I'm going to preach to you today about the sin of ignoring Old Testament moral natural law. In this series, we are discovering why are many Christians today disobedient. We found out ignorance of Bible words. They don't know the meaning of words. Number two, following feelings blindly brings sin. Not listening to the Bible, not letting God direct us through the scripture, but following feelings. That is a major reason. Number three, the fall of Christians through pride. The Lord said we'll love much if we've been forgiven much. So our view of ourself, our view of sin, our view of God's law and our relation to it, Spoiled Through Pop Psychology is my subtitle. The fourth reason is all four Gospels are for Christians today, including the Sermon on the Mount. The Lord's words in the Gospels, His warnings are being despised. And that led to last week. Few Christians fear God today. And we developed that and went through the whole Bible, or at least a big portion of it, showing how important it is to fear God and why believers need to fear God. Today, again, in regard to Christians being disobedient, the title is The Sin of Ignoring Moral Natural Law and making provision for greater sins. God, I do pray again that you bless this word. Open eyes, give us your spirit in these perilous times. In Jesus' name, amen. Now there is a pattern, I say a general pattern, where what comes before in the scriptures is often precise and clear, or more plainly stated, straightforward, bare bones, and what comes afterwards elaborates and builds and adorns. It often assumes that what has gone before has already been understood and embraced. Now, I'm not to be misunderstood in what I'm putting forth today, as if I am endorsing what some wicked liberals teach. As if I'm denying that the New Testament is clear against various sins, such as homosexuality. The New Testament is very clear. See, there's an argument among the infidels, the sodomites, It says that the New Testament is all about love, but the Old Testament is harsh and we should ignore it. The Gnostics, the Nicolaitans that the Lord hates in the Bible came up with this same view. They argue from various manifestations of grace and the love of Christ demonstrated on the cross in the New Testament that God no longer cares whether we commit the abominations of the Old Testament. same abominations that he slew and judged gentile nations for that had not the scriptures. I am not endorsing anything near this argument. The Old Testament is filled with types and figures that have been fulfilled in the New Testament. Prophecies in the Old Testament are brought to light in the New Testament. We can therefore certainly say that the New Testament shines light on the Old Testament. And most would agree. But what I'm putting forth to you today is likewise. The Old Testament shines light on the New Testament. It's somewhat in one sense, a divine circle more than a line. God says in Isaiah 46, remember the former things of old, for I am God, there is none else. I am God and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done. The beginning declares the end and the end reveals the beginning. The Lord says in Revelation 22, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. There's certainly the truth that in one way, the Old Testament revelation is a shadow and the New Testament revelation is manifested light. But there's also the truth that the Old Testament is foundational and the New Testament builds upon that revelation. With this being true, Often as we move from left to right in the Bible, we'll find that what comes before is stated more forthright and blatant in precise legal language, so as not to be denied before God's throne in the coming court, where we must all stand before God. Now I use the word blatant here in the sense of completely lacking in subtlety, very obvious. But there's likely a better word since blatant earlier meant the bellowing of a calf. Blatant is noisy in an offensive way. But we might argue that this is exactly what the Old Testament sounds like to modern sinners. It torments them with its clarity, as Moses and Elijah, the two witnesses, will one day torment the world with their preaching. Now, after the Old Testament, we see the Gospels tying things together, shining light on the Old Testament, fulfilling it. But like the Old Testament, the Gospels state some things more forthright, and the later epistles build upon the Gospels as a foundation is built from the cornerstone. For example, in the epistles, building on the foundational revelation in the Old Testament Gospels, we'll see Paul using words, and such like, describing sins. He says in Galatians 5, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. See, we had just this summary, general language, of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Now this is not an absolute rule since even in legal writings, in term papers, in books, authors know that the concluding chapter or paragraph usually restates points with clarity that were found in the introductory presentations. Sometimes the latter brings or states things with even more clarity. But usually the concluding paragraph or chapter is a summing up, a restatement with closure. So now let's draw this to the point or application I'm trying to get to today. In a general sense, in the Old Testament, or what comes before in the Bible, we will see sins openly set forth in black and white language, so to speak, and warned against with descriptions that are sometimes shockingly blatant. Let me give you some examples. In the Old Testament, we see it clearly stated that it is an abomination for a man to wear a woman's garment and vice versa. Let's read it, Deuteronomy 22, verse five. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man. Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Not only is it an abomination itself to do this, but the people that do it are abomination. And here we must understand the distinction between what older theologians called the benevolent love of God and the complacent love of God, which God can love all of mankind, even though we're sinners, but also he has a detesting, a dislike, a hatred even of sinners to the degree that they're walking in sin. And in this day and age, we have to rightly divide the word and make a distinction and an understanding of how God can love and hate at the same time in different ways. Now, these words of Deuteronomy 22 verse five are not just plain. It is stated in foundational, simple language. But when we turn to the New Testament, and you'll see now why so many people want to get rid of the Old Testament altogether, and not read it, not study it, and certainly not apply it to their lives. In the New Testament, in the King James Bible only, we see the same sin described in Deuteronomy 22, verse five, and 1 Corinthians chapter six, verse nine. It's called the sin of a man being effeminate. We read in 1 Corinthians chapter six, verse nine, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, be not deceived, neither fornicators, there's one sin, nor idolaters, there's two, nor adulterers, there's three, nor effeminate, there's four, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, there's five. Now, it leaves out describing the sin stated from the side of the woman. This is a man being effeminate. Just as Paul uses the word adulterer from the masculine side. When James says that there are adulterers, masculine, and adulteresses, feminine, just as the Old Testament. So what is it to be effeminate? It was used at the time of the King James translators for cross-dressing, just as the word was used throughout the Roman Empire at the time of Paul for cross-dressing. But even this is too plain and clear for modern translators and compromised Christians. It says in the last days they shall not endure sound doctrine. There'll be a falling away. of believers. So what does the New Testament say? I'm sorry, the NIV in the New Testament say here, they translate 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9, as, do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who fornicate with men, they use a different word there, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." It's 9 and 10 of chapter 6 in the NIV. Where's the sin of cross-dressing? What happened to the effeminate? They totally remove that sin. They jump right from adulterers to homosexuals. Where is the sin of being effeminate? Where's the sin of cross-dressing? See, cross-dressing is where the culture goes before it goes to outright, blatant homosexuality. It's where individuals go. They begin to cross-dress. A man becomes effeminate, sinfully, And then he goes on to the more blatant sin, just as immodesty is where fornication begins, the attire of a harlot. There are stepping stone sins that are still sin, but all sin leads to greater sin, greater degrees of sin. There are gateway sins, so to speak. So what we see in this modern age, is there is a problem in the culture, even among Christians. Any shame, any abhorrence of sin is fading fast. But one thing that is already gone are all of the gateway sins that would be abominations in the Old Testament, that would be considered shameful in earlier centuries and even decades in our own nation today. These gateway sins are no longer seen in any way hardly as shameful. Sometimes there's still little bits and pieces of conscience left, a little bit of shame and awareness, but they're just about gone. I'm talking about sins of immodesty, sins of cross-dressing. They're no longer avoided. They're no longer preached about in most pulpits of America. What we have is a fulfillment of prophecy now, where God says in Jeremiah chapter three, therefore the showers have been withholden and there have been no latter rain. God says he's cursed nature. He's brought great calamities to his people. And thou has a whore's forehead, thou refuses to be ashamed. Just as a harlot, a prostitute, a whore who commits outrageous sins, no longer has a conscience anymore. She has no longer any feeling or conviction about it. She has a whore's forehead. God says his people now have become like a whore. They cannot be ashamed for what just a few decades ago would have been seen as very shameful and people would have been very convicted. He goes on in chapter six, verse 15 to say, were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall. At the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, sayeth the Lord. This is what happens right before God's great judgments. There's going to be a great judgment that befalls the whole world. It's called the tribulation period, the time of indignation. And that is coming very, very soon. But whether God judges nations individually or judges the whole world, right before that time of judgment, God's own people become very hardened, or whatever nation he's judging, they become very hardened. They're stubborn. They lack feeling in the sense of not being able to be convicted or ashamed of sin. They can't even blush, says God. They'll say, if the Lord stand you in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where's the good way and walk there in, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk there in. Also, I sent watchmen over you saying, hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, we will not hearken. Preachers were sent by God, moved upon by God. to proclaim, to rebuke, to reprove with all long-suffering and doctrine. But they were ignored by the majority. Isaiah chapter three, he says, the show of their countenance doth witness against them. You could look at their face and see the pride, the stubbornness says God. And they declare their sin of Sodom, they hide it not. Notice there's no shame anymore, no blushing. woe unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Moreover, the Lord said, because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will smite." This attitude, even among the daughters of Zion. We're told in the last days, these people will refuse to be corrected. But how did this come about? Let's go back to Jeremiah 6, verse 15. Remember the verse that said, were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. But just back up and look at the two verses before verse 15. Listen to what God says. He says, from the prophet, even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace." So we see God in a large part, although the people are still accountable, in a large part, God is blaming it upon the majority of religious leaders, the pastors, the priests, the prophets at that time. They did not show just as today, God's judgment. They did not plainly rebuke sin and reprove it. They left out these gateway sins that always in culture and in our own lives become greater sins. It's like drugs. All sins are gateway sins for worse sins. Drugs lead to greater drugs. greater degrees of addiction. If you're not going to preach against cross-dressing like all of the early preachers did at one time, regardless of denomination, if you're not going to preach against the attire of a harlot and lewd dressing on men and women, as all did not very long ago, then you soon end up with fornication, baby killing, adultery. You soon end up with homosexuality, child pornography, and even things that are unmentionable. Likewise, God repeats it in Jeremiah chapter eight, but he first begins by saying the wise men are ashamed. They are dismayed and taken. That's when all the judgment comes. Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? They speak as fools. They have the Bible plainly written right before them, and they just ignore it, and they smile, and they make jokes, and they mock from the pulpit. They wink. Everything's a joke. Everything's playful. Nothing's sober and serious. What wisdom is in them, says God. He rebukes them in Jeremiah 23 verse 21. He says, I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings. If they had told the people that these things are plainly wrong, if they had boldly, without fear of the people, without fear, persecution or not being liked, if they had boldly stood up and did the job that they were called to do by God, then people would have turned from their sins in a large part. Yes, many would have rejected them. Many would not have endured, but so many would have turned from their sins if they knew it was wrong. If they knew cross-dressing was wrong, they would have turned from it. If they knew immodesty was wrong, they would have turned from it. If they knew that looking at the wine and trying to drink moderately was wrong, they would have turned from it and not ended up drunkards, not ended up fornicators, not ended up homosexuals. If the warnings had been taught properly that God gave in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament. So we have this NIV with lesbian feminist influences involved in the translation. removing the sin of cross-dressing altogether. There is no effeminate in 1 Corinthians 6 in an NIV. This NIV removes entire verses. Why not whole words, whole sins? But not to be outdone, the NASB, the N-A-S-B, New American Standard Bible, says, do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves. Where's the cross-dressing? Where's the effeminate? Where's the sin of Deuteronomy 22? It's just been deleted. The King James Bible says adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind. In other words, there's a sin in between adultery and outright blatant homosexuality. Where's the sin of Deuteronomy 22? It's in the King James Bible. But even the new King James Bible says, be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites. What kind of translation is that? There's a footnote at the bottom that tries to divide male homosexuals into two classes, which we won't get into, but the whole point is, they've removed cross-dressing. They've just repeated the same sin. Adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites. What happened to Deuteronomy 22? What happened to the fact that the Bible plainly says it is an abomination for men and women to wear each other's clothing? See, when you remove the warnings from God that certain things are sin, that certain gateway things are sin and lead to greater sin. When you remove those warnings, then you fall. What does the Bible teach and warn? It says in Romans 13, verse 14, but put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. See, you can make provision You can live and act and think about certain things and it leads to sin. It opens up the door for greater sin in your life. Remember Proverbs 23. Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. What is the biblical remedy to not be a fornicator, an adulterer, or an adulteress? What is the biblical way of fighting against drunkenness so you don't end up uttering perverse things that you're ashamed for the next morning. So you're not ashamed of your drunkenness. The biblical way to go about this is to not to look at the wine to begin with, which would mean to not be in places where it is drunk, to not be around people drinking, to not associate with that type of crowd. Even preachers that preach on the street and go down around the bar crowd, very, very dangerous. They need to stick together. Lest anybody wonder back. As over many years of street preaching, we've seen people get isolated and want to go walk around by themselves. And before long, they're right back into it. The Lord sent them out two by two. Look not thou upon the wine. Don't look at it and you won't drink it. And if you won't drink it, you won't end up drunk. God says, stay away from alcohol. Stay totally away from it. You won't get drunk and you won't end up a fornicator and adulterer or put it this way. If you begin to mess around with it, it's going to strike you like a serpent strikes. You don't go pet a rattlesnake. You don't walk over to a water moccasin and try to play with it. Why do you play with alcohol? Why do you play with immodesty? Why do you play around with cross-dressing? Why do you want to pretend and get close to these abominable sins? And God says cross-dressing itself is an abomination before you end up a homosexual. But the New World Order crowd funded in the mid 20th century, new evangelical prophets, preachers. And they came along and they said, now we believe everything the fundamentalist believes. But then they laughed and says, but you know, we're gonna embrace Hollywood and we're gonna basically, all the gateway sins, we're gonna say, you know what, we'll just look the other way about all of that. Long as you're not an adulterer, it's okay to be a modest. It's okay to be moderately drunk. You can be a cross-dresser. just don't end up an outright homosexual. Well, what did that lead to? I'm telling you, with just a couple of decades, barely, the whole bottom fell out. Once you introduced that immodesty was okay, cross-dressing is okay, messing around with alcohol is okay, embracing Hollywood is okay, Once all of that was embraced, trying to tell people, well, make sure you don't get drunk, make sure you're not a sodomite, make sure that you don't commit adultery and fornication, make sure you don't kill your baby. No, everything just began to fall like a snowball toward hell. The Bible says in Proverbs 5, remove thy way far from her. Come not nigh the door of her house, The young man in Proverbs is told not merely avoid adultery. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's told don't go near the adulteress. Don't go near the strange woman. Don't go near her house. Don't come anywhere near her door. Stay away from her. Obviously you're not to sit and embrace Hollywood. with porn spread everywhere. You're not to sit around and try to play around with pornography and bars where lewd women are. And in a more personal specific way, when you know there's a relationship starting that's going to be sin such as fornication or adultery, you get far from that situation. Like Joseph took off running. He didn't sit around. He fled fornication. You run from it. You don't get anywhere near it. But Solomon says in Proverbs 7, he beheld among the simple ones. I discerned among the youth, a young man void of understanding. So he doesn't understand these basic principles of gateway sins, of what it means to be stupid. passing through the street near her corner. He went the way to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night, what a fool. And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart. Even then, he perhaps tried to resist another man's wife, but she caught him. The Bible says many strong men who thought they were strong have been cast down by her. Her steps go down to hell. God forbid you get too close to abominations in an unguarded way. And plus we see the immodesty here, the gateway sins to greater sins. They're both in adultery. The Bible says don't fool around with this stuff. But where's this type of preaching? How often do you hear this? You barely even hear that adultery and sodomy and fornication and drunkenness are wrong. You barely even hear that preached against. But hardly ever will you hear the very steps that lead to it preached against. The Bible says in Proverbs 4, keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. You got to watch what you're thinking about. What are you influencing your thoughts with? Put away from thee a froward mouth. See, it'll influence your heart. Perverse lips put far from the people that are rebellious and not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Get away from these people. Let thy eyes look right on. Let thy eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet. Let all their ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left, remove thy foot from evil. Certainly we see in this, beware of gateway sins, beware of making provision for the flesh. Watch everything, watch your feet, watch your heart, watch your eyes, all the gates, ear gate, eye gate, watch them all. Watch who you hang around with. whether on social media or in person, whether in movies, that you're just filling your heart with sin and rebellion, if not outright porn. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 6, verse 17, wherefore come out from among them and be you separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you. He says, he'll be a father to you. In other words, you'll have fellowship with your father. You'll be his sons and daughters. And he goes on to say in chapter seven, having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. So the summary is this. Don't just avoid the unclean thing, touch it not. See, preaching today, preaching against making provision for the flesh is seen as legalism. And because that is scorned in increasingly greater degrees, everything is in a free fall. Everything is in a free fall. We're left with the consequences that this compromise doctrine brings forth. And we might add, because the Old Testament is entirely ignored and despised as far as a doctrinal lifestyle, and because entire sins and words and verses are ripped from the very New Testament, the nation and the churches are left in a void of darkness and a free fall into sin and hell. So in regard to answering this question today, why are so many Christians disobedient? I'll answer it today because they no longer understand how God says to fight sin. They want to avoid sometimes if there's any conscience left, they want to avoid fornication or homosexuality or adultery, but they don't want to fight God's way. They don't want to avoid the things He said leads to it. They want to scorn and mock such holiness. Number two, so many Christians are disobedient today because they've rejected the clear plain words of the King James Bible. These new versions which hide sin and delete sin. And number three, they've rejected the foundational clarity of the Old Testament and warnings against sin. Let me repeat that. They've rejected the foundational clarity of the Old Testament. See, the New Testament assumes you're gonna read the Old Testament. So it builds upon it, modifies it where it needs to, since we're now under the Melchizedek priesthood and not Levitical. There's made of necessity a change of the law. but the New Testament writers assume that you're reading the Old Testament. So therefore there is clarity in the Old Testament. There is a certain plainness in the Old Testament, a certain directness. And in some places of the New Testament, there is more of a, the New Testament, there is more of a general summarizing because you're supposed to already be reading the Old Testament. Let me give you a few examples to try to explain what I mean. In the Old Testament, we see the sins of homosexuality, bestiality even, described. And how is it described? Listen to these words. Leviticus 20, if a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 18, thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination. Neither shall thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith. Deuteronomy 23, there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. I don't know how clear you could get beyond that. Now, I don't believe in the New Testament that it is unclear in the sense that it can be mistaken. Well, no, it's plain enough. Sodomy is sin, even in the New Testament. Adultery is sin, even in the New Testament. Bestiality is certainly sin, even in the New Testament. But the Old Testament was upfront, direct, in your face, while still being holy. Notice the language of the New Testament, which builds on this Old Testament language that it assumes you're reading. So Paul is able to say in Romans 1, for this cause God gave them up into vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use. Listen to that language. And to that which is against nature, it's plain, but not as direct as the Old Testament. 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 me. Notice that language of the apostle. They just did that, which is unseemly men with men doing that, which is unseemly. We know what he's talking about here, but the sodomite does not want that language. And he certainly doesn't want the language of the old Testament. Listen to Paul. in chapter six of Corinthians. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. See, Old Testament said, men lying with men as they do with women. The Old Testament. The New Testament says, working that which is unseemly, abusers of themselves with mankind. Paul says in 1 Timothy 1, whoremongers, them that defile themselves with mankind, you see. Jude put it this way, Jude 1, 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. The Old Testament says plainly, a man lying with a man and a woman lying with a woman. And I believe it's clear in the New Testament. My only point is in some ways in regard to sin, the Old Testament gives us more direct language. The New Testament builds upon it. We see the Lord Jesus correcting at times people's interpretation of the Old Testament. showing that God meant more than what many care to realize. But that doesn't change the fact that the New Testament shines light on the Old Testament and the Old Testament shines light on the New Testament and we need them both. The Old Testament speaks plainly of a man lying with a man and a woman lying with a woman. And although the New Testament is plainly against bestiality and other horrible, unmentionable sins, It uses summary and general words such as fornication, adultery, all uncleanness, and such like. But oh, you get to the Old Testament, it tells you plainly. Lying with an animal, lying with a beast, a man lying with a man like he does a woman, et cetera. The Old Testament calls it out as an abomination. It speaks plain, but not crudely. It speaks direct and shocking, but without losing chastity and holiness. Further proven my point in summarizing, in the New Testament, bestiality is not directly named or described. But in the Old Testament, it's openly prohibited in direct clarity. And the New Testament, astrology, stargazing, et cetera, is not directly named. It uses words such as divination, sorcery, witchcraft, and such like. But in the Old Testament, the sins of astrology, stargazing, monthly prognosticators, they're plainly designated in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, cross-dressing is wrong. But as we see in Deuteronomy, it's described in more direct, plainer words in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, it's plainly stated that we're not to take the name of the Lord thy God in vain or profane the name of the Lord thy God. Certainly this is true in the New Testament, but the language is more summary in form in the New Testament. And the Old Testament says, thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord. In the New Testament, this is certainly true, but it's warned against in a more summary, general way. In the Old Testament, necromancy, that is praying to the dead, trying to contact the dead, is explicitly condemned. Likewise in the New Testament, but again, it's more in a general sense in the New Testament. And we need the explicit, direct, descriptive, plain, simple, in-your-face, straightforward language of the Old Testament. The Old Testament is scripture. We are to read it and obey it today. Just simply inserting the amendments that the New Testament has changed. The Bible says the priesthood being changed, so the law is changed. But that doesn't mean every word of the Old Testament is no longer applicable doctrinally to us today. It doesn't mean that every commandment in the Old Testament is somehow now no longer applicable. We're saved eternally by grace through faith alone in the blood of Jesus, the son of God, not by works or the deeds of the law. Whether that is ceremonial or moral, we're not saved by any moral or ceremonial law or deeds or anything we can do other than trust the Lord Jesus Christ. We're saved by his blood. We're saved by what the Lord did on the cross. He lived a perfect righteous life without sin in an absolute sense. And God who became man for us died on the cross, shed his blood and paid the eternal price of our sins that we might be saved by simply receiving that free gift. But just as we are to apply the gospels, to our lives today. But notice the change that the Lord gave at the end of Matthew 28, to go to all nations. It's a new commission that he did not give earlier in the gospels, to go to all nations, not just Israel. Does that mean you're not to obey Matthew 5? Does that mean that you're not to fear the Lord's warnings to his disciples? That's madness. Simply because there's a change that he made later in the gospel. You don't ignore everything in the Old Testament because there are some changes, some amendments that have been made in the New Testament. You're not to ignore every Old Testament commandment. What is said in general form in summary in the New Testament, often summed up as love to God with all your might and love your neighbor as thyself and as Christ has loved us, This summary form of speaking in the New Testament is directly spelled out for us in the Old Testament in examples, in clarity. And let me tell you this, anything that God killed, banished, or judged a Gentile nation or city for in the Old Testament is still abominable today and will bring judgment upon a modern nation. Nothing has changed. The only thing has changed is that God is even less long-suffering today for such sins. It's still wrong today. If God judged Egypt for it in the Old Testament, it's still wrong today. If God judged the Canaanites for it in the Old Testament, it's still wrong today. If God judged Sodom for it in the Old Testament, it's still wrong today. Many of these people didn't have the Bible. But God judges them based on natural law, the natural light that they should have in their conscience. Let me read to you the words of Leviticus 18. Now listen carefully. Leviticus 18 verse 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein you dwell, shall you not do? And after the doings of the land of Canaan, whether I bring you shall you not do, neither shall you walk in their ordinances. You shall do my judgment and my ordinances to walk therein. I am the Lord your God. Now, let me ask you a question. That's Leviticus 18. God said, don't obey. Don't follow what they did in Egypt and what they did in the land of Canaan. Now, are you telling me it's okay today? In this New Testament age, are you telling me that it's okay, it's acceptable to walk in the way of the Gentiles contrary to God? No, Paul says in Ephesians 4, this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind. It's just as wrong today. What was an abomination in Egypt and an abomination before God in Canaan and in Nineveh and in Sodom and the cities round about Sodom is still an abomination today before God's eyes. After telling the people in Leviticus 18 not to follow the ways of Egypt and Canaan. He begins to preach against sin. He begins to warn against sin. Leviticus 18 goes on to say, don't uncover the nakedness of your family members. Don't commit adultery. Don't give your children to Molech. Don't profane the name of God. Don't lie with mankind as with womankind. It's an abomination. Don't lie down with any beast. Then it concludes by saying this in verse 24, defile not ye yourselves in any of these things. For in all these, the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you and the land is defiled. Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants. But wait a second, these were Gentiles. Yet they were judged for these things. And you're going to tell me America is somehow not accountable today for these very things. If God punished the Egyptians, if God punished the Canaanites and says, listen to what they're doing, they're giving children to Malek, they're committing adultery. They're uncovering the nakedness of family members. They're profaning the name of God. They're lying with mankind is with womankind. They're lying down with bees. You're telling me God's not going to judge America today or any other nation. Are you mad? The Bible says in the last days, the nations will be mad, crazy, insane. He goes on in Leviticus 18 verse 26. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments and shall not commit any of these abominations. For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you and the land is defiled, that the land spew not you out also. when you defile it as it spewed out the nations that were before you. Therefore, you shall keep my ordinance that you commit not any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you and that you defile not yourselves therein. I am the Lord your God." What I'm telling you right now today is these things are outside the revelation of scripture. God judged Egypt, God judged Nineveh, God judged Sodom, God judged the Canaanites, whether they had a Bible or not. He judged them because they were committing abominations that they should know in their conscience were wrong. You tell me that God is not gonna judge these same abominations today? No, it's even more true today that God will judge these things. He says in Acts 17, the times of this ignorance, God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. This means God's not holding back much today as he did in the Old Testament. But we see oftentimes he brought judgment upon these nations in the Old Testament for the same abominations that are being committed today. As we turn to Leviticus 19 from chapter 18, it goes on with many more moral commandments that are still in application today. Sometimes you see some ceremonial commands that have been set aside, modified by the New Testament, that were especially for the Jews at that time. But this does not mean that we are to ignore the moral commands that have not been set aside as a way of life to please God in Christ in our walk today. He goes on in chapter 19 of Leviticus, verse 28, you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the Lord. You're telling me today that it's okay to dress and act like a Philistine, a Canaanite? Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore, lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness? No, this whole tattoo craze today, they've dug up Philistines, they've dug up people from ancient times and found out they were covered What began with one tattoo, now you're seeing grandmothers. And all of a sudden you see they have tattoos from their shoulder down to their wrist. People are getting these full body tattoos. It's just a sign of madness. It's a sign of devils. It's a sign that we're in the last days. How did we end up with the same customs and ways of the Canaanites? Because you open the door. You open the door. It came in like a flood, so quick, so quick. It went from showing the bottom of legs as a shocking thing in the 1920s to cross-dressing, fornication, harlotry, prostitution, sexual revolution. sodomy, trans, abortion, baby killing. And now people just looking like mad men, no shame in women, just trashing their bodies, putting graffiti all over it. Nothing sacred, nothing seen as the temple of the Holy Ghost anymore. And then as we turn from Leviticus 19 to chapter 20 of Leviticus, it picks up with some more moral timeless commands. You say, how do you know that? Because he said he judged Egypt for not obeying these things. He judged the Canaanites, the Gentiles for not obeying these things. Leviticus 20 goes on to say, don't give your seed to Malek, like in abortion today. Don't follow familiar spirits and wizards. Paul calls it witchcraft in Galatian. He says in chapter 20, everyone that curses this father or his mother shall surely be put to death. See, the Christian church has not been given the ability to institute death penalty today, but that doesn't mean that the sins are wrong today. He goes on to Leviticus 20 to say, the adulterer and adulteress both shall be put to death. He says, if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with woman, both of them have committed abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. And then he goes on to say, bestiality is an abomination. And then he sums it up in verse 23 of chapter 20 of Leviticus. You shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you, for they committed all these things and therefore I abhorred them. People without a Bible. God says, I killed them whether they had Old Testament, New Testament or what? He cast them out before you. He judged them. You say, well, how could God do that? Natural law. We're talking natural law things. Things you should know. How much more? If you have the revelation of God. Now, we might need to discuss and sometimes dispute What sins can be observed by natural law? What commandments in the Old Testament are natural law commandments? I tend to think that more of them are than what many suspect. But the point is, is anything that is against nature is still wrong today, even more so than it was in the Old Testament. Because we have more light. But the ability to discern what is naturally right and wrong fades as a culture falls. It begins to no longer be able to discern. A generation arises that won't even blush in the most blatant abomination. Romans 1 again says, for this cause God gave them up into vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. He's not just talking about the Jews. He says the Gentiles did this. He's showing how nations and cities fall. He says in Romans 2, for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, they don't have the revelation of scripture, do by nature the things contained in the law, These having not the law are a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law written in their hearts." God is telling us right here that these abominations that are wrong in the Old Testament law are written in the heart of man. You should know in your conscience that it's wrong to be a sodomite. That bestiality is wrong. That it's wrong to throw your baby to some pagan God. that it's wrong to dishonor your parents, that cross-dressing is wrong, that defiling your body and marking it all up is wrong. There was a time not long ago when people just understood this. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11, does not even nature itself teach you He means that natural understanding that we should have, this light that we might repress, but as in every man. Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it's a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it's a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering. Can people lose this light of nature? Certainly they can. But I'm gonna tell you today, Before they brought sodomy to this nation, they brought cross-dressing and unisex hairstyles. Read what people said would happen when the Beatles came with their long hair. And before you know it, the Beatles were off into India with transgender cross-dressing looking gurus. And they brought all this stuff back, all this paganism back to America. And before you even blinked, You had men in silk shirts and effeminacy and the women were cross-dressing. And then before you know it, we had sodomy and homosexuality everywhere. And then there was AIDS and it caused everybody to get afraid. And now everybody's back again. Where did it begin? It began with a nation. yet forgot God with the churches that should have been the light to the dark world and pastors that should have been leading the way no longer preaching clear truth, true holiness. They didn't even preach, put aside the Bible for a second. They didn't even preach that which is plainly a natural law. They began to say, it's okay to be immodest. It's okay to drink a little bit. It's okay to kiss and touch and all that with somebody that's not your wife. It's okay to make provision for the flesh. It's okay to cross dress. And now everybody's shocked. They say, what happened to our churches? What happened to America? What did God judge Egypt for? What did he judge the Canaanites for? What did he judge Nineveh and the cities around Sodom and Sodom for? Let me give you two passages of scripture, then we'll close. I want to show you that Paul in the New Testament believed that you ought to be reading the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. Read the Old Testament in light of the New Testament and make sure you read the New Testament in light of the Old Testament. It says in 2 Timothy 3, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived, but continue thou in the things which thou has learned and has been assured of, knowing of whom thou has learned them, and that from a child thou has known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect. Throughly furnished unto all good works. Now, let me ask you a question. What scriptures did Timothy have from a child? He had the Old Testament. He did not have originals. He had copies or translation. But God called it scripture. Paul called it scripture. He called the Old Testament scripture. And he says it's given by inspiration of God. and is profitable for doctrine. The Old Testament is profitable for reproof. The Old Testament is profitable for correction. It's profitable for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. People say, well, it's one place in the Bible. I don't need it any other place. No, you need it everywhere God put it. And then lastly, in Ephesians chapter six, Paul said, children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise. Why is Paul quoting the 10 commandments to Gentile Ephesians, many of them Gentile? Why? Because he believed that they ought to be reading the Old Testament, making the modifications that the New Testament teaches us to make. But if you think the fifth commandment is gone now, you're out of your mind. If you think the command against cross-dressing is gone now, you're greatly deceived. Dear Lord, I do pray that you help people to get rid of this folly, this foolishness, this madness of thinking we can somehow make provision for the flesh, feed the flesh, and somehow fight sin. That we can look at the wine, drink the wine, be in places where they're drinking it and sinning, and somehow escape being a drunkard. Oh, we could go on and on, God. Thank you for the truths of the Bible. Thank you for teaching us how to fight sin. Thank you for teaching us that we need the whole counsel of God. We need the whole Bible. Save us from these people today that are cutting it up in so many ways. Help us to rightly divide it, Lord. But we pray we can get back to holiness among your people. You said that we should be holy because you are holy. Quoted in the Old Testament and New Testament. You said that you will judge your people Help us fear. Know that we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ to receive the things done in the body, whether good or bad. And knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. Let us get back to studying the Old Testament, studying the gospels, studying the whole Bible, and learning how to please you. In Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen.