for allowing us to always have time to celebrate life.
All right, if you want to take your Bibles or your blue song books and turn to Psalm
number 67.
That's Psalm number 67.
We'll sing it out on the 1st.
Merciful unto us and blessed face to shine upon us, that thy way may be known, saving
all nations, praise thee, to judge the psalm.
If you can take your Bibles and go to 1st Corinthians chapter 6, and here at Sure Foundation
Baptist Church we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
So 1st Corinthians chapter 6, the Bible reads, "Dare any of you, having a matter against
another, go to law before the unjust and not before the saints?
Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?
And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know you not that we shall judge angels, how much more things that pertain to this life?
If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least
esteemed in the church.
I speak to your shame.
Is it so that there is not a wise man among you?
No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren.
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law with another.
Why do you not rather take wrong?
Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Nay, ye do wrong and defraud in that your brethren.
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you, but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient.
Things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
It's for the belly, and belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them.
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise us by his own power.
Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?
God forbid.
What, know you not, he which is joined to an harlot, is one body for two, saith he
shall be one flesh; but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit?
Flee fornication; every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that comitteth
fornication sinneth against his own body.
What, know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which
you have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with the price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,
which are God's.
Brother Jason.
Father, thank you for this day, Lord.
I thank you for everything you've done for us, Lord.
I pray that you please open the hearts of the preaching of your word, and fill brother
Brim with your spirit as he preaches.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
And then you guys are there in 1st Corinthians chapter number 6, we're going to look in at
verse number 9 where the Bible says, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God?
Being not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers themselves of mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
The title of my sermon tonight is, "And such were some of you."
Let's pray.
Dear Lord God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.
Thank you so much for everything you do for us God.
Thank you so much for everybody that came to church tonight God, and thank you so much
for the people in this room God that I know that want to serve you and that they take
time out of their busy week to come and hear your word preached.
I just pray for that reason you'd fill me with your Holy Spirit God and help me to preach
words that would be edifying and help people to understand this chapter better after I'm
done preaching it and help me to say what you want me to say and keep me from saying
what you don't want me to say.
Jesus, may I pray?
Amen.
Telling my sermon like I said again is and such were some of you.
We're here in 1 Corinthians chapter number six and this is a part two of my sermon from
last week.
Last week we focused a lot on the idea of the Matthew 18 process through these verses
in first Corinthians chapter number six and we also touched on the end about the verse
where it says suffer yourself to be defrauded.
But I have a lot to get through in this sermon today so I don't really want to delay with
a recap or anything like that.
So we're just going to kind of jump right into this.
If you would keep your finger there in first Corinthians and go back one chapter to first
Corinthians five verse number 11 because the first thing I want to draw your attention
to tonight is the fact that all the sins mentioned in this list in first Corinthians parallel
very well the sins that are mentioned in first Corinthians chapter number five or the the
kick out list if you will uh from first Corinthians chapter five verse number 11 look what it says
there just to refresh your memory and pay attention to the sin specifically here 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 or an idolater or a railer or a drunker or an extortioner
with such one no not to eat what's very interesting to me and what I found interesting in my study
of this sermon is that every sin that you see listed off here in verse number 11 chapter
5 is repeated here in first Corinthians chapter number 6 and it kind of made me wonder as
I was making this sermon if perhaps Paul is extending the kick out list right here now
I just want to be clear and I always want to do this when I give my opinion about something
it's important to clarify the difference between that and what the Bible actually says because
the Bible does not say here that you should be kicked out for all the sins that are mentioned
in first Corinthians chapter number six nine and ten but it did make me wonder when I was
writing this sermon I'll kind of show you why I was wondering this it'll make a little
bit more sense there's always the possibility that I'm just wrong here because Paul could
just be repeating these sins because he wants to just emphasize how wicked they are from
the previous chapter but it just it did just make me wonder okay because look at this verse
one more time in verse number six in chapter number six verse number nine it says know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither
fornicators nor idolaters which obviously those first two are on the previous list so
you'd be kicked out of the church for those sins if you were unrepentant but then it says
nor adulterers so in my opinion this would be if this is if this is my little hypothesis
that this would be an extension of the kickout list per se maybe that this would be the highest
form of adultery not just you know like divorce and remarriage adultery but we're talking
about like sleeping with someone who's actively married to somebody else because I do I think
it's important to mention this tonight there's a little bit of a side note to this there
are multiple types of adultery in the Bible and they're not all adulteries in the Bible
are death penalty worthy for example if you're looking after a woman while you're married
and you're lusting after in your heart that is adultery but that's not worthy of death
that is not death penalty adultery and also if you are divorced and then you remarry someone
else or you marry someone that's divorced that is adultery but that is not death penalty
worthy adultery and when I was writing this I also it made me think if that could possibly
be a reason why in Leviticus 20 10 he doubles down in that verse and says you know even
his neighbor's wife to clarify that the death penalty is not for you know marrying someone
that's put away which would be adultery technically but that he's saying like the active form
of adultery when you're when you're when you're sleeping with someone that's married to someone
else that person is worthy of death that's why i could see maybe it doubled down it doubled
down right there in leviticus 20 verse number 10 because here's the reality of things i'll
just tell you my opinion on this okay that i do not believe that adultery is only death
penalty for just a married woman okay it just doesn't make sense to me and you're just never
going to convince me of this in reality because here's the thing that you're never going to
convince me that the great evil of adultery and why it's worthy of death is because of
the fact that you're taking another man's property okay you're never going to convince
me that a single woman you know seducing people's husbands is not worthy of death okay you're
never going to convince me that a girl that's going around breaking families apart breaking
households apart breaking marriages apart is not worthy of death and I just ask you to
kind of judge in yourself tonight what is it that makes adultery so wicked that makes
it worthy of death in that regard is it because you're taking another man's property or is
it because you're breaking the covenant and the vow that you made with your spouse of
your youth that's what I submit to you it is okay that's what makes sense to me but
here's the thing if you don't agree with me on this that's okay because I'll give you
guys a little bit of a bone here okay I understand why people can take this interpretation from
Leviticus 2010 it's not like the craziest thing ever okay I don't think that this is
like just some like out of this world idea to interpret like that I just don't agree
with it because I think that if a girl was going around to every man in the church and
try and trying to seduce the married man and trying to get them to sleep with them that's
death penalty worthy and you're ruining families you're ruining homes at that point I just
don't I don't see how that's not wicked as hell and worthy of death okay but again this
is our pattern this is our pastor's opinion on this but if you don't agree with me that's
okay it's it's not going to end the world because here's the reality of this verse as
well in Leviticus 2010 which again is a side note but this verse is not going to be in
effect anymore like in 2025 America this is never going to go into play okay nobody's
getting put to death for adultery in the year of our Lord 2025 in the United States of America
it's just never going to happen so if you're going to be fighting with people about this
really doesn't make sense because what are we fighting about just a hypothetical at that
point it's really not worth it but I just want to give my a little bit of opinion on
that because it was right there in the text you got to kick the dogs as they walk by
sometimes back on track though oh and before we get back on track okay the reason I was
bringing this up in the first place adultery before I tangent on it was because of the
fact that I would hope that people would know that if you do commit adultery with someone
we're talking about active adultery you would be kicked out of the church for doing that
okay if it was like a married couple in this room and God forbid made that never be so
but if it was they would all get kicked out of the church for doing that because that's
not a sin that you can just allow in the church okay and I was talking to brother Jake a little
bit about that the other day just like how much of a headache would that situation be
like having to like because if especially if it was brothers and sisters of Christ
in the church itself even if they reconcile it's like yikes that's that's a big don't
anybody ever do this then okay that would just be the a huge nightmare it'd be a huge
hideous plot okay back on track now though okay uh 1st Corinthians 6 9 again look what
it says it says no you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not
deceived be they're fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abuse of
themselves with mankind now this is again and I think this is the actual thing that
got me to think about this I would ask you this okay and maybe I should say this first
okay I don't know if an effeminate man would really last in this building very long okay
I just don't think that that would really happen probably not in a realistic world but
say this if there was an effeminate man that came in here he's got the wrist at like the
ninety degree angle okay something like that we got him to be like dude fix your wrist
what are you doing right yeah it's like I got carpal tunnel or something okay get a
wrist brace in okay but like it say say this was true okay just judging yourselves again
in this situation would it be seemly to let that person just stay around everybody else
in the church around the kids in the church I don't know he does again Paul doesn't say
to kick this out but I was just thinking to myself I was like I don't really know that
I would want that influence on other people other men in the church and all and the kids
in the church as well but again that's just something I was thinking about as a writing
this then it also says this it says nor abusers of themselves with mankind which I'm going
to come back to because that's a whole nother kind of worms that I'm going to get into
in a second but looking for verse number 10 real quick it says nor thieves nor covetous
nor drunkards nor revilers so obviously with thieves and covetous you can see that people
that are thieves you know are really covetous and that's them making that deed manifest
truly and the same thing would be true of adultery because here's the thing if you
didn't agree with what I said about adultery as far as it being kick out worthy knowing
our pastor he would kick you out the door for covetousness at the very least if you're
going to commit adultery with someone else's spouse same thing with being a thief as well
but the next one obviously at drunkard is obviously previously mentioned before as well
and so it's covetous but then it says nor revilers and this I found very interesting
when I was studying for this sermon because I made the statement earlier that every sin
from first Corinthians chapter number 511 is repeated into first Corinthians 6 the exception
would be railers but here's the thing the word reviler and the word railer mean the
exact same thing from the bible okay I can prove this to you multiple ways go to Matthew
27 verse number 39 Matthew 27 39 and I'll just tell you that the Greek word that is
used right here is the same exact word as the word that's for reviler in first Corinthians
chapter 5 okay the same word it's it's Lidoros in first Corinthians 5 which is singular
and it's railer okay and then here it's Lidori it's the same exact Greek word that they're
rendering both railer singular in first Corinthians 5 11 and then here it's revilers that's why
the ending is different right there same exact word though I thought that was interesting
when I was studying this but if you don't believe your local resident Greek expert now
that Birdman's out of here okay I'm the appointed Greek expert this church I can show this to
you in the English as well I wish he was here like he could verify everything I was saying
okay but it couldn't be there's only one Greek expert at the church okay Matthew 27 39 though
it says this it says and they that passed by reviled him talking about Jesus Christ
on the cross says wagging their heads and saying thou that destroy us the temple and
build us it in three days save thyself if thou be the Son of God come down from the
cross and you guys don't have to turn here but just listen to what Mark says because
this is the parallel passage in the other gospel he says and they that passed by railed
on him wagging their heads and saying ah thou that destroys the temple and build us
it in three days so you see very clearly there in both the Greek and in the English these
are the same exact words they're synonyms of each other so railer and reviler mean the
same thing they can be rendered from the same Greek word you can choose either one of those
in English and it would match where we have to go back to the kind of it go back to first
Corinthians if I had you turn away from there keep your finger there the whole sermon so
yeah railer and reviler mean the same thing so if you're being a rail vialer you're getting
double kicked out of church okay there's gonna be two boots out the door not just one in
that case but then the thought oh that was the last thing it says nor extortioners shall
inherit the kingdom of God so obviously if you're extorting people which brother Paul
enlightened me that this is not just the the mafia that's doing this it can also just be
like scammers in general okay again if you're you know an Indian scam caller you're gonna
get kicked out of church as well redeem the gift card get out of here buddy okay but yeah but so my
whole thing of then showing you all those things is that the same exact sins are repeated here and
I could see you get kicked out for all these sins in reality so it made me wonder that that's not
what the Bible says though it's my opinion so I just want to make that clear but it wasn't that
I was thinking about when I was writing this sermon the second thing I want to bring up about
these verses is that sin in particular which is abusers of themselves with mankind here's
the thing about this verse okay I'll be honest with you guys it's a little tough obviously this
word specifically it is tough okay it's not black and white and it there's a there's a whole can of
worms that you open about this word in particular okay this word is the word arsenikite is the one
of the reasons why it's a big uh it's a hard thing to understand is because of the fact that
in antiquity in ancient in the ancient greek world nobody had used this word before paul used it
here in first corinthians chapter six or at least i should say there's no record of anybody
else using this word paul is the first person to use this word in the ancient greek world
and that's why a lot of people actually believe about this word that he invented this word like
he uh pulled the shakespeare he like pulling two words together to mean one right here um and as
just a little bit of a disclaimer here okay i just want to be straight up with you guys my
responsibility as a preacher is always to be honest with what the text says and i want to be
honest in the research i do about subjects i don't ever want to feel like i have to hide things or
hide like conclusions i find because i said this before but it's true but the truth fears no
investigation so if we have a right belief there should be no reason that we can't look into these
things and make sure that they're so uh and so i'd also throw in with that as well for this just
just this one word specifically i spent hours of time studying this all out so nothing i'm going
to say here is just like ai overview chat gbt you know google just tell me what what this is
multiple hours i spent on this and multiple times in my life have i spent multiple hours on this
subject alone even before i was going through this chapter so i only say that just to tell
you that what i'm going to say to you is not just like a google search information okay i was i was
digging into different articles different sources about these things why is this word tough though
it's tough in multiple ways okay it's hard to understand first of all what it means okay
because this is a lot of scholars nowadays scholars i use that word lightly most of the time
they'll say that this word they're like this word is clearly uh it means homosexual that's
case closed that's exactly what this word means but if there's anything that's clear about this
word it's this that this word is very unclear that that's the only thing that's actually clear about
this word okay because again like i just told you nobody uses this word before paul and then when
people do use this word after paul it's they do it the same way that he does they throw it in a
list of vice sins is what they would call it and they just kind of leave it like that so there's
really i mean this isn't like most words i'd say where um you know it's just like super crystal
clear what it exactly means um but what do people say so i guess i should say this why do people
think this is talking about homosexuals okay because the word arsonichite which okay that's
that's modern greek pronunciation if you're if you're hearing a different person talk about this
you're gonna hear them say arsonichite okay because they have this lame modern greek
reconstruction that makes greek sound so stupid when they read it like this like i understand
that greek doesn't sound the same as it does you know in modern days like language has changed
right even english has changed its sound but the way that they read greek they make it sound like
you're an american reading greek for the first time with an american accent it is terrible it's
like uh it's a pain to my ears whenever i hear people speak in that modern reconstruction i'm
sure for every like legitimate greek person it's terrible but you'll i say arsonikite but they'd
say arsonikote okay um what is this though okay this word people believe it's basically a compound
word which is built off two words the word arsene or arsenos which is the genitive form of that word
which means male or man then you have kiti or ketis is the genitive which means bed so if you
put those two words together it's like male bed yeah and then how most people would say like the
the literal translations would be would be like male betters or men betters or you would say
something along the lines of like uh those that lie with men okay but obviously we know that the
king james renders this as abusers themselves with mankind so they'll take that and they'll say well
see it's the compound word right there so clearly this is talking about homosexuals and then the
other reason why they believe this is about homosexuals okay is because in the septuagint
which is the greek rendering of the old testament when you go to leviticus 2013 and see how it
renders that verse when it says like the men with men the words that it uses in that in the
septuagint which we don't subscribe to by the way we we read the the hebrew and the aramaic as as
far as the old testament goes that's what we is our authority is what i should say that's what our
english bible is translated off from but in in the septuagint the word in leviticus 2013 is that it
uses is arsenos space ketene which you can see the resemblance of what i just said earlier right
so the scholars a lot of them actually believe that paul took this term he went to leviticus in the
septuagint saw this and was like oh let me add make a greek word out of this and he took these two
words put them together voila arsenic ite okay so that that's their two main arguments okay and
i'm just again i'm giving you just the information that i found in my research and all these things i
verified and made sure that they were um you know per se accurate and i'm giving you this information
so that when someone comes up to you about this verse because they will because of our belief
about the reverie doctrine you don't look like a dummy that has no idea what they're talking about
okay because i don't want them to just throw pull something out of their pocket and and make you
look like you don't know what you're talking about like you should at least have a general
knowledge of this subject because of our specific beliefs on romans 1 and the reverie doctrine in
general but that's the two main arguments they give but this is by no means a case closed and
here's why there's like there's several things i want to bring up about this number one is this
is that when it comes to compound words a word is not always the sum of its parts okay you see this
in english obviously like you have a word like joystick it's like oh yeah joystick a stick of
joy that's what it must mean right that's not what it means right it's like a game controller
analog right or have you said like a butterfly butter fly it's butter that flies right that's
not what it is though right so you see that a compound word is not always the sum of its parts
but also when it comes to those kinds of words they can actually be a little bit deceiving and
and the example i'd use is the word lady killer say because that's like in english that means
like someone who's good with the ladies right if you were to just stumble upon this word though
and you've never heard this before you're like finding an ancient american text 4 000 years
from now you're like oh lady killer man that sounds terrible lady killer it must be a lady
that's a killer right or someone that's killing ladies like literally right but that you couldn't
be further from the truth right there because a lady killer isn't negative and it's about someone
like who's good with women right so you see there that sometimes compound words can be misleading as
well so i bring it up to show you that when as when experts bring this up they're like case closed
on this it's obvious what this means it's not obvious what it means though okay because you
can see those examples would show you that that it's not just that clear cut and dry okay that's
why i'm showing you this but also moving a little bit away from that but sitting in the same subject
some people try to make this these verses about pedophilia which is obviously wrong as well
and so in my research this is ironic though lots of sodomite christians will get mad because in
the modern versions they render this verse the abusers themselves of mankind they render it as
homosexuals just straight up most of the modern versions do this i think the new king james does
this um i don't remember if the esv does this for sure but i know for sure or at least i'm pretty
sure the king james renders this as homosexuals okay and uh the sodomites get really upset about
this and they're like that's way wrong but what's funny is that they're actually kind of right
because this word does not mean homosexual they are wrong when they translate it that way
but the reason why they're arguing that is because they're trying to say that the bible never
condemns sodomy but that's stupid okay because even if this verse didn't condemn sodomy which
i don't believe it does by the way but if it did condemn or even if it didn't write there and it
never did anywhere else in the bible you can go and look at romans one and see that it doesn't
even need a proper greek word it just says that a sin is that it's one men with men working that
which is unseemly right and and and they're giving over to vile affections for this cause right
so you don't need some fancy greek word because what they do they'll play games with that and
they'll like go to leviticus 2013 and they'll be like this is talking about the male temple
prostitutes and this has nothing to do with homosexual the bible never talks about homosexuality
but paul says men with men okay buddy you don't need uh uh much more proof than that or at least
you should if if but here's the thing about this okay they'll say that these verses are condemning
pedophilia not homosexuality and they'll say that so that they can justify homosexuality
but the reality is the bible condemns both of these things however in this specific text right
here if to try to claim that these verses are condemning pedophilia right here is nonsense okay
people can only do this if they have a bias with the scripture it's it's 99 percent of time
it's homosexuals which shouldn't even be picking up the bible anyway with their nasty hands
they're coming to this these verses and they're like actually this is con this is condemning
pedophilia nonsense though because the word in the text as i told you is male man not there's a
there's a word for boy in greek and it's not right there okay so that's a nonsense interpretation
they're just butchering that to justify their own sin um but there's a couple other like insane uh
arguments with this verse okay people will say this and this is kind of in line with the pedophilia
thing they'll say no no no the king james translators were wrong they actually mistranslated
the word effeminate here and they mistranslated the word abused themselves with mankind here
this is referring to the system of pederasty which if you don't know what the system of
pederasty is it's basically this from my understanding it's this in my research that
in in ancient greece they had a system where like really wealthy men would take boys under
their wing and they'd basically mentor them and to my knowledge this system started off as like
a good system like it was met with like good intentions like it was genuinely a rich man
trying to basically mentor a young boy to help him get on his feet you know be successful all
these kind of things but what ended up happening is that just like nowadays we have corrupt sick
elites like Jeffrey Epstein right you had those same elites back then that basically took that
system and used it to molest kids okay unfortunately so then in general the system of pederasty got a
really negative stigma very similar to how like when you talk about like altar boys at the catholic
church it kind of has a negative stigma you know what i mean even though it's supposed to be
something that was good i mean even to this day in theory okay they're trying to follow the catholic
interpretations of the bible per se but now it's been corrupted to where when you even look at the
catholic church you just think it's a den of pedophiles the same is true with the system of
pederasty in my opinion from what i found online when i was researching this topic but they'll say
this okay they'll say this is talking about pederasty they say it's not a feminine man what
this is really talking about is boys that are in this system of pederasty boys that are like
slave boys basically or boys that are being like molested or boys that are being taken advantage
of through the system of pederasty and then they'll say and the abuse of themselves with
mankind is referring to the mentors in that system but here's why this is a disgusting
interpretation because then what you're saying in that regard is that a boy who's being taken
advantage of who's being molested who's being basically in this relationship against his will
is somehow sinning because what is this describing in this people that won't inherit the kingdom of
god right so if you're taking that interpretation you're saying your bit that's like the ultimate
form of victim blaming you're saying that a boy he's not going to inherit the kingdom of god
because what because he was taken advantage of stupid interpretation and that's what happens
when you try to flip the bible on its head and teach things that are nonsense you end up with
dumb interpretations like that saying that because here's just the fyi is that anybody that's a
victim of anything like that they did no sin it's the person that's the predator that is the sinner
the person that's taken advantage of the person that's violated they're not sinning in any way
shape or form but that's what these sodomites try to use these verses to say to justify themselves
okay which shouldn't surprise you because they're a group of sick people anyways but this is the
other thing that people will say is that they'll say in the same vein of thought they'll say
that effeminate and abuse themselves of mankind mistranslated again but this is what they say
this time they'll say paul's condemning and i and i want to be like a little bit careful i say this
as to not corrupt your mind as well but they'll say paul's condemning if you will with the the
effeminate the passive person in a relationship like that and then they'll say that the abuse
themselves of mankind would be the active person in the relationship if you if you catch my drift
on that to keep everything um pg-13 okay but here's why this is dumb because these are not
separate sins what in the world is that it's like the dumbest thing i've ever heard it's like
yeah you got the active person and the passive person it's like the bible just calls them
sodomites though there is no difference between these people they're the same disgusting
reprobate vile people it doesn't matter if they're active it doesn't matter if they're passive
only a vile mind would even come up with that interpretation in the first place disgusting
it's not what these verses are talking about but what are these verses talking about then look at
verse number nine again one more time it says know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of god be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor
abused themselves with mankind uh and then it says in verse number 11 oh excuse me uh shall not
inherit the kingdom of god and then it says in verse number 11 it says uh and such were some of
you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of our lord jesus
and by the spirit of god i think i skipped one verse in there it didn't copy my notes but you
guys can see that in your bible right there he finishes off that list of sins and he says in such
were some of you so here's a there's a couple of viable interpretations within the reprobate
doctrine belief is what i'd say because that's what i'm going to submit to you things within
this camp because that's what we believe is a church is what romans 1 teaches okay i've seen
a baptist pastor say that when paul says here in such were some of you that that doesn't mean that
applies to everything on that list and and what that means because it's kind of a little bit vague
is like for an example that just because it says abuses of themselves with mankind even they're
saying even if that did mean sodomite that doesn't mean that the such were some of you applies to
everybody in that church per se okay sounds a little far-fetched but let me give you an analogy
because i think it makes it makes it makes it make a lot more sense what if i'm going to do and
before i just say this i should say this okay what is this list of things describing it's describing
people that what shall not inherit the kingdom of god right that's what the list is describing
so say if i'm with this analogy i'm going to say guys don't be deceived you know i'm writing
my own letter i'm saying adulterers liars drunkards those that dishonor their parents
sorcerers railers and those that take the mark of the beast shall not inherit the kingdom of god
right and then i said and such were some of you but you're washed but you're sanctified but you're
justified i just want you to think about did i say anything wrong by saying those things i didn't
right because here's the thing what is this list describing and again in general subscribing people
that what shall not inherit the kingdom of god do people that take the mark of the beast inherit
the kingdom of god absolutely not right but even so with that there if i say and such were some of
you but you're washed but you're sanctified but you're justified that that's not me saying that
you are being washed of the mark of the beast i'd be saying that some of you would have been some of
the things off of the list and what is the list people that shall not inherit the kingdom of god
right so i've seen people say that interpretation i don't know how likely that is but i have seen a
baptist pastor that believes reprimand doctrine submit that interpretation here's the other one
and this one that i think is more likely is that people will say that uh male better you know
doesn't have to be about a homosexual at all which is true because if you think about this again
think about how the king james translators rendered this verse what do they say abusers
of themselves with mankind what should that show you that in their mind they clearly have they have
they think that this is about this is to do with a connotation that is someone abusing themselves
right someone abusing their own body okay and what would be what would be someone that does that
how about a prostitute don't they abuse themselves with mankind like a prostitute that's the
definition they're abusing themselves with mankind they're abusing their body by committing
fornication with other people which is very interesting because if you notice in verse
number 15 of this chapter it says know you not that your bodies are the members of christ shall
i then take the members of christ and make them the members of an harlot god forbid right i think
that's kind of interesting when you look at these things in context but obviously you know an abuser
of themselves with mankind could definitely be a prostitute because that's exactly what they're
doing they're abusing their body right they're selling their body for money and what is your
body it's the temple of the holy ghost is what the bible teaches you could also say that this was a
person per se another and even not a prostitute but someone sleeping with someone for you know
status or wealth or for opportunity which by the way still happens nowadays i mean even harvey
Weinstein was doing stuff like this like basically convincing girls that if they would do disgusting
things with him that he would boost their career he'd send these actors to the moon and he did with
some of these actors so you could see if an actor is doing that though wouldn't they be abusing
their body with mankind in that regard they're selling their body for wealth for money and for
fame someone else in this said like it could also be a person that would be quote unquote gay for
pay or gay to pay which would basically just be saying like someone that's doing gay stuff even
though they're not actually gay themselves which i guess does happen i guess that's pretty crazy
but like the bible does say the love of money is the root of all evil right so you can definitely
see that i guess some people could could do that okay i mean people do a lot of weird stuff for
money in reality when you think about it also this could also just be an accidental you know uh
sodomy experience okay for multiple things like if someone got really drunk and they slept with
someone they didn't know or if you were you went to thailand and you slept with someone you didn't
know and it turned out to be like a ladyboy or something like that or if you uh people experiment
with these things sometimes vilely enough okay all these are just like accidental examples but as
well i'm i'm showing you all these things to just show you that again this is not just clear cut
like they act like it is they try to act like this is just super crystal clear what this means
and the reality is this word is very scarcely used it's very unknown it's very like um it's
it's not super crystal clear where it is so anybody would say that to you that oh this is
clearly homosexuals they're overextending what they actually what is actually true okay what they
know to be true is what i should say here's the thing about these verses as well okay and we're
going to move on from this because it's been a long topic on that that what we do know these verses
are teaching or not teaching excuse me is that some of these people used to be burning in their
lust homosexuals that's that got saved and we know that because that would contradict roman chapter
one where he says that god gave them over to a reprobate mind he gave them over to do those
things which are not convenient to the vile affections okay so what we do know is that if
you just try to make this a homosexual then that would be contradicting roman chapter one so that
just cannot be the case at the end of the day so i know that's a lot of stuff i i only get into
that stuff because i i again know that people will throw this out to you so i think it's important
you have like a a well-rounded perspective when it comes to these set of verses okay and as a
little bit of a side note to that as well i'd say that it's important for us to realize again
and i'm only bringing this up because of our conversation out soul hunting with brother
ryan's co-worker sodomy is not the unforgivable sin we don't believe that at this church hopefully
everybody's aware of this sodomy is not an unforgivable sin the bible lists off three
unforgivable sins blaspheming the holy ghost taking the mark of the beast and adding or
removing from the bible these are unforgivable but what's important to realize about reprobates
and about sodomites is this is that they're not they're not uh you know uh they're not excuse me
they're not sodomites because they're reprobate am i think about this for a second
run away around okay flip around what am i praising that they're reprobates because
they're sodomites right oh no i'm lost in the sun they're sodomites because they're
reprobate brother jason come finish this sermon okay okay you guys know what i'm saying okay
but okay but yeah that's that's clear you should know that because that his co-worker was asking
these questions and i didn't fumble them when i was talking with him okay but we made it very
clear to him it's like hey sodomy is not the unforgivable sin that's not what the bible teaches
okay but people that um okay i'm not even going to get it we're going to move on go to james 210
james 210 i'm lost in the sauce what did these notes even say good night another aspect of these
verses is that people use these verses to not only teach that sodomy can be saved but they'll also
teach that these verses are showing us that we can lose our salvation because they'll say
if you're doing anything on this list you're going to lose your salvation because you're not
going to inherit the kingdom of god buddy here's the thing these verses are true but if paul really
wanted to in reality he could list off every single sin in the bible here because the reality
of sin is this if you die with one sin on your record you will not inherit the kingdom of god
you will die and go straight to hell it doesn't matter what sin you put on this list he's just
naming a bunch of these sins but this is important to realize because you guys are going to james 2
verse number 10 this is what the bible teaches okay if you die with any sin on your record you'd
go to hell james 2 10 it says for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offended one point
he is guilty of all so many work salvations will take this verse in james and they'll say
see right here you got to work really really really really really hard not to commit sin
because anytime you sin you're going to lose your salvation because if you break one of god's
commandments you've offended all of god's commandments okay but here's the thing the
answer to this verse is not to try really really really really hard not to sin it's to get you to
realize that if you work really really really hard you'd never be good enough because the
answer is not working really really really hard to get to heaven it's believing on jesus christ who
forgives you of all things that you offend concerning the law the bible is not because
here's the thing he that offends at one point is guilty of all that's true but it's also true this
that if you believe on jesus christ you're forgiven of all your sins as well that's the
answer to this not works based salvation this should show you the stupidity of works based
salvation because you could never keep the commandments good enough to get yourself to
heaven that's why jesus christ had to come to the earth in the first place like news flash like
that's a brain blast for a lot of them but like this should be obvious go to go back to first
christian 6 verse number 11 if you took your finger away from that place this is why according to
these verses paul is able to say to them that he knows that they're washed he knows that they're
justified he knows that they're sanctified because when you're forgiven of your sins
by believing on jesus christ you are no longer a transgressor you are no longer a sinner at all
completely is what the bible is teaching that's why paul can say right here it says
and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name
of the lord jesus and by the spirit of our god you may have committed every sin on this list
you may have committed sins they're not even on this list you might even currently be committing
sins they're on that list right there but the reason why paul's able to say that you're none
of these things anymore is because the minute you believe on jesus christ you are washed not
not you were washed you are washed you are sanctified not you were sanctified you are
justified not you were justified you are washed or cleansed entirely when you believe on jesus
christ of both your past your present and your future sins of all these things and once you're
washed of those sins these sins are no longer imputed onto our record according to roman chapter
number four and also go to first john three verse number nine it's important to realize that once
you're washed of all your sins you have the new man inside you god says he makes you a new creature
and that new creature that new man does not commit sin is what the bible says first john three nine
says this it says whosoever is born of god doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and
he cannot sin because he's born of god so many people will take these verses that are work
salvation as well and they'll say yeah if you sin then you're not you're not really saved that's
not what this verse is saying these are a statement of reality not a commandment these are saying once
you're born of god you cannot commit sin it's impossible you do not commit sin why because his
seed remaineth in you and notice what it says there remaineth in you not just stays there for a little
bit his seed remains inside of us and it stays inside of us until when the day of redemption
according to ephesians 1 13 where he says that he seals us until the redemption of the purchased
possessions what the bible teaches very clearly so this is why paul can know that these people are
washed that they are sanctified that they are justified because this is and this is what i'm
going to kind of close this sermon on i want you to think about this when it comes to this church
specifically he has such confidence to say this to these people how if work salvation was true
where you have to just constantly be asking for forgiveness to be washed of your sins like daily
daily daily why does he have this confidence with these people because what have we seen from the
church of Corinth so far up into first Corinthians chapter number six not a lot that's good right
like they're constantly failing they're failing like all over the place is what we see and then
he still says right here even though they have the guy just a couple times before that's like
committing fornication with his father's wife like one of the craziest things ever he says i know you
guys are washed you're sanctified you're justified how does he know that because paul knows that
forgiveness of sins is not a continual thing you do it's a one-time thing you do when you believe on
Jesus Christ then you're forgiven forever why because a new man's inside you and that new man
doth not commit sin is what John uh three nine says first John three and verse number nine
look at verse number 12 of first Corinthians chapter number uh six it says this it says all
things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me but i will
not be brought under the power of any i really wanted to get into that verse but um i feel like
i need to do a little bit uh more studying on that before i get up and present a whole case on that
so i'm going to kind of wrap up in the sermon here in conclusion for the sermon i just say this okay
abuse themselves with mankind is not very clear but what we clearly do know is that it's not
talking about burning your last homosexuals because that contradicts romans chapter number
one okay scholars talk a big talk but again as i said in a couple of terms before it's like
they talk a big talk about anything and they know very little in reality like the obvious things
they grasp but then like they overextend themselves all the time and act like they know everything they
act like they're god himself they act like they're just like all knowledgeable in every area of life
and this is just simply not true okay there's things that if they were being honest they'd say
we don't know with certainty but people just say all the time well the scholars say it's like which
scholars though what do you talk about people they do the thing with doctors too like doctors say
which doctors though because there's lots of doctors and there's lots of scholars and there's
lots of different opinions out there and they'll just be like well if it's 51 then scholars agree
completely it's like that's a pretty big divide there buddy what else is this teaching that we
know that we're no longer sinners once we believe on Jesus Christ because we're perfect according
to the new man we cannot commit sin that's why you can't lose your salvation because you can't
even commit sin in the first place according to the new man according to the flesh obviously we sin
every day but that's why our flesh has to be redeemed at the rapture that's why we have to
you know put on in corruption we have to you know have our bodies changed out and made to
glorious bodies right so with all that being said that pretty much wraps up this train of thought
but i mean if if work salvation ever even crosses your mind you should realize that verse in first
john 3 9 is impossible impossible for a work salvation is explained they cannot they never
will explain it anybody that i've ever showed that verse they always say the same thing they say
but if i sin i'm just gonna repent it's like no dude look at the english right there it's like
you don't go back to the greek on this one it's like the english says you cannot you doth not
okay in the king days okay but you do not commit sin right not that if you sin you repent it says
you cannot that can only be talking about the new man who is sinless forever once you believe in
jesus christ that all being said let's pray dear father god thank you so much wonderful day thank
you so much for the church and thank you so much for this great passage of scripture i just pray
that i i made things clear in this passage of scripture and that i help people with their
interpretation on these things i just pray that as a church we would never be corrupted with any
kind of heresy like that god and i just pray that we would study your word out and seek to find what
you truly say and just pray amen take your hymnals we're going to turn to page number 316
16 thank everybody for the ranch please close this one we're prayer