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Okay, we are in 1 Timothy, chapter 5, 1 Timothy, chapter 5, we'll read the whole chapter before
the preaching as our custom. 1 Timothy, chapter 5, the Bible reads, rebuke not an elder, but
entreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren, the elder women as mothers, the
youngers as sisters, with all purity. Honor widows that are widows indeed, but if any
widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their
parents, for that is good and acceptable before God. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate,
trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day, but she that liveth
in pleasure is dead while she liveth, and these things give in charge that they may be blameless,
but if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the
faith, and is worse than an infidel. Let not a widow be taken into the number under three
score years old, having been the wife of one man, well reported of for good works, if she
hath brought up children, if she hath lodged strangers, if she hath washed the saints feet,
if she hath revived, relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work,
but the younger widows refuse, for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ,
they will marry, having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith, and with all
they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also,
and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. I will therefore that the younger women marry,
bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully,
for some are already turned aside after satan, if any man or woman that believeth have widows,
let them relieve them, and let them let not the church be charged, that it may relieve them that
are widows indeed. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they
who labor in the word and doctrine, for the scripture saith thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn, and the laborer is worthy of his reward. Against an elder,
receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses, them that sin rebuke before all,
that others also may fear. I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect
angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by
partiality. Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself pure.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment, and some men they follow after.
Likewise, also the good works of some are manifest beforehand,
and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. Brother Nate, could you pray for this service?
And well it's great to be back and preaching to you all one more time,
and this morning I chastised you with whips, tonight I'm going to chastise you with scorpions,
so I'm just kidding. I had a lot of notes this morning, and I just chose not to go through them
all, and obviously the sermon was long, but you know what, I don't come up very often anyway,
so I just try to give you all I got, and even if you don't want it, I don't care, you know,
you're going to get it anyway. So the title of my sermon tonight is Worse Than an Infidel,
Worse Than an Infidel, and around the new IFB, this is known as the Jimenez Doctrine, because
Pastor Jimenez basically teaches, and I agree with him, and I hold to the same doctrine that,
you know, if a man doesn't take care of his own house, he is worse than an infidel,
and someone, a man that won't work and provide for his family, or a man that just won't work,
period, should be marked, should be noted, and we should have no company with that man,
and they should be ashamed of themselves. Look at verse number eight in our text here, it says,
but if any man provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house,
he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. So the Bible says that if you will
provide for your own, and that is talking about people, especially for the people of your own
house, that's just as if you denied the faith, and it says you're worse than an infidel. Now,
a lot of times you hear the word infidel, it's used by Muslims, you know, generally, but the
word is in the Bible, and what it means is unbelieving. It's somebody that's an unbeliever,
so if you won't even take care of your own house, if you won't take care of your own family,
then you're worse than an unbeliever, because there's a lot of unbelievers out there that still
believe in taking care of their family and still do, but if you're a man of faith, and then you're
like, I don't, I'm just going to leave my family, I'm going to leave my wife or somebody else, or
I'm just not going to provide, I'm going to have my wife provide, you know, you have
stay-at-home dads these days is a popular thing, but let me tell you something, that usually ends
in divorce, because secretly, I mean, women might say they want you to stay home with the kids,
but they don't really mean that, because then they start looking at you like you can't even
bring home the bacon, I got to provide for the family, I mean, that's the opposite of how God
wants things to be, so it's also, so it says the definition of infidel is unbelieving,
disbelieving the inspiration of the scriptures, or the divine institution of Christianity, so
again, an unbeliever, an unbeliever in regards to not believing the Bible, or in the Christian faith.
The etymology of the word comes from the late 15th century from the French, and then, you know,
we borrow a lot from other languages, but the word in, let's see, not, so it basically infidelis,
so basically not faithful is what that means in Latin, so it came from infidelis from the Latin,
and it means not faithful, so, but, you know, you've heard of sola, solo, solo fide, or whatever,
where it's faith alone, or whatever, but when you put the I in in front of it, it's basically the
opposite, it's taking away from that, so it's to not be faithful, to not believe, so let's turn
over to 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14, and I'm going to come at this from a different way
this time when I preach about this, because a lot of times I'll bring up how people, you know,
if a man doesn't work, neither should he eat, that's part of this, that's basically, that is
the Jimenez doctrine, is basically if someone refuses to labor or work, and we'll go up to that
verse, but I kind of want to bring it from the aspect of a person that refuses to take care of
their own family, a man that refuses to take care of their own family, but there's also women that
will walk out on their families, there's women that will just say, well I don't want to be with
you anymore, and today it's real easy to get divorces, today it's real easy to get divorced
and remarried, excuse me, and it's so easy that people are just trading partners like crazy,
now I'm not here to beat up on anybody that's been divorced and remarried, that's not what I'm
trying to do tonight, I'm talking about people that are saved, that do know the truth, that do
know what they're supposed to be doing, maybe you didn't know about that before, but you know about
it now, and for you to walk out on your family, or for you to just be a serial adulterer, or a serial
adulteress, and you don't want to be with your family, you don't want to do your part for your
family, you know the Bible says you're worse than an infidel, and so second Corinthians chapter 6
verse 14, look what it says, be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness, and what
concord hath Christ with Belial, and what part hath he that believeth with an infidel, so there
it's kind of giving you the definition by the Bible itself, the Bible can be a built-in
dictionary sometimes, and it's kind of telling us there, you know, what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel, so the opposite of someone that believes is what, someone that doesn't believe,
right, so verse 16 says, and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols, for you're the temple
of the living God, as God has said I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people, wherefore come out from among them, and be separate saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing, and I'll receive you, and the reason why I'm going to these
scriptures here, is because it's telling us that, you know, we're not supposed to hang around
unbelievers, right, so if someone is worse than an infidel, should you hang out with that person?
Absolutely not, that's why in verse 25a it says you've denied the faith, you're worse than an
infidel, you're worse than an unbeliever, so what's worse than an unbeliever is someone
that's a believer that won't even take care of their own house, they won't even take care of
their own family, you know what they call that these days? They call that a deadbeat,
right, now turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6, 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6,
2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6 says, Now we command you brethren, in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, that you, what's it say there, withdraw yourselves from every brother that
walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us, for yourselves know
how he ought to follow us, for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we
eat any man's bread for naught, but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we may,
that we might not be chargeable to any of you, so what's he saying? He's saying you need to withdraw
yourself from from brothers or sisters that walk disorderly, he's like we didn't eat your guys's
bread, we just come over and say hey feed us, hey take care of us, they're working together,
they're laboring together with people, and this is of course the Apostle Paul
writing to the church at Thessalonica, but he says we didn't eat anybody's bread for naught,
we wrought labor and travail night and day, and anybody that thinks that Christian ministers don't
work hard, it's a night and day thing, it's something that you're night and day doing,
but they're trying to be an example to these people, and it says not not because we have not
power, but to make ourselves an ensemble unto you to follow us, for even when we were with you,
this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he eat, for we hear that there are
some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but our busybodies. Now here's where I
will take the time to beat up on this whole homeless, houseless, whatever you want to call
it, that's the Orwellian word for it, but you know what kind of got me going on this is the
other day we had some ladies that were trying to go in and just clean the church, you know we pay
a lot of money to rent that building, and yet there's homeless people or drug addicted,
you know, screechers that hang out in front, bang on the windows, throw garbage all over our property,
leave needles all over our property, and so I had to come from my house because of course the police
refused to do their job, and then I have to go there and tell this guy to leave, the the ladies
are in our church are too afraid to walk into the door because there's some homeless screeching,
you know, vagrants in front of the door yelling and screaming at things that aren't there.
It's like well how did it get to this? Well I don't know, why don't you ask the mayor of Portland
how it got to the to how it is in that city, where people are literally camping in front of other
people's houses, people are afraid to go out, people are afraid to leave their house because
it's going to get robbed by these people, I mean the problem is hey we don't have enough money,
let's just give them some more money, you know, why don't you give that money to people who
actually work for it and maybe they could move out to a nicer neighborhood so they wouldn't have
to have bums camping out in front of their house, because what you do notice is they're never camped
in front of, you know, the houses in the west hills, they're never camped in the nice neighborhoods,
they're camped in front of, you know, hard-working people's neighborhoods and then the police
their hands are tied supposedly, they can't do anything about it, so you have people walking
into other people's houses, sleeping, you know, mommy someone's sleeping in my bed, it might be
true, you better go check, because they might just walk in your house, don't leave your door unlocked
in Portland, because it's how I've seen it twice on the news, where people walk into someone else's
house and just start sleeping in someone one of their kid's bed, and one time it was the same
lady doing it twice, it's like you think you would have locked your door the second time, but
anyway there's a lot of people out there today that refuse to labor, they refuse to work,
you see the same people with the same signs at the same freeway on ramps are down at the same
block that they are always on, they like to stand in the median on those concrete curbs, right,
and then straddle traffic, so you have to slow down and slip them a dollar bill to get past them,
they're like trolls, you know, and you know they do the little sad act or whatever,
the same people with the same sad face, it's like if you look at them, they're gonna draw you in
with their tractor beam and make try to make you feel bad, it's an act folks, and you know what,
if a man doesn't work, neither should he eat, I'm sick and tired of Christians going, oh you guys
are just so mean to the homeless people, well you know what's mean, is camping and throwing garbage
all over someone else's property where you didn't pay rent, you don't pay for anything, you won't
even come to the church services, but then you try to come to the church or call the church for
money, you know, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall
be added unto you, but you know what I'm not going to do, I'm not going to take God's money and give
it to some bum that's too that that's too lazy to work and refuses to labor with his hands,
the Bible says that we command you that if any work that if any would not work,
neither should he eat, I'm not going to feed somebody that God says not to feed,
and so it says that there's even some among us, there's Christians that are disorderly not working
at all that are busybodies, now them that are such, them that are what, people that refuse to work,
we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work
and eat their own bread, quit being a mooch, you know, obviously there's people sometimes that need
help, I'm not talking about that, the Bible says to do unto do good unto all men especially them
of the household of faith, so obviously yes we do help people out, but I'm talking about people,
you know, obviously the working poor will always be around and the poor will always be around,
but a lot of if you're in America and you're poor, a lot of times it's because they refuse
to labor, now not everybody is that that's not the case for everybody, but you know I've been
poor before, I'm probably, I wouldn't say I'm rich even now, I mean obviously I'm not rich, but
you know I work, I've worked my whole life, I've worked since I was 14 years old,
and what's their excuse, how do you have a 20 year old dude that's fully capable of walking
and moving and everything and he's standing there with a sign begging you for, it really,
it actually pisses me off, I don't look at him, first of all I don't want the sad puppy face,
it'll just make me even more mad, but then I just don't want to look at him because they make me
sick, quit trying to bum money off of old ladies that feel bad for you or whatever,
I don't feel bad for a second, and you know people are like well how could you have that
attitude as a Christian, how could you, how does God have that attitude, and it's like you know
that guy, I was like I have to show up at our church building on an off night, and I'm like
you need to get out of here right now, I mean it's all on camera, but I was like you need to
get out of here right now, and he's like all right, and then he calls me a name, and I was
like get it, just get out of here and don't come back again, he's like I'm gonna shoot you,
and he starts calling me the n-word, he's white, but he's like I'm gonna shoot you,
you know, and I was like well go ahead, shoot me, little does he know that you know I have
armament of my own that you know not, but anyway he's threatening me, he's like I'm gonna kill you
and all this other stuff, I'm gonna trash your truck, is that your truck, I'm gonna trash it,
and I just like just get out of here you bozo, you know, and what's upsetting is I drive,
I drive by because I want to take a picture of him because the guy threatened my life right,
so I don't take stuff like that lightly, and I took a picture of him, and just so
if he does do something at least I have a picture to show the police that won't even come anyway,
so I don't know what the point is of that, but anyway just in case he does kill me,
you guys know who did it right, so I drive around our parking lot, we have like four
different churches in our parking lot, and one of the churches when I drove around to come back
I could see canned foods and stuff that they're giving away to homeless people and it just made
me mad, it made me actually want to go and confront the pastor of that church sometime
and just say you know what you're doing by giving all these, by feeding the bears, by feeding you
know deadbeats that don't want to work is you're getting them, they don't want to hang out
underneath your porch, but they want to come and hang out underneath ours, and so you're
getting them this mentality that it's okay to just go and beg churches for stuff because this church
does it, so why don't you house them, why don't you let them hang out on your property, they don't,
they want to hang out on our property because we got better awnings, I mean we literally had to
build a fence, had to have a contractor put fences in in the back because they're just
camping out there, there's sleeping bags on our roof, there's drug needles laying around,
we have children that go in and out of that church building, so I'm not gonna allow someone
to just come and beg off of our church when they won't, they refuse to labor,
it's just not gonna happen, but just it's really irritating because other churches are the reason
why this problem exists in our parking lot, and it's like to me if I was a landlord I'd be like
stop, stop feeding them, stop doing this, and they're hanging around our property for a reason,
you know why, because they're getting a free meal ticket at some other church, and they think that
they're doing something good for the community, oh we're just doing something great for the community,
we're just helping the homeless, why don't you go preach the gospel, oh wait you have a false gospel,
so never mind don't do that, but anyway it says in verse 12 of them that are such we command
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that by our Lord Jesus Christ get that part with that with
quietness they work and eat their own bread, but ye brethren be not weary in well-doing,
and if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him
that he may be ashamed, so what are we supposed to do when a person in our midst in our in our church
refuses to work, refuses to labor, refuses to take care of their own house, it says to note that man
is it that's another word for Mark isn't it, note that man and have no company with him, so are you
supposed to hang out with him, so if he comes is he supposed to go to church with us, how can you
have no company with him if he's at church service with you every time, so like basically the
Jimenez doctrine is is that you would the bible doctrine okay is that you would tell that person
they needed they need to go they can't be allowed to come to your church and keep being a mooch right
that he may be ashamed, so obviously the point is we want to shame people into doing what's right
and people are like well you should never make people feel bad,
actually that's not what that says is it, it says that they may be ashamed,
yet count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother, so someone that's like this it's a brother
we want to shame them so that they'll begin to live right and begin to work and do what
they're supposed to do and you know if it's a man with a family that's even more disgusting
like what kind of man doesn't want to take care of his own family, but the bible does tell us to
throw people out sometimes, I was talking about that this morning a little bit that there's
certain people that we don't want here you know we can't become too loose with our standards to
where we're just going to let anybody in our church so and and I'm not going to just allow
people to stay in our church that are committing acts of sin that the bible says we should throw
them out for and this not taking care of your family this being worse than an infidel thing
is something that you should be thrown out for if they if they keep refusing to work
then you should kick them out so look at first corinthians chapter 5 verse 11
first corinthians chapter 5 verse 11 the bible says in first corinthians 5 11 it says
but now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother
be a fornicator or covetous you see that covetous well someone's coveting you know coveting is
wanting something that belongs to other people and there are people that attach themselves to
churches and they want to be covetous after your own money there's people that are professional
mooches that just want to come in and get as much as they can you know there's there's whole
there's whole like pyramid schemes that people come up with and they tell people to go target
churches you know you had amway back in what the 80s or whatever and there's all these different
you know scam pyramid schemes where you're all getting in on the bottom level somebody at the
top is making the money but they want to come and push this stuff at church and we're not supposed
to buy and sell at church and so if you're coming here and obviously I don't think anybody's doing
that here obviously but if someone's going to church and their main purpose is to make money
off of people that person's covetous and they should be kicked out they should be told not
to do it anymore we've had people that do that I've had people and it's just really irritating
they hear they've heard the preaching and then we've had this one lady came and we were going
to sacramento and she was like well when you come down to sacramento I'd like to have you
meet with us and I was like man I really hope this isn't a pyramid scheme thing but of course
it was it was a water purification you know scam or whatever I was just like I'll just I'm gonna
be nice to you because I'm just giving you the benefit of the doubt that you might not have known
this I said but if you go to other churches and peddle this stuff is like they're not going to be
as nice about it as I am just telling you that right now and of course they weren't you know
and so I don't want anybody thinking that they're going to make money off this church this God's
house is not a house of merchandise it's a house of prayer so it says or covetous or an idolater
or a railer or a drunkard or an extortion was such a one no not to eat see then the Bible said
to you know note that man and have no company with them right but it says for what have I to do
to judge them that are without do not you judge them that are within but then that are without
God judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person is it possible
for someone that's safe to be a wicked person it is so someone that refuses to labor someone
refuses to take care of their family someone is committing adultery on their wife and refuses
to make things right with them or someone that's you know or wants to leave their spouse for
whatever stupid reason that they feel like because they they just want to trade in for the next model
or something that person's a wicked person now someone you know there's adultery it's not on this
list in case you didn't notice but here's the thing about adultery okay once you're married
and you divorce someone then you're breaking God's commandment right now obviously adultery
is a worse sin I think categorically than fornication is but you know there's hope for
that marriage even though someone commits adultery once it costs it's already consummated and you're
stuck with that person you should try your best to work things out you're supposed to be reconciled
unto your spouse you know a lot of churches will say well that's not true it says accept it be for
fornication yeah fornication adultery aren't exactly the same thing are they fornication
takes place before a marriage adultery takes place after so would it be right for me to kick someone
out that commits adultery at our church well if they're an unrepentant adulterer if they're an
adulterer or adulteress that refuses to get right and do what's right then yes I would kick them out
but automatically no I want them to reconcile because what's the bible teach that is accept
to be for fornication it doesn't say for adultery now some people can't get past that and I
understand that but I want to give people room to repent it's not like I'm on a hair trigger to just
kick everybody out of my church or something for everything that they do you know and if someone's
a repentant drunkard if someone's a repentant covetous person someone's a repentant railer
someone's a repentant you know whatever it is fornicator I'm going to give that person a
chance to get right but I'm not always going to bring everybody's sins before the congregation
because I want them to have room to do what's right but in the case where say a man is
committing adultery and then he refuses to get right I will note that man I will have no company
with him and then I will expose that person to the congregation I will do that so I mean the best
thing to do is to do that which is right work don't be a lazy bum eat your own bread take care
of your family don't be worse than an infidel I mean how how shameful would that be to be someone
that's a Christian that's considered to be worse than an unbeliever I mean you're not going to have
a lot of rewards in heaven I mean you're still going to be there but you might have the scarlet
s on no I'm just kidding you wouldn't but I mean it's still but it's wicked folks it's wicked to
be have this mentality where you know it's just we just really weren't meant to be really then
you should have shut your mouth and not gotten married then you should not have vowed to vow
to your spouse till death do us part so it says to put away from among yourselves that wicked
person anybody that refuses to get right and stop committing adultery or you know start taking care
of your family and to and working and doing that which is right you better get right or you're
going to get out now people will use excuses like what about first corinthian seven brother let's
turn over there and look at what first corinthian seven says and I realize I'm kind of coming at
this with a little bit different of an angle but to me I feel like if some man is out committing
adultery and he refuses to do what's right he refuses to take care of his children he refuses
to get right with his wife that person is falls under the category of someone that's worse than
an infidel because what you're leaving what you what God has put together let not man put asunder
and you're just saying well I don't care because I love this person now or something
or I just want to commit adultery or I just don't care or I just can't get along with them
and a lot of people make stupid excuses to get divorced nowadays and you know what it's just
there's no excuse get right do it right and not even it's not only just not men but you know
men are the ones that are supposed to be taking care of the finances in the home
men are the ones that are supposed to be bringing home the bacon so to speak
but you know ladies are supposed to be at home being chase keepers at home too and so there's
there's one each person has a responsibility in their household to make sure that the house goes
right to make sure the children turn out right so but let me see first corinthians chapter seven
verse three now people will say well
if someone wants to leave then you know they're an unbeliever then just go ahead and let them
leave or whatever and then you can get divorced that's not what this section is teaching let me
show you in verse three it says let the husband render unto the wife do benevolence and likewise
the wa also the wife unto the husband this is talking about the benefits of being married
there is a relationship between men and women that take place obviously you know that you're
not supposed to do outside of marriage and so the due benevolence is to not withhold those things
from each other right and it says the wife hath not power of her own body but the husband and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body but the wife and then it says defraud
you not one another except to be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and
prayer and come together again that satan tempt you not for your incontinency so basically you're
not supposed to withhold those things it's a consent thing both people those parties have to
agree you're not going to do this you know for a little while you guys all know what i'm talking
about right so but people will take this and they'll and they'll just think that they can just
leave that marriage and go and do whatever they want and then they think that they get the
benefits after they've left that no that's not true that's what this is teaching now skip down
to verse 10 it says and unto the married i command yet not i but the lord let not the wife depart
from her husband so is it talking about divorce here it's not but and if she depart let her remain
unmarried so you're not getting you're not getting divorced or be reconciled to her husband so maybe
the marriage has gotten so bad maybe the person's a reprobate but you're not supposed to divorce
them right and it doesn't say anything about being a reprobate here but maybe it's an abusive
situation maybe the husband's just beating you know it's like the burning bed type you know
beat downs or whatever it's like i don't know if you even know what i'm talking about but anyway
really bad domestic abuse really bad serial adultery something that you just can't you know
you're afraid for your children's safety that kind of stuff and then you depart but it says
let not the husband put away his wife let not the wife depart from her husband says in verse 11 but
if she depart let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband so sometimes people
break up for a while and they try to like work on their marriage or whatever that's what this is
talking about it says and let not the husband put away his wife is it talking about divorce here
it's not talking about divorce but to the rest speak i speak i not the lord that any man's
brother has a have a wife that believed not and she'd be pleased to dwell with him let him not
put her away so you don't just get to divorce people because they're not believers maybe one
got saved and the other didn't and that kind of stuff happens but if they're willing to stay with
you and to be in that marriage you're not supposed to put them away is that what it says let him not
put her away and the woman which hath and husband that believed not and if he be pleased to dwell
with her let him not leave for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they
holy but if the unbelieving depart so this is the part where the unbelieving spouse departs
let him depart a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases now this is where people
say well see as long as they're an unbeliever you can just divorce them but that's not what
it's saying you're not under the bondage of what the due benevolence the the benefits of being
married right a brother sister's not in bondage in such cases it just got done saying don't divorce
your spouse don't put them away so that's that can't be what this verse is talking about
but god hath called us to peace so sometimes they just will leave now in today's day and age people
can have no fault divorces and there's nothing you can do about it they can just divorce you
and you and you can't really fight it so but you shouldn't be the one initiating that but
the thing i want to show you here is that you don't get to just be this spouse that takes off
and then shows up anytime you feel like to have some benefit of marriage if you know what i'm
talking about you don't get to just come and every once in a while just get to enjoy the
benefits of being married so i think it's wrong when when this type of stuff happens where you'll
have a husband refusing to you know well if a wife just takes off with her kids i i think it's
wicked that judges make uh husbands pay for that but you know you're not supposed to you know some
some men will refuse to pay child support and stuff like that and take care of their family
and i get that this system is wicked and that we live in it really is but the the main thing i'm
trying to tell you here is that if there is some kind of split up like this that you're not supposed
to just pop in anytime you feel like it and you're you're supposed to just give it up you know what
i'm saying like you're not supposed to have to be under bondage on under the benevolence the
benevolent things that you're supposed to be doing together as husband and wife the things that
married couples do you don't owe that to them anymore is what i'm saying if someone leaves you
destitute refuses to pay for you know child support or spousal support or whatever for you
they just leave you and leave you in the wind hanging in the wings then you don't you don't
owe that person anything anymore so now you're supposed to be able to just get back together
but situations get really super complicated these days but i'm just saying this take care of your
house work things out sometimes marriages get rough and you go through choppy seas you go
through choppy seasons you go through storms but you need to weather those storms and stick with
your spouse because that's what god wants us to do when we make a vow we should keep it what's
the vow of marriage tell death to us part right it's not till you just get tired of them look
at malachi chapter 2 verse 11 malachi chapter 2 verse 11 see when you say when you say you're
going to marry somebody you keep your vows and again i'm not preaching against people that have
been divorced or remarried i'm not saying that you already know that you know you know the truth
now so do what the truth says for the rest of your life now okay it says judah hath dealt
treacherously verse 11 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 tabernacle
of jacob tabernacles of jacob and him that offereth an offering unto the lord of hosts and
this have you done again covering the altar of the lord with tears and weeping and with crying
and so much as he regardeth not the offering anymore receiveth it with good will at your hand
yet you say wherefore for what reason because the lord hath been witnessed between thee
and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously now what is this talking about
it's talking about probably adultery it's talking about getting new wives it's talking about putting
away your wife you know the pharisees ask jesus you know is it is it lawful to put away our wife
for any reason that's what a pharisee believes that you can just put away your wife for whatever
moses said write the bill of divorcement you know but jesus said that if you divorce your spouse
like that if you divorce your wife and marry another you're committing adultery and if you
divorce your spouse and she marries someone else you're causing her to commit adultery so it says
that the lord has 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 what's it say covenant so you made
a covenant with that person to stay with them till death do us part in sickness and health
in poverty and wealth you know as long as you both shall live whether it's rich or poor all
that stuff all those vows that you made you said you would do and then for you to just say you know
what i like this one better and you trade them in for a newer model or whatever or you just say
you know i'm just we just don't get along does it say unless you don't get along
i mean there would be some pretty weird marriage vows if it was like well you know i might stay
with you well i might stay with you too as long as i like you as long as we get along
you know it's weird because when you sometimes when you fight you think it's like this is the
last this is the one that's really gonna we're done now i don't know how we can come back from
this one but you do don't you because even as hard hard as we are as people sometimes
we still work it out we know that we need to work it out especially christians we should always
work it out okay don't go knocking on the neighbor's door don't go trying to commit
adultery with somebody else don't go trying to you know find a new family that you think's better
look a lot of people think it's gonna be better on the other side but it's it's not now and we
were me and my wife were talking about this and she says i just don't understand how people they've
been together all these years they raise children together and then they just decide that they want
to start everything over all over again it's like you built that life with that person and then it's
just like ah i'm gonna go find something different start all over again or they do it when their kids
are still young and it's just like now you have to have two christmases now and now you have to
introduce other people into that that won't love your kids as much as that other person does
and they don't understand what it's like to be loyal that step parent is never going to love
that kid the way that the the real dad would in most cases or the real mom would in most cases
okay i'm not saying that's a hundred percent of the time i'm just saying you know stepdads
get a bad rap too i've been a stepdad before so i understand what it's like where you know that
kid won't love you as much as they'll love their real dad or whatever and that's a hard thing they
always kids always just want what they don't know they think that they're missing something and
sometimes that person isn't as great as they think that they are they really are and they treat that
step parent like dirt when they shouldn't be doing that and then really that step parent
was better to them than their real parent ever would have been so i know that there's like but
then you know step parents they get a bad rap a lot of times because they're bad to their other
people's kids they're not as nice to their kid to those kids as they are to their own and that's why
a lot of homes get broken but you know with no fault divorce there's a lot of mixed families
going on these days and i know i'm kind of off in the weeds right now but i just think it's
really important that we understand that as christians we're supposed to keep the covenant
of the wife or the you know the spouse that you made look at verse 15 and did he not make one
yet he hath residue of the spirit and where of one that he might seek a godly seed
god wants there to be other safe people in your family but you know that's pretty hard
when you ruin it all with adultery when you ruin it all because you're too selfish to work out
your problems but it says yeah let's see where i'm sorry i lost my place here
and wherefore one they 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 god what's he saying god hates divorce he hates it for one cover violence with
his garment saith the lord hosts where therefore take heed to your spirit that you deal not
treacherously you have wearied the lord with your words yet you say wherein have we worried him
wearied him when you say everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the lord
and he delighteth in them or where's the god of judgment so he's like he's even saying like
you say well how have you wearied the word the lord with your words isn't when people say well
i just want to be happy is it so wrong that i just want to be happy yeah it is wrong because
your happiness does not does not you know delete your covenant that you made with your spouse
oh i just want what if i just want to be happy well you shouldn't have made a covenant with your
mouth you shouldn't have uttered those words i do out of your mouth if you didn't mean to keep them
it's ridiculous people just throw their marriages away over anything i'm just not happy i'm not
having the prince charming relationship that i thought i was supposed to have in the movies
you know they have the white picket fences and he takes me on sweet romance dates every single night
it's ridiculous you're living in a fantasy land that's not how life is
those people that are playing those parts of their movies are whoremongers and adulterers
think about that they probably have had eight marriages already they're probably the other
one's a sodomite
seriously quit living in fantasy land this isn't chocolate or whatever some one of these
stupid movies that are all the oh let's watch this real this uh this movie this romance movie
it's like it's trash that's not how life really is folks and we've been led to believe you know
the disney princesses have brainwashed you into thinking that prince charming is going to come
along and sweep you off your feet and you're gonna live happily ever after well you know what
life is hard we live in a sinful world life is not always easy marriage isn't always easy but
you know what you stick through it you stick and stay and make it pay right you stick with it
because you know why god is weary by your words he's like what what what words everyone that
everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the lord oh it's good that they got divorced they
just weren't working out it's not good god hateth the pudding away he hates it so don't try to weary
him with your words of vanity you know what's really sick is when people's family even save
family members take the side of a spouse that's doing wickedly and wrong and they say well you
know what they just gotta want to make the best decision for their own happiness and stuff like
that it's just you know don't get advice from loved ones that are going to take your side every
time it's like you're just you're opinion shopping with people that will love you no matter what
your opinion shopping with people that are always going to take your side no matter what because
you're their little sweet baby girl or you're their little sweet baby boy your family's always
going to take your side and you know what we should not be like that as christians
it's black and white shame that person if it's your own son if it's your own daughter shame that
person tell them no you're doing wrong you need to go back to your spouse i'm not going to let
you live in my home i'm not going to take you in and then if people were actually were shaming
people and shunning people like they should be then more people would go back to their spouses
wouldn't they more people would if they just said we're never talking to you again unless you get
back together with them a lot of people will just go back i guarantee it but what do people do
enable their family members knowing that they're committing adultery knowing that they're going
outside their marriage knowing that they're just trying to do something wicked and then they just
allow them to do that i'm not going to ever do that i just won't do it and you know why because
it's wicked and it wearies the lord when we take the side of somebody that's committing these acts
i think it's wrong i've seen it happen i've seen it happen in my family and i'm like what are you
guys doing why are you why are you taking their side you know that that that saying that blood
is thicker than water it's true some people will take the side of someone that's wrong in their
family no matter what and that's wrong that's poor judgment that's not what the bible teaches
you know we're supposed to shun these things note that man mark that man let them be ashamed
we shouldn't just oh you know you're just doing what's best for your life
whatever makes you happy that's what the devil says and that's what the devil's advice would
be whatever makes you happy do without will that shall be the whole matter of my law or whatever
that's what the devil's motto is isn't it isn't that alistair crowley's famous thing do without
wilt it's satanic so we don't want to be those people that are not keeping that covenant turn
to psalm chapter 15 and i would just say this unless you're really actually prepared
to keep a vow don't get married because you know what god is going to hold you to your
vows that you make and you might think that your life's going to be better with somebody else
but it never is they're like well i know this person see my sermon this morning i know this
person's cousin's sister's grandma's uncle that you know they got divorced and their life was all
better after that that's garbage how could it be when god says something different
something different psalm chapter 15 verse 4 in whose eyes a vile person is condemned
but he that he honoreth them that fear the lord he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not
see when god when you make vows before the lord to in marriage he expects you no matter how much
it hurts to keep that vow doesn't he you swear to your own hurt and change not ecclesiastes chapter
turn to ecclesiastes chapter 5
ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 1 the bible says keep thy foot now goes to the house of god
and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that
they do evil god's not just going to accept your sacrifice if it's a foolish sacrifice he don't
care it's nothing to him says be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter anything before god for god is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few
for a dream cometh through the multitude of business and a fool's voice is known
by the multitude of words when thou vows to vow unto god defer not to pay it
he hath no pleasure in fools pay that thou has vowed better is he that that better is it that
thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay you see when you make a vow to
the lord when you get married you're vowing vows right and so he has no it says defer not to pay it
obviously this you can vow vows for different things but he said a fool's voice is known by
the multitude of his words he has no pleasure in fools he has no pleasure when people say well
i was going to do this but then i have some excuse why i'm not going to i thought i loved them but i
really didn't it doesn't matter you said i do you repeated the words keep your vows look what it
says in verse six suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin neither say thou before the angel
that it was an error wherefore should god be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thy
hands so don't just say oh it's an error wherefore should god be angry at thy voice
you can say it's error all you want but you vowed the vow keep the vow you can't go back and change
the past but you know what you can do you can go forward in the future and do what the bible says
and do what god asks when it comes to say doing what you're saying you're going to do
staying with your spouse like you're supposed to it doesn't matter what you want it's what you said
you're going to do so whether you want somebody else or not that's not in that in the cards
anymore so to speak you know it's you already made your choice you've chosen that life partner that
person that you're going to spend the rest of your life with and you know when you try to say well it
was an error it was an error what's god going to say he's going to get angry at your voice
he's not going to want to hear it turn to numbers chapter 30 verse 1 numbers chapter 30 verse 1
i kind of covered this in a sermon the other night but i i thought it was useful
for tonight's sermon too because listen if you're a man and you just ditch your wife and you ditch
your kids for somebody else you are worse than an infidel you are scum you're scum you're a
piece of garbage that's what i think i'm serious it just it irritates me
and you know what i'm not going to suffer some fool like that to be in our church either
numbers chapter 30 verse 1 and moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children
of israel saying this is the thing which the lord hath commanded if a man commanded right
if a man vow avowed to the lord or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond he shall not break
his word he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth you say you're
going to stay with them when they're sick stay with them while they're sick you say that you're
going to stay with him whether he's rich or poor you stay with them whether he's rich or poor it
doesn't matter what you think it matters what you said you would do right this is the the man's vow
though right here says he shall do all that proceedeth out of his mouth now here when it
comes to women verse three if a woman also vow avowed to the lord and bind herself by a bond
being in her father's house in her youth and her father hear her vow and her in her bond where
which she hath bound her soul and her father shall hold his peace at her then all her vows
shall stand and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand so if a lady is still
in her father's house and he hears a vow he can nullify that vow and it goes on to say also that
a husband can nullify a vow that a wife says but once you let that slide and you're okay with it
and they say well i'm going to give the faith promised missions for next year they're like
dang it i should have said no but but the husband can nullify that if he hears it but once he just
allows it to happen then you know you're kind of stuck with it so but god takes these things very
seriously you know we we take everything in the society so flippantly people are just ready to
just you know trade in their spouses for a new one they're ready to trade you know and it just
destroys society but you know we got scumbags out there serial adulterers out there these people
are scumbags and you know what may it never be said that we have a person like that in our church
and if we do have a person like that in our church i want them gone
and you know if they refuse to take care of their spouse they refuse to take
care of their children i hope god kills them
i do you're like that's that's crazy pastor thompson well at least they can find someone
that will take care of them then at least they could get remarried
they're like see pastor fritz was right that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about
when someone's a serial adulterer and they leave their spouse and they leave their kids destitute
and that wife is bound by the the vows that they made so is he but he's not doing it look
the bible says that adulterers should be put to death yeah that's what the bible says if
we lived in a righteous system right now that's what would happen all this garbage wouldn't be
going on so i do hope that if someone won't get right and they don't and they they if they refuse
to take care of their their spouse or their children or even if a wife runs out on her
husband and trades them in for somebody else it happens every single day in this country
this country is the worst country for adult for adultery and divorce and all this stuff in the
whole world sad that a quote-unquote christian nation is like that but obviously we know by
going out and knocking doors all the time this isn't really a christian nation is it
yeah but anyway the bible says in exodus 20 verse 14 thou shall not commit adultery
what about that does that still stand is that still a law you know when it used to be if someone
committed adultery they got nothing if a wife just ran off and left her husband with all the kids
like you know those country songs you know but those country songs probably have some real
reality to them right but that it used to be they got nothing and now they can just leave
and they tell i'm taking all the kids i'm taking half your money i'm taking half your pension that
is so wicked they do not deserve that money they shouldn't get a single dime in my opinion and the
children shouldn't be sent with her if she could if someone else whoever commits adultery they
should get nothing no kids no support zero that's what i believe turn to hebrew chapter 13 verse 4
hebrews 13 4
like why are you preaching so hard about this because it makes me sick that's why
because people don't refuse to labor make me sick people that refuse to work make me sick
people refuse to support their family they're scum they make me sick i hope they make you
sick too so next time you feel you got feelings for someone that that's on the side of the road
begging you for money i really hope that you keep it in perspective you know when the bible
says like don't look at their faces that's how i feel when i see a homeless person don't look
at their faces because they just want to make you feel sad why lie i need a beer you know
i just i don't look because i know that i'll say something that i shouldn't say and then
i'll spit on my truck or something like i just waxed it on stuff
the bible says in hebrews 13 verse 4 marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled
but whoremongers and adulterers god will judge the whoremongers and the adulterers look take
it to the bank doesn't matter what you say what your excuse is god is going to judge you when you
commit adultery god is going to judge you when you're a whore or a whoremonger it says let your
conversation be without covetousness see how it's tied to covetousness see how it could be something
that could get you kicked out though for being covetous after someone else's spouse see a lot
of these kind of dive into other areas too and be content with such things as you have for he has
said i will never leave thee nor forsake thee we use this you know as a comforting verse sometimes
and it should be used for that but he's talking about don't be covetous be content with what you
have you know he's he's he will find a way for you to work things out he's gonna god's not gonna
let his seed beg for bread david said i was young and now i'm old and i've not seen the
righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread he's not going to leave you he's not
going to forsake he's going to take care of you it says so that we may boldly say the lord is my
helper and i will not fear what man shall do unto me that's the that's the attitude we should have
how does god feel about me wanting to leave my spouse how does god feel about me not wanting
to work and be a bomb how does god feel about that that's what you should be thinking of that's
what you that's what your mentality should be it shouldn't be well what is
my mom gonna think or dad how about what god your heavenly father thinks about it
and you are not welcome at our church if you're an unrepentant adulterer period
and you know i'm i hope that your family just shuns you you think this is just one time i've
had to deal with this and i'm not saying i'm even dealing with it now i'm just saying that
i've had to deal with it over and over again it's the worst situation that i ever come across as a
pastor i hate this situation where someone is committing adultery someone's committing
fornication whatever it is and i've dealt with people that refuse to work things out with their
spouse and it makes me sick it really does and i hope the lord smites these men that do such
things or women you know and maybe that you know like i said maybe your spouse can remarry
hopefully god just kind of takes you out since you're just being worthless anyway and you're
being a stumbling block to other christians so maybe god will just take you out and then let
that person live happily ever after with the picket fence and no i'm just joking but prince
charming is gonna come no i'm just joking but uh anyway we got two more sections to go to and i'll
be done wow hopefully i don't go on a 20-minute rant after these but anyway
titus chapter 2 verse 3 titus chapter 2 verse 3
because see these things apply you know it's not just men that have responsibilities in the
marriage it's wives too and you know guard yourself against these attachments with other
people i don't think that men and women when they get married should have friends of the opposite
sex i don't think that you should add your high school flame on your facebook page i don't think
that you should you know what i mean like why are you just setting yourself up for being you know
entrapped in some kind of a situation don't do it you got your friend that's the friend that you
wanted for life that was the opposite sex all right you stick with that person and you know
obviously we can be nice to other people and we can have like you know hey how's it going whatever
hi how are you gonna have that but like nobody should be going on lunch dates with somebody
else's spouse in this church nobody should be going out on lunch dates with their old friends
from high school that are of the opposite sex that's you're setting yourself up for failure
and you're setting yourself up for your family to be destroyed
it says in titus chapter 2 verse 3 the aged women likewise that they be in behavior has
become with holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things
that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands and to love their children
that's what god wants you to do he wants you to love your husband
and love your children to be discreet chased keepers at home
good obedient to their own husbands that the word of god be not bad blaspheme you know what
makes people blaspheme is when they see wives that aren't discreet
when they see see wives that aren't chased and they're just trying to wear
the things that will come close to the line but not really cross over the top to try to get
attention to other man's eyes you know when you have a husband it's just weird but do i see it
in churches sometimes i have i have seen it and it's it's it's you know not something that ladies
should be doing look get your husband's attention and if you can't get your husband's attention
give him a snack and say hey pay attention to me no
but it says obedient to their own husbands how many wives go off and want to work some job or
some other dudes tell them what to do but when they come home they won't listen to their husband
that's a shame that would cause you know god's name to be blasphemed and i and i think that we
got to get a hold of that the ladies are just like wow i'll just go out and have my own career you
know you don't want me to spend money on this or that or you don't have enough money to give
me all the things i want you know wait till your kids are older you'll be able to get some things
you want but you know we should sacrifice for god's system god's system is that wives should
stay home and take care of their children that's there's no shame in that people act like that's
such a big shame oh you know and these feminists want to just get all upset about stuff like this
and i don't need a man to do this yeah you do because i guarantee women didn't build this
building we're in i guarantee they had they didn't design the bridges that we drive across
they didn't they weren't there riveting all the stuff in they haven't built anything
like feminists will be like oh i don't need a man to do anything did you didn't need a man to build
the house that you live in probably how many women roofers do you see out there
zero yeah you know why because they can't do the job it's just too hard
i mean my wife when i was first met her i was a roofer and she was like you know kind of cleaning
up around the the outsides or whatever just like for extra money help to help out but when i got
her up on the roof she realized right away that roofing wasn't the life for her she was too scared
to walk down the ladder i was just like it's all right but i probably should have never had her
up there but you know it's funny these feminists they you know they can't even do the jobs that
men do and yet they're just talking about how they don't need a man we'll see how fast society
would crumble if men just said you know what you want equal pay well then you do the construction
jobs we'll see how long this world goes to hell in a handbasket when no men when men refuse to
labor you still need men to labor don't you yeah that's right you still need men to build stuff
you're like well i know there's this one girl that works on a construction crew yeah they stand
around with their hands in their pockets with a white hat on yeah with their rhinestone jeans or
whatever yeah possum men around that they couldn't even hold a candle to when it comes to working
hard i'm not saying that there's no exception to the rule i know women work hard but men are
just physically stronger that's a fact you know unless they're some roided out shehe or something
but even then i'll still put money on myself every time
bring it on
the last thing to go is the power you know
let's do it
but matthew chapter 18 we'll close here
but my point was is that there's nothing wrong with men are built to work we're built to work
hard we're built you know most people are anyway and if you're not built that way you know do some
push-ups or something or you know just get get fit get ready to work
but women work hard they work just as hard my wife works just as hard as i do she does just
certain things that she can't do there's certain things that she does that i can't do
we're not meant to be the same i know society wants to just blob us together like we're all
the same we all have the same haircuts we all have the same tracksuit like zalinski or whatever
you can't tell what's what from behind you know it's like they just want to make us all the same
but it's not the same because every job you work out where it's a you know it used to be said this
is a man's world but men police officers are always going to be more intimidating than women
police officers oh yeah except for if they have a gun that they're waving around they're hanging
ah i think i saw this before this lady this lady cop shot a guy she's like oh i thought it was the
taser i'm like hands out the window hands up don't shoot here here's my concealed carry you know
you're reaching for it no i'm not you know
anyway matthew 18 verse 15 moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee go to tell
him his fault between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou has gained thy brother
but if you'll not hear thee then take with thee one or more one or two more excuse me that in
the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established sometimes you know things
and problems happen in churches and things like that but what does the bible say to do in a
situation where you know they can't work those things out and i would just say in the case of
an adulterous spouse that refuses to repent this is where they've tried to work it out you've tried
to help them work it out and then it got it has to get brought before the church okay or if a man
refuses to labor a man refuses to take care of his home or even if it's a lady whatever refusing
to do her duties i think that there's certain cases where this person gets kicked out now an
adultery or an adulterous relationship happens hopefully things can get worked out it's terrible
it's awful but the right thing to do is to try to save your marriage save you know if you're
married if you have children you know save those children because you know when you grow up in a
broken home your your chances of living a normal life are just like cut drastically and it really
does hurt kids it scars kids and they might you might not see it but it does affect them it does
it does hurt them but it says in verse 17 and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the
church but if you neglect to hear the church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican
so just like how we started at the beginning that they're worse than an infidel when someone
neglects to hear hey the whole church is telling you go back to your wife you big dummy take care
of your children or whatever it is that's going on how are we supposed to treat that person though
over and over again i've showed you what how god thinks about these things what to say let him be
unto thee as a heathen man and a publican an unbeliever yeah that's how we're supposed to
treat them and you know we're supposed to help them obviously they're they're still a brother
or whatever in most cases but you know we should try to encourage them to do the right thing
and sometimes shame and shaming is a way to get people right but if people just jump on their side
their family members just jump on their side you know you're always going to find your allies
on with your family and your close friends oh i never thought he tried to treat you right anyway
girl and you should just divorce him and take well get his pension girl and just all this stuff
it's wicked don't listen to him listen to what god says listen to what the bible says to do
it says verily i say unto you whatsoever he shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven
whatsoever he shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven god's basically saying that
the church has the power to make things happen in this way to bind them under these you know
it's basically you're bound under a curse in reality because once you're thrown out of the
church then what's the bible say that they're given over to satan for the destruction of the
flesh and as we heard on friday night that's not where we want to be who wants to be cast out to
satan for the destruction of the flesh but that is what's going to happen you know and in church
we have to take these types of things seriously and you know if a man doesn't work neither should
he eat if a man won't take care of his house he's worse than an infidel he's denied the faith
so men don't be losers take care of your family work hard eat your own food keep your vows women
don't betray your family by playing the whore and refusing to act as a godly woman love your
husbands love your children it really is just that simple whatever you vowed to do do it work hard
you know work hard for each other don't compare yourselves to each other because you're not the
same you know we we like to score keep sometimes as spouses sometimes and it's like well you don't
know what i had to do all day today well what did you have to do well i had to do this this and this
and it's like well i had to do this this and this it's just like what's the point of this
why are we doing this you've had your work to do i had my work to do why don't we just call it good
you worked hard i worked hard we're both tired let's go to bed
night night all right all right well it was really great to be here this weekend
and we've missed you guys we love you guys let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer heavenly
father we thank you lord so much for this great church here i pray the lord we'd have strong
marriages strong families and lord that we'd always defer to you as our lawgiver and that
lord we would try to do our best to serve our church here and lord serve our families serve our
our spouses and our children and prayer children grow up
and be mighty for the next generation in jesus name we pray amen
all right if you guys want to take your hymnals we'll turn to page number 161
page number 161 our great savior
it's page number 161
all right we'll sing it out on the first
so
me
let me hide myself
me
jesus
ah
jesus
a
jesus
hi
and his
saving helping keeping