SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W.
SPEAKER_00: Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delant, Florida.
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SPEAKER_00: Now here's your host, Pastor James W.
SPEAKER_00: Knox.
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SPEAKER_02: We are studying the Bible books of Exodus.
SPEAKER_02: We have come to the 22nd chapter.
SPEAKER_02: We're in the midst of the laws that God gave Moses to give to the children of Israel from the mountain of Sinai, and we have seen that these laws manifest the wisdom and the knowledge and the majesty of God.
SPEAKER_02: And we have just had to shake our heads a little bit and wonder how modern man could be so confused when God made the way of truth so simple.
SPEAKER_02: We have seen God's laws and statutes concerning many different things, and every one of them have proven to be superior to anything that man has come up with as a replacement or a substitute for God's commandments.
SPEAKER_02: And we have seen conclusively that if God's word were obeyed, society would be better, it would be safer, it would be happier, and it's just a shame, just a shame that man in his vanity and man in his pride has forsaken the right ways of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: All right, so we come to Exodus 22, and verse number, well, we'll read verse 6 just to get a running start at the material, a fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn of the standing corn of the field be consumed therewith.
SPEAKER_02: He that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
SPEAKER_02: If a man should deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, don't you like that?
SPEAKER_02: Stuff.
SPEAKER_02: So well, I can't understand the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: It's in that old, outdated, archaic language of the Elizabethan era.
SPEAKER_02: Really, you can't understand money or stuff?
SPEAKER_02: If a man deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house.
SPEAKER_02: If the thief be found, let him pay double.
SPEAKER_02: If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.
SPEAKER_02: Now, just because somebody says it was stolen doesn't mean it was stolen.
SPEAKER_02: The man who says a thief came in might prove to be the thief.
SPEAKER_02: So you don't just take his word for it, you check it out.
SPEAKER_02: For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges, and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor.
SPEAKER_02: Now think with me, think with me.
SPEAKER_02: We've talked about this several broadcasts now.
SPEAKER_02: First of all, God is upholding the right to a man's private property.
SPEAKER_02: Secondly, the punishment for stealing is not jail time.
SPEAKER_02: That does nothing to recompense or restore.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't help the man who was robbed whatsoever.
SPEAKER_02: So you don't put a man in jail.
SPEAKER_02: You force him to pay double the price, the value of anything that he stole.
SPEAKER_02: But remember, verse number nine, you don't act upon an accusation without an investigation.
SPEAKER_02: Both parties come before the judges.
SPEAKER_02: Both tell their side, both sides are weighed, and then and only then is judgment given.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll tell you what, church people are as bad as lost people about violating these clear principles of God's Word.
SPEAKER_02: How many times today is someone going to hear charges made against someone else and believe them or act upon them without ever speaking to the accused party and getting their side?
SPEAKER_02: In fact, the Bible says here they both, both parties shall come before the judges, same time, same place.
SPEAKER_02: You're going to accuse a man, that man's going to stand right there and hear the accusation.
SPEAKER_02: You're going to say something about somebody, charge them with something.
SPEAKER_02: Alright, you're going to say it in their presence, where they can hear what you've got to say, and where they can answer and defend themselves.
SPEAKER_02: That's exactly how it ought to be.
SPEAKER_02: That goes for you too, you preachers that are like gossipy old ladies.
SPEAKER_02: Just sit around and hear tales and tell tales and repeat tales.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you have something else to do, like live a Christian life?
SPEAKER_02: Verse 10.
SPEAKER_02: If a man deliver unto you're welcome.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 10, if a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it die or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it, then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods, and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
SPEAKER_02: And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
SPEAKER_02: If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness.
SPEAKER_02: And he shall not make good that which was torn.
SPEAKER_02: You see cases of this later when David is a shepherd boy.
SPEAKER_02: And we saw cases of this back in Genesis 31.
SPEAKER_02: You may remember that.
SPEAKER_02: Look, don't say an animal killed it.
SPEAKER_02: Prove it.
SPEAKER_02: For all we know, you ate it.
SPEAKER_02: So bring in the evidence that it was torn and mangled by a beast.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, your hands aren't strong enough to tear that animal apart.
SPEAKER_02: So if it's uh nicely uh dressed in the field, if it's uh nicely butchered in your shop, uh it's not going to look the same as if that wild beast tore it to pieces.
SPEAKER_02: So you want to prove you didn't steal it?
SPEAKER_02: Bring the proof, bring the evidence.
SPEAKER_02: 14.
SPEAKER_02: And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
SPEAKER_02: Look, if you borrow it, it becomes your responsibility to get that thing back in the same condition in which you borrowed it.
SPEAKER_02: But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good.
SPEAKER_02: If being hired thing, it came for his hire.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so here's how it goes.
SPEAKER_02: I borrow an axe, and the axe head flies off and falls into the water.
SPEAKER_02: I am liable.
SPEAKER_02: I must replace the axe because I borrowed it and it was damaged.
SPEAKER_02: Now, what if, what if I rent the axe?
SPEAKER_02: Well, the Bible says then be sure you rent that to me for enough money to replace it, because if it's damaged while rented, it is the responsibility of the one who rented the axe to pay for the damage or for the repairs.
SPEAKER_02: That's what it says right there in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: Now, if that's not how you do it, then you come up with some better way and say, uh God, we improve upon your system.
SPEAKER_02: But I think the Bible way will work.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 16.
SPEAKER_02: And if a man entice a maid, happens all the time, that is not betrothed, no engagement, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
SPEAKER_02: See that?
SPEAKER_02: You got that?
SPEAKER_02: You don't, you don't engage in sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage.
SPEAKER_02: And should you do so, that's the end of your roving and your escapades, you've got to marry that one.
SPEAKER_02: If her father utterly refused to give her unto him, he should pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
SPEAKER_02: So you're gonna have to pay her father what you would have paid her father to marry her.
SPEAKER_02: And the only the only way you're gonna have intimate relations with that girl and not marry her is to go tell her daddy what you did, and her daddy say, Pay up, you good for nothing low life.
SPEAKER_02: Pay up, you you you vile, wicked sinner, and my daughter's not about to marry you.
SPEAKER_02: How dare you entice this girl?
SPEAKER_02: Alright, 18.
SPEAKER_02: Thou should not suffer a witch to live.
SPEAKER_02: Got that?
SPEAKER_02: Oh, they're just so cute.
SPEAKER_02: That's your movie witches.
SPEAKER_02: That's your cartoon witches.
SPEAKER_02: That's your entertainment witches.
SPEAKER_02: What God said?
SPEAKER_02: Death penalty for witchcraft.
SPEAKER_02: In the 200 fairy tales by the brothers Grimm, there are twenty-through twenty-three witches, two warlocks, sixteen wicked mothers or stepmothers, thirteen young women who kill or harm men, men who love them.
SPEAKER_02: Thou should not suffer a witch to live.
SPEAKER_02: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
SPEAKER_02: You say, Now now wait a minute.
SPEAKER_02: Why is that even in the Bible?
SPEAKER_02: There's no way, there's no way that any human being would ever lie down with an animal.
SPEAKER_02: Really?
SPEAKER_02: I'd uh you know it wasn't all that long ago you would have said there's no way that a a human man would lie down with another human man.
SPEAKER_02: You'd have said there's no way a human woman would lie down with another human woman.
SPEAKER_02: Look, once your once your depravity runs its course, once you lose your appetite for one sin, you're gonna have to come up with another one.
SPEAKER_02: Once you get bored with one trip through the sewer, you're gonna have to find a stinkier sewer.
SPEAKER_02: Do you understand that if a society accepts, embraces, justifies, and sanctions the perversion of men lying with men and women lying with women.
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what they're gonna do next?
SPEAKER_02: Apart from some divine intervention or destruction.
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what they're gonna do next?
SPEAKER_02: You want me to read it to you?
SPEAKER_02: Ready?
SPEAKER_02: You ready?
SPEAKER_02: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
SPEAKER_02: You say, are you equating homosexuality with bestiality?
SPEAKER_02: I'm equating the willful and wanton violation of God's commandments with the willful and wanton violation of God's commandments.
SPEAKER_02: It's just a matter of time before somebody says, I'm in love with my pony, but don't judge me, I was born that way.
SPEAKER_02: I want to marry my pony, but don't condemn me because I have a pastor who says that Jesus loves me anyway.
SPEAKER_02: You say, Now, Brother James, you're being facetious.
SPEAKER_02: I am not.
SPEAKER_02: I actually am not.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 20.
SPEAKER_02: He that sacrificeth unto any God, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
SPEAKER_02: Now, this look, this is why you can't pretend that the New Testament church is the continuation of Old Testament Israel.
SPEAKER_02: And then this is why you can't pretend that Christians are supposed to keep the Old Testament law.
SPEAKER_02: And this is why those of you who are uninformed enough or silly enough to go to a church that says we keep the Sabbath and we keep the Old Testament law, and you have to keep the law in order to have eternal life.
SPEAKER_02: That this is just one of those reasons that proves, A, you don't know what you're talking about, and B, thank God there aren't many of you.
SPEAKER_02: I believe with all my heart there's only one true God.
SPEAKER_02: I believe with all my heart the only way to heaven is Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: I believe with all my heart that if you don't come to God the Father by God the Son, Jesus Christ, you'll never, you'll never enter heaven.
SPEAKER_02: I believe that.
SPEAKER_02: However, the founding fathers of the United States of America remembered two things.
SPEAKER_02: Number one, what happens when the Roman Catholic Church is the state church and runs the government?
SPEAKER_02: And number two, what happens when the Presbyterians have a state church and run the government?
SPEAKER_02: They persecute, jail, and kill dissenters.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to live under that.
SPEAKER_02: Do you?
SPEAKER_02: So I'm glad the Old Testament law does not govern New Testament Christians, or you would have to go out and kill people that worshiped other gods.
SPEAKER_02: You would have to kill Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, Masons, you'd have to kill them.
SPEAKER_02: Now, that's not New Testament Christianity.
SPEAKER_02: But under God's Old Testament law, given to one nation, the nation of Israel, if anyone living within the borders of that nation sought to establish the worship of another God, they were to be destroyed.
SPEAKER_02: God's not joking around.
SPEAKER_02: 21, neither shall shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
SPEAKER_02: Now, you don't give them equal rights as citizens because they're not.
SPEAKER_02: But just because they are from some other land, traveling through your country or visiting your country, you don't have a right to shoot them with pellet guns and you know put bugs in their food and all that sort of thing.
SPEAKER_02: You treat you treat them right, you treat everybody right, lest they're worshiping other gods, lest they're committing adultery and fornication, lest they're kidnapping.
SPEAKER_02: You understand, you understand.
SPEAKER_02: All right, 22.
SPEAKER_02: You should not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
SPEAKER_02: Just because you've got the power to abuse somebody, just because you've got the power to take advantage of somebody, just because you've got the power to harm somebody and get away with it, God, God forbids it.
SPEAKER_02: If thou afflict them in any wise and they cry unto me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with a sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
SPEAKER_02: Now, now hear me.
SPEAKER_02: The protection ultimate, the ultimate protection that the fatherless orphans and widows had against harm and oppression at the hands of the powerful was threefold.
SPEAKER_02: Number one, the powerful feared God, number two, the widows and the orphans, when oppressed, would call upon God.
SPEAKER_02: And number three, since God was welcomed as an active present participant in the society, he would move and work on behalf of that society.
SPEAKER_02: Hello, America.
SPEAKER_02: The reason gangs and thugs and and savages rob old ladies is because they're not afraid of God.
SPEAKER_02: And there's nothing in place in your society to make them even believe in God, much less fear him.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so you go to church?
SPEAKER_02: Fine.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so we have lots of churches, wonderful.
SPEAKER_02: So they're big churches and they're pretty churches, and they have exciting music and light shows.
SPEAKER_02: Fine.
SPEAKER_02: How does that keep you from getting mugged?
SPEAKER_02: Look, if if one of these, if one of these animals did venture into your church and brought his pack with him, you know what you'd do?
SPEAKER_02: You'd stand up there and tell him that Jesus loves him no matter what he does.
SPEAKER_02: You'd stand up there and tell him that God has a wonderful plan for his life.
SPEAKER_02: You'd stand up there and tell the rest of the church to be sure they're not judgmental or mean or say anything unkind.
SPEAKER_02: To the pack of barbarians, and then they'd just go out and say, Well, we we we may as well bash somebody else over the head and take her purse.
SPEAKER_02: We may as well kick somebody else's door in and and terrorize her and rob her of all her property, because after all, if there is a God, he's a wimp.
SPEAKER_02: If there is a God, that preacher said he's not against us.
SPEAKER_02: So until you teach the people of your land who would harm the fatherless and who would harm widows to be afraid of God, why would they stop?
SPEAKER_02: And then, and then, as long as your fatherless and your widows care more about TV, bingo, video games, sports, as long as your young people don't know how to call upon God and wouldn't do it if they knew how.
SPEAKER_02: As long as your uh old people don't call on God, what what hope does anybody have?
SPEAKER_02: What are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_02: Have a little program in your in your federal school?
SPEAKER_02: What are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_02: Have a little program in your government school where you tell the girl uh all the little uh boys with no fathers and all the little girls with no fathers to be nice?
SPEAKER_01: Now you just be nice because it's nice to be nice.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all sing a song about how nice it is to be nice.
SPEAKER_01: A bunch of fools.
SPEAKER_01: What a nation of fools we live in.
SPEAKER_02: Be nice, how about call on God?
SPEAKER_02: Hey teacher, call on God.
SPEAKER_02: Hey grandma, call on God.
SPEAKER_02: Hey mother, call on God.
SPEAKER_02: Hey boys and girls, call on God.
SPEAKER_02: Well, they don't know how to pray.
SPEAKER_02: They can figure out how to play every video game on earth.
SPEAKER_02: They can figure out how to how to text this and call that and download this and upload that.
SPEAKER_02: They can figure out everything they don't need to know to entertain themselves, and they can't figure out how to call on God?
SPEAKER_02: What a land, what a day.
SPEAKER_02: Just pick up the headlines.
SPEAKER_02: Read about the rape and the killing and the violence and the stealing and the devilmen on every hand.
SPEAKER_02: You say, What's the answer to it?
SPEAKER_02: Oh, what time's the game on?
SPEAKER_02: You say, What's the answer to it?
SPEAKER_02: Have you seen that movie?
SPEAKER_02: You say what the what's the answer to it?
SPEAKER_02: This is a great song.
SPEAKER_02: You can really dance to it.
SPEAKER_02: What a bunch of imbeciles.
SPEAKER_02: That's just my take on the thing.
SPEAKER_02: According to the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 25.
SPEAKER_02: If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou should not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
SPEAKER_02: If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down, for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin.
SPEAKER_02: Wherein shall he sleep?
SPEAKER_02: And it shall come to pass when he crieth unto me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, here's what God said.
SPEAKER_02: It's not a sin to loan money.
SPEAKER_02: If you loan money to the poor, you are not allowed to place upon that poor man an exorbitant rate of interest that you wouldn't lay upon the rich man.
SPEAKER_02: Also, if that poor if all that poor man has to put up for collateral is the coat that he wears to warm himself when he sleeps at night, you must return that coat to him each night to sleep in.
SPEAKER_02: You must have that measure of mercy.
SPEAKER_02: You say, Well, I don't want to do that, then don't loan him anything.
SPEAKER_02: But if you loan it, that's what you got to do.
SPEAKER_02: Now, this is uh set forth in Deuteronomy 24, verses 12 and 13.
SPEAKER_02: Deuteronomy 24, verse 12 says this.
SPEAKER_02: Let me find it.
SPEAKER_02: Uh if the man be poor, thou should not sleep with his pledge.
SPEAKER_02: Born out again there.
SPEAKER_02: In any case, thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
SPEAKER_02: Now this was violated in the days of Amos, and in Amos chapter 2 and verse 8, Amos 2.8, the scripture says, And they laid themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar.
SPEAKER_02: So the nation uh degenerated to the point where not only were they sinning against God's word, but they did so right before the very altar of the Lord and the very house of the Lord, and weren't bothered by it, didn't think anything of it.
SPEAKER_02: That's a sad thing.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, now verse 27 ends with these words, for I am gracious, for I am gracious.
SPEAKER_02: And so we've got to take just a few minutes here, the few minutes we have left, to try and help some of you understand.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know how to do it in the short time that we have.
SPEAKER_02: The God who just said, punish this man, execute that man, that that activity, the person who commits that activity is not fit to live, and so forth, you say, that's a hateful God, that's a mean God, that's a cruel God, you could only say that if you had spent your life watching television, and therefore your brain has never developed, and and you don't know how to think.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm not hateful, I'm not mean.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, why should every member of a society have to live in fear of being murdered, live in fear of being raped, live in fear of being robbed, live in fear of being molested.
SPEAKER_02: Why is that?
SPEAKER_02: Because men will not do what God told them to do.
SPEAKER_02: Now, in my mind, because I I use it, I think about things, especially things that God wrote in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: It is very gracious on the part of God to look out for every single person who might be murdered, every single person who might be raped, every single person who might be robbed, every single person who might be violated.
SPEAKER_02: It is very gracious of God to look out for the whole by calling for judgments and punishments upon the very few.
SPEAKER_02: In fact, if you executed God's judgments and punishments upon the few, they would become the very few and then the very, very few, and then the almost non existent.
SPEAKER_02: And that's a very gracious thing for God to do for every one of us: to rid our lives of the fear that grows from living in a land of crime and violence.
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