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Men, Judges chapter 19, we're starting a new story here in the book of Judges. If you remember, the first 16 chapters of the book of Judges are in chronological order, and they take us through the various Judges, culminating with Samson. And then we get into this kind of bonus material at the end of the book of Judges, from chapter 17 onward. And the point of this section is to show us just kind of a low point for Israel, and just show us some of the moral and spiritual lows that they hit before they had a king in Israel. So you'll see that statement come up over and over again. In those days, there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes. That part is unique to this end part of the book of Judges. And so this is a new story. It doesn't have anything to do with the other stories that we just finished with Micah. And it's another wild story. You know, like the last couple chapters have been kind of wild. This is another one of those wild stories. And it's a great chapter for us today in 2021 America, because the same type of people that we see here, these filthy sodomites, these perverts, are exactly the kind of people that we're dealing with today in our society, and they're coming out of the woodwork. And so this chapter has never been more relevant to us in America than it is right now. So it starts out in verse number one, it came to pass in those days when there was no king in Israel. So again, that's the theme. That's what we're supposed to take from this. We're supposed to look at chapter 19 and say, that is messed up. Just like chapter 17 was messed up, chapter 18 was messed up. It's just different aspects of the low points that Israel hits during this time. And so during that time, there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of Mount Ephraim who took Tamar concubine out of Bethlehem, Judah. Now what is a concubine? This is not a word that we really use today. And basically, if you just looked at the root word, like what is the etymology of the word, it basically is just a woman that you sleep with. It comes from the same root word as the New Testament word concupiscence, right? So it's just basically somebody that you're sleeping with. And if you study the Bible on this, I think you'll come to the conclusion that a concubine is like a wife, but it's like an illegitimate wife. So it's sort of like a common law wife or maybe a live-in girlfriend. It's just short of being someone that you're actually married to that's a legitimate wife. It's a step down from that. It's a concubine. So we don't really use this word because we don't necessarily have this concept in our society. But the closest thing that we have is probably a live-in girlfriend or a common law. I don't even think common law marriage is even a thing anymore. But I remember when I was growing up in California, and I know this is different in every state, they would say, hey, if you live with a woman for seven years, she's now legally considered your wife based on common law, whether you have the ceremony or not. I remember I worked with a guy, and I was talking to him about his situation. He was telling me about himself. And he said, well, I've been with my girlfriend for six and a half years, and we were going to get married. But we just decided, you know what, it's going to be common law anyway in six months. So let's just kind of just let it happen, just wait. But that's garbage. The Bible clearly teaches that marriage is supposed to be a commitment between one man and one woman for life, and that a man leaves his father and mother. He cleaves unto his wife, and they too shall be one flesh. What does it mean to cleave? It means to actually stick together, right? And so you cleave to your wife, and while God is joined together, let not man put asunder. But these type of live-in relationships or concubine relationships or boyfriend-girlfriend relationships, these are not committed relationships like marriage is a committed relationship. That's the colossal difference here. There's a different level of commitment here, because look what the Bible says in verse number two. And his concubine played the whore against him and went away from him under her father's house to Bethlehem, Judah, and was there four whole months. So she takes off and just goes back to her parents. Four months go by. So the first thing we see about this woman is that she's not faithful to this dude, because this is not the level of commitment of a marriage relationship. And then the second thing we see is that he's not necessarily that committed to her, because it takes four months for him to go after her. And Israel's not that big of a place. All the way from Dan to Beersheba is like 144 miles, kind of the extreme points. And so when you look at these type of geographies, you're talking about places that are 10 miles away, 20 miles away. It's not some super spread out. It's not like being in New York versus Arizona or something. It's a smaller world that we're dealing with. When you're talking about Mount Ephraim and Bethlehem, Judah, these places are pretty close together in the scheme of things. But it takes him four months to go down there. And then it says, her husband arose, interesting they use the word husband for him, use the word concubine for her. So again, this is not really a type of relationship that we would think about today necessarily in our culture. Her husband arose and went after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of asses. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. So she's not necessarily that jazzed that, you know, he's come back because remember she went and played the whore and she broke up with him and left. He comes after her. But for some reason, the father-in-law, quote unquote, this woman's dad kind of takes a shine to him and likes him. And he's just glad, I guess, that maybe somebody is going to take this daughter off his hands because maybe she's been a pain in the neck for the last four months, I don't know. But anyway, you know, this guy shows up and the dad's happy to see him. They just, you know, sometimes you just hit it off with people. And it says in verse four, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him and he abode with him three days. So they did eat and drink and lodge there. And it came to pass on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning that he rose up to depart and the damsel's father-in-law, or I'm sorry, and the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law, comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and afterward go your way. So get the picture here. This guy, he went and he patched things up with the girl. Three days, they've spent together. They're both going to leave together now. They've reestablished whatever this relationship is that they have. And they're going to leave. And they get up in the morning to leave. And you know, when you're taking trips at this time, you want to get an early start because you don't want to get caught out in the middle of nowhere at night. Because even though the distances we're dealing with are short distances, 10 miles, 20 miles, you know, those are considerable on foot. So it's going to take a couple days to get where you need to get. It's not going to take four months, but it's going to take a couple days to get there. And so you want to get an early start. But dad says, hey, don't leave on an empty stomach. Look at this breakfast, you know. So he talks them into hanging around for breakfast, right? So they end up eating breakfast. And it says in verse number five at the end there, comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and then afterward go on your way. You know, have something to eat before you go. They sat down and did eat and drink, both of them. For the damsel's father had said unto the man, be content, I pray, the interior all night. Let thine heart be merry. So you know, they hang out for breakfast. They get to talking. They're having a good time. Next thing you know, it's like lunchtime. Oh, too late to leave now. Why don't you just stay the night? Right. So then they end up staying an extra night because they got a little carried away. It says in verse eight, and he rose in the morning on the fifth day to depart. And the damsel's father said, comfort thy heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat, both of them. And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father said unto him, behold, now the day draweth toward evening. I pray you, tarry all night. And behold, the day groweth to an end. Lodge here, that thine heart may be merry, and tomorrow get you early on your way that thou mayest go home. But the man would not tarry that night. And so this is the fatal mistake here, right? Instead of leaving first thing in the morning and then knowing that you have a hotel or an inn or a lodging or, you know, you have something waiting for you, they hang out until afternoon. And he's thinking to himself, oh, man, this just keeps happening. You know, yesterday we did this. I stayed the night. I'm never going to get out of here. So he's frustrated. So he makes the stupid decision of leaving in the afternoon and just hoping we're going to get where we need to get, some kind of a lodging before nightfall. So it's a bad idea, but he's obviously not thinking straight. And so they end up leaving in the afternoon and just trying to get on the road. And so, you know, they've got their servant, they've got a couple of asses. Asses are basically donkeys that you would use to haul stuff. You know, you put your stuff on the donkeys and probably walk next to them. Maybe you could ride on them real slow, but typically you'd just use them to haul stuff. And so they head out too late in the day. And in verse number 10, it says, but the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem. And what the Bible means here is that later it's going to become known as Jerusalem. But at this time it was not in the Israeli control. You know, this was a foreign city because remember in the book of Joshua, they were supposed to possess the land and take over. There were a lot of places that they did not successfully take over. And this is one of those little pockets where they didn't drive out the Jebusites. So it's like a foreign nation living amongst them in this land of Jebus. But it's a place to stay. I mean, it's a place where they can find lodging. You don't want to be out in the desert, in the middle of the night, in the wilderness. And so it says in verse number 10, I'm sorry, verse number 12, and his master, I'm sorry, verse 11. Let's back up a little bit. Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into the city of the Jebusites and lodge in it. So the servant says, hey, look, man, we need to find a place. It's late. This is where we need to stop. And his master said unto him, we will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is not of the children of Israel. We will pass over to Gibeah. He's like, I'm not staying in some foreign place. I'm only staying at somewhere that's part of Israel. And he said unto his servant, come and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in Gibeah or in Ramah. Verse 14, and they went on and went their way, and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin. And they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat up and down in a street of the city, for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging. So a couple of lessons right away here are that, you know, obviously, you don't want to be out in the middle of the night doing stuff. You know, especially you need to teach your kids and your teenagers to be home before it's dark and not to be out at night because bad things often happen at night. And so, especially for women and children, they shouldn't just be out gallivanting at night because it can be dangerous. And so, obviously, there are a lot of dangers. They want to go somewhere to stay. And they end up picking the city of the Benjamites and getting really late in the day because they really don't want to go to Jebus. They don't trust Jebus, but they trust the Benjamites. This ends up being a huge mistake because the Benjaminites end up being way worse than what the Jebusites would have been. And so, the application that I would like to make for us today in the New Testament in 2021 America is that you can't just assume that because people are from church, you can just trust them implicitly. And this is what a lot of people think. They think, like, oh, these people are from church, I'll just drop my kid off with them, I'll drop off my toddler, let's have sleepovers, and just, I don't have to worry about anything. And people will just grab a babysitter from church that they don't even know or enter into big financial transactions with people from church as, oh, well, they're from church. I mean, it's guaranteed to be good. But you have to understand that even amongst God's people, there are always wolves that are going to be creeping in amongst the flock. You know, when you look at the children of Israel, when they left Egypt, a mixed multitude went up with them out of Egypt, ungodly people, wicked people, an increase of sinful men, the Bible says, and you've got guys like Dathan and Abiram and Korah and all the hundreds of people that followed them. You had some very wicked people. And the Bible points us to that in 2 Peter 2 and says, there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily, secretly will bring in damnable heresies. And he talks about these people who creep in. And he even says in Jude, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh. And he's saying, look, these people defile the flesh like Sodom and Gomorrah and he says, these are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. And so the Bible tells us that these people will be among us. They will eat with us. They will infiltrate. And in the nation of Israel, there were always sons of Belial around. There were always these wicked reprobates around. And this is no exception. So we don't want to make the assumption that just because people are from church, they're safe. Now, look, the vast majority of people in our church are good, godly people that aren't going to harm you, but that's not the people that we're worried about. You know, we're worried about that one person or those couple of people that are the Judas Iscariots. And so you don't want to just assume that you can trust everyone from church. And a lot of people would say, well, sure, I understand there could be bad people in church, but surely not a sodomite. Surely no sodomite would ever go to Faithful Word Baptist Church. Think again. And it makes no sense, does it? Makes no sense. Why would someone who hates the Lord want to come to church? Because they want to infiltrate. They want to do damage. Also, they might not even know why they're there. They might just be under the control of Satan. And so you need to understand that people from church are not just automatically to be trusted. OK? I'm not saying to go around and suspect everybody and worry about everybody. But here's the thing. You know, I wouldn't just hand a suitcase with a million dollars in it and just, here, watch this to anybody. But here's the thing. You know, that's why I don't want to just hand my kids over to somebody and say, here, watch this. You know, a million dollars isn't as important as your children. And so you want to protect your children and not just assume that everyone from church is automatically saved. I mean, look, I've been pastoring now for, what, 15 and a half years? And we've had a lot of really bad people who've come to this church. You say, oh, well, then what does that say about your church? Well, it says that our church has like 300 or 400 people in it. And it says that because we're doing a lot for God, obviously we're a target. People want to target us. And we're just kind of famous. And so people just hear about us and they come and, look, the internet can draw out some weirdos. And so, you know, that's just life. Most of the people who've come here over the years have been great people, but there are going to be those weirdos. And so you don't want to just assume that everybody from church is good. This guy just assumes, oh, yeah, if it's Israel, it's good. Everybody else is bad. But the sad thing is there are going to be some people within the church that are worse than people out there, that are worse than worldly people. Because the most rotten person in the world is a person that would be a false prophet or a false teacher or someone who would infiltrate a church as a non-believer. That's going to be worse than typical Joe Unsaved. And so they're going to run into some horrible people in the land of Benjamin. It says in verse 16, and behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at Even, which was also of Mount Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah. But the men of the place were Benjamites. So the Benjamites there are super wicked, we're going to find out in a moment. But this guy's not a Benjamite. This guy's sojourning there, which means he's working there temporarily. He's there just temporarily. He's out working in the field. He comes in from his work, and he's not native or local to that region. And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city. And the old man said, Whither goest thou, and when's comest thou? Where you headed? Where'd you come from? And he said unto him, We're passing from Bethlehem Judah toward the side of Mount Ephraim. From thence am I. And I went to Bethlehem Judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord, and there's no man that receiveth me to house. Yet there's both straw and provender for our asses, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants. There's no want of anything. He's saying, look, I don't need anything. I've got food. I've got bedding. I just need a roof over my head. You know, I just need a place to crash. Is there any way that we could get some help with this? And the old man said, Peace be with thee. Howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me, only lodge not in the street. So he brought him into his house and gave provender unto the asses, and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, Belial is the devil, Baal, Baal, Beelzebub, beset the house round about and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. Now they're not saying, like, we want to meet this guy. We'd like to get to know him. This is like Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and brought forth a son. They want to basically have a perverted relationship with this guy. And so they say, Bring him out that we may know him. These are disgusting freaks. They're perverts. They're queers. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly, seeing that this man has come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden and his concubine. Him I will bring out now and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you, but unto this man do not so vile a thing. Now let's stop and think about this, because this is a very bizarre verse right here that this would be offered. And of course, this story is very similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. And it's always easy to find these in your Bible, because you've got Genesis 19 and Judges 19, right? So this is easy to remember. You should never forget where these are, because it's 2021 America, sometimes you need to turn to these passages with people and help Christians understand the truth about the Sodomites. And so Genesis 19 and Judges 19, and both of them include a similar offer. You know, what's going on here? Why are they doing this? Well, you see that people that are ungodly and they just want to save their own skin, they're willing to sacrifice other people to save their own skin. That's one of the things. And I'm going to give you a bunch of interpretations of this, because I think that there are multiple things going on here. The Bible is very deep and there are a lot of layers here. So the first thing I want to point out is that this guy is living in a super wicked place. It's going to have an influence on him. And maybe he chose to live there. We don't really know how he ended up there. We know in the Genesis 19 story that Lot chose to live there for financial reasons and made that stupid decision. Maybe this guy's a similar guy, since he seems to have a similar mentality to Lot. And when you live a sinful life, when you're backslidden, when you're around a bunch of wicked people, you're going to stop being the loving Christian that you should. And the Bible says in Matthew 24, because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. And so when you have a lot of sin in your life, your love goes down. Not only your love for the Lord, but even your love for other people. To where this guy's willing to sacrifice others. He's willing to sacrifice his daughter. He's willing to sacrifice this guy's concubine. It just shows you, obviously, a lack of love that he's willing to offer them in order to protect himself. And so this is obviously not a godly offer. And again, where people get mixed up on understanding stories like this is that the Bible is showing us a bad example of a bad situation. This isn't a good story to learn from, who's the good guy, who's the bad guy. It's like I said in chapters 17 and 18, everybody's the bad guy. And then it's really easy to understand, these are just messed up people and messed up situations. There really is no good guy here in the story. So they offer these two daughters. Why? Because they're trying to save their own skin. That's obvious. But here's another layer to this is that they say, at the end of verse 24, he says, do with them what seemeth good unto you, but unto this man do not so vile a thing. Don't do something so vile. So this guy's logic is that, you know, if they end up basically forcing a woman or raping women, it's horrible, it's wicked, but at least it's not so vile as sodomy, you know, as a dude with another dude. And of course, Romans chapter 1, specifically talking about men who burn with lust toward other men, the Bible calls it vile affections, it uses the same word, vile affections. And what does vile mean? It means it's gross, it's disgusting, it's filthy. Now obviously the other is horrible too, and he's totally wrong to just offer up these victims, to just offer up these sacrifices, but that's what's going on with his logic. Number one, he's trying to save his own skin. And number two, he's saying, well, at least that's not as vile. You know, this is how he's justifying it, because at least it's a man with a woman. This concubine's already played the horror or whatever, you know, send her out there. But obviously that's a wicked wrong logic. I'm just telling you what seems to be going through this guy's head. So they offer the concubine and the daughter. But the men would not hearken to him, they're saying no, that's not good enough. But in, you know, in spite of that, they just shove the concubine out there anyway. So they don't know, is this going to placate them, is this going to satisfy them, because when they're offered, hey, you can have these women instead, they're like, no, that's not what we want, you know, we want that dude. But even though they refuse that offer, they don't shove the daughter out the door, because it's not even a sure thing. They just shove the concubine out the door. Now here's the moral of the story, ladies, OK? Don't be a concubine. You know, I think one of the things that we can learn from this story, too, is that a man doesn't love his concubine as much as he loves his wife. And we can look at all the stories in the Bible about concubines, and we can look at other illustrations where concubines are treated poorly. Ladies, have some respect for yourself, and do not go to bed with a man until you are married. Wait until you are married to have that relationship. Do not just play the horror and just allow yourself to be used by some guy who doesn't care about you enough to wait until marriage to have that relationship with you, and doesn't care about you enough to make a lifelong commitment to you, then do not give him your body. You need to wait until you get married. You don't want to be a concubine. This guy doesn't love his concubine, you know, they just shove her out the door. She's expendable. I mean, he loves his daughter enough, at least, to not send her out, even though he made that offer. But the concubine, I mean, we don't even know if it's going to work or not, but just send her out there. Well, see what happens. It's worth a shot. I mean, that's pretty bad. So the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them, and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning, and when the day began to spring, they let her go. The next thing we need to see about sodomites is that they go both ways. Don't buy into this garbage that the world tells you of, oh, they're just born that way, and they're not, you know, these dudes, they're not attracted to women, they're just only attracted to other dudes, and so you don't understand what it's like for them, because they just can't be with a woman, because they just have to be with a dude. That's not what the Bible says, okay? Because here what we see is that they take the concubine as a consolation, and they knew her. So they abused her, and so they clearly go, and in fact, every single sodomite in the Bible goes both ways. In fact, pretty much all the sodomites in the Bible are married, you know, because you see them in Sodom and Gomorrah, and they have women, they have children. Obviously it takes men and women to produce children. Tell that to these bunch of queers, but basically, you know, you see Ham is clearly a pervert. He's a sodomite, and he's married and has kids. So don't buy into the world's garbage. The world wants to just give you all these different categories of, you know, gay and bisexual and transgender and pan, and I don't even know them all. I don't know what else there is. There's more. There's a lot more than that. I'm leaving out like 50 genders, but I don't remember what they are, but you know, all this non-binary. I know that's one of them, right? They want to convince you that, oh, yeah, you know, that there's a difference between being bi and being... Folks, there's normal people, and then there's filthy, disgusting, evil, vile perverts. Okay, make an acronym for that. What letters was that? You know, figure out what letters I just said, that's the acronym for them. And you know what? We need people in 2021 America that understand this and believe this and that stand up for this because our country is rapidly turning into a Sodom and Gomorrah, and this needs to be thundering from the pulpits of America. I mean, we need all hands on deck. Every Baptist preacher should be preaching from Judges 19, Genesis 19, Romans chapter 1, 2 Peter 2, and should be ripping on these filthy sodomites. Now what does the Bible say about them? The Bible says they're vile. That means they're gross. Now any idiot knows that. And you know what? Even your libtards out there in the world and the people at your job who act so tolerant, you know, deep down, if they have a normal bone in their body, they're grossed out by these transvestites and queers, period. It's like the emperor's new clothes. Everybody pretends like it's normal. Everybody acts like it's okay and goes along with it. But I guarantee you that inside the vast majority of people in this country, even if they're not even saved, even if they're not even a Christian, the majority of people in this country feel exactly the way I do about these homos. I guarantee it. Look, YouTube puts up some video on their homepage promoting homos where they turn their logo into a rainbow and you click on it, it gives you some queer video. Guess what? That video will have way more dislikes than likes. It'll have tons of thumbs down and the top comments will be like, get this blankety blank queer blank blank off my blanking timeline, you blanking perverts. Five thousand thumbs up. And then I'm like, let me give you one more. Here's one from Pastor Anderson, you know, I'm not going to leave a comment like that, but I can give you a little anonymous like, and here's, here's the thing about that. Let me tell you why that, you know why I click thumbs up on that comment? Because it's anonymous. Nobody's going to know that I like that comment so I can get away with liking it. That's why 5,000 other people liked it too. Does everybody understand? Because it's like, man, Pastor Anderson likes this kind of language, you know, but it's just like, you know, nobody knows it. Well, I guess I just told everybody now that I click like, but the point is, the point is clicking thumbs up on that comment is anonymous. And guess what? Clicking thumbs down on a YouTube video, that's anonymous too. And so that's why you just have literally like a meal. I've seen like a million dislikes on something like this. Everybody gives it a thumbs down. Everybody's disliking it because it's anonymous. But then you go to work and everybody's so tolerant and, and everybody's so open-minded and so liberal and so loving. And then they go back home and they smash that dislike button and then they go home and they switch into truck driver mode and they're like blankety blank blank blank blank faggot blank. You know, that's what they do. Why? Because everybody knows it's weird. Look, who wants to work with some woman looking dude or like, or at first you just think it's kind of a homely woman and you're just kind of like, God bless her, you know, God bless her. She's just kind of an ugly woman. And then all of a sudden a man's voice comes out, you're like, ah, who's been there? That's everyone. When you're just, you're, you're looking at this kind of, you know, manly looking woman or something, but you just, it's, you know, it's sad because, you know, sometimes women are just a little bit homely or sometimes women are just, they just, you know, aren't that feminine or something, right? But they're, you know, they're nice people. They're normal people. God bless them. You know? And it's sad because, cause you'll think that you want to give people the benefit of the doubt and then a man's voice comes out and it's just, it's just, it just like, yeah, it's vexing. You know, the Bible says that Lot, when he was living in Sodom, he vexed his righteous soul from day to day and seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds. It bothers you, you know, to see that and to hear that. I mean, it would just be great to just never hear that, that man trying to do a woman's voice ever again or to never see that dude that's, that's, that's dressed up like a woman. You know, it'd be nice to just not be defiled by that, to have to look at that and be vexed with that and, and, and then I don't want my kids to look at that and to see that. But you know, I mean, I was just talking to somebody before the service and he said, yeah, there's this Jewish guy at my work and he disappeared from work for a month and he came back as a female. And the company wants to get rid of him, but they're scared. They're scared. What do they do? You know, I mean, what is, what's it going to be? Are they antisemitic? Are they transphobic? Are they homophobic? Is this, is there an option for all of the above, you know, but the, you know, the, the point is, you know, people are scared because of the fact that the preachers are scared. I mean, folks, do you realize there's like a hundred million evangelical Christians in America? I mean, you know what I mean? And I mean, the majority of people in America are against this stuff, but because the pastors aren't leading, then the people aren't following. You know, I mean, if you, if you go to church and church takes a soft attitude toward the sodomites, what do you think school's going to do? What do you think work's going to do? What do you think the university's going to do? If you came and hear this stuff in church, and even when I preach this stuff in church, Christians get offended by it because they're so brainwashed by the media because they haven't been reading Judges 19. They haven't been reading this. They've been watching movies and TV that have whitewashed and made this death style seem like it's just normal or you get desensitized to it. And look, every time I see a transvestite, I'm horrified by it, but I'll bet if I looked at one like 3000 times, I'd probably stop being horrified after a while. You just get desensitized to it. Well, I want to stay grossed out by it. I want to stay horrified by it. I don't want to get used to that. You know, we shouldn't get used to that. We should never get used to what God considers an abomination. He's not used to it. And let me tell you something, the sodomites are portrayed in scripture as the worst, most vicious, evil, disgusting people on the planet. That's how the Bible portrays them. That's how Genesis portrays them. That's how Judges portrays them. And you know, what does Romans one say? You know, Romans one says that they're filled with... Let's go there and look at it. In fact, you know, Romans chapter one lists the attributes of these people. Let's go to Romans chapter one. And for sake of time, we're just going to jump into verse 26 where it says, for this cause God gave them up. But it's funny how you still won't give them up. God gave them up unto vile affections, meaning, you know, he's going to let them do that, but he's not going to have anything to do with it. He's not going to have anything to do with them. Three times in this passage it says God gave them up, God gave them up, God gave them over. He's done. He gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And by the way, in a society that becomes accepted first. They accept first the lesbians and then the queer dudes. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men, working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. It's the fact that they've been given over to the reprobate mind that even leads them to do these things that are so vile and disgusting to normal people. Being filled. Is this a new sentence? Is this, I mean, is this a start of a new thought? Is this a complete sentence? Being filled, who knowing the judgment of God? That's not a complete sentence, my friend, okay? These are dependent clauses. They depend on the main part of the sentence. What's the main part? The main part of the sentence is verse 28, right? You see the period at the end of verse 27? Chapter 1 verse 28 is the sentence, okay? And then in verse 29, we get more info about the same sentence. So who are we talking about? We're talking about the people who didn't want to retain God in their knowledge. So God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which is the men with men stuff we read about in verse 27. And it says, being filled with all unrighteousness. Folks, these people are into every possible sin, all unrighteousness, fornication. Now you say, well, that kind of goes without saying because they're dudes with other dudes. They go both ways. They're filled with fornication, too. That's why they had no problem abusing that guy's concubine even though she's a female. Wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God. And this is that little sugar britches at the office, oh, he's just so sweet, he's just so feminine. No, he's not. He's a vile, evil, sick individual. He's a violent, hateful, wicked pervert. So I don't believe that about him. What else do you not believe in the Bible? What other parts of the Bible do you reject because Hollywood told you it's different? What other parts of the Bible do you not believe because, you know, if God wanted us to think that homos are just like everybody else, you know, we're all sinners. You know, we're all sinners saved by grace and homos are no different. You know, if God wanted us to think that homos are just like everybody else, why does he only give us three stories about homos in the Bible and they all involve them raping someone, they all involve them violent, evil, horrific, and they're just like everybody else. They're just nice people. And then when God talks about it in the New Testament, he doesn't change his view. He says the same thing. He says, oh, man, these people, they're murderers. They hate God. They don't love anybody. They're malicious. They're back biters. They're evil. And you know what, by the way, employers know, don't hire homos. But they're afraid not to hire them because they don't want to get sued. But guess what, HR departments, they don't want to hire homos because they know that homos are going to cause them problems. But let me just explain, and I got to finish the actual chapter in Judges 19. Let me explain something to you about sodomites. Their whole life is about being a sodomite. That's their whole life. That's their whole identity. That's all they are. It permeates every aspect of who they are. They're just obsessed with being a sodomite. So it's all they can talk about. It's all they can do. It's all they can think about. They just burn in lust one toward another. And so this is something that consumes them. And so therefore, these people, they don't make good employees because they're not dedicated to the job. They're dedicated to being a faggot. They're not dedicated to the company. These are going to be disloyal to the company. They're going to be the ones that talk bad about the company that they work for. These are going to be the ones that are constantly filing the claims and the lawsuits and causing trouble and being a pain in the butt generally. They are wicked. So they're wicked in every area. So they're a bad employee. I mean, who wants to have some wicked, evil employee? You don't. And if you run a business, I don't care what the government says. The government can go to hell. Don't hire sodomites in your business. Just find some other excuse why you don't like their face. You know, my brother, he used to have to hire people for a job. And this is like 20 years ago or whatever. And he had like a secret code that he would put for why he didn't want to hire people because, you know, it's like you don't want to get nailed for not hiring somebody for the wrong reason or something. So you had to do like a secret code. Well, you know what? It's so funny when you hear Christians talk about, did you know that churches are going to be forced to hire sodomites? I'm thinking to myself, no one could ever force me to hire a sodomite ever. No one could ever force me to do that. Well, yeah, they'll make a law and I'll break the law because you think I'm going to hire sodomites? Well, you know, you're not allowed to ban sodomites from your church. Yes, I am. No homos will ever be allowed in this church as long as I'm the pastor, period. I will step down. I will disband the church before worshiping with sodomites. It's not happening. Well, what about the law? What about God's law? I have to expose my family to that garbage. What's even the point of having a church if it's filled with queers? So the whole point of church is to be assembled with born-again baptized believers, not haters of God. It's bizarre. But we see here that they abuse this woman and in the process she dies. They're so loving and gentle and kind that they end up murdering this woman in the process. And so it says in verse number 26, then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the man's house where her Lord was till it was light. And her Lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way. And behold, the woman, his concubine, was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up and let us be going. But none answered, because she's dead. Then the man took her pawn and ass, and the man rose up and gat him unto his place. And when he was coming to his house, he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. Now here's the thing. This is the part of the story that tends to horrify people. The fact that after the concubine is abused by these horrible queers, these sodomites, that this dude ends up carving her up into twelve pieces and shipping her into the twelve tribes of Israel. Basically, he's sending a piece to each of the twelve tribes, bone in, okay? And sending this out and shipping this out, and this is horrific. And it says in verse 30, And it was so that all that saw it said there was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day. Consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds. Now what is it that horrifies them? What is it that makes them say, man, nothing this wicked has ever happened? Is it the fact that he carved up the body and mailed it out? No, because they're not mad at this guy, because in the next chapter they're going to talk to this guy and they're on this guy's side. They're not mad at this guy, they're mad at the sodomites. The deed that was unheard of is the perversion of the Benjamites and the fact that they were sodomites. And so this goes to show you that this was not normal in Israel at this time, like it's normalized in our society. Because if we heard about something like this happening, what if you woke up tomorrow morning and opened the newspaper and read about, oh, these sodomites, you know, they went over to this house and they abused this woman and killed her. You know what? It would be like page 17 of the newspaper. Would you be like, I've never heard of anything like that? Or would you say, I've heard a lot of stuff like that? Who's heard of a lot of stuff like that? I mean, you hear about stuff like that all the time. You hear about this stuff constantly about these sodomites abusing people and molestation and murder and all these things. But it's sad today that we wouldn't even be freaked out by this because we would just say, oh, it's just another day at the office in modern America, you know, because our country has become ungodly. Our country has become de-Christianized in many ways. But you say, why? You know, sometimes you're reading the Bible and you're just like, why? You know, this is a story that I don't remember ever wondering why about this story. A lot of stories make me wonder why. A lot of things in the Bible that make you go, hmm, and you don't really know what to make of it or it's confusing or, you know, obviously we're going to have to wait till we get to heaven to understand everything. But you know, I understand, I understand perfectly well why he carved up this concubine. It's because of the fact that he wants people to understand how horrible and disgusting what has happened is. And a lot of times, you know, people get desensitized. They hear about stuff and they're just kind of like, eh, they don't really react. But man, if you would have got one of these packages, it's gross. It's horrifying. It's disgusting. It's scary. This would be a scary package to open. But what this man is trying, and I'm not saying that this guy's a good guy. Do you remember what I said earlier in the sermon? Everybody's a bad guy. Okay. There's no way to understand chapter 17, chapter 18, chapter 19. Nobody's right with God. This guy is not right with God. Remember, this is the guy that gave the concubine to the angry sodomite hordes. Okay. I'm not saying that the guy's right with God. But what I'm saying is the purpose of this guy sending out the package is to basically get people to be shocked and horrified. The message that he's trying to send is, what these sodomites have done is shocking. It's horrifying. It's scary. It's terrifying. It's filthy. It's disgusting. Every reaction that you would have, just think for a moment, receiving this package, whatever reaction you would have receiving that package. Think about the emotions. I mean, if I were just at my house and a package like this showed up, what are the emotions? You're going to experience fear. You're going to be scared, like, whoa, is somebody stalking me? They're threatening me? Your first thought would probably be to be scared. And then another thought would be just, this is gross, this is disgusting. And then you'd get angry. Who would do this? Why would someone send me this? I mean, think about all the things. And it would happen fast. It would just rapidly, when you open that package, all this would come through your mind like just fear, anger, terror, just disgust, just, ugh. But here's the thing. You know what? That's exactly how we should feel about the sodomites. Exactly how we should feel. You say, you're homophobic. You better know I am. I wouldn't want to be in a dark alley with these people. I wouldn't want these people surrounding my house, oh, I'm not scared of anything. Well, you know, I wouldn't want to be surrounded in a house by these people. I wouldn't want to go to prison and be around these people in prison. I wouldn't want to be around them in a dark alley. You know, I would, look, you say, you're homophobic. Yes, I am. Yeah, I'm homophobic. I hate homos. They're gross. They're disgusting. They're evil. Every time they appear in the Bible, they're raping someone. That's what I believe about them. I believe the Bible. I read Genesis 19. I'm like, got it, Lord. Thank you. Judges 19. Okay. Got it. And if that's not how God intended me to read the Bible, why didn't he give me a chapter about the sodomite who's a nice person who gets right with God? Why is there no story like that in the Bible? Why is there no story like that? I mean, there's 1189 chapters, 31,000 verses, and what does the Bible include? The Bible includes a lot of prostitutes who turn out to be okay people, nice people, get right with God. I mean, look at the New Testament. I mean, you know, the first person to see the resurrected Jesus, Mary Magdalene, seven devils had been cast out of her. You got demoniacs getting right with God. You've got prostitutes getting right with God. You've even got the tax man getting right with God, the publicans, right, sitting at the receipt of custom. You've got all these stories about bad people being redeemed. I mean, look at Manasseh. I mean, the guy's worshiping Satan, and he gets right with God. You've got people who aborted their kids getting right with God, and you've got all kinds. I mean, even the witch at Endor, you know, seems like a little bit of a nice person when she's kind of taking care of Saul and, you know, being nice to Saul a little bit. Where's the story about the sodomite who's kind of a nice guy? Where's the story of the sodomite who follows Jesus and gets right with God? And you say, well, it just wasn't. Of course, it was around back then. Were sodomites around back then? Well, we're reading about them here, you know, going back over 3,000 years ago. Here they are in the Bible, same way as they are now. Okay, so does the Bible not talk about sodomites? You know, just do a little search on the word sodom. How many times it comes up? Somebody's searching on your phone. I think it's like 50-some times. It's an incredible number. Maybe it's in the 40s. Somebody just do a little search of the word sodom. Forty-seven times, well, I just don't think the Bible really says much about it. The Bible barely mentions it. Have you heard people say that? Why didn't Jesus talk about it? Well, you know, if the word sodom is used like 47 times, and then you got a bunch of uses of the word sodomite, and wouldn't you say this chapter deals with the subject? But where's the word sodom in this chapter? Where's the word sodom in Romans chapter 1? So there's no sodom in Romans chapter 1, no sodom in Judges 19, no sodom in Genesis chapter 9. Forty-seven mentions of the word sodom. Is everybody getting the picture that this is not a subject where the Bible is silent? Okay, here's another great verse on the sodomites. How about Leviticus 20, 13? Guess what word is not in that verse? Sodom. How about Leviticus 18, 22? So I can list for you a ton of scriptures on it, not even getting into the verses that say the word sodomite, or talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is characterized by this sin, or where God compares groups of people to Sodom because it's like he's always just pointing back to that horrible event in Genesis 19. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example of the grace of God, an example about how he can just save every queer. It's an example of suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Why are there so many stories and so many instances demonizing them? Because that's the true story, okay? A lot of people, they don't want to believe that. So they end up going with the Hollywood viewpoint, or the liberal Christian viewpoint, or they just, you know, basically ignore facts. So here's my advice for you in verse 30. Is the same advice that the children of Israel gave, it says, and it was so that all that saw it said, there was no such deed done, nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day. Okay, here's the threefold advice. Consider of it. Now you say, why would you preach about this, Pastor Anderson, this is an unpleasant sermon. Well first of all, I'm commanded to preach the entire Bible and I'm, if you haven't noticed, we did the first 18 chapters and so now we're stuck doing chapter 19. But oh how I love to preach this chapter anyway, because it needs to be preached. Consider of it. I don't want to think about that. Think about it. No, don't show me that. Don't show me that package. Refused. Return to send out, you know, get this out of here. No, put it away. I don't want it. Right? This person doesn't live here. Hey, I don't want to think about it either, but in 2021 America, we need to consider of it and we need to at least like face reality on this. And look, I'm not saying to dwell on this or say, you know, I, I'd rather just go weeks pretending that these people didn't even exist. Right? That's, that's the way I like to do it. So I'm not, cause the Bible says, and you know what? People may not know this about me if they don't know me personally and they only hear my preaching or even my most radical sermons, but you know, I whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report. If there'd be any virtue and if there'd be any praise, think on these things. I'll tell you some people who know this about me, my wife and my children know that I do not go through life dwelling on negative things. Do I? Do I sit around just dwelling on hateful things, negative things, disgusting things? No, cause I meditate on things that are righteous, but you know what? I'm not going to ignore the elephant in the room that's happening right now in America where our country is being given over to the sodomites on a silver platter. And I'm not just going to sit back and say, well, this isn't pleasant, I don't like to talk about it. Well, you know what? I'm going to talk about it anyway because somebody's got to say it. And if I don't say it, is your teacher at school going to tell you this? Is, is, is your, are you going to go down to the public school and your teacher's like, okay class, let's turn to judges 19 today for the lesson. You think, do you think this is like an elective down at ASU? Sodomites in the Bible, right? Sodomites in the Bible. It'll get you a diversity credit, you know, you can read about, you know, uh, how horrible they are. Do you think that you're going to see this on the evening news? You think you're going to see this in, in, in magazines and no, you're not, you've got to get this from the word of God or at church. And so we need to consider of it. Consider what? Consider what the Bible says about it. Consider this. Consider this story. Consider what the Bible teaches about these people. Second thing we need to do is take advice. Take advice, Mr. Know-it-all, okay? Dr. Anderson is up here at age 39 having studied the word of God a lot and I know that what I'm preaching about the sodomites is correct and I know what they're like. I've seen it in real life. I've seen it in the word of God. Take my advice, young people. Stay away from these people. Get far away from them. There was a young man who went to our church not too long ago and he worked with a sodomite. And you know, teenagers, you know, they're, they're listening to what Pastor Anderson says. They're, they're listening to the preaching. They believe the Bible, but you know, they kind of know some stuff to teenagers. You know, they, you know, I mean, not just going to just go with everything that Pastor Anderson's telling me. You know, I know some stuff. And so teenagers can tend to, you know, take everything with a grain of salt. And so this young guy, he had a homo that he worked with and he thought that the homo that he worked with seemed like a pretty okay guy. You know, I mean, Pastor Anderson's getting up here screaming about how they're so full of murdered violets and they're, they're child molesters and, and you know, they're, they're not reproducers, they're recruiters. And he thought, this guy doesn't seem so bad. So one day, this is, this just happened a few years ago. One day he's, this teenage boy is offered a ride home by this sodomite. So he takes him up on it. So the sodomite gives him a ride home and the sodomite says, oh, you know, we just got to stop at my house real quick. The sodomite, the sodomite stops at his house and introduces him to his queer buddy. And here's what the sodomite says to the young person from our church. He tells him, he says, oh, you know, this is my husband or whatever, right? We're married. You know, isn't that what they all want to get married or whatever? But he said, he said, you know, we're only married to each other during the week though. Because on the weekend, we just go out and have whatever the adventures. We're not married anymore. And basically, what he was getting at was that he was trying to recruit a child, a teenager, a young person, a minor. He was trying, he was offering him to be involved in this perverted lifestyle with him, saying, well, this is my husband, but you know what, hey, how about it? You want to come party? And you know what that young person did? He went home, and he told his parents, and told me, and he said to me, you know what, you are exactly right about the sodomites. You're exactly right. You know, this guy's like 20 years older. He's trying to recruit a young person, trying to recruit a child. And just like I preached and showed how they're filled with disease, because they're not married. They're not with one person. They go after strange flesh, and they're always, whenever the new guy comes to town, why aren't they just being a fag with each other? They always want the guy who just showed up, Genesis 19, Judges 19. They want to defile the innocent and pervert the innocent, and they're not satisfied to be with one person. Are you kidding? It's garbage. They have an average of 500 partners. Look at the statistics. Even scientific statistics done by non-Christians that have shown what that lifestyle entails. So what am I saying? I'm saying take advice. Take advice, okay? Don't be like him where you have to learn it the hard way. Now thankfully, there was no violence involved. Thankfully, it's like, oh, I've got to get home now, you know? And then it's like, note to self, never take a ride from this guy. Pastor Anderson's right. But you know what? It could have ended totally differently. It could have ended with the door being locked, and you're not going anywhere, buddy. So take advice. Consider of it, and then take advice, and then speak your minds. Speak your minds. You know, we as Christians have shut up about this for too long. We've shut up about it for too long. And you know, I understand that there are going to be certain situations where you're not going to be free to talk about this because you're working for somebody else or something. You know, obviously, I'm not saying, hey, go to your job and just start just bashing homos, you know? Because obviously, when you're at your job, you know, you have to be on their time and represent them. I get that. I understand that. But you know what? We all have areas of life that we control. We have areas of life that are not in our control, and we have areas that we control, don't we? You know what I control? My home. You know what we have control over here as God's people? We have control here over the house of God. So maybe out there, you know, there are situations where we have to play nice, but not in here. In here, the gloves come off. In my home, the glove comes off. And you know, when I'm around my friends and my family and when I'm around my peers, you know what? I'm not going to lie and pretend like these people are normal or pretend like it's okay. Hey, I am going to speak my mind about it. And when I'm in a place where I'm not in control, if I'm in a place where, you know, I'm working for a company and I have to do as I'm told, hey, I'm still not going to lie about it. You know, I'm just going to say nothing at that point. I'm going to say nothing because I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not going to pretend that it's fine. You know, I'm going to speak my mind or I'm going to say nothing at all. But you know what? In the areas where we have the power to speak our minds, where we're in our homes and at church and amongst our family and friends, you know, we need to speak our minds because if everybody in America spoke their minds on this, it's like the emperor's new clothes. Who knows the story of the emperor's new clothes, right? If everybody spoke their mind and said, this guy's not wearing any clothes, then the jig is up. But in America today, people won't speak their minds. They're silent on this. You know, and like I said, you know, I remember when I worked a secular job and I would not just go into every bed bath and beyond and just freak out at when the manager was a sodomite. I would typically just try to deal with someone else. I would just seek out, you know, or I would go to a restaurant and you know, if I saw some queer waiter and I was afraid because I'm homophobic, I was afraid of getting seated at that table where the queer waiter is serving. So I would walk in and just say, oh, excuse me. When you see me, she's my normal waitress. Just pick someone. And you say, well, you lied because you've never been to that restaurant. No, no, no. She's my normal waitress. Or that guy, see that guy, I'd say, hey, that guy right there, he's my normal waiter. My normal waiter. I've done that before. You know, because I didn't want to, I didn't want to make a scene or create a big, now other times I'm in the mood to make a scene and I just say, I'm not going to sit where that faggot is serving. Oh yes, sir. Okay, we'll take care of it, you know. So I've done it both ways, you know, I mean, I think both are fine depending on the situation. But I remember one time I was at a business meeting and you know, after the meeting, I, you know, we're hanging around and I'm just about done with the sermon, but we're hanging around with our, with our customers and colleagues, you know, it was like a business thing and we're kind of hanging around talking and there was this woman who was just really outspoken liberal, okay, and she wasn't a horrible person. She wasn't a reprobate or, you know, she's just brainwashed. Most of these liberals, you know, they're just brainwashed. So she just is really outspoken and just, hey, is everybody going to vote for this? And it was some queer thing on the ballot, proposition, homo or whatever. Does anybody remember what it was? It was like 10 years ago or something or, you know what I mean? You know how they have these propositions about them getting married or whatever they do, you know, proposition 2013 or whatever, but anyway, I'd vote yes on that and I don't even vote. That would get me down there, but anyhow, they had some proposition that was for queers and she's just like, oh, is everybody going to support this, you know, pro homo thing or whatever, and everybody's just kind of like, well, you know, everybody's just kind of like, and just some people were saying yes, but everybody was just kind of like, they didn't really say much. And then she just singled me out and she's just like, how about you, Steve? You know, are you going to vote on this? And I said, I said, well, look, I said, I don't know whether I'm voting yes or no, but I said, whichever one is against the homos, that's how I'm going to vote for it. So I'll have to read it. I don't know if it's yes or no, but I'm voting against the homos. And she just like punched me in there. I'm like, oh, stop it or whatever. I'm like, no, I'm serious. So I was like a joke. And then I kid you not, like everybody else is like, yeah, yeah, I'm voting against it too. I'm against it too. I don't believe in it. It's against my religion. But it kind of takes one person piping up. And then all of a sudden everybody's like, yeah, me too. I feel the same way. But this woman was so outspoken with the liberal point of view, everybody was kind of afraid to be confrontational. And like I said, I mean, that's somebody asking me directly, give me your opinion. And I gave it to them, and it was fine. So the point is that if you have an opportunity to speak your mind, speak your mind. And to the people that you have influence over, the people that you have power over, situations where you're in control, hey, speak your mind. Because if everybody shuts up about this, if nobody talks about it, if nobody speaks against it, if nobody says anything, then it's just going to keep happening. I know the sermon should be over, but I got to tell another story. Story time, folks. They had their little drag queen story hour, well, we got Baptist story hour, right? We got to have our story time too. Hey, my wife took the kids and kids from our church to a homeschool activity at like a government, you know these little nature wildlife like welcome centers? And they were having a training or a teaching for the young people. She shows up with the kids, and the person who's teaching the class is a transvestite. And it's geared toward homeschoolers. And my wife's like, no, this isn't happening. And so my wife told them, she said, do you realize that 90% of homeschoolers are evangelical Christians? You really think your homeschool program is going to get off the ground when you have a transvestite teaching it? And she told them that, and you know what the guy said that worked there? He said, I know you're so right, but he said, I can't say anything about it. But he's like, would you please complain to my boss? Like, would you please just like, here's the, call this number and send an email and leave us a bad review and write a letter? Like can you do it as five different people? And basically he's like, I don't want to be around this queer freak. I mean, he didn't say it like that, but I'm embellishing the story. Basically what he said was just, hey, I can't say anything, but please complain because I feel the same way. Somebody's got to speak their mind. And you know, a few people speaking their mind goes a long way. And so look, I'm just one person out of all the tens of thousands of Baptist churches, I'm just one preacher. But you know what? I've had an influence just from preaching against homos on YouTube. I've had an influence and you can have an influence too, you know, and we can influence the people around us. And obviously, yeah, use wisdom, be tactful, speak the truth and love. But you know what? We need to speak our minds about this, lest our country become Sodom. Speak your mind, consider of it, take advice and speak your mind. Father, we thank you so much for warning us, Lord, and it's an unpleasant chapter, but it needs to be in our Bible. And we're thankful that it's in our Bible, as unpleasant as it is, Lord. Help us not to let this chapter be wasted on us, but rather to take the lessons of this chapter and lay them to heart and never be deceived by the queers of this world that want us to believe that they're normal. Help us to realize that they really are everything that the Bible says that they are. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.