I came home all fired up.
We've had a great week.
We've been out traveling.
I was trying to find somebody to listen
to me tell them how great a week
I've had, and I couldn't get anybody to
listen.
They said, were you here last night?
I said, no, I wasn't here last night.
What in the world's been going on?
Everybody, I haven't told anybody yet, and I'm
not even going to tell the audience now.
There's no sense in it, because whatever's been
happening, it's been exciting.
You know, James Robinson, Crusade's been here.
He gave you testimony last night, man.
I've had, serious, I suppose, seven or eight
people already who've said, you really missed something
last night.
Little guy, about five years old, and it's
been 40 years now, left his ranch home,
ran off.
There wasn't a place to run to, because
they lived about eight miles from the nearest
house.
He stayed gone overnight, and along about the
middle of the next day, he decided he'd
rather eat than to stay gone, so he
went home.
Overseas orders went to the CO and said,
hey, this kid's only 13.
He was honorably discharged with all benefits from
the Army at 13.
He rode for 15 years, became a stuntman,
did all of the stunts for Dick Boone
in Have Gun, Will Travel.
He was in across the wide Missouri on
How the West Was Won.
He rode Chariot and Ben-Hur.
He had
success.
He owned a ranch, a couple of feed
businesses.
He noticed in the books of Scripture, he
didn't know much about the Bible, but he
did know enough to figure that if the
guy was quoting somebody else, there was no
sense in reading his books, so he went
out and got the original.
And worked for him full time, and so
he let friends take over his ranch and
his feed stores and one thing and another,
and he came out here, and bad times
fell on them, and he wasn't able to
pick up the money he thought he would
get, and he found himself out here at
LBC, not in the college, but in the
Bible school, to work painting bridges and doing
whatever.
We wanted him to do something.
He was going to study for the ministry.
He was going to be a preacher.
Early in the game, Jerry had him in,
read the qualifications to him for a deacon,
got done, and he said, Bill, does that
tell you anything?
He said, yes, it tells me I can't
be a deacon, let alone be a preacher.
He said, son, if God called you out
here, hang on.
Old Bill had a real crush on me.
He argued with me one
night, and he said, Doug, we were leaving
at midnight to drive all night.
He said, I settled it.
I said, settle what?
He said, I told God if he wanted
me to drive a bus, I'd drive her
right on into eternity for him.
The things you've given your life to.
And he told him how he had a
dream when he was a boy about doing
something for church.
Her name has brought
in hundreds this morning.
She's 100 years old today.
Amen.
I wonder what you're giving to her.
This is the old time golf flower.
Many employers are
gifted the
15,000 club certificate, and everybody who joins
the 15,000 club gets four of these
giant print balls.
They enable you to make four gifts to
four friends at Christmastime, at the same time
receive a tax deduction for your contribution to
the college, and at the same time help
educate some young man, some young lady for
Christian service.
Doug Oldham says he has this in his
corn crib to keep the mice out.
But this is our family picture that we're
also mailing out with the Bibles.
And may I say that thousands of Bible
distributions to our students.
Now here's a
page from Lynchburg Baptist College, market 15,000
club.
If you live in Canada, you watch him
on television.
Now you send eight Bibles and send two
scholarships, that's $200.
And if you want 40 Bibles, send $1
,000.
That's 10 scholarships and so on, and you
get the Bibles back immediately.
Four for every scholarship.
And those of you at home, ask for
as many Bibles as you need in time.
If you want four, or eight, or 12,
or 16.
Can I send $25 and get one?
You just throw that out.
But it does.
Right now we're going to God in prayer.
James Robinson will be preached
to more people his age, as far as
I know, than anybody who's ever lived.
I'll see him all across the land.
This week has been an explosive week.
We had over 400 people the whole week
long.
They've been coming to build a thing to
have the kids come.
A blessed week with James Robinson.
What a delight it's been to have him
here.
John is a tremendous man of God.
What a musical ministry God's given to him.
Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends.
This is Thanksgiving Day up in Tennessee.
Our loving Father, speak to
hearts.
Save sinners today.
Lord, the millions are watching by television.
Lay it upon hearts to give.
Lord, we want to see the school enlarged.
We want to see thousands of young people
here one day.
Lord, we pray that today you'll speak to
some alcoholic somewhere.
Some criminal.
Some broken home or a home that's about
to divorce.
Lord, just let the right thing be said
and the right way to bring family to
this service right now.
We ask in Jesus' name.
I'm not going to reintroduce James Robinson.
James Robinson's going to preach.
And I want to say that, as far
as I'm concerned, there just isn't anybody that
can preach like James Robinson has preached here
this week.
Today, on a C-60 cassette, a gift
of $3, please.
Now John McCabe is going to bring the
TV audience a video.
I guess I preach scholarship,
and I'm praying about the Lord.
All of you who watch on television, gave
our church a share.
This morning, if you have your Bible, Romans
chapter 1, the
development of a reprobate.
What is a reprobate?
It means
that a reprobate is a person that, through
the hardness, through his rejection, a
mind, good and evil, sincerely,
look, they said, is disastrous.
In their own mind, great
state, I'm in
such a position of rebellion.
In the mind, in
their life.
And you are going to see with me,
if you would, in Romans 18, verse 18,
the wrath of
being unrighteous.
Here it is.
Not as God.
Neither were thankful.
But they became vain in their imaginations.
Into an image made, put it, beast, and
permanently, eternally, is man.
One way.
You allow, in your, is
simply, his person.
They say, I do, being atheist, with this
very building.
You refuse daily to allow.
If you deny God his rightful place in
your life, then you are a practice.
And he does.
When man refuses to allow God, when man
refuses to magnify, something takes place.
God says, you'll profess yourselves to be wise,
but you'll become a fool.
When you refuse God his rightful place, the
Bible says in verse 24, that God takes
deliberate, specific action.
You refuse God his rightful place.
All right?
Wherefore, as a result of your rejection of
God as God, God also gave them up.
You're going to find three times in this
passage of Scripture, the expression, God gave them
up.
It says here, wherefore God also gave them
up.
To what?
He gave them up to something.
Because of their rebellion.
Because of their rejection of God, he gave
them up.
Now listen to me, friends.
You reject God as God in your life
consistently, and you're going to be given up.
Don't ever doubt it.
It will happen.
Given up to what?
God gave them up to uncleanness.
Through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
God gave them up to the desires of
the flesh.
And as a result of man rejecting God,
didn't show up totally in his life.
He is given up.
It is incredible.
Construction jobs.
The most truthful.
The last days that our God, our God
will be our village.
Glory in their shade.
Do you know what that means?
That means that in the last days, people
are going to be proud of the things
ought to be ashamed of.
And there are people today who consistently boast
about the things ought to be embarrassed about.
Many young men will boast about taking advantage
of a young lady in impurity.
Many girls laugh about making a fool out
of some boy because she trapped him with
immorality to try to escape an unhappy home
life.
It is incredible how many acts of impurity
are committed today in the name of love
when there is no love but nothing other
than lust.
God says, if you reject me as God,
I'm going to give you over to uncleanness.
Now we live in a totally sensual society.
Everything is putting taxes on sex, on impurity,
on the flesh, on the physical.
And we've become so physically oriented that we've
lost sight of God and His truest sin.
But it's by choice that this takes place.
Man rejects God as God.
God gives him over to uncleanness.
There are many aspects, many evidences of what
takes place in a person's life when he
rejects God.
You will be given over to a craving
for popularity, a craving for pleasure, a craving
for worldly things.
You begin to worship money.
You begin to worship the things of this
world.
All right.
What happens when an individual has rejected God
as God and he's guilty in his sin?
Guilt sets in.
When a man sins, God has built something
in his heart that brings about guilt.
And a man senses something is not right.
All right, what do you do about it?
You will either come to God and seek
forgiveness of your guilt, or you'll blame someone
else for your sin and your guilt, or
you will try to justify your sin by
saying that it is not sin.
And you will deny the truth.
It's wrong to steal.
It's wrong to be dishonest.
It's wrong to misrepresent the truth.
It is wrong to lie.
It is wrong to covet.
It is wrong to commit adultery.
The Bible says it is wrong to commit
sex crime.
If you're a dishonest individual, you may not
stand up and say, I believe these things
are all right.
You're saying they're okay, and you're saying they're
not.
Notice what the Scripture says.
When you dishonor your body between yourselves in
sin, in order to justify the sin, in
order to justify the guilt, and the world
is doing this.
America's doing it.
The Bible says these individuals changed the truth
of God into a lie.
They say there's nothing wrong.
People are telling us today that it's all
right to have sex prior to marriage.
I don't care if every psychologist, psychiatrist, and
professor in America says it's right, and they
say that situation ethics justifies the action.
I'm telling you, God says it's wrong, and
you better believe it.
You had better learn to live by what
God says and not by your feeling and
your fleshly appetite.
You put it down when you live in
immorality, and you live in sin, you're going
to pay the price.
But man doesn't want to accept that.
So the Bible says man will change the
truth of God into a lie.
And he'll say, well, it's really not wrong.
And then the Bible says that he will
worship.
Look at this.
And actually, this matter of turning your life
over to idols becomes a worship experience.
I'm telling you, friend, that you can literally
worship the flesh.
You can worship the things of the world.
And God says they change the truth of
God into a lie, and they worship.
They not only worship, but they serve, the
Bible says, the creature more than the creator
who is blessed forever.
Now, what is the result of man worshiping
the flesh, of man worshiping the world, of
man worshiping materialism?
What's the effect of it?
What's the effect of changing the truth of
God into a lie?
For this cause, because they change my truth
into a lie, because they worship and serve
the creature rather than the creator, for this
reason, God gave him up to what?
To vile affection.
Vile affection.
For even their women did change the natural
use of that which is against nature.
And likewise, also the men leaving the natural
use of the woman, they burned in the
last one and receiving in themselves that...
What does it say?
For this reason, they change my word into
a lie.
Many preachers are changing the word of God
into a lie today.
They're trying to change it.
But it is still the word of God.
And I'm telling you that God gives those
people over to vile affection.
He's given a nation over to vile affection.
I gave them over to vile affection, God
says.
Alright, what does that mean?
Vile affection.
What's God talking about?
When a man rejects God, when a man
denies the truth of God's word, when a
man begins to worship the flesh and materialism
and the world, God gives him over to
unnatural affection.
Vile affection.
Would you like some examples of vile affection?
First of all, the desire for alcohol is
an unnatural affection.
There is no natural human desire to cause
an individual to desire...
Do you know we have been recently told
that we may have nearly 1 million alcoholics
below 12?
Do you know that now alcohol...
More than drugs, kids are turning to alcohol.
Because...
My father never gave me...
He drank my hair tonic.
He drank cooking oil.
He drank...
Content.
What is there in any way...
When it is fermented, don't even look at
it.
It becomes a fever in the mind.
It's like being on top of a mast
of a ship in a storm.
And you're tossed to and fro.
It's like being beaten up physically.
And when you get out of bed, you've
got a headache.
And you say, who struck me?
But the Bible says, yet will you seek
it again?
It makes a fool out of you.
Yet you seek it again.
That is not a natural affection.
A man ran over a little boy and
killed him.
The boy was left lifeless by his bicycle
in the street.
The lad was not quite 12 years old.
The car was a hit and run.
The police pursued.
Someone got the license plate.
They found the car.
They saw the damaged fender.
They beat on the door of the home.
No one came.
They broke into the house.
They searched the house.
They found seated in the bottom of a
closet with a liquor bottle between his legs.
Bleary bloodshot eyes.
The man sitting there with his liquor bottle
clutched at his fist.
They found the hit and run driver.
The man had run over and killed his
own little boy.
And I want every drinker here to know,
you may never run over your child with
a car, but I want every drinking parent
to know that you're vile.
It's a vile affection to crave alcohol.
Another example of a vile affection is the
desire for drugs.
What is there natural in the life of
a human being to desire to stick a
needle in his body?
Do you know that from the time I
was a little bitty boy, there has never
seemed to me to be anything as unnatural
as sticking a needle in my body.
They tell me that when I went to
the doctor, in the chin, stick
one, yes, and you?
He said it won't hurt.
I said, doctor, it hurts everybody else like
it hurts me.
You would never give another one.
It hurts.
Don't want a needle stuck in me.
And do you realize that across the country,
trying to thrust dirty needles into veins throughout
their body.
I led two boys to Jesus Christ who
were drug addicts in their jungle.
One boy I led to Christ had shot
out every vein in his body.
By that I mean the veins collapsed.
They wouldn't take a needle.
He took a long needle and plunged it
directly in his stomach like that.
They're trying to get a fix.
I've heard of kids giving themselves a fix
in the eyeball to get a drug.
What's natural about it?
A friend of mine took his nine-year
-old son to the hospital, Fort Worth Children's
Hospital.
In the room next to him was a
nine-year-old boy with no left arm.
They had just cut his arm off right
here at the shoulder.
They cut that little nine-year-old boy's
arm off right here at the shoulder.
Teenagers doing drugs, and he thought it was
cute.
So he got him a needle, and he
got a dirty needle, and he kept sticking
that dirty needle in his little arm until
he got blood poisoning.
And gangrene set in that little boy's arm.
I'm telling you it's a vile affection.
Do you realize that the mass murders that
are occurring throughout the land are vile affections
and expression of it?
Two little six-year-old girls headed home
from school.
I cut to pieces.
Are you aware of the fact that in
Houston, Texas, presently, they are looking for the
murderer of 13 teenage girls who have been
murdered over the past two years?
Their teenage bodies have been scattered over as
much as a four-block area by someone
who's getting their kicks out of cutting somebody
to pieces.
They had a television documentary that was to
be shown nationwide.
They never showed it.
It was too gruesome.
It was taken on death row in major
penitentiaries.
They asked them why they did the killings.
One of them said, I wanted to hear
them choking their blood.
Another one said, I wanted to hear them
beg me.
I'm telling you, friend, we live in an
age of vile affections.
A boy in Arizona ordered the ladies in
a beauty salon to lie face down on
the floor.
He walked around the circle, and he pumped
bullets into their skull, and he shot through
her body into the body of the girl.
They said, why did you do it?
The boy said, all of my life I
wanted attention.
That is the move of Satan.
Self-exaltation.
Exalt self.
Exalt the flesh.
He said, all of my life I wanted
attention.
I never got it.
I bet I get it now.
He said, that boy's not crazy.
He's as mean as Satan.
I want you to know, friend, if we
don't have a spiritual revival in America, it's
going to be dangerous for you to walk
the streets of your country, the home of
the brave and the land of the free.
God says men, right here in Romans 1,
will fall in love with men.
Boy, you talk about the most unnatural thing.
It was because of the sin of homosexuality,
the sin of sexual perversion, that God burned
the city of Sodom and Gomorrah off the
face of this earth.
And we live in a time when some
preachers are standing in the pulpits of America
and defending homosexuality.
I don't care if it says homosexuality is
a form of sexual expression, and we ought
not condemn them.
I don't care if every preacher condones it.
My God, condemn it.
It's wrong.
It is not natural.
It is a vile affection.
Yes, my friends, I believe we ought to
love every person, regardless of their sin of
perversion or any sin.
I believe we ought to love them.
But I'm telling you, a person who is
guilty of sin will never be forgiven until
he acknowledges his guilt is sin.
I've seen God save sex perverts, people whose
morals were twisted, but never when they defended
their sin, only when they said, I'm a
sinner.
Do you know what a reprobate mind is?
That's the next step.
Some of you have been given over right
here today to vile affections.
Some of you are worshiping the flesh.
Look what happens.
When you get to this point in your
life that you're worshiping the affections of the
flesh and you're giving over to vile affections,
God says they didn't even want to retain
God in their knowledge.
So move on by some to get God
completely out of the country.
Let's not even talk about God.
Let's not mention God.
Madeleine Murray O'Hare from down in Texas,
one of our sweet little Texans, has done
everything she can to get the name of
God out of America.
I believe if ever there lived a reprobate,
she's a reprobate.
I believe that.
You say, you think there's no hope for
her.
I'm praying for her.
But I sincerely believe she's thoroughly and completely
a reprobate woman.
She wants to get rid of the very
thought of God.
She said, I don't want to hear anybody
talk about God.
She wanted to assume the U.S. government
calls the astronauts read the Bible.
Boy, don't you know that blew her mind.
I pray to God every time they go
up in space, they'll at least read the
Bible to Madeleine Murray.
She got up one time fussing in Putin
at a school, and a girl got up
in Ohio and said, God bless you, Madeleine
Murray O'Hare.
You've done more to strengthen my faith.
If you want to know what causes an
impurity in all the sins, then all you
have to do is read the rest of
Romans chapter 1.
Because God said to be given over unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignancy, whispers, backbiters, haters of God.
On and on.
Everything that's wrong in the world begins.
Do you want to know what a Christian
is?
A Christian is an individual who allows Jesus
Christ to be the very center of his
existence.
And that is what a Christian is.
God becomes the God of his life.
Are you a Christian?
Do you know many times people hear me
preach on being a reprobate and being given
over to a reprobate mind?
And they'll look at me and they'll say,
Do you suppose that's happened to me?
No.
Because if you're looking at me and saying,
Oh, I hope I'm not one of those.
You're not.
Because believe me, when a reprobate hears a
preacher preach the gospel, he will cuss the
preacher.
He says, I do not care.
I do not care what you say.
Or he may very politely say, Well, that's
mine.
That's for you.
He has absolutely no interest in the forgiveness
and the grace and the salvation of God.
And if you have any interest whatever in
forgiveness, my God is willing to forgive you.
A teenage girl called me after a service
in Washington.
She had her hands over her face.
She said, I must talk to you.
But she wouldn't put her hands down.
Her tears were flowing so freely that mascara
ran across the back of her hands.
I said, Put your hands down.
I can see you.
She said, No, I'm too embarrassed.
She said, I'm so ashamed.
She said, I'm just 16, but I've already
given birth to two illegitimate children.
She said, I've cut my wrist.
Then she lowered her hand.
I saw the scars.
She said, I've taken pills.
I'm going to a psychiatrist.
I'm going crazy.
She said, I'm so bad.
I'm so bad.
And I said, You're right.
You're probably the worst girl I've ever met
in my life.
And when I said that, she put her
hands down.
And she looked over at me and instantly
she trusted me.
I was the first person she had ever
talked to that would admit the truth about
her.
Everybody else she had ever talked to, she
said, I'm bad.
I'm bad.
They said, You're not bad.
You're a good girl.
The psychiatrist said, You're not bad.
It's your family's fault.
The friends at school said, It's not your
fault.
It's the boy's fault.
The parents said, It's not your fault.
It's the kids you associate with's fault.
And all the time God is saying, It's
your fault.
It's your fault.
Yes, I gave my word that every mouth
may be stopped and that all the world
may become guilty before me so that when
all the world becomes guilty, they may receive
the full expression of my love and my
grace in Christ Jesus.
God said, You're a sinner.
I said, You're a sinner, but God will
forgive you.
She said, No, God can't forgive me.
I said, You are a sinner.
You're just as bad as you said, but
the blood of Jesus will cleanse from all
sin.
She said, God can't save me.
She said, I'm too bad.
I'm too bad.
God can't save me.
That's when I got what I refer to
sometimes as the Holy Giggles.
Did you ever get them?
I mean, when you just get so happy
that you just kind of start laughing on
the inside.
I did.
I just sat there and I was getting
the Holy Giggles, see, because she's sitting there
saying, I'm too bad.
God can't save me.
I'm so bad.
I'm sitting over there laughing inside because I'm
saying, but he's fixing to.
He's fixing to.
I want you to know there's never been
a person come.
There's never been a person come who would
say, I'm so bad.
I've done so much as a sinner.
There's never been a person come to God
like that.
But God didn't say, my blood and my
grace is sufficient for all of your sins.
You acknowledge you're a sinner, my friend, and
God says, I'm waiting anxiously to pardon and
forgive you of every sin in your life.
In a few moments, she's weeping her heart
out, and she asked Jesus to save her.
Her tears flowed through her hands and dropped
like a puddle in her lap.
I've never seen a girl sob so freely.
When she got through asking Jesus to save
her, she stood up and she looked at
me, and she said, you're not going to
believe this.
You're not going to believe it.
I said, well, just ask me.
She said, you won't believe it.
I said, well, just try me.
And she looked at me and she said,
I just feel like somebody washed me clean
all over.
She said, I just feel like a new
person.
She said, I don't need to go to
the psychiatrist anymore.
I don't need to go to the doctors.
I don't want to commit suicide.
I don't need any more pills.
She said, I'm going to go home and
give my mom and daddy a new girl.
And she ran out of the church to
give them a new daughter.
She led the whole family to the Lord
that week.
Her life was changed.
Why?
Because she came to say, Lord, I have
not let you be my God.
I want you to be first in my
life, Lord.
And that's the first step to becoming a
reprobate.
Very innocently, you don't let God be God.
Listen to me, parents.
Some of you don't let God be God
in your life.
And I'm sorry to tell you, but you're
going to see some of your children turned
over to some of these problems because of
your rejection of God.
You're going to teach that child to reject
God.
Don't do it.
Give your life to Jesus today.
I want us to bow our heads all
over this building.
In just a moment, I'm going to ask
every man, I'm going to ask every lady,
I'm going to ask every young person and
those of you on the television audience, those
of you in your home, in a hotel
or motel, wherever you are, right now, if
you will acknowledge to God, Lord, I'm a
sinner.
I don't have any plea but that your
blood was shed for me.
And if you'll ask Jesus right now, if
you'll ask Jesus to forgive your sin, He
says, I'll forgive you of every sin, and
He will.
And right here today in this auditorium, if
you'll invite Jesus into your heart, He'll forgive
you.
Those of you in the television audience, if
you received Christ, I want you to write
Jerry Falwell.
In Lynchburg, Virginia, tell him, Brother Preacher, Brother
Falwell, I received Christ in my heart.
He forgave me and gave me a new
life.
Those of you here this morning need to
come to Christ.
There's some of you here who realize, I've
never let God be my God.
And you're going to need to get up
out of your seat this morning and come
and give your life to Jesus Christ.
Our Father in heaven, I pray for every
man, for every lady, for every young person
here who's never received Christ, may they come
today in Jesus' name.
With our heads bowed in prayer, our choir
is going to sing, God has told you,
you need to be forgiven.
You need to trust Jesus.
I'm going to ask you to get up
out of your seat and come to stand
very reverent to all of the building, every
head bowed.
And you leave your seat, and you come
this morning to say, I want to be
forgiven.
I'm a sinner.
You come right now.
Would you leave your seat and come?
All over this building, God is...
May God bless this week's message.
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