of like pastors today that should know the bible and teach it to people but instead they go to these
You know commentaries of dead men from long ago
They go to the charles spurgeon collection
They go to the matthew henry collection and they'll go and they'll or they'll get a they'll get a study bible
And the study bible they look they look at the study bible with more importance than they do of the actual bible itself
Look, if you're saved you got the holy spirit and you don't need some man to teach you
Those things the holy spirit can teach you so throw that study bible out the window and just get a text only bible
Now if you want to do the cross reference thing, that's fine
But even the cross references are going to cross reference you to a spot that's not
Really jiving with what the bible is saying and you can get a wrong idea of doctrine because of that
But if you're disciplined and know that then you can discern those things
But if you're a new christian and you're just starting out reading the bible
You haven't even read the bible all the way through you should avoid commentaries. You should avoid charles spurgeon
He's a calvinist anyway, and he's burning in hell right now
And you should avoid john calvin's commentaries. He's burning in hell. Also, you should avoid, you know, the pat robertson bible
I don't know if he has one or not
But I know that john macarthur does he has his study bible and he doesn't even use the king james
But people want to go to commentaries and people will go to the sword of the lord and and and put their
They'll go and download that sermon or they'll copy and paste it and preach that like it's their own
Oh, there's nothing wrong with preaching a sermon that somebody else preached i've done it before too
But not i'm not copying everything word for word. I do my own study
But the concept is not a new concept because there's nothing new
Under the sun the bible says what it says. There's a finite amount of things in it
Obviously lots of layers lots of truths
In it, but everything in the bible, you know
If you're preaching a message and it's something nobody's ever heard before in the history of the world, then you're probably wrong about that doctrine
just saying
so
But don't go to these unsafe scholars and act like they under yeah, I think matthew henry believed in like
baptismal regeneration or something
And john gill he's another one that's not saved and people just love these commentaries
And you're like, well, you're you're commentating right now in the bible
Yeah, but you can check what i'm saying with the bible i'm showing you the verses
I'm, just saying what the verses say and whatever's my opinion is my opinion, but don't take that as the gospel truth
Take the words itself as the gospel truth, right look at verse eight it says and you're departed out of the way
You have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of levi sayeth the lord of hosts
And so the bible talks about a lot about in the way out of the way
And maybe someday i'll do a sermon about that. I've been wanting to do it anyway, but
It's just you know, the the right the way what's it talking about the right way the way we're supposed to be going
The way god wants us to walk
And it says therefore have I made you contemptible
And base before all the people according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law
So he's saying before you were equitable before you walked with me in peace
But now he's saying you have not kept my ways, but i've been partial in the law and what does partial mean?
It means favoring one side
in a dispute above another
or to be biased
So they're partial in what they and this is this is the problem with modern christianity right now
Is that people are partial in what they want to preach and what they don't want to preach?
People are scared to preach the bible because they know they're going to get persecuted
So what do they like to do? They like to pick on us when we preach the whole bible
And they'll say stuff like well, I condemn the new ifb because they're meanies or whatever. It's like
Why don't you just shut your mouth buddy?
And just let the real warriors do the battle
And why don't you just if you don't like us then just keep your mouth shut
But you know what if you're going to be on the side of the sodomites
You're going to be on the side of the the satan worshipers
I was reading this article
Where in boston they had like this three-day it was like a a satanist
Uh, I forget it was some festival of satan
Satan
And they're ripping bibles up in front of everybody and chanting everybody's chanting hail satan is sold out
Look, if you don't think that people worship the devil that should tell you right there that they do
so
There is
A force of darkness out there that wants to destroy god's people
And you know people act like when we say well witches should be burnt or whatever. That's what the bible says
Thou shall not suffer a witch to live and it's like the when these freaks were out here
You know protesting our church and having their little wedding or whatever
What do they ride on the ground out there?
What sticker did they put on my van?
Hail lucifer hail satan
Do work or do bad things or whatever. What what does it say?
Do crime
And you know, maybe they're just being mocking or whatever
They were act they were on their best behavior when they were here because they knew people were watching
And they were trying not to get too crazy
But you know what? They didn't like they didn't like when we put the barriers where they couldn't take pictures of our kids
And show themselves to our kids. They're really upset about that
But we're in a battle folks and you know what the last thing that I want to do as a pastor
The last thing I want to do is stop preaching what the bible says
Is
And you're like well, why do you have to preach about so much because it's the it's the fight of our generation
There's never been anything like this in the history of our country
Where you know, it's okay to dance in a seductive way dressed like a woman as a man in front of little children
That's never been
a thing I mean go back
I don't even know how many years ago, but it wouldn't have been put up with just trust me on that
When I was a kid that would have never flown
But now it's just one step after another and they're just they're implacable. So they're going to keep
Continuing to break down walls and barriers and I mean they're putting a drag queen on a beer can
And but the people the the pendulum is swinging in the other direction
You know when targets losing billions of dollars when bud lights no longer the king of beers or whatever
It's you know, people are sick of this stuff
So they always know how far they can go and then they kind of draw back
But as preachers we have to preach everything
And so if we're going to preach what the bible says the bible does preach that teach the death penalty
And so if we teach the death penalty no matter what it's for whatever whatever sin
That god puts the death penalty on we have to preach that truth. Now are we saying and this is what you know
This this pastor said
About jay's brother. First. He called him pastor graver, you know, and I don't know where they get these ideas from
But they just repeat everything, you know, he's basically repeating the talking points
Of the sodomites themselves quoting a news article
That was written by corrupted, you know, do you think that they're really reporting the real news?
No, they spin it and say we're calling for the death
Of all these people or whatever. It's like no
He said that we should bring them to trial
And that after they're found guilty, they should be executed
But he's like I could you know, the he said I condemn all that stuff
And you know, there's the it's it's demonic and whatever so he's like, okay there but then he says with the same
stroke of his mouth that we
Are basically demonic
And that he condemns the new ifb
It's like a baptist pastor
And it's just like an independent fundamental baptist pastor
Who's just going after us? Why? Well, he wants somebody to click on his videos
because jason got like five million views the last time I checked and that was you know before
You know, it's been a few weeks now
I'm sure it's got more but
Jason's a layman in our church
He's not lame. He's a layman
in our church
And that sermon
Did more, you know, you might think well just cause a lot of damage and everybody was doing this and that
No, it's it's getting the the word of god out to people that need to hear it
And if five million people have to listen to jason go on that rant
It's better than the 28th that listened to his little stupid youtube short that he made
It's like what are you proving that you just want to you want to side with the sodomites against other baptist brethren?
We are saved, you know
So if he's saved and we're saved and you're on the side of the sodomites, there's something wrong with you
And and the thing is is that they're being partial in the law
They have not kept my ways, you know why because if he if he kept his ways then he'd be preaching the same stuff
Because as far as I know we read the same bible
But yeah, they're like, oh we condemn them
They're demons. You better be careful what you say about god's people because you know what god doesn't like it when you're sitting there
Putting, you know, just basically just with one stroke saying that we're all bad
All the new life being churches are bad. You know what and go ahead and say that
Go ahead and say it to the cows. Come on. I don't really care. I'm just going to keep preaching the bible
So when people you know see that the man of god is departed from the way what is what does that do? Well
It's you know, they've departed from the truth. They've departed from biblical teachings
And then you know, they were once solid and it causes people to look at them with contempt
and and base or low
Don't you just doesn't make you sick when someone just compromises and they're supposed to be like this bastion of the faith
Kind of like what was that guy's name that?
He was making this big stand on the covid
stuff, um, he was like a baptist preacher
friends with uh, huh
What was his name, uh keith gomez
Keith gomez is like we're not shutting our church down and we're going to stand we're going to keep our doors open
And then as soon as they said they're going to find him millions of dollars or whatever he caved
And I haven't really heard much from him since then
And he kind of just scurried under a rock
But remember pastor anderson made that video where the fat guy's running around and like the cop the chopper choppers are after him
it's pretty funny, but
Look these guys are taking stands on the wrong. I mean, yeah, was it a good stand to take but then he caved
And so what does that make people think he's weak?
That's what they think
You know, if you're going to say you're going to stand on something you better stand on it
And when the pastors today in this land are are partial with the law
They're favoring certain parts. They're avoiding certain topics in the bible
And they are biased they're cherry picking
The parts that they don't like to preach
You know, it's so funny. Like I mean, I remember this one pastor was going through the psalms
He gets to psalm 68. I'm like surely he has to mention
You know
Melt, you know, I I think it's like the breaking break their teeth out. Oh lord
Now let them melt like a snail
It's like oh, that's all the time we got for today. It's like
you know and then like the
So I never I never got to hear
What what the take on that was?
But I feel like that was done on purpose to avoid that topic because
If you're teaching that's always love always grace. There's never any hatred in the bible. There's never anything like that
and
Then you come across the passage that makes you do an about face
And you're like well and here's what here's what the the old ifb will say about david's prayers. That's his personal feelings
Well, then why did the holy ghost choose to put that psalm in the bible then?
It's the word of god. It was supposed to be sang in churches
And so if that song is supposed to be saying in churches
Or song in churches. I think that's the right word
If that's true
Then how is that his personal opinion?
It's not his personal opinion. That's god's
opinion
That's the holy ghost
And to take the glory away from god like that as if that you know, david was just making a mistake
How about all the other psalms where he talks about people melting like snails and breaking their teeth out and god killed them
And just all this stuff
They're called impregatory psalms. There's multiple of them
And david talks about his enemies being destroyed all the time
But he was a man after god's own heart. How do you reconcile those things?
Well, he's balanced. That's how and that you know
The psalms are going to give us more balance than even our song book will
Because the song books that we have are all pretty positive aren't they if we never sang the psalms if we never read the psalms
We wouldn't know what a real song book's like because I mean the people that compile these song books
They're not putting psalm 139 in there, are they?
They're putting in you know, obviously uplifting songs
and that's it's imbalance because
The bible says we're supposed to sing
hymns psalms and spiritual songs
so
If we if we neglect to to put two of those categories in there
Then we're not balanced with our with our worship. We're not balanced with our singing
So and you know, this is why people love churches like this
That's why people love churches in the new ifb because they know that they're going to get the raw
Unfiltered word of god and no apologies for it. I'm not going to apologize for david because david was right
I'm, not going to say that david. This is david's opinion. He just had a bad heart that day or something. That's ridiculous folks
The bible says we're supposed to
You know preach the whole thing paul said I didn't shun to to preach the whole counsel of god unto you
And so and then he goes on to say how he warned people about wolves day and night
You're like you're preaching too negative about people infiltrating and it's like paul did it every day
Day and night. He's like preaching two sermons. The wolves are coming. The wolves are coming the well
I mean, maybe he's being a little tongue in cheek there
I'm sure that wasn't necessarily every single message, but
He what he's saying if you want to say he's just being tongue in cheek. He's saying that he preached about it a lot
right
So we don't want to be partial in the way we preach
And as christians, we don't want to be partial in what we believe in the bible either because it makes god angry
And maybe if your opinion is well, I just don't agree with god on this point. Well, then you better get right
You better fix what you believe according to what his word says and quit trying to make it say what you want it to say
Or quit saying well, I believe in so-and-so's interpretation
that's just because
You want to believe you want to cherry-pick the bible and that's what people do
So look at verse number 10. The bible says
Have we not all one father?
Half not one god created us
Why do we deal treacherously?
Every man against his brother by profaning the covenant
Of our father so now he's going to turn his direction
On to judah so judah profaning the covenant, but he uses this word here
Why do we deal treacherously and he brings this word treacherously in a lot in the last verses of this chapter?
And what does it what does treachery mean it means betrayal of trust
deceptive action or nature
It's what judas did he was a traitor the bible says
And it also means to cheat
Treachery is to cheat on something or somebody
so
You're you're stabbing somebody in the back
You're pretending to be their friend when you're really not and it's deceptive
And god's he he starts ripping on judah about this
so and and just think about this it says
How do we why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
What is he talking about? He's talking about when we break these commandments, you know, think about all the stuff it says in proverbs
about
How we're supposed to treat people what what it says in the psalms what it says in the bible
About how we're supposed to love our brothers and not oppress them. We're not supposed to backbite them and talk bad about them
And you know, I kind of feel like that this is kind of what he's talking about
You're breaking god's commandments and it's affecting the brotherhood of the church
It's affecting the brotherhood of the people and it's treachery because when we go we're going around talking about people
behind their back then
The bible is you know says that that's backbiting
Isn't it?
When you go around and talk about someone behind their back when they don't know what's going on. It's backbiting
It's tail-bearing. It's gossip
And god doesn't like that
He's going to deal with you if that's your nature
Look it says in verse 11 judah hath dealt treacherously
And an abomination is committed in israel
And in jerusalem for judah hath profaned the holiness of the lord
Which he loved and hath married the daughter of a strange god
So, you know, we got spiritual adultery going on with the children of judah
and of course
We know that they had the high places and they were kind of you know, worshiping other gods some of these people
And they're committing this spiritual adultery and god views that as treachery. You're a traitor
You're a backstabber. You say you love god, but you're worshiping some other god
and verse 12 says and the lord will cut off this man that doeth this the master and the scholar out of the
tabernacles of jacob
So
It says and to him that offereth
An offering unto the lord of hosts. So now he's kind of back at the people that are given the offer
He's he's given the priest the business he's given judah the business
And really all that's left once judah has completely corrupted itself, you know
Because god would let let the nation of israel hang on because judah would stay faithful
But at at a certain point when he destroyed the first temple
Everything had been corrupted the assyrians had taken out all the children of israel and replaced them with other people
That's what samaria was
And then he destroyed judah also by neba kenezer
So, but he you know, he's basically saying that the same thing is happening again
And this is where people
Are getting worse because they're married to the daughter of a strange god and think about this the pharisees
they
the pharisees
They said that they believed in the lord of hosts. They said they believed in god the father
But what's the bible say if they don't have the son they don't have the father
So what does that tell you? They're not worshiping god
And so when it says that judah, you know has
Perfamed the holiness of the lord that he loved and married the daughter of a strange god, you know
You can say you love the lord all you want
But there's a lot of people that say they love the lord that aren't even saved
they believe in works salvation and this is kind of
What happened when jesus came on the scene, what are they racist?
They don't want to help the samaritans. They won't even talk to them
They're they're racist against the the gentiles
and then
You know, they're believing in a workspace salvation. They're actually believing in a workspace salvation and
a man-made doctrine
washing your hands
Don't do these things on certain things on the sabbath and all this kind of stuff
And they're making up
for doctrines the commandments of men
And so they've really married the daughter of a strange god because that's not what god taught
That's why god had to intervene and say okay your covenant's over
Jesus is coming
so
And and you know when it says the master and the scholar he's going to cut off the man that doeth this the master
and the scholar if you think about it in the new testament, I don't we don't have time to go all these verses but
Jesus said be but be not called rabbi for one is your master even christ and all ye are brethren
so
What did jesus say don't be called master and so when he says i'm going to cut off
The man that doeth this the master and the scholar. These are rabbis and what do we still have rabbis today?
Yeah, they they so what did that? What does rabbi mean? It means master
And so they're going around saying that they're the master but really christ is the master
We shouldn't be called rabbis what the bible says
And when you think about the scholar, I think about the scribes because what would the scribes job
to you know to to carefully record the bible
but they were also
teachers of the bible and teachers of the law
The definition of a scholar is a specialist in a particular branch of study
especially the the humanities
A distinguished academic and it has like as the example a hebrew scholar
So but the scribe means
It's an ancient jewish record keeper or later a professional theologian
and jurist so
The theologian is the one that studies the bible and you know, they're the you know, they're like the calvinists of today
you know, they sit in their room and
You know, they they go over all these different things and theological terms and and they don't really get out and experience christianity
They just are are are theologians and scribes
You know, you got theologians and people like that they're in colleges today secular colleges
And they're teaching things about the bible and they have no clue what they're talking about because they're not even saved
So and they're called doctors of the law or whatever
but matthew chapter 17 verse 10 says and his disciples asked him saying why then say the scribes that elias must come first so
Obviously the scribes are teaching people doctrine
And they're sp and sounds like they're right about that
But god said in malachi he's going to cut off the master he's going to cut off the scholar
And you know when jesus goes on his big tirade against the pharisees, it's not against just the pharisees, is it?
What's he say but woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites?
For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men
For you neither go in yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go
And he just goes on and on about the scribes and the pharisees
And what happens in the end? They all get annihilated the jews are dispersed throughout the world and there's no more scribes
You know, obviously there is now but they don't even believe the bible
You know most people that say, you know, and people, you know like to say we hate jews
We don't hate jews. We hate the religion of judaism. There is a difference
So i'm not saying that people should just go and kill jews or something
I've never said that and I never will
but you know people think that it's like an ethnic group or something, but they lost all their
Their ethnicity a long time ago. They don't really know what tribes they are
They can say well, we're the tribe of ishikar and whatever, you know
And of course the black hebrew israel israelites have a whole different view of this, but they're they're supposedly the hebrews or whatever
But they're not but malachi chapter 2 verse 13 says and this have you done again?
Covering the altar of the lord with tears with weeping with crying out
And so much that he regardeth not the offering anymore or receive it with good will at your hand
And so god is basically saying here like, you know, it's so funny that there's altar calls in the new testament and churches
And what does god say that he doesn't like about them going to the altar that they're crying at the altar
They're weeping at the altar, isn't that what the pastors say come on up to an old-fashioned altar
And then you'll have people up there going
You know and just
It's a show
It's a show for the pastor
It's a show for them to show how holy they are when they
Stick their rear end in your face and bow down in front of some altar that's not even in the new testament
The altar was in the old testament and so when preachers say come on down to the old-fashioned altar
You mean the old-fashioned altar from the old testament
The one that says you're not supposed to have steps going up to it
Which everyone every single one that i've ever seen has steps up to it
There's a difference between a platform and what they call the altar. Is that those two steps before you go up on the race platform
But what's god saying right here?
Quit covering your tears with your weeping and crying it says he regard he regardeth not the offering anymore
Or receive it with goodwill at your hand. So
Number one, there's no altars in the new testament. Okay
Let's talk about the old testament here. And if you know if there were god doesn't receive weeping
at it
He's not that's not what he he doesn't want to show from us. He wants true sacrifice
And so when you're going up there and you're weeping, you know
And this is the thing people will will think that that's going to help them and score them some brownie points with god
When they're just not not even living the christian life at all
And so when he sees you being fake and phony and then all of a sudden you're coming up
Every single week to the old-fashioned altar who's been to a baptist church where they have the altars?
It's annoying. It's not just baptist churches too. I think it's pentecostal churches and
It wasn't even a baptist thing but the baptists adopted it because they like seeing all these people, you know
They used to have like these crying benches
Where they'd say who's having a problem with this and they'd stick them on these benches
And then they would just sit there and preach the rest of the sermon against those people
On the crying and they called it the crying bench, right?
So, you know, it's showboaty
It's you know, it's to look holy. It's to look righteous. It's fake humility. That's what it is
And it's them being holier than thou and god, you know, I mean there's a good verse to kind of crush the altar calls
now
Let's look at verse 14. And so this is the last
portion of
The uh chapter here
but
Uh, so I want to talk about the treachery of divorce here for my final
Point look at matthew or malachi. Excuse me, verse 2 verse 14. It said chapter 2 verse 14 says
Yeah, you say wherefore because the lord has been hath been witnessed between thee
And the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously
So he's telling all these things of how they've dealt treacherously and now he's going to get to
How they're treating their wives
And what is he talking about? Well, they've been a traitor they've been cheating they're unfaithful it says yet
Is she thy companion and the wife of thy what's it say there at the end?
thy covenant
There's a covenant that you enter into when you get married and what is it tell death do us part
That's the covenant
What you know like well that's just something that man came up with no god said we're supposed to live with them for our lifetimes
That's what the bible teaches now
I'm, not trying to get on people that have already been divorced
You already know that I always feel like I have to caveat that but i'm not mad
As someone that's you know made that mistake and they've gotten right with god
It is what it is
But why why would I teach something like this?
Well, first of all, it's in our chapter here that we're not supposed to to get divorced and a covenant
Is it like an agreement?
Or a will or testament and it's an agreement. That's a legal binding
So that's why can't hovin when he's just like scratching his name in the back of a bible, you know
I don't know what his bible looks like, but he probably has like four x's or something where he x'd out those
Marriages that he had
That is not a legal binding covenant. It might have been in days of past but in this country
If you don't have a marriage license
Or a marriage certificate, you're not really married according to the law and when god says it's a covenant
That means it is a lawful covenant
That's why they had to write a bit a bill of divorcement in order to divorce their spouse because it's a legal proceeding
The judge has ruled on it. It's it's something that's
Of a court of law so people just get these ideas. Well, i'm married before god
And that's just not true folks
You can say that all you want, but if it's not a legal binding covenant, you're like well, you know
They marry sodomites and stuff. That's not anything we can can control
But how are you gonna if something happens? How are you gonna pass that down to your wife?
You know say you die suddenly and you have no will you have no test, you know
You know final will or a living document will or whatever it is
And then you're not really married to them. What's gonna happen? Well, it's gonna go to somebody else
And so, you know, these are legal things that happen and obviously everything goes through probate now
If you die and you have property or you have anything at first who's a go-to your wife or your spouse
Then it goes to your children
Then it goes to your grandchildren
If you don't have any of those it goes to the next of kin the brothers and sisters and things like that
But when you make a covenant with a wife
You're supposed to honor that covenant till death do us part and people are like well, you know, so it's not to to swear oaths
Well, you're not swearing an oath
You're you're binding your soul to that person. That's what god expects
So if you say tell death to us part and you say I do and all this other stuff
You're already you're just doing what god said you have to do when you get married
so
if you get into a marriage and you're you never intended to stay in that marriage, which is about
50 or 60 percent of the of the country that we live in now
Then you're not doing what god asked and and it's you know, it's a covenant that you enter into between
Your spouse and god said if you break that covenant, it's treachery
Your your trait your uh, you know and back then men could only divorce their wives women couldn't really divorce
And so the men kind of held all the cards
So god's really getting on to them here about just putting their wives away
The word says in verse 15 and did not he make one yet had he the residue of the spirit
And wherefore one that he might seek a godly seed what's god want?
He wants you to marry someone that's saved
And for you to have children and for those children to grow up and get saved
That's the best chance you have of having your children be saved is that you get saved
You have children
And you raise them in a godly home and they grow up and they get saved and so on and so forth
It says therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. So if you get divorced
You're true. You're being treacherous against your wife if you get divorced ladies with with a man
It's the same thing you're dealing treacherously with the husband
Of your youth and people are like well, you know, it's just okay to get married
You know get divorced because of this this and that and the other thing
Well, look at verse 16 it says for god or excuse me for the lord the god of israel saith
That he hateth putting away
He hateth putting away
so
Again, if you've already done this before and you've you've already made the mistake
Well, you know just confess that sin to god and forsake it
But if you're under the sound of my voice and you're still married and you get a divorce
Then you're not right with god and god says he hateth putting away
And look marry someone that you know that you can live the rest of your life with obviously you can't know every single thing about them
But that's why we always counsel people get to know someone before you marry them
Spend a year a season of of life with that person
Know what they want what they expect how many kids they want to have and you know, if those things aren't jiving up
Maybe you shouldn't get married to them
So it says god hate that the lord hateth the putting away for it one covered with
Violence with his garments and the lord saith the lord host therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal
Not treacherously if you had a theme for this whole chapter, what's again? What is it? Don't deal treacherously
with your brothers and sisters in christ
with your spouse
with the covenant of the lord
all these things
But he ends with this divorce
issue
And you know whenever I teach on this people get really mad about it
And they always like like to leave me comments or email me and stuff like that
But let's just look at what jesus said about it. Look at matthew chapter 5 verse 31. I know I got to hurry up here
matthew 5 31
The bible says it hath been said whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of divorcement
Is are those red letters in your bible?
If you have a red letter bible, it's jesus talking right but I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife
saving for the cause of fornication
Causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
Committed adultery. So what's it saying?
If you put away your spouse you're committing adultery if you marry someone that's divorced you're committing adultery
So as a christian you have a duty to obey what the bible says
So if you just say well, I know they were divorced but i'm going to marry them anyway
And you've listened to this sermon then
Just be prepared that you're going to get punished for it. So if you want to be punished
If you're willing to take the punishment for it, then that's up to you
I just got to preach the bible says and let the chips fall where they may look at matthew 19
verse 3
Now this issue of being divorced for any reason is basically on the books as law right now
Being able to be divorced for any reason
You don't have to have a reason anymore. You used to have to have a reason
if someone did something really bad, then you could divorce them, but
now it's just
They're ugly
It doesn't matter what the reason they're ugly their breast smells. They left the toilet seat up for too long or whatever
But look what the bio look at the pharisees come to him with
In matthew 19 3 it says the pharisees also came unto him tempting him and saying unto him
Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And so this is their mentality, you know when people call us pharisees
They're the pharisee
Because we're we're teaching that you're not supposed to get divorced for any reason except for the cause of fornication, right?
Which happens before the the marriage?
And so they're saying what do the pharisees believe is it is it lawful for a man to put his wife away for every cause
And look what it says and he answered and said to them
Have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?
And said for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh what therefore god hath joined together
Let not man put asunder once they're married let not man put asunder
So, how's god feel about divorce? Well, he hates it
He hates the pudding away
What's the reason that you can get divorced for fornication? When does fornication happen before the marriage?
If if a woman is not a virgin or the man is not a virgin before
Then and you say that you are then you can get divorced. That's the only stipulation that god has
For being able to get divorced and people go. Well, it's adultery. Is that what it says?
No, it says fornication
And why did joseph why was joseph going to divorce mary?
Because he thought that she was with child
from some sort of
You know affair
right
So but they had not
Consummated the marriage yet. So joseph's like well i'm just going to put her away privately. So she's you didn't want her to get killed
but
uh angel had to come to joseph and tell him exactly why
He should not put away mary
And and and you know why it had to be an angel because nobody's going to believe that a virgin is is with child
I mean today if someone's saying I was I don't know how this baby got me, you know, I just I i'm a virgin
I just don't get it. They're lying
Okay
This is the one time in history where it actually
Wasn't a lie. And so that's why the angel had to come and tell him
Right, but it says what?
God had joined together let not man put asunder they say unto him
Why did moses then command to give a riding a divorcement and put her away?
He saith unto them moses because of the hardness of your heart suffered you to put away your wives
But from the beginning it was not so and I say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife except for
Except it be for the fornication and shall marry another commiteth adultery
And whosoever marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery
I mean, that's jesus twice in the book of matthew
Spelling it out really plainly
in our english bible
and so
People can fight about this all they want and say well no if they're doing this or if they're beating their kids or whatever
No, the you know, and obviously we live in a messed up world
and
If you want to look at the what the scripture saying that what jesus is talking about is deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 13 through 15
or 13 through
22 actually
and it explains all this process that jesus is talking about and I don't have time because I got to be done but uh,
you know
God, you know jesus didn't stutter. He said it twice, you know, except for it be for the cause of fornication
God hates the putting away let not man put asunder where god is put together
In the united states though married couples are allowed to end a marriage by filing for a divorce on the grounds of either fault or no
fault
In the past most states have only granted divorces
On fault grounds, but today all states have adopted a form of no fault divorce
It's it began in california in 1969
and now every state of the union has no fault divorces that means someone can just
Deal treacherously with their spouse and in most cases women get all the kids no matter how much of a whore she is
No matter how much drugs she's on
I mean, it's really hard to take, you know kids away from a mother
And you know in a lot of cases it's wrong
And and that's that's just kind of the world we live in
So we don't have the old testament law in effect where an adulterous or an adulterous put to death
But that's what the bible teaches and the reason why is so you can get remarried
And that person gets what's coming to them by the law
And you can get remarried and you don't have to live in some kind of weird relationship where
Your kids are seeing both sides of the family or she marries some other dude that beats your kids or molests them or whatever
That that's that in god's perfect world that doesn't happen
And you know what people will be a lot less likely to commit adultery and to deal treacherously with their spouse
If those laws were on the books today
And it's wicked as hell if you divorce your spouse so if you've already done it it's done
You can't you can't stop it now
It's already done
And look that doesn't mean divorce the new spouse that you married
And go back to the other one because the bible says it's an abomination to do that
And people argue with me about that. It's like no the bible says it's an abomination
You can't do that. Once they've consummated a new marriage. It's over you can't do that
So and people get mad about all this and whatever you can get mad all you want, but that's what the bible says
There's a lot of scriptures I had left, but i'm not going to go into it, but the last
scripture
in the chapter says you have wearied the lord with your words
Yet you say wherein have we wearied him when you say
Everyone that doeth evil is good
In the sight of the lord and he delighteth in them
You know what god's get you know, what makes god angry when you sit there and say that the people are doing wicked or good
They were born that way
Right, they should you should let them come into your church and take care of your kids
What's wrong with you? You're so mean they're they're good
They're not good folks. They're wicked
Anybody that you call that's wicked good in the sight of the lord
He's wearied by those words
And it says
that
and if you say that he delighteth in them, that's even worse or
Where is the god of judgment?
God is wearied by words of people that are
You know so called doing something for the right reason
What they think is the right reason, you know
But we we deal with a lot of people in our lives and in this church
Where people are just mad because of the things that the bible says
And they're mad because we believe them and our our family members turn against us our our friends turn against us
Our extended families turn against us society turns against us, but you know who's never going to turn against us
God's never going to turn against us because you know what god wants people to keep his word
God wants people to love his law
God wants people to not deal treacherously and you know when we teach that and preach that we believe that and we live that
Then god's very well pleased with us and no matter what the scum outside of these walls says, you know, the bible's right
They're wrong. God's right
And you know, that's where we stand
And we shouldn't just move away because society is changing we stay in the old path
We stay in the right way. We stay with what god said. We keep his commandments
We preach what he says and you know what if people don't like it, they can go jump in the lake
Of fire
All right. Let's pray lord. We thank you so much for this great chapter lord
I pray that you just bless our church lord help us to stand
In the right ways help us to not deal treacherously with our spouses and lord our brothers and sisters in christ
And lord, I pray that you just help us to walk in your way and keep in your way
And let this chapter be a lesson to us of how you want us to live our lives
and
The how serious you take the things that you say are in jesus name. We pray. Amen
Thank you
So
Song number 389 right in the middle. Let's sing it together on the first verse
Heart is the shepherd's voice. I hear
out in the desert dark and drear
calling the sheep who've gone astray
far from the shepherd's
Fold away
bring them in
Bring them in from the fields of sin
bring them in
Bring the wandering ones to jesus
Who'll go and help this shepherd come
Help him the wandering ones to find who'll bring the lost ones to the
Fool where they'll be sheltered from the cold bring them in
bring them in
Bring them in from the fields of sin
bring them in
Bring the wandering ones to jesus
Out in the desert hear their cry
out on the mountains wild and high
Heart is the master speaks to thee
Go find my sheep
Wherever they be
Bring them in
Bring them in from the fields of sin
Bring them in
Bring the wandering ones to jesus
Amen. Good to see you brother bill. Would you close your prayer?
You