WEBVTT 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:15.039 Welcome to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delant, Florida. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:35.039 Knox. 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:09.760 I'm Brother James, and I greet you one more time in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, and I welcome you again to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:21.840 This program is heard by the grace of God and through your help on many stations around the world, across the United States of America, and we are happy that you have tuned into the program today. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.120 Hope that you can stay with us for the full half an hour. 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:30.159 We are studying the Bible books of Exodus. 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.680 We have come to the 22nd chapter. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:52.400 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. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:02:03.200 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. 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:18.879 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. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:38.639 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. 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:56.879 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. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.159 He that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.879 If a man should deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, don't you like that? 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:05.759 Stuff. 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.919 So well, I can't understand the Bible. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:13.039 It's in that old, outdated, archaic language of the Elizabethan era. 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.080 Really, you can't understand money or stuff? 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:22.400 If a man deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.319 If the thief be found, let him pay double. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:34.800 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. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:40.639 Now, just because somebody says it was stolen doesn't mean it was stolen. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.319 The man who says a thief came in might prove to be the thief. 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.199 So you don't just take his word for it, you check it out. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:04:06.159 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. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:07.840 Now think with me, think with me. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.639 We've talked about this several broadcasts now. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:15.919 First of all, God is upholding the right to a man's private property. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.720 Secondly, the punishment for stealing is not jail time. 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.920 That does nothing to recompense or restore. 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.079 It doesn't help the man who was robbed whatsoever. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:29.759 So you don't put a man in jail. 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:36.560 You force him to pay double the price, the value of anything that he stole. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:45.279 But remember, verse number nine, you don't act upon an accusation without an investigation. 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.199 Both parties come before the judges. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:58.319 Both tell their side, both sides are weighed, and then and only then is judgment given. 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:09.839 Well, I'll tell you what, church people are as bad as lost people about violating these clear principles of God's Word. 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:32.720 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? 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:39.839 In fact, the Bible says here they both, both parties shall come before the judges, same time, same place. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.319 You're going to accuse a man, that man's going to stand right there and hear the accusation. 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.600 You're going to say something about somebody, charge them with something. 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:55.839 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. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.240 That's exactly how it ought to be. 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.560 That goes for you too, you preachers that are like gossipy old ladies. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.439 Just sit around and hear tales and tell tales and repeat tales. 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.160 Don't you have something else to do, like live a Christian life? 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.480 Verse 10. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.720 If a man deliver unto you're welcome. 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:37.920 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. 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.160 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.079 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness. 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.680 And he shall not make good that which was torn. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:55.600 You see cases of this later when David is a shepherd boy. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:00.160 And we saw cases of this back in Genesis 31. 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:01.360 You may remember that. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.920 Look, don't say an animal killed it. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.040 Prove it. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:07.680 For all we know, you ate it. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:13.759 So bring in the evidence that it was torn and mangled by a beast. 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.759 Listen, your hands aren't strong enough to tear that animal apart. 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:31.120 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. 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:32.879 So you want to prove you didn't steal it? 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:34.639 Bring the proof, bring the evidence. 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:35.680 14. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:45.680 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. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:54.160 Look, if you borrow it, it becomes your responsibility to get that thing back in the same condition in which you borrowed it. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.199 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.639 If being hired thing, it came for his hire. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:02.560 Okay, so here's how it goes. 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:08.800 I borrow an axe, and the axe head flies off and falls into the water. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.360 I am liable. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:20.240 I must replace the axe because I borrowed it and it was damaged. 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.399 Now, what if, what if I rent the axe? 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:42.639 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. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:44.639 That's what it says right there in the Bible. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:51.360 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. 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:53.759 But I think the Bible way will work. 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.039 Verse 16. 00:08:55.519 --> 00:09:08.480 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. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:10.000 See that? 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:11.120 You got that? 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:21.279 You don't, you don't engage in sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:29.039 And should you do so, that's the end of your roving and your escapades, you've got to marry that one. 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:36.799 If her father utterly refused to give her unto him, he should pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:42.639 So you're gonna have to pay her father what you would have paid her father to marry her. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:57.519 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. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:05.200 Pay up, you you you vile, wicked sinner, and my daughter's not about to marry you. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.679 How dare you entice this girl? 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.279 Alright, 18. 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.279 Thou should not suffer a witch to live. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:17.840 Got that? 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.080 Oh, they're just so cute. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.960 That's your movie witches. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:25.039 That's your cartoon witches. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.240 That's your entertainment witches. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.320 What God said? 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.120 Death penalty for witchcraft. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:50.480 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. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.639 Thou should not suffer a witch to live. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.159 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.799 You say, Now now wait a minute. 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.039 Why is that even in the Bible? 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:12.240 There's no way, there's no way that any human being would ever lie down with an animal. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:14.240 Really? 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:26.960 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. 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:32.080 You'd have said there's no way a human woman would lie down with another human woman. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:48.799 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. 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:57.759 Once you get bored with one trip through the sewer, you're gonna have to find a stinkier sewer. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:21.360 Do you understand that if a society accepts, embraces, justifies, and sanctions the perversion of men lying with men and women lying with women. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.960 Do you know what they're gonna do next? 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:30.159 Apart from some divine intervention or destruction. 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.919 Do you know what they're gonna do next? 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:36.240 You want me to read it to you? 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:37.440 Ready? 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:38.399 You ready? 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:43.679 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:48.480 You say, are you equating homosexuality with bestiality? 00:12:48.720 --> 00:13:02.159 I'm equating the willful and wanton violation of God's commandments with the willful and wanton violation of God's commandments. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:14.320 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. 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:25.759 I want to marry my pony, but don't condemn me because I have a pastor who says that Jesus loves me anyway. 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.879 You say, Now, Brother James, you're being facetious. 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:44.000 I am not. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.960 I actually am not. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.600 Verse 20. 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:58.559 He that sacrificeth unto any God, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:08.559 Now, this look, this is why you can't pretend that the New Testament church is the continuation of Old Testament Israel. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.960 And then this is why you can't pretend that Christians are supposed to keep the Old Testament law. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:27.840 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. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:35.840 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. 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:42.559 I believe with all my heart there's only one true God. 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.000 I believe with all my heart the only way to heaven is Jesus Christ. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:59.679 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. 00:14:59.919 --> 00:15:01.279 I believe that. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:10.080 However, the founding fathers of the United States of America remembered two things. 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:18.240 Number one, what happens when the Roman Catholic Church is the state church and runs the government? 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:26.639 And number two, what happens when the Presbyterians have a state church and run the government? 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:32.240 They persecute, jail, and kill dissenters. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.799 I don't want to live under that. 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:35.759 Do you? 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:50.240 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. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:16:03.200 You would have to kill Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, Masons, you'd have to kill them. 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.159 Now, that's not New Testament Christianity. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:26.559 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. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.679 God's not joking around. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:38.799 21, neither shall shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.399 Now, you don't give them equal rights as citizens because they're not. 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:54.399 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. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:17:03.120 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. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.960 You understand, you understand. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.079 All right, 22. 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.400 You should not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:25.680 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. 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:40.400 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. 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.680 Now, now hear me. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:18:06.240 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. 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:23.200 Number one, the powerful feared God, number two, the widows and the orphans, when oppressed, would call upon God. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:42.960 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. 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:45.759 Hello, America. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:19:03.680 The reason gangs and thugs and and savages rob old ladies is because they're not afraid of God. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:11.680 And there's nothing in place in your society to make them even believe in God, much less fear him. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:15.359 Okay, so you go to church? 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.240 Fine. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.119 Okay, so we have lots of churches, wonderful. 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:24.319 So they're big churches and they're pretty churches, and they have exciting music and light shows. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:25.039 Fine. 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:27.759 How does that keep you from getting mugged? 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:41.359 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? 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:46.480 You'd stand up there and tell him that Jesus loves him no matter what he does. 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.720 You'd stand up there and tell him that God has a wonderful plan for his life. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:58.480 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. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:12.559 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. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:22.160 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. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:28.160 If there is a God, that preacher said he's not against us. 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:40.640 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? 00:20:44.000 --> 00:21:05.119 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. 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:14.799 As long as your uh old people don't call on God, what what hope does anybody have? 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:17.359 What are you gonna do? 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:20.000 Have a little program in your in your federal school? 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:20.799 What are you gonna do? 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:30.240 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? 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:34.079 Now you just be nice because it's nice to be nice. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.920 Let's all sing a song about how nice it is to be nice. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.240 A bunch of fools. 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.000 What a nation of fools we live in. 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:47.759 Be nice, how about call on God? 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.000 Hey teacher, call on God. 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.160 Hey grandma, call on God. 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.400 Hey mother, call on God. 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.759 Hey boys and girls, call on God. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:00.480 Well, they don't know how to pray. 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:04.079 They can figure out how to play every video game on earth. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:09.359 They can figure out how to how to text this and call that and download this and upload that. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:17.119 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? 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.519 What a land, what a day. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:23.359 Just pick up the headlines. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:29.519 Read about the rape and the killing and the violence and the stealing and the devilmen on every hand. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:31.839 You say, What's the answer to it? 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:33.839 Oh, what time's the game on? 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:35.920 You say, What's the answer to it? 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.519 Have you seen that movie? 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:39.680 You say what the what's the answer to it? 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:41.519 This is a great song. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:43.359 You can really dance to it. 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:45.920 What a bunch of imbeciles. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.559 That's just my take on the thing. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:52.559 According to the Bible. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.240 Verse 25. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:06.319 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. 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:18.160 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. 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:20.079 Wherein shall he sleep? 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:26.480 And it shall come to pass when he crieth unto me, that I will hear, for I am gracious. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:28.480 Okay, here's what God said. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.480 It's not a sin to loan money. 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:47.599 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. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:24:05.279 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. 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.240 You must have that measure of mercy. 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:11.359 You say, Well, I don't want to do that, then don't loan him anything. 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.880 But if you loan it, that's what you got to do. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:23.519 Now, this is uh set forth in Deuteronomy 24, verses 12 and 13. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.559 Deuteronomy 24, verse 12 says this. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:30.000 Let me find it. 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.960 Uh if the man be poor, thou should not sleep with his pledge. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:36.799 Born out again there. 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:48.559 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. 00:24:48.880 --> 00:25:06.640 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. 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:20.480 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. 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.799 That's a sad thing. 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:32.240 Okay, now verse 27 ends with these words, for I am gracious, for I am gracious. 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:39.759 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. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.640 I don't know how to do it in the short time that we have. 00:25:45.680 --> 00:26:15.680 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. 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:19.200 I'm not I'm not hateful, I'm not mean. 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:40.240 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. 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.400 Why is that? 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:51.440 Because men will not do what God told them to do. 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:59.279 Now, in my mind, because I I use it, I think about things, especially things that God wrote in the Bible. 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:17.440 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. 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:29.279 It is very gracious of God to look out for the whole by calling for judgments and punishments upon the very few. 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:40.240 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. 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:56.319 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. 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:01.359 All right, this is the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:03.119 Write to us. 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:03.680 Go ahead. 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:04.720 We can take it. 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.079 We can take it. 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:09.279 Some of you are going to want to write and say thank you for preaching the Bible. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:10.720 Thank you for teaching the truth. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:18.240 Anyway, our mailing address is 872 Glenwood Road, 872 Glenwood Road D-Land. 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:24.160 D-E-L-A-N-D, D-Land, Florida, 32720. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:26.319 32720. 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.720 Or visit us online at Jamenox.com. 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.720 The Preaching of the Cross, you type that in, that'll get you to the website as well. 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:39.119 All right, this program is heard at many different times over many different radio stations. 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:43.759 The announcer be on now in just a moment to tell you when we'll be heard again right here. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:47.920 Hope you can join us then for the Preaching of the Cross radio broadcast. 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:49.839 Until then, I'm Brother James. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.119 May the Lord richly bless you, and good day. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:14.240 Join us every weekday for another episode of the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast. 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:21.519 For hundreds of hours of in-depth expository Bible teaching, please visit our YouTube channel, James W. 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:30.480 Knox Sermons, our sermon audio page, Bible Baptistoland, or our website, Bible BaptistToland.com. 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:36.400 Until next time and throughout eternity, may Jesus Christ be praised.