The book of Judges, chapter number 19.
That's after the book of Joshua, just before
the book of Ruth in your Bible.
The book of Judges in chapter number 19.
It's good to see you tonight.
I realize more than likely the rain has
probably kept a few people away, but I
appreciate your faithfulness tonight in the house of
God here at this revival service.
I enjoyed myself yesterday.
I appreciate the good blessings of God, the
two young men being saved and also being
baptized yesterday.
I'm looking for the Lord to do great
things, not only tonight, but also through Friday
night.
I hope you'll do your dead-level best
to be here yourself and also bring somebody
with you.
Unless the rapture takes place or unless Jesus
changes my heart about the message, on Friday
night I'll be preaching a message from Matthew,
chapter number 13, that the Lord has greatly
used over the past couple of years across
America.
It's entitled, What's Everybody Screaming About?
So I hope that you'll be back for
that service and bring your lost friends and
neighbors and coworkers with you that night.
And I'm not sure if I'll preach that
message, but if God lays it upon my
heart as he has thus far, I will.
And normally I close out a revival meeting
with that.
I say that to say this, tonight's message
is a message that I've never preached in
my life.
Unless you are a preacher, and some are
and most aren't in this room tonight, but
unless you're a preacher, especially somebody that travels
a lot and does a lot of preaching
by the grace of God, you may not
understand the message tonight.
Very rarely, if ever, do I do this
in my ministry.
Most of the time I know exactly where
I'm going, I know where I've been, I
know where I'm headed, and I know where
I'm at.
But tonight I've got a text that is
just undeniably burning in my heart.
I didn't want to preach on this message.
If this would have been a message I
was supposed to pick tonight, this would be
the last thing I'd have preached.
I've never preached on this text.
I just read this text, really, and understood
it just a couple of weeks ago in
my ministry.
But it has been burning in my soul.
And so for about the past two or
three weeks of my life, this message has
been, not necessarily this message, but this portion
of Scripture has just been inflamed in my
soul.
And so we might go 20 minutes tonight,
we might go an hour tonight.
I don't know what we're going to do,
but I'm telling you, this message is just
burning in my heart.
And because I've never preached it, I'm just
tickled pink to get it off my chest.
I don't know why the Lord wants me
to preach it.
I don't know what it is.
But I've got a text tonight that's rather
lengthy.
It's 30 verses long.
I won't apologize for that because we need
more of what God says and what Greg
says anyhow.
But because of the length, I understand I'm
not going to have you stand because I'm
going to make some preliminary remarks as we
read down through.
Judges 19, I'll begin my reading in verse
number 1.
We will end our reading in verse number
30 and we will have the message tonight.
And again, I just believe I have the
mind of the Lord trying to do what
God wants me to do tonight.
And so I hope this message will be
a blessing to you as I try to
obey God's Spirit.
Judges 19, verse number 1.
Please follow along.
If you have a Bible, if you do
not, please look on with a neighbor.
Very important verses tonight.
If you don't get these, you're going to
be very confused tonight when we get to
the end of our message.
Judges 19, verse number 1.
The Bible says, And it came to pass
in those days when there was no king
in Israel that there was a certain Levite
sojourning on the side of Mount Ephraim who
took to him a concubine.
That would have been the secondary wife, all
right?
Took unto him a concubine out of Bethlehem,
Judah.
And his concubine played the whore against him
and went away from him unto her father's
house to Bethlehem, Judah and was there four
whole months.
And her husband arose and went after her
to speak friendly unto her and to bring
her again, having his servant with him, and
abode a couple of asses.
And she brought him into her father's house.
And when the father of the damsel saw
him, he rejoiced to meet him.
And his father-in-law, the damsel's father,
retained him, basically kept him overnight.
And he abode within three days.
So they did eat and drink and lodged
there.
And it came to pass on the fourth
day when they arose early in the morning
that he rose up to depart and the
damsel's father said unto his son-in-law,
Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread
and afterward go your way.
And they sat down and did eat and
drink, both of them together, for the damsel's
father had said unto the man, Be content,
I pray thee, and tarry all night, and
let thine heart be very.
And when the man rose up to depart,
his father-in-law urged him, therefore he
lodged there again.
And he arose early in the morning on
the fifth day to depart.
And the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart,
I pray thee, and tarry until afternoon.
And they did eat, both of them.
And when the man rose up to depart,
he and his concubine and his servant, his
father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto
him, Behold now, the day draweth toward evening.
I pray you, tarry all night.
Behold, the day draweth to an end.
Lodge here, that thine heart may be merry,
and tomorrow get you early on your way,
that thou mayest go home.
Now, he had been there at this time
for five and a half days.
He went there to get his wife back
just for a few minutes at the in
-law's house and ended up staying five and
a half days.
And the Bible says in verse number 10,
But the man would not tarry that night.
It was time for him to go to
the house, all right?
But he rose up and departed and came
over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem.
And there were with him two asses saddled,
his concubine also with him.
And when they were by Jebus, the day
was far spent.
It means it's going in the nighttime now.
And the servant said unto his master, Come,
I pray thee, and let us turn into
this city of Jebusite and lodge in it.
His master said unto him, We will not
turn aside hither into the city of a
stranger.
This is not of the children of Israel.
He said, Listen, it's not our custom to
go somewhere that we've not been invited.
We will pass over to Gibeah.
And he said unto his servant, Come and
let us draw near to one of these
places to lodge all night in Gibeah or
in Ramah.
And they passed on and went their way,
and the sun went down upon them when
they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
And they turned aside hither to go in
and to lodge in Gibeah.
And when he went in, he set him
down in a street of the city, for
there was no man that took them into
his house to lodge in.
Verse number 16, And behold, there came an
old man from the work out of the
field at even.
That was probably about nine o'clock at
night, which was also of Mount Ephraim.
And he sojourned in Gibeah.
But the men of the place were Benjamites.
And when he had lifted up his eyes,
he saw a wayfaring man in the street
of the city.
And the old man said, Whither goest thou,
and whence comest thou?
And he said unto him, We are passing
from Bethlehem, Judah, toward the side of Mount
Ephraim.
From thence am I.
And went to Bethlehem, Judah.
He's talking about going to get his wife.
But I am now going to the house
of the Lord, and there is no man
that receiveth me to house.
Yet there is both straw and provender for
our asses, and there is bread and wine
also for me, and for thy handmaid, and
for the young man which is with thy
servant.
There is no want of anything.
So he said, Listen, we're going to sleep
in the street because we've got some hay,
we've got some meal, and some provender for
the donkeys.
He said, The girl's going to be taken
care of.
We've got plenty of wine.
We've got plenty of food.
So he said, We're just going to camp
out in the street tonight.
Verse number 20, And the old man said,
Peace be with thee.
Howsoever, let all thy wants lie upon me,
only lodge not in the street.
He said, Please, I beg in God's name,
don't stay outside.
Here's wine.
So he brought him into his house and
gave provender unto the asses, and they washed
their feet and did eat and drink.
Now as they were making their hearts merry,
behold the men of the city.
Did you get that?
The men of the city, certain sons of
Belial, besought the house round about and beat
at the door and spake to the master
of the house, the old man, saying, Bring
forth the man that came into thine house,
that we may know him.
All right?
They're not talking about let's shake hands and
sign Bibles.
Genesis 4-1, the Bible says, And Adam
knew his wife.
She conceived and brought forth a child.
That's what they're talking about.
These people were sodomites.
They were homosexuals.
They were wicked.
They were vile.
They were perverts.
And God called them sons of Belial.
The word Belial means sons of the wicked
one.
These people were of the devil.
And the Bible says in verse 23, And
the man, the master of the house, went
out unto them and said unto them, Nay,
my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not
so wickedly, seeing that this man is coming
to mine house, do not disfolly.
Behold, here is my daughter a maiden and
his concubine.
So he's offering this fella his virgin daughter
and also this other guy's wife, all right?
And his concubine, Them I will bring out
now, and humble ye them.
And do with them what seemeth good unto
you.
I'm going to tell you right now, there
was nothing good in their mind, okay?
But unto this man do not so vile
a thing.
Verse 45, But the men would not hearken
to him, so the man took his concubine
and brought her forth unto them, and they
knew her and abused her all the night
until the morning.
And when the day began to spring, they
let her go.
Then came the woman in the dawning of
the day and fell down at the door
of the man's house where her lord was
till it was light.
Now here's the tragedy, verse 27, And the
lord rose up in the morning and opened
the doors of the house and went out
to go his way.
And behold, the woman, his concubine, was falling
down at the door of the house, and
her hands were upon the threshold.
And he said unto her, Up, and let
us be going, but none answered.
Then the man took her up upon an
ass, and the man rose up and got
him unto his place.
And when he was coming to his house,
he took a knife and laid hold on
his concubine and divided her, together with her
bone, into twelve pieces and centered all the
coast of Israel.
And so it was that all that saw
it said, There was no such deed done
nor seen from the day that the children
of Israel came up out of the land
of Egypt unto this day.
Consider of it.
Take advice and speak your minds.
Tonight from Judges chapter number 19, I want
to bring a message in my heart that
I've entitled, Why Isn't Somebody Yelling Rape?
Let's have a word of prayer.
Father, I pray that You would help me
tonight as I preach this message.
I've never preached it.
Lord, I've never one time since I've been
an evangelist for the past four years ever
even attempted to preach from this text.
I do not know why You want me
to, but Lord, I know this, the devil
doesn't want me to.
But Lord, You've asked me to tonight, and
so I'm going to do my best to
obey You.
I pray that You would move me out
of the way and clear my heart and
clear my mind.
You would right this very moment, fill me
with the precious Holy Spirit of God, that
I would be an open and a blessing
and a vessel of channel and a blessing
to these dear people tonight as I preach
the Bible.
Lord, I am nothing.
I cannot nor do I want to preach
this message without Your power tonight.
And Lord, these people cannot listen to this
message without Your power tonight.
Use this portion of Scripture to burden us,
I pray, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
If you are just kind of chronologically reading
through your Bible for a year, and you
came to judge at chapter number 19, if
you did not have a historical context to
what in the wide world was taking place,
you would think to yourself, why in the
world did the good Lord in heaven ever
put such a despicable portion of Scripture in
the Bible?
Why is it beginning to talk about a
young lady that the Bible said went a
-whoring away for her husband, and a little
bit later, a bunch of sodomites and perverts
raped her and abused her and basically killed
her, and she fell on the threshold of
the door, and her insensitive husband told her
to get up.
She didn't get up.
He cut her in 12 pieces and sent
her to the 12 tribes of Israel.
I'm going to be honest with you.
To me, that's a pretty disgusting portion of
Scripture.
It seems to me that it would almost
be like something that was from some type
of comic strip.
I was down at the Little Four Winds
this afternoon, and I was having myself a
cup of coffee, and I was studying my
Bible, and I was poring over this portion
of Scripture.
And I was watching the news, and within
15 minutes, there was at least a case
of three different young ladies that were killed
by some insane masochist, by some idiot or
by some redneck that decided one day he
was going to get drunk and go out
and kill some young lady.
And it almost seems to me this is
like some type of USA Today or some
type of Newsweek or some type of illustrated
bulletin somewhere that's on the news, and all
of a sudden we get some update, and
it almost seems like this could be something
in a modern-day newspaper.
And I think to myself, Lord, why in
the world did You put that in the
Bible?
By way of an introduction, we are going
to break this chapter into three simple parts
because basically this chapter only consists of three
things.
In the first few verses, number one, it
consists of what I call an unhappy marriage.
The Bible says that here was a man
who took a second wife, a concubine.
That was legal back in those days.
It's not today, so don't you get any
bright ideas.
I have a hard enough time taking care
of the one I got.
I don't need five more.
All right?
I'd be broke if I did.
My wife loves to go to Goody's, and
my wife loves to go to Walmart.
I tell people all over this country, I
bought myself a grave plot in the basement
of Walmart so my wife will visit me
about 14 times a week.
Amen?
But the truth of the matter is this.
Here was a man that had a concubine,
a second wife.
And the Bible says that she went a
-whoring.
That's not Greg's talk.
That's God's talk.
The Bible says that she committed adultery, if
you will, and she ran away, and it
says that she went back to Bethlehem, Judah
to her father's house.
She got upset and her husband rolled her
eyes and said, I'm out of here and
ran back to Daddy's house.
And so the Bible says here she was
at her father's house, not for four days,
but the Bible says for four months.
Now, my wife is in Thailand right now,
and she will be there for the next
two and a half to three weeks, and
she's already been gone for a week or
two.
And I'm telling you what I'm about to
go stir-crazy.
I wake up every morning as if it's
a burnt-out volcano.
I get about as frustrated as a bald
-headed hippie, and I feel so confused as
a termite in a yo-yo.
I can't even pick up my dirty socks
from the floor.
I miss my wife.
But here was a man whose wife left
him, and she was gone for four cotton
-picking months.
Now, why did she leave?
Because I believe that was an unhappy marriage.
I believe that they didn't have the right
kind of communication, because communication is everything in
a marriage.
Here was a man that did not meet
his wife and so the Bible says she
went off somewhere else and had her needs
met by another man.
Now, mister, I'm going to tell you something.
You hear me, and you hear me well.
Your worth can be told by the countenance
on your wife's face.
Did you hear me?
Your worth will be told by the countenance
on your wife's face.
And our marriages and our homes are under
attack like never before.
And here was a man and here was
a woman that had an unhappy marriage, and
she ran off to Mama, and she ran
off to Daddy.
Now, this is all introduction, all right?
I'm so glad we took the offering before
I preach, because I might get sent out
of a rail after I preach this message
tonight.
But anyhow, here was a lady that ran
back to her parents.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I love my mother-in-law and I
love my father-in-law.
I love my mother and I love my
daddy, but they're not going to tell me
how to raise my family.
They're not going to tell me what I
should do in my marriage and what I
should not do.
And I think one of the deaths of
marriage is when moms and dads get so
heavily involved and they overbear their sons and
they overbear their daughters and they say, you
do thus and so.
And here was a young lady that did
not leave in Cleve.
She went back to daddy's house.
Well, daddy retained her.
If I'd have been her daddy, I'd have
said, hey, you go back to your husband.
You let him take care of your problems
because you're his problem now, not mine.
And so the Bible says, finally, finally, this
fella got enough gumption and he got enough
gut to get on the mule and take
a servant with him and he was finally
going to speak to his wife.
He was finally going to get her after
all of this time.
Now, the Bible says something very interesting.
It said that when he arose, he went
to go speak friendly unto his wife.
You know what that tells me?
That tells me when she left, he wasn't
speaking friendly.
That tells me when she left, he was
being an ingrate.
That tells me when she left, he was
coming to the house and he was griping
and bickering and complaining about what she was
cooking and how come she wasn't putting it
on so fast.
And bless God Almighty, how come we're always
late for church but yet you're the one
out in the car, beep, beep, beep, come
on, lady.
And she's cleaning diapers and she's painting walls
and she's picking up toys and she's tripping
over this and tripping over that and she's
trying to make sure the roast doesn't burn
and you're outside saying, bless God Almighty, why
don't you get in the car?
I'm so sick and tired of you always
being late.
And so she comes out there, she's got
a kid in his arm, she's got a
kid in his arm, she's got a baby
in the oven that she's fixing to drop
in just a couple of months and I
mean, she comes stumbling out there and she
puts the kid there and you're still beating
the horn.
Honk, honk, honk.
We're going to be late and Brother Lamont's
going to wonder why we're not in the
house of God all the time.
And by the way, baby, I've got to
sing a special this morning so why don't
you hurry up?
And she's sweating bullets, her hair's all falling
down, her Maybelline's about to run off the
side of her face, she's got lipstick right
down in the middle of her teeth and
she starts to get in the car and
you pull off, rip her high heel shoe
off and say, why are you always so
late every time you get in the car?
And here was a man that was not
speaking friendly, he was speaking unfriendly to his
wife.
I was reading just the other day in
the book of Proverbs and my devotions, you
know what I came across in Proverbs 31?
We fellows always love to hear preaching on
Proverbs 31 because it talks about what the
woman ought to be, but can I remind
you what the last three verses of that
portion of Scripture says?
It says, praises her children, rises up and
calleth her blessed, her husband also praises her.
You want to have a happy home, mister,
you praise your wife.
You want to have a happy home, ma
'am, you submit to your wife and you
submit to your husband and you meet the
needs of your husband, but here was a
group of people that had an unhappy marriage.
And the Bible says that finally he got
there and he got to the house and
when he went in, his father-in-law,
the Bible says, was happy to meet him.
They'd never met before.
What a pleasant surprise.
And when he went in, And so they
met and they shook hands and they exchanged
some nice things to say, I'm sure.
And the Bible says that he was going
to rise up early in the morning.
It says that three times.
He was going to rise up early in
the morning, but the next verse says he'd
been there for four days.
So he'd been lollygagging, sitting around the house
for four days, just kind of kicking up,
eating popcorn, watching television and getting reacquainted with
his wife since he's been gone for four
months.
And he was talking to mom-in-law
and he was talking to daddy-in-law.
So he got up on the fifth day
and he got ready to leave and they
got something to eat and his daddy said,
Now listen, son.
He said, I love you and everything.
And he said, I've only known you for
five days, but man, you certainly feel like
family and you're welcome here any time you
want to come.
As a matter of fact, why don't you
not even leave today?
Hey, the day's already far spent, man.
It'd take you forever to get back to
the house.
He said, Why don't you stay?
And so after five and a half days,
finally he put his foot down and he
said, Listen, I just can't stay anymore.
I've got to get out of here.
And so the Bible says that they got
on the donkey, they got the servant, he
got his wife back, grabbed her by the
hand, slipped that wedding ring back on her
finger, spoke friendly to her, gave her a
big wet kiss and said, Honey, let's go
back to the house.
And so here they go back to the
house.
The Bible says that as they were walking
that the day was far spent and the
night went away from them.
Now, we divide this portion of Scripture into
three parts, I see it.
Number one, an unhappy marriage, but number two,
what I call an unholy mess.
These people finally got to a place where
the Bible says the Benjamites were living.
And we're going to learn a little bit
about the Benjamites in a minute.
They were more than Benjamites, they were sodomites,
they were perverts.
And the Bible says that they got into
this town and they decided, Hey, let's just
sleep in the street.
Let's just get ourselves a little pillow, let's
just lay out right here and let's just
look at the stars.
An old man came walking out of the
woods one night or that night and he
said, Fellas, he said, It probably wouldn't be
a good idea for you to stay out
here.
He knew where he lived.
He said, It probably won't be a good
idea for you to stay out here tonight.
And they said, Oh, we'll be all right.
We got plenty of food.
We got plenty of clothing.
We got plenty of blankets and the Lord
will take care of us.
He said, Well, I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about somebody else.
So he said, Won't you come in my
house?
The Bible says that he pressed them.
They came in and they began to eat.
All of a sudden, by the time they
were getting ready to lay down, a knock
came to the door.
It wasn't the mailman and it wasn't the
Avon lady.
It was a bunch of sodomites that was
coming after the man.
Did you notice that?
It didn't say he wanted the wife.
He didn't want that pretty little concubine.
He wanted the man.
And the Bible says that men with men
and working that which is unseen, they burned
in their hearts one toward another and did
not use the natural use of the woman,
Romans chapter number 1.
And so the Bible says these men began
to beat on the door and they said,
Hey, old man, why don't you bring that
man, that man that came into your house
tonight, bring him out that we may know
him that we might commit immorality and ungodliness
and homosexuality with this fellow.
What a graphic passage of Scripture.
And the Bible says, almost repeating Genesis chapter
19 when Lot went to the door, the
old fellow went to the door and said,
Fellas, don't you do this.
I'll tell you what, I've got a virgin
daughter.
She's never been with anybody the Bible called
her maiden.
That was a virgin.
I've got a virgin daughter and he's got
a wife.
All from the other fellow's wife.
And he's got a wife.
You take them and you do what seems
good to them and there wasn't anything in
their mind that was good.
You do what seems good in your eyes
but only leave this man alone.
He said, Do not this wickedness.
Now you think about something for a moment.
In this portion of Scripture right here, number
1, he called the Sodomites sons of Belial
which means sons of the devil.
Then he told them Do not so wickedly.
Then he said Do not this folly.
And then he said Don't do such a
vile thing.
Four times in three verses God condemned Sodomites.
You say, Well, Brother Locke, you don't need
to preach too much on the homosexuals because
I know some of them here at Memphis
that meet together in a church.
No, bless God, you know a bunch of
perverts that meet together and call themselves a
church.
That's what you know.
Because no professing homosexual is a born again
Christian and you can take that to the
bank.
And my dear friend, I believe that they
can progress in that sin for so long
where the Bible says in Romans chapter 1
and verse 28 that God gave them up
to a reprobate mind to do those things
which are unseemly and dishonor their bodies.
I believe with all of my heart that
a homosexual can get saved by the grace
of God.
Because Paul said effeminate people shall not go
to God's kingdom but he told those Corinthians
and such were some of you.
Meaning, there were some people in that congregation
at Corinth that apparently at one time in
their life had homosexual tendencies or they were
sodomites but they were saved by the grace
of God.
So I believe that sodomites can be saved
but if they protest in their sin God
will give them up to a reprobate mind
and they cannot get saved by the grace
of God.
So here's a bunch of reprobates at the
door begging to have this man come out.
But the Bible says that the concubine was
ushered out.
And ladies, excuse me for being very graphic
tonight but the Bible uses the graphic language.
It says that they knew her and abused
her all the night.
It wasn't three men.
It probably wasn't even thirty men.
It was probably somewhere around the neighborhood of
maybe 130 to 150 because the Bible says
that all the men in the city and
it could have been more than that.
It says that all night long they took
this beautiful girl who was the husband who
was the wife of this little fella that
was inside the room.
Now had I been that man you call
it unspiritually if you want to but buddy
I'd have came out with a King James
Bible and a sawed off shotgun and had
myself a time revival.
I'll tell you that right now.
But he was back in the house and
he was probably getting himself a good night's
sleep and he wasn't a bit worried about
it and the Bible says that his wife
was being used and abused and they let
her go in the morning the Bible says.
She was so weary.
She was so hurt and they had hurt
this poor girl and riddled her little body
and to the point when she crawled back
let me tell you what her royalty was
said she crawled back to the house where
her Lord was.
She still wanted her husband.
I don't know why she still wants a
dirty bum after the way he just got
through treating her sitting outside to a bunch
of sodomites but anyhow she crawled back to
the door the Bible says and when he
woke up the next morning get this when
he woke up the next morning he only
spoke friendly to her for a while he
got mean again so how do you know
because the Bible says when he came out
he saw her and he said get up
or go in the house insensitive what insensitive
one did to his wife's needs he said
get up and he said none answered you
know what he did he reached down and
he picked her up and he put her
on the ass the Bible says and he
took her back to the house so number
one this portion of Scripture is divided in
an unhappy marriage and then number two in
verses 25 or so it's divided into what
I call the unholy mess but I want
you to look if you would please at
verse number 30 the last verse of this
chapter the last verse of this portion of
Scripture is what I give you an undeniable
message he did this for a particular person
here is an undeniable message he's trying to
get across I want you to see what
the Bible says as a matter of fact
don't look at verse 30 I want you
to look at verse number 28 he said
unto her up let us be going but
none answered the reason she didn't answer is
because she was dead then the man took
her upon an ass and the man rose
up and got him unto his place so
he went back to the house verse 29
and when he was coming to his house
he took a knife now get this he
took the knife and laid hold on his
concubine and divided her together with her bones
that means he chopped all the way through
her bones for him divided her with her
bones into 12 pieces and sent her into
all the coasts of Israel there were 12
tribes so he cut his wife into 12
different pieces and sent a different body part
to each one of the 12 tribes of
Israel how would you like to get a
UPS package like that in the mail on
Monday morning I'll tell you what a shock
that would be but look what the Bible
says in verse number 30 and it was
so that all that saw it not some
but all that saw it they said there
was no such deed done nor seen they'd
never seen anything like this and they'd never
heard of anything like this and none of
these people had ever done anything like this
the Bible says from the day that the
children of Israel came up out of the
land of Egypt unto this day consider of
it take advice and speak your minds I
like that last little phrase because tonight for
the next few minutes I'm going to speak
my mind about some things that are bothering
me I'm going to speak my mind about
some things that God has laid upon my
heart if there is one indelible thought that
has plagued me ever since I read this
portion of Scripture it was this thought why
didn't somebody stand up and help this young
lady why didn't somebody jump up from behind
a bush or from behind a wall and
say rape rape rape you sodomites cannot have
her you can kill me and do anything
you jolly well please but why didn't somebody
yell rape and help and rescue this young
lady and tonight I'm going to say Isaiah
chapter 58 verse number 1 God said cry
aloud lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and show my people their sins and I
think it's high time that we get some
blood born again Bible believing holy ghost filled
sin hating devil condemning God loving and righteous
living people that will stand up and will
say rape rape rape because friend we're being
raped in America I mean number 1 I
want you to see tonight our country is
being raped 200 years ago we're probably one
of the youngest nations in America but we've
been the most godly we have been the
most blessed and if you think our nation
was founded by a bunch of liberals you're
dumb as a box of rocks our nation
was founded by men and women that loved
God our nation was founded by men and
women that loved the Bible but it's interesting
to me you let a young person go
to public school and they read some type
of history book and it makes George Washington
sound like he's a sodomite and it makes
Abraham Lincoln sound like he was some kind
of communist but friend I want to have
you know that every single person that signed
the Declaration of Independence except 2 were born
again Christians and the 2 men that weren't
saved were more moral than most independent Baptists
that I meet our country was founded on
principles of the word of God and on
principles of morality somebody asked me not long
ago they said Brother Locke what do you
think about American Christianity I said I think
it's far more American than it is Christian
that's for sure and I'm going to tell
you something my dear friend our country is
being raped there's 3 things our country's being
raped about and we need to scream about
it and talk about it tonight number 1
I'm going to be very graphic first of
all our country's being raped by sex everywhere
you look we are living in an adulterous
and a fornicating and an immoral society you
can't even go down to the co-op
and buy a bag of corn feed without
some naked lady's picture being all over the
front of it every time you go to
Kroger's every time you go to Walmart every
time you go to some store you got
to pass a rack of magazines and every
time you look around there's some half naked
lady or almost all naked lady right there
on the front of that magazine and a
man can't even hardly go through a magazine
racking him all because he's not allowed to
see in that mess and I'm telling you
the porno shops and this that and the
other I was getting down on 240 today
and I noticed some fantasy land store down
there that's what it is a fantasy land
is what it is a wicked vile place
and we got such a pornographic society everybody's
thinking about sex and they're thinking about this
and they're you can't even turn the TV
on without them talking about sex for 5
minutes I mean we are living in a
generation of people that are immoral and all
they think about is what they can get
by way of immorality and God my dear
friend will judge a nation that goes that
far into wickedness and our country is being
raped by sex I'll tell you something there
used to be a day by the way
I'm only 24 year old wet behind the
ear green thumb runny skinny little evangelist so
it wasn't in my day but I hear
there was a day years ago when if
a young person was to grow up and
get married and a girl could actually wear
a white wedding dress that was something honorable
when a girl and a young man could
date for a while and they were virgins
when they got married that was something people
looked upon and they said man there are
two young people that love God and keep
themselves pure but it's not that way anymore
they think you're old fashioned phony baloney funny
duddy if you do that now but I'm
going to remind you what the Bible says
in Hebrews 13 4 marriage is honorable in
all that means within the bounds of marriage
sex is a godly thing it's a righteous
thing but at the end of that verse
bless God it says whoremongers and adulterers God
will judge you say well I'll play around
all I good and well please and I
don't care what that verse says that's fine
I don't care what you say friend because
God will judge you he said so and
so we've got a generation of people that
say well it's just common law of marriage
it might be common law of the man
but it's an abomination of almighty God I'll
tell you that right now and friend we
are living in a nation that has been
raped and that has been inundated and that
has been infiltrated with immorality and people love
it you know why people in Baptist churches
get mad when a preacher gets up when
he preaches on sexuality because their mind is
filled with it because all they can think
about is pornographic thoughts hey it used to
be just men that were ungodly and wicked
minded it's not anymore now ladies are that
way I mean now it just seems that
people are nothing more than a bunch of
animals groping around for their next victim friend
we're living in a nation we're living in
a country that at one time was moral
that at one time was godly but those
times are past and we're living around a
bunch of reprobates friend our nation has been
raped by sexuality I mean every time you
turn the television on every time you turn
on the radio you say well I'll bet
you I can at least watch one major
prime time show that doesn't talk about it
if you can name me one just one
show on prime time television that sometimes does
not mention sex or sometimes does not mention
immorality or sometimes does not allude to immorality
or infidelity or adultery or somebody shacking up
I sure wish you could show me one
but I guarantee you won't be able to
think of one even the kiddos cartoons nowadays
are full of adultery we live in a
day and it's just like well brother life
if man I'll tell you if it don't
work with this wife just man drop her
and bless god go out and get you
another one hey that might be the law
of the land but friend that's ungodly because
god said there should be one man for
one woman and one woman for one man
and he didn't say anything about running this
that and the other and whore hopping and
jumping this person and jumping that person like
a bunch of frogs on lily pads hey
this is gospel truth if you don't believe
me you can talk to the man that
told me in Shelby North Carolina right in
this very moment there's a Baptist church in
Shelby North Carolina it is not independent it
is not fundamental and for all counts that
I care about it's a satanic church but
they call themselves Baptist every other month every
other month in North Carolina in this so
-called Baptist church they have an offering basket
at the back of the auditorium and it
is not for money it is full of
house keys guess what you do at the
end of the service of every other month
you walk back and you pick up a
house key and the house key you pick
up with a name on it is the
person's spouse that you go home with that
night in a Baptist church in North Carolina
our country our churches and our homes are
sexually minded we've got young people all over
this country now that are sexually active hey
when third graders get passed out condoms in
school friends you know this country has gone
a long way down the road to hell
and I think it's time that somebody stands
up and says our nation is being raped
by the God of immorality but not only
is our nation being raped by sex I
want you to see number two our nation
has been raped by sports did you know
that the Roman Empire before it fell it
had two things that was the fall of
the Roman Empire you know what it was
an over emphasis on immorality and an over
emphasis on the gladiator games or what we
would call today sports I am not against
sports but I am against having sports in
the wrong place I am against having sports
take precedence over the house of God I
am against having sports take precedence over letting
Christ be first and preeminent and dominant in
our lives and I'm going to tell you
something our country has gone sports nuts I
was preaching in the independent Baptist church last
Sunday I don't know anything about football and
basketball I don't know anything about it but
I'm going to tell you something I was
preaching one day on Superbowl Sunday and I
was just preaching about I said how many
are making a commitment to come up tonight
after the service the preacher said brother why
don't you realize tonight is Superbowl and I
said what's that supposed to mean he said
we're going to have a little bit of
a different type of service he said we're
going to start a little bit earlier and
I want you to preach a little bit
shorter now friend it's a pretty bad thing
in America when you've got to alter your
church services so people can get home and
watch the Superbowl let's not turn a stick
and VCR on and tape it if you
want to but come to the house of
God and get revived I'm going to tell
you how we know America is going downhill
when one basketball player can make more than
a year than Bill Clinton can make in
a lifetime being president when you can turn
on TV and one man in one year
can make billions and billions and billions of
dollars but we can't even touch the national
debt you know we've gone overhead and over
our heels in sports you walk into the
average young person's room they don't have one
Bible verse in the room you walk in
the average young person's room they got sports
heroes here and sports heroes there and sports
heroes there and they've not read their Bible
in three weeks and they say but over
the last I want to be like Mike
because Michael Jordan can jump ten feet in
the air well Jesus jumped ten feet and
bless God he kept on going I'd much
rather be like Jesus than like Michael Jordan
I'll say that right now and we have
gone sports crazy in America I mean with
baseball with basketball with hockey with football and
we got the Lions the Tigers the Bears
oh my and we got the killers and
this that and the other and we love
to see blood and we love to see
gore and then we just want to see
somebody get their sick and we have gone
sports crazy in America now friend if you
think this message is hard to hear then
bless God you ought to get up here
and try to preach it I'll say that
right now but I'm going to tell you
something we have gone head over heels over
sex and over sports now I'm a golfer
I really enjoy golf I don't think there's
anything wrong with going out playing golf a
couple times a week or one time a
week something like that as long as you
don't got these swanky plates that cost you
$250 for a green fee or something like
that these $15 golf balls but I enjoy
playing golf that's about the only thing I
enjoy doing outside of preaching I'm just not
much of a sports person I don't have
anything wrong with boys and girls playing tee
ball this that and the other I don't
have anything wrong with anybody playing football I
could care less about NASCAR somebody says brother
what do you think about racing here's my
theology on racing if I'm going to get
in a car and drive 500 miles bless
God I do not want to get out
where I got in alright I don't want
to get down the road somewhere I don't
want to get out at the same cotton
picking checking flag that I started at after
I went 500 miles now I'm an evangelist
friend when I go 500 miles bless God
I'm going somewhere and I'm going to preach
I'm not going in a circle so people
can scream rant and rave and say hey
Budweiser won the race alright I'm not worried
about that but we have gone sports crazy
in America but you know what's interesting to
me do you know when all the football
games are all the baseball games are all
the basketball games are all the hockey games
are you know what all the races are
they're always on Sunday they always have the
big tournaments on Sunday you say well they
don't know you're stupid if you believe that
you better believe they know they're doing everything
they cotton picking good and well pleased to
get people out of the house of God
I mean the devil doesn't want people in
God's house I mean he's going to do
everything he can to keep people out of
God's house and he's going to give them
every excuse and every avenue and every opportunity
to keep away from the house of God
and he's used something simple like sports to
do it I got a good evangelist friend
of mine he's been in evangelism for 40
years as a matter of fact it's Dr.
Ron Comfort the man that founded the college
where I went to school I picked Dr.
Comfort's brains a million times as he told
me once he told me 15 times the
story one night I don't remember where it
was but he said he was preaching pastor
he was preaching in a large independent Baptist
church this independent Baptist church as many of
them do had their own Christian school had
a gymnasium and a school auditorium just right
across the parking lot he said on Friday
night of the meeting usually on Friday night
he probably preached on prophecy he had he
said they had a fairly good crowd but
he could notice he noticed it was down
and I'm going to tell you why it
was down while he was preaching in the
church auditorium the Christian school that was under
that church just right across the parking lot
was having a basketball tournament doing revival meetings
I'm telling you we've gone sports crazy but
not only have we worshipped the God of
sex and not only have we worshipped and
been raped by the God of sports but
we've also been raped by the God of
slothfulness the average Baptist loves to sleep in
on Sunday morning until the sun warms their
feet and they don't care anything about Sunday
school they might be happy and they might
get lucky if they get to Sunday morning
very rarely do you ever see them on
Sunday night and it would almost be a
miracle like the crossing of the Red Sea
if you ever seen them on prayer meeting
somebody wants Sunday morning and I've said that
the Sunday morning crowd proves the popularity of
the church the Sunday night crowd proves the
popularity of the preacher and the Wednesday night
crowd proves the popularity of Jesus and he's
not real popular in most of the churches
I preach in and friend I'm telling you
what's the truth we have got a bunch
of slothful people around America now I used
to think they were just outside the church
but boy when I started preaching evangelism my
eyes were open we got a bunch of
lazy Baptists that sit around and suck their
thumbs and let the world die and go
to hell and the preacher gets up and
rants and raves hey we need workers we
need teachers we need help and the average
Baptist sits there and says well he's not
talking to me he's talking to the other
person and I'm telling you what my dear
friend we do need workers we do need
teachers we do need help and we don't
need lazy Christians we got enough of them
running around now I was just in Los
Angeles and I won't tell you it made
me sick to walk up down the streets
now you think I'm you think I'm just
kind of playing around and I'm just kind
of messing around just kind of making things
up no I would walk on the streets
of Los Angeles and there would be 20
people standing up against the wall in broad
daylight with the police officers driving up and
down and every one of them would be
either smoking or ingesting crack cocaine into their
body and that police officer didn't do one
thing I mean I would walk right up
to them I mean these harlots walking around
the street with hands full of contraceptives I've
seen this one black girl she could not
have been more than 95 pounds she was
obviously strung out on cocaine she had little
old short hair she had no shoes and
socks on she probably sold them and she
had on sandwich bags she had plastic clear
sandwich bags wrapped on her feet tied around
with rubber bands walking around with a handful
of contraceptives trying to steal her body for
just a little bit of money and the
police didn't do one thing about it but
you know what bothered me all these people
sitting out in the streets all these people
laying around the streets white people black people
hispanic people big people little people there are
six rescue missions within a half a mile
of one another and most of them are
only there so people can eat and sleep
because people don't want to be told what
to do in the day and age in
which we live every one of them people
can get out there and get a job
every last one of them they're already out
there selling drugs they're already out there making
a mess and writing over everything and graffiti
and being ganged every one of them could
go out and get a job but none
of them want to you know why because
they're lazy they expect the government to take
care of them and guess what the government's
doing it the government giving exactly what they
want I call it the welfare God mentality
God you owe me something and I'm going
to tell you right now big boy God
don't owe you a dime he doesn't owe
you anything he doesn't owe me anything we
better even be glad he loved us enough
to save us by his mercy and grace
because we all ought to be in a
devil's hell right now and the apostle Paul
said if a man won't work neither should
he eat now if we live by that
in America we'll either have a bunch of
people working or a bunch of people starving
bless God one or the other now friend
I'm telling you what the truth we have
got a God that is raping our country
called slothfulness you read the book of Proverbs
and there's at least twenty verses in the
book of Proverbs that deals with lazy people
he says go to the app now slugger
to consider a ways and be wise friend
we've been raped by God of slothfulness laziness
just sitting around lollygagging not doing anything whatsoever
letting the kids play Nintendo four or five
six hours a day I preach in a
place called Reformers Unanimous about a month ago
it's a Christ centered addictions program in Rockford
Illinois a very big old church about six
hundred fifty seven hundred people something like that
and they got a an addictions ministry on
Friday night for people that are addicted for
people that are addicted to anything I mean
pornography gambling you name it drugs alcohol anything
you can imagine that somebody would be an
addict to these people were there and there
was probably about a hundred and twenty of
them and I preached the message that I'll
probably preach sometime this week but I preached
the message to these people and you know
what amazed me there was a young man
there and there was only a hundred and
sixty eight hours in a week there was
a young man there I say he was
there he had just recently left he had
been in the program for over a year
there was a young man there pastor he
was about nineteen years old he was addicted
to video games he played seventy five hours
of video games seventy five hours that's like
three complete full non sleeping days of sitting
around in front of a voodoo playing video
games and I'm telling you we've got a
bunch of lazy people in America lazy hey
but why are you preaching this message tonight?
well because God laid upon my heart and
I think somebody needs to stand up and
say right our country is being raved but
number two I believe our churches are being
raved and number three I think our churches
are a mess for three simple reasons number
one I think our churches are being raped
first of all by emotionalism now you hear
me and you hear me well you cannot
have the spirit of God without some emotion
but you can't have emotion without the spirit
of God and a good telltale sign of
that is what's going on tonight in Pensacola
Florida in Brownsville Texas and in Toronto Canada
where they're jumping around barking like dogs meowing
like cats crawling around like a bunch of
wild men kicking up sawdust pulling the chandeliers
out of the wall and saying good wiggly
glowing at God look what we're doing for
Jesus you say well brother you ought not
be too hard on them charismatic people that
go crazy because they're of the spirit you
better believe it but they're of the wrong
spirit I'll tell you that right now because
friend when you come into contact with Almighty
God you won't be jumping around doing the
ooga booga and the fancy waltz and this
that and the other jumping around acting like
a blooming fool and talking about bing bang
boom and Yamaha Kawasaki Suzuki and speaking in
some unknown tongue hey friend when God comes
on you you'll get on your face and
grovel in conviction and I'm telling you we
are being raped by emotionalism what I mean
by that is this people come to church
and they look real emotional they look real
spiritual they go out on Monday morning and
live like the cotton-picking devil now bless
God if it's good enough to shout about
on Sunday then it's good enough to live
for on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
and Sunday by the way I preach like
this everywhere I go whether you shout or
pout it don't make any difference to me
I got enough just enough money in my
truck to get me back to Nashville all
right if you're ready to run me out
tonight let's go but truth of matters is
we are as a nation and we are
as churches being raped and nobody's even saying
anything about it preachers are just letting it
go and preachers are just letting it slide
and we are being raped by emotionalism but
number two we're being raped by educationalism people
think they can get smarter than God you
got these guys that are higher critics we're
theologians brother Locke and we've studied the Greek
and we've studied the Hebrew and we've studied
about everything and we came up with the
idea that God really didn't mean that in
his word I'd rather be some old backwoods
hillbilly barefooted ignorant fool that knows God than
some crazy theologian that tries to disprove his
belief and educationalism is ruining our churches bless
God I think every person who's called a
preacher ought to go to Bible college I
think people ought to have I think we
ought to have education I've got a degree
bless God I've got one but if that
degree is something that causes me to doubt
the Word of God they can have their
stinking degree they can burn the thing friend
I want the power of God on my
life you know we're living in such a
day when people go to seminaries down there
and they come out believing less than they
did when they went in people go to
Detroit Baptist seminary or people go to Dallas
Theological Seminary so y'all not name names
well Jesus did so I will they go
to these different places and they go in
and they believe something they come out don't
even believe in the virgin birth they don't
even believe in the inspiration of the Bible
they don't even believe in the in the
substitutionary death of Christ they don't believe in
a literal resurrection they don't believe in a
literal premillennial coming of Christ they don't believe
in anything anymore we're being raped by educationalism
these people think they can get so smart
they're smarter than God I've got news for
you there's never been a man that's smarter
than God God at his worst is better
than man at his very best and our
churches friend are being raped by educationalism people
wanting the deep things and friend I've been
saved for a good time now and I've
been reading my Bible a lot and I've
been preaching all over this country but I'll
tell you something I can't handle some of
the deep things of God I'm a little
shallow minded and I still need to get
some of them shallow things in my heart
I still have trouble with John 3 16
every now and then I'll be honest with
you I still have trouble with Jesus way
up John 11 35 I don't understand all
the ramifications of that and I'm not going
to get in the deep sovereignty of God
and predestination and this that and the other
and all the dispensations and all that kind
of stuff hey I will stay away from
that friend I'm still trying to chew on
some of the things I've got to learn
now from God's Word and I'm not worried
about getting in the pulpit and sounding all
articulate that's pretty obvious by what I'm preaching
tonight I'm not really worried about getting in
the pulpit and letting everybody see me and
say oh what a great man of God
he is Tommy Wright I'm not worried about
being some great man of God and some
deep theologian I just want to be faithful
to the book I just want to be
faithful to the book I believe in education
now there are some people that go on
the opposite end of that stick and they
don't believe you should have any education whatsoever
and it shows in everything they say and
everything they do I was listening to this
wind sucking preacher on the radio about six
months ago you know the wind sucker is
you probably have around Tennessee and he was
on it and the God it's like he's
dying you know like a whale or something
I mean he's just up there preaching just
sucking at it and he's going at it
and here's what he said he said bless
God I'm an ignorant preacher and I'm going
to pray and I'm going to get ignorant
every day and I thought whoo God's answering
your prayer a little bit quicker than you
want him to amen but now we're being
raped by emotionalism we're being raped by educationalism
now here's the big one we're being raped
in our churches by entertainment we're being raped
we've got this idea pastor that we come
to church to have a good time we
got this idea that we come to church
so we can feel good I'm going to
tell you something you come to church to
get the devil preached out of you while
you come to church you know why I
come to church to get the devil preached
out of me you say as an evangelist
you need the devil preached out of you
you better believe it I like it when
an old-fashioned preacher gets up and steps
all over my toes and I got to
come to the next service with steel-toed
shoes on and he steps right through them
and he sets my soul on fire and
he gets me to thinking and he gets
me into old-fashioned conviction and I run
down an altar and get on my face
and say oh God help me but we
got the idea you're supposed to come to
church and entertain everybody we got the idea
that you come to church so we can
worship one another I'm going to tell you
what our problem in fundamentalism is here according
to the Bible we're supposed to worship God
and appreciate man but fundamentalists have been appreciating
God and worshiping man far too long I'm
not interested in impressing you this week I'm
interested in impacting you you dear singers thank
God for you I appreciate every song you've
sung but you don't have to come to
this place and think to yourself oh man
what are they going to think about me
if I sing who gives a flip what's
God going to think about you when you're
singing you don't come here to entertain friends
you come here to impress almighty God and
to help and to encourage the saints and
we got these churches I'm talking about independent
Baptist churches man these ladies get up there
and they got these little old tights on
and they get up there and look like
Gene Simmons and they're doing all this little
dancing all this little mass and jumping around
and the preacher's up there tapping his foot
and they're having themselves a good old jolly
time and God ain't worth a million miles
around that crazy place and I'll tell you
something friend we got the place where we
think we got to entertain everybody I was
up at Willow Creek not too long ago
where old Bill Hybels is he's got that
church man they got 15 20,000 people
on Sunday morning you say whoa he must
be doing something right there's no crosses there's
no pulpit there's no Bible verses on the
wall and there's no baptistry he sits on
a bar stool he crosses his legs he
puts on a little lapel mic doesn't even
wear a tie and he talks to the
people for a little while then when he
gets through talking he's got a drama team
that comes out and dances around a little
bit and does this that and the other
and shows off for a while and then
they give an invitation and they say they
have people saved and baptized and join the
church I don't know how in the world
you can watch some woman get up there
and shut her stuff and get saved by
the grace of God because there's always only
been one message that convicts sinners and that's
the old fashioned gospel and we've got to
a place nowadays where we think we've got
to stoop to the world's message and entertain
everybody we don't have to entertain people all
we've got to do is please God stay
straight with God keep our own noses clean
and God will take care of the results
God will take care of the congregation himself
now I realize I've preached over my time
tonight so let me give you this last
one we're going to be through number one
I believe our country is being raped number
two I believe our churches are being raped
but number three I think our children are
being raped we are raising children in the
day and age in which we live in
a crooked and a perverse and a vile
and a wicked wicked generation but I've got
news for you parents I am not one
but I did grow up in a children's
home and I know what it's like to
have a busted up family and all this
kind of stuff but I'm going to tell
you something you can still raise your kids
to serve God in this wicked world you
can still love your raise your kids to
love the old King James Bible you can
still raise your kids to love the local
church and to love the things of God
to be saved at an early age we
can still raise boys and girls to serve
God even in this wicked crooked perverse generation
you know why the devil is doing his
dead level best to kill our children to
rape our children and have them so wicked
and vile I'll tell you why because they
are the future church members of this church
they are the future fundamentalists they are the
future politicians across the world and he wants
to do his dead level best to corrupt
their minds and he's corrupting them three ways
you say oh boy three more points well
I'm not going to preach on all of
them I'm just going to give them to
you number one he's corrupting them through their
music number two he's corrupting them through their
movies and number three he's corrupting them through
materialism we've taught our kids that you've got
to have everything just give them everything they
want man don't spank them man don't stand
them in the corner man by the way
if you get caught spanking your kids the
D.H.R. will call you yeah but
when their kids grow up and raise hell
and serve the devil they wonder what in
the world went wrong I'll tell you what
went wrong spare the rod and spoil the
child and for 16 years of my life
I was spoiled and stunk like a rotten
egg because my mama never spanked me and
that's why I was in the court six
different times that's why I was a dope
head that's why I drank that's why I
ran around and acted like a blooming fool
and that's why I spent four years in
a children's home without my friends without my
fortune without my family without my fame that's
exactly why because I had everything handed to
me on a silver platter and I'm telling
you our little children are being raped by
the music that they listen to and I
hear moms and dads all over this country
they say well I just let them have
their own room and they have their own
stereo system in the room and they have
their own TV and their VCR I'm not
worried about that I'm not going to just
over run and listen to everything my kids
listen to it's their room yeah but it's
your kid and bless God it's your house
you better know what your kids are listening
to you better know what your kids are
watching you say well you're making me mad
you think you're mad now wait five more
minutes the truth of the matter is this
my dear friend we are living in a
day and age when mom and dads are
taking no responsibility whatsoever and they're letting Johnny
go where he wants to go and Susie
go where they want to go and they
say well you just be home by 12
o'clock let me ask you a question
what are they doing for the next two
hours of their life you say well my
kid would never do something like that and
if you believe that mess you ought to
sue your brain for non support you're crazy
you would have done the exact same thing
if your mom and daddy let you stay
out that late hey friend you give your
flesh an inch and it will take a
cut and tick and mouth every single time
I'm telling you we are raising a generation
of young people that know nothing about morals
that know nothing about old-fashioned purity that
know nothing about the Bible that know nothing
about the virginity that know nothing about the
things of almighty God and our children are
being raped by what they're listening to by
what they're watching we think Hollywood just great
big glamorous thing I was just there preaching
last week there's nothing glamorous about it if
you think it's glamorous to walk by and
see somebody smoking a crack pipe and the
next turn around you see some old wino
with vomit all over the street and that's
the gospel truth you see that walking around
you see people getting shot and this that
and the other and you see people using
these little port-a-johns for about 30
or 40 minutes at a time men and
women both going in them together smoking crack
cocaine and some of them dying and falling
out right in the middle of the street
you think that's Hollywood and you think that's
funny that's real Hollywood friend but on Hollywood
they make it so glamorous and they make
it so beautiful you better be careful what
you and your family watch in your house
I did not say you got to beat
the TV in with a baseball bat it
may be a good idea but I didn't
say you had to now my wife and
I we have a 40-foot travel trailer
we don't have a television but we do
have one of them little deals that just
plays the just plays the little VCR tape
I don't have anything wrong with that you
can watch TV but I have figured out
nowadays the best thing on TV is that
little knob that turns it off because we
have fallen down and we have began to
worship the one-eyed monster we get on
our knees and we put our arms around
that thing I double dog dare you to
go home tonight I double dog dare you
to go to your house and get your
kids and get your wife and get on
your knees in front of that TV and
say TV you've helped me to love my
wife more you've helped my wife to submit
to me and say TV you've helped me
to be a better cook and be a
better mama you've helped my boys to love
God and TV you've helped my little daughter
to know what it is to be pure
and to be righteous you ain't got enough
God to go to the house and do
that because you know your stinking TV never
taught you any of that whatsoever every time
they get on that blaspheme God and they
curse God and curse the Bible and spit
on God you say well what about these
little comedy shows you know and these little
shows that come on they don't cuss and
they don't talk about wickedness and ungodliness you
know most of those sitcoms most of those
for the most part are clean but you
know what the biggest problem is they show
happy life independent of God they show that
people can be happy and people can live
in pleasure and people can have fun without
God and that's not real life because people
without God have a vacuum inside of them
and that vacuum is shaped like one thing
it's shaped like Almighty God they pull in
sex it doesn't fill it they pull in
all kind of wickedness it doesn't fill it
they pull in Hollywood they pull in pleasure
they pull in money they pull in dope
they pull in drugs they pull in alcohol
they pull in everything but it just keeps
going and going and going through going through
going through and until they get God there
will be no satisfaction in that vacuum there
will be no satisfaction in that life whatsoever
so please parents I beg in God's name
be careful what you're watching be careful what
your children are watching and tonight in this
portion of scripture here was a man that
took his dead wife chopped her up into
12 different pieces and put her in the
mail and sent her to the 12 tribes
division and the Bible says when they got
it they were shocked they said they'd never
seen anything like that they never heard anything
like that before in their life and the
Bible says it shocked their soft balls and
I'm going to tell you something with this
I'm through we need something in America to
shock us back in reality we have got
so far out in our thinking we have
got so far away from God so far
away from the Bible so far away from
the local church and so far away from
having real true revival we think exactly like
the world and we're going to have to
have God do something desperate to shock us
back into reality and tonight I ask the
question why isn't somebody yelling rape your heads
are bowed your eyes are closed please there's
no one looking and no one talking as
our instruments are coming here's what I want
to say before I ask any questions you
know my heart I know we only met
yesterday but you know my heart I do
not preach tonight to be mean I try
to preach the best I can firm and
solid on the Bible but I want to
preach the truth in love and it just
concerns me some of the things that I
see across America and hey if it concerns
a little 24 year old preacher it ought
to concern some of you parents a whole
lot it ought to burden you it ought
to make you mister want to fall on
your face and have family altars and family
devotions with your dear sweet wife and your
children every day because you know what as
much as I preach to kids and as
much as I preach to the ladies about
their responsibility can I remind you mister that
according to God's word you're the priest of
your home you're the pastor if you will
you're the leader you're the shepherd of your
home the church and the Christian school is
not supposed to raise your kids you are
they're just to help and tonight we need
some watchman to stand on the wall and
scream out oh God give us revival God
forgive us for the way that we've been
running our families forgive us for letting the
country die and go to hell in a
handbasket God help us to scream out race
help us to let the world know that
it's dying and going to hell may we
give the message and quit being so slothful
and quit being so lazy I want everybody
to stand tonight please there's no one looking
there's no one talking but everyone standing I'm
not going to have you raise your hand
but this is what I'm going to do
I'm talking to young people I'm talking to
fathers I'm talking to mothers I'm talking to
husbands and wives I'm talking to single people
I'm talking to everybody in this room tonight
if God's spirit spoke to your heart you
know you ought to be more of a
prayer for your family you've not been the
witness and you've not had the burden and
the vision for what God can and wants
to do in America you've not had that
burden but yet God spoke to your heart
tonight in this message I do not know
what area it was my dear friend I
don't know what God told you but if
God spoke to your heart tonight right now
right now I want you to step out
of your place I want you to come
and get on your face before God and
say God tonight help my family God tonight
help our church help our children God give
us right now you step out of your
place God bless these many that are coming
from all over the auditorium just come tonight
friend don't you worry about anybody just swallow
your pride and just come oh yeah you
can do business with God in your seat
but I believe it really means something to
step out and to come and get on
your face God bless you God bless you
God bless you ma'am God bless these
that are coming brother I think we're just
going to have some playing tonight no singing
just some playing tonight let God's people deal
with God the way that they should the
pianists they all can continue to play there'll
just be no singing just be some music
tonight hey perhaps there's some families that need
to play together maybe there's some husbands and
wives that need to play together I'll tell
you one thing if my wife was here
tonight I'd get on my sweet face in
front of my dear sweet wife and I'd
say honey oh God I'm sorry I've not
been the husband I need to be baby
I'm sorry I've not loved you the way
that I should and done everything for you
the way that I should and I've not
been insensitive to your needs the way that
I should and oh honey please forgive me
God forgive you friend tonight we need revival
you take just as long as this altar
as you need to because God is working
in the hearts and lives of these people