Hello everybody, I'm back with another video in this series defending the new IFB against
the slanderous attacks by many different adversaries.
And today I want to talk about the subject of the death penalty and how we believe that
certain people should be put to death for certain sins, which is literally what the
Bible commands.
And this is again something that the new IFB is known for and attacked for, especially
on the media.
Oftentimes news outlets will attack our churches because the pastors, Pastor Anderson, Pastor
Shelley, other preachers like Brother Dylan Oz and other people have preached that certain
people should be put to death for their sins, which is exactly what the law of God teaches.
But people today who have forsaken the law of God and who are against the law of God
and who don't believe the law of the Lord is perfect, which we do, will attack us for
believing what the Bible says.
That sins like being a sodomite, being an adulterer, being a witch, being a rapist,
all these sort of things should be put to death, right, a murderer, etc.
Those who curse father and mother, witch, etc.
These are just some things that I can name off the top of my head.
So the Bible says that people who do these sins should be put to death and we believe
that that should still be in place today.
Okay, now I want to explain that first of all, people will twist our words and they'll
say we're advocating for violence and we're saying that we should go out and hurt people,
which is simply a lie and it's not true.
And once again, if you say that we teach that, then you're a liar.
Just like I talked about in the previous videos, that people will accuse us of saying that
Jesus dead and die for everybody because we believe certain people can't believe.
It's just a complete straw man.
It's a complete misrepresentation of what we believe and it's a complete lie to say
that we believe that.
In the same way to say that we're advocating for violence or we're saying that people should
go out and hurt others is just a complete lie because nobody in a new IFB church has
ever preached that behind the pulpit and you cannot find a single example of that.
Every single time it's in the context of governmental punishment, okay, that we believe that somebody
should be tried for their crime and that they should be punished by death for their crime,
right?
This is not a foreign concept even to us today in America because murderers are put to death,
okay?
They're executed.
We're just saying that yes, that should be how it is based on the biblical law but then
there's other sins that should also be put to death as well, okay?
And this is taught in the law of God and we believe the law of the Lord is perfect.
We believe God is right and we believe that certain people should be put to death for
their sin but we do not believe that we should go out and just kill people ourselves and
take it into our own hands.
The Bible never teaches that, okay?
One of the reasons why people will attack us for believing this is because of a complete
misunderstanding of this phrase that appears a few times in the New Testament, not under
the law but under grace, right?
And people will say, well, you're trying to bring us back under the law by saying that
we should observe the laws of Moses concerning the death penalty in these certain scenarios.
Not understanding that under the law has nothing to do with which commandments of God to follow
or not to follow but rather has to do with the covenant which we're under, okay?
The fact that we're not under the law but under grace means that we are not under the
old covenant but the new covenant, okay?
And this should make sense considering the fact that grace was something that still existed
before Jesus came to this earth, right?
According to the Bible, Noah even found grace in the sight of the Lord, okay?
People have always been saved by grace.
That's not the issue.
The issue is that in the Old Testament, the children of Israel were reckoned as the people
of God based on whether they would follow the commandments of God, meaning that they
were under the law.
And in the New Testament, those who are the people of God, those who are Israel, those
who are God's children, it is based on grace, meaning if you have been saved by grace or
faith, you are God's people.
You are under the new covenant.
So the terms of the covenant have changed from being based on the law to based on grace
but this does not mean that the rules by which God expects us to live by and the commandments
which he gives are 100% done away with.
Now the Bible does teach that there is a change to the law, that there are certain things
which were only made with the children of Israel for that particular covenant which
we no longer have to observe and those things are particularly outlined in the New Testament.
And I'm not going to be talking about those things in this video but rather the next video
but today I just want to focus on explaining what it means to not be under the law but
under grace because people will say, well you're saying Sodomites should be put to death
so you're saying we're under the law.
No that's a false accusation, that's a lie and that's a complete misunderstanding of
what under the law means.
So I want to read Galatians chapter 3 and Galatians chapter 4 where it explains what
it means to be under the law.
So starting in Galatians 3 verse 17 it says, And this I say, that the covenant that was
confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect.
Now notice how it defines the law here as the covenant, right, in verse 17 and it says
in verse 18, For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more a promise, but God
gave it to Abraham by promise.
Wherefore then serveth the law, it was added because of transgressions, till the seed should
come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
Is the law then against the promises of God?
God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.
But before of faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up under the faith which should
afterwards be revealed.
Therefore the law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified
by faith.
But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Okay, so I want to stop right there.
That it tells us we're no longer under a schoolmaster, and it told us in the verses before that this
schoolmaster was the law, that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.
So it's telling us we're not under that schoolmaster, meaning we're not under the law.
Verse 17 already defined the law as the covenant which was 430 years after Abraham, meaning
that covenant which was made at Sinai.
Right, now let's keep reading.
It says in verse 27, for as many as, I'm sorry, verse 26, for ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, there is neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, but ye are
all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
So then it continues in chapter four, verse one.
Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant
though he be lord of all, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of
the father.
So it's bringing it back to the example of a schoolmaster, right?
A schoolmaster, a tutor, a governor, right?
This is the same language, this is the same concept, this is the same parable that it's
explaining here.
So it says in verse three, even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the
elements of the world, but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son,
maid of a woman, maid under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying
Abba Father, wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir
of God through Christ.
So the Bible is teaching here that we were under these tutors and governors, meaning
under the schoolmaster, under the law, under that covenant, until Christ was come, right?
And then, of course, the Bible tells us that at the death of Christ, that was when the
new covenant started.
But it explains in more detail what it's talking about in the latter portion of the chapter
of Galatians chapter four in verse 21.
He says, Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do not ye hear the law?
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free
woman.
For he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by
promise, which things are an allegory.
For these are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which gentereth the bondage,
which is Agar.
For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answerth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is
in bondage with her children.
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all.
So the Bible tells us that the bondwoman and the free woman represents the two covenants.
The bondage is the old covenant, which is Jerusalem, which now is.
So that's the physical nation of Israel, the old covenant made with the children of Jacob.
And he says that the children of the promise, the children of the free woman, that is the
new covenant.
So not being under the law has to do with the covenant, so it doesn't have to do with
whether God's commandments are done away with or not.
Because the Bible clearly tells us in Romans chapter three, where at the end of the chapter
after he already explained that we're not justified by the law, Paul says, do we then
make void the law through faith?
God forbid, yea, we establish the law.
So when the Bible says we're not under the law, it's talking about the fact that we're
not under the old covenant, okay, that that covenant, which was made with Israel, that
agreement between the children of Israel and God, is done away with.
It's vanished into the way, as it talks about in Hebrews chapter eight.
But in the new covenant, it's a covenant of grace, meaning by grace through faith, we're
saved, but not only are we saved, we also have this covenant with God, and we who are
sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, as is explained in Ephesians chapter
two.
So this is what not being under the law means.
It has nothing to do with, you know, we just ignore all of God's commandments and just
say that none of the Old Testament applies at all, and we just ignore it and not believe
any of it, not preach any of it.
That's how people interpret not under the law today.
They think that not being under the law means that we should just ignore God's commandments.
This is not true at all.
And in fact, it's funny because literally the commandment for the death penalty existed
before the covenant was even made at Sinai, before the Mosaic law, before God revealed
his covenant to the children of Israel at Mount Sinai, God had already instituted the
death penalty.
In Genesis chapter nine, verse six, he said to Noah, so this is like, you know, what nine
hundred a thousand years before Mount Sinai, something like that, he says, who so shedeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
So according to God, when he speaks to Noah, he says, if somebody sheds another man's blood,
meaning he commits murder, then he has to be killed also, right?
Not only this, but in the particular case of sodomy, which is the thing that people
will attack us the most for, for saying that sodomites should be put to death based on
Leviticus 20, verse 13, where it says, if a man lie with mankind as he lies with a woman,
both of them shall surely be put to death, right?
So the Bible teaches that somebody who is a sodomite should be put to death.
We preach that and people will attack us for this.
Yet the Bible clearly shows us that this was God's attitude about that sin before the Mosaic
law was even revealed, right?
It says in Genesis chapter 13, verse 13, but the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before
the Lord exceedingly.
Now how can they be sinners before the Lord exceedingly if there was no sin, right?
Because the Bible tells us that sin is a transgression of the law.
And of course we know that the commandments of God had not been particularly given to
the children of Israel at this time, okay?
But yet they were still sinners.
So it says in Romans chapter 5, verses 12 to 14, wherefore is by one man's sin entered
into the world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all of sin.
For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after this
millitude of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come, okay?
Now verse 13 tells us that sin was in the world before the actual covenant was given.
But it says sin is not imputed when there is no law, okay?
So this shows us that even though the law wasn't given to the children of Israel, God
still had rules by how he wanted mankind to live.
God still had standards of right and wrong.
And that is why in Genesis chapter 13, according to the Bible, the men of Sodom were sinners
exceedingly because even before God said in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 that these things
were abomination, God already thought that they were an abomination.
He already regarded it as a sin and not just as any ordinary sin as an exceeding sin, okay,
before the law was given.
So this argument of, well, we're not under the law, so that doesn't apply, is completely
missing the fact that God already hated sodomy before God even gave the law to Moses, right?
This was 430 years before Mount Sinai before that Sinai covenant was made.
If you want to know what God thought of Sodom, read Genesis chapter 19.
It says in verse 24, then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and
fire from the Lord out of heaven, and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the
inhabitants of the city and that which grew upon the ground.
So the Bible tells us that these people were sinners and that God judged their sin by raining
fire and brimstone from heaven and destroying those cities because of the fact that they
were sodomites, okay?
So just because God did not give the children of Israel in particular those commandments
which were written down until 430 years later doesn't mean that there was no sin of sodomy
before that, okay?
According to the Bible, it was still a sin.
These people were still judged by God, right?
So I hope that makes sense.
Not only that, but the covenant, the old covenant, the Mosaic covenant was particularly made
between God and the children of Israel.
It wasn't made with other nations.
It was made with the people of Israel, right?
That's why he says in Exodus chapter 19, you know, he says basically if you observe to
do all these things, then you will be a peculiar treasure and you will be my people above every
other people.
I'm paraphrasing, but it says in Exodus chapter 19.
So that's the condition of the covenant that if they obey what God said, then they will
be his people, right?
But according to Leviticus chapter 18, the same chapter where it tells us that sodomy
is an abomination, it tells us that already God was angry with the Canaanites and was
going to destroy them for their abominations.
Leviticus chapter 18 verse 24 to 28, Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things,
for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.
And the land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land
itself vomited out of inhabitants.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these
abominations, neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that so joth among you.
For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and
the land is defiled, that the land spewed not you out also, when you defile it, as it
spewed out the nations that were before you.
Okay, so the covenant was made between God and Israel, yet God said, I'm going to cast
these other people, Canaanites, people who were not God's people, out of the land because
of their abominations.
So it seems to me that somebody who is not even part of the covenant is still held accountable
for these abominations.
So what's the point I'm trying to make?
That not being under the law has nothing to do with how God feels about sodomy, okay?
Because the covenant is made with Israel, right?
With the children of Israel.
It's not made with the Canaanites.
So the Canaanites are still held accountable for that iniquity, and God says, I'm going
to cast them out before you, and He even says in the book of Deuteronomy that He's
not casting those nations out because of the righteousness of the Israelites.
He says, I'm casting them out because of their wickedness, right?
So why is God allowing the children of Israel to take over that land?
Because the people in that land were exceeding sinful, were committing abomination, and He
even said that the land will spew them out of it, right?
So even somebody who's outside of the Mosaic law out of that covenant, they are still held
accountable, and it's still iniquity, and it's still abominable in the sight of God,
right?
So how can you say that us being not under the law, which means not under the covenant
as I proved from the book of Galatians today, means that God doesn't feel the same way about
sodomy, okay?
It doesn't make any sense to say that because God's commandments about sodomy and about
the fact that they should be put to death and instituting the death penalty is not something
that is original to the Mosaic law.
That's just something He told the Israelites to do because He's giving them His commandments
about how to righteously live.
But it's not like, well, all of a sudden God's okay with sodomy, He thinks that they're fine
and that there's no consequences for it anymore just because we're not under the law.
That doesn't mean that God's commandments are done away with.
That just means that the covenant has shifted from the physical nation of Israel to those
who are saved by grace, whether they be Jews or Gentiles.
So another thing that people will try to throw at us to attack this idea that we believe
in the death penalty, even though it's literally commanded in God's law, is accusing us of
advocating, and I kind of talked about this before, accusing us of advocating for violence.
They're saying, you know, that's murder.
Doesn't God say thou shall not kill and you're saying we should kill people?
Now number one, I never said we should kill people.
I never said we should go out and kill people and do violence.
Again, I explained at the beginning of this video, and anybody who accuses us of that
is a liar, okay?
But the death penalty is not murder, because according to the Bible, those who commit murder
should be put to death, right?
Not only this, but thou shall not kill is not just talking about, you know, just causing
anybody to die.
That's not what it means by kill, and we know this because Jesus in the New Testament quotes
it as thou shall do no murder.
In Matthew chapter 19 verse 18, he saith unto him, which Jesus said, thou shall do
no murder.
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not bear false witness.
So in the New Testament, when Jesus quotes from the Ten Commandments, he says thou shall
do no murder, right?
So not killing people, this commandment in the Ten Commandments is about not committing
murder, okay?
Because also, according to the book of Deuteronomy, somebody who kills somebody accidentally,
like they commit manslaughter, that person will not be put to death for that sin, okay?
That God doesn't hold that person accountable for their sin, in the same way as somebody
who commits premeditated murder, right?
Meaning they actually seek to harm somebody, right?
They kill an innocent person, right?
Deuteronomy chapter 19 verses 4 to 6, the Bible says, and this is the case of the slayer
which shall flee thither that he may live.
Whoso killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he nated not in time past, as when a man goeth
unto the wood, with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe
that cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the health, and lighteth upon his neighbor
that he die, he shall flee into one of those cities and live.
Blessed the avenger of the blood, pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake
him, because the way is long, and slay him, whereas he was not worthy of death, insomuch
as he hated him not in time past.
So according to the Bible, somebody who does not hate their brother in time past, who does
not premeditate it, but who, for example, has an axe, and the health of the axe slips
off the handle, and it kills somebody on accident, he says that he needs to flee into the city
of refuge, and he's not going to be put to death for that sin.
So killing anybody is not murder.
Murder is when you hate your brother in time past, and you plan it out, and you have malicious
intent.
It's what we would know today as homicide, or first-degree murder.
So in this scenario, we see that this guy, he gets off the hook, he's not going to be
put to death because he did it ignorantly, he didn't do it on purpose, it was an accident.
So in the same way, putting people to death, executing people, in a civil manner, is not
killing people.
It's not breaking the commandment of, thou shall not kill, because it's another commandment
that God gave, and I, you know, I can't understand the cognitive dissonance with these people
when they say, you know, I mean they say we're not under the law, but then they say, like
when we say, certain sins should be put to death, they say, oh well, you shall not kill.
But it's like, I thought you said we're not under the law, so now you're quoting the law
as proof for why I'm wrong, but then you have to quote the law in order to attack me.
It's like, you see the problem here, I mean you're not being consistent with your doctrine,
right?
Versus we actually believe that the commandment, you know, thou shall not kill, and the commandment
that people should be put to death for certain sins, is something that's still in place,
and that's actually consistent, right?
So yes, people should be put to death for their sins, the Bible never says that these
things are done away with.
Now another thing that people will like to bring up is, in John chapter 8, when, you
know, the woman who's caught in adultery, you know, she's brought to Jesus by the Pharisees,
and you know, he says, he that is without sin among you, let him cast a first stone.
And people will, you know, twist that story to try to teach that, you know, adulterers
should be put to death.
Now number one, the way that these Pharisees do it is not the way that God said to do it,
because according to God's law, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
death, okay?
So this woman was the only person who was brought before Jesus by the Jews, okay?
They didn't even do the commandment right, first of all, yeah, that's the first point.
The second point is that Jesus forgives her of her sins, and he says, go and sin no more,
okay?
Now, according to Luke chapter 13, Jesus said, concerning people upon whom the tower of Siloam
fell, and people whose blood had been mingled with the sacrifices by Pilate.
He said, think it, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but he said, think that these men are sinners
above all other Galileans, right, or that these, you know, men are sinners above everybody
else.
And he says, nay, but I tell you, likewise, except you should repent, or I'm sorry, except
you shall repent, you shall all likewise perish, right?
So what is he saying?
He's saying that these people are not the worst sinners possible, but if you don't repent,
then you also will face some kind of physical punishment for that, right?
And so Jesus told this woman, who was caught in an adultery, go and sin no more, right
after he told her that her sins were forgiven, okay?
So she got saved, so Jesus forgave her, so yeah, she had a second chance.
But that doesn't mean that if she then, knowing that it's wrong, and knowing that her sins
were forgiven, were to go and do it again, and keep doing it again and again, that she
shouldn't be put to death, okay?
People are completely missing the point of the story that this woman got saved by believing
in Jesus Christ, so her sins were forgiven.
But that doesn't mean that Jesus is excusing that sin, or saying that there's no punishment
for it.
Let me remind you that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, and Jesus Christ is God, so the
commandments of God, like the commandment in the book of Deuteronomy to put adulterers
to death, was given by the Lord Jesus Christ, okay?
So in Leviticus chapter 20, I think it's verse 10, and then in Deuteronomy chapter 22, when
it talks about adulterers being put to death, that is Jesus that gave that commandment to
Moses, okay?
So then, again, Jesus is not changing what he thinks about adultery, he's just, this
is just one example of him forgiving a woman's sins.
But he says, go and sin no more after that, he's not just saying that she could just do
whatever she wants without any consequences, okay?
People are missing the point of that story.
But I'd like to find for you a clear statement in the New Testament, not a story that you
try to interpret and twist to mean that, but a clear statement in the New Testament
that says that these commandments about putting people to death are done away with, because
you can't find it anywhere in the Bible, right?
The Bible teaches that only certain laws have been changed.
In Hebrews chapter 7 verse 12, it says, for the priesthood being changed, there is made
of necessity a change also of the law, and it says in Hebrews chapter 9, it gives us
some more detail, the Holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not
yet made manifest, although as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure
for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make
him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats
and drinks and diverse washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time
of reformation.
So it gives a list of things which were imposed until the time of reformation as meats and
drinks and carnal ordinances, okay?
And it gives us more detail in the book of Colossians chapter 2 and other parts of the
book of Hebrews and the book of Galatians, etc.
It gives us details that, you know, circumcision and the Sabbath and the Levitical priesthood
and the laws concerning the Holy Days and the laws concerning meats and drinks, these
are the things which are changed from covenant to covenant.
But there's not a single verse in the New Testament that says that the commandment that
certain people should be put to death is no longer on God's agenda.
In fact, there are prophecies in the Old Testament that when Jesus Christ will come back and
rule in the Millennial Kingdom, he will rule according to the law of God.
Let me show you Isaiah chapter 2 verses 2 to 4, and it says almost the exact same thing
in Micah chapter 4.
I was going to read both, but, you know, I'll still read both anyway, just so it's a little
bit harder hitting.
So Isaiah chapter 2 verse 2, and it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain
of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted
above the hills and all nations shall flow into it.
So we know, of course, this is talking about God's kingdom, right?
This is not something that has been fulfilled yet.
This is something that's in the last days, right?
And many people shall go and say, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
his paths, for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem,
and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
And then Micah chapter 4 basically says the same thing.
In verse 1 it says, but in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the
house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted
above the hills, and people shall flow into it, and many nations shall come and say, come
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob, and
he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths, for the law shall go forth
out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and he shall judge among many people
and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks.
Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
So the Bible tells us that in the last days when Jesus Christ sets up his kingdom that
it says the law will go forth out of Zion.
So God's law is still in place.
No the old covenant is not still in place, but when I'm talking about God's law I'm talking
about his commandments.
Again, you can't find a single verse that says that God doesn't want people to be put
to death.
If that's what the Bible says, then we ought to preach it because that's what the Bible
says.
Now another point I would like to make is that Jesus also prophesies in Luke chapter
19 when he talks about a parable in reference to Christ's coming that he will slay the enemies
of God in his coming, in his second coming.
It says in Luke chapter 19 verse 11 to 14,
And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem
and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
He said, therefore, a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself
a kingdom and to return.
And he called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto them, Occupy
till I come.
But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man
to reign over us.
And the next few verses are talking about people being given talents and then earning
more talents and being given rewards for that.
But at the end of this story in Luke chapter 19 verse 27, Jesus says,
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither and
slay them before me.
So in this parable, this nobleman who goes into a far country to receive for himself
a kingdom represents Jesus Christ.
But there are certain people, the citizens, who hate him and don't want him to reign over
them.
He says,
Those mine enemies, which would I not that I should reign over them, bring them hither
and slay them before me.
So when God comes in his kingdom, those who don't want Jesus to reign over them are going
to be slain by him.
That sounds like Jesus putting people to death.
And he's not even doing it himself.
He's ordering other people to do it.
He says, bring them hither and slay them before me.
So yes, in the millennial kingdom, people will be put to death for sin because the Bible
says the law will go forth out of Zion.
So in conclusion, the death penalty is commanded by God.
I mean, it's in so many different verses.
Leviticus 18, 22 tells us that sodomy is an abomination.
Leviticus 20 verse 13 tells us that sodomites should be put to death.
And that whole chapter is really about, you know, putting people to death for different
sins.
That's one example.
Verse 10 talks about adulterers being put to death.
I think it's verse 14 that talks about bestiality being put to death.
There's other scriptures talking about putting false prophets to death.
Like I think that's in Deuteronomy chapter 13.
And then Exodus chapter 22, thou shall not suffer a witch to live.
And there's plenty of other examples where God commands the death penalty for certain
things.
Okay.
So this is part of God's commandments.
Now the New Testament tells us that we are not under the old covenant, but under the
new covenant.
Okay.
But this does not mean that God's commandments are done away with.
There are certain things which are changed and these things are particularly outlined
in the New Testament, but the New Testament never says that God doesn't want people to
be put to death.
And in fact, it tells us that in the millennial kingdom, God will rule according to his law
and people will be put to death.
People who hate Jesus will be put to death.
This is a fact.
Okay.
So we are simply preaching that from the pulpit and people attack us for that, even though
it's literally the word of God.
So again, are you going to believe what this world says and this world's morality that
we should just love everybody and instead of putting people to death like the Bible
says, we should lock people up in cages for 20 years, which is not a biblical punishment
at all.
Or are you going to believe God's standard of righteousness where he says that adulterers,
bestiality, sodomites, murderers, witches, false prophets, et cetera, rapists should
be put to death.
Right.
That's what God said.
And I believe that.
And that's what I'll continue to preach.
And that's what our churches will continue to reach because it's literally in the Bible.
It's literally the commandments of God.
And for those of you who say, well, we're not under the law.
You don't know what that means.
And you need to really start reading the Bible and stop taking this phrase out of context
because Galatians chapter four clearly explains what it means.
Not under the law does not mean that we could just do whatever we want and we'd have to
disregard God's commandments because God said, I am the Lord.
I change not if he felt that way about sodomites in the Old Testament, he still feels that
way today.
And I'm going to go into more detail about particularly this subject of not being under
the law and preaching the commandments of God in the next video, I want to talk more
about the law in general than the particular aspect of the death penalty in the next video.
So stay tuned.
And once again, we're right and you're wrong if you think that the death penalty is not
okay when it's literally, again, a commandment of God.
So thank you everybody for watching.
God bless you and have a nice day.