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Exodus chapter 20, so two weeks 
ago we looked at the seventh commandment. We're going to continue 
that this evening. So Exodus 20 verse 14, but I'll 
read the larger context beginning in verse 1. And God spoke all 
these words saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you 
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You 
shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself 
a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven 
above, or that is in the water beneath, or that is in the water 
under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, 
nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am 
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing 
mercy to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not take the name of 
the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 
who takes his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep 
it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you 
shall do no work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your 
male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor 
your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord 
made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, 
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the 
Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honor your father and your mother, 
that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your 
God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit 
adultery. You shall not steal. You shall 
not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not 
covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's 
wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, 
nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's. Now 
all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, 
the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when 
the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. Then they 
said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear, but let 
not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said to the people, 
Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and that his fear 
may be before you, so that you may not sin. So the people stood 
afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God 
was. Amen. So as I said, verse 14, you shall 
not commit adultery. So last time we looked at the 
basis for the commandment. We saw the purpose of God in 
marriage. God ordained marriage. It's not 
a social convention. It wasn't the best possible arrangement 
that Adam and Eve could figure out, but rather it was designed 
by God. As well, we have the function 
of God's law, the Decalogue, the regulation of conduct on 
earth by God, and he says specifically, you shall not commit adultery. 
And then the sanction involved in transgressing God's law. So 
when those, when persons violate or transgress the law of God, 
there is repercussion, there is sanction, there is penalty 
attached to that. And then we moved on to the prohibition 
of the commandment, that's where we find ourselves tonight. The 
several things that we looked at last time, obviously adultery 
is condemned. That's having relations with 
somebody who is not your spouse, the spouse of another. Second 
is the act of fornication, that's having relations outside of the 
covenant of marriage. The third was incest, which is 
prohibited by God both by consanguinity, or blood, and by affinity, relation. God prohibits in both areas. We saw, fourthly, the act of 
rape in Deuteronomy chapter 22. Fifth, homosexuality. It's not 
an alternate lifestyle to be celebrated. Rather, it is a sinful 
pattern condemned by God Most High. After that, we looked at 
bestiality, and then unlawful divorce, and then immodesty. So those are several things that 
we looked at. So we have just a few more tonight, 
and then we'll look at the manner of violating the commandment. 
So picking up The next one is the act of polygamy. Now, the 
polygamy is having multiple wives. If you turn over to the book 
of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 17 specifically, you see that 
God prohibited kings, in particular, from multiplying wives. Now, 
I know that there was polemic polygamy in the Old Testament. 
I know that it was practiced by David. It was certainly practiced 
by Solomon. In fact, 1 Kings chapter 11 is 
a sad commentary on the act of polygamy. But if you look at 
Deuteronomy 17 at verse 14, when you come to the land which the 
Lord your God is giving you and possess it and dwell in it and 
say, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are 
around me, you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord 
your God chooses. One from among your brethren 
you shall set as king over you. You may not set a foreigner over 
you who is not your brother. But he shall not multiply horses 
for himself, nor cause the people who return to Egypt to multiply 
horses. For the Lord has said to you, 
you shall not return that way again. Neither shall he multiply 
wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he greatly 
multiply silver and gold for himself. Now, the particular 
prohibition here respecting kings definitely applies to all men 
and all women. God made Adam and Eve. He didn't 
make Adam and Eve and then, you know, five other women and bring 
them to Adam. But the specific direction for 
kings is that oftentimes they married to forge political alliances. And no doubt that's what Solomon 
does as he takes on that multitude of extra wives, but they caused 
his heart to go astray from the living and true God. So that 
is prohibited by God. Now if you turn to the book of 
Exodus, Exodus chapter 21, you'll notice that God regulates polygamy. God regulates polygamy, and we 
might ask the question, why would he do that if it is a sinful 
thing? Well, it's similar to divorce. 
In an unfallen world, there would be no legislation dealing with 
divorce because there would be no divorce. But because of the 
fall and the sin, there are sometimes innocent parties in a marriage, 
and it is lawful for them to sue out for a divorce. So after 
the fall, there comes legislation to redress specific things that 
arise among fallen sinners. So when you see laws respecting 
polygamy in the Old Testament, it's not to sanction the practice, 
it is rather to protect the innocent parties that are involved. Notice in Exodus chapter 21, 
specifically at verse 7. If a man sells his daughter to 
be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves 
do. If she does not please her master, 
who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. 
He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since 
he has dealt deceitfully with her. And if he has betrothed 
her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom 
of daughters. Now notice, if he takes another wife, he shall 
not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights. And 
if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out 
free without paying money. Again, it's not to sanction the 
practice of polygamy. It's rather to regulate it so 
that innocent parties in that particular situation would be 
protected. But the act of polygamy was not 
God's intention at the original creation. The practice was tolerated 
in the Old Testament, but as Stuart mentions, monogamy is 
everywhere in scripture assumed as the ideal, as a creation ordinance 
in Genesis 2.24, and then firmly reinforced by Jesus in Matthew 
chapter 19 and verse 5, and then Paul in Ephesians 5 at verse 
31. So the original intent by God 
at creation was one man and one woman forever, until death did 
them part." Now again, because of sin, because of the attack 
upon the family that sometimes occurs, because of wicked men, 
God gave divorce, for instance, lawful divorce, so that persons 
could be protected. Same thing with polygamy. It's 
not sanctioned, but it's regulated in the Old Testament so that 
innocent parties would be protected, that text. If a man takes another 
wife, he shall not diminish the first wife's food, clothing, 
and her marriage rights. In other words, he needs to make 
sure that her marriage bed, her cupboard, and her closet are 
filled just like they were prior to his taking on this additional 
wife. The next one is the act of prostitution. It's condemned 
by God as a sin, but interestingly enough, in the Old Covenant, 
it wasn't a civil crime. Remember, as an evidence that 
God answered Solomon's prayer for wisdom, two harlots come 
and present their case to Solomon concerning a living son. Solomon 
doesn't order them to be thrown into jail for harlotry. Solomon 
does not say off with their heads because they've committed this 
particular crime. So it wasn't a crime in Old Covenant 
Israel, it was certainly frowned upon as a practice, but in terms 
of sin, prostitution is condemned by God Most High. And then the 
next one tonight is pornography. There's no specific text that 
says thou shalt not click on that website, but Matthew chapter 
5, specifically the section dealing with adultery, Jesus underscores 
the reality that if you look upon a woman to lust, or if you're 
a woman and you look upon a man to lust, we forget that it goes 
that way as well, then you have broken the seventh commandment. 
And when it comes to pornography and the use of it, it is for 
that express purpose. Notice in Matthew 5.28, you have 
heard that it was said to those of old, you shall not commit 
adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust 
for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." 
Remember Jesus, the antithesis here is not between Jesus and 
Moses. When he says, you have heard 
that it was said to those of old by Moses, you shall not commit 
adultery. But I say to you, that's not 
the antithesis of the contrast. Moses, or the law under Moses, 
always spoke to the heart of man as well. It was wrong in 
the Old Covenant to lust after a woman. It was wrong in the 
Old Covenant to lust after a man. The antithesis of the contrast 
is between Jesus and the Pharisaic and Scribal misinterpreters of 
Moses. They taught that as long as you 
didn't engage in the outward act, then you were okay. Jesus 
says, no, if you engage in it inwardly, you have violated or 
transgressed the commandment. And again, all the Old Testament, 
or the Old Testament, underscores that same thing. It was never 
right. Remember Job made a covenant with his eyes according to Job 
31. Why then should he look upon a young woman? If it was not 
sin, unless he actually engaged in the act, why would he make 
that covenant with his eyes? So back to the text. Notice in 
verse 28, I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for 
her has already committed adultery with her. in his heart. If your 
right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from 
you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members 
perish than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if 
your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from 
you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members 
perish than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And then 
over at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Again, a general prohibition, 
certainly we can extend it to the use of pornography. 1 Thessalonians 
chapter 4 at verse 3. Paul says, for this is the will 
of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from 
sexual immorality. The word there is porneia, and 
it's a broad term, and it's all-inclusive or comprehensive in terms of 
all manner of sexual sin. Jesus uses that same language 
there in Matthew 5, and then he uses it again in Matthew chapter 
19. When he argues for the lawfulness of divorce, he uses that broader 
word porneia. The word for adultery is moikeia. He doesn't say if somebody is 
guilty of adultery, therefore you have the ability or you have 
the right to sue for divorce. He uses that broader term. He 
uses the language of porneia. It's a broader category, and 
there's a whole host of things covered by that particular commandment. And then the final one, we're 
going to spend a little bit more time on this just because of 
its prevalence in our own generation, and that's transgenderism. You 
can turn over to the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapter 
22. Deuteronomy chapter 22 deals 
specifically with transvestitism, which is simply dressing like 
the opposite sex. And then, of course, transgenderism 
is trying to be like the opposite sex via either chemical and or 
surgical means. So notice in Deuteronomy 22 at 
verse 5, I realize this is often applied to women not wearing 
trousers, but if that is what it means, then women 
shouldn't wear socks or shirts because men wear socks and men 
wear shirts. The clear prohibition is against 
transvestitism. One commentator said, almost 
certainly it is about the perverted crossing of genders, either in 
orgiastic rites involving transvestitism or in some form of pagan worship, 
or both. The final phrase of the law shows 
that some form of serious immorality or idolatry was involved. For 
all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. If we're 
willing to apply that to a woman wearing pants, I think we're 
missing the point of the text. The point of the text is transvestitism. Again, in that culture it was 
a man trying to pass as a woman or as a woman trying to pass 
as a man. And then we've had transvestitism 
in our own generation, but it's evolved into the chemical expression 
or into the surgical expression known as transgenderism. Now, this is obviously appropriate 
for us to be concerned about. As I said, it's very prevalent 
today. I'm going to read a few statistics 
here concerning the situation that we are facing. But first, 
Bill C-4, which was recently passed in Canada. And the preamble 
to Bill C-4 says, whereas conversion therapy causes harm to society 
because, among other things, it is based on and propagates 
myths and stereotypes about sexual orientation, gender identity, 
and gender expression. including the myth that heterosexuality, 
cisgender identity, and gender expression that conforms to the 
sex assigned to a person at birth are to be preferred over other 
sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. Well, 
if that's true, it's not just the Bible that's a myth and that's 
what they're ultimately trying to do, but it's science. To say 
that somehow heterosexuality, to say that somehow these things 
that have been settled science for millennia is fluid and it 
doesn't really mean what it means is really a launch into superstition 
and voodoo and a whole host of things that are completely anti-science. With reference to transgenderism, 
there is a craze among girls today. Adolescent girls are transitioning 
to boyhood in a way that has never been seen before. This 
ought to concern us. There's a book by Abigail Schreier, 
it's called Irreversible Damage, the Transgender Craze Seducing 
Our Daughters. Listen to just a couple of these 
statistics. She says that gender dysphoria, 
formerly known as gender identity disorder, is characterized by 
a severe and persistent discomfort in one's biological sex. It typically 
begins in early childhood, ages two to four, though it may grow 
more severe in adolescence. But in most cases, nearly 70% 
childhood gender dysphoria resolves. Historically, it afflicted a 
tiny sliver of the population, roughly 0.01%, and almost exclusively 
boys. Before 2012, in fact, there was 
no scientific literature on girls ages 11 to 21 ever having developed 
gender dysphoria at all. In the last decade, that has 
changed, and dramatically. The Western world has seen a 
sudden surge of adolescents claiming to have gender dysphoria and 
self-identifying as transgender. For the first time in medical 
history, natal girls are not only present among those so identifying, 
they constitute the majority. And then this stat, in the last 
decade, so we're talking about the last 10 years, think about 
this, and I know this is prevalent, I know we're inundated with it, 
but we need to think biblically about this. Because they're trying 
to get us to accept an absurdity. They're trying to make the absurd 
normal. They're trying to demonize those 
of us who say that it's absurd, instead of succumbing and saying 
that it's normal. In other words, they are anti-persons 
who say that 2 plus 2 equals 4. They are most encouraging 
this 2 plus 2 equals 5 response on the part of the body politic. 
So in the last decade, again, 10 years, adolescent gender dysphoria 
has surged across the West. In the United States, the prevalence 
has increased by over 1,000%. 1,000%. She goes on to say 2% of high 
school students now identify as transgender, according to 
a 2017 survey of teens issued by the CDC. In Britain, the increase 
is 4,000%, and three-quarters of those referred for gender 
treatment are girls. Now brethren, it is incredibly 
easy for them to go about this, to get testosterone, to have 
what's called top surgery, to effectively sterilize themselves 
with reference to any ability of having babies in the future. Consider these statistics with 
reference to the LGBTQ situation. There was a recent study that 
was conducted and it said that the study revealed that while 
LGBT identification has been stable in older generations, 
it has risen significantly in younger generations. Over 20% 
of Gen Z adults. Now Gen Z are persons born from 
1997, so in that window of 1997 to about 2012. So 20% of Gen 
Z adults identify as LGBTQ in some form or another. Now contrast that with 2.6% of 
baby boomers. So baby boomers were born between 
1946 and that generation ended at 1964. Then you have Gen X 
which is 1965 to 1980. Gen X is about 4.5%. So you're seeing quadruple numbers in our 
generation. Now, it could just be because 
the liberty and freedom of the sexual revolution has finally 
come upon us, or it could be because they're actively promoting 
and actively pushing this. And if you read that book by 
Abigail Schreier, it is horrifying the way that public schools, 
in particular, are very careful to protect the gender transition 
of children when it comes to their parents. There are things 
being done and parents aren't even being notified with reference 
to their children transitioning to another gender. You've heard 
about the current situation in Florida. The don't say gay bill. Everybody's heard of that? The 
bill says nothing about don't say gay. The word gay is not 
in the bill. That has been taken up on the 
part of the opponents of the bill to try to silence anybody 
from advocating that particular position. The bill is quite simple. The bill simply says that a school 
district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation 
or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that 
is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students. Basically, 
the window is from pre-K to nine years old. That's what Ron DeSantis 
wants in Florida. All he did was pass a bill that 
said, I don't want any teachers of children who are pre-K to 
nine years old to have to hear about sex, about gender identity, 
about sexuality. The opponents of this are losing 
their mind indicates the problem we are facing today. It indicates 
that this kind of stuff is being used as a bludgeon against not 
only our children but against political enemies as well. One 
person said, Democrats say such policies will harm the lesbian, 
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. The Florida 
measure bars classroom instruction in public schools on sexual orientation 
or gender identity for children in kindergarten through third 
grade, or from about ages five to nine. Who in their right mind 
would oppose that law? Who in their right mind wants 
their five to nine year old to be discussing sexual issues with 
their public school teacher? We have an epidemic today or 
a pandemic and it ain't COVID. We have a pandemic of sexual 
perversion that is openly promoted. And as I said before, it's not 
just enough for us to accept it as normal. It's getting to 
the point where we need to praise that as the optimum way to go. So they're going from just we 
want to be accepted to if you don't do this, you've got big 
problems. They are grooming children. They 
are after our children. I think Matt Walsh was right. 
You've got to get them when they're that young because when they 
hit 10 to 15, they're smart enough to know how stupid it all is. 
So you gotta really go after them when they're little children. 
And they understand that. And the fact that this bill in 
Florida, you should all see what the problem is with that bill 
in Florida. It doesn't go near far enough. 
It shouldn't just be 9 year olds that shouldn't have to hear. 
I don't want My 15-year-old, if my 17-year-old was in a public 
high school, I wouldn't want his gay teacher celebrating the 
gay in front of him. That's not reading, writing, 
and arithmetic. That's what they're there for, 
allegedly. not to be trained to embrace sexual perversion 
and to engage in transition against or without their parents' knowledge. So if you have a mind to read 
and see kind of what's going on, I commend that book by Abigail 
Schreier, Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze, Seducing 
Our Daughters. It really is horrifying to consider 
the implications and the ramifications. Kind of like getting a tattoo 
when you're 15. only you can get the tattoo lasered off. You 
can't become fertile again. You can't get, you know, your 
breast replaced. There's a whole host of lifelong 
implications for persons who choose to transition. And it 
is not, as far as I can tell, a happy life. And typically, 
and as the data shows, it's not like that fixes any mental health 
issues. it just brings on new ones. There's 
new issues that one has to process and one has to deal with when 
it comes to this particular thing. So in Deuteronomy 22 verse 5, 
it doesn't speak of actually, you know, chemical or surgical, 
but the prohibition is there. If God made you a man, you're 
a man. If God made you a woman, you're 
a woman. You're not supposed to try and 
correct that. You're not supposed to try and 
change that. You're not supposed to try to 
go against nature. God knows what he's doing when 
he designs us. And as a result, we embrace what 
God has made us to be. And in that, we seek to be faithful 
in terms of our sexuality. So those are several things that 
are prohibited by the commandment. Again, it's comprehensive. You 
shall not commit adultery. But as we've seen, a method of 
interpretation is that all the sins of a particular category 
are subsumed under that particular commandment. So adultery, fornication, 
incest. rape, homosexuality, bestiality, 
unlawful divorce, immodesty, polygamy, prostitution, pornography, 
and then transvestitism and transgenderism. And of course, we see the transgender 
application in society as well in terms of female sports. Men 
are killing it at female sports. I mean, they are putting the 
hurt on these women athletes. And it's just so unfair. It's 
just so not cool. Could you imagine being an NCAA 
champion woman swimmer to be bested by a man? And everybody's 
saying, but that's OK. That's simply acceptable. That's 
fine. I mean, the guy's two feet taller. 
He's got the wingspan of an eagle. He's got testosterone. He's able 
to swim faster. It's just the way it is. So there 
is some really unfair things going on in the name of sexual 
freedom or liberty, which is ultimately just bondage and slavery. So that's the prohibition. Now 
in terms of the manner of violating the commandment, of course the 
external act, engaging in any of these is forbidden. The Westminster 
Larger Catechism says, what are the sins forbidden in the Seventh 
Commandment? The sins forbidden in the Seventh 
Commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are adultery, 
fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, and all unnatural lusts. So engaging 
in these things externally, actually practicing these particular things 
that fall under the prohibition, you shall not commit adultery. 
But secondly, and we see this in Matthew's Gospel, in Matthew 
chapter 5, it's that internal disposition. Matthew chapter 
5, the Lord Jesus says, if you look upon a woman to lust, you've 
already committed adultery with her in your heart. And again, 
this is prohibited in Job 31. You see it in Proverbs 6, and 
as well in Proverbs 7. A larger catechism goes on to 
say, all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections. With reference to Matthew 5.28, 
Spurgeon says, if sin were not allowed in the mind, it would 
never be made manifest in the body. This, therefore, is a very 
effectual way of dealing with the evil. Cut it off before it 
gets into the mind. Don't entertain it. Don't ponder 
it. Don't contemplate it. Rather, resist it and reject 
it in the light of Jesus' words. I say to you that whoever looks 
at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with 
her in his heart. Watson said, as a man may die 
of an inward bleeding, So he may be damned for the inward 
boilings of lust if it not be mortified. So certainly the external 
actions and then the internal disposition. Turn over to Ephesians 
chapter 5. It also deals with corrupt and 
filthy speech. Ephesians chapter 5, specifically 
at verse 3. Notice how Paul makes this prohibition 
And he includes alongside the external act and the internal 
disposition the kind of speech that is unfitting obedience to 
the seventh commandment. So chapter five in Ephesians 
at verse three, but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, 
let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints, 
neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor coarse jesting, which 
are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know 
that no fornicator, unclaimed person, nor covetous man who 
is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and 
God. That no one deceive you with empty words. For because 
of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers 
with them. And then a final way is the association 
with idleness, gluttony, and drunkenness. Again, the catechism 
goes on to say, idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste company. 
I think the reason the catechism addresses that is because a failure 
to govern every passion often yields a problem with with any 
passion. If we're not on guard across 
the board, then typically we succumb to various temptations 
and lusts in other arenas. And then in terms of the positive 
aspect of the command, so it's a negative, do not commit adultery, 
but positively, what are we to learn? Again, I'm going to lean 
on the larger catechism. What are the duties required 
in the Seventh Commandment? The duties required in the Seventh 
Commandment are chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and 
behavior, and the preservation of it in ourselves and others, 
watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses, temperance, keeping 
of chaste company, modesty and apparel, marriage by those that 
have not the gift of continency, So positively, there's a lot 
there. Positively, there's a lot going on in terms of watchfulness, in terms of care and concern 
about the presentation of the way that we live and the way 
that we function. And then it enjoins happy marriages. The best corrective, and our 
confession deals with it at the level of prevention of uncleanness, 
is to find a good husband or a good wife and enjoy relations 
in the context that God designed it for. Sexuality is not a sin. God's not, you know, against 
the act. God is against the act outside 
of its covenant context and the boundary of marriage. Within 
the context of marriage, it is a good thing. In fact, you can 
turn to Proverbs chapter 5. Proverbs chapter 5, Solomon gives 
his sons the three R's to sexual purity. And for Solomon, the 
first is, remove. Remove your way far from her 
and do not go near the door of her house. With reference to 
the woman that would entice. Notice in Proverbs 5 verse 8. Remove your way far from her 
and do not go near the door of her house. The second R is found 
in verse 18. Notice, let your fountain be 
blessed and rejoice with the wife of your youth. What's the 
corrective with reference to uncleanness? You have a good 
wife or a good husband. You enjoy the blessings that 
God has granted to you with that particular person. And then the 
third R is verse 21. There's not an R word there, 
but it's, Remember, for the ways of a man are before the eyes 
of the Lord. and he ponders all his paths. 
Remember, whatever you're doing, wherever you go, whoever you're 
looking at, whatever you're thinking about, the Lord God examines. The Lord God ponders all his 
paths. So remove your way far from her, 
rejoice in the wife of your youth, and remember that God Most High 
is watching your actions and he knows the internal disposition. So in terms of some concrete 
application, that first is the means for protection. Marriage. And we have several purposes 
for marriage. It's not just sexual relations, 
but that is an aspect of marriage that God has given in Genesis 
chapter 2. You see it as well, as I said, 
in Proverbs chapter 5. You see it in Hebrews chapter 
13. It's a good thing. Sexuality is a blessed gift from 
God Almighty. It's just supposed to be used 
the way that God Almighty specifies. We're not supposed to turn it 
on its head and engage in it in a manner that is inconsistent 
with God's Holy Word. Now with reference to the rejection 
of the seventh commandment, We see the prevalence of this in 
North American culture. We see it in spades. I mean, 
it's in other cultures to be sure, but certainly we see it 
present in our own culture, not just transgenderism, but the 
celebration of all manner of sexual perversity. Again, they 
want to normalize things. They want to make it such that 
this is just the common approach to sexuality. Do whatever it 
is you want. Well, that's not what God says. 
God never says, do whatever it is you want. You've seen the 
dust up with Disney recently. Disney opposed Ron DeSantis' 
bill in Florida. Disney has been heard, or a higher 
up in Disney has said they want to try to get 50% LGBTQ into 
their, you know, coming movies. It's horrifying. And again, they 
don't like to be called groomers. Well, I've got a great response 
for you. Stop grooming our children and 
we won't call you groomers. That's the way you avoid that. 
You don't sexualize seven-year-olds. You don't sexualize ten-year-olds. Let them be children. Let them 
play, you know, cops and robbers. Let them play hide and seek. 
I mean, some of us grew up in a day and age where we didn't 
have to hear about all that stuff when we were kids. We just did 
what kids are supposed to do. They are sexualizing children 
at a very young age, and it really should concern the people of 
God. But it's prevalent not only in North American culture, it's 
prevalent in the professing church. Unlawful divorce, the acceptance 
of homosexuality, and the avoiding of sexual ethics altogether. 
Brethren, this is a hill to die on for us. We are not to fumble 
the ball at the point of sexuality with reference to God's holy 
word. We're not supposed to capitulate. We're not supposed to model those 
churches that say, well, as long as it's monogamous homosexuality, 
it's not promiscuous as long as those men are faithful one 
to another. That's not what the Bible says. 
The Bible condemns it as perversion. The Bible condemns it as sin. 
And therefore, the church must uphold that. And then as well, 
the interference of the civil government in matters of sexuality. The civil government exists to 
defend the citizenry. The civil government exists to 
protect us from murderers in society and to protect us from 
invaders coming across our border. That's it. They shouldn't be 
in the business of transitioning children. The head of the Department 
of Health and Human Services was asked today if he thought 
that the federal government in the United States of America 
should be in the business of subsidizing transition among 
little children and he said yes. that we have gotten to the point 
where federal tax dollars are being spent to mutilate children 
and somehow we think this is good? You know how they say history's 
gonna deal with us very severely and very harshly? I can't even 
imagine how it's gonna go when you look back on a society of 
people where adults encouraged children to pursue self-mutilation. Adults encouraged children. There's 
a process or there's a program that's high among the school 
of thought in terms of transitioning that never ever questioned them 
or challenged them. They know what's best. Little 
Susie at 13 knows her sexuality. She knows that she was made to 
be a boy and you have to respect that and you have to pay for 
her testosterone and you have to pay for her top surgery. so 
that she can transition and be happy and healthy as a boy. I'm 
sorry, get the government out of sexuality. Get the government 
out of our lives, except at the point of protecting us. The passage of Bill C-4, along 
with all of the COVID statutes of the last two years, underscores 
that we have a much bigger problem with our government than just 
some of these details. They are trying to function as 
God. They want to regulate, as we 
saw here, worship. Bonnie Henry says, you don't 
have to go to church to worship God. Oh, she's the theologian 
in chief now, we all just need to submit and listen to whatever 
she decrees. No, we've got the state defining 
for us now what sexuality is and what is lawful and legit. 
I'm sorry, but God in the Decalogue addresses such issues. We've 
got the civil state interfering in matters of abortion and euthanasia, 
imposing those sorts of things upon us. They're the arbiters 
of life and death. We have a modern civil state 
that wants to be God. They want total planning and 
control, they want absolute sovereignty, and they want our fealty and 
our taxes. They want our fealty and our 
taxes so that they can do with us whatever it is they deem appropriate. The discussion of ethics has 
always been engaged in by theology, by religion, by philosophy. It's not ever been the arena 
for politicians who aren't particularly bright as it goes, but who as 
well are often times wicked and vile with reference to their 
own code of personal ethics or conduct. And then ultimately, 
with reference to this rejection of the seventh commandment, not 
just in terms of society, but churches that jump on board and 
condone or get alongside of this sexual perversion, there's the 
judgment of God to be had. There is judgment. If this government 
or if this society never punishes the various criminal offenders 
in our generation, God will deal with sexual perversion. God will 
deal with those who violate his law. And then the final thing 
I want to do is the use of the Seventh Commandment. Typically, 
when we talk about the law of God, we know there's a threefold 
use. The civil use, the pedagogical 
use, and then the normative use. In terms of the civil use, listen 
to what our Sinus says in his commentary on the Heidelberg 
Catechism at the point of the Seventh Commandment. He says, 
the magistrate should punish these heinous sins and abominable 
transgressions with extraordinary punishments. Wow, you mean we 
should actually think in terms of God's law when it comes to 
sexual ethics? Yeah. Greg Bonson wrote a book 
in the 70s on homosexuality. He said, homosexuality that is 
publicly accepted is symptomatic of a society under judgment, 
inwardly corrupted to the point of impending collapse. Paul the 
Apostle regarded it as the most overt evidence of that degeneracy 
to which God in his wrath gave over the nations. Remember, as 
we're reading through the book of Leviticus, we have these prohibitions 
against sexual sin. Leviticus chapter 18, other chapters 
as well. Why? Because it was those sorts 
of things that the Canaanites did when they had tenure in the 
land. So God uses Israel to chase in 
them, to judge them, and to drive them out of the land. And so 
Israel is supposed to function in a proper capacity when it 
comes to sexual ethics in terms of the seventh commandment. They're 
not supposed to engage in adultery. They're not supposed to fornicate. 
They're not supposed to be transvestites. They're not supposed to do all 
that stuff. So when they do continue down that road, it doesn't surprise 
us when God raises up Assyria to drive out the northern tribes, 
and later when he raises up Babylon to drive out the southern tribes. 
So Israel receives, by way of inheritance, this gift of God 
in terms of the land. But if they aren't faithful in 
the land, then that land is going to vomit them out, just like 
the land vomited out the Canaanites. And one of the telling issues, 
with reference to Canaanite culture, was sexual perversion, sexual 
sin. Same sort of thing happens with 
reference to Israel, and that's why God sends the prophets to 
preach to them and call upon them to repent, to forsake their 
sin. Now, we live in a curious generation 
because none of the politicians typically give any concern whatsoever 
to commandments. They don't care about the sixth, 
vis-a-vis abortion, euthanasia. They don't care about the seventh, 
vis-a-vis let's mutilate or let's let little children mutilate 
themselves for the greater good of sexual freedom or whatever 
it is they think. And then as well, with reference 
to theft, I mean, the whole government system in terms of the way we 
operate now is built on theft. They take our money and they 
give it to foreign countries. So we are in a deficit situation 
in terms of the civil polity in our land. But if we read the 
old boys, we read the old writers in the 70s, 70s wasn't that long 
ago with Greg Bonson, he saw this coming, that when we see 
these kinds of things sanctioned, not only sanctioned, but encouraged, 
condoned, and oftentimes subsidized by the federal government, we 
are not in a good state. Whatever may be happening in 
terms of Canadian life, we look to be under the judgment of God. 
And therefore, we need to understand that we have to be faithful, 
we have to toe the line as God gave it to us, and we can't compromise 
at this level of sexual ethics when it comes to the Church of 
Jesus Christ. So civil use, the world, the 
society at large, should embrace God's law. The pedagogical use, 
that means the law of God shows us our sin so that we see our 
need for the Savior. And certainly the seventh commandment 
does that. The seventh commandment gets 
right to the heart of a man. If you look upon a woman to lust, 
you've already broken the commandment in your heart. It's one of those 
commandments that gets right in there and presents itself 
on a regular basis. So it shows us our constant need 
and dependence upon our Lord Jesus Christ. And then, as saved 
men and women in terms of the normative use, we've already 
seen in 1 Thessalonians 4, the abstention from all sexual sin. This is the will of God, your 
sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality. That's 
the mandate for the people of God. Second, the practice of 
biblical marriage. If you're not married and you 
want to be married, prepare to get married. Find a woman, find 
a man. The prevention of uncleanness 
is a good thing. So biblical marriage, and I mean, 
again, what God says in terms of marriage ought to be done 
by the people of God. And then the mortification of 
sin. Jesus says, if your right eye 
causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it far from you, for 
it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish 
than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right 
hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you, for 
it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish 
than for your whole body to be cast into hell. Jesus is speaking 
metaphorically. Origen, the church father, did 
not think so. Origen, I think it was Origen, 
he was emasculated because of this command, because of this 
prohibition. I am not advocating anyone go 
out and emasculate themselves if they are struggling. He is 
speaking metaphorically. You're not supposed to engage 
in self-mutilation. Spurgeon says, let no man plead 
this literally and therefore mutilate his body as some foolish 
fanatics have done. And ultimately, brethren, if 
the heart's not dealt with, you're still going to sin the sin, right? You may cut off appendages, but 
if you haven't dealt with the heart, if you're not living in 
light of Proverbs 4, you might be there, because we were just 
in Proverbs 6. Proverbs 4, 23. your heart with 
all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put 
away from you a deceitful mouth, put perverse lips far from you, 
let your eyes look straight ahead, your eyelids look right before 
you. Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be 
established, do not turn to the right or the left, remove your 
foot from evil. But that mandate, verse 23, keep 
your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues 
of life. And then, as well, the Lord highlights 
the need to deal radically with sin. That's the point. Not physically 
cut your hand off, not physically gouge out your eye, but rather 
deal radically with your sin. So he uses the metaphor to underscore 
the seriousness and to show how we ought to go about dealing 
with these particular things. Again, Spurgeon says, better 
a blind saint than a quick-sighted sinner. And then we need to recognize, 
finally, the close association between the two tables of the 
law. Typically, when we maintain communion 
with God, it helps us in the second table commandments. If 
we are neglecting God, we neglect the first table, then our issues 
with the second table are going to be pretty palpable. Again, 
same sort of pattern when it comes to the prophets and Israel. 
The prophets would go in the name of God and preach to the 
people. And they would typically highlight 
first table sins, that they had been idolatrous, or they had 
been blasphemous, or they had forgotten their God, and then 
they deal with second table sins. So what's the point? If we're 
not walking in communion with our God, most likely we're not 
going to be treating our fellows with the respect and with the 
dignity that God calls us to treat them with. So there is 
a close correlation between the two tables of the law in terms 
of our obedience and compliance with reference to the normative 
use of the law. And then finally, I might have 
said finally, I had two finally's. 1 Corinthians 6, we need to realize 
as perverted as our culture is, the gospel is more powerful. than the perversion. 1 Corinthians 
chapter 6 at verse 9. Do you not know that the unrighteous 
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither 
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, 
nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor 
revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And 
such were some of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, 
but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by 
the Spirit of our God." So it is our blessed privilege to be 
able to preach a full and free gospel to all sinners everywhere, 
knowing that in Corinth there were those who had been guilty 
of these sins as a pattern of life, but they were washed, they 
were sanctified, they were justified freely by the grace of God Almighty. Well, let us pray. Our Father, 
we thank you for your word. We thank you for the clarity 
of the commandments. We thank you, Father, that our 
Lord Jesus came to live, to die, and to rise again so that we 
may have everlasting life. For certainly when we look into 
these commandments, when we start to go below the surface, we see 
that we have a problem with your law. We are lawbreakers, and 
we lack conformity unto it. So we thank you for Christ. We 
thank you for the imputed righteousness of Christ. We thank you for the 
forgiveness of all of our sin. And God, we know that the presence 
and the power of the Holy Spirit with us is able to help us to 
restrain our hearts, to restrain our minds when it comes to these 
particular things. Help us to be faithful and help 
us to glorify and honor you. And as a church, may we hold 
fast to the truth of God's holy word. We pray for the church 
as a whole all over the earth. that she would hold fast as well, 
with reference to the Bible's sexual ethics, and to preach 
these things, and to call sinners to faith and repentance. And 
we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, any questions or 
comments on any of those fun things? It's always tough to 
look at those things. It's a tough thing to hold up 
the spotlight of Scripture on a culture like ours, but it's 
certainly most applicable or appropriate topic for our consideration 
in light of our situation. Yes, sir? You can go towards all these 
other And persons very much frustrated 
because no one tried to stop them. You know when everybody 
just said, sure, go ahead. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Did you 
have something, John? No, I'm just thinking about everything 
you said. I think it was great teaching 
from the scriptures because the trouble is nowadays, I believe, 
is that people avoid these things. It's almost like this woke-ism 
is coming in. Yeah, he can't talk about it. It's absolutely essential that 
we do it. Some people criticize for people to speak in the church 
about that thing. Perhaps you probably receive 
criticism. I don't know. But as long as I can say it, 
it's encouraging. Keep it up because it's absolutely 
necessary in our culture, I believe. Yeah, I think the woke, they're 
bullies. And the way to deal with a bully 
is to stand up to them. That's what I think, yeah. To 
John's point, then, if not in church, if not at a Bible study 
with an open Bible, an open confession, and a catechism, then when else? 
When else are we supposed to deal with it? So again, this 
comes back to the secret sensitive stuff in the church world. We're 
so busy trying to attract unbelievers that we're going to be silent 
on basic ethical issues. I don't see any of these megachurch 
people raising their bell, raising the alarm. If we're talking about 
the Beatles, showing their kids reading transgenderism, Now, 
another thing I'll quickly point out is, philosophically, transgenderism 
follows from a postmodern view of metaphysics. What I mean by 
that, very simply put, is if I don't believe in absolute truth, 
if I'm not going to let the level of nature, meaning creation, 
male, female, in every species, as you said, millennia of science, 
we're going to let a bunch of postmodernists now rewrite millennia 
of scientific consensus. Who gave these people all that 
cultural power to literally rewrite the most basic facts of reality? It's a redefining of terms, is 
how they do it, right? Now there's maybe gender can 
mean something different than sex. So you see in the theological 
world, where you make your own definition, and it sounds good, 
but that's what they're doing too, right? Just make a definition. 
or redefine terms so that they can, it's not such an obvious 
contradiction. I mean, still is, but. Yeah, you're just shouted down. You dare not oppose them because 
you're the bad guy at that point. Well, I'm sorry, they're not 
the epitome of righteousness and virtue. Being shouted down 
by that ilk is, I would expect that. Yeah, it's definitely warfare, 
and it's definitely, I mean, at times it's quite discouraging 
to see how far they've gone, and to see how many, you know, 
how much impact it has been made. Yeah, just that number within 
a decade, a thousand percent increase in adolescent girls 
wanting to transition to boys. And as she points out, gender 
dysphoria typically is among two and three, four year olds. 
Adolescent, it was never heard of. Now, YouTube influencers, 
it's cool. And testosterone, I'd like to 
do a couple of doses of testosterone. Would she have authority as a 
man? I couldn't get it. But if I was 
a 15-year-old girl that wanted to transition, I'd get it like 
that. Well, and with the girls, I mean, 
what Abigail Schreier points out is, you know, they've got 
all this pressure. I don't know, reading that book 
made me think the most difficult age group ever to be, or ever 
to be, is an adolescent girl in North America. I mean, there's 
just a lot of pressure for that. But apparently there is a well-being 
that comes even with a girl taking testosterone. It has that kind 
of a an effect where there's something good about it, there's 
a confidence, there's a, you know, this kind of, I want to 
do it some more. Interesting, too, though, is 
that why weren't we allowed to use hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, 
at least according to them? It's because it was an off-label 
application, right? Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin 
weren't made for COVID, so that's off-label. You can't take it 
for COVID. Do you think testosterone has 
an on-label directive to transition 15-year-old girls? See, they 
don't play by their rules or standards ever. It is not that 
we're dealing with some sort of a monolithic group that is 
consistent. The only thing they're consistent 
at is being inconsistent. You can use testosterone to mutilate 
a girl. But you can't take hydroxychloroquine 
to try to fight the flu. So, this is where we're at. And 
they are, you know, ramped up. So, I think we need to be knowledgeable 
of the text and just seek to resist it. Yes, Cori. Just reading that book, one of 
the things that really stood out to me is how hard it is being 
a parent. Oh yeah. To a kid this age. Like, 
that book was such an eye-opener. Yeah. It was like, if I can find 
it, if anybody wants to read it, they can borrow it. Yeah, I have a copy too. Everything is against the parent 
who tries to help the family situation. They just get a high 
off of starting their TikTok account and that's their claim 
to fame for the next year or two. And then it's over and then 
they crash. And then the parents need to 
deal with everything. Yeah. Oh, I know. It's horrible. And the fact that they tried 
to ban the book, too. I had a lot of trouble trying 
to find and track it down. Yeah, she was pretty much cancelled 
as soon as she wrote the book. Joe Rogan had her on and that 
helped. And then I know Tucker had her on one time, too. I think 
Ben Shapiro did, too. Yeah, I think so, too. But yeah, 
just an eye-opening read on the situation. This is the recent craze. That's why she calls the book 
the transgender craze seducing our daughters. She all but, I 
mean it's peer pressure. I heard another guy, he's a psychologist 
that Rogan interviewed. talking about, you know, we all 
know boys can bully, but not nearly as badly as girls. Boys can hit each other and violent. Girls destroy each other on social 
media. Apparently they're just nasty. 
That's what it is, you know. One friend does it, and then 
it's cool, so the next girl in the group does it. Like, that's 
kind of how she explains it. friends, it just becomes kind 
of a peer pressure thing. And then these YouTube influencers 
that have transitioned and they have a cool YouTube channel and 
they're usually well presented and you know happy and well adjusted 
and transitioning was the best thing I ever did. So you get, 
you know, some confused 14-year-old that's, you know, getting picked 
on or whatever, finds one of these things, and basically by 
the end of the book, she's just saying it's a cult. It's like 
a massive cult. The people within, not Abigail 
Schreier, but some of the people that were involved in it, young 
girls that got into, you know, they just saw it was cultic. 
You couldn't have a compelling, you couldn't have a contrary 
thought. You know, you've probably seen that J.K. Rowling is under 
attack. She's the author of the Harry 
Potter series. Well, she's a lesbian, but she 
believes women are women and men are men. Transgenders hate 
her, because it's, what is the T-E-R-F? Trans... Exclusionary radical feminists. 
Yes, yeah. So if you think, if you're a 
lesbian, but you think men are men and women are women, you're 
a radical nut in their realm. So the LGBTQ, they all don't 
get along, right? It's not like there's this harmonious 
little group of you know, just doing their thing. There's a 
lot of hate on, in that little group. So firstly, as a psychologist, 
was it Jonathan Haidt? It was Jonathan Haidt, yeah. 
So I've watched Haidt's lectures. Haidt has lectured extensively, 
not only in his interviews, but elsewhere. Right. He's talked 
a lot about how social media has driven suicide among teenage 
girls. More on that in a moment, but 
in terms of this, so there's a civil war, a well-documented 
civil war between TERF and gay. I would just suggest that these 
are second-wave feminists from the 70s. This is the role versus 
way abortion feminists of the 70s. These are typically older 
middle-aged women just holding on to what they consider to be 
feminist orthodoxy, which I consider to be unnatural pedagogy. But there's like feminist orthodoxy, 
and they're at war with transgenders. Because transgenders are now 
attacking the definition of womanhood, the very definition of womanhood 
that they've spent 50 years fighting for. So you've got civil war 
there, and they can't get on the same page. But in terms of 
height, so okay, so suicide's up among the teenage girls. The 
psychological warfare, the psychological torture in terms of bullying 
tactics, and yeah, it's gut-wrenching and horrifying. I was going to 
ask the question then, so outside the reform world, like what we've 
heard tonight is not new. I've seen you present the deck 
a lot, I don't know, probably five to ten times since I've 
been around in eight years. This is not new material at all, 
whatsoever. But, outside the reform world, 
is there any discussion? So like, if the teenage girls, facing an increased suicide risk, 
let's say, because of social pressures and everything else 
we're talking about here. What is the response, then, across 
the board? And I mean, especially outside 
the reform. Because I understand, in a circle like this, I think 
the people around here are engaged. We're paying attention. We know 
what's going on. And I trust and hope that in a reform context, 
people are hopefully and they're taking measures to mitigate social 
trends. But what are Christians doing? 
And it's not like this is debatable. I think there's been a blitzkrieg. I 
think the culture, the left is one, and they're just shoving 
it down our throats, left, right, and center. That's my, they're 
feeding us wokeism with fire hoses, every moment of every 
day, and it gets tiring, it gets tedious. I mean, who wants to 
keep dealing with that, but we need to keep dealing with it, 
right? We can't capitulate. And I think there's this twisted 
Christian mindset that, well, we just need to spread the love 
of God. Yeah, repent, believe on the gospel, that's spreading 
the love of God. Go ahead and transition, because 
God's going to love you anyway. That's just not the way we're 
supposed to address these things. We're also living in a generation 
that is one generation away from going not going to church anymore. Oh yeah. Like all our grandparents 
went to church. There's a generation between 
that didn't go to church but still knows the biblical. Yeah. 
And now we're in a generation where, so I think that's that 
too. If I have to think, if I was not a Christian, I would probably 
think that all this transgender, not the transgenders but the 
LGBTQ, I probably, from a secular standpoint, would be like, well 
yeah, that's okay, because I don't have any reason not to. So I think that's also what's 
driving a lot of that whole left. There is no basis, so how do 
you argue with it? Yeah, and I mean, you know, it's 
I guess the absurdity too, you know, the more they shoot us 
with that fire hose, the more we're just trying to keep our 
heads above water. I really think it's inundated. It's been both barrels for however 
long, and the left seems to have captured, you know, all levels 
of culture and society, and we're having to play catch up. I just 
don't think we're as vicious or as vile as they are. They 
seem to be a lot more well-ordered or connected. They seem to stick 
together, and they seem to, you know, hey, this is the agenda, 
and this is how we're going to get there. I mean, it's diabolical, 
but they're effective at it. So where's the Boycott Disney 
movement? In all seriousness, I'm being dead serious. The Boycott 
Disney movement? It's going on. I'm on right Twitter. I like right Twitter. There's 
a lot of good stuff going on there. That's where I see encouragement. I see a lot of pro-life. I see 
a lot of condemnation of abortion and condemnation of Disney. I 
know people personally that have canceled any connection or any 
desire to support Disney. As far as I'm concerned, they're 
not getting any of my loonies. Oh yeah, DeSantis is going to 
cut them off there. We need an army of DeSantis's. We can call them the DeSanti. 
Just send them into every state, let them clean house, and then 
they can come up here to Canada and be our ruler. Well, do you 
remember the name, like, this was several years ago, like we 
were talking about, or you were talking, or Isaac, about the 
brutality of these teenage girls, how they're worse than boys. 
And I remember back in Incident, the incidents that happened in 
Victoria, a young girl, it was under the guise, I don't know 
if I ever heard what was behind it, but of being bullied, but 
they actually drug her into the hardware in Victoria and drowned 
her. And it was all over the news 
for a while. And I don't know what ever came 
of that, but I can't remember her name. Yeah, Burt. Yeah, Burt. How old was she? Fourteen. Fourteen or something. Yeah. 
And there was a group of these girls, young girls from school. 
And they, they, Alice was one of them. Who? Alice. Oh, Alice. It was just brutal. You know, they killed her. They 
brought her. Oh, yeah, it's not a nice world 
for a teenage girl at this point. This was 10 years ago. This is 
brand new. Not brand new. Yeah, Wim? I was 
going to say, just sharing a story from that dojo that I was listening 
to. Yeah, there's like a million 
LGBT people in Canada. And they're not all angry and 
in your face like that, they are. There are ways that people 
get that they're wrong in that area and don't agree with it. 
So how do we share the gospel of Jesus with them? It's not 
saying you're wrong and looking down on them, that never gets 
anywhere. I shared a story about some lady kind of broke down 
in tears, and she's like, you're the only Christian who ever prayed 
with us. Like Peter Starbuck or something like that. So we 
run into these people everywhere, hiding, Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, such were some of you 
we got we got the gospel Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Yeah. Good night Cory I don't think. Do you have one 
more comment? Yeah, we don't have to, we don't 
have to go to the other end of the ditch and embrace weird ideas 
like the Abusins and that we won't escape. The whole ground 
will be fine. Oh no. These people are unsafe. 
Oh no, no no, I don't believe that. Right, that's just to say 
that I think that's a temptation. There's other people in the Christian 
world, in the sub-Christian world, that go Yeah, like that. Tonight.