All Things Are Lawful for Me, but I Will Not Be Brought Under the Power of Any

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[00:00] Another opportunity for us to come together and hear and learn of the word of truth as given to us by the most high God. All honor goes to the father [00:06] through the son whose name is Yahosua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. We know that it is obtained by grace [00:13] through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast and given freely as a gift to all who obey him. We understand that [00:19] if you do not obey him, it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe. In this state, you should [00:25] expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything that you do get, whether it be a gift of tongues, a gift [00:31] of prophecy, or any supernatural experience that you may have, it can and it will be used against you in the day [00:36] of judgment. With that said, peace to the saints that are in the room, to the saints that couldn't uh make it, to the [00:44] saints watching in on the camera, but no peace to the wicked. The only thing we say to them is repent that they might [00:50] live. Yeah. Look at that, baby girl. Where you get that from? Hi. Hey. Well, now you doing Bible studies today. Talk [00:57] to you later. Okay. It looks like nail polish to me. [01:02] We'll talk about it later. Okay. All right. Go put it down. Um, y'all coming on camera? Reason my [01:12] mind ain't showing me nothing. Yeah, I can see you, but now you kind of like your sound is in and out. The sound is [01:19] in and out. Not no more. I can hear you now. [01:27] Um, let me see. Somebody confirmed for me in the chat. Is the video okay? Video sound okay? [01:39] Yeah, I can see you just fine. Sound fine, too. You in the chat or you on You just can see me on the screen. I can see [01:45] you on the screen. Like everything's normal on my end. I know, but I'm saying is you on YouTube? Uh, no. [01:54] Oh, well, YouTube looks fine, too. Okay. Uh, so last week we talked about uh we [02:02] we was going through Corinthians. I think we made it all the way through 1 Corinthians chapter 4. Uh, so over the [02:08] overarching subject there was uh we you we had like uh uh Paul getting [02:16] upset about pretty much denominations. Remember we talked about he was, you know, he was talking about the people. Some people saying, "Oh yeah, I got [02:22] baptized by Apollo. I got baptized about Paul." You know what I'm saying? I'm I'm of the Messiah. And so he was looking [02:28] like, "Man, is the Messiah divided?" You know what I'm saying? So he start he went through the first four chapters really just breaking that down. Just [02:34] kind of like like, "No, y'all got to get your head on straight. We on one thing and one thing only. We not on the stuff [02:40] that y'all talking about." You know what I'm saying? So we went through that and he broke, you know, he he gave us I [02:46] think I think the first four chapters of uh first Corinthians I think are very [02:51] powerful you know just talking about denominations and the mindset of a disciple right like you can't have this [02:57] mindset where it's like you know what I'm saying this person deserves the glory or this person no like your [03:03] mindset got to be everybody play a part right everybody play a part right that's [03:08] why the the boys that get the exalting yourself is I'm a prophet I'm an apostle. I'm all these different [03:14] things. It's like, man, first of all, the most high God ain't call you that. And then second of all, it's like, what's so bad about just being a [03:21] brother, right? It don't matter how big you are, no matter what title you got and all that stuff. Like, what's so bad [03:26] about just seeing yourself as a brother or just seeing yourself as a sister, right? And that's and that's what kind [03:32] of Paul, that's the point that Paul was trying to make. He was trying to say, listen, I like you can can't none of [03:37] y'all judge me. I'm truly an apostle, right? And I dumb myself down to y'all [03:44] as a just a brother, but I'm truly an apostle. So like anybody who want to like, you know what I'm saying, look at [03:49] me and like, oh, he's not enough or nothing. He's like, that's small to me, right? So we about to jump over into [03:54] chapter five now. We going to kind of continue over. It's a lot to go over between the the first and the second [04:00] letter of Corinthians. It's a lot to go over. So we gonna start it. We gonna take our time in this one and we gonna [04:05] we gonna start at uh chapter five. a lot to go over just, you know, for what I want to get through today, too. But, um, [04:12] even after we get through today, we still got several several more chapters to get through in 1 and 2 Corinthians. [04:17] So, two big books. So, let's uh let's try to let's try to turn. Keep your fingers ready. You know what I'm saying? [04:23] We going to be turning fast and a lot, but let's see uh let's see what we can get through. This is uh 1 Corinthians [04:28] chapter 5. Go ahead and start me off at verse one. [04:38] It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much as not so [04:47] much as named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife. [04:52] Right? So now he's talk he's telling them about what he heard. He like man I heard her somebody not just doing [04:58] regular fornication heard somebody sleeping with their father wife. Right? Which is against our law. We don't have [05:03] to get it. But our law tell us, it said, you know what I'm saying? Don't mess with your father's wife. You know what [05:08] I'm saying? Don't defile your father's bed is what our law says. Keep going. And ye are puffed up, and have [05:16] not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. Mhm. For verily, as absent in [05:22] body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present concerning him that has done this deed. [05:29] in the name of our Lord Yahosua the Messiah when you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our [05:35] master Yahosua to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in [05:41] the day of the Lord Yahosua. So now what he's saying is the person that did this he telling them kick that person out [05:49] he's saying the reason that to kick them out the reason to sever that relationship say it and read it again [05:54] that last verse for very absent in the body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present [06:01] concerning him that's done this deed in the name of our Lord Yahosua when ye are gathered together in my spirit with the [06:07] power of our Lord Yahosua to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit [06:12] may be saved in the day of the Lord Yahosua. Right? So he's saying get rid [06:18] of him for the purpose that his flesh is destroyed. Right? It's important to [06:23] understand this about the most high God, right? Like the most high God is quick to just cut people off, right? And the [06:30] reason is is because something else needs to be destroyed, right? So the most high God [06:37] don't really he don't do too much like enabling of behavior, right? It's like, okay, let's address it and then you go [06:44] over there, right? You be separated cuz it's important to do that for one, the [06:49] people who are righteous that they don't get influenced into doing something that's unrighteous and also the people [06:55] that are unrighteous so that they can separate theirel and they don't confuse themselves to think, well, I'm probably [07:00] righteous too because I'm standing next to a righteous person. No, separate. Everybody got to split up, right? And [07:07] the hope is that once you separate, once you do that, that the person who's kicked out, that they'll be able to [07:13] recover, that they flesh will be destroyed, and then the spirit to be saved. Right? That's what we want, [07:19] right? We want we want we want only the soul to be saved, right? We want our [07:24] lives to be saved, right? We don't want the flesh, right? Let the flesh go. And [07:31] a lot of times, our flesh is telling us to do things we ought not. like in this man's case, sleeping with his father's [07:36] wife. Right? Keep going. What verse? Six. This is uh 1 [07:42] Corinthians chapter 5 verse 6. Watch what the book say. [07:48] Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavenvens the whole lump? Right? So he said, "Don't [07:54] you know that a little bit of leaven leavenvens the whole lump?" Right? He said a little bit of [08:00] leaven. What he's talking about? He's talking about um you know bread, right? So he's saying don't you know that even [08:07] if it start leavenvening a little bit or even as little bit of a leavenvening agent in it, it's going to cause the [08:14] entire like stack of dough, the whole lump of dough is going is going to leaven up even if you just put a little [08:21] bit in there. And so the point of is like sin will do the same thing. Like, don't you [08:27] know that by keeping sin mixed in with righteousness, it's going to cause everything to be [08:33] unrighteous? What we got? Grab uh real quick, grab Hagi chapter [08:39] 2, right? Yahosua tried to teach us the same thing. You remember you remember we was talking to Yahosua. Yahosua was [08:45] like, uh, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, right? And he was just [08:52] talking about the extra the traditions, right? the false teachings. He was like, [08:57] "Man, that stuff is leavened. It's not necessary. That's not what the what the Most High God taught." So, he said, you [09:02] know what I'm saying? The concept is if you don't be aware of that leaven, it's going to leaven the whole lump, it's [09:08] going to contaminate the whole thing. Right? Right now, we in the first day of unleavened [09:14] bread. Right? You look up there back here on the uh on the calendar, right? [09:19] It's the first day of unleaven bread. So, yesterday was Passover. Now, uh, this is the end of the first day of [09:25] unleaven bread. We going into the second day of unleaven bread, right? And in [09:32] this week, we have no, that's why I got this on, right? To remind myself, you know what I'm saying? No, no leaven bread. You know, sometime I just be [09:38] eating, you know, sometime I just start grabbing stuff and eating it. Order some, you know what I'm saying? Go eat it. But now I got to remind myself [09:44] before I go order, before I put something to my mouth, I see that be, you know what? I ain't supposed to eat that, right? Because this supposed to be [09:50] an entire week with no uh no no leaven bread. So we get all 11 according to our law. We get all 11 out the house. Throw [09:57] it out, right? Get rid of it. Right? We celebrated Passover last night. Praise [10:02] God. And we got rid of all leaven bread. So the point of that is to to the the [10:08] the imagery of it is is we se separate ourselves from sin. We get it all out of [10:13] our house with no without any sin. Right? Yahosua is telling us that the [10:19] teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, right, that is lev is what [10:25] he's calling it. And now Paul is saying, don't you know even a little bit of leaven can spoil a whole bunch, right? [10:32] Because the concept there is sin, right? False teachings, lies, all these things. [10:39] All it takes is a little bit, right? That's why the brothers that the brothers that that that that watch watch [10:46] some of these camps and sometimes they they compromise. They say, "Okay, well, you know, I'mma watch this camp." Or even the the brothers and the sisters [10:52] that be in these churches, right? They be like, "Well, you know, I'm just I'm just going to stay in the church just [10:58] to, you know, just to have community because my friends go there. I really care about." But what happens is some of [11:04] that stuff gets in you, right? And then you become a puffed up loaf of bread. [11:11] That's why you got to separate. You just got to completely just disconnect yourself from a lot of this stuff because you be better out without better [11:17] off without it. A lot of times we think we going without and really it's just a [11:23] process, right? We think we giving something up, but really it's just a process to making us making us better, [11:30] right? This is uh this is what Hag guy chapter 2. You know what I want? Uh, see [11:39] uh I always like to go with verse nine. Let me get Hag guy chapter 2 verse9. You [11:45] want um 10, bro? See, you know what I'm [11:50] saying? Nine would have did it. This Hag guy chapter 2 verse 10. Watch what the book say. [12:01] In the four in 20th day of the ninth month in the second year of Darius came [12:06] the word of Yahweh by Hagi the prophet saying thus says Yahweh of host ask now thou priest concerning the law saying [12:13] all right he said listen ask now the priest concerning the law he about to most high God is always logical if we [12:20] pay attention to how how the most high God lay stuff out and the message that the prophets lay it's always logic [12:27] always logic right so he said look ask the priest I got a question. Let's see what the [12:33] question is. If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his right. If a if a man in his shirt is [12:40] carrying holy flesh, right? You know how you kind of have your shirt up like this and you got you got you got you got [12:46] something that you carrying in there like that cuz you it's too much for you to carry in your hand. So you just open up your shirt like that and you carrying [12:52] it in your shirt. So he said if a man is carrying it in his garment, right? In [12:58] his holy flesh. Holy flesh being this is the flesh that was set apart for the [13:03] priest and the priest family right we had certain sacrifice like the peace offering right where you make the peace [13:09] offering it's you know what I'm saying you got as part of the pri peace offering you got the wave offering and [13:15] you got the heave offering right those offerings go to the [13:21] priest right so now the priest would have to take that and then that would be [13:26] separated for only the priest only the priest can have it. May I go get your brother, tell they about to come sit down. I don't know what they doing, [13:33] right? Only the priest could have that, right? So now he's carrying it in in his [13:40] garment, holding it right there, but he's a priest, so he's clean. And then the the the the food is also clean [13:47] because it's only for the priest. So he carrying it. Now, what's the rest of the question? [13:53] And if one bear flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with the skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oil or any [13:59] meat, shall it be holy? And the priest, right? He asked a question. He said, "Listen, if he get to touching something [14:06] that's not holy, shall that meat still be holy?" That was the question. Let's [14:11] see. And the priest answered and said, "No." Then said Hagi, "If one that is [14:18] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?" And the priest answered and said, "It shall be [14:24] unclean." So now he's saying something that's set apart that's holy that [14:30] touches something else doesn't make that other thing holy. However, something [14:36] that is unclean definitely makes something that's clean [14:42] unclean. Right? And we know that already, right? If I take, look, if I [14:49] have, if I have a nice juicy cheeseburger fresh off of the grill, you [14:55] know, the grill, it heat it up. It heat it up, heat it up, heat it up. And so it [15:00] make it. Now it's a protein style. You know what I'm saying? You got sometimes you got to go to you got to go to uh In [15:05] and Out and you got to get you a protein style where they wrap it in letter. Ain't no leaven bread on that now. You [15:10] know what I'm saying? Ain't no Ain't no leaven bread on the protein style. So it's a protein style, right? You cook [15:16] that thing, it kill the heat, kills all the germs and everything. So you got to [15:22] cook it, cook it, cook it, cook it, cook it all the way through and then you eat it. Right now, if you take that nice, [15:28] clean, heated up burger, right, and you drop it on the [15:34] ground, does that make the heat that was on that burger, does that make the ground [15:39] clean? No. Does it make the ground safe to eat? No. [15:47] Right. But it does make the burger unclean. It does put germs on the [15:53] burger. Let let the person that in and night in and out had your burger. They going to ask you first. What they going [15:58] to ask you? Would you like to eat this in the car? You know what I'm saying? That what they going to do? I like In-N-Out, boy. Would you like? They they [16:04] they look all my little darn. You know what I'm saying? Every every darn uh what's the word I'm looking for? What's [16:10] the word I'm looking for? Accommodation. All my little habits. You see what I'm saying? Like they don't make it no [16:16] better. They just, would you like to eat it? Uh, well, absolutely. I'd like to eat. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Go ahead and put that thing in the box for [16:21] me. Leave it open. You know what I'm saying? So I can just reach over and grab it. You know what I'm saying? So they put it in there. Would you like to eat this car? You going to tell them yes [16:27] cuz your belly is round. You know what I'm saying? That's what it is. You going to tell them yes. And then you gonna be like, "Okay." So then they tell you yes. [16:34] But then as they doing it, they drop it out the window and hit the floor. [16:39] Right? You would not accept that that lady came out be like, "No, that's fresh off the grill. It's still it's still at [16:44] a safe temperature. Let me just come out there." She run all the way out there with her headphones still on. You know what I'm saying? Pick it up, put it back [16:50] together, and hand it through your darn window. You wouldn't accept that darn burger from her. You'd be looking like, "Woman, if you don't go make me another [16:57] burger. Don't have me no burger that just fell off the ground. You wouldn't care if it was still in the package. You wouldn't accept it." Because we [17:04] understand this concept cuz it's logic. something that's dirty touching something else that's not dirty is going [17:11] to make that something else dirty. If you got a pile of dirty clothes and a pile of clean clothes, [17:17] right? And then all of a sudden one of your kids start going through and mix up the dirty clothes and the clean clothes. [17:24] Are you going to be like, "Nah, they all good cuz it was a bunch of clean clothes. It was more clean clothes than dirty clothes. So that make all the [17:30] dirty clothes clean now." No. Your butt going to look at it. Now some of y'all nasty. Who know? But your but she'll [17:36] look at it be like, "Yeah, I just rewatched the whole thing." You know what I'm saying? Everything got to get [17:41] re-watched now. Who know? You know what I'm saying? I don't know if this a clean sock or dirt. Re-wash the whole thing. You've never mixed dirty and clean and [17:48] was like, "Okay, this whole thing is clean. It's always the opposite. You [17:53] look at it like it's all dirty, right?" And so that's what the most high God is trying to say. And [17:59] that's what Paul is trying to say. Paul, let's go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. Paul is trying to tell us that only a [18:06] little bit of leaven can cause the whole lump to get messed up. Matter of fact, [18:11] jump over to uh 1 Corinthians chapter 6 for the sake of time. This 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse one, give me verse uh [18:18] give me verse one. What does the heart want? What you [18:26] want? My what? That's your mom stuff. This is uh [18:33] 1 Corinthians chapter 6. Jump on down to verse eight for the sake of time. All [18:38] right, let's see. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 8. [18:44] Nay, you do wrong and defraud and that your brethren. Know ye not that the [18:49] unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Mhm. Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolattors, nor [18:56] adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, [19:02] nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such [19:08] were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, and ye are justified [19:13] in the name of the Lord Yahosua, and by the spirit of our God. Mhm. All things [19:19] are lawful unto me, but all he said, all things are lawful unto me. How can he say [19:25] that, right? I want y'all to be able to understand how Paul can say this. You [19:32] will never hear before Yahosua come, you'll never hear anybody that keeps our law say something like, "All things are [19:39] lawful to me." Because we know that's that's not true under Moses, right? Under Moses, no. Many [19:47] things are not lawful. Right? But what he's saying is [19:55] all things are lawful to me. Right? Keep going. But not all things are expedient. [20:01] He said, "But not all things are appropriate or [20:07] necessary." Right? So then he just gets done telling you about all the behavior that's not going to make it into the [20:13] kingdom. Then after that he says all things are lawful to me but not everything is expedient to me. Not [20:18] everything is appropriate. Not everything is necessary for me. So what he's really saying is he's [20:24] telling you I can do anything as long as I turn [20:30] away from the things I just got done telling you about. Right? The stuff that starts off in verse 8, fornication and [20:38] adultery and stealing and lying. If I turn away from all these sins, [20:44] everything else is free to me. It's open to me, including not keeping the Sabbath, including eating pork, [20:51] including all the thing. I know my Hebrews are like, they just they they all just turned off the channel. They looking like, uh-uh, what did this [20:57] brother say? Heresy. You know what I'm saying? I get it. I understand what y'all I understand. Look, I'm with [21:02] y'all, right? I'm with y'all. We should all be keeping the law because it's the righteous it's a righteous standard. [21:09] However, that won't prevent you from getting into the kingdom. And that's what Paul's trying to say. That's why he's saying all things are lawful to me, [21:17] right? Because what he's trying to what he's trying to explain is by turning away from those sins, you can get into [21:23] the kingdom, which is the exact same thing that that the Messiah said, right? Grab uh this is uh Matthew chapter [21:29] Matthew chapter 5, give me verse 19. It's Matthew chapter 5 verse 19. [21:46] And then right after that, we going right back to uh 1 Corinthians chapter 6, wherever we left [21:57] off. I don't know about that, Sister Sharon. Now, you got to relax. Everybody got to relax. I didn't say I didn't say [22:03] it was fine. I just said it won't get you back. It ain't going to keep you from the kingdom. Now, you know what I'm saying? But it's definitely going to, [22:09] you know, man, definitely going to make your body unclean. Now, the same principles still apply. Now, you put that swine in you, that swine never [22:15] going to make you healthy. This is uh we talking about uh Matthew chapter 5 verse [22:21] 19. Whosoever Matthew 5 19, watch what the book say. Whosoever therefore shall [22:29] break one of the least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. [22:35] Right? This is exactly what Paul is telling you. Paul is saying, "Listen, if you turn away from all these sins, [22:40] right, you'll be able to get into the kingdom." He's saying, "These are the sins that will not make it into the kingdom." He tells you specifically [22:47] which sins there are that will not make it into the kingdom. Then after that, he says, "Now all things are lawful to me." [22:54] So he's saying the same thing that Yahosua is saying in chapter uh 5 verse 19. He said, "Whosoever Yahosua is [23:01] saying, whosoever breaks even the least of these command commandments will be least in the kingdom." How do you get [23:08] into the kingdom if you broke the commandments unless there's a different route? If keeping the commandments of of [23:16] Moses is required for you to get into the kingdom, then Yahosua is a [23:21] liar, right? Because he just told you you can get in, you just gonna be least. And again, we already know least in the [23:28] kingdom is greater than John the Baptist. We know that from Matthew chapter 11, right? I can't make it up. It's all [23:36] right here in the book. So, I know we get confused sometimes when we listen to Paul. It's like, okay, well, he say all things are lawful. But then they do say [23:42] you got to turn away from these sin. What exactly do we need to do? Listen, what do we need to do if we got to turn [23:48] away? We got to turn away from what's in Mark chapter 7. We got to turn away from what's in 1 Corinthians chapter 6. what [23:54] what we just read. Ephesians chapter 5. I'm missing one. [24:00] Uhuh. Galatians 5. Galatians chapter 5 and Revelation chapter 21. 22 or 21. 22. [24:08] 22. Revelation chapter 22. 22. Right? Those are the sins that we have to turn [24:14] away from. And how do we know those are sins we got to turn away from? could they specifically tell us either in Mark [24:21] chapter 7 it says these are the things that defile a man right in in uh in in [24:27] uh Revelation chapter 22 it says these the people that do these things are going to be on the outside right talking [24:34] about the kingdom it said they're going to be out on the outside and all the other one just Paul just say flat out [24:40] these things will not make it into the kingdom so it's telling us very clearly [24:45] very specifically a lot of people act like oh well you know You know, God ain't really clear about no it is. You [24:50] just you just don't want to listen to him with what he say. You already got So the lawkeepers, they got it in their mind. Well, you got to keep the whole [24:56] law. So when they read that, it don't even phase them. They don't even know what they looking at. They just looking like, yeah, this just examples of some [25:03] of the sins that you got to turn away from. That's how they look at it. Then when the Christian look at it, the Christian is just completely lawless. [25:08] They ain't obeying what Yahosua said or what Moses said. So the Christian look at it just be like, well, this is just a [25:14] suggestion. You know, he basically saying just do the best you can. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Like he just want to make sure [25:20] you're trying at least some. You know what I'm saying? So it's like everybody look at it and because we all have our [25:26] own thoughts before we come to this book, we just read it and we don't care what it say. Guess what? The leaven has [25:33] already made the whole lump leaven. And because of that, the the [25:38] word don't even phase us. We put our traditions and our mindset and what we learned and all that stuff over the [25:44] word. That has to stop, right? That's why we read the book repeatedly, Bible [25:50] in a year after Bible in a year because we want to go through the scripture and then weed out everything that we know. [25:56] Everything that we know. Get it out of there. If it's not written, it ain't real. That has to be our mindset. Jump [26:03] on back to uh No, keep on going. Let me see. Keep on going. Some more good stuff. He said the least in the kingdom [26:09] is I mean uh I'm sorry the the whoever breaks even the least of these commandments is going to be least in the kingdom. And then what else? [26:18] But whosoever shall do so and teach them. But he shall be called whosoever [26:24] therefore shall break one of the least commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom [26:29] of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Right? [26:35] So if you do and you teach the commandments of Moses, you will be great in the kingdom. So now let's go back to [26:41] what I said before and what Paul said. Paul said, "Look, everything to me is uh [26:47] lawful." Right? While that's true, if I want to be great in the kingdom, then I [26:54] do exactly what Moses say. So that mean I turn away Sister Sharon. I turn away from eating all that swine, all that [27:00] pork, right? I turned away from eating the darn shrimp. The darn uh what's it [27:06] called? What's the thing? Uh the crawfish, too. But what's the thing? No, [27:12] what's the thing that they be, you know what I'm saying? A nasty thing. The oyster. Oyster. You know what I'm saying? I turn away from D eat eating [27:18] oyster. I turn away from Oh, you know, I got me a little bit money now. Or at least I want to act like I do. So, uh [27:24] what is this? Calamarie. Calamarie. Okay, let me let me order the calamarie. Your butt don't even know what you darn [27:30] order. You order some darn squid. You calling it calamarie. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. No, it's [27:37] Marie Calendar. No, you need to cut that out. Ain't no darn pie. That's a darn squid they about to put on your darn plate. Then your butt just because your [27:44] butt just because it cost a lot on the darn uh menu. Your butt try to Yeah, I'm I'mma eat it this good. You know it [27:50] wasn't darn good. Your darn fake bougie butt. That was disgusting what you just ate, right? You got to turn away from [27:58] eating all that stuff. You got to keep the Sabbath. You got to be able to set the Sabbath aside and be like, "No, I [28:03] ain't gonna do no work." Right? You got to be able, look, you got to be able to keep our feast [28:11] days, right? You got to wear your darn fringes. That's law, right? All those things. The man, [28:20] don't be looking at these Hebrew Israelite that that they got on their darn tunics and dresses, you know? I [28:25] ain't going to mess with it. But they be going to heaven on their darn tunic and they got the fridges. I know we might be looking at them like, "Yeah, now you [28:31] doing extra." But if they if they keep what the Messiah say, they gonna be great in the [28:39] kingdom, right? We need to acknowledge our brothers that keep the law as higher [28:45] or as better. They are going to be great in the kingdom as long as they teach the truth and as long as they uh they do [28:52] what the Messiah say. Cuz there's a lot of them that they got fringes on. You know what I'm saying? And uh and they [28:58] keep all the feast days. They turn off every light in their darn house on the Sabbath. Don't cook. Don't do nothing. [29:04] And then they turn around and cussing and lying, cheating on their darn wives, [29:10] right? But the but what you need to do is you turn away from everything that Yahosua told you to turn away from from [29:16] the apostles and what they told you to turn away from. And on top of that, you keep the law, man, you going to be a bad [29:22] boy when that kingdom come, right? When the most high God bring that kingdom down, boy, you going to be a bad boy. [29:28] You going to have a high position. You going to be judging. You going to be judging of the highest, right? Keep on. Let me see. [29:34] This is what verse uh 20 verse 21. [29:49] You want to go back? You going Matthew or going back to Corinthians? No, this is Matthew. [29:54] Okay, going back. It's Matthew chapter uh 5 verse uh what? [30:02] 21 20 5 vers 20 this Matthew chapter 5 verse 20. Watch the book say [30:13] but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Mhm. For I say unto [30:20] you that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter [30:25] into the kingdom of heaven. Right. And silly people, these Christians, they've been taught that the law is evil, right? [30:32] So when they read this, they think that the the the scripture is saying, see, the Pharisees, all they want to do is [30:38] keep the law, and that's not enough. You got to believe in Jesus. That's how they look at it. So they think that the [30:45] reason why your righteousness don't exceed the Pharisees is because they keep the law. But what did Yahosua say [30:51] about the Pharisees? Whenever they in Moses's seat, do what they say. [30:57] Right. But why don't do what they say if they not in Moses seat because they wasn't doing what they was teaching. [31:04] Exactly. He said that they'll say but they won't do it themselves. He called them hypocrites. [31:12] He called them whitewashed walls. He said on the in he said on the outside they look beautiful on the inside they [31:18] rotten away. Right? So the reason why we have [31:24] to exceed their righteousness is because they weren't what they were portraying, they weren't actually doing. They were [31:32] hypocrites. They weren't keeping the law. Don't ever take what he just said as him saying that the law is not good [31:38] enough. No. If somebody actually kept the law and didn't sin, it's absolutely all you need. That's how Yahosua did it. [31:45] Yahosua with the blueprint. Now our righteousness has to come through Yahua. And the only way it [31:50] can come through Yahosua is if we turn away from all uh all sin that he he commanded us again, which is what Paul [31:56] just got done telling us in the 8th verse of uh chapter 6 in uh 1 Corinthians. But keep going cuz it's a [32:01] little more after this. I think it's Matthew 5 20 whatever 21 [32:07] 20. Uh that was it. No, that's going to keep going. Huh? Uh [32:15] ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, you shall not kill. And whosoever kill shall be in danger of the [32:21] judgment. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause [32:27] shall be in danger of the judgment. Right? So he said, "Listen, even if you mad at your brother and you don't have [32:33] cause, you're in danger of judgment." Right? Keep going. Watch this. [32:42] Whosoever shall say to his brother, "Raqa, shall be in danger of the council." Right? He's telling you how to [32:47] exceed the righteousness of the of the Pharisees, right? He's saying if you go to your brother and you call him stupid, [32:55] right? That's what rocka mean. You call you go to your brother and call him stupid. You call them out your name, you cursing at your brother. This is this is [33:01] what the book book is talking about about cursing. You get there and you cussing at your brother, right? He's [33:06] saying you in danger of the judgment then you in danger of murder then. Right? Keep going. [33:13] But whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hellfire. Therefore, if thou be if thou bring thy [33:20] gift to the altar and there remembers that thy brother has ought against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar [33:26] and go thy way. First be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift with thine adversary quickly while [33:33] you are in the way with him. That's right. So he's saying listen, why in the world are you letting your brother [33:40] right? And when he's saying, "Brother," he's talking about two people that are disciples. Why are two disciples going [33:47] to the law, right? Going to these people to judge you. He said, "Man, why don't [33:53] you agree with him quickly or what else?" What happened? [34:03] agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou are in the way with him lest at any time the adversary deliver thee [34:08] to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast into prison right so he said why would you [34:14] risk you know you wronged your brother right he said it don't even make sense [34:20] you know you messed up why would you let this thing go to court when you know you going to get put in jail instead of just [34:27] look you know what I messed up let me make it right that's what I tell my kids Listen, [34:33] my kids, my nephew, all of them. I don't care. Like, y'all mindset got to get off [34:38] of I'mma get in trouble. I messed up. I'mma get in trouble because that mindset makes you [34:45] paralyzed. You just stop. You just sitting there scared and fearful, right? Your mind has to be, how [34:53] do I make it right? If I spill some water, I don't want to be sitting there paralyzed and [35:00] fearful. I spilled the water, I'mma get in trouble. No, go clean it up. Go [35:06] figure out how to, you know, go fill a water jug back up and put it back in. And then you say, "Listen, I spilled [35:12] some water earlier." But here's what I did. I cleaned it up, mopped it up. I hope I got all of it. If you don't feel [35:18] like I did, I'll be happy to do the rest of it. I also refilled the water so that anybody who want water, even though I [35:24] wasted it, it's still there. I tried to make it right. Now, you still might get [35:29] your butt whooped, but that's not the point. The point is you have a mindset of fixing it, making it right, restoring [35:37] what was taken, restoring what was wrong. Right? That has to be all of our [35:42] mindset. And that's what Yahosua is talking about. Like, agree with your brother early like, "All right, look, I messed up. Don't take me to court. Look, [35:49] this is what I want you to do." You know what I'm saying? You tell me. Huh? That's the whole law. The whole law is [35:55] talking about making stuff good. Whenever you mess up, that's all it is. That's that's that's what it's about for us is to make it right. That's it. It's [36:01] not about like don't think don't focus on the punishment cuz that's just going to scare you. And when people are [36:06] scared, you you freeze up, right? That's why we not supposed to walk in fear. Just make it right. And if [36:13] you can't make it right or you don't know how to make it right, then you be honest about what happened. Either way, you got to be honest about what [36:19] happened. But you be honest about what happened and say, "Listen, I really just want to make this right. I don't know exactly how." You know what I'm saying? [36:25] like what I messed up. I'm not exactly sure how to fix it, but please give me an opportunity to make this right. You [36:32] still might get punished, but it's better to agree with your adversary quickly than to let them take you to the [36:38] courts. Right. Jump back over. This is uh cuz Paul about to say the same thing. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter 6 uh [36:46] where we leave off. Uh verse 12. This 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse [36:53] 12. Watch what the book say. [37:03] Verse 12. Yeah. All things are lawful unto me, but [37:10] not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats [37:17] for the belly, and belly for meats, but God shall declare both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication [37:23] fornication but for the master and the master for the body. And God hath both [37:29] raised up the master and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that [37:36] your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall I then take the members of the Messiah and make them the members [37:41] of an harlot? God forbid. What know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot [37:47] is one body? For the two said he shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the master is one spirit. Flee [37:54] fornication. Every sin that man doeth is outside of the body. But he that commits fornication sins against his own body. [38:02] What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you which you have of God and ye are not [38:08] your own. For ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are gods. [38:16] But what he's telling you is imagine what he's saying in view of the [38:23] law, right? He's saying your body is the temple of the spirit of God. When he [38:28] says temple, what should that conjure up in somebody's mind who knows our [38:40] law? That's right. Not not the temple wasn't pointing to the east, but yeah, the temple that used to be in the east. [38:46] Very good. No, you no, you're right. You were right about east. But you know what I'm saying? The the temple the temple [38:52] that that we had in our land that when we pray to the east, right? We praying [38:57] towards where the temple once was, right? Had we been in China, we would pray to the west, right? So it's not [39:04] about the Muslims. It don't matter where they darn. They praying to the darn east with they darn silly butt. Cuz what they praying to it, they don't realize it. [39:10] They don't know it, but what they praying to is the sun, right? They don't know. So these Muslims, they don't [39:16] really know the roots of their religion, right? The roots before before uh before there was Muhammad, you know what I'm [39:22] saying? It was darn it was sun worship and moon worship. That's why a lot of [39:27] them on their flags, they have the moon, the crescent moon with the stars because that's the stuff that they used to [39:33] worship, right? So he don't realize Mohamad didn't know that that came from something else before and then he just [39:39] copied all of our stuff and tried to, you know, give it some legitimacy. You know what I'm saying? So that's why they pray to the east cuz they pray that's [39:45] that's where the sun rise. The sun rise on the east. That's what they praying to. But we we pray to where the temple [39:50] was. So if we south of the temple, we going to pray north. If we north of the temple, we going to pray south. If we we [39:56] if we on the you know what I'm saying? If we on the west of the temple, we going to pray east uh pray east. And if we on the uh east of the temple, we [40:03] going to pray west. We praying wherever direction the temple is. Okay. So [40:08] um um what was I saying? Oh yeah. So if you think about uh the temple from the [40:14] law point of view, he's saying your body is that temple. And what do we know about a temple? Couldn't nothing [40:19] couldn't just anybody go into the temple? You had to be a priest, right? Or else the temple would be unclean, [40:26] right? When we when uh when the uh Greeks ran into our temple, you remember they sacrificed that pig. We talked [40:32] about they sacrificed a pig in the temple. It made the whole temple unclean. So we had to cleanse the whole [40:37] temple. So what he's saying is fornication is like that. He said look by by fornicating and really by doing [40:44] any of the sins that that uh Paul mentioned, you know what I'm saying? You defile your temple. And that would be [40:50] just like defiling the temple of Yah, which means you can't do sacrifices. You can't do offering in there. Right? And [40:57] in the same way when we defile our temple it makes it inhabitable for Yah. [41:03] So he's saying you have to flee from fornication. Right? Keep [41:09] going. Remember his topic is still talking about what he talked about in verse 5 where he talking about there was [41:14] somebody who committed fornication even the sort that's not even named amongst the Gentile. He said the Gentile don't [41:19] even be messing with their own their own father's wife. That thing ain't even normal for the Gentiles. Right. Keep [41:25] going. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me, it is good for a man not [41:31] to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to a to avoid fornication, let every man have [41:36] his own wife, and that every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife do [41:42] benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife has Hold on. [41:47] We going to start this one over because I want to I think we got to have a little context. So when you when you look at what he's saying, he said [41:54] concerning uh start back at verse one, concerning the things where have you wrote unto me, it is good. So somebody [41:59] has written onto him and he's responding. So it seems like they asking them a question. This is what I imagine. [42:05] It seems like they asked him a question like so like should should we like be [42:12] married or should we be alone? You know what I'm saying? Like which one is better? What should we do? Right? So now [42:18] watch how he start like imagine that being the question that was asked and then watch how he starts it off. [42:25] Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid [42:31] fornication, let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband. Right? So one, let every man [42:38] have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband. Right? So, what he's what he's [42:46] saying is, "Baby girl, you got to stop walking past this and bumping this court." [42:52] Okay? What he's saying is he's looking like, "Listen, it's better that y'all [42:58] don't get married and that y'all stay alone. However, I don't want y'all to [43:03] fornicate, right? So, if the cost is, you know what, I'mma stay single, just going to stay with myself, but then you [43:09] get hot in the darn draws and then you go fornicate." He said, "Man, look, it's better that you go get your own wife so [43:16] that you ain't got to mess with somebody else's or go get your own uh your own husband so that you ain't you ain't got [43:22] to go mess with somebody who's not married, right? You just sit your butt [43:27] down and not fornicate because you going to be hot in the draws, right? Keep going. Watch this. Let the husband [43:34] render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband." Mhm. The wife has not power of [43:41] her own body but the husband. And likewise also the husband has not power over his own body but the wife. Right? [43:47] So he said look render to your husband do benevolent. In other words I'm saying when it's time to you know what I'm [43:52] saying? When it's time to give it up going to give it up both ways. He said right? He's trying to tell you cuz [43:59] look I know he's what he's explaining is like I know how difficult it is. I know [44:05] sometimes you get hot in the draws. So then go get your own husband as opposed to committing fornication. And then once [44:11] you married, make sure you, you know what I mean? Make sure you giving it up now because otherwise it gets tough. It [44:19] gets tricky, right? So he's saying make sure you give up the do benevolence. Yahosua told us it gets [44:26] tricky too. Grab uh grab uh Matthew chapter 19 real quick and then we going to come back. We gonna come back and [44:33] read this. But grab Matthew chapter 19. [44:43] This is Matthew chapter 19. We can start at verse one. I really want further down, but let's just start at verse one. [45:00] And it came to pass that when Yosua had finished the finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the [45:07] coast of Judah beyond Jordan. And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. The Pharisees also came unto [45:13] him, tempting him, and saying unto him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" And he answered [45:19] and said unto them, "Have you not read that which was made that he which made them at the beginning made them male and [45:25] female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall [45:31] be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God [45:37] has joined together, let no man put us under." And they said unto him, Why did Moses [45:43] then command to give us uh to give a written a writing of divorcement and put her away? He said unto them, Moses, [45:50] because of the hardness of your heart, suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. [45:56] You whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication and shall marry another commits adultery. Right? [46:03] So he said, whoever puts away his wife, right? Whatever husband puts away his [46:09] wife and marries another after doing that it's going to be for it's going to [46:14] uh I mean he said except for fornication it's going to be adultery. Keep going. [46:19] And whosoever marries her which is put away does commit adultery right? And then whoever marries her is also going [46:26] to be adultery. So if the husband say no I'm divorcing you. I put you away. And [46:32] then he go marry another, that's adultery, right? And then if he puts her [46:41] away and then she marries another, then she's committing adultery and the person who she's with is committing adultery. [46:48] In either case, that is adultery. Right? Keep going. And his disciples said unto him, "If the cases [46:55] of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry." Right? And so now [47:01] they when they heard that, they looking like, "What? You mean to tell me the only valid reason that I can get rid of [47:08] my wife is if she committed fornication before we married? If I thought she was a virgin [47:15] and she committed fornication and we before we came together, that's the only legitimate reason that I can divorce [47:21] her." And when they heard that, they like, "Oh, no. It's better off to," you know what I'm saying? I can't just divorce her because she cheated on me. [47:28] Or, "I can't just divorce her because I got mad at her." Or, "I can't just divorce her because she don't, you know [47:33] what I'm saying? Respond to my needs that she been ignoring me. She won't give me none. She won't all the real [47:39] reasons that we do. I can't divorce her." Oh, they said, "What? Better we just don't get married." Watch what [47:45] Yahosua say, though. But he said unto them, "All men cannot receive this saying except they to whom it is given. [47:52] For there are some Unix which were born which were so born from their mother's womb. And there are some Unix which were [47:58] made Unix of men and there be Unix which have made themselves Unix for the kingdom of the for the kingdom of [48:04] heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." So then he talk about three groups and he's [48:10] saying listen they remember they respond to him was man if it that's the case if [48:16] I can't divorce her it's better off I'll just stay single for the rest of my life and you can imagine they just talking [48:21] mess the same way people would talk mess today there's a lot of people that's looking like man I ain't getting married just to divorce that's crazy right [48:29] there's a lot of people that don't even believe in marriage now because their mind is warped right but this is kind of how they were thinking they was looking [48:35] like what's the point of marrying somebody if I can't divorce him, right? [48:40] You mean no, she could just get away with whatever? Oh, that's crazy. He looking like I'll be I'm better off [48:46] single is what his mindset was saying. So Yahosua took what they said was like, well, listen, you're not wrong. A lot of [48:54] people can't accept what I'm about to tell you. And then he he named three examples. He said, "Some people are born [49:01] Unix." What's an example of somebody who's born a unic? In other words, born [49:07] as someone who does not have sex. Uh, probably like deformed members or [49:12] something like that. Somebody who deformed, right? The stuff when they this this trans situation that they [49:19] dealing with like, oh, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I'm saying? You know, uh, men shouldn't play in women's sport. You know what I'm saying? [49:24] My man Big T, you know what I'm saying? He shut that down. He like, yeah, no, no men in women's sports. Done. Shut it [49:32] down. Nobody getting federal funding if you doing that if you support that foolishness. Right. So they that sparked [49:39] a debate. They looking like well you do know 06% of the uh [49:45] population actually are born with both members. How do you know if they a male or a female? And that's true, right? [49:53] There are some deformed people out there that's born and you can't separate them [49:58] from from a male or a female technically with their genitalia. Right? And so that [50:03] would be a per that would be an example of somebody who's born a unic. Right? You were born and you can't [50:11] separate you. Your members are not all the way there. It don't work right and all that stuff. Some people are truly born either with nothing or with both. [50:19] Right? So that would be example of somebody who's born a unic. Right? Then [50:25] you have the next group. The next group was people who were made a unic by men. [50:30] So that means that somebody somebody mutilated them, right? So an example of that would be in the if we just take [50:38] today's example right in Africa some some some you know what I'm saying there [50:43] they had this uh tribe that was going through for men and women it happened a [50:48] lot of time for women but for men too they would go through and they would chop the dude's stuff [50:53] off right and I'm pretty sure it don't only happen in Africa but that was a story I read not too long ago they just [51:00] chop chop the dude's stuff off and when they chop it off guess what now He's a unic now. He can't have sex. He can't do [51:07] nothing. You know what I'm saying? He just stuck. So men can make you a unic. Something that is in America is some of [51:14] these little boys that they, you know what I'm saying? They they they had a strategy of affirm, right? So these kids [51:21] will come to you and they'll tell you they'll be like, you know what I'm saying? I don't feel right in my body or I don't I don't like, you know what I'm [51:28] saying? I see my sister walking around and get to play in heels and I like playing in that stuff, too. So I want to [51:35] be a girl, right? And the little boys will tell the the adult say this. And so at these schools, they have a policy of [51:42] affirm, right? You don't you don't want to you don't want to tell the kid [51:47] something that is against their thought. You want to let the kid be who they are. You want so they they idea is whatever [51:53] that kid say, you affirm it. In other words, you agree with it, right? And so when the kids say, you know what, I [51:59] don't feel right. Be like, yes. Well, how do you feel? What do you want to be? You can be whatever you want to be. You [52:04] want to be a girl. Okay, you could be a girl. This, that, and another. They affirm whatever they say. So then what that leads to is what they call a [52:10] chemical castration in some extreme cases, right? It don't happen a lot. This stuff is very rare. But in some [52:16] extreme cases, they will take that boy, they'll put him on puberty blockers, and then they they'll have him take uh you [52:22] know, which is essentially a castration that'll make all of his members stop working, right? That would be another [52:29] way that a person made you a unic, right? Because now none of your members work. None nothing works for you no [52:36] more, right? So you're not even trying to do nothing because nothing works. So that would be somebody making you a [52:42] unic. But there was one last example that he used. He says some people make themselves unic for the kingdom's sake. [52:49] This is the most important one. This is a person that says I'm not going to lay [52:55] with nobody. I'm not gonna marry nobody. I'm just going to dedicate [53:01] myself to the most high God. Right? And this is the category that's so important because let's say a [53:09] person really just doesn't feel like, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm just really like naturally I'm attracted to [53:16] the same sex. That's just how I was born. Let's say that's that's really how they give it up. That's really what they think. They think, "Man, listen. Ever [53:23] since I could remember, I've always been attracted to the same sex, right? One, that person got to [53:31] acknowledge it's wrong." But you can't do nothing about somebody being attracted or not being attracted. If y if I listen, if it's a fine woman that [53:38] walk by and that man is just not attracted to her, right? or vice versa. [53:44] It's a fine male to walk by and this woman is just not attracted to her because she been attracted to something [53:50] different her whole life. He been attracted to something different her whole life. Listen, if that's fact for [53:56] them, that's their experience. That's fine. But now what the book is telling [54:01] you is if you want to get into the kingdom, you got to make yourself a [54:06] Unix. Right? Just ask the young man who wants to he see this fine woman and he [54:13] is attracted to her. Guess what he got to do? You got to sit your butt down and marry her before you have sex with her. [54:20] Right? So, everyone has a level of restriction. There's just no way out. There's no situation where it's going to [54:26] be okay for you to lay with somebody that's of the same sex. So, the way to address that is you become a unic and [54:32] you dedicate yourself to the most high God. Or if you a perfectly fine what they call a heterosexual person, right? [54:39] That's fine. You can still deny yourself and dedicate yourself to the most high God. And what the Messiah is saying is [54:47] this is a difficult saying. A lot of people can't accept it. Right? So now if [54:52] we go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 7, this is the same point that Paul is trying to make. Let's start back out at [55:01] one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The sister said like a monk monk or a nun. Yeah. They [55:06] would be examples. What they portray would be examples of what of what Yahosa was talking about, right? Somebody [55:13] making themselves for the for the sake of their faith. They're saying I will not have [55:19] sex. Well, what they call it uh what's I want to say chastity, but [55:24] it's not chastity. What's the what they call it when people don't be having sex for a long time? Abstinence. Yeah. You [55:30] know what I'm saying? It's a they would be abstinate. You know what I'm saying? As we see it or celibate. That's the one [55:36] I was really looking for. Celibate, right? They would be celibate. [55:42] No. Concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Right. So he's telling [55:48] them same thing that Yahosua said. They was like, remember Yahosua, they he like, no man, you can't divorce. They [55:54] look like if I can't divorce, I'll be better off staying single. And he is like honestly a lot of people can't [56:00] accept what you saying but you on to something because you know what I'm saying some people make theyel a unic for the kingdom sake right so now Paul [56:07] saying look I'm going to tell you the truth it better that you don't even touch nobody you be good right however [56:12] so he's saying this is superior however keep going to avoid fornication let every man [56:18] have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband let the husband render unto the [56:23] wife do benevolence and likewise unto the wife Likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife has not power of her [56:31] own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife. Give it up when [56:37] I say so. You know what I'm saying? I would have said keep going. Defraud you not one another except it be with [56:43] content consent for a time that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that Satan tempt [56:50] you not for your incontinency. That means he's saying make sure we have agreement on when we going to do it and [56:56] when we not right make sure you know what I'm saying you tell yourself listen we ain't you know what I'm saying I'm just chilling let's take a week off you [57:02] know what I'm saying because of x y and z I'm praying I'm doing this or whatever he's saying you know what I'm saying make sure y'all got consent make sure [57:08] y'all agreeing on when you are and when you're not right keep going but I speak this by permission and not of [57:15] commandment right so now when he says that pay attention when he says I speak this by permission not of commandment [57:22] What he's doing is he's separating what he thinks, his advice, his judgment from [57:27] the most high God's commandment. Right? So he's saying this is not a requirement. This is what I advise. [57:33] Right? He's saying this is my judgment. This is me based off of my understanding of God saying what I think is best about [57:39] this situation. So he's now giving us his own personal judgment and he's separating it from a commandment from [57:45] God. Watch what he say. For I would that all men were even as myself. But every [57:50] man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried [57:57] and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is [58:03] better to marry than to burn. Right? So he's saying it's better to marry than to [58:08] burn with passion and and and have sex and and commit a sin. Right? Right? So he said, "I prefer that y'all don't get [58:16] remarried even if you're a widow." Right? I prefer that y'all remain single. Right? However, if you don't [58:24] think you can handle it, it'll be better for you to get married to somebody than to mess around and sin and you now you [58:30] don't get into the kingdom. Right? Keep going. This is serious stuff. I want y'all to see how serious we we when it [58:37] come to sex now day, we take a very lax view. It just like ah everybody do it ain't a [58:44] big deal. This that and the other that's just that's just the world that we live. You [58:49] stuck. And unto the married I command yet not I but the master let not [58:56] the wife depart from her husband. But and if she depart let her [59:02] remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And that's right. So now even [59:07] if you you with your husband you decide so it's like first of all you looking like man I don't want to get married I [59:12] want to stay single but you start burning with passion. You looking like I just need a little bit. Then you looking [59:18] like okay you know what I'm going to get married simply because I don't want to burn with passion. So you get married to [59:24] this person that otherwise you probably wouldn't have got married to. Now you in this messed up relationship and now Paul [59:30] telling you know what don't leave. However, if you do leave, be reconciled. [59:37] In other words, don't lay with nobody else because y'all already told us that that's adultery. Right? Read it again. [59:45] But if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband and let not the husband put away [59:51] his wife. So, in other words, even if you do leave, you can't do nothing. You [59:57] got to remain unmarried or you got to go back to your husband. That's the only options, right? So now your butt start [60:03] off single, you burning with passion, right? Then you looking like, "Okay, I just got to get me a little bit. Let me [60:09] marry somebody so I can get me a little bit." Then you marry somebody, you get you a little bit, but now you in a messed up relationship. So you looking [60:16] like, "You know what? I'm out of here." Then you leave, right? And now your butt can't you still can't have darn no sex [60:24] unless you go back to that same man that you left or unless he died in Romans chapter [60:29] 7 and say you know what I'm saying he could die. So now you got to pray for him to die right you got to remain [60:36] unmarried or you got to go back to him. Those are your three [60:43] options. So you got to think about all this stuff very deeply because it ain't no easy route. All the routes that you [60:50] take going to take dedication, work, and commitment. You either going to commit to the the most high God and say, "You [60:56] know what? I don't need nobody. I don't care how much I burn with passion. I'm staying committed to you, and I'm not [61:02] doing nothing with nobody." Right? Or you got to commit yourself to this man that sometimes ain't going to make you [61:08] happy. You got to commit yourself to this woman that sometimes ain't going to make you happy, but your butt can't put [61:13] her away. Or else the next person you with, that's going to be adultery and your butt going to end up going to hell. [61:20] So you got to play it out in every direction. A lot of it be looking for a way out. No man, the way you got into it [61:27] is because you burned with passion. You got into it for the wrong reason. Right. Keep [61:36] going. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife that [61:42] believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. He said, "Look, this is this is [61:48] now look this is me speaking. This is not God. If any brother got a wife that [61:53] what that don't believe that believe not and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away." [62:00] Right? So he's saying if you got a wife and she's not a disciple, right? And she [62:06] looking like, "Man, I can't live this lifestyle. You got you every Sabbath you going you going to your congregation. [62:13] You got this weekly fellowship call. You stay up late on Friday nights for this stuff. You got um you got uh these weird [62:22] days. You don't want to do Christmas. You don't want to do Thanksgiving. You know what I'm saying? These are big [62:27] staples in my family. I just can't get down with the stuff that you want. I'm sick of it. I'm out of here. The book is [62:34] saying listen. Let her go. Right. Read it again. If any brother has [62:41] a wife that believe not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. [62:48] And the woman keep going. And when the woman which has a husband that believe not, if he be pleased to dwell with her, [62:54] let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the [62:59] unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Or else were your children unclean, but now they are holy. Mhm. But [63:07] if the unbelieving depart, let them depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God is [63:13] right. So he said, listen, if they don't want to be there, let them [63:18] go. Right? He said, let them go. You ain't got to subject yourself. When he say you're not under bondage, he said [63:25] you don't have to subject yourself to that situation. Now, who did he say did said that? Did he say he said that or [63:31] Yahweh said that? He said, "I not the master." [63:39] Right? So now, what did Yahweh say? I mean, what did Yahosua [63:46] say? Yahosua say, "If you put them away and you go get somebody or they go get [63:53] somebody, that is adultery." So that doesn't He's not [63:59] trying to negate what Yahosua said. Yahosua is still law. Yu said, "Listen, it's adultery if you divorce them." [64:07] Right? He's saying, "Look, if they not pleased to be there, let them go." However, you still got to be reconciled [64:14] cuz it's still going to be divorces. I mean, it's still going to be for um adultery. If you go lay with somebody [64:19] and try to get remarried or if they go get some try to be remarried, it's still adultery, right? So, even when you [64:26] letting that person go, when you looking like, "Okay, you don't want to be here. Gone." Right? just know what you saying [64:31] for real is all right. Well, I'm going to be celibate for a while. Hopefully, they come back. But if they please to be [64:37] there with you, if they don't believe in the stuff they doing, but they're looking like I ain't going nowhere. Yeah, we going to fight about this every [64:42] time Passover come and every time Christmas come, we both going to that's going to be a fight every year. You know what I'm saying? All you can that that's [64:49] what you marry. You listen, everybody who get married, our mindset got to be [64:56] this is what I chose. Nobody chose it for you. And even if they did, oh well. [65:02] You know what I'm saying? This is where you are. This is what you got. So now, [65:07] if you get out of your own way of thinking about, oh, I wish it was different or why do I have to deal with [65:14] this? Why do I have to fight with this person every single [65:20] Easter? You know what I'm saying? They want to keep lint and raw darn cross on their head because that's what they [65:26] family do. and I want to keep Passover because that's what my people do, right? [65:32] And you go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth about all this stuff. Guess what? This is what you [65:40] chose. This is the situation where you in get your mind out of the place of why [65:45] do I have to do it? Doesn't matter why you're in it. Right? So now figure it [65:51] out. Figure out what you can do, how you can convince, what level of patience you can deal with, how you need to separate, [65:57] whatever you need to do, deal with it with the one thing in mind first. Protect your own salvation in [66:05] Yahosua. Right? Once you have that solid, then do whatever you going to do, [66:10] but protect your own salvation in Yahosua. But don't let yourself get caught up in [66:16] the, "Oh, I wish it was different," or, "I wish I never made that choice," or, "I wish we weren't here, why can't she [66:24] just do this, or why can't he just do that?" Just it's just a waste of thoughts. It's a waste of time. It's not [66:30] that's not reality. Reality is that's what they choosing to do and you doing what you choosing to do and you probably [66:36] participated at some point in all the madness. So now you got to deal with all of it. Fix it. Figure it out or don't [66:42] fix it, right? But pick a side, do whatever you going to do and keep moving. Right? Don't let yourself get [66:49] get caught in this paralyzed state of wishing something was different. It's not real. Right? So that's what he [66:55] telling. He said, "Let their butt go, but still don't forget that you still got to be reconciled even when you do [67:00] that." Keep going. For what knowest thou, oh wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or [67:07] how knowest thou, oh man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? But as God has distributed to every man, as the master [67:13] has called everyone, so let him walk, and so ordain I in all congregations. Is [67:19] any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is any man called uncircumcised? Let him not be [67:25] circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God. Let [67:31] every All right. So he says circumcision is nothing. Neither uncircumcision is nothing but the comm the keeping of the [67:36] commandments of well we know circumcision is a commandment of Moses. But what commandments of God is he [67:42] talking about? He's talking about Yahushua. He's talking about keeping the [67:49] commandments that that God gave Yahosua. Remember the law, excuse me, the law [67:55] says very clearly in chapter 18 that God is going to put words in the prophet's [68:00] mouth, right? And the words that that prophet speaks, that is what's going to be [68:07] required. And that's Deuteronomy chapter 18. So the words that Yahw put in [68:12] Yahosua's mouth, that is what's required of it. So when he says keeping the commandments of God is the only thing [68:17] that matters. He's talking about keeping the commandments that God gave to Yahosua, right? Like we got a question. [68:25] What we got? What about the death of the husband wife? I know we went over it, but I [68:32] can't remember. Yeah. No. Uh, let's go to Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7 verse [68:38] one. It's important. No, asking question. This stuff is important. A lot [68:43] of people I be getting mad any of my friends that get married, my friend, my family get married now talk to me first. [68:49] I be feeling offended. I'll be looking like what? Y'all don't even realize what y'all [68:55] doing. Cuz it hurts me. Listen, it hurts me when when people come. We've had many [69:00] people come to this Bible study, right? Or come ask me for advice or whatever and they've been married once. It's a [69:08] few people that still watch. They probably watching right now, right? They still watch the studies, right? And they [69:16] know I've had a conversation with them saying, "Look, the marriage that you in ain't it because you've been married [69:22] before." That's a tough conversation to have with people and they know it. Even [69:27] if they watching, they looking like, "Man, don't nobody teach it like this, brother." You know what I'm saying? But now they looking like, "Oh, man." But I [69:35] know if I showed up in person, I'd know what he say. And honestly, I probably wouldn't say it because I don't like [69:40] having the conversation as much as you know what I'm saying, they don't like hearing it. You know what I'm saying? But either way, we all know that [69:46] according to this scripture, you are committing adultery with your second husband or with your second wife. That [69:53] is adultery. There's no wiggle room around it. Ain't nothing I could do about it. I didn't put it there. I [69:59] didn't make it up. Trust me, if it was any other way, I would applaud it. I'd be like, "Yeah, go and get married six, [70:04] seven times." I wouldn't have me personally, I don't have no problem with it. The only reason [70:09] I got to talk about it because it's in the book, right? And I can't disagree with [70:15] God. So, it's just like, all right, well, you know what I'm saying? Look, I'm saying he don't like it. So, what you want me to [70:21] do, right? It's Romans chapter 7. I much rather us all understand what we getting [70:27] into. Cuz if you getting into it, you looking like, man, listen, really, I'm only getting married so I can bump and grind a little bit. and you know that [70:34] and you honest about that. You look like, man, look, I don't. Then you gonna have a different expectation going in [70:40] there. A lot of times because we want to bump and grind, we lie to ourselves. Oh, I love her so [70:45] much. Oh, she's just the the best in and you meanwhile just so you can bump and grind, you ignoring all the little [70:52] flaws, all the little all the little flaws and the red flags. You ignoring all that stuff cuz you trying to get you [70:57] a little bit. And then you end up getting married cuz you trying to serve God. So you end up getting married and [71:03] you bump and grind. You get it. But eventually the bumps start to grind a little different and all of a sudden all [71:10] them flaws and red flags that you ignore ignored right in your face and you got [71:15] to deal with them. Now if you got the expectation like no I don't even really like her like that. You know what I'm [71:20] saying? I don't really like her like that. But I'm burning with passion. We got to get this done. I don't know no [71:25] other way to do it. If you're honest with yourself walking into it and you honest with her too and y'all still do [71:32] it after that, I assure you, you operating with a different level of expectation in that relationship. And [71:39] even with that, a lot of people we look at it cuz in America we looking like everybody has to be in love, right? [71:44] That's just how we kind of imagine stuff. But I guarantee you two people that walk into it like, "Look, man, we [71:50] just doing this so we can bump in the grind a little bit." Honestly, I know you got a bunch of flaws, bunch of red flag, don't really trust you, all this [71:56] stuff, but just I I assure you, two people walking into a relationship and agreeing and honest with yourself about [72:03] that, you going to have a better relationship than the two people lying, saying, "Oh, I love you so much, even [72:08] though I'm bypassing all these red flags. Don't want to see them. Don't want to see them. I'm just burning with lust." One is going to be a toxic [72:14] relationship, and one is going to have a healthy understanding of what the shortcomings and limitations of the [72:20] other party is. I assure you our problem is we know that when we tell the our [72:26] potential mate that all I'm trying to do is bump and grind, we know for a fact that they going to look at us like they [72:31] crazy and we scared to let them know that because we know that they going to reject and we desperate to get us a [72:37] little bit. We desperate for somebody to love us. We desperate for somebody to touch us. We desperate for all these [72:43] different things, right? So, we'll lie and we'll hide and we'll pretend and lie to ourselves until we get into a [72:49] situation that we got to pay for it later on down the line. So, yes, I would much rather y'all talk to me and talk to [72:55] the brother and talk to somebody else that that that served the most high God and that has been married before y'all [73:01] get married because it'll put y'all it'll position your relationship in a way where listen, you can make an [73:06] informed decision. You talk about all this stuff up front, you can make an informed decision. somebody gonna be [73:12] able to be like, "Nah, this ain't what I was looking for. It's just not It's just not what I was looking for." Right? And [73:20] then you don't have to deal with it on the back end after you committed, after you build a how y'all done bought a house to darn together. Good to [73:25] gracious. Now you got to split stuff. Oh my god. Figure it out first. This Romans chapter 7. Where we at? Give me Romans [73:32] chapter 7 verse one. Know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law, how that the law have dominion [73:38] over a man as long as he lives. Mhm. A woman which has a husband is bound by the law of her husband so long as he [73:45] lives. But if her husband be dead, she is from the law of her husband. Then if [73:50] while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband be dead, [73:56] she is free from that law that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Right? So if her husband [74:04] died, well, that that woman free. That's why I tell you I'm not I'm not like like I ain't like these Christian pastors. [74:10] I'll tell you in a second and I've told people this. You better pray your husband die, right? Do it privately now. Don't [74:18] be, you know what I'm saying? Don't when it's time to bless the fool, don't be holding hands in a circle talking about, "Oh, and uh my ex-husband Johnson, you [74:26] know what I'm saying? I just hope he die." You know what I'm saying? You can't do that now. You got to do that thing privately. You know what I'm saying? Do it privately. Go, you know [74:32] what I'm saying? Get in your closet, get on your knees, and just be honest with the most high God. Like, listen, I need [74:38] to bump and grind. I can't do this while this man is still alive. I want to be [74:43] loved and touched again. Listen, uh, can you handle that guy? You know what I'm [74:48] saying? The only way out that I can think about is me and him being reconciled or him dying. And I'mma tell [74:56] you the truth, I'm not interested in getting back with somebody who punched me in my head or whatever horrible thing [75:01] he may have done. Right? You know what I'm saying? It's like, I'm not interested in getting back in that situation. I'm all right. So, you know [75:07] what I mean? Can you do the other one? You know what I'm saying? Can you take care of the other one? You know what I'm saying? Me personally, I believe in real [75:14] prayers about what you really thinking about what you really feel. Let Yah correct you privately. Let Yah figure [75:20] out what needs to be corrected in that situation. If something wrong about it, but if that's is how you feel, he know [75:26] how you feel already, right? He already know how you feel. Tell him what you feel when you [75:32] private and you talking to God. And he might, you know what I'm saying? He might handle it. You gonna [75:38] feel bad though. I'm going tell you the truth. You going to be, if you pray somebody die and they die, I'm letting you know you're going to feel bad. I [75:45] know you think you tough. I know you think that's what you want. You going to feel bad. But if that's how you feel, [75:50] pray about it and pray about the fact that, man, if that did happen, God, I feel bad. But help me out with it. You [75:56] know what I'm saying? Help me with the bad feel. You know what I'm saying? Whatever you feeling, you got to pray it out for real. But yes, if a husband die, [76:02] then that free of the situation. You know what I'm saying? All best is off. If the husband die, if the wife die, [76:08] that free the husband of the situation. All bet is off if the wife die, right? That's your three options. Be [76:15] reconciled, right? Be celibate or be [76:20] back with the husband. Oh, wait. Hold on. That's not the other one. Or the husband got to die. Or the wife got to [76:25] die. The spouse got to die. You know what I mean? Uh let's go back to uh 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verse what [76:33] one. It's first 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verse one. [76:41] No we ain't on one. 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verse what? 20. You said 20. [76:46] Yeah. 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verse 20. [76:55] Let every man abide in the same in the same calling wherein he was called. Or thou called being a servant, care not [77:00] for it. But if thou may be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the master being a servant is the [77:07] master's free man. Likewise also he that is called being free is the Messiah's servant. Ye are bought with a price. Be [77:15] not ye servants of men. Brethren, let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God. Now concerning virgins, [77:22] I have no commandment of the master. Yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy of the master to be [77:28] faithful. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress. I say [77:34] that it is good for a man so to be. Are thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Are thou loosed from a wife? [77:41] Seek not a wife. But and if you marry, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin [77:46] marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh. But I spare you. But this I say, [77:54] brethren, and the time is short. It remainth that both they that have wives be as though they had none, and they [77:59] that weep as though they had wept not, and they that rejoice as though they had rejoice not, and let they that buy as [78:05] though they had possessed not. And they that use this world as not abusing it. [78:10] For the fashion of this world passes away. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried care [78:16] for the things that belong to the master, how he may please the master. But he that right? So he's telling you why. He's saying this is why it's [78:23] better. He's trying to explain why it's better for you to be unmarried. Right? He said because when you're unmarried, [78:30] then you have an opportunity to only care about pleasing God. Right? But [78:36] watch this. But he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. Right? But when you [78:43] married, you thinking about how you can please your spouse. So then that distracts you. That [78:49] becomes a balance. You hear brother T and me talk about it all the time. Like man, look, before we got married, right? [78:54] Before it really is not really marriage. Before we had all these kids, man, all we used to do was read [79:00] the book, we used to have three full Sabbath studies, you know what I'm saying? Back to back. You know what I'm [79:06] saying? Talk all through the week. You know what I'm saying? get up, spend three, four hours reading every [79:12] day. Now it's a rush. I got to try to wake up before the kids wake up. When I [79:18] get home, I can't spend too much time here. Got to, you know what I'm saying? Do this, got to do that. It's different. [79:24] Got to pick up kids, got to drop them off, all this stuff. It take up time, right? So then you start thinking about [79:31] how do you play? My daughter run up and be like, "Daddy, can you play with me?" And I'm reading the book. No, baby girl, [79:37] what I tell you, baby girl? I'm reading now. You know what I'm saying? Hold on. Give me a little, you know what I'm saying? Give me a couple minutes. Well, [79:42] then that start you start feeling guilty. You start, am I neglecting my kid? You know what I'm saying? Oh, well, [79:48] let me uh you know what I'm saying? Okay, let me hurry up and read. Then you try to rush through it. When you don't [79:54] have that, you when you don't have that family, it's just you and you unmarried. Well, then you can f focus 100% on the [80:01] most high God. Can't nobody tell you, "Daddy, can you play with me?" No, please. You just reading the book. You [80:06] learning everything you can about the most high God, you outs serving the most high God with everything you got. And so [80:11] that's why he's saying it's better to be unmarried. It's better better to not. However, keep reading. Watch this. But [80:18] he that is married care for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is a different also [80:23] there is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, how [80:29] she may be holy in body and in spirit. But she that is married care for the things of the world, how she may please [80:35] her husband. In this I speak for your own profit, not that I might cast a snare upon you, but for that which is [80:42] calmly, and that you may attend upon the master without distraction. But if any man think that he believe behaves [80:48] himself uncomly towards his virgin, if she passed the flower of her age, and need so required, let him let him do [80:55] what he will. He sinnth not, let them marry. Right? So he's saying, "Listen, [81:00] I'm not trying to trap you." When I say this, I'm not trying to put you in a situation that you can't handle. So [81:06] listen, if you got a young lady who happens to be a virgin, right? In other words, she unmarried. You got a young [81:11] lady that you like, she unmarried, then you know what I'm saying? Go ahead. You know what I'm saying? Marry her if that's what you feel like you need to [81:16] do. I ain't telling you you can't marry. I'm not telling you sinned if you marry him. I'm just telling you what has the [81:22] more potential. When he say better, he talking about what has more potential of serving God. So remember, his focus is [81:29] not anything but trying to teach people how to serve God better, right? Is that [81:34] the end of the chapter? No. All right, keep going. Nevertheless, he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no [81:40] necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well. [81:47] So then, he that gives her in marriage does well, but he that gives her not in marriage does better. The wife is bound [81:54] by the law as long as her husband lives. But if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, [82:00] only in the master. But she is happier if she so abide after my judgment. And I [82:06] think also that I have the spirit of God. Right? So he's saying he's like, [82:12] "Listen, I'm giving y'all a lot of advice in this chapter, and I think my advice is good." You know, he said, "I [82:18] think he's like, and I got the spirit of God, too." So, you know what I mean? Like, this ain't bad advice that I'm [82:23] telling you, right? He's saying technically it ain't law. You're not required to do it, but I'm telling you [82:29] what I'm telling you is probably going to work out better for you. Right? Go on to uh to chapter [82:36] 8. This chapter 8 verse [82:51] one is 1 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 1. Yeah. Well, that distraction kicking in [82:56] now. You know what I'm saying? Because uh my wife trying to sleep. You what? Oh, nah, we almost done. [83:05] Now, as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but [83:10] charity edifies. And if any man think that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man [83:17] love God, the same is known of him. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice [83:24] unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other god but one. For though there [83:31] be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be many gods and many lords, but to us there is [83:39] but one God, the father, of whom are all things, and we in him. And right, so why [83:45] is he saying to us is one God? Like I know it's a whole bunch of people that call everything God, but for us it's [83:51] only one God. What does he mean by that? Where is he pulling that from? [83:58] Yeah. What does he mean by it's only one God? Where is he pulling that from? The [84:06] law. What law? The Mount Si. [84:15] What he say in Mount Si? The Lord your God is one, [84:21] right? So he said, yeah, he's saying that he's one God, but he not necessarily saying he's the only God. He [84:27] just said that he's one, right? Is one. He's one God. But how do we know that Yah is the [84:34] only God? Where would Paul pull that from? Like no other god is really real. [84:42] This is important because because Yah presented itself a lot of times talking [84:48] about other gods. He'd be like, "Oh, the God of that nation and this that and the other." So, it's not very common where [84:55] he said, "You know what? He'll tell you put no other god before me." But it's [85:01] not very common that he'll tell you these other gods ain't even real. They not even gods. I'm the only [85:07] God. Right? Go to Isaiah. This is Isaiah chapter uh [85:12] 44. It's Isaiah chapter 44:7. I'm going to show you where Paul getting it [85:19] from. Is Isaiah chapter 44 verse 7? [85:54] And who as I shall call and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, [86:00] since I appointed the ancient people, and the things are that are coming and shall come. Let them show unto them. [86:07] Right? So he's asking who going to tell me the future? Right? There's people in [86:12] the ancient times that I've told what's going to happen. Who going to point the future to me? Right? Keep going. This is [86:18] God talking. For fear ye not, neither be afraid. Have I not told thee from that [86:23] time and have declared it? Ye are even my witness. Is there a God besides me? [86:28] Yay, there is no God. I know not any. Right? So he's telling you here there [86:34] are no gods. So remember there's a lot of time he say put no other gods before me or [86:40] he'll say I'm going to judge the gods of Egypt or I'm going to judge these gods this that and the other. He acknowledges [86:46] these other gods. But in a couple places in the prophets he makes it clear there are no other gods beside me. I'm the [86:54] only one. Right? So that's why Paul can pull this out. For us, it seems like a [86:59] normal thought because in Christianity, we've already been taught that there's no other gods, right? God is the only [87:04] true God. Everything else is fake. But just just know that there's a lot of gods in the time that Paul is is is [87:12] writing to. And so these people are thinking that these are other gods. Even Hebrews, they looking like these are [87:17] other gods. We just kind of look at the other gods or they powerless. They can't do nothing with our God. So Paul is [87:23] trying to explain to him like, "Oh no, you know what I'm saying? No, this is uh No, this is this is different. Like [87:28] there are no other gods. Let's jump back. This is uh uh 1 Corinthians chapter [87:34] 8. What verse? Uh verse 6. It's 1 Corinthians chapter 8 [87:41] verse 6. Watch what the book say. [87:48] But to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one master, Yahosua, the Messiah, by [87:55] whom all things, and we by him. How be it, there is not in every man that knowledge. For some with conscience of [88:02] the idol unto the hour, unto this hour, eat it as a thing offered unto an idol, [88:07] and their conscience weak is defiled. But meek commandeth us not to God. For [88:13] neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worst. But take heed lest by any means this [88:19] liberty of yours become a stoming block to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which has knowledge sit at meat [88:26] in the idol's temple, shall not the conscious of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are [88:31] offered to idols? So now let's slow down. This is let's understand what he's saying. He's saying, "I Paul, I know [88:39] that there's no other gods cuz I know what Isaiah 44 say." The common thought of the the typical Hebrew or disciple, [88:47] they might think that there are multiple gods and God is just the most supreme out of all of them. So, if we're eating [88:54] food and the average meat has been sacrificed somewhere, right? Just kind [89:00] of think of like when you go to the grocery store, imagine everybody knows that the step most meat the step before [89:07] it reaches the shelf of the grocery store is that it got sacrificed to some false god. Let's just say that was just [89:14] common knowledge that all meat almost all meat is being sacrificed. You know what I'm saying? Imagine, you know, some [89:20] stuff is tagged GMO and non GMO, right? Imagine anything that say [89:27] nonGMO is something that did not get sacrificed. But everything else that ain't got no no packaging on it, that [89:33] stuff been sacrificed to items, right? Imagine it like that. So then when you go eat with somebody, your mindset is [89:41] thinking, well, hold on. Is this a GMO product or a non GMO? But you didn't buy the meat, so you [89:47] don't really know. So you thinking like, man, this meat probably been sacrificed to idol somewhere. You know what I'm saying? me [89:53] probably been sacrificed to darn idols. I don't know nothing about it. What Paul is saying, me, Paul has the knowledge [90:00] because I know Isaiah 44. I know that there are no other gods, right? So I don't care nothing. [90:08] Ain't nothing been sacrificed to no God because no other gods exist. So for him, he looking like I can eat whatever I [90:14] want. It goes back to what he said before. All things for me are lawful as long as I turn away from the sins [90:20] that'll keep me out of the kingdom. Right. However, he's also saying if a [90:26] brother is hung up on it and he looking like, "No, this meat got sacrificed to Doon. This this uh me got sacrificed to [90:33] uh Osiris. This meat got uh sacrificed to uh to uh [90:39] Asteroth, right? All these other gods and they're hung up on it." He's saying [90:45] that will end up being a stumbling block to your brother if you don't protect him from his own mind. So just because you [90:51] got knowledge, you sitting there just eating the meat. I don't care who it got sacrificed to. Ain't no other gods. But [90:57] your brother is like, "No man, we can't do that." He they gonna be messed up on it. So the one that has the least faith, [91:04] right, is supposed to be the one that's protected. So for your brother's sake, you supposed to be like, "No, oh, you [91:10] feel like this guy sacrificed idols. All right, then we not going to eat it." In the same way, if we got brothers that [91:15] feel like, "Man, I can't eat pork. I can't eat it, man. That stuff, man. That [91:20] stuff is send you to hell. But we got knowledge of saying, "Well, no. Whether you eat pork or don't eat pork, you [91:26] still going to get into the kingdom." Yo, yo, knowledgeable butt shouldn't be sitting there with a pork chop in front [91:33] of him. No, we going to be all right. No, cuz he heard about that. He messed up about that. You shouldn't be eating pork [91:40] anyway. But I'm using that as an example, Sister Sharon. You know what I'm saying? You push that thing away [91:46] from me. Be like, "No, we not doing that thing." You know what I'm saying? Anybody got can I order you know what I'm saying? Order a [91:52] steak, right? Because the one who has knowledge has to has to accommodate the [91:57] brother that has the less knowledge. If we have that mindset, remember anytime that a brother or sister is being more [92:04] conservative, they don't turn on the they you know what I'm saying? They don't cook on the Sabbath. They don't um [92:09] you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to think of another example of one that's common. They don't uh they don't buy or [92:14] sell on the Sabbath. Right? you if you know that you have more freedom, always [92:21] be more willing to restrict yourself more than to use your freedom when your brother wants to restrict more. If you [92:28] have that, you won't be a stumbling block to your brother and you'll have a better opportunity to to help them [92:33] understand it the way you understand it. But never never like use your freedom against your brother. You know what I'm [92:40] saying? Because one, if you end up wrong, that's your butt. And then two, you know what I'm saying? It don't help [92:46] them get closer to you to understand the truth. It don't help them become comfortable in their faith when they now [92:53] at doubt about even even if you doing stuff right. Right. Keep [93:01] going. For if any man see thee which has knowledge to that meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscious of him [93:07] which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols? And through thy knowledge shall the weak [93:12] brother perish for whom the Messiah died. But when you sin so against the brethren, and would and wound their weak [93:19] conscience, ye sin against the Messiah. Wherefore if meat make thy brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the [93:26] world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. [93:31] All right, let's go ahead and uh that's that's that's it. We'll wrap there and then uh next week we'll we'll pick it up [93:36] at at chapter nine and uh try to get through at least the rest of first Corinthians 1, I mean first uh 1 [93:44] Corinthians and then we'll jump over into second Corinthians in a week or so after that. Any [93:53] questions? You ain't got no questions. Are you trying to see if you [93:58] got questions? Me, you don't have no questions. I bet you don't. You're over there acting like you putting on darn [94:04] makeup. I know it is. It better be [94:12] pretend. All right, let's pray out. Get that pocket.