 Amen, so keep your place there in Romans chapter 2. So tonight we're going to conclude the Pride and Prejudice Sermon series and tonight I'm going to kind of we're going to have kind of an interesting light sermon tonight And I want to explain to you why this book is liked by most people All right, most people that like this book or most people that read this book like this book and this book was written in 1820 1813 or whatever it was and it's still popular today So hopefully I can explain to you from the Bible this evening, and I believe it's pretty easy to see Why the reasons that this is popular with most people the reason that it resonates with people today So in order to get to the points that I want to make tonight We got to do a short Bible study, and we need to look down at Romans chapter 2 so in Romans chapter 2 just the the beginning of Romans you have to understand that Paul is kind of presenting this idea that's kind of it's kind of wrapped up in verse number 11 of Romans chapter 2 Just the context of what Paul's talking about he's trying to you know Kind of break down this barrier of you know these Gentiles are getting saved too So anybody that believes the gospel that trusts in Jesus is saved And this is a new concept to the Jews at the time as the Gentiles are they have all the access To salvation that any other person does he says you know if you you're gonna perish without the law And you're gonna perish with the law is a everybody's gonna in in everybody's in danger of damnation is what he's explaining here But then he points out something very specifically in verse number 14 in verse number 15 That is gonna apply to us this evening so remember he's saying that Everybody is the same as far as salvation goes. There's no respect of person With God and he explains towards the end of the chapter and many other places in Romans that you know It doesn't matter who your parents were it doesn't matter what your heritage was what matters is whether or not you've believed on Jesus That's all that matters. All right, but he points out that there is a standard There is a standard that God gives to everybody in Romans chapter 2 and you know Which speaks to the sermon tonight because look most people most normal people they like certain things They like they can they consider certain things good, and they consider certain things bad I mean just think about it for example just think about just the defaults amongst normal people even today Families are generally considered a good thing by normal people today You'll even notice that if you have a family and you have children and you go You know or somebody calls a man. Oh, he's a family man. What are they saying? He's a bad guy No, they're saying like he's there. There's that's a compliment if somebody calls you oh, you know that guy that guy He's a family man even normal unsaved un-churched people. They consider that a good statement Many people most normal people when they see a family with children, you know, I mean well-behaved children Okay, you know they think it's a good thing right nobody likes bratty kids All right, even though you may think that you know, it's cute. Nobody thinks a brat is cute Okay, but most normal people think That a family is a good thing that being called a family man or that you have a family is a good thing All right, here's another thing that most people think are good weddings Most people think weddings are good. I mean do people go to weddings generally depressed and down and angry No, people go to weddings. They're they're happy. They're excited They're wearing all kinds of people don't go to weddings all dressed in black, right? They go to weddings dressed in bright colors They're looking you know to congratulate people because weddings are generally considered by the vast majority of normal people to be a good thing People like these things are happy events people are congratulating one everyone's in a good mood You say why is this why are all these certain things considered good and Certain things just generally universally considered bad not just by us by just society All right, there's a good thing here There's a good thing that we have working for us here look down at Romans chapter 2 in verse number 14 So who's Paul writing to obviously the whole Bible applies to everyone but Paul is writing specifically to Gentiles he's writing specifically to the Romans here and he's explaining this idea that the Romans the Gentiles have access to salvation to the Jews and verse number 3 or a chapter number 3 verse number 2 He explains well What advantage is it to be a Jew if everyone can get saved and he says you know they had the oracles of God They had the law they had the Bible You know the Gentiles they didn't have the word of God. They did not have the Bible I would say that's a pretty serious disadvantage even today People that don't have a Bible don't have the word of God They need somebody to go and tell them what the word of God says look that's people today That's people that you met out so many today You have to go tell them the word of God the Jews had it that's an advantage, but look down at verse number 14 But the Gentiles everybody had this this is what Paul is saying Everybody had this so everybody starts whether you were Churched or not you were Jew or Gentile Everybody starts with two things in Romans chapter one Paul explains that everybody started with the evidence of creation Everybody can look around them and see the world God created Everyone today everyone that has ever lived can see that That's what everyone has so everyone you know people that are like oh what about the person in you know The Amazonian jungle or whatever that's never heard of God or whatever Everybody had the creation number one where they can look around and then in Matthew chapter 7 God says everyone starts with two things one is the creation around you two I'm going to show you but then God promises in Matthew 7 that if you seek the truth you will find it What more do you need? That's a complete Solution right there, but the second thing that everybody has is right here look at Romans chapter 2 Look at verse number 14 the Bible says for when the Gentiles which have not the law they didn't have the Bible Do by nature the things contained in the law These having not the law are a law unto themselves So Paul is saying that the Gentiles people that have never read the Bible What Paul is saying is that people that have never heard of the word of God never read a word of it They will just by nature do the things That are in it They will know that it's wrong to murder they will know that you know certain things are good and certain things are bad He even gets very specific in verse 15. Look at this. It says which show you say how could they know this? Which show the work of the law written in their hearts because God put it in their heart God gives it to them in their heart there what this is where this term your conscience their conscience also bearing witness and Their thoughts the meanwhile look at this accusing or else excusing one another in verse 15 where it says accusing and Excusing what that means is that they will know what's good and they will know what's bad Just by the law that God put in their hearts. They don't have the Bible But they will just inherently by nature Know that what the Bible is saying here what Paul is saying is everyone is born with this feature This conscience inside them Saying that will tell them this is good This is bad. This is why you see these general things that I just went through to help people just think these things are good And these things are bad By the way, this is proof that no one is born a degenerate pervert From the Bible Period but that's not what the TV said Well, we're talking about the Bible tonight if you listen to everything on TV, I mean my goodness You're a mess. You're gonna be a mess But this is the biggest challenge of clown world right here what I just wrote what I just read for you the biggest challenge of this degenerate culture today by Teaching you know teaching everyone that evil is good and good is evil the biggest challenges to get past people's conscience Because we have an advantage from the beginning They have to train this is why the Satan's biggest attacks. Where's where's Satan attacking today? Where's Satan going and attacking and bringing confusion today? Where's he going to the children to the schools? You say why because he has to see her that conscience. That's why in First Timothy chapter 4 the Bible clearly says that it is possible to damage This conscience to sear it. What happens when you sear something when you sear something you can't feel Anymore you can't feel it anymore. So it's possible to damage this but the point is the good news is everyone Starts with this law written in their hearts. It's something that Satan has to undo He has to work against it This is why people Will always like this book is what I'm going to show you in a couple things Here, I'm gonna give you three points tonight But the first one is this so now that we know that everybody has a conscience Everybody has you know this law written in their heart. I'm not talking about saved Bible believing Christians I'm talking about everybody people just have this Conscience this heart within them that sees something and that their conscience has not been damaged or skewed or seared as the Bible would say They will look at that and they will say that's good. I like that and Other things they will look at and they will say That's vile Satan has to undo all that Satan has to flip all of that on its head So the first reason now that we know this from the Bible now that we did a little Basis Bible study the first reason that people will like this book even though it was written hundreds of years ago is that it's not woke To be quite frank it's not woke. It's a traditional story And these unfortunately are rare today traditional stories You say what do you what do you mean? It's it's a traditional story where marriage is the ultimate goal Here you have a story with a bunch of young people and what do they do? What are they doing? You have a bunch of young people and what are they doing throughout the whole book? They're trying to get married They're trying to find somebody who's decent to get married and as we talked about last week some some succeed and some do not Some find good marriages and some do not but here's the thing folks normal people can identify with this goal Normal young people because guess what even even today in the culture that we have today The vast majority of young people want to get married It is just a car is overwhelming. It's like 85 percent so 15 percent The culture has ruined but 85 percent regardless of what they're into or what they're doing They have the desire to be married because that part of their conscience has not been seared So when they read something like this or they've watched the movie or whatever They're gonna like it because it's traditional and it matches What they like and here's another one more on that line more of the lines of that it's anti woke It's anti fornication It's anti fornication because it is for marriage Because it is for marriage turn to Matthew chapter number five turn to Matthew chapter number five It is for marriage so seriously that when fornication was entered into in this book This is one of my favorite things about the book fornication was entered into in this book It was considered a danger to all those connected with that person It was considered a danger to anyone that was even related to that person that went into fornication Oh, how far we've come This transformation about fornication and people don't connect it because what people will do is they will say I'm for marriage. I want to be married, but then they will be in fornication It's like no one destroys the other and that's what young people need to realize today No matter what modern societies tell you or what our culture today tells you one destroys the other You cannot be for marriage and for fornication the two are diametrically opposed to each other as a matter of fact look down at Matthew chapter five in verse number 32 One interesting thing about fornication is it's considered such a detriment to marriage I was trying to think you know fornication I could read you fornication verses in the Bible on how it's a terrible sin It's a sin against your own body flee fornication I could read you all these verses all day long but the verse that shows that fornication is Against marriage is probably this is probably the best one Because fornication is actually the only reason Given for the dissolution of a marriage in the Bible in the King James Bible by the way Look down at five chapter five Matthew chapter five verse number 32 Fornication is given as the only permissible reason for divorce in the Bible And I'm gonna explain to you here in just a few minutes how this this it doesn't even apply today But look at verse number 32 it says but I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife talking about divorcing his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commit if adultery so the Bible here is teaching that if you get divorced first of all You stay single or you commit adultery, so if you get divorced you stay single, but the only reason for Divorce that is allowed in the Bible is fornication. You're like what? What does that mean? This only really applies to the biblical tradition of marriage the way they had it So if you think about Joseph and Mary, you know when you know, we're coming up on Christmas here So Joseph found his wife with child and they were in this betrothal period. They're in this betrothal period before they actually Got you know married so a lot of people call that the engagement But that's not what it was because the betrothal was considered marriage, but it just they hadn't consummated They didn't come together Physically yet and then they get married and then they have so there's kind of this double stage to the marriages in the Bible That does not apply today. There's no betrothal period today today There's this engagement where people get engaged and they're engaged for like eight years or something It just means nothing you're in our culture today. All right, I'm not playing down if someone's engaged The point is is engagement has turned into some big nothing burger that doesn't even it's something that you know Okay, let's get you know somebody's living with his girlfriend for eight years and they get engaged for another eight years And it just makes no sense Right. It's just backwards, you know culture, but The Bible explains that you know in Deuteronomy chapter 22, and I'm not going to do it in-depth study on this But Deuteronomy chapter 22 Deuteronomy chapter 24 if someone gets betrothal to a wife and then it They find out that she is not pure or he she has been in fornication in the past at that point Before they've even consummated the marriage it is okay to put her away And there's a whole process in Deuteronomy chapter 22 and Deuteronomy chapter 24 But the point is that's the only reason and that reason doesn't even apply today many modern Bibles You say is it important that we have a King James Bible? Let me read you from the NIV what Matthew chapter 5 and verse number 32 says one of the problems with the modern Bibles is they justify divorce Because what the King James Bible is basically telling us in our modern society is there is no reason for divorce people will just change it to adultery Fornication and adultery are two different things Adultery is wicked as hell. It is punished by capital punishment in the Old Testament I'm not downplaying that but God is just saying that fornication in the King James Bible is why you can put away your wife That's what the Bible is saying look at the NIV what it says in verse number 32 Don't look at it because hopefully you don't pull out your NIV right now But look at verse 32 or I'll read you verse 32 it says but I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality Makes her the victim of adultery and then he goes into the same type of thing But the Bible is basically saying like hey whatever you want to get divorced kid divorced Because Jesus later says that if a man looks upon a woman He's committed adultery with her in his heart So you go to a grocery store and you look too long at the magazine on the rack and your wife can divorce you That's what the NIV says Because that is immorality Doing that lusting after a woman looking at a something you shouldn't be looking at I'm not justifying that either but the Bible in the NIV is saying that justifies divorce It's a big deal It's a big deal when we change these words and make these false Bible versions because people use these And people use these to justify leaving their husbands leaving their wives People use these wicked verses because guess what when somebody wants to check out of their marriage They're gonna look for any reason to do it They're gonna look for any justification to do it and it's pretty nice when you got a Bible that says you can I Mean it's convenient So I don't even know where I was going with that, but don't get in an IV All right, and I mean that's I mean I try to show you these things as we go along Why we're King James only but the point is it's not woke. It's anti fornication They just made such a big deal when Lydia is taken off with this wicked man by the way This wicked man will get to that a little bit later But George Wickham in this book is considered a wicked piece of trash Maybe we start looking at people that are in fornication a little bit differently today But this is just the culture of that day, but it matches the culture of the Bible. I'll show you that here's another reason it's anti woke It's anti woke because it features it it has as its main Protagonist I guess you could say or antagonist depending on what part of the book you're reading a strong male character a strong masculine lead character Where are you gonna find that today? What kind of bulk or story are you gonna find with that today people people don't but you know what that matches people's Conscience, and they like to see that They like to see that because it's normal People don't want to see some strong female character that comes in and beats up a hundred guys. I mean what in the world I Remember when this started in like the 90s It was just the oddest thing in the world people want to see people want to see a story Like you know I used to have all these old comic books from my from my uncle and like they were like the comic like the Superman comic books from like the 50s and 60s and Superman was like This big I mean you could just like pull down buildings and pick up airliners and all this kind of stuff And it was like truth justice in the American way Superman like saves the day all the time But look this is what now now I looked it up DC Comics Superman saying now is truth justice and a better tomorrow He's like an environmentalist now or something like that But the point is it's all gone woke and then all the characters and all these I guess all these latest You know superhero movies or all these female characters are just you know beating up everybody It's it makes no sense You're being asked today to deny reality is what you're being asked oh But then they'll put they'll put the female superhero in an inappropriate outfit. So then it makes it okay How are the feminists okay with that? It's all backwards folks. It's all backwards But this is a traditional story with a strong male character that takes care of business and gets the girl Gets the bride even better It matches what people want to see we're being asked to simply deny what our eyes can see and what we know to be true today There was a story yesterday that I read about a moving company in Fresno I won't mention the name of the company, but there's a moving company and this moving company they Advertise the fact that if you go read their reviews, I went and I read the reviews after I read this article We've read their reviews. They advertise the fact that they can move you so quickly because the People that work for them run to the house and they get the furniture and they run to the truck And they just run back for more and they're just constantly just go back and forth and back and forth and the federal government is after them for age discrimination Because like okay, you can't you're not gonna hire a 70 year old to do that and the owner of the company was just like what in the world you have to be able to run and And and carry a couch and then run and get another couch It's like we don't care how old you know they I think they advertise that they're they have a lot of student athletes that work for them I mean I it makes sense It makes sense that they would have a lot of strong Young men that work for them, and I mean they probably have women I don't know but I mean I'm sure they have to but the point is it's ridiculous Everything is just it's it's upside down up as down down as up the story of pride and prejudice Is a is featuring the strong male character that while he's not perfect by any means He kind of saves the day He kind of saves the day he he goes and he fixes things that need to be fixed And then he he get he gets the bride and there's a happy ending People like to see that because it matches what they know to be true and what they know They want for themselves and their conscience tells them This is good This is normal right where everything that we see today I mean I recently overheard people talking about a movie that they went to see Overheard people and I haven't been to a movie forever in a day. Thank goodness, but They were talking about this movie that they had gone to see and I won't mention the name of it But I was overhearing this conversation and the one thing that I kept hearing from them was how disturbing this movie was Disturbing disturbing they went out and they went to this movie and it was just so disturbing They're talking about it the next day how disturbing who would go and pay money to be disturbed a Lot of people apparently It's it's crazy. They're trying to break down the culture today. They're trying to break down the conscience Today, they're trying to break down the Christian culture. They're trying to break down the Bible. They're trying to look the family is power They're trying to break that The family is powerful you have a strong family and you're following the Bible. That's power. That's strength That can't be broken down if you don't allow it to be broken down turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 or 50. I think it's Yeah, Jeremiah chapter 1 Jeremiah chapter 1 turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 look at verse number 10 So it's not woke. It's not a woke story It's a traditional normal story and it matches people's conscience and people like that look at what the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 1 In verse number 10 where it says see I have set this see I have this day set the over the nations and over kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy to throw down to Build and to plant notice what God says here notice what God says to Jeremiah that look you got to go and he's He's telling him you got to break it all down before you can build it back up That's what he's done and that's Satan's exact plan with our culture today. He's got to take Everything in the conscience. He's got to take everything in the Bible everything in the law that's written in people's hearts And he's got to bust it all down He's got to bust it all down so he could build it back up the way he wants it to be That's exactly why you're seeing opposite world clown world out there today You're just like everything's exactly the opposite of the truth that Satan trying to break it all down So he can build it back up the way he wants so he can build the building upside down He can't leave what God put there by default intact. He's got to tear it down Satan never does anything his own way. He never has his own ideas He just takes what God does and he just twists it just a little bit That's why you see so many Christian religions out there that sound like they're true except he just twisted a little bit Oh, yeah, you got to believe in Jesus. Oh, yeah, you know, but yeah, if you don't have the works, you know, it's not salvation. I Mean look at all of the works based versions of salvation out there We're just talking about this, you know, I don't know a few days ago when we talk about stuff all the time I can't even remember what day it was. We're talking about all these different versions of works It's just like another cousin lordship salvation another cousin repent of your sins to be saved I mean look Ray comfort sounds pretty good. You listen to his gospel presentation and you're like, yeah He's preaching Jesus and he's preaching, you know, you that you got to be saved and all this kind of stuff And then at the end he's like you got to turn from your sins. You're like whoa That's not Jesus But you see it's all these different things God Satan just takes what God had He just twists it just a little bit But he's got to tear down the conscience first He's got to break down everything that God put in place so he could Build up what he wants to be there. So the first thing is it's not woke. It matches our conscience. It matches a conscience That is intact. Let's put it that way That's why kids by the way. This is why kids Are much easier to get saved then look I'm not being age discriminatory here But it's true a trend is that it is much easier to get a 12 year old saved Then it would be to get somebody who is 70 saved because somebody that is 12 their conscience Hopefully most of the time is largely intact when you read them the gospel when you read them the Bible Tell them about Jesus and how to be saved when you tell them the simplicity which is in Christ It just matches that conscience their consciousness intact and the gospel is like a perfect key That will fit right into an intact conscience And they would just be like that makes so much sense and it's so simple that a child can understand it And I tell people all the time What how would it be fair? Would it be just if the gospel was so complicated? Like some of these Pentecostal works based Gospels out there You're just like what in the world they're doing backflips and you have to do this and you can't do this and you have to do all I mean, it's just whatever the pastor makes up is salvation But would it be fair if only the the smartest people could understand the gospel and go to heaven? No, it's simple. It's so simple that a child can understand it. And that's why children are so easy To get saved that's why children that are in a family integrated church He's why are we family integrated because that's what the Bible says That's why kids that are in this church that grow up hearing the word of God preached and grow up flip into Bible verses And as soon as they can read they're going to the same Bible verses that their parents are going to they'll get saved like super young I'm talking. I don't even want to name ages, but like four or five six seven years old They're gonna get saved because pretty soon. They're just gonna be like they're gonna go out Solving with their parents are gonna hear the gospel over and over and over again They'd be like dad am I gonna go to heaven and you're like then you sit down with them and be like well The gospel applies to you to get in the gospel just bam easy No problem, you know a kid that's never been in church before They'll have to hear the whole gospel maybe have some things explained to them, but still it's simple. It's simple So thank God for our conscience thank God that we all start with that But that's the first reason that people will generally like this book that it will generally resonate with even Gentiles There is no june or Greek okay, but it will just resonate with people because it matches. It's traditional and matches people's conscience Here's the second reason here's the second reason that people like this book Every guy wants to be a Darcy You say what do you mean? What do you mean by that? Every guy every young man every man wants to be a mr. Darcy to some Degree here. He is here's this man. He's this strong character Every you know look he's not the most polite or socially refined person He offends many people, but you know what he is you know what he is from the beginning of the book to the end of the book He is respected He is respected by his friends. He is respected by his family Everybody respects him He's kind of he's the alpha male that you know that gets the job done in the book every guy Wants that every guy can can can connect With that see look look men want respect like women want love and affection and Many men in their life will search for respect and they will search for it and search for it and desire it And they will never get it and They will never figure out why But Darcy explains I mean he explains at the beginning of the book why he has it every man wants to be respected But look at Psalm chapter 37 in verse number 23 The Bible actually says that you will get respect You know it kind of matches the answer that Darcy gave that I talked about two sermons ago But look at Psalm chapter 37 look at verse number 23 because many men will chase this goal their whole lives And they will never achieve it. They will not get it Look at Psalm chapter 37 look at verse number 23 the Bible says this it says the steps of a good man Are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way Though he fall he shall not utterly be cast down for the Lord uphold him with his hand You see what the Bible here is saying is that if you want to have respect if you want to be someone who is Honorable as I will use that word and that's that's a it's a good Bible word from Hebrews We'll talk about that in a few minutes But if you want to be someone who is considered a man with honor and have Respect have that good name have that good opinion you will be disciplined in your steps And this is what Darcy said that he was and we talked about this two sermons ago But he said he's very disciplined in what he does say and what he doesn't say which why he didn't say much and People just assumed he was rude or whatever, but he didn't get so much care about that He just wanted to be disciplined and it was the study of his life to live this disciplined life to not make missteps But the Bible is saying that exact same thing if your steps and of course the Bible is talking about Following the Bible the Bible is saying if your steps are ordered by the Bible if you are disciplined enough To follow the Bible in your life you will have respect Many men want respect, but they just can't order their steps This is the problem So what they do is this they look at people that have respect They can't order their steps. They can't control themselves They can't control their members. They can't control their body as Paul said, you know, I keep under my body They have no self-control. They do what they want to do. They say what they want to say and then no one respects them But the man that wants respect will order his steps according to the word of God Like I said, it's not easy, but it's not complicated To figure these things out from the Bible So what people will do is they will not be able to order their steps And they will look at men that have respect and they will try to emulate everything else about that person What they will do is they will say, you know, I can't you know I'm an idiot and I say idiotic things and I do idiotic things and I you know I'm selfish and I'm vain and all these different things But I see that guy over there. He has respect if I just had his job People would respect me too If I just had that position that he's in If I could just get that that manager position Then people would have respect for me. You know what? Maybe sometimes they even do get that manager position But then no one respects them still and they're like what? What must I do? They're like hey if I can just get the money Darcy was rich Like if I could just be rich like him Then I'd have respect it reminds me of the Bitcoin guy. Remember the Bitcoin guy Bitcoin guy that was like a Bitcoin billionaire because he stole that Bitcoin and he used to carry around a briefcase full of a million dollars cash And when the investigators asked him why do you carry around a million dollars in cash? And he's like because I want I want to get you know girls to respect me it never worked They asked him did it ever work? No never worked They get the money and they still can't get respect because respect is about ordering your steps Respect is about discipline on how you live your life From those ordered steps from the Lord it takes discipline and consistency the Bible Bible would call that intelligence Turn to Jeremiah chapter 51 But many men will still like the story because they want to identify With Darcy And look here's the thing folks every man is not an alpha male All right, turn to Jeremiah chapter 51 and While this comes natural to some men You know just to have this strong You know leadership personality and look many times this trait needs to be controlled too if it does come naturally To men if you have this alpha personality if you don't want to just irritate everybody and have everybody angry with you all the time You need to control that alpha personality But the point is it may not come supernatural to some men, but Men are supposed to be manly Men are supposed to be Leaders men are supposed to have that ability as a matter of fact the Bible says that when men lose that That's the judgment of a nation Says when all the men of a nation lose the ability to be strong leaders and strong men It's like that is judgment upon that nation look at Jeremiah 51 verse number 30 talking about the coming judgment of Babylon remember Jeremiah was a prophet during the Babylonian captivity But Babylon was going to be judged too God's judgment is complete God never leaves anybody behind look at verse number 30 It says the mighty men of Babylon have forebored to fight They've remained in their holds there might have failed there were no longer strong anymore They became a bunch of weaklings and wimps They remained in their holds there might have failed they became as women They have burned her dwelling places her bars are broken and I understand that you could like literally apply that to our nation today Literally, but what it's saying is the men became weak is what it's saying. They wouldn't fight. They wouldn't be men They wouldn't stand up. This is what men are supposed to be So when men see a strong male character something inside them says I want to be that way This is why men like this story Every man should have drive and if you don't have drive and you're a you're a man listening to this And you don't have drive you need to teach yourself to get some drive You need to learn to get drive you need to learn to be driven. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 10 Ecclesiastes chapter 10 in verse number 80. Look, I feel sorry for the woman that hitches her wagon to the young man with no drive Ladies if you don't find someone To marry with drive And look, this is another this is what the feminists will tell the young ladies today to find a man That they can pull around on a leash Find a weak man. That's what feminism will tell women today Women are taught today young ladies these poor young ladies are being taught this wicked philosophy that they need to be in Competition with men you need to compete with men for a job You need to compete with men in the relationship You need to compete with men for the control of the household You need to compete with men for how the children are going to be parented and it's Co-parenting and all these things you need to be in competition with men. So what will they do? They will find a weak man Because if I got to compete with somebody I want a weekly I Remember wrestling matches we used to call them fish You know you'd look at the brackets and you know everybody kind of knew who everybody was in the state You know they look at the bracket You get you got you got some guy in the first match his record is like two and thirty or something like that right and you're like Yeah, I got a fish Because they just they just flop right on their back and that matches over right away. It's not hard Right. This is the problem today young ladies are being taught to marry a fish But guess what? They marry a fish So look ladies appreciate your your this the leadership of your husband Appreciate it men should lead with compassion They should lead with love they should lead in a loving Christ-like way, but they should lead and They should be strong and they should handle difficult situations, but see a woman that marries a fish She marries a fish and then she has children and then problems start coming in to the household And she can't the the household isn't provided for and she has to go out in the world She starts to resent the fish Who's sitting on the couch eating Cheetos off his chest and but you know what hey, that's what that's what you bought into That's what you purchased Ladies you got to marry somebody with drive I'd rather have a lady marry a young man that would you know every now and then say the wrong thing and every now And then step on some toes and you know have to learn some etiquette and have to be kind of have the chips knocked off The the sides of the block a little bit and kind of refined a little bit then have some man some young man with no drive That's a curse And if you are a young man, and you just don't have you better get some drive You better figure it out You're gonna curse some young lady So every man Every man with an intact conscience looks at Darcy and says There's something about that because that it you know God wants you to be a strong leader And that's what he was and look I mean just to flip that around with the ladies Every girl wants to to be pursued by an honorable man To just flip that around so look it's a traditional story It's a traditional story that appeals to men and women even at a day when tradition is being destroyed There's an agenda in our culture today to destroy the conscience to destroy the good and it's to destroy the truth To destroy the idea that a strong man of character would pursue a decent young lady with the goal of marrying her That whole idea is being Attacked today and look turn to Hebrews chapter 13 turn to Hebrews chapter 13. It's I like the story because it's a good Perspective it's a good perspective on what a culture should see look and here's the thing It's a secular story. This is what's messed up about it It's a secular story where they had more right in the way they viewed things than our current culture today It's it's these weren't religious people in this story It was just a secular story, but look at Hebrews chapter 13 In verse number four. Let me give you a good perspective here Let's give you a good perspective of shining the Bible upon our culture today and then kind of Superimposing this story over the top of it. So I hope you all read the story Yeah, I mean if you just watch the movie, okay, whatever But the story really goes into how wicked and degenerate and bad George Wickham was It really goes into a lot of detail on how he he had this Fornication culture in him and he wanted to just steal money from people use young ladies for money and you know Fornication and he didn't care who he destroyed He just had to move from place to place to place you run up all kinds of debts everywhere. It is the terrible person I mean the Bible really I mean the book really puts him across as a real scumbag But the Bible has you know a word for this look at Hebrews chapter 13 verse number four verse number four The Bible says marriage is honorable in all so somebody that is pursuing a young lady Without fornication in a proper biblical way. This is an honorable thing What Darcy did was an honorable thing and the bed undefiled, but look at this But Hormongers and adulterers God will judge all these young men today Or George Wickham, you know what he was you know what the Bible would call George Wickham a Hormonger What do you what does that say about the young girls that were fooled? Into going with him Well, I guess if he's a Hormonger I mean he's he chases horse. That's what it says Say that's offensive. That's the Bible That's what the Bible is saying So why are young ladies allowing themselves to be treated that way today? Why are they taking this this lie that is taught to them saying this is normal? This is okay What? Wickham did not force Lydia to go with him. He was a Hormonger and she played the part willingly What are we seeing today? The point is an honorable man is what Hebrews chapter 13 is George Wickham was not an honorable man The Bible would call him a Hormonger turn the Deuteronomy chapter 23 turn the Deuteronomy chapter 23 I'm gonna give you some other words the Bible uses that people would just be like this is so offensive But this is what's happening today. This is what people are accepting today. This is what young women are accepting today Look at Hebrew Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse number 20 verse number 2 It's talking about who would not be allowed into the tabernacle who would not be allowed to go in there This is what the Bible thinks about this now the definition of a bastard is a child that is born out of wedlock It is two people that are in fornication that would have a child that is the definition of a bastard But look what the Bible says a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. You say that's mean. That's the Bible Even to his 10th generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord that is unbelievable right there That is what God thinks about fornication That is what God thinks about two people that would get together. Look at you say it's harsh. Look women should be disgusted by a man Women should be absolutely disgusted that by a man that would want to have a physical relationship with them and not be interested in marriage It should disgust them They should say, what do you think I am a prostitute? That's what women should say Why are they not saying that feminism hates women it hates these young ladies today Everyone will say oh, this is Misogynistic no, we love young ladies the Bible is here to protect young ladies And then you know they'll not only will they enter you know, you know, would you like to enter into fornication with me? Like well sure and then they'll have children Well, would you like to have some bastard children with me so and I can treat you like a prostitute That's what they're saying. I Mean this is the Bible These women these young ladies today should be super offended I mean the idea that a lady we get married and be taken care of by her husband. It's terrible With a godly wonderful spirit-filled life Raising her children in the Lord It's crazy They call us crazy Look, don't congratulate the fornication culture today Two people get our in fornication. They start having children don't congratulate that. I Had that happen to me years ago at work. There's a guy lived with his girlfriend They just had all these kids and it was like everyone's like oh congratulations, and I'm like the jerk in the room I'm just like I'm not going to congratulate that Look, I'm glad there's a child and I'm glad the child's healthy, and that's not what I'm saying But this what are you trying to do to that kid? Become a man. That's what I wanted to tell this guy. He was like, oh, he's a nice guy. He's funny You know this no he's a home hunger He has no respect for that young lady, and you know what that young lady wanted You know what she wanted she wanted to be married Because they all do They're just being taken advantage of by these George Wickham's That's all they are these dishonorable young men There's no honor in it, and they're being fooled and they're going along with it So look it's a secular story. I get it But it's a traditional. I mean it shows how far we have fallen as a culture today And like I said this morning when you look at these stories And you look at these things in the world through the lens of the Bible so many things are opened up to you See these goals these milestones in our lives. They're they're They're written in our hearts You know these goals to be married and to have children and to raise our children You know, I mean that it's all written in our hearts We just have to follow the Bible order our steps according to the Bible and everything's going to work out You know it also shows you you know another thing it shows you It shows you the spiritual battle today because this is a very popular story And if people would would write books like this and even look God forbid I mean if they would even make movies like this they would do very well But see Satan it shows you the spiritual battle of Satan because he's not necessarily in it for the money He's in it to crush the culture He's in it to destroy because Hollywood could make more money by making movies like this I mean there's the saying haven't you heard the saying go walk go broke Because nobody wants to see this garbage You know they still go to a movie because that's what they do and they're like all that was disturbing I'm never going to another movie again, but you know they will go to another movie But the point is they're they're going woke and they're going broke, but Satan doesn't care It shows you that there's a spiritual aspect to it It makes you if you don't see the spiritual you will never understand why a corporation would do things look a corporation's Existence is only there to make money for its shareholders. That's the only reason it's there To turn a profit, but you see these corporations willingly shooting themselves But they're doing it because Satan is in control and he's there to destroy the culture He's there to tear down and sear you see guys guess what when the conscience when Satan sears the conscience of somebody who's not saved When he sears the conscience of a 19 or 20 or 21 year old and they've been watching filth and garbage for 10 15 years and then we knocked on their door. They're gonna be like get out of here They're not gonna want to hear it. I mean you could be a hater of God by that time easily That's what Satan's trying to do. He's not in it For the money. He's in it for the destruction So he can rebuild look I hate to say it, but it's working It's working. He's searing the conscience of people out there So look as long as men have conscience this story will be well-liked So I hope you enjoyed it I mean, I think it was a good study by shining the light of the Bible on to this neat little story But that's why it's popular and it always will be unless we're in an entirely reprobate Society and hopefully we never see that let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer